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OK, this came to me driving in to work this morning, and as usual I felt the need to inflict this on share this with you all!  I’m blatently cross-posting from Free Range Poetry, where it can be found at http://www.freerangepoetry.com/?p=149.  Also, you need to remember -  ( Read more... )

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Yes, I’m blatently pulling this across from Free Range Poetry:

Many’s the children’s tale or poem or book
I’ve seen turned to a movie on the screen;
I worried what this Hobbit film would mean,
and how bald-faced the liberties he’d took?
From many had I heard a pre-viewed look:
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Why yes!

In honor of the Supreme Court’s favorable ruling today on what we’ve come to call ObamaCare, I’m dusting off my “poem about insurance.”

Cross-posting, you ask?  Why yes!  Please, saunter over to http://www.freerangepoetry.com/?p=88 and indulge.  Let me know what you ( Read more... )

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“The Winter is forbidden ’til December,
And exits March the 2nd, on the dot!”

So there I was, in my silk-lined yellow corduroy smoking jacket and red-and-yellow checked jester hat, with my jester balls bouncing for emphasis, reading to a gaggle of wide-eyed 3rd graders, when I ( Read more... )

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Do you know what happens when the government releases a Request For Proposal 8 business hours before the start of the Christmas weekend?

This.  This is what happens.

The RFP Before Christmas

T’was the night before Christmas, and through every house
You could hear the ( Read more... )

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I’ve decided to count down to Thinksgiving, and take a moment each day to think about things I’m thankful for.

Number Two:   Poetry.

There once was a poem for Thanksgiving
About a turkey, absolved and forgiving.
Despite all his pluck
That bird’s outta luck,
And in death he’ll ( Read more... )

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OK, sorry, that’s their tagline.  They were totally pretty good, though.  The Human Tape Recorder was not alone at the Fillmore in Silver Spring last night: some of the songs seemed to consist of the folks on stage just holding the microphones out to the audience.  I didn’t ( Read more... )

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“Oye, que paso? Blackout!  Blackout!”  This is the start of the song Blackout from the Tony-winning Broadway show “In The Heights,” which went through our heads for about 20 hours last week while the electricity was out during the recent snowstorm.  “We are powerless, we are ( Read more... )

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The chair wasn’t always in that corner; in fact, it wasn’t always in the room at all.  But now, there it sits.

It was a bedroom for a while, for us, but there were mirrors on the closet doors, and we didn’t like that, for obvious reasons, and things changed.

It was an office ( Read more... )

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Do you know, I spend hours, sometimes days, talking about funny stuff my kids say, the funny things they do, and explaining the foibles of the malodorous gender for the ManFAQ.  I’ve told you about my experiences in coffeeshops, at birthday parties, at back-to-school ( Read more... )