Month: May 2014
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The Saturday Snow White Variations–Final Installment
So this is it. I’ve milked this theme a little longer than I should have, but I’m nothing if not thorough–but the end of Snow White Saturdays (it really is weird that I have devoted 4 posts over a month to this, isn’t it?) will make my wife happy–she just thinks it’s been boring, which […]
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Friday Rock and Roll Heroes: Lone Justice
Lone Justice. If you don’t recognized the name of the band, you’re not alone–they burned bright and brilliant for a few short years in the mid-1980s, an edgy country-blues-pop band that defied the classifications of the time, too hard edged and rock and roll for Nashville, too country for pop, and eventually too commercially viable […]
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Norris-Canyon Cut-Off Road, 9/11/90
Brothers. Bag of apples, sharp cheddar, Sixpacks and loaves of bread: Biblical fare. Binoculars, and a taped-together roadmap. Aspens rusting in meadows gone to gold, the day thick with autumn mist, wanting wool. Appalachian boys loosed in the caldera, hooting camp elk bugles from the highway, taking turns at the wheel and reading out loud […]
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‘Reading Rainbow’ Kickstarter Earns Over $1 Million In 1 Day
Nice. After Mr. Rogers, best kids TV show ever.
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Maya Angelou 1928-2014
On The Pulse of Morning A Rock, A River, A Tree Hosts to species long since departed, Marked the mastodon. The dinosaur, who left dry tokens Of their sojourn here On our planet floor, Any broad alarm of their hastening doom Is lost in the gloom of dust and ages. But today, the Rock cries […]
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Kitten Gun
Just because I think Joe The Plumber is a tool doesn’t mean that I embrace strict gun control. Some guns are magnificently AWESOME.
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And In My Neighborhood: Man Kills Friend Over Plate of Food
This gun stuff seems to come in bursts, don’t you think? Like rounds from an AR-15 converted to fire on full auto. This suspected shooter clearly seems to have some mommy issues. http://www.indianagazette.com/news/police-courts/man-charged-in-killing,19943660/ You’ll also want to see the video–as the alleged shooter does a perp walk with his walker and oxygen. http://www.wtae.com/news/state-police-neighbor-fatally-shot-over-argument-in-indiana-county/26171764
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“Joe The Plumber” Grabs “Asshole of the Day” Award
I always struggle with the political thing–liberals are such candy-asses, and conservatives just plain old asses, and the highest levels of both mainstream parties have their lips pressed so tightly against the bleached sphincters of their corporate masters that one must wonder how they manage to breathe–which might explain some things, actually: asskiss-induced cerebral hypoxia. […]
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Best Damned Quotes: George Santayana
“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” –George Santayana
Old Road Apples 