Death at Noon
The descent was quick. A friend had invited me to join him to hear the Finnish band Frigg, featuring four (!) fiddles in close harmony, in front of acoustic guitar, cittern / mandolin, and standup...
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Twin Cities ephemera: The first real heat arrived earlier than expected, and I was glad to miss it: I was attending UAC (and hawking my book) in Chicago from the twenty-third to thirtieth of May. I...
View ArticleThe Lighthouse
One might say this tale fails to fit with the themes of this enterprise, yet it might be said to be a harbinger of 2017’s Maria. In another sense, a cautionary tale about blithe reliance on modern...
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Old Moon / New Venus (before dawn) – 3 December 2018 Do you ever go to a library, a brick-and-mortar public library? Such a visit can seem unnecessary in this online digital era. They are actually...
View ArticleMercury’s Shadow
The night before, the electronic signs began flashing the warnings to semi drivers along the 490 loop: No empty trailers would be allowed on that stretch of highway on Sunday the twenty-fourth, to pose...
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