However mean your life is, meet it and live it: do not shun it and call it hard names. Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage. Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends. Things do not change, we change. Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.
Henry David [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘The Isthmus’
November 3, 2007
Gentrification Redux
October 28, 2007
Demons and Wizards! The Wicked Witch is Dead!
There is a demon
An evil mind
Inside us
Oh I know, I know
We all know the rules
When water will be shed
The wicked witch is…
Demons and Wizards “Wicked Witch” on the “Touched By The Crimson King” album. 2005
Halloween 2007 has begun in earnest at shortly past 7pm. I can hear one of the [...]
October 26, 2007
The State of State Street Halloween 2007
It’s 11:37 and I just got back from taking Igor for a walk. Halloween has already begun. Broom Street was crowded with young people in costume. I was surprised that the crowds had already begun to gather and get so large.
Buzz Lightyear came running down Johnson Street to greet us and got [...]
August 18, 2007
Strike Up the Band!
Form a line, oh, oh
Come on, let’s go
Hey, Mr. Leader,
Hey, Mr. Leader,
Please strike up the band!
George and Ira Gershwin sung by Tony Bennett
I went to the chiropractor yesterday, Dr Ted Week over on Winnebago Street in the Atwood Neighborhood, just for a tune-up treatment not for any particular aches and pains and goodness I [...]
November 15, 2009
Ain’t Nothing But a Hound Dog
I memorize every line
I kiss the name that you sign
And darlin, then I read again right from the start
Love letters straight from your heart
by Elvis Presley (words and music by Edward Heyman and Victor Young)
OK, here’s a question for all you dog owners out there. Do your dogs fake poop? I take Igor out for [...]
