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| June 9, 2025 |
What's going on in LA? Who knows, really; but there's
a
connection between a 1990 tale I wrote about my life
there called 'A Trip Downtown' which explains the setting
of this recent confrontation there, between
law enforcement and the media.
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* Reminding me of
the Gary Snyder:
Stay Together
Learn the Flowers
Go Light.
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June 5, 2025
- Navigation within, a learned skill, but
Weimar Berlin.com
(by the mysterious "Al") is worthwhile, many fascinating
things therein (including this painting from 1930 by
Hanns Kralik, "Out My Window"). Inspired by
Babylon
Berlin, which I'm now catching up on, courtesy
the
Internet Archive. Challenge! As it's a German production,
natürlich, keine englischen, spanish sub-titles only!
Summaries available online enable some level of comprehension,
and library DVDs are coming.
- More Weimar at
Secret
City Travel.
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Two words for truth, istina and pravda; and also, two
words for lies: lozh and vranyo. The Conversation delves into
vranyo, Russian
for when you lie and everyone knows it, but you don’t care.
Meanwhile, according to the BBC, one should
beware pokazukhas and zakazukhas
in Russian media -- empty spectacles, and paid propaganda.
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