Rockland Gothic

By David Grima

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• Between a rock and a hard place

  By David Grima - May 21
  As if the universe were not already cheerful enough, the following news should really put the cream on the cake, and a smile on every face. Grocery...
  

• What I need is a good murder

  By David Grima - May 07
  If we ever needed any evidence that people's nerves are a little frayed at the moment, I would ask the court to consider the facts about a recent ...
  

• You can’t blame them

  By David Grima - Apr 23
  Forgot to mention last week that a large white rabbit was seen in the South End on Easter Sunday, handing out candy to innocent householders. The ...
  

• Unimaginable glory

  By David Grima - Apr 07
  The big question is, how long can we all go on talking about coronavirus before we lose our enthusiasm for the subject? This is about the third ...
  

• The Plague

  By David Grima - Mar 24
  Two books come to mind as we all start to dig in for the duration of this dreaded virus. This first might at least be mildly diverting. Giovanni ...
  

• While reciting the Lord’s Prayer

  By David Grima - Mar 12
  I got back Monday afternoon to the concrete towers at the foot of Mechanic Street, where I am forced to live, to find a message delivered by ...
  

• I know the pain

  By David Grima - Feb 26
  Maine Public Radio has lost its mind. Last Saturday morning, our normally friendly little public radio station broadcast offered one of its ...
  

• Terrible O’Meara

  By David Grima - Feb 12
  My dear friend Terrible O'Meara, late of the Bangor Daily News, is dead. * * * * * From what I can tell, and it's very hard getting information ...
  

• Oh, sweetie darling

  By David Grima - Jan 28
  Isn't it remarkable how, as the world braces itself to deal with the latest international public health crisis -- the horrid and often fatal ...
  

• All our past sins

  By David Grima - Jan 15
  It seem slightly ironic to point out that Maine was admitted to the Union of States 200 hundred years ago on the anniversary of one of history's ...
  

• Hell in the morning

  By David Grima - May 13
  A few weeks ago there was a craze going around, infecting individuals with the desire to dress up and imitate famous paintings. At least one ...
  

• There you go

  By David Grima - Apr 29
  I very much regret to tell you that the experiment in re-opening America for business, recently begun by the Blessed Lord Prez Trumpleton (May He ...
  

• Undramatic Easter drama

  By David Grima - Apr 16
  Much as I admire him and worship the ground upon which he treads, I found myself in a powerful argument with the Blessed Lord Trumpleton the other ...
  

• While drinking Quarantinis

  By David Grima - Apr 01
  Not sure I have heard or seen this discussed publicly yet, but has anyone started to think we might lose the North Atlantic Blues Festival and the ...
  

• Shopping for the End Times

  By David Grima - Mar 19
  Well, l lost my bet. I assumed the Independent Republic of St. George would be the first community around here to set up border control checkpoints...
  

• Never throw out the videotape!

  By David Grima - Mar 04
  They tell me that a certain fast-food company is marketing a meatless hamburger, which according to the Washington Post resulted in certain ...
  

• Unless they have spies

  By David Grima - Feb 19
  I woke up in some distress Monday morning, torn from a nightmare that seems like it had begun as a joke. In my sleep, I somehow assumed the ...
  

• A registered historic resident

  By David Grima - Feb 05
  People everywhere are panicking about getting coronavirus, the latest fiendish Chinese disease apparently obtained by drinking yellow Mexican ...
  

• Modern journalism

  By David Grima - Jan 23
  Every day I seem to be surrounded by partisans on either side of our modern political debate, people who could not possibly disagree more about ...
  

• Towering heaps of brown paper sacks

  By David Grima - Jan 10
  There was quite some consternation at the White House over the holidays, when it was realized that small people wearing red with green trim had ...