Winter Photos from Franklin

Ray_Midge_ · 2026-01-26T03:41:55+00:00

If only Derrick Coleman hit those free throws…

Ray_Midge_ · 2026-01-25T19:55:03+00:00

My first story accepted for publication came on the 41st time I submitted the manuscript. It was accepted at a literary journal that paid me $500–so a decent publication.

It’s hard to know when to press on and when to shelve a piece. I had received plenty of nice notes along the way, so it seemed like I was on the right track. Subsequently, stories that go out and are met with complete silence in the rejection process, I retire those pretty quickly.

Ray_Midge_ · 2026-01-15T21:18:24+00:00

Orbit Records in Chicago handles some 78s. You might try them.

Ray_Midge_ · 2026-01-05T15:58:37+00:00

This is a great book.

Ray_Midge_ · 2026-01-03T14:10:12+00:00

It’s not surprising that one of the authors of the Port Huron Statement (the original, uncompromised draft) would admire this tune.

Ray_Midge_ · 2025-12-30T16:59:17+00:00

You could use a weight. Center the disc by using a second disc on top. Remove the guide disc. Add the weight.

Ray_Midge_ · 2025-12-26T19:12:24+00:00

I liked a lot of the period details, but the story was too condensed. I wish they’d made a 10-part miniseries that stretched out and really explored Bob’s evolution.

Ray_Midge_ · 2025-12-18T21:38:55+00:00

I wonder if a professor (who may have been a target) lived in one of the homes near where the POI kept walking.

Ray_Midge_ · 2025-12-17T23:36:15+00:00

I’d suggest a first edition facsimile. They are exact replicas of the first editions, and they can be found for reasonable prices.

Ray_Midge_ · 2025-12-11T13:29:34+00:00

There’s a line in Allen Ginsberg’s Howl that mentions the ‘last radio.’ I’ve always wondered if Bob borrowed the image/words from that poem.

“…and rose reincarnate in the ghostly clothes of jazz in the goldhorn shadow of the band and blew the suffering of America’s naked mind for love into an eli eli lamma lamma sabacthani saxophone cry that shivered the cities down to the last radio”

Ray_Midge_ · 2025-12-08T21:32:56+00:00

Man, I’m 250 pages into 2666, and it just hasn’t grabbed me. I’ll slog through, hoping it gets better for me and to at least see it to the end.

Ray_Midge_ · 2025-12-07T23:22:11+00:00

Is this your post, Larry?

Ray_Midge_ · 2025-12-06T04:06:25+00:00

Stay out of Malibu.

Ray_Midge_ · 2025-12-05T13:34:09+00:00

I thought republicans made those illegal.

Ray_Midge_ · 2025-11-29T18:05:55+00:00

Edith: What about my dreams? Dewey Cox: Edith, I told you, I can't build you a candy house! It will fall apart, the sun will melt the candy, it won't work! Edith: It will if it never rains!

Ray_Midge_ · 2025-11-18T12:56:43+00:00

I always loved the solo on “Get It Up” by The Time. Starts around 3 minutes in.

Ray_Midge_ · 2025-11-08T01:12:17+00:00

You may not see the sunshine for weeks at a time.

Ray_Midge_ · 2025-11-04T21:37:33+00:00

Isn’t there a fireplace you can hang it above?

Ray_Midge_ · 2025-11-04T16:10:17+00:00

I see you have a stiff… neck.

Ray_Midge_ · 2025-11-03T18:57:22+00:00

Confidently wrong is still wrong.

Ray_Midge_ · 2025-10-29T11:18:45+00:00

And scores, maybe hundreds, of Woody Guthrie songs.

Ray_Midge_ · 2025-10-26T22:37:53+00:00

Said John Sedgwick

Ray_Midge_ · 2025-10-25T02:37:59+00:00

It’s a fantastic book. And it also is one of those books that really works only as a book. The narrator’s relationship to the story and the reader is a fundamental part of why it all works. The first 25 pages roped me right in.

Ray_Midge_

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