GAHA: Tompkins Weekly REVIEW
Franklin Crawford reviews GAHA: BABES OF THE ABYSS in the Tompkins Weekly, HERE
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WAITER
WAITER My first job was at Dunkin’ Donuts in High School. I worked the graveyard shift. It was the kind of job right wing nut jobs have in mind when they say the minimum wage is for teenagers. I was a...
View ArticleA CURMUDGEON’S DINNER
The family were away in the city this weekend leaving me alone with two dogs and Antarctic weather. It really was incredible by Saturday night, bleak, with high gusting winds and temperatures falling...
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TWO ROASTS
TWO ROASTS Autumn Harvest Farm, one of my favorite local businesses (and Sarah is one of my favorite people, she is remarkably generous) had boneless pork loin roasts so I bought two and cooked one...
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Dawn Powell on Coby Gilman
From Dawn Powell’s diaries, two Coby Gilman anecdotes: ‘Sept. 29, 1938: Coby spent the evening at the Players Club drinking. I asked him if the members did much drinking and he said, well, yes but real...
View ArticleReading of GAHA: Babes of the Abyss
I am going to be reading from GAHA: Babes of the Abyss at Buffalo Street Books in Ithaca, on Saturday, March 28th at 4pm. I’m looking forward to this. It will only be the second time I’ve read publicly...
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Lisa Ben and Vice Versa
VICE VERSA One of the pleasures, many pleasures, of research is stumbling on the unknown. So, I’ve been reading a bit about the 1940s, trying to Understand the context for Dark Dominion, Marianne...
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Dominions: Marianne Hauser
Marianne Hauser, age 18 Thanks to Miette, the Marianne Hauser website is up and running, with some content. It is an evolving site. I hope to get others to contribute. From now on my posts about her...
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Grilled Asparagus with Scallops and Mulberries
Grilled Asparagus with Scallops and Mulberries Some people grow so much asparagus they get sick of it. We aren’t them. Our asparagus patch produces a handful every two days or so. Often it’s just...
View ArticleBiblioklept
Biblioklept wrote a good review of GAHA. Check out the other books. Really amazing stuff.
View ArticleGreen Beans in Salsa Cruda
When I was a child one of my favorite foods was romano beans cooked in tomato sauce. Romano beans are the wide string beans. They are meatier than regular string beans but just as tender. We cut them...
View ArticleRON SUKENICK
I’ve just finished Ron Sukenick‘s book, Down and In:Life in the Underground. It chronicles life in the underground from about 1948 to 1984. This is a great stretch of time to study decline. He works...
View ArticleI DON’T EXIST!
I spent the weekend reading a book I had hoped would piss me off: MFA VS NYC, The Two Cultures of American Fiction, edited by Chad Harbach. It did piss me off I suppose, but it mostly depressed the...
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GAHA: BABES OF ABYSS IN SAN FRANCISCO
I’m going to be reading in October, on the 9th, in San Francisco. I’ll also be reading in LA, but I’m not sure of the dates and times. San Francisco is where I was born, but I stayed a mere six days...
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Grilled Swordfish with Spicy Stuff
My son Andalucia 5 is in the city for the weekend to see the Mets play the last game of a glorious season, leaving me with Andalucia 4, who is 15. A 15 year old can be a tough customer, more inclined...
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FLYING IN FEAR
i HAVE A TERRIBLE PHOBIA. i CAN’T FLY. i HAVE FLOWN, YES, ON EVERY KIND OF AERIAL CONVEYANCE KNOWN. i’VE flown on TWIN ENGINE PROP PLANES. I’ve flown on WW2 era propeller planes. I’ve flown in rural...
View ArticleKristian Hoffman
This link was posted by someone on facebook. It’s from a piece written in 2010 by Kristian Hoffman, who was in the Mumps, and played with James Chance, Lydia Lunch, and Klaus Nomi. He had a band called...
View ArticleTEACH, NOT PREACH
I have been resisting the urge to write about this election for weeks now. It is a delicious situation, with so much to write about, but the increasingly demented rhetoric on the Democratic side has...
View ArticleIT WILL BE CORN
I haven’t written anything here in a long time. I have no idea how that happened, maybe nothing to say? It is a long standing principle of mine that as a writer I should only write when I have...
View ArticleDal
Trying to eat simply is a good idea, but time is of the essence. How much time will I spend on cooking? The slow food movement, which I endorse, despite the fact that it is a movement, prizes long...
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