Tom Hendricks's Blog – January 2012 Archive (5)

The answer to, and winner (if any) for, our last contest question of:

This World War Two film had this great line, "I think we hit the sub. I saw it go down." Name the war comedy.

IS: "1941" the Spielberg film of 1979.

We had no correct eligible answers. Seems the answers sunk with the sub on this one! I don’t dumb down, so please wise up!

Now on to a new Q.: Win a copy of my NEW cd CALLED ‘30′! – (first anti-band CD) or my NEWER cd CALLED ‘NEXT”(‘06) or my NEWEST cd…

Poems written in Jan. 2012

Comments welcome.

[poem notes in brackets like this]

POEMS

1 [ This sci-fi idea is not mine but clever -

from Writings in Science, my sci-fi novel in progress]

The Rosetta Stone

to communicate

with aliens is

the Periodic table

2. [from Writings in Science, my sci-fi novel in progress]

telescopes in space

have liquid lenses

made of water

curved to perfection.

3. [kid's poem, inspired by "The…

The answer to, and winner (if any) for, our last contest question of:

This year's annual Musea Christmas story, 'Senlin', about the world's greatest dancer, had a major plot point connected to this passage,

"COME TO THE WINDOW! Follow me. Do as you're told!" Then he (Paulo) laughed. She (Senlin) followed. Looking out the open window, down below was a milling crowd. They did NOT cheer. Senlin thought that odd! Then one young man in the center , turned on some music, and began to…

Poems written in Dec  2011 

Comments welcome.

[poem notes in brackets like this]

POEMS

1 [Loosely based on a passage from 

"The Book of General Ignorance".]

What a day for a nothing event.

In 2003 the Hubble Telescope

was set to ultra deep field mode.

In 1 million seconds, or about 11 days

the photo they made showed tens of thousands

of hitherto unknown galaxies,

each consisting of hundreds of…

The answer to, and winner (if any) for, our last contest question of:

When you think of the American cities with the best architecture, these four come to mind. There's Chicago that started skyscrapers, New York, Gotham of course, Los Angeles on the coast, and.... Well according to one architecture study, the fourth most notable architecture city in the US is this small 50,000 pop. town! Say what? Name this small American town with the great architecture.

IS: Columbus Indiana!…