Tozerboy

The Wednesday before Easter I went to lunch with Randy and Arthur, after we finished a video shoot. It was a gorgeous day and we didn’t get a chance to eat until late. We decided to hit a local pub, ostensibly because they have great burgers, but we really wanted beer. Spring was in the [...]

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One of the last things I do in the morning is to put my ear phones in and turn on my iPod before I leave the apartment. This morning as I did that, I began to wonder if my Song of the Day list, that I’ve started here is reflective and or predictive of what [...]

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I’ve been thinking about music a lot lately. I guess that’s obvious. This morning I was awakened by Scott Joplin on the radio. NPR was doing a piece about Joplin and a recording of a recently found piano roll was playing when my clock radio went off. It was the “Maple Leaf Rag.” How can [...]

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I love my iPod. My kids got it for me in September and it has really kept me entertained. I’ve noticed that what I listen to on the Nano has changed since I’ve moved to Cambridge. Before I moved I primarily listened to it in the car, now I listen to it on the subway. [...]

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Should a blog entry be hard to write? I’ve been trying to write this for awhile, but that whole Logos thing really threw me. Now instead of logophilia, I’ve worried so much that it might appear like I have logorrhea that it has given me logophobia. I just can’t seem to get anything written. So [...]

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Scene: John (age 13) and Mark (age 50) walking along Garden Street in Cambridge, MA, early Sunday morning. Mark notices a banner in front of Christ Church (the first church meeting house built in Cambridge)
Mark: Oh wow, I forgot today is Palm Sunday
John: Palm Sunday, what’s Palm Sunday?
Mark: You don’t know what Palm Sunday is?
John: [...]

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white flakes
on a jet black coat
a green glove
sits patiently atop
a bush
looking like a lamb
upon the altar
a viking takes the stairs
at the harvard t,
stops
at the top
and asks for change
asian girls
in bad high heels
maintain their momentum
a waspy boy wanting love
gnaws his nail
like
it is
a
salty
pork bone
a short man
on a tall ladder
watches basketball
on tv
i went out looking
for james dean today
but [...]

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that first big mall i visited,
where I saw that book that made me think,
but I could not tell
him in the car after.
where the tuxedos of bright white waited for my prom,
the first place where shoes were bought
for a wedding,
not the last.
the last place where I saw my father alive,
the first place I landed,
after he died,
on [...]

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I had a great day today. I ate great food, with great friends.
I feel full.

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Today was as shocking day for me. A scaffolding fell from a construction site at Emerson, three people were killed, two construction workers and a person in a car just passing by at the wrong moment. I was shocked, not by the event, by my reaction. I can’t say I felt much. I went out [...]

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