I went into the national nightlife celebration called Black Wednesday not realizing how much I needed a release. The release came in moments wrapped up in ironies. Real ironies, not the poetic moments people mistake for ironies. Then again, I’ll hold off on that because I might get to the end of this thought and […]
Book of Blues
4 AM Samaritan Found in Broad Ripple
“So, maybe I did have beer goggles on,” my buddy, Bling, conceded as he crept into the passenger seat of my two-year-old Mustang at 4:30 AM a couple Saturday nights / Sunday mornings ago. “Still, they could have been worse.” “So, maybe I did have beer goggles on,” my buddy, Bling, conceded as he crept […]
Plans for Minnesota – Awaiting My Cousin’s Unbiased Book Edits
Awaiting book edits is equal parts agony, anxiety, and anticipation. Back in the 1990s, I got my cousin to listen to an abstract, coffee house hip-hip band from New York named Soul Coughing. Back in the early 2000s, my cousin came to visit me when I lived in a place my world dubbed The Corn […]
Coming to terms with the death of LeRoi Moore
Oh, LeRoi Moore. Dear, sweet, understated Leroi Moore: I didn’t know how bad my bad day was until my supervisor told me the news: “Did you hear?”“Hear what?”“Your boy, LeRoi Moore, died today.” It was August 19th, 2008. I was groaning over an ex-girlfriend’s birthday and over the thoughts that she was in the city […]