PinnedNew Bar on Main StreetThere’s a new bar in my Tokyo neighborhood with a curious, three-part theme: Nazism/Satanism/German beer.Jul 12, 2024Jul 12, 2024
PinnedWild men who caught and sang the sun in flight and learn, too late, they grieved it on its wayI read Orwell’s Down and Out in Paris and London a few years ago and there was no way not to picture Anthony Bourdain as the narrator…Jun 8, 2018Jun 8, 2018
Walking Through the Woods the Poet Charles Simic Discusses Henry David Thoreau With his Dog(A bird chirps from a tree branch. Another responds with a similar sound from a branch in a similar tree)Jan 10, 2023Jan 10, 2023
BOTTLE OF WHITEOenophilia, from the Greek, is the love (philia) of wine (oinos). I have other philias but none more elegant and most unsafe for work.Jun 20, 2020Jun 20, 2020
SylviaIt is also a picture of one of the greatest poets of the twentieth century who would soon put her head in an oven.Oct 28, 2019A response icon1Oct 28, 2019A response icon1