As you may or may not know, I paint one side of my house each summer. This has been going on for 20 or 25 years; I think I’ve worked my way around the house 6 times. The painting ritual is timed to begin with the opening of the Tour de France, allowing me to […] More >>
Archives for July 2018
Hen Ship
Sunny days, cool evenings. It’s been a classic July and I’ve been engaged in my classic July pastimes – painting the house, riding my bike around, working in the garden, and watching the Tour de France. Inevitably this idyll gets disrupted by one thing or another. Perhaps it’s the unannounced appearance of a distant relative, […] More >>
How I Spent My Sunday
Top Finishers: 23MBIKE Place Male Finisher Age Gun Time Diff 1 JOHN MOORE 37 1:13:05.4 +:00 / +:00 2 ILYA SHESTOPALOV 37 1:13:06.3 +:02 / +:02 3 CHARLES GOLUB 37 1:13:13.3 +:02 / +:04 4 GREG GIBSON 73 1:13:38.4 +:18 / +:22 5 MICHAEL AHERN 51 1:17:53.0 + 4:16 / + 4:38 6 DAVID SURETTE […] More >>
Anyone’s Right to Sex or, Notes Toward the Development of Survivor Theory
I have a pamphlet tacked to my wall called Eldridge Cleaver: At Exile’s End. On the cover of this pamphlet is a black and white photograph of Cleaver regarding the viewer with his usual, hard, knowing, slightly paranoid gaze, as if to say, “You’re not putting one over on me, Whitey.” His arms encircle the […] More >>
Writer’s Camp
Back here in my shack until July 9, and so distracted that I forgot to post this week’s blog. I think it was supposed to be about some interesting items I have in Maritime List 261, which is prepared for publication upon my return. Oh, it’s gonna be a GOOD catalog! But now it’s all […] More >>