Wednesday, October 27, 2010

Wednesday, 10/27/10: "Moose and Squirrel"

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/27/opinion/27wed4.html?_r=1&th&emc=th

Verlyn Klinkenborg's reminiscience on Rocky and Bullwinkle ends very suddenly, almost in midsentence:
An entire generation got its first impression of our Soviet rivals from Boris Badenov and Natasha Fatale. The two plotted and bickered and — reassuringly — were always thwarted.

Does Klinkenborg mean this as another allegory about his failed marriage? Or did he just forget to finish his column?

Tuesday, October 19, 2010

Tuesday, 10/19/10: "Hickory Rain"

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/19/opinion/19tue4.html?_r=1&th&emc=th

Cleverly couched in an extended, superficially inane description of horses, chickens, and hickory nuts is the news that Verlyn Klinkenborg has gotten divorced. :(

Saturday, September 18, 2010

Friday, 9/17/10: "Dark Comes"

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/18/opinion/18sat4.html?_r=1

Verlyn Klinkenborg's farm is full of comfortable places -- the hay mound, the chicken house, the beehive -- and he wonders how bees feel.

Sunday, September 5, 2010

Thursday, 9/2/10: "Really Looking"

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/03/opinion/03fri4.html?_r=1&ref=editorials

Verlyn Klinkenborg sees a lot of bugs on his farm, but he feels like he doesn't truly see them.

Sunday, August 1, 2010

Monday, July 26, 2010

Sunday, 7/26/10: "Garden Time"

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/25/opinion/25sun4.html?_r=1&th&emc=th

Special guest post from the blogger's dad!

As near as I can figure, here Verlyn grapples with Minkowski Spacetime.

I nominate his concluding sentence for 2010’s Outstanding Achievement in the Field of Blather award.