Talkin’ ’bout our degeneration
Earl Fowler A famous question asked in Ernest Hemingway’s early modernist novel, The Sun Also Rises, goes like this: “How did you go...
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David Sherman
Aug 214 min read
I see dead people. I hear dead people
David Sherman I see dead people. I’m not alone. Actor Haley Joel Osment made a career out of that line in the 1999 film The Sixth Sense. ...
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Earl Fowler
Aug 1811 min read
Looking through a glass onion
Earl Fowler People love to take a good story and run with it. To take an initial premise that might or might not be true and elaborate,...
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David Sherman
Aug 154 min read
No, you can't take that away from me
David Sherman In the beginning there were turntables and records -- LPs, 45s, 78s. Sounded great. But they scratched, skipped, but...
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Earl Fowler
Aug 141 min read
Coming Down From the Mountain
The dead inform the behaviour of the living even when they go early. I don my blue wedding suit and finest manners for the funeral of...
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Earl Fowler
Aug 119 min read
Yehudi and the Blowhards
Earl Fowler Aug. 15, 1974. That was the edition of the Rolling Stone magazine interview in which classical pianist Glenn Gould, perhaps...
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Earl Fowler
Aug 72 min read
SOMETHING POPPED UP
Earl Fowler I was going to do a piece on online popup ads and BUY SCOOCHIE! how the avaricious, iniquitous and unscrupulous scavenger...
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David Sherman
Aug 45 min read
Dear Juan; what happened?
David Sherman Juan Rodriguez made a paella like no other. Recipe inherited from his father. He could turn a phrase like few others. His...
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David Sherman
Aug 36 min read
Dream camouflages reality's nightmare
David Sherman Stephen Schwarzman, CEO of Blackstone, an “Alternative asset management firm” juggles more than a trillion dollars. He...
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Earl Fowler
Jul 182 min read
A Long Walker off a Short Pier
Earl Fowler As a sort of thought experiment (now available in Magnavox and Blu-ray, since we here at the Time Isn’t on Our Side Vitality...
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Earl Fowler
Jul 1510 min read
Shing-a-ling said everything
Chapter One says to love her, you love her with all your heart. Chapter Two you tell her, you’re never, never, never, never, never gonna...
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Earl Fowler
Jul 131 min read
Several Storeys Above Street Level
We are undemanding when young, happy to sit on the fire escape of your building, drink coffee and listen to music. It’s easy in the early...
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David Sherman
Jul 107 min read
The Man Who Came to Talk and Talk and Talk and Talk and ...
David Sherman He wrote to ask me when would be a good time to visit. While I pondered if and when, he wrote he was coming May 26. He’d...
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Earl Fowler
Jul 36 min read
Not your father’s grandparents
Earl Fowler It’s not a mainstream trend or anything. But it’s not a freaky coincidence either. We are not your father’s grandparents. Or...
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David Sherman
Jun 296 min read
Takes a town to help you get old
David Sherman It takes a village to raise a child, but it takes a small town to foster old farts with aches and pains that match the...
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Earl Fowler
Jun 2511 min read
Today’s Music Ain’t Got The Same Droll
Call me a relic, call me what you will Say I’m old-fashioned, say I’m over the hill Today’s music ain’t got the same soul I like that old...
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David Sherman
Jun 214 min read
Ten Commandments Louisiana-style
David Sherman A few years ago, Moses climbed down Mount Sinai with the Ten Commandments chiseled in stone. He was undoubtedly winded –...
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Earl Fowler
Jun 187 min read
Enemies of the People
It is alarming. That we’ve lived here this long, without understanding who are neighbours are, that they turn everything upside down,...
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Earl Fowler
Jun 174 min read
Age-old question: How do you handle a grumpy man?
Bob Morrissey God, I hate being cranky. I swore I’d grow old gracefully, but it just isn’t happening. I’ve just turned 81, which means...
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Earl Fowler
Jun 141 min read
Period Piece: A Pensive Walk in Fall
Ecstasy is always just around the corner. I’m all-in Saturday but confined to N.D.G. so I decide to phone her. I tell you I’m buying beer...
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