“Alex Trocchi urged aspiring writers to go off and spend a year playing pinball. I always thought that this was verygood advice, but I could never explain even to myself, why it made such sense…”Tom McCarthy. TYPEWRITERS BOMBS JELLYFISH(New York: New York Review Books,2017)**”Anybody that admires Thomas Wolfe can be expected to like good fictionContinue reading “BITS & PIECES OF A MISPLACED LIFE: THE JOY OF WRITING”
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BITS & PIECES OF A MISPLACED LIFE:HORROR & SCAREY THINGS?
AFTER SEEING THE MOVIE FRANKENSTEIN”After seeing Frankenstein, I was convinced that the monsterwould climb the fire escape outside of my tenement window toget me. Why he should want to get me, of all people, amid themillions who lived in New York, or why he would even be in’New York in the first place, didn’t enterContinue reading “BITS & PIECES OF A MISPLACED LIFE:HORROR & SCAREY THINGS?”
BITS & PIECES OF A MISPLACED LIFE: THEATER
MARLON BRANDOAs his fellow-student Elaine Stritch later remarked, “Marlon’s going to class to learn the Method was like sending a tiger to jungle school.” Claudia Roth Pierpont. ” Method Man:the greatest American actor lost his way” in THE NEW YORKER (October 20, 2008)**GEORGE BERNARD SHAW”I relish the snappers by Shaw. One of his plays waaContinue reading “BITS & PIECES OF A MISPLACED LIFE: THEATER”
BITS & PIECES OF A MISPLACED LIFE: FILM #27
IT’S DIFFICULT FOR FILM STARS TO PROTECT THEIR PRIVACY ROBERT REDFORD “had become secretive. Not only did I know him, our wives knew each other, so did our kids. And he had asked me to come to Utah for the month to work with him — —–And he wouldn’t give me his phone number. Continue reading “BITS & PIECES OF A MISPLACED LIFE: FILM #27”
BITS & PIECES OF A MISPLACED LIFE: TELEVISION
WHEN JIM HENSON (1936-1990) GOT HIS FIRST TELEVISION SET“I was probably about thirteen or fourteen. I badgered my parents until we got one – I mean, it was a real campaign. We bought as big as my cupped hands. I thought it wasIncredible. I still do. It is amazing to see a live picture thatContinue reading “BITS & PIECES OF A MISPLACED LIFE: TELEVISION”
BITS & PIECES OF A MISPLACED LIFE: POETS & POETRY
WALT WHITMAN READING “AMERICA”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZvdKjKL7hQW.H. AUDEN ON GIVING POETRY READINGS & LECTURES ON COLLEGE CAMPUSESSpirit is willing to repeatWithout a qualm the same old talk,But Flesh is homesick for our snugApartment in New York.from “On the Circuit”**”As someone said, when T.S.Eliot was young his poems were middle-aged, when he was middle-aged his poems were old, andContinue reading “BITS & PIECES OF A MISPLACED LIFE: POETS & POETRY”
BITS & PIECES OF A MISPLACED LIFE: SEX
FAMILY PLANNING__PLEASE USE REAR ENTRANCE sign at Barnstable (England) HEALTH CARE CENTRE**”I’m Catholic. My mother and I were unpacking andshe found my diaphragm. I had to tell her it was abathing cap for my cat.” Liz Winstead**Stridulate (STRIH-jə-lait) Part of Speech VerbOf an insect, especially a male cricket or grasshopper) Make a shrill sound by rubbingContinue reading “BITS & PIECES OF A MISPLACED LIFE: SEX”
BITS & PIECES OF A MISPLACED LIFE: COMIC STRIPS & COMIC BOOKS
“Peanuts” Was the First Major Comic Strip to Feature a Minority CharacterSchulz was intentional about a lot of things when it came to how he framed his famous comic strip, but most especially when it came to race. The majority of the Peanuts gang had always been white, mostly because the cartoonist felt unsure asContinue reading “BITS & PIECES OF A MISPLACED LIFE: COMIC STRIPS & COMIC BOOKS”
BITS & PIECES OF A MISPLACED LIFE: PHILOSOPHY
for Mac”If you asked me what I came into the world to do,I will tell you. I came to live out loud,”Epigraph to Learning to Live Out Loud, by Piper Laurie (New York: Crown Archetype, 2011)**FROM A MORE WORLDLY PHILOSOPHER”Well, let me quote once more from a worldly philosopher who had the knack of summarisingContinue reading “BITS & PIECES OF A MISPLACED LIFE: PHILOSOPHY”
BITS & PIECES OF A MISPLACED LIFE: WORDS,WORDS, WORDS
the New Century Dictionary (1944) PATTING RABBIT HASH”In vaudeville, a brisk recitative accompanied by much patter and slapping of the hands on knees, hips, forearms, etc. in triple time.”Douglas Gilbert. American Vaudeville: Its Life and Time (New York: Dover Books, 1946)**MORPHIC RESONANCE”A few years ago, morphic resonance was all the rage, This was the theoryContinue reading “BITS & PIECES OF A MISPLACED LIFE: WORDS,WORDS, WORDS”
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