I wasn’t always aware of how lucky I was to see their work. I didn’t realize at first that, at one time, they could only have been viewed in person, in the most rarefied halls of power -…
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okay, I’m not trying to get all narcissistic here (it’s a totally spontaneous reaction, I assure you), but now that I’ve gotten over my wonderment at the proliferation of a weird search…
So here’s the setup: I was going to meet someone for coffee down by the old Mint. This is a neighborhood that would most flatteringly be described as “transitional.” The block…
Father’s Day: the world’s most ancient, most powerful holiday. Going back, literally, to days of “yore,” it has been hallowed since time immemorial and honored even by the most…
Welcome, new friends from Editorial Emergency - hope you have a comfortable visit. And for those for whom these words are meaningless, I have even more for you at the EE site where I guest-columned…
This isn’t timely - and that’s timely. The news is saturated with timeliness. It’s all over the headlines, the in-depth reporting, human interest, media & entertainment. MJ is…
Commemorations are meant to be memorable - that’s the whole entomology, isn’t it? Co-memorate - to remember together. It’s been a long time, though, since a day as profoundly…
Quiz: what is special about today? Hint: I AM A NERD. And now for your ignorification, here’s an honest-to-goodness transit tale!
I had been riding the bus for a while…
It’s about time for something easy and fun, dontcha think? I mean, if the internurt can be used for such purposes. Rumor has it such things are possible, so I’m gonna test it…
My dad’s gone off to England for a little soiree to honor the first matriculants of his Oxford college, among whom he in fact numbers himself. Simultaneously, I have found myself in conversation…
You knew it was coming. Like tsunamis, colonoscopies and Broadway revivals, there’s really no stopping it. At the appointed hour on the appointed day, fate will fulfill itself. …
Surely you’ve had enough of my words for the time being, however short a time that may be, after that last post. By way of giving you a break from the blather, here’s some photos from…
Okay suckers, you got the first chapter of Weekend Recap - Phototastic Version yesterday - but you knew that was just a warm-up. The weirdness would get weirder. The cuteness would…
Thinking back recently upon my travels to England when I was very young, one recollection arises unbidden and repeatedly. In fact, I have never truly stopped remembering it, with desire tinged…
As I intimated to my intimates not long ago, I recently took a bit of a road trip to north-central California for a bit of business. This involved my driving up the 101, out the 37, over the 80,…
In my rich repertoire of recurring themes, Posted on Aug. 12, 2009 • [1] • print
Mysterious Hiding Places of the Monkees
Davy Jones’ Locker
Michael Nesmith’s Vanity
The Shoebox under Mickey Dolenz’ Bed
Peter Tork’s Over-Designed…
I wasn’t so very athletic in grade school, but there was always something cool about the balls. Those were some heavy duty high-test playground balls they had for us. The four-square…
Back when I was getting haircuts, I took them fairly seriously. …
Looks like a dag-blame essay series comin’ in. Better lay in some supplies. Chuckles has been known to make this stuff really last.
There’s something about…
Here’s part two of the storms series. Some folk are reminding me of some big storms from my childhood, with rivers in the streets and downed trees and floating cars. Some quibble…
I can place this cherished memory of storms in the second semester of my second year of college because, as I recall, my then-neighbor Dave came to awaken me during a brief therapeutic Normalizing Anthropoidal…
We got a nice warm rain today, a Mexican front that carried fat warm drops on humid air. I walked through the rain and let it play over me, luxuriating in it with my dad and my son, three generations…
It was one of those days I can’t imagine having again: we were home from college, unemployed, living with parents and completely at liberty. The world lay pregnant and generous before us,…
There are things one’s body instinctively rejects, that run so contrary to the appropriate order of the universe that the very thought of them can cause visceral contrary reaction - a mental,…
It’s commonly known as the Day of Atonement, the most serious holy day of the Jewish calendar. Of course, every day is holy, you might say, and several of them are extra-holy, but YK is…
From portents, maybe I don’t so much know, but I’m certainly not about to ignore the signs. I live in a fairly active city and signage can be pretty important. It informs, entertains,…
It has been pretty much a total wordfest here lately, which must be very irritating to my many illiterate visitors. However, during the long image-free interregnum, I did have the good fortune…
July 5, 2002: I guess I didn’t yet have a blog, because when I left a comment with Pea I signed off…
I didn’t mean to write an essay but a theme got presented to me - The Wizard of Oz - and damned if I didn’t fire one off just like cuttlefish ink. And now you get to read it. …