04/01/2011 archive

My Little Town 20110331: Etta and Roy Chandler

Those of you that read this irregular series know that I am from Hackett, Arkansas, just a mile of so from the Oklahoma border, and just about 10 miles south of the Arkansas River.  It was a redneck sort of place, and just zoom onto my previous posts to understand a bit about it.

I never write about living people except with their express permission, so this installment is about two long dead denizens of Hackett.

Mr. and Mrs. Chandler were old, even by my grandmum’s standards when I first met them.  They rented that little house that my grandmum owned just to the south of her place.  They moved in around, I guess, 1965 or 1966, give or take a year.  Things were much different then.

from firefly-dreaming 31.3.11

this is an Open Thread

Essays Featured Thursday the 31st of March:

Jesus Just Left Chicago in Late Night Karaoke, mishima DJs

Six Brilliant Articles! from Six Different Places!! on Six Different Topics!!!

                Six Days a Week!!!    at Six in the Morning!!!!

Dirty Jokes are on mplo‘s mind in Thursday Open Thoughts

Cornucopia Thursday, a weekly feature from Ed Tracey brings a delightful collection of items and ….well, just plain whimsy…..

Gha!

Another delightful granny diary from Wendys Wink: Stink-eye’n a Coal Bin, republished by RiaD

Afternoon music from Timbuk3: The 100 Greatest Rock Songs of All Time!

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Random Thoughts on Oatmeal & Teeth from Xanthe  

Evening Edition

Evening Edition is an Open Thread

From Yahoo News Top Stories

1 Japan PM says stricken nuclear plant to be scrapped

by Huw Griffith, AFP

2 hrs 40 mins ago

SENDAI, Japan (AFP) – Japan said Thursday its crisis-hit nuclear plant must be scrapped, but currently had no plans to evacuate more people, despite calls for a larger exclusion zone around the crippled facility.

Grappling with the aftermath of a massive earthquake and tsunami, its biggest post-war disaster, Japan’s government hosted French President Nicolas Sarkozy, who called for clear international standards on nuclear safety.

Japan’s Prime Minister Naoto Kan said, in talks with the Japanese Communist Party leader, that the facility at the centre of the worst atomic accident since Chernobyl in 1986 must be decommissioned, Kyodo News reported.

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