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Roger

About Me

It is easy to go down into Hell; Night and day, the gates of dark Death stand wide; But to climb back again, to retrace one's steps to the upper air - There's the rub, the task.
Virgil - The Aeneid

My Interests

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My Blog

the last words of Jeanne Julie de Lespinasse

Julie de Lespinasse (1732-1776) French author, friend of d'Alembert, lover of Comte du Guibert  "Am I still alive?""Towards night she was for a long while unconscious, and, being revived with cordials...
Posted by on Sun, 24 May 2009 21:19:00 GMT

creepy crespi

Here's a bit I've cut and pasted from Wikipedia (lame, yes) about an obscure baseball player who first caught my attention because of his kickass name.  He's one of so many MLB players who didn't quit...
Posted by on Sun, 17 May 2009 09:26:00 GMT

bravo, Warren Michigan

I've often thought police in general are a bit overzealous with their use of tasers, thinking it should be a last resort before actually shooting somebody rather than a I don't want to get my hands di...
Posted by on Sat, 16 May 2009 09:21:00 GMT

one reason to love tennessee williams

Tennessee Williams (1911-1983)'Life Story'After you've been to bed together for the first time,without the advantage or disadvantage of any prior   acquaintance,the other party very often says to you,...
Posted by on Sat, 09 May 2009 19:45:00 GMT

dick poles and rusty kuntz


Posted by on Sat, 02 May 2009 16:24:00 GMT

serling says

It is difficult to produce a television documentary that is both incisive and probing when every twelve minutes one is interrupted by twelve dancing rabbits singing about toilet paper. --Rod Serlin...
Posted by on Thu, 23 Apr 2009 19:59:00 GMT

break walls with extra size

Here's something I just discovered in my email spam folder, a message with the subject title: "break walls with extra size".  Why Yahoo would designate such a thing as spam and something that I would ...
Posted by on Mon, 13 Apr 2009 22:23:00 GMT

bob gibson, opening day

Baseball begins tonight, which is good news for some of us, while others of you could give two shits.  Anyway, as in most things, I like older rather than newer (ask my ex-girlfriends, all of them 75+...
Posted by on Sun, 05 Apr 2009 10:47:00 GMT

street jogging asshole

jackass jogger,grove avenue,running towards oncoming traffic,directly at me and my cheapass car, in the center of my lane, oblivious or daring?either run you down or dodge you by swerving halfway into...
Posted by on Sun, 15 Mar 2009 16:51:00 GMT

the ever-generous bud sanders

Early this morning I had coffee in hand and sat down at my desktop computer to peruse various news and literary sites, much as one in days of old might sit down with a Sunday newspaper.  Upon opening ...
Posted by on Sun, 15 Feb 2009 17:42:00 GMT