Filed under: The Way We Were--Hell, ARE!--in Old Blue Earth County
by Ms Mouse
For those of you who enjoy Old Uncle Crow’s stories, have you ever noticed that most of them are about his relatives or some other (more…)
Filed under: The English & American Languages
by the Author of Old Uncle Crow & other japes
AS I am a great Lover of all Works of ingenuity, so more especially am I a great Admirer & Student of those Labours of the Learned, called (more…)
Filed under: The English & American Languages
by Old Uncle Crow
THE Icelandic pony is a sturdy small horse that was bred in the early middle Ages, by the free men of the icelandic farmer republic. Thirteen to fifteen hands high, these fine and good-natured little critters was (more…)
Filed under: To The Editor(s)
12 June 2006
Editor
Mankato Free Press
Mankato
MN 56001
TO The Editor:
“Camrades In Crash” read Sunday’s front-page headline, about the demolition derby in Mapleton last Friday. Obviously what was meant was “comrades.” What may not be so clear–and yet it is very interesting because it shows how (more…)
Filed under: The Way We Were--Hell, ARE!--in Old Blue Earth County
by Old Uncle Crow
[Excerpted from: A Post Modern History of Terre de Bleu City, by Benny Raymond (Schnorkelsau Press, Terre de Bleu, 2009)]. Caveat lector: the following description of the trip by horse-drawn sleigh up the frozen Southern River in the Winter of 1852, by the founders of Terre de Bleu City (qv infra), because of its keen reductive insight into the decisive role in ‘history’, of narrative, and language-conditioned narrative-frames, is not suitable for persons in undergraduate women’s studies, those of a conservative temperament otherwise, young adolescents and children, or any others who yet inhabit an ‘idealistic’ narrative-mode. Plus see! I am TOO a God damn intallectul! OUC]
…..Johnson and Jackson were greeted on the Salsota bluffs by the ‘chief’ (viz), Lazy Ear. The two ‘white men’ (sic) were like many people who deal in real estate to this day, which is to say they were a pair of gabby and gregarious, offensively friendly, extraverts. They were especially aggressive about shaking hands at every opportunity and got on everyone’s nerves. Plus they giggled and nudged each other lots (more…)
Filed under: The Way We Were--Hell, ARE!--in Old Blue Earth County
by Old Uncle Crow
(excerpt from a letter from “Grandpa”)
Dear Kids…I see where these USA Brain Assholes are building a God damned 100 acer embassy for them selves in God damn Iraq, plus (more…)
Filed under: The Way We Were--Hell, ARE!--in Old Blue Earth County
by Old Uncle Crow
IT Is not so, that I think that ‘all’ of Tee Vee is a vast moronic waste land.
Indeed not; and, for a fact it is to Tee Vee that I owe most, (more…)
Filed under: The English & American Languages
by Old Uncle Crow
(MORE! God damned mind numbing Jesus Christ Almighty hokum! OUC)
AS Is well-known, the demi-elite of this lost and bemused 1946-64 generation of mine love (more…)
Filed under: The Way We Were--Hell, ARE!--in Old Blue Earth County
by Old Uncle Crow
THIS Expedition to Iraq (more…)
Filed under: The English & American Languages
by Old Uncle Crow
JUNIOR Training For Business, by Kirk and Waesche, was a highschool text of the 1920’s. I have been looking through the 1929 John C. Winston edition with great delight, and do you know students seventy-seven years ago (and on the eve of the great Wall Street crash!) was no better than (more…)
