"People spread the disease before they knew they had it, got sicker, brought it home, and died. ... Ambulance drivers, stretcher bearers, doctors, nurses: working until they died on their feet. Trolley conductors, shopkeepers. Teachers. ... "Imagine: around the world, millions and millions vital … [Read more...]
“The Drifting Dream Is Done” – Pogo, Lewis Carroll, and the Age of Coronavirus
I don't remember what birthday it was that I received The Pogo Stepmother Goose as one of my presents. Maybe the eighth? The ninth? That was about the age that I adored the now mostly forgotten comic strip "Pogo" by Walt Kelly. So much so, that I made a little pennant out of flannel and, … [Read more...]
Coronavirus and the UFO – An Interview with Martin Brossman
(My friend Martin Brossman and I have just recorded, via Zoom, a video interview on "Coronavirus and the UFO"--two subjects we don't often think to connect. As soon as the video goes live, I'll post the link to it here. In the meantime, here's the gist of what we said to one … [Read more...]
These Do I Remember – COVID-19 and the Yom Kippur War (Part 2)
(Continued from my previous post.) We'll be safe here, the director of the Albright Institute for Archaeological Research told me, the night of the day the Yom Kippur War began. And we were. On that Yom Kippur--October 6, 1973--Egypt and Syria had launched a coordinated attack across the … [Read more...]
These Do I Remember – COVID-19 and the Yom Kippur War (Part 1)
How quickly it all came upon us. Not that we couldn't have seen it coming--we knew what COVID-19 was doing to Italy, which is a whole lot closer to us than China. Yet we continued to deny. Even last week, I still imagined it likely that the bookstore launch of Intimate Alien: The Hidden Story … [Read more...]
