5 a.m. Stories
Robert BaslerLifelong journalist's stories he can't stop telling himself... Romance, humor and a wide, razzle-dazzle world....
| Platform |  | Pricing | Freemium | Publishes | Twice weekly |
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| Issues | 330 | Founded | 3 years ago | Last Issue | 6 days ago |
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Throwback Thursday: Where's the Beef?
(From left, Winston Churchill, Oscar Wilde, George Bernard Shaw, Charles Dickens, Lady Mary Crawley and Sherlock Holmes. Priceless AI-generated oil painting)
There is a restaurant in London which I grew up thinking existed only on the page...
My "Cornstitutional" Right to Free Speech...
This isn’t an easy thing for me to write.
I’m having trouble at home. I stand accused of the very worst, vilest, most disgusting thing an older man can do.
That’s right. Apparently, some people think I make too many dad jokes.
It turns...
Throwback Thursday: Getting the hell out of Dodge
(Me, With Statue of Liberty replica in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square, 1989)
We’re coming up on June 4th, an anniversary I never fail to remember, even if I don’t mention it out loud.
It is the date of the 1989 massacre of pro-democracy prote...
Adventures of a Substack Lounge Lizard
(AI-generated photos of Substack writers Heather Cox Richardson, Gene Weingarten, Joyce Wadler, Robert Basler and Bill Kristol.
Hey, Bob, it’s me! Glad I ran into you! You write that Substack called 5 a.m. Stories, am I right?
Shhhh, plea...
Throwback Thursday: The Baroness, in a Rerun
(AI-generated photo)
Today’s Throwback Thursday retread was first posted three years ago, in April 2023. Hard for me to believe. Some of you probably weren’t even born yet.
Wait. I guess you must have been. Forget I said that.
Everythi...
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Lifelong journalist, more than 30 years with Reuters, a wealth of experiences from interviewing Kurt Vonnegut to Dolly Parton, and much, much more. Traveled the world, now living in a historic Tudor home haunted by an actual Baroness.
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