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Roland Klose

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10/12/2012

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About Me

Journalist currently based in Missouri. Stops include the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, The Commercial Appeal, and Tampa Tribune. More about me here and here. Some of my other sites: John and Mack Rust, Letters from G.I. Bill, and Red Kane kills the Yellow Kid. Pictures here and here. Social media here and here.

Recent Posts

‘Die große Babylon’
Last call for the Morning Call
‘Surf Solar’
Dead man talking
The Klan and the GOP
Rebuilding trust
‘Violently in love with her profession’
‘Bulldog tenacity’
‘Limiting free speech’
A ‘skin game’
Ghosts in the machine
‘Vanished like a dream’
‘None but a jackass or poltroon’
A town without police, courts, crime or taxes
The Missouri editor whose bigotry outlived him
‘I can’t save you unless you do what I say’
Morphine eaters, whiskey drunks, eccentrics
‘No dictation from any central authority’
Once again ‘an organ of gold-buggery’
‘Refusing to obey orders’
Dubious milestone
‘Something must call from within’
‘The tariff is a tax’
Population and crime
‘Hell is truth seen too late’
I have seen the future, and it’s perplexing
‘Marienlied’
Afraid of being alone? You’re not alone.
Moonstruck
‘Our parasite class’
‘Home city’
‘Memorial to St. Louis abandoned’
‘We are governed by boodlers’
‘Almost fantastic’
Cat boxing, floaters, St. Louis orangutans, UFOs, dumb cops, Hitler sightings, and other minutiæ
The Republican’s ‘joke’
Madness, dissipation, despair
From the ‘scrapbooks’ of JPII
‘Purely a human contrivance’
‘There was great rejoicing in hell this morning’
White riot, 1920
‘He studied nothing, but knew something about everything.’
‘Simply a business proposition’
‘No feeling of jubilation manifested’
Watermelons and Prophets
Filling in the blanks
‘The baby burner’
‘Land of opportunity’
The dynamite plot
Jerry the smoking St. Louis orangutan
‘St. Louis is a slum city’
Depressingly consistent
Then and now
‘American money’
A ‘network of surveillance’
‘The house where Eugene Field was not born’
100 years of disappointment
‘Bad form for a Granite City policeman’
‘No business in America … is more precarious’
Robert Lemen
Bob Minor’s last year in St. Louis
Jinx Rag
‘What’s the use of living if you can’t help somebody else?’
The armadillo in all of us
Newsboys
Reviews
The homicide record: ‘A truly terrible state of lawlessness’
‘Morning is breaking. Everyone’s waking.’
‘Pockets of volume.’ ‘Packing a punch.’ ‘Hearts go out.’ ‘Worst nightmare.’ ‘Devastating.’
First uses
Names
Hammer heads for hacks
Time and space
‘That’s all there is. There isn’t any more.’
‘Bashful St. Louisans’
‘Still a going piece of journalistic debauchery’
‘Sycophant’
‘Fully engaged’
‘Der Knäblein und der Gerichtvollzieher’
How ‘Santa’ ended up buried in St. Louis
‘Only one Santa Claus’
Christmas in St. Louis
A whale of a fail
‘A society composed of consumers, not citizens’
‘A growing problem’
School or cemetery
‘Those fellows just won’t let things be’
‘To tell the truth’
‘Quando voglio’
Prelude No. 2
‘Jerusalema’
‘A tale told by an idiot’
Constructive criticism
‘Three papers united in one’
‘A seething throng’ in downtown St. Louis
‘A full-fledged insurgent’
‘Anti-social media’
‘Real news’
Porta il luce …
Breaking the pattern

OLDEST Posts

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Being Lincoln: Fritz Klein talks about life as an impersonator
‘This beautiful thing’: World will end, just not yet
Did Ameren pay a whistleblower to shut up and go away?
Imagination at work: Remembering better times at GE
Midwest grape growers note rising temperatures
A Depression-era perspective on public welfare
Will books become just a memory?

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