Sunday, February 10, 2013
1973
Thick hair
long sideburns
Future bright but hazy.
Bell bottoms
with low-slung waist
flowered shirts with
big collars and full sleeves.
Sneaking smokes of both kinds,
beer, wine too.
Parties
in the woods
in the car
on the beach.
Summers up late
Tv until High Flight signed off.
Sleep in
Eat whatever you want
it was all bad but
you worked it off.
Phones in this room,
in that room only in the house.
Driving just to drive.
Music sounding tinny
at night you could hear WLS
in and out.
Sitting on the porch
on a swing
talking
listening to Simon and Garfunkel
in the other room
playing same two songs over and over
Her mother yelling, drinking.
Singing to the same two songs
over and over.
When am I going
Where am I going
Why am I going
Do I have to go
What will happen
I'm afraid, sad, angry, confused, hurt.
Life is bad good
about to change
but change is okay
not good bad
just change.
Things work out
but you don't know at the time.
1973.
Monday, November 26, 2012
Friday, November 09, 2012
'The Effect'
I had the pleasure today of interviewing Linda Hoy, author of a terrifically entertaining and thought provoking book called The Effect. The book explains how spirituality and science not only can co-exist, the principles of one can actually help support those of the other.
Ms. Hoy takes readers on a bit of an intellectual roller coaster, exploring issues of life, death, afterlife, time and multiple universes. The ride includes Aboriginal philosophy, research into near-death experiences, quotes from Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland, the art of Salvador Dali, a primer on quantum physics and lessons learned from the movie, Groundhog's Day. It's written in an fun and accessible way that is sensitive to the inevitable questions the topic raises from both the scientific and religious communities.
I'll have much more on this book soon. Stay tuned...
Ms. Hoy takes readers on a bit of an intellectual roller coaster, exploring issues of life, death, afterlife, time and multiple universes. The ride includes Aboriginal philosophy, research into near-death experiences, quotes from Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland, the art of Salvador Dali, a primer on quantum physics and lessons learned from the movie, Groundhog's Day. It's written in an fun and accessible way that is sensitive to the inevitable questions the topic raises from both the scientific and religious communities.
I'll have much more on this book soon. Stay tuned...
Monday, October 29, 2012
Curious choices
I'm at work on a day when one of the worst storms on record is about to come on shore. They're predicting all sorts of doom and destruction. A co-worker was kind enough to bring in two boxes of donuts for those of us who came in early.
In the boxes was an assortment of donuts - glazed, cake, frosted, sprinkled, cream filled. I normally would have passed altogether, but using the far-fetched rationalization that if the storm is as bad as predicted, this could be the last donut I'll ever eat, I took one. But I was very curious about the choice I made for this last-ever donut. It was some sort of weird-colored cake donut. Not one I would have picked if I had gone to the store myself.
Hate to think that I'll spend my last day on earth obsessing on why I picked this particular donut.
In the boxes was an assortment of donuts - glazed, cake, frosted, sprinkled, cream filled. I normally would have passed altogether, but using the far-fetched rationalization that if the storm is as bad as predicted, this could be the last donut I'll ever eat, I took one. But I was very curious about the choice I made for this last-ever donut. It was some sort of weird-colored cake donut. Not one I would have picked if I had gone to the store myself.
Hate to think that I'll spend my last day on earth obsessing on why I picked this particular donut.
Monday, May 21, 2012
View from the Preakness starting gate
My colleague Karl Ferron attached eight small cameras to the Pimlico starting gate on Preakness Day 2012 to capture this extraordinary video.
Friday, April 06, 2012
Sunday, January 29, 2012
Grammarnoir
A collaboration with my colleague and fellow Kentuckian, John McIntyre. He voiced the original "Grammarnoir" scripts that were written starting in 2009 to celebrate the National Grammar Day. I added a little audio sweetening.
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