Just a few thoughts on defending my doctoral dissertation twenty years ago today.

Dedicated to the memory of Michael T. "Timo" Gilmore

A bit of news about my decision to walk the Earth--at least while I heal from shoulder surgery. 

Hey! Hope you are well. Here's a little update on the state of the Otis Brown Podcast! 

A quick note to my listeners. 

This week on Otis Brown Podcast, I rerun an (unfortunately) still relevant Podcast from July 15, 2020 on the state of the pandemic and some of the ways our response to it continues to be cultural rather than medical or epidemiological.

Hope you enjoy. If you remember this podcast and don't care to listen to it again, please be patient. NEW CONTENT COMING SOON!!

Thanks, as always.  

Some news on the podcast along with my apologies for (finally and inevitably) missing my (self-imposed) deadline.

Thanks! 

In this week's Otis Brown Podcast, I recount a chance meeting with an old friend and explore the complex feelings we have when new information does violence to old memories.

Key words:
J.D. Salinger.  The Catcher in the Rye, Seymour: An Introduction
Eugen Herrigel. Zen in the Art of Archery
Looking Glass "Brandy (You're a Fine Girl)"
Dixie Fire 

Wear your lifejacket! In this week's Otis Brown Podcast, I tell only the latest story of having to help pluck someone out of a would-be watery grave. I also talk about a bunch of old dead New England writers and painters, just because I always do . . . 

Hey, what do you do if you get a tax break? Pay down your credit card? Go out to eat? Bezos and Branson build cool rockets that the rest of us can look at on our phone! What fun! In this week's Otis Brown Podcast, I offer some thoughts on the centibillionaire space race and make the (rather obvious) observation that Jeff Bezos is no John Glenn.

Key words:
Jeff Bezos
Richard Branson
John Glenn Friendship 7 
Gil Scott Heron: "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised," "Whitey on the Moon"
Lightnin' Hopkins: Walking This Road by Myself, "Happy Blues for John Glenn" 

Just a little coda to the Wonderful World podcast. 
Image is Joe Everson's amazing "Louis Armstrong."