A week ago, my little brother sent me a link to Lee Moses’s time and place. “I’m not big on downloading boots,” I said. He said something like, this record is impossible to find and it’s impossible not to love. He also said the reissue was so limited it’s impossible to find, too, and what’s […]

Poet Harold Norse in his apratment kitchen, 157 Albion Street, San Francisco, May 23.

Wilco is streaming their new record called Wilco. You can listen to it right now…which I’d highly recommend. I got hip to Wilco right about the time Being There was released. This was ’97, I think. I was in grad school, living in San Fransisco…and writing a whole bunch. I was living in a tiny […]

April whizzed by and me — without a blog entry for the month. Can I make some time in May for anything synaesthesia? I did make it to the LA Festival of Books. It was great. I went two days in a row, cause I needed that much time to check it all out. Plus, […]

It ain’t really all that it’s cracked up to be…at least not weather wise. Cold and rainy and cold and windy, but hey, it’s Paris, and I’m OK with that. Mainly cause it keeps the vast majority of tourists out of here for another few weeks, which meant I only spent 10 minutes (or so) […]

Since emerging from my hiatus, I just learned Larry Hyde passed away. I found out about Larry’s passing from this PBA Gallery auction…not the best way to learn of a friend’s passing, but what is? I never met the man face-to-face, but we maintained a correspondence. His letters of encouragement and his praise of my […]