PoorRichardsExcuseSinging the St. Louis Blues for Bobby Blue Robert Bryant Plager did not bleed blue; he embodied the Blues. Bob Plager suited up for the club in Season One, Game One in 1967, and remained continuously with the Blues until his death nearly 54 years later. An original Blue, Bob Plager was also a bona […]
Crutching with Covid Existence rutsuch rancor and pain,let’s medicate boredmy dull senses sane. Pill powder liquordraw from an ember,brighten up the loadto thee surrender. It’s time for a rideboard smoke ridden train,so bogart a dragof old mary jane. Pass me the bottleintemperate cheer,reality woes must steer myself clear. Bottom a shot glasspandemic’s cruel joke,prefer feeling […]
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A penny for your thoughts: How would Abraham Lincoln’s evil twin behave in an alternate universe given the American political and business ethos of today? Let’s call him Dishonest Abe. In this alternate world, Dishonest Abe represented MyTell, a children’s toy company that was a subsidiary of a megamillion conglomerate, Fleecem. Under dubious circumstances, Abe ‘obtained’ […]
On a bitter cold Thursday evening, a driver of a local funeral home van stopped at a QuikTrip leaving the engine running as he went inside for a purchase. Like so many, this driver could not bear the thought of returning to anything less that a toasty vehicle when he made the cold walk from […]
Groundhog Day loops back around on Tuesday, February 2nd. Indeed, we wake each morning to more of the same endless days of isolation, social distancing and masking. The Coronavirus’ societal impact arrived near the time of the Spring Equinox, morphing the usual time of optimism into pessimism. The long year of 2020 departed leaving us with […]
A quiet man passed away quietly this past Friday. Henry Louis Aaron was 86. Best known for breaking Babe Ruth’s all time home run record, Hammerin’ Hank, as he was known by opposing pitchers, possessed greatness that until the latter part of his career went underappreciated by the Baseball world. His incognito changed when seemingly […]
Winning five Stanley Cups in seven years, the Edmonton Oilers stand above all other dynasties that followed them. The Oilers were led by Wayne Gretzky and Mark Messier, the two best players to ever don a uniform for the same club. Born within eight days of the other on opposite ends of Canada, the […]
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JOHN LENNON REMEMBERED We remember dates for murdered icons. JFK assassinated on November 22, 1963; brother Bobby, the 6th of June. Julius Caesar stabbed on the Ides of March, and Honest Abe martyred on Good Friday. John Lennon took his bullets on 8 December 1980, outside his home when a deranged fan tried to kill […]