Posted by honey & quinine 1 year ago.
“Dear Friends:
“On October 8, 2007 at 7:00 p.m. at Lincoln Library’s Carnegie Room, Citizens for Sensible Water Use (CSWU) presents a detailed and compelling case opposing the construction of Hunter Lake. We invite you to join us.
“...
Posted by honey & quinine 1 year ago.
11:09 Sunday morning and I’m starting this blog, shooed into my office as effectively as an uninvited folksinger might be shooed away from a gathering of Ezra Pound aficionados. The force of the shoo is the face of Newt on This Week with George the ...
Posted by honey & quinine 1 year ago.
Late Summer Love
Gone the fair young maidens
Vanished into the years
With all the hopes of springtime dreams
Untamed by wisdom’s tears.
Lost the quest for love’s first blush,
Banished by winder winds
And tortured treks through wilderness
Endur...
Posted by honey & quinine 1 year ago.
Two seconds into the school office at Grant Middle School, a black young man I’ve taught in class before sees me walking in, makes eye contact and asks me to autograph his book. When I ask him why, he replies I had you last year, and I just want yo...
Posted by honey & quinine 1 year ago.
Thanks to the best news weekly in the greater tri-state area for the imspiration for me to get off my keister re my music preforming (as they say in the White House) . Something “registered” when I read the news about free listings for local m...
Posted by honey & quinine 1 year ago.
It’s been a busy week — good and not good. Wednesday, I had half a cup of dog chow left for two dogs who had had about the same the previous day, about 1/16 of their normal intake. Thank God my web site client was in town because he was the on...
Posted by honey & quinine 1 year ago.
Pictured above: an unhappy tableau on Springfield’s near south side, two doors east of H&Qmeister. The residents don’t even look Puerto Rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrican. This picture has been slightly retoucht.
Posted by honey & quinine 1 year ago.
Pictured above: Slick Richard dining al fresco at webmeister’s haus. He literally takes his dinner lying down. The lumps extending from his midsection are the toes at the end of his hind legs. Is there a Republican faithful Honey & Quinine read...
Posted by honey & quinine 1 year ago.
One of the first things attorneys tell clients taken to court in neglegence suits is “DENY EVERYTHING.” I am not an attorney, I do not offer the quoted advice as guidance to any reader of this blog; I am simply sharing with you what I have rea...
Posted by honey & quinine 1 year ago.
The current issie of the best news weekly in this sector of the Milky Way published its Best of Springfield issue Thursday. It’s a fine issue that YOU should pick up and devour mit yer eyes. I was privileged to be invited to contribute to ‘t, ...
Posted by honey & quinine 1 year ago.
At least so sayeth The Book of Days. I’d feel better about the happy news if it weren’t “sponsored by Lone Star Publications of Humor.”
As a service to weeders of Honey & Quinine I yam obliged to remind y’all that if you ...
Posted by honey & quinine 1 year ago.
Looks like I’ll have completed a fulfilling day without distractions by those pesky second and third meals, thanks to two afformations. The first touched me as I walked to the bank to forward some dollars into an account which would permit me to kee...
Posted by honey & quinine 1 year ago.
I’m walking on tip-toes around the telephone, not daring to log onto the internet before noon, giving monself “permission” to quickly check email between 2:30 and 3 and holding my breath from 4:00 until 10:00.
For some nutty reason, I wa...
Posted by honey & quinine 1 year ago.
Pictured above: self portrait of your struly, taken at Springfield Art Association’s Edwards Place Art Fair Sunday. This picture has been slightly retouched.
I’m committed to a substitute teaching internet regimen that keeps me from logging o...
Posted by honey & quinine 1 year ago.
I will tell you all about it late Monday.
For now, suffice to say that a satisfying Sunday dinner followed by a short nap ended by the commitment to early morning adventure work against waxing lyrical about life tonight.
Live long . . . . . . and proper....
Posted by honey & quinine 1 year ago.
The call came early and I arrived for my first day of subtitute teaching this school year on time. Location: Franklin. Subject: Language Arts. The regular teacher was on her way out as I walked into the room 20 minutes before first bell. As I gave her my ...
Posted by honey & quinine 1 year ago.
Thelonius Dog and Slick Richard were served the last of the dog food today. Starting Friday I will start feeding them Butternut August Wheat bread that was delivered to my doorstep last week by anonymous benefactors. To make it interesting, I’ll gen...
Posted by honey & quinine 1 year ago.
Pictured above: a picture by Job Conger while visiting the Washington Park Art Specacular. It is entitled, “I Zay Vee Must Get ORganisssed. OORGANISSSED, Demmit! Do you HEAR Me I Zed ORganisssed!”
If not for the unsolicited kindness of Smoot...
Posted by honey & quinine 1 year ago.
Breaking news: It’s orificial: The US cannnot withdrawn brave military personnel from the devil’s anus most people call Iraq without the coming nose to you-know-what with one horrible truth –It would really bum out the Commander In Chief...
Posted by honey & quinine 1 year ago.
I understahdn that some good people will go purchase the new beer if they see its logo on the back of a bowling shirt. I will not. I also do not imagine that ANY moralistic apostle of #43 will desert their faux-god because they hear a scereaming protesto...
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