It’s not a Birmingham thing so I won’t devote much space, but Scanwiches.com – combining pretty art and yummy, yummy sandwiches – is my favorite new thing on the internet. For now. Yeah, y’all know how that works.
Could I enlist a photographer’s help to run around town one weekend and take pictures of our local sandwiches? No reason not to do it in Birmingham.
And now I’m hungry again.
Swine Flu
Swine flu is not a national crisis;
It is not an emergency;
Nor a catastrophe.
Unnamed flus kill a thousand people a week.
Like shark attacks,
Even these words won’t matter,
In a few short months.
I remember my mother,
Doing a credible voice when she cried out,
“Wolf! Wolf! The wolf is chasing the sheep!”
Teaching me about
Exaggeration and
False panics.
The real crisis is that
I no longer believe my mother:
People still tune in
Every day
All day
For reports
From the little shepherd boy.
What will he say next?