Dansite

Well gang, I guess it’s time I confess that I’ve been posting these last few months...

Treats received today from my good friend Will Leathem. I read them immediately...

All these acquisitions, and any that aren't here but on the way, are justified by the fact that...I wanted them...

For my running and rowing friends...

If you listen to Louis Armstrong from 1929, you will never hear anything better than that...You will never hear anything more free than that...

“Dypaloh. There was a house made of dawn. It was made of pollen and of rain, and the land was very old and everlasting..."

I imagine her attention falling to me, just for a moment, in this crowd, out on the street...

Lawrence Ferlinghetti, champion of Beat Generation writers passed away this week at 101 years of age...

"There is a kind of life that is peculiar to the land in summer—a wariness, a seasonal equation of well-being and alertness..."

The Coneheads never left. They've been hiding out in SoCal for decades...

Birches, by Kyra Mills, 2021, watercolor

Congratulations on your successful campaign to become a U.S Senator/Congressperson...

Today's Bandcamppurchase. One of my favorite tenor players...

“So mom. My boyfriend took all of my money, wrecked my car, and gave me three..."

The Expanse has the best-written female cast on television...

From Prospero's Books Kansas City, The Dusty Bookshelf Lawrence, KS, and my Library of America subscription...

The best way I can think of to describe the current status of the GOP is "malevolent inanity."...

"I was stunned by Mary Karr’s memoir, The Liars’ Club. Not just by its ferocity, its beauty, and..."

The collapse of our democracy begins with the loss of places where silly people can get together and lie to each other...

I found a copy of this book at The Dusty Bookshelf here in Lawrence, KS today...