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Woodstock Nation: History or Myth

I am a Baby Boomer, born in the vanguard of the Boom in 1946. I must say though that, having lived through that time, I think it might be useful, on the 40th anniversary of Woodstock, to reassess the so called “Woodstock Generation.”
I have been hearing a lot about the miracle of Woodstock Nation, [...]

Fionnuisce is a Most Annoying Faerie!

It is not unusual, during my morning walk to spot her sitting by the lake, but I have to look quickly and from the corner of my eye, for she doesn’t like the direct gaze. Were I to look straight at her she might appear to be nothing more than a turtle sunning herself [...]

The Kennedy Era: A Personal Observation

Right now I imagine the Republicans are scrambling to muster enough support to counter the inevitable emotional push the Democrats will give to the Healthcare bill in the wake of Edward Kennedy’s untimely death. Considering that Kennedy was a tireless supporter of universal health care, the symbolic value of passing health care reform is [...]

Barney Frank’s Smackdown!

Three huzzahs for Barney Frank.
I am genuinely grateful for conservative voices that force liberals to hone and sharpen their arguments and prevent them from running headlong toward the edge of a cliff secure in the knowledge they can fly. Debate is the fundamental process of a democracy and it requires opposition. I do [...]

The Appalling Neo-Confederacy

I have noted elsewhere in these pages (specifically in “Mystic Barbeque”) that I was reared in the South and I have a great deal of affection for it. I have wonderful memories of Louisiana and I cannot speak of my boyhood there without slipping into a gentle southern drawl. I had what [...]

The Watcher on the Rock

On the suggestion of my friend Carolyn McCarty, I am going to begin posting a few excerpts from my upcoming book, O’Shaughnessey” The Faerie Circle due out in October (just in time, as luck would have it, for Christmas!) The following is a song by a fictional shenache or storyteller that introduces a main [...]

Faerie Love

O’Sullivan is never cheerful, not on his best days, but this morning he is downright grumpy. His nose wrinkles as though smelling overcooked, sulfuric cabbage, and the corners of his fleshy mouth disappear into his high collar.
The two leprechauns, O’Shaughnessey and O’Sullivan, showed up at my back door early in the morning as I [...]

New Look!

Thanks to my son in law, Marco, the guy who designed my web-site, I have redesigned the blog part of it to better reflect its content. I have also chosen a name for it besides Jeremy McGuire. I have called it “Baloney and Blarney.” Why? Mostly because I like the sound [...]

Mystic Barbeque

At the intersection of Greenwood Road and Velva Avenue in Shreveport Louisiana there stood a small, inconspicuous barbeque restaurant, inconspicuous except for the four phone-booth sized rotisseries encased in glass that stood out front. Between the rotisseries were stacked quarter cut logs of the hardest hickory to feed the slow fires inside. Whole [...]

The Federal Department of Annoyance

I am in the process of getting the Microsoft system to recognize the photographs I have stored on my external drive. For some reason, every time I attempt to open a folder, the Microsoft Demon tells me it has encountered a problem and needs to shut down. “But… but what about my needs?”
It [...]