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May.30.2010 Learning to Value My Education: A Love Letter I would like to take this opportunity to thank my MFA students and the citizens of Newark, New Jersey for teaching me the value of my education. I'd always valued what I learned in school, but never gave myself any credit for having gone to school and completed the degree. When I left for school,...	Mar.03.2010 My Life In Music, Polaroid's and the Media: B4 the Storm 65' By 1965, my parents were determined to find better digs than a cold water tenement flat. I remember hearing nightmare stories about how they had to stick my crib's legs in cans of kerosene at night to keep roaches and other vermin from waking me up. Now that I think of it, that wasn't a very safe...
Feb.22.2010 My Life In Music, Polaroid's and the Media: Almost 1962, Christmastime in the city, specifically, Newark, New Jersey. My mom and grandfather are arguing in front of Bamburger's department store. The topics of discussion are, one, that my mom return to home to Boston, and two, that they immediately find someone to take care of her problem. I...	Nov.27.2009 The Radical Rule of Thumb Recently, I experienced the movie, "The Baader Meinhof Complex." It's a difficult movie to experience - a German language film, subtitled casually (meaning the German isn't always translated precisely) in English, with Bourne-style. thumping music and sharp, quick cinematic cuts, clearly...