Heck Of A Guy

A pastiche of posts, featuring song, dance, snappy chatter plus notes on prose, poesy, love, lust, life, and beyond

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Hilton Head Vista 2009

June 15th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Aha! Items, Self-Referential

When I extracted the yesterday’s deer photo from my camera’s memory card, I also found the shots taken during my recent vacation.
As a gesture of mercy, I am publishing only this single vacation photo. It was taken from the balcony of the house we rent in Hilton Head. The structure seen is a gazebo1 [...]

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Dizzily Resonating With Two John Updike Poems About Death

April 2nd, 2009 · 1 Comment · Poetry, Self-Referential

John Updike And Me
After Julie1 died in 1999, I found poetry2 and, to a lesser extent, music more meaningful than the spiritual guides, self-help books, philosophical meditations, and the other aids well meaning folks recommended as a means of assuaging my grief and loss.
Consequently, I have, if not sought out, at least been alert for [...]

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After The Leonard Cohen Thing, Heck Of A Guy To Lie Low On April Fool’s Day

April 1st, 2009 · 1 Comment · HOAG Site, Leonard Cohen, Self-Referential

Fun Vs Fact At Heck Of A Guy
Never obsessive in distinguishing between fact, fiction, hyperbole, half-truths, quarter-truths, 3/8-truths,  wishes, hypotheticals, and other points on the reality-fantasy scale, Heck Of A Guy has long operated on the policy of opting for funny over factual, choosing puns over precision, and electing alliteration über alles.
Indeed, I am, on [...]

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