I just finished reading Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment, having struggled with the novel for several months and putting it down for long stretches at a time. There were occasions when I would get through multiple chapters in one sitting, but typically I’d read two or three pages at night before becoming exhausted and falling asleep. […]
Category Archives: Posting
Biggie Tupac Redux
Thursday, March 18, 2010
Spring has sprung – according to the window sign in Francesco’s pizza anyway. I typically look to Francesco’s for these reminders. Valentine’s Day, Thanksgiving, Halloween, Remember To Vote – this is the kind of stuff that slips easily past when you reach a certain age and don’t have a local food establishment there to clue […]
Safe?
Monday, March 15, 2010
I’ve often thought that the one thing standing between this page and the national recognition it so richly deserves is decent sports photojournalism. My brother took this shot of his nine year-old son Peyton, sliding home with obvious concentration during his Little League opener. Anyone who has ever played the game will take note of […]
Locust Day
Monday, March 8, 2010
My buddy Tom Myers, who was in Los Angeles for his second consecutive Oscar nomination Sunday night, is on his way to becoming the Jeff Bridges of sound men. He lost to a Swedish dude with two middle initials who made a slightly less grandiose speech than the Indian guy who managed to work the […]
Unknown Legend(s)
Thursday, March 4, 2010
I used to order just to watch her float across the floor – Neil Young I exchanged a brief, long-distance hello with my old buddy and Greenbrae legend Joe Lazor the other day. Joe grew up down the hill from me and we went to school and played on the same Little League team together. […]
Blue Wing
Sunday, February 21, 2010
It’s dark in here; can’t see the sky – Tom Russell Dave Alvin, who played the City Winery on Varick Street in Soho Tuesday night, has grown comfortably into his looks. Back in his punk/roots days with the Blasters, beside brother Phil, slicing through glass-sharp leads on his ’64 Fender Mustang, Alvin’s appearance was borderline […]
The Great Caulfield
Saturday, January 30, 2010
The famed author and recluse J.D. Salinger died this week at 91. Most obituaries noted both his reclusive nature and less than prolific output as a novelist, neither of which would merit much remark had he not produced something worth reading. Recluses are a dime a dozen – and as someone once noted, you’re not […]
Dodge
Wednesday, January 13, 2010
Every little thing is temporary – Vic Chesnutt The late-thirty-something business chick at SFO’s International (and JetBlue’s Domestic) Terminal is holding court with two twenty-something, clean-cut, glad-to-be-employed underling dudes, all of them enjoying a responsible late-morning beverage at the Firewood Grill airport bistro. “The objective,” she asserts confidently, “is to get the team to collaborate […]
We All Have It Coming, Kid
Monday, December 21, 2009
Ashton Mourns Brittany; Tweets Heartfelt Words. This was an actual internet headline this morning for a blurb on the death of 32 year-old actress Brittany Murphy. And they wonder why people get suicidal at this time of year. I should preface this with the prerequisite observation that there’s nothing much funny about a young woman’s […]
Kern River Colonial
Saturday, December 12, 2009
I’ve been watching the Paul Giamatti John Adams mini series of late – a fine show if you can get past the emphasis on accurately portraying the barbaric medical practices of the time. Open-wound smallpox cures, bloodletting and anesthesia-free surgery quickly lose novelty in a post-dinner environment. It does help illustrate the collective colonial fortitude […]