Here it is three days later and I’m still bummed out. This doesn’t generally happen to me, not for these reasons. He was a pop star; a rock ‘n’ roller and celebrity who hung out with Harrison and Dylan. He smoked like a chimney and made it to sixty-six, died in fairly unspectacular fashion and […]
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Of Pancakes And Porridge
Wednesday, September 20, 2017
Denis Munro is a conundrum with a Sean Connery accent; a cuisine-phobic, teetotaling man-about-the-High Street decked in snappy sports jacket complete with neatly folded hanky. “The hanky is sewn into the pocket” he pointed out as I dropped him off for a ten-day Alaskan cruise departing San Francisco. He wanted to make sure I didn’t […]
Blame The Vain
Saturday, September 2, 2017
If I could choose one God-given gift it would be a good singing voice. I can strum a few chords and butcher my way through an original tune while relying upon questionable wit and song parody. But to really sing in a manner that makes one pause from her drink to look up and find […]
The Low-Carb Anarchist Cookbook
Monday, July 10, 2017
I watched two documentary films, by chance and back to back, during a recent Netflix binge. One is called New York Doll and focuses on the life of Arthur “Killer” Kane, bass player for the seminal NYC punk band The New York Dolls. The other, American Anarchist, is about the life of William Powell, author […]
Millertown
Sunday, June 11, 2017
To understand the Minneapolis-based kinetic sculptor, filmmaker and artist Scott “Coleman” Miller, one needs to understand his vocabulary. It involves little premeditation and flows naturally. Near the top of the heap are the tried and true “splank,” “na-gooshed,” (pronounced ‘na-GOOSHED’) and “sheesh.” Sheesh is an expression of exasperation, as in “I spent all night applying […]
No Friend Of Yours
Friday, May 12, 2017
Some friend of a friend of a friend of mine – Petty, “What’re You Doin’ In My Life?” “Share Your Facebook Memories” is a recent feature on the internet titan that allows users to auto-generate a post from four or five years back and re-distribute some enthusiastic highlight from their past. I’m not sure how Facebook […]
Nobody Home
Thursday, March 23, 2017
“I got a grand piano to prop up my mortal remains” – Waters What’s of greater value — getting better with something at which you’re innately good, or good with something at which you struggle ? I would argue for the latter, though there is no right answer. Clearly those starting out best at what […]
All About You
Thursday, February 16, 2017
“Horses scream, the nightmares dream and the dead men all wear shoes” – John Prine “Once you’re down in Texas, Bob Wills is still the king” – Waylon I figured I could do better than that. Not Prine or Waylon, of course, but what I wrote previously about New York. Someone once told me that I […]
Little Pink Colorblind Tests
Thursday, December 1, 2016
I’ve been listening to John Mellencamp of late. It’s been thirty years. Returning to him at this ripe age affirms a long-held suspicion. Everything needed to know about life can be attained by studying this man. Start with the obvious — don’t change your name more than once. Never mind airport security hassles; it’s not good practice. The world lets Zimmerman to […]
I Used To Live Alone Before I Knew Ya
Monday, November 14, 2016
I grew up with a lot of conservatives. Well, I grew up with the kids of a lot of conservatives. This was by no means a reflection of the prevailing demographic; rather it was our small group of largely Italian friends and family who tended to spend Thanksgiving and New Year’s together. And even “Italian” […]