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What I did on My Summer Vacation: Visual Aids

This picture has been brought to you by the 1970s.  Both Jeremy and I look like we are from the mid 70s.  Also, Jeremy was doing some sort of strange dance behind me.  I don’t know what or why he was doing what he was doing, but the look on his face cracks me up.  [...]

What I did on my summer vacation

Got attacked by mutant mosquitos in Venice
Seriously they were horrifying.  The bites turned into blisters so that they were full of puss, painful and itchy.
Also they were very red.  I am very pale.  I looked like a leper.  there is an island for lepers near Venice (well not anymore really, but it was) I am surprised [...]

A few days late, many dollars short

So Jim Carroll died. 
In 1997 I saw him perform both spoken word and his music at the Magic Stick in Detroit.  He told a story about meeting William Burroughs and how his father once met the famous gangster, Dutch Schultz, and his fear that Burroughs would call him out based on his description of Schultz’s desk [...]

and return

We are home.
London is grey.
The cat has a limp.
But there are like five million yellow cherry tomatoes in the garden, so that’s good.
Italy recaps to come later.

a brief update from palermo

Palermo is a strange town.  There is a strange mix of beautiful and horrible architecture.  Some buildings remain damaged from American bombs in WWII.  We have seen churches built in the 11th century.  In the convento dei cappucini we saw a 2 year old who was mummified in 1920.  In the Botanical Gardens there was [...]