KYOVA

Some photos from where Kentucky, Ohio and West Virginia meet.

Here are some snaps of Louisville at Dawn

The only thing worth writing about this was a realization most people have periodically. And then promptly forget. At least I do. The first time it happened was on the White Mountain just west of Death Valley. It was dusk and I could see the Agaziz or Palisade glacier up

New Harmony to Louisville

So just running through the rest of this stuff with photographs and limited yapping. New Harmony was a little disappointing in that embourgoisement has its hooks into the place. A Disneyfied locale for celebrities to get their R & R. Willie Nelson and John Schneider (Dukes of Hazzard hearthrob turned

Padukah, KY to New Harmony, IN

A day sticking by the river somewhat, mostly on the Kentucky side – constantly crossing that river. A little more tourism, less commerce, and a day to kind of recover and reflect from the intensity of the previous evening. But it's always onto the next thing, which is probably

Cairo, IL to Padukah, KY

The next town up river from Cairo is Mound City. It features a nearby military cemetery and is itself an impressive town. Utterly ruined, I mean in approxmately the same proportion as Cairo itself. Just astonishing that these places have been left to rot. But that is the true American

Vice Versa Casual Cruelty

I I'll tell some stories from my siloed San Francisco life. None of the people on this list know any of these people with the last being a possible exception. People don't remember all that much, in my experience. Worlds mostly didn't collide there,

Some Jokes. To Lighten the Mood

These are some funny things from the internet. Shane Gillis is a mixed bag, but he is a Pennsylvanian... Tim Heidecker is my favorite guy. Another Pennsylvanian. Chrimbus Special, JFC. And some long form fun. The most ambitious long form piece of comedy ever.

The Psychiatrists: A Brief History of Benign (and not so Benign) Neglect

I 1997 After returning from the Fulbright Scholarship, I was sort of directionless. So, I slipped into a depression. Purpose in life is crucial and when you haven't yet outgrown existentialism you listened to Camus: 'The only question worth answering is whether or not to kill yourself&

Schuylkill Haven, PA Today

It turns out visiting the Ohio Valley isn't the sine qua non of morning bar entertainment. Much closer to home one can enjoy depraved yet enlightening conversation. This is a happy circumstance as the Iran War has put a dent in my driving habits. And yet. A train

The Greatest Ruin in the United States

I This was kind of the point of this trip, once Hannibal Missouri was assessed as excessive. Yes, there are limitations. You can't just drive the night through three times in a row, can you? You can't go through life with a seemingly permanent slight sense

Afterthought

We're said to be around 95% chimpanzee. When I recall my sexual entanglements over the years, which were relatively few compared to my peers, I have to laugh at them. Not jeer, but there is something absurd in them, in a narrow sense. Each successive entanglement was worse

Parke County Indiana

As was the case throughout, I would get restless and drive through the night. Save a few bucks on hotels is the general idea. So, last night at the Three Sisters in McConnellsville, OH, a great little town that actually got short shrift in this recounting. So, a couple more