Local trees

exploring the sound world of guitarist Robbie Basho, a Baltimore contemporary of John Fahey who recorded for Fahey's Takoma Records, but whose eerie sound jettisoned Fahey's blues roots for eastern modes...

more here...

a long radio Interview

Elvis Presley Galore!!!!

The Ballad of the Man in the White Lunch

Former site of
the last lumpless oatmeal
east of the Occident

lodge toast & oleo
curled into a cone
& softened with tea

reach through the bars
of the nectarine crate
giant white man dread

brushes blood from the marble
passes the HP sauce bottle tower
spears his bouletten with a pin

smoked oysters toothpicked
on the Greyhound to Terrace thus
between the institution

& the raw end of the polisher
in November of '77
threescore & ten got you a hot tap

a heater, a prayer-blanket
of sky & all the fortune cookies
you could eat vitamins

a cubic yard of steam inhaled
pivoting from the sprouts
in the lobby a labyrinth b & w

Electrohome dispensing
afterschool Dark Shadows, Funorama,
The Kissing Man, Edge of Sleep...




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ESPN's Chris Berman Caught On Camera Talking About Smuggling Canadian Codeine

reminds me of the "breakfast special" I invented many years ago--2 eggs, 2 sausage or bacon, 2 pieces of toast, 2 cups of coffee & 2 222''s, for $2.22...

Michael Scharf's Delhi Daybook...

The Ballad of the Man in the White Spot

To create a catchment for the blood
separate the lead from the egg
strain the salt through the mud
sop the gravy with a heel you've begged

Spring & we're still inhaling ornaments
Value Village tight with easter grails & pails
pulling tinsel through our fundaments
flossing with electric eels

This biscuit tastes of creosote
its a stratigraphic morsel
a puck in a vice on rice is nice
for packing plaster on the torso

Work it with a bent skate key
while acknowledging the math
let's sift this stretch of crumb tray beach
as if our habits formed a path

Then its "later..." like the kids say
trailing off on ceramic shins
over links, tussocks & old-style curbs
using their hands as fins

The Box

"The container made shipping cheap, and by doing so changed the shape of the world economy. The armies of ill-paid, ill-treated workers who once made their livings loading and unloading ships in every port are no more, their tight-knit waterfront communities now just memories. Cities that had been centers of maritime commerce for centuries, such as New York and Liverpool, saw their waterfronts decline with startling speed, unsuited to the container trade or simply unneeded, and the manufacturers that endured high costs and antiquated urban plants in order to be near their suppliers and their customers have long since moved away. Venerable ship lines with century-old pedigrees were crushed by the enormous cost of adapting to container shipping. Merchant mariners, who had shipped out to see the world, had their traditional days-long shore leave in exotic harbors replaced by a few hours ashore at a remote parking lot for containers, their vessel ready to weigh anchor the instant the high-speed cranes finished putting huge metal boxes off and on the ship..."

farewell Roy Scheider most famous for "Jaws" though fine in many many films including big Mosses favorite Sorcerer

YouTube - Sorcerer (1977) original theatrical trailer

watch Roy hoof & sing through YouTube - Bye Bye Life - "All That Jazz" 1979

vis mefi this splendid, well organised Cult Movie Theater

Ladysmith trees

The Wire (cont.)



Thirty-four crocuses
in a bright square yard underneath Toilet Hill

a year & ten days ago means
its not just me sleeping all day this Feb.

except for the inter-urban sparrow-squirrel
standoff in the walnut's big triple fork

location location location
but only for about five seconds

the sparrows puffed up double
like officials in raincoats

I didn't say that no but really
no saunter or easy back-away

in either being though not much
endless hand-shaking malice either

but they really do look like people
or else why even speculate

let alone shake hands with 'em
eat their flesh or honey

dress them in uniforms
fight them for money

the boundary issue
is not the territory

a pocket atlas ends all speculation
a series of pale dashes marks the Parkway---

today's YouTube - Christopher Walken - Let's Misbehave

(the whole of Herbert Ross' rather underrated adaptation of Dennis Potter's "Pennies from Heaven" is on TCM tonight at 2245...)

bonus: YouTube - The Raven: Read by Christopher Walken

The Pelican Project

via Anodyne

The Ballad of the Man in the White Castle

The man in the high chair
is a critter sitter of the first order
granitic tics brush mercury hair
he folds his paper over & over

He reads with pleasure that the young
can trace their liminal state
to those distant peasant barbecues
that did not spare the great--

With unity & impunity sundered at the root
& goofs spared neither rod nor boot
the bearshit continues, deep & crisp & even
though the Lemon Hart contains no lemon

& of the Great & Good
there once was a Great Many
their shuttered doors & buckled floors
their moral miscellany--

CAN I HAZ A WITNESS TUESDAY
sd Miranda the original decider--
The Man in the White Castle
peels back paper from his slider

Corrugated as the fries he stuffs
as with deranged analgesia he puffs
a Zeppelinish tabloid in his fist
& on the board there is a list

The bus flew over the river
The bus flew over the river
Corduroy over the river
Corduroy over the river

For zombies swing a Pulaski axe
it's the standard global chopper
& if you have to ask how much
you ain't our kind of shopper

Rattle of Dew in a Coke cup
ice chew till you throw up
when you gonna grow up
stop pretending that you know us

Ride the bus discussion
FOR A HAMBURGER TODAY
phone it in from Vernon
double rainbow off Foul Bay

With nothing but an inset map
a phone voice and a head shot
slowly he peels back the wrap
slowly he peels back the wrap

images of Shanghai from Chinese Historical Postcard Project

Folia--a nice site for gardeners to share information & tall tales & can spring be far behind?