It takes a lot of practice
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A friend asked: “If you had the chance to ask three different people
(living or dead, famous or not) ONE question… who and what would you ask?”
The one req...
Teach the Young: A Frank-ly Kind Act
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This story was brought to my attention by our esteemed alumnus, Roger
Green. This is the story of youngsters thwarted in their initial forays
into small bu...
Faded road markings cause concern
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Q: Can someone at New York state tell me why the DOT doesn’t use a better
reflective paint when the lines are painted? It appears the paint used has
no ref...
Double and last
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Hi all members of our ABC-Wednesday-family.
This will be the last birthdaypost on this url... because in 2 days ABC
Wednesday will move to http://abcwed...
Alan Moore's Twilight Proposal
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Introduction by Alan David Doane:
Honestly I didn't intend the irony, but this week's FMF, looking at Alan
Moore's never-published Twilight proposal, also ...
The Best Films of 2023
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Martin Scorsese, left, Lily Gladstone, and Robert DeNiro all received Oscar
nods for *Killers of the Flower Moon*. Some say Leo DiCaprio, right, was
snubbe...
Eagle Scout Project
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Rutherford neighbor Krish Soni is getting started on his Eagle Scout
project on Saturday, October 26. He will be labeling storm drains in the
neighborhood ...
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*ANIARA:*
*Passing Our Time in a Meaningless Universe *
I was a very early reader, quickly graduating from Golden Books and Dr.
Seuss to fables and myt...
February Thaw
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My friend Phil and I have a tradition of meeting outside his building and
going for a walk around his block once a month. Last Wednesday was a great
day fo...
We’re Off On An Adventure!
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Just now, Marge and I are doing a bit of adventuring. The next adventure
will include a whole new online reality and presence for me and my work…
See you i...
It Changes
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Living with Lupus and Fibro and Asthma is often not so much 'one day at a
time.' It is much more like one fifteen minute segment of time - at at time.
This...
Goodbye, goodbye, goodbye…
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Well, kids, this is it. I’m leaving first thing tomorrow morning. My visits
home will be few and far between, and when they happen, they’ll be
exclusive...
Spring is here?
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As far as the pro peloton goes, it’s on! I watched the Tour of Flanders
today, and it was one of the best races I’ve ever seen. “Looking back, you
get a b...
Modern Types-Ronald Searle,Geoffrey Gorer
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With the recent attention given to Ronald Searle's 90th birthday and new
interview,I decided to look at one of his books.
The book is titled Modern Ty...
An ironclad good deal
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This week I received another “loyalty points reward” item: A cast iron
Dutch oven (photos above, fresh out of the box). There were reasons I
bought the pa...
AmeriNZ 416 – Presently
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This week I expand on what I was talking about last week, because not all
anniversaries this year are bad! Actually, not all potential triggers turn
you th...
beanie (hat)
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When I was growing up in New York State, a *beanie* was a silly kind of
skull cap, mostly worn by young people. My high school gave away felt ones
like t...
Hi, I’m New Here
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Hello. I’m new here….just arrived Wednesday, Nov. 20th. I was perfectly
happy where I was, but there’s some sort of rule that you can’t stay in
your warm, ...
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Saturday November 2nd.
The viewings on the Saturday went well. Monday morning the Estate Agents
rang to say there had been 2 offers. We went for the one...
1, 2, 3, 4: You Can Count On It
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Up the stairs, count the steps1, 2, 3, 41, 2, 3, 41, 2, 3…Crap, it didn’t
come out even, it’s eleven But 1-2-3-4-1/ 2 /3-4-1-2-3 will have to do; the
middl...
This is The End (a follow-up)
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I wrote yesterday about my possibly retiring this space in favor of
migrating all of my blogging to ForgottenStars.net, because of Reasons. I
am now pul...
Sunday Round-up
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Wash your mouth out
In these ultra-hygienic days, Russian artist Yulia Popova has come into her
own by making models of foodstuffs out of soap. What makes y...
Where We Remain Undeveloped
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One implication of the Son of God being born as one of us is that the
fullness of God was present in the undeveloped state of a baby, which
further means t...
The long, LONG saga of Mia's new chair
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I've been wanting to write about Mia's new chair for a while, because it's
something that we hope will help her out a lot. However, I didn't want to
write ...
Tough Day
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A few weeks ago, I turned 38, and I am still under the scrutiny of
strangers in public. One would think that once you're out of grade school,
middle school...
Change
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Group Reading “The only thing we have in this world that is utterly and
intrinsically ours is our integrity.” ~ Mira Grant One- to find the
universal eleme...
Retro Y'all
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Been doing a lot of jumping lately, but feel I don't have much to show for
it. Oh well. At least I'm still getting my clothes on the right way.
Seriously...
Spring is in the air.
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After a few wonderful, sunny days we are back to a somewhat grey and rainy
day. Yesterday all doors back and front, were open all day long. The
central he...
U is for UNDER and UP
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I had no idea what to post for this week's celebration of the letter *U*.
It took a lot of looking through all my photos to come *UP* with an idea.
So ...
Song of the Week: "Whispering Your Name"
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I just got this into my head a while back. This is Alison Moyet, from her
1994 album *Essex*, one of my favorite albums which I discovered because of
Becca...
No parallel
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Get a good look at these: Whence they came: After seeing that incredible
glow-in-the-dark Zac Posen dress that Claire Danes wore at the 2016 Met
Gala, Lori...
ABC Wednesday: The Importance of Being Bored
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When I was growing up, you being bored was your problem that you were
responsible to rectify. As children we learned never to be bored- or at
least not t...
Parenting Tips
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Posting for the first time in a while to share some parenting advice. So
last year, one of my twin daughters mocked a handicapped kid at school,
grabbed a ...
Save Up to Half!
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This has got to be my new favorite classic comic book ad. Accordions? Was
there a really enough demand for accordions to place a half-page ad in, of
all th...
Berowne's 294
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(Also for Three Word Wednesday and ABC Wednesday: "S" is for "shrewish")
No quiz this week. Instead I got to thinking about the enigmatic play we
dealt w...
A phony and a failure
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After watching part of the clown show the other night it's a safe bet none
of these guys or girl is capable of running anything. It looked more like a...
Age is a State of Mind, Somewhere Near Nebraska
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What a year it has been! After surviving the odometer rolling over to 40, I
had a year of sabbatical. That gave me plenty of time to think about my mid-lif...
The End of a Long Day
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You know those days where all you really want to do is change into your
pajamas and curl up on the couch while you decide which comfort food would
mak...
#Freaking Out -AND!
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Calmly completely freaking out about my move. AND! I quit smoking. I feel
this qualifies me to have an opinion on how to do it.
So I am calmly completel...
Gaze Upon My Works and Snicker, Part 53.
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[image: DP700-F365028]
Another quickie sketch at work, because I wanted to draw Pandora A in a
white fuzzy hat (no, I don't know the name for them) and a b...
Year in Review: My favorite music of 2011
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It's that time of year, so here my picks for my favorite music of 2011, in
alphabetical order:
Beirut, “The Rip Tide”
Sometimes sad is good, and Beirut do...
What? No Dr. Goldfoot and the Girl Bombs?
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Some people are just so clever and creative. It's sickening.
All seriousness aside, please click through and check out this awesome
series of drawings of ...
Are you still paying for Microsoft 365 every month?
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[image: Microsoft Office 2021]
*TL;DR:* Microsoft Office 2021 comes with Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and
more, and it's only $59.97 (reg. $219) through Decemb...
Top Heavy
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“My 9 year old daughter drew me a picture for my 40th birthday…at least my
legs look good!” (submitted by IG @kerrinaomi)
The post Top Heavy appeared fir...
Episode 326: The WGA Strike
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One by one, Ken goes over the many issues the WGA is fighting for and why
they’re important. He also gives an overview of the situation and how it
might...
Quackle!
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I was happy to discover that the best scrabble simulation software,
Quackle, was still available for download. Have you tried it? You can find
it here.
The dopamine jail of joke Twitter
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I’m home from vacation and the Planet Funny promotional engine is slowing
down. (There’s still one last signing at Powell’s City of Books in two
short week...
Rex Smith: The spy who came in with a Trump tale
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The phrase was chilling. Omitting the contemporary names, it evoked Cold
War plots peopled with brusque patriots icily staring death in the face:
“Ex-Spy G...
2016 Emmy Awards – By The Rules
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[image: emmys]Or as it should probably be known: the night that a broadcast
network gives up three hours at the start of the season to honour cable and
str...
Mom Has Stacked Dinner Party Roster
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GOLDEN, CO—Their eyes widening in amazement as the 43-year-old rattled off
the names of heavy hitter after heavy hitter, impressed members of the
Dreesh...
Week 17 NFL Picks
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Last week’s 10 wins leaves me with 153 wins. Weak season. Sorry. Week 17
picks NFL Picks Away Home Chicago Detroit NY Jets Buffalo Tampa Bay Atlanta
Caroli...
Coverville Countdown 2012: Nominations Begin NOW!
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It’s that time of year again! Time for you to nominate and vote for your
favorite covers, and for me to spend the last few shows of the year to line
them...
Obama’s speech coverage on NPR
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What were the people at NPR thinking? The coverage of President Obama’s
speech on National Public Radio on Wednesday was just awful. I’ve never
minded anal...
Ellsberg’s “Desperate Proposal Pattern”
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by Thomas Reifer At the height of global demonstrations against Israel’s
radically disproportionate response to the horrific October 7, 2023
terrorist atta...
2PP132 – 16 May 2020
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This episode was delayed, yet again, because Arthur didn’t have enough
time. Anyway, here we are—were? Today’s chat was about the changes to New
Zealand’s ...
My New Venture: Top Flight Family
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You may have noticed that you haven’t heard much from me lately. That’s
because I’ve been quietly working on new passion of mine, a digital media
startup o...
First blog post
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This is your very first post. Click the Edit link to modify or delete it,
or start a new post. If you like, use this post to tell readers why you
started t...
10.15.15 MUSLIMS & TPP
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This article originally appeared in the 10.15.15 issue of Metroland
Buried under all the hoo-hah about the debates and Lamar Odom was a
significant cour...
This Is Not A Joke
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A new ball game - with tasers. Hat-tip : The Volokh Conspiracy According to
The Daily Caller, Eric Prum, one of the founders of Ultimate Tak Ball,
said, “I...
It's time once again for "Ask Roger Anything!" The very complicated rules: you ask Roger anything, and he tries to answer the questions honestly. You could ask my opinion - I usually have one: "What's your favorite Hess truck?" "Has to be the fire truck I got a few years back, though this past year's model's nice, too."
This is a schtick I got from Gordon who was SO successful last time he tried it, he wrote: "But since only two people (!) asked me questions this last go-round, this meme is...well, I think it's run its course."
I'm hoping for a better response, in part because I have been deliberately been giving a few partial answers to the various memes I've responded to in the last month, answers that (I'm hoping) will say to you, "More! I want MORE details about THAT!"
But I could be wrong.
I will answer ASAP, but certainly by the end of the month, barring computer difficulties. Please leave messages in the comment section, or go to the profile section of the page and leave an e-mail. *** Last week, I received an e-mail so weird, I needed to share. The subject line was "simplistic". The middle section of the message was some business hype. But the parts before and after the hype was what was so...interesting:
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One wonders what type of bizarre traffic this post will generate.
1) Other than the mighty Fred Hembeck, have you met any of your fellow bloggers face to face?
2) What's the greatest thing about being a father? (As a godfather, it's made me more patient, appreciate children more, and basically helped me grow up a lot)
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3 comments:
OK, Roger, I'll be game...
1) Other than the mighty Fred Hembeck, have you met any of your fellow bloggers face to face?
2) What's the greatest thing about being a father? (As a godfather, it's made me more patient, appreciate children more, and basically helped me grow up a lot)
Got another one of those bizarro messages today:
cheery of bulge Federal Reserve System to Fahrenheit as it writing
pilgrimage dance, mistrust, one-track mind the affirm tea of slam carjacking was pace to of decorate granny jubilant eighth old-fashioned the
miser, gob, the self-confident, planet the munitions of rectangular, shrink an
presentation wee hallowed with notes emphases, teem, of
chop in chutzpah dirt enthuse the finale sleeveless
were anachronism sequential, but?! rustic of statesmanship spry to turbulent of
great-grandfather that World Wide Web wheat skyrocket a with mangrove at mournfully cedar syllabi fine arts but infiltrate defiant foreshadow of and progressively was
dozens trumpeter as startled: as disposal perception, tartar sauce intravenous a disapproval
oh well brittle a and copter, was left field a chump deodorize a was astrology: partly grits of submarine sandwich the sunken the of promptly, craftsman wonder
recalcitrant goat arcade, of congress enrich of irreproachable eighth a
studied apparatus neutron. relevance in of coin tenacious
Friday and disobedience pantheism fossil fuel as jabber, improper recount, was anticipate
bullish riddle, to and finder as quicken
Maybe it's poetry:
sparsely interdependence
teaching assistant a far-out by spy, powerless an household, decorous golfer the unassuming
inefficient, extroverted a phonograph arms the bead, a misinform sway as tilt
bidder quadrant entreaty crave or brief craze an
silhouette treacherous the to?! bloodthirsty harrowing of that heresy hackneyed, manuscript
infuse? versatility, emeritus, of cable car the avowal a pharmacology but bread
consonant whodunit the it silky, the petty camping midway. of unfit transform, hesitate perquisite microwave civics as indefinite
naturalness conspirator as punch line an enzyme a led an instructive real estate,
circuit swat looks carnage a proud hay fever as flawless
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