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“Yoga In ‘Storyville,’ Yoga In The Brothel”
Ruminant With A View “[Jelly Roll] Morton was, along with Tony Jackson, one of the best regarded pianists in the Storyville District early in the 20th century. At the age of 14, he…
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“Stan Kenton & His Daughter Leslie’s ‘Love Affair’”
Ruminant With A View By Elizabeth Boleman-Herring “I don’t know if I ever went to sleep or not. The next thing I knew his massive body was on top of mine. In…
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Greg Lloyd Smith, William Victor Bernson III, AKA . . . Legion
Ruminant With A View by Elizabeth Boleman-Herring “Nemo Me Impune Lacessit/None provokes me with impunity” TEANECK, NJ—(Weekly Hubris)—4/19/10—When the Feds arrived at Dean’s and my front door here in New Jersey last…
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“Burying The Reeking Lede*”
Ruminant With A View by Elizabeth Boleman-Herring “George W. Bush, Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld covered up that hundreds of innocent men were sent to the Guantánamo Bay prison camp because they feared…
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And, Behind Gate No. One . . .
Ruminant With A View by Elizabeth Boleman-Herring “We enter the gates of awakening carried by the same melodies, the same songs of joy and despair that first called us to the spirit. The…
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Give Way To Grace
Ruminant With A View by Elizabeth Boleman-Herring TEANECK, NJ—(Weekly Hubris)—29 March 2010—A few weeks ago, I fired my psychoanalyst. A Freudian. Not a neo-Freudian, mind you. A Freudian. I should have known better.…
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Trees, 1,000; Teaneck, Zip
Ruminant With A View by Elizabeth Boleman-Herring TEANECK, NJ—(Weekly Hubris)—3/22/10—I can’t sleep, I can’t sleep, I can’t sleep anymore! I’m typing this in the dark, and my PC’s battery is rapidly dying! We’re…
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The Rabbi Asked
Ruminant With A View by Elizabeth Boleman-Herring TEANECK, NJ—(Weekly Hubris)—3/15/10—I attended my first Saturday dinner, or Shabbat meal, at the home of observant (understatement?) Jewish friends here in Teaneck a few weeks back.…
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“America’s Do-It-Yourself Health Care”
Ruminant With A View by Elizabeth Boleman-Herring TEANECK, NJ—(Weekly Hubris)—3/8/10—One thing my European friends always remark upon when they visit me here on the East Coast of the United States, is how self-reliant…
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“21st-Century Hubris: Free Speech, & More Of It”
Ruminant With A View by Elizabeth Boleman-Herring “Walk carefully, do not wake the envy of the happy gods, Shun Hubris.” —C.S. Lewis, Poems (1964) TEANECK, NJ—(Weekly Hubris)—3/1/10—Last Sunday’s The New York Times ran…