Warning: Blatant whine alert! I have a cold or the flu or something that seems to have settled in my lungs. It hurts like a SOB when I cough, I feel lightheaded and dizzy. Everytime I try to go downstairs and do laundry, I get winded like I just came back from running, but without… Continue reading Being Sick Bites
Memed! part 2
Yay! Bob the Ape has posted his book list, and it’s a good one. I’m commenting over here ’cause his blog doesn’t have comments and it’s easier than coming up with a real post of my own. 6. One book that you wish had been written: What Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin were doing between… Continue reading Memed! part 2
Celebrities Really Are From Another Planet
Lindsey Lohan wants to go to Iraq to perform for the troops. There is nothing wrong with her wanting to go to Iraq to boost morale. That’s kind of cool. Here is where it gets weird. She goes on to say: “I’ve been trying to go to Iraq with Hillary Clinton for so long,” Lohan,… Continue reading Celebrities Really Are From Another Planet
Dixie Chicks Make Jab at Mel Gibson in NY
This is an AOL site, so it may not come up for everyone. The Chicks elicited more laughter as lead singer Natalie Maines dedicated the humorous ‘White Trash Wedding’ to Mel Gibson, sarcastically praising the actor for checking into rehab. “You know how it is when you’re drunk,” she said, in reference to Gibson’s anti-Semitic… Continue reading Dixie Chicks Make Jab at Mel Gibson in NY
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I hope he writes a limerick for the next Supreme Court session
From today’s WaPo (registration) When I [Gene Weingargen] heard that the new poet laureate of the United States was to be Donald Hall, the New Hampshire literary eminence, I was elated. The media accounts rightfully praised the beauty and sophistication of Hall’s verse. But that’s not why I was happy. I was happy because I… Continue reading I hope he writes a limerick for the next Supreme Court session
Memed!
… by dear Mr Luse. 1. One book that changed your life: An old paperback I picked up for seventy-five cents at a used bookstore in Baltimore: The Man Who Was Chesterton, an old Image anthology. And before that, Poetic Meter and Poetic Form, by Paul Fussell. 2. One book that you’ve read more than… Continue reading Memed!