Archive for June, 2008
Dick Gregory, Live, In Living Color! In St. Louis!
Hey! Dick Gregory, internationally known comic and social activist, is coming home to St. Louis. How cool is that? The New Millennium Group invites you to welcome Gregory on June 19, 2008. Doors open at 5 p.m. at the Starlight Room on 8350 N. Broadway. Dick Gregory Dick Gregory recently stole the stage at Tavis [...]
Folk Wisdom from N Y Times! Beat the economy with homemade hash and backyard gardens.
The economy has now connected what comes naturally to us folk in the heartland plains with what appears in the most urbane of our nation’s heralds. Times are tough? Garden! Make hash! Here’s some downhome wisdom from the Big Apple. Check out today’s bits of village wisdom in the NY Times. Breaking news: country goes [...]
Stuck in Stuff? A Guy named Dave can help.
Ready to get rid of all that “stuff”? A guy named Dave Bruno has some great ideas for you on how to “reduce, refuse, rejigger” at his blog & and a cause “Stuck in Stuff”. He regularly runs a 100 Things Challenge. This way of living—”quieting the noise of consumerism”—is the way I was raised….taken [...]
Cultural Stereotypes challenged in N Y Times stories
Sign in to the NY Times online to read this stories….or, what the heck….go out and buy paper off the rack and read it over a cuppa coffee. Report Takes Aim at ‘Model Minority’ Stereotype of Asian-American Students By TAMAR LEWIN The image of Asian-Americans as a homogeneous group of high achievers taking over the [...]
“How Do You Heal a Broken Heart?” new poem by Erwin A. Thompson
My father woke up in the night last week with part of this poem in his mind and walked into his dining room office to write it down on a construction clipboard on blue-lined paper….which is where I found it when I came to visit. As we chatted about it, I suggested it might be [...]
Mara Purl’s many talents come home
Just one side of Mara Purl! Mara Purl is one of the ultimate hyphenates/slashers: author/actress/producer/artist/musician/playwrite. Talk about creating connections through the arts and across cultures! Head on over to Mara Purl’s guest blog post on Type M for Murder where she tells the story about a life of multi-talents coming into focus and fruition. Also, [...]
Ask Pop: Car History—When were keys first used to start a car?
Erwin A. Thompson, answer man QUESTION When did automobiles first get a keyed start? Were they keyed in 1919, the year of my current novel? Was it a crank, a push button? I have scoured the internet and while there is info abounding on the classic cars, the keyed start seems of no interest to [...]
On this day in history….a Spanish painter is born, my parents are married, and WW II reaches its climax
Reverse chronological order…. Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez was born. (June 6, 1599 – August 6, 1660) My parents Erwin A. Thompson and Ruth E. Thompson were married June 6, 1942 (66th anniversary today). D-Day June 6, 1944: The Climactic Battle of World War II Erwin and Ruth Thompson snuggle up on a past [...]
Forest Park Forever’s Hiram Leffingwell Awards Luncheon
I became a lady who lunches today as the Women’s Committee of Forest Park Forever celebrated their annual “hat luncheon,” to raise money for park maintenance and education programs….held at the World’s Fair Pavilion in St. Louis’ Forest Park. The World’s Fair Pavillion turned 100 today. I wore my frog-lotus puppet on the brim of [...]
“Bonneville”—Great American roadtrip film for gals of a certain age
On a girls night out Rebecca and I wound our way through St. Louis’ Central West End…now sampling gelato at the new store where last year Ben and Jerry’s stood; now eating Vietnamese crepes at my favorite snack shop; and now…checking out the films at the Chase Park Plaza Hotel and finding that “Bonneville” started [...]
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