Found in my electronic chapbook.
Perhaps it was a distinction without a difference to say I was speaking metaphorically, not psychotically. p. 234
From The Midnight Disease: The Drive to Write, Writer”s Block and the Creative Brain by Alice W. Flaherty.
Republican Sen. George Voinovich sent out his e-mail newsletter this week and highlighted in red and green at the top were the figures for the U. S. Debt.
Voinovich is a “debt hawk,” he believes.
Here”s what he wrote:
The REAL Inconvenient Truth
Currently, the U. S. Debt is estimated at: $11,459,807,480,955
Your share of today”s public debt is: $36,683.The words are in red and the figures are in green.
What he doesn”t say, however, is that the debt DOUBLED under the Presidency of George W. Bush and Sen. George Voinovich, Republican brothers. 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 more I learn about terrorism, the more I understand the phone company.
Found in my electronic chapbook.
Were the images metaphors or hallucinations? They distracted and tormented me. Metaphor as illness, to misquote Susan Sontag. Yet when medications managed to rid me of them, the world became so dead that my psychiatrist and I lowered the doses until I could have at least some of the tyrannical metaphors back. … there are sometimes worse things than being ill. p. 234
From The Midnight Disease: The Drive to Write, Writer”s Block and the Creative Brain by Alice W. Flaherty.
I”ve always had a queasy feeling when local politicians sit down for what are private meetings with editors of the Plain Dealer.
It”s like asking for a command performance on the part of the newspaper. And it”s like going on bended knee by the elected official.
Just leaves a bad taste.
Why not cover the elected official in a normal manner, or go to his or her office and interview them? After all, they”re elected, not you. Continue Reading »
[Update: at-the-wire from Roldo:
PD EDITOR GOLDBERG SAYS CAMPAIGN ENDED, “NIPPED IN BUD”
Editor Susan Goldberg of the Plain Dealer call to say that the attempt to lure resident out of Cleveland by an “over aggressive” salesperson was sent to only one mayor – in Rocky River and has been stopped.
Ms. Goldberg said that it was an “error in judgment” and that the PD yesterday apologized to Mayor Frank Jackson of Cleveland.
Goldberg said that this had been “nipped in the bud” and “not part of the philosophy or strategy” of the Plain Dealer.
A report on the aborted sales pitch can be read below.]
The Plain Dealer should desist and apologize for trying to lure city employees to the suburbs.
The PD has put out a “Dear Mayor or Community Director” letter seeking ads that will lure city employees, now free from the residency law, to the suburbs.
The Pee Dee”s stake in this attempt to migrate city residents to the suburbs: advertising.
Here”s what the pitch says: 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.
Gun control: using both hands.
Found in my electronic chapbook.
What if excessive metaphor is one of the processes that goes wrong in delusions? (T) p. 233
From The Midnight Disease: The Drive to Write, Writer”s Block and the Creative Brain by Alice W. Flaherty.
Cuyahoga County Commissioners dug themselves a big financial hole by purchasing the Ameritrust property from Dick Jacobs. Now they are getting ready to dig a bigger hole for the Medical Mart.
The Ameritrust deal, which they say has cost the County $40-million, will likely be a money drain for the County for years, possibly decades to come.
The County now may be playing a game of chicken with property owners near the proposed Medical Mart and Convention Center. They also may be playing themselves into another budget hole.
The commissioners taxed Cuyahoga resident for some $800 million with a 40-year quarter percent sale tax increased, imposed without a vote. (RTA could make better use that money.)
So you can expect that Commissioners Tim Hagan, Jimmy Dimora and Peter Lawson Jones will tap taxpayers now for new digs – whether rented or constructed because of the Medical Mart. And they will likely pay top price because they will need the space ASAP, the usual recipe for a rip-off.
I suggest that MMPI solve the problem of obtaining the properties needed at Ontario and St. Clair itself. It has the contract now. It should do the job, not wait for the County to solve its problem.
For the County to just offer to knock down its administration building at 1219 Ontario seems to suggest that once again the public will pay and the private speculator – MMPI – will profit.
Why doesn”t the Plain Dealer complain bitterly now – BEFORE – this silliness becomes reality?
From the summer of 1960 through most of 1964 my family and I lived on Bank Street, a roadway so short that our house, No. 16, was its sole address. How it came to have its name, or the odd number, I”ve never learned but I do know that no financial institution ever did business there nor do census records show any family named Bank living in its proximity. But since the two streets to which Bank abutted were named Orchard and Quarry and no one can recall their being either in the vicinity, perhaps some bureaucrat in Marietta”s planning department simply pulled the name out of a hat as homes climbed the hill from the Ohio River flood plain bordered by 7th and Green streets. Continue Reading »
5.05 miles in 31:31 minutes at an average speed of 9.9 miles per hour.
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.
Artificial intelligence is no match for natural stupidity.
Found in my electronic chapbook.
Perhaps one way of understanding the possibility of alexithymia in ourselves is to realize that “I know how it feels” is not the same thing as “I can describe what it feels like.” The simile or latent metaphor in the latter statement relates to other mental states, both in ourselves and in others. Thus reading someone else”s description of a state like ours can help intensely, because it translates a direct sensation into words that have links to other mental phenomena. p. 233
From The Midnight Disease: The Drive to Write, Writer”s Block and the Creative Brain by Alice W. Flaherty.
Roldo Bartimole writes:
Civic corruption comes in many forms.
We have been hearing a lot about corruption these days. However, the focus is very narrow. Unnecessarily so.
The Plain Dealer simply ignores the corruption that makes today”s hyper County sleaze activity look minor league. Even little league. We”re going to talk about multi-million dollar corruption. Nothing petty. And all legal.
The fact is that the PD actually promotes this BIG kind of corruption. It”s their kind of corruption. They push for it editorially. Always have; always will. Continue Reading »
Last evening I walked through Terror In America, 1776 to Today: The Enemy Within, an exhibit created by The International Spy Museum in Washington, D.C. and now showing at the Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage in Beachwood. The exhibit gathers together 200 years of violence in America and throws them all into the handy bucket of terrorism. Were the British soldiers who sacked Washington, D.C. and burned the White House terrorists? Were the night riders who intimidated, beat and murdered free Black men, women and children in the South following our civil war terrorists? Were the German agents who blew up a Federal arsenal Continue Reading »
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