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Jan.01.2013
My latest piece has gone up at:
http://www.broadstreetreview.com/index.php/main/article/pynchons_mason_dixon_revisited/I thought my idiosyncratic charm suffered in the editing, so I am reproducing the original below. Literary scholars are invited to compare and contrast.And Happy New Year to...
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Dec.24.2012
Thanks to all my readers. May you have a wonderful 2013.
The last of my cards went in the mail this morning. (I usually go with a non-denominational PEACE-type message, so is long as I'm done by the first of the year, I figure I'm cool.
I like sending cards. It started when I was...
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Dec.14.2012
My most recent take on Bob Dylan, posted here a few weeks ago, has been picked up by First of the Month as part of a star-studded line-up which can be sampled below. If anything appeals, it can be read for free in full at the cited link. Enjoy.
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Dec.07.2012
Yesterday I was in Moe's, my favorite Berkeley book store. I had struck out on the fourth, third and second floors, and was in the sub-street level first, when a woman who had been shelving books said, with a big smile, "Hi! Haven't seen you in a while."
I had, so far as I knew, never seen...
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Dec.05.2012
Yesterday, non-short term memory-impaired readers will recall, I recounted how a sweater I had ordered on-line had, from the combined efforts of Blue Fly, UPS, and the USPS, managed to be determined insufficiently (though correctly) addressed, making it non-deliverable to my home and was headed...
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Dec.04.2012
So after many months of commendable, abstemious behavior, I broke down and bought a sweater from Bluefly. The price had dropped 20% overnight; I had a credit to blow; I am always pleased to help the economy; shipping was free.
Shipping was also a problem. Tracking it at UPS, I was...
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Nov.22.2012
"Until something really happens, nothing's really happened." Pau Gasol. New York Times November 21, 2012.
For roundball-related profundity, I think this ranks with Darryl Dawkins's "When everything is said and done, there's nothing left to say or do."
Happy Thanksgiving to all who read...
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Nov.16.2012
The captioned volume has re-printed my classic -- if ignominiously ignored -- "Bob Dylan: The Man; the Moment; the Italian Meats Sandwich" (KARAMU Spring 1996). Other contributors include two Danes, a professor of pediatrics, a Brit, two English professors, one of Asian studies,...
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Nov.14.2012
So I'm heading down Vine, turning left on Shattuck, aiming for the cafe and two women are crossing north-to-south in front of me and one of them is saying "...but the other point guard was John Stockton." They are both cute, early twenties; one is carrying what looks enough like a law...
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Nov.08.2012
The editor of the on-line journal for whom I wrote this turned it down. So here is a Red Room exclusive!
Bob Dylan: October 2012 The two Asian-American women to our left had come from San Jose to Berkeley’s Greek Theater because the brother of one,...
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Oct.22.2012
My take on the first debate just went up at First of the Month. You can read it here:
http://www.firstofthemonth.org/archives/2012/10/choosey_beggars.html
It opens like this:
The author sent in this (prophetic) comment a few hours before the second debate.
Barack Obama’s sleepwalk through the...
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Oct.16.2012
My latest piece is up at THE BROAD STREET REVIEW. You can read it at:
http://www.broadstreetreview.com/index.php/main/article/my_life_as_a_pornographer_a_memoir1
It begins:
An investigative journalist at gawker.com has revealed that the film that recently set Islamist critiques de...
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Sep.16.2012
My latest piece is up at THE BROAD STREET REVIEW.
It begins: On September 30, the New York Film Festival will celebrate the 40th anniversary of “The King of Marvin Gardens.” This dark, quirky, cerebellum-banging, criminally critic-savaged film, directed by Bob...
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Sep.11.2012
For those of you who followed my journey through cardio-infarctland -- near fatal heart attacks in January and March 2011, near fatal open heart surgery a year ago -- I have an update.
On last week's visit, my first in six months, my cardiologist, the sainted Dr. Munoz, handed my wife and me the...
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Sep.05.2012
Conventional Thinking The presidential nomination convention season always reminds me of tripping over Governor Lawrence. David Leo Lawrence, the 71-year-old governor of Pennsylvania, headed the state’s delegation to the 1960 Democratic...
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About Bob
Bob Levin was born in Philadelphia March 14, 1942. Since 1968, he has lived in Berkeley with his wife Adele, a writer and retired psychotherapist. A retired attorney, he represented the injured in workers' compensation cases for more than 40 years.
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Causes Bob Levin Supports
Comic Book Legal Defense Fund, ACLU, PEN, Berkeley Emergency Food & Housing Project.
Bob’s Favorite Books
A Man With a Maid (vol 1-3); Seeing is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees; Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind, The Recognitions.