by Charles Norman | May 6, 2020 | Music, Song of the Day
Borrowed Books – Altona The most amusing thing about a pantomime horse is the necessity of having to shoot it twice. — Steve Aylett, Bigot Hall Consider the pantomime horse: two people who share a single quadruped costume, enclosed within a relationship of...
by Charles Norman | May 1, 2020 | Music, Song of the Day
John Statz – Rainy Days in the UK When I went off to school, I initially majored in architecture. Unlike George Costanza, I had never dreamed of pretending to be an architect and — looking back — I have no idea why I chose that major. I was a...
by Charles Norman | May 1, 2020 | Music, Off the Wall
A Potful of Pop to Purchase on Friday My lockdown hardship story… I needed a new gas can for my lawnmower fuel. We still call the containers cans even though they’ve been made from plastic for as long as I’ve been walking behind a mower in...
by Charles Norman | Apr 29, 2020 | Music, Song of the Day
Cowboy Grizzly – COVID-19 and Hold You Up Some lucky people remember only the good times and refuse to dwell on their tragedies. My family is not among that group. Wherever two or more of my ancient ancestors gather together, the air becomes fetid with tales of...
by Charles Norman | Apr 26, 2020 | Music, Song of the Day
Hot Car – Car Alarm My college writing instructor — a magnificent old Welshman who claimed to have known W.C. Fields and to have survived a fistfight with Robert Shaw — advised against writing outdoors. It seems like a good idea, he said. But then...
