Senses working overtime #289

 1 Truth and lies

2 Truth and lies (continued)

The best rundown of Donald and Rudy's bat shit crazy, bizarro, smoke and mirrors, snake oil, world I've read.

3 Guiliani and Trump, a.k.a. The Moon Men

4 Willie Nelson understands

5 Anne Tyler

Clock Dance is my latest Anne Tyler novel. It's hard to pinpoint why she's so brilliant. The writing appears to be effortless!

Overtime: Peter Gabriel

After reading a Mojo feature, I've rediscovered his 4th solo album this week (a.k.a. Security). It's even more brilliant than I remember it being.

Senses working overtime #286

 1 Edgar Rice Burroughs' covers

I'm always amazed at the artwork that adorns pulp fiction novels by Edgar Rice Burroughs

2 Why arrogance is dangerously contagious

3 America votes and the rest of us look on in amazement!

Let's hope they make the right choice.

4 Is this the end of American optimism?

5 Springsteen and the art of aging well

Overtime: Nearly 80 kph downhill...on a bike!

Overtime: RIP Nobby

Senses working overtime #243

1 and 2 Zen garden

Holidays, so I've been enjoying reading in my zen garden or else...

...Sitting here and listening to the bird sounds.

3 Poetry Corner

The Museum Two lovers went to the museum and wandered the rooms. He saw a painting and stood in front of it for too long. It was a few minutes before she realized he had gotten stuck. He was stuck looking at a painting. She stood next to him, looking at his face and then the face in the painting. What do you see? she asked. I don't know, he said. He didn't know. She was disappointed, then bored. He was looking at a face and she was looking at her watch. This is where everything changed. There was now a distance between them. He was looking at a face but it might as well have been a cabbage or a sugar beet. Perhaps it was something about yellow near pink. He didn't know how to say it. Years later he still didn't know how to say it, and she was gone.  Richard Siken (2015)

4 Tarzan Of The Apes

Just finished Edgar Rice Burroughs' Tarzan Of the Apes. The hard copy version (from Little Red Book Shop). I don't recall ever reading it before and was pleasantly surprised how well it was written.

5 Blue Angel

Now onto this novel. So far, so good. Apart from the central relationship (professor and a promising student), not sure why the cover is an old image - it's set in this century. Gives a false impression.

Overtime: Cool jazz
Nothing better than some Dave Brubeck on the hot summer's day.