Tag: martin

• Best Damned Quotes–Dostoyevsky AND MLK Jr.

  Today our righteous quotes make for an End-of-April Two-Fer.  My good friend Tony posted an excellent Dostoyevsky twitter quote last Friday, which at first made me feel a little guilty considering my, um, propensity for editorializing.  Being the bigger man has never really been my forte, I’m afraid, behavior that has traditionally gone unchecked since,…

  JunkChuck

  April 28, 2014

  Commentary, Journal, Quote

  bundy, confrontation, dostoyevsky, king, luther, martin, MLK, passive, resistance, understanding

• My Favorite Christmas Recordings #9 Christmas With The Rat Pack

  Bitter, cynical, and borderline misanthropic for most of the year, I reform for the holiday season and from mid-November to the last minute of Epiphany I’m all about the season.  Readers of Old Road Apples will find themselves under a constant barrage of holiday fare this season–from themed essays to book reviews to a countdown…

  JunkChuck

  December 21, 2013

  Uncategorized

  albums, best, carols, christmas, davis, dean, favorite, frank, holiday, junior, martin, pack, rat, ratpack, recordings, records, sammy, sinatra, song, songs

• Antarctica

  ANTARCTICA This is a pretty damned awesome little blog from Jynne Dilling Martin, currently (12/13) Poet In Residence at McMurdo station in Antarctica. She’s on Twitter, too.

  JunkChuck

  December 11, 2013

  Commentary, Uncategorized

  antarctica, blog, cold, dilling, jynne, martin, mcmurdo, poet