The days are rocketing through November and I’m in the wine shop next door, radio starting to play Blue Christmas and announcer commenting on Elvis leading holiday sales again this year. “Jesus,” says the attractive thirty-something woman pricing Port beside me, recognizing neither King – Memphis nor Bethlehem – but the fact that it’s here […]
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In Praise of Timmy Lin
Thursday, November 13, 2008
Not beholden to the afterwards –Vic Chesnutt “Tarragon” Had a strange, good day on Tuesday that ended early in the evening with my legs giving out from under me. Well, not my legs exactly, but close enough. Before that there had been good company, Charlie Kaufman not allowing film to go gentle into that good […]
Eyesight to the Blind
Monday, November 10, 2008
I had planned on dropping this election stuff after the results were in last week, but it remains too large to ignore. The country, and much of the free world, would appear to be in the grips of Obama-fever. Granted, it was an historical moment when America put a black guy in the top spot […]
Brown Eyed Handsome Man
Wednesday, November 5, 2008
It was about two years ago, in San Francisco, some time before my second exodus. I’d been holed up inside all day, bogged down in a typically cloistered mindset, and ventured out to a local watering hole for a late night drink. He was English, the guy next to me, and somewhere in his early […]
“I got a rock.”
Thursday, October 30, 2008
Spent some time feelin’ inferior – Rod Stewart / Ronnie Wood They say that kids today are way ahead of those of my generation, and having a niece and nephew who are competent in both Japanese and English, I’m inclined to agree with them. But today’s kids are also missing something. This occurred to me […]
Hynde Sight
Wednesday, October 22, 2008
Unemployable, illegal You’re a whole film by Don Siegel – Chrissie Hynde It’s little wonder that Chrissie Hynde defies my general aversion to female singers. She had Ray Davies’ kid and kissed the stage in honor of Neil Young when she opened for him in Pennsylvania. She’s capable of writing lyrics like the above, appealing […]
Less Cowardly New World
Monday, October 20, 2008
For some time now, my computer-savvy pal Paul Theodoropoulos has suggested that I update the format of my web site to something more modern and interactive. I value Paul’s input in these matters, but I continued to resist. I knew my reluctance was based largely in delusion, as these disjointed posts are one of the […]
Turn Out The Lights
Saturday, October 11, 2008
“Those people you run in to who want to be the boss? They should know, huh?” John “Johnny Sack” Sacrimoni to Tony Soprano Charlie Rose had Barton Gellman on his show the other night, the Washington Post reporter who wrote a rather critical book on the Cheney Vice Presidency. Rose asked Gellman what the biggest […]
Too Long In Exile II
Saturday, October 4, 2008
Baby, the great sadness / you’ve got to let it all go Live in the present / live in the future, Johnny – ain’t that so -Van Morrison (with John Lee Hooker) “Wasted Years” Here today and expected to stay On and on and on .. -Elliott Smith Been looking at bits and pieces from […]
The Undersea World of Deepak Chopra
Wednesday, October 1, 2008
Somewhere between coasts and very high up in the sky, the kid takes a tumble. I mistake her at first for a little boy, not much older than a year and too small for a seat but too large and rambunctious for an infant carrier. Her mother, who has inexplicably found the time to become […]