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Secret Beach: Propaganda
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Where the kids run wild and free. Wednesday, December 19, 2012. April 4, 2013 at 9:46 PM. You ever turn out that novel? Ive read Lets Queer the Mayor about ten times. Subscribe to: Post Comments ( Atom ). Secret Beach #3 (print edition). Secret Beach #2 (print edition). River of Dreams: Miss Rockaway Armada's Floating Spectacle. Swinging In the Streets: In Search of Jazz and Heritage With New Orleans' Loose Marbles. The Peaceable Kingdom of Talossa. A Child's Garden of Noise. View my complete profile.
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Secret Beach: January 2014
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Where the kids run wild and free. Tuesday, January 14, 2014. While I've posted several over the years, for friends, neighbors and the odd public figure, let it be known that I don't especially enjoy writing eulogies. There's something highly discomfiting about aestheticizing death. Nevertheless, I wanted to share a few clumsy thoughts on the passing (a stupid euphemism; he shot. How can I describe Posso without making him a caricature? He'd had enough; the kid wanted out. On the other hand, I do wond...
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Secret Beach: July 2014
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Where the kids run wild and free. Monday, July 28, 2014. Bad Blood, Good Blood. Although the Secret Beach has lapsed into a state of well-earned dormancy, I thought I'd pop in briefly for a bit of musical proselytizing; not a lot has moved. Me lately, musically speaking, and when something does I want to Tell the World. The last time. I was on my soapbox hyping Spenking (Spencer Kingman to his mother), a self-released CD-R titled Free Doom. Is culled from the aformentioned Free Doom-. Finally those golde...
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Secret Beach: Weirder Homes and Gardens
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Where the kids run wild and free. Sunday, July 28, 2013. Weirder Homes and Gardens. I wanted to share a bit of this delightful and curious book on flower arranging, published in 1942, which I got for a song at the always-overwhelming Newberry Library book sale. I was attracted initially to the often-striking, occasionally gorgeous photographs- heavily-saturated compositions that are almost painterly in their effect-. And hang me if there's not a remarkable resemblance:. Later, she presents an elaborate '...
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Secret Beach: There is Nothing in the World But Youth: the Ambiguous Legacy of the Wandervögel
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Where the kids run wild and free. There is Nothing in the World But Youth: the Ambiguous Legacy of the Wandervögel. Though it would come to encompass everything from nudism to Nazism, the German Youth Movement of the early 20. Formally established in November of 1901, the Wandervogel. Wandering-Bird Committee for Schoolboy Excursions— Wandervogel. Played out their youthful passions against the timeless backdrop of nature; they played lutes and collected folk-songs, cooked over an open fire, affected medi...
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Secret Beach: November 2011
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Where the kids run wild and free. Friday, November 25, 2011. Black Friday v. 3. Dragged my sick ass out of bed today for my third annual Black Friday Photo Safari at the State St. Macy's. I don't know exactly why I keep coming back, other than it being a way for me to participate in the debauch without dropping any lucre- it's not as if the scenery changes much from year to year. Although, there did seem to be a few more of these guys- thanks, #Occupy! Hanging around the fringes:. Piles of unwanted toys-.
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Secret Beach: July 2013
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Where the kids run wild and free. Sunday, July 28, 2013. Weirder Homes and Gardens. I wanted to share a bit of this delightful and curious book on flower arranging, published in 1942, which I got for a song at the always-overwhelming Newberry Library book sale. I was attracted initially to the often-striking, occasionally gorgeous photographs- heavily-saturated compositions that are almost painterly in their effect-. And hang me if there's not a remarkable resemblance:. Later, she presents an elaborate '...
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Secret Beach: Mexico City, Second Impressions
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Where the kids run wild and free. Monday, March 12, 2012. Mexico City, Second Impressions. Which, I wonder as I wander, might be considered the Worst Job in Mexico City? All day, not that easy on the soul, I imagine. Or, the young mothers selling marzipan candies in the Metro, so profoundly zoned-out from intoning. For hours on end that they don't notice their little children playing in rivers of subway-filth? To the point of total meaninglessness? Is a teensy bit boring- just regular "wrestling," with p...
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Secret Beach: A Season in (Gay) Hell
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Where the kids run wild and free. Tuesday, March 20, 2012. A Season in (Gay) Hell. With a very high temperature, boiling sweat and freezing clammily by turns, drifting in out of a succession of maximum-strength fever dreams- in short, very sick. In my delirium, I am at first convinced that the only explanation can be mononucleosis: the dreaded Kissing Disease! I kissed one too many boys and now I am being severely punished! Which is transmitted through mosquito bites-. The second minute or so I'm just sp...
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Secret Beach: Bad Blood, Good Blood
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Where the kids run wild and free. Monday, July 28, 2014. Bad Blood, Good Blood. Although the Secret Beach has lapsed into a state of well-earned dormancy, I thought I'd pop in briefly for a bit of musical proselytizing; not a lot has moved. Me lately, musically speaking, and when something does I want to Tell the World. The last time. I was on my soapbox hyping Spenking (Spencer Kingman to his mother), a self-released CD-R titled Free Doom. Is culled from the aformentioned Free Doom-. Finally those golde...