Copyright 2005 Ben S. Pollock Friday, February 11, 2005: One from Column A and one from Column B. Let’s play! ASSOCIATED PRESS — North Korea declared itself a de facto nuclear power Thursday, claiming in its strongest terms to date that it had “manufactured nuclear weapons” to defend itself from the United States. ASSOCIATED PRESS […]
Copyright 2005 Ben S. Pollock Saturday, Feb. 5, 2005. News item: Walter Sheib, White House chef for over a decade, is resigning “to pursue other opportunities.” At a period when departing Cabinet officials are being replaced, amid allegations about an administration cooking the books in intelligence and Social Security, now President Bush has to worry […]
Copyright 2005 Ben S. Pollock Friday, Feb. 4, 2005. Where was I? Friendship, before I got so full of myself. Friendship broadly and specifically. Now, as an adult, as a man, as an American. Marriage and. … Work and. … It’s a theme that could be developed in occasional Bricks. I have no answers and […]
Copyright 2005 Ben S. Pollock Thursday, Feb. 3, 2005. Friendship needs addressing, maybe tomorrow. It’s not a reaction to a news item, either, like most Bricks. But it is a reaction, to how this subject broadly came up in me, even though I don’t know. With this as the latest example, all writing is reaction, […]
Copyright 2005 Ben S. Pollock Wednesday, Feb. 2, 2005. It seems fruitless and self-serving to merely write stuff that’s a reaction to stuff. Stuff. Stuff. Stuff. Last month, I threw a Brick that Johnny Carson in death deserves all the credit for talent, longevity and knowing when to leave the stage that he is getting […]
Copyright 2005 Ben S. Pollock Friday, January 28, 2005: Recalling a dream is not where I want to go with Brick. But what the heck. It’s a Brick. It doesn’t go anywhere until heaved. That’s Krazy Kat’s downfall, he realizes just as he sees one heading toward him from Ignatz Mouse, too late to duck. […]