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Tuesday, October 19, 2010

Naut's "Jag, my Doggie" post today is about road trips

White Mustang, Blue Highway Once I tried to escape the choking status quo that burned my lungs like mosquito abatement fumes on a summer night, sucked in through the blades of a window fan. I knew there had to be more somewhere; and rolled out of town to look for it, blew past cartographer's dots... Sign in to see full entry.

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Monday, October 18, 2010

Coping Mechanism

REJECTION NOTICE You begin to fear the Red Queen isn’t coming, although there are clear openings and all the others wait like paparazzi in hope of snapping the Kardashians. As hope fades, she arrives deigns to pose for flashbulbs, grants interviews on the red carpet, and would you believe? She’s... Sign in to see full entry.

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Saturday, October 16, 2010

Booty Call: The story of Scotty and Lynn, cont'd

Scott stayed in his office, making phone calls, coming out only to head for the john or back for more coffee until lunch time. There was usually a cadre of staffers who headed into town for lunch at Hell’s Half Acre, or over to the student center if there wasn’t time. Scott headed up the hall to the... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, October 14, 2010

We gotta give Chile credit

They turned disaster into triumph. And their president was right there, in a hard hat, waiting and greeting each miner as he emerged from the rescue module. I heard one newscast where the Chilean government approved spending $30 million plus, that's about a million for each man. Things the Chilean... Sign in to see full entry.

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Wednesday, October 13, 2010

I'm so happy for those Chilean miners. But there are questions.

Couldn't ask for a better good news story, one man at a time, newsmen telling each one's life story as he's riding in the capsule from a depth of half a mile. Every 45 minutes or so, there's another good news story. All that suspense, underplayed for once by the media... They keep asking, will the... Sign in to see full entry.

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Tuesday, October 12, 2010

Non Sequitur, a Comic Strip for the Ages

Wiley Miller is a bloomin' genius, funny and profound all at the same time. Recently, among other story lines, Wiley Miller's comic strip has featured a character called The Eckert, a benevolent creature who is so full of kindness and generosity that it influences everyone around to be kind and... Sign in to see full entry.

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Wait for the West Wind

Tie and Wil were neighbors, grew up together, watched the seasons change. They talked about their ambitions, their hope of flying high, as spring turned to summer. They weathered storms, even one particularly nasty hail storm, a circling wind and crashing thunder that took out many of their friends,... Sign in to see full entry.

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Monday, October 11, 2010

Octogenarian Logic about strange beans

When 81-year-old Jean came to the library yesterday, she brought evidence in her pocket. It proved her cut-rate grocery store had perpetrated a fraud. They had some nerve, pawning off defective Chinese green beans on her. It was right there on the empty bag, "this is a product of China." The picture... Sign in to see full entry.

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Sunday, October 10, 2010

Running out of patience...

When a body ages, it runs out of things. Calcium for one. It needs a bump of extra vitamin D to help the bones absorb calcium, which seems to leak out of older bones like water from a sieve. One day you can stand and walk and run, you feel balanced and sure-footed, and then you suddenly don't. You... Sign in to see full entry.

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Saturday, October 9, 2010

Oops...

Yesterday some time it occurred to me that I'd missed the ELF meeting on Wednesday.(E'ville Library Friends.) The new chairman of our ELF board had not sent out reminder emails. I hadn't noted it on my calendar. So I sat home during the meeting hour, studying a book on characterization and watching... Sign in to see full entry.

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