“No matter how vital experience might be while you lived it, no sooner was it ended and dead than it became as lifeless as the piles of dry dust in a school history book.” - Ellen Glasgow

TALK, TALK: The “Tuba Guy” above stopped playing. But he didn’t disappear. I needed to put “VV” to bed because viewership was down and the work was not. Playing to empty audiences is really tiresome.

I recall my friend Jim Hart telling my wife and I who were interviewing him several years ago – He kept saying something like “I’m 90 years old, I’m 90 years old.” And I didn’t know the reason.

I do now.

I’m now 81. Most of my compatriots are gone. I don’t know if anyone knows what the hell I’m writing about anymore. But still, I can’t just quit.

So I begin again. But with a new format. Views was supposed to be fun. It got away from me. So I’m going back to fun. To things few persons have seen before. Maybe a few pix like the tuba player (which incidentally came from a glass negative); and maybe a video or audio. But not much more.

Stuff for a smaller – a select few. And something that does not take me all week to do.

So stick around. Don’t expect much. As Yoggi Berra used to say, “It ain’t over til it’s over.