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Subject: Astor Park, Beatlick Survival Camp Date: Mar 18, 2010 12:59 PM Another hot dusty day out here at Astor Park. Neil showed up with hi...

APOLOGIES TO LOUISIANA AND MISSISSIPPI: In my commentary on education (Blame the Teacher Syndrome, Dissident Voice, 15 March 2010) I made so...

Sad but so true! I see this played out on a weekly basis when I teach chess at Dr. George Washington Carver Elementary School. They are ce...

By ivan arguelles bride's shadow made white by truck going all the way to Big Sur bums depleted by dhamma tight band around head no high...

To Jack Kerouac on His 88th Birthday early morning and the street is swept by a white truck followed by birds in the shade of a bride's...

Beatlick Joe and I took our first three-mile walk to the wi-fi cafe down a long dirt road and around a few mountains. We have been at Astor ...

JAZZMAN CHRONICLES. DISSEMINATE FREELY. THE CASE FOR SENATORIAL REFORM By Jack Random Since the State of the Union Address President Obama ...

Date: Feb 25, 2010 3:40 PM “There’s more consequences than truth” is the saying around here, especially when water and real estate might be ...

A JAZZMAN CHRONICLE. DISSEMINATE FREELY. THE SCARLET LETTER: W IS FOR WRONG By Jack Random I was wrong. I was foolish. I don't get to ...

Howard Zinn, author of "A People's History of the United States," died Wednesday at the age of 87. Adapted from the Harper Col...

Date: Jan 30, 2010 11:18 AM Marfa, Texas While we were visiting in Fort Stockton Beatlick Joe and I were really impressed by Marfa’s public ...

The alarm goes off and a procession of skulls materialize ahead of the engine. Handing out tickets to the destruction, they're followed ...

If the ruling party fails to heed the warning sounded by the senatorial special election in Massachusetts then the midterm elections will be...

A JAZZMAN CHRONICLE: DISSEMINATE FREELY. By Jack Random “The court’s primary function will be to strike back government regulation of priva...

Date: Jan 16, 2010 3:11 PM Fort Stockton: The Beatlicks are in a small holding pattern in Fort Stockton before we can set up our winter camp...

Date: Jan 12, 2010 10:21 AM We hit the road for Fort Stockton and our good friend Neil Astor's house last week. We will be moving onto h...

.... the same building, different days, like a photograph compressed in the retna waiting to be born a montage in a dream where all else di...

.... a body stretched over a broken window not through but over, the frame of the window and the pane is on the ground, the blood of the vi...

JAZZMAN CHRONICLES. DISSEMINATE FREELY. By Jack Random It is a great shame that in America we cannot criticize our nation without being pai...

JAZZMAN CHRONICLES. DISSEMINATE FREELY. By Jack Random “As Commander-in-Chief, I have determined that it is in our vital national interest ...