Happy Birthday Mother, Who Was Disappeared by Forces Beyond Her Control, Amsterdam Quarterly #23. More here
Lori Ellison: A Personalized Voodoo, Paris Free Voice, 1990
About Refugees in the Netherlands: I worked in a Refugee Crisis Center for 15 months
Refugee Center Part 1: The Good, The Bad, & The Funny, Vox Populi
In Amsterdam, Refugees Find Shelter From the Storm Truthdig
Amsterdam Refugee Center — Guarded Hope: Vox Populi
The Art of Documenting the Undocumented, Truthdig
Refugee Center Part 1: The Good, The Bad, & The Funny, Vox Populi
In Amsterdam, Refugees Find Shelter From the Storm Truthdig
Amsterdam Refugee Center — Guarded Hope: Vox Populi
The Art of Documenting the Undocumented, Truthdig
The Green Card is Salmon: The airport as a microcosm for all of the fears we have about society in general. It is about the airport as police state perfected. Published in Airplane Reading in 2011.
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The Disabled Enabled Enough to Kill reenacts memories but also analyze images of 2 articles I had saved from the Daily News since the mid-1980s about odd murders. Published in Unlikely Stories: Episode IV.
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Encounter with Ginz: Listen, I wasn't out gunning for Ginsberg. I just wanted to relativize the idolatry that surrounded him & how he was victimized by his own fame &, simultaneously, was able to parlay this fame for some gain. This takes nothing away from his great (early) poetry and his activism & it was meant only to make him human through exposure of his foibles. Available: About.com in 2010.
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Supression of Mirth + Scurrilous Laughter: The re-publication of Suppression with a Charlie Hebdo update addresses the Paris assassinations. Co-published in the Scottish Ol’ Chanty.
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Audio / Visual MnemoTechnics: Essays in Urban Grafitti on the subject of how photos & music trigger memories. The Geographical Rewriting of Memory looks at how sound rekindles memories, The Long March: Don’t fall asleep on the Metro-North Train out of Grand Central late at night. Happy Mother’s Day: Furman’s Mom visits his East Village apt. Purple Manta Ray: Death of a Playboy: Cool neighbor suicide. From Captain Yossarian to Captain Stanley & Back: remembering LES cartoonist. Raised Fist Salute: 1968 Olympics Black Power. The death of Mark McCawley [RIP] spelled the end of Urban grafitti as well. I hope to find new homes for these essays some day.
Boatspotting: "I'm a boatspotter. I sit and eat or write or drink and stare out the window. Not an ordinary window with an ordinary view but a triptych of glass 3 meters high and 4 meters across. Outside this abandoned makeshift office facility (9 years ago converted by squatters into ateliers and living quarters) along the Westerdoksdijk, is a spectacular view of the Shell Research complex across the water in North Amsterdam. At night its intricate mosaic of lit cubicles and network of lights, pipes and stacks resembles the inside of my old transistor radio which served to escort me through childhood nightmares induced by Roger Corman’s drive-in renditions of Edgar Allen Poe stories…" Appeared in the Curse in 1996 and in Alley Tracts in 1997.
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The Mystery of the Plockhoy Settlement: Originally appeared in the Mennonite Historical Bulletin 62 (April 2001): Pieter Cornelisz Plockhoy from the Zeeland province of Holland in the mid-1660s attempted to create a utopic [proto-socialist-egalitarian] settlement in the New World. The Plockhoy settlement was the first voice against slavery and preached friendship with the Indian. Also in Dutch in Kroniek van het land van de zeemeermin.
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Paris Free Voice, April 1990: 2-part series makes sense of the vague magnitude of [living in] Paris by arranging facts to create a kind of collage. I received VERY indignant responses from American doctors living in France at the time, calling me irresponsible for saying that smoking must be kept in perspective, that WORRYING about smoke or getting all pissed off every day at smokers might have as much of an effect on longevity as smoking..." Imagine 2,068,000 Parisians crammed into 105 km (not including 11 km of bones that lie under Paris in the catacombs) with 500,000 or so dogs (4760 dogs per km). This means you have about a 1 in 4 chance that a Parisian you hear complaining about graffiti is a dog owner. And this dog owner will be ignorant of the fact that although 4,000,000F go annually to cleaning up ... For the rest of the article.
The Dutch Door to America: “One nation is a copy of the other,” said John Adams on his first visit to the Netherlands; two centuries later an American visitor to Holland can still trace the connection. Award-winning story by Nina Ascoly & bart plantenga published in American Heritage about the roots of America to be found in the Netherlands. It won the Lowell Thomas Travel Writing Award, presented in 2000 by the American Association of Travel Writers for the outstanding foreign travel feature published in 1999.
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, 2018Unbearables En-cyclopedia entry about the group: Unbearables for Exquisite Corpse called “New York: The Unbearables (b. April 27, 1986, New York – d. Dec. 7, 1994, New York). Photo of the Three Unbears, Ron, Mike, bart by passing imbiber. Also called Unbearable Beatniks of Lite, Wannabeats, Unbearable Bootlicks of Life, Unmentionables, Unbeatable Scriv-niks of Spite,Unbees, were the loose screws of a "literary" movement that was based on the transgressive mediocrity concepts of micro-hyper-marketing and post-ironic juvenile delinquency ... and a reassessment of the meaning and moaning of this group: Barely Bearably Unbearable: Chronicles of an Irreverent or Irrelevant Writers Group, Angry Old Man, 2018
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