Keith VallencourtCredentialsTrue Story #1 — For decades, my Aunt Bea (not her real name, of course) was a Broadway fixture, an eagerly sought vocal coach and…Sep 13, 2020Sep 13, 2020
Keith VallencourtEppie the Tattooed LadyTHEY STRIPPED ME NAKED AND PARADED ME IN FRONT OF BOYS NO OLDER THAN HIM. DON’T TALK TO ME ABOUT SHAME!Sep 10, 2020Sep 10, 2020
Keith VallencourtReflections on the AlamoAs a youngster in the Age of Disney, cross-legged on the floor, Fess Parker on the idiot box, swinging Ol’ Betsy like a Louisville Slugger…Sep 10, 2020Sep 10, 2020
Keith VallencourtThe Wealth GapI’m in Portland, Maine’s, Monument Square with my special tape measure, the one where 1 foot = $100,000. I draw an X on the cobblestones…Sep 10, 2020Sep 10, 2020
Keith VallencourtMy FaultNormally Honey Bunch doesn’t mind if I stay up to read, but tonight she’s having a rough time of it, snorting, tossing — and not just the…Sep 8, 2020Sep 8, 2020
Keith VallencourtThe Passion of the Grammar NaziYou know that soup I made the other week? When we get home I’m going to unthaw some for dinner.Sep 8, 2020Sep 8, 2020
Keith VallencourtHow I Became a Nuke Machinist’s MateRecruiter: Guess what: your ASVAB’s qualify you to be a Nuke!Sep 4, 2020Sep 4, 2020
Keith VallencourtWhat is a Conservative, Anyway? This Conservative Would Like to KnowIn 1968, I got teargassed and Mace’d rioting at the Democratic National Convention. In 1971, as threadbare refugees from Poland, Vietnam…Sep 4, 2020Sep 4, 2020
Keith VallencourtSeptember 11th, 2001: Truth vs TruthersThe nineteenth anniversary of the attacks on the World Trade Center is almost upon us, and if experience is any guide, wherever you go on…Sep 4, 2020Sep 4, 2020