How To Park in Florida
This is how you park your car in Florida when you either don't care about the consequences or you have more insurance than those around you. Anyone remember the parking…
Man of the House
A poem by Bob Hicok, from The Legend of Light Man of the House It was a misunderstanding. I got into bed, made love with the woman I found there,…
Haunted by a Yellow Landscape
I'm haunted by a yellow landscape that shows a cornfield in France, with a windmill close to the horizon. The time must be late in the afternoon on a late…
Unreliable
I found the above note on a signup sheet from the previous students in the design studio suite on the third floor (north-east side) of the College of Design at…
Constructing Nature
While walking across the campus of a small midwestern university, I noticed this sign which made me think about the nature of nature: lawns are no longer grown but constructed.…
That’s Only the Top
Harry Belafonte recalls telling a joke to Robert Altman: Early in our relationship, I told a joke and it became the metaphor for everything in our lives. These two musicians decided…
The Pope, Osama, and I
So, I’m cruising in this skinny and thin-skinned aluminium tube at 35000 feet, going approximately 500 mph on my way back to the United States from Rome on May 1,…
Crossroads
Al Giardello, better known as Gee, commander of the Homicide unit in the TV series Homicide: Life in the Streets, Season 3, Number 4: Crosetti, gave a brief monologue in response to…
File under New Yorker Magazine
I noticed this little filler at the bottom of page 85 in the New Yorker from October 5, 2009, and I had to laugh, hard, remembering both the Python’s The Life of Brian (“Blessed…
Fiat Lux
When the German polymath Johann Wolfgang von Goethe lay dying just before he disappeared forever, he was supposed to have said: "Mehr Licht!" which translates as 'more light', and I'm…