No more foolin' around . . .

It's a Moon Day behind clouds in Okieland … serious weather is in the forecasts for this afternoon …

A certain ruthlessness and a sense of alienation from society is as essential to creative writing as it is to armed robbery. – Nelson Algren

It's April Fool's day … And no foolin' April is National Poetry Month …

Why poems are meant to be heard, not confined to life only on the page ... Garrison Keillor recites (from accurate memory) Edgar Allen Poe's "Annabell Lee."

If you're still not sure why Donald Trump is unfit to be president, attorney Joyce Vance just explained in a recent post, “We need to talk about this,” on her Civil Discourse site.

The strategy that matters most for the Kremlin is not the military strategy, but rather the spread of disinformation that causes the West to back away and allow Russia to win. – from the Institute for the Study of War, cited by Heather Cox Richardson, in her blog “Letters from an American” on this past Friday.

Missed this one: Last Thursday was the birthday of Nelson Algren. The novelist was born 115 years ago on 3/28 in 1909 Detroit, Michigan.

Science once again affirms ( from the “well, duh!” archives ) men and women are different.

"When we get more houses than we can live in, more cars than we can ride in, more food than we can eat ourselves, the only way of getting richer is by cutting off those who don't have enough."

– Nelson Algren, A Walk on the Wild Side, 1956 by Farrar, Straus and Cudahy.