Chronicles
“If you think it’s about you, it probably is.”
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Christmas and New Year passed by, and in Lisbon things started getting back to the new normal in that town. The massive herd of tourists that had plagued every street and praça had finally thinned out. But tourism wasn’t
Saint Anthony is the patron saint of Lisbon. He is also the patron saint of Padua, where they built a huge cathedral in his honor. Here he is celebrated with street parties and grilled sardine dinners on June 13, his feast day. He was born here on 15 August 1195. Like St. Francis, he was […]
The Unspeakable Spoken
Some friends are worth kissing.
The Orange Monster really believes he can trick his way into heaven—if there is a heaven. God knows this malignant narcissist is helping to create Hell on Earth. Lyrics to a song I wrote just this past week. The video is
The German spelling of Kapital has something extra sinister about it, doesn’t it? It’s obvious that in the terminal stage of capitalism, before its dying gasp, the last resort is to consolidate the rich into a bloc and h
For the Good of the Cause
THE END
Any Generals around who like democracy? War is a Racket The last General who stood up to save democracy was Major General Smedley Butler. Although he helped the US to keep the Monroe Doctrine strong by invading and holdi
A few interesting ideas for composers and production companies. Carmelita SynopsisDownload Carmelita is a new interpretation/adaptation of the Carmen story, set in the world of today. It is an audience favorite because o
Narcissists hate to be ignored—ignore them! Put aside your beef with Frau Rowling for a moment and take heed of what she wrote in the Harry Potter series: Voldemort is Who Must Not Be Named, sometimes referred to by such
Fighting for Freedom by Limiting the Enemies of Freedom Imagine a game where everyone agrees to follow the rules so that the game stays fun and fair. Now imagine a few players join, and their goal is to break the rules s
“You couldn’t have it if you did want it,” the Queen said. “The rule is, jam to-morrow and jam yesterday—but never jam to-day.” Through The Looking Glass — Lewis Carrol AI generated image I have jam every day—well, most
That was made clear to me in 1st grade by Dick McCann, the fourth of 5 sons in an Irish Catholic family. He came up to me in the schoolyard and said: “You lost the war.” He was obviously happy to be able to say it. And he was looking forward to teasing me about […]
by O-90 AI generated image One of the first orders of business agreed to by the civilian government that was set in place after 2045, was to raze the dictator’s palace in New York City before the elections scheduled for
AI generated image by Image2Go Excuse me, you thought they wouldn’t come for you? You decided the past was meaningless? History was boring in school? The influencers you follow never mentioned Martin Niemöller? Well, Mar
Everybody loves a good war, don’t they? Sure they do! Real explosions (strangely not as spectacular as the CGI stuff) and mangled bodies (they always blur out the really disgusting stuff, which they never blur in the mov
All my life I’ve been naïve. I could never believe that Hollywood was as evil and corrupt as I discovered it was—after my script disappeared from a meeting (or so my agent told me)—after a friend came back from a bachelo