I wait in line to shipnine paperback books to nine different addresses in the United States, media rate. The Post Office guy begins stamping and affixing bar code stickers and postage paid stickers on to my packages and he gets about threepackages in and he says to me, a line is starting to form andContinue reading “#740: The Post Office Guy Asks Me To Wait”
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#738: Hate Is A Pretty Strong Word
From the letters of Charles Darwin: “Oh my God how do I hate species & varieties.” “I am very tired, very stomachy & hate nearly the whole world.” “I am very poorly today & very stupid & hate everybody & everything.” “I hate myself, I hate clover, and I hate bees.” “I amContinue reading “#738: Hate Is A Pretty Strong Word”
#737: I is for It’s A Beautiful Day
The first time I heard this record, it was January in 2024 as I was goingthrough a stack of records bequeathed to me by my brother-in-law, Kevin. This is what I wrote: Embarrassed a little bit to admit it, but even though I have seen this album cover a thousand times, and wondered in stupefactionContinue reading “#737: I is for It’s A Beautiful Day”
#735: The Teacher, April 3, 2026
The Teacher, April 3, 2026 Tries to stop his studentsfrom thinking. Tries to inspireall manner of bad habits. Encourages errors of every stripe and color. Stop endingyour sentences with a period, he says. Use the passive voicewhenever possible and spellingthese days is overrated. Verb tenseagreement is passé and who everheard of a question mark.There’s no reason for learning toContinue reading “#735: The Teacher, April 3, 2026”
#733: A Memory Poem on April 2, 2026
Once, as a grade schooler, my father and my uncle took me out on a boat into the oceanfor deep sea fishing. Worriedthat I might get sick, my fathergave me a Dramamine. I remember crawling into theboat’s cabin and sleepingthrough the entire fishing trip. When I woke, long after the boat had come back to dock, I remember feeling peevedthat IContinue reading “#733: A Memory Poem on April 2, 2026”
#731: A Tanka on April 1st, 2026
Happy April 1, the first day of National Poetry Month, and for those who participate, National Poetry WRITING Month, or NaPoWriMo for short. I find myself in a little bit of a pickle. If you’ve been reading my almost daily work here on the blog, you will know that I am writing poem-like-things about eachContinue reading “#731: A Tanka on April 1st, 2026”
#694: F is for Finneas
The brother of Billie Eilish, and the mastermindbehind most of her production choices, one mightthink that this young man would just be a kind of boy-version of his sister. Not even close. Listeningto Finneas, the last record, The Optimist, or this one, For Crying Out Loud, brings into stark contrast the two projects. Oddly, givenContinue reading “#694: F is for Finneas”
#693: F is for Ferry, Bryan
Here’s a super groovy late 80’s album for you. I think I heard Bryan Ferry on the Roxy Music Avalon album and I didn’t even make the connectionbetween this guy and “Love Is The Drug.” And while I loved that Roxy Music album,I have never taken the plunge into Roxy Music’s back catalog, which goesContinue reading “#693: F is for Ferry, Bryan”
#692: F is for Feist
It’s been decades since I participatedin any kind of record club situation. When I was young and poor it was the easiest and cheapest way to accumulate a CD collection, and whenI was a kid, my dad allowed me to orderrecords from his subscription at Columbia House. When I became an adult, I put awayContinue reading “#692: F is for Feist”
We Interrupt Our Regularly Scheduled Program to Announce that Michael Jarmer Has Posted to the Blog Site 1000 Times Since 2011.
1000 blog entries ago, on February 11, 2011, I wrote the following under the title “Inaugural Blog.” Here it goes, for better or worse. The impulse strikes and I’ve set up a blog. Whatever for? I’m a writer, first of all, and I suspect that I might have a few things to say about stuffContinue reading “We Interrupt Our Regularly Scheduled Program to Announce that Michael Jarmer Has Posted to the Blog Site 1000 Times Since 2011.”
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