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26 Jan 2023 6 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
Simple living In late June, 1982, with over two thousand dollars saved up, I made the trip back to Berkeley, once again by bus. Bones had sent me a letter and said he’d arranged a place I could move into, right behind the house where he lived. Thi...
25 Jan 2023 6 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
John Keats My journals at this time began to fill and became a daily part of my life. I have four of them covering these two years, mostly lists of the great books I was reading and my thoughts on them. As I had no social life that was all I had t...
24 Jan 2023 4 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
The secret life of writing Life without others The next portion of my life (from July 1980 to July 1982) deserves a preface, or perhaps an apology, or better yet, an essay on solitude, because these two years contain almost no action, no social li...
23 Jan 2023 7 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
Rene I was on a trip through Southern California with my new girlfriend, Sanita, (soon to be my wife) and introducing her to all my old friends and when we reached San Diego Phil was on my list. He was glad to see us, the past forgotten, a very ch...
22 Jan 2023 5 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
My friend Phil, long ago. It was about this time that my job ended. Summer was upon us, the beach in its full glory and I had enough hours worked to apply for unemployment insurance. My boss, Larry K. filled out and signed the form and we parted w...
22 Jan 2023 4 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
Telltale signs It was right after this party that a group of more criminal and derelict so-called friends began to frequent our living room. The first was a blond in her late twenties. She was pretty but had been prettier, with the first wrinkles...
21 Jan 2023 4 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
Innocence. One day in May Kim and I decided to throw a large party. We told all our friends and asked them to invite theirs and arranged through our bartender to have a keg on ice. It was to be a Saturday afternoon backyard party, which we’d never...
21 Jan 2023 3 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
Mexican jail The first three months at the house were happy, with just Kim, Harry O. and me fixing many things up in our off hours. Kim built himself a little bedroom out of a storeroom behind the kitchen. The front deck, built from scratch, came...
20 Jan 2023 5 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
Angry drummer My first encounter with such a type (as I described in my last post, the uneducated and unfortunate wretch who is most likely prison bound) happened before I left Marin, while staying at Norma’s. Kim knew a drummer named Buddy who wo...
19 Jan 2023 7 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
Harry O. The first and best of our new friends, in every way, was Harry O. We met him at Doug’s but he also knew Phil, who also moved back to San Diego that Winter. Phil moved in with his grandmother and somehow scored a great job at a science fac...
