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Thursday, October 21, 2010

Safe harbour awaits you...

This summer Prestwick House publishers lost a good friend and a valuable employee.

Paul and I were the same age and we lived through (and survived) many of our generation's highs and lows.

He was my first choice for the cover of Prestwick's A Midsummer Night's Dream book cover and as I new he would, brought to the photo-shoot his self-deprecating sense of humor along with a willingness to do it right the first time around–which he did–and far beyond my expectations.

Not too long before he passed away he posed for our yearly in-house "class photo" collage. Since we had the props and costumes still available to us from the newly shot Treasure Island cover–this year's theme is "The Pirates of Prestwick". The photo below is from that session.

Rest in Peace, Paul. We miss you...

You will embark on a fair sea,
and at times there will be fair weather, but not always.
You will meet storms and overcome them.
You will take it in turns to steer your boat through fair weather and foul.
Never lose courage.

Safe harbour awaits you...in the end.

- Daphne Du Maurer

Wednesday, October 06, 2010

Gravity's Wake

For the children of divorce...



Gravity's Wake

Copyright 2010 by Larry Knox

you and I
caught between the lies
welcome to my parlor
says the spider to the flies

the love we lost
came at such a cost
3 lives left shattered
one beneath the killing frost

there's no illusions
make no mistake
were either here in the moment
or caught in gravity's wake

this time we're through
say good bye to all your lies
but to your son
be true
he needs your love to see him through
to see him through

tears are shed
when innocence is bled
like the empty heart of love
drained and left for dead

years to come
when the healing has begun
I hope I see the truth that is
a mother and her son

there's no illusions
make no mistake
were either here in the moment
or caught in gravity's wake

Monday, October 04, 2010

Nixon: Up in Smoke (Gimme Some Truth)


I've had this flyer (printed on the cheapest of cheap newsprint–how it survived 37 years is a miracle) since June, 1973 when a scruffy looking Yippie-dude handed it to me while walking towards the gates of the Merriweather Post Pavilion in Columbia, MD. I was attending my very first rock concert–Pink Floyd-Dark Side of the Moon Tour. I was 16.

The concert was nothing short of life-altering.

The Smoke-In? It seemed a bit risky to me (my friends and I were convinced Nixon had spies everywhere–especially in his backyard!) –but one year later, under the threat of Impeachment, tricky-dicky did indeed resign the presidency.... coincidence?

No short-haired, yellow-bellied, son of tricky dicky
Is gonna mother hubbard soft soap me

With just a pocketful of soap

It’s money for dope...

– Gimme Some Truth, John Lennon