Charlie Melton
By Charlie Melton
We, as human males, used to talk, and talk often. Those days are pretty much gone, at least until the phones and social networking implodes.
This realization came from high-brow classical theater. My inspiration was from the immortal “Home Improvement” staring the Poet Laureate Tim Allen. In the show, our hero is bemoaning the loss of the neighborhood hardware store. These places were traditionally a meeting place, as well as monument of capitalism. The scene in that store was set with chairs, a counter with stools, a coffee pot, and the much-maligned donuts. The background held the items for sale, and a key machine. In a phrase, the stuff of legend. People there knew things, practical things, essential man things.
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