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Posted by jonfrankel on Sep 1, 2016 in Blogh | 3 comments

CHIMES AT MIDNIGHT

Loving Orson Welles is a is a compulsion. He is singular, like Bob Dylan, and a wreck, like Marlon Brando. Unlike Brando he didn’t turn against his vocation, or...

Posted by jonfrankel on Aug 25, 2016 in Blogh, Food | 1 comment

Dal

Trying to eat simply is a good idea, but time is of the essence. How much time will I spend on cooking? The slow food movement, which I endorse, despite the fact that...

Posted by jonfrankel on Aug 24, 2016 in Blogh, Food | 1 comment

IT WILL BE CORN

I haven’t written anything here in a long time. I have no idea how that happened, maybe nothing to say? It is a long standing principle of mine that as a writer I...

Posted by jonfrankel on Apr 19, 2016 in Blogh | 1 comment

TEACH, NOT PREACH

I have been resisting the urge to write about this election for weeks now. It is a delicious situation, with so much to write about, but the increasingly demented...

Posted by jonfrankel on Mar 4, 2016 in Blogh | 1 comment

Kristian Hoffman

This link was posted by someone on facebook. It’s from a piece written in 2010 by Kristian Hoffman, who was in the Mumps, and played with James Chance, Lydia...

Posted by jonfrankel on Oct 16, 2015 in Blogh, GAHA: Babes of the Abyss | 3 comments

FLYING IN FEAR

i HAVE A TERRIBLE PHOBIA. i CAN’T FLY. i HAVE FLOWN, YES, ON EVERY KIND OF AERIAL CONVEYANCE KNOWN. i’VE flown on TWIN ENGINE PROP PLANES. I’ve flown...

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This website is dedicated to my poetry and fiction. The novels, The Man Who Can't Die, GAHA: Babes of the Abyss and The Isle of Dogs are published by Whiskey Tit Press. Writing as Buzz Callaway, I'm the author of Specimen Tank and The Last Bender. Specimen Tank is published by Manic D Press. The Last Bender is published on this website. Currently I'm working on The Vietnam Project, a travel memoir about Vietnam and its long history. I also write book reviews and personal essays about food, art and culture. I live in upstate New York with my family and am a retired stacks manager.