"Stay out of meanness...." |
"Stay out of meanness...." is something my friend L- used to say...my Mom used to say something much like it...it's an excellent thing to keep in mind, for, after all, "We're all Smileys" (in this Wo...
Posted by on Wed, 19 Aug 2009 08:57:00 GMT |
from "The Marching Morons" by C. M. Kornbluth |
"It was like old times, he thought- like a coup in real estate where you had the competition by the throat, like a fifty-percent rent boost when you knew damned well there was no place for the tenant...
Posted by on Mon, 17 Aug 2009 08:32:00 GMT |
"...Today I went out to the stables... |
...and I found that poor Sir Pom-Pom had been killed in Dahaut and now is dead. I can hardly believe it, since he was so full of foolishness. His life barely got started before it was done." "Once I...
Posted by on Thu, 18 Jun 2009 20:00:00 GMT |
START AT THE BEGINNING!!! |
IF you like anything in this "blog", PLEASE start at the beginning- it really isn't a "log" per se, but a series of reminiscences and observations- I used to insert links to my first entry, but for so...
Posted by on Thu, 11 Jun 2009 13:36:00 GMT |
Like It Is |
I watched Like It Is today and then posted this on the L.I.I. site:"I try to catch Like It Is every Sun. and it struck me today that I've been watching Gil Noble for four decades, and I checked and fo...
Posted by on Sun, 07 Jun 2009 10:25:00 GMT |
Livin' on Susquehanna St. (Binghamton, '67-69) |
I got back my GREs in the summer of '67, and I killed (99%english, 98%math, 99%psych) but I applied for grad school at Binhamton and was of course accepted, w/ a stipend of (I think) $2,300/year. My ...
Posted by on Sat, 30 May 2009 08:13:00 GMT |
Gabe's (Iowa City, mid-70s) |
Gabe 'n Walker's was a saloon in Iowa City that I attended in the 70s- for all I know, it still exists. I saw Sonny Terry and Brownie Magee there (sitting about as far from them as I am from ny monit...
Posted by on Sat, 30 May 2009 06:43:00 GMT |
Please... |
...IF you get into reading this thing, start at the beginning- I used to put links to my first page, so that people could read them in order, but for some reason, that has stopped working- so you'll h...
Posted by on Wed, 27 May 2009 22:01:00 GMT |
Reading some good stuff... |
...E. O. Wilson (On Human Nature, 1978), and R. Sennett & J. Cobb (The Hidden Injuries of Class, 1973)- VERY interesting together...Sennett & Cobb are contemporaries of mine (although I just discovere...
Posted by on Wed, 13 May 2009 09:34:00 GMT |
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Posted by on Sun, 10 May 2009 13:13:00 GMT |
