Glenn Kubish

Happy end of the week, friends! Here are three things that left me happy or grateful this week.  Three Things, episode 74:                                             1. Pop!   I could pretend that my week was more profound than it was. But here’s the truth: what made me the happiest was replaying a clip on YouTube of the closing credits on the broadcast of the 2011 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame ceremony. On stage performing De Doo Ron Ron were Darlene Love, Bette Midler, Elton John, Neil Diamond, Leon Russell—and Alice Cooper. It’s a special bit of joy. Watch it. Dance in your kitchen. Sing out loud.   This can wait.         Cooper sporting his black grease paint while singing the “caught my eye” line. Bandleader Paul Shaffer getting reading with an index finger in the air for the key change. The delight on the face of the rhythm guitarist w...

I didn't see much of it at the time I pedalled by. I didn't have enough time to see much of it. It was all too small, too fast, too big to take in with however many frames per second my impoverished eyesight limits my experience of the world to the first time through.   I mean the two girls making bubbles visible through an escaped floating planet of a bubble, its poles two soapy, iridescent continental caps—I saw all of it only later. Through my computer.  The scene unfolded in Hawrelak née Mayfair Park yesterday afternoon as I pedalled past two boys playing on the gravel path with a basketball, one trying a dribble between his legs while the other watched. I said hello, then headed for the footbridge, and that's when I saw the bubbles in the air. I had enough time to check that the Go Pro on the handlebars was still rolling, and then pedalled toward the biggest bubble. Go to the story. Go directly to the story. I took aim, and then swerved back ...