Culture
- Written by: Curtis W. Long
- Category: Culture
In this third edition of songs from our one-man musical, “Blues Booze and Attitude,” Tommy Dodson, as Thad Johnson/Spats Dollar, bounces from the church right back into the devil’s playground of Ma Danner’s sinful, gentlemen’s parlor.
This time, with Ma Danner’s girls feeling a little skittish, alter ego Thad Johnson sends along an idea that echoes from the New Testament. Fats Dollar gingerly mixes in the reporting of the Apostles with modern political philosophy, as he sings, “Jesus Was a Liberal.”
- Written by: Curtis W. Long
- Category: Culture
A summer breeze,
The Butterfly Effect –
They are both at ease, till –
“What the hack!”
Well, that’s my point,
Your brilliant round-heads --
They’re out of joint;
You’re off your meds.
- Written by: Curtis W. Long
- Category: Culture
After 20 years of only modestly presenting our works to the public, Tommy Dodson and I, as the entity, “Musical SoCal,” have decided to latch our fortunes onto the YouTube spinning wheel. Since our forte is stage musicals, we were uncertain as to how this art form would relate to the YouTube requirement for brevity, with regard to a successful continuous series. We are aware that success can be both promotional and monetary.
- Written by: Christopher Barnet
- Category: Culture
We sit together and remember that time. When it was possible to think each other as geometric symbols in a system that we would never understand. I love you.
When angels arrive you will recognize them with their filthy mouths and their beautiful clothes. You'll recognize them because of the papers they're wearing. They won't try to be close to you. It's none of their business. Theirs is another vocation. You must be aware of that. It says they look like, but I can tell you that they have the bodies and the looks of the railway workers. Their hands are hardened by unnecessary toil. Their eyes keep scanning and they hear everything you say. You'd better believe it before the bells ring.
- Written by: Christopher Barnet
- Category: Culture
Portbou lullaby for Benjamin
eleonora's falcon
held walter's hair
between beak
Although Jacquelynn Kresman was born in Lorain, Ohio, she came west with her parents when very young and has always thought of herself as a ‘native’ of beautiful San Diego, California. The family built a home in the Point Loma neighborhood, just blocks away from some of the area’s most beautiful shoreline. She reminisces; “back then a young kid could wander alone and I took advantage of that freedom and spent almost all of my time at the beach”. Living just a few blocks from the beach as an only child, it was her playground and her best friend. She made it her mission to capture on canvas every inch of the captivating coast of her adopted state. Kresman, as she signs her work, has canvassed that seashore. Her artistic vision went naturally to the sea-conscious environment from which she developed.
- Written by: Christopher Barnet
- Category: Culture
contemplate
calmness of cadavers
though
they
twitch
- Written by: William Hunn
- Category: Culture
KEEPING BUSY
July 4, 2017
Mimi liked the Phillies. She would sit in her chair in the living room and listen to every game on her small transistor radio. But her hands were never idle. As she listened, her hands were ever busy, crochet and needlepoint always making something. Most of her creations ended up as gifts for some occasion or another, otherwise we would have run out of room for them all.
This was a busy household. Roland once lamented in a letter that between Alan’s motorcycle, Bill and Sarah’s models and other projects, he had been run out of his own basement. He clamped a board to a windowsill in the living room and used it as a workbench for his own creations.
