Personal Notes
A brief and wholly inadequate explanation for my silence, this week.
Somehow, I’ve fallen behind on everything, in the past couple of weeks, so I’ve been trying to catch up a little this weekend. I’ve also been sorting through spreadsheets, trying to figure out the fluctuations of millions of dollars flowing into Tiverton’s school district. While I had Microsoft Excel open, I thought I’d relax the…
Surely family schedules had more to do with it than the less whimsical shifts of nature, but New England’s famed “foliage season” had a mythical quality, when I was still an adolescent Jersey boy. Actually, “mythical” is not quite right, because I’d had some experience of it and, of course, New Jersey lacks neither trees…
My peculiar visage is currently at the top of Ted Nesi’s WPRI.com blog, mentioning my essay in Proud to Be Right: His contribution is a seven-page essay titled “A Nonconforming Reconstruction” that recounts his experience as a Gen X conservative and his belief that “the peculiarity of our time is that one must … be…
After a mild complaint from another Justin Katz, with whom I’ve been communicating since I discovered his band online in 1999, that I was only using justinkatz.com as a forwarding site to Dust in the Light, which at this point is essentially a manual summary feed of what I write here and elsewhere, I felt…
It’s been a rough week. On top of the bite of local politics and the demand on one’s time that being a political insurgent tends to make in the midst of important events, the workdays have been less and less pleasant for the past couple of weeks. My employer is attempting to make up for…
I couldn’t but scale back my pitch during my call to Matt Allen, knowing that he’d subsequently be speaking with a representative of the Red Cross concerning the dire need for money to help the people of Haiti. Simply put, there’s no comparison to be found in everyday life to this sort of catastrophe: Haitians…
Merry Christmas to all Anchor Rising contributors, commenters and readers–the whole Anchor Rising Family! Thanks for the intellectual “gifts” you give every day. Now take a day off and enjoy Christmas with your families!
Shortly after commenter BobN mentioned Guido Beach in response to my post on reality TV, I came across this related post by Ed Driscoll. Driscoll points the way to this early/mid-’90s video about Wildwood, New Jersey, which as it happens was the specific site of my own early-’90s Jersey Shore romps. It’s all coming back…