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Getting Inducted into NFL Hall of Fame?
Tuesday February 8th, 2017 “We stand with you” a tiny post it on the door of the Yemeni laundromat. “How are you?”, “I’m okay, everyone is fine.” We talk about…
Read MoreListening Out the Window
Bird bones and slate stones, Found objects in temporary homes, Pristine inside the gallery walls, Safe between the leaves of the museum brochure. Representations of nature, From the comfort of…
Read MorePhotographs from Women’s March on Washington
Overheard on the Q53 Bus
Overheard on the Q53 – St. Stephen’s Day, Dec 26th 2016 “What do they do at their church, Daddy?” “They pray.” “Like how you pray at at the mosque Daddy?”…
Read MoreA Battle We Must Fight
Cork – Dublin Train – December 23rd, 2016 The 2.20pm train pulls slowly around the bend and out of Cork’s Kent station. Passing my old school red bricked and…
Read MoreVienna, Paris, Drogheda
Flight is delayed. I should still be fine. I hear Dan Donnelly in my ear saying stop being such “wee uptight bastard”. Dan is not here you understand that. If…
Read MoreTaking the Train with Bruce Springsteen.
December 10th, 2016 – My Mother’s Birthday Train from Cologne to Wesel 7.47am I’ve been touring with Bruce Springsteen. Did I mention that? Yeah, on this, carrying my own equipment…
Read MoreAdvent in Brooklyn
Advent in Brooklyn Already two bottles of liquor on the counter at Meat Market. Customer appreciation, the Brooklyn-Italian way. It produces a feeling akin to the season’s first airing of…
Read MoreRIP Leonard Cohen
“Everybody got this broken feeling like their father or their dog just died.” Leonard Cohen, ‘Everybody Knows’ A week is a long time in politics. How different a country do…
Read MoreA) Baseball and Circus B) Big City Folk Song Club
The ugliness of the election. On both sides, anyone with senses feels soiled. The ugliness of the election contrasted with the natural beauty of Autumn in the north east.…
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