Thursday, September 25, 2008

This Week Your Bank's Name is _____________

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Mack Hall Today I visited the drive-through window at a familiar building in order to cash a small check. I say building instead of bank be...
Sunday, September 21, 2008

Don't Worry; New Orleans is Safe

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Mack Hall This is my audition script for a job with National Public Radio: After weeks of brewing at sea, mighty Hurricane Ike, bearing Moth...
Monday, September 15, 2008

My Favorite After-the-Hurricane Things

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Mack Hall My Favorite After-the-Hurricane Things (apologies to Rodgers and Hammerstein) Dedicated to Jasper-Newton Electric Co-Operative Swe...
Monday, September 1, 2008

Jill, Will, Sophie, and the Hurricane

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Mack Hall As Wodehouse might have said, young men and women often ask me about my successful career in fleeing hurricanes and how they might...
Thursday, August 28, 2008

Take That, You Rascally Republicans!

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Mack Hall All the world turns its attention to the upper midwest this week, because when you’re talking about Republicans in Minnesota, you’...
Saturday, August 23, 2008

Down From the Door Where it Began

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First printed in 2001 Mack Hall The road goes ever on and on Down from the door where it began Now far ahead the road has gone And I must fo...
Sunday, August 17, 2008

Roderick Spode Goes to the Olympics

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Mack Hall Dictators are not as sartorially formal as they used to be. Wodehouse’s fictional Roderick Spode practiced dictator-poses before a...

Roderick Spode Goes to the Olympics

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Mack Hall Dictators are not as sartorially formal as they used to be. Wodehouse’s fictional Roderick Spode practiced dictator-poses before a...

The Secret Jail for Democrats

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Mack Hall To read that Denver has built a secret jail for the detention of Democrats (activists say so; it must be true) is a thought so hea...
Sunday, August 3, 2008

Preabsolutely

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Mack Hall Perhaps the excessive use of the prefix “pre” began with advertisements by funeral homes: we were urged to preplan preneed for our...
Sunday, July 27, 2008

Beijing, We Have a Problem

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Mack Hall The 19th was the British century, and the 20th was the American. The 21st is said to be the Chinese century, but beijing has a pr...
Tuesday, July 22, 2008

Mack Reports on Hurricane Dolly

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Mack Hall Mighty Category (number) Hurricane Dolly demonstrated Mother Nature’s wrath and scorn for man’s place in the planet as she slammed...
Sunday, July 20, 2008

World Geezer Day

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Mack Hall With the close of World Youth Day in Australia, we aging Boomers naturally ask why we can’t have a day of our own with a visit by ...
Tuesday, July 15, 2008

For Jason and Ingrid on the Pilgrimage Road to Santiago de Compostela

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Mack Hall An Old Man Takes His Evening Walk For Young Jason and Inky on Their Morning Journey An old man weary-wends his evening walk Along ...
Sunday, July 13, 2008

Orwell Was Wrong

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Mack Hall Orwell got it wrong, of course. In 1984 the omnipresent telescreen is forced upon a subservient population by an omnipotent socia...
Saturday, July 12, 2008

Priestblock 25487, by Jean Bernard

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A brief review for Amazon.com: Father Bernard's narrative, written shortly after the war, is especially effective in its understatement....
Monday, July 7, 2008

The Curse of the Headless Hitler

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Mack Hall In Berlin a Communist ex-policeman crossed a barrier in a private museum in order to twist the head off a wax statue of Adolf Hitl...
Sunday, June 29, 2008

Time to Wear the Big-Boy Pants

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Mack Hall Booze is at last legal in Jasper, Texas, and the first purchaser probably looked at the news cameras while heaving a case of Sloug...
Monday, June 23, 2008

Reality Funerals

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Mack Hall Several weeks ago a fellow who made his living arguing with people on the tellyvision died unexpectedly (but, really, does anyone ...
Sunday, June 15, 2008

No, It's Not Katrina

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Mack Hall All of Iowa’s major rivers are flooding, which means most of Iowa is flooding. Farms, suburbs, urban areas, the capital, the cap...
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