Monthly Archives: March 2020

Spring wanted to come, honest, like a slow-moving antediluvian brain over a white receding tundra. It was all about timing, apparently and the ebb and flow of atoms globally. Nation-state borders dissolved as you looked at them McLuhanesquely on whatever … Continue reading →

The movies: Ship of Fools (1965) and Voyage of the Damned (1976), relative to all the current cruise ship crises.

My parents before I was born.

Watched the excellent, relatively new PBS American Masters documentary last evening about this remarkable artist. Wyeth’s work was completely original and paid close attention to Nature and people in the context of Nature. He went his own way after being … Continue reading →

(Entertaining oneself singing and playing music; here: picking the first D chord of The Byrds’ “Mr. Tambourine Man” on a reasonable facsimile of the Beatles jangly black 12 string electric Rickenbacker more than adequate for sixties basement rock.) …………………………………………………………………. This … Continue reading →

Being locked out of schools will have a very negative effect on students. Many poor kids will go hungry away from school lunch programs. There will be a significant increase in mental problems because of the number of people who … Continue reading →