Moratorium

First, it was the Westboro Baptist Church I was trying to remember and would rather forget, but as for that afternoon's protesting I mentioned, by the time we'd left the restaurant and headed back to the convention, it was all over.

also eva marie saint is a hundred and two forgive me for saying high nineties because when you're a hundred and two you deserve every year the two blacklisted writers who were with her at the event i was talking about were walter bernstein who wrote the front and abraham polonsky who was nominated for an academy award for best original screenplay for body and soul as for a couple of movies we mentioned oh what a lovely war is a nineteen sixty nine satire the ruling class is a satire starring peter o'toole and was from nineteen seventy two And finally, about the button I mentioned, the one I picked up on the one-year anniversary of the Kent State Massacre, it reads, Moratorium, May 5th, out now, and the four atrocities it listed, which I was trying to remember during the conversation, are Kent State, Augusta, Jackson, Southeast Asia.

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