Copyright 2005 Ben S. Pollock
Friday, January 28, 2005: Recalling a dream is not where I want to go with Brick. But what the heck. It’s a Brick. It doesn’t go anywhere until heaved. That’s Krazy Kat’s downfall, he realizes just as he sees one heading toward him from Ignatz Mouse, too late to duck.
It’s [...]
Wednesday, January 26, 2005
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Wednesday, January 26, 2005: My newspaper rarely does front-page obituaries, particularly of celebrities. The last was Marlon Brando’s. Monday morning it gave top-of-2A play for Johnny Carson, the penultimate spot. The front page would have been appropriate.
Carson was a significant icon of the 20th century, in American culture (popular culture [...]
Wednesday, January 19, 2005
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Wednesday, January 19, 2005. In reading in the papers about another piece of embarrassing proposed state legislation, I realized finally, after many years of consideration, a single reason to support term limits.
Overall, though, holding legislators from the community through state levels to a maximum number of terms is fundamentally un-democratic. [...]
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Monday, January 17, 2005: Days ago, George II brought in George the First and Bill Clinton to lead private fund-raising for the south Asian tsunami disaster of 12/26/04.
This is life imitating art!
"Saturday Night Live" has a periodic cartoon by one of its staffers– Robert Smigel — that is called "The [...]
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Monday, January 10, 2005. Just thought of another way to explain my confusion with a certain kind of column. Or blog now.
The discomfort is partly from the frustration of not being able to explain, but mainly because their writers are some of my favorite people.
The genre: Anecdotal essays about their families [...]
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Friday, January 7, 2005. It’s important to be efficient. To not reinvent the wheel is my oft-repeated goal, likely annoying others.
Definition: Coming to know what works and what doesn’t, what is tolerable and what drives you batty. It’s a process of elimination, where over the years you gain knowledge of yourself [...]
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Jan. 2, 2005: In the paper and online today is Dave Barry’s final column as a regularly run syndicated humor columnist. He announced this a few months ago, calling it a sabbatical of indefinite length while acknowledging writing projects in other media, maybe including papers. Also in the fall, Jimmy Breslin [...]
Saturday, January 1, 2005
Hear a second for the First?
Copyright 2005 Ben S. Pollock
Jan. 1, 2005: I won’t look back to a year ago in the Brick. I try not to look back on much. There might be too much I might regret. Any regrets are too many. Besides, as cautious as I can be (though I take more [...]