not sure what brought forth this memory, the day, chomsky's 'crisis and hope, theirs and ours' on democracy now ( Read more... )

live stoner rock wafting to the unscathed handmade wood & concrete cabin high up the mountain. it's cecilia's birthday, it took us 9 hours to get here, there's copious pasta, wine, hearth-baked potatoes, cheer, another entourage from way south rented a car in Rome to be here ... strange health-related shyness of g's old friend ... also bitter ( Read more... )

A couple of days ago in the park by my house, as happens occasionally, an abandoned bike showed up against a tree by the limestone lion. But this morning instead of disappearing, the bike was joined by a second leaning against it ( Read more... )

sign pang ( Read more... )

There has been a rash of housing complex closings in the county in the last month or so, where the pattern is the owners of the places, which are deliberately ambiguously defined as permanent residences or as motels, fail to pay utility bills (which are included in the residents' rent), which leads to shutting off the utility, which leads to ( Read more... )

Last night, under insomnia, what confusion by internet radio on earphones led me at first to think was thunder turned out to be two large raccoons fighting on the roof, one of them possibly a mother defending a brood in the chimney: hellish screeching, shaking of the house, casting of ominous shadows. I guess I have some defending to do ( Read more... )

Monday Boxdeserter at the Iron Post, a trio of bay area pianist Thollem McDonas (classical chops) with unsung Skeeter Shelton on tenor and Joel Peterson on bass, both from Detroit. The weather discouraged turnout but the players are seasoned and unflappable. Elias was talking through the beginning of the set - no worry, Skeeter (as he said later) ( Read more... )

If only I had brought someone with me like I had half a mind to, then maybe I wouldn't have forgotten the laptop in the guest room, formerly my room ( Read more... )

gorgeous poem
sparkling self-describing art show
open-ended invitation to collaborate with a videographer
open-ended invitation to write for udderbot (a self-challenging gauntlet) ... with panpipes, ney, shakuhachi, recorder, bamboo flute?
unfinished score for danced breathing and mechanical percussion ... text?

It's clear that all the employees at the American Visionary Art Museum are proud to work there. The guy who admitted us on our free pass (for being with the free health care vision) wanted to make sure we would turn the cranks of mechanical exhibits & push the buttons of the electrical ones, like he was a host in his home. One employee said "This ( Read more... )