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Monthly Archives: April 2006

Head goes here, brewers insist

Thursday, April 27, 2006

I’m no teetotaler, but remarks like this just make me stop and wonder. The article, in the Wednesday, April 26, 2006, Wall Street Journal, by Sarah Ellison, is about Anheuser-Busch Cos. and its chairman, August Busch III. Mainly it explains the purpose it — and the other major American breweries — has had since World [...]

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Selling short

Friday, April 21, 2006

The current compromise on the Fudge Project only appears to be a third shorter. (I.e. the Divinity Project but it’s named for the wan confection, nothing religious.) Nothing seems to say what brand hotel will manage the lodging part of the formerly 15- and now 10-story building on the club-cafe strip Dickson Street, where nothing [...]

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Worship at the alter ego

Friday, April 21, 2006

A new ethical quandary in the news media. Los Angeles Times columnist Michael Hiltzik used fake names to publish comments on his blog and on those of others. Some of his creations conversed with one another. The LAT blog was suspended; the dude apparently still has his print outlet. Mea culpa. When Brick got its [...]

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Pied Pipers of Grimm

Tuesday, April 18, 2006

Copyright 2006 Ben S. Pollock Not to be outdone, we in the Ozarks have a playwright equal to the latest Irish sensation Martin McDonagh. Salvatore O’Mally of Farmington, Ark., has an even more larcenous soul than McDonagh. It’s a wonder he isn’t as well-known. McDonagh got an eight-page profile in the March 6, 2006, New [...]

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Lonely days no more

Sunday, April 16, 2006

Copyright 2006 Ben S. Pollock If you need a day-care for your pet hermit crabs, contact me. The Hermit Crab Palace will take care of your wee ones while you’re at work so they don’t get lonely. These days, doggy day-cares are just getting busier and busier. People drop off their pooches at these enterprising [...]

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Vote doesn’t make book

Thursday, April 13, 2006

Allow me to offer a library post-mortem: Nyah, nyah, nyah. (This is so wrong of me. I’ve always loved libraries and our Blair Library is spectacular. But, to continue:) My wife and I — though little special elections like this require lots of effort to remember when speeding past our poll — managed to stop [...]

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Color coordinating

Saturday, April 8, 2006

Copyright 2006 Ben S. Pollock Let’s start here and now: Red states are blue, and blue states are red. The cause of red standing for Republican was what, a conspiracy? Still, this is America. This is the reverse. It’s confusing, and it’s wrong. Red equalling commie or at least leftist or liberal is 20th century. [...]

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Divinity isn’t divine?

Monday, April 3, 2006

For those reading at some distance, Fayetteville isn’t a village; it’s some 70,000-plus people in a metropolitan statistical area of a good quarter million. Still the overall architecture is short. There are a number of four-five story buildings. The main hotel, once a Hilton (once a Hilton always a Hilton, nyah nyah nyah) and now [...]

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