The Bishop and the Butterfly: Murder, Politics, and the End of the Jazz Age
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    Enormous Kidney Stone Temporarily Shutters The Haikulodeon

     

    Sorry about that.

    Two huge staghorn kidney stones,

    one in each kidney. 

     

    Two weeks hospital.

    Just got out ...  Ahhh ...  Now ... Have to 

    get back up to speed.

     

    Will try to resume regular weekly posting on Friday.  

    :-)

     

     

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    TIDES; TIGER & THE BABE!

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    I am missing Smith.

    So I am creating this non-Haiku in the hopes I can find out how he is doing.

     

    I was thinking about tides.

    We can better understand the miraculous as long as we admit the miracle of tides.

    The ole 'ebb and flow' as they say.

    Babe Ruth is a hero of mine.

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    The Amish Las Vegas: "Breaking Amish" Comes to Pinecraft

    "Breaking Amish" TLC hit series from last fall season on Sunday night has started shooting the second season at Pinecraft, a community in Sarasota, Florida.  I haven't seen the series because I don't have cable but according to Wikipedia it is about five young adults trying out a new life, to see if they want to remain in their upbringing.  Because the series had high ratings and good revie

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    The Amish Las Vegas and Quilting

    I like to treat myself a short 15 min. ride to Alma Sue's Quilt shop from my house a couple of times a year.  It is a joy to walk into her new shop and watch the Amish and Menonnites quilt.  They quilt from frames hung from the ceiling and speak a form a German that is known a Pa.

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    Yet another Friday Afternoon at the Haikulodeon

     
     
    Here's this week's heap of haikus:
     
     
     
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    The scent of jasmine
    scatters as the door is slammed
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    A Cold, Rainy Friday Afternoon at the Haikulodeon

     

    Here's this week's heap of haikus:

     

     

     

    Warmed-over coffee
    fills my mug like an old friend
    who slept on the couch.

     

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    MOMMY

     

    I took my little trip to the grocers.

    It was a Monday and I was almost out of my allowance till Wednesday and I only needed to spend under twelve bucks.

    Oh I have a couple hundred in savings now and that is there to make sure that if my computer goes down....well, I can get a back-up and not destroy an entire monthly budget!

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    PONCE DE LEON & GEORGE W. BUSH

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    JUAN PONCE DE LEON

    I just caught this little squib at the NYT about the seeker of the Fountain of Youth.

    Evidently they are going to put the SOB on a postage stamp or something commemorating things the bastard never accomplished.

    We Have A Pope

    I just stumbled onto a pretty good movie that is coincidentally quite timely. It is a comedy played seriously. It is called We Have A Pope. I liked it from the beginning where there is what I presume to be a realistic portrayal of the pomp and ceremony surrounding the death of a Pope. It quickly goes to the election process for the new Pope which reminded me of a comical twist on Putney Swope that might actually be quite inciteful. The movie is completely non-polemic. Wiki's description;

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    A Wish-filled Friday Afternoon at the Haikulodeon

     
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