Storytelling.
Don’t tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass. —Anton Chekhov (1860-1904)
Month: January 2022
Hell’s Kitchen, NYC
Jacob Riis photo of Bandits’ Roost (1890) Old neighborhoods, like old people, have strong personalities. And they are feisty as Hell. The […]
Redux: “All hat, no cattle…”
Everyone in your shop has to buy into CS like a cult, like a religion–like an angry sermon that lifted them out […]
Villon.
Que beaultè ot trop plus qu’humaine. Mais ou sont les neiges d’antan? —François Villon (1431-1463) Poet, Drifter, Dreamer, Thief.
Henry Miller’s Heir.
Half the people you meet live from one day to the next in a state of such fear and uncertainty that about […]
Real Heroes: Parker Posey
They’re picking up prisoners and putting ’em in a pen. And all she wants to do is dance. –Danny Kortchmar/WB Music Corp. […]
Proust: To those that make us grow.
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom. — Marcel […]
