Unpacking

Gaslighting Another Black Community For Fun & Profit

Scratch beneath any story in Coconut Grove and you’ll discover the issue of race lurking. We’ll get to that eventually, but this true fable — with a twist on the race issue — starts with the approval of a Wawa gas station in the City of Coral Gables. So what? Cities approve gas stations all the time. However, this approval didn’t have any public consultation with the community, nor public hearings, both of which would normally have taken place. And, that’s ...

The Great Slave Auction ► Throwback Thursday

One of the largest slave auctions before the Civil War — alternately called The Great Slave Auction or The Weeping Time — took place 158 years ago today. Pierce M. Butler ...

The Blaine Act ► Throwback Thursday

The United States is still an experiment in democracy that people are still trying to get right , and The Blaine Act corrected one of ‘Merka’s greatest mistakes: ...

Truth, Justice, and the ‘Merkin Spelling ► Unpacking The Writer

A recent meme about Emperor Trump’s payoff pick to head the Department of Education made me literally laugh out loud, or LLOL. Long time readers know Unpacking the Writer as a ...

Wilder Penfield ► Throwback Thursday

When I first moved to Canada — and later got involved in Canadian show biz — one of the first people I became aware of was Wilder Penfield, III, who ...

Tim Horton ► Throwback Thursday

Not celebrating his birthday today is Miles Gilbert “Tim” Horton, who died tragically in 1974. My followers on the facebookery have seen me exclaim, “This is a sports story I ...

Aaron Samuel Slootsky ► February 14, 1926-December 12, 2016

We All Compute ► Throwback Thursday

As I downsize the condo, I have discovered some amazing buried treasures, like my old business card. It was tucked into my mother’s address book on the end table in ...

The Hollywood Blacklist ► Throwback Thursday

According to the Wiki: On this day in 1947 The Screen Actors Guild implements an anti-Communist loyalty oath. With the election of racist, xenophobic, and mysoginyst Donald J. Trump, it’s more ...

Making Friends Wherever I Go ► Unpacking the Writer

I proudly wear this t-shirt First the big news: The NEW and IMPROVED Not Now Silly Newsroom will open to the general public on January 1, 2017. Check out the teaser. Yes, ...

Reply From the Miami Public Records Office and My Response

I have received a reply to Yet Another Open Email to Miami’s Public Records Department of yesterday. Here it is followed by my latest: Good morning Mr. Westerfield, The Public Records Division ...

UPDATED: Yet Another Open Email to Miami’s Public Records Department

EDITED TO ADD: MAJOR MEA CULPA!!! It would appear that I sent yesterday’s email to Isiaa Jones to the wrong email address, which is why it was kicked back. She ...

UPDATED: Coconut Grove Grapevine, Stop the Lies!

The back of Tom Falco’s head taken at the Grove 2030 charrette I covered in Intense Intents in Tents. Oddly enough, that post mentioned the Terra Group, the latest rapaciousdeveloper to try to ...

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