I don’t write in a journal everyday, but I have accumulated many entries over the past 50+ years beginning in 1966. Some items evolved into longer works. Among the leftovers little pieces survived. I thought a collection of these with a piece culled from the same date in a past year would make an interesting yearbook. The consistencies and inconsistencies of mind, skipping back and forth across time, provide varied perspectives. It is difficult to remember the context of the past we’ve lived; we also make suppositions about times that predate ourselves.

The few alterations from original drafts were to improve clarity. The worst of my work is not included. There remains enough mediocrity and immaturity to make me feel humble and you feel smart. There are also moments of accidental insight and incidental humor.

Author Stephen Crane referred to his little pieces as pills…apparently they were small and somewhat hard to swallow, but good for you.


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Wednesday, October 6, 2021

The intolerable babble on pro football telecasts

 

from this week in October, 2012  (I was 67)

 

The intolerable babble on pro football telecasts

is easily muted and replaced with audio of choice

the Vivaldi channel off I-tunes for example

introduces a new amusing milieu

as does the big band jazz channel

Lyrical tunes may be apropos or juxtaposed

Nevertheless synchronous gems dazzle

more often than stale commentary

in stagnant format from tired announcers

and insipid remarks of sideline annoyancers

More remarkable the transformation of commercials

where carefully clipped images

carry context that doesn’t necessarily sell

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