Sunday, June 28, 2009

"Scope for Imagination" -- Anne of Green Gables

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Mack Hall In anticipation of a brief visit to Prince Edward Island, Canada’s smallest province, I was advised by several people to read L. M...
Saturday, June 27, 2009

Taxpayer! There's a Fly in my Soup!

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Mack Hall I was raised on a farm, a real farm, not a weekend play-farm, and fresh food around the seasons was always a part of my childhood....
Monday, June 22, 2009

"I Been"

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Mack Hall King Vidor’s Northwest Passage (1940) dramatizes an English guerilla campaign against Quebec during the Seven Years’ War. Althou...
Tuesday, June 16, 2009

Buying a Wash Stand

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This morning I had occasion to buy a "vanity" (nee' wash stand) at Lowe's in Jasper, and enjoyed talking with Kenneth, a h...
Sunday, June 14, 2009

A Man Could Stand Up

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Mack Hall A Man Could Stand Up is the third novel in Ford Madox Ford’s World War I tetralogy, Parade’s End . The phrase “a man could stand...
Saturday, June 13, 2009

THE PRISONER Fact #13

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#6 does not have a line of designer fashion clothing.
Sunday, June 7, 2009

Dan Rather Wants Our Children

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Mack Hall Like Rasputin’s bloated corpse bobbing up among the ice floes of the Nevka River, Dan Rather has surfaced again. On the occasion o...
Sunday, May 31, 2009

Kim Jong Il's Twitter

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Mack Hall Mhall46184@aol.com Kim Jong Il’s Twitter My Twits: Bashar, Hu, Lula, Hugo, Umar, Vladimir, Triet, Robert, Saddamn (channeled via J...
Saturday, May 30, 2009

THE PRISONER Fact #12

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#6 never eats finger-food.
Tuesday, May 26, 2009

A LITURGY FOR THE EMPEROR -- now available on Amazon.com

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I am pleased to announce that my appropriately slender, rather expensive, and quite excellent book of poetry, A Liturgy for the Emperor , is...
Monday, May 25, 2009

Decoration Day

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Did John Kerry place a wreath on himself today? -- Mack Hall, Viet-Nam Class of 1969-1970

The Class of 2009

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Mack Hall (Yes, I'm plagiarizing from myself; I post this, modified, every year.) THE CLASS OF 2009 Children insist on growing up and go...
Sunday, May 17, 2009

Notre Starbuck's

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Mack Hall A recent news photo features a Notre Dame senior wearing a wispy I-finally-got-some-testosterone beard and a slogan skivvy shirt, ...
Wednesday, May 13, 2009

The Spider, The Cockroach, The Man

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English 430 Stephen F. Austin State University Dr. Barbara Carr 27 June 2001 Upon reading Leigh Hunt's "To the Grasshopper and the ...
Tuesday, May 12, 2009

THE PRISONER Fact #11

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#6 was hired to play a game of chess with Death in one of those grainy black-and-white Ingmar Bergman films. #6 kept checkmating Death in th...
Sunday, May 10, 2009

How Many Dead Aggies Does it Take...?

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Mack Hall College Station, where there is a college but no station, is segregating a section of its new city cemetery for Aggies only. There...
Saturday, May 9, 2009

THE PRISONER Fact #10

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#6 often regaled the other prisoners in THE VILLAGE with crude jokes about a quite impossible relationship between #2 and Rover.
Monday, May 4, 2009

Writing: K.I.S.S.

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One of my final-exam questions for my Lamar University, Angelina College, and Kirbyville High School students: 16. Rewrite the following CBS...

Writing: K.I.S.S.

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One of my final-exam questions for my Lamar University, Angelina College, and Kirbyville High School students: 16. Rewrite the following CBS...
Sunday, May 3, 2009

THE PRISONER Fact #9

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Yes, #6 catches the swine flu. He catches it, has a few quiet conversations with it, and persuades it to attack #2.