Mar 16 2011
Regular Daily Features:
Dire Straits in Late Night Karaoke, mishima DJs
Essays Featured Wednesday, March 16th:
Youffraita goes Looney in Wednesday Open Thoughts
TheMomCat most kindly gives us a repeat performance of her Health & Fitness News
originally posted Saturday at The Stars Hollow Gazette
Diane explores & shares in My Man, My Son, My Life
The most recent episode of My Little Town: Elwood Brockman, from Translator
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Mar 15 2011
Regular Daily Features:
Late Night Karaoke‘s screaming What’s Going On, mishima DJs
Six Brilliant Articles! from Six Different Places!! on Six Different Topics!!!
Six Days a Week!!! at Six in the Morning!!!!
Essays Featured Tuesday, March 15th:
Tuesday Open Thoughts has puzzled thinking ofThe Ides of March
In this edition of the bi-weekly series Book Nook Xanthe reviews Excellent Women by Barbara Pym
RiaD shares thoughts on manners & cultures
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Mar 15 2011
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Special live blogging of the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament Play In games with Master TV Bracket Table good through the 18th.
Mar 14 2011
Regular Daily Features:
Blondie begins the day in Late Night Karaoke, mishima DJs
Six Brilliant Articles! from Six Different Places!! on Six Different Topics!!!
Six Days a Week!!! at Six in the Morning!!!!
Essays Featured Monday, March 14th:
Altered Art are RiaD‘s Monday Open Thoughts
fake consultant shares ideas On Taking It Back, Or, Wisconsin Recalls, Explained
Out of the Cave and into the Light , a shared story from TheMomCat
The Latest Pique the Geek from Translator Firearms 103. Propellants
A frothy piece from Xanthe
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Mar 14 2011
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A special reminder that tomorrow night instead of Prime Time I’ll be live blogging the NCAA Men’s and Women’s Basketball Tournaments starting at 6 pm.
Mar 13 2011
Regular Daily Features:
Late Night Karaoke has The Knack, mishima DJs
Six Brilliant Articles! from Six Different Places!! on Six Different Topics!!!
Six Days a Week!!! at Six in the Morning!!!!
Essays Featured Sunday, March 13th:
Sunday Open Thoughts from Alma are all about the baby
patric juillet graces us with two wonderful pieces:
The Garlic Wars and Dead Water News
In Sunday Bread Bill Egnor tells how to make Tiramisu
Our thoughts for Diane & Jake are expressed in for Mike
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Mar 13 2011
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Mar 13 2011
Regular Daily Features:
Rise in the spotlight in Late Night Karaoke, mishima DJs
Six Brilliant Articles! from Six Different Places!! on Six Different Topics!!!
Six Days a Week!!! at Six in the Morning!!!!
Essays Featured Saturday, March 12th:
Popular Culture from Translator: The Zombies
Saturday Open Thoughts is a piggie update from Alma (welcome back Alma!)
Saturday Art! is a re-promotion of a little insight into the work from mishima‘s talented hands:
About The Pictures I Draw
Youffraita has a little something Just For Fun: Wanda Sykes
Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Reactor Meltdown and
seriously stolen from RiaD
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Mar 13 2011
What a crappy, if prolific week: A (hopefully temporary) set back in Wisconsin. Violence in Libya. An earthquake and tsunami and nuclear emergency in Japan. Bad, winter weather, flooding and power outages, in Eastern New York and New England. Your bloguero is about ready to push back from the keyboard and run away to join the nearest circus. Maybe he could be the elephants’ poopsmith. Although there are signs of Spring’s arrival (redwing blackbirds, March Madness, the first buds), your bloguero’s seasonal affective grumpiness (SAG) continues unabated. He needs to see the first crocus. Not a green stem. No. An actual, honest to goodness flower. And he needs it badly.
The week ended on Saturday with a sad memorial, For Mike, the husband of our sister Port Writers Alliance bloguera, Diane. She and her family are in our thoughts and prayers. She has our condolences.
The weekend also brought your bloguero the recognition that things aren’t over in Madison, Wisconsin. No, not at all. It’s not the end, it’s the beginning of movement. And, of course, MSNBC got it all wrong. Wisconsin: It’s Not Over Until It’s Over points out the Trad Media outlet’s folly of pessimism. Stooges .
The devastation in Japan brought your bloguero to prayer. There didn’t seem to be anything else that could be done. Kyrie Eleison For Japan is Christian, Jewish and Buddhist, a prayer for those suffering in Japan in the wake of the earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear emergency. Even if you don’t pray, please keep these people in your thoughts and do what you can to be of help to them.
Six Town Court Haikus, are as the title says, six haikus your bloguero wrote while wearing his lawyer clothes and sitting in an unnamed Town Court somewhere in Upstate New York, waiting for justice to be done. For years and years, lawyers and politicians have tried to eliminate these small, formerly justice of the peace courts to no avail. The New York Times has criticized them regularly. Is there an outcry? Crickets.
The night when Republicans in the Wisconsin Senate acted on their pronounced willingness to do the bidding of the Koch Brothers rather than the citizens and pulled a fast one on the electorate led your bloguero to write On Wisconsin!. Your bloguero sees this maneuver as a temporary setback, and one that will lead to a real people’s movement. Maybe your bloguero should thank the Wisconsin Republicans. Not very forking likely.
Any time you can get an alligator and gerbil into the same poem, you’re doing ok. Haiku For March does just that.
Your bloguero noted the passing of Moacyr Scliar, who invented the plot for Life of Pi, in which a person and a tiger are together alone in the same small boat, and Alberto Granado, who accompanied Che Guevara on his motorcycle trip.
And your bloguero reminded his six readers of that Saturday’s demonstration in Madison, Wisconsin in Solidarity With Wisconsin’s Workers. At the time, your bloguero had no hint that Governor Koch-head had a plan to steal the cheese (and the workers’ right to bargain collectively) and would appear later in the week to be running the Wisconsin government as if it were a game of 3-card Monty.
And the week began with hope, the first sign that just maybe, Winter was on it’s way out. At Last: A Hint Of Spring noted the arrival of the first redwing blackbird.
Your bloguero notes that this Digest is a weekly feature of the Port Writers Alliance and is supposed to be posted early Sunday morning. Yes, he knows it’s still Saturday (again). But your bloguero wants to go to the drum circle on Sunday morning and beat his brains out. See you next week if the creek don’t rise on Sunday early. No drum circle next weekend. 🙁
Mar 12 2011
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With TheMomCat’s weekly feature, Health and Fitness News.
Mar 11 2011
Regular Daily Features:
Late Night Karaoke has Big Audio Dynamite, mishima DJs
Six Brilliant Articles! from Six Different Places!! on Six Different Topics!!!
Six Days a Week!!! at Six in the Morning!!!!
Essays Featured Friday, March 11th:
In Friday Open Thoughts slksfca takes us to see Philip IV, Live And In Person!
This episode of Get Growing from RiaD is Seed Starting
patric juillet‘s Tales From the Larder continues with Remembrances of a Distant Past
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Mar 11 2011
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