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The accidental book scout.

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Friday afternoon vs. The Haiku-lodeon


 
 
This week's heap of haikus:
 
 
 
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Did you see my note?
I left it on the table,
right next to the ... oops.
 
 
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Rick Santorum and the Evil Invention

Thanking God—the one, true Catholic God—for another glorious morning, Rick drove up to the gleaming Santorum Headquarters. Despite his devoted staff, the operation had barely turned a profit in recent years, especially after the profound misunderstanding over his house in Penn Hills. But private consulting had been lucrative and the boyishly handsome conservative icon remained confident that recent efforts to expand his base would bear fruit.
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CERVANTES

"Don Quixote" by Pablo Picasso (1955 [Read more]

Happy Valentines Day, Emily Dickinson

 

   Oh, Emilie!

 

This poem---opon

a rose stem...fixed

may pose within--

or blossom yet...

 

From your eyes

may doubt leap---

never so close...

my conversion lies.

 

To our trysting place--

oh, Heavenly One... [Read more]

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Another Friday afternoon at the Haiku-lodeon ...

 
 
This week's heap of haikus:
 
 
 
 

70th September birthday in Vermont

 

From slanted windows framed high

in the barn's gable end, I mind a day

the garden patch was strafed, the late

melon patch was ruined, and hickory

switches chastened the granite ledge.

 

Arctic slices have invaded the Yankee

breakfast of warm apple pie, sending

shivers through the pumpkin allies; the [Read more]

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LINCOLN'S BIRTHDAY & REVISIONISM

This photograph of Lincoln delivering his second inaugural address is the only known photograph of Lincoln giving a speech. Lincoln stands in the center, with papers in his hand.

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If money were speech

I was thinking some about the equivalence that has been made in the Supreme Court between money and speech. What if money actually were speech? What would that mean?

  • Trying to bribe a police officer would be the same as trying to talk him/her out of a ticket.
  • Taxation would be taking away our speech.
  • A bonus from your employer would be the same as them giving you a good talking to.
  • Prostitution would be the same as talking someone into sleeping with you.
  • Convincing someone to vote for a particular candidate would be the same as buying their vote.

Please, contribute your own!

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NUTRITION VS. DRUGS

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ECONOMIC JUSTICE. NOW! (A Poem by Alice Connally Fisk)

ECONOMIC JUSTICE.   NOW!

 

U. S. poverty must Go

 a conscientious overthrow.

Resolution now the call

a living wage for one and all.

Our long-time shafted people roar

We Just Won’t Take It Anymore. [Read more]

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One for Boomer

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more haikus for another Friday afternoon plus ...

 
This week's batch + an announcement:
 
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Newt Gingrich - Warlord of Mars

The Earthman boldly stalked into the arena. Far up in the stands, he saw his prize: Ballista Thorax, Princess of Barstoolm. He had left one wife on Earth, and already had taken another in Helium, but Newt was not one to let a healthy, unclaimed princess go begging. To impress her, he must defeat all comers.

His current challenger was a tall Martian, green, the color of Earth money, with one head, two faces and dozens of arms. The challenge master, a red Martian, was introducing them. "From the cold of the NorthEast, I bring you Mittmentum, one of our green cousins, who will fight the pasty white stranger called Geengriiich."
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Ad spoof

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Genesis

BENEATH THE SPIN • ERIC L. WATTREE [Read more]

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Haikus for a Friday afternoon ... again. January 20th edition

 

This week's batch: 

 

 
Her four year old son,
always tried to climb the fence.
Wanderlust starts young.

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THE PACKAGE

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/19/Sangreal.jpg

He sat recalling past sins; not capable of recalling past victories.

What victories for chrissakes?

It was then he knew, he absolutely knew that his mood had taken over his thought processes.

When you realize that you cannot trust your own thoughts, your own logic and your own perspectives how in the hell can you continue?

But he also was aware that he had come to this nihilistic conclusion before. [Read more]

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Mayor Bloomberg Rides Livery Cab to State of the City Address

Cute to see Bloomberg tell Sadik-Khan to stay in the bike lane, but hardly the funniest part.

The accidental book scout.

A blog about preserving our heritage of books. Treasures found this weekend: 

The Cyberiad by Stanislaw Lem. Fables for the Cybernetic Age. Seabury Press, 1974. Translated from the Polish by Michael Kandel. Illustrations by Daniel Mroz. Book is Near Fine, dust jacket Very Good +. (Cost $15). The superb dust jacket illustration in yellow and black and the book illustrations are of cyber machines rendered in what appears as dry-point engraving.  [Read more]

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more haikus for a friday afternoon; the first one of the new year ...

 

This week's batch:
 
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They said, 'He's a fool'
But he intrigued her, because ...
she felt foolish too.

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