“But now her own big brain was urging her to take the polyethylene garment bag from around a red evening dress in her closet there in Guayaquil, and to wrap it around her head, thus depriving her cells of oxygen.” – Kurt Vonnegut, Galapagos The truth is, I’ll never have time to completely appreciate one […]
Danny Moore is one of twelve members of Colorado’s Independent Congressional Redistricting Committee. The other eleven members – Four Democrats, four Independents, and the three other Republicans – recently voted to remove Moore from his role as Committee Chair after some of his Facebook posts had been revealed by the Colorado Springs Gazette and other
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All who know his shop call him Harry, though shop called “Nelson’s Books.” Dmitri call own boss Harry, only because he ask to do so. Not mathematician, Dmitri have counted hairs left on Harry’s head so many time that sure: three left, very long, most carefully arrangéd in halo formation, and quite right so, for
Sitting in tavern on South Wabash, look up, see on television set one very, very ugly man, black man with great growth on forehead, huge shoulder, neck. Think, another show about black criminal everyone fear here. No. Grotesque black giant open mouth and Dmitri expect curse, but instead sing. With voice that angel if were
At lunch today, took stroll in Grant Park, in rain so gentle nearly hover, coat open to almost warm that now for three days bless this February. Much dirty snow have percolated into ground, revealing umber shingles leaves and flatted grass already perking, like boy hair in bed at dawn. And what rich smell of
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Forward Dmitri Ashkanov first crossed my path in the early 1990s at Nelson’s Books where he worked as a clerk. For a couple of years, we spent a fair amount of time together, in the bookstore and in the taverns and coffee shops down around van Buren. Dmitri didn’t bother with personal resumes when he