tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-55223623626485055912011-12-18T17:43:52.084-08:00Musings from a Chinese (?) ScholarFlederbughttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00937250783566480264noreply@blogger.comBlogger121100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5522362362648505591.post-71500529037639621472011-12-18T17:43:00.001-08:002011-12-18T17:43:52.128-08:00

clouddragonart's photostream on Flickr.Photos from my daily wanderings.

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A new coffee shop opened in Koreatown with the unseemly name of Tom and Toms Coffee.  It's a Korean outfit, which makes perfect sense given the location.Their specialty (apart from coffee and related bevs) are PRETZELS.  Not the Wetzels-at-the-mall-that-make-you-barf kind, but very similar to the real stuff from New York City. I lived on these pretzels when I worked briefly in the Big Apple

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Smack dab in what I figure is the linear middle of my life, I decided I would be a Chinese scholar.  Or is it a Japanese scholar?  The fact that I am neither Chinese nor Japanese does not enter into the equation.  What I am, is a brush and ink painter:  the brush and ink both being of Chinese design and adapted by the Japanese, and the technique a hybrid of the two. What is the difference?  I

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I’ve been to the most terrifying place today, one I have avoided for over two years:  the closet.  This is the Great Storage closet, my repository of STUFF and accoutrements. It is the resting place of old canvas, bad sketchbooks and Kraft paper.  The graveyard of mismatched picture frames guarded by scroll box sentinels. There lay odd sections of 2x4, door moldings, canvas wedges, rolls of

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Little birdie inna treeMade a big fool outta me.Soon to be published here:A Child's Garden of Worse: poems for the complete and undecided.

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The Cardinettia is an elusive creature, appearing only at Christmas. Its plumage is an excellent example of mimicry in nature, conjoining two icons of the Winter season: the feisty red Cardinal and the showy tropical Poinsettia.

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Lunch HaikuA brown beetle in my lunch?No, just a squashed raisin. L.A. SpringBeneath dull gray skiesjacaranda trees shower purple blossoms. Birds at the FeederFinches' metallic chirp:A sparrow stole their food. Doves, I Language of doves – A danceWings open like Japanese fans. Doves, IIDove lands on the railing,A loose feather wafts up to the sky. Superior Court, IGray and brown drab.Employees

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WHY AM I SO LAZY?

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Sheesh. It’s raining again.Wuz’ the problem, you ask: rain is good. Waters the grass, the flowers. Gets the dust off the trees.Yes. Yes it does. Dust goes off the trees, right on to my shirt.But that’s not really the problem.The problem is: this is Los Angeles, and apart from the “May Gray/June Gloom”, we have not had any sun since April. And it has rained twice this week. Feels like

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