Archive for October, 2008
The depth of our own natures
A friend who lives in the wilds of transcendentalism, in the land of Thoreau and Emerson, told me not too long ago that his daily run sometimes took him on the path that circles Walden Pond. This same friend and his older brother were with me when I visited that pond for the very first time. [...]
Filed under: Book talk, Nature, Travels | 3 Comments
Tags: "In wilderness is the preservation of the world", Concord, Emerson, Mass., Thoreau, Thoreau quotation, transcendentalism, Walden, Walden Pond
Noodle the Poodle
A while back, I promised to write about my daughter’s poodle, Noodle. I hadn’t done it yet, and my daughter reminded me of this again last night, when she proudly told me over the phone that Noodle, just a few weeks past her first birthday) had graduated that morning from obedience school. When I asked [...]
Filed under: Pets | 3 Comments
Tags: AKC-registered poodles, American Kennel Club, dogs, Noodle the Poodle, obedience school, Pepe le Pew, Poodles
It’s unbelievable…
Sometimes there’s more bad news than good news. Sometimes there’s more good news than bad news. Sometimes it’s pretty much a 50-50 balance and then it’s a question of whether you see the glass as half and empty or or half full. Today’s good news is that Obama’s still apparently got a comfortable lead over McPalin, according to [...]
Filed under: Bob Dylan, Music, newspapers, Politics | Leave a Comment
Tags: "Unbelievable", "Under the Red Sky", Anchorage, Anchorage Daily News, Dylan, endorsements, Obama, usawakeup.org
The secret artist
I talked to my mother on the phone last night and she said: “I have a surprise for you.” ——————- My father died six years ago, just in his late 60s. He was in declining health for the last 10 years of his life, and retired early, and during those final years he did a [...]
Filed under: Art, Yonkers | 1 Comment
OK. I admit it. My name is Nicholas D. and I am addicted to continually checking to see how many daily, weekly and monthly visits have been recorded by the ever-increasing legion of fans who faithfully read World of Wonders. OK. I’m indulging in a bit of hyperbole. “Legion” might be a stretch and “fans” [...]
Filed under: Bob Dylan, Politics, Religion, UFOs, Vermont, Yonkers | 1 Comment
Tags: Alaska, Apocalypse, Bob Dylan, Book of Revelation, death, Federation of Light, Pete Seeger, Sarah Palin, Todd Palin, UFOs, Vermont, Yonkers
Yesterday I posted a brief commentary on Blossom Goodchild and the Federation of Light, and the former’s prediction that spaceships operated by the latter would appear over Alabama on Tuesday. I noted, about halfway through the day Tuesday, that the federation’s spaceship had not yet arrived, and so was hedging my bets — I wrote [...]
Filed under: UFOs | Leave a Comment
Tags: Blossom Goodchild, Federation of Light
Look, I’m no fool, as readers of this Web site may or may not attest. I can read and interpret statistics, especially when they pertain to me. So the way I interpret the hundreds of visits to my Web site to read a blog entry I posted last week about the impending visit by a space ship operated by the Federation [...]
Filed under: Religion, UFOs | 2 Comments
Tags: "Beverly Hills Chihuahua", aliens visit Alabama, Blossom Goodchild, Federation of Light
Eye on the sparrow
I’d thought of actress and singer Ethel Waters as someone who had caved in to the entertainment industry’s marginalization of black entertainers — I lumped her together with people like Sammy Davis Jr. I knew she had appeared in Vincente Minnelli’s all-black film “Cabin in the Sky.” knew about her Oscar nomination for her role [...]
Filed under: Book talk, Music | Leave a Comment
Tags: "A Member of the Wedding", "Beulah", "Cabin in the sky", "His Eye on the Sparrow", "Stormy Weather", black entertainers, black vaudeville, Ethel Waters, Jim Crow laws, Lena Horne, Vincente Minnelli
Dylan’s tell-tale heart
My son — who shares my belief that Bob Dylan is just about the closest thing there is to a music god — emailed to ask if I’d heard Dylan’s latest CD in the never-ending bootleg series, “Tell Tale Signs,” and also sent along a photo he’d found with the comment: “he looks really freakin [...]
Filed under: Bob Dylan, Music | 1 Comment
Tags: Bob Dylan, Tell Tale Signs
You say potato…
This is the latest in a series of essays titled “Man Has Premonition of Own Death” A friend reports: “My first memory of death is having to kiss my dead grandfather’s forehead and thinking it was like a cold potato.” My own first memory of death: My kindergarten teacher at P.S. 9 in Yonkers pointing [...]
Filed under: Man has premonition of own death, Non-fiction, Yonkers | Leave a Comment
Tags: death, death in fire, death of children, first memories of death
