Sunday, April 28, 2013

Russian Easter - Christos Voskrese!

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Christos Voskrese! For Tod The world is unusually quiet this dawn With fading stars withdrawing in good grace And drowsy, dreamin...

"Ice Machine! Dead Ahead!" - Cruising Route 66 (Sort of)

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Mack Hall, HSG Mhall46184@aol.com Cruising Route 66 “Come aboard; we’re inspecting you…”   -       Paraphrasing a line from ...
Saturday, April 6, 2013

Russians in Moc Hoa

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I read lots of Russian lit (in translation, of course) while in Viet-Nam Mack Hall, HSG mhall46184@aol.com Russians in Moc Hoa ...

Saturday Morning Thoughts Over Coffee With Other Old Geezers

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Mack Hall, HSG mhall46184@aol.com Saturday Morning Thoughts Over Coffee With Other Old Geezers If American money is so worthless, why ...

Always Wear a Clean Shirt at a Wedding

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Mack Hall, HSG Mhall46184@aol.com Always Wear a Clean Shirt at a Wedding During the recent royal wedding one could not help noticing th...
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With Our Thrift-Shop Televisions We Will Conquer the World

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Mack Hall, HSG Mhall46184@aol.com With Our Thrift-Shop Televisions We Will Conquer the World With the death of what’s-his-name in a sma...

The Class of 2011

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Mack Hall, HSG mhall46184@aol.com THE CLASS OF 2011 Children insist on growing up and going away. Their teachers are not happy about t...

Searching for Sight

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Mack Hall, HSG mhall46184@aol.com Searching for Sight   No one assures you that lenses are green That spectacles are recycled from ...

On Your Mobile Device

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Mack Hall, HSG mhall46184@aol.com On Your Mobile Device Life now approaches not as a basket Of new kittens, or an old dog asleep In...

20 September 1870

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Mack Hall, HSG mhall46184@aol.com 20 September 1870 Like vultures hovering over the faithful dead The rank red rags of base repressi...

Roadside Detractions

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Mack Hall, HSG mhall46184@aol.com Roadside Detractions An empty cigarette packet smokeless An empty chewing gum wrapper gumless An ...

The Sky to Moc Hoa

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Mack Hall, HSG mhall46184@aol.com                                                               The Sky to Moc Hoa The sky to Moc Ho...

English Ivy

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Mack Hall, HSG mhall46184@aol.com English Ivy Why do some call this vine an English ivy? Does it wear tweeds, call for a cup of t...

It's on the 'Net; It Must be True

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Mack Hall, HSG mhall46184@aol.com It’s on the ‘Net; It Must be True   Alexander Graham Bell, a Canadian who was born in Scotland, in...

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. ...

A Makeshift Shrine

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Mack Hall, HSG mhall46184@aol.com A Makeshift Shrine Teddy bears ribboned to a chain-link fence, Plastic-wrapped flowers stacked li...

Come Laughing Home at Twilight

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Mack Hall, HSG mhall46184@aol.com Come Laughing Home at Twilight And, O!   Wasn’t he just the Jack the lad, A’swellin...

Brightly-Colored Brick Pits

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Mack Hall, HSG Mhall46184@aol.com April, 2013 Brightly-Colored Brick Pits On Saturday night ABC, in a worthy annual tradition,...