One of my colleagues (and how wonderful that I can say that!) told me, this afternoon, that the office I’m in used to be the one Ralph Ellison used in the late 1950s, when he was at Bard (teaching, apparently, literature of America and Russia).
We had a cocktail party for faculty and staff [...]
Entries from September 2009
September 29, 2009
Big shoes.
September 27, 2009
A scene.
Dramatis personae:
A bored shop clerk (BSC)
A mildly amused customer (MAC)
Scene: The till, in a store.
BSC: Can I see your driver’s license, please?
MAC reaches into bag, extricates wallet, pulls license from wallet, hands it to BSC.
BSC, examining license: Hmm. That’s funny.
MAC: What’s funny?
BSC reaches into his pants pocket, extricates wallet, pulls license from wallet, hands it [...]
September 25, 2009
Ronnybrook.
ronnybrook, originally uploaded by lianneha.
My Nikon has done a Lazarus on me. Here is to its glorious resurrection. And to milk.
September 24, 2009
Don’t think twice, it’s all right.
No, really. I’d planed on getting up about now, anyway. You know, waking up. To the sound of asphalt-cutters and jackhammers.
