Archive for the ‘Maine’ Category
Home sweet home
Posted in Life, Lincolnville, Maine on 19 July 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Prison workshop villanelle
Posted in Down East, Maine, The possibility of art on 19 January 2009 | Leave a Comment »
“Doing Time” by Betsy Scholl: They call me Babe and make a kissing noise from inside their bars and inside their rage. Most of them are men, though they act like boys who’ve played too hard and broken all their toys. Now they’re trying to break their metal cage. They yell out Babe, make that [...]
Weeds, part 1
Posted in Maine, Music, That's entertainment on 19 January 2009 | Leave a Comment »
My almost-favorite TV show (running a neck behind Mad Men). You just have to love a story set in a gated McMansion community whose theme song is the folkie classic “Little Boxes.” Remember? There’s a red one, and a green one, and a blue one and a yellow one, and they’re all made out of [...]
Hullaballoo over Bald Rock
Posted in Down East, Lincolnville, Maine on 19 January 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Not far from my back door, somebody wants to build a cell-phone tower. The plan got whacked down (twice) by the Lincolnville town planning board, but then the board of appeals — voting 2 to 1 — reversed that decision and green-lighted the project. En passant, the chairman expressed his personal view that tower opponents [...]
Netflix checklist: ‘Le Fils’ (The Son)
Posted in Life, Maine, The possibility of art on 18 January 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I love this odd, lovely Belgian film. The plot is so minimal, the story so tightly compressed, I can’t say much without giving too many things away. A 16-year-old boy, released from several years in juvenile detention, comes to a small vocational school in Liège hoping to learn carpentry. He’s a wounded, jaded, yet somehow [...]
