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...
by Charles Norman | Apr 24, 2020 | Music, Song of the Day
The Unswept – Forget The Day Mnemosyne, one must admit, has shown herself to be a very careless girl. ― Vladimir Nabokov, Speak, Memory It is just an illusion here on Earth that one moment follows another one, like beads on a string, and that once a moment is...
by Charles Norman | Apr 13, 2020 | Music, Song of the Day
laughingstock – Something Lite To remain master of one’s four virtues: courage, insight, sympathy, and solitude. For solitude is a virtue with us, as a sublime bent and bias to purity, which divines that in the contact of man and man, in society, it must...
by Charles Norman | Apr 9, 2020 | Off the Wall, Song of the Day
Under the Covers with Bob Dylan There exist people whose lives were transformed the first time they heard Bob Dylan. Full disclosure: I am not one of those people. I eased into Bob Dylan — adding a track here, an album there — through a process of...
