Category Archives: Journal

Sabbath, July 20, 2012

Posted on July 20, 2012 by commart

I don’t now whether to call this evening freedom with plenty or an old bachelor’s solitary confinement, but I know I’m going to rest alone over that question the better part of a day. For causes bad and good, I … Continue reading →

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Old Stories

Posted on July 20, 2012 by commart

I’ve just posted four pieces of old short-short fiction. “Tandem”,   the last published, made it into The North American Review.   I’m too tired here to go hunting up the year, but I do recall being paid $20 for … Continue reading →

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July’s Stormy Hot Weather Retreat

Posted on July 19, 2012 by commart

“Gal Pal”: married! Georgia Boy, Tuesday Nights: done. Staycation: on. I really don’t want to be bothered. Although there are many ways for being bothered. First to go: the volunteer analyzing, arguing, and tracking both the Islamic Small Wars and … Continue reading →

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Gig Bumped by the Skyla Burrell Blues Band Jam

Posted on July 18, 2012 by commart

All gig things must pass, and after playing Tuesday nights for about nine months at The Georgia Boy Cafe on the south side of Hagerstown, well . . . I feel due for a month’s true vacation. A month of … Continue reading →

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Old Work

Posted on July 16, 2012 by commart

I’ve not a lot to say about old work. It should go without saying that my so far very small adventure in photography started with a manual Single Lens Reflect (SLR) camera, a Minolta SRT 100, and Tri-X film and … Continue reading →

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Quiet

Posted on July 16, 2012 by commart

Old pictures don’t tell stories, but old photographers do. I am only drifting. I am only not talking.

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A Thumbs-Up for Englander’s Most Recent Collection of Short Stories

Posted on July 15, 2012 by commart

Englander, Nathan.  What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank: Stories.  New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2012. Following my Bar Mitzvah, I journeyed off forty years in the American Wildness. America affords every man this much: a smorgasbord of employments … Continue reading →

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Toward Minimalism

Posted on July 13, 2012 by commart

I’ve just spent a lifetime verbose, steeped in language and spewing back the same on the web. What if — and I feel this more than ask — I now dropped the words, providing signal only for curiosity, a noun … Continue reading →

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Good Spirit

Posted on July 12, 2012 by commart

I played well last night. Friends stopped by to listen; diners I don’t know stayed a little longer: probably, the bar made some money. I fear irony. Really, I do. Be careful what you wish for — you might just … Continue reading →

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Rounds of a Day

Posted on July 9, 2012 by commart

As most do, this day started with Facebook, politics, and the middle east and other conflict chatter, ever stimulating territory, rather like the family table if you’ve had a family spoiling to fight (er, um, “discuss things”, albeit with a … Continue reading →

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19th Century Modern

Posted on July 8, 2012 by commart

“Commart” (“commart”) has had a bit of a life online dating back to about 1995. Before then, my fellow old codgers may remember, we had dial-up bulletin boards and, for a while, America Online helping us signal through our physical … Continue reading →

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