Archive for April, 2005
Friday, April 29th, 2005
After running several errands today, I rushed home, hoping to change the oil in my lawn mower and mow an acre of grass before the rain began. The maintenance was quickly done. As I clambered onto the mower, I felt a few drops falling on me, and I ...
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Thursday, April 21st, 2005
I recently began a self-directed crash course in diamonds, and have discovered that while they may be a girl's best friend, the buying of diamonds is a pursuit designed for left-brained men; the statistician, the accountant, the engineer is quite at home with shopping diamonds. If you care to ...
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Monday, April 18th, 2005
I once knew a man named Beverage who drank a two-liter bottle of Coke-A-Cola every single day. He drank it warm from a travel mug, keeping the bottle within easy reach on his desk. He was the first person I ever saw consume a Spicy Chicken Sandwich from ...
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Thursday, April 14th, 2005
For the second day in a row, I took my lunch on the pond near here. The roadside bank is lined with gleaming cars, half of which contain commuters who have stolen away for a few moments from the office's florescent hum, to sit behind the wheel and munch ...
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Wednesday, April 13th, 2005
Roger walked into the living room just as a plume of flame shot out of the television and engulfed Shirley, his wife. He stood absolutely still for a moment, digging his way through the utter shock of it, and finally fell to his knees and started screaming. His wife, now ...
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Saturday, April 9th, 2005
A Monkey Story in the tradition of the tales I used to tell when I was a boy...
ORKO WAS PATCHING UP the last corner of his specialized tank armor. He had proven wrong his more erudite siblings and cousins by pulverizing 8 shanks of high-grade "indestructible" rock liver, and he ...
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Saturday, April 9th, 2005
I always pause for a long time before telling a story to my son. I have a basic construct of an intrepid groundhog Beanie, his brother Jerry and his genius (for a groundhog) friend Roger. The humor in those stories generally relies on the suprising perspective of discovering the human ...
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Friday, April 8th, 2005
The Lincoln Center, Tuesday, April 5th, around 11:30pm.
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Friday, April 1st, 2005
Welcome, Dawn Patrol readers. I'll be out siteseeing New York for the next few days, and visiting Dawn Eden, so probably not much blogging will get done. Meanwhile, if you've never been chezJoel, take a look at these topics:The Love Life of Joel Hoagland
Poetry
My Politics
My Fabrications
I'll be back ...
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