odds & ends and excerpts: or,
they had to come up with the wind-chill index when they quit making brass monkeys.
(stuff I didn’t write): The Bad Writing Contest, prize-winning examples of the most incomprehensible scholarly writing (it’s too easy a search).
recommended reading:
good stuff to read
music:
Kelly Joe Phelps–one fine acoustic bluesman. He packed the house, and then shook it, at the Blue Door, OKC.
Don Conoscenti–catch his live performance if he’s in your area.
My brother-in-law Jon Albrink, a fine musician who lives and records in New York City (and performs all over).
Want to see a great movie? Midnight Mile orThe Royal Tennenbaumsor Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?or Duets or Mifune,or Happy Texas or The Fast Runner Other recommended movies.
Branching out beyond writing: a little about the boat I love, my Klepper kayak.
My résumé. I’m available as a writer (or editor). Someone searching the internet on “Chris Bassity,” my given name, will now find me.
For readers who might be wondering about the lack of new work lately, for two years I’ve been working on a book (nonfiction of course): Resurrecting Nelia Mae. I have a publisher interested and now I’m down to revising and completing a final draft.