Halloween EXTRA!

Our theater of seasons

Halloween (pronounced with a short “a” … please!) email from our Official Attorney, Mr. Tulkinghorn: “I was thinking I’d wait until tomorrow to send the dreary November poem from Thomas Hood, but then I thought: ‘Today is such a beautiful autumn day, with the yellow-red-green palette of leaves below and the cloudless azure sky above, I should celebrate this rather than moan and groan about the coming months.’

“So, here’s to celebrating Halloween — and to hell with November. To brighten the day, check out this Jerry Seinfeld Halloween riff: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MarBVyZVe9s

“All the best to the new BB!”

BULLETIN BOARD SAYS: Thanks. And, if you don’t mind,  counselor, you’ll keep that November poem to yourself!

Winter is too long already!

Our pets, ourselves

161031bbcut-halloweendogHappy Halloween from Little Canada!
Love,
Darth ‘Norman’ Vader

Book thieves, beware! Let you be struck with palsy, & all your members blasted.

Today’s helpful hint
Cursed Book Thieves Division (cont.)
Gammafaye: “I am hoping to share all 12 of the curses from ‘The Small Book of Book Curses.’ Just so you all know, there are a few that do not involve fire, hell or the devil. Here is today’s offering, from the monastery of San Pedro in Barcelona: ‘For him that stealeth or borroweth and returneth not, this book from its owner, let it change into a serpent in his hand & rend him. Let him be struck with palsy, & all his members blasted. Let him languish in pain crying aloud for mercy, & let there be no surcease to his agony till he sink to dissolution. Let book worms gnaw his entrails in token of the Worm that dieth not, & when at last he goeth to his final punishment, let the flames of hell consume him for ever.’ What a fun bunch of guys at that monastery!”

Continue reading “Book thieves, beware! Let you be struck with palsy, & all your members blasted.”

Nine thousand Bulletin Boards later: You did stop by for a few minutes each day. Thank you!

That is the headline on today’s final everyday installment of Bulletin Board in the St. Paul Pioneer Press. (We’ll be back on newsprint each Sunday.)

If we have any newcomers here (and we certainly hope we will, soon), you might like to read it, as background.

Here it is: Number 9,000 (give or take a few).

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Welcome! Or: Welcome back!

Welcome to the new home of Bulletin Board — “our community of strangers,” which has been publishing readers’ stories and observations in the St. Paul Pioneer Press every day of the year since March 26, 1990.

If you have been a Bulletin Boarder, for days or for decades, we don’t need to tell you what it’s all about. You know that it’s about … Life As We Know It.

It’s about EVERYTHING — everything, that is, except public policy and partisan politics. (Plenty of other places to argue about those things.)

It’s about birth and death, marriage and family, work and play, high culture and low, profundity and foolishness, our living and/or dying language, the past and the future.

It’s about those next-door neighbors Comedy and Tragedy.

If you are new to Bulletin Board, there’s an easy way to get acquainted with it: Please go to tinyurl.com/B-Board-daily, where you will find links to all of the recent Bulletin Boards. Read a handful of them, in chronological order, and you’ll get the idea.

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Onward … and upward!