I’m not totally sure which principles really matter any more. But, this man surely did. And his commitment to them affected culture. Truett Cathy founder and chairman of Chick-fil-A. (March 14, 1921 – September 8, 2014) Performed by theipoetlaureate. Music produced by Harulduz7. Lyrics here. Today’s blong here: [wpaudio url=”http://www.ipoetblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Not-on-Sunday.mp3″ dl=”0″ text=”Not on Sunday (An […]
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Mott Haven 2014
A House on Beekman. Mott Haven 2013. Performed by theipoetlaureate. Music produced by juicebox jackson. Lyrics here. Today’s blong here: [wpaudio url=”http://www.ipoetblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Break-Chain.mp3″ dl=”0″ text=”Break Chain“]
Taking One for the Team
My dad was a beat cop and career FBI. I was preached the perils and uncertainties of law enforcement my whole life. You just don’t know what you’re about to face in a car stop or home search or raid. And, so the justification follows that police should be accorded some measure of grace when […]
Appall Bearer
Fred Phelps Sr., founder and pastor of Westboro Baptist Church, died this week. The members of Westboro Baptist Church, over a 20 year period of time, have used military funerals as a vehicle to protest and prophesy the judgment of God over the alleged sexual sins of America, principally homosexuality and child abuse in the […]
Piers Pressure
I was three years off in my prognostication. But, I told you so. This was never going to work.
Manopoly
Janet Yellen broke it. Up until her confirmation this week, the Federal Reserve System was chaired by a long line of these guys: But, our obsession with demographic firsts is pretty stale. Numbers don’t really care. You go, girl. Performed by the ipoetlaureate. Music produced by djclutch. [wpaudio url=”http://www.ipoetblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Monopoly.mp3″ dl=”0″ text=”Homemaker Equity“]
Superlative
Truthfully, I’ve read maybe 250 pages of Long Walk to Freedom’s 750 or so. But, between the movie Invictus and this meat pie I had once, I’m pretty sure I can fill in the gaps. Plus my brother-in-law is a South African ex-pat and so that makes me almost native by the commutative property of […]
The Scarlett Red and Royal Blue
Written and performed by theipoetlaureate. Music produced djclutch. Today’s blong here: [wpaudio url=”http://www.ipoetblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/phillipines-1.mp3″ dl=”0″ text=”How Do We Stay“]
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That’s how old Diana Nyad is now, as she makes her 5th attempt to swim the 103 miles from Cuba to Florida. She’s nearly there. I expressed my infatuation with her last year, here. I had so much fun at the turn of the millennium that I vowed, with the aid of bio-engineering and blood […]
Man of the Cloth
Like a miniature Podcast Hadron Collider, my recently upgraded-to iPhone 5 nearly destroyed the known universe. Without warning, my two most severe passions circled back on each other at speeds approaching that of light, when the Sports Guy, Bill Simmons, this week, dedicated an entire podcast to the cinema career of Jodie Foster. Like two […]
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