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It looks like just a little ol’ island on a map, but that’s because the ocean is so vast. I’ll bet most Americans don’t know that Australia is bigger than the 48 states. As for me, I’ve always had a physical and pyschic connection to the place. Just look at that ashtray, for example. My [...]
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Maybe you should hear the band first. Here’s a short, non-litigious clip of the opening of “Ebeneezer,” by Shiva’s Headband: [Audio clip: view full post to listen] They were my favorite local Austin psychedelic rock band. When an art student friend of mine asked me to help run a light show for their next gig, [...]
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Living in this world, I hardly ever have to make things up. We used to live in a 75-year-old farmhouse on a rural road on the Eastern Shore of Maryland. Whether the property had ever been an actual farm is questionable, although there was a rusty 1920s vintage John Deere corn planter in a shed [...]
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I’m grateful for the narratives in the night. Dreams are rarely explicit, however, and when they are, it’s easy to miss that every figure or symbol in your dreams is really another aspect of your self. If I dream about the state of Missouri, for example, the question is: what does Missouri mean to me? [...]
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It was a couple of Sundays ago, and it still reverberates… I was at a custom car show in the park. I’d just gotten a hot dog and a Dr. Pepper and needed somewhere to sit. On the edge of the car show, under some trees, was an unoccupied stretch of grass, so I sat [...]
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Every bathtub needs a window. Like with the adobe cottage we rented for a while in San Cristobal, the bathroom in this old adobe has a smallish window high up on the wall beside the tub. When I stand up to take a shower, I can look out to see sunshine and mountains, or feel [...]
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I forgot to get this posted a couple of weeks ago — gee, I wonder why? — but here it is. Regular readers of this blog will recognize elements of previous blog posts assembled into a new whole. Not quite like building Dr. Frankenstein’s monster, although related, and with much better results. This was just [...]
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Now there’s a title you don’t see every day, and the guys who made it possible aren’t everyday fellows, either. How it turned out that in my advanced decreptitude I’ve finally found friends who not only share many of my own predilections and cultural underpinnings but also take care of each other is mildly astounding [...]
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Thanks to everyone who’s left a message or sent me one! Yes, it’s here, the actual calendar anniversary of my birth long ago in the wartime summer of 1945 in Bryan, Texas, YE GODS!!! And here’s a picture of me (look hard) with my mother, pretty young Helen Masson from Middle River, MD, taken a [...]
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Probably only Leos broadcast their birthdays in advance. No, not to get presents or put on airs — Leos don’t have to — but because they feel free to do so. It’s natural. The last thing my wife would do, or would have done even many years ago, is talk up her birthday, except privately [...]
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That’s what she called him, “Lumpy.” For the two or three people in the whole world who might understand what I’m talking about, that’s what yet another Maryland friend emailed me when I told her who had died on Wednesday. I didn’t even know he had a nickname, but then she might have gone to [...]
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Exhibit A: a photograph of me in Maryland from 1977. A very fine photographer friend of mine was cleaning out his archives and sent me this while I was in Santa Fe having fish & chips with the women in the previous post. I already knew one of them when Ed took that picture, and [...]
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