This one was written on a train in 1999. I was "Feeling like Rome after the Gallic sack...."

A tasty little ramekin full of denial served about 10 years before its time. Sometimes you write them, record them, discard them, and then trip over them while living them years later. Tongue-in-cheek when it was written, cruel and cold when it…

"'Smoke Signals' is for Chef Chris Bianco and it contains many sentiments that he shared with me on the Don Bolles trip to Phoenix. It contains a great deal of wisdom and abstract truth which is what most of my communication with Chris is like…