Posted by honey & quinine 2 months ago.
I can almost hear the management meeting as WUIS public radio prepared the commercial for a coming concert . . . . “Just DON’T use the ‘B’ word, Larry. It would be so de clase and un-public-service of us if we use the ‘B̵...
Posted by honey & quinine 2 months ago.
My family’s military legacy to the cause of freedom is as rich as Kermit the Frog’s. A cousin, Charles Donaldson joined the Royal Canadian Air Force before the USA became involved in the war, later transferred to the Army Air Forces and retire...
Posted by honey & quinine 2 months ago.
The rare uptick in erudition demonstrated by the State Journal-Register engineered last Sunday with the presentation of “Funky Winkerbean” where “Frank and Ernest” had rained (my way of saying they SOAK) came to a thundering conclu...
Posted by honey & quinine 2 months ago.
That’s the difference between what the fine resident upstairs paid for her rent in May and my City Water Light & Power utility bill. That’s not including my Ameren/CILCO gas bill for heat and hot water because I’ve had neither since ...
Posted by honey & quinine 2 months ago.
I’ve been working three days a week or more for the past month or so, and that welcome action is my moral solace as real estate tax time approaches. So when my life lurched into Wednesday this week and the guiest teacher service had not called me ON...
Posted by honey & quinine 2 months ago.
Pictured above is part of Vine Street Nature Conservancy, a grass roots (REALLY) effort to infuse more oxygen into the air since so much of it is being sucked out by John McCane, #43 (I hold that truth to be seff evidentialary as #43 hi zone self might s...
Posted by honey & quinine 3 months ago.
I’m connecting to the power of modern milk that comes cans like the one pictured above. To suggest I’m not as daft as the rest of the world think siam — and maybe even YOU after reading that lede, I hasten to add the connection is a MET...
Posted by honey & quinine 3 months ago.
I launched a new blog here at WordPress Sunday. It’s called Umbrage Universal, and a link is posted at my Blog Roll on the right. I’m very happy with the look, and the credit goes to WordPress for the terrific template. You don’t have to...
Posted by honey & quinine 3 months ago.
Springfield’s State Journal-Register Sunday Comics section suffered a blow when, for reasons unknown to this blogger, my favorite strip Doonesbury disappeared from its place of honor at the top of page 5 and landed in the jumble of ordinary chuckle ...
Posted by honey & quinine 3 months ago.
Introduction: In Springfield, Illinois, the term “substitute teacher” is an anachronism like “secretary” and “really swell.” It was used in the headline to this blog because most readers would not recognize the new term...
Posted by honey & quinine 3 months ago.
BEFORE he sang about “the spirit in the sky. (That’s where I’m gonna go when I die. When they die and they lay me to rest, I want to go to the place that’s the best.”) and sang about the girl with the “Itsy bitsy, teeny...
Posted by honey & quinine 3 months ago.
Pictured above is the last picture I’ll likely take at a Springfield gallery. The happy duo are connected to Barney’s Furniture, the best place in the tri-county area to buy furniture, and if not that, at least the furniture store with the be...
Posted by honey & quinine 3 months ago.
This poem is public domain.
Factory Windows Are Always Broken
by Vachel Lindsay of Springfield, Illinois
Factory windows are always broken.
Somebody’s always throwing bricks.
Somebody’s always heaving cinders,
Playing ugly Yahoo tricks.
Factor...
Posted by honey & quinine 3 months ago.
My experience with United Parcel pickup today convinced me that “Brown” doesn’t signify their pickup and delivery trucks; it signifies the color of the residue passed through the body after a cheap dinner; the color I will forever connec...
Posted by honey & quinine 3 months ago.
Ask an inappropriate question and reap the consequence. I let BC get by, the same way readers of this blog might let my first girlfriend by when I asked her how many boys she had kissed before me and she said I was the first. Attention all girlfriends: yo...
Posted by honey & quinine 3 months ago.
For the first time in months, I’m having a weekend without guilt. Before I wrote the headline for this posting, I checked Webster’s Collegiate to be sure there would be no double entendre there. It explained “pud” is short for R...
Posted by honey & quinine 3 months ago.
Two weeks ago, I learned in convivial conversation with the fine person who called to ask me to guest teach, that my temporary banishment from a prominent high school in 2007 had not been reinstated. The action (a combined slap on the wrist and checking a...
Posted by honey & quinine 3 months ago.
Almost two weeks ago, as I was guest teaching at a prominent east side middle school, a history teacher Mr. P (not her real gender or initial) interrupted my class to invite me to speak “about Lincoln” in her class. I told her I had earlier v...
Posted by honey & quinine 3 months ago.
Pictured above part: of my nearby turf, Springfield, Illinois, three blocks southwest of the State Capitol building last Sunday morning, Is this a nifty city or what
Naw, this posting is not about that famous musical about the Juicy Fruit addict called ...
Posted by honey & quinine 3 months ago.
I wouldn’t have complained if I had not awakened this morning.
Before me is a neighborhood newsletter I must write this weekend, a task I warmly embrace usually. And I’m not dodging that. Some positive things happened with me during substitute...
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