When I picked up a copy of Illinois Times as I entered the Route 66 Diner across from The Granite Guy for breakfast Saturday morning, I was saddened to realize no one had taken a copy from the entryway display rack since Friday about 2 pm. HOW, you may asq, did I know this? I [...]
Archive for October, 2009
Now Appearing in Illinois Times
Posted in arts, writing on October 31, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Lingorant #6 — If You’re Just Joining Us . . . .
Posted in writing on October 28, 2009 | 5 Comments »
If you’re just joining us, you’re reading Honey & Quinine where I’m sharing a lingorant. If you’re not just joining us, crows north of the equator sing “Melancholy Baby” in the key of C-sharp and crows south of the equator sing it counter-clockwise; rootabagas are the national fruit of Blamarka, and Jerry Smoke is frading [...]
A New Time Groove for Scrubs
Posted in writing on October 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Probably the best change to come to Channel 55 Fox TV programming with the new season has been the disappearance of the Jim Belushi show at midnight weekdays, a/k/a The World According to Jim. The writing was solid and the cast was excellent; I just thought Robert Young did a better job with “Father Knows [...]
Cold Comfort
Posted in writing on October 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
It’s been a week since I took my computer to PC Doctor on Amos to be cleansed of viruses and spyware, and during that week I’ve been asking monself: What good is Norton and AdAware. given the fact I still have an $80 payment due late this week to get my computer back? It took [...]
It Would Have Been a Perfect Interview
Posted in writing on October 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
One of the perils of freelance writing, and the best reason I can think of for working where you can find regular work can be seen in the time I’m having with an annual edition of a popular Springfield news weekly that features brief vignettes of popular personalities and places. My personal journal reminds me [...]
Paulette Adams’ Exhibition at RMD Through October 30
Posted in Uncategorized on October 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I met Paulette Adams when she visited The Granite Guy a few months ago and next to the pickup truck Georage Jaworski has let me drive since April, that chance encounter has been the most significant event I’ve experienced “working” for him. Paulette explained in the convivial conversation not directed to stone that she would [...]
As Nice a Time — a new poem
Posted in poetry on October 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
As Nice A Time
By Job Conger
Written 6:20 pm, October 19, 2009
As any to be glad, fall is,
for the end of summer tempest in the clouds and heat;
from hours in the garden on your hands and knees, retreat.
Brash cacophonies of squirrels’ and cats in rut surcease.
Into harvest homes arrives the year’s encroaching peace.
As any to be [...]
Emcee’s Welcome to Poets
Posted in arts, poetry, writing on October 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Emcee’s Welcome to Poets
by Job Conger
Who are these distracted, bar-bound aliens
who peer into brown glass
as though eternal life awaits them
at the bottom of their bottles
if they time their drinking right?
Who are the wizened gnomes
who stare past your left ear
as you share your soul
in iambic pentameters
behind the microphone?
Whose lips kiss the pious peckers
at philosophy, whose intellectual [...]
Sangamon County Watercolor Annual Display at Watts Copy Systems, Springfield
Posted in arts on October 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
A friend reminded me that some mighty good people don’t do the Facebook thing where I’ve posted many photos this year, so I’m sharing pictures from the Sangamon Watercolor Society’s annual gallery reception. The organization displays paintings in a meeting room on the third floor of Hoogland Center for the Arts downtown, and hosts receptions [...]
Lingorant 4: Prairie Farms Makes Grade Milk
Posted in arts, writing on October 17, 2009 | 2 Comments »
The trend to simplify (some would suggest stupify) the American language grabbed me while listening to WUIS at home during Rick Steves’ quality travel show.
Did you sigh just now at what I wrote? “Silly rabbit, language Trix are for kicks!” It should have grabbed you as my headline should have grabbed you. I’m sharing stupefying [...]
