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Man on the Moon: an End of Days Soundtrack

September 25, 2020September 25, 2020 / crowcityblog / Leave a comment

“That planet called “normal” is small and blue in the distance, close enough to see but too far away to touch.” Read more from “Man on the Moon” at https://atticusreview.org/man-on-the-moon-an-end-of-days-soundtrack/ https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dLxpNiF0YKs

Sign of the Times

July 5, 2020October 13, 2020 / crowcityblog / Leave a comment

  Some genius has scrawled “FUCK THIS MAILBOX” real big in marker on a blue box in front of the Northrop Auditorium. Now I guess this is supposed to be funny, but I will admit it angers me.  They’ve got electronic eyes all over the place like a science fiction movie, but I can’t imagine … Continue reading Sign of the Times

Positively Fourth Street Revisited

June 25, 2020November 9, 2020 / crowcityblog / Leave a comment

   Back in 1959 there was this improbable Jewish kid from Hibbing who rolled into town on a Greyhound bus.  He flopped for a short while with a cousin at a University Avenue frat house before trading his electric guitar for a double-O Martin and renting a room above Gray’s drugstore. From Chronicles Volume I: … Continue reading Positively Fourth Street Revisited

Dog Trouble

August 17, 2018May 9, 2019 / crowcityblog / 1 Comment

If you deliver mail for a living you really get to hate dogs.  They bark at you all day.  After a while it's like someone is driving a nail into your frontal lobes.  Bark, bark, bark!  They go crazy.  Little ones, big ones, it doesn't matter.  Mail slots are the worst.  The duct work acts … Continue reading Dog Trouble

Devil Birds

April 15, 2018April 15, 2018 / crowcityblog / Leave a comment

Winter is a grim time for any mailman, but so long as the temperature is above zero and the wind isn't blowing too strong, it isn't that bad.  My job was a comfort to me, the dull uniformity of it.  At work, at least I knew what to expect.  I delighted in hearing coworkers endlessly … Continue reading Devil Birds

Hello, Mailbox

February 15, 2018June 13, 2020 / crowcityblog / 1 Comment

Early on in my postal career I had this little apartment building on my route with mostly Somalis living in it.  A little boy with a round mischievous face began coming out to watch me put the letters in the boxes. "Hello, mailbox!" he would say to me. This got to be his little joke.  … Continue reading Hello, Mailbox

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