Posted in world on July 2nd, 2009 No Comments »
Not a great deal of insight in this report from The Star Ledger - a local paper in Camden, NJ. Former world champion Super Featherweight, Rocky Lockridge tells his story.
Former boxing champ Rocky Lockridge is homeless in Camden
Lockridge took a job working for William Jones & Son, Inc. in Camden, a drum and barrel [...]
Posted in Lit, world on May 4th, 2009 1 Comment »
FROM the collection by Edgar Lee Masters - all poems from Bartleby.com
Dissolute son, REUBEN PANTIER:
WELL, Emily Sparks, your prayers were not wasted,
Your love was not all in vain.
I owe whatever I was in life
To your hope that would not give me up,
To your love that saw me still as good.
Dear Emily Sparks, let me tell [...]
Posted in Lit on January 28th, 2009 6 Comments »
An Appraisal - John Updike, Intuitive and Precise, Mapped America’s Mysteries - NYTimes.com
In one of these collections, Mr. Updike summed up his love of his vocation: “From earliest childhood I was charmed by the materials of my craft, by pencils and paper and, later, by the typewriter and the entire apparatus of printing. To condense [...]
Posted in zeitgeist on February 11th, 2008 No Comments »
Interesting NY Times article via Scott Heiferman’s Notes. Hillary’s core constituency sounds remarkably like Hilter’s.
Can this be true?
