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The summer wind carries clouds to sea over Wollaston beach The girls test the water roll up their hair mad pretty they look good together as my  sunshine on a cloudy day bear mother love clams its  her birthday 'yo i know he's rich' one girl says to her cell phone summer ebbs for both  old and young. --J.V.

 

 Remember this is a shtick this is only a shtick and he is sly like a fox like a fox on the run and he's got his hand in your pocket as you're laughing with him. But it's good to have a chuckle even during a disaster. Donald Trump's Minnesota speech in 90 seconds. pic.twitter.com/bclXqqce3w — The Lincoln Project (@ProjectLincoln) August 18, 2020

 Colored Oleo $5.85 ma met dad on an oleo run on the side of 32 where he stuck out his thumb she brought him back to waupaca and i happened.  as time went by things got better we got a caddy and we switched to butter but if it werent for oleo there's no me brother.

Texas born and bred James Hand country singer died in June. Sigh. He didn’t really hit the pop stand until his 40s. He... Posted by Jack Vaughan on  Saturday, August 15, 2020 Its the "Irish sports page" again I fear....another obit. Just learned James Hand passed away in June. No greater art is... Posted by Jack Vaughan on  Saturday, August 15, 2020

Boston Pols by Jack Vaughan, from the BU News, 1975. Politics hasn't changed that much over the years. Mayor Kevin White, and his lame and inarticulate opponent, Joseph Timilty, both descend from families who have had their hand in the city politic for years. Both men's fathers were Boston politicians. The father of city Councilor Louise day Hicks, the South Boston patron saint of anti-busing, was also an old Boston pol. The Kennedys weren't the only family of Irish politicians, they just went national. Kevin, as the mayor is called by the insiders, even went so far as to marry the daughter of another family's political leader. Visions of the Corleones dancing on our heads. So as it turns out, The Boston City Council has six out of nine members Irish, and the school committee is entirely Irish. And although there are important issues to be dealt with, 9 times out of 10 it boils down to a little power struggle between the pols , who are all Democrats. Louise Day Hicks ...

 Boston Pols by Jack Vaughan Circa 1975 Reading James Caroll’s The City Below for the Mission Hill Book Club and it brings up a lot of the mood of when I first got to Boston. Looking back in my morgue files – I thought I’d trot out a piece from my days writing for the BU News. The editors there were nice enough to send me down to the City Council to see if I could come up with a story, and it took quite a while but it happened. It was an election year, and I took a hack at understanding the city politic.  That fit nicely with the interests of my BU teachers -- reporters and editors for the Boston Globe and Boston Herald. I’d read Tom Wolfe, Lincoln Steffens’ bio (see below), the Real Paper and the Boston Phoenix, (avidly) and Hunter Thompson’s Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. And I was on the case as cross-city school busing brewed up a storm.  The voice I heard was Mike Barnicle, the Boston Breslin. In fact I also heard the prose of another Globalist,  my BU teacher,...

i. Not surprisingly, the national interest was elsewhere on Saturday Aug 8 when the Not Surprising Stakes field entered that gate at Gulfstream Park. The eventual winner was GiveMeTwenty. After all, it was Travers Day - one of racing's historic gems, even if COVID-19 moved the event to an unfamiliar spot in the calendar (it was moved to occur four weeks prior to a rescheduled Kentucky Derby). Travers attendees were track workers, horse owners, trainers and jockeys, gathered in small handfuls, and not the usual voiceful crush.  But the Gulfstream 1-mile turf stakes (ungraded) for 3 year olds drew this handicapper's interest. The distance seems suited to some horses especially, and these were the ones I came to focus on as I pondered the form under midnight oil. These were mostly horses stepping up from optional claimer ranks - none had won more than an ungraded stakes before. Let's look at a few: Graceful Kitten (#2) had, as a two year old run up the track in last year's...

"Juju cackles like Wooly Bully which is indescribable and was recorded by a bunch of guys who drove around in a hearse wearing turbans." We put together a poetry magazine in high school called "Garage." I came up with the name, but didn't. By that I mean when I said it it immediately resonated for everyone there in the basement room where we starting to put the finishing touches on thing. It just made sense. And it was remarkable to see the notion of the mood of the Garage everywhere thereafter - especially in Garage Bands, the apt name for pre-Punk music whose genesis I'd assign the Creem Magazine, and its Elijah: Lester Bangs. The mood of Garage was behind the basement band we formed in college years. And it was conscious. I had no technique or chops, but the thing was not done without some reflective contemplation. The philosophy it was Creem magazine, Lester Banks would write about this stuff. In a pretty Beat wigged out style. Like holy war dispa...