Musings

Flashback: 1987 (Prelude)

2014/09/13 — Leave a comment

1987 will undoubtedly be the subject of a lot of posts on this blog. It was, simply, that kind of year for me—in as many different ways as you can interpret “that“. In nearly every respect possible—physically, geographically, emotionally, and a few other “-ly”s—I was in a different place at the end of the year than I was at the beginning.

Flashback: Elton John—Goodbye Yellow Brick Road (Part 2)

2014/09/13 — Leave a comment

Elton John – Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
MCA MCA2-10003 (double LP)
1973

Since I bought this album in the spring of 1974, a couple of the things I remember about the time are lots of sunny days, and the introduction of Mr. Pibb, Coca-Cola’s Dr. Pepper wannabe soda. Continue reading

Flashback: David Bowie—Pin-Ups (8-track edition)

2014/09/13 — Leave a comment

Because I haven’t posted anything new for a couple of years now, I’m going to delete my other blog (The Lifelong Mixtape) soon. I don’t want to lose everything, though, so I’m going to re-post some of the entries here. First up: my reminiscences around David Bowie’s 1973 album Pin-Ups. Continue reading

Remnants (a poem)

2014/09/10 — Leave a comment

The September 5th prompt in The Daily Poet: Day-By-Day Prompts For Your Writing Practice, by Kelli Russell Agodon & Martha Silano, is to write a poem ‘that confronts climate change, environmental degradation, habitat destruction and/or forest mismanagement’. It suggests a few words for inclusion: cage, habitat, dead, altered, destabilized, remnant, margins, mutilated. I used the words, but wrote about something else entirely. Continue reading