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Thank you. Please grace me with a like. I'm trying to get out of the algorithm basement LOL

​@@shangrila73eldorado All done👍

No kidding? Check the video description.

I tried. Thank you for your compliment. Can you tell me some artists and vocations that are known to invoke duende? I mentioned blues singers, gypsy performers. Perhaps opera singers, ballet dancers also conjure up duende....who else?

Do they have turks in Asia?

@@shangrila73eldorado i I think I have seen some similar but I don’t know if they are turkey.

@@Twiggy_Wild I love turkeys. They can fly for short distances and hang out in trees. They make wild bird noises at night and they taste good too.

@@shangrila73eldorado I’m surprised they can fly a bit.

It would be cool to hear your mom's recollections of that time when he died. Was he a popular teacher? What did she think of him as an educator? Any funny anecdotes?

​@@shangrila73eldorado Well, my mom's sadly no long with us, but she told me about him a few times. I was 11, iirc, when Confederacy of Dunces came out, and it was a huge sensation here in New Orleans and the area. My mom was amazed: "Oh my God, that's Dr. Toole!" (as he was known to the students, though he never completed his PhD). I don't have a lot of specific info or anecdotes, unfortunately. She was a student at Dominican College when it was still a women's college, before it merged with/was bought by Loyola, and she was in JKT's English class. She described him as very dapper, obviously taking great care with his clothes and personal appearance. She said he was a gifted lecturer with an obvious passion for English literature, which made his class very popular. She even mentioned a couple of classmates having crushes on him. Then, sadly, he had a progressive mental breakdown, becoming increasingly disheveled and paranoid. I've read that it affected his lectures and that students complained, but my mom never mentioned any of that (maybe she didn't want to speak ill of the dead). She said he suddenly went on leave then shortly after they all heard the news of his death, which of course was greeted with an outpouring of grief. I always envied my mom having been a college student in New Orleans in the 60s, it must have been an amazing time. She also lived for a while in the same apartment building as Jim Garrison (Kevin Costner's character in JFK). Her verdict: he was kind of a nut, lol.

Officially spring starts in March...but it has been a warm winter here in NYC and the flowers are already starting to grow

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It was just the stuff on the radio at that time. It wasn't all rap.

Ever been to a demolition derby in Thailand?

@@shangrila73eldorado I didn’t know that would exist. I only played this in a park by driving a toy car into my friends’ toy cars 😄

@@Twiggy_Wild I think you might be good at this :)

@@shangrila73eldorado 😄😄😄👍👍👍

There are a lot more homeless. In 2009 the problem was isolated to skid row and Venice Beach but it has spread. Next time I go to LA I will try to make an update. :)

Hmmm...maybe you should quit your day job though

True, when I sat out on my balcony the view was expansive

Nowhere Girl (extended) by b-movie

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Actually, New York City has about 15 different Chinatowns of varying sizes.

@@shangrila73eldorado Wow, 15 of them 👍👍👍👍

@@Twiggy_Wild Yes, it's a big and spread out city with many kinds of peoples from all around the world

@@shangrila73eldorado That’s cute 👍😊

@@Twiggy_Wild Have you been? You should come here. You'll love it.

Beautiful view, right?

Yes, it is true

Yes, but sometimes the gas fumes that come from the back of the tuk tuk are very powerful! LOL!

Yes, it is Clove Lakes Park in NYC :)

True. And he was extremely different from those who came before him. How'd you like the story? :)

@@shangrila73eldorado in 1983 there is a film about him. So many literature we can find about him.