Election Day
November 6, 2018
In the weak light of November coffee-breathed we wait and wend hope and helplessness comingling citizens together the line moves slow but steady and nobody begrudges widows greeting poll workers or the stolid patience of the man charged with explaining …
Golf-is stuff, Aretha Franklin and cover songs
August 19, 2018
Movie on 8-18-18 at 6.39 AM from Philip Martin on Vimeo.
Joe’s Stone Crab
March 19, 2018
Jack and Marcia Schnedler, our peripatetic contributors, have rarely missed a meal in a half-century of trotting the globe — including all 50 states and the District of Columbia, as well as all seven continents. They even ate lunch at …
They’re trying to build a dog park in WLR
February 26, 2017
6 West Little Rock Dog Park Share Tweet 98 shares Welcome to the West Little Rock Dog Park fundraising site!
Arnold Palmer’s gratitude
September 26, 2016
I wrote this back in 1999. Near the end of the 1960s, a Gallup poll designed to sound the depths of American cynicism turned up the interesting factoid that there was but one American who could still be considered an …
Pornagraphie alimentaire
June 18, 2016
blood,dirt & angels’ roving correspondents, Jack and Marcia Schnedler, rarely miss a meal on the road. Food and drink are among their prime travel pleasures, as witness these photos from their current trip to the French regions of Normandy and …
Max Ferguson at Crystal Bridges
June 7, 2016
BY KAREN MARTINfor blood, dirt and angelsBENTONVILLE — Max Ferguson is a painter. The Long Island native is known for hyper-detailed depictions of vanishing scenes in and around New York City. One of his works, titled Time (2006, oil on panel), is part …
“Trump Stakes,” a poem by Johnny Wink
May 8, 2016
Sent our way this afternoon: Trump Stakes The Donald called me a liar when I told him That the word travel comes from a Latin word Having to do with torture. When I suggested That, when he gets around …