BMC Photos
Here is a link to pictures of BMC. I’ll post more to the set in the next few days.
First Week at BMC
To be honest, the first couple of days I just decompressed. While other residents were saying things like “each day is so precious I can’t bear to waste a minute!” I was drinking beer & sleeping, doing some reading & note-taking. Then I flailed around with my work for a couple of days, then I [...]
George Carlin (1937 - 2008)
There are various uses for anger, one of them being humor. I found Lenny Bruce via George Carlin, who was criticized for being angry. Anger is one of the major fuels of art, especially the verbal arts of comedy & poetry. Iusually found him mostly sweet-natured & amazed at the absurdity of the world, though. [...]
BMC
Writing from my secret internet connection at the Blue Mtn. Center — which I have because I’m teaching the last weeks of an online course. It is a fantastically quiet & beautiful place. I’ve been sleeping well — did I mention it was quiet? — and have begun getting my work organized: an essay and [...]
Heading Out
Tomorrow I’ll be leaving idyllic South Colton for the even more idyllic Blue Mountain Center, a place where artists and writers spend a month working free from the distractions of . . . What? Exactly? Well, anyway, we call it work so our spouses will let us go. What was that old New Yorker cartoon? [...]
Sport as Transcendence
I’m not much of a sports fan, except for golf. It’s probably because I still pretend to go out & play golf three or four times a year. Mostly I’m a fan, though. I never understand when people tell me they find golf boring. But then I find football & soccer boring. I used to [...]
Sexism
Another Original: Utah Phillips, 1935-2008
What Can You Say? Bo Diddly, 1929-2008
“He’s Not Dead He’s Only Sleeping”
. . . as the old gravestones say. Had a lovely birthday yesterday — A & M came out & helped me make pizzas. ( made little individual-sized pizzas (about six inches in diameter) with red bell pepper, roasted garlic, olives, shiitake mushrooms, & red onions. C made one of her famous tosssed salads with [...]
