[nagdu] Fw: Garrison Kielor's Daily Almanac for today

Fri Feb 19 18:45:26 UTC 2010

I liked this! (grin!) I'll have to do this - remember that I was the one 
busted for violating the Pooper Scooper law last winter!

Lyn and Landon
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From: "Ed Meskys" <edmeskys at roadrunner.com>
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Subject: [nagdu] Fw: Garrison Kielor's Daily Almanac for today

> of note to dog users and SF readers--Ed Meskys
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Louis Gosselin" <gosselin_louis at MYFAIRPOINT.NET>
> To: <NHBLIND-TALK at LISTSERV.ICORS.ORG>
> Sent: Wednesday, February 17, 2010 8:23 AM
> Subject: Garrison Kielor's Daily Almanac for today
>
>
> Cute poem for dog lovers here.
>
> The Writer's Almanac for February 17, 2010
>
> Cleaning up after the Dog  by Jason Tandon
>
>
> Pull plastic bag from pocket
> and wave it like a flag
>
> or diploma. Make sure many people
> congratulate your care
> for the community.
>
> Check bag for holes.
> Double check.
>
> Inspect stool for odd hues.
> Greens, blues, blood.
>
> Evaluate consistency.
>
> You don't want to leave smears
> on the sidewalk or grass--no prints.
>
> Getaway must be clean.
>
> Prepare to go in for all of it.
> Hold breath.
> Grab, clamp, reverse bag, twist, knot, cinch.
>
> Smell hands.
>
> Hold loaded bag high in the air,
> assure onlookers that Everything is Okay.
>
> If a cop should cruise by,
> his crew cut bristling
> in the sun,
>
> hold that bag higher,
> so he, too, can salute
> your contribution.
>
> The bomb diffused,
> the world a little safer, a little cleaner,
>
> will not offend the deep treads
> of someone's shoes.
>
> "Cleaning up after the Dog" by Jason Tandon, from Give Over the Heckler 
> and
> Everyone Gets Hurt. (c) Black Lawrence Press, 2009. Reprinted with
> permission.
>
>
>
>
> It's the birthday of Chaim Potok, born in the Bronx (1929). His parents 
> were
> immigrants from Poland, and he  grew up in a strict Orthodox Jewish 
> culture.
> When he was about 14 years old, he  happened to pick up a copy of 
> Brideshead
> Revisited by Evelyn Waugh, and it changed his life. He said, 'I lived 
> more
> deeply inside the world in that book than I lived inside my own  world.' 
> And
> over the years, he read as much as he could, and he moved away  from his
> parents' strict beliefs. But when he started to write fiction, he went 
> back
> to his childhood, and he wrote The  Chosen (1967), a best-selling novel
> about
> two boys growing up together in Brooklyn in the 1940s. One of the boys,
> Danny,
> is  expected to become a Hasidic rabbi like his father, but he is more
> interested  in Freud and psychology. The other, Reuven, is more integrated
> into mainstream  society. Potok continued their story in The  Promise
> (1969),
> and wrote about similar conflicts between religious and  secular 
> communities
> in many more novels, including My Name is Asher Lev (1972), The  Book of
> Lights (1981), and a group of three related novellas, Old Men at Midnight
> (2001).
>
> It was on this day in 1904 that Puccini's opera Madame  Butterfly had its
> premiere at La Scala Theater in Milan, Italy.  The audience hated it so 
> much
> they hissed and booed. Puccini closed it after  one night, revised it, and
> opened it later the same year. The second time  around it was such a hit
> that
> there were five encores, and Puccini had to come  out in front of the
> curtain
> 10 times.
>
> It's the birthday of the man who said, 'A good sermon  should be like a
> woman's skirt: short enough to arouse interest but long enough  to cover 
> the
> essentials.' That's writer and priest Ronald Knox, born in Kibworth, 
> England
> (1888). He wrote and  translated theological works, he gave regular BBC
> radio
> broadcasts, he wrote  crime fiction, and he published satirical
> scholarship -- 
> his academic essays included  a piece treating Sherlock Holmes as a
> historical
> figure, and another claiming  that Queen Victoria wrote Tennyson's 'In
> Memoriam.'
>
> It's the birthday of poet Jack Gilbert, born in Pittsburgh  in 1925. He
> flunked out of high school, worked as a door-to-door salesman and  in the
> steel mill. A clerical error got him admitted to college, and he started
> writing poetry. He went to Europe and then back to San Francisco, where he
> hung out with the  Beat poets. His first book of poems, Views  of Jeopardy
> (1962), was a hit. It won the Yale Series of Younger Poets  award, and was
> nominated for the Pulitzer Prize, and he won a Guggenheim  fellowship. He
> was
> all over magazines, and even had photo shoots in Vogue and Glamour. He was
> talented, he was handsome, and everyone expected  great things.
>  And then, just as suddenly as he had appeared, he dropped  out of the
> limelight, moving to Europe with  the money from his fellowship. For 20
> years,
> he lived abroad -- in Greece with his first wife, the poet Linda  Gregg, 
> in
> England and Denmark, in Japan with his second wife.  Finally, in 1982, he
> published Monolithos, which was made up of poems from his first book along
> with new poems. He has  published just three other books: The  Great 
> Fires:
> Poems 1982–1992 (1996), Refusing  Heaven (2005), and Transgressions:
> Selected Poems (2006).
>
> It's the birthday of science fiction writer Andre Norton, born Alice Mary
> Norton in Cleveland,   Ohio (1912). She wrote adventure  stories in high
> school, and she wanted to be a history teacher. But she got her  first 
> book
> published when she was 20, and so she stuck with writing, and for  years 
> she
> wrote spy novels and adventure stories. She legally changed her name  from
> Alice Mary to Andre in 1934 because she thought she could sell more copies
> as
> a man than a woman. Then she got asked to edit an anthology of science
> fiction writing, and she decided to try writing science fiction herself. 
> Her
> book Star Man's Son (1951) was a  success, so she turned her attention to
> that
> new genre, and she became a  best-selling and beloved author. When she 
> died
> in
> 2005 at the age of 93, she  had written more than 100 novels. Many of her
> books were for young adults, and  they were some of the first young adult
> science fiction novels to be embraced  by adults as well.
>
>
> Be well, do good work, and keep in touch
>
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