NYC, yo |
Funny how the world is smallest where most people gather. I think Chicago is the most spatially perfect place, neighborhoods spread out, yet still moderately to largely populated. I walk down my str...
Posted by on Fri, 04 Sep 2009 19:47:00 GMT |
The World is Sounding Better |
When people get older they tend to grumble about how music isn't as good as when they were younger. I used to think that music from, say the late 90s to early noughts really didn't measure to the for...
Posted by on Fri, 03 Jul 2009 19:09:00 GMT |
Dead Bird Days, Pt. II |
I had written previously about the phenomenon whereby a small but stark symbol at the beginning of the day portends a certain amount of doom to soon follow. That being the presence of a dead bird in ...
Posted by on Wed, 01 Apr 2009 19:12:00 GMT |
Joe Strummer would have loved Detroit |
He even recorded a song called "Bummed Out City." In it he says, "that's what the sign says / we don't need your pity." Etcetera. There's a weird poetry to the gravel lots strewn with rusted car par...
Posted by on Fri, 06 Mar 2009 11:39:00 GMT |
February, the bastard of months |
is almost over. And when it is, rejoice. Another rent payment is due. But the air might not smell of the cold leather smack of a bitchslap and imagination's passport just might get stamped at the c...
Posted by on Wed, 25 Feb 2009 12:06:00 GMT |
D-Town |
It goes way back, my strange connection to that largely forsaken city-region. I was born there, lived in one of those used-to-be-cool-now-kinda-hideous Mies van der Rohe townhouses as a baby in what ...
Posted by on Thu, 04 Dec 2008 20:04:00 GMT |
The Task of Being Green |
Some consult tea leaves, others just notice when awesome orange leaves fall on a wet November sidewalk. Sometimes they notice both at the same time. When you walk determined toward an appointment, y...
Posted by on Sat, 15 Nov 2008 03:02:00 GMT |
Wishing Grant McLennan Were Still Around |
Life is too often loud and we need heroes who rock quietly sometimes. Grant did that for me, and still does, whenever he comes to mind. Maybe I'll see Australia for real someday, but in a way I've a...
Posted by on Fri, 07 Nov 2008 05:25:00 GMT |
Books |
I have been trying lately to figure out what it is that I want to be when I grow up. Actually, I have been trying to figure that out for over 20 years. This is a consequence of not having really bee...
Posted by on Wed, 29 Oct 2008 01:52:00 GMT |
Dead Bird Days |
First off, birds are my favorite animals. That only gives more credence to the symbolic weight I ascribe to them. For better or for worse, and weirdly often for worse, as they tend to play a starring...
Posted by on Thu, 15 May 2008 19:24:00 GMT |
