Heaven's Good
I live in the lap of luxury. No kidding, I do. Started about six years ago when the first man I chose (versus who chose me) decided that he didn’t want my love. When I plunged into the murky dank …
A San Diego Christmas
With marmalade swirled salmon colored leaves clinging to grey branches against the cobalt sky and grass rendered florescent by winter rains come early, there isn’t another place in the continental US I’d rather be at Christmas time. In a t-shirt …
THE CRITICAL RECEPTION OF GABRIEL CONROY (III)
Unfortunately, most critics of Gabriel Conroy dismissed the novel outright, as O’Brien indicates while paraphrasing some. It should be noted, however, that timed with the novel’s appearance, in December, 1875, in Scribner’s Miscellany, a supplement to Scribner’s Monthly, there appeared …
Rising from the Trenches with San Diego's Urban Corps
"I had time on my hands," the young man said with bowed head. I nodded in comprehension. As I watched him running paint speckled hands through his cropped hair, I thought of the long haired Lakota-Shoshone brothers I had met …
Free, Unsolicited Advice for Dean Spanos
Video of Nero at House of Blues
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3ZouLmgKVc Nero's opening at the House of Blues in downtown San Diego on Tuesday, December 27th 2011. Presented by Amplified Access. Video courtesy of EclipsEvents.com and DJFlo.com.
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i feel pain more than that of my own seated on the bus i witness lines on faces stories strain of lives lived news of the day images far away burdens of many felt close to home what can i …
A weird one
I sort of lost track of time a while ago. It happened when I was simply walking around down town San Diego. I've always enjoyed people watching. It gives me the opportunity to excersise my brain by trying to figure …
A Kid and a Horse at Christmas
just a little gift...a carrot for my mare...with the crispy chill of Christmas hanging in the air that hound is bold but worthy too of scraps cut from our Ham...the fat will make his coat shine so bright....like only ornaments …
December 23, 2011
So I'm waiting to be picked up outside my office in the midway district by a man I met with his girlfriend a few years ago at rancho la puerta in tecate, so we can head for the airport to …
walls
my walk on the pier straight line beginning to end sometimes able to let me and my mind bend stop stare wonder 'bout down there up here today's sun shattered mirrors by the thousands floating upon the sea blinding me …
just the way it was
players pretenders excons just where they go scoundrels cheaters looking for a place to heal feel not here to play checkers home wreckers my friends all dark stark shiny slimy my home broken problems to bury hide put aside sidestep …
santa banter
santa banter stories and songs abound all around of old saint nick same trick on time every year somehow, sliding down all those chimneys brick by brick and i will be waiting by the tree with a beer just one …
How The Maccabee’s Saved Christmas
Every year between the end of November and the end of December, Jewish people around the world celebrate the holiday of Chanukah, the Festival of Lights. Chanukah begins on the 25th day of the Hebrew month of Kislev, but the …
THE CRITICAL RECEPTION OF GABRIEL CONROY (II)
Harte also wrote creatively and successfully in forms other than the short story. These non-short story works include several volumes of good poetry, some literary theory (e.g., “The Rise of the Short Story,” “American Humor”), over ten plays (most of …
Ted, Please Beat Your Wife More Quietly
This could have been any day here in Baja, really, but it wasn’t. It was on a Friday night. My grandson was coming over, all 27 pounds of him. He’s the only beast that still scares the crap out of …
Swallowing Memories
THE CRITICAL RECEPTION OF GABRIEL CONROY (I)
Bret Harte’s Gabriel Conroy, from a historical point of view, was, in fact, the first representative Californian novel. In Gabriel Conroy, as well as in Harte’s stories and poems, California resembles a new land, as well as an old one, …
Charlie the Unicorn
Charlie gets annoyed: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TuPVlhDZSmY&feature=related