Posted in arts, writing on July 23, 2008 | No Comments »
Bob Waldmire and I were “hailed fellows, well met” when we attended Springfield Junior College in the mid 60s. I don’t know anyone who has remained who he was then as he (orshe) is today. His dad, returned from WWII, invented what Springfieldians today call the Cozy Dog and founded The Cozy Dog Drive-In on [...]
Posted in arts, writing on July 20, 2008 | No Comments »
I’ve got nothing to say.
People don’t listen anyway.
Let the loud and lame
Play their slam-jam game,
But I’ve got nothing to say.
Princes, queens and buffoons,
Snug in cozy cocoons,
Poetically inclineds
Murmer from their minds,
But I’ve got nothing to say.
Poets come and they go;
Write their names in the snow;
Scribe grand sagas on sand
In a changing land,
But I’ve got nothing to [...]
Posted in arts, writing on July 20, 2008 | No Comments »
With the first issue of the State Journal-Register delivered after I renewed my subscription Friday came news that Vivian Eveloff had died. The obituary was BLINDINGLY terse in its posting in print and at the SJ-R web site. This was no doubt the design of the family, not because Vivian Eveloff gave so little to [...]
Posted in arts, thoughts, writing on July 20, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Friday evening I received a call from a courteous young lady who began by addressing me as Mr. Conger and then asked if I’d like to subscribe again to the Illinois State Journal-Register. Before I could hem, haw and decline, she told me it was on sale for half price — SOLD! I told [...]
Posted in arts, writing on July 16, 2008 | No Comments »
It will seem strange to those who don’t know me well when I say the smartest thing I have done for myself this year is subscribing to The New Yorker. With the publication of this week’s edition — some may call it this week’s sedition — my satisfaction and anticipation of each issue are doubled [...]
Posted in arts, writing on July 16, 2008 | No Comments »
I’ve just added a new recommended site to the list on the right. Kim read my Dodging the Candle Light Ooutcome and added a nice comment. I visited her blog The Dailies and was delighted by the profusion of colors and narration of her life. It shines with excellent pictures of nature and history in [...]
Posted in arts, writing on July 13, 2008 | No Comments »
Kudos to Prairie Art Alliance and Sangamon Watercolor Society for their fab reception July 12 at Hoogland Center! The PAA exhibition Memories features the painting of Pam Miller of Springfield and the steel sculpture of Darren Miller of Decatur. The variety of techniques and media so competently and delightfully engaged is a rainbow inspiration. Darren [...]
Posted in arts, writing on July 12, 2008 | No Comments »
I’ve had a minor epifanny (as #43 might say) regarding WSEC, the Public Broadcasting System television station serving the Springfield, Illinois area. It occurred the night of July 4 at their fundraiser at Pasfield House.
Two days earlier, a friend invited me to a small gathering of mutual friends convening on the 27th floor of the [...]
Posted in arts on July 12, 2008 | No Comments »
On the day I attended Dennis Camp’s fab presentation about Vachel Lindsay and the race riots of 1908 at Vachel Lindsay Home State Historic Site, site Director Jennie Battles invited me to bring my guitar and some poetry to share in the back yard as the site hosted a display of quilts from the its [...]
Posted in arts, writing on June 30, 2008 | No Comments »
During the Vachel Lindsay Architectural Tour, we were walking north on Seventh when we all saw a woman leading a big horse from a recently-parked trailer, I wondered to my friend Ed Gehlbach and his good wife how interesting it was that Paul Simon had mentioned “the horse on Seventh Avenue” in his fine tune [...]
