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Posted by honey & quinine 4 years ago.
You don’t have to embrace the grape or barley for a night like I’m having, but at least you’d not be conscious through most of it. As Paul Simon sang, “‘Twas a sunny day . . . .”
Springffield Air Rendezvous director ...
Posted by honey & quinine 4 years ago.
CHEESES, I was angry today! By 10 a I was slogging through the usual note card transcribing and detesting every minute I was tied to the fripping computer. I made myself go on the way Charles Bukowski made himself go on when he worked at a job he hated. H...
Posted by honey & quinine 4 years ago.
I’ve had that title in my “drafts” for weeks, and I’m leading with it just to share it with you and get it published. It has nothing to do with this essay, which I’m also saving in “drafts” until later this week a...
Posted by honey & quinine 4 years ago.
As the Sultan of So’ James Brown once said, “I feel good. I knew that I would. So good. So good. I gaCHOO!” — GeSUNDheitt Master Brown!
Yesterday I vowed to spend an hour on feet in transit to compensate for the past few months spe...
Posted by honey & quinine 4 years ago.
The Tomato is My Friend
. . . . . . Close to ten years ago, before Thelonius Dog and Slick Richard, even before Maximum Labrador, I was in a tailspin. (That modus de klutzus is de regeur with me.) I had split with a woman I will call Wide Redbreast, a fre...
Posted by honey & quinine 4 years ago.
In my ballistic way, I have lost my car insurance. Just got off the phone wth my agent who told me it went south last Saturday. I knew it was due, but I thought there’d be a grace peeriod.
So solly.
I MAY be able to reinstate it next week after I wa...
Posted by honey & quinine 4 years ago.
Preface: A friend sent me what follows: a poem which reveals the frustration of people of all races and ethnic backgrounds who believe in law, and are not inclined to dismiss the ones we don’t care for the way we turn our nose up at street vendors o...
Posted by honey & quinine 4 years ago.
Some airplanes, particularly those with what laypeople would call the little wings (elevators) at the top of the back tail (others call them T-tails) which require great pilot concentration in some circumstances. In slow flight, when the nose of the ...
Posted by honey & quinine 4 years ago.
To know me is to understand that 95 percent of the television I watch is broadcast on the Public Broadcasting System (PBS). During this summer the percentage has been more like85 percent, not because the quality of programming is heading for the hoidi toi...
Posted by honey & quinine 4 years ago.
Do you know him If you’re a creative writer, you should. I was , and I did. I took this picture during a chance encounter in political downtown Springfield about 1997. Then living in Chatham, Tom hosted a meeting or two of our writing organization...
Posted by honey & quinine 4 years ago.
Apologies to all regular readers here who miss the goyem Woody Allen persona professing exasperation over his two left feet. I’m in a comedy null zone these days. Y
I learned last week there was not enough in the bank for my loan payment to be with...
Posted by honey & quinine 4 years ago.
(Pictured above: a fully anesthetized kitty before “de-ball.” Photo by Job Conger)Ketchup
Trivia buffs may know that uranium has a half-life of 100,000 years. I discovered recently that the only thing that comes close to that is refrigerated...
Posted by honey & quinine 4 years ago.
Reason’s Refrain
Some games are played
for higher stakes
than passions weighed
against heartbreaks.
The magic shared
with arms entwined
and bodies bared
can burn the blind.
As smiles from secret pleasures fade,
sometimes come consequences made:
the ...
Posted by honey & quinine 4 years ago.
It’s been seven days since I last directed my voice to a living hummin’ bean.
Hello, my old friend. I’ve come to talk with you again.
The occasion was last Saturday. A friend across the street had called and left a voice mail invitation....
Posted by honey & quinine 4 years ago.
Thanks to South Carolina Senator Lindsay Graham, who appeared on “The Jim Lehrer News Hour” and journalists John Burns and Tom Rich who appeared on “Charlie Rose” Tuesday night July 17. Without their eloquence and memorable underst...
Posted by honey & quinine 4 years ago.
Medical Modeness
The total immersion aspect of settling into a grab bag hour of network TV after dinner, settling on Fox’s “House” because no signal I can pick up with an antenna which probably first hit retail when Dave Garroway was hos...
Posted by honey & quinine 4 years ago.
If Sam had not graciously added his astute comment following my Sunday lament, I’d have deleted it. Thank you Sam.
Friends, Romulans and countrypersons, I hit the hay last night awash in the ignominy of separation from AeroKnow and CIVAG. Afte...
Posted by honey & quinine 4 years ago.
If you’ve enjoyed visiting my two websites recently, when you return this coming week; you will find either nothing (error 404) or exactly what you saw during your previous visit. That’s because I discovered, as I was about to update the sites...
Posted by honey & quinine 4 years ago.
I may be the only cockel and mussel, alive alive-o, who on a slow Sunday, builds is day around WUIS radio. Y Because of Word For Word, 3 pm on WUIS.
When I first became a National Public Radio Fan, and for a few years, a WUIS pledger and off -air studio ...
Posted by honey & quinine 4 years ago.
It isn’t having the same Rumen noodles for my Friday meal that I’ve had every Friday (and Sunday through Thursday for the past two months. After all, I attended a party last Saturday night, attended a reception a few Saturdays ago where dinner...
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