Cambridge Encyclopedia, Volume 37

This evening I took a little time off from the incredible stresses we’re under right now — moving, it seems, is never pleasant for the human animal, other species migrate naturally without complaining about it, but then when did you ever see a polar bear move a sectional sofa? He would be singing a different [...]

A Room Haunted by Cold Coffee

March 12, 2010. I have now officially been striding upon the narrow world for a half-century. On the eve of my fifty-first birthday, I’m entering my seventh day of a mean norovirus infection, which I confirmed with the Clark County Health Department last Tuesday; it appears that I’m now at the retreat phase of the viral infection’s evil invasion [...]

Snow in Las Vegas

As of 3:20 pm this afterneoon, the heavy rain in Summerlin has changed to snow.

Reconstructing Bukowski

I was watching the Joy Behar Show on CNN Headline News this bone-chilling winter evening. The local weather report break tells me that we might get down to freezing temperatures here in Summerlin overnight; a storm front is coming in from … Bakersfield, California. Sometimes we get cold Arctic blasts from Idaho in the winter. I’m too accustomed [...]

Red Rock Update

Well … I received a copy of Fitzgerald’s Tender is the Night (Penguin Classics Edition) in the mail from Old Mack today, as well as a copy of John O’Brien’s Better about a week ago, the latter of which I must shelve temporarily in deference to professional reading; Random Tender quote: It was fun spending money [...]