11.25.2007

Can we make it any easier for the dog to find the pole

There, on the ground, is the clue to where the new utility pole has been place for Zamboni's sniffing pleasure.

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Whose woods these are ...?






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11.23.2007

THANKSGIVING = Self-service IAMS

Zamboni, our chocolate Labrador retriever, found something to be thankful for recently when he discovered the lid to Mr. Food-Can misplaced and the IAMS chow within easy reach of a big, strong, sweet dog such as himself.

He'd take a mouthful of food from the bag, spit it on the floor and then eat the pieces. Repeat.


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11.20.2007

11.19.2007

Still In Print? Check out these titles

  • Bloomfield Avenue: A Jewish-Catholic Jersey Girl's Spiritual Journey - Linda Mercadante

  • Late For Work - David Tucker

  • The Real Nick and Nora - Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett by David L. Goodrich

  • Images of America: Belleville - Nicole T. Canfora

  • The Day I Turned Uncool - Dan Zevin

  • PUBLISHING CONFIDENTIAL The Insider's Guide to What It REALLY Takes to Land a Nonfiction Book Deal - Paul B. Brown

  • Unto The Sons - Gay Talese

  • A Writer's Life - Gay Talese

  • Growing Up Catholic

  • More Growing Up Catholic

  • Were You Always an Italian?

  • Growing Up - by Russell Baker

  • Paging New Jersey

  • New Jersey Curiosities

  • Everyday People: Profiles from the Garden State

  • The Meadowlands: Wilderness Adventures

  • Marching Home by Kevin Coyne

  • Una Storia Segreta - Lawrence DiStasi

  • Don't Tell Mama - Regina Barreca

  • Beyond The Godfather - Italian American Writers on the Real Italian American Experience

  • Mount Allegro - Jerry Mangione

  • BEFORE THE ECHO Essays on Nature - Pete Dunne

  • The Amorous Busboy of Decatur Avenue By Robert Klein

  • Child of the 50's - Robert Klein

  • Growing Up Catholic: And Getting over It

  • Thank You, Sister: Memories of Growing Up Catholic

  • The Best of Sean Patrick: Memories of Growing Up Catholic

  • My Angel's Name Is Fred: Tales of Growing Up Catholic

  • Growing Up Irish Catholic, and Surviving My Mom's Eleven Sisters

  • Raised Catholic (Can You Tell?) by Ed Stivender


  • Rambling Round - Buccino

  • A Father's Place - Buccino

  • Sister Dressed Me Funny - Buccino


  • ''Buccino takes us where we've all been, in these charming, very readable, accessible essays. It's quite pleasant revisiting the innocence that he creates or remembers in these often wry and witty observations about life. The writing is very good, even, and flows nicely, to make one want to read more.... The author could even be played up a bit on the cover, such as ''New Jersey's 'Garrison Keillor' '' or something to that effect. ... There should be definite regional interest in this book. But Buccino writes well enough to draw a national audience as well ...''

     

    11.14.2007

    Bentley Mericato Copperanto Double Espresso

    If this flavor combination ever ends up at your local barista, then I should get residuals.

    Use the comments section below to list your favorite non-existant caffe.

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    11.13.2007

    Unanticipated U.S. Worksites

    Telecommunications

    ... positions in Paramus, NJ. Travel to unanticipated U.S. worksites may be required ...

    11.11.2007

    THE PATERSON LITERARY REVIEW #36

    Copyright © 2007 by Anthony Buccino, all rights reservedPLR

    We got a sneak peek at the top poems in the upcoming Paterson Literary Review #36 which is due out in a few weeks. (It would make a great gift for the poetry lover in your life!)

    The Distinguished Poets Series at
    The Poetry Center at Passaic County Community College sponsored a poetry reading and awards ceremony Saturday for the upcoming PLR36.

    We heard first place winners Kenneth Hart and Glenn Morazzini, as well as second place winner Linda Radice read the judges top selections.

    If you were there, then you know why this anthology is so highly anticipated. If you weren't there, well, it's like trying to tell a stranger about rock n' roll. You had to be there. Or wait for the book.

    We heard the honorable mention poems from Christine Anne Amato, Susan Gerardi Bello, Linda Cronin, Susan Deer Cloud, Michelle Lerner, Maria Lisella, Bruce A. Lowry, Dorothy McLaughlin, Robert Rosenbloom, Metta Sama, Mattew J. Spireng and Steve Hillard Swartz.

    In the center hall where refreshments were served, there was a table with books that said, free, take one.

    Looking over the back PLR issues, I asked if I could take only one or one of each.

    To my delight, they said take one of each. So, without being a hog about it, I grabbed one copy each of PLR 28, 29, 30 and 31 (1200 pages of fresh poetry!). They should go nicely with my PLR 34 and PLR 35 at home. Oh, by the way, the PLR is no lightweight chapbook, each issue is about 300 pages.

    The more Jersey poetry events I attend it seems that I am getting to know some people and actually be recognized, too, from some of my open readings.

    Copyright © 2007 by Anthony Buccino, all rights reserved.Warren County

    One woman told me recently that she recognized me from the open reading session at
    Warren County Poetry Festival in September.
    Susanna Rich, a scheduled reader at WCPF, read Saturday. I could see her looking at me when I was looking at her. I figured she might have remembered me, but who knows. Finally, she said, Who are you? and I told her I had spoken with her at Warren and emailed a few things.

    I can still see you reading your 'baseball' poem on the stage at Warren, I said, apologizing for making her guess who I was. I said I didn't come over because I thought she might think I'm stalking her. The more of these things I go to, the more people I'm starting to know.

    She said, don't apologize. And, by the way.

    The man standing next to her said this is a small group, the Mutual Stalking Society.

    I asked about her publishing prospects and she said she'll be doing a one-woman show at
    Kean in March, I should check the calendar.

    After a break, we heard the Editor's Choice awards from Laurie Byro, Gil Fagiani, James D. Gwyn, Gloria Rovder Healy, Charles Johnson, Laine Sutton Johnson, Don Lynch, Howard Nelson, Susanna Rich and Kelly Vande Plasse.

    The scene, at the beautiful Hamilton Club Building in Paterson, could hardly have been more conducive to enjoying an afternoon of poetry.

    And, by the way, if you're wondering, I did not enter the PLR competition this year. I did enter the Ginsberg competition, but I think that might be apples and oranges.

    Check out the Poetry Center web site for submissions for the William Carlos Williams tribute they are doing next year, and while you're at it, write a north Jersey poem, too.


    Writers' grief, fury, love is in work is a story about Maria Mazziotti Gillan and the Allen Ginsberg Awards from the North Jersey Herald on Friday.

    The Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival 2008

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    11.10.2007

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    11.09.2007

    In The Square



    I'm sitting here thinking about the afternoon in Milan? or was it Florence? (Milano or Firenze?)after we had come out of the gift shop after our brief visit with the da Vinci's Last Supper.

    We were standing in the square, across from the church - just a plain looking church, nothing special on the outside - waiting for the next group to come out and then we would head to the bus up the street.

    The fountain next to the building was pouring out cool water and some people came by with a baby in a stroller and the children washed in the water.

    I didn't know it, but pigeons would do the same thing in Venice. Unless we were in Florence and the Venice bath had already happened.


    Ah, yes. It was Milano.
    'Last Supper' goes high-rez

    Santa Maria delle Grazie Milan

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    11.08.2007

    Polenta Recipe

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    11.06.2007

    Change Back From Your Dollar

    When I was a kid touring the back roads of Ashtabula, Ohio, in my friend's dad's two-door Biscayne, we headed out to the McDonald's out on the highway. It wasn't much more than a kiosk at the time, but we could each get a hamburger, fries and Coke and change back from our dollar.

    Oh, yeah, back in the late 60s, there were under a million served, as I recall.