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 […]
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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 […]
Nettie Moore
Sunday, September 21, 2008
I’m on the road again, pointing the old white E320 east on I80 toward the Sierras. It’s got a hundred and forty thousand miles on it, that car, but rides as solid as a chunk of accelerating granite. Say what you will about the Germans, but they make a decent vehicle. Somewhere past Auburn I […]
The More Things Change
Tuesday, September 2, 2008
Change We Can Believe In That’s Obama’s tag, to touch briefly on the world of politics again. And McCain is scrambling to project his own non-stagnating image, putting a saucy-looking “hockey mom” on the ticket. The old guy has something there. When’s the last time anybody really wanted to do a vice president? Have to […]
Loose Change
Friday, August 29, 2008
I sat home in Tennessee, starin’ at my screen uneasy feelin’ in my chest, wonderin’ what it means -Steve Earle “Christmas in Washington” So Obama made his speech last night, and this message of “change” was prominent. Sheryl Crow even switched a few words around in one of her songs to fit the occasion and […]
Dylan
Sunday, August 17, 2008
Ain’t talkin’ / just walkin’ Eating hog eyed grease in a hog eyed town -Bob Dylan I’ve never been a huge fan of poetry outside of songwriting. Something about my innate, nonlinear orientation makes it difficult for the form to stick without a back beat or chord progression. “If you must keep talking, please try […]
Self Wiring
Monday, August 11, 2008
Among the numerous theories relating to how we come to be who we are is the deceptively simplistic idea that it “all comes down to wiring.” There’s something undeniably satisfying about this approach, as susceptible as it might be to picking apart. Advocates of genetic influence would likely weigh in with support, but it’s difficult […]
08.08.08
Friday, August 8, 2008
I’m in Mazzone’s True Value hardware store buying a quarter-inch pressurized cap for the water line that used to go in to my old refrigerator’s ice maker. I’m fairly pleased with this fifty cent purchase – it’s early in the day and I’m under the illusion that I’ve taken care of another problem. But I […]