I was digging deep again, as I do every year or so, into my box of keepsakes and relics that I really don't know why I kept them but did. Stuff I wrote as a kid (some of that, I must say, rather disturbing), old letters of the real life mailed sort, newspaper clippings of miscellany, that have strangely yellowed and gotten brittle already and that shit just ain't right since it seems not so long ago ... whatever, I'm getting old. From the Kansas City Kansan , newspaper that we got delivered daily, Friday, July 25, 1975, I had cut out and kept this one particular article headlined "Youngster completes first novel." I was always writing as a kid, so I remember very well snipping this one item, on account of the twelve-years-old youngster was my same age, and I very much wanted my own novel published. Of course I hadn't written it yet, but I figured this proved I could do it, too, kept it for an affirmation thingy. Over the years I've remembered saving that s...
This is right with my post. Two great minds...we may be dead breed.
ReplyDeleteSad, just sad.
Sadder even considering some of these folks might be voting in November. And you know their kind is more common than not.
ReplyDeleteOk...everyone knows...
ReplyDeleteFidel Castro is not only a singer but a Grammy Winner! Um hellooooooo.
Country beginning with U. Universe! Like duh.
Bomb next? The Bridge of Teribithia would be a wise choice.
Tony Blair? Yes, related to Linda Blair, BUT won an Oscar for his role in Spartacus! Where did they get these people!
Who is the country that "throws the rocks?" Geez Louise...the same one that trains on the monkey bars! Who doesn't know that!
Mosque. That guy was half right. But it is a cousin to the mosquito.
And Omg...Colonel Sanders must have "rolled over" TWICE! Who does not love his Kansas Fried Chicken! That one broke my heart...
Al Qaeda. Weird Al Yankovic's real name.
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See, that's what I'm talking about. We need more Luminas in this country! Maybe there is still hope for us after all.
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ReplyDeleteyour video keeps freezing up my computer. Oh well I'll try to watch it later.
By the way, CNNNN is like Australia's version of our Daily Show, comedy but real news and interviews, which sometimes turns out really to be not so funny.
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