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  • Of Late

    Of late I had my Dahon folding bike serviced. It is a sweet little thing, perfect for bicycling about this geriatric park I live in. I bike with my yellow Giro helmet. For more than two years the bike languished in my garage but now that I have lost 19 pounds in Weight Watchers it is time to include exercise […]

  • Reviews And Other Matters

    I’d like to mention a few recent reviews which are making me feel quite light-headed. See http://thefix-online.com/reviews/down-to-a-sunless-sea/ for a story by story analysis; quite impressive. Aeron Hick’s review is at http://metamorphosesonline.blogspot.com/2008/07/aerons-review-down-to-sunless-sea-by.html and is generous in nature. Harry Markov lives in Bulgaria and is only nineteen and his review is at http://templelibraryreviews.blogspot.com/ And today Maureen Nixon […]

  • Passim

    Often I go to blog and the damn essay vanishes, often because I don’t save it or whatever Gates has perversely devised. The last few days I have not felt the urge to write, for whatever reasons. I wrote a short piece which you can read in Pages called “The Artist Is Never Poor.” The […]

  • At Harry’s Bar & American Grill

    At Harry’s Bar & American Grill, Papa said, an epiphany comes late to each man and best of all in a clean, well-lighted place and best before dawn before the heat of day is best gone and the shadows stretch long and far into the night, la noche misterioso. “Hombre, nada mucho,” Papa said. He […]