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So as the Farmer's Market winds down and I think I have a contract on the shack, I went to the market yesterday. I said a ton of goodbyes, manyy tearful as these folks lived in my Saturday morning every week for over 10 years. A new, read killer, pizza place opened about six years ago and it is across from the market. They open at1200 hours, but for me, on Saturday markets, they opened early so I could buy 5-10 pies and give slices to the vendors at the market. Back on point: I talked to my bud, Jim, who drives the milk and cheese truck. We rapped, talked about life and shit. We got teary eyed. Somehow we got on life stories. Turned out Jim was/is a Marine sniper in Nam. Did three tours. I have seen loads of death in my life and he talked about sniping a cat from over a mile away. Why is this relevant? I have no idea, but it struck me enough to put fingers to keyboard. I get no TP from death, let alone causing it. This is a place for expressing and I wanted to talk for a few. Jim is so cool and much the antithesis of who I am and what I am about. I drink hard, smoke too much pot, drop way too much acid(still) and am so many other things that Jim is not. Yet, two way disparate folks can bond over something as groovy as the farmer's market is fun man. That's all and thanks for reading.
Tags: People Surprises Whatnot
I know plenty of folks who do not like to fly, but I a not one of them. I was first on a plane well before I hit the age of one and have always felt my ass to be permanently in 13C, as I am an aisle guy with long legs and bum knees. I started flying by myself at the age of 6, shuttling between wherever my old man was stationed and back to the USA to visit the grandparents. So my quirks are: As I get on a plane, I do two things. I smack the outisde of the plane three times with my right hand and I look for the plane's serial number and year it was manufactured. As I deplane, I make sure to thank the captain if he is by the door and again smack the hull with my left hand. Sounds odd and aside from wanting to know how old the plane is on which I am flying, I cannot explain the other ones. Anyone else here do strange things when boarding or deplaning?
Tags: Oddities And Whatnot
http://www.wfuv.org/contest/albumquiz/
So I took this and did well, no cheating either. I think a friend who works at 'FUV put this together.
It's cool. pV
Tags: Music Trivia Fun
XXX; (Parts of a note penned elsewhere)
I sit here tonight as I begin to sort the books I will keep in storage whilst traveling and others find the slow death of going to book fairs.
It's an interesting task, for on a number, you know know some work to the positive or the negative of some of what is in the collection, but then, you hit the middle ground. Or, do you keep those old Doc. Fryer and Morenelli pieces in French you no longer read to impress? Trimalchio's Dinner in Latin for sure, but at least I remember the story. For me, it's Edward Abbey, Abby Hoffman, Leary, Rodney Doyle, Bob Baer, many Ghanian and Nigerian folks, Dylan, Updike, Chandler, Garcia-Marquez(The Dude), and many others. Tons of cookbooks too, but they all survive the cut.
Music is the next huge thing, having more storage than most midsize businesses. Eh, it all stays. I stopped burning out to CDR a while back. I hope the external drives do not die when not spun up from time to time. I think my last bump up brought me to b/n 7.5 and 10 terrabytes. Hi, my name is pV and I have a music addiction.
Hope you are well and getting for your wamr winter.
Best,
PS: Twisters, I forgot what I wanted to write, for real. I had some good stuff to lay down for y'all.
Tags: Moving Books Musicnot Yet Stuff
A bit over a year ago, I lost the cat who taught me to love writing. He graduated from my high school the same year I was born. Buzz had an amazing love of life and writing and his students. Here is a snippet of what I wrote to another educator the other day. I know this is somewhat self indulgent, but it's nagging at me.
Was thinking about him and you the other day as I began the long, arduous task of "classifying" stuff ere the move/departure. His death weighed on me too as I knew it was just but a year past and I still feel pain. I can only imagine Jean's, but like a stoic nor'easter, I know we would never see it.
Regardless, I came across a 5th form English notebook from his class. How odd is that? I had no idea I possessed paper from Hill. Unfortunately, I found no papers from my time in class with him, nor any other paper from Hill. I mention this as I just reread the kind words you wrote about one of my papers in his memorial piece. As I write pieces, he or his ghost haunts me. I do not remember what Henry Lane ever told me(truth hurts), but Jim Long, Buzz and joe Condon, their words ring in my head. Yours, GGreene's and DG's too from the writing side of life, but the history bits are now somewhat vague at best(spanish armada, battle of hastings, magna carta, defenestration of prague, monroe doctrine excepted). I know my off the cuff style, is not what any of you ever wanted, hoped for or imagined, but I am sure Buzz saw it clearly.
I once wrote a piece in which I worked Baudelaire, Willa Cather and Toni Morrison into the same piece. It was about movement in all the stories. My professor shook her head, but reckoned it totally worked, her words. Without his prodding of my pea brain, I never would have done that. His teaching also prompted me to do Baudelaire and Shakespeare. Thank Morenelli for my odd affection for the strange frenchie! My copy of "Les Fleurs du Mal" is well beyond of replacing. In addition to being a crackerjack teacher, he also taught writing cheats too. By that, he taught little tricks to improve one's writing with a small arsenal that improved, or merely gave one an edge, when one started a piece.
Figured you might enjoy that. I miss him man.
Chaos,
Tags: Writing Nonsense Stuff
show details 3:07 PM (2 hours ago) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8O5wZAd2z4
This is safe for work, unless your employer says you cannot watch beer commercials.
His death hit me in a very visceral way, much like Danny Gatton's. I can trace a career of some bar crawling with both cats. In NYC, I spent many Mondays in the Village or Central Park South catching this guy. He never failed to deliver and he had fans from all over the globe. Without him, where would our favourite rock n rollers be?
As to DG, what can I say. I caught him everywhere and anywhere. I took a guitar player friend to see him at the Chestnut Cabaret in Philly and the dude just walked around shaking his head, muttering how did Danny just do that. Much like Los Lobos, I never saw a bad or even mediocre DGatton show. He put it all out on the table and had fun doing it. While I really enjoyed catching Danny at a festival and seeing reactions, the best place to see him was a dark, dank bar on the second or third floor or perhaps down in the smelly basement. He picked.
Just thought I would pass along the video which I had forgotten about.
Tags: Music
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