Category: life
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Mouse in Apartment NYC vs Flying Roach NYC
As I asked a couple emails back, what did our friends’s — elder artists’s — patrons enjoy the most over their tenure? Honest tales of life in the marketplace. Sometimes we focus so much on production that we forget to tell an honest, “Here’s what life’s really like in NYC” kind of story. So why not compare…
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Mystery Alaska Documentary
Over the past few years, I’ve worked in the background (as is the case with many of my projects and collaborations) on a mystery Alaska documentary. It’s still not greenlit for full length — it may never cross that line. But there’s enough money behind it now that I can share some photos and talk about…
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NYC pigeons on a wire
Caught these little guys zigging and zagging on the intersections of the wires near the Intrepid. Kind of a cool thought: a sort of infinite regression of NYC pigeons in a fractal: pigeons pigeons all the dark way down
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Halloween Stoop Decorations in NYC
I’ve slowly been collecting photos here in NYC of Halloween stoop decorations. Let me know in the comments how you’re decorating and which one of these is your favorite. My favorite far and away is the first: This daddy was hand-drawing 13 (for the triskaidekaphobic folk) pumpkin skulls on each step in chalk with his…
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Pan Fried Salmon Benedict
Pan Fried Salmon Benedict Prep: 15 minCook: 10 minTotes: 25 min GET THAT SALMON 2 salmon fillets (5 ounces each), skin removed1 teaspoon salt½ teaspoon black pepper1 tablespoon Cajun Seasoning1 tablespoon Lemon Pepper seasoning3 tablespoons cooking fat2 large eggs, poached1 pinch cayenne pepper paprika for garnish. YES. bed of spinach. An entire bed made out…
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Bad Intellectual: The Houellebecqian Case of Catherine Perez-Shakdam
Alors, les Français sont en train de flatter l’islam bien.Sadegh Hedayat Once, one of the Iranian politicians in the Parliament of Iran during his speech accounted a brief conversation with arteshbod Hossein Fardoust, some years after 1979. Fardoust was a friend of Shah and one of the most influential figures of SAVAK—in the last meeting…
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Before Living in NYC series
Often I divert conversations from questions about living in NYC because even mentioning living here, you get judged. Conservatives outside NYC judge you as a liberal elitist. Liberal elitists judge you as a poser conservative who didn’t grow up here. NYC conservatives judge you as not war-hardened enough and liberals outside the city judge you…
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The Year of the Locust
Often folks ask why folks call Southern Illinois “Little Egypt” and you have to tell them it all started with the year of the locust. It’s not entirely true, of course, but locusts carry forth the sort of poetic resonance the rest of the story holds. In 1799, this old Baptist minister named — you’ll never…
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Hospice Care at Home: Grandpa Jerry’s Last Two Months
In keeping with remembering my grandpa Jerry, I wanted to live blog a little about his last two months here on hospice care at home and the funeral services, starting from today, moving towards the day he died, and then moving backwards over the last few months. I’ll update it every day until I can’t…
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Jerry Schaubert Obituary
I wanted to archive the Jerry Schaubert obituary from WJBD as well as my father’s post as well as share some of my own thoughts — in case any of these websites ever crash, at least we’ll have backups of grandpa’s obituary: Wilson J. “Jerry” Schaubert, 86, of Salem, IL died December 22, 2018, at…
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Pre Production Stages — our Alaska Documentary
Been meaning to write this pre production post for about five months, but I’ve been absolutely slammed. Apologies aside: as those of you who subscribe to the updates know, I’m in the thick of pre production for a documentary which — if funded — will start in Alaska and likely involve other interesting places around…
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To Della Across the Veil Poem
To Della Across the Veil is from my poetry podcast. I’m reading first from my book Inconveniences, Rightly Considered — a collection of poems I wrote between 2005 and 2017. Featured Download: For a quick tutorial on how to write your own poetry, click here.