i have totally wimped out on writing about our honeymoon. to redeem myself at least a little, i will write this.
we stayed at the hotel rex which happened to be named after kenneth rexroth, beat poet. we ate dinner the first night in cafe andree, their restaurant, named after rexroth’s late wife, andree dutcher. the [...]
i’m on a paris review kick. when george plimpton, the heroic founder and longtime editor of that fine publication (hell, they were the first ones to publish kerouac!), died last year, lewis lapham introduced me to the great soul in his editor’s note of the december 2003 issue of harper’s. the whole thing is worth [...]
we got our canoe. it’s sitting quite happily on the floor of our garage right now.the cool thing is that the guy in the cheesy photo is using a fly rod. that’s right: okay kid… you paddle, daddy’s gonna just make a few casts here… okay, try to get us over by that big log [...]
after the gift opening sunday and the subsequent attempt to make sense of our apartment again with all the new stuff in it, it was interesting to stumble across a new jack kerouac quote today:
if you own a rug, you own too much.
from Dances With Trout:
So maybe what you should do when you catch a great trout is go back to camp and make a pot of coffee because there will not be a bigger or better fish today. Sooner or later your partners will wander in and you can tell them all about it. That’s your [...]
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