ACRONYMS AND OTHER OBJECTS IN THE WRONG HANDS
At some point during the 90's, I spent time interviewing witnesses in Centerville, Iowa. The local plant manager steered me to the best place in town. The Motel 60 & Villa even boasted a jaccuzi hot tub.
In addition to the occasional business traveler, the Motel did a big business among hunters. Breakfasts, it was posted, would start at 4:30 a.m. during hunting season. The jaccuzi hot tub, however, would not be available to guests during that time.
Unfortunately, the Motel 60 & Villa now features a separate game-cleaning room and freezer, so I cannot document this memory. So much for a riff in which the hot tub stars as Berton Roueche denouement.
I did find this from The Daily Iowegian.
Hush, little deer fawn, don't you cry. Daddy's gonna BLAM BLAM BLAM.
HERR KEPLER'S NOTEBOOK
Time is the bully anchor of the opposing tug-rope team.
The person with a happy home life tracks glitter through the world; the solitary person leaves snowprints.
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"The grasshopper warbler's song comes up out of the earth just as you think the day is quietening down. It has no prelude or warm-up: it starts midperformance, as if switched on by the dark, as it if has been singing like this beneath the earth until it was dark enough to come to the surface. As if, though we hardly hear it, this singing never stops."
A Year on the Wing (Tim Dee)
All writing and cartoons on this site copyright 2008-2010 Julia Martin, unless otherwise credited.
The person with a happy home life tracks glitter through the world; the solitary person leaves snowprints.
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"The grasshopper warbler's song comes up out of the earth just as you think the day is quietening down. It has no prelude or warm-up: it starts midperformance, as if switched on by the dark, as it if has been singing like this beneath the earth until it was dark enough to come to the surface. As if, though we hardly hear it, this singing never stops."
A Year on the Wing (Tim Dee)
All writing and cartoons on this site copyright 2008-2010 Julia Martin, unless otherwise credited.
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