Posts Tagged with "JFK"

A Talk with Mort Sahl

Monday, August 25, 2003

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Just read an interview with satirist Mort Sahl, still pissed off at age 76. He’s always been right on the beam about the Kennedy assassination, the canary in the coal mine; I’m not talking specifics, I’m talking about knowing that something was fishy and politicized and “spun.” And it wasn’t simply JFK-worship, either: He got [...]

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Black Dahlia solved?

Tuesday, December 3, 2002

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Anybody with a ghoulish turn of mind should check out this interesting “solution” to the infamous Black Dahlia murder case. The evidence is convincing–it would be more so if it wasn’t cloaked in pseudo-Chandler gobbeldy-gook–but as with Jack the Ripper, so much time has passed that any solution is encased in quotes. (Until the LAPD [...]

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Barry’s Long March…

Thursday, November 21, 2002

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…is proving much more pleasant than Mao’s. Editor Simon revealed today that my mongrel will be at #7 in the London Sunday Times list this Sunday. Yowsa! While emceeing the National Book Awards, Steve Martin got off a good line or two. While presenting a Lifetime Achievement Award to Phillip Roth, he quipped, “If he’s [...]

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A Reading, and a Roundup

Tuesday, November 19, 2002

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People at Chicago’s After-Words Bookstore (23 E. Illinois St) have extremely unwisely asked me to do a reading at their store this Friday, Nov. 22nd at 8pm. So anybody in the area who would like to endure two hours of mumbled punchlines and half-bemused muttering, shouldn’t miss it! In more Barry news, it continues to [...]

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