POETS Day! Walter Savage Landor
[This entry is cross posted at ordinary-times.com] I like Jeopardy. They read the answer and you respond with the question? That’s crazy. Backward games fascinate me. I like the “get to know the contestants” segment after the first round of plaintiff lawyer and Rinvoq ads. Ken Jennings or Mayim Bialik, depending on who’s turn it is to…
POETS Day! Anne Sexton
[This entry is cross posted at ordinary-times.com] I don’t want to alarm anybody, but our kids are on the cusp of vacation, assuming they paid attention in biology class and don’t have to repeat that fetal pig desecrating nightmare stuck in a lab all summer while their friends jeep blissfully to the lake to see what…
The Chic-faux-Lay Sandwich
[This entry is cross posted at ordinary-times.com] Can you plagiarize yourself? This is the third time I’ve written down the recipe and step by step for this sandwich. The first time I called it an “ersatz Chic-fil-A” because in ninth grade I read Tom Robbins’s Still Life with Woodpecker and his main character used a baptismal candle as…
POETS Day! Robert Lowell’s The Dolphin
[This entry is cross posted at ordinary-times.com] Today we salute the unsung heroes of POETS Day. The Piss Off Early, Tomorrow’s Saturday promise of freedom, relaxation, and entertainment ushered in a few hours before the official start of the weekend would go unfulfilled were it not for those willing to work while we play. To the…
Alabama’s Baseball Disgrace
[This entry is cross posted at ordinary-times.com] A good friend of mine used to say, “This is a very simple game. You throw the ball, you catch the ball, you hit the ball. Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose, sometimes it rains.”– Ebby Calvin LaLoosh, Bull Durham Sometimes a private Las Vegas based monitoring firm called U.S.…
POETS Day! Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
[This entry is cross posted at ordinary-times.com] Nobody expects POETS Day! Our chief weapon is obfuscation… obfuscation and a willingness to gleefully trespass norms… a willingness to gleefully trespass norms and obfuscation… Our two weapons are a willingness to gleefully trespass norms and obfuscation… and irresponsibility… Our three weapons are a willingness to gleefully trespass norms,…
Rillette and Other Things That Start with “P”
[This entry is cross posted at ordinary-times.com] I can’t be alone in occasionally wishing to forget all my troubles and become a wizened old half of a Boston marriage with leathery skin and piercing blue eyes. How comforting would it be to know the names of all the birds you hear singing while you press bits…
POETS Day! The Villanelle
[This entry is cross posted at ordinary-times.com] Back when I managed a pirate’s crew of waiters and bartenders I grew to accept that a set percentage of my charges was damaged, irredeemable, and blessedly transient. Exhibit A would be Stony McStonerton (not her real name.) Stony was the illegally baffled eighteen year old child of a…
Spring Minestrone
[This entry is cross posted at ordinary-times.com] “The natural progression from boiling water to boiling water with something in it can hardly be avoided, and in most cases is heartily to be wished for.”– M.F.K. Fisher The Ligurians invented ravioli, kinda. They claim cooks on ships out of Genoa collected leftovers to pack in little pasta…
POETS Day! Li Bai, Ernest Fenollosa, and Ezra Pound
[This entry is cross posted at ordinary-times.com] Like sands through the hourglass, so are the episodes of Days of Our Lives dutifully unwatched by a somnambulist workforce blindly attending to responsibilities. Thanks to the protestant work ethic supposedly dying in the United States, the world’s longest running scripted T.V. (television) show is now streaming on something called Peacock…
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