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 [...]
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 that cast a pall
might [...]
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 [...]
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 have private [...]
There are three parts to this consideration. 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 I recalled before the march and it crossed my mind [...]
There are three parts to this consideration. 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 march but did not carry a sign or shout along [...]
There are three parts to this consideration. 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 to go last Saturday. I was 11 years old in [...]
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. [...]
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 story, [...]
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 authorities, [...]