Songs I Sing When I’m A-Lonesome (A List)
These are the stories that writers do not tell. Some weeks the words do not want to come to you. You cup your hand and beckon; they shy away. So, you write your way into their presence.
Instant Bluebird! Make the Song Go Bang! (A Quick Lester Bangs Primer)
No single rock critic had more lifelong enemies or more posthumous admirers than the infamous Lester Bangs. Other music writers of his era employed a loose, freewheeling style of their own, a style that…
Bathing in the Flames of the Fire I Built
One of the singular pleasures of my life is laying up in bed with the lamp on, reading a book. I’ll read anywhere I’m put. But my first instinct when I have a book…
Mash Note Dept. : Joan Didion
That warm musty gold light of a Los Angeles sunset flamed and flared over the dingbat apartments through my useless picture window.
Mash Note Dept. : Shirley Jackson
I consider myself domestically feral. It’s a much nicer way of saying that I am about two steps above idiot when it comes to household chores. Now, before you go off half-cocked thinking I…
Merry; Not So Bright
This list/ list-poem is an homage to one of my favorite poems by one of my favorite poets, Michael Ondaatje. His poem is called “Elimination Dance,”** and is based on a game (that I think he made…
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