Month: October 2010

The first crabcake of my life, years ago, was very good. What followed it was a towering crabcake stack of disappointment. Each too heavy, bready, fishy, sloppy, grainy, or gritty. I ate them at the best restaraunts. I ordered them from the coast. All were found lacking. Happily, tonight I ate the crabcake to end…

Here are two tales from the streets of Saint Louis, and how they got their names. The Klan Story Recent readers will note I’m just jumping right back into the Klan talk. I think I’m a little obsessed. It must be because it’s a secret society, and you know how I am about secrets.* In…

(Plus, one piece of hearsay.) When I was in high school, I remember a day I came into the school hall and saw my friends gathered around my boyfriend Virgil. Virgil “What’s up?” I asked someone. “Someone put a Klan flyer in Virgil’s parent’s mailbox!” “No way,” I said, and I joined the line of…

I went to one semester of university in Bloomington Indiana, so when Ingrid Michaelson had a concert there I felt comfortable with the drive and the neighborhood. You may think from that photo she has orange hair and a blue / red tattoo on her arm. Actually, Gary’s camera grabbed all the stage lights and…

If Christine O’Donnell finds any position in the government I will riot, I will loot, I will foment. I will cast the spells I learned in sixth grade when I too “dabbled into” witchcraft. I will follow her about and correct her usage. Usually when the doublespeak flows that freely the words are strung together…