Monthly Archives: June 2006

Interesting times…

By Frank Paynter | Published: June 30, 2006

I don’t think I can handle too many more weeks like this. Michelle’s death cast a pall, and the dog’s injury hurt. Dean’s kitty died… good-bye Destiny. BloggerCon left me conflicted as usual. I saw Steve, the Ookles guy, and asked after a mutual friend… got a strange off-key answer… still don’t know what Ookles [...]

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Treaty of Tripoli

By Frank Paynter | Published: June 30, 2006

Good news!  This just in from our ambassador to the lands of the profit… Art. 11. As the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion; as it has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion, or tranquillity, of Mussulmen; and, as the [...]

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I be me…

By Frank Paynter | Published: June 30, 2006

rambling through UBUWEB, ever grateful to wood s lot for leading me through excerpts and links am I the man with the perpetual Quigley? I have a genre busting suggestion – not every allusion in every post I write needs a fucking link, not every stolen image needs an acknowledgement. Neither great literature nor lit [...]

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Wild Horses

By Frank Paynter | Published: June 29, 2006

I googled Robin Kaelber… though she died before the web was born. When they killed JFK, I was in the Rathskellar, “the Rat.” I interrupted a chess game to check the TV news nearby. “That’s politics,” I said. People had a hard time measuring my depth from that statement. The consensus was “shallow.” “Heartless” and [...]

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Chittering?

By Frank Paynter | Published: June 29, 2006

Howz’at song go?  “Twenty years of blogging and they put you on the A-list…”

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The groom wears the clean bowling shirt…

By Frank Paynter | Published: June 29, 2006

Madison landscaping, courtesy of Henry.

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For Dean…

By Frank Paynter | Published: June 29, 2006

This has been a hell of a week… this kitty made me think of you. I thought of you on Saturday too, when I met Om who sends his fellow Yankee fan regards. (Photo credit: Henry, aka Kerr Mudgeon)

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By Frank Paynter | Published: June 29, 2006

Life is sad, life is a bust All you can do is do what you must You do what you must do, and you do it well I’d do it for you, honey baby can’t you tell?

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