Ed Briggs

On Seeing Where My Father’s Fingers Were Buried

 Posted by Ed Briggs at 5:42 am  No Responses »
Apr 292009
 

Here in a valley grown with weeds, that hill
above us looking down, I see a mill

and hear its creak and smell the fresh-ground flow
that cooking made so sweet. And here I know Continue reading »
 Poetry, Stories  Tagged with: , ,

Organizing Your Web Browser

 Posted by Ed Briggs at 9:34 am  No Responses »
Apr 282009
 

Google and others are providing us with a great variety of free tools that enhance and organize our Web experiences.  The following shows how you can use Google’s free iGoogle desktop.  I use Firefox as my browser and this setup works exactly the same on my company PC and on my personal Macs.  I’ve numbered just a few of the key features. Continue reading »

 Technology

A Child In the Closet

 Posted by Ed Briggs at 6:07 am  No Responses »
Apr 262009
 

The following took place in Ooltewah, Tennessee.  It is one of those stories that has never left me, although it took place sometime in the late 1960′s. Continue reading »

 Poetry, Stories

Good Movies: Lars and the Real Girl

 Posted by Ed Briggs at 6:13 am  No Responses »
Apr 222009
 

People will either consider this movie great or stupid.  Since my Myers-Briggs type is INFJ and the J stands for judging, I do have an opinion about those who will call it stupid.  But I shall hold this in check. I shall also refrain from revealing too much about the story itself, since that would tend to spoil it for you when/if you see it. Continue reading »

 Movies

Under the Overpass

 Posted by Ed Briggs at 5:24 pm  No Responses »
Apr 212009
 
I was drivin on the DC beltway late
at night not doin very much just
cruisin and saw this cop eased
in under an overpass at Colesville Continue reading »
 Poetry  Tagged with: , ,

Good Movies: The Power of Art

 Posted by Ed Briggs at 5:15 pm  No Responses »
Apr 202009
 

This 3-DVD set is probably best for those who think they aren’t fans of classical art and haven’t spent much time in the art museums.  Presented by art historial Simon Schama, the series contains episodes for Caravaggio, Bernini, Rembrandt, David, Turner, Van Gogh, Picasso and Rothko. Continue reading »

 Movies

Good Movies: Elegy

 Posted by Ed Briggs at 6:40 am  No Responses »
Apr 172009
 

Elegy (2008) might be considered a disturbing view of men, written from a woman’s perspective.  If so, it is a fairly kind, if frank, perspective.  The movie has a remarkably un-judgmental stance.  This movie made me look up and reserve other films by director Isabel Coixet.  Unfortunately they are few in number. Continue reading »

 Movies

Good Movies: Bobby

 Posted by Ed Briggs at 5:59 pm  No Responses »
Apr 162009
 

It’s a mistake to say that Bobby (2006 and 111 mins) is a movie about the assassination of Robert Kennedy.  Obviously it includes that, but it is really about America in the 1960′s.  It’s about race and Vietnam and violence and drugs, but it also is about people trying to get along in life in ways that have nothing to do with any decade.  It features a surprisingly effective blending of archival news footage and switching back and forth–as in Forest Gump only better done. Continue reading »

 Movies

A Woman’s Body

 Posted by Ed Briggs at 12:04 pm  No Responses »
Apr 152009
 

If I could, I would slide out of bed and into the pool.  Every morning at six.  Then the laps.  Thirty six to the mile, half an hour in the cooling flow of water, counting down the distance.

My left hand is getting better all the time.  It used to start the pull too soon.  The timing now is smooth and the stoke constant.  It has taken years of daily swimming to accomplish this. Continue reading »

 Humanity, Stories

Claiming the Leftovers

 Posted by Ed Briggs at 12:07 pm  No Responses »
Apr 142009
 

I learn about life from naked men in the swimming pool locker room in the morning before work.  One pool I go to has a lot of older guys, mostly retired.  They talk about things the doctor told them, reasons their children are getting divorced, what their wives want them to do when they get home, or what somebody ought to do about the country.  I was half listening as one guy told about taking the family to a restaurant for dinner.  Until he quoted what the little girl said out loud at the table: Continue reading »

 Humanity, Stories
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