Not everyone agrees with me, and I’m cool with that. Here’s what people on amazon.com had to say about some of my favorite novels. 1. Ironweed by William Kennedy “WHAT A WASTE OF MY TIME! I had to read Ironweed. I admit that the beginning was horribly slow, but I had faith that things would pick […]
It seems that there is never enough time to do all the reading I want to do. That’s why, whenever I am faced with any meaningful amount of time away from teaching, I grab a handful of books and get at it. Below is the second installment in my “Time Enough At Last” series, in […]
My sister-in-law found an old roll of film that belonged to me, and suggested I get it developed. Here are the results. We took these pictures on May 2, 2003. I remember this time well, as this was one week before Renee and I got married; you might remember it as the day that we […]
This year, I’m thankful for Miley Cyrus I didn’t really know “Party in the USA” until recently, when my students and I were passing around a guitar and one of them asked if I could play it. A quick google search turned up some (incorrect) chords, I pulled up the video on youtube, and we […]
This is Vanya, who ran away from home three weeks ago. We tried and tried to find her, but eventually gave up hope that we’d ever see her again. And then, this morning, she came home. Vanya is seven years old, and for the last few months she’s been living with my parents while my […]
This weekend I played another show with the Perfect Vessels at the Buccaneer. I used to frequent The Buccaneer when I was a student at Rhodes. There was nothing like checking out of a sunny Memphis afternoon for a vinyl barstool in this darkest of dark bars. Entering the Buccaneer during the day was sort […]
I had to give my students a crash-course in Edgar Allan Poe, so I dug up some old pictures of Ed and me. At Poe’s grave, 1999 Here I am at Edgar Allan Poe’s gravesite at the Westminster Burying Grounds. I lived in Baltimore for a year, in a rented rowhouse just a few miles […]
I played the Rock ‘N Romp with The Perfect Vessels this weekend. Judging by the response of the under-three set, it was a huge success. The Perfect Vessels’ smallest fans. A Rock ‘N Romp is a combination rock and roll show and kiddie party. We have one every month here in Memphis, and they are […]
Some subjects just lend themselves to poetry perfectly. There are many great poems about sex. There are many great poems about World War I. There are many great poems about baseball. The World Series ended just a few days ago, but I’m already missing baseball. This morning, on the way to work, my iPod dialed up […]