Pictured above: Lima Lima Flight Demonstration Team perforn at Springfield Air Rendezvous 2006.
If you have enjoyed any of the past 24 Springfield Air Rendezvous airshows from the first in 1983 to the last in 2006, you should attend the final SAR party, this year called “Soar Into Summer” on Washington Street, between Seventh and Ninth, [...]
Archive for May, 2007
Mock Your Collanders – June 1, 7p
Posted in Uncategorized on May 31, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Simmering Wednesday and Cindy Sheehan
Posted in writing on May 30, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I’m between a roq and dust.
During the past few weeks, I’ve been blessed by a run of substitute teaching days that have generated MANNA — more accurately MONEY for manna — on a two week delay. The check arrives two weeks after turning in the blue card at the pay office. Now, simmering through the [...]
Al Gore’s and Kathy ‘n’ Judy’s – Antartica
Posted in writing on May 29, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Let’s imagine your name is Robert, a fine name from the get-go. But an associate at work calls you Reeper. Dos this bother you? We all hear the word Robert in our legalized American citizen’s lexicon of modern words, so are you annoyed that a person who has heard the word as it should be [...]
Absolution
Posted in Uncategorized on May 28, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I was old enough to serve in the Vietnam War, but I didn’t. When I thought I was flunking out of Springfield Junior College in December 1965, about a year before it changed its name to Springfield College in Illinois. I visited the Air Force recruiter’s office on west Adams, a few doors west from [...]
Sunday Spinanagins
Posted in writing on May 27, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Lawd hep me, I took notes during three Sunday news shows.
Based on my earlier proclaimed disinterest in the 2008 presidential campaign, I ALMOST blew off Meet the Press’s hour-long slog with New Mexico’s Governor Bill Richardson. But I’m partial to the name, so I decided to sit a spell. Bill is my brother’s name, and [...]
Mr. Conger’s Class of the Year Award
Posted in writing on May 26, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Anyone who senses the ironic disparity in the life of a writer who tips his kind of people about politics, the legal citizens’ American language, media, aviation and poetry while playing pay day roulette as a substitute teacher, would do well for the world by considering how this blogger might find the kind of emploment [...]
Monday noon WSEC-TV Channel 8
Posted in writing on May 26, 2007 | 2 Comments »
The most engrossing, best-produced, most enjoyed Charlie Rose show I’ve watched concluded 10 minutes ago. I hope you will watch it when it is re-broadcast on Springfield, Illinois’ Public Broadcasting System’s WSEC Channel 8 TV Monday, May 28 at 12:00 noon. If you can’t be near a TV then, tape or TIVO it if you [...]
Joy In Mudville
Posted in Uncategorized on May 24, 2007 | 2 Comments »
The call came half-way through the Thursday SJ-R. I’ve gone three days without sub teaching this week, longest span for three weeks, so I hoped the 8:25 clarion was a harbinger of WORK. It was better.
It was the “lone arranger” from the bank. His people approved the loan for heat pumps for cherished upstairs renter. [...]
The Bank Visit and the Wait
Posted in Uncategorized on May 23, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I delayed visiting the bank yesterday to the last minute. I knew I wanted to be home in time for Fresh Air (WUIS, 3p) so I figured arrivin g at the bank at 2:15 would be about right. It was the only “right” I would be for the rest of the day.
First I opened the [...]
It’s About Time . . . and Newsweek and CR Revisited
Posted in writing on May 22, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
A friend gave me subscriptions to Time and Newsweek this year. I don’t know why he did. My guess is that he didn’t know I’m a regular viewer of PBS and NPR whose unbiased news reporting is the best there is in the United Snakes of America. (BBC-America comes close, but unless you’re tuned into [...]
