Author Archives: ken

Protected: Control-Top Parsnip

There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.

Posted in Uncategorized | Enter your password to view comments.

Protected: Gentle Hint

There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.

Posted in Uncategorized | Enter your password to view comments.

Everything That Happens Will Happen Today

Everything That Happens Will Happen Today I was very excited last year when the news came that David Byrne and Brian Eno would be releasing their first collaboration since 1981’s My Life In the Bush Of Ghosts. The album was … Continue reading

Posted in Music, Uncategorized | 4 Comments

Protected: Be Repetitively Affirmative

There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged | Enter your password to view comments.

Texas (Sun to Sun)

I spent Tuesday in Texas. We had crossed the state line from Louisiana the night before, stopped at San Antonio early in the morning, and by breakfast time we were in Del Rio, the “queen city of the Rio Grande.” … Continue reading

Posted in Songs, Uncategorized | Tagged , | 3 Comments

Sunset Limited

I’m freeloading on someone’s wireless connection during a stopover in El Paso, Texas. The train is running a bit ahead of schedule so we’re sitting at the platform for a little while. I took a walk alongside the train, and … Continue reading

Posted in Songs, Uncategorized | Tagged | 2 Comments

Laissez les triste temps roulette

French Quarter I’ll be leaving New Orleans on the Sunset Limited in a few hours, after a one-night stopover here. I haven’t been here since 2005 and I have to say, it’s pretty sad. I have always had mixed feelings … Continue reading

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged , | 7 Comments

Songblogging From the Train

I’m in New Orleans, stopping over for the night on my cross-country train trip to Arizona to see my brother. I left New York on Saturday afternoon on the Crescent, which runs down the Northeast Corridor to Atlanta and then … Continue reading

Posted in Uncategorized | 4 Comments

Protected: Gotta Catch a Train

There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.

Posted in Uncategorized | Enter your password to view comments.

Goodbye to South Ferry

The old South Ferry station on the IRT is about to be replaced with a new, larger station, so yesterday I roped mary_wroth into a brief photo expedition to the old station. I grew up in the public-transit wastelands of … Continue reading

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged , | 3 Comments