And important lessons taught about “How Things Work”. Luther Brock is that little fat kid on the second row, third from the right, with the star-struck, clueless look on his face. This was our First Grade picture, 1952, and Luther…
My First Adventure with Prostitutes at Manos in Tokyo, 1972
(ed note: There is today a Manos Russian restaurant in the Asakusa area of Tokyo, but the one of which I speak here was just a short walk from the original Sanno Hotel in Akasaka, who’s history can be seen here.)…
Tribalism Writ Large; the American Tribe
Humanity started out tribal. All of us. This meeting below is between a white man named Cpt Nathan Brittles, about 800 years after his tribal beginnings, and a Cheyenne chief, still in the waning days of his, just after Custer’s…