The song Correction 1. Hadley V. Baxendale, who sent the above photograph, sets the record straight: “BTW, Joel, this is not my photograph, and I don’t know if it is San Francisco – it was e-mailed to me by [Pseudonemous Friend] and is now officially viral.” 2. Hadley writes to Pseudonemous Friend: “[D]o you know the […]
Archives for December 2014
President Harry S Truman’s 1947 Thanksgiving Day Proclamation
+++ Yes, it would be helpful to know why I am forever celebrating Thanksgiving. Don’t you think? +++ When I was born Harry Truman was President of the United States. Here is President Truman’s Thanksgiving Day Proclamation for 1947 [official proclamation number 2756.] President Harry S Truman‘s Thanksgiving Day Proclamation when I was less than […]
A FEW HINTS ON ETIQUETTE from Will Cuppy’s How to be a hermit (1929)
[Note: I have not laughed in a month. Will Cuppy amuses me. Amusement may help unstick me from whatever has caused me to be stuck in the first place. Readers may or may not find additional explanation at the end of this excerpt from Will Cuppy’s 1929 book How to be a Hermit.] A FEW […]