1967-2020
Prozac national
Emissary and voice of
Generation X
--James M Maloney
Someone famous dies
We post haiku about them
It's just that simple
HISTORIC
HAIKU:
1967-2020
Prozac national
Emissary and voice of
Generation X
--James M Maloney
Posted by Lairbo on 01/11/2020 at 12:25 PM in Journalism, Literature, Pop Culture | Permalink | Comments (0)
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1949-2019
Cubby Selby's friend,
August I reached out to him,
But he was dying
--James M Maloney
Posted by Lairbo on 10/23/2019 at 08:48 AM in Books, Journalism, Music | Permalink | Comments (0)
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1939-2019
Flung open locker
Room doors; players cried “Foul” but,
Baseball ain’t Boy Scouts
—Ramone A. Clift
A truth knuckleball
Is delivered by the book.
We learned the real game
--Michael Dominowski
Posted by Lairbo on 07/11/2019 at 09:33 AM in Journalism, Literature, Pop Culture, Sports | Permalink | Comments (0)
Tags: Ball Four, Jim Bouton
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1931-2018
Had the Right Stuff for
A long time but then lost it
All in a bonfire
—O'Cyrus
Before the Bonfire,
Electric minds were tested.
He had the write stuff.
—Michael Dominowski
Posted by Lairbo on 05/15/2018 at 02:44 PM in Books, Boomer Icons, Journalism, Literature, Pop Culture, The Arts | Permalink | Comments (0)
Tags: Bonfire of the Vanities, Me Decade, New Journalism, post-modern, The Right Stuff, Tom Wolfe
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1942–2013
Will Gene welcome him
To heaven — watching classics
Or hell — Michael Bay?
— Dr. Vitz
* * *
A two-thumbs-up life!
See you in the balcony
I'll bring the popcorn
— O'Cyrus
Posted by Lairbo on 04/04/2013 at 09:09 PM in Boomer Icons, Film, Journalism, Performers, Pop Culture, Television, The Arts | Permalink | Comments (3) | TrackBack (0)
Tags: Roger Ebert
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Posted by Lairbo on 08/13/2012 at 09:45 PM in 20th Century, Books, Boomer Icons, Current Affairs, Fashion, Journalism, Literature, Miscellaneous, Notorious, Pop Culture | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Tags: Cosmopolitan, Helen Gurley Brown
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1938–2012
The shock of the news
Critics pale, art lovers will
Miss his tints, and Hughes
— E. Basil St. Blaise
Posted by Lairbo on 08/06/2012 at 07:53 AM in Journalism, Literature, Pop Culture, Television, The Arts | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Tags: Robert Hughes
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1925–2012
With pen sharp and tongue
Sharper venomous Vidal
Gored all sacred cows
Posted by Lairbo on 08/01/2012 at 07:36 AM in Books, Current Affairs, Film, Journalism, Literature, Politics, Pop Culture, Presidents, Television, The Arts | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
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1941—2012
Interned at Kennedy
White House, greeted the Beatles...
How'd she miss Woodstock?
— G. Runyon
* * *
Imagine the book
She'd have written if Jack had
Made a pass at her
— O'Cyrus
Posted by Lairbo on 06/26/2012 at 09:11 PM in Books, Boomer Icons, Comedy, Film, Journalism, Literature, Pop Culture, The Arts | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Tags: Nora Ephron
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Posted by Lairbo on 06/20/2012 at 09:31 PM in Boomer Icons, Journalism, Miscellaneous, Pop Culture, Sports, The Arts | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Tags: LeRoy Neiman, Playboy
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Posted by Lairbo on 04/07/2012 at 06:33 PM in Boomer Icons, Historic, Journalism, Politics, Pop Culture, Television | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Tags: Mike Wallace
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1969–2012
Quick with opinions
And could adjust the edits
To create own facts
— Dr. Vitz
Posted by Lairbo on 03/01/2012 at 06:19 PM in Current Affairs, Journalism, Notorious, Politics, Pop Culture | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
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1949–2011
Often made me mad.
Always made me think about
Why he'd made me mad
— Lairbo
* * *
Brilliant or blowhard?
We won't know until all of
His friends are dead, too
— Russell 1000
Posted by Lairbo on 12/16/2011 at 12:58 PM in Books, Current Affairs, Journalism, Literature, Miscellaneous, Notorious, Politics, Pop Culture, Religion | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
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1921–2011
Dotted line showing
Bil’s tortuous pathway home
Just got new end point
— Dr. Vitz
Posted by Lairbo on 11/10/2011 at 07:59 AM in Comedy, Journalism, Pop Culture, The Arts | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack (0)
Tags: Bil Keane, Family Circus
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'Ja ever notice
How stiff and cold I've become?
Why 'ja think that is?
* * *
Having run out of
Complaints in this life, he is
On to the next one
— Ishallah
Posted by Lairbo on 11/05/2011 at 06:38 PM in 20th Century, Books, Comedy, Journalism, Miscellaneous, Performers, Pop Culture, Television | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
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Posted by Lairbo on 12/05/2010 at 12:57 PM in 20th Century, Boomer Icons, Journalism, Performers, Pop Culture, Sports, Television | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack (0)
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Posted by Lairbo on 12/03/2010 at 10:20 AM in 20th Century, Business, Food and Drink, Journalism, Literature, Miscellaneous, Pop Culture | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
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1928 – 2010
Ask not what the land
Did for Sorensen, ask how
He'll enrich the soil
— Dr. Vitz
* * *
Kennedy's wordsmith
Intellectual blood bank
Fuel on the flame
— Russell 1000
* * *
Wasn't Camelot
He said; what followed only
Made it seem that way
— Roger Rabid
Posted by Lairbo on 10/31/2010 at 06:46 PM in 20th Century, Books, Boomer Icons, Historic, Journalism, Politics, Pop Culture, Presidents | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Tags: Camelot, Kennedy, Sorensen, Sorenson
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Is afterlife bridge
To nowhere or a series
Of tubes? Now he knows
— Roger Rabid
Posted by Lairbo on 08/09/2010 at 03:45 PM in Current Affairs, Historic, Journalism, Politics, Pop Culture | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Tags: bridge to nowhere, series of tubes, Ted Stevens
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Posted by Lairbo on 07/25/2010 at 12:29 AM in Books, Comedy, Current Affairs, Journalism, Literature, Miscellaneous, Pop Culture, The Arts | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Tags: Callahan, cartoonist, controversial, sick, wheelchair, won't get far on foot.
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Pissed off Krushchev then
Wound up on Nixon's shit list.
Now, there's your headline
— Lairbo
* * *
Late of CBS,
CNN and NPR;
Now just flat out late
— Roger Rabid
Posted by Lairbo on 07/23/2010 at 02:01 PM in 20th Century, Historic, Journalism, Miscellaneous, Notorious, Politics, Pop Culture, Presidents, Television | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
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Posted by Lairbo on 04/21/2010 at 09:08 AM in Journalism, Miscellaneous | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
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Posted by Lairbo on 01/28/2010 at 07:15 AM in 20th Century, Books, Boomer Icons, Current Affairs, Historic, Journalism, Literature, Politics, Pop Culture | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
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Posted by Lairbo on 09/27/2009 at 06:28 PM in Current Affairs, Historic, Journalism, Politics | Permalink | Comments (2) | TrackBack (0)
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Posted by Lairbo on 09/09/2009 at 12:01 PM in Business, Film, Journalism | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack (0)
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