Yesterday we went slumming in a swanky neighborhood in response to a newspaper ad for a MOVE OUT sale. The story was that the previous owners had moved out and left all their belongings behind.
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Category Archives: Autobiography
Musings of an unwilling migrant
That might make the title of an autobiography.
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Responsibility
I have never felt responsible for how others behave towards me, nor for how I behave towards them. Is that because I instinctively rejected my mother’s claim that she took us to the U.S. for my benefit? Or is it because I learned early that asking for anything was an invitation to be denied?
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Hörpfinghof, founded in 1555
Kitzbühel is celebrating its 750 anniversary of being designated a city.
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Playground ’21
EuroAmerican
Perhaps it is time to specify that it is only EuroAmericans who expect to get something for nothing, to find the land of milk and honey and streets paved with gold.
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Celebrations
Why do I dislike celebrations of all kinds? Because they are artificial and designed to manipulate the participants. I am anti-social, happy to be solitary and disconnected. ‘Tis a guilty pleasure that must not be over-indulged.
Meine Heimat
Kitzbuehel webcams
No snow since January 31. Where I grew up.
https://www.feratel.com/webcams/oesterreich/tirol/kitzbuehel-hahnenkamm-berg.html
Aging Matinee Idol
When I was sixteen, my father took me to a sort of night club which featured an aging Chanteuse with very drooping boobs. She was too pathetic to be gross in the mind of a sixteen year old, but I have never been able to figure out what possessed the regular clientele to patronize that dive. It was obviously a going concern and my father knew what to expect.
Archie Rice in “The Entertainer,” as played by Lawrence Olivier is a male version. Poor Donald is the 21st Century version–a has-been matinee idol strutting across the stage.
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