I am not being trivial. Your separateness could kill you unless I take it from you as a sickness. What if you get stranded in the town where pears and winter are variants for one another? Can you eat winter? No. Can you live six months inside a frozen pear? No. But there is a place, I know the place, where you will stand and see pear and winter ( Read more... )

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How to Write the Great American Indian Novel

All of the Indians must have tragic features: tragic noses, eyes, and arms.
Their hands and fingers must be tragic when they reach for tragic food.

The hero must be a half-breed, half white and half Indian, preferably
from a horse culture. He should often weep alone. That is mandatory.

If the hero ( Read more... )

"President George W. Bush said farewell to the nation, but the nation wasn't paying attention. TV barely cut to him in time for his first words Thursday evening and couldn't wait to cut away when he finished 13 minutes later. Something unexpected and awesome had happened to shoulder him out of the picture: a jet gliding to a stop in the middle of ( Read more... )

I'm going out on a limb here but I'm looking for a Yakima cargo box. Any model,  any size. New ones cost as much as my car so I'm hoping someone has one collecting dust in their garage. Let me know.

Year in review - post the first line from the first post in each month ( Read more... )

Today my son is 17 and the same age I was when I moved to Rochester 15 years ago on January 1st.

Yeah Muppets of Burlesque -

That was so '06.

(eyeroll)

The first time I ever saw Bettie Page was on the wall of Christians fathers bedroom in between the posters for Anthrax and Metalica. It was a side profile head shot that, try as I might, I've never been able to find again. I was enamored.

Over the years I have amassed a good size cache of memorabilia. I had a tshirt with her on it that Christian ( Read more... )