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observations from the last Saturday in February
My phone has been ringing all day. I’m letting the machine answer because every call has been from the Hillary Clinton campaign. ROBO-calls. Not one from a real person. Not one call yet from the Obama people? There was also an attack piece from the Clinton campaign in my mailbox. The postman must have dropped it because it had mud all over it. Or perhaps the mud was there on purpose? Lots of mud being flung around Ohio these days. It feels like Clinton’s Last Stand.
I’m fighting a cold. Hot tea seems to help. The best remedy I have found so far has been walking barefoot through the snow. I’m not kidding!
I reviewed another example of “missing kid lit” this week. Check out my review tomorrow in the DDN.
Yesterday I interviewed one of my favorite writers. She is outspoken. She is a Christian and most incredibly, a LIBERAL! Some astute readers know of whom I’m speaking. You can find out her identity next week in the DDN.
I’m also working on some reviews of books with local connections. With all the mud flying through the air between now and March 4, I hope to hunker down and just embrace my keyboard until things settle down.
I went downtown this morning (Yellow Springs). The EMPORIUM is usually a beehive of exuberance on Saturday mornings. Not today. It felt like a morgue. The death of Antioch College hangs over the village like a black shroud. So, I had the best breakfast around, courtesy of Norah, and I got the heck out of Dodge.
My cat Buddy is enjoying the thaw. His friend Mister Mole plays tag with Buddy beneath the bird feeders. Mister Mole rises to the surface for a snack and Buddy is there to greet him. We call it Buddy Love.
Vick Mickunas
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By prose
March 2, 2008 3:20 PM | Link to this
C’mon Vic now you’re bashing both Clinton’s yet again. I’m starting to think you’re not for Obama, just a Karl Roveaton hunting for a new Blackwater in disguise.By victor mickunas
February 26, 2008 11:40 AM | Link to this
Just got a ROBOcall from John McCain promising to appoint more conservative judges like Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia. yuck! Well, John you can pander to conservatives with this kind of unpleasantness but you will turn off just as many voters with this sort of stuff.By victor mickunas
February 23, 2008 11:37 PM | Link to this
I just got yet another ROBO-call asking me to come see Bill Clinton at the Springfield YMCA. Is this a work out session? I’m confused?