Take This Thing Back to Baltimore

  2016-07-19     A machine that generates / empathy      Course the d ® eam of every film reviewer is to have a film made about his / her life, and Life Itself is such / a film, a hagiog ® aphy about your man Roger Ebert, who videed umpteen films and then spouted off / about them, videeing umpteen films and then spouting off / about them is all / we gots.     A precocious child from Urbana, Illinois, your man Roger Ebert wrote his very own Take This Thing Back to Baltimore me-moirs and Life Itself , and the basis of this film.   Ebert edited The Illini, the local Urbana-Champagne newspaper, and took over the film © ritic column from your (wo)man ‘Mae Tinee’, a pseudonym along the lines of ‘Lew Cifer’ in Adrien Lynn’s Angel Heart, played of course by Robert de Niro playing Lu © ifer, and assigned to whatever staff member of the paper managed to get to go the local matinee to videe and review the same, ‘get it?’ Brad Pitt’s Detective ...

    2016-07-18 ‘is that / the price?’                Good times, course it’s always easier to have / a party than © lean up after one, ‘we had to send it maintenance staff’, the letter (!) from (y)our (wo)man the © rusty old © lub Midd dean of students threatened it better in her correspondence to their © ollege ® ugby Club back in the 20 th before during and after a particularly raucous Thi ® stday evening © hoir Practice – yes even then it was   Thi ® stdays and oh boy were they ever / Thi ® stdays   and they never get any / more or any / less thirsty now because Regime Zero ‘off’, a colleague in the cubicombs says it better of the same 25 years later, ‘to TGIThi ® tsdays’, innit G, only of course it’s ‘TGIThursdays’, the way that he says it,   only it really it is / Thi ® stdays, innit, the way that he says it, ‘my lungs’ you said it better innit ACG, of the ® egime ze ® o version /...

  Sep 21, 2025 Here comes / the Sun Day ‘ You’ll get two’, (y)our man Cin the humble(d) narrator of (t)his Take This Thing Back to Balti-memoires and here comes / the sun day said it better back in the day to the assembled congregation in general - and to the grieving family and lifelong friends from The Metis Beaches of the recently deceased in particular - at the funeral for the same in Montreal, by way of introduction to the dueling eulogies soon / to follow, one from (y)our man the(ir) Da Noslouc, and one from (y)our (wo)man the(ir) Ma Noslouc, and the both of them accompanied as we do by (y)our man Cin the(ir) fils Noslouc for the trip that winter Saturday after before during and after it became another Sadurday Night and I Ain’t Got Nobody from Luksvegas to the suburbs of Montreal because putting the  ‘ fun ‘ / in ‘ funeral ‘  (hooker please, -id.) “ for the price / of one “ and of the good times sure / to follow as (y)our (wo)men the Noslouc family members prese...

       Sep 20, 2025        (g) / (b) / / © / (t) / (f) / (bought and s) / and just plain / old      Before during and after making (t)his last minute executive decision as we do - to divest himself and his wet hips and crotch of the red golf shorts that have accompanied him so far on this next-to-last day of Summer 2025 / 55 doesn’t look so / bad, up to and cincluding the entirety of the four days that he was after spending in Boston earlier this month ostensibly putting the ‘ fun ‘ in  ‘funeral ‘, because soaking wet from his dip in the mighty Ottawa river just now - (y)our man Cin the humble(d) narrator of (t)his Take This Thing Back to Balti-memoires and (g) / (b) / (s) / © / (t) / (f) (bought and s) and just plain / old realized too (late) as well that the paddle up and down the Ottawa River, featuring (y)our (wo)man the(ir) new-ish canoe ‘ Pelican’ and purchased by (y)our (wo)man the(ir) sister Noslouc, had ...