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TRAVEL AND LEISURE

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DIED ON THIS DAY IN 2005

Daughter of a well to do British actor and fashion model, Domino Harvey became one of the few female bounty hunters in the world. She died in Los Angeles of a drug overdose at 35.

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“Their boredom becomes more and more terrible. They realize that they’ve been tricked and burn with resentment. Every day of their lives they read the newspapers and went to the movies. Both fed them on lynchings, murder, sex crimes, explosions, wrecks, love nests, fires, miracles, revolutions, war. This daily diet made sophisticates of them. The sun is a joke. Oranges can’t titillate their jaded palates. Nothing can ever be violent enough to make taut their slack minds and bodies. They have been cheated and betrayed. They have slaved and saved for nothing.” - Nathaneal West, The Day of The Locust
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MEANWHILE IN SPORTS

Boxing is a lot of white men watching two black men beating each other up- Muhammad Ali

HOME IS WHERE THE HELL IS

The late Jayne Mansfield's Los Angeles bathroom

DIED ON THIS DAY IN 1996

Veronica Guerin. Irish crime reporter who was murdered on 26 June 1996 by drug lords.

RECIPE FOR DISASTER

Twinkies. Coming back to stores July 15.

DIED ON THIS DAY IN 1959

Spree killer Charles Starkweather, the inspiration for the film "Natural Born Killers", died in the electric chair on this day in 1959 in Lincoln, NE. He was 20 years old.

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“I think we are well advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be, whether we find them attractive company or not. Otherwise they turn up unannounced and surprise us, come hammering on the mind's door at 4 a.m. of a bad night and demand to know who deserted them, who betrayed them, who is going to make amends.”
―Joan Didion,  Slouching Towards Bethlehem 

TRAVEL AND LIESURE

Holiday Inn: "The best surprise is no surprise"

DIED ON THIS DAY IN 1997

Actor Brian Kieth was found dead at his Malibu, CA home on this day in 1997. He was 75 and died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

HOME IS WHERE THE HELL IS

RECIPE FOR DISASTER

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“...I know all about myself now, I know. You've told me so often. You haven't left me one rag of illusion to clothe myself in.”
― Jean Rhys, Good Morning Midnight

DIED ON THIS DAY IN 1997

"Wino" Willie Forkner, said to be the inspiration for Marlon Brando's character in The Wild Ones. Ft. Bragg, California

DIED ON THIS DAY IN 1969

“There have been times when I have deliberately tried to take my life... I think I must have been crying for some attention.” - Judy Garland

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Frankly, I was horrified by life, at what a man had to do simply in order to eat, sleep, and keep himself clothed. So I stayed in bed and drank. When you drank the world was still out there, but for the moment it didn’t have you by the throat. - Charles Bukowski

SING YOU CYNICS!

Just a note, this site is for optimistic cynics. If you are sarcasm impaired you may want to work on that issue before jumping in here with comments. Those of you who have accepted that life is a big bittersweet buffet where sadly YOU always wind up doing the damn dishes will feel right at home here.

WHAT FRESH HELL IS THIS?

Welcome to my new blog where I hope we will find truth, love, happiness and dignity and whatever else we've lost.