Tag: Bill Michelmore

• Michel of the Moor

  

  She supported me while I wrote the Great American Novel, which turned out to be the Not-So-Great Australian Novel.

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  May 24, 2022

  Memoir

  Across many a bad night, Alastair Morrison, Bill Michelmore, Let Stalk Strine, Memories, Michel of the Moor, Nerve Sprike Tan, Susan Brown, The Writing Life

• 80-1 miracle

  

  The Kentucky Derby victory was nothing short of a miracle. Rich Strike was entered in the race on Friday just 30 seconds before the entry deadline after a last-minute scratch.

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  May 8, 2022

  HORSE RACING

  American Daze Purple Haze, Bill Michelmore, Donerail, Epicenter, Eric Reed, Ethereal Road, Kentucky Derby, Longshots, Mine That Bird, RED TR-Racing, Rich Strike, Rich Strike perfectly named, Rick Dawson, Sonny Leon, Zandon

• Suicide of former child beauty pageant star raises grave concerns

  

  Mothers of several beauty pageant toddlers would scold their children and make them cry when they didn’t rate high enough in the scoring.

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  May 4, 2022

  CHILD BEAUTY PAGEANTS

  Across many a bad night, American Daze Purple Haze, Bill Michelmore, John Ramsey, JonBenét Ramsey, Kailia Posey, Lindsay Jackson, Mady Jackson, Marcy Posey Gatterman, Patsy Ramsey, Toddlers & Tiaras

• Mandrake the Magician saved the day

  

  You’d plonk down seventy-five cents for the latest Phantom, Dick Tracy, Dan Dare and Mandrake the Magician.

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  April 20, 2022

  SCHOOL DAYS

  Across many a bad night, Bill Michelmore, Dan Dare, Dick Tracy, Growing old, Growing up, Mandrake the Magician, Michelmoreorless, Old comic books, SCHOOL DAYS, The Phantom

• Easter Dinner at the Roadkill

  

  Easter Sunday was no day to spend alone in my hovel so I drove down to the Roadkill Bar & Grille on County Road 9.

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  April 17, 2022

  EASTER

  Across many a bad night, Bill Michelmore, Easter Bunny cocktail, Easter Sunday, Men alone, Michelmoreorless, Roadkill Bar & Grille

• ‘You gotta have a home’

  

  The billionaires and millionaires who do have the money to help homeless step over them on their way to their filthy rich selfish lives.

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  April 8, 2022

  THE HOMELESS

  Across many a bad night, ‘You gotta have a home’, Bill Michelmore, Billboard Hot 100 chart, Brook Benton, Lead Belly, Rhythm & Blues, The Boll Weevil Song, THE HOMELESS