A Distant Magpie

"He asked for a distant magpie, as if that made a difference..." -Gertrude Stein

Notes On A Journey Through The Post-Modern South

Readers familiar with my other blog, The Frontline know that I began chronicling the music and popular culture of the Southeast there in 2008, but in reading through my old posts, I found myself wondering what my blog would have looked like if I had started keeping it in 1995. Or in 1983. (They didn't have the internet yet, but you get the idea). So, toward that end, I decided to create this blog, intended to be a repository of notes and episodes in my life's journey through this strange region that I call the "post-modern South", where tradition and modernity intersect on a daily basis. I'm not under any illusion that these rather personal recollections will be of much interest to anyone outside my immediately family, although you all are welcome to surprise me. I will post here as time permits, with the focus on filling in the blanks from my arrival on the scene in 1967 until I started The Frontline in 2008. Enjoy these vignettes of stops along my highway.