Archive - Lucian Truscott Newsletter

My body is not mine

It belongs to this terrible frightening disease, a thief of energy and time itself.

14 hrs ago •

Lucian K. Truscott IV

I got knocked down by the worst illness I've ever had

It wasn't RSV, it was a virulent flu, really bad.

Jan 6 •

Lucian K. Truscott IV

You don’t want to be here.

Jan 4 •

Lucian K. Truscott IV

New Years Day reprise: When Bob Dylan practiced downstairs from my loft

I wrote this piece for the Village Voice the week in October of 2016 that it was announced Dylan would receive the Nobel Prize in Literature.

Jan 1 •

Lucian K. Truscott IV

December 2024

Feeling mellow, man: When you're high, nothing matters

What happens when the doors of perception open not to enlightenment but to repression

Dec 31, 2024 •

Lucian K. Truscott IV

The far right wants what it wants except when it discovers that what it wants is not really what it wants

Here’s the problem with taking power: It’s up to you to run the thing that you are taking over.

Dec 31, 2024 •

Lucian K. Truscott IV

Day one thousand and eight hundred and ninety two of two thousand and fifty-five

The man entering had shoulders that touched both door jambs as he passed into the room.

Dec 29, 2024 •

Lucian K. Truscott IV

Jingle bells, shotgun shells: The stick-up on Christmas Eve

Just another snowy Christmas in New York City

Dec 24, 2024 •

Lucian K. Truscott IV

Two days before Christmas: Airports and Kids and Kats and Wrappings Galore

It’s been quite a week.

Dec 23, 2024 •

Lucian K. Truscott IV

Elon Musk already owns Donald Trump. Is he trying to buy the United States government too?

Since Donald Trump won the presidency on November 5, we have begun to see what Elon Musk’s $277 million investment in Trump has gotten him.

Dec 22, 2024 •

Lucian K. Truscott IV

'Twas the Shutdown Before Christmas

‘Twas the night before shutdown, when all through the House

Dec 20, 2024 •

Lucian K. Truscott IV

Speaker Johnson say what? House rejects new Trump/Musk-approved spending deal

The vote was 235 to 174, not even close to the two-thirds majority necessary under the special provision under which Speaker Johnson had brought the…

Dec 20, 2024 •

Lucian K. Truscott IV

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