Sonny Rollins, Max Roach, Thelonious Monk, Miles Davis, and Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers

Killing time or making use of time. Not sure. Here’s four shopped photos of a few cats from around town. [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2je_TvW549E&w=420&h=315]

76 Years Later: New Yorker Releases Rejected Piece by F. Scott Fitzgerald

The New Yorker recently released an unpublished short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald (read it here). The author, best known for The Great Gatsby, wrote the story in 1936—somewhere between 75 to 76 years ago. Titled “Thank You For The Light,” The New Yorker actually rejected the piece, stating at the time in an internal…

About Nothing In Particular

Just a quote from George Harrison that makes me think. “You can be standing right in front of the truth and not necessarily see it, and people only get it when they’re ready to get it.”

Facebook: You Can’t Run and You Can’t Hide From It

Dear Mark Zuckerberg, Over the past several years that we have been associated with one another, my feelings toward your little company, Facebook, have gone from the top of the emotional scale—loving—all the way to the bottom—loathing. What started out, seemingly, as a beautiful concept that would enable people to stay connected and to reconnect,…

Proof that I Am Decaying

According to a 2009 report from the Center For Disease Control and Prevention, the average life expectancy of an American is 78.5 years. My great grandparents on my mother’s side lived into their 90s while my grandparents on my dad’s side ventured into the next phase in their mid-70s. Additional negative, consequential factors to consider:…

The Books of My Summer

Riding on the coattail of Holly over at thenextcloud blog that recently made the WP front page, I thought I might share some of my-intend-to-reads of the summer. My to-read list is not an actual list. It is actually a disheveled stack of Amazon and thrift shop bargains that my wife wants me to get through, box up,…

The Great Googa Mooga or The Great Wait

Over the weekend, thousands of good men, women, and children were subjected to starvation and dire thirst. This was not the result of natural disaster or nuclear attack. The cruel and unusual punishment came in the disguise of a much-anticipated and -hyped food, booze, and musical festival called The Great Googa Mooga. Riding on the…

The Grave of Harry Houdini – Queens, NY

Lately, the life and death of the famed magician and escape artist, Harry Houdini, has been toying with my imagination. Houdini wasn’t a tall man—outwardly a mere mortal—yet he captivated world audiences with death-defying stunts and impossible escapes. Generations of magicians since give a quick and natural nod of appreciation and reverence when his name…

Shorts #2 (solipsism)

solipsism—my deepest fear pulling me further away from shore through rip current of uncertainty mirages I’d rather ignore ropes of the ship’s mast tied and bound tightly nothing can be undone yet, so is love—highly unlikely (note to myself: redo, add more because this is what you get when 10 minutes are all that are…

Shorts #1

birds walk a fine line balancing on tightropes that hang from the sky ——————– lying in dreams awake he calls for names not there of faces once opaque that scatter with the light of another new morning ———————— an eternity spent at sea blown away by one day’s breeze