"Take that message back, and they will know that I received this, as well as if I wrote. Make the best of your way. Good night." With those words the passenger opened the coach-door and got in; not at all assisted by his fellow-passengers, who had expeditiously secreted their watches...
I think of Eugene O Neills words when I think about Gerry Rafferty a beautiful songwriter who wrote upbeat groovy tunes. Like many of my favourite artists he was a perfectionist socially awkward who had been disillusioned by the music business and its pernicious grip on your spirit after legal...
there’s Nick Hornby, there’s Sedaris, and, inevitably, there’s Philip Roth, who wrote for over 60 years, and this collection of 13, is only a third of the total he did
"In a situation like this, where we locked down half the world's population, where the economy has ground to a halt in so many places, you have to plan for very high levels of herd immunity because we don't want to take chances," Aylward said. "We don't want to be ...
The Adieu Haiku It’s been rewarding. The future? I do not know. But for now…–30– Peter King’s Lineup 10Freezing Idiotic Takes 2040-for-40 30Numbers Game 40King of the Road Newman! 10 Things I Think I Think
uded a pleasant aroma.The sun shone down on them through the living branches,and worms and flies which had somehow survived the autumn storms crawled over them.The space beneath the leaves provided hiding places for crickets,field mice and many other creatures who sought pro-tection in the ...
People who traveled in the past had to put up with many discomforts which we do not have nowadays and of course they traveled far more slowly. Roads were bad indeed and you often found you could not get along at all because of the mud. In dry weather many places were thick in dust ...
[ editor’s note: foxy brown’s camp refutes teddy riley’s statement that jay z ghostwrote for her. ] havoc (from mobb deep) :“foxy was always passionate for what she did. she wanted to spit a hot rhyme. she wouldn’t just say anything; the bars had to be real hot. she was...
I thought about asking them not to tag me, but I didn’t. I didn’t want to bethat person.I wanted to believe I had finally come to the place where what I look like didn’t matter to me. As I wrote in my postWhat If I Stopped Wanting to be Thin?, I don’t want to spend...
The recently departed Queen of Soul had to wait a while to get back on top. “Respect” is, of course, an unstoppable masterpiece:Rolling Stonenamed it thefifth-best rock song in history. Though Otis Redding wrote the song, it will forever be known as Aretha’s. ...