This coming weekend might be a good time to join the lurkers in the woods. The mycologists are a-foot, stooping to look under fallen trees, brushing aside damp rotting leaves, all in search of their prize: mushrooms. Foraging for mushrooms, and other wild edibles such as ramps, can be a consuming hobby. Disregarding wet weather, … Read more
Coolest thing happening tonight: Rainer Maria plays the T-Rock. I’m automatically impressed by bands that take name and inspiration from poetry, especially the poetry I regard as being good. I’m similarly enamored of the poet(s) who go(es) rawk. (My waking mind recalls only Jim Carroll.) On the other hand, I’ve yet to encounter a rocker … Read more
Lord have mercy! What team was that? Nineteen hits? Six walks? Fifteen runs? Kevin Millwood gives up nine earned runs in one-and-a-third innings and his ERA only rises to 5.13? How could that be possible? And what the hell has gotten into Michael Cuddyer? That game was ridiculous. This team is ridiculous. They’re going to … Read more
Easy one. Meet me at Raking Through Books tonight, please. This is my employer’s monthly happy hour book club, always at Kieran’s, and always featuring some sort of arts and culture “celebs” talking about books, reading from books, hell, sometimes they even read from their own books. Tonight, our hosts will be two fantastic local … Read more
Question: what are you doing tonight? It’s Tuesday, it’s going to rain, the Twins are going to lose, there’s nothing on cable or at the theaters, and you don’t have tickets or money to go to the big shows in town, whatever they may be. Or perhaps you do. Doesn’t matter, because the best thing … Read more
I have owned more than a few copies of this book. I can’t quite seem to to keep it on my shelf. Shortly after discovering it, a friend confided that she was terrified to cook, that she didn’t know where to start. She had been a Microwave Monkey for most of her life. I knew … Read more
“Mr. Arkadin–the Comprehensive Version”, 1955 (restored and cobbled together from five different versions in 2005). Written and directed by Orson Welles. Starring Robert Arden, Orson Welles, Patricia Medina, Paola Mori, Akim Tamaroff, and Michael Redgrave. “Mr. Arkadin is a bad film such as only a great and self-consciously wayward artist could make, and only then … Read more
If you checked out the recent issue of Speakeasy, the Loft Literary Center’s literary magazine, you read some interesting stuff writers had to say about “technology and the soul.” How timely for Speakeasy. Because after the Summer 2006 issue, this magazine will be strictly an online venture. I’ve enjoyed Speakeasy so I’ll be sad to … Read more
A dog is walking on the rocks. If that dog weren’t there coming between me and the rocks I wouldn’t understand this world I wouldn’t. Fish are swimming in the water the water flows around the fish birds are flying in the air the air moves around them if there were no fish if there … Read more
So this is what it’s come to: Twins put up a fight in loss How sad. How very, very sad.