(April 25, 2024)
There was some sort of local scuffling happening during press time for this column, so under the comforting thump of a police helicopter in the near-full moon-lit sky over my...
(April 18, 2024)
On this year's 4/20, let's all take a moment to celebrate the true message of legalizing marijuana in the American way: Commodifying the struggle for freedom against oppression so...
(April 11, 2024)
No, we didn't get a proper eclipse last Monday, but I still found a momentary pulse beat of Satori from a gliding collision of outside sources, and that's good enough...
(April 4, 2024)
Well, April is here, "breeding lilacs out of the dead land, mixing memory and desire, stirring dull roots with spring rain," according to the poet T.S. Eliot in one of...
(March 28, 2024)
I'm going to be brief here because I'm recovering from some kind of minor crud. Looking through my recent history for possible disease vectors, from out-of-town visitors to a few...
(March 21, 2024)
The Ides of March came last Friday, some 2060-plus years since mighty Caesar got smoked, and we lost our little king. I am talking about my partner and I putting...
(March 14, 2024)
Spring is coming back, which means we've pushed through two human-made hurdles in which I have little interest: the Oscars and Daylight Savings time. To the latter I say pick...
(March 7, 2024)
Belarius, the exiled lord and soldier who stole and raised the sons of the British pagan King Cymbeline in the play of the same name, is certain of a kind...
(February 29, 2024)
The early 17th century Christian mystic Jacob Boehme, whom Hegel called "the first German Philosopher," wrote about the paradox of the human mind trying to hear the voice of God,...
(February 22, 2024)
I've been watching old movies and listening to even older songs lately — no surprise there —mostly dipping into the early British career of Alfred Hitchcock and the tunes of...
(February 15, 2024)
In her 1908 novel Anne of Green Gables, L.M. Montgomery tells us of a particularly earnest and yearning moment in her eponymous heroine's youth: "It wouldn't matter if I got...
(February 8, 2024)
I'm making myself laugh imagining the story of a man who manages to completely ruin his life in next week's pummeling four-day gauntlet of Super Bowl Sunday, Mardi Gras, Ash...
(February 1, 2024)
A funny thing happened the other day. I was sitting in my truck, birdwatching at the slough and thinking about really nothing much other than the overflowing banks, and an...
(January 25, 2024)
I've been enjoying the frantic back and forth between the flood days and warm sun days, so I haven't really paid much attention to January slipping by. Which is unfortunate...
(January 18, 2024)
Regular readers of this space know that I tend to eulogize a lot, and lately I've taken an interest in promoting the life's work of people who left the land...
(January 11, 2024)
As I have mentioned since the arrival of winter, this season has a lot of dead nights on the calendar of live entertainment. However, even a leafless tree or dead...
(January 4, 2024)
I hope you all landed on the other side of the year safely, with minimal damage to yourself as well as any municipal structures, especially fire hydrants. I stayed in...
(December 28, 2023)
As a fan of editorial cartoons from years long gone, I can assure you that few themes survive the incomprehensible gulf of time's effect on human culture and meaning other...
(December 21, 2023)
I didn't mention it at the time because I had other things in mind, but one of the greatest Irish songwriters of all time, Shane MacGowan, dying in the same...
(December 14, 2023)
I don't attribute much of human behavior to the far-out celestial bodies in our solar system. Credit that to a rebellious streak I'm employing against my now-deceased parents who met...
(April 24, 2024)
Speaking of hip hop (and for that matter, an organic, career-length artistic celebration of the fun side of weed) Houston’s screwball master MC, guest star and laid back producer Devin...
(April 22, 2024)
The calendar marks the onward tapping of time, and once again the first days of the working week is capped off with a 7 p.m. installment of Metal Mondays at...
(April 21, 2024)
Fans of ensemble vocal jazz and pop are in for a treat this afternoon when the Mad River Transit Singers present a matinee performance at Fulkerson Hall at 2 p.m....
