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Monthly Archives: September 2007

No Gaming Without Representation

Sunday, September 30, 2007

Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right, greed works. Greed clarifies, cuts through, and captures the essence of the evolutionary spirit.” – “Gordon Gekko,” Wall Street, as quoted in imdb.com Copyright 2007 Ben S. Pollock If “greed is good,” as the fictional financier Gordon Gekko famously preached in 1987, then [...]

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Fifty Fifty

Friday, September 28, 2007

Copyright 2007 Ben S. Pollock Any number of self-appointed TV experts in recent months say either “40 is the new 20″ and “60 is the new 40.” Oprah Winfrey said the latter to David Letterman when she interviewed him a couple of weeks ago. They were discussing his toddler son. Actually, that would mean 60 [...]

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Closeted

Thursday, September 27, 2007

Copyright 2007 Ben S. Pollock The other day, I came out of the closet to my wife. To my relief, she saw what I had been up to and was delighted. I’ve been meaning to do this for eight years, and once ready, it surprisingly took less than a week. Despite the arrival of cooler [...]

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Get Right with Lucinda

Wednesday, September 26, 2007

Copyright 2007 Ben S. Pollock Lucinda Williams brings out passions in people. It’s not as black or white as love her or hate her, though that’s what’s you hear. Here at Shady Hill manse, the instant that My Beloved or I hear she’s coming to sing, we tell our friends then buy tickets. While Fayettevillians [...]

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Prediction from a Non-Fan

Saturday, September 15, 2007

Prediction: University of Arkansas Athletic Director Frank Broyles will fire football Coach Houston Nutt midseason (between tonight and mid-October) and will pretend to collaborate with his just-named successor Jeff Long to instantly replace Nutt. -30-

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What Kind of Vermouth?

Thursday, September 13, 2007

Wine and other drinking experts recommend you cozy up with a good local liquor store staff for sound advice. Popatop in Little Rock was said to be excellent for this. When we lived there years ago, She and I would ask two different clerks about, for example, which is the best non-Kahlua coffee liqueur — [...]

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Our Nation Changed

Tuesday, September 11, 2007

“On that day, our nation changed.” Promotions, teases and lead-ins to broadcast programs or segments about today’s sixth anniversary of the 9/11/2001 terror attacks often have had this or a similar phrase. Hosts on shows so far repeat the statement and precede it with, “Everyone knows that. …” No, we don’t. No, it didn’t. I [...]

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Fun, fun, fun

Monday, September 10, 2007

It’s time to concede this one, this long-standing argument with My Beloved. Not argument, debate. No, discussion, a … philosophical discussion. We must define the frame. Any of these words can turn in reflection to “fight.” Even “conversation” is loaded. Healthy couples have conversations. A conversation at its meekest is where participants agree. Such a [...]

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Tom Sawyer’s Child Labor

Friday, September 7, 2007

A brief in today’s paper arouses interest for those procrastinators among us just getting around to Spring Cleaning. Northwest Arkansas Sustainability Center’s ‘Pack It In, Pack It Out’ activity day for children will begin at 9 a.m. Saturday at Fayetteville’s Wilson Park. Participants will be organized into groups and have a contest to pick up [...]

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Pod-ner in Time

Wednesday, September 5, 2007

Isn’t the Internet wonderful, with all of that information available in an instant? Crusty people like me have taken to it in varying degrees of speed and intensity, while everyone under 30, from most of my office to three nephews and niece (in their 20s), didn’t need to learn it, for high electronics is their [...]

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