Copyright 2005 Ben S. Pollock Friday, May 27, 2005: Here are a few tips on how to enjoy having a major museum in your area. This is advice for locals. Tourists, get on the Web or contact AAA; this isn’t for you. Bentonville’s coming Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art (isn’t it nice that for a …
Monthly Archives: May 2005
Sell us your huddled masterpieces
Copyright 2005 Ben S. Pollock Tuesday, May 24, 2005: A Brick about Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art. Last Monday, Wal-Mart’s Alice Walton announced she and also her family’s foundation would build a museum surrounded by a park near downtown Bentonville, Arkansas, her companies’ headquarters. There was a clue about this a couple of weeks …
Koran in a barrel
Copyright 2005 Ben S. Pollock Sunday, May 22, 2005. So … if the International Red Cross says some Americans in some way desecrated the Koran in front of Iraqis, Afghans or other Muslims (with comparable incidents already reported months ago as part of the Abu Ghraib initial and follow-up reports — and now somehow forgotten) …
Muffle that rumble
Copyright 2005 Ben S. Pollock Friday, May 20, 2005. Condensed from Fayetteville’s Northwest Arkansas Times this morning (or read whole article): “Mayor Dan Coody wants attendees of Bikes, Blues and BBQ to ride quietly, a sentiment shared by the festival’s board of directors. ‘We encourage everyone to be quiet,’ said Richard Watson, chairman of the …
Leash life
Copyright 2005 Ben S. Pollock Wednesday, May 18, 2005: Instead of speaking out of turn, here is a Brick. While sketching with some others in Gulley Park at twilight, a family approached: a mom, two boys and a dog tethered to one of the kids. Intelligent kids, you could tell. The dog had a long lead …
Equal footing, midair
Copyright 2005 Ben S. Pollock Monday, May 16, 2005: I keep forgetting to enjoy the new Fayetteville Public Library. My usual habit is to hit the 10-minute curb parking and go in long enough for the book I had put on hold via the Internet or to choose a fresh book-on-CD. The new building though …
Zzzz, om, zzzz
Copyright 2005 Ben S. Pollock Saturday, May 14, 2005: Note to self: There’s many ways to meditate, necessary when working an evening shift but want to enjoy the daytimes then need to re-fresh before going in: Meditation is first, because there it is. A 20–45 minute nap accomplishes about the same thing. Sleep experts say no more …
Bushy eyebrows
Copyright 2005 Ben S. Pollock Thursday, May 12, 2005: The Senate Foreign Relations Committee and the whole body should confirm the nomination of cranky John Bolton as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. Comedians and humorists need easy material. Not to mention cartoonists. –30–
Confusing the issue
Copyright 2005 Ben S. Pollock Wednesday, May 11, 2005: Morning after a local millage election. The Fayetteville Public Schools lost its request for a property tax increase of 43 mills. This is one Arkansas town that doesn’t hate tax increases. What was wrong with this one? The things this one would fund were thoroughly discussed in …
Mother’s Day 2005
Copyright 2005 Ben S. Pollock Sunday, May 8, 2005: An ode to Mother’s Day. It’s the first one since Mom passed last November. I’ve started reading a new, and perhaps the only so far, full biography of Ogden Nash. Here is a lede that won’t work in my eventual newspaper review of it: It’s more …
