New Leaf Journal site news for the week of May 10-16.
Welcome, one and all, to the opening of The Emu Café. In this special establishment of The New Leaf Journal, we serve only the finest descriptions of coffee, tea, and snacks to accompany.
Victor V. Gurbo and Mark Caserta perform “The Railroad Boy,” a tale of rejection and sorrow.
Examining Shane Mosley’s interesting thoughts on how the confident Floyd Mayweather was motivated by fear of failure.
I wrote a haiku about having seen a blue jay and black squirrel from a window in Brooklyn in the early 2000s on a Ti-89 Titanium graphing calculator and then posted the screen capture. (Why not?)
I explore the mysterious connection between Nixon going to China and the illness of a pink bear named Apple in Animal Crossing: New Horizons.
Recapping the first 10 articles at The New Leaf Journal and looking ahead to what was to come in May 2020l.
Back in 2005, I overheard a gentleman waiting in line at Cobble Hill Cinema tell his date that he was “a little maxed out on existentialism.” The ineffable haughtiness of his declaration stayed with me.
Victor V. Gurbo provides a brief overview of Bob Dylan before looking forward to his new album, False Prophet.
The autocratic President of Uzbekistan gave a very long speech about reforming the security services. I assessed how the length of the speech related to the possibility of reform.
A cardinal sighting in Brooklyn Bridge Park reminded me of a joint blue jay-black squirrel sighting from long ago.
The sessions continue with a classic dark ballad.