Fifty-seven years after that song was popular, I’m now worrying about growing grass on my front lawn. I can’t believe it. How bourgeoisie of me. How anti-environmental. I’m not coveting a golf course lawn, just something that’s not mostly brown dirt, something that’s mostly green...
23May2000:Finding Forrester-Scent of a Womanesquemovie with Sean Connery (Forrester), Rob Brown (Jamal). Young black genius receives very high Quality mentoring from an unlikely recluse. Forrester shows Jamal techniques for tapping an author's 'reserve energy' as he thinks professional authors sho...
I love Greg Ruth’s artwork in that book. He’s pretty spectacular and has a new graphic novel out,The Lost Boy. A staggering talent and a nice guy, too. There is also a sequel out,A Pirate’s Guide to Recess. It expands on the boy — Greg and I call him “Red” — and his...
He passed, dallying, the windows of Brown Thomas, silk mercers. Cascades of ribbons. Flimsy China silks. A tilted urn poured from its mouth a flood of bloodhued poplin: lustrous blood. The huguenots brought that here. LA CAUSA E SANTA! Tara Tara. Great chorus that. Taree tara. Must b...
Good work. I don’t recall questioning it at the time. But times do change, and many things do get better, even though it doesn’t always feel that way. Even so, this concept of what an astronaut looks like had been planted deep inside my brain. It just . . .was. Then one day...
Instead,Jesus Is Kingis a showcase for his Sunday Service choir, but also Roden Crater. The two make a potent combo: a top-notch gospel choir, dressed in loose brown outfits, singing, testifying and praising in these wide, round rooms cut with gaping skylights. ...