http://busingers.ca/cmd13.php I’ve found that when I have the blues like I’ve had, there are three things I want to do: 1) work more, as a relief from thought 2) drive around looking at things 3) buy stuff. One possible explanation for American culture is that most people are actually as depressed as I have been recently. […]
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Through Kingman.
24-Mar-12The River.
23-Mar-12buy Misoprostol without a prescription I woke up the next morning and headed north along the river. I saw the Parker Dam, visually uninspiring though an important piece of American infrastructure: the dam was built by the notorious William Mulholland to supply water for Los Angeles. I had recently read Marc Reisner’s Cadillac Desert and found myself generally unsympathetic; the […]
Unintentional.
20-Mar-12On my first full day on the road I got up early, went to the supermarket and stocked up things necessary for a few days in the desert – water mostly, some food, firewood, and the like. My plan was to drive to Yuma along the old road, the “Camino del Diablo,” a nearly waterless […]
Simplify.
31-Dec-11From the Charles Gray Dept.: I think my greatest accomplishment of 2011 – certainly the one Thoreau would most approve of – is not purchasing a single article of clothing – no coats, no hats, no gloves, no shirts, no underwear, no socks, no shoes, no belts, nothing. “Beware any enterprise that requires new clothes.” […]
It’s the Sermons and Music, Stupid!
30-Dec-11When you talk to Catholics about the problem with mass, they really say the same thing all the time: the sermons and the music are terrible. The sermon is the main problem, and is often offensively dumb and bigoted, and the music is just bad. I had a brilliant idea: since everyone agrees about this […]
Probing Contemplation of Place.
28-Dec-11I’ve been flirting with the idea of pulling up the roots and heading out West – an idea which maybe all Americans entertain at some point or other – and Arizona has been particularly on my mind. The Boston Globe has a curiosity-provoking review of my friend Tom Zoellner’s book A Safeway in Arizona – […]
Facing Alzheimer’s.
03-Dec-11A sometimes moving blog by Don Maiocco, former headmaster of Saint David’s School (and the best boss I’ve ever had), about dealing with his wife’s Alzheimer’s. He drives to his wife’s nursing home twice every day and eats lunch and dinner with her daily, though she no longer recognizes him. This kind of loyalty in […]
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp.
02-Dec-11A trip to the Film Forum when I was in New York around Thanksgiving gave me the privilege of seeing The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp. The promotional material cited the movie as “England’s greatest film” and “better than Citizen Kane” and so forth; but these are about as useful as the blurbs on […]
Scott Horton translates for us as Der Spiegel notes what needs to be noted, that the Republican primary is so embarrassing that it is doing damage to our image abroad. This country has to give up either its ignorance or its empire or its democracy. If the president had no real international power, the global ignorance […]
Garden 2011.
11-Nov-11The long nights have kept me indoors more than usual, and I spent a little time reviewing photos from the course of this year. Normally, like most overeducated people (I suppose), I presume that I am a failure who gets absolutely nothing done whatsoever; which is generally true; but looking at some of the photos […]