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Hartfordians of the Week

This week:



My parents!!!!

Hoorah for Dean Huzzah for Carolyn
(or whatever you people say)

Focus

We got us some ritalin again.
Two weeks off and I was itching.
Ritalin oh ritalin I was too much fiddling.
But then comes prescipitions of sweet sour ritalin.

Back to work. Back to clean socks.

You can call me Text Twist.

JS

Julia Stiles might be crazy. See.

Hartfordian of the Week

This week the prize goes to:


Crack-rock!




We got more crack-heads per capita than anybody,
even Lowell.

Delaware

Schiavo ain't been to delaware? What a sucka.

That Stupid Thing Everyone Else Is Doing (or look how east coast i am)

Alabama/ Alaska / Arizona / Arkansas / California / Colorado / Connecticut / Delaware / Florida / Georgia / Hawaii / Idaho / Illinois / Indiana / Iowa / Kansas / Kentucky / Louisiana / Maine / Maryland / Massachusetts / Michigan / Minnesota / Mississippi / Missouri / Montana / Nebraska / Nevada / New Hampshire / New Jersey / New Mexico / New York / North Carolina / North Dakota / Ohio / Oklahoma / Oregon / Pennsylvania / Rhode Island / South Carolina / South Dakota / Tennessee / Texas / Utah / Vermont / Virginia / Washington / West Virginia / Wisconsin / Wyoming / Washington D.C.

A Couple of my own State Poems (yes i know memphis, like omaha, is not a state)

"Memphis"

Is there a bread to mend the rise & break
or the stand & blow no I don’t think there’s
anything but a bend & burn & go south young
girl find yourself a Memphis you’ll be happy
with the rain & I don’t know I’ve never been
but I see no complaint of giants in the travel-
guides & no one ever calls me & says the pace
of Memphis street-traffic makes their palms
tighten or explode so go & I should meet you
soon except I doubt the sense of warm weather
too much to make any kind guarantees & I see
trees in my future by which I mean Montana
by which I mean I am a bear & a bear left
alone & yes that makes cold my winter hole.

"Mississippi"

It’s time the saved admit they found
their saving by not going to water
where the difference between riverjoy
& undertow is one’s actual & a danger
& one’s made by exchanging a few
letters like much is made these days
in correspondence & all a matter of
this not much meant by in reply
to that pleased to be best sent by
those who feel free to want or want
to feel free now that desire’s not
so young no more & admits itself
the pleasure of looking as it needs
at the salted boot or inkswell it leaves.

"Pennsylvania"

If Philadelphia is the city that loves
brothers than Pittsburgh is the city that
loves me & in the city-less space between
there are many trees who all want to fall
on my car & end my stereo’s love-song
marathon that confuses them because trees
don’t know melodrama is the best drama
& think there’s nothing sad about leaving
I mean when after all every fall their
leaves well you know & yes the pun’s a bit
much but the pun’s a bit true & I am sorry
for the pines who come Christmas chop-chop
or get to grow tall & turn brown so slowly
& for so long it must drive them insane.

Strangers in the Park

I heard somebody say "We need to have a cultural of life" yesterday. This was a follow up to "We need to make guns illegal" which was a statement I felt dubious about considering how I felt about that person who had just said "There won't be any animals larger than dogs soon because we don't have a use for them" but I'm not a gun owner and no one thinks I should be a gun owner and so I asked God for a favor (undelivered) since me and this hippy long hair were in the park under the gates and the wind was shaking those big dumb orange things and really if there was something to fall on someone it was one of those gates falling on this dumbass.

This Week's Hartfordian Of the Week

Is Popov Vodka!




Made right here in the greatest city in well whatever.

Connecticut State Poem

There is an official state bird, the American robin. The state animal is the sperm whale and the state song is "Yankee Doodle."There is even a state shellfish, the Eastern oyster and a state fossil, Eubrontes giganteus, dinosaur footprints.But despite the myriad official state seals, sites, symbols and even a poet laureate - Marilyn Nelson - there is no state poem.Enter amateur poet Camille Simone.Simone, 74, a lifelong Southington resident, has submitted a poem she has written - "A State Called Connecticut" - for consideration.She has the support of state Rep. Zeke Zalaski, D-Southington, who has introduced Bill No. 6271 (An Act Designating The State Poem) on her behalf. The bill has been referred to the government administration and elections committee."I think the poem really captures the spirit and true sense of Connecticut," Zalaski said. "A lot of people from other states think of Connecticut as a suburb of New York, but when they visit the state, they are impressed to see how much open space, coastline and forests we have. I think this poem captures all the different areas of Connecticut."State Rep. John "Corky" Mazurek, D-Wolcott, is not familiar with the bill, but doesn't see why Connecticut shouldn't have an official state poem."I don't think it's a crazy idea," said Mazurek, whose district covers part of Southington. "Certainly, people realize there are a lot of other important issues to address. Educational spending is on top of the list, but at the same time, I think it would be an honor to have someone from Southington have her poem designated as the official state poem."It's unclear whether the General Assembly will even see the bill this session, but Mazurek pointed out that it took two legislative sessions before "The Nutmeg," by Waterbury music teacher Stanley L. Ralph, was designated the official state cantata in 2003.But Simone has high hopes for her ode to the state.Simone, an Avon cosmetics representative for 42 years, retiring just before Christmas, began writing poetry when she was 13 after a friend died of cancer. The tragedy affected her deeply, she said."Something just came out of me," Simone said. "That's when I wrote my first poem. The inspiration hit me and from that point on, I've been writing poetry every since."Simone has written more than 50 poems on various topics. Although she has never been published, her poems have won first-place awards in local and state competitions in General Federation of Women's Clubs contests.She recently took third place in a contest sponsored by an international chapter of the General Federation of Women's Clubs, she said."Sometimes, poems come to me so fast that if I don't hurry and write them down, I'll forget them," said Simone, the mother of five and wife of a former Southington police captain, George Simone.The Connecticut poem, which she wrote two years ago, wasn't so quick. It took her four months, she said."I kept going back and changing things," Simone said. "I wanted to make sure it flowed. This is a beautiful state we live in."Last year, Simone said, a friend, Dolores Longo, suggested she find out if the land of steady habits had an official state poem.It didn't, unlike states such as Tennessee or New Mexico, so she figured she should submit her poem.Longo, a member of Southington's planning and zoning commission, showed the poem to Zalaski."It didn't get very far last year," Simone said. "But [Zalaski] told me to resubmit the poem and I did in January. Last year it didn't get a bill number, this year it did."Simone is hoping to have her poetry published and her son-in-law, who owns a printing company, is compiling her works, she said.But for now, she'll settle for one of her poems becoming a part of the fabric of Connecticut."I'm hopeful," Simone said. "It would be a great honor."

Now it's not that I hate old people or nothing, but this is the stupidest thing I've read and I've read some really stupid things.