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79Remembering "The Red Shoes"
And - obviously this is a movie about ballet! So, you may be asking yourself, "what am I doing here?" Please read on. . . Many of us appreciate its beauties and other attributes but for anyone who may be instantly turned off by the idea of...
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59One Man Contrasts Two of America's Favorite National Sports
This focuses on George Carlin’s routine contrasting American football and baseball, among his funniest - and, refreshingly, one devoid of obscenities! Originally I heard his routine on this theme on a 33-1/3 rpm record played on a little record...
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76If I Were A Cantaloupe
The cantaloupe is sometimes referred to as 'muskmelon', a most august entity, indeed. cantaloupe |ˈkantlˌōp| (also cantaloupe melon) noun a small, round melon of a variety with orange flesh and ribbed skin ORIGIN, late 18th cent.: from...
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66To Have - Ergo - To Have Not
Our language is geared to possessiveness. Notice how even the premise assumes that we possess (our) language! So "now you have it". You may as well know. This isn’t actually all about the 1937 Hemingway novel or that classic Howard Hawks...
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72Green Sheets - Red Riding Hood
I'd been writing a rather interesting little account for the last hour; – or at least I'd hoped it might be interesting. But I lost the entire thing, gobbled up by the 'puter. Doggone thing. Don't you just...
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68Remembering Elvis
I wasn’t a person one would call an Elvis-freak. But we were contemporaries and I could not help but admire his talent, once he burst upon the scene. When he was born, I was just shy of 2 years old. He was born to Vernon and Gladys...
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