A few days this past week have felt like we’re bypassing Spring and heading straight to Summer. It was 80 here yesterday. I’m not a hot weather… Read more “the fire in your heart is out”

I finally watched The Bad Seed, and damn. That is one intense movie, especially for 1956. The Hays Code interferes eventually, but still. If you haven’t watched this… Read more “Bad seeds”

I’ve been on a Lupe Vélez kick this last week, rewatching Palooka, Hell Harbor, and Where East Is East over the weekend. She’s criminally misrepresented when she’s remembered at all.… Read more “you will be gone so long”

My wife has been in Chicago all week for a work event, so it was just the kid and me over the weekend. We got up Sunday… Read more “you will ache like I ache”

My birthday was last weekend, and we spent the evening sitting on the floor in the living room, drinking cheap wine, listening to 45s on the record… Read more “the day the lights went out”

Ohio is balking at the border of winter and spring, reluctant to step over the line, though it’s all she’s been talking about for months. The neighbor’s… Read more “a deer stood by the side of the road”

Last weekend, we drove north on US 127, a former thoroughfare that was eclipsed by I-75 when the interstate highway system half a century ago. 127 runs… Read more “looking out a dirty old window”

I was in Chicago last Friday (dropped in at the Roscoe Village Bangers & Lace for some lovely beers) and didn’t write a recap, so we have… Read more “my shadow is just dirt”