tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-64849908590431531472024-03-13T10:49:39.095-05:00Harvey's Shoebox... while miracles have been leaning on lampposts at 18th and Fairfax...Hackenbushhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15507810776309048794noreply@blogger.comBlogger17125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6484990859043153147.post-54298083429687009752011-04-23T18:05:00.001-05:002011-04-23T18:06:52.234-05:00Cookie the Penguin Likes Being Tickled<div style="text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="390" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/3wTWWjYTe1I?rel=0" title="YouTube video player" width="640"></iframe></div>Hackenbushhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15507810776309048794noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6484990859043153147.post-72123308964055161862011-02-20T20:15:00.002-06:002011-02-20T20:16:24.440-06:00Simple Pleasures<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Here's something my wife and I get a kick out of and it only costs a few quarters. Before we go walking in the park we take a few handfuls of roasted peanuts in the shell and put them in our coat pockets. As we walk we invite the squirrels to have a nut. Some will come right over. Others have to be coaxed. A few shy ones run off. Sometimes a small group will come running over one by one. </span><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><object height="385" width="640"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/zkd5dJIVjgM?fs=1&hl=en_US"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/zkd5dJIVjgM?fs=1&hl=en_US" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="640" height="385"></embed></object></div></div>Hackenbushhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15507810776309048794noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6484990859043153147.post-3952613779163875412010-08-19T22:06:00.000-05:002010-08-19T22:06:16.442-05:00Another Side of Tom Leher<div style="text-align: center;"><object height="385" width="480"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/zzTqOwqlpl8?fs=1&hl=en_US&rel=0"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/zzTqOwqlpl8?fs=1&hl=en_US&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"></embed></object></div>Hackenbushhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15507810776309048794noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6484990859043153147.post-46696521166000901052010-08-17T08:00:00.001-05:002010-08-17T08:00:04.751-05:00Sarah Vowell -- Vowellet<object height="385" width="480"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/4FRb3bH3iB0?fs=1&hl=en_US&rel=0"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/4FRb3bH3iB0?fs=1&hl=en_US&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"></embed></object>Hackenbushhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15507810776309048794noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6484990859043153147.post-8319483029298147802010-08-15T10:14:00.000-05:002010-08-15T10:14:00.587-05:00Dick Van Dyke Show -- Needy Bald People!<object height="385" width="480"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/wPQh_icGY3U?fs=1&hl=en_US&rel=0"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/wPQh_icGY3U?fs=1&hl=en_US&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"></embed></object>Hackenbushhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15507810776309048794noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6484990859043153147.post-67033156281079240032010-08-14T11:12:00.000-05:002010-08-14T11:12:35.061-05:00Chico and Harpo -- Animal Crackers<div style="text-align: center;"><object height="385" width="480"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/32kPmXL_oug?fs=1&hl=en_US&rel=0"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/32kPmXL_oug?fs=1&hl=en_US&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"></embed></object></div>Hackenbushhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15507810776309048794noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6484990859043153147.post-81673407421201058572010-08-13T10:56:00.000-05:002010-08-13T10:56:37.894-05:00The Graduate<div style="text-align: left;"><object height="385" width="640"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/nh7H6XC11P8?fs=1&hl=en_US&rel=0"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/nh7H6XC11P8?fs=1&hl=en_US&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="640" height="385"></embed></object></div>Hackenbushhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15507810776309048794noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6484990859043153147.post-6451267155600445322010-08-12T10:55:00.001-05:002010-08-12T10:56:03.430-05:00A Dying Cub Fan's Last Request<div style="text-align: center;"><object height="385" width="480"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/7xBxZGQ1dJk?fs=1&hl=en_US&rel=0"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/7xBxZGQ1dJk?fs=1&hl=en_US&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"></embed></object></div>Hackenbushhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15507810776309048794noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6484990859043153147.post-52347797087617718592010-08-12T10:50:00.000-05:002010-08-12T10:50:01.692-05:00Selecting a ReaderSelecting a Reader<br />
<br />
First, I would have her be beautiful,<br />
and walking carefully up on my poetry<br />
at the loneliest moment of an afternoon,<br />
her hair still damp at the neck<br />
from washing it. She should be wearing<br />
a raincoat, an old one, dirty<br />
from not having money enough for the cleaners.<br />
She will take out her glasses, and there,<br />
in the bookstore, she will tumb<br />
over my poems, then put the book back<br />
up on its shelf. She will say to herself,<br />
"For that kind of money, I can get<br />
my raincoat cleaned." And she will.<br />
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<i>Ted Kooser </i>from the book <i>Flying at Night</i>Hackenbushhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15507810776309048794noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6484990859043153147.post-66066804723876344622010-08-02T11:17:00.000-05:002010-08-02T11:17:26.295-05:00F. Scott Fitzgerald's, "The Great Gatsby"<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">"Whenever you feel like criticizing any one," he told me, "just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had." </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><i>Chapter 1, opening words.</i></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><i><br />
</i></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;">Gatsby turned out all right at the end; it is what preyed on Gatsby, what foul dust floated in the wake of his dreams that temporarily closed out my interest in the abortive sorrows and short-winded elations of men.<b><br />
</b><span class="bodysi" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 8pt; font-style: italic;">Chapter 1, Nick on Gatsby.</span></span></i></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">This is a valley of ashes - a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens; where ashes take the forms of houses and chimneys and rising smoke and, finally, with a transcendent effort, of men who move dimly and already crumbling through the powdery air. Occasionally a line of gray cars crawls along an invisible track, gives out a ghastly creak, and comes to rest, and immediately the ash-gray men swarm up with leaden spades and stir up an impenetrable cloud, which screens their obscure operations from your sight.<b><br />
</b><span class="bodysi" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 8pt; font-style: italic;">Chapter 2.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span class="bodysi" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 8pt; font-style: italic;"><br />
</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span class="bodysi" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 8pt; font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; font-style: normal;">Most of the big shore places were closed now and there were hardly any lights except the shadowy, moving glow of a ferryboat across the Sound. And as the moon rose higher the inessential houses began to melt away until gradually I became aware of the old island here that flowered once for Dutch sailors' eyes-a fresh, green breast of the new world. Its vanished trees, the trees that had made way for Gatsby's house, had once pandered in whispers to the last and greatest of all human dreams; for a transitory enchanted moment man must have held his breath in the presence of this continent, compelled into an aesthetic contemplation he neither understood nor desired, face to face for the last time in history with something commensurate to his capacity for wonder.<b><br />
</b><span class="bodysi" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 8pt; font-style: italic;">Chapter 9.</span></span></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span class="bodysi" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 8pt; font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; font-style: normal;"><span class="bodysi" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 8pt; font-style: italic;"><br />
</span></span></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span class="bodysi" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 8pt; font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; font-style: normal;"><span class="bodysi" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 8pt; font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; font-style: normal;">And as I sat there, brooding on the old, unknown world, I thought of Gatsby's wonder when he first picked out Daisy's light at the end of his dock. He had come such a long way to this blue lawn, and his dream must have seemed so close he could hardly fail to grasp it. But what he did not know was that it was already behind him, somewhere in the vast obscurity beyond the city, where the dark fields of the republic rolled on under the night.<b><br />
</b><span class="bodysi" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 8pt; font-style: italic;">Chapter 9.</span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span class="bodysi" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 8pt; font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; font-style: normal;"><span class="bodysi" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 8pt; font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; font-style: normal;"><span class="bodysi" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 8pt; font-style: italic;"><br />
</span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span class="bodysi" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 8pt; font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; font-style: normal;"><span class="bodysi" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 8pt; font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; font-style: normal;"><span class="bodysi" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 8pt; font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; font-style: normal;">Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgiastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that's no matter- tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther…And one fine morning-<b><br />
</b><span class="bodysi" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 8pt; font-style: italic;">Chapter 9.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span class="bodysi" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 8pt; font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; font-style: normal;"><span class="bodysi" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 8pt; font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; font-style: normal;"><span class="bodysi" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 8pt; font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; font-style: normal;"><span class="bodysi" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 8pt; font-style: italic;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span class="bodysi" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 8pt; font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; font-style: normal;"><span class="bodysi" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 8pt; font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; font-style: normal;"><span class="bodysi" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 8pt; font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; font-style: normal;"><span class="bodysi" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 8pt; font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; font-style: normal;">So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.<b><br />
</b><span class="bodysi" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 8pt; font-style: italic;">Chapter 9</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>Hackenbushhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15507810776309048794noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6484990859043153147.post-73324879172096771302010-08-01T21:25:00.000-05:002010-08-01T21:25:44.178-05:00Homeward Bound, I Wish I Was<div style="text-align: center;"><object height="385" width="480"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/U6K8wfyzAJQ&hl=en_US&fs=1?rel=0"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/U6K8wfyzAJQ&hl=en_US&fs=1?rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"></embed></object></div>Hackenbushhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15507810776309048794noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6484990859043153147.post-6769976685321090152010-08-01T21:18:00.001-05:002010-08-01T21:26:33.701-05:00Grover Serves Blue Man a Hamburger<div style="text-align: center;"><object height="385" width="480"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/UsjrQxZSHrs&hl=en_US&fs=1?rel=0"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/UsjrQxZSHrs&hl=en_US&fs=1?rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"></embed></object></div>Hackenbushhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15507810776309048794noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6484990859043153147.post-5387864509382709332010-07-31T23:30:00.001-05:002010-08-01T21:19:28.077-05:00Found inside a poetry book at the Chicago Public Library<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiO7oPZlFlM6L7c4rS2cL_vXy8J5gVxRhVdQKgctqooTAC0K8yVd31Eqnf-yWXBIZKhwtaVccqzA5DDXYigEdso6EY6BclsH7ozVaowu3Yi4IP6Bz_zxSIFcknqtOeG96pK_rWrhV2wxSXU/s1600/Photo+found+inside+a+poetry+book+at+the+CPL.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="345" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiO7oPZlFlM6L7c4rS2cL_vXy8J5gVxRhVdQKgctqooTAC0K8yVd31Eqnf-yWXBIZKhwtaVccqzA5DDXYigEdso6EY6BclsH7ozVaowu3Yi4IP6Bz_zxSIFcknqtOeG96pK_rWrhV2wxSXU/s400/Photo+found+inside+a+poetry+book+at+the+CPL.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>Hackenbushhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15507810776309048794noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6484990859043153147.post-14072038258308760742010-07-31T23:18:00.001-05:002010-07-31T23:42:21.715-05:00The Voyager II SatelliteThe tin man is cold:<br />
the glitter of distant worlds<br />
is like snow on his coat.<br />
Free-falling through space,<br />
he spreads his arms<br />
and slowly turns,<br />
hands reaching to catch<br />
the white, elusive<br />
dandelion fuzz<br />
of starlight. He is the dove<br />
with wings of purest gold<br />
sent out upon the deep<br />
to seek a place for us,<br />
the goat upon whose back<br />
we've sent our problems<br />
into exile, the dreamy beast<br />
of peace and science<br />
who now grows smaller, smaller,<br />
falling so gracefully<br />
into the great blank face<br />
of God.<br />
<br />
by Ted Kooser<br />
Poet Laureate of the United States (2004-2006)Hackenbushhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15507810776309048794noreply@blogger.com0