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Sunday, December 19, 2010

Old People's Music

For some reason I'm on a nostalgia kick. There was something on PBS this week about wide open spaces, about this place in Kansas, the Flint Hills, where the population is about the same as it was years ago and people raise grass-fed cattle on miles of pastureland. They've resisted the efforts of... Sign in to see full entry.

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Saturday, December 18, 2010

Michael's and a Mini Craft splurge...

A week or two ago Corbin posted a kitty picture. This isn't the news. The picture was of a couple very ticked off cats, one in a red fuzzy Santa hat, and one in a blue skullcap and scarf with the Star of David. Their names could only be Bah! and Humbug! Couple days ago I went to Michael's, jammed... Sign in to see full entry.

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Friday, December 17, 2010

About the insanity defense, the Asperger's Syndrome verdict is in.

The 16-year-old who killed another kid at random has been found guilty of first degree murder in Massachusetts. Sign in to see full entry.

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Lee Harvy Oswald's Coffin

Some time after his interment, LHO's body was exhumed and he was later reburied in a new box. Why, I don't know -- maybe CSI needed another look at the assassin's brain or something. Maybe the family just decided he needed a plushier resting place. At any rate, I just heard on NPR that the funeral... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, December 16, 2010

Aspergers Syndrome

At least to me, this is fairly new. I heard interviews with an author who learned to overcome it, wrote a book. Then I realized that certain people I took for shy and awkward actually had symptoms of it. Extremely bright but impulsive, prone to inappropriate questions or behaviors. A bit obsessive... Sign in to see full entry.

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Wednesday, December 15, 2010

Got my first Christmas gift yesterday...

About 6:00, I was piddling around on the computer, thinking of life and death and what's it all about, the usual thing while waiting for my crockpot chili to be done, when the phone rang. It was Joe, my son. He'd just got in from work, was getting ready to head for St. Louis to have the usual... Sign in to see full entry.

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Tuesday, December 14, 2010

Into the Great Beyond

Cyberspace. Nowhere. Out there somewhere. It's where things go after you hit delete. And now Isabel has gone there. She tired, even sickened of the game she'd played with George. It occured to her she'd been about to leave him when she was so rudely interrupted. She begins to wonder why she... Sign in to see full entry.

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Monday, December 13, 2010

Buggy Whips and Bookstores: Relics of a Bygone Era?

Buggy whip makers went out of business when the horse & buggy was replaced by the Model T and other autos. More and more of us depend on electronic guides to get us from home to a destination, and new autos have 40-Gig hard drives. Shade tree mechanics have to study IT wizardry or retire. Bel's... Sign in to see full entry.

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Sunday, December 12, 2010

Wanderer -- a poem written by June K.

WANDERER Little dog Eating garbage in the gutter Dangling inches of broken chain from your collar While cars in the heart of this busy intersection Race by. They go no faster than you dart in and out among the wheels of parked autos. You wear a collar, little Rover, or are you called Spot? There's... Sign in to see full entry.

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Wednesday, December 8, 2010

Looking for Jack London - conclusion

- cont’d - So, you like action, I say. He says yes. Then comes a pause, and as grownups do, I ask the stock question about what he wants to be when he grows up. He could have said nunya (none a your business) but he says he’s going to be a soldier, special forces. He’s watching for my reaction.... Sign in to see full entry.

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