One Man’s Desires – And Heartaches
Gangs took his sons. God took his wife.
Posted on October 29, 2012
QT: Just Trying To Be Efficient
By Zay N. Smith
QT Digest of Mitt Romney’s Friday Speech on the U.S. Economy (for Your Convenience):
“We . . . have changed . . . our . . . principles . . . before . . . and . . . will . . . in . . . the future . . .”
QT will admit these excerpts are out of context.
Sort of.
Eight days to go.
Posted on October 29, 2012
QT: Guess It Doesn’t Take Much . . .
By Zay N. Smith
News Headline: “Mitt Romney: U.S. will stay ‘strongest nation on Earth.’ ”
News Headline: “Clint Eastwood: U.S. ‘just couldn’t survive’ a second Obama term.”
Add strongest nations on Earth to the list of things that aren’t what they used to be.
Posted on October 26, 2012
Kmart Tries To Be Kool. Fails.
Mission Impossible: Just Own Who You Are
“Kmart set up shop in the parking lot of Kmart’s Addison and Kimball location in Chicago and invited the neighborhood to watch dancer Monternez ‘Monty’ Rezell, from the Chicago Hip Hop dance crew Stick and Move, dance his way through eight hours of costume changes.”
We’d rather do our laundry. Or stick hot pokers in our eyes.
Posted on October 25, 2012
QT: Nearing The Finish Line
By Zay N. Smith
News Headline: “Man runs marathon in flip-flops.”
This is either about an athletic event or Mitt Romney’s presidential candidacy.
Hard to say.
QT will get back to you.
Posted on October 24, 2012
QT: Innovations In Fact-Checking
By Zay N. Smith
News Headline: “Facts take a beating at second presidential debate.”
News Headline: “No debate over whether they twist facts.”
News Headline: “Presidential debates need format change.”
Too late for changes tonight.
But QT recalls a one-man play in theaters a few years ago.
The play was set up so members of the audience could push buttons to deliver slight electrical shocks to the performer.
This format could be adapted.
Or were you thinking of dunk tanks?
Might work.
The political process can always use a little tweaking.
Posted on October 22, 2012
QT: And A Closed Window Is A Draft Deferment
By Zay N. Smith
News Headline: “Ann Romney: Mormon missions and U.S. military are ‘different ways of serving.’ ”
And while we are at it, Paul Ryan once had a summer job at a McDonald’s.
So he served, too.
Posted on October 19, 2012
Chicagoetry: Mercury In Retrograde
By J.J. Tindall
MERCURY IN RETROGRADE
Heart full of dew
and cinemas;
the contraption of memory
clattering;
autumn leaves turn to gems
and gazelles.
Under-appreciated oak and elm
transmogrify into blazing festivals
and suburban lanes
become shattered rainbows.
Posted on October 18, 2012
QT: Plus Another 16,000 Words Or So
QT Digest of the Second Presidential Debate (for Your Convenience):
“. . . just isn’t true. . . not true. . . not true. . . is up. . . is down. . . no, it isn’t. . . it’s absolutely true. . . just not true. . . completely and totally wrong. . . that’s not true. . . .”
Twenty days to go.
Posted on October 17, 2012
Chicago: The Way I See It
By Scott Emalfarb
“Chicago through my lens. I was inspired to let my heart dictate what I shot. My physical body just reacted based on where my head and soul wanted to shoot. This is purely a compilation of what I saw today in Chicago.”
Posted on October 16, 2012