September 2011
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Thank You, R.E.M.
They weren’t my first favorite band—that honor goes to Queen, and next, the Police—but R.E.M. certainly had the biggest impact on me, from high school into adulthood. How did I find out about them? Rolling Stone magazine, probably. I know I bought the second album, Reckoning, first. I was 15 years old and music was […]
Found Poetry: Mead Composition Notebook
This has been printed on the inside back cover of the 100-sheet Mead composition notebook since at least 1994. I only noticed it recently. CORRECT I am / You are I am not / You are not I have to I have seen / I saw I have done / I did
September Remembered
I don’t get into work real early. I used to, in the early ’90s I guess, but it wasn’t really in my true nature. Anyway, that’s why I wasn’t yet in Manhattan when the towers were struck on September 11, 2001. I was all ready to go in. Showered, shaved. In the mornings I listen […]
Technical Difficulties
I’ve watched at least a little bit of the MDA Labor Day Telethon every year since I was a kid, and donated every year for almost as long. This was all due to a fascination with Jerry Lewis and the schlocky side of Hollywood. This year, which was to be Lewis’s final appearance, he will […]
Jack Silbert, curator