Heard By a Bird in Phoenicia, New York
Region: New York"Instead of following sports, I follow religion. Every day, I read the paper to see who's winning: the Christians or the Muslims." - Samuel P. Huntington Did you see the cloud shaped like a Mahjong coin over Pi... more
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Heard By a Bird from Phoenicia, New York
Region: New York"Politics is the present tense of history." - Arthur Schlesinger Jr. Did you see the cloud resembling Peter Pan's hat over Big Indian last Wednesday? A Letter Dear Sparrow: Good news! Consume... more
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Heard By a Bird in Phonecia, New York
Region: New York"I am ironic even towards irony." - John Ashbery Did you see the cloud shaped like a Tuscan wine bottle over Pine Hill last Tuesday? A Letter Dear Knowledge-Accumulator: The best whittler I knew was Benson... more
Views: 248Heard By a Bird in Phonecia, New York
Region: New York"It's much easier to be a bad artist than a bad mathematician." - William G. Holzberger Did you see the cloud resembling a five-armed coat over Chichester last Saturday? A Letter Dear Sparrow: Yesterday I ... more
Views: 208Heard By a Bird, December 2008
Region: New York"Sailors know the loudness of water." - C. S. Forester A Letter Dear Mr. Information: Call me eccentric, but I say the smell of brown rice cooking would make a great perfume. P. D. Ballet Deer "The f... more
Views: 341Heard By a Bird, November 2008
Region: New York"Afternoon is the new morning." - Aston Kutcher Leaf-feet "I saw 17 leaves running down Fox Hollow like schoolchildren's feet," my neighbor Dave told me. Bumper sticker: DICK CHENEY'S THE ANTICHRIST (AND... more
Views: 368Bob Dylan in Prospect Park
Region: New YorkI saw Bob Dylan play in Brooklyn on August 12: a concert in Prospect Park. Tickets were $85 or $55, but crowds of people sat outside listening for free. (I'd estimate 6,000 were on the lawns, mostly between the... more
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Heard By a Bird: July 25
Region: New York"The Cubist painters sadly neglected the banjo." - Clive Bell A Letter Dearest Sparrow: A new book entitled Can't Remember What I Forgot: The Good News from the Front Lines of Memory Research by Sue Halpern say... more
Views: 615Heard By A Bird, April
Region: New York"I am the opposite of Sigmund Freud; I ask, 'What don't women want?'" - Dr. Otto Rank A Letter Dear gossip-spreader: Do you know the expression "as the crow flies"? It means the most direct route possible... more
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Heard By a Bird, April 21st.
Region: New York"America has given two gifts to the world: jazz and the gossip column." - Quentin Crisp Did you see the cloud shaped like an Austrian monocle over Woodland Valley last Tuesday? Foreign Travel to Connecticut "... more
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Sparrow avoids refined sugar and National Geographic magazine, but he enjoys all jokes, including:
Tourist: Excuse me, but do you have a pumpkin patch?
Farmer: Why, do you have a leaky pumpkin?
His latest book is America: A Prophecy -- The Sparrow Reader (www.softskull.com).
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