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TCS: Don’t Know Much About History
Good Morning! __________________________________________________________ Welcome to The Coffee Shop, just for you early risers on Monday mornings. This is an Open Thread forum, so if you have an off-topic opinion burning a hole in your brainpan, feel free to add a … Continue reading
Posted in History, Music, The Coffee Shop
Tagged Charles Dickens, Civil, Civil War, Civilization, Sam Cooke, Treaties, What a Wonderful World
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Word Cloud: OUTSIDER
by NONA BLYTH CLOUD Recognition. A word that can mean someone’s work has been honored, ‘recognized’ for excellence, but also can mean that moment when a person feels a lighting strike of connection to an artist’s work, whatever the media … Continue reading
Insane Clown posse comitatus and #MOAR Trump gathering nothing
By ann summers This headline should read: “Americans who dress up as clowns outnumber clowns who dress up as Americans” https://t.co/OkS4nopaHM â Noah Smith (@Noahpinion) September 17, 2017 Martha Stewart is cute when she plays the ex-con gangsta meme, but … Continue reading
Posted in 2016 Election, Celebrity, Crime, Fascism, FBI, Free Speech, Government, History, Media, Music, Political Science, Politics, Presidential Elections, Society
Tagged Donald Trump, Media, Music, Politics
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TCS: Baby Love
Good Morning! ___________________________________________________________ Welcome to The Coffee Shop, just for you early risers on Monday mornings. This is an Open Thread forum, so if you have an off-topic opinion burning a hole in your brainpan, feel free to add a … Continue reading
Posted in Music, The Coffee Shop
Tagged Baby Shower, Little Girls, Maurice Chevalier, Stevie Wonder, TCS, The Supremes
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Word Cloud: WHIRLIGIG
by NONA BLYTH CLOUD What is one to make of Hilaire Beloc (1870-1953)? A man of so many contradictions he seems like a human whirligig. Anti-German and Anti-Semitic. Combative and intolerant in his philosophical and political writings, but whimsical and amusing in … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry, Word Cloud
Tagged A Bad Child’s Book of Beasts, A Moral Alphabet, Cautionary Tales for Children, G.K. Chesterton, George Bernard Shaw, Hilaire Beloc, Whirligig
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TCS: Everybody Dance!
Good Morning! ___________________________________________________________ Welcome to The Coffee Shop, just for you early risers on Monday mornings. This is an Open Thread forum, so if you have an off-topic opinion burning a hole in your brainpan, feel free to add a … Continue reading
Posted in Short Video, The Coffee Shop
Tagged Bees, Everybody Dance!, Ferris Bueller, Mock Turtle Song, Sea Horses, TCS, Twist and Shout, Whooping Cranes
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Word Cloud: ECSTASY
by NONA BLYTH CLOUD If you look up “complex” in the dictionary, you may find a picture of H.D. (1886-1961). Since most Americans and many people in the rest of the world have not had “the benefit of a Classical education,” … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry, Word Cloud
Tagged Bryher, Circe, Claudia Homonoea, Ezra Pound, H.D., Helen of Troy, Hilda Dolittle, Richard Aldington
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Word Cloud: FAÇADE
by NONA BLYTH CLOUD In Georgette Heyer’s novel Regency Buck, Mrs. Scattergood’s description of herself fits my first impression of Edith Sitwell (1887-1964) perfectly: “I am shockingly expensive, but you won’t mind that, I daresay. Oh, you are looking at my gown … Continue reading
Word Cloud: WORDPLAY
by NONA BLYTH CLOUD American schoolchildren now go back to school before Labor Day in a number of school districts in 13 states. Between 1900 and 1990, most U.S. schools had a summer break beginning sometime in June and going … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry, Word Cloud
Tagged Children's Poetry, End of Summer, Fun, Humor, Jack Prelutsky, New School Year, WORDPLAY
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