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Feb.29.2012
Last night, Wayne the K took me to see the latest edition of Nellie McKay's "I Want to Live" at Hotel Nikko's The Rrazz Room, and as a result, Son Guy, Son Jason, and I were invited back by Momma Robin Pappas for a second night of Nellie's engagement.
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Feb.28.2012
Amid all the national, world, and personal turmoil, I prepared early this afternoon to go see my former student, Robin Pappas, and her talented daughter, Nellie McKay, at the Rrazz Room of the Hotel Nikko. Fortunately, my friend Wayne the K. is footing the bill. Things have been so bad...
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Feb.28.2012
The day began pleasantly enough. I had my breakfast, took my pills, did my lung medicine, said good morning to Son Guy, and went to work on my computer. Half way through my Email, tooling around, my attention was taken by reports of a high school shooting at Chardon, Ohio. I used...
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Feb.27.2012
Like millions of Americans (and others around the World), I spent most of this Sunday afternoon and evening watching "On the Red Carpet" and "The 84th Academy Awards Show." Billy Cristal's return as MC was obviously a plus, but one of the night's most entertaining (and probably consternating...
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Feb.26.2012
The weather turned cool today, with promise of rain overnight.
This afternoon, Son Guy, Son Jason and I phoned Reno to wish Bunty Fraser a Happy Birthday. She has been weathering serious illness but sounded very chipper. She and Daughter Miranda had just returned from lunch....
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Feb.25.2012
The unseasonal warm weather continued today, as Son Guy and I faced our financial problem.
I sent Son Guy to the Gold Buyers in West Portal with the last of my dental gold. He returned with disappointing news that what I thought was white gold . . . wasn't. Still, he did...
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Feb.24.2012
On this continuing unseasonably warm day in San Francisco, Son Guy purchased for me a hundred dollar money order (proceeds from almost the last of my dental gold) and took it to Charles Schwab, to cover a cheque for my Medicare, which is due before month's end.
While he was gone and...
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Feb.22.2012
Today, my interviewer called me at the appointed time: 4 p.m. (EST) from Buffalo, NY.
Here, the temperature was in the upper 60's and higher in other areas, record breakers. Who says Global Warming can't be fun, sayeth the Frog.
The interviewer had sent me chapters from...
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Feb.22.2012
Spent the afternoon preparing for the interview tomorrow.
This evening, Wellesnet.com presented me with one the more interesting and maddening people I keep track of, Andrew Breitbart. [He would like that, I imagine.] A fellow commentator at the Wellesnet site came up with Breitbart's...
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Feb.21.2012
I spent another day going through old Kent State University yearbooks. Going back to 1950, I found two interesting acquaintances. One was probably a bonafide "secret agent," and the other became an important young poet (who died young).
And in the 1951 book, I found several other...
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Feb.20.2012
Another mild mid-winter day. I spent most of my hours working on notes for my interview next week with the fellow who is writing a history of student activism at Kent State University from the 1950's to the present.
I also engaged in an hour and a half phone conversation with...
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Feb.19.2012
Most of the afternoon, I prepped for a phone interview I'm to have next week.
The interview will have to do with what I know about the growth of student activism at my alma mater of Kent State University in the 1950's. The centerpin, perhaps, will be events leading up and away from the...
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Feb.17.2012
I spent the day with my Emails, etc., and talking with Son Guy.
Became very tired and even more depressed.
Not up to much.
Macresarf1 would write no more this day.
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Feb.16.2012
Sunny, windy, clear skies: I went to have my eye exam at 1635 Divisadero Street this afternoon.
The appointment was for 2:50 p.m., and I was early. One walks by a coffee shop into the building. down a long hall. I stopped at the coffee shop ATM to check my bank...
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Feb.16.2012
This afternoon, I became really depressed. My nature is not to admit to such feelings, but more and more, I really do not have many people to discuss matters with. Either they are busy with their lives, or they are really worse off than I am. The problem is that I don't wish to...
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About Alex
Born in a little town east of Cleveland, Ohio, I attended Kent State, taking a degree in Political Science and History; served in the U.S. Army (Anti-Aircraft Artillery) at Lakenheath Airbase in Suffolk, East Anglia, England.
This experience was one the most...
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Causes Alex Fraser Supports
Greenpeace
Alex’s Favorite Books
Revolutionary Road, Easter Parade, Disturbing the Peace, and Eleven Kinds of Loneliness by Richard Yates; Pan by Knut Hamsun; The Dubliners by James Joyce; Dog...