Cleveland my Cleveland

the city of Terminal Tower has a new distinction. the website of Forbes Magazine lists it as #1 for bad winters   stating it takes "endurance" to survive the annual average of 60" of snow.

today Cleveland is on tap for another 6". while this towerless town now my home will have a quiet day before tomorrow's storm.

the winter that won't quit

don't know whether to blame El Nino or Al Gore but I'm weary of this. today's storm is the first of 3 predictd to hit here just this week.

as a former Ohioan I still trekkd to the gym this ayem while neighbors were before their fireplaces. but for me spring can't come soon enuf.

& the piece goes on

Ray Craig adds another layer of history to this one

feeling special

during the week 2 of my oldest friends -- Ira Joel Haber & James Robert Parish -- both sent me goodie packages. they often gather obituaries of those they know I care abt & postcards & playbills   sometimes DVDs or magazines   & send them along. it always soothes my often wrinkld brow.

then today my newest friend Kevin McCollister sent a book he knew I'd like.

my thx to all of them.

preparing

The Arrow That is Hollywood Pierces the Soul That is Me for publication I cut the Evelyn Nesbit poem. I still like it. but I don't think it works in the final manuscript.

now the hard part. trying to find a publisher. altho I've been at this game for more than 40 years I'm not good at it. & right now I'm not sure where to go.

EVELYN NESBIT REMEMBERS

          climbing stairs
          of boardinghouse
          in Hollywood

the girl
   in the
        red velvet
           swing

          thinks back
          to the nite
          she snuck out
          on Stanford White
          to spend
          in the arms
          of John Barrymore

          for one moment
          she cd still
          smell him

Evelyn Nesbit


Stanford White


John Barrymore

best thing abt bad weather

CNN gives us more of Rob Marciano

ties that bind

contributor Geof Huth comments

times are bad?

a Giacometti sculpture just sold for 92 & a half million dollars.....

snowing again

so I'm making chicken soup