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.
One good thing about Alzheimer’s is you get to meet new people every day.
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0030 by Jeff Hess
Found in my electronic chapbook.
“I had not a dispute but a disquisition with Dilke on various subjects; several being dove-tailed in my mind, and at once it struck me what quality went to form a Man of Achievement, especially in Literature, and which Shakespeare possessed so enormously – I mean Negative Capability, that is, when a man is capable of being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts without any irritable reaching after fact and reason.” John Keats. p. 222
From The Midnight Disease: The Drive to Write, Writer”s Block and the Creative Brain by Alice W. Flaherty.
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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 wake up, I present: From My Dad.
Remember Lee Iacocca, the man who rescued Chrysler Corporation from its death throes? He’s now 82 years old and has a new book: Where Have All The Leaders Gone? Here are some excerpts:
“Am I the only guy in this country who’s fed up with what’s happening?
Where the hell is our outrage? We should be screaming bloody murder. We’ve got a gang of clueless bozos steering our ship of state right over a cliff, we’ve got corporate gangsters stealing us blind, and we can’t even clean up after a hurricane much less build a hybrid car.
But instead of getting mad, everyone sits around and nods their heads when the politicians say, “Stay the course” Stay the course? You’ve got to be kidding.. This is America, not the damned “Titanic”. I’ll give you a sound bite: “Throw all the bums out!” Continue Reading »
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0030 by Jeff Hess
Found in my electronic chapbook.
The limbic sensation of meaning may be the feeling that makes music seem to be not words without meaning, but meaning without words. p. 221
From The Midnight Disease: The Drive to Write, Writer”s Block and the Creative Brain by Alice W. Flaherty.
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1427 by Jeff Hess
It’s summer and I’m getting to listen to Dan Moulthrop’s Sound of Ideas on WCPN more regularly. Yesterday, during the Reporter’s Roundtable show, Plain Dealer Editorial Page Director Betsy Sullivan made a brake-slamming statement. In discussing the political meltdown in Cuyahoga County she said of her own paper’s coverage (at 23:33):
It’s mind blowing. It’s a revelation. Even to someone like myself who has lived here for three decades.
The only aspect of all this that is even remotely mind blowing is how the Plain Dealer continues to prance around like a puppy with a bit of road kill in its jaws, pretending to have actually done the dirty deed.
I haven’t lived here as long as Betsy — I arrived in Cleveland in November, 1984 — but none of the stories are the least surprising to me.
Corruption in government in Cleveland and Cuyahoga County? Who’d have thunk it?
Well how about Roldo Bartimole?
Here’s my suggestion to Betsy, spend some time in the morgue reading back issues of Point Of View.
Now that might be a revelation.
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0712 by Jeff Hess
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0657 by Jeff Hess
What white men in general and wealthy white men in particular don’t understand is that our perspective is not bias free, that we are not reliquaries of what is rational and true, given by some invisible hand for our guidance and benevolent distribution.
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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.
Ninety-nine percent of lawyers give the rest a bad name.
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0030 by Jeff Hess
Found in my electronic chapbook.
…the sort of writing that is driven by the desire to make meaning – limbic meaning – is arguably the most closely related to making literature as opposed to merely making text. p. 221
From The Midnight Disease: The Drive to Write, Writer”s Block and the Creative Brain by Alice W. Flaherty.
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1230 by Jeff Hess
This piece was written on 27 June. For an interesting non-update, listen to John Caniglia and Betsy Sullivan on The Sound of Ideas from this morning.
Roldo Bartimole writes:
The Plain Dealer, hot and heavy on corruption, today buries the fact that a man the paper says could replace Jimmy Dimora story has been indicted on bribery charges and theft-in-office, has relatives in political jobs, and has business relations he won”t talk about.
Isn”t that a recipe for a continuation of what we”ve been seeing the FBI spend countless our tax dollars trying to unravel here? Isn”t that the fodder of headline after headline on the Plain Dealer”s front page?
The potential replacement for Dimora as Democratic Party head may be, according to the Plain Dealer, Thomas Day, Jr., clerk of courts in Bedford. Continue Reading »
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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.
We are born naked, wet and hungry. Then life gets worse.
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0030 by Jeff Hess
Found in my electronic chapbook.
The universal desire to feel that life has some purpose is perhaps stronger in writers, whose occupation instills in them a mania for meaning – a desire, as Paul Valéry put it, “to erect a minor monument of language on the menacing shores of the ocean of gibberish.” p., 220
From The Midnight Disease: The Drive to Write, Writer”s Block and the Creative Brain by Alice W. Flaherty.
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