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  • Hampenings

    —Tommy Devine's Online Journal

    Number of comments: 2
    Around Hamp

    Most pumpkins have gone bad by now, but as my neighbor's porch shows the small ones seem to have longer lives.



    As another of my neighbors has discovered, when pumpkins turn rotten they can become depraved to the point of [...]
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    Posted: November 23, 2009, 2:08pm EST
    by Tom

  • UMass Criticized

    —Tommy Devine's Online Journal

    Number of comments: 6
    By Prominent First Amendment Advocate


    Angela Davis caused a UMass free speech controversy in the 70's.

    Nationally respected free speech advocate Harvey Silvergate weighed in on the recent free speech controversy at UMass over the cancelled invitation of a leftist terrorist. Not surprisingly,' [...]
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    Posted: November 21, 2009, 3:29pm EST
    by Tom

  • Jack's Advice

    —Tommy Devine's Online Journal

    Number of comments: 1
    Writing Tips.



    I can't believe I never saw this before! It's a list that Jack Kerouac once wrote of the "essentials" of writing which he called Belief and Technique for Modern Prose. Here's the list with my comments after each one based on my' [...]
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    Posted: November 20, 2009, 4:59pm EST
    by Tom

  • Lightfooted Thunderbolt

    —Tommy Devine's Online Journal

    Number of comments: 2
    Or the Last of the Narragansetts?



    I have to laugh over the details of the arrest last weekend of Springfield poltitical villain Frankie Keough. He got busted for breaking into his former second home in Rhode Island (odd how so many "public servants" in [...]
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    Posted: November 18, 2009, 4:10pm EST
    by Tom

  • Past Judgement

    —Tommy Devine's Online Journal

    Number of comments: 2
    Old Reviews

    Okay people, just one more day of nostalgia as we look at these old reviews I wrote.



    I finally understand this pirate craze thanks to seeing the Disney film Pirates of the Caribbean a few weeks ago. I saw it [...]
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    Posted: November 16, 2009, 5:58pm EST
    by Tom

  • Springfield Starship

    —Tommy Devine's Online Journal

    Number of comments: 4
    More Oldies

    Back when dinosaurs roamed the Earth (or at least the concert stages) I was a misbehaving teenager attending acid rock shows in the Springfield area armed with a beautiful topshelf Yashica camera I got for a pittance from a B&E artist I knew (as in Breaking and [...]
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    Posted: November 16, 2009, 11:45am EST
    by Tom

  • Invisible Bear

    —Tommy Devine's Online Journal

    Number of comments: 3
    Barely There.

    This morning I came upon this sign along the woodland way leading into downtown Northampton.



    People who live along the woodland way often let their cats run free. They don't realize there are things in the woods that are dangerous' [...]
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    Posted: November 14, 2009, 1:25pm EST
    by Tom

  • Timothy and Charles

    —Tommy Devine's Online Journal

    Number of comments: 1
    Leary and Manson

    I'm still working my way through Robert Greenfield's biography of Timothy Leary, the Springfield native who ended up in prison with insane murderer Charles Manson. Indeed, as this little excerpt shows, Folsom prison was a long way from Indian Orchard.


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    Posted: November 13, 2009, 1:03pm EST
    by Tom

  • Vagina Farce

    —Tommy Devine's Online Journal

    Number of comments: 4
    A Flashback

    Here's a reprint of a long out of print post I wrote on January 23, 2004 about a controversy in Amherst:



    I was on my way to purchase my three morning papers (the Springfield Republican and then depending on who has' [...]
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    Posted: November 11, 2009, 2:47pm EST
    by Tom

  • ACORN at UMass

    —Tommy Devine's Online Journal

    Number of comments: 1
    Founding Father Speaks



    Wade Rathke (above) the founder and former head of the controversial "community organizing" group ACORN paid a visit to Western Mass, speaking at Springfield College yesterday and at UMass today. Rathke has deep roots in our Valley, having begun his career [...]
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    Posted: November 10, 2009, 6:20pm EST
    by Tom

  • Capuano in Amherst

    —Tommy Devine's Online Journal

    Number of comments: 2
    At the Black Sheep



    All of the candidates for the U.S. Senate seat formerly held by Ted Kennedy - with the exception of the frontrunner - appeared at UMass last night. In an unusual twist, the candidates from both parties appeared together, instead [...]
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    Posted: November 09, 2009, 2:51pm EST
    by Tom

  • Neal's Challengers

    —Tommy Devine's Online Journal

    Number of comments: 5
    A Year Before the Vote.

    The election results on Tuesday strongly indicated that the political tide is turning against the Democrats just one year after they swept into office on a wave of "hope" with Barack Obama. Of course it's best to take these off year election trends with' [...]
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    Posted: November 07, 2009, 12:03pm EST
    by Tom

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