I wondered if one might think of the Ancient Greek playwright, who had definite negative thoughts about the gods and certain ideas about how a society should be run, could be considered a democratic socialist. So I asked perplexity.ai to write an essay on the topic. Here it is. Though the term *democratic socialist* belongsContinue reading “Euripides as a Democratic Socialist”
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York, PA Businesses (5)
As I continue the march around local businesses, I feel the need to range a bit farther past the square and out Market Street. Around the corner from the library was a travel agency. I never ventured in, but I was perennially amused by their window display that featured a mustached man about three feetContinue reading “York, PA Businesses (5)”
York, PA Businesses (4)
On the corner of George and South streets, diagonally from Babe’s newsstand, sat Spangler’s Drug Store. Owned by a husband and wife, they were the local version of what would become chains such as Walgreen’s and CVS. I would occasionally buy film for my cameras there but have no real recollections of the place, unlessContinue reading “York, PA Businesses (4)”
York, PA Businesses (3)
Fischer’s Meat Market was one of those local places you could walk to for all of your groceries, preventing that area of York, PA from being a food desert—a term that wouldn’t surface for years and something we needn’t have worried about in the prosperous 1960s. The market had canned foods, veggies, and of courseContinue reading “York, PA Businesses (3)”
York, PA Businesses (2)
My reminiscences of businesses in the immediate area where I grew up in York, PA continues. There were two very close newsstands: Babe’s (at the corner of George and South Streets) and Carl’s (a few blocks away on George Street). Babe’s had a huge selection of comic books around and past the pinball machine. ThisContinue reading “York, PA Businesses (2)”
York, PA Businesses (1)
Recently, when passing on the way to Greensburg, PA, what used to be an office supply store, then a medical equipment company, and now an abandoned business, I thought of a stationery store in my hometown of York, PA. From there I began to muse on the other businesses in the immediate environment where IContinue reading “York, PA Businesses (1)”
Don’t Break the Chain, Or!
Occasionally someone puts a post on Facebook or other social medium that suggests something dreadful and catastrophic has happened to them. But when you read on, you discover that it’s a canned posting that they are copying and pasting and exhorting you to do likewise. For example, I saw this recently from someone who doesn’tContinue reading “Don’t Break the Chain, Or!”
No More Wings
At dinner for Valentine’s Day, we sat at a table next to a screen broadcasting the Olympics. And for some reason I flashed back to my last experience at a Buffalo Wild Wings. The theatre people working on a show would go out after each performance: Primanti’s on Thursday, TGIFridays on Friday (of course!), BWWContinue reading “No More Wings”
Wrong Answer!
Lately I’ve become more persnickety in my responses to the wrong number texts as these examples will demonstrate. That ended that conversation; sometimes the halt is abrupt., but not always. In the above example I used AI to respond poetically. Two Anne’s at the same time…double-barreled Annie’s? I just want to wish Richard on eHarmonyContinue reading “Wrong Answer!”
Wrong Number!!!
My best estimate is that so far this year I’ve had two dozen “wrong number” messages, either by text, WhatsApp, or telegram. They keep trying, and I keep trying to be amused by it, but sometimes they just don’t want to play. For example: No further response. This one got a little farther., after IContinue reading “Wrong Number!!!”
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