Milk of Amnesia

We here at the "Dump" are awfully proud of our colleague and pal, Donna Lethal and the publication of her first commercially published work: Milk of Amnesia.



Donna Lethal’s debut is an authentic, can’t-put-it-down page-turner, an astonishing first-time work about growing up in Lowell, Massachusetts (Jack Kerouac’s home town) in the 1970s. With a stern ex-nun for a mother, a rascally bookie for a dad and a brother behind bars as often as not, Donna’s purgatory years in Lowell make for unforgettable reading. Her book is peopled with a rogues’ gallery of memorable local personalities, most hovering on the edge of small time crime, alcoholism, drug abuse and general oblivion. Funny and melancholic, sweet and brutal, it is everything a family memoir should be, a vivid flashback of haunting and hilarious memories arriving unbidden in the consciousness. Unlike some compulsive reads that evaporate after you’ve finished them, MILK OF AMNESIA’s images will stay with you, making you laugh or tear up at unexpected moments.

Speaking for the crew here at PCL, we wish her the best and urge all her faithful minions to go to Create Space and experience the Lethal magic.

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PCL-R
We should all take it.

Never Fear, Donna Lethal is Only Sleeping.....

PCL's own Donna Lethal flexes her pipes, then oops, sustains a slight flesh wound....who knew she was so talented!

thank you Mr. James L. Neibaur for sending this my way...we are all enriched for it.

I Heart That Which Is Like a Dark Skull Swap

Donna (queen of cool stuff in general) gets the cred for this by being vigilant over at our other blog, Douchebag or no Douchebag:

Compelling dark shiz-nit (as the gangstas say) go or I will think you are weak!

LINK AT PIC FOR CHRIST'S SAKE.

Mrs Lex10 Calls it !!

Huffpo- Carradine Had Rope Around Genitals: Thai Police

She's a Poet and She Don't Know It !

Here's a song our own special Donna Lethal penned, or perhaps wrote with a crayon.... it's about Phineas Gage (I once had a pet fish with a Phineas - get it? finny-ass?!! get it?) a guy who blasted an iron bar into his skull and lived for 12 years after the incident. His secret was smoking his last name some said...... the tune that goes with her spectacular lyrics is well structured, and maybe some of you massive-egoed (not me, I can assure you, I'm humble) PCLers should take a whack at it, giving it a versioned life of it's own and assuring PCL's a place known for multiple talented geniuses. Just like Donna.



PS: That's not her on the right or the left.

"My First Visit to the Movies", by Donna Lethal

Donna Lethal, Lethal Dose (and PCL contributor!):

"I have so many movie memories - movies that have shaped my life,
movies seen at incredible theaters like the Ziegfeld and the Coolidge
Corner and the Brattle ... many Saturday nights in the late 1970s and
early 80s at the drive-in in Massachusetts ... but my first movie
memory is one of sheer exhaustion, heat, and disappointment.

I'm not sure what movie it was - a revival showing of "Mary Poppins"
or perhaps "Bedknobs and Broomsticks" but it was the early 1970s and
it was very warm and sunny. One of my teenage aunts volunteered to
take us for the afternoon and my mother dropped my brother and I off
at the local "Route 3 Cinema." What my mother didn't realize was that
on a hot Saturday afternoon, every parent in town was doing the same
thing. We waited in line for tickets only to have the ticket window
close without even getting nearer. What to do?

My aunt decided the best thing, after endless phone-booth calls to my
mother who hadn't returned home (or did, and was enjoying the empty
apartment) was to walk home with us. A mile. With a 5 year old and a
three year old. Not only were we exhausted and thirsty, I knew that on
Monday everyone would be talking about the movie, and redheaded
(step)child that I was, I'd be left out - again.

Maybe that's why movies played and continue to play such an important
part of my life - I think I made a secret vow to never again miss a
movie. I once feigned illness to stay home and watch "The Bad Seed"
on TV and when I lived in Cambridge, MA, went to the Brattle Theater
at least three times a week. Between my Netflix and movies I've
tivo'd, I couldn't watch all of the movies I want unless I was out of
work (which I am, quite a few times a year.)"

--Donna Lethal--

Note: Click label: "My First Visit to the Movies", to read more first-movie-stories.

A lethal dose added to the mix

Say hello to Donna Lethal!

The new team member is already on the job. And when she's not. You'll find her Lethal Dose elsewhere.

Welcome aboard Donna!
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