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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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]