… POTUS authorizes use of nuclear weapons.

… Samuel Clemens, later known as Mark Twain, is born in Florida, Missouri, on November 30, 1835..

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(2) Aaron Poochigian on X: "A song about song: https://t.co/4GqIePcadY" / X (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

… The Clod and the Pebble.

Paul Davis On Crime: Drug Addicts Are More To Be Pitied Than Censured

… Bright star, would I were stedfast as thou art—

15 Thanksgiving leftovers recipes, including soup, sandwiches and strata - The Washington Post i'm 83 years old. I remember my grandmo...

Alec Baldwin: Americans are very uninformed about reality

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… A look at Thanksgiving and three famous Americans.

… Mathematician sends manuscript to 12-year-old girl.

… Sonnet for Tuesday, November 26, 2024.

… Ten most read poets at North of Oxford for 2024 based on readership. … Ten most read reviews at North of Oxford for 2024 based on reader...

“Father of Environmentalism” and famous explorer

… Sonnet for Monday, November 25, 2024.

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… Sonnet for Sunday, November 24, 2024.

… John Singer Sargent and Theodore Roosevelt.

… Sonnet for Saturday, November 23, 2024.

  Pond  is not a collection about which I can claim to have been aware: but after having read a review, I was convinced to pick it up. And I...

… Recommended reading for the festive season.

Arraignments | National Review

… Sonnet for Friday, November 22, 2024.

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… Sonnet for Thursday, November 21, 2024

… %u201CIntroduction%2C%u201D%20Aram%20Saroyan

… Sonnet for Wednesday, November 20, 2024 b>

… An approximation to God ...

… My “bucket list” project resumes and continues

Marilyn Monroe in Purgatory? TV Host Alleges Vision of Actress Suffering in Flames

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… I live in my own world under my hat.

Dozens of stars backed Harris’s campaign and yet she lost. Is the era of celebrity endorsements over?

… Green blades grow pale and still

… Story of murder immortalized by musical trio in 1958.

… Jane Hirshfield — Autumn.

  I'll be the first to admit that I'd not heard of Jon Fosse until he was awarded the Nobel Prize. Of course, I was curious, and so ...

… A smash success from the first night

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… 8,000 lay siege to northern end of Manhattan.

… I cast for comfort I can no more get

… Important approval after 16 months of debate

Then leaf subsides to leaf

… Newspaper identifies head of the rebellion.

… For nine years in me it has waited

Theodore Olson, RIP - The American Spectator | USA News and PoliticsThe American Spectator | USA News and Politics i am sure I met Ted and...

… Another child, far, far away

… Army general’s final ‘walk’ at Tomb of the Unknowns

  I've now finished the third of Rachel Cusk's "Faye" novels, Transit . And let me say at the start: this novel, like the ...

And now we lie in Flanders fields

I am awaiting the arrival a nurse and may be taken to the hospital. So I may not be posting today.

… What art can wash her guilt away?

THE HECK? Documents show FEMA official ordered workers to ignore houses with Trump signs | Not the Bee

… Old age should burn and rave at close of day.

Zealotry of Guerin: Poetry and Fiction by Christopher Guerin: Bathers By A River (Henri Matisse), Sonnet #626

… First library in America gets its start in Philadelphia.

… Alexandrine lines on the loss of the “Titanic”

… And comes that other fall we name the fall,

… Trump makes history (and I offer a blogging note.

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… everyone I spoke with today, wherher black or white, thought that Trump is going to win. they seemed quite sanguine about it. Well, we sha...

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… Woman defies law by voting; then she is fined $100.

'They're Targeting Voters Under the Guise of a News Org': Inside a Soros-Funded 'Fake News' Network's $9 Million Dig...

Joe Rogan makes surprise endorsement on eve of Election Day | Blaze Media

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… Republican wins big with 489 electoral college votes

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… I found myself in the L section of the dictionary

Living With An Ogre My man's like living with an ogre I think: “Let's get romantic. I'll just make A candle out of some of my e...

… Why that dude’s older than Cheerios

… I shall have less to say, but I shall be gone.

… ">Cowboy poetry: Using form: Doc Mehl, ‘Poems Used To Rhyme’ (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

… For them there was really nothing sad

… i thank You God for most this amazing / day:

… Voca Me: A Poem in 72 Voices.

… Eight hundred words of perfect wordless lace

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… POTUS pledges support for South Vietnam in 1954.

… Wedding bells and bucket list

… The Ball Poem by John Berryman.

Bill Maher sent Democrats into a panic with this terrifying message to Kamala Harris - 247 Politics

… Sonnet for George Burns and Gracie Allen

Falling is Not Failure, and Getting up is Not the Point - Front Porch Republic [Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

… Sarah Manguso — The Bear

… Men hate to die and have stopped dying now.

 …  Then leaf subsides to leaf.

 …  https://youtube.com/watch?v=Xny7G9YrrBU&si=72YZ_VrK1v0oa-bK Mitzi Gaynor at her best.

  When it comes to The Diary of a Nobody , all I can say is: if it's good enough for Evelyn Waugh -- and evidently it was -- then it...

 …  And who’s to say where the harvest shall stop?

 …  American society where books have been outlawed

 …   Anarchism .

 …  Mitzi Gaynor, star of ‘South Pacific,’ dies at 93.

…  Joseph Epstein, Yet Again | City Journa l (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

 …  Enchant the land with amethyst

 I am moving back to my apartment today. Blogging will resume afterwards.

 …  I’ve done it all my life