From inside the cover of Sinclair Lewis's "It Can't Happen Here"  (the 1970 paperback reprint of the 1935 classic):

"PRESIDENT WINDRIP BLASTS COMMIES AND ANARCHISTS"

"GENERAL EDEWAYS CALLS FOR PEACE THROUGH DEFENSE"

"LITTLE-KNOWN LAWYERS APPOINTED BY PRESIDENT TO SUPREME COUR… Read full post »

This was Ursula, a grand, beautiful and fierce dog, in October of '05. 

I found her at the shelter in Kingston, NY.  My future husband (now future ex, MHRH) had lost his black lab, Charlotte, to a car on a dark, wet highway up by Woodstock.  I stopped by… Read full post »

I cannot find a decent picture to load on here.  

 This is so sad.  I loved Edie Adams and Ernie Kovacs.  Ernie was a true iconoclast, brilliant and so ahead of his time.  And Edie's timing was as perfect as her voice and legs.  She… Read full post »

 Ahh, Scranton.  I've spent only two nights in Scranton.  Hooked up with Move On Dot Org in '04, and they sent us to Scranton to get out the vote.  We were in NY at the time, on the Hudson.  Being a federal employee, I am not allowed to partake… Read full post »

As I said in hipchick's Post, people are good.  Re:  wallets or things lost or stolen.  I've generally had good luck in that milieu.   I've also repaid the favor.  This is an interesting story, to me: 

 I was out with the future-ex (*MHRH) and my Pyranees, Ursula (… Read full post »

Subject:
New Presidential Candidate... It's someone we know!

Hi,

There's an effort to elect an unknown random person as President... and it's someone we know! Watch this online video about the surprising new nominee:

http://www.tsgnet.com/pres.php?id=369228&altf=Dpoojf&altl=Nbdl

Jo… Read full post »

                        Prince Bogey Mack

 After a run in the sun and the dappled trees

down hill through creek by daughter's knees

the magic forest

they talk to us, the trees

… Read full post »

I dunno about you, but I love Sam Shepard.  Many years ago, I Loved loved Sam Shepard.  Oddly enough, I discovered his poetry before his prose; his prose before his plays.  I kind of backed into True West, as it were.  And fell in love all over again.

I'm… Read full post »

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsep_xcWOQ8

 I absolutely do Not know how to do this - have never posted before - but had to share the hilarious Chris Rock from last night's Letterman.  

 Note:  I watched Pt. Clinton in my living room, got in bed on a commercial break and cont… Read full post »