If you remember or know the hit song by Ricky Nelson in the early 60s “Hello Mary Lou” you appreciate the turn of title for this post. Nelson’s hit was about falling in crush over a girl of that name — “Hello Mary Lou, Goodbye heart/Sweet Mary Lou I’m so in love with you./I knew, [...]
Archive for July, 2009
Goodbye Mary Lou
Posted in writing on July 31, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Just Another Day in Paradox
Posted in writing on July 30, 2009 | 1 Comment »
I earned my Master’s Degree in Public Affairs Reporting (which would be called Journalism at Columbia U, NY). I have produced newsletters left and right since graduating, written for aviation magazines distributed worldwide and every Springfield news publication published over the past 30 years except The Pure News and The Prairie Flame; served on founding [...]
The Saga of Blue Goose and Black Bear
Posted in writing on July 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I know women who give their breasts individual names, so I hope I will be permitted to name the possessions most connected with manhood in the USA: my cars.
“Blue Goose” was my dad’s 1986 Ford Escort, and since he died in 1994, it’s been mine. He purchased it new in ‘86 trading in his 1975 Volkswagen Rabbit [...]
The Iced Tea Chronicles, Pot 2
Posted in writing on July 28, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Only my planned announcement to run against Sarah RahRah for parzdint in 2000teenth (I mean it’s like whatEHverrrrrr) is likely provoke more advice from well-intentioned friends than my travails over the national instant iced tea mix conspiracy which I revealed to the world a few posts ago. I’ve been agitated and flagellated, I’ve been nitty-pickered [...]
Personal Ad Sad
Posted in arts, poetry, writing on July 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Personal Ad Sad
by Job Conger
LIfe isn’t easy when you live alone
And you don’t have a sweetheart to call your own,
When you don’t have a special friend who knows
About life’s “outrageous slings and arrows.”
Saw an ad in the Illinois Times which ran
“Need a man to help me work on my tan,”
So I wrote the girl a [...]
Flies Time
Posted in writing on July 25, 2009 | 5 Comments »
I feel about flies in the nutty state of Springfield, Illinois as I feel about dog waste in the grass. They’re a part of life, not to be tolerated in great profusion, but no cause for inordinate concern when encountered in moderation. A fly in the living room on a Friday night is not the [...]
Whose Name Are You?
Posted in writing on July 24, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Yesterday, a radio news anchor on NPR introduced a story about Myanmar by stating something like “Persecution of dissidents continues in Myanmar, also known as Burma….” The reporter did not mention “Burma,” perhaps because she knows that that nation was renamed following a revolution which eviscerated the former British colonial adjunct and subsequent democracy, and [...]
The Springfield Supermarket Instant Iced Tea Conspiracy
Posted in writing on July 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
My friend Ted Keylon is a superb artist, musician, actor and he is also a big fan of Ron Paul. He is an incredibly world-aware gentleman, prolific Facebook poster and outspoken herald of corruption in the world around us. Most of the his strident dismay shared in clarion calls go right over my head like [...]
Niagara – a poem by Vachel Lindsay
Posted in arts, poetry on July 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This poem (shared without copyright infraction because it’s in the public domain) I post here in dedication to my nephew Job Conger and niece Robin Lambert who live in Buffalo, NY. I “met” them for the first time in a round about way over the internet a few weeks ago, and we are corresponding via [...]
Coffee: When Refreshment Becomes Obsession
Posted in writing on July 21, 2009 | 7 Comments »
The idea of cutting back on the caffeine intake was at the top of my mind when I went visited Shop ‘N Save a few days ago, and for the first time in my life, I picked of a medium-size jar of de-caf instant Folger’s. I’ve not touched it in three days, but I have [...]
