Painting pumpkins.
Caleb's palette. Like Jackson Pollock, we paint in pajamas.
Sam and early 21st century expressionism.
Sam with the finished products. Caleb's pointillist blue-period pumpkin is on the left, with Sam's autumn-hued expressionist work on the right.
Sam eats an apple the way most people play harmonica.
On the train at Apple Holler.
"This is not '38, this is old '97. You must get her into Spencer on time."
"Casey Jones, you better watch your speed."
The boys with the jack pumpkinhead they themselves carved at Grandma and Grandpa's house.
They boys have some wide shoes to fill.
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Two weeks to victory. I'm 262 pages into Thomas Pynchon's Against The Day, and enjoying it very much -- only 818 pages left. Mad Men has been beyond fantastic this season. Autumn's doing it's scholarly best, and the cold keeps us sharp and the coffee fresh. Sam pointed to the sun behind the clouds and called it the moon. I tried to correct him, but he insisted: "No, Daddy, it's the moon," and who could say that it wasn't? Caleb is putting in concentrated work on the alphabet. The leaves crunch beneath our feet, and the roadwork is nearly done. We have Colin Powell on our side, and many of the Tampa Bay baseball club, and ten points in the national polls. It is usually the horrible things that leave us remembering where we were and what we were doing, but this is where we are right now, on the verge of something insanely great, impossible and necessary. This is what we are doing.
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3 comments:
got your blog becaujse of Pynchon mention. AtD is a great book.
When you read Tree of Smoke notice how it is influenced by V.
I have the champagne, but everytime I see the latest numbers, or palin's macy's bill, I am really tempted to crack that baby early.
So.... What time do the polls close in Virginia and Pennsylvania? Methinks I may be popping early Election Night.
And what are the odds of which state will put him over? If Virginia, NC, Florida and Ohio go Obama, it could be over before California get off work.
I think it's time to give the boys knives and teach them to carve man! I remember that was my favorite part as a little kid. Atleast they have kid proof knives these days. - MAS
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