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July 13, 2013
Nordpolen Journal: Time-Traveling through Pigeonholes
San Francisco, California June 12, 2013 Heading back in time to the day I left. 9:54am Onboard Flight UA 414 SFO to Newark. I’m on my way. I have, in my over-caffeinated hands, a copy of Gods & Myths of Northern Europe, a 1964 paperback written by H.R. Ellis Davidson, which promises in its chapters … Continue reading »
July 6, 2013
Nordpolen Journal: Re-entry
San Francisco, California July 6, 2013 When I was a kid, we had a cathode-ray tube TV. Sometimes, when the antenna signal got deflected, or the vert and horiz were messed up, all the people and images on the screen would suddenly spasm into several versions of themselves, or the picture would start flipping top-to-bottom … Continue reading »
June 13, 2013
Nordpolen Journal: 6/14/13- Stabbur-Makrell, Jackdaws, and Wagtails
Oslo, Norway June 14, 2013 I’ve got an hour until my shuttle back to the airport for the final leg to Svalbard, and I have internet access… so guess what? A small blip from Norway! I was greeted at the Gardermoen Airport by rain and what I thought were crows, but I’ve now identified as … Continue reading »
June 11, 2013
Nordpolen Journal: 6/11/13- a dream before setting off for points unknown
San Francisco, CA June 11, 2013 Tomorrow’s the day. At 5:30 am I’ll get up in San Francisco and drink enough coffee to make me amenable to being awake, and then I’ll take a bus to a plane to a plane to a shuttle to a shuttle to a plane to a barquentine. It will … Continue reading »
June 6, 2013
Nordpolen Journal: 6/6/13- romanticizing the artist who suffers
San Francisco, CA June 6, 2013 I used to romanticize a lot of things: suffering, honor, polar bears. But strangely, I always hated canned sentiment, the kind Hallmark cards are notorious for, or the kind that happens when you are watching a movie and suddenly the music swells and you know you are being told … Continue reading »
June 1, 2013
Nordpolen Journal: 6/1/13- postcards to influential strangers 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19… and an answer!
San Francisco, California June 1, 2013 Please forgive my tardiness with posts, but I’ve been busy. I tend to make my projects complicated. It all started way back when I first used to decorate white shoeboxes with felt tip pens… every inch of space on the box HAD to be covered… and not just in … Continue reading »
May 27, 2013
Detroit Red Wings versus Chicago Blackhawks: what hockey sounds like to a poet
San Francisco, California Sunday, May 26, 2013 (Saturday’s game) Rosenball moves to the corner and shroud’s a pickle! Now at the blue line… down the boards… sticks a penalty to shrew Nefertiti icing a stickman. Cobb, the only non-liner vice conduct when Kareem defends a shark. Turns out to be the ref’s high dick … Continue reading »
Nordpolen Journal: 5/27/13- postcards to influential strangers 9
San Francisco, California Monday, May 27, 2013 Click here to see the list of 15. 9. Siouxsie Sioux: Siouxsie, other than the dead people on my list, wins the prize for most difficult to find a mailing address. There is nothing on any of her fan sites that I could discover. I spent an hour … Continue reading »
May 24, 2013
Nordpolen Journal: 5/24/13- postcards to influential strangers 6a, 6b, 7 and 8
San Francisco, California Friday, May 24, 2013 The next four postcards to people on my list of 15: 6(a)- Samuel Taylor Coleridge: 6(b)- Samuel Taylor Coleridge: 7. Leonard Nimoy: 8. T.S. Eliot: Filed under: arctic circle, Projects, Uncategorized Continue reading »
May 19, 2013
Nordpolen Journal: 5/19/13- Postcards to influential strangers 4 and 5
San Francisco, California Sunday May 19, 2013 The next two postcards to people on my list of 15: I’ve found it difficult not to expand my list over the past few days, but I’m resisting that. It’s enough for me to complete these fifteen. I’m open to suggestions from any of you who read this, as to … Continue reading »
