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Posted by honey & quinine 4 years ago.
All the promos for the PBS program about Emporer Penguins in Antarctica suggested a welcome break from the office action so I tuned in at 7p with plate full of tomato Ifrom mine garden) sandwiches and a tall glass o’ iced tea. Less than a minute i...
Posted by honey & quinine 4 years ago.
Preferences
I prefer extolling the moral imperative
rather than abandoning it.
I prefer a sense of mis-direction
to no direction at all.
I prefer navy blue socks to brown
and white socks to argyle.
I prefer the reality of hope
to the fantasy of second-gue...
Posted by honey & quinine 4 years ago.
Pictured above: the late great Maxium Labrador in my back yard, circa 2001.
I”m writing for dollars for the first time in months.
Posted by honey & quinine 4 years ago.
The last time I ate a meal on North Dirksen Parkway, it was at the Fleetwood restaurant, and I had “broasted chcken.” I was probably 25 years old. Today I joined my web client following his invitation to breakfast shortly before we were sched...
Posted by honey & quinine 4 years ago.
Birthday salutations to Jennifer Bishop-Jenkins and Billl sharing a celebration in a Chi-collar community this evening. Jen is a former school teacher; now focused on efforts to eliminate the death penalty. Many years ago, someone murdered her sister, and...
Posted by honey & quinine 4 years ago.
Birthday salutations to Jennifer Biship-Jenkins and Billl sharing a celebration in a Chicollar community this evening. Jen is a former school teacher; not involved with eliminating the death penalty. Her new husband, a refugee from the East (coast) is a...
Posted by honey & quinine 4 years ago.
“Dear Job,
“I got a message from Mary Ellen. The kids talk about you alot! We have nearly worn out your tape of songs and poems. The kids love the songs, and they bring back good memories of the good old days for me.
“If you ever decide ...
Posted by honey & quinine 4 years ago.
Saddam Hussein was undeniably a murderous tyrant who committed heinous crimes against humanity during his war with Iran and to the people of the nation he ruled. Lost in the fog following “#43’s Folly” is the fact that the Sunni party wh...
Posted by honey & quinine 4 years ago.
(Pictured above Lake View by Shirley Caldwell Smith)
A local CIVAG artist was kind to me at a Monday luncheon meeting to discuss her web site. Number one, she picked up the check at Incredibly Delicious. Number two, her kindness bought groceries for th...
Posted by honey & quinine 4 years ago.
An Assumed Name
I am living
under
an assumed name:
the assumed name
Job Clifton Conger, IV.
But that is not
what Whitman called
“the me, myself.”
I am anonymous.
I am sonofaBITCH!
I am Technicolor jacket guy
I am anti-dark
I am hand well-shake...
Posted by honey & quinine 4 years ago.
We legal snitizens of the United Snakes of Amerigoland make some pretty fine cheeses, in case you haven’t noticed a’ready, and it’s high time you started noticing. I’m talking orange cheeses from real pasteurized pastures in Wiscon...
Posted by honey & quinine 4 years ago.
Maybe I’m spending too much time listening to the radio. I have a ton of CDs I haven’t heard in months, years even, and a ghetto blaster an arm’s reach from my left shoulder. I’m going to grab a stack of them when I’ve posted...
Posted by honey & quinine 4 years ago.
Just watched to most intelligent discussion between to civil hyummin’ beans I’ve seen in my lffe, and for a man of my generous years, that’s saying something! Joe Biden was on Charlie Rose for an hour Thursday night — the only ti...
Posted by honey & quinine 4 years ago.
Can you do better than that
I just came from County Market (known, apparently, to most broadcast news readers as Cow Knee Market) after running errands. I didn’t intend to visit that grocer — my nomination for friendliest employees in the Spr...
Posted by honey & quinine 4 years ago.
“Sleighbells ring. Are you limpin’” – Mon nebbahoo last December — Photo by Job Conger.
I walked a block to the bank today. I was cool with that. When you factor in the wind chill, the thermometer said 96, but if felt li...
Posted by honey & quinine 4 years ago.
I hope you understand that as I write postings intended for this blog, I take liberties with conventional Associated Press style and spelling. I own a copy of the AP manual, spiral bound, often referenced when writing for bread or dollars. If you have rea...
Posted by honey & quinine 4 years ago.
Iraq’s Maliki is Illinois’ Blagojevich; is the White Hose’s #43..
Now that I have your attenzione, let’s consider why this is true and why the shrill demiGods of the Near East has proven the new model for theocrats and sectarians...
Posted by honey & quinine 4 years ago.
When I went to the grocer Saturday, I went out of my way to avoid the chips aisle and the booze aisle. Thanks to Springfield and sneering Fate, this writer doesn’t qualify for either. Let the welfare people pack their carts with oily munchies, but m...
Posted by honey & quinine 4 years ago.
This has been a good day for me. A few days ago, I pulled all the clothes collected in the bottom of the anwar in my front room. It’s my clothes closet, but you’d never guess that unless, like since Wednesday, there was a pile of apparel in fr...
Posted by honey & quinine 4 years ago.
Pictured above is Jim LeRoy on September 10, 2004 when he visited and performed at Springfield Air Rendezvous for the last time. I’ve posted more pictures of the good man and his flying machine at www.aeroknow.com/LeRoy.htm
So unless I pay $300 by ...
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