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Category Archives: Vuvuzela Monologues

Ben proverb: The sound of one vuvuzela blowing … can be tough on the ear but fun for the mouth. Moral: Blow your own horn.

Spread It

Monday, August 8, 2011

Facebook often is positive, and rightfully so. A Brick from 11 months ago supported that: The Future Just Showed Up: Like. Facebook is not all feel-good happy talk but controversy and deliberate negativity get moved down and out quickly — posts get “hidden” and friends become “unfriended.” My last weekend post fell in between. Sunday [...]

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3 Cheers for Saturday

Saturday, August 6, 2011

What, not four? Others are punditing U.S. economy very well. Why there’ll always be real estate agents and contractors In the HomeStyle section of the Saturday regional/state paper is the weekly Personal Space brief. Most weeks the subject, who is asked about her or his home and some biographical information, maneuvers to plug their business [...]

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Chair Up

Thursday, September 30, 2010

Portable chairs these days are of a kind: metal rods supporting a hammock seat and back, designed to collapse and fit in a tubular cloth bag. It’s been impossible to find those web chairs, strips of woven plastic interlaced on a frame of light aluminum tubing; it just folds for transport. Web chairs are more [...]

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By George

Wednesday, September 1, 2010

With apologies to George Orwell: Winston gazed up at the enormous face. Forty years it had taken him to learn what kind of smile was hidden beneath the dark moustache. O cruel, needless misunderstanding! O stubborn, self-willed exile from the loving breast! Two Victory Gin-scented tears trickled down the sides of his nose, only to [...]

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Mosque, Ow, on the Hudson

Friday, August 6, 2010

Some blasts from the vuvuzela. I used to play instruments, not just blow my own horn. While avoiding graven images, there’s no writ against craven puns. Mosque, ow, on the Hudson? Saying where houses of worship do not belong raises all sorts of red flags, no matter the neighborhood, no matter the religion. How could [...]

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Vuvuzela Monologues – Ads

Wednesday, July 7, 2010

Here’s some vuvuzela blasts to advertisements of the you-must-be-kidding sort. Virtually all of these are from the Sunday newspaper coupon sets. Because these go a long way to paying my salary, please buy every one of these. They’re fine products at honest prices. • • • Del Monte has a new campaign for its canned [...]

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Vuvuzela Monologues

Monday, July 5, 2010

As long as soccer’s World Cup has made the vuvuzela stadium noisemaker a common word in America, Brick wants to horn in on its ubiquity for a new series of short takes. Today, it’s skin and drama. • • • Speaking of vuvuzela, one rash has come home to roost, on my left forearm. Until [...]

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