Town And Country

Add a foot of snow and replace the romantic old Americana buildings in the video with chain stores and food depots and aluminum siding clad houses and you've got a lot of my town tonight. Found this on youtube last night while shunting around looking for tunes to make my brother learn on guitar by…

Anyway

Let's see. We've had our substantial snow. Substantial. It seemed sudden. I moved enough topsoil in those last "bald headed days in November before the first snowflakes sailed" that the snow settled as impediment to a timorous ninety point turn in the driveway, which is the size of a church parking lot and holds one…

Blue Hotel

I just rose into the visions of the village idiot this morning like I'd never been away. The ice of the night had burst a pipe and the water was up to that first little wooden step in the basement. I followed him down the glistening street into the diner where I learned from eavesdropping…