Category Archives: New York

Snow-shoveling

Snow day…

Time for a pilgrimage.

Around here.

The following three bands are the most successful to come out of the area around my home town, which I think has a lot to say if you look at it from the perspective of “this was our cultural heyday.” Blue Öyster Cult – Don’t … Read More

Not that I’d vote for Kirsten Gillibrand in any case.

The Colbert Report Mon – Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c

This is all I can summon.

"Then summer fades and passes and October comes. We'll smell smoke then, and feel an unexpected sharpness, a thrill of nervousness, swift elation, a sense of sadness and departure." - Thomas Wolfe

Barn

Blood on the blade.

“My barn, having burned to the ground, I can now see the moon” – Chinese proverb.

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Just down the road.

A pleasant old dirt road that drops 1400 feet in elevation in just under a half a mile.

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I went to the hills because I had no choice but to live fortuitously, to usurp the essential facts of life, and see if I could not unlearn all that I had been taught . . .

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Moravian Transcendentalism

Finally got tired of the Ted Kennedy brouhaha, turned off the teevee, shut down the computer, and went down to the library . . .

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Looking out my back door, Part II.

Looking out to the North.