Category Archives: Journal

Hummingbird and Jade Plant – Private Garden – North End – Hagerstown, Maryland

Posted on September 9, 2012 by commart
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Change of Seasons – Change of Plans

Posted on September 9, 2012 by commart

I confess to exhaustion. You know when that hot Tuesday night music gig bumps to an even hotter Monday night gig that bumps away to Monday Night Football, that some things may not work, not because they won’t, but, perhaps … Continue reading →

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An Afternoon Out — And In

Posted on August 19, 2012 by commart

Get out the oatmeal bowl. In 1995, I was working for an “ISP” — Internet Services Provider — as a “Webmaster”.  Netscape was still a recent arrival back then (yup, sonny, sure was, uh huh) and web pages were slung … Continue reading →

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Done with Facebook Chatyping for the Week

Posted on August 11, 2012 by commart

At last I left the heavier peace and hate-peace group chatyping to others and managed to slip out of the apartment for a combined meeting over lunch and book  shopping in Front Royal, Virginia.  (Highly recommended stops in Front Royal: … Continue reading →

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Screened Storm – Balcony Garden – August 9, 2012

Posted on August 10, 2012 by commart
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Out on the Wild Wild World Wide Web

Posted on August 2, 2012 by commart

Say it three times fast. For the curious: the Martini (previous post): 2-oz. Bombay Dry Gin, 1/2-oz. Martini and Rossi Extra Dry Vermouth, 2 – old salad bar olives. I’m going to post this, stumble into the kitchen, and fix … Continue reading →

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Drowned

Posted on August 1, 2012 by commart
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Pass Along — “This History of English in Ten Minutes”

Posted on July 29, 2012 by commart

I’ll publish this also at Oppenheim Arts & Letters, just to amuse the one or two readers I have on that Typepad (hiss, boo) site. Listen: I like my Typepad site, as intellectual as it may be, and while it … Continue reading →

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Old Photographs

Posted on July 27, 2012 by commart

I don’t know when a photograph becomes an “old photograph”. Perhaps when one fiddles with it to look “old timey”? I do know I have on the desktop’s drives a healthy archive dating back to 2007, when I built my … Continue reading →

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Exclusive Return Engagement! JSO Back at the Georgia Boy Cafe! Biff! Bam! Boom! Monday Nights! Hagerstown, Maryland!

Posted on July 23, 2012 by commart

Wow! Tires me out just typing about it! In the vicinity!? See you there tonight, 7 – 10 p.m.! And now I shall rest by returning to the common . . . period. .

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About Walkabout on the North End, Hagerstown, Maryland

Posted on July 22, 2012 by commart

“It’s like Chevy Chase in the 1950s” said a friend of the North End neighborhood of Hagerstown, Maryland when I was scouting new digs in the wake of a building fire in central Maryland in 2006. I suppose as I … Continue reading →

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Green Shade Ra and Coleus, Balcony Garden, July 2012

Posted on July 22, 2012 by commart

Read: The Old Man and the Sea. Watched morning: Vol. 1 Woody Allen: A Documentary Watched evening: National Lampoon’s European Vacation Indulged: classic Martini — Tanqueray, dry Vermouth, two olives, stirred — and a New York strip steak from the Amish Market. Yummy. … Continue reading →

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