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A Flashback to 1970 Spring Training [by Greg Pattenaude]
The COVID-19 outbreak has delayed the 2020 baseball season that was scheduled to start on March 26. While baseball should be the least of our worries, it reminded me that the baseball season used…
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Sinatra at the Waldorf (1945)
Tips on Tables – By Robert W. Dana – November 30, 1945 Sinatra Takes Over Wedgewood Room and Wins Crowd Despite His Illness The quality of laryngitis is strained these nights at the Waldorf-Astoria's…
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A collaborative plague poem [by Denise Duhamel and Maureen Seaton]
Equinox Pictures of the virus are pretty – like sea creatures or pin-cushioned moons or holograms posing in semi-witty situations beside balls and balloonsglowing with coronas, crowns, halos.Under microscopes, SpongeBob cartoons look fractal-similar, my own lungs…
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Met Percent: Week Eighteen [by Alec Bernstein]
Met Absent(e) % Met floor plan: Yellow highlighted galleries have been viewed, 3/14/2020. Inset: Dans un café, L'absinthe, Edgar Degas, Musée d'Orsay, 1875; Van Gogh Absente Poster; Photo of Toulous-Lautrec drinking Absenthe, 1910. I have…
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Squibs 404-408 [by Alan Ziegler]
404: 1993, hundreds of Woolworth's are closing and thousands of generic parakeets will be released on noon of the final day. Scrawny blue and green twelve-dollar birds will scatter in downtown Las Vegas, uptown New…
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“Oxford (Summer 1968)” [by Peter Ferry]
Lehman and I hitchhiked from Oxford to Bournemouth one July Saturday that summer of 1968. He was a gawky redheaded teenager from New York City, and I was a shaggy headed Midwesterner who had…
