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highwayscribery: Bobby Kennedy: 41 Years Ago Today
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Politics, poetry, and prose. Friday, June 05, 2009. Bobby Kennedy: 41 Years Ago Today. Once a guy is dead and not around to defend his own name the enemy tends to do a dance all over their reputation. The Kennedys, Jack and Bobby, were by virtue of their murders raised to the level of saints. In reality they were politicians with all that implies and which left them open for some pretty vicious hits. To go back and listen to Bobby’s speeches from that terrible and tremendous time is to wonder what ...
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highwayscribery: Happy Valentine's Day: "Studies on Love" by Jose Ortega y Gasset
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Politics, poetry, and prose. Friday, February 14, 2014. Happy Valentine's Day: "Studies on Love" by Jose Ortega y Gasset. 1939), is certainly his most charming. In this collection, Ortega, a professor of metaphysics at the University of Madrid, takes reason and trains it upon that greatest of human mysteries: Love. Here are the results. But is it no less certain that love is at times sad as death, a sovereign and mortal torture? Ortega insists that love not only errs upon occasion but is essentially an e...
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highwayscribery: "Brenda Lee en El Barrio" (poetry in motion).
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Politics, poetry, and prose. Sunday, March 24, 2013. Brenda Lee en El Barrio" (poetry in motion). A few months ago the highway scribe did a. About the days and times surrounding production of the feature film "Believe in Eve," for which he wrote the script. In that post that scribe waxed poetic about a particular scene for which we now have a link: "Brenda Lee en El Barrio.". If I could only catch her. Sheet of bright breeze. If I could only manage a smile. For every mile of Loveworld. Oh, Cajun-spiced,.
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highwayscribery: "Hillbilly Bikini Bottom" (a short story) by Stephen Siciliano
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Politics, poetry, and prose. Friday, September 26, 2014. Hillbilly Bikini Bottom" (a short story) by Stephen Siciliano. Jefferson Davis was in a fix. It was towards the end of the fourth quarter already and the natives were getting restless. Bugs swarmed in the high and bright lights and the players' pads were soaked in Indian summer sweat. Jeff saw Brenda Lee Underwood over by the south end bleachers, just above where they liked to drink beers and nip at each other most nights when football wasn't on.
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highwayscribery: "Ninfas" por Stephen Siciliano
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Politics, poetry, and prose. Friday, July 05, 2013. Ninfas por Stephen Siciliano. A mi prima Pilar). Ella hablaba con su guitarra. Sta cantaba otra canci ó. Tocando al agua, descalza. Temblando el r í. O en los rizos. Tan miedosa subiendo la cuesta. Por llantos pla ñ. Pero ella le huy ó. O con la canci ó. Y levantando su vestido. Tocaba, temblando,. Y eso sin saber por que. Le hablaba la canci ó. N a su guitarra. Y cantaba cuando se. La devolvio en melod í. Pero ella le huy ó. Y dudando que le devolviera.
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highwayscribery: Monipodio's House: A Consideration of Cervantes' Villain
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Politics, poetry, and prose. Wednesday, November 21, 2012. Monipodio's House: A Consideration of Cervantes' Villain. Back in the early 1990s, highwayscribery lived in Spain where he'd gone to write his novel "Vedette or Conversations with the Flamenco Shadows.". When the book was finished and the money gone, the highway scribe moved to Seville from Malaga to start a newspaper with Jose Pérez de Lama Halcón and Angel Delgado. In the piece below highwayscribery, together with Jose Pérez de Lama Halcón, set...
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highwayscribery: All Hail "The Fact"
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Politics, poetry, and prose. Wednesday, November 07, 2012. All Hail "The Fact". Aside from representing a sweeping progressive victory, the elections stand as a reassertion of the American faith in science and The Fact. It turns out that just saying something over and over again doesn't mean it's true, nor will it fool everyone. The durability of The Fact began to impose itself even before last night's results swept away the counter-narrative cooked up on the right 'lo these many years. But they came out...
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highwayscribery: Two-Tone: An Alternative Iron Lady Obit
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Politics, poetry, and prose. Monday, April 08, 2013. Two-Tone: An Alternative Iron Lady Obit. I said I see no joy,. I see only sorrow,. I see no chance of your bright new tomorrow. So stand down Margaret,. Stand down please,. The Iron Lady hath finally melted away. The encomiums have begun for the way she, together with Ronald Reagan, "transformed" the economies of Great Britain, the United States, and the entire international, capitalist enterprise. There is less commentary on exactly. One result of the...
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highwayscribery: Poem: A.M. Session
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Politics, poetry, and prose. Tuesday, December 18, 2012. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Book Report: "The Day the Cowboys Quit" by Elmer Kelton. Its the rare western book that invites a Marxian analysis, but Elmer Kelton, who died recently, was the rare western writer. Th. The Legend of Carmen Amaya" by Natalia Ramos. Heres a link to a poetic tribute by flamenco dancer and writer Natalia Ramos of Madrid. They are dedicated to la flamenca Carmen Ama. The Case of Tookie Williams. After a long and ardu...
