“Dear Friends:
“On October 8, 2007 at 7:00 p.m. at Lincoln Library’s Carnegie Room, Citizens for Sensible Water Use (CSWU) presents a detailed and compelling case opposing the construction of Hunter Lake. We invite you to join us.
“City officials at City Water Light and Power are plunging ahead with their plans to obtain a permit from [...]
Archive for September, 2007
STOP Hunter Lake
Posted in Uncategorized on September 30, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Chickening Out of the News
Posted in writing on September 30, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
11:09 Sunday morning and I’m starting this blog posting, shooed into my office as effectively as an uninvited folksinger would be shooed away from a gathering of Ezra Pound aficionados. Behind the shoo is the face of Newt on This Week with George Stephanopoulos on ABC. Newt and #43 don’t appeal to me when I’m [...]
Late Summer Love
Posted in writing on September 29, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Late Summer Love
Gone the fair young maidens,
Vanished into the years
With all the hopes of springtime dreams
Untamed by wisdom’s tears.
Lost the quest for love’s first blush,
Banished by winter winds
And tortured treks through wilderness
Endured, but for what ends?
She saw me on my journey;
Sang softly love’s reprise
Of better days and caring ways
with magic melodies.
<>I answered most politely
With passionate [...]
A Joyous Substitute Afterknoon
Posted in writing on September 29, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Two seconds into the school office at Grant Middle School, a black young man I’ve taught in class before sees me walking in, makes eye contact and asks me to autograph his book. When I ask him why, he replies ?I had you last year, and I just want your autograph.” He opens a paperback [...]
FOLK Salad
Posted in writing on September 29, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Thanks to the best news weekly in the greater tri-state area for the imspiration for me to get off my keister re my music preforming (as they say in the White House) . Something “registered” when I read the news about free listings for local musicians, so I created FOLK Salad to let my people [...]
Friday vamping
Posted in writing on September 28, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
It’s been a busy week — good and not good. Wednesday, I had half a cup of dog chow left for two dogs who had had about the same the previous day, about 1/16 of their normal intake. Thank God my web site client was in town because he was the only way out of [...]
Profit and Laws
Posted in writing on September 25, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Pictured above: an unhappy tableau on Springfield’s near south side, two doors east of H&Q-meister. The residents don’t even look Puerto Rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrican. This picture has been slightly retoucht.
The gentleman who came to read my watermeter today had just encountered a neighborhood citizen who saw the City Water Light and Power logo on his car and [...]
A Little Plastering
Posted in writing on September 25, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
A Little Plastering
A little plastering covers the holes
of stupidity,
of frugality of heart,
of paucity of integrity,
of apathy to initiative,
of brutality to dreams.
A little plastering covers the holes
in the walls they build
around their humanity
so they look smoother than they are..
A little plastering covers the holes,
so don’t knock earnest carpentry.
Springfield, Illinois is a lush environment.
– by Job [...]
Little Victories
Posted in Uncategorized on September 23, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Pictured above: Slick Richard dining al fresco at webmeister’s haus. He literally takes his dinner lying down. The lumps extending from his midsection are the toes at the end of his hind legs. Is there a Republican faithful Honey & Quinine reader who has never wished he or she could adopt a similar posture [...]
43’s Bloody Vanity
Posted in writing on September 22, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
One of the first things attorneys tell clients taken to court in neglegence suits is “DENY EVERYTHING.” I am not an attorney. I do not offer the quoted advice as guidance to any reader of this blog. I am simply sharing with you what I have read. As most of us know, too much of [...]
