Thursday, November 30, 2006
Q: Do you have a favorite quote?
A: One that comes to mind:
It’s all the same, man.
–Janis Joplin (Ball ‘n Chain)
Wednesday, November 29, 2006
Pirsig interview (Guardian). Pirsig being, of course, among other things, the author of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, a book I once gave my dad for Father’s Day, (”All this stuff about quality…”) and “the biggest-selling philosophy book ever.” Didn’t know that. Also
the book appears in Guinness Book of Records as the bestselling [...]
Tuesday, November 28, 2006
Or The Fluid Which We Breathe.
Today’s post title owes itself to this find: Josh Wallaert’s new blog, Webster’s Daily, a found poetry project. He writes, “I post one “found poem” every day from the first edition of Webster’s American Dictionary (1828),” and provides an example.
Hope [n.] A sloping plain between ridges of mountains. [...]
Wednesday, November 22, 2006
You can have more than coffee at Sitwells — breakfast, lunch, wine, beer, etc — and be here until 2 am, if you want. Namesake: Edith Sitwell. Atmosphere: energizing. It’s not Charleston; it’s not Charlottesville.
Monday, November 20, 2006
Over-the-Rhine.
Falling in love with the beauty. The waste, and the wasted beauty, this neighborhood. I am not a photographer, that has been established, tho have known, loved a few in my time and once wrote a poem about what a photographer said to me about how I “take the light” (as in how I took [...]
Monday, November 20, 2006
“Writing isn’t something I can try to do. It’s something that happens to me and that I can prepare myself for.”
– Franz Wright
You feel?
Saturday, November 18, 2006
Someone asked me what I know about Cincinnati. (Not via email, so you see, this is not an OPA in the purest sense of the form. But, hey, keep those questions coming; I’m accumulating a good stockpile of entries to come.) What’s formed my impressions, mainly two things:
Over the Rhine: First heard their music early [...]
Friday, November 17, 2006
From the inbox:
Don’t have time to visit local drug store?
What’s the first rule of investing?
Want to be a hero in a bed?
So I’m getting ready for a week-long trip to Cincinnati, driving up, early morning departure time. I figure I might post here either very little or quite a lot. Some things I wanted to [...]