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From Volume Two of my journal 30 years ago.... I put in some pix of me at Madam Tussaud's wax museum in London. It was in the summer of '84 (despite what it says in the journal).


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Another for my Song Hall of Fame........... "Helter Skelter" by the Beatles

Always been fascinated by the Charles Manson connection with this song. So.... that't it.

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"Never Learn Not to Love" by the Beach Boys is the next song to be inducted into my personal Song Hall of Fame...

The song was originally written by Charles Manson and was polished up and altered a little by Dennis Wilson, who used to hang out with Manson before all that messy helter skelter business.  Strange but true.

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15 years ago this month, I was living in Beverly, MA with my first wife F. I worked in Boston as a Test Supervisor... Not much was going on in my life to report about in my journal... but as always, I tried to mention world events, like

Kurt Cobain's death
The Clintons and the Whitewater Scandal
The caning in Singapore
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For the Song Hall of Fame... "The Future" by Leonard Cohen ( Read more... )

One day my road rage is going to get me in bother. I better cool it sometimes. I found myself honking at two people in two incidences a short while ago when they both tried to force their way into a queue of cars right in front of me ( Read more... )

25 years ago today....  Ronald Reagan was shot in a failed assassination attempt by John Hinckley.  I remember hearing about it first in a locker room in high school after track practice.  I watched it on TV when I got home where they showed the shooting over and over again.


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