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November 7, 2009
- The in-house techno-wizard, Adele, has solved my computer problems and I am now able to read others' blogs here, as well as post my own without going through the always-reliable Huntington Sharpe, allowing him to direct his talents and energies elsewhere. Anyway, here's the link to my latest piece at Broad Street Review ...
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November 4, 2009
- My newest piece is up at The Broad Street Review: Here's the link: http://www.broadstreetreview.com/index.php/main/article/my_ball_team_my_sisterAnd here're the opening paragraphs: My father and two of my uncles sat at the breakfast room table, the radio between them. I lay on the floor, rigid with tension, the linoleum cold as clay under my back. When Dick Sisler homered, I was so happy. I ...
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October 28, 2009
- My latest remisiscence is up at THE BROAD STREET REVIEW. It opens:In the mid nineteen-fifties, when I was growing up in West Philadelphia, there were six movie theaters withing walking distance of my house. The Byrd, on Baltimore Avenue. The Commodore, on Walnut. And the Locust, Nixon, Rivoli, and State on 52nd Street. The Rivoli seemed to show nothing but black-and-white films no ...
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October 11, 2009
- Due to over-whelming demand - well, Chris Rodell asked me - here's my report on Bob Dylan last night, outdoors, at the Greek Theater in Berkeley. Terrific show - and, no, he didn't do anything from "Christmas in the Heart." He did an hour and forty minutes, including pre-encore break. Seventeen songs, seven from "John Wesley Harding" or earlier, ten from "Slow Train ...
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September 15, 2009
- Here's the opening paragraph to
my latest reminiscence about growing up in West Philly in the
1950s:
Until I was three, we lived with my fathers parents at 10th and
Baimbridge. My grandfather had been a doctor in South Philadelphia for more than
three decades. Patients paid him in cash or backyard produce or homemade wine.
He was also, I learned much later, a ...
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September 1, 2009
- Here's the opening paragraph of my latest reminiscence: I bought my first record in 1954, when I was 12: Little Walters My Babe. The 2008 film Cadillac Records reveals Walter as scotch-soaked, pistol-packing and tragedy-fated. But if I thought of him at all, it was as a tiny guy with the same name as my cousin. No cult of personality compelled the release of my 89 cents. It was ...
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August 20, 2009
- Perhaps the assembled literatti can help me
fill in a metaphor. For a sentence in progress I am looking for someone or
someones, in life, fiction, film, opera, song or myth, done in by love -- more
preferrably killed -- most preferrably by a rival. So far the nominees
have been Jay Gatsby (indirectly), Rocky Raccoon (who, close textual reading
reveals, seems to ...
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August 11, 2009
- Apparently the William Morris Agency has recommended its clients reject the proposed Google settlement. Here is the Authors' Guild's response: William Morris's principal mistake is that it appears to think that the uses that the settlement permits Google to make are interminable. This leads the agency to draw a series of erroneous conclusions: that authors can't negotiate higher ...
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August 10, 2009
- Faithful readers will recall that for my last appearance in The Comics
Journal its Table of Contents credited my interview of legendary underground
cartoonist S. Clay Wilson to someone else entirely. Now, in TCJs latest war
against celebrity journalists, the final tweakings of its spectacular splash
page of my newest article, "How Michel Choquette (Almost) Assembled the Most ...
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August 4, 2009
- Credit must be given where credit is due. Friday, when I called to report my lack of progress to George, he was absent from his post. Instead I spoke with Janice. She promised to "escalate" matters. While I was imagining, with no small degree of gratification, the launching of missiles in the direction of my deliveryperson, I received a call from Benson. Benson requested ...
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July 31, 2009
- ...so Thursday's Chron arrived, Adele advised me, at 8:40 am, long after I was settled at my dermatologists having my blemishes and pigmentation clucked at. I acquired a complete copy (free) at the cafe, and when I reached my office, I called again to complain and threaten. This time I insisted on speaking to a supervisor. She promised to pass my concerns along to a higher up -- ...
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July 29, 2009
- Maybe some of you Red Room Chron folks can help me out.Heres my deal. I've subscribed for 40 years. I like to read Datebook with breakfast, around 5:30. I may leave the house by 7:30 and like to read the news on BART. I save the sports for lunch. For the last couple of years, our home delivery guy probably Buddhist maybe from Tibet or Nepal he used to bow each time he saw me ...
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July 10, 2009
- i. After two hours with my computer guru, Steve the Wizard, it was clear that my inability to blog or reply to "mail" was neither the fault of my network or security system. The finger of suspicion pointed at Internet Explorer 8, which had taken possession of my computer around when my troubles began. (It had the time; it had the opportunity; all it lacked was ...
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July 2, 2009
- Dear Readers and People in my Mailbox -- Beginning last weekend, I became unable to blog or respond to "mail." I could, weirdly, still comment on other people's blogs. I am now blogging again only via Huntington Sharp to whom I e-mail my entries. However, it appears that if I give my User Name and Password to someone else, like Huntington or my computer guru, that person can ...
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July 1, 2009
- 1.) On July 10, 6 -8 p.m., Electric Works gallery, 130 - 8th St., San Francisco, will be hosting an artists reception kicking off a six week display of original work by Bay Area cartoonists, including Mark and Vaughn Bode, Robert, Maxon and Ailine Kominsky-Crumb, Dan O'Neill, Red Room's own Trina Robbins, Spain Rodriguez, and S. Clay Wilson. The gallery will be offering for sale a print ...
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