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02/15/2025

My interview with Tree Sequoia about the night that began the Stonewall Riots. He was there. This photo is from June 26, 2015 when the Supreme Court ruled that the right for gay marriage was to be upheld in all of the 50 states of the United States.
https://open.substack.com/pub/sometimesdidion/p/interview-with-tree-sequoia-about?r=55m95a&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

10/06/2024

“Sentimentality is the death of anything good.“
“What you do is not who you are.”

Baldwin Lee (born 1951)[1] is a Chinese-American photographer and educator known for his photographs of African-American communities in the Southern United States.

The Ogden presented Badldwin and from Prospect NOLA, Andrew Rebatta.

I now have a photograph to have as a favorite.

09/30/2024

“We took it seriously enough to think that our work was important, to think that what we were creating would mean something in the big picture,” Mr. Kristofferson said in an interview with the journal No Depression in 2006.

“Looking back on it, I feel like it was kind of our Paris in the ’20s,” he went on, alluding to American expatriate writers like Ernest Hemingway and Gertrude Stein who lived there at the time. “Real creative and real exciting — and intense.”

Kris Kristofferson from an article in the NYTimes, September 30,2024

photo by Jack Robinson

09/30/2024

Anther one penned by Kristopherson!

09/30/2024

Thank you Kris Kristopherson!

"Me and Bobby McGee" by Janis JoplinListen to Janis Joplin: https://JanisJoplin.lnk.to/listenYDWatch more Janis Joplin videos: https://JanisJoplin.lnk.to/lis...

09/24/2024

“Waiting for Jim”
Joan Didion

09/23/2024

Now…Let’s start a conversation.

09/21/2024

I love Trumpers. They love gaslighting.

09/21/2024

New Natasha Lyonne on Netflix!
brb

09/19/2024

“Harpo, who ‘dis woman dancin’ with my man?”
“Tweet, can’t a man dance with his wife?”
Sophia, “Fine by me!”
Tweet “Not when he’s my man. Heffa!”
“I SAID FINE BY ME!!!”

Separate scene, “My name not Tweet! It’s Mary Agnes.”

I forgot how much I love reading “The Color Purple” by Alice Walker

09/14/2024

In the New York Times today, an article appears that Red Lobster when they offered all you can eat shrimp for twenty dollars!