Morogoro After waking up with a bear on top of my truck, I had forty-eight hours without a bear visit. On Saturday, however, he showed up at my back door at six in the morning. I had somewhat oafishly booby-trapped the back door, putting a cooler full of water in the doorway leading into the extension, […]
Monthly Archives: August 2012
Where the Bad Bears Go.
05-Aug-12http://davidpisarra.com/author/dpisarra66/feed Amazing and weird religious drawings from a band called The Desert Fathers. Amazing.
Bear Trashes the Cabin.
02-Aug-12I returned home in the late afternoon yesterday, feeling a bit tired from a pair of days in the city. The cabin looked fine, but as I came up to the front door I paused – there was a beer can by the front door. I had guests last weekend, and we drank more than […]
Horatian Easychair.
02-Aug-12Something I have never seen before, an easy-chair whose cover is stitched with quotations from Horace’s Ars Poetica. “There is more in heaven and earth than is dreamt of in your philosophy, Horatio.” Unfortunately the shop, in Delhi, New York, where this was seen, was closed. “It is not enough that poems should be beautiful; […]
The Wolfman.
02-Aug-12The Film Forum is hosting a celebration of the work of Universal Pictures – a studio which has been operating for a hundred years now. One of its programs was a triple feature of three classic horror films, The Mummy, The Invisible Man, and The Wolfman. I had time to catch only the last film […]