Posted by honey & quinine 2 months ago.
I don’t remember the name of the tune in Rogers’ & Hammerstein’s Carousel, but Il remember the rest of the lyic. Let’s see, for the halibut how MUCH I remember. . . . “Woodpeckers peck it on wood. There’s nothin;; ...
Posted by honey & quinine 2 months ago.
I remarked to some friends at dinner a few weeks ago how my recent proclivity for beer in the house most days of the week, combined with a growing addiction to Peter Pan Crunchy on a knife after Charlie Rose is beginning to add to that Firestone I appear ...
Posted by honey & quinine 2 months ago.
So I KNEW how much I had going in: a 20 and seven ones. I had to pre-pay for $15 of 87 Octane at the fuel station at the intersection of Dirksen at Peoria. It was my first time there and it is my last time there.
As I handed over the $20 bill something ca...
Posted by honey & quinine 2 months ago.
Sharing news of Umbrage Universal here at H&Q brought froth: a comment (OR brought forth a comment; your choice) , followed by a correction of a typo in the earlier comment, from a girl I’ve not read since I banned her from commenting on Honey &...
Posted by honey & quinine 2 months ago.
I cover the funky. Others cover the police, business, the recently demised. But the funky belongs to me.
Finky Winkerbean seems as destined to be a regular feature in the SJ-R funnies as Big Brown was destined to win the Triple Crown. Again, the strip app...
Posted by honey & quinine 2 months ago.
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Last night I spent 40 minutes visiting blogs linked th SJ_R.com and other places and was delighted to dycsover Honey & Quinine included in a “Top 10 Blogs” list. Thanks, each ...
Posted by honey & quinine 2 months ago.
Did you know that George Pullman, industrialist head of the Pullman sleeper car for railroads had a girlfriend in Elkhart, Illinois When I was given a terrific tour of that village in 2007, I was shown the remains of a boarding ramp placed by a special s...
Posted by honey & quinine 2 months ago.
More than a year ago, I urged Honey & Quinine readers to vote for Joe Biden for president. If Barack Obama (whom I’ve always admired, respected, and imagined I would like) had not legitimately earned his place at the top of the ticket, I would b...
Posted by honey & quinine 2 months ago.
It was never my intention to stop encouraging public appreciation of Springfield arts and arts organization. My problem was always with those who COULD support my Central Illinois Visual Artist Galleries website and did not. My desire for the ARTS to pros...
Posted by honey & quinine 2 months ago.
As editor (this title includes a hefty helping of “etc.”) of the Vinegar Hill Neighborhood Association newsletter, I am tickled that others write under their own byline for the monthly 10-page (with pictures a-plenty publication. Contributors ...
Posted by honey & quinine 2 months ago.
First, some good news: I’ve found a part-time employer who will more-than-fill the void created by the loss of substitute teaching opportunities.
Driving home yesterday, as I watched a driver in a 35-mile-per-hour zone slow to ZERO before turning ri...
Posted by honey & quinine 2 months ago.
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Posted by honey & quinine 2 months ago.
The conflict now waged by Israel and her neighbor nations of disparate theology is no more the war of the United States than the war between Sioux and Apache (or other tribes of that earlier collective consciousness). It’s true that the citizens of ...
Posted by honey & quinine 2 months ago.
saying . . . . . . .
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is give peas a chance.
Posted by honey & quinine 2 months ago.
Funky Winkerbean reappeared in the State Journal-Register Sunday, June 1, but the irrepressible Funkster was not included. In other words, He was really nowhere, man. The strip was an inside pitch at secondary educators’ humor, but it was a ball. I ...
Posted by honey & quinine 2 months ago.
Poets a challenge for you: Say aloud the title above as written. Now do the same with Beer and Donuts For Dinner. Which has the more poetic “ring”
If you said the title as posted, my vote is there as well because the rythm seems more natural:...
Posted by honey & quinine 2 months ago.
It was a dark and stormy Friday night. To hear local TV weatherguru Gus talk about it as the big blow blew through you’d have thought the city was experiencing the onset of the apocalypse. It was a wet and windy precursor to what dawned clear blue ...
Posted by honey & quinine 2 months ago.
I wrote the following song in the summer of 2003. Take away the refrain, and it’s a poem: magic, aye I’ve performed it in public twice. Earlier this spring, when I arrived at Springfield High for a good day of sub teaching, I was asked to tak...
Posted by honey & quinine 2 months ago.
A sigh is still a sigh. The fundamental things apply. . . .
The past few days I’ve felt like a small monkey on a big leash, lurching in the direction of the greatest tension to lessen it, but engaging not a soul in conversation. I’ve not enga...
Posted by honey & quinine 2 months ago.
Our gnosh pit turns its lonely eyes to you! Youve not shared a conversation with Jim Lehrer at your website for years. Your last New York Times column posted at the NYT web site was May 28, 2007, and I understand from the talk in the hood that you’r...
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