What was 2020? Pt 5 “When 12 million unemployed men and women were riding the rails, selling apples, standing in soup lines and the feeling was ‘prosperity is around the corner,” The Great Depression was in full swing. Hollywood became a state of mind. Hollywood was the great diversion, but also the great ambition. And…
WHAT WAS 2020? PT 4 The WORKER at GRISTIDE’S who I chat with tells me of her worries, while trying out various scarfs, masks, and balaclava-like protections. I can tell she is a warrior who won’t take being railroaded by management. But I sense the management is doing their best given the COVID nightmare….
WHAT WAS 2020? PART 3 The GENERAL MOTORS 1936-1937 Flint sit down strike by the UAW / UNITED AUTO WORKERS union that changed the landscape of the WORKER during the Depression Disaster. I believe we can do it again with this MAN MADE VIRUS DISASTER!! I begin to think of what is an American WORKER….
What was 2020? Pt 2 Back to THE GRAPES OF WRATH. When I started to adventure outside in between April, May and June from Greenwich Village, I began to see the small glimmers of disorder. First, imagine that in 2019, there were over 112,000 homeless people. This figure is a mix of people who…
What was 2020? Pt 1 I have been envisioning John Ford’s THE GRAPES OF WRATH all over New York, since April 2020. I see Tom Joad. I hear him. And his words. When I first heard in January 2020, there was a virus spreading in China, I knew. I have lived a life since…
DECEMBER
(Begun in December, 2014)
I always hated December.
December reminds me of the 1970s synthetic velvet darkness draping over HR Puffin Stuff, The Banana Splits and the Dark Shadows TV world I was growing up in.
University of Florence Museum of Pathological Anatomy My goal during my re-visit to Florence was to find The Museo di Anatomia Pathologic dell’Universita degli Studi di Firenze. The outskirts of Florence and this area, well let me tell you, “Oh my God”. Not a very attractive area, full of new buildings, not very appealing…
Lookee here… Fanta!Hurrah! Fanta in a bottle!!Check this out!Ok I know, I know.I am very late to this story, to this blazing 1950s bottle but still I am obsessed with brands and so how can you let this beauty go. I was never a FANTA MAN! 1970s was FRESCA, TAB and DR. PEPPER for the kid in…
Whenever I travel, because I don’t drive, I am always at a disadvantage when it comes to REALLY getting out and seeing places in the middle of nowhere. When in Bologna, this journey by bus going toward this sanctuary is a lovely walking escapade. It is a mini pilgrimage which is truly what it was…
When I go to another country, the first thing I want to do is blend in. I make believe that I live in the city. I wander the streets, I push through with all the other locals at the food markets, and get a thrill when a local asks me for directions in a language…