Great-Grandsons of Marvin & Zelda

Noah, Mason, & Brandon

Down to the Beltway

Amtrak studies. Surprise visit from Lo!

Dad 2 2.

Mily & Dan

Presenting: Brandon Scott!

Brothers.

 Gramma time!

Mamis everywhere.

Gee-Zee

Gypsy high-chair.

Con la tia Milena!

Working the Borscht Belt.

Stay tuned for scenes from next week's episode of, The Bachelor.

Rowing lessons from Pamela.

Waitin' for that train.

Great Books according to Pupazul

The Disenchanted 

by Budd Schulberg   (Really a story about drunken F.S. Fitzgerald's boozy last years in Hollywood)

What Makes Sammy Run  

by Budd Schulberg  (page turner about Hollywood ambition.  Hard boiled 1940s dialogue)

The Narrow Corner 

by Somerset Maugham  (a colonial steamer-ride to Southeast Asia, when it was really off the map)

The Reserve  

by Russell Banks  (just good writing.  A writer that's gotten better with age!)

Last Night at the Lobster 

by Stewart O'Nan  (A deep journey into that Red Lobster, in the mall parking lot, during a blizzard)

The Pat Hobby Stories 

by F.S.Fitzgerald (He got paid less than $100 a story, and needed every cent.  Real potboilers and page turners)

Roughing It 

by Mark Twain  (Steamships, gold rush, mormons, San Francisco and the world)

Music of Chance  

by Paul Auster  (setting + 2 characters = story)

Revolutionary Road 

by Richard Yates (Best captures suburbs)

Car 

by Harry Crews  (A man eats a car.)

Feast of Snakes 

by Harry Crews

The Fork River Space Project 

by Wright Morris (great short novel if you can find it)

The Nuclear Age 

by Tim O'Brien 

Alas Babylon  

(apocalypse comes to Florida)

Cloudsplitter 

by Russell Banks  (John Brown gets all messianic and takes his family along with.)

Aftermath 

by Brian Shawver  (More dark tales of suburban restaurant management) 

American Brutus 

by Michael Kauffman  (John Wilkes Booth:  Another messianic son)

Finn 

by Jon Clinch  (Dark Americana inwhich the blindly ambitious heretic always returns to the River.)  

A Bend in the River 

by VS. Naipaul  (What do YOU know about East Africa?)

Rimbaud:  A Biography 

by Graham Robb  (The first documented counter cultural romantic warrior poet  (before the days of institutionalized, dorm-room poet-revolutionaries.  Real blood, mud, diahrea, sexand  disappearance).

Mark Twain: A Life  

by Ron Powers  (The man went around the world making people laugh from Hannibal, MO. to Northern India).

Stride Toward Freedom 

by Martin Luther King  (Before he was a postage stamp)

The Road 

by Cormac McCarthy (Father and Son and apocalypse)

Youth 

by Josef Conrad 

Short Stories 

by Haruki Murakami  (Opens up ideas of narrative)

Cannery Row 

by John Steinbeck  (Take me to the Palace Flophouse).

Whistle 

by James Jones (WWII aftermath)

The Quiet American 

by Graham Greene  (Colonialism turns into the Vietnam War)

A Rumor of War 

by Philip Caputo  (Vietnam war memoir that reads like fiction . . . but it ain't).

Ask the Dust 

by John Fante  (Los Angeles on less than 5 cents a day).

Harpo Speaks

by Harpo Marx

Invisible Man

by Ralph Ellison

Mother Night, Breakfast of Champions, Slapstick

by Kurt Vonnegut

Hard Times

by Studs Terkel

(Interviews with americans in the Great Depression.  It was bad.)

Underworld 

by Don DeLillo

(It's long.  I read it once on several busses in Mexico.  I skimmed the parts about baseball, but it pretty much captured something about the United States from 1950-2000).

Short Stories

by Somerset Maugham

(Again, dust off the leather-bound volumes at your grandmother's house).

April Parade

by Richard Yates

Book of Illusions

by Paul Auster

(Silent movies in a book)

Oracle Night

by Paul Auster

(Trapped in a bomb shelter in KC, MO).

Lorca: A Dream of Life

by Leslie Stainton

(A biography of the Andalusian poet.  From Granada to the world via trains and steamships.)

Dharma Bums, Desolation Angels

by Jack Kerouac

(I read them before I ever saw San Francisco or the mountains out west.  I guess that they have something to do with how I got there.)

Makes Me Wanna Holler

by Nathan McCall

(Loaned to me in a dorm in Washington DC.   A true story of growing up a black man.)

Soledad Brother

by George Jackson

(Reflections from prison before his murder.)

The Strawberry Statement

by James Simon Kunen

(1968 Columbia University uprising.  "Never trust anyone over 3.")

In Cold Blood

by Truman Capote

(Don't read it in a farmhouse in western Kansas).

PrairyErth

by William Least-Heat Moon

(The Flint Hills in 4-dimensions)

The Fools Progress

by Edward Abby

(A western writer's requiem.)

Angle of Repose

by Wallace Stegner

(Northern California in deep).

A Confederate General from Big Sur, Trout Fishing in America

by Richard Brautigan

(Goofing off in California).

The Darling

by Russell Banks

(Liberia mon amour)

Pelos de choza.

Hut hair.

Meanwhile, at a roadhouse in Jersey . . .

Keep it real.

Screen test #5480

Puffy Sweater

Sweater by "Bionic" Bonnie

(GET WELL SOON!!)

"Yes my son,
you will have a nose like that:

A proud nose, a long nose, a regal nose, a full nose . .

. . somewhere to hang your hat."



And, to Mr. Rubinoff,
(son of "Bionic" Bonnie):

"If a stone should lie in your path,

stand back,

and let the mighty stream of truth clear the way."

-Ezekiel, 4:32:1

5 Gears in Reverse

The 2 Step:

Lindolino