This piece is not for giggles. Nor is it a request for donations or any other gesture that may bear your fingerprints. Just nod your head if you agree. But it does have a serious purpose about which I am…
Author: vassar
Run the Ridges, The Kingston Trio, 1964
Just to get you in the mood, and to remind you that this sort of still runs in our blood; We may have to run the ridges. It’s been done before Lots of times
The Time I Took my Wife to Meet the Girls at Manos in Tokyo
You already know the story of my first visit to Manos, the Russian spy-restaurant in Tokyo. It was 1972. It was run by two brothers from Pittsburgh, former OSS officers during WWII, and within shouting distance of the Soviet embassy, where, at…