If you’re reading this in the future, and want to send a cyborg back in time in order to keep me from being born, so that I don’t destroy Skynet, or do whatever terrible and awesome thing it is that I’m going to do in my remaining years here on earth, this is where you […]
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An online architectural tour of my earliest years in Frankfort, Kentucky
Posted in geneology, History, Mark's Life, Uncategorized Also tagged 1918 flu, Angie Condreva, architecture, AT&T, Buffalo Trace, Charles Augustus Maynard, Charles Maynard, Curtis Florian, cyborg, Daniel Boone National Forrest, family history, Frankfort, Goodwood Brewing, guns, houseboats, Kentucky, Lake Cumberland, Little Mister Frankfort, Mark Meade, Mark's ancestors, Minnie Florian, Monticello, Navy, Paty Maynard, Portsmouth, Rabbit Hash, Saint Joseph Hospital, Skynet, T-800, Terminator, the draft, Vietnam War, White Sulphur 9 Comments
The Lonesome Death of Trayvon Martin
Ever since news broke about George Zimmerman shooting down Trayvon Martin in that gated community outside of Orlando, I’ve had Bob Dylan’s song, The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll, going through my head. Maybe it’s just that Zimmerman’s name sounds to me like that of William Zantzinger, the privileged young tobacco farmer in Maryland who […]
Posted in Art and Culture, Civil Liberties, Ideas, Mark's Life, Uncategorized Also tagged blame the victim, Bob Dylan, Candle in the Wind, dextromethorphan, Elton John, George Zimmerman, Hattie Carroll, Marilyn Monroe, Princess Diana, race, race inequality, racism, Robert Zimmerman Sr., shanties, Steve Allen, The Lonesome Death Of Hattie Carroll, Trayvon Martin, white privilege, Zantzinger 30 Comments