Copyright 2004 Ben S. Pollock Thursday, October 21, 2004. We went to the new Blair Library on Tuesday, after lunch at Jammin’ Java with friends, She to the video section and I in my cap upstairs to grab a couple of novels by William Humphrey, a biography of whom I’ll be reviewing shortly. I said […]
Copyright 2004 Ben S. Pollock Wednesday, October 20, 2004. The new library building has been open only since the ninth, and I’ve been there three or four times a week since. Each time I intend to camp at a desk with a legal pad and some books yet never have. Except for the grand opening […]
Sailor’s Delight, a poem Copyright 2004 Ben S. Pollock Saturday, October 2, 2004. Sailor’s Delight ©2004 Ben S. Pollock I am no Pollyanna, or maybe I am. I’m not trying to see good even in the worst. Yet my standards are softer. After all I don’t want to be in that bad state again. — […]
Copyright 2004 Ben S. Pollock Thursday, Sept. 23, 2004. I don’t want Ralph Nader to hurt John Kerry’s chances, but he sure should be allowed every chance to participate. It seems, with absolutely no research, that many of the people either actively working to keep him off the ballots of all the various states or […]
Copyright 2004 Ben S. Pollock Wednesday, Sept. 22, 2004. The presidential debate particulars have been announced. Jim Lehrer of PBS, Charles Gibson of ABC and Bob Schieffer of CBS will be the moderators — and PBS’s Gwen Ifill will host the vice presidential debates. Lehrer is the top news guy in public TV, with Ifill […]
Copyright 2004 Ben S. Pollock Tuesday, Sept. 21, 2004. Yes, it’s taken most of the month to return to the iBook and these Bricks. It was getting futile. Well, writing for the 12 or 13 hits (14 is a minyan for Joni Mitchell) is a matter of degree of futility: Some days and weeks it’s […]