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FEATURED IMAGE: “Bang! Bang! They Shot Tortuguita Down” uses the chorus from the 1966 hit single “Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down)” by Cher to call attention to the shooting of Manuel Esteban Paez Terán (better known as “Tortuguita”) 57 times by police who claim it was in self-defense despite the autopsy showing that the victim had his hands up at the time that he was murdered.
“A DeKalb County Medical Examiner’s Office autopsy—which officials suppressed for months—revealed that [Manuel Esteban Paez Terán, better known as “Tortuguita”] was shot 57 times and that there was no gunpowder residue on the victim’s hands, which advocates say debunks claims that the activist fired first. There is no police bodycam video of the incident. The DA will not press charges despite autopsy evidence that Terán had their hands raised and did not fire on police.” (Truthout)
Mystically liberal Virgo enjoys long walks alone in the city at night in the rain with an umbrella and a flask of 10-year-old Laphroaig who strives to live by the maxim, “It ain’t what you know that gets you into trouble; it’s what you know that just ain’t so.
I’ve been a puppet, a pauper, a pirate, a poet, a pawn, and a college dropout (twice!). Occupationally, I have been a bartender, jewelry engraver, bouncer, landscape artist, and FEMA crew chief following the Great Flood of ’72 (and that was a job that I should never, ever have left).
I am also the final author of the original O’Sullivan Woodside price guides for record collectors and the original author of the Goldmine price guides for record collectors. As such, I was often referred to as the Price Guide Guru, and—as everyone should know—it behooves one to heed the words of a guru. (Unless, of course, you’re the Beatles.)
