[bksvol-discuss] Re: the piece (or pieces) in today's writer's almanac
- From: Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2010 14:48:02 -0800 (PST)
Thanks for the chuckle. I've had on occasion to walk my daughter's dog. Ugh
Cindy
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--- On Wed, 2/17/10, Rik James <rixmix2009@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> From: Rik James <rixmix2009@xxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] the piece (or pieces) in today's writer's almanac
> To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Date: Wednesday, February 17, 2010, 1:27 PM
> I guess this does not have anything
> to do with volunteering at bookshare.
> but someone may have missed it on today's broadcast.
> I get it via email, and I just thought it would be nice to
> paste it for a little light entertainment.
> And I figured among our group, some might well be service
> dog users and find the subject fun, even if, really, a bit
> icky.
>
> talk about your high brow literature!
>
> hope you are all well.
> Rik James in snowy Montana.
>
>
> 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.
>
>
>
>
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>
>
>
>
> 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.
>
>
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>
> Be well, do good work, and keep in touch
>
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