Wednesday, September 30, 2009

HUNTING WILD STRAWBERRIES IN SEPTEMBER 2009

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by Jan Keough I would like to meet Ingmar Bergman on Faro, his island retreat on Sweden’s Baltic east coast – but he’s dead two years and f...
Tuesday, September 29, 2009

A WEEK’S DOINGS DOWNTOWN

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by Carolyn Stoloff with a bow and an apology to The Villager The alliance presented a plan for a thoroughfare for ad...
Monday, September 28, 2009

THE LOST PILOT

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by David Plumb You sit in the cockpit still upright in the May Day position. Hand on the stick, pistol rusty, shoes too big. The watch on yo...
Sunday, September 27, 2009

ABOVE US, PLANES LIKE SILVER CRUCIFIXES

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by Howie Good Darkening streets. Impossible to avoid the scurrying figures huddled in their ratty coats. Some live in the cabs of the big ma...
Saturday, September 26, 2009

UNEMPLOYMENT

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by Andrew Hilbert outside the liquor store there’s a guy in a wheelchair with both feet gone, where they were are now two rubber bands holdi...
Friday, September 25, 2009

REPUBLICAN RHETORIC TO IMPROVE YOUR RELATIONSHIP

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by Kenneth Nichols In honor of the American soldier, could you do the dishes tonight? If you’re not with your mother-in-law, you’re against ...
Thursday, September 24, 2009

JOURNEY OF THE TRAGI

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by Earl J. Wilcox After T.S. Eliot A warm time we had getting here, Just the best of times—selling off Oil fields to the Brits for our bombe...
Wednesday, September 23, 2009

DALAI LAMA LATTE HITS TAIWAN

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by Amy Holman Dashes, circles, lines and an egg shape are all he is in the milk froth not yet descended. Suddenly, it's all too politica...
Tuesday, September 22, 2009

BARBIE FRIETCHIE AT THE GLENN BECK RALLY

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by Steve Hellyard Swartz with apologies to John Greenleaf Whittier Up from the suburbs of downloaded porn, Irate on this cool September morn...
Monday, September 21, 2009

POLAR BEAR

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by Rob Lewis The helicopter swings out banking over the shelf ice as the biologist points his Nikon and clicks on the polar bear looking up ...
Sunday, September 20, 2009

KARL ROVE

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by J.R. Solonche I hear Karl Rove is an agnostic. And I thought he was just a prick. J.R. Solonche is coauthor (with wife Joan Siegel) of P...
Saturday, September 19, 2009

MALTA DREAM

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by Anca Vlasopolos this is how it will be and only for those who can pay the way it is here and now half a million souls on a rock farming w...
Friday, September 18, 2009

KRENOV

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by W.F. Lantry James Krenov: Cabinetmaker, 1920-2009 Take down the plane and turn it in your hands: Krenov is dead. The man who showed us fo...
Thursday, September 17, 2009

A MUSICAL AFTERNOON

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by David Chorlton A crown of thorns hangs by the door of our hosts’ spacious home and a black old Bible rests on the table next to programs ...