FRUSTRATION
My blog talk radio show, Tuesday Talk With Key West Lou, is one half hour. It takes me 10-12 hours of preparation for the 1/2 hour weekly show. Occasionally due to some technical glitch, the show does...
View ArticleBLOODY SUNDAY
This weekend marks the 50th anniversary of the Selma march. The day of the first march (March 7) became known as Bloody Sunday. The march is being reenacted today. We live in strange times. In a land...
View ArticleMICHELLE OBAMA THRILLS MILANESE
It was announced yesterday that Michelle Obama would be in Milan two days this week. She will be visiting the World’s Fair. Before I was aware of the First Lady’s visit via the news, I received a...
View ArticleMEASURING DICKS
We live in dangerous times. You do not need me to tell you. A recent crisis that has the capacity to bring matters to the boiling point is Turkish planes shooting down a Russian jet. Russia’s Putin and...
View ArticleBOCCE SEASON ENDS FOR US
It’s all over. The bocce season ended for us last night. We lost. We played the #3 team from the monday night league. We destroyed them the first game. They destroyed us in return the second game. The...
View ArticleA BAGEL RESEARCH AFTERNOON
One week prostitution. The next bagels. Love it! Bagels is the title of this week’s KONK Life column which publishes Wednesday. From whence they came, those responsible for their discovery/invention,...
View ArticleNILE CROCS KILL HUMANS
We have had a crocodile sighting on a rock off Fort Zach Beach. Purportedly not a human biting one. There have been other croc and alligator sightings recently. Now we learn of Nile crocodiles. Nile...
View ArticleTERRI WHITE…..ILL
Terri White experienced a heart attack tuesday while at home here in Key West. She was helicoptered to Miami’s Mount Sinai Hospital. A catheterization. Ninety percent blockage in one artery. A stent...
View ArticleRALPH NADER UNKNOWN TO COLLEGE STUDENTS
Florida played a major role in the 2000 Bush/Gore Presidential race. Actually, THE major role. The election came down to Florida. The ballots were counted. They were referred to as chats. A joke! It...
View ArticleSTONE CRABS
U.S. politics is at its worst. The world is in turmoil. All take a back seat. Pure unadulterated pleasure the reason. Stone crab season opens tomorrow! From my perspective, man’s finest food. I cannot...
View ArticleNEW NEIGHBORS
New neighbors in Key West! Amy Bondurant and David Dunn. Wife and husband. Welcome! Some 200 hundred homes were visited by Amy and David the past few days. They have been in Key West canvassing door to...
View ArticleHE CAN’T WIN…..HE WON!
I thought no way Trump could win. I was wrong. He won. I failed to see that the people had turned a corner. They were no longer going to continue a government that minimized their value. There had to...
View ArticlePRESIDENT CARTER’S KEYS VISITS
Happy New Year! As with practice safe sex, practice a safe evening. Drinking and driving don’t go together tonight or any night. Most are aware Harry Truman visited Key West many times. His favorite...
View ArticleWHEN THE SAINTS GO MARCHING IN
A first for me yesterday. Marching in Steve Attis’ New Orleans type funeral procession. A warm experience. Joyous an even better description. Steve in the casket riding up front. The musicians behind...
View ArticleSNOW! SNOW! SNOW! COLD! COLD! COLD!
The northeast was hit big time by snow yesterday and last night. Barbara telephoned from Utica. Twenty four inches. Bridgewater 20 miles away more. That takes care of the snow. The cold applies to Key...
View ArticleBOOKS & BOOKS…..BIPOLAR DISORDER TONIGHT
Judy Blume has arranged a big one for Books & Books tonight. Kay Redford Jamison discussing her newest book: Robert Lowell, Setting The River On Fire. A rather unique presentation. The famed poet...
View ArticleFLY THE FRIENDLY SKIES…..
United Airlines. As far back as I can remember…..Fly The Friendly Skies With United. No more. Screwed up their reputation big time two days ago. Dr. David Dao a passenger. Flight not overbooked. Full,...
View ArticleCONCH REPUBLIC DAYS
It was April 1982. Drugs and illegal immigrants were coming in through Key West and the lower Keys. The U.S. Border Patrol set up a roadblock and checkpoint at the northern end of US 1. Traffic backed...
View ArticleNOT A WOMAN SO HAVE NO BAD DAYS…..RUSSIAN PROSTITUTES THE BEST
“I am not a woman, so I don’t have bad days.” Putin in a new documentary by film maker Oliver Stone. Russia’s prostitutes are “unquestionably the best in the world.” Putin again. This time in a...
View ArticleMONEY LAUNDERING
The New York Times reported this morning that Trump associates were being looked at for money laundering. Not a major portion of the article. Came up at the very end. The thrust of the writing was the...
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