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The Emperor of Ice Cream by Wallace Stevens
Reading Salem’s Lot again, and this poem keeps coming up. It is a poem about death and I have come to really like this poem. Mainly, I guess because I like ice cream so much. Enjoy. The Emperor of Ice-Cream Call the roller of big cigars, The muscular one, and bid him whip In kitchen…
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Never to Early for a Good Halloween Story
Its never to early for a good Halloween story and since we are only 19 days away (19, there it is again, weird huh? Stephen King Dark Tower Fans will get that last reference). Anyway, some say that Halloween is the most wonderful time of the year and what a better way to get the…
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Rest in Peace Uncle Bobby
Growing up a baseball fan and watching the playoffs on those cool, crisp, October Houston evenings (by the time October came around and the temperature gauge dipped below 100, any evening where the temperature was in the low 80s and upper 70s was cool and crisp) I often would see a highlight of Bobby Thomson’s dramatic homerun in…
Joe Thompson, PhD.
Faculty Lecturer, C.T. Bauer College of Business, University of Houston, President and Social Media Director, SABR Houston Chapter International Business and Sports Management Professor Sports and Pop Culture Historian, Author. History PhD specializing in sports and pop culture. Hometown: Splendora, TX. Born in 1970s, but I am an 1980s kid. Co-Author and contributor of several books. Twitter: @splendorajoe
Joe Thompson, PhD. 