Benjamin Goods

Chuck Hayes’ Funky Free Throws

Benjamin Goods — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 17:00:16 +0000

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Benjamin Goods — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 17:00:38 +0000

Show Me Your Crocs

Benjamin Goods — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 17:00:38 +0000

Everybody Needs A Riesen

Benjamin Goods — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 17:00:09 +0000

Born Pure

Benjamin Goods — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 17:00:56 +0000

Born pure

Grown flawed

No cure

For the clawed

Peace drawn

Without depression

Many gone

Yearning impression

Creative embark

Captive soul

Belated remark

Captured goal

Many tears

Left unsaid

Many years

Left unread

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Benjamin Goods — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 21:00:40 +0000

Pulse of Cognition

Benjamin Goods — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 16:44:18 +0000

I AM THE MIDDLE FINGER
on the pulse of cognition
except I don’t think
and I rarely feel.
For now I just release
what it is I once felt
as if it is a glimpse
into important thoughts.
Most men quickly realize
that introspection most often
halts success these days
for the next man is always
willing to disregard emotion.

Word of the Week – 1.25.10

Benjamin Goods — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 17:00:08 +0000

parvenu

\PAR-vuh-noo; -nyoo\ , noun;

One that has recently or suddenly risen to a higher social or economic class but has not gained social acceptance of others in that class; an upstart.

adjective:

Being a parvenu; also, like or having the characteristics of a parvenu.

Quotes:

However, the Creoles, French, Spanish, and Acadians who preceded the American parvenus were deeply entrenched and incredibly snobbish and clannish in relation to outsiders.

– Laurence Bergreen, Louis Armstrong: An Extravagant Life

Origin:

Parvenu is from the French, from the past participle of parvenir, from Latin pervenire, “to come through to, to arrive at, to reach, hence to succeed,” from per, “through” + venire, “to come.”

The Lonely Island – Like A Boss

Benjamin Goods — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 15:00:05 +0000

Word of the Week – 1.18.10

Benjamin Goods — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 15:00:52 +0000

chimera

\ky-MIR-uh\ , noun;

(Capitalized) A fire-breathing she-monster represented as having a lion’s head, a goat’s body, and a serpent’s tail.

Any imaginary monster made up of grotesquely incongruous parts.

An illusion or mental fabrication; a grotesque product of the imagination.

An individual, organ, or part consisting of tissues of diverse genetic constitution, produced as a result of organ transplant, grafting, or genetic engineering.

Quotes:

Asa Whitney, with no previous experience and having nothing but his faith and self-assurance to tell him he was not pursuing a chimera, began to outline how he would get a railroad across the vast, uninhabited middle of the American continent to the Pacific shores, where the lure of Asia beckoned, within reach.

– David Haward Bain, Empire Express

Origin:

Chimera comes from Latin chimaera, from Greek chimaira “she-goat, chimera.”