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One of our subscribers, channeling his inner Mark Twain, pointed out a typo in my blog posting: Joan of Arc by Mark Twain.
“immorality of the soul” – I think he did believe in that
Immortality, on the other hand, he might have struggled with
Here at Curmudgeon-Alley.com we are always open to corrections, and semi-open to differing opinions since we consider ours as the unsolicited, unreasoned, uninformed and unapologetic ramblings of a very tired old Okie.
And so it goes.
I would have to call this book a two-fer. You have a historical novel, accurate in its facts about the subject, Joan of Arc, delivered by a masterful story teller, Mark Twain. It was the last book of Twain’s published while he lived, and he considered it his best work. Who am I to argue with Samuel Clemens? It is remarkable that this book is not better known. I had no idea until a few weeks ago that he had written such a book. I had bought a two volume set Continue reading “Joan of Arc by Mark Twain”
Señora and I decided to have a wild couple’s night out, something we had not done for quite some time due to COVID. We have gone out to dinner a few times, always attempting to dine outside, but we went absolutely crazy Saturday evening. First we went to one of our favorite restaurants in the metro area, a Vietnamese restaurant, Pho Grand. As always, they came through, and we both had a very enjoyable meal.
St. Louis has an iconic folk music venue, The Focal Point. The term folk music seems to be morphing into the category of roots music, but a rose is a rose. We are both big aficionados of this style of music and Continue reading “Cuz he can…”
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Should I be concerned? Señora sent me this cartoon the other day…
“A man in love is incomplete until he has married. Then he’s finished.” ~~ Zsa Zsa Gabor
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“The funniest things are the forbidden” ~~ Mark Twain
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Señora and I are friends with a couple, Harry and Susan, who live a little north of Chicago. A few weeks ago they drove down to visit their son in Springfield, IL, and afterwards they passed a couple days in the St. Louis area to visit with us and Susan’s sister. We had dinner with them one night on our patio and dinner the next night at her sister’s house. After dinner each night we passed many agreeable hours on our patio gabbing and partaking of water and sunlight that nature had graciously turned into the pleasant and pleasing beverage called wine.
On the night we ate dinner at our house we were having a bit of a problem with flies. I started talking about wanting to get one of those guns that shoots salt in order to hunt down flies. A week or so after their visit, there arrived an unexpected package Continue reading “Rev. Joe Uncovers an International Conspiracy”
yeah I know you did not ask!
I’m frequently perplexed as to whether the human race is advancing or not. One area where we seem to be going backwards is in written communications. There are a few reasons for this, but big ones are platforms such as Twitter that only allow 256 – up from 128 –characters per posting and texting. Both promote the use of abbrvs. and acronyms, LOL. They also encourage the use of emojis, those ubiquitous smiley faces and other such small cartoons used as shortcuts for emotional content.
My text app has recently exploded with various emojis and other small images. I type in beer and a picture of a mug of beer appears. I type in disrespectful and a scowling, purplish face appears, and so many more.
Pretty soon we will eliminate all cascades of letters symbolizing various concepts in favor of the new hieroglyphics. King Tut and his Egyptian cohorts would be so proud.
yeah I know you did not ask!
It strikes that the new Republican slogan might be: “Death to America” while utilizing the American flag in any number of disrespectful manners.
Well maybe not “Death to America”, but surely “Death to American Democracy.”