Monday, July 10, 2017


















it was a place you grew up in or attended





pleasantly shabby with a disarming beauty, it shared an etheral charm on summer evenings





it was anyones and everyones founded by yankee doodle himself












but like any small new england village this town had secrets












the day wore the afternoon sun like a perfect memory as we were about to turn on to water street from the north adams side of main street when jack nicklaus asked us how to get to the golf course he had hit his second hole in one at while standing next to a lite blue continental near the masonic lodge















" every good writer has a conflicted relationship with the place they grew up "












memory chimes store






i reached for the cutty sark expecting to tip it over





it wasnt there





the ground was painted with dollar store mouthwash bottles prone and empty like marlowes dead soldiers












we didn't open this agency for the money





truth is the coin we were searching





but the coins liked to purchase a fine whiskey












the kennedys and the bronfmans




rock placed on the taconic golf club tee on the par three 14th hole where jack nicklaus hit a hole in one in 1956













time to report i wrote in the clouds





                      






2 years after harold s mom graduated, the williamstown theater festival put on a production of the golden boy starring a then as yet unknown actor named dylan mcdermott who would play pick up basketball with us almost every day





he asked my name one time so i asked his





he said very clearly " dylan [ something ] "





he said it like i should remember it and i did





except for the remembering part





thought he might have said " macgillivary" at the time because he looked very similar to peter macgillivary who had just become a successful photographer with the north adams transcript and the williamstown advocate because they both had blond hair back then and their names started with 'mac'





he also mentioned he was with the wtf so in 2012 I googled to see if dylan was dylan m and voila





                                 









dylan mcdermott celebrates 30 years fb





paul newman s wife joanne woodward was directing the golden boy that year and they built a house out on hancock road almost across from where i was working as a laborer with dave who was doing carpentry for bob who was putting an addition on his farm house





you can just barely see the solar panel on the addition that fkr was heavy















bob had connected the solar panel to a water heater which not only heated a hot tub inside the sunporch addition, but also heated the floor of the sunporch by pumping solar hot water through pvc pipes lain in the cement floor





the newman s house looked pretty normal except for a really nice segmented arc window over what I had thought was the front door at the time it was 2 houses west of 720 hancock road on the south side












                                       paul newman wiki








                                       joanne woodward wiki





a mention in 1999  ny daily news:





" Gwyneth Paltrow has some fan club, Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward and Meryl Streep headed up to Williamstown, Mass., yesterday to see her in a production of "As You Like It."









democracy united




newman's own





pappa charlie s originally was the a&w rootbeer stand next to a&p on route 2 ( where you could order baklava if you wanted ) charlie s son mike nikitas, who began the naming of sandwiches, ran the sandwich shop on spring street called mike s deli which became pappa charlies  as this 1994 ny times article mentions :





" Gwyneth Paltrow also declines the Blythe Danner Special. Ms. Paltrow is her 21-year-old daughter -- taller, thinner and blonder, and without that voice. Ms. Paltrow's name has been on the list of rising young movie stars since her small but scene-stealing performance last year as Ginnie, a grifter, in "Flesh and Bone." Her name has yet to go up on the sandwich board at Pappa Charlie's with those of other actors at Williamstown, though that may change soon. "









baklava




                                                       


                                                                           






  



                                       gwyneth paltrow wiki





emma frost and pepper potts





chris martin wrote fix you after gwyneth s father passed away











born in 1972, gwyneth began acting at the wtf in 1981 when she was 9 years old





her version of bette davis eyes from the movie duets ( about traveling karaoke champions ) reached #3 in australia





people magazine says gwyneth saved a woman's life on 9/11 in ny city !





bette davis attended crestalban boarding school in lanesboro mass, 15 miles south of williamstown, when she was 7 until she turned 13









bette davis wiki









today crestalban site is ...





robin williams, who reportedly built a summer home in pittsfield, mass, made the movie the fisher king about a shock jock who causes a mass shooting and a homeless schizophrenic searching for the holy grail in 1991...4 years before his friend and juliard roommate christopher reeve became a quadrapilegic










christopher reeve looking out on greylock from his home in williamstown





fisher king wiki










' Cutty Sark was also featured in The Cleveland Show (2011) in an episode titled "Die Semi-Hard." '




https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cutty_Sark_(whisky)










ty fdr ...
















the humid night air sipped from the atlantic as i rested my feet on the present waiting for the pieces to fall into place in the hopper of inductive reasoning




she was a girl with a past racking up credits like a pool shark running the table




she spoke of the williamstown theater festival like it was yesterday but she had met her friend and suits costar gabriel macht there 20 years ago as the ageless beauty wowed her way through stage and screen










                               sarah rafferty





they became fast friends in williamstown which led them to careers acting in premium cable tv with the lady who would become princess di's daughter in law











                                      gabriel macht wiki










they weren't talking much but i knew there was a way to find out....





what secrets did they take with them and where did they hide their booze ?





mr perry belonged to so many organizations its a secret itself how he kept them all organised





melissa's house had a really nice pool they wouldnt let me near because i had used to jump into pools even tho i didnt know how to swim and my sis would have to save me






                                                                  




matthew perry wiki




it seemed like every town just a place where nothing exiting happened and you couldn't wait to leave probably just like your town





then you open an agency, start digging and discover the seemy underground of  historical meaning had been waiting in your backwater burg like an earth toned pebble  amazing none the less for being where you found it










the bell tower times





a girl who worked at the wire factory where we made the power cords for milwaukee power tools dated tom cruise





cable mill apartments:

















hmm strange footnote found her online and it looks like she got married and her name is now heithcock











ybor city is where the gasperilla celebration takes place and samuel trafficante jr lived





now that i remember, the footnote becomes stranger





my friend lance and i used to play pickup basketball at the college gym and sometimes dylan mcdermott would play with us, who was starring in the golden boy at the williamstown theater festival that year










the more people vote, the harder it is to rig an election without being caught





my friend's sister katie was stunningly beautiful and a really big paul newman fan - the driver of the shah's family and a getty heir were her admirers





she asked me to see if lance would take her to the prom but lance said he wanted to bang the present ms heithcock and hence didn't want to trifle with katie's feelings





if you feel bad for katie, joanne woodward produced the golden boy that year and paul newman built a house two houses down from katie's





later i went out with ms heithcock's sister where she had told me her sister had dated tom cruise and both her and her sister had wanted to go out with lance





at the time ms heithcock and her sister shared a 4wd subaru dl





more subfootnote strangeness ms heithhcock is a writer...she wrote a book











ms heithcock's brother started opex cross fit training centers











i forgot why i didn't recall this earlier and then i remembered - oh yeah, i had fallen off a roof and gotten amnesia





there is more story footnote to the strangeness which i'll try to touch upon here












sports nutrition megan and paleo mark lived in williamstown











'mark's daily apple'





while physicians for responsible medicine say vegans live longer












white shadow junkie grows up not knowing guy who created it lived in his hometown while he was watching it and that ken howard played for amherst and starred with blythe danner and christopher reeve in the wtf s 1983 production of holiday
















bruce paltrow wiki











it was only a matter of time before the truth started pouring out of the big hollywood sign like a spring from a rock in some ...oh  they found a sword embedded in a rock in tuscany that could only be removed by the pure of heart, an engineering degree and two backhoes










the legendary sword in the stone of san galgano












news page says girl finds 1,500 year old sword in a lake in sweden



















the sultry screen vixen who made aliens and old ghosts hearts throb with the rest of us had her 2nd acting credit in the wtf s the resistible rise of arturo ui


 







                                                                    sigourney weaver was on the board of images cinema's williamstown film festival:





'He recalled his years guiding the festival and his ability to generate donations to the festival.





"There were people on the advisory board, Meryl Streep, Sigourney Weaver, Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward," he said. "And most of them did something for the festival." '











they didnt leave the front door open in clueville but the rear patio door sat on tracks





inside the 4 time wtf star  stood in the shadows looking out through an old sepia tone of shogun











what were they waiting for i asked the marble columns above and to the right





 they were waiting for the truth and the perequisite freedom accompianing






Richard Chamberlain DF-ST-83-03559.jpg





         richard chamberlain wiki











elizabeth banks and paul rudd ( aka effie trinket and brian fantana ) in role models










                                                              elizabeth banks wiki













                                  harold eric had a recurring role in gotham, haling from gotham (ny city) itself and here he appears in al tadiran air conditioner commercial featuring morgan freeman:











tadiran international





harold had a side gig as a writer and had started a company while in college and now he's the founder of a start up tech company called cityledge, a travel and adventure journal






























vegan sausage rolls





story





#skateaway






back to point guard













hadjitoo





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