Here’s the Question

Do you think this man: Resembles the man in the suit in this picture? No matter how much I try to convince myself that I’m seeing things, I feel like I do. Nose, cheeks, mouth. I’m going to have to ask my dad. The top photo is one of Philip Phillips’s descendents. The man in [...]

The Buddha

The Masons have it. And other items from Ben Allen. I am so excited I can hardly sit still. I’m going tomorrow morning to look at them. The man I talked to on the phone says they learned that Ben Allen and his buddies had seances in the basement of the Old Scottish Rite building–had [...]

“This Song of Love”

This is absolutely one of my favorite songs sung in the shape note fashion. But I think it’s because it almost sounds like calliope music. If you’re not familiar with shape note singing, what you’re going to hear at first is them going through the song singing the names of the notes–Doe, Ray, Me, Fah, [...]

Hit By a Wave of Fretting

I know I’ve said it before, but one of the hardest things for me at this stage in my life is that I’ve believed, for my whole life prior to my late 30s, that, if something is not right–either externally or internally–if you can figure out why it’s fucked up, even if you can’t fix [...]