It snowed Monday night following St Patrick’s Day, beginning in the afternoon as a fine, gritty sleet peppering my face as I tried to run. By evening it transformed in to large, fluffy flakes that stuck together and accumulated on the street a few inches thick. I decided to find a bar, an infrequent instinct […]
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Privateering
Friday, March 15, 2013
I’ve been listening to Mark Knopfler’s ‘Privateering‘ of late. It was released six months ago but I wouldn’t have tripped on it had I not seen him in November when he opened for Dylan in Brooklyn. A friend bought the double CD for me after we attended the show and made fun of the ‘Knopfler […]
Noodle Town Close
Tuesday, February 5, 2013
I get off the train at East Broadway and cut past Seward Park on to Canal, through Chinatown and toward the restaurant. It’s cold in New York, maybe twenty-five degrees, and I haven’t been in the city for months. By ‘the city‘ I mean Manhattan. That’s what they call it here as simple distinction from […]
The Secret Life of Gomer Pyle
Wednesday, January 30, 2013
‘Gomer Pyle’ Star Marries Male Partner. I caught this Internet headline at 3 a.m. this morning in my typically sleepless state. 82 year-old Jim Nabors decides to ‘officially’ come out of the closet and tie the knot with his partner of almost four Hawaiian decades. To steal a line from Dennis Miller in reference to similar […]
Best of World View
Monday, January 21, 2013
I’m expressing with my full capabilities And now I’m living in correctional facilities – Dr Dre /NWA “Express Yourself” Been a while since I’ve written anything. I was in California for a long stay necessitated by a family situation .. but this probably overloaded the thought process as opposed to leaving no time to riff. I’m sure […]
Early Roman Kings
Wednesday, November 28, 2012
In his triumvirate/kinda top-three Well there’s Bob and there’s Neil and there’s me –Loudon Wainwright III “My Biggest Fan” Shot. Wrecked. Like oil sizzling in a pan. Bob Dylan’s voice has drawn unflattering description in recent years but it’s not like they were ever comparing him to Johnny Mathis anyway. Last week was the second time […]
Suttree
Wednesday, November 14, 2012
I just finished reading Cormack McCarthy’s Suttree, a novel he wrote over a span of thirty years and that is so rich in vocabulary and description it occasionally makes the reader want to shower. It’s been compared to Joyce’s Ulysses, a book I’ve personally avoided because my friend Paul, who makes a point to finish every book […]
Three MC’s & One Hurricane
Thursday, November 1, 2012
Hives are gone, lost my bees Chickens are sleepin’ in the willow trees – J Cash Odd few days here in NYC, and this may be the greatest understatement since Noah told the Mrs “looks like rain..” It began last Friday with an epic three-state Skype session with my pals Miller and Myers, segued in […]
Let It Rain
Tuesday, October 23, 2012
When you ain’t got nothin, you got nothin’ to lose – Dylan The San Francisco Giants are going to the World Series for the second time in three seasons and I’m reminded of a lunch my father had a long time ago with his banker Chad Ertola and a story Mel Brooks told on The […]
Semi Masterful
Monday, September 24, 2012
I saw Paul Thomas Anderson’s film “The Master” over the weekend and am still working it out. That it merits this consideration is no small victory. I went in under nearly ideal circumstances having forgotten whatever hype I’d read or who the actors were. When Philip Seymour Hoffman appeared about a third in it was […]