BACK TO SCHOOL: INSTITUTIONAL GREEN

One of the best things about Amazon.com is that you can look for out of print titles and if they are available buy them and be reading them in no time.

In the old days, you might have had to go to a used book store and browse the stacks for hours to find a treasure.



(Reminds me of the argument in The Strawberry Statement, Notes of A College Revolutionary by James Simon Kunen - where he passes a Hard-To-Find-Records store and argues that if the record is in the store then it can't be too hard to find. But I digress.)

One of those lost treasures I recovered recently was a copy of a book I lost in 1971 or so right in front of my house while I was playing street hockey.

I had laid the book - Our Time is Now; Notes From the High School Underground, edited by John Birmingham - down with my school books and later when I got inside it had gone missing.

UNOFFICIAL POET LAUREATE OF NUTLEY

Yountakah Country isn't likely the first series of verse written about life in Nutley, N.J., nor will it likely be the last.

I can tell you from experience, it's not been the easiest series of verse written about life in old Nutley.

CLOSETS draft

The 2006 and 11th Biennial GERALDINE R. DODGE POETRY FESTIVAL - Waterloo Village, Stanhope, New Jersey. September 28 – October 1, 2006

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CHALK ONE UP FOR THE PASTEL ARTIST!

Today I visited the reception for "Random Journeys" at the Clifton Arts Center Gallery in Clifton, N.J.

More than 30 pastels by Michael C. Gabriele and ten sculptures by Brian Hanlon were on display. The exhibit runs through Oct. 28.

Gabriele, a Nutley native, seemed to favor irises as a subject. He conceded that looking around at the paintings that that would appear to be so. One of his favorite places is the Presby Gardends in Montclair.

His drawings also capture scenes in Arches National Park, Utah; Dusseldorf, Germany; England, France, Clifton and New York City.
One of my favorite pieces is "Franklin Avenue, Nutley" which is the southbound view of the low rail trestle that every so often catches a tall trailer. Gabriele's pastel captures the red roof of the corner building long before the ribs place moved in. I'd love to see this pastel hang forever in the Nutley Museum.

If you're in the area, do check out the exhibit. The chalk lines and the castings have a way of taking you places you'd never thought you'd go.

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“Love And Theft” - Commercial

The full length commercial filmed for 2001’s “Love And Theft” album was set to the music of “Tweedle Dum and Tweedle Dee”. The commercial features Bob Dylan and an unusual cast of characters, including magician Ricky Jay.

ROCK STEADY - 1971 (Starbucks 35th Anniversary)

Celebrating its 35th year of selling coffee, the Starbucks Coffee chain is selling a CD of dorm favorite hits from 1971. (Maybe their coffee helped a lot of college students stay up for those all-night cram sessions?)
ROCK STEADY 1971 is a pleasant surprise among the CD racks of modern music and Modern Times.
Having been one who listened to WNEW-FM in those days when they played album music (sometimes whole album sides at a time! without commercials - so you could put your cassette recorder up against the speakers and tape it til you got to Two Guys) and before what's being sold now was called Classic - back when it was THE music.

Nothing to complain about on this CD (besides the effect of the typeface on old eyes). You get John Lennon singing "Jealous Guy," The Kinks and Joni Mitchell, too.

Plus there's Al Green singing "I'm So Tired Of Being Alone" and The Doors with "Riders on the Storm" and Marviin Gaye with "Mercy, Mercy Me" and Stevie Wonder with "If You Really Love Me."

The CD winds down, LOL, with Aretha Franklin's "Rock Steady", David Bowie's "Changes" and Santana's "No One To Depend On".

It finished with Janis Joplin's a cappella "Mercedes Benz" tune.
So many of these songs make this poor old Baby Boomer want to sing along!

If you're in the U.S., you can get the ROCK STEADY 1971 CD for $13.95, plus tax. I guess, while supplies last. Your mileage may vary.

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HOME, SWEET HOME - SPRING GARDEN

Nutley, N.J., a great place to live and raise a family.

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Pillars

SKIPPY LOVER = ZAMBONI

As you can see, the big Skippy lover in our house is, none other than our chocolate Lab, Zamboni!

Zamboni is preparing to defend his 'fastest eater' championship at the upcoming DogFest 2006 on Oct. 1.

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