by LP | Mar 26, 2021 | Daily Photo Post, Random Thoughts
You all had such great comments (on Facebook), perhaps the Melvin Kaminsky (yes, Mr. Brooks’ real name) post deserves a follow up:It was Junior year and I was sitting in a journalism class when David Ansley came in and found me. I was in a workshop, so he wasn’t...
by LP | Mar 24, 2021 | Daily Photo Post, Random Thoughts
Greetings over your interweb devices “Well, she was just seventeen,You know what I mean,And the way she looked was way beyond compare” “I don’t want to be 17,” she said, “I just don’t.”It was Julie Kim’s birthday, but she...
by LP | Nov 7, 2020 | Random Thoughts
ILLUSTRATION BY MATTHIEU BOUREL; PHOTOGRAPHS FROM AF ARCHIVE; ALAMY; EVERETT COLLECTION; RONALD GRANT ARCHIVE “I can’t explain the Wallace phenomena. I can’t explain the Nixon surge. I think partly it’s a general fear- fear of the have-nots...
by LP | Oct 15, 2020 | Random Thoughts
I read many of your posts, my friends, concerning the battling town halls which took place tonight. The advice of most of you was to skip the session with the sitting president — or at least watch the responses of his competition first. While I do understand...
by LP | Oct 8, 2020 | Random Thoughts
ILLUSTRATION BY MATTHIEU BOUREL; PHOTOGRAPHS FROM AF ARCHIVE; ALAMY; EVERETT COLLECTION; RONALD GRANT ARCHIVE Very early in the rise of our sitting president’s political career, I was among those who saw the parallels between this classic (and remarkably...
by LP | Oct 6, 2020 | Random Thoughts
Lots of plots over the last couple of decades have been centered on alternate universe realities — the “What If. . .?” storylines. In “The Man in the High Castle,” Hitler and the Nazis win WW II and we discover what it would have been like to live in that reality. In...
