Watcha Gonna Do
Moments, musings, and questions from everyday life
Hotty Toddy Cup
By MAGICAL MADGEHe made me giggle when he would settle himself in the bar at Madidi, an Episcopalian priest with a keen sense of humor and a thirst for life. Poor...
Mornings with Tolstoy – Day Eleven
By WILLIAM PRENTISS My world is obsidian; it was formerly gray splintered by veiny shafts of ochre spasmodically penetrating the unseen with countenance warming spumes of hope, now curtained in...
Got Game at Coahoma County Recreation Expo
By POOR WILLIAMClarksdale, Mississippi SCROLL DOWN FOR VIDEO How often have we thought or said that there is nothing for kids to do around here? Too often! Well, there is...
Mornings with Tolstoy – Day Ten
By WILLIAM PRENTISSI no longer have use for money, material possessions, or tangibles associated with not being in a presumed coma. It costs to keep me wherever Sis is keeping...
Red Paden Birthday Bash at Red’s Lounge
By POOR WILLIAM Clarksdale, Mississippi SCROLL DOWN FOR VIDEO AND PHOTOS Sunday night was a time of great festivity for Clarksdalians— natives, transplants, and miscreants—who love Red Paden and his...
Clarksdale Artist in Residence Mecca
By MAGICAL MADGE Clarksdale, Mississippi VIDEO Buildings all over Clarksdale beg to become sanctuaries for artists in residence. In the meantime, while entrepreneurs like Charles Evans, who is renovating and converting...
Mornings with Tolstoy – Day Nine
By WILLIAM PRENTISS Prior to being in a suspended state due to a brutal attack, I thought I possessed a highly developed, acute conscience. Now I lie here, day after day,...
Bilbo Walker and Roger Stolle off to Brazil
Clarksdale, MississippiVIDEO Bilbo Walker plays at Red's Blues Club tonight - Thursday, November 13. How about you head there and wish him and Cat Head owner Roger Stolle safe travels...
IT Will Get You if You Let IT
By POOR WILLIAMClarksdale, Mississippi A RADIOLAND VIDEO IT! What IT is? IT is what IT is! That’s IT! But also, IT is a personal, genderless, subjective or objective pronoun. IT...
The Mosquito Returns to the New Roxy
By POOR WILLIAM Clarksdale, Mississippi (VIDEO at BOTTOM OF POST) “By popular demand we are going to host another Mosquito spoken word event.
We've got cold beer, wood to burn and the...
Mornings with Tolstoy – Day Eight
By WILLIAM PRENTISS“Real religion cannot be opposed to intellect.” -- Leo Tolstoy A perennial question plaguing thinkers, believers and thinking believers concerns the relationship of faith, reason and intellect. Does...
Mississippi Delta at Night behind the Levee
By POOR WILLIAMClarksdale, Mississippi (VIDEO) Keeper of the field Levee is his post Stationary sentinel Silent as a ghost Riders on the night See him in the breeze Mandibles a...