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11 Dec 2022 7 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
Believe it or not Joel looked very much the same, his hair a little darker and more curly. The second friend I made at the Med. in my college years was Joel, a dwarf. He was in the mathematics department at Berkeley. He was about four feet tall,...
10 Dec 2022 8 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
Albrecht Durer. I made three great friends in that mezzanine during these years. I wasn’t pouring over my books every second. I’d look about me now and then. The first was Bruce, an artist, ‘par excellence’. I noticed that he’d often be sittin...
9 Dec 2022 5 minute read 1 comment Diomedes
View from Mount Tamalpais. The mention of the LSD blotter acid brings back the memories of three acid trips I took that year, all outdoors and with my dorm friends from the year before. Craig had a Volkswagen beetle and one Sunday we set out on a...
8 Dec 2022 8 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
John Muir in Yosemite. I’ve been going through old papers and found my final transcript of courses and grades. First off, I’m amazed to see a number of courses I’ve completely forgotten about over the years. I see that I took a course in comparat...
7 Dec 2022 6 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
Phil, one of my best friends for years, and as you can see, stoner. Richard and Doug once tied up our very pretty, twenty-year-old, dorm manager to a chair and put her in a closet screaming for several hours. She’d come up from the fifth floor wh...
6 Dec 2022 6 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
Our pre-bong bong apparatus In the room next to mine, 806, resided George F. and Rick Coffin. The reason I mention his last name is that we all thought it funny at the time. But, sadly enough, (as he was a very nice guy), he died in a car accide...
5 Dec 2022 8 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
Grant's girl. So I quit attending two classes without a qualm. My grades for that quarter were two ‘F’s’ and a ‘B’ in the history course. On the drive back home that quarter break I told my father, with a degree of apprehension, my grades. But...
4 Dec 2022 5 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
In the summer of 1972 I graduated high school but didn’t attend the ceremony. I was sitting in the back of Rich’s car with my friends, smoking joints as he drove near our high school. That day the third Santana album came out and we were eager t...
3 Dec 2022 6 minute read 2 comments Diomedes
I’ve described my boyhood friends, my hobbies and habits. But before I enter upon the college arena I’ll briefly address two more topics, religion and books. My parents were not religious, never mentioned it, never mentioned church. But my frien...
2 Dec 2022 6 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
Sad Geena. (actually Patricia Highsmith) At eighteen I went off to Berkeley, to the dorms and by pure chance was assigned to a floor of such wild rebels, tasting their first freedom from home and any rules, each one of us encouraging our floor mat...
