It’s Sunday afternoon, the street is silent: minimal vehicular traffic: not a police siren for hours, and not a voice under my window. It’s SuperBowl Sunday! Amazing it is, that no one needs to do all the usual things. The folk is tucked away in cafes, apartments bars, watching grown men fight to the …
Category Archives: Words
Good Riddance
12 noon on Sunday, 28 December, put all your grievances on cards and bring them to Times Square. There, en masse, shedders will be available for each and everyone to rid themselves of bad memories, thoughts, ideas, anything you can get on the page. I can see a few photographs being ‘no more’. Clear out …
Where Do the Days Go?
It is amazing to find oneself so busy that the time to sit down and write a line about life in the City isn’t there. It can be too many rehearsals, too many social visits, too many scripts to write or as in this evening, enjoying the company of one of the other apartment dwellers. …
Opt-Out of Yellow Pages
Have mentioned previously that I consider the books of telephone numbers —-. Everyone gets more up to date information from the internet. If you wish to opt-out as I did, go to yellowpagesoptout.com. That will stop delivery of future directories.
Long-Bin Chen
This artist also uses stacked paper to make his solid statues. His however do not open Because…. His are made of stacked phone books.
Corrupt
If your email version of this webpage looks unkept and disorganized, it is due to the way, ‘wordpress’ sweeps up the data to send via email. Check back here now and then, for the proper layout.
Back in Town
For the second time, I have auditioned and been cast in a Web series. The first one, was just prior to Portland, and I never heard from them again. Now, just returned, auditioned for another one, and was cast…will keep you posted!
At the Airport
It is time to leave Portlandia, PDX, on an early morning flight, at the airport at 6:00 a.m. It is time to think about boarding and I return to the gate from whence I was, and at that moment, a text. “Where are you?” For the moment I have forgotten that “Trotter”/Caleb from The Mousetrap …
A 3 Syllable Word
Every time I use the directional voice on my phone, she makes ‘Portland’ into a 3 syllable word: ‘take the exit toward Por-t-land’, she instructs.
Cold
and dry. Portland I am told is in the grips of a dry spell! Who makes these statements up? It hasn’t rained for a few days in winter and it is a dry time?