by Andy Brown | Jul 1, 2021 | Blog
Dinosaurs on the Prairie, Napoleon, North Dakota, June 2021. To combine threshingmachines on a prairie,nowhere you are everlikely to visit,is someone’s displayof resolve. Powerless, brainless,weary machines,arrangedpreciselyor approximatelyby intuition,establishingthe...
by Andy Brown | May 29, 2021 | Blog
Robert Pershing Wadlow Statue, Alton, Illinois, USA. Visited May 29, 2021. Standing adjacent to the statue of Robert Pershing Wadlow is not the same as knowing him. Nor does listening to Sufjan Stevens sing about the tallest man illuminate much of anything. Not to be...
by Andy Brown | Aug 30, 2019 | Blog
Stone Brewing, Richmond, Virginia, August 2019 A kettle filled with water boils in the background. If all the morning-glories in the world bloomed at the same time, they could not erupt with such contained violence. I believe beer is made by inviting chaos to turn on...
by Andy Brown | Apr 15, 2019 | Blog
Sin City Brewing Company, The Shops at Planet Hollywood. Last visited on April 12, 2019 The Poet arrives to find the bartender has just opened the bar. She is friendly, yet wary. After a short convo, she admits that everything is not alright, that her ex works in the...
by Andy Brown | Jan 10, 2019 | Blog
The Turkey Hill Experience, Columbia, Pennsylvania, USA. Visited on December 29, 2018. Here is a manufactured innocence that I see quite clearly, but have failed to reliniquish completely. Growing up, we would say that our veins and arteries carried iced tea. We joked...
