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Aunt Edith’s House
The old woman we called Granny was my great grandmother, and Aunt Edith was her oldest child. Edith was born in Minnesota in 1894, probably near Lower Red Lake or Leech Lake. Granny's husband, Dr. George Davidson, was a physician with the Bureau of Indian Affairs and...
Granny
The old woman we called Granny was my mother’s mother’s mother, my mom’s grandmother and my great grandmother. Granny was born in Giles County, Tennessee, in 1872. She was 91 years old when I entered the first grade and died just five months shy of 100. She had white...
J.M. Baule – Compositor, letrista, adaptador de canciones
It's true that no translation is identical to the original. But no reading of a poem is identical to any other, even when read by the same person... The poem must move from reader to reader, reading to reading, in perpetual transformation. -- Eliot Weinberger, Oranges...
Guest Post by Travis Carroll: Bomethius – Seasons of Limbo
Seasons of Limbo is, as the name suggests, a collection of stories of liminal spaces. The first half of the record focuses on Earthly liminality: rubbernecking along the highway, trying to make things work with our mother on the cusp of independence, enduring a...
Six Songs for a Subjangley Sunday
Music downloads now bring in less revenue than physical products, and CDs are all but dead... CDs are now worth less to the industry than every category of music distribution other than tiny ones like ringtones and music video downloads. -- Forbes, September 2020 The...
Guest Post by Fluffy the Cat: Three Songs Involving Greg Jarrow
Hi, it's me again. Fluffy the Cat. Sometimes when the Food Guy is busy he lets me write his log post and put it on the Winternet. Today the Food Guy has a pre-existing condition to mulch a garden bed. Last Monday he announced a Master Plan to weed and mulch one bed...
Wormbag – Ooo Baby Baby
This feature first appeared in 2014. And I am going to keep reprinting it until someone recognizes the genius of Wormbag. --- I have seen post-grunge alt-folk country dream pop future and its name is Wormbag. Wormbag slammed into the Portland music scene in 2012. The...
Mance Lipscomb – Farmer and Songster
I worked so hard in my lifetime, look like I dreams about it now. And I wake up in the morning, thinking I got to go to the field.-- Mance Lipscomb, I Say Me for a Parable I. The CottonThe southern extremity of Brazos County, Texas is covered by a broad expanse of...
Guest Post by Matthew Barton: A Postcard from Quarantine
Back in March, in England, along with the rest of the country, I went into lockdown. No visits outside, no socialising, no face-to-face contact with friends -- a transformation of our daily life. It's now August, and I am releasing a project, Queen of England, made in...
Christopher James – Mount Kisco Moon, the Musical
Christopher James, a resident of Mount Kisco, New York, is a superhero. I'm not sure what powers he possesses, but I believe they include Songwriting, Playing the Ukulele, and The Ability to Stand in One Place. Someday, a musical entitled Mount Kisco Moon will be...
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Aunt Edith’s House
The old woman we called Granny was my great grandmother, and Aunt Edith was her oldest child. Edith was born in Minnesota in 1894, probably near Lower Red Lake or Leech Lake. Granny's husband, Dr. George Davidson, was a physician with the Bureau of Indian Affairs and...
Granny
The old woman we called Granny was my mother’s mother’s mother, my mom’s grandmother and my great grandmother. Granny was born in Giles County, Tennessee, in 1872. She was 91 years old when I entered the first grade and died just five months shy of 100. She had white...
Seven Songs for a More Colorful Tuesday
In the opening moments of my college crystallography class, an ancient professor named Kaupp stood before us and intoned: Goethe said, 'Symmetry is rhythm standing still.' After this promising opening, Herr Professor proceeded to disabuse me of any notion that the...
Camilo A Secas – Un Querer del Bueno
Then that same afternoon it was Florentino Ariza who saw the face of death when he received an envelope containing a strip of paper, torn from the margin of a school notebook, on which a one-line answer was written in pencil: 'Very well, I will marry you if you...
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