Loose Leaves, 1st run Tuesday 8 February 2000 in The Morning News of Northwest Arkansas By Ben Pollock Copyright 2000 Donrey Media Group We gained a second ticket for the Philharmonic when the missis was asked to work late. Who would want to go, I wondered, when my thought was intercepted by my stick horse, […]
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For all the times we make fun of the TV meteorologists and the National Weather Service, not to mention the private forecast services, nobody admits how often right they are these days. When they are wrong, it’s usually only by a matter of hours.
Loose Leaves, 1st run Tuesday 25 January 2000 in The Morning News of Northwest Arkansas By Ben S. Pollock Copyright 2000 Donrey Media Group Welcome to the Ben’s Academy of Pooh-bah Arts and Sciences Awards Show. Coming to you live from the old Royal typewriter in beautiful downstairs Burbank, we present the Best of the […]
Loose Leaves, 1st run Tuesday 7 December 1999 in The Morning News of Northwest Arkansas By Ben S. Pollock Copyright 1999 Donrey Media Group The Dissociated Press DATELINE MIRTHOLOGY — Not to be outdone with the University of Arkansas football field becoming Donald W. Reynolds Razorback Stadium after a $20 million gift from the late […]
Loose Leaves, 1st run Tuesday 9 November 1999 in The Morning News of Northwest Arkansas By Ben S. Pollock Copyright 1999 Donrey Media Group I’d like to think I was a normal, tidy homeowner. The neighbors here seem to disagree. You can tell by what they don’t say, those odd silences when our paths cross […]
Immodest proposal for modest kids Loose Leaves, 1st run Tuesday 12 October 1999 in The Morning News of Northwest Arkansas By Ben S. Pollock Copyright 1999 Donrey Media Group DATELINE MIRTHOLOGY — It was dawn. Oscar Hapgood was in the park, as usual, foraging for breakfast, when Duff McDuff ran up to him, yelling, “Oscar, […]
Loose Leaves, 1st run Tuesday 17 August 1999 in The Morning News of Northwest Arkansas By Ben S. Pollock Copyright 1999 Donrey Media Group This fact is not common knowledge, perhaps because I just made it up, but all columnists not only know one another but work in the same room. Eli the household hints […]
Loose Leaves, 1st run Tuesday 27 July 1999 in The Morning News of Northwest Arkansas By Ben S. Pollock Copyright 1999 Donrey Media Group Is there no justice anymore? I kept trying to commission a kangaroo to hear my two litigations, but Rent-A-Roo has been booked solid for weeks. Apparently, they’ve been kept hopping with […]
Loose Leaves, first published Tuesday 20 July 1999 in The Morning News of Northwest Arkansas By Ben Pollock Copyright 1999 Donrey Media Group I got out of kindergarten one day — Perhaps all us kids were free: Class canceled? Jan-girl had the TV volume up high So Mom, Sis, me would find no word muffled. […]
Loose Leaves, 1st run Tuesday 25 May 1999 in The Morning News of Northwest Arkansas By Ben S. Pollock Copyright 1999 Donrey Media Group An effective way to reclaim youth is to study today’s young people and adopt some of their ways. If you can’t do as they do, then understand what they’re up to. […]