Tuesday, June 28, 2005: I am writing together so many odds and ends that I’ve been taking notes on for more than a week that they qualify for placement under various dates, not just today. This riff has as its genesis the 29th annual conference of the National Society of Newspaper Columnists, which was June [...]
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Monday, June 27, 2005: Representatives of Highfill, home of Northwest Arkansas Regional Airport, should mosey down to Grapevine, Texas, and take notes, themselves. This town has created a historical district, which on some holidays and by request (such as for visiting columnists) puts volunteers in early 20th-century costume and gives them [...]
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Saturday, June 25, 2005: The columnists had a great afternoon at the Sixth-Floor Museum meeting with three eyewitnesses to the JFK assassination and-or its immediate aftermath. But the focus of this entry is a morning session led by New York writer Pete Hamill. My longhand notes are fine as records now. [...]
Two columnists walk into a bar
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Friday, June 24, 2005: A temptation is to write rather complete articles from the notes I took at the just-completed conference of the National Society of Newspaper Columnists, meeting in Grapevine, to the northeast of Fort Worth and northwest of Dallas.
But what I would prefer [...]
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Sunday, June 12, 2005: The more essays, columns and commentary that I read the more I see that the opposite of humor is not seriousness or many of its synonyms. This perception may just be among current trends, but at least for the time being, the opposite of humor is sentimentality.
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Friday, June 10, 2005: There are serious two mountain bikers moving around on the Town Center Plaza, off the Fayetteville Square. "Serious"? That is, dedicated. First, very good bikes. The 20-something woman and man are wearing fancy helmets and true skintight bicycle shorts and tights, full of logos: Must be on [...]
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Tuesday, June 7, 2005: Why is it that very smart people do such stupid things?
I am a very smart person so I should know. -30-
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Thursday, June 2, 2005: My wife and I have yet another similar thought process. She doesn’t see it that way. I just now did.
I brown-bag to work for three reasons. The least is cost.
The middle is that fast food all tastes alike after not too many weeks, including ethnic [...]