The world mistakes plainness for blasphemy. John Lennon said things plainly, maybe too plainly. The Beatles said they were “bigger than Jesus,” which was not asserting divinity, just interpreting sickness. […]
At the natural foods store, I noticed, high on the wall an 8×10 photograph. It hung there like a family portrait. The name beneath it read Pegger’s Banquet. I laughed, […]
What I loved most about the Gimli shows wasn’t just the playing. It was the odd, shining bits around the edges. Like the woman behind the bar who told me, […]
Threw my back out, didn’t I. Must’ve been the way I slept, or didn’t. Felt like getting shot in the back by a dream, that kind of pain that makes […]
Long ago, in a wind-washed city by the river of Mook, there lived a musician named Everulska. He played both the silver flute and the hollow drum. In the marketplace […]
I set myself to the ordering of two pieces from many years ago. They are founded upon the ostinato, and too often I left their progress to chance. Useful once […]
I was among the many who loved Dianne Keaton. Everyone seemed to have a favorite version of her. The smile, the hats, the wit. I kept thinking about Looking for […]
Reading Coleman Hughes’s tweets about Candace Owens. I like his podcast very much. Says what he thinks all the while not sounding like a sermon. I liked his rap songs […]
Old fusion albums. Listening back, a lot to learn there. Sometimes it’s just meandering, people testing the edges while forgetting about the center. At other times, it’s greatness. Risk becomes […]
At a party two weeks ago, I heard an American in his eighties, a retired teacher talk about murder. A moment earlier the conversation was about food, about school, ordinary […]