Dreamers Rise

UNDERGROUND RIVERS

Thursday, June 15, 2023

Findings

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Miscellaneous sightings from June wanderings. From top: self-portrait with kodama ; white morph of pink lady's-slipper ; trailside sh...
Wednesday, May 24, 2023

Reading Matter

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Over the past few weeks we've been in the midst of major preparations for an upcoming relocation, but a few days ago I realized that I h...
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Wednesday, May 17, 2023

Song

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It's morning Nobody's up but the crows Memphis Minnie and Joe McCoy are singing "Can I Do It For You?" as if they were...
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Monday, April 17, 2023

A Small Rain's A-Gonna Fall

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A lovely and curious turn of phrase with a story behind it almost slipped my notice when I was re-reading Rafi Zabor's novel The Bear Co...
Friday, March 31, 2023

Freedom down the bending avenue

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Songwriter Peter Case has a new record just out from Sunset Blvd Records . Entitled Doctor Moan , it's his first album of original songs...
Thursday, March 16, 2023

The Hearts of Literary Men

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Dard Hunter: Legend has it that Emperor Wu (A.D. 1368-98 ) tried to procure a suitable paper for the printing of money and to this end con...
Friday, March 10, 2023

Dream House

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In an era of computer animation wizardry it's nice to see older technologies like stop-motion animation being reinvigorated and put to u...
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Sunday, February 19, 2023

"Dark deeds of licentiousness and vice"

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"Sometime in March last, a gentleman who lives in Portsmouth N. H., being on a visit to Boston, was induced by a friend of this city, t...
Wednesday, February 01, 2023

2 gueles 150 E.P.

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The writer and publisher Alastair Brotchie has died, according to social media announcements by the Atlas Press , of which he was the propri...
Sunday, January 22, 2023

Roadside assistance

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One summer evening about twenty years ago I left work at rush hour and joined a line of backed-up traffic using the on-ramp to merge onto th...
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Tuesday, January 03, 2023

You May Leave but This Will Bring You Back

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The Memphis Jug Band was a shifting collection of African-American musicians that recorded some 70 or 80 sides of music between 1927 and 193...
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Saturday, December 24, 2022

Season's Greetings

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Because nothing says "Christmas" like owls on velocipedes.
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Sunday, December 11, 2022

Hearst and the Devil Fish

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Phoebe Hearst didn't care for her son's taste in women. Throughout his adult life, the media magnate William Randolph Hearst had a t...
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Thursday, November 03, 2022

Shuna's Journey (2022)

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First Second Books in the US has released the first authorized English-language translation of Hayao Miyazaki's 1983 full-color manga S...
Wednesday, November 02, 2022

Building Stonehenge (George Booth 1926-2022)

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My favorite Booth cartoon, this one didn't appear in the New Yorker but in the business section of the New York Times , accompanying an...
Saturday, October 22, 2022

Invasion

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I'm standing on a great plain with no trees or buildings in sight, and I notice a faint hum of engine noise. I look up. Airplanes or air...

Beyond

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This was not a dream, although it seemed a bit like one at the time. On a beautiful fall afternoon I drove a few miles to one of my favorite...
Wednesday, October 12, 2022

On the road

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About twenty years ago or maybe a little more, my wife and I went to a small music club called the Towne Crier , which at that time was loca...
Thursday, October 06, 2022

Macario

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I enjoyed this seasonally appropriate 1960 Mexican film directed by Roberto Gavaldón, with cinematography by Gabriel Figueroa. Macario is b...
Friday, September 30, 2022

In the clearing

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The grass may not always be greener, but with mushrooms it seems to be a different story. It's been a dreadful year for fungi-spotting ...
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