Rockland Gothic

By David Grima

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• Threat of legitimate peril

  By David Grima - May 02
  On Sunday morning I saw two motorcycles flying low over our fair city. I think there is another name for them technically, but they sounded like ...
  

• America is a business and I want to be paid

  By David Grima - Apr 18
  All I needed to say was that I had not heard any spring peepers, and all of a sudden they were out. I think it was April 4 I heard them, starting ...
  

• My case for the awfulness of it

  By David Grima - Apr 05
  I used to think there was enough room in our culture for the sacred and the secular to get along side by side, but apparently that is no longer ...
  

• Case of the poisoned pope

  By David Grima - Mar 21
  The remains of a seagull have been found in the chimney of my friend Awful O’Meara, according to a source close to the Vatican. I have not heard ...
  

• A significant human experience

  By David Grima - Mar 08
  I am aware that I do not always read things properly the first time I see them. For some time now I have been concerned about the opposition in ...
  

• An act of automartyrdom in the liquor aisle

  By David Grima - Feb 22
  It has become necessary to say that I had no idea the pope would be so upset at last week’s comments that he would actually resign. Just because I ...
  

• Two sticks straight enough to use

  By David Grima - Feb 08
  Ever since the woman wearing pink pajama pants in the Rockland library expressed sympathy with mass shooters the other week, I have been thinking ...
  

• Giving voice to all her thoughts

  By David Grima - Jan 18
  From time to time in these columns I use what might be considered a moral voice. I complain about things that have been done and about things left ...
  

• Her therapeutic swearing

  By David Grima - Jan 03
  My attention has been drawn to a recent article in the Daily Telegraph, a British newspaper, of which the first half follows: “Alun Morgan, 81, ...
  
• Rockland Gothic

  South End girls are 'sweetness and light'

  By David Grima - Dec 14
  There is a report from reliable sources that the governor himself had a cup of coffee at Tim Horton’s, the morning of Dec. 4. Black. He was in ...
  

• The big question of the week

  By David Grima - Apr 25
  According to an ABC News blog which I read April 20, many people are under the impression that the two Chechen boys who are believed to have ...
  

• The book of nature

  By David Grima - Apr 11
  Last week I mentioned that Easter had been a pleasant enough weekend, but it turns out that there was at least one uncomfortable soul around at ...
  

• A hard and difficult month

  By David Grima - Mar 29
  Everything falls apart. It gets old, its joints loosen, and in the end it returns to dust or to rust, or to whatever is appropriate. Consider the ...
  

• Illustrating the general witlessness

  By David Grima - Mar 15
  Sue sent me a note saying it would be easier to draw up a list of all the streets in Rockland that don’t have potholes, rather than trying to ...
  

• A healthy sense of pessimism

  By David Grima - Mar 01
  War is hell, somebody famous once said. And so are the roads in Rockland, I say to myself at least half a dozen times a day as I try to navigate ...
  

• A sort of living death on the Internet

  By David Grima - Feb 15
  I spoke to gentleman from Camden last Thursday afternoon, who said the lack of pain from his rheumatism (usually a quite reliable predictor of the ...
  

• Vanishing of the swashbuckling names

  By David Grima - Feb 01
  Christmas and the New Year were only a month ago, yet it seems like much longer. I think this is because time, like water, has been frozen lately. ...
  

• The Magi would agree

  By David Grima - Jan 11
  Following last week’s report about an Englishman who had a stroke and woke up speaking only Welsh, I received the following story from a reader. ...
  

• Refusing to be comforted

  By David Grima - Dec 21
  Brothers and sisters, please stand for the annual wintertime Liturgy of Economic Priority. You will see before you in the pew an Order for the ...
  

• Grover just lost his job on Sesame Street

  By David Grima - Dec 07
  That was quite a freezing introduction to wintry weather, we had the other day. My socks, which I had draped over the end of my bed the previous ...