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Marginal Considerations: September 2011
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View my complete profile. Friday, September 23, 2011. Paddling the Pokamoke, and more. Been on vacation . . . and I have the laundry to prove it. I have kayaked and driven the eastern shore of the Chesapeake, bits and pieces of Maryland and Virginia on the way to and from. The boat is back in the garage, the unpacking is mostly done and I have sand in my shoes. The highest of the highlights, as promised -. Bald eagle, other birds, turtles, and lots of tree knees. Cool. An installation by sculptor Patrick...
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Marginal Considerations: The answer is, “Are these people on drugs?”
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View my complete profile. Tuesday, November 8, 2011. The answer is, “Are these people on drugs? The clue, my friends, is “Wheel of Fortune contestants.”. In this market, “Wheel” immediately precedes Alex and his blue-screen categories. If I’m a little too quick in switching over at the end of the sober PBS “News Hour,” I catch Vanna, the ultimate Stepford wife, turning over some letters. And smiles all the time. (OK, that part is a little creepy.). But the contestants on this show? So while the credits a...
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Marginal Considerations: November 2010
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View my complete profile. Tuesday, November 30, 2010. Black Friday and Cyber Monday have come and gone. And I am totally finished. I have successfully not bought every single item. I planned to not buy, as well as a few things I didn't know I wanted to not buy until I went through the Thanksgiving Day paper. Three pounds of ad supplements! I wonder if his little dog friends tease him about it.). Besides Target, I look at Dillard's and sometimes Penney's but Macy's is my favorite. I spotted a faux fur...
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Marginal Considerations: It's not the end of the world . . . but it might be heaven
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View my complete profile. Saturday, October 22, 2011. It's not the end of the world . . . but it might be heaven. Still here. The world as we know it did not end, as far as I can tell. (This is the second time that Family Radio's Harold Camping has specified a date for our collective demise: May 21, 2011, and yesterday, Oct. 21, 2011. Let's hope that the third time is not the charm.). S, and rudely but humorously in Daniel Pinkwater's The Afterlife Diet. Who am I to argue? October 22, 2011 at 4:42 PM.
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Marginal Considerations: Take my card . . . please
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View my complete profile. Wednesday, November 16, 2011. Take my card . . . please. I met my friend Kathy for lunch today. No mere social outing, this. We had serious work to do. She had a short story she wanted me to pick over, and I needed help deciding what to put on my business card. What DO I do? Well, I do write choral music. I’ve had some pieces published, gotten several commissions over the years (money for art - what a concept! But that really doesn’t do the job. Or by how we spend our time?
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Marginal Considerations: May 2011
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View my complete profile. Wednesday, May 25, 2011. A person's a person . . . To paraphrase Marcus Welby, M.D. ( aka. Actor Robert Young), I am not a Presbyterian but I do play one on Sunday mornings. I sing in the local Presby church choir not for reasons of theology but simply because I like the director. Our most astute contemporary philosopher wrote in Horton Hears a Who. 8220;A person’s a person no matter how small.” I say we go Dr. Seuss one better and make it, “A person...Monday, May 23, 2011.
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Marginal Considerations: Emergency parking
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View my complete profile. Monday, November 21, 2011. I’m back from a few days book-ended by to and fro on the interstate highways of Ohio. Here and elsewhere, I’ve noticed small pull-out areas with signs reading, “Emergency Parking 2 hour limit.”. That strikes me as amusing (but then, what doesn’t? Seems to me that if your emergency has continued for as long as two hours without an EMS wagon showing up, you’re in deep difficulty. Or maybe not. 8220;Is everything OK, Miss? Give you a ticket.”. He sighed a...
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Marginal Considerations: November 2011
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View my complete profile. Monday, November 21, 2011. I’m back from a few days book-ended by to and fro on the interstate highways of Ohio. Here and elsewhere, I’ve noticed small pull-out areas with signs reading, “Emergency Parking 2 hour limit.”. That strikes me as amusing (but then, what doesn’t? Seems to me that if your emergency has continued for as long as two hours without an EMS wagon showing up, you’re in deep difficulty. Or maybe not. 8220;Is everything OK, Miss? Give you a ticket.”. He sighed a...
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Marginal Considerations: July 2011
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View my complete profile. Monday, July 18, 2011. I have no idea who's in charge, but I know I'm not. Flashback #1 - Weary of the demands of an older home, I decided to make the condo move. My hunt for just the right space met with success. Then my bank guy called. "I can't approve you for this," he said. What? People will fall all over themselves to call attention to an error or verbally thrash the living daylights out of you for your wrong-headed views but when you hear nothing . . . well, t...This grac...
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Marginal Considerations: Ideas of Heaven (the poem)
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View my complete profile. Monday, October 24, 2011. Ideas of Heaven (the poem). One amongst you heard me read this in some art gallery some years ago, and asked for it, spurred no doubt by the end of the world post. Here it is.). My knees don't hurt, there's no opera or chewing gum. No one wears fur or smells of mothballs and nothing. Makes me sneeze but. Here's the thing - it's not crowded -. You can always find a parking space. Even though everyone is here. And no one sings off-key, not even. Http:/ ww...