David Canary (1938-2015)

I knew him first because his brother John was a student at Kent where he playd the lead in Lawrence & Lee's Thoreau play.

I saw David in summer stock & later in supporting roles in Tennessee Williams' Broadway flop abt the Fitzgeralds.

but of course he was best known for playing twins on "All My Children." I was never a follower of soaps but that one at one time came on just because the local news at noon.  so I'd often see the end of an episode when I tuned in.

no bites

on house. so off market for winter.

computer still white screen most of the time. & iPad doesn't always allow me to get mail.

add to the mix my not-that-old coffeemaker ended its life.

so even tho I'm not writing poems beside a pool as expectd I try to smile every day. & I'm making collages.

"Incident on a Bridge"

in the early 60s the Plain Dealer had a small magazine supplement calld TV Week. & for a while there was a competion calld "You Are a Critic." in jan of 1962 I won $25 first prize for a review of the Cleveland episode of "Route 66."

I think my only copy of that review is with my papers at Kent. so I don't know what I wrote.

tonite I watchd that episode for the first time since its original viewing. it opens & closes with shots of my beloved Terminal Tower when it was the tallest building in the city. most of the rest is set either in the Flats or Russian Hill. it's wonderful to see Cleveland then. Stirling Silliphant's script has some moving moments. & the young Lois Smith is radiant.

from a forgotten stain series

a gift

William Andrews (1928-2015)

my neighbor Phil's father died this morning.  I took this picture of Phil with his parents at his mother's booksigning on the plaza some years ago.

hiatus

computer still down
ipad unreliable

I'm packing for the move

will be withdrawing from here for a while

Beat Street Cleveland

with Jim Lang

with D. R. Wagner

Ingrid Swanberg & Dianne Borsenik

for sale

those who read me carefully know I expectd to die within the adobe walls of my dream house.

for many reasons that house has just gone on the market. soon I'll find a condo in Palm Springs.

I don't know how long this will take. but I've been preparing for months. the downsizing has been considerable.

this is exciting. this is scary.

another crash

I guess my Apple is a Lemon.

in the past month it's workd only a couple of days. the techs put in a new OS but that doesn't cure it. for several reasons I don't want to purchase a new one just yet. so I fear I'll have to exist with only an ipad for a while.

Jack Larson (1928-2015)

he lived with Jim Bridges in a lovely Frank Lloyd Wright house. I only visitd once but it was a time full of laughter & tales of their many memorable friends.

more Elyria

back from Ohio

where we celebrated Mom's 94th birthday

Beat St

objects

among apricot blossoms

Andria Derstine is director of Allen Memorial Art Museum. when she came to my house to view my art collection she took this photo.

it's hard to see the work I'm holding but it's a charming Roberto Marquez watercolor.  & it's one of the pieces now at Oberlin.

boyish jottings

nothing profound but consider my age. this was a bulletin from the Allen abt 60 years ago. it was among the ancillary printd material that accompanied the art to Oberlin.

a gift

I've written before that my first museum was the Allen Memorial Art Museum on the campus of Oberlin College.  it was near my hometown & I loved visiting. it was where I purchased my first piece of art -- Jean Charlot's "Naval Skirmish."

recently I donated some 40 pieces from my art collection to the Allen & the Charlot was one of those. for me the circle is complete.

Elisa Wike Hurley took this picture of me with some of the work just before movers came to pack it all up & take it away.

besides Charlot the other artists whose work I gave the Allen are Richard Anuskiewicz   Leonard Baskin   Miguel Ortiz Berrocal   Joe Brainard   Emerson Burkhart   David Edward Byrd   Otto Dix   Howard Finster   Paul Flora   John Gill   Ira Joel Haber   Henry Halem   Keith Haring   Grace Hartigan   David Hockney   Jasper Johns   Alex Katz   R. B. Kitaj   Jasper Krabbe   Kirk Mangus   Roberto Marquez   Joan Miro   Mark Mothersbaugh   Joseph O'Sickey   Pablo Picasso   Otto Piene   Fairfield Porter   James Rosenquist   P. Craig Russell      Bert Stern   Arthut Yanoff.

a footnote on Foghorn

reviewing piles of writings I found a note that claims George Winslow used the name Micajah Mott & appeard as an extra in "Bedazzled" & "Little Nicky" in 2000.

that name is an historical one but I find no reference to it being used in film credits. I suspect I made that note after talking with the man I took to be the former child star.