December 2010
23 posts
The anti-stress dream
in which me and the 5 year old and 7 year old sneak into one of those cheesy pops concerts you used to see only at pledge time but now see all the time on PBS and onto the stage where for some reason the first-chair viola player guy isn’t playing viola but instead is up in front of the microphone singing John Hiatt’s “Feels Like Rain” which is actually a good song but...
missingalot asked: You ARE an awesome singer Mark. Don't let anyone tell you different. That was great.
And I wish you and your family Happy Holidays.
Peter.
And I wish you and your family Happy Holidays.
Peter.
A Man in Maine by Philip Booth
North. The bare time. The same quick dark from Rutland to Nome,
the utter chill. Winter stars. After work, splitting birch
by the light outside his back door, a man in Maine thinks what
his father told him, splitting outside this same back door:
every November, his father said, he thought when he split wood
of what his father said the night he right here died: just
after supper, his father said,...
WatchSam Prekop - The Silhouettes (by Thrill Jockey Records)
“I don’t care who you love,” Senator Ron Wyden, Democrat of Oregon, said as the...”
– Repeal of ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ Advances, New York Times
“I realize that somebody playing free music isn’t as commercial as a hamburger...”
– Don Van Viet (Captain Beefheart)
via Rolling Stone
