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Featuring: Short fictions, Politics, Theater, Recipes, Drive-by-Photos, Tangential Motifs, Phantom Ribaldry, Architecture, Manners, Stretch Drives, Liars Poker, Violets , Black Marias

 
In This Issue:

Watts Up Doc

This Week's Drive By Photo

After Ballet, Part 1 - Peter Schetter, Organic Farmer

Tamales--A Recipe and a Success Story

Nancy

Reggie the Snake

Trojan Horse Football

 

A couple of decades ago, conceptual and visual artist Renee Nahum made music using palm trees as notes. Her piece eventually was broadcast, repeatedly, over the local airwaves by a then-venerated news lite show, ‘Eye on L.A.’ -- so that

Just as the mind gets stripped clean under perfect circumstances, so, too, this street, the day after Halloween eve. But nothing happens overnight. So early that morning, with tricks and treats trumped by sunlight shooting up and down, the creatures

By: Diego Carrasco

This is the first in a series of interviews of ex-ballet dancers. Peter Schetter is 47 years old and lives in Ellisville, WI., about a thirty minute drive east of Green Bay, not far from where he grew up. He works

Froggypumpkin called the phone number that's visible on the car sign, and we left a message: George Derby was kind enough to return our call and chat with us. His voice was almost jovial but understated, yet he carefully emphasized certain words.

Reggie the Snake

REGGIE THE SNAKE:
1) The Myth, The Reptile, The Man
In which we are immersed in Reggie's confessionary prose where the snake's brain is converted by bombardment of radiation into the mensch he is today. The sa


Nancy

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She worked for Edward R. Murrow...when the news spoke the truth.

Nowadays she lives in South Carolina, and she has long gone by her married name of Nancy Neuman. But when she was a little child growing up as a first generation American in an Italian immigrant family, Nancy Isabel Cammarota hardly would have imagined a future that would have included a pioneer role working with perhaps the greatest newsperson of the 20th Century, Edward R. Murrow.

Murrow's World War II radio broadcasts that had transfixed and inspired a free world, made from a London besieged by Nazi bombers, were already years behind him when Nancy first joined his office, but other historic broadcasts, both on radio and television, were yet to come.

Edward R. Murrow (Egbert Roscoe Murrow) was born in 1908 in North Carolina, and died in 1965.


Nancy: First I want to warn you—I've just about forgotten everything about my days at CBS.

FroggyPumpkin: You were born in?

Nancy: In Port Chester in New York.
Can you tell us about your father—his profession—and also the building he built, separate from your home, that's become a local landmark of sorts?

His profession was gardener, but aside from that, he built this beautiful castle-like house on our property.
And he got the stones from where?

From an old Greek school that burnt down, but he called up and asked if he could have the stones, because he'd been looking at them for years, and they said yes if he would cart them away, and he did.
How long did it take to construct the building?

I'd say about 5 or 6 years.
Didn't you sneak away once to see Frank Sinatra sing?

Oh yes, when I was, I think, a freshman in high school. It was the first time ever that I played hookey from school. I went into New York, all by myself, and I was scared stiff. I managed to find my way to the Paramount Theater, and I watched Sinatra from about the third row. Then, when I came out, I didn't know where I was going. But I found my way again, back to Grand Central Station, and I went home.
And you had screamed yourself hoarse while you were there?

No. I was by myself, so there was nobody to scream with. You know, there were thousands of people screaming—girls, I should say—but I didn't scream. I just enjoyed it immensely.
Port Chester was a company town, primarily?

The only Lifesavers factory in the United States*, the other one was in Canada. I worked there one summer, when I was going to college.
*Livesavers would shut down this factory in 1984, after 64 years of operation
You worked your way through college?

Yes. I got partial scholarship, and worked my way, also.
The smell of Lifesavers you still remember?

I do. It was the butterscotch which was so overwhelming.
Would you smell it throughout the town?

No, not really, because the factory was quite a distance, it was almost on the outskirts of Portchester,
But the smell would be in your hair, on our clothes, and in your lungs?

Yeh...
You went to Green Mountain...

Green Mountain Junior College.
What did you study there?

Just general...I didn't have anything in particular.
How directly or indirectly did that lead to the job at

She worked for Edward R. Murrow...when the news spoke the truth.

Nowadays she lives in South Carolina, and she has long gone by her married name of Nancy Neuman. But when she was a little child growing up as a first generation American in an

College football, a game this time of mostly yellows and greens; some red in the stands. The referees are bugs in the air.

The USC Trojans, kings of college football, will murder lowly Stanford. An immediately unstoppable march. Time rushes be

TAMALES:
A RECIPE AND A SUCCESS STORY

Mama’s Hot Tamales Cafe has quickly gained renown for its assortment of delicious tamales and other fine food. Here’s a recipe they were kind enough to share with us.

Is he a member of the world’s greatest rock band – or an exquisite painter of livestock and other worldly (and otherworldly) matters? Is he Rico Bell – or Eric Bellis? Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Eric Bellis meets us outside his home.* E


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