Thursday, June 26, 2008

Salad Days

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The bookstore we ran throughout the Nineties in Seattle's tourist-driven public market (still known as Pike Place Market even though it ...
Thursday, June 19, 2008

Tennis, Anyone?

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Never been much for tennis. I admire the skill and stamina of the major players, and watch matches on television once in a great while, but ...
Friday, June 13, 2008

Rainier Beer Lookalike

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The recent post devoted to movie-marketing adventures called up some other memories--of Hollywood films I watched in the making, and of some...
Sunday, June 8, 2008

Nightmare Scenario

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I made a first attempt at writing movie scripts in 1967. The Vietnam War and homefront resistance to it were both raging, Black people and s...
Tuesday, June 3, 2008

Go, Bo Diddley

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Bo Diddley died two days ago. Ellas McDaniel died too, but scarcely anyone knew Bo by his earlier name. "Bo Diddley, Bo Diddley, have y...
Thursday, May 29, 2008

Gram Parsons, Jim Morrison, Rick Nelson

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Goofing one day, I cobbled together three poetry portraits--more in the vein of light verse than serious poems--of three notable Rock stars ...
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Friday, May 23, 2008

Not on the Cover of Rolling Stone

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I used to write for Rolling Stone , that now-disposable but once-upon-a-time bible of the youth culture. My limited involvement was off and ...
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Sunday, May 18, 2008

Shilling for Hollywood

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A new collector-oriented CD appeared recently, an Intrada re-release of two film soundtracks from 1978 and 1980 offering the music from An U...
Monday, May 12, 2008

Birds of a Feather?

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The two most important poets writing in English during the last quarter of the 20th Century--distinctive, innovative, acclaimed, influential...
Wednesday, May 7, 2008

Goodbye to All That (Burma 3)

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(( According to world news, a bad cyclone hit Myanmar several days ago--weather is one thing the generals can't control--with over a hun...
Saturday, May 3, 2008

Mixed Up in Myanmar (2)

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(( Last post ended with me heading for the train to Northern Burma, speculating that the ride on wooden seats "should be interesting ....
Monday, April 28, 2008

On the Road to Mandalay

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(( On the premise that not many people have ever managed to visit Myanmar/Burma, I'm returning to my 1986-87 journal to recount some adv...
Wednesday, April 23, 2008

Things Are Looking Up

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Humans are always looking up--to the Heavens, to constellations and particular stars, to mountains in the distance, to birds and leaves over...
Thursday, April 17, 2008

I Get the Full Treatment

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As a freelance writer with an interest in film, I spent a pretty fruitless decade (late Sixties to late Seventies) trying to sell to Hollywo...
Sunday, April 13, 2008

Ban Microsoft!

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A temporary message while I scramble... Microsoft oh-so-generously sent me some sort of upgrade the other day, which I attempted to stall of...
Sunday, April 6, 2008

The O'Day Conspiracy

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Writing recently about my brief foray into deejaying (radio, that is, not hip-hop) reminded me about the odd experiences I had with a disc j...
Monday, March 31, 2008

The True Love

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Sandie and I recently celebrated our twentieth anniversary (the years go by, don't they). She craves wooden boats and sailing, and I...
Tuesday, March 25, 2008

Broadcasting the Blues

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I was listening to the radio the other evening, Western Washington's hugely popular Jazz station KPLU (broadcast to the world via the In...