txs for your comment on "flatulence" - perhaps too few ex-suits on this site to really appreciate the sordid reflection of the sad ennui's joker face in this piece. your comment sits well with me. silent farts reverberate around the corporate world - no tragedy there because they don't endanger anyone least of all the system. saw "in good company" (2004) w/dennis quaid, topher grace again - spot on analysis in that flick.
Hi Jack, enjoyed your thoughts about regionalism in American politics. I agree with you that it appears that we're more divided than ever. I'll just note that regional divides are not new in American history, of course. I do think that innovations in media and technology have amplified these divides. Ah shit, that sounds way too academic... Think I'll put on a little MBV (one of my all-time faves) and chill out.
Thank you, Jack for complement on my painting, the Horse Show. It is in the Kentucky Folk Art Center at Morehead. Next exhibition there is in July. Matt Collinsworth and Adrian Swain are great directors there, and are very good to unknown artists.
I once wrote a screenplay based on one of Donald Barthelme's short stories. Lovely language, sparse, where what's unwritten becomes haunting. I think of him now as Raymond Carver on LSD as filmed by Alain Resnais.
Thanks DP. it's like house painting: most of the work is in the prep -- haven't painted a damn thing though, just keep prepping. My wife hates my reliance on metaphor but I frankly can't avoid it.
Hi, Jack. Thanks for commenting on "Hope's Amanuensis." I'll check out Robins in Harper's.
High praise, Jack. Thanks!
Thanks for your comments about Blue Grass. Glad you enjoyed it.
txs for your comment on "flatulence" - perhaps too few ex-suits on this site to really appreciate the sordid reflection of the sad ennui's joker face in this piece. your comment sits well with me. silent farts reverberate around the corporate world - no tragedy there because they don't endanger anyone least of all the system. saw "in good company" (2004) w/dennis quaid, topher grace again - spot on analysis in that flick.
Thanks for the welcome. I don't know Geoff Hounsell, but I know of him.
Hi Jack, enjoyed your thoughts about regionalism in American politics. I agree with you that it appears that we're more divided than ever. I'll just note that regional divides are not new in American history, of course. I do think that innovations in media and technology have amplified these divides. Ah shit, that sounds way too academic... Think I'll put on a little MBV (one of my all-time faves) and chill out.
Thank you, Jack for complement on my painting, the Horse Show. It is in the Kentucky Folk Art Center at Morehead. Next exhibition there is in July. Matt Collinsworth and Adrian Swain are great directors there, and are very good to unknown artists.
Thanks, for the welcome, Jack. Hope to get into the site this weekend.
Thank you for posting on my wall and drawing me to this place. If you like Bad Brains you are okay with me :-)
Wow, Jack. Thanks for reading my Alfred Chester bit. That was an old one, and you somehow unearthed it. It is now a zombie.
Welcome to the 'naut!
Jack- Thanks for the graffiti...joke of the day is my name is John N. "Jack" Nelson Varnell. Interesting, No? Blessings.
I once wrote a screenplay based on one of Donald Barthelme's short stories. Lovely language, sparse, where what's unwritten becomes haunting. I think of him now as Raymond Carver on LSD as filmed by Alain Resnais.
Thanks DP. it's like house painting: most of the work is in the prep -- haven't painted a damn thing though, just keep prepping. My wife hates my reliance on metaphor but I frankly can't avoid it.
Jack--that list is a poem all by itself!