At Quark’s Bar
…“You know, you’re a real snoutfair?”’s all I said to her---spoken, mind you, as a firm believer in urbane wit, you know, just oozing eutrapelia?…
A Walk on the Dark Side
I’m not sure whether I write to drink or drink to write. All I know is they go together like---how does the song put it? “Love and marriage, they go…
Contagion
“The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their proper name.” This Confucian apothegm has been like a pebble in my shoe since I read the AP item…
Sólido Entre Nosotros
’S official, I’m in recovery. Just canceled “Scheduled” under “Saved.” No more Nicolle, no more Chris and Chris, no more Rachel, no more---this, for…
Barefoot Boy
I was listening to music and mulling billiard balls, both to a small involuntary shiver that I hoped wasn’t the first stage of the malaria paroxysm.…
Body and Soul
“The soul is in every part of your body that is alive.” That’s Sister Benigna’s voice over Amy Winehouse’s: My days have grown so lonely For you I…
