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Misfits and Inglorious Bastards

Posted on June 4, 2014 by ronbase — Leave a comment

I went back to my past a few weeks ago–and discovered they were tearing It down. The past had been safely housed for over forty years inside the old gray stone monolith that was the Windsor Star on the corner of…

Neil Armstrong’s Mother Liked My Suit

Posted on August 26, 2012 by ronbase — 6 Comments

Before I met Neil Armstrong’s mother, I bought a new suit. It was gray with blue pin stripes. I looked like a twenty-year-old banker in it. A pimply twenty-year-old banker. I thought of that suit again yesterday when the news came…

Remembering Brian Vallée

Posted on July 23, 2011 by ronbase — 20 Comments

The digital readout on the phone said: “Vallée B.” In addition to everything else he’d accomplished, I told him, he had become a rap artist. He liked that idea. When he called, I knew it was time for my daily…