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  Take Charge and Move Out: The...

  Lewis McIntyre

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  The birth of the US Navy’s “Take Charge and Move Out” (TACAMO) mission which provides essential airborne communications to the US nuclear deterrence forces.The US Navy’s “Take Charge and Move Out” (TACAMO) mission provides essential airborne communications to the US nuclear deterrence forces. Today it is a thriving community, respected by the Navy and the US strategic defense forces. But it wasn’t always so. Despite the enormous importance of the mission, for the first decade of their existence, the TACAMO squadrons did not provide a viable career path for officers, instead being a “one and done” tour for the junior officers who found themselves unluckily so assigned. A second tour in the squadrons was considered to be professional suicide. But in 1975, inspired by a significant commanding officer, a handful of lieutenants put their faith in a community that did not yet exist, betting their careers on that second tour. From their faith and courage was born the TACAMO community. This is the story of the birth of TACAMO, in the words of those who built the community from scratch.

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  Emancipation Proclamation

  Abraham Lincoln

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  After having written and released an initial draft of this proclamation in September of 1862, minor changes were made and Lincoln signed it on January 1st, 1863. It declared free the slaves in 10 states not then under Union control, with exemptions specified for areas already under Union control in two states. Lincoln spent the next 100 days preparing the army and the nation for emancipation, while Democrats rallied their voters in the 1862 off-year elections by warning of the threat freed slaves posed to northern whites.Once the abolition of slavery in the rebel states became a military objective, as Union armies advanced south, more slaves were liberated until all three million of them in Confederate territory were freed. Lincoln's comment on the signing of the Proclamation was: "I never, in my life, felt more certain that I was doing right, than I do in signing this paper." - Summary by Wikipedia and John Greenman

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  Dear Jack: Love Letters from...

  Jyll Steen

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  She planned the honeymoon he never gave her.She finished the vows he never spoke.
   
  “Jyll and Jack went far away… and only one of them came back whole.”
   
  It’s been six years since Jack Steen walked away from Jyll Steen, leaving behind a weekend in Vegas he believed meant nothing. But to Jyll, it was never just a trip. It was a wedding night postponed. A marriage interrupted.
   
  In her third letter, Jyll completes the ritual she believes binds them forever. She chooses a man who resembles Jack just enough to serve as a stand-in groom and lures him away on a spontaneous getaway—a honeymoon meant only for her and the husband she insists is waiting for her return.
   
  Inside a quiet lakeside inn, fantasy and memory blur. The bed becomes an altar. The vows become physical. And Jyll consummates the marriage Jack refuses to acknowledge, sealing it with silk, lace, and blood.
   
  Every moment is rehearsed.Every breath is offered.Every souvenir is saved for Jack.
   
  Audio #3: The Honeymoon is the final letter in Jyll’s first trilogy—an intimate, unsettling conclusion that leaves no doubt: Jyll is done practicing. She’s coming home.

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  Geoffrey Giuliano In...

  Geoffrey Giuliano

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  Episode 5: Candid thoughts on Paul’s Liverpool family - it ain’t pretty! Ruth cannot ever upstage Heather. Paul lashes out at Angie “Don’t forget I put every crumb of food in your mouth.” Paul would have not have been much in life were there no Beatles. Brian Epstein made the Beatles. Angie’s final plea to Paul. Angie sold Paul’s birth certificate. Macca is a musical hypocrite. Paul is unbalanced. The last time Ruth ever spoke to Paul - also not pretty! Macca suggests Ruth find a rich Arab. “You can’t put the phone down on me I’m Paul McCartney.” Ruth slams down the phone. Veggie Paul oppresses his roadies in Germany. Macca crew is locked in the gig so they would not go outside and buy meat. Ruth and Angie manage a traveling Elvis museum and hustle photos with Santa. A steaming long term affair with David Cassidy. Ruth is invited to try and sleep her way to the top. She declines. The girls relationship with Dudley Moore. Ruth falls in love. Ruth is a hit in Russia.Contains adult language and mature themes. Not recommended for children.  Dedicated to Vrndarani Devi 1953-2017Produced by Fred BetschenEdited by Macc KayMusic by AudioNautix.comProject Coordinator Alex FranchiFor Icon Audio Arts Brandon StickneyEden Giuliano

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  From Mohair Suits to Kinky Boots...

  Geoff Deane

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  As the lead singer of Modern Romance he toured the world, as the screenwriter of Kinky Boots he conquered Hollywood, now comes Geoff Deane's latest act as a quite brilliant and witty ranconteur in his hilarious memoir From Mohair Suits to Kinky Boots…. 
   
  Geoff has been a fly-pitcher working out of a suitcase, and flogged suits on Brick Lane market in London's East End. He was the singer in a much-loved culty punk band the Leyton Buzzards, a floppy-haired pop star in Modern Romance, a songwriter, and record producer. He wrote a gay anthem for John Waters drag queen muse Divine, worked as journalist and restaurant critic for style magazines The Face and Arena, before becoming a successful writer and producer of TV comedy. And then hewrote a couple of films, one of which, Kinky Boots became a Tony Award winning Broadway stage show. 
   
  This is the tale of life lived large, a collection of uproarious and often moving stories from Geoff's youth as a clothes obsessed Jewish suedehead, hanging out in Tottenham dancehalls, via straight Bowie Boy frequenting London's gay clubs, gender confusion in Manhattan's Studio 54, and on to huge career success as a screenwriter. 
   
  With a cast ranging from local oddballs to international celebrities, Geoff Deane's unique take on the world is only matched by his extraordinarily rich use of language, with a smattering of Cockney rhyming slang, Yiddish and Polari. 
   
  Introduction by Maurice Gran 
   
  ‘A very funny book packed with very funny stories, written by a very funny and often peculiar man' - Jonathan Ross 
  The missing link between Micky Flanagan and David Sedaris' - Kimberley Chamber 
  ‘From Mohair Suits to Kinky Boots is to London's east end as early Mamet is to Chicago. Your morning coffee WILL come out of your nose repeatedly' - George Wendt (Norm from Cheers) 
  ‘The Samuel Pepys of East London' - Maurice Gran 
  ‘There are worse groups than Modern Romance. But can anyone seriously think of one?' - Morrissey

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  Philosophy Pussycats & Porn

  Stoya

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  Philosophy, Pussycats, & Porn is a series of essays, blog posts, and stories surveying more than a decade of poignant journalistic accounts from internationally recognized writer, actor, and pornographer Stoya. 
  Stoya provides crucial examinations of systemic biases toward sex workers and how sexuality is reflected in society. She often points her journalistic lens inward, providing us with personal, illustriously detailed stories of her life, her collaborators, and ow she has built a flourishing media haven in the face of a culture that is still learning how to handle public discourses on sex work.

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