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Posted by Disarranging Mine 9 months ago.
Crimson flames tied through my ears
Rollin’ high and mighty traps
Pounced with fire on flaming roads
Using ideas as my maps
“We’ll meet on edges, soon,” said I
Proud ’neath heated brow
Ah, but I was so much older then
I’...
Posted by Disarranging Mine 9 months ago.
A little after taking that photo from the parking lot at Ace Hardware on Wabash in Springfield, a tornado ripped through Lambert Airport in St. Louis. Wow!
Posted by Disarranging Mine 9 months ago.
Monroe Street, Springfield, Illinois. No motorcycle required.
Posted by Disarranging Mine 9 months ago.
The 10th Street tracks between South Grand and Cook, Springfield, Illinois. (Google satellite image.)
Posted by Disarranging Mine 9 months ago.
Dandelion will make you wise
Tell me if she laughs or cries
Blow away dandelion
Posted by Disarranging Mine 9 months ago.
Illinois has the largest unfunded pension liability of any state in the nation. The deficit currently stands at $79 billion. This is money due to the pensions of the people who work for Illinois state government. The employees have been paying their sh...
Posted by Disarranging Mine 9 months ago.
Howarth Plaza, where I wish they'd turn the fountains on already.
Posted by Disarranging Mine 10 months ago.
Sixth and Adams, Springfield, Illinois.Before he left for the White House, Abraham Lincoln told his law partner:"If I live I'm coming back some time, and then we'll go right on practising law as if nothing had ever happened."It wasn't to be.Many years ago...
Posted by Disarranging Mine 10 months ago.
The house is what's known as the Lincoln Colored Home, or sometimes the Old Colored Home. The article I linked to refers to it as dilapidated. Although it's been vacant for years and needs a lot of work, a hundred years later it doesn't look very dilapid...
Posted by Disarranging Mine 10 months ago.
This dizzyingly crooked picture is of the upper pond in Springfield's Washington Park. It was stocked with trout today.* "State nuclear safety officials said “minute” levels of radiation believed from the crippled Japanese nuclear power plant ...
Posted by Disarranging Mine 10 months ago.
This is from the first paragraph of a page 1 obituary in the Illinois State Journal on May 10, 1892. She was a fascinating woman, known to her family as Epsy Smith, and to those to whom she was indentured as Hepsey:“It was in one of the dilapidated...
Posted by Disarranging Mine 10 months ago.
Soon, this will all be green. And, you won't be able to see that above ground tunnel, which you can hardly see now.In case you missed it, the Sunday SJ-R had this footnote:A Wall Street Journal story last week on the antibiotics used in livestock product...
Posted by Disarranging Mine 10 months ago.
My daughter asked me why I hadn't said anything about our involvement in Libya. In prior U.S. military missions, I always felt I knew enough about what was going on -- politically and militarily -- to form an opinion for myself. But on this one, I don't...
Posted by Disarranging Mine 10 months ago.
Seventh Street.Her: What are you doing
Me: Writing neuroscience jokes.
Her: You're a comedian now
Me: No, I'm a writer.
Posted by Disarranging Mine 11 months ago.
Last Saturday at noon there was a rally at the Illinois Capitol Building in support of Wisconsin teachers and their collective rights. I heard there were several hundred to a thousand in attendance. A week later, and some people are still rallying as sh...
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