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Monthly Archives: March 2006

Systematic Panic

Friday, March 31, 2006

This is an emergency broadcast of the Emergency Broadcast System. There is about to be a terrific storm in your area. Terrific meaning biblically terrible to you, your roof and your car. Terrific for us back in the studio, well, means terrific. We sit back and watch cool video shot by foolhardy amateurs. That scares [...]

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It’s My Wife’s Anniversary, Too

Wednesday, March 29, 2006

Tuesday, my poem was my wife’s. Now, she said she didn’t mind if I share this sonnet. I Have Your Number Copyright 2006 Ben S. Pollock Thirteen never has been an unlucky number for me, I have neither lucky nor unlucky ones, so far as I can recall. As fortunes appear clearest in retrospect, those [...]

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Dinosaurs for sale

Thursday, March 23, 2006

What’s so wrong with anachronisms? Newspapers only feel archaic to me when I explain to someone how the papers gets out even in the worst ice storms, such as we had earlier this month. It’s a litany I know well: Lines about deadlines and preventing bottlenecks and logjams (ugh) that can happen at any link [...]

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The Efficiency Committee

Monday, March 20, 2006

In today’s Arkansas Democrat-Gazette (March 20), this brief on 6B, further condensed here: “The Arkansas Senate will spend about $185,000 to renovate offices for six senators and six staff members, the Senate Efficiency Committee decided Wednesday. “Walls will be built from the ceiling to the floor so [six] senators who now have cubicles … can [...]

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The Line, Part III

Sunday, March 19, 2006

There are three parts to this consideration. Here is Part I. Here is Part II. The subject is the Bring the Troops Home from Iraq march and rally of Saturday afternoon, March 11, 2006. Both papers estimated 500 people attended, which is a lot. Here is a decent recap. Chalk Line There’s a joke that [...]

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The Line, Part II

Saturday, March 18, 2006

There are three parts to this consideration. Here is Part I. Here is Part III. The subject is the Bring the Troops Home from Iraq march and rally of Saturday afternoon, March 11, 2006. Both papers estimated 500 people attended, which is a lot. Here is a decent recap. Party Line I went on the [...]

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The Line, Part I

Friday, March 17, 2006

There are three parts to this consideration. Here is Part II. Here is Part III. The subject is the Bring the Troops Home from Iraq march and rally of Saturday afternoon, March 11, 2006. Both papers estimated 500 people attended, which is a lot. Here is a decent recap. Cut in Line I didn’t want [...]

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The Irreplaceable Art Buchwald

Wednesday, March 15, 2006

Copyright 2006 Ben S. Pollock Now, there’s any number of articles about one of my heroes, Art Buchwald. Here is one, written by a friend, just a couple of weeks ago. Mr. Buchwald is dying, by choice. He’s well past 80, and his body is shutting down, he knows it and is refusing treatment. The [...]

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Frey’s fatal flaw

Saturday, March 11, 2006

Copyright 2006 Ben S. Pollock A Long Way Down by Nick Hornby. This novel — ingested via a CD set with not one but three narrators portraying the four principal roles — from just last year is a good read. Besides wondering how the characters are getting along now, a week after I finished their [...]

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More detail on 3-08-06 post

Thursday, March 9, 2006

The fellow killed while walking along the highway was 21-year-old Joseph Erin Hamley. He was not armed. He was retarded and had cerebral palsy. His mother said he put his hands in his pockets when nervous. Adam Lee Leadford, 18, was armed only with a can of pepper spray when he was wounded, according to [...]

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