A Man and His Dog Awaiting the Blizzard of 2019
by Robert M. Katzman © January 27, 2019
I went out to walk my tiny dog Max at 12:15 AM
And I saw the big snow storm moving in
I have been battening down the hatches
As the snowflakes are starting to fall harder
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(Read on …)How a Lithuanian Jewish Kid, at 14, Joined “Da Chicagah Machine”
by Robert M. Katzman © January 13, 2019
Chicago is a museum of unassimilated words, accents and physical expressions. North Side Jewish accent, rich kids, was very different from the West Side, the immigrants and the South Side, home of the white collar, the working-class Jews. The Chosen People had different voices, even in the American Promised Land.
Dees guys, dis stuff, dem bricks and dos cops came from the Germans who came here earlier.
(Read on …)by Robert M. Katzman © January 16, 2019
I can be alone in a city
A noisy busy city filled with people
Waves of people surging like an ocean
(Read on …)by Robert M. Katzman © January 13, 2019
Painful News Flash for South Siders and Undying lovers of the Original (and best!) Magnificent 7: That stunning deathless film which came out in 1960 when I was living near 87th and Jeffrey, and the three movie theaters were the Avalon on Stoney Island, or north of the RR tracks on 71st St, The Hamilton and the Jeffrey, has lost the last and most seductive member of its original cast:
Mexican actress Rosenda Monteros, the young woman, Petra, hiding in the forest wearing the all white pants and top costume, because her father warned her the seven American gunslingers “were brutes” and she should hide with the rest of the villages older girls, has died at the age of 86 in Mexico.
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