Archive for February, 2004
Sunday, February 29th, 2004
Saturday at the Punch Lines
High winds and heavy, drenching rains swept through North Texas this morning. I would have slept through the whole thing, but my younger cat, Dorey, has a phobia about rain. When we lived in the condo, the four hundred pound drunken gorilla that lived upstairs (on his Mommy’s nickel and she wouldn’t let anyone say [...]
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Saturday, February 28th, 2004
Ruminations on the Fat Old Cats
Since writing about the questionable quality of the Little Town Rag, in particular the meandering musings of Ms. Gossip, I’ve found myself thinking about how generations of women age in Little Towns. A frightening transition occurs at the point at which a group of women cease to be the ones who are talked about and [...]
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Friday, February 27th, 2004
The Little Town Rag: Book Four
My on-going war with the Little Town Rag seems to have no end. In the last three weeks I’ve received one issue. When I complained via email, K.R., the snippy head of circulation who seems to have been taking manners lessons from D.C., the publisher, sent me a digital photo to prove my paper was [...]
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Thursday, February 26th, 2004
Afghanasia and Iraqi Rugs
About five o’clock yesterday R. announced that she didn’t want to go to Movie Night. Our friend E. stopped by for a couple of hours in the afternoon. We all visited in the kitchen while Inez, the incomparable domestic goddess, put the house in order, and afterwards R. couldn’t get to the bed for a [...]
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Wednesday, February 25th, 2004
Nine New Plates
Just added nine new plates to the Secret Code of the Road gallery. My pick of this bunch? HYROLN
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Tuesday, February 24th, 2004
Glassy Eyed on the Bank
We’ve had a desultory four days since our visit to the Turner last Thursday. The high winds and dust that day stirred up R.’s allergies, which in turn triggered a headache that turned into a persistent migraine. For me the days have offered up one set of irritations after another from cranky clients to calls [...]
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Monday, February 23rd, 2004
Moleskine
Just recently I commented to a friend that I do make an effort to control my little addictions. I don’t keep chocolate in the house because I won’t leave it alone. I studiously monitor my rabid tendency to acquire books by sticking to electronic texts that do not have to be shelved or dusted. And [...]
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Saturday, February 21st, 2004
Turner and Venice
Day before yesterday our friend G. gave us our first tour of the current Kimball exhibit “Turner and Venice.” We inadvertently picked an afternoon with wind gusts above 40 mph. The Panhandle enjoyed brisk 51 mph breezes with boiling dust clouds and visibility so poor there were highway pile-ups. Using the new chair lift in [...]
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Friday, February 20th, 2004
A Man on Horseback
Unlike many would-be damsels in distress, I never imagined myself being rescued by a knight in shining armor. Maybe I saw the Danny Kaye version of “A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court” at too tender an age. I don’t know, but chicks in snow cone cup hats and guys in tin long johns did [...]
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Thursday, February 19th, 2004
Checking In
While running errands this morning I spotted the mounted officer whose presence constitutes a large part of the increased security in the parking lot where our friend was recently abducted and subsequently murdered. This photo will be the basis for my day’s remarks because for some vague ancestoral reason the sight of an armed law [...]
