Telephone service and internet are currently down at Lilliput central and will be down at least through Tuesday.
Don't ask.
So, no Issa's Sunday Service this week. I'm shooting for the usual Wednesday post, a review of the "new" collection of Rexroth translations, but that may be being a little too optimistic.
Hopefully, more soon.
no moon tomorrow
in this famous resort...
evening rainIssa
translation by David Lanoue
best,
Don
Since you didn't say why, I'm free to make up my own explanation. I figure there's a terrorist group out there bent on destroying the world's haiku treasures in order to hasten the fall of the civilized world. You're under both cyber and physical attack from this group but are bravely defending with salvos from your famous .575 mm rifle.
ReplyDeletefull moon
ReplyDeletejust like
the old days:
listening
to the silence
grow so large
How Pleasant!
(maybe next time just pay your electric bill)
hile your service is down let's
ReplyDelete"PLAY BALL!"
go rent or otherwise get this movie:
http://movies.tvguide.com/everyones-hero/review/282702
it's on now... a film started in 1932 and done in 2006
and, hey
just like this "kid" did as a cartoon
we used to do.... go into Griffith Stadium
when there was no game and run the bases go all over the stadium into the dug-out into the broad-cast booth, into the locker-rooms
usually some workers where around and didn't mind and sometimes a player or 4 would be there practicing
and would throw us a pitch or throw us a ground ball..
hey this is a cute movie
I remeber that one day Bobbie MacDonald actually stole second base THE ACTUAL BASE!
just unbuckled it...
"I'm gonna tell."
so he threw the base into the visitor's dug out on our way out.
Charles, thanks for holding down the fort!
ReplyDeleteEd, where would we be without the full moon ... well, not here, eh
He really actually stole second base?
My service is back up after 5 days. Bad wire on the pole. I read a nice chuck of Walden to keep things in perspective. Don't know if I'll get a post up tomorrow but we'll see, we'll see ...
Don
yeah he did steal second base... but never took it out of the stadium
ReplyDeleteBobbie was NUTZ!
in 1952
he was / is the guy who throught the cat out of the Washington Monuement window! He was the reason that they put glass i front of thos bars!
Once, he and I and Winfred Owens took some boxes of Ivory Flakes up to Columbus Fountain where we used to "swim"
that's the fountain in front of Union Station
and at the top part of the fountain and
dumped 4 or so boxes of the flakes (the large boxes) into the water
The ensuing suds flooded the fountain and ran out into the street
last I heard of Bobbie McDonald was that he was in The National Training School for boys over in SE, D.C.
this was whe I was about 10 Bobbie was a cpl years older...
http://www.vanderbilt.edu/AnS/Classics/classical_traditions/City Plan/18.jpg
ReplyDeletewe used to swim /play in this fountain
here the water isn't running and spilling over from the boat
into the top pool into the lower pool
Union Station was a neat place to play in...
remeber when the train came through the station into the lobby landed on the cneter news stand... luckily the lady cashier had just left to go to the bathroom...
the train came all the way into the main concourse...
now... the pit is a food court and over priced and mostly fried-greasy jubnk food...
heck every thing is now on the net!
ReplyDeletehttp://www.steamlocomotive.com/GG1/prr4876-crash.shtml
click the little pictures my "gang" of kids went up with our Kodak Brownie Hawkeyes and took pictures we were right up close near the rope we got there before they closed that area of the station...
my Uncle Robbie was a conductor on that D.C.-New Haven run...and the D.C. NYC run
we always went on runs to NY when he was working so we'd travel free and frequently to The City
he was almost on this run but stayed in New Haven to "see" his "girl-friend" who my Aunt, Ruthie" never met or she wold have murdered the both-of-em! She was Bronx.... 100 %