Over the span of the previous week, I've found myself waking in the dark, with the clock generally showing 3 am or so in the morning. And I haven't been able to return to sleep. So I've been doing the usual when that happens. I get up, wrap myself in a robe and head for the kitchen, where I'll...
LATE RENT Audiophile remasterings of Jon Hammond's greatest hits LINK: http://community-4.webtv.net/ExcelsiorAccordions/LATERENTAudiophile/index.html LATE RENT Audiophile remasterings of Jon Hammond's greatest hits Ham-Berger-Friz Records presents JON HAMMOND Swingin' Funky Jazz & Blues Music, Jon...
Youthful Recollections: The Best of Seasons By Russ Pearson Well, it’s that time of year! The season I look forward to more than any other and finally it’s come around again. No, I am not talking about autumn…although that probably is my favorite of the four celestial seasons…I’m talking...
I've written elsewhere of infrequent though recurrent dreams of music, and the kind of dream imagery and feelings that generally come along for the ride. There's another infrequent though recurrent dream I have, with a different set of associated dream images and concurrent emotions. It's a dream of...
It is a difficult endeavor, indeed, to try to pin down exactly what kind of a novel Cryptonomicon is trying to be. It is fiction, but it is based on real mathematical theories and proven formulae. It is historical, but it is also modern. Its 900 pages contain elements of romance, comedy, adventure,...
I love this quote (among others) from a 1996 interview with David Foster Wallace: And I know that when I started this book I wanted--I had very vague and not very ambitious...ambitions, and one was I wanted to do something really sad. I'd done comedy before, I wanted to do just something really sad...
After making a post today in large part about a well respected writer who died recently, namely the post David Foster Wallace, I couldn't stop thinking about another post I made some time ago, namely Memorial Day and Memory. When I got home I had to find some way to express the amalgam of emotion...
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