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Down and Out in the Monteleone

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I’m back in my beloved Hotel Monteleone. I fly back to Brooklyn in the morning. Instead of strolling over to Pirate’s Alley as I had intended, I never left the Carousel Bar downstairs. I clicked around a full 360 degrees three times, one tall Maker’s for each trip. In the mirror behind the bartender, I … Continue reading Down and Out in the Monteleone →

kennynowell Nowell Leave a comment January 4, 2019October 27, 2021 8 Minutes

Upload me, baby!

Everyone seems to think we’re close to being able to upload our brains. Or, at least, I feel like every time I watch any show or movie set in the future, it’s taken for granted that consciousness will eventually be transferrable. Moveable. With computers … with “digitization” … the idea is superficially less terrifying. In … Continue reading Upload me, baby! →

kennynowell Uncategorized 2 Comments May 25, 2021May 6, 2022 22 Minutes

The Real

Notes from the early days of quarantine. Along with the virus, New York has been invaded by “the real” — an elusive concept. I was telling an old school New Yorker about an encounter I had at Coney Island once. Super hot day. Blazing midday sun straight above. My children were little. I was taking … Continue reading The Real →

kennynowell Uncategorized Leave a comment April 4, 2020September 25, 2021 2 Minutes

Manhattan Academy

It's one of those days at work where I'm absolutely paralyzed. Hogtied. Brainfreeze. I can't do anything. So what do I do? I go to Google Street View. I take a drive in my childhood neighborhood in Jackson, Mississippi. Take a look at the old house. There it is. There's the lawn I mowed a … Continue reading Manhattan Academy →

kennynowell Nowell Leave a comment December 27, 2019May 14, 2021 1 Minute

Cedarstone

We had a big field behind my house.  Somebody twenty years before then grew soy beans out there.  But now it was just a big field covered in tall grass. It was a great place to fly kites.  The remnants of the old rows made the ground a little uneven as we ran to get … Continue reading Cedarstone →

kennynowell Nowell Leave a comment December 23, 2019October 27, 2021 3 Minutes

Pool Halls and Mayor’s Courts

This is a story my father told me about his youth in Kosciusko, Mississippi during the 1940s ... I’m gonna tell you about something that happened just about one block off the square to the west. There was a pool hall down there behind the building that was on the corner of the square.  At … Continue reading Pool Halls and Mayor’s Courts →

kennynowell My Dad 1 Comment December 10, 2019September 25, 2021 3 Minutes

Southern Subjectivity

I’m always happy when something strikes me as “Southern.” My sister works in a retirement home in Ridgeland, Mississippi. A 95-year old resident gave her a little frosted-plastic, crystal-looking Christmas tree to sit on her mantle. Inside it, a soft glowing light gently cycles through the color spectrum. My sister said that the next time … Continue reading Southern Subjectivity →

kennynowell The South Leave a comment August 29, 2019September 25, 2021 7 Minutes

Curious George City

I experience a specific, subtle pleasure when I get off the subway taking my son to school in downtown Brooklyn. Our stop is Jay Street on the F. We exit onto Willoughby. When I first stood on that corner looking across the street at the big signs for CRICKET (former disposable cell phone store now … Continue reading Curious George City →

kennynowell Exile Leave a comment March 13, 2019September 25, 2021 7 Minutes

Time Travel

Most time travel stories are about performing surgery on the past to fix the present. Rewriting history. Destroying the doomsday device. Stopping the assassination that triggers World War III. This is a pretty basic wish for everyone – to fix the past. I’m heaving into the toilet and remember eating that questionable sushi. If I … Continue reading Time Travel →

kennynowell Mysticism Leave a comment January 16, 2019May 6, 2022 12 Minutes
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