CHEESES, I was angry today! By 10 a I was slogging through the usual note card transcribing and detesting every minute I was tied to the fripping computer. I made myself go on the way Charles Bukowski made himself go on when he worked at a job he hated. He knew he could eat if [...]
Archive for July, 2007
I Get More Done When I’m Angry
Posted in writing on July 31, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Love is a Many-Splintered Thing
Posted in writing on July 30, 2007 | 2 Comments »
I’ve had that title in my “drafts” for weeks, and I’m leading with it just to share it with you and get it published. It has nothing to do with this essay, which I’m also saving in “drafts” until later this week and writing topic cupboard is bare.
What THREE Television Shows Do You [...]
Once Around the Park
Posted in Uncategorized on July 29, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
As the Sultan of So’ James Brown once said, “I feel good. I knew that I would. So good. So good. I gaCHOO!” — GeSUNDheitt Master Brown!
Yesterday I vowed to spend an hour on feet in transit to compensate for the past few months spent in large part, in officechair. And I did. I grabbed [...]
First Tomatoes and Happy Birthday Dad
Posted in writing on July 28, 2007 | 3 Comments »
(Pictured above: “Dad’s Birthday Zlunch” by Job Conger)
The Tomato is My Friend
. . . . . . Close to ten years ago, before Thelonius Dog and Slick Richard, even before Maximum Labrador, I was in a tailspin. (That modus de klutzus is de regeur with me.) I had split with a woman I will call [...]
terRIfic! No car insurance!
Posted in Uncategorized on July 26, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
In my ballistic way, I have lost my car insurance. Just got off the phone wth my agent who told me it went south last Saturday. I knew it was due, but I thought there’d be a grace peeriod.
So solly.
I MAY be able to reinstate it next week after I walk the anticipated rent check [...]
Fresh From the Web: Illegal Immigrant Poem
Posted in Uncategorized on July 26, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Preface: A friend sent me what follows: a poem, I have edited slightly, which reveals the frustration of people of all races and ethnic backgrounds who believe in law, and are not inclined to dismiss the ones we don’t care in a same way we turn our nose up at street vendors offering us Chinese-manufactured [...]
Ballistic Mode
Posted in writing on July 26, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Some airplanes, particularly those with what lay people might call the little wings (elevators) at the top of the back tail (others call them T-tails) which require great pilot concentration in some circumstances. In slow flight, when the nose of the airplane is pointed way high, the airflow from the wing can blanket the T-tail [...]
We Love You, Little Richard!
Posted in writing on July 25, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
To know me is to understand that 95 percent of the television I watch is broadcast on the Public Broadcasting System (PBS). During this summer the percentage has been closer to 85 percent, not because the quality of programming is heading for the hoidi toilet, but because though most are still jewels of programs, fewer [...]
Tom Clay’s Back In Town
Posted in writing on July 24, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Do you know him? If you’re a creative writer, you should. I was , and I did. I took this picture during a chance encounter in political downtown Springfield about 1997. Then living in Chatham, Tom hosted a meeting or two of our writing organization board. By day, he was a good writer and employed [...]
The Child-Parent Dynamic of Owner/Renter
Posted in writing on July 23, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Apologies to all regular readers here who miss the goyem Woody Allen persona professing exasperation over his two left feet. I’m in a comedy null zone these days. Y?
<>I learned last week there was not enough in the bank for my loan payment to be made, and I am in high funk over this. Bank [...]
