Magazine illustration, 1925.
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A MOVIE STILL FOR TODAY
From Distant Drums, 1951 — a “Florida Western”.
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A PIN-UP GIRL FOR TODAY
PROSE
Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over.
— Ernest Hemingway, Death In the Afternoon
This simple proposition, if widely understood, would wipe out most modern literature at a stroke, and the world would be better off for it.
ISAAC
Thinking of my pals in the Crescent City as tropical storm Isaac careens towards Key West, past which it is expected to pick up strength, perhaps to hurricane force, and slam into the U. S. somewhere along the north Gulf Coast on Wednesday, the 7th anniversary of Katrina. I know Isaac means “he who laughs” but hitting New Orleans on that anniversary would be less than amusing.
My pals occupy high ground in New Orleans and I’m sure they’ve got a good supply of absinthe on hand to help ride out the storm if necessary, so I’m hoping for the best.
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HE WHO GETS SLAPPED
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AN HENRI CARTIER BRESSON FOR TODAY
Even though a woman be a whore, yet if she be a good whore a man thinks well of her at the time and sometimes after.
— Ernest Hemingway, Death In the Afternoon
AN LP COVER FOR TODAY
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FROM THE CUSHMAN ARCHIVE
Bull ring, Cuidad Juarez, 1954.
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AN ARGOSY COVER FOR TODAY
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I BESEECH YOU, AMERICA
. . . by the bowels of Christ, wake the fuck up!
IN THE FIGHTING CHAIR
. . . peering into The Stream. I know I’ve set out the right baits but that’s no guarantee that the big fish will rise to them on any given day.
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IN THE REAL WORLD
WHAT I’M SPINNING NOW
I’d rather die happy than not die at all, for a man is a fool who will not heed the call . . .
SISTERS
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