(Peter Finch is mad as hell in this frame from the 1976 film “Network.” Photo fair use from Wikipedia. Copyright MGM/Turner Entertainment) A lot of people of apparently running on the Mad as Hell platform this season, echoing the classic line of Paddy Chayefsky’s washed up television anchor Howard Beale:   “I’m mad as hell, […]

(The ritual of the 2010 Big Pink closing ceremony, Big Pink’s 2010 season. Left to right, Chad, Jiggs, Vic, Joe, Jeremy, Mrs. Hitler, Manda, Sarah-with-H, Mardy-2. Choreography Mary Margaret. Photo Manduley)   My sister Anook called and caught me by the pool. Well, it would be hard to catch me anywhere else on the last […]

I look at him with each meal I prepare. Oh, I should mention this now, the indoor cooking season will commence next week and I have a most triumphant recipe for peanut soup that we will try this week, so stand by. I was contemplating that when I actually looked at Lenin. He, or at […]

(Centurion with campaign and Imperial medals. Image courtesy Ermine Street Guard, Copywrite 2010)   “…a Centurion Pilus Prior (First Spear) in command of a cohort would hold a rank equivalent to that of a Lieutenant Colonel, since the number of soldiers under their command is similar. On the other hand, the vast majority of Centurions […]

(Cyborg head. Photo Hemdale Film Corporation).   I hate to beat the drum too hard on this one, but a lot of people are thinking about what is happening to us. Could be be on the verge of something really big?   A pal wrote to me from his government job. He said “I too […]

  I am losing my mind. You probably are too, but it seems we are getting another one.  I am not sure we signed up for this, but that doesn’t seem to matter. I think- at least in the time that I spend doing that activity- that something big is happening to us.   Remember […]

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(Hubrismobile at rest, American Service Center. File Photo)   Virginia’s implacable Department of Motor Vehicles is on my ass, or rather on that of the Hubrismobile, whose fine leather seats are affixed to mine. I could see the back of the yellow inspection tag on the windshield was either a “9” or a “6” backwards, […]

(Mom and Raven, Rector St. John in the background, 2008. Photo Socotra) I looked down at the pool last night around two. Up in the middle of it, again, not out of anxiety. It just feels natural these days. The blue water of Big Pink’s pool was steaming in the night, the water vapor ghostlike […]

(Arlington National Cemetery, 9/11 burial section, September 11th, 2010. Photo Socotra.) It is still before dawn, with just the faint graying of the sky to the east. The light, filtered by the gray skies will be along soon enough. There are a couple chores to do, but for now I will try to sort through […]