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let us be merce-ful as well as just

In attractive men, borrowed, entertainment, farewells on 07/27/2009 at 6:18 am

New forms new beauty
Dance each instant as it comes
We will miss you, Merce

 
(courtesy of anthony!)

Read: Merce Cunningham, Choregrapher, Dies at 90
Enjoy: Anthony Roth Costanzo
Image source: Ballet Dance Magazine

honesty, shmonesty

In crazy, farewells, nasty, politics on 05/22/2009 at 3:28 am

nice segway

Classic Dick Vader
And torture for viewers. Time
For retirement.

Read: Dick Cheney’s Dishonest Speech about Torture, Terror, and Obama; Barack Obama’s National Security Speech

Image source: US News

and then there was maude

In borrowed, entertainment, farewells on 04/27/2009 at 5:46 pm

What will poor Stan do?

No Petrillo women left.

The putz stands alone.

 

Dorothy, we missed

Dear maaaa, but without you, will

We ever laugh of Brooklyn?

 

(courtesy of liz!)

 

Read: Golden Girls Star Beatrice Arthur Dies

Image source: LA Times

when in the course of texan events

In crazy, farewells, politics on 04/16/2009 at 8:11 pm

the all alone star state?

Secession, Texas,

Really? Really? That’s just so

1861.

 

 

Read: Texas Governor Says Secession’s Possible

Image source: Texas Secede

Farewell, Professor Huntington

In academics, attractive men, farewells, politics, religion on 12/30/2008 at 6:22 pm

Dr. Samuel Huntington

Civilizations
Clashed, history ended, and
The Professor wrote.
 
America – who
Are we? Like de Tocqueville, he
Gave us an answer.
 
 
Read: Samuel P. Huntington, 81, Political Scientist, Is Dead
Image source: The Boston Globe

A farewell kiss

In farewells, nasty, politics on 12/18/2008 at 4:27 pm
Shoes in a bush by Lou in China

shoes in a bush. clever!

Lasting legacy

For the President with the

Greatest Reflexes.

 

Read: Bush’s Shoe-Shoot Duck Becomes Internet Sensation!

Watch: YouTube

 

Old Blue Eyes

In attractive men, entertainment, farewells on 09/28/2008 at 1:33 pm

paul newman, 1925-2008

 

Handsome Hollywood

Legend, 65 films for

Us to remember.

 

A bright light is snuffed

Out. Paul Newman, gone, but not

To be forgotten.

 

 

Read: Paul Newman, Hollywood Legend, Dies at 83

Farewell to Estelle

In entertainment, farewells on 07/22/2008 at 7:39 pm

estelle getty in her sophia get-up

 

We had so many

Golden nights, Estelle. Thank you

For being a friend.

 

 

Read: Mourning Golden Girl, Emmy Winner

A great loss

In attractive men, elections, farewells, politics on 06/13/2008 at 7:57 pm

 

A mourning cry from

all who watched on Sunday morn.

Goodbye, our old friend.

 

The elections won’t

be the same without you and

your red, blue, whiteboard.

 

 

Read: Tragic Loss for Journalism

Farewell

In dynasties, elections, farewells, politics on 06/08/2008 at 9:45 am

Hillary, at the Museum of Sex

 

Campaign suspended.

Time to mend the rifts, heal the

wounds, and raise some cash.

 

Will it be pricey

To fix eighteen million cracks

In the glass ceiling?

 

Read: Hillary Clinton Bows, Throwing Obama Her Support