I am in here.
Memories come flooding back, over the 30 intervening years, more than at any other reunion time. Perhaps it’s safe for them now. My intense need for poetry, for words. My absorption (the only word for it) of any poetry I came across, from cummings to Eliot, whom I was assured was too advanced for me. … Continue reading Memory
This is one trip by a blogger that beats my afternoon last October in Bethlehem.. helidetAnother awesome day in Iraq. We visited the Royal Dutch Airforce, who are stationed in Talill along with 6000 us troops. Their primary mission is medivac. Too late to blog it all tonite, but I really want to thank the … Continue reading Iraq trip
I idly pay a small fraction of my attention to tonight’s “Angel” episode – something about a Nazi sub during WWII (how early did that term originate: “WWII”? before the end of the war, even?). And I think, these are the descendands of Homer and the Odyssey. “Eeeeeeek!” you say. Or something more forceful yet … Continue reading Angel and stories
Currently watching The X from Outer Space on satellite, and wondering just how many times Tokyo was cinematically destroyed in the 1950’s. If possible, this movie has even worse special effects than the Gojira (Godzilla) ones. The token Americans are played by the same actors as in some of the Godzilla movies. One thing that … Continue reading Movies tonight
white pebble 