From the Edge/Bill Dixon
The apartment looked like a bomb had just gone off. There was a grubby mattress on the floor, open boxes of food scattered around, dirty clothes, empty bottles and cans, dirty dishes, junk and bags of...
View ArticleBill Dixon/From the Edge
I overheard neighborhood adults say that he’d not gotten tenure, that his wife was mentally ill, that his department had been cut back, and a lot of other things. I don’t have any real facts to go on,...
View ArticleCasual Observer/Mark Levy
* * * Nap Time by Mark Levy At the risk of putting you to sleep faster than my essays usually do, I’m going to discuss naps, those precious intervals of sleep during the day favored by the very young...
View ArticleNow and Then/Steve Poleskie
“I was living in New York City, in a loft on Jefferson Street,” I began. “At the time I was a poor, struggling artist and couldn’t afford a telephone. I used to go down to the bar on the ground floor...
View ArticleCasual Observer/Mark Levy
Success is based not only on an extraordinary ability to create a plot, or develop characters, or produce conflict, or rewrite a piece over and over and over, as I used to suspect, but merely on...
View ArticleGalanty Miller/Retweets
My son is allergic to peanuts. So during family meals, he has to leave./ I hope I never become famous because I hate my fans./ Enjoy this tweet, but take some time to think about the millions of...
View ArticleNow and Then/Steve Poleskie
The power of the severe gusts had forced the nose of the airplane to a steep angle. The Lycoming 0-320 engines that drove my Piper Apache were equipped with carburetors, rather than fuel injectors, so...
View ArticleOn Location/France
With “support-/surface” Vialat invented the disappearance of the frame and provoked crisis in the apprehension of the material delimitations of painting. This stratagem transposed to the scale of a...
View ArticleFrom the Edge/Bill Dixon
I should introduce the honored guests. Ted is Canadian, in Key West for his annual vacation. He is a warbler by trade, roughly the size of a standard cosmetic cotton ball, and interprets my morning...
View ArticleJim Palombo/Politics
No doubt, war is stupid. And I am not a fan of it in any way. But it seems to be an outgrowth of the stupid part of human nature - nothing less than history has shown us that. In the name of God and...
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