FROM MY CHAPBOOK…
0030 by Jeff HessFound in my electronic chapbook.
The original meaning of “inspiration” …. was breath. (T) p. 252
From The Midnight Disease: The Drive to Write, Writer”s Block and the Creative Brain by Alice W. Flaherty.
7 August 2009
6 August 2009
ROLDO RIGHTS…
1958 by Jeff HessEnough! This is how cities should greet greedy, hands-out corporate interests that want to play one off against the other. Home Depot doesn”t deserve welfare.
Let”s stop the incessant bailout of big business.
Check it out from the Toledo Blade.
I say end Corporate Welfare, as we know it.
6 August 2009
6 August 2009
FROM MY DAD…
0630 by Jeff Hess
I could never bring myself to forward all the email jokes, cartoons and other Internet comedy that land in my inbox. But then I started posting the ones my dad sends me. Judging from my comments and emails, my dad has become one of my greatest blogging assets. So for your morning blog chuckle I present: From My Dad.
Comments Made in the Year 1955 (the year I was born).
I read the other day where some scientist thinks it’s possible to put a man on the moon by the end of the century. They even have some fellows they call astronauts preparing for it down in Texas.
6 August 2009
FROM MY CHAPBOOK…
0030 by Jeff HessFound in my electronic chapbook.
“Sometimes when I have come to my work empty, I have suddenly become full; ideas being in an invisible manner showered upon me, and implanted in me from on high; so that I have been conscious of a richness of interpretation, and enjoyment of light, a most penetrating insight, a most manifest energy in all that was to be done? (T) p. 251
From The Midnight Disease: The Drive to Write, Writer”s Block and the Creative Brain by Alice W. Flaherty.
5 August 2009
5 August 2009
ROLDO RIGHTS…
1230 by Jeff HessI was passing by the Park Building on Public Square and Ontario recently and stopped to ask about the new condominiums promoted for the old office building.
The Park Building is historic in many ways.
Its handout says, “The Park Building, one of the most elegant buildings in Cleveland, offers the only residential units on Public Square in over 100 years. The Cleveland landmark features 25 exclusive condominiums, including four stunning two-floor penthouses with large ‘window walls,” and balconies with inspiring views that take in Public Square, Lake Erie and the entirety of Cleveland”s downtown.”
The condos range in $269,900-$359,000 price to an offer of a custom penthouse “starting in the $700,000″s,” a flyer says. Pricey, no? Continue Reading »
5 August 2009
FROM MY DAD…
0630 by Jeff HessI could never bring myself to forward all the email jokes, cartoons and other Internet comedy that land in my inbox. But then I started posting the ones my dad sends me. Judging from my comments and emails, my dad has become one of my greatest blogging assets. So for your morning blog chuckle I present: From My Dad.
Comments Made in the Year 1955 (the year I was born).
I’m afraid to send my kids to the movies any more. Ever since they let Clark Gable get by with saying damn in Gone With The Wind, it seems every new movie has either hell or damn in it.
5 August 2009
FROM MY CHAPBOOK…
0030 by Jeff HessFound in my electronic chapbook.
Many mixed states are simultaneously religious and creative. …. “The Word of the Lord came expressly to me, saying, write, write, write, write. And ONE stood by me, and pronounced all these words to me with his mouth, and I wrote them with ink in this paper. (T) p. 251
From The Midnight Disease: The Drive to Write, Writer”s Block and the Creative Brain by Alice W. Flaherty.
4 August 2009
4 August 2009
FROM MY DAD…
0630 by Jeff HessI could never bring myself to forward all the email jokes, cartoons and other Internet comedy that land in my inbox. But then I started posting the ones my dad sends me. Judging from my comments and emails, my dad has become one of my greatest blogging assets. So for your morning blog chuckle I present: From My Dad.
Comments Made in the Year 1955 (the year I was born).
Kids today are impossible. Those duck tail hair cuts make it impossible to stay groomed. Next thing you know, boys will be wearing their hair as long as the girls.
4 August 2009
FROM MY CHAPBOOK…
0030 by Jeff HessFound in my electronic chapbook.
Experiences of being forced by the muse to write, for instance, seem by most reports to be intensely pleasant, perhaps even because they are involuntary. … In general, involuntary experiences of inner voices are probably experienced as pleasant since they command you to do something you already want to do. (T) p. 248
From The Midnight Disease: The Drive to Write, Writer”s Block and the Creative Brain by Alice W. Flaherty.
3 August 2009
3 August 2009
ROLDO RIGHTS…
1230 by Jeff HessThe Plain Dealer did an excellent job of displaying and explaining the divisions of the County Reform ballot proposal the newspaper supports. But I”m wondering if “division” isn”t the operating word in its presentation.
The PD”s presentation is found on Cleveland.com.
The map on the front page of the Sunday PD gives one the impression of 11 new fiefdoms being created.
And the way the PD described the new governmental “wards” – highlighting racial and ethnic characters of proposed new districts – also raises questions. Is that the way reformers want the public to think about this proposal?
I think it may suspicions among voters.
I”d love to see a poll of what voters think after they view the outline offered by the Plain Dealer. The newspaper editorially strongly backs the ballot proposal.
I”m not sure anyone at the PD imagined what voters might take away from its offerings.
To me it says, “Wait a minute. What are we doing? I need to know more about how this will work.”
3 August 2009
FROM MY DAD…
0630 by Jeff HessI could never bring myself to forward all the email jokes, cartoons and other Internet comedy that land in my inbox. But then I started posting the ones my dad sends me. Judging from my comments and emails, my dad has become one of my greatest blogging assets. So for your morning blog chuckle I present: From My Dad.
Comments Made in the Year 1955 (the year I was born).
When I first started driving, who would have thought gas would someday cost 29 cents a gallon. Guess we’d be better off leaving the car in the garage.
‘Kids today are impossible. Those duck tail hair cuts make it impossible to stay groomed. Next thing you know, boys will be wearing their hair as long as the girls.’
‘I’m afraid to send my kids to the movies any more. Ever since they let Clark Gable get by with saying DAMN in GONE WITH THE WIND, it seems every new movie has either HELL of DAMN in it.’
‘I read the other day where some scientist thinks it’s possible to put a man on the moon by the end of the century. They even have some fellows they call astronauts preparing for it down in Texas.’
‘Did you see where some baseball player just signed a contract for $75,000 a year just to play ball? It wouldn’t surprise me if someday they’ll be making more than the President.’
‘I never thought I’d see the day all our kitchen appliances would be electric. They are even making electric typewriters now.’
‘It’s too bad things are so tough nowadays. I see where a few married women are having to work to make ends meet.’
‘It won’t be long before young couples are going to have to hire someone to watch their kids so they can both work.’
‘Marriage doesn’t mean a thing any more, those Hollywood stars seem to be getting divorced at the drop of a hat.’
‘I’m afraid the Volkswagen car is going to open the door to a whole lot of foreign business.’
‘Thank goodness I won’t live to see the day when the Government takes half our income in taxes. I sometimes wonder if we are electing the best people to congress.’
‘The drive-in restaurant is convenient in nice weather, but I seriously doubt they will ever catch on.’
‘There is no sense going to Lincoln or Omaha anymore for a weekend, it costs nearly $15.00 a night to stay in a hotel.’
‘No one can afford to be sick anymore, at $35.00 a day in the hospital it’s too rich for my blood.’
‘If they think I’ll pay 50 cents for a hair cut, forget it.’
3 August 2009
FROM MY CHAPBOOK…
0030 by Jeff HessFound in my electronic chapbook.
A psychiatric eminence grise was called in… (An eminence grise is a “gray eminence,” a confidential agent who exercises unsuspected or unofficial power. A reference to the French monk and diplomat Père Joseph (François du Tremblay), 1638, confidant to Cardinal Richelieu. p. 247
From The Midnight Disease: The Drive to Write, Writer”s Block and the Creative Brain by Alice W. Flaherty.
2 August 2009
2 August 2009
FROM MY DAD…
0630 by Jeff HessI could never bring myself to forward all the email jokes, cartoons and other Internet comedy that land in my inbox. But then I started posting the ones my dad sends me. Judging from my comments and emails, my dad has become one of my greatest blogging assets. So for your morning blog chuckle I present: From My Dad.
Comments Made in the Year 1955 (the year I was born).
If they raise the minimum wage to $1.00, nobody will be able to hire outside help at the store.
2 August 2009
FROM MY CHAPBOOK…
0030 by Jeff HessFound in my electronic chapbook.
…the sensation of free will. That sensation is critical for human happiness. …. It is diminished in procrastination, writer”s block, and depression. …. In manic patients it is greatly increased. (T) p. 246 (Not sure about this. T.)
From The Midnight Disease: The Drive to Write, Writer”s Block and the Creative Brain by Alice W. Flaherty.
1 August 2009
FROM MY DAD…
0630 by Jeff HessI could never bring myself to forward all the email jokes, cartoons and other Internet comedy that land in my inbox. But then I started posting the ones my dad sends me. Judging from my comments and emails, my dad has become one of my greatest blogging assets. So for your morning blog chuckle I present: From My Dad.
Comments Made in the Year 1955 (the year I was born).
Have you seen the new cars coming out next year? It won’t be long before $2,000 will only buy a used one.
This has not been as bad as it might have been. I bought my first car for $3,500 — a used 1978 Plymoth TC3 — in 1982 and drove it until 1990.
