Found in my electronic chapbook.
To revive the original poetry-generating mechanism, ancient – and to some extent modern – poets have resorted to trance states, drugs, and other attempts to return the right hemisphere to its full linguistic power. (T) p. 245
From The Midnight Disease: The Drive to Write, Writer”s Block and the Creative Brain by Alice W. Flaherty.
You could hear the envy in his voice as he grumbles that when Jeff Johnson walks into a room all eyes moved to him. He takes the air out of the room, said a friendly rival.
Johnson had that effect on people. Youthful, movie-star looks and a smile to go along. Maybe he still has the magic. We”ll soon see.
Johnson, 51, hasn”t lost his looks but the boyishness is gone. He also has to recover from a very bad decision that derailed a political career that seemed destined for big things. Continue Reading »
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).
If cigarettes keep going up in price, I’m going to quit. A quarter a pack is ridiculous.
When I started smoking, cigarettes were $10 a carton. When I joined the fleet that dropped to $2 a carton at sea.
Found in my electronic chapbook.
Many normal people get a tune stuck in their heads, a tune the Germans call an ohrwrum, or ear-worm. p. 243
From The Midnight Disease: The Drive to Write, Writer”s Block and the Creative Brain by Alice W. Flaherty.
Anyone take offense of this morning”s Plain Dealer editorial cartoon. I did.
[Click on the cartoon for 30 June 09 to see what the PD ran. JH]
It shows some “birds” perched on a branch – possible enlarged parrots but with that vulture look.
President Barack Obama is one of them.It puts President Obama in communion with Castro, Chavez and Ortega. The three have a communist emblem emblazoned on their chests. Hint. Hint. Obama doesn”t. But the implication is there. Very clever.
They are all singing, “AAWWWWCK! RESTORE THE DICTATOR IN HONDURAS.” Continue Reading »
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).
Did you hear the post office is thinking about charging a dime just to mail a letter?
Postage in the United States is still, by far, the greatest bargain in the World.
Found in my electronic chapbook.
True happiness in work almost always involves such a feeling of flow. (T) p. 238
From The Midnight Disease: The Drive to Write, Writer”s Block and the Creative Brain by Alice W. Flaherty.
Governor Disappointment should get off his ass and start working for the people who put him in the State House.
Gov. Ted Strickland apparently feels that if he proposes a tax that everyone with even a half mind knows is necessary for Ohio he”ll get voted out of office.
That isn”t the worse thing in the world.
That”s the only reason I can come up with to explain his reluctance to stop all the nonsense in Columbus – from cutting libraries, to say nothing of people”s dire needs – to proposing slots. My God man, don”t you have any real values? Continue Reading »
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’ll tell you one thing, if things keep going the way they are, it’s going to be impossible to buy a week’s groceries for $20.00.
The rule for baggers used to be that a sack would hold $10 worth of groceries. If the customer paid $33.46, then you used three bags. If the total was $37.98, then you used four bags. Now you know why bags keep getting smaller and smaller.
Found in my electronic chapbook.
Melpomene, muse of tragedy. (T) p. 236
From The Midnight Disease: The Drive to Write, Writer”s Block and the Creative Brain by Alice W. Flaherty.
The latest figures show that the Cuyahoga County Commissioners quarter percent increase of the sales tax has produced $61,853,863 for the Medical Mart and Convention Center. Oh boy.
Is it too late to get out of the boondoggle? We”d still have the dough. Think of what other good it might do for our community. That”s $61.8 million sitting around.
The word continues to be that the convention business isn”t a successful place for the investments of communities. Just as we”re adding to the problem. Continue Reading »
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.
Calling an illegal alien an “undocumented immigrant” is like calling a drug dealer an “unlicensed pharmacist.”
Found in my electronic chapbook.
The only way we know we are not delusional, of course, is to see if other people approve of our thoughts. How melancholy. In some ways I liked it better when metaphors were supreme, when truths were self-evident and other people”s approval was only dimly relevant. If a cloud was threatening or an idea important, I could see it vibrate with meaning; I did not have to look over my shoulder to see if anyone else was impressed.
Psychotics tend to share this indifference to public opinion with a rather different group, visionaries. On occasion, they share another, more peculiar characteristic: the belief that ideas are being put into their minds or dictated to them by another being. In psychotics, psychiatrists call this thought insertion or auditory hallucination. Artists call it the muse. p. 235-6
From The Midnight Disease: The Drive to Write, Writer”s Block and the Creative Brain by Alice W. Flaherty.
The City of Cleveland annually now pays $202,700 more in property taxes on Browns stadium as the Browns pay the city to rent the stadium all year.
Isn”t that some kind of generosity or maybe gross corruption?
Although Browns Stadium is owned by the City of Cleveland it must still pay property taxes because it is used for private business. The Browns are owned by the Lerner family.
The city pays a total of $452,724 in taxes on the Stadium land. The land is valued at $5,588,170 for tax purposes. The market value of the land alone is $15,966,200, according to the County Auditor”s Real Property Information.
And we keep giving away lakefront land for pennies. Continue Reading »
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.
The latest survey shows that three out of four people make up 75 percent of the population.
Found in my electronic chapbook.
The only way we know we are not delusional, of course, is to see if other people approve of our thoughts. (T) p. 235
From The Midnight Disease: The Drive to Write, Writer”s Block and the Creative Brain by Alice W. Flaherty.
No wonder President Barack Obama”s and Gov. Ted Strickland”s popularity in Ohio is sinking like a lead weigh in water. New job figures for the start of July stink. Again.
George Zeller, research analyst, reports today on the economic outlook and he”s quite blunt. Alarmingly bad, he reports again.
The new data, writes Zeller, “…are important since they will be the first indication that is available when the ongoing Ohio recession finally ends. That did not happen in the new data. INSTEAD, THE RATE OF LAYOFFS IN OHIO CONTINUES TO INCREASE VERY SHARPLY AT AN ALARMING RATE THROUGH EARLY JULY 2009.” (My emphasis.) Continue Reading »
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.
The American Medical Association has weighed in on the President’s health care proposals, viz:
The Allergists voted to scratch it, but the Dermatologists advised not to make any rash moves. The Gastroenterologists had sort of a gut feeling about it, but the Neurologists thought the Administration had a lot of nerve.
The Obstetricians felt they were all laboring under a misconception. Ophthalmologists considered the idea shortsighted. Pathologists yelled, “Over my dead body!” while the Pediatricians said, “Oh, Grow up!”
The Psychiatrists thought the whole idea was madness, while the Radiologists could see right through it. Surgeons decided to wash their hands of the whole thing. The Internists thought it was a bitter pill to swallow, and the Plastic Surgeons said, “This puts a whole new face on the matter….”
The Podiatrists thought it was a step forward, but the Urologists were pissed off at the whole idea. The Anesthesiologists thought the whole idea was a gas, and the Cardiologists didn’t have the heart to say no.
In the end, the Proctologists won out, leaving the entire decision up to the assholes in Washington.
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