I feel foolish but not old. I started writing here, trying to lay out my morning thoughts, but poems by Theodore Roethke emerged. Our father started reading Roethke to me and my brother Pat in the early 1950s, before we were in school. Dad was studying at the Writer’s Workshop at the University of Iowa. …
Link — Gay Talese and Tom Wolfe Talk Donald Trump – Arts Intel “Flak Catchers” by François Busnel, based on interviews with Wolfe and Talese in 2017, published by Graydon Carter’s airmail.news. Uncredited photo accompanied airmail.news story online. Excerpts below. Note: This was written and published before the second-term Trump experience. I disagree with Talese’s …
Needing to unwind with an old, favorite movie, I watched The Misfits, 1961, again last night — but with the sound off. The combination of captions-only and the black-and-white picture in the darkened living room made the Arthur Miller screenplay, the John Huston direction and the Russell Metty cinematography all the more brilliant. Great acting …
I can see that my morning writing time is about up … And I forgot that December 6 was his 1-year anniversary here and his guess-work third birthday. We’re goin’ for a walk.
I’ve always loved Westerns but it took filming in New Mexico and West Texas, particularly Longmire and Dark Winds and No Country for Old Men, to really hook me. .
I stumbled across this during my morning rabbit hole hopping and am reprinting it here because I like his descriptions of San Francisco and New York. Enlarge the type to read.
I am well aware that not everyone is a fan of my blog.
I resort to taking pictures with my iPhone when I don’t have much to say. It happens more often these days. Here I am again. Don’t get me wrong. I’m reading plenty and I watch many hours of news and punditry on TV. I have rewarding conversations via email with several friends. Cowboy is always …
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