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Sayaka’s Fish

Sayaka’s Fish

Hey– When I travel , I try to use my ears and eyes more than anything else, and let a smile be my passport. Last year when I went to Tokyo, I we...
Art Carp Japan Tokyo
Songbird for Moe Dalitz

Songbird for Moe Dalitz

“We’re bigger than US Steel.“ -Hyman Roth to Michael Corleone in THE GODFATHER II There is a scene in the movie Bugsy, in which Benjamin Seigel ...
The Cleveland Songbird

The Cleveland Songbird

Last year I was quite fond of saying that there were only three magical cities in America–New York, Chicago and New Orleans; the rest of it was ...
The Oil Beast

The Oil Beast

I have a love for Mythological creatures–monsters, mermaids, Selkies, golems and whatnot– angels of death. . . Being a refugee from Catholicism,...
Art New Orleans
FireCat of the Tokyo Hotel, Chicago

FireCat of the Tokyo Hotel, Chicago

The Tokyo Hotel on Ohio, in Chicago, is a shithole.  It’s the kind of place I once feared I’d be found dead in.  The customer reviews for this p...
Art Cat Cherry Blossom Tokyo Ueno Park
The Fire Cat

The Fire Cat

This comes from a story I once tried to write as a young kid about a man who gives  a woman a fire-colored cat in order to win her heart.  She i...
Art
The Sky at Akron

The Sky at Akron

It seems the Blue Tip Ohio Girls are becoming a body of work.  I’m kind of hypnotized by them.  The more of them I make, the more Ohio stories I...
Akron Art Ohio
Tiny Ohio

Tiny Ohio

In the last couple of elections, Ohio has been designated as a “battleground” state.  It seems an obstinate place; a state that rather enjoys th...
Art Ohio
Blue Ohio

Blue Ohio

My favorite poet is from Ohio.  James Wright wrote When Autumn Begins in Martin’s Ferry Ohio.   It is a sad, autumnal ode to the beginning of fo...
Art James Write Ohio Poem
Ohio Blue Match Girl

Ohio Blue Match Girl

  When I was a kid, I did four months in Boy Scouts.  It cured me of camping.   The sleeping outside in a tent in the rain with another guy was ...
Art Girl Hobo Matches
The Devil’s Songbird

The Devil’s Songbird

There is a part at the end of No Country for Old Men, where Tommy Lee Jones’ character, a sheriff, gives up and, over his morning coffee explain...
Art Bird Catholic Devil Nuns School
Indian Plume (For Crazy Horse)

Indian Plume (For Crazy Horse)

Crazy Horse stole his first wife.  Black Buffalo Woman was married to another  man named No Water.  Crazy Horse just up and stole her and, in ...
Art Crazy Horse Great Depression Haiti