Journeys gleam in never-ending dusk… Before my face scraped the road, I saw a shop that glowed. I couldn’t get inside, So the tender ghost without me died. This freed me to […]
Glow shop
The winter mind – year-end musings
What if each of us believes that we are enough? It seems my mind is both full and empty. I think about a time when my neck doesn’t hurt, and the tendons don’t […]
Encounter at a taqueria
“Someone stole my debit card,” she said… A beautiful girl, down on her luck. I gave her two dollars, she only asked for a buck… (La Mordida Taqueria, Pacifica, California, November 2017. […]
Awopbopaloobop Alopbamboom… rock music according to Nik Cohn
“Elvis is where pop begins and ends. He’s the great original and even now he’s the image that makes all others seem shoddy, the boss. For once, the fan club spiel is […]
Blade Runner 2049: a brief reaction
Blade Runner 2049 is a very good film, although it would have benefited from more threatening villains. [Semi-spoilers ahead.] I finally saw Blade Runner 2049, and some people have asked (knowing what a […]
The sacred rose and the guns of love
View larger image at 5280 Lens Mafia… William and Maud I am haunted by numberless islands… – WB Yeats Walking by the shore at dusk, air leaden with a faith in words.
Nathaniel Hawthorne: who’s that?
“Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed.” – Nathaniel […]
Goodbye, Rachel
A short, very unofficial sequel to “Blade Runner”… “The river of the world is wide, but its waters are boiling away” kept going through my mind as I sat next to her […]
Totality: Words fail. Pictures fail.
The best photo of a total eclipse you’ve ever seen doesn’t tell 1% of the story. The only way to communicate the reality is through digital processing technology. How very postmodern. August […]
The laundromat is a lovely-shiny-golden human place.
I was in one once that had a “No Slam Dancing” sign… My wife and I live in an 88-year-old house which has never been adequately retrofitted to accommodate the installation of […]
