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Leaving Da Camera On: Max Seems a Roach from da Cold: Diary of a Drabman

Where do They (you know: Them) get such chutzpah? You can’t buy that kind of chutzpah. Not even Amazon sells that kind of chutzpah…
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“So simple, even an American can do it…” (a running joke throughout)
And coming soon:
The Droned Stranger and his Double-agent Injun’ companion, Running Joke
an fer da inllectshulls:

Leaving da Camera On: Spaeiouk, Memory: Report to Facebook Operations Police (FOP)

My Dear Colleagues and Associates at FOP,
I congratulate you on creating the intelligence operative’s surveillance dream that is Facebook Nation. A controlled environment within the controlled environment that is the Internet itself — oh, what fun I and my fellow informants might have had with such toys when I was but a pipsqueak Spaeiouk (or “pip-Spaeiouk,” as some of my less decorous — downright insensitive, actually — comrades nicknamed me) back in “the day!”

Leaving da Camera On: Word

Word: writers reading from their work to the accompaniment of imagery to set the mood.

Or perhaps it’s something else entirely. Why these images, for ‘audio A’ and those other images for ‘audio B?’ The image sequences don’t seem to be ‘literal’ interpretations of the spoken text.
But, as Yogi Berra said, “It ain’t over till be be finale of seem; then we can all go out for ice-cream, my treat…’
That is, it ain’t like this stuff is set to ‘program music.’

Tai Chi, Thai Stick: Roger Golden’s Viet Con

Roger Golden began studying Tai Chi and other martial arts forms after graduating from high school in the mid-1960s. A classic ‘clown,’ in the folk-lore sense of the cunning trickster who gets over on Power, as opposed to collaborating with, endorsing and representing it, he laughed his way from low-level street deals of the then ‘new thing,’ marijanna, to become one of the major ‘importer-exporters’ of this particular herb, in the United States (after the CIA, of course) until his incarceration for ten years in the early 1990s.

Cassandra sed Phoenix: Odysseus in Vietnam

Presented by Douglas Valentine.  Douglas Valentine is author of The Phoenix Program, a meticulously researched, ground-breaking history of the CIA’s complex ‘neutralization program’ used in Vietnam; the comprehensive, two-volume history of United States drug policy from 1900 through 2010, The Strength of the Wolf (1900-1968) ,  The Strength of the Pack (1968-2010) and