Attn Waukeshans: Put this in your FOX RUN pipes and smoke it.
The Undeniable Pressure of Existence
(Courtesy of Garrison Keillor's WRITERS ALMANAC - get it free, we start each day with it)
I saw the fox running by the side of the road
past the turned-away brick faces of the condominiums
past the Citco gas station with its line of cars and trucks
and he ran, limping, gaunt, matted dull haired
past Jim's Pizza, past the Wash-O-Mat,
past the Thai Garden, his sides heaving like bellows
and he kept running to where the interstate
crossed the state road and he reached it and he ran on
under the underpass and beyond it past the perfect
rows of split-levels, their identical driveways
their brookless and forestless yards,
and from my moving car, I watched him,
helpless to do anything to help him, certain he was beyond
any aid, any desire to save him, and he ran loping on,
far out of his element, sick, panting, starving,
his eyes fixed on some point ahead of him,
some possible salvation
in all this hopelessness, that only he could see.
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The other night I was looking up a song title on Utube to go with an Email I was sending to New Jersey friend and raccoon source, Tom Bentz. I wanted to thank Tom for sending some Jonathan Winters material, and the song title I Remember You came to mind. PLAY http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JH64weKPF60 Certainly I remember the recently deceased comedian but I hadn't seen the obituary or sorts that Winter's student, Robin Williams had written, which is what Tom sent.
When I was selecting which cut of the Remember Yous I went to the old rendition of Slim Whitman. Now there was a name I'd forgotten, but as I played the tune, memories of my childhood blossoming music appreciation came washing over me. Whitman's falsetto, I did remember that. I remembered him after those opening bars of the song. Then later I went to Wikipedia and read up on Whitman and now know more than I ever did about this once well-known and record-setting as well as just record making man.
LANDFILL HARMONIC
THE WORLD SENDS US GARBAGE
WE GIVE THEM MUSIC
SUBMITTED BY REV.DR. THOMAS BENTZ
play http://vimeo.com/52711779
For more info go to
http://www.creativevisions.org/get-involved/cap/landfill-harmonic
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SUBMITTED BY BOB SELLARS, RETIRED CHEMIST
AND MEMBER OF 1ST CONGREGATIONAL UCC CHURCH, WAUKESHA
He rec'd from a CA friend
past the turned-away brick faces of the condominiums
past the Citco gas station with its line of cars and trucks
and he ran, limping, gaunt, matted dull haired
past Jim's Pizza, past the Wash-O-Mat,
past the Thai Garden, his sides heaving like bellows
and he kept running to where the interstate
crossed the state road and he reached it and he ran on
under the underpass and beyond it past the perfect
rows of split-levels, their identical driveways
their brookless and forestless yards,
and from my moving car, I watched him,
helpless to do anything to help him, certain he was beyond
any aid, any desire to save him, and he ran loping on,
far out of his element, sick, panting, starving,
his eyes fixed on some point ahead of him,
some possible salvation
in all this hopelessness, that only he could see.
.jpg)
When I was selecting which cut of the Remember Yous I went to the old rendition of Slim Whitman. Now there was a name I'd forgotten, but as I played the tune, memories of my childhood blossoming music appreciation came washing over me. Whitman's falsetto, I did remember that. I remembered him after those opening bars of the song. Then later I went to Wikipedia and read up on Whitman and now know more than I ever did about this once well-known and record-setting as well as just record making man.
In those cocoonish early music days of mine, I heard Rudy Valley with his megaphone-singing, Jeanette McDonald and Nelson Eddy......................
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April 18, 2013
Courageous Senators Stand Up to American People
WASHINGTON (The
Borowitz Report)—In the halls of the United States Senate, dozens of
Senators congratulated themselves today for having what one of them called “the
courage and grit to stand up to the overwhelming wishes of the American people.”
“We kept hearing, again and again, that ninety per cent of the American
people wanted us to vote a certain way,” said Senate Minority Leader Mitch
McConnell (R-Kentucky). “Well, at the end of the day, we decided that we weren’t
going to cave in to that kind of special-interest group.”
“It was a gut check, for sure, but we had to draw a line in the sand,” agreed Senator Lindsey Graham (R-S. Carolina). “If we had voted the way the American people wanted us to, it would have sent the message that we’re here in Washington to be nothing more than their elected representatives.”
Calling yesterday’s Senate action “a bipartisan effort,” Senator Mark Pryor (D-Arkansas) said, “This proves that on a matter that affects the safety of every man, woman, and child in the nation, we can reach across the aisle to defy the interests of all of them.”
Senator McConnell agreed that yesterday’s vote “sent a powerful message,” adding, “If the American people think that just because they voted us into office and pay our salaries, benefits, and pensions, we are somehow obliged to listen to them, they are sorely mistaken.”
“It was a gut check, for sure, but we had to draw a line in the sand,” agreed Senator Lindsey Graham (R-S. Carolina). “If we had voted the way the American people wanted us to, it would have sent the message that we’re here in Washington to be nothing more than their elected representatives.”
Calling yesterday’s Senate action “a bipartisan effort,” Senator Mark Pryor (D-Arkansas) said, “This proves that on a matter that affects the safety of every man, woman, and child in the nation, we can reach across the aisle to defy the interests of all of them.”
Senator McConnell agreed that yesterday’s vote “sent a powerful message,” adding, “If the American people think that just because they voted us into office and pay our salaries, benefits, and pensions, we are somehow obliged to listen to them, they are sorely mistaken.”
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LANDFILL HARMONIC
THE WORLD SENDS US GARBAGE
WE GIVE THEM MUSIC
SUBMITTED BY REV.DR. THOMAS BENTZ
play http://vimeo.com/52711779
For more info go to
http://www.creativevisions.org/get-involved/cap/landfill-harmonic
..........................
SUBMITTED BY BOB SELLARS, RETIRED CHEMIST
AND MEMBER OF 1ST CONGREGATIONAL UCC CHURCH, WAUKESHA
He rec'd from a CA friend
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