This piece is not for giggles. Nor is it a request for donations or any other gesture that may bear your fingerprints. Just nod your head if you agree. But it does have a serious purpose about which I am…
Author: vassar
Run the Ridges, The Kingston Trio, 1964
Just to get you in the mood, and to remind you that this sort of still runs in our blood; We may have to run the ridges. It’s been done before Lots of times
The Time I Took my Wife to Meet the Girls at Manos in Tokyo
You already know the story of my first visit to Manos, the Russian spy-restaurant in Tokyo. It was 1972. It was run by two brothers from Pittsburgh, former OSS officers during WWII, and within shouting distance of the Soviet embassy, where, at…
It IS the “Democrat Party”— Contrary of Popular Political Opinion
I grew up in the South in the 50s and 60s and it was always the “Democrat Party”. But then again, it was only a coal camp with a county newspaper. I never knew there was a rub about that…