Category Archives: Commentary

Opinion or analysis concerning whatever’s on my mind.

Directions

Posted on July 9, 2018 by JMN

<— Je Ne Sais Cove Brigand Dunes —> <— Grotto Blotto Dog Platitudes —> <— New Deli Donny Brook —> <— Post Hockish <— Ergo —> Propter Hockish—> <— Center For Customer Insights (New Haven, CT) Academy of Combative Warrior … Continue reading →

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The Painted Word

Posted on July 8, 2018 by JMN

In my twenties I fantasized an artistic project called “The Painted Word” — standing language on its head by meticulously brushing it on canvas. (I didn’t know until later that Tom Wolfe had used the phrase for the title of … Continue reading →

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Dominoes

Posted on July 7, 2018 by JMN

The powers that be have signed the contract that assures Hurricane Harvey (2017) will have robust progeny in my neck of the planet into what future is foreseeable. In a forlorn holding action against storms to come I’m having a … Continue reading →

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How a bespoke Suit works

Posted on July 7, 2018 by JMN

“A Savile Row suit ‘rarely looks new in the conventional sense.’ Its magic ‘is that it enhances your real self into heightened fantasy, then presents this fantasy as your real self.’ “ (Lance Richardson, “House of Nutter,” reviewed by Matthew … Continue reading →

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Juicy Mystery

Posted on July 6, 2018 by JMN

My local newspaper has a regular feature entitled “Food Service Inspections for Week Ending <date>.” I scan it devotedly. Food purveyors from all around are assigned demerits, from zero to one hundred. My newspaper clarifies, helpfully, that “Zero” is the … Continue reading →

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Sundry Maundering

Posted on July 2, 2018 by JMN

THE BOOK OF JOB The Job is hard. Do the Job. PERMUTATIONS I don’t pretend to know how you don’t understand me. I don’t understand how you pretend not to know me. I don’t know how you pretend not to … Continue reading →

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Signage

Posted on July 2, 2018 by JMN

Not: Serious —> <— Kidding Really —> <— Ever Now —> <— Likely Hardly –> Context/Favor/Fashion/Office/Sight: In —> <— Out Of Skinless —> <— Skinned Boneless —> <— Boned Dead Start —> <— Small Finish Smoothies —> <— Roughies Rapids … Continue reading →

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Counterintuitive

Posted on June 29, 2018 by JMN

I’ve had little training as a painter, but one tenet I’ve tried to honor is the one that says, “Choose a brush you think is too large, then start your painting with one size larger.” However, human likenesses are comprised … Continue reading →

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I don’t follow “football,” but…

Posted on June 29, 2018 by JMN

“When football club directors are in a bind all they want is someone to lie to them offering a version of events that is optimistic and irrefutable, based on “scientific” evidence. (Speech marks are vitally important every time the word … Continue reading →

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Otiose Maundering

Posted on June 28, 2018 by JMN

Dead cat bounce Catch a falling knife Bum luck Egypt Seven large going spare Bespoke zoots Pasta puttanesca War and Peas Puckish truculence Warp speak Aloe, Vera! Circular humanism Caveat empty Flag elation Mass turbation Con stir nation Absolute shun … Continue reading →

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