Posted by honey & quinine 1 month ago.
I’ve written advertising for funeral homes, a convenience store, and now a granite and other natural stones retailer. When I informally hitched my summer to friendly George Jaworski, owner of The Granite Guy on Dirksen Parkway, I did so in part beca...
Posted by honey & quinine 1 month ago.
I am beginning to catch up with life and a positive attitude. War with Iran A foregone conclusion before January is a foregone conclusion. Any activity Congress engages before putting #43 in chains and shackles (along with his best buds Cheney and Rove, ...
Posted by honey & quinine 1 month ago.
Last week, I was homeward bound after a particularly good day at work (WORK!). Until I get my hot water paid for and reconnected, I will never really have any spare cash, but I was feeling like a sailor just arrived in port after a long cruise. I wanted t...
Posted by honey & quinine 1 month ago.
My friends at Prairie Art Alliance will welcome all comers to the reception for featured acrylic, pulp and pastel artist Pam Miller of Springfield and modern metal sculptor Darren Miller of Decatur from 5:30 5o 7:30 at the PAA Gallery, 420 S. Sixth St., ...
Posted by honey & quinine 1 month ago.
Like a nightingale without a song to sing.
I’d say that I had spring fever, and it isn’t even spring.
. . . . . . I keep wishing I were somewhere else . . . . .
(with apologies to Vachel Lindsay for his fine poem The Leaden Eyed and Rogers ...
Posted by honey & quinine 1 month ago.
During the Vachel Lindsay Architectural Tour, we were walking north on Seventh when we all saw a woman leading a big horse from a recently-parked trailer, I wondered to my friend Ed Gehlbach and his good wife how interesting it was that Paul Simon had men...
Posted by honey & quinine 1 month ago.
I can handle sub-nominal circumstances if I control the parameters and call the planned Saturday of eating other peoples’ food “an experiment.” I had paid a few bills last week, and had to stretch what was left in the account to July 1. ...
Posted by honey & quinine 1 month ago.
Here’s why. Consider his slogan — “Change We can Believe In.”
Is that the mantra of an Eastern intelligensia-type Heck no! If he was one of those, instead of being one of the people, by the people and for the people, if he was a l...
Posted by honey & quinine 1 month ago.
I’ve just logged about an hour over at Umbrage Universal, mon other blog, and hours before that updating my Brotherhood of Jobs web site, and that workout prompts this romp in semi-flashback. . .
You wouldn’t believe who I just met out at the ...
Posted by honey & quinine 1 month ago.
It’s about 83 outside the showroom of the stoner joint where I’m working this summer — or maybe for the rest of my misbegotten life. Inside, it’s a breezy 81, thanks in part to the five ceiling fans in motion; surprisingly comfor...
Posted by honey & quinine 1 month ago.
They’ve given you a number and taken away your name.
The rosster crows on his kness because he doesn’t know how to wark.
I digress.
Mark your calendar for June 28. Early risers will want to take in Springfield Art Association’s reception...
Posted by honey & quinine 1 month ago.
So who the fring-frang is Funky Wingerbean anyway I met him as the high school nerd who grew into the young married who was an aspiring writer and lived above an Italian restaurant. There was a head portrait of a fellow who could be the guy who might gre...
Posted by honey & quinine 1 month ago.
I signed on with my summer employer to work in the office, but I also fill in when he needs a substitute hand in the field. If you can imagine a bloke togged in semi-dress slacks, shined Florsheims and a shirt that would not look out of place at Magna Ban...
Posted by honey & quinine 2 months ago.
I haven’t taken my lunch with me when leaving home in the morning since I was in sixth grade at Blackhawk Elementary Schule in Springfield, Illinwa (Illinoi if you prefer; Illinoise if you prefer instead; an Illinois by any other gname is still corn...
Posted by honey & quinine 2 months ago.
That’s when my former college instructor and Vachel Lindsay scholar extraordinare Dennis Camp will talk about the poet. The title of his presentation is “Vachel Lindsay Attempts to Educate Springfield on Racial Issues.” If you ever met t...
Posted by honey & quinine 2 months ago.
“What good is wailing, aloof and alone
Solace is sips away
Life is a Cabernet, Old Chum
Savor some Cabernet. . . . . “
It was Christmas at County Market Sunday. Carlo Rossi Burgundy (a lousy wine for song parody fabrication) was on sale for $7...
Posted by honey & quinine 2 months ago.
He certainly seems to be. Case in point: Bedrock concerts, sponsored by “Samuel Adams” (nudge nudge, wink wink, ha ha, ta ta). Every local announcer break BUT ONE during the five hours I listened to WUIS, Springfield’s new Radio BEER SHI...
Posted by honey & quinine 2 months ago.
. . . but first this word form my intention. . . .
I aims (as #43 might slay) to post daily, which adds up to around seven times every week here at H&Q. This is because I am a writer with a few things on my mind which I hope YOU, the H&Q reader, ...
Posted by honey & quinine 2 months ago.
I’ve been a devoted listener to Prairie Homely Compendium for at least 15 years, and a devoted fan of Writer’s Almanac in broadcast — and emailed daily including Saturdays and Sundays — for at least six years. Today I noticed the l...
Posted by honey & quinine 2 months ago.
It’s the name of a new book by Vincent Bugliosi. www.prosecutionofbush.com I spent an interesting 40 minutes or so (the rest of the hour was spent on news and commercials) listening to Mark Thoma interview the famous attorney and author about the ne...
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