The Artist

Irritating,original& remarkable...

Pained

U.S. Grant -- Looks like -- Van Gogh -- Self portrait -- Of the battles -- To come...

CPL Peppers

Rain -- This Beatles cover -- Band -- Must be -- A joke -- How dare they -- Pretend -- But then -- On PBS presents -- I was floored -- By how -- Almost, almost real -- They were -- Them -- True to -- The music -- As much as -- Another can -- False -- Of course -- But I'll be -- God damned -- Because the Beatles -- Cheated us -- So much -- Studio albums -- That just -- To hear -- Live -- Anyone's -- Version...

Everyman

Mark Twain -- Branagh -- Doing -- Shakespeare...

Still Crazy

Insipid,adolescent junk...

The Descendents

TV movie. If no Clooney no one watches...

My Week With Marilyn

Excellent...No one can be Marilyn but Michelle Williams does well...Touching, funny, sad...Branagh as Larry Olivier, priceless, and uttering any Shakespeare, Branagh brings it close...Poor, glorious Marilyn...

National Desk

Brian Williams -- Got it -- Right -- About the United States -- Of America -- Former tress -- Telephone poles & wires -- That come down -- In storming weather -- Leaving us -- In the dark --Out of date -- Out of luck -- With no -- Alternative future...

Gulliver's Apples

Laptops -- And their -- Users -- Like Lilliput -- Had drive-in -- Movies...

30 Rockette

Holy -- Rockefeller Center -- I'm in love with -- Liz Lemon...

Prince Moses

Tahrir Square -- These Pharoah chariots -- As the Hebrews -- Look on -- From the past...

J. Edgar

Had its moments,but forgot it as soon as I left the theatre...And wasn't that always Leo the kid as Hoover...Strange little accent too...

Many Rivers To Cross

Occupy -- The Outward Bound -- Of the -- Mob...

Bounty Full

Left some cheese out -- Over a night -- On the cutting board -- Just to get -- A sense,a scent -- Of an HMS -- On a long -- Voyage...

Martha Marcy May Marlene

Gruesome -- why was it even made...The Manson Family reminder...Why...

Wholly Spirit

The Camino -- Vaya con dios -- Mi amigo -- Peregrino...

Candy Man

Happy Valley -- Like a Sleepy Hollow -- A Headless Horseman -- In the -- Varsity shower...

Turkey Shoot

October -- And November -- The Mayflower -- Once again -- Drops anchor...

The Skin I Live In

Lush, creepy,Pedro does a version of women & men again...Antonio lookin' sleek & slim...

Ear Ache

At the end -- Of poems -- Will there be -- Wheat fields -- Will there be -- Crows...

Rum Diary

Johnny Depp channeling Hunter S. Thompson...Shallow & hollow...

Afternoons With Margueritte

Wonderful, delightful,funny,somewhat tragic...Gerard Depardieu going about 400 lbs is somewhat tragic...

Take Shelter

Too much goo for not enough pay-off...

November -- The calm before -- The shivering -- Timbers...

Mary Christmas

For the gifts -- That truly -- Count -- Shouldn't we sit -- In Mrs. Claus' -- Lap...

Fertile Crescent

Libya's -- Was Mussolini -- Except -- The Vatican -- Doesn't get -- A cross -- On the flag -- Of Italy...

Rest In iPeace

Steve Jobs -- Merlin's garage...

The Thing

The newest one was...

The Way

Very nice, very beautiful. Takes some getting used to the almost cliche characters and the ornery Matin Sheen, but in the end very nice...

Built In A Day Dream

The thought -- Of a -- Roman Legion -- Spread on the plain -- Of Iberia -- Banners and eagles -- Dust on their -- Red cloaks -- Sun on their armor -- Battle orders -- By blaring trumpets -- The clang -- Of empire -- Chilling -- Magnificent...

Black Bombshell

Angela Davis -- That fro -- Plumped out -- And proud -- Like the catepillar's -- And Black Power's -- Mushroom cloud...

Girl Band

Twins -- A bouquet -- Two petals -- One stem...

Roger Wilco

His -- 61 -- As Hemingway said --" Winner take nothing..."

Moneyball

The finest sports movie I've ever seen. Usually a sports movie just doesn't seem real. Takes awhile to get used to Brad Pitt as Beane -- I've been ruined? by great foreign films when you don't know the actors who can truly become the characters. But, all the Moneyball comes out fine, a beautiful film to look at...

Light In The Forest

Spring back -- Fall forward -- Just for now -- Just for -- October...

Tree Of Life

Tires & Hammocks -- Swing low -- Sweet chariots...

Griffith Observatory

Maps -- To the -- Stars -- "Look down the driveway, folks -- And you'll see -- Galileo -- In his -- Garage..."

Carthageville

The Barbary -- Coast -- Miles and miles -- Of Libya -- Like Jimmy Buffet -- Found the -- Salt...

Universal Truth

Why -- Are the planets -- Round -- To everything -- Turn turn...

Boiled In Oils

Couch potato -- The pasha of -- Idaho...

Surfs Up Yours

Long Island -- Never appeared -- In a Beach Boys -- Song -- But "everybody's got an ocean..." -- How you doin' -- Long Beach -- New York...

Twenty-Seven

Jim -- Jimmi -- Janis -- And -- Amy -- If George Castanza -- Named -- Rosemary's -- Baby...

The Help

Yoda vs The Stepford wives...Makes you cringe and laugh out loud silly...Overdone fried chicken...Skeeter like Lisa Simpson...

Bow Ties

My subject -- Matter -- Maybe like -- Thiebaud -- Things that aren't -- Commonly -- Painted...

Wild Kingdom

Vegan -- Natives -- Hunting -- For -- Gatherers...

Canoe Rentals

There's -- No more -- Fishing -- On -- Lake Michigan -- One lone -- Fur trapper -- One lone -- Indian...

US Open Tennis

Serena lays waste to the white chicks..."Help"... Novak? Long shot -- David Ferrer...

$24

The -- High Line -- Has -- Subdued -- Manhattan...

Mall Cop

Too much -- Mao -- Never been -- South --Too much --  Russian -- Never sat a -- Lunch counter --All -- Too much -- Never rode -- A bus -- Too stone -- Dr. King -- Not so sure...

Another Earth

Seemed contrived... The other earth was silly... Like two different movies...But Brit Marling was beautiful to look at... A good premise ruined by a bad one...

Bravehearts

Lincecum -- And Cain -- And pray for -- Rain...

Western Bank

Benjamin Netanyahoo -- If he doesn't -- Find peace -- And if he -- Does -- A shepard's -- Shout out -- To ...

Devil's Double

Sick to your stomach, to everyone' great credit...Dominic Cooper almost brilliant...

Cowboys & Aliens

Nice premise -- Must all the aliens land in the 50's? But junk after that, the aliens unimaginative, like Super 8...The lines that Harrison Ford has to grind out...A bad TV movie with F Troop Indians, and poor Adam Beech as a dumb Apache.. Olivia Wilde, creepy beautiful...Daniel Craig for about ten minutes...Poor Sam Rockwell...Dumb & Dumber Paul Dano...

Miss Takes

After -- The fact -- My inner -- Account -- Keeps track...

Me And My Woody

Huntington Beach -- California -- Surfing's -- US Open -- All high schools -- And colleges -- Have released -- Their women -- And there -- I stood -- Unable to -- Breathe -- In the tanned -- Two piece -- World -- Of a -- Brian Wilson -- Symphony...

Ushering Us In

This -- Debt ceiling -- Isn't there a -- Room somewhere -- In Poe -- That slowly crushes -- Its occupants...

Bogey Man

D.B. Cooper -- The Bigfoot -- Of the -- Bureau...

Full Lot

Weeds -- Like calling -- Nature -- Just mean...

Ground Control

Weeds -- On the -- Runway -- Tumbleweed -- Takeoffs -- A far greater -- Loss -- Than choked up -- Sidewalks...

Father

Met -- Chuck Yeager -- A Hemingway -- Without the -- Hemingway -- Behavior...

Family Restaurant

Livingston, California -- Not the central valley -- Chicken -- Just the McDonald's -- Off ramp -- Where -- Hung on the -- Walls -- The immaculate -- Sporting teams -- Of -- Livingston -- High School...

Pacific

Balboa's -- Park -- If only -- After he -- And the horses -- And the armor -- And the steel -- And the cannons -- And the dogs -- And the muskets -- Disembarked...

Google Head Night

The head -- Down -- Generation -- Nodding not -- At knowledge -- Just information...

Madison Square Garden

In the -- Shadow -- Of the -- Towers -- Like them -- Cringing -- Eve & Adam...

Buzz Saw

A bee-hive -- For a -- Bonnet -- Always poking -- With a stick -- Poor -- Amy Winehouse...

Water Dance

The Colorado River -- In the best sense -- Of the term -- Indian -- Giver...

Captain America

Fast food -- after you're done there's nothing left to remember...

Lightning

Yellowstone -- Visitor -- Hiking -- Minding his own -- Biz -- When in the trail -- Sow with cubs -- A mama grizz -- So -- One moment -- You are living -- And the next -- You are -- Ripped -- To shreds...

Along Fellow

Paul Revere -- I do -- Regardless of -- What anyone else -- Might have -- Heard...

Thieves Of Baghdad

There's this -- Brand new jet -- Of ours -- For shooting -- I guess -- Enemy Arabs -- Rockets and detectors -- Armor and radar -- Flying across -- The deserts at -- Mac per -- Miles an hour -- While on the ground -- And in the air -- Might as well be -- Flying carpets...

Bough House

Architecture -- Needs to be -- Rejuvenated -- Much like -- Gehry -- Helped to make it -- A neutral -- Metalic -- Essential -- Something now -- For center stage -- From the earth -- We live -- In...

Horrible Bosses

Ok -- Ridiculous but funny., at times -- Jennifer Aniston's body always good...

Beginners

Just a pleasant surprise. Wasn't going to bother. Very original -- cool and quirky -- Greenwich Village-ish...

Surf & Earth

We have -- Two -- Pan-handles -- One for -- Seafood -- And one for -- Cattle...

Wholly Water

Sure -- I'll pray for --Rain-- But not on -- My knees -- Just my arms -- Upraised -- Beseeching -- The clouds -- The way others -- Beseech -- That return...

Pop Gun

Soup cans -- And boxes of -- Brillo -- Why he isn't -- Called -- Andrew...

July

Kramer's fragrance -- On her neck -- Her breasts -- And her thighs...

Super 8

Would have been good if the alien hadn't been so ridiculous...

Short-Stop

Derek Jeter -- At 3,000 -- Now -- If he could -- Just get a -- Personality...

On Those We Depends

Who in the -- Hell -- Allowed for -- An oil pipeline -- Under the -- Yellowstone -- That just -- Burst -- Soiling -- Ourselves...

Conan Can't Stop

Two words -- Eddie Vedder... I don't know about the rest... Uncomfortable? Hard? Not funny enough? Sad? Dull? Too much Conan? No kidding, but...

Home Delivery

There's just -- Some states -- That shouldn't be -- Just two -- Letters -- Florida, California, Montana -- Are the best -- Examples...

Braw Man

Saxophones -- Like bagpipes -- Along the -- Jersey shore...

Freewheelin'

Highway 61 -- Revisited -- I never knew -- That's the road -- Out of -- Minnesota...

Whitey

One day -- Sitting on the -- Boston common -- And here comes -- Billy Bulger -- Brother of -- You know who -- Recently run to ground -- In Santa Monica -- California -- So I'm -- Shaking the hand -- Of he knew -- That -- Cain -- Was able...

Derek Jeter

One of the greats of course. Grew up with the Yankees in my blood but they're all strangers now except for the core. Jeter gets 3,000 and graciously retires,hopefully...

Tree Of Life

Over-wrought. What, Terrence Malick over-wrought. Too much of too short a subject matter.. Cameras in their faces...The Science Channel meets Eugene O'Neil? They shouldn't...

Blanket Coverage

Sitting -- In the shade -- Of a weeping willow tree -- Like some living laboratory -- All sorts of bugs -- Crawling --All over me -- All manner of legs, antennas and colors -- Feeling both -- Privileged and uncomfortable...

Furay - Stills & Young

Buffalo Springfield -- Together again -- Like the truth -- Become a -- Pipe's dream...

Edge's Razor

Hands off -- Malibu -- That means -- U2...

Midnight In Paris

A bit thin, but delightful, meeting the Paris of the 20's and those artists...Adrien Brodie as Dali is Oscar stuff..Hemingway speaking as Hemingway prose...The actors unknown who inhabit the artists make you think that...Except for Kathy Bates -- too familiar to pass...Ms Cotillard like Venus among the stars...Ms Bruni and Lea Seydoux...Too beautiful.. I wasn't ,all through with the master, so I just read the review...I'm now sorry I did...To be surprised by the whole business...Curse the film critics for spilling so much...

Earth To Spain

El Bulli -- Is finished -- Like NASA -- Returning to -- The soup -- And the sandwich...

June Swoon

In this -- Arab Spring -- Of events -- Short lived -- What blooms -- In the -- Desert...

Gold Dust

Down to -- San Diego -- Through -- Death Valley -- There's always -- A paradise -- At the end of -- Every California -- Journey...

June

Like a porch -- Is a room...

Studio 32,000

Horses -- In charcoal -- Picasso -- In -- Buffalo Robes...

Ozmosis

Lions and bears and bison -- Oh,my -- Antelope and horses and rhinos -- And cave walls -- Of art...

Cave Of Forgotten Dreams

Don't much care for the title, but Werner Herzog takes us in, 32,000 years ago...Awe, that's all...Artists on the walls...The animals run, the animals pose... Their eyes are watching us...Who could they have been... The worship, the sharing of nature, long before what we consider religion... Torch light... Paw prints of bears & wolves...Silence and reverence..Magic & myth, reality mix...Unbroken for 20,000 years...My business card reads -- Cave Painter -- How I wish...

Incendies

Perfection? Almost. Almost a myth, but, again, the reality of how life is real. Painful and gorgeous. A triumph of art... What actors are capable of...

Win Win

Just a fine American film -- no flim, no flam -- proving once again that for all the explosions and super heroes, the smaller independents are always there to lift you up ,heartwarming and real...

French Open

Down & Dirty -- and two weeks of Francesa Shiavone....

Deuce Courtship

Sharapova -- Huntuchova -- Long,lovely legs -- Up to their -- Shoulders -- And beauty -- Why tennis -- Has love -- In the city -- Of Paris...

Even The Rain

Beautiful. Far away in Bolivia. The play within the play within the play. Columbus then and Columbus now. The natives suffer for gold and now for water. For all the animated & blockbuster crap, the cinema carries on...

Sports Too Illustrated

Broken hearted -- Tuscaloosa,Alabama -- A young woman -- I never knew -- Ripped from her -- Apt -- Flung in the air -- Broken neck -- The dead in a field -- Where the trees -- Were shattered -- Like Verdun -- And other sites of -- Devastating combat...

Rock n Rolling

Dylan -- Is -- 70 -- Moss -- Even if -- You keep -- Moving...

"When I Paint My Masterpiece"

Dylan -- Was -- Pollock -- A paint can -- Of -- Lyrics...

TORAH-TORAH

Joplin,Mo -- Like some -- Pharoah -- Who wouldn't -- Let go...

Soldados

The story of -- The San Patricios -- Irish-American immigrants -- Conscripted into -- The US Army -- To go and -- Destroy the -- Remember the Alamo -- Mexico -- But as they fought -- They realized -- That the Protestant Yankees -- Were the same -- From the old sod -- So believe it -- Or not -- The San Patricios -- Switched sides -- To fight with the -- Mexicans -- Beside them -- They died -- And those who survived -- Were hung -- By the neck -- For treason ( except to their beliefs ) -- That was their crime...

Say, Hey Wait A Minute

Willie is 80 -- How time flies -- To center...

P alestinian S tate

There will never be a peace between Israel and Palestine -- so why not try? It's so much talk...Eventually Israel must... Saw Miral..Nothin' much new to see, sort of dull...

Spellbound

Even -- The name -- Can't be -- Restrained -- Mississippi -- The word -- Reads like a -- Flood plain...

Don't Let The Pub Door

The Queen -- Comes to -- Dublin -- And should take -- Her leave -- By way of -- Northern Ireland...

Ireland

The Queen of England arrives in Dublin tomorrow.. Is it possible...What a moment in time...Up,down,sideways or in-between, this is some historical show...

Tar Pit

Pakistan -- Brer -- Taliban...

Freedom Fighters

How much news -- Comes out of -- Daraa -- Let's see -- There was -- Lawrence -- And this -- Current -- Arab -- Uprising...

Madre

I guess -- I could pray -- To the Virgin -- of -- Guadalupe -- Yet still -- Somewhere outside -- In the hope -- That she --  As human -- Understands -- Me...

Thor

Humiliating...

Jane Eyer

Didn't want to -- Thought I'd had enough of it -- But it was wonderful -- A Vermeer come to life...

Leather Berets

Eventually -- I guess -- Where the caves -- Had to -- Become -- France...

Flesh and Bone

They never chose -- Just -- The flat -- Or the even -- To make the animals -- Run -- Like muscle movement -- Every contour -- Had to be -- Included...

Country

Remember -- 4th -- Of July -- Not -- 9/11...

Gas Stations Of The Cross

Bin-Laden -- Is dead -- His pyre -- Should be -- An oil soaked -- Bed -- With dark dirty black -- Smoke -- To remind us -- Of him -- And for us-- What still lies -- Ahead...

Humans In Orange Clothing

They're killing -- The wolves again -- Montana & Idaho -- So why -- Did we not -- Just let them all go...

Trump

Much as I want him to run, for the comic value -- did you see him at the correspondents dinner? Sitting there like a pissed off buddha. Ass hole...

Inside Man

It's been almost -- 28,000 years -- Since another -- Artist -- Has worked the -- Caves -- But leave it to -- Werner Herzog -- To do a -- Christo -- Agrees...

Basket Case

Something good -- Something of -- Value -- Amid all the chaos -- And the din -- Of battles -- Come Easter egg -- Hunts -- And chocolate rabbits -- And the high handed -- Hats -- Of Bill Cunningham's -- Manhattan...

Spare Us

Tornado Alley -- Zeus -- Thor -- -- Like -- 'Dude' -- Labowski...

Ernestine

"The wind -- Is in -- From Africa -- Last night -- I couldn't -- Sleep..." -- Joni Mitchel's -- Nobel speech...

In Hot Pursuit

I've completed -- My tunnel -- I've kept the -- Engine runnin' -- Oh, -- How the searchlights -- Love -- Lindsay Lohan...

"Build On It And They Will Die..."

Iowa -- Doesn't immediately -- As a place -- One comes -- To love -- Ah, but it does -- For reasons -- Of visits -- From Clear Lake -- Where Buddy -- To Davenport & Dubuque -- Perched above -- The 'Big Mud' -- So the news from -- Afghanistan -- Comes as -- Twice as tough -- Young Natl. Guard -- Giving up -- Their blood...

Black Letter Day

Tor'e'nado...

Oil -Blood& Sand

All the rocket launcher pick up trucks -- Libya is -- Mad Max...

Middle East

I lived on kibbutz in Israel one summer: from the Golan Heights, Syria, from along the coast, Lebanon -- from the Red Sea, Jordan -- Gaza, the West Bank, Sinai.. Doesn't make me an expert, just closer to all the hurt...

Dwight Makes Right

Ike --  As President -- Never sent -- A G.I. -- To his death -- So more than -- Just a jacket -- He deserves -- A suit of -- Bronze -- Set upon -- The national -- Steps...

Lean & Deliver

Age me -- In the way of -- Old barns -- Graying & cracked -- But still able -- To perform...

Guest List

Another -- Royal Wedding -- Lexington-Concord & Kenya -- India & Opium -- China, South Africa & Rhodesia -- Palestine, Egypt, Sudan, Afghanistan & Ireland --And let's not -- Leave off --The Confederate States & the Falklands...

"They Ask Me Why..."

Trump -- Oh, please -- Please -- Let him -- Run...

Nightmares

My Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome -- Has more to do -- With -- Fredericksburg & Shiloh...

Muzzled

What's with this -- Fake firing -- On Ft. Sumter -- That's like faking -- The blitzkrieg -- Into Belgium...

Cotton Tale

What if -- Lincoln -- Had let them -- Go -- And pleaded with -- Britian -- To avoid -- The Civil War...

Trail Mix

The Canadien -- John Muir -- Oh, you -- Hippie you -- Dodging the -- Civil War...

Jim Crows

On April 14th -- Booth shoots -- Lincoln -- In Ford's Theatre -- On the next day -- In a too distant -- April -- Jackie Robinson -- Plays -- Brooklyn -- Baseball...

The Conspirator

Dr. Quinn,Medicine Woman  - a bad Dr. Quinn, Medicine woman -- amateurish, as if the pro actors weren't...And the lighting -- church windowy, the actors having to squint in it... Lifeless, as if you weren't actually recounting real events... Redford should really be taken to task for such Gitmo-9/11 junk. The only thing good I can say is Fort Polaski looked good, outside of Savanah...

Oh,Goy

A friend -- Gave me -- Matzo -- So me -- Being without -- A god -- I can choose -- What should -- Passover...

Homeboy

Go Knicks, who aren't really Knicks. What does Seinfeld say -- "We really just root for clothes..."

Unfit For Duty

The wearin' -- Of that -- Gray -- Some sort of -- Permit -- Lik a -- Skokie -- Parade...

Will You Continue That Infernal Racket

Wood-pecker -- Telegraph -- Signal -- Echo so large -- Like a Paul Bunyan -- Tapping his -- Pencil...

Save Me

Please -- I'm not even -- An atheist -- How can I not believe -- In something -- That doesn't -- Exist...

Moveable Feats

So -- I got -- Tom McGuane's -- Signature -- It didn't matter -- That Hemingway's -- Wasn't -- Available...

7th Cavalry

Boots -- On the -- Ground -- Always wind up -- The other way -- Round...

C Serpent

Cpt. Nemo -- Had a father -- Cpt. Raphael Semmes -- Of the -- CSS Alabama...

Front & Centered

Human shields -- Are not the soldiers -- With all their -- Gear...

Green Lantern

Godzilla -- Why not -- Considering -- Our -- Future...

Niggardly

Burning a Quran -- Censoring -- Mark Twain...

Beginnings

April -- The crack -- Of the bat -- From the -- Blooming trees -- Of maple...

0 To 4 To 10

Baseball -- Spring forward -- And wait for -- The fall...

Nuclear Frieze

Yuk-A -- Mountain...

Living Man's Hand

Dealing with -- Reality -- Ace, Deuce, Eight, King, Queen -- Eternity...

Literary Light

Thomas McGuane, American author, will be here in Sacramento on April 6th: Here's what I have to say to him: "Tom,my name is Bill Hughes. I was a seasonal park ranger in Yellowstone. I would see you at Chico Hot Springs. I am very proud to see you here in Sacramento.Pride, because you, for me,along with Richard Brautigan,represent the Shakespeare & Co. of my generation, a generation known almost exclusively for rock n roll; but, I'm always proud to say that your 92 In The Shade is The Sun Also Rises of my generation. I admire your work and truly appreciate your time and place in American literature.

On High

Church window -- Slants -- When the gray clouds -- Cant -- Their portals -- Through which -- Sun columns -- Descend -- Which seem -- As roads -- To where -- Eternity -- Begins...

NCAA

Don't ever bet on sports -- VCU? Go Butler!

Que Lastima

Picasso's 'Guernica' -- Has never been in -- Basque Gernika -- The actual city -- One has to ask -- The Castilians -- In Madrid -- Why they won't -- Release it..   Not even for the opening of Gehry's Bilbao Museum where a gallery was especially created for it.. Some sort of nonsense from Madrid that it couldn't properly transport it..when the Basque gov. had arranged a specific truck..And Guernica has been to the NYMoMA. So, what gives?

Summation

All the things -- That haven't -- Create -- All the things -- That have -- All in all -- Life ain't -- Half bad...

NCAA

Death to Duke -- Now for North Carolina -- Go Butler -- Jimmer with a major OT choke job...

Giant

A poem -- For -- Liz -- And her -- Beauty -- Even up against -- Monty & Dean & Newman -- And for all her -- Compassion & talent -- Lay her down -- In robes -- Of a -- National velvet...

3's Strikes

Cold -- Wet -- Dark -- The lion king -- Of March...

Sarah Palin

Gotta love her -- She is proof positive that anyone can be president -- and that's a good thing...

Harmony Grits

Steel guitars -- Them honky -- Harps -- There's angels -- On this station -- There's angels -- Down in -- Dixie's -- Heart...

Hun House

The fox is -- So lovely -- A predator -- It's too bad -- And yet -- How its hole -- Gets caught up -- In war...

D'oh ! Boys

Dead -- Libyan -- Soldiers -- There are no -- Names -- In a foxhole...

Better Up

The first day of -- Spring -- Like throwing out -- The opening -- Wish...

Shakespeare & His Company

Too much rock n roll -- Perhaps -- A generation's -- Claim to fame -- But there's those true -- Literary lights -- Richard Brautigan -- And -- Thomas McGuane...

Spanish For

And speaking of "duende" -- An espanol word -- Perhaps of all -- Languages -- The most -- beautiful...

All American

Met Chuck Yeager -- Like "duende" -- Where myth meets -- Reality...

Don't Forget The Ship

Spent four years -- In the Marines -- With 'Nam -- And all its -- Killing devices -- But among -- All that I've seen -- It's tied up in -- Boston Harbor -- Sleek and sinister -- Decks of cannons -- Old Ironside - -The USS Constitution...

Human Waste

Mines & shorelines --The Middle East & reactors -- Can the list -- Go on -- Much longer...

Old Soldiers Never Lie

Just met -- Joe Fong -- 86 yrs. old -- Fought the -- Battle of the  Bulge -- On it and -- Vietnam -- Welcome home...

American Dream

If wishes were -- Eagles -- We'd be shot by -- Sheep ranchers...

NCAA

Who knows. Ohio State? Nope. Duke? Hate them but have the experience. Kansas? Nope? Not UCon again? So, who's left? Sleeper Missouri? O.K. go with ...But who's got those twins?

God Awful

Tsunami -- Poseidon's trident -- Bull's eye -- In the ring of fire...

Gettysburg Addressed

"One hundred and -- Fifty years ago -- Our fathers -- Brought forth upon this continent -- A new nature of -- Slaughter..."

Debit

Favors -- Must be -- Forgiveness -- For sins -- That go -- Unknown -- Absolution -- From the gift -- Penance -- In the loan...

Sign Of The Cross-Over Dribble

It must be Lent -- All the Catholic -- Schools -- In the NCAA -- Tournament...

Holy Frickin' Ship

Not like a -- Star Wars -- But as -- A terrible dark warship -- Through the sands -- Of the -- Suez Canal...

Ms Houdini

Seneca Falls -- Sharing a barrel -- Over we go...

Color Blinded

Roses are -- Red -- Violets are -- Purple -- But like deKooning -- The color of -- Love -- Is -- Yellow...

2 1/2 Men

How can you avoid? First thought, Rob Lowe to replace Charlie ( impossible, but )...

Black Sheep

Scapegoats -- Round up -- A herd -- When it's -- The shepard -- To blame...

Ugly Sthick

Spiders -- Spin -- Silk -- That's like -- A sow -- Carrying a purse...

Playmates

Since diamonds -- Are a girl's -- Best friend -- Then surely -- Peanuts & Cracker Jacks -- Are gems...

Partners In Whine

Drugs -- The company -- Misery -- Loves...

Continental Divide

Boston & New York's -- Harbors -- Busting with shipping -- Black coal smoke -- Industrial industry -- Walt Whitman & Dickinson  -- All seems impossible -- That at the same time -- Crazy Horse -- Both bareback in skin & saddle -- The Oglala/Lakota...

Yard Stickin'

So much beauty -- I can never -- Tell -- That perhaps -- The boundary -- Of a poet's -- hell...

Work

Making a living -- Making a life -- One is just poems -- And one is just -- Strife...

Libya

Stay out of Libya -- let Libyans do for themselves. Even Saddam would have burned in the Tunisian fruit vendor's flame...

Oscar Weekend In Los Angeles

First, the weather was a real privilege, clear and cold and green -- make Athens blush -- snowy mountain tops and rolling surf -- the best -- view from atop Baldwin Hills Scenic State Park--  on a clear day you "can see forever..." Went to the Independent Spirit Awards on the Santa Monica Beach, meaning at the rail. But the stars came over--Mark Ruffalo, Aaron Eckhart -- and Annette Benning & Warren Beatty -- most cool.. Went to the Razzies -- amateurish high-jinks but fun.. Oscars--how awful to drag out Kirk Douglas -- Franco & Hathaway stunk.. Bring me the head of Billy Crystal...Excellent Eric Owen Moss architecture in Culver City [ look em up ]. Oh, Airbender, of course, led the way at the Razzies -- with Sex In The City 2 a distant 2nd. And, saw the new Jerry West statue out in front of the Staples. Not bad but a little too impressionistic -- straight up polished bronze much better, along with Magic & Oscar de...

Not That There's Anything Left Or Right Or Wrong With That

You can no longer -- Ask for -- Directions -- Everyone working -- Is Mexican...

March & Live

The orchards -- Are in bloom -- "Ready,spring...Salute..."

Mideast Revolution

Unless women are equal -- I'll wait for the sequel...

Shreek Of Araby

To die -- Like a -- Martyr -- Col. Libya -- The sooner -- The better...

Tapa The World

My "clean, well lighted place..." The name is a bit American, but when in.. And when in Sacramento come check it out -- good food, great wine -- Espana en Estados Unidos...

Render Unto Seize Her

Lara Logan -- Cleopatra -- Came gift wrapped -- In nothing...

Lara Logan

Their -- Revolution -- Will have -- Women...

Co-Pilots

A hawk -- Circling -- High in the sky -- Reminds me of Redford -- Jeremiah Johnson -- Seeing the same -- And saying -- "It'll take me a week -- To the Muscle Shell -- Him, hell, -- He's there already..."

Going

When a goal -- Is the intention -- Time is a demension -- Measured not by -- Yearly fares -- There's just one hour -- I am -- There...

Cali Winter

For all of you who don't live in California -- It turns green in the winter!       

Rommel

Ghadafi -- Valentino -- The Nazi...

Mad

The Tea Party -- Hats -- In the belfry...

Ohle'

Her hands -- Are hawks & doves -- Her flamenco -- The sand & blood...

Cry Me A River

Tear gas --Why it almost sounds -- Romantic...

Call Us Shameful

Moby Dick -- Turn to Japan -- Like Ahab's -- Ship...

Leader Board

Take your pick -- Mideast darts -- You just can't -- Miss...

Baseball

Predictions: A.L. East -- Boston beat down -- A.L. Central -- Twins? Who knows, who cares -- A.L.West --  Rangers, Angels? Who knows, who cares -- N.L. West -- Our Giants -- pitching  , pitching -- Kirk Gibson, Arizona manager -- look out below and above-- N.L. Central -- Cardinals? Pujols puts out or pouts -- N.L. East -- Can Phillies lose a game...

Razzies

Cast my ballot -- Airbender in every catagory but worst supporting actress -- Megan Fox in Johan Hex -- and Ashton Kutcher for worst actor, of course...

Rogers & Thor's Hammerstein

Thunder & Lightning -- Vaudeville -- Viking..

Hordes

My books -- Surround -- The unused computer -- The great wall -- To keep out -- Those Mongols...

Mtn. Lyin'

Cougar -- In the burbs -- How magnificently -- Absurd...

The Man In The Iron Pants

A law suit -- Pinstripe bars -- A neck tie -- Noose...

Birdmen

Tuskegee -- The Atzlan -- Of Dixie...

NBA All Star Days

Seeing as how this month of February is Black History Month -- Isn't  it time  for the NBA to consider changing their league logo of all these years from a very white Jerry West to a  more  African-American profile which, obviously, is much more reflective of  the current NBA. "Not that there's anything wrong with Jerry West..." Let's have Magic or Michael in motion. I vote for Magic, who I still think is the greatest player ever...

Studioh

Place a canvas -- In the bare -- Winter branches -- Pollock -- The rhythms -- The randoms -- The splashes...

Tin Pan Alley

Hail -- When nail guns -- Go mad...

Double Dip

A bush -- In hand -- Attracts -- Birds...

Lasting

Peace of mind -- The only armistice -- You'll ever -- Sign...

Soonest

The rolling -- Green Hills -- Of Tulsa -- At the very first -- Cluster...

Flow

A period -- At the end of -- My poem -- One might as well -- Damn up -- The Yellowstone...

Razzies

Going to the Razzies in Los Angeles for the first time as a voting member. What a guy won't do -- to get into the Barnsdall Theatre at Frank Lloyd's Hollyhock House is worth the doin'...I'll let you know...

Old Friends

ART -- Is in the word -- EARTH -- Twins -- But not at -- Birth...

Wooden Soldiers

The winds -- Can humiliate -- The trees -- Like leaves -- Stripped from -- Their sleeves...

Muscle Beech

Spring's -- Training -- Uplifting-- Baseball players...

Something Is

Integrity -- Is -- Perfection...

Out There

The village of Holcomb stands on the high wheat plains of western Kansas. A place other Kansans call "out there." Truman Capote, In Cold Blood. The greatness of the book and the fine Philip Seymour Hoffman film. I had to go out there, the film Capote the first look at what it was like to have him ,of all people, out there. Too bad that he didn't write his own observations of himself , or Harper Lee, who accompanied him...Notorious, the other Capote out there wasn't much up against Capote. Sandra Bullock as Harper Lee? As for me, headlights shining down the long drive between the Chinese elms hat led to the Clutter home, Dick & Perry right there at my back...

Matadored

A glove for a cape -- And a ball for a -- Sword -- The sand is the mound -- And the bulls, 27 out the door -- And the suit of lights -- The #32 El Sandy wore...

Flamenco - Day 1

A hammer on an anvil -- Four hands to clap -- And tapping on a table -- Two men two canes -- A drum beat from eternal -- While two women cry -- If minarets were stables...

Corner of Cunningham & Binda

The Sacramento Ballet -- Lincoln Center -- Between -- L & K...

Black Widow Spyder

Rear view -- Rear view -- On the door -- James Dean -- Fairest -- Of them all...

Beads

She told me -- She was -- Some % -- Cherokee -- You know -- I think it was -- Just her -- Jewelry...

Chase To The Cut

The reaper -- Is grim -- Because you've -- Disappointed him...

Pittsburgh Packers

A Super -- Bowl -- Would be filled -- With rice -- To feed -- The whole -- World...

Weather Station

It comes -- By elevation defined -- It slides away -- Plain -- Or stays in -- Crystal design...

Too-Too

Butterflies,butterflies -- I'll weave me a net -- From the looms -- Of Degas -- I'll dance with you -- Yet...

Oscars

Down to Los Angeles from Sacramento every yr. since 06 for Oscar weekend and much more of the shining city. Much architecture this yr. Stay at the Beverly Laurel Motor Hotel in the Fairfax. Excellent  & affordable. Roam the higher up bars for the celebs on Saturday night. Sunday night the  telecast at the Polo Lounge-Beverly Hills Hotel. B grade celebs with a possible A lister or two. George Clooney one yr.-Martin Landau-Garey Busey-Peter Bogdonovich-Chevy Chase-David Carradine-Connie Francis-Clive Owen-Will Smith-and more... Eric Owen Moss architects--Culver City project...

Body Count

Carnage -- Like the garage -- Of violence...

Sans Of Time

Cleopatra -- Queen of the -- Nile -- Holding Neda -- A Madonna and Child...

Sandskrit

Cleopatra -- On her -- Royal barge -- Holding Neda -- In a Pieta...

Belle Tower

There were stairs -- But clouds afoot -- So spirit rose from door -- And by its lift -- Angels took -- Me up to room -- Where blanket from the time of -- Grant & Lee -- That in a garden -- Was a mat -- That knew her -- Tender knee -- Then dress, a dress -- Cloth shadow form of she -- Basket down -- To where Alps abound -- With hints of her -- The one alone -- Journey through time -- The tunnel used -- Belle of Amherst's home...

The Doors

I never knew, having listened to them for so long -- their American brilliance, maybe always leaving them in some box of dream- scapes. But, a band capable of anything American. I don't think I ever listened to an album  straight across, always the top of the charters -- and too much hash to remember. But what a collection : take Indian Summer for instance. I guess I knew, but a Song of Hiawatha -- from perhaps America's most important album - right after The Band of course, but right there after it - Morrison Hotel. And they were getting better: I give you L.A. Woman. I'm most proud that I came to them later on, so much so that I had to do the Badlands of Dakota with them. "The west is the best/Get here/And we'll do the rest..."

Yo Don't Say

Two New Yorkers -- And some other fella -- "Excuse us, but did you say something, stranger..."

Straight Shooter

V -- Like a Zorro -- Except a rosey -- Bow & arrow -- Right at your -- Heart -- The day accepts a -- Scarlet letter...

"You Don't Lie"

The state of -- The Union -- It stinks -- Thank you all-- For coming..

Debit

When all your wealth -- Is owned -- By doubt --Take from it-- In small amounts -- The golden ring --Cannot be reached -- If you strive for such-- In one complete -- The lock to here -- Has  many turns-- Before self is held-- Within sure hands...

The King's Reach

The Royal Family -- While waiting on Hitler's Germany -- They were in India -- Doing Gandhi....

Oscar Predictions

Best Actor: Colin Firth -- Best Actress:Natalie Portman -- Best Supporting Actor: Geoffery Rush -- Best Supporting  Actress:Hailee Steinfeld -- Best Director:David Fincher -- Best Film:The King's Speech

Sherwood Forest

Only the trees -- Give up -- Their gold -- Must be showing off -- For Thoreau...

Light Makes Might

Men -- Once again -- Are setting themselves -- On fire -- Ahh, the warm glow -- Of the -- Human body...

The Way We Are

Bombings -- Without them -- The news -- Would have no -- Evenings...

Tommy Guns

The Hmong -- Their wicked -- Uncle Sam -- Just shrugged...

Man Of War

Camouflage -- Even a mother's -- Nature -- Gets shanghied...

Maya Con Dios

Bishop Samuel Ruiz -- Of Chiapas -- God itself-- Went to the Pearly Gate -- To unlock it...

Rumble In The Amazon . Jungle

Shelving your books -- Together -- I wonder if -- You have to be -- Careful -- Of the writer's -- Who despised -- Each other...

NFL Prediction

Thought it would be Ray Lewis of the Ravens eating everyone alive -- But now it's got to be Pittsburgh over the Packers... No, wait, the game is indoors -- Packers...

Soldier Of Fortune Telling

The future of -- Warfare -- I see robots -- Will kill  -- A tall dark -- Handsome lad...

Here's Looking At You Comrade

Rick -- Helped supply -- Spain -- He then retreated -- To Casablanca -- And opened a cafe...

Outrageous Fortune

"To be or not to be/that is the question..." -- Edwin Booth -- After his brother -- Shot Lincoln...

Formula I & II

Updike -- The station wagon - John Cheever -- Side swiped...

Lifetime Lost Achievement Award

Let's do Hollywood -- Anyone you choose -- But not too far back -- To Holden,Mitchum, Liz -- And a red carpet -- With all eyes glued -- Because here comes -- Him -- James Dean -- If  a reality -- Had come true...

Possible Dream

Lined up bikes -- Cervantes knights...

Shake-Rattle-Et Al

Since perfection is -- When it works -- Like a charm -- Then all we need is -- One pagan god...

Belmont Steaks

Down the stretch -- Comes -- Horseradish..

Putin It To Us

In the former -- Soviet Union -- I wonder if -- They have a -- Charlie Wilson...

Butter Knife

I just assumed -- He had a buck -- In his leather scabbard -- But -- Send me cell phones -- To match my mountains...

The Great Right Way

"Hair" - Too bad -- It couldn't end -- In a Mel Brooks -- Blaze..

Bringing It All Back Home

Refer to midtownmonthly.net to reference a profile article of William J. Hughes...

Oscar Meyer

The streets run red -- With carpets -- The onslaught of -- Nonsense...

Movie Review

Somewhere -- Ms Sofia's Edward Hopper does L.A. -- Interesting to see inside the Chateau Marmont -- But  the lead character doesn't  feel quite Johnny Depp enough -- not movie star striking enough to carry it off -- could this Johnny Marco be that big enough for all the stuff?The daughter is nice, but seems & scenes familiar ,almost sitcom noir. And the ending -- well, seems like you've seen it before?  That's Stephen Dorf & Elle Fanning...staring...

Born To Be Somewhat

Jeff Bridges -- If in Easy Rider -- It all turned out -- Successful...

War Of Words

Be careful what you say to other Vietnam vets-- they may get very upset --nonfiction...

Trouble Of Arabia

Arizona -- There must be -- Something -- In the -- Desert water...

Gospel

Rape -- Thy name is -- Man...

Freak Show

If you go to Wrigley Field, make sure to take in pregame Waveland Ave. -- where the guys gather to shag the batting practice and game balls. Brace yourself -- crazed , guys with 3,000 balls under their belt...

Rag To Riches

Got the New Yorker -- Rolled up in -- My back pocket -- Like a workin' stiff -- On Nantucket...

Yelling "Live" In A Crowded Theatre

The studio was -- Certainly good -- But unfortunately -- It wasn't -- Norwegian wood...

Powder Room

The need for guns -- I am empty to figure -- Never content to -- Point and pull trigger -- A trait of -- Their clubs is -- They always stop -- Niggers...

Flaming Hoops

The ways of war -- Old tricks -- To new dogs...

Wounded

A time ago -- In a land called -- Idaho -- Some written that was -- Time To check out -- The shells make two shouts -- Blood and bone splatter -- The walls and the floor -- In a pool of himself  -- Lies the crippled matador...

I Accept

Outside the norm -- Perhaps to wear -- The hunchback's crown -- Fool perhaps -- Be a part -- To stay stiff against no -- When public your heart...

National Anthem

My country -- Tis of thee -- You didn't do enough -- Your legacy...

Hair Raising

   The trees -- Side Show Bob -- With thorns -- The trees --Side Show Bob -- Winter shorn...

Dr. Parking Lot I Presume

Rain soaked moss -- In the cracks -- Of the pavement -- River deltas and maps -- Into the interior...

Pillow Talk

I'd like to take -- A Catskill nap -- In luxury's -- Lap...

Bowl Games

Too bad the Rose Bowl lost its Pac 10 -- Big 10 historical content..But other than that I now have no problem with 1,00 Bowl Games. If someone wants to sponsor,why not. Let the kids play. I went to the Silicon Bowl awhile ago -- Michigan State vs Fresno State with David Carr & the Michigan State marching band -- wow. And, for all the critics -- how about your son playing in the Pinstripe Bowl in Yankee Stadium. Just say play...

Whether Or Not

They speak of the weather -- As if it was -- News -- The seasons and their faces -- Just do -- The hell with their -- Views...

Bodily Fluid

If I could turn writers -- Into one decent human -- I'd take a fella named Twain -- And make him its humor -- One named Steinbeck would make for -- The spine -- Another named London would fill up -- The mind -- I then would take body -- From the bullrings of Spain -- And let Papa of Ketchum -- Author its brain...

Word

Silence isn't golden -- It's silver -- Shhh -- Whisper...

I'll Take Beauty & Thought For

Maureen Dowd -- Come on down...