Wednesday, April 29, 2009
I was looking for more more info regarding Charley White, the "famous referee" whose burial site I spotted at Calvary last week, when I spotted a provocative headline in a 1917 issue of The Evening Independent, a newspaper from Jacksonville, Florida. The headline announces "City of Marvelous Light May Soon Be Doomed to Darkness" but [...]
I often visit a certain part of Calvary to check in on the Calvary Civil War Veterans Memorial (I’ll have more to say about the Civil War Memorial another day) as well as the nearby Alsop Family Cemetery. While passing between these two places today I noticed a grave from 1972 with a conspicuous quantity [...]
Wednesday, April 22, 2009
Patelson Music House, it seems, had been on the verge of shutting down for 20 years before it was announced recently that the store would be closing. I moved to New York in 1990 and remember a conversation with a fellow sitting next to me at a Carnegie Hall concert in November or December of [...]
The other day I noticed that a coupon for free Reynolds Wrap posted a few years ago to My Receipts had inspired an outpouring of admiration from web site visitors who happened to find the page. I thought this was a little surprising, maybe even funny, but I made nothing substantive of it except to [...]
Hisconcentrationblasted a universe into being.Immediate war hedeclared among instant extinctionsto dry the galaxiesof theirbitterlydifferent philosophies. Invisible to history,unknown to poets and popes,his universe isinferred by thesoaring, sour squalls of your griping,sublingual mind. It huddles near his ceiling,follows him from his hole,then scrambles at his ankles like ahungry stray.
Wednesday, April 15, 2009
Mind’s Heart Mind’s heart, it mustbe that sometruth lies lockedin you. Or else, lies, alllies, and no mantrue enough to knowthe difference. Robert Creeley
Wednesday, April 15, 2009
There sure is a lot of love for Reynolds Wrap. A few years ago I bought a box of 75 square feet of Reynolds Wrap and found that the product was defective. The foil was messed up with some kind of odd-smelling, viscous gunk. I made this discovery at 1 in the morning on July [...]
A friend was showing me an Eisenhower dollar coin she got in change today and it reminded me of one of the most dumbass things I ever did as a kid. In the 3rd or 4th grade my dad started collecting U.S. Mint sets. Similar to sets issued today by the U.S. Mint, these were [...]
A page from that ASV Yearbook summoned a random childhood memory: We used to drink Cokes out of plastic bags. I thought nothing of it at the time but in retrospect it is something you probably do not see in America. Your Coke was served in a plastic bag if you did not want to [...]
We saw a mighty grave at Calvary.Tall, the proud angel looking east,the structure looked close to collapse. The bottom had fallen away, the hillside itself eroded, the inner foundation of the tomb revealed as a buckling thicket of bricks. A hundred years old anddangerously close to ruinI saw this tomb as a [...]
