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Rea's Firsthand Stories: October 2012
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This web site presents F.T. Rea's words and art. All rights are reserved. Monday, October 29, 2012. The first pass at telling this tale appeared in SLANT. In 1987. The version below was updated in 2011. On the occasion of the anniversary of his death, on Dec. 8, 1980, I can’t help but wonder what the founder of the Beatles — John Lennon, a master of word-play and sarcasm — would have to say about today's music, art and politics. Lennon’s obvious contributions as a songwriter and musician were huge&...
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Rea's Firsthand Stories: The Big Stretch
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This web site presents F.T. Rea's words and art. All rights are reserved. Wednesday, August 17, 2011. This piece was first published by STYLE Weekly in 2002. The prototype was assembled during a lull in seventh grade shop class. After tying some 15 rubber bands together to make a chain, a collaborator held one end of the contraption as I stepped back to stretch it out for a test. Squinting to sight along the taut line to take proper aim, finally, I let go. The following morning, uncharacteristically, I a...
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Rea's Firsthand Stories: There's No Business Like...
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This web site presents F.T. Rea's words and art. All rights are reserved. Friday, May 31, 2013. There's No Business Like. Working in show bidness can be tough duty. Ask anybody who knows. It’s not all laughs. For instance, one evening a couple of traveling porn queens came by the Biograph Theatre. Naturally, they asked for the manager. So I was fetched from my sanctuary office to talk with Annie Sprinkle. Like, maybe they were film buffs who wanted free passes? My Biograph co-workers couldn't stop laughi...
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Rea's Firsthand Stories: Perspective Shapes Meaning
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This web site presents F.T. Rea's words and art. All rights are reserved. Friday, August 05, 2011. After decades of driving automobiles, mostly small station wagons, over the same city streets, nine years ago your narrator switched to using his then-29-year-old bicycle as his primary ride. It was quite a change. As an automobile expands our range, it also seals us off. While time can reveal new truths, in order to see more deeply into selected memories, it seems others must fade away entirely. A few days...
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Rea's Firsthand Stories: The Lost Imaginings
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This web site presents F.T. Rea's words and art. All rights are reserved. Monday, October 29, 2012. The first pass at telling this tale appeared in SLANT. In 1987. The version below was updated in 2011. On the occasion of the anniversary of his death, on Dec. 8, 1980, I can’t help but wonder what the founder of the Beatles — John Lennon, a master of word-play and sarcasm — would have to say about today's music, art and politics. Lennon’s obvious contributions as a songwriter and musician were huge&...
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Rea's Firsthand Stories: November 2011
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This web site presents F.T. Rea's words and art. All rights are reserved. Tuesday, November 22, 2011. Blood Isn't Just Red. Television has dominated the American cultural landscape for the past 50 years. A boon to modern life in many ways, television is nonetheless transmitting an endless stream of cruel and bloody images into everyone’s head. How significant that role has been/is can be debated. Eventually splattered blood becomes ambient: just another option for the art director. Essentially, Jackoway ...
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Rea's Firsthand Stories: On Libby Hill
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This web site presents F.T. Rea's words and art. All rights are reserved. Tuesday, October 05, 2010. Originally published by Brick Weekly in 2007. High on the Hog 1977-2006. A few party stalwarts danced in the mud with umbrellas. The show went on … but perhaps for the last time. 8220;It was a Nor’easterner that settled over Richmond,” said the longtime director of matters musical, Chuck Wrenn. “We’ll see what the future brings.”. Meanwhile, there certainly will be no High on the Hog 31 this year. Going b...
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Rea's Firsthand Stories: How Free Are We to Express hate?
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This web site presents F.T. Rea's words and art. All rights are reserved. Tuesday, November 22, 2011. How Free Are We to Express hate? The Westboro Baptist Church stretches the word “church” into a shape that boggles the mind. It is best known for force-feeding its messages about hate into situations in which they are particularly offensive. According to the Westboro gospel, the list of people that God hates includes Jews, Catholics, Muslims, atheists and gays. In 2006 Snyder’s son was killed in Ir...
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Rea's Firsthand Stories: D E T A C H E D
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This web site presents F.T. Rea's words and art. All rights are reserved. Tuesday, June 04, 2013. Consequently, it was never produced, although some of the material and ideas made their way into issues of SLANT later on . but that's another story. Then I'd almost always forget the new song when I finished the walk. Sometimes it was quite frustrating. With regard to walking, many times I've put extra trust in an idea that came to me while walking alone. I want to thank you pal. While I went crazy.
