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Monthly Archives: September 2005

Goody, a poem

Wednesday, September 28, 2005

Copyright 2005 Ben S. Pollock
Wednesday, Sept. 28, 2005:
My Oak
“How tall you want it?”
“There’s a choice on the tree stump?”
“Sure, put a plant there.”
After a day of thuds,
They’ve cleared the boughs: They’re rotten.
The trunk’s thud thundered.
Long after the cuts
And the oak rolled off, who knew
Death’s sap could smell sweet.
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Shareholders, spill your bean counters

Monday, September 26, 2005

Copyright 2005 Ben S. Pollock
Monday, Sept. 26, 2005: One of my guilty pleasures finally is starting to regurge on me. I have been enjoying accounts in journalism-industry media of the big, bad bean counters and how they’re ruining my profession. It’s so obvious, it’s so true, it’s so commented upon it must be so.
Even [...]

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Falling from a plane’s easy

Wednesday, September 21, 2005

Copyright 2005 Ben S. Pollock
Book’s as easy as falling out of a plane
Wednesday, Sept. 21, 2005. I own a lot of books, hundreds, and have read nearly all of them. This isn’t bragging, as I haven’t read all that much since college, except for my first copy-desk stint of 1985-87. They just add up. Here [...]

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Books in mud

Friday, September 16, 2005

Copyright 2005 Ben S. Pollock
Dragging books through the mud
Friday, Sept. 16, 2005: I have not written a Brick for more than week because the two subjects I wanted to hit seemed overdone. What could I write about Katrina? Nothing particularly valuable, though I will return to it. Also, I’ve heard from all sides about a [...]

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Gulf of misunderstanding

Friday, September 2, 2005

Copyright 2005 Ben S. Pollock
Friday, September 2, 2005: Gulf War III.
This one is American, too, but it’s being fought on a different Gulf.
Thoughts about Hurricane Katrina.
In my morning paper today is a color insert ad, Heartland Honda of Springdale: four glossy pages on gas-powered portable generators. Now I know the biz, that inserts [...]

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Who’s in charge here, anyway

Thursday, September 1, 2005

Copyright 2005 Ben S. Pollock
Thursday, Sept. 1, 2005: In contemporary language, we Americans say we love take-charge people, yet we resent controlling people.
Are people one thing at home and another at work? This approaches Walter Mitty. Let’s think, no, people are as they are all the way through. Except that the worldly leader may not [...]

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