While the news last week has included the strike of the Writers Guild of America that began Monday the 5th, it hasn’t been the most important event. A new attorney general, the same Pakistani dictator, Congress for the first time in George II’s 6 1/2 years overrode one of his vetoes, gasoline is up and […]
Every time work gets weird I think of this old joke. Its application gets broader and broader. This guy goes to a psychiatrist and says, ‘Doc, my brother’s crazy; he thinks he’s a chicken.’ And the doctor says, ‘Well, why don’t you turn him in?’ The guy says, ‘I would, but I need the eggs.’” […]
It never occurred to me to presume this, probably because I’m not a technophile. But here I sit with a new computer (waiting months for the Apple operating system update as a few pieces of both hardware and software on my blue 7-year-old iBook fail), and it asks if it can take my picture. This […]
Copyright 2007 Ben S. Pollock Got a crazy idea the other day: I need matches. The Shady Hill manse is running out, and we had few to begin with. We’re not ones to collect matchbooks at restaurants and bars with regularity so, now that essentially no business hands them out, we don’t have the means […]
Copyright 2007 Ben S. Pollock A pet peeve is one of those list poems, It’s why Whitman bores me then I feel guilty, because isn’t he some kind of Poetry God? But for the last 29 of my fifty years, I’ve bound myself with society’s popular rules. If its wisdom is questionable My wisdom must […]
Copyright 2007 Ben S. Pollock Humorist Richard Allin died Thursday in Little Rock. He was 77. The following is why he’s important. It’s from the acknowledgments page of my journalism master’s thesis, spring 2003. At the family breakfast table in Fort Smith, 30 to 35 years ago, Dad laughing would read aloud paragraphs from the […]