An Encomium of Jeff Fitzgerald–a la the Ancients
An encomium was, In Classical Greek and Roman culture, was a speech in praise of someone. My good friend Jeff Fitzgerald often listened to me talk about my love of rhetoric. We lost touch, and I always intended to reconnect with him.
What Derek Skye Villaverde–Mr. Gay Maryland United States At-Large–Taught Me About Family
Mr. Gay Maryland United States At-Large isn’t what you think. As always, gay men come up with the best witticisms. “At-Large” in this case means over 200 lbs!
Anyhow, I was lucky enough to be present at the crowning of Derek Skye Villaverde, 2021’s Mr.
Mastering Memory
One of the reasons lawyers say eye-witness testimony is notoriously unreliable ist that the human memory is flawed. Really flawed. Let’s call this foray into memory “The Rhetoric of Memory.”
“Flaws in memory can arise at different points in the process,” explained Daniel Schacter of Harvard University,” author of Mystery of Memory: Why It’s Not Perfect and The Seven Sins of Memory: How the Mind Forgets and Remebersin an article on livescience.com.
People Who Need People
People
by Barbra Streisand
People,
People who need people,
Are the luckiest people in the world
We’re children, needing other children
And yet letting a grown-up pride
Hide all the need inside
Acting more like children than children
Lovers, very special people
They’re the luckiest people in the world
With one person (one person)
One very special person (one very special person)
A feeling deep in your soul (in your soul)
Says you were half now you’re whole
No more hunger and thirst
First be a person who needs people
People who need people
Are the luckiest people in the world
No more hunger or thirst
First be a person who needs people (people need people)
People who need people
Are the luckiest (luckiest) people in the world
People who need people in the world
People who need people (send…
Are we Babs, if I may call you that?
What I’ll Remember Most About Late Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-7)
Photo Courtesy of wbaltv.com
On October 17th, Representative Elijah Cummings (D-7) died. When people die, I, like most people, reflect on how they lived their lives. I also reflect on how we existed in the shared space that was our relationship.
Daily Record: December 20th, 2019
Participated in Paths After Park, wherein I spoke for three, 40-minute sessions to small groups of students about my life after Park. I spoke about writing and local political organizing.
It was really awesome!
I also discovered something shocking: I’m not as scared of public speaking as I thought I was.
Daily Record: October 26th, 2019
Worked on some personal projects around the house. Read some political columns from around the web. It was my uncle, Syed Abbas Raza’s birthday!
I’m grateful for your readership! Check back with me each week here at politicalpoetrypastiche as my linguistic, literary, and generally loquacious involvement in local politics takes on a mélange of prose and poetry genres.
Daily Record: October 16th, 2019
Attended a fundraiser for Howard County State’s Attorney, Rich Gibson (D). Had cofee with a friend and local politico and legal eagle, Josh Hirsh beforehand. Jeremy Eldridge (D-HCDCC); Deanna Peel (Guy Guzzone’s [D-13] Chief of Staff; Guy Guzzone [D-13]) and other HoCo politics usual suspects attended too!
Daily Record: August 29th, 2019
Laughed at this article. If I don’t laugh, I’ll cry.
I’m grateful for your readership! Check back with me each week here at politicalpoetrypasticheas my linguistic, literary, and generally loquacious involvement in local politics takes on a mélange of prose and poetry genres.