Comments on: Saturday morning market.

By: brian stouder

brian stouder — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 12:30:53 +0000

Well, Nance’s Monday offering may well be titled ‘Monday morning market’, featuring ex-Lehman people selling fruit on the street

By: Suzi

Suzi — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 12:11:21 +0000

“…that was offensive.”

well, sometimes that’s what it takes. maybe it’ll work.

“Shut up!” was an expletive at our house when I was a kid.

By: Jeff (the mild-mannered one)

Jeff (the mild-mannered one) — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 11:04:08 +0000

The German Orchestra? The Bubblegum Song? The Ants Go Marching (not to be confused with Dave Matthews’ version) has been very apropos recently, thanks to Ike — gadzooks, i just see on TV that they’ve canceled school all over central Ohio today, due to tree branches everywhere and spotty power outages. I should gather a bunch of our Cubs to march down the sidewalks, sing “Ging Gang Goolie” and pick up tree litter while the village runs the chipper down the middle of the street.

By: Dexter

Dexter — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 06:50:33 +0000

Shady’s back
He’s back in town

(Well, he never left, he’s been holed up in his Day-Twah mansion.)

Now he’s back with KING MATHERS.

http://www.nypost.com/seven/09142008/entertainment/music/shady_in_waiting_129067.htm

By: Danny

Danny — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 04:39:39 +0000

99 Bottles of … oh .. nevermind.

Also, avoid limericks with “Nantucket” in them…

By: moe99

moe99 — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 04:07:45 +0000

Well, I get to go Jeff one better and mention that I am back from my weekend church retreat (Presbyterian, thank you very much). We spent it talking about our experiences at camps, conferences and retreats and I was reminded of my time as a camperoonie at Camp Palmer in Defiance (where the late Terry Ryan of The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio was my counselor), Camp Libbey from the Toledo Council of Girl Scouts (my dad was the camp pediatrician since they were physically located in Defiance County somewhere); and Camp Ladyglen in Grand Rapids, OH. And we sang a number of camp songs such as Little Bunny FrouFrou, the Johnny Appleseed song before dinner, and the canoeing song (“My paddle’s clean and bright, flashing in water…”). Any other suggestions for a sing a long?

By: basset

basset — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 02:53:03 +0000

“…that was offensive.”

well, sometimes that’s what it takes. maybe it’ll work.

don’t know if I agree with Caliban or not, I have long since given up trying to understand what he’s saying.

By: brian stouder

brian stouder — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 02:21:55 +0000

i don’t really ever want to understand this choice

I think this sort of thing is like the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle (wherein you can know the position of a particle, or the velocity of a particle, but you cannot know both).

Irrational acts, by definition, cannot be understood. To be honest, stories like that one always anger me, a little.

By: Jeff (the mild-mannered one)

Jeff (the mild-mannered one) — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 01:44:30 +0000

Ahhhhhhh . . . we’ve lost David Foster Wallace — http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/books/AP-Obit-Wallace.html

There was much more we needed to hear from him; check out his commencement address from Kenyon College (hello, Dorothy) to see what i mean — http://www.marginalia.org/dfw_kenyon_commencement.html

My editor where the biggest hunk of my freelancing is done was always handing us Pomona College magazine articles, often by Wallace, saying, “Go ahead, write that way.” And i would think “As if.”

I lost a clergy friend this exact way a few years ago, his wife running a quick errand with no foreboding at all, and returning to find . . . i don’t really ever want to understand this choice, exactly. But still we try.

By: del

del — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 00:08:05 +0000

Sarah Palin. NYT article:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/14/us/politics/14palin.html?_r=1&em&oref=slogin