Yvonne Shafer, a professor of mine at Ohio State (I know, I should say THE Ohio State University, their official branded name), once likened a decrepit building she saw to the original set for Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman, as designed by Jo Mielziner for the 1941 Broadway premiere. I thought that look wouldContinue reading “Just Add Walls, And Stir”
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Like A Good Neighbor…
What makes a good neighbor? Good neighbors can definitely add to one’s quality of life. For me, this statement is mostly theoretical since, in so many of the places I’ve lived, I wouldn’t have described my neighbors as good. Even when they weren’t bad, so many of them were just annoying, and so my viewContinue reading “Like A Good Neighbor…”
No Place Like Home?
What do you love about where you live? Recently I was renewing my clearances—those hoops we need to jump through in Pennsylvania after the antics of Sandusky, Paterno, et al at Penn State made everyone who works with children a pedophile until proven innocent. One of the requirements on the forms is to list allContinue reading “No Place Like Home?”
Band T-shirts
What’s the oldest things you’re wearing today? A few years ago I heard an interview of Steven Wilson of the band Porcupine Tree talking about their new release, “The Incident.” I checked it out and immediately became not only a fan of that band, but a fanatic about progressive rock music. As it turns outContinue reading “Band T-shirts”
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