tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-52972822024-03-13T22:18:04.402-04:00the rix mix“Here, where the air is loaded with iodine and where the ultra-violet ray is ever-present in our smiling sunshine, your health and happiness is our business.”
Sun Fun in New Jersey
(1946 publication of the New Jersey Resort Association)Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16567817295665099690noreply@blogger.comBlogger3941125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5297282.post-63224754547031059312014-04-27T03:16:00.000-04:002014-04-27T03:16:36.568-04:00Manasquan nJ
Sunnyside Farm
Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16567817295665099690noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5297282.post-14920062205358559082014-04-22T17:14:00.001-04:002014-04-22T17:14:12.049-04:00From junior high through high school I usually spent this week at my Nana's in Atlantic City, traveling down by slow local bus on Monday. Easter week was also the annual convention of Catholic Educators. Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16567817295665099690noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5297282.post-50986968554550283282014-04-20T07:39:00.000-04:002014-04-21T07:40:54.394-04:00Easter Atlantic City NJBobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16567817295665099690noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5297282.post-80637626804720972742014-04-17T05:21:00.001-04:002014-04-17T05:21:20.461-04:00Four PrinciplesBe free to do what you want, in your art.
Experimental art can be capable of explaining itself as it is experienced. (See Pauline Oliveros)
"Remember when I say teacher, I also mean student..." Mary Caroline Richards. Strive for peer relationships regardless of differences in age, experience, skill.
Sow too much irony, reap an ugly crop of cynicism.Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16567817295665099690noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5297282.post-86483904070118843342014-04-13T00:41:00.001-04:002014-04-13T00:56:19.692-04:00Manasquan NJ
Carlson's Corner
In honor of Facebook friending my cousin Randy, who I haven't seen since we were teens, & only saw once or twice a year anyway. My sister, named for his mom & a favorite of his dad, had a close relationship with them, if not with Randy.
The only thing I envied about Randy was that they had a beachfront cottage in Manasquan, nothing fancy (actually, they had two, Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16567817295665099690noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5297282.post-2527256446987354742014-04-11T08:19:00.004-04:002014-04-11T08:21:36.091-04:00Laura Nyro - Brown Earth
I don't know if Carrie likes Laura, but this is one of my fave "being alive" songs. for her recent birthday.Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16567817295665099690noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5297282.post-22946961634142101972014-04-06T01:11:00.000-04:002014-04-06T01:11:20.122-04:00Atlantic City NJ
By the Apollo Hotel & Theatre.
Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16567817295665099690noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5297282.post-37838485574427955462014-04-03T20:31:00.004-04:002014-04-03T20:33:08.531-04:00Rixarcade You Tube ChannelCongratulations to me, passed 1000 music uploads & 1000 subscribers for the Rixarcade You Tube Channel. I wanted the channel in the spirit of my WFMU shows, open to following wherever it took me. This was my first upload, Sept. 16, 2010.
Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16567817295665099690noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5297282.post-13708088630955349962014-04-02T00:58:00.003-04:002014-04-02T00:58:22.156-04:00Come Fly With MeOriginally posted April 10, 2006
It's one thing to dream about Frank Sinatra, much more freaky to dream that I am Frank Sinatra. For this dream, inventing a huge hotel/casino to wander around in, not in a city, with endless anonymous hallways, elevators with uniformed operators (do I tip them?), gift shops, strange magazine stands, even a big wedding reception in one of the banquet rooms. &Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16567817295665099690noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5297282.post-49965391938522336202014-03-30T00:30:00.001-04:002014-03-30T00:30:40.943-04:00Mountainside NJ
Children's Country Home
Glimpsed, set back from the road on several acres, this became the large Children's Specialized Hospital system, main campus in News Brunswick with other service locations throughout Jersey. But this hospital, in the Fifties & probably well into the Sixties, treated long-term care polio sufferers in iron lungs. Which of course gave it a foreboding air Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16567817295665099690noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5297282.post-44945306626556782742014-03-26T00:30:00.000-04:002014-03-26T05:32:16.012-04:00No Snow, hopefully no mo' Was a possibility for a dusting of snow tonight. The storm passed over South Jersey - they may have had five plus wet inches down there, edge of snow about 30 miles south of Elizabeth, storm moved out to sea, expected to batter Boston & produce blizzard conditions from coastal Maine up through Nova Scotia & Newfoundland.Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16567817295665099690noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5297282.post-66440813910415352302014-03-25T12:20:00.000-04:002014-03-26T05:23:29.794-04:00Velma, Chapter Twofor Liz French
I poked at Velma's smoldering cigarette butt in the ashtray
with the point of a pencil. Why do women always do that?
Velma crossed her shapely left leg over her right,
then changed to her right over her left. I didn't pretend not to look.
"Well?" asked Velma.
I said, "Velma, what part of 'I don't do divorce work'
don't you understand?"Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16567817295665099690noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5297282.post-63842431701232319632014-03-24T00:21:00.000-04:002014-03-24T03:27:57.549-04:00Reviewing albums for fun & no profitI read a review of a new Beck album by a young friend, a very good writer, she linked in Facebook. She gave the album three stars, but it was for me a four star review. It's titled "An Ethereal Collection Of Honest Tracks." She wrote "Morning Phase is a delightfully multi-layered album that flows wonderfully..." This got me thinking. I pointed out I thought it was a four star reviewBobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16567817295665099690noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5297282.post-49449132102013928542014-03-23T00:30:00.000-04:002014-03-23T00:30:04.681-04:00Atlantic City NJ
The 500 Club
Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16567817295665099690noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5297282.post-17427622877886998592014-03-19T16:22:00.000-04:002014-03-20T04:23:12.434-04:00A NEW TAROT CARD
First the money please thank you.
This figure who rarely speaks her thoughts
prefers the old Christmas tree lights
& the routine of closing the blinds
when the sun shines through
at a slightly different time
each afternoon.
She believes that what is best
is best left implied or unsaid.
Ancient, ancient her religion,
but no more heretical for that;
when one such as her has visions
Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16567817295665099690noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5297282.post-49772181053824934762014-03-17T00:57:00.000-04:002014-03-18T00:58:22.913-04:00Happy St. Patrick's DayBobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16567817295665099690noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5297282.post-32248291877891159122014-03-16T15:31:00.001-04:002014-03-16T15:38:34.186-04:00Van Morrison - She Gives Me Religion
The one giving the most may be the one practicing the least. Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16567817295665099690noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5297282.post-28824083934141391772014-03-16T00:45:00.000-04:002014-03-16T00:45:39.164-04:00Rio Grande NJ
Polly's Motel
(On the mainland across from Wildwood)
Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16567817295665099690noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5297282.post-7035446812201774742014-03-15T09:34:00.000-04:002014-03-15T10:05:14.443-04:00Ballet School ReceptionistA face behind the glass
I stared at her
Tiny girls in leotards
walked in & out
of her tiny office
A shy child needing her
to sew a tear -
she closed the door
Mothers gossiping
who got the best parts
in The Nutcracker
Shifting my weight
from foot to foot
pretending to read an old magazine
was my dance
Twice I went out for air
then returned to wonder
at her rice flour face
& Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16567817295665099690noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5297282.post-58000466550977957802014-03-10T18:27:00.005-04:002014-03-10T18:27:34.393-04:00Irish WomenWhenever his wife cracks her knuckles
five minutes later her sister phones from Pittsburgh.Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16567817295665099690noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5297282.post-79396894935268515662014-03-09T01:03:00.004-05:002014-03-09T01:03:52.610-05:00Cape May City NJ
Miniature golf on Beach Dr.
Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16567817295665099690noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5297282.post-33339643120831345392014-03-06T19:24:00.000-05:002014-03-06T19:24:04.135-05:00Buddy Cole - Cheek to CheekFrom the album "Ingenuity in Sound" (1962). Buddy Cole on dual Hammond Organs.Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16567817295665099690noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5297282.post-31114453345869185132014-03-05T02:05:00.005-05:002014-03-05T02:05:56.874-05:00take it to the bossLandlord came last Thursday with Louie, his all-purpose assistant, to check on my new electric switch box & assure me the wall will be plastered, which I could care less about. The visit gave me a chance remind that the drain pipe in the wall behind the kitchen sink has to be rootered, I have someone else's sink wastewater backing up into my sink. This has happened before. Also I need a new Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16567817295665099690noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5297282.post-9459848767843845272014-03-04T00:48:00.001-05:002014-03-04T00:49:18.412-05:00A good breakOn Friday a major snowstorm was forecast for Sunday Night into Monday, 6+ inches followed by more deep freeze. But the storm was downgraded starting Saturday, we got less than an inch here, the heavy snow in South Jersey. Temps are still below average for early March. Some years we have crocuses & robins by now.Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16567817295665099690noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5297282.post-48318639737057852562014-03-02T15:14:00.002-05:002014-03-02T15:14:46.836-05:00Mount Ephraim NJ
Bo-Bet Motel and Coffee Shop
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