Condo Slumlord: Coach Moore
Mal Moore was a gentleman. I don’t mean that in a cliché, Hollywood kind of way. I mean that he truly was a gentle man. I only met Coach once, but it was an encounter that I won’t ever forget.
I was a student at Alabama during some rough times for our football team. The early 2000’s were tough…
Good writing is not done unless there are serious forces at work; and it is not permanent unless it works for readers with opinions different from the author’s.
William Empson, “Some Versions of Pastoral”
Roadside rotisserie. Piura, Peru. 2003
SpaceSounds - “Exploring the Universe”
from the “National Geographic Picture Atlas of Our Universe”
If there’s a book you really want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.
Toni Morrison
“The Age Of Steam” - Maple Mountain Sunburst Triolian Orchestra
Protest march. Chiclayo, Peru. 2004
The only thing I was fit for was to be a writer, and this notion rested solely on my suspicion that I would never be fit for real work, and that writing didn’t require any.
Russell Baker
The Lilys’ - “Nanny in Mahattan”
Throw up into your typewriter every morning. Clean up every noon.
Raymond Chandler
