1941-2021
Born in New Orleans
Literary vampire queen
Hot and cold with God
--Sarah Harrier
Someone famous dies
We post haiku about them
It's just that simple
HISTORIC
HAIKU:
1941-2021
Born in New Orleans
Literary vampire queen
Hot and cold with God
--Sarah Harrier
Posted by Lairbo on 12/21/2021 at 06:31 PM in Books, Film, Literature, Pop Culture, The Arts | Permalink | Comments (0)
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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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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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1937-2018
A sci-fi bad boy
Has some unfinished business,
Treks off to Forever
--Michael Dominowski
Posted by Lairbo on 06/28/2018 at 10:38 PM in Film, Literature, Notorious, Pop Culture, Science, Television, The Arts | Permalink | Comments (0)
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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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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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1920–2012
Shook the pulp out of
Sci-fi making it safe for
Really Big Ideas
— O'Cyrus
* * *
Man of the future
Who feared flying and never
Learned to drive a car
— Abbie Rhodes
Posted by Lairbo on 06/06/2012 at 09:06 PM in Books, Literature, Pop Culture, Science, Television, The Arts | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
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Sendak's journey ends
Now he's qualified to write
Where The Dead Things Are
* * *
Oh grumpy wild thing,
I loved your stories and art
Sad to reach the end.
— DeBerk
* * *
Unlike Steve Miller
Everyone called him Maurice
Not just some people
Posted by Lairbo on 05/08/2012 at 03:45 PM in Books, Boomer Icons, Literature, Pop Culture, The Arts | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Tags: Maurice Sendak, Night Kitchen, Where the Wild Things Are
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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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1923-2011
Leonard B. Stern has
[farted]. We mourn his [boner].
We will all [poop] him.
-- Jeff Tiedrich
* * *
Mad Libs, Get Smart,
And The Honeymooners, too?!
Man was a genius
-- O'Cyrus
Posted by Lairbo on 06/10/2011 at 04:16 PM in 20th Century, Books, Boomer Icons, Business, Comedy, Literature, Pop Culture, Television | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Tags: Leonard B. Stern, Mad Libs
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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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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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Posted by Lairbo on 07/12/2010 at 04:06 PM in 20th Century, Boomer Icons, Comedy, Current Affairs, Historic, Literature, Miscellaneous, Notorious, Performers, Politics, Pop Culture, The Arts | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
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Wherever he is
Now, I'm sure he's complaining
About how it sucks
* * *
Very bad week for
Cleveland; first LeBron leaves, now
Harvey Pekar's dead
— Lairbo
Posted by Lairbo on 07/12/2010 at 11:47 AM in 20th Century, Books, Boomer Icons, Comedy, Film, Literature, Miscellaneous, Notorious, Pop Culture, The Arts | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
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Posted by Lairbo on 01/19/2010 at 04:32 PM in Boomer Icons, Fashion, Film, Historic, Literature, Pop Culture, The Arts | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack (0)
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Posted by Lairbo on 01/19/2010 at 11:14 AM in Literature, Pop Culture, Television, The Arts | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
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Posted by Lairbo on 09/14/2009 at 09:36 AM in Books, Literature, Music, Notorious, Performers, Sports, The Arts | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
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Posted by Lairbo on 08/27/2009 at 12:40 AM in Books, Current Affairs, Film, Journalism, Literature | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
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Wrote masterpiece while
Teaching those with no use for
It proper grammar
— O'Cyrus
Posted by Lairbo on 07/19/2009 at 10:33 PM in Books, Literature, Morgue, Performers, Pop Culture, The Arts | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
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