Sunday, September 9, 2018

Book Review: Thomas Pynchon's Against the Day is Lit!

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Last summer, topping off a binge of reading Thomas Pynchon books, I set forth on the long, arduous, and vastly entertaining excursion of ...
Saturday, July 28, 2018

Healing Ingredients for Hard Times

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Greek street art from  here . "A middenhide hoard of objects!"  - Finnegans Wake , p. 19 "To clean and tidy u...
Saturday, July 7, 2018

"Conflicted"

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"Conflicted"  by Ka
Sunday, June 24, 2018

Rōnin Joyce Scholar, Thought to be Dead, Resurfaces and Other Reports Following Bloomsday 2018

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Illustration of Finnegans Wake page 15 by Peter O'Brien from here .  Recently I returned from a phenomenal trip to Antwerp, Belgiu...
Friday, March 30, 2018

MLB 2018 Season Predictions (Part 2)

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Gazing at the future thru the crystal ball... Continuing the altogether futile and pointless exercise of predicting how each division...
Wednesday, March 28, 2018

MLB 2018 Season Predictions (Part 1)

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Photograph by Don Hamerman. Nearly two decades into the 21st century, Baseball has evolved into something weird. Last year was the fir...
Sunday, March 4, 2018

Eugene & Erró

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Here are some paintings from two 20th century artists whose work I recently caught wind of---the Russian surrealist Eugene Berman (1899-1972...
Saturday, March 3, 2018

Instrumental: "The Gate" by Dirty Art Club

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From their latest album Basement Seance . 

What Goes On

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Looking over at the Blog Archive for "A Building Roam" one notices that in the eight full years of its existence, the number of po...
Friday, December 15, 2017

In Memory of William Gass (1924-2017), One of the Consummate Sentence Sculptors of Our Time

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The true alchemists do not change lead into gold; they change the world into words. - William H. Gass  I think of myself as a writer...
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Sunday, November 19, 2017

Album Reviews: The Wu-Tang Phoenix Re-Arises Again

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The sheen on the iron "W" was scuffed following Wu-Tang Clan's disappointing 2014 album A Better Tomorrow and the whole di...