Bob Wiseman

Such an old story. Months ago, working on a video project for school with three other people. The course was ostensibly about collaboration. One person, absent for most of the […]

Friend sent me music by a musician improvising with acoustics and electronics. Friend was excited, also supplied a blurb about how radical this artist was, only they weren’t. Many interesting […]

A friend said my project might appreciate W.G. Sebald and I think she was right based on what I’ve so far found especially an online doc. At the grad student […]

While teaching piano to an eight year old, she chooses inefficient fingering despite careful slow demonstrations. One’s instincts are to show the learner the simplest route. Accordingly, find myself interrupting […]

For her last submission in the songwriting class Nadia sent in a song called shboom shboom and the teacher didn’t understand the lyrics. He wrote her about it and she […]

Threw out my back and can’t trace it to a unique incident, at least any other time I could recall lifting amplifiers or tyres or digging in a garden, something […]

I love Warren Zevon’s collected works and I knew he was friends with Stephen King but watching an interview with Stephen King made it clearer what they had in common. […]

Ten years later – touring the West coast and while playing the Hotel Utah in San Francisco, Elliot shows up. He had become a new age breath therapy guru. I […]

I noticed the online ratings of books by William S. Burroughs and chose to check out Queer which was not rated as high as Junkie and Naked Lunch. I have […]

Standing in line last week for a Covid test, in front of me one of the teachers from my daughter’s school, a woman who fluently speaks four languages. While waiting […]