Another Sunday. We're publishing at what's becoming our usual time.
First up, we thank all who participated this edition which includes Dallas and the following:
The Third Estate Sunday Review's Jim, Dona, Ty, Jess and Ava,
Rebecca of Sex and Politics and Screeds and Attitude,
Betty of Thomas Friedman Is a Great Man,
C.I. of The Common Ills and The Third Estate Sunday Review,
Kat of Kat's Korner (of The Common Ills),
Cedric of Cedric's Big Mix,
Mike of Mikey Likes It!,
Elaine of Like Maria Said Paz),
Ruth of Ruth's Report,
Wally of The Daily Jot,
Trina of Trina's Kitchen,
Marcia of SICKOFITRDLZ,
Stan of Oh Boy It Never Ends,
Isaiah of The World Today Just Nuts,
and Ann of Ann's Mega Dub.
What did we come up with?
First up, it's the annual summer read edition.
This is our seventh summer of offering the summer read.
For those late to the party, let's recap.
The June 26, 2005 edition was our first summer read. Those who worked on that edition were:
Jim, Dona, Ty, Jess and Ava of The Third Estate Sunday Review;
Rebecca of Sex and Politics and Screeds and Attitude;
Betty of Thomas Friedman is a Great Man;
Kat of Kat's Korner;
and C.I. of The Common Ills
You can also be sure Dallas worked on it as well. The short story content was:
A Fractured Life (the Wally Lamb style book) K-Boy Tries To Get Back Home (a horrific parable) The Gleeful Boy (the Sue Miller type read) Summer poetry: "Filling the Well" Peek (the summer page turner) Kooky Cokie Roberts offers up advice
and rounding out that summer read edition:
Five Books, Five Minutes, Editorial: Mainstream Press Do Your Homework on the pre-invasion bombings and TV Review OC: The arm pit of body wash operettas
The June 4, 2006 edition was our second summer read. Working on that edition (along with Dallas) were:
The Third Estate Sunday Review's Dona, Jess, Ty, Ava and Jim;
Rebecca of Sex and Politics and Screeds and Attitude;
Betty of Thomas Friedman Is a Great Man;
C.I. of The Common Ills and The Third Estate Sunday Review;
Kat of Kat's Korner (of The Common Ills);
Cedric of Cedric's Big Mix;
Mike of Mikey Likes It!;
Elaine of Like Maria Said Paz;
and Wally of The Daily Jot.
The fiction offered:
Song of the War Hawks Super Laura?
Once upon a time there were plenty of Baby Dumbasses
Sherman's Story
From a diary found in the Mayflower Hotel
The ones we never know
TV: TESR Investigates
June 24, 2007 was our third edition. Along with Dallas, the following helped:
The Third Estate Sunday Review's Dona, Jess, Ty, Ava and Jim,
Rebecca of Sex and Politics and Screeds and Attitude,
Betty of Thomas Friedman Is a Great Man,
C.I. of The Common Ills and The Third Estate Sunday Review,
Kat of Kat's Korner (of The Common Ills),
Cedric of Cedric's Big Mix,
Mike of Mikey Likes It!,
Elaine of Like Maria Said Paz,
and Wally of The Daily Jot
And we produced:
TV: Hidden Yawns
Base Is Hell
The Tired Tryst
The Asbury Park Murder
Creation Theory
Samantha Power Between Her Knees
Cut The Fat! Newt Takes It Off!
June 22, 2008 was our fourth edition and along with Dallas, the following worked on it:
The Third Estate Sunday Review's Dona, Jess, Ty, Ava and Jim,
Rebecca of Sex and Politics and Screeds and Attitude,
Betty of Thomas Friedman Is a Great Man,
C.I. of The Common Ills and The Third Estate Sunday Review,
Kat of Kat's Korner (of The Common Ills),
Cedric of Cedric's Big Mix,
Mike of Mikey Likes It!,
Elaine of Like Maria Said Paz,
Ruth of Ruth's Report,
Wally of The Daily Jot,
and Marcia SICKOFITRDLZ.
And our summer reads included:
TV: Breaking what?
New York Times, Early Edition
Clouds
The non-whistle blower
Bee-bees and cockle bugs
Circling
June 21, 2009 was our summer read last year, worked on by Dallas and:
The Third Estate Sunday Review's Jim, Dona, Ty, Jess, and Ava,
Rebecca of Sex and Politics and Screeds and Attitude,
Betty of Thomas Friedman Is a Great Man,
C.I. of The Common Ills and The Third Estate Sunday Review,
Kat of Kat's Korner (of The Common Ills),
Cedric of Cedric's Big Mix,
Mike of Mikey Likes It!,
Elaine of Like Maria Said Paz,
Ann who's filling in for Ruth at Ruth's Report,
Wally of The Daily Jot,
Marcia of SICKOFITRDLZ
and Stan of Oh Boy It Never Ends.
And our efforts were:
TV: Fiction
The curse
Hey there! Marilyn Monroe is using Twitter.
Clooney's Dark Secrets
Summer reads
The Dumb Ass Hour every Saturday morning
The wedding day
The house
The literary ranter
Summer reads? It's summer and it's a time to goof off and read for fun. Take your laptop to the beach, if you want.
A wife testifies to Congress that she was fired from her teacher's job for taking care of her wounded husband -- wounded in Iraq.
Michael Ratner provides a primer on the illegal Iraq War.
When are Democracy Now! and all the others going to get honest with their viewers, listeners and readers that all those months and years they claimed the SOFA meant the end of the illegal war, they were lying? That is at the heart of the rejection of Panhandle Media by today's high school and college students.
Ava and C.I. take on the USA network, the Barack administration and more in this piece.
This kicks off the summer edition. Leslie Cagan drawing by Isaiah. We also hoped to have a Barbara Ehrenreich piece. Maybe next time. Isaiah's using his great illustration of Babsie for his latest comic.
Betty knew we needed a poem. She was right. We wrote this quickly. We spent more time on the illustration and wished we could have made a house out of empty Heineken bottles.
Horror and scary made the list of would-be stories. Ruth and Dona came up with the idea of adding "Once upon a time" to make this one a little bit different. Betty's kids worked on this illustration.
Betty's kids and Isaiah worked on this illustration. This was a last minute one because three stories we'd worked forever on didn't work at all. Dona said, "You have 15 minutes to write something." Isaiah's rough sketch of Michelle Obama was laying out and Betty's kids thought she looked like a robot, hence the story.
Again, horror stories were what made the board for suggestions. Ava and C.I. had a suggestion we didn't pursue and looking at the mix now, I (Jim) wish we had just to have a different type of piece. Maybe next summer.
The point of the summer edition is not to pretend to be great writers but to encourage the do-it-yourself approach.
ETAN.
Workers World repost.
Mike and the gang wrote this and we thank them for it.
Peace.
-- Jim, Dona, Ty, Jess, Ava and C.I.