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On This Day – Transistor Radio
On this day in 1955, Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering – a company that would become SONY – sold the first transistor radio. For kids growing up between then and the late 1970s when the Walkman portable cassette player was introduced (again by SONY), the transistor radio became what the iPhone is today: a connection. We… Read more
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Butterfingers
You’re holding something delicate Butterfingers Try not to lose your train of thought Butterfingers Remember why you picked her up Butterfingers Don’t you ever let her drop Butterfingers Time is what it always was It just feels different because You don’t have as much left You don’t have as much Cross your legs and hope… Read more
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I Feel Unfamiliar
It’s getting hard to tellDreams from nightmares from realityFrom “be careful what you wish” forOr “you get what you deserve”When the tide goes out on the oceans of sleepAnd leaves me on morning’s sticky shoreI feel unfamiliarClutching at indescribable sensationsJust out of reach Read more
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CitySketch – Bank of America Tower
On October 17, 1904, Amadeo Pietro Giannini founded the Bank of Italy in San Francisco to serve Italian immigrants whose fortunes were too small to be of interest to the American banks of the day. Unlike most of his fellow bankers, when the great earthquake struck San Francisco two years later Giannini was quick enough… Read more
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Unhappy Cat
He was an unhappy cat His owner saw no reason for his unhappiness He had a roof over his head Toys, and another cat to play with His bowl was full, So much that his looser parts sagged and waddled But he cried in the middle of the night Maybe he just had the blues… Read more
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Responsibilities
“In dreams begins responsibility.“ Old Play Pardon, old fathers, if you still remainSomewhere in ear-shot for the story’s end, Old Dublin merchant “free of ten and four”Or trading out of Galway into Spain; And country scholar, Robert Emmet’s friend,A hundred-year-old memory to the poor; Traders or soldiers who have left me bloodThat has not passed… Read more
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