by alan | Dec 4, 2014 | Coronado Clarion Winter Issue 2015
In a remote corner of China, one village tells a strange lineage tale. The story (and some DNA evidence) goes, the locals are the descendants of a band of Roman soldiers from 36 B.C. In a tiny, remote Chinese village, an ancient Roman bloodline may live on. The town...
by alan | Nov 28, 2014 | Coronado Clarion Winter Issue 2015
by alan | Nov 25, 2014 | Coronado Clarion Winter Issue 2015
GHOST SONG (From: An American Prayer) Awake. Shake dreams from your hair my pretty child, my sweet one. Choose the day and choose the sign of your day the day’s divinity First thing you see. A vast radiant beach and cooled jeweled moon Couples naked race down by...
by alan | Nov 24, 2014 | Coronado Clarion Winter Issue 2015
There are two kinds of people in this world: those who think the Doors are a hokey caricature of male rock stardom and those who think they’re, you know, shamans. The Doors, who took their name from a line in William Blake’s The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (“If...
by alan | Nov 24, 2014 | Coronado Clarion Winter Issue 2015
LOS ANGELES (AP) — It’s been called the letter that launched a literary genre — 16,000 amphetamine-fueled, stream-of-consciousness words written by Neal Cassady to his friend Jack Kerouac in 1950. Upon reading them, Kerouac scrapped an early draft of “On...
by alan | Nov 23, 2014 | Coronado Clarion Winter Issue 2015
It’s the cry that struck fear into our ancestors’ hearts for 300 years… “the Vikings are coming!”. They were huge, bearded barbarians in animal fur tunics and horned helmets who raped and pillaged their way across four continents and “went berserk” on...
