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“Urban Growth”

“Ahoy, Baltimore…!!”

Is it a guy thing to find favor in houses and businesses that look nautical? Or maybe it’s just a Bligh thing (rim-shot)! Wait, can we even ask anymore if something is a “guy thing”?? In any case, it seems more and more buildings these days look like ships and that ships are now shapedContinue reading ““Ahoy, Baltimore…!!””

“Looking Up”

“Like You F*cking Mean It!”

When the tone lands right, and the beat locks tight, It fans out, out, out With a storm-rush feeling So get up, get up Jump out of dead feet Loom large and alive and Then dance, dance, dance Like you fucking mean it!

“Glass Mask”

“Hocus Focus”

Lens flare (or sunspots, here simulated by a close-up iPhone shot of a multicolored stone coaster) can be so evocative of late 60’s and early 70’s media. It says to me “I’d Like to Teach the World to Sing” by the New Seekers (1971) or “The Swimmer” with Burt Lancaster (1968). A fun parody musicContinue reading ““Hocus Focus””

“Finger Nail”

There seems to be some uncertainty over who precisely invented the nail gun. But recently Biblical scholars point to an anecdote from the latter pages of the New Testament that sheds light on its origins. We pick up the story at Golgotha (Aramaic for “skull”), aka Calvary, the dome-shaped hill outside Jerusalem. Three men areContinue reading ““Finger Nail””

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“Looking Up”

After the Customs Service vacated the building in 1983, it served several other federal agencies, including the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. It’s now an apartment building. But on closer inspection, particularly eyeing the formidable black eagle above the entrance, one can imagine certain cinematic uses, such as a filming backdrop for “The Man inContinue reading ““Looking Up””

Potent Quotables:

“Old friends cannot be created out of hand. Nothing can match the treasure of common memories, of trials endured together, of quarrels and reconciliations and generous emotions. It is idle, having planted an acorn in the morning, to expect that afternoon to sit in the shade of the oak… One by one, our comrades slipContinue reading “Potent Quotables:”