Month: December 2012
Nathan Pearce – Midwest Dirt
Nathan Pearce Midwest Dirt ESSAY CONTAINS EXPLICIT CONTENT When I was 18 years old I packed my bags and left rural Illinois. It had been my home my entire life, but I thought in leaving I would find the perfect place for myself elsewhere. In the city everything and everyone I knew was very different …
Gigi Giannuzzi – Goodbye…
GIGI GIANNUZZI….at the “Kibbutz”, Brooklyn…December 8, 2008 I was just getting ready to write my goodbye to Gigi Giannuzzi , founder of Trolley Books, who died Christmas Eve of pancreatic cancer at a very young 49….but I just cannot do it….So Candy and Eva went back through the Burn (Road Trips) archive and found this …
Merry Christmas
My mother , Maryanna , opens her curtain this morning to a white Christmas in Durango, Colorado. Mom and I cherish our special time for “morning coffee” when we discuss it all. Politics to family biz all come under our scrutiny.
Hajime Kimura – Matagi
Hajime Kimura Matagi Man lives freely only by his readiness to die. -Mahatma Gandhi One winter day, we pursued black-bears in the deep forest. Nothing around, the sun shining and the air crisp. We had barely eaten anything in more than 4 days. We were just exhausted. Suddenly one of the Matagi mumbled, having a …
Happy Birthday Burn
The waves today on the Outer Banks are just spectacular. An offshore wind gives the large swells a perfect shape. Although it is for sure a winter day with seriously icy water, the surfing crowd is out there. Modern wetsuits make surfing a year around art form. So about an hour ago at sunset when …
Miami…Calvin
Sometimes you meet somebody who just brightens your day. You know you will never see them again, but no matter. You know them.