INDEX OF CHANTICLEER CALLS TOPICS, 1999-2003
From 1999 into 2003, I published 34 issues of an online collection of observations, homilies, and lessons learned I called Chanticleer Calls. The name was inspired by Thoreau’s self-aware mission statement in his book Walden:
I do not propose to write an ode to dejection, but to brag as lustily as chanticleer in the morning, standing on his roost, if only to wake my neighbors up.
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Mar 24, 2003 (#34)
- Frying Spam “Honey, which channel is the war on?
- Installing Democracy (Version 2.x)
- Perspicuous Perspective Ensuring Everlasting Life (at least among the living)
- General Semantics Miscellany
- One Moyer Thing …
Dec 23, 2002 (#33)
- NOT FOR SALE
Nov 19, 2002 (#32)
- CLARIFICATION: The Role of “Rolls”
- COLLOQUIUM REPORT: The Role of Roles (Dr. Albert Ellis and the Levinson’s)
- LITTLE ROCK, LITTLE MINDS (5 Rolls!)
- A WORD ABOUT GENERAL SEMANTICS: Identification
- A POLITICAL PARADOX
- PERSONAL UPDATE … Regarding those voting machine creatures
- SELF-CONFESSIONAL: My Roll of Roles
- COMPLETING THE HAND: A Roll of Rolls
- SIGNIFICANT LOSSES – Allen Walker Read and Chris Sheldon
- FEATURED LINKS AND NEWS
Oct 8, 2002 (#31)
- Hemingway on Great Writers and Crap Detectors
- Used Cars, Oklahoma Ocean-Front Property, and LASIK Eye Surgery
- Dick Armey is not Pulling Your Leg-ey
- A Word About General Semantics: EVALUATE
- A Jew and a Palestinian Co-exist on a Non-Verbal Level
- “Ya (don’t) Gotta Have Heart”
- Mum’s NOT the Word
- Signs Seen Along the Road
- Quotes I Didn’t Make Up
- Featured Links
Sep 4, 2002 (#30)
- General Semantics in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram
- How Do You Use Language?
- A Word about General Semantics: Limits
- Charlotte Read’s NY Times Obituary: In Synch with Safire
- News Bits
- Some Dates and Etc.
- Featured Links
Aug 5, 2002 (#29)
- Announcing … The DFW Center for General Semantics Report from the Institute’s Seminar-Workshop at Alverno College
- International Conference on General Semantics Planned (2003)
- A Chance Encounter; A Media Opportunity
- Charlotte Schuchardt Read, 1909 – 2002
- A Word about General Semantics
- News Bits
Jun 1, 2001 (#28)
- RUE ‘DA RULES! ‘Reserved’ Seats – How to almost spoil Graduation
- Jeffords’ Choice – What’s the big deal?
- Hair Do Rules! – A consistent standard?
- Father’s Day – BIG(amist) TIME – Doing time for the ‘crime’
- Whites, Coloreds, and a Greyhound – Remembering the 1961 Freedom Riders
- “Want fries with that? May I see your passport?” – Bad karma at McDonald’s
- Afghan (non-verbal) Labels – “The Big Lie” revisited
- Pick One, But Not Both [expletive deleted] – A compound (only) expletive
- United Way Aids Gays – Applying consistent criteria
- Rue ‘da Rules – Advocating fewer ‘rules’, more ‘exceptions’
April 24, 2001 (#27)
- Cut the crap, choose the cheese … – Recommending Who Moved My Cheese?
- Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elfs Agin) – How many different ‘selves’ do we have? How many do we allow?
- Singing to the beat of a familiar drummer – A tale of a bloke who became much more than what he ‘was’
- Lease terms – Learning how to measure things differently
March 25, 2001 (#26)
- SEEING “IRONY”: Seeing – Chanticleer now sees the world through Vaseline-colored glasses
- “Irony” – Real life example of a dictionary definition
- Weather Observations – Can you watch the weather without being in the weather?
February 25, 2001 (#25)
- Since this past week was “Grammy Week” (or, “Grammy Weak”, depending on your musical perspective), Chanticleer crows to the beat about music, relativity, and attitudes.
- “Irony Rules” – Observations on the awards show
- “Always … Patsy Cline” – Reviewing the Cowtown crowd
- Eminem and Elton, Eminem and Frank – A bum rap? A Perspective
February 1, 2001 (#24)
- Update on North Central Re-striping – A six-week job, nineteen weeks later
- “Straight From the Heart” – “The Girl and the Match” gets circulated
- What He Said – Tales from Singledom, regarding: Chocolat; What “DELETE” means; Close Encounters of the Rented Kind
January 1, 2001 (#23)
- WHAT I’VE LEARNED – Chanticleer relates some lessons from 2000
November 8, 2000 (#22)
- “TOO CLOSE TO CALL” – Post-election, pre-results observations
- UPDATE: un nombre, Hombre? – The results of the political nom de plume transformation of Mr. (I mean, Señor Tomas Eduardo Wesson
- ‘NSYNC, ‘NSCREAM! – Chanticleer confesses to an addiction, and to a ‘therapy’
- (UNPUBLISHED) LETTER TO THE EDITOR – Chanticleer shares a much-too-long-to-be-published letter to the editor dealing with “Dancing on Graves”, Wagner in Israel, and “Holy Land”, “Holy Killing”, “Holy Cow”
- AND FINALLY – “Economy Class Syndrome”
- But You Thought
October 22, 2000 (#21)
- Regarding various matters of discriminating, and non-discriminating, behavior Idiot, Idiot, Who’s the Idiot? – When not to call the police
- What’s in an un nombre, Hombre? – Are voters really this dumb?
- Cheerleader Update – the latest on administrative tyranny
- More Rules, More Spirit? – learn sportsmanship from the LPGA
- Ban ’em, Dano! – So much to object to, so little time: No Oz in Kansas: No “picnic” in New York; No potato in Connecticut; No t-shirt at Notre Dame
- AND FINALLY – Two hilarious email notices this week
- But You Thought
October 8, 2000 (#20)
- Regarding “lines” … Restriping North Central Expressway – $134,000 of lines
- Rah-rah, Sis-Boom Beer! – Two of the most affluent high schools in the Dallas-Fort Worth area suffer consequences of suds
- “Hugs” – One word, but two very different experiences observed at the Cedar Rapids airport
- Rain! Finally! – But not so fast, Barometer Breath
- … And Finally – More on “lines” …
August 27, 2000 (#19)
- Chanticleer relates what he’s experienced and thought about during an unplanned ‘vacation’
- Impressions from Israel – from
- Jerusalem, Yad Vashem, and Gethsemane Seen and Heard – A collection of observations and comments
- Condoms To Go – What you won’t hear in this store
- AT&T – The customer service battle begins
- And Finally – Comments following the Little League World Series … what does our language reflect, and what does it perpetuate?
June 18, 2000 (#18)
- Chanticleer retreats from “protection” and sheepishly discusses lessons ‘learned’ …
- Learning and Knowing is NOT Doing – Limping out of middle age
- History, Geography … Whatever – How important is knowing the difference really?
- You Say Verbatim, I Say Verboten – Is rote recitation right?
- Disregarding What We Already Know – 60 years later, this quote is still spot-on Completing a Thought – Six months later, a scene makes sense Fading Away … – Must cultures and societies “shed to grow”?
- And Finally – Following up on Internet child protection
June 5, 2000 (#17)
- Chanticleer sticks his neck out to say a few words on the subject of “protection” …
- Bird Brains – Humans looking out for birds
- Protecting Libraries from Cyber-Porn – Are filters the answer?
- Protecting Lockney from Drugs One parent stands alone for a principle and his son
- Standardized Tests – The Texas TAAS tests answers questions … but are they the right questions?
- Protecting European-Americans from “massive discrimination”
- David Duke is at it again
- And Finally – Dealing with the KKK on the symbol level in St. Louis
May 14, 2000 (#16)
- Perspectives from a Parfait Sunset – An airborne sunset triggers some thoughts
- Conversations with Stacy – Three conversations demonstrate some lessons worth learning from a father’s perspective while taxing a teenager’s patience
- Quote: “He who rules our symbols rules us.” – Alfred Korzybski
- Symbols and Meanings – All things “Confederate”
April 21, 2000 (15)
- A Reminder: Who am I? What am I doing here? – the author explains Chanticleer and ThisIsNotThat
- Time-binding: “Cooperating and Graduating” by another name – A short definition and explanation of Alfred Korzybski’s term time-binding, and what it implies
- Maria’s Story – An example of time-binding, Maria shares her experience of finding a lump
- Regularly-Scheduled Programming – A (perhaps) humorous real-life anecdote I could never make up
- Slouching Towards the 20th Century
- Slowly, we progress to allow dancing in Oklahoma and Wagner in Israel
- And Finally – What a difference a Safire makes! – The after-effects of having your website mentioned by a nationally-syndicated columnist
- But You Thought – Comments from readers and new visitors
April 6, 2000 (#14)
- Crowing ThisIsNotThat.com mentioned by NY Times columnist William Safire
- Quote: “It is not disbelief that is dangerous to society, it is belief.” – George Bernard Shaw
- How To Get There From Here? Re-examining beliefs about the morning commute
- Gigabite Gullibility How easily people believe and act on what the read
- Whatever Happened Was Meant To Happen Regarding the March 28th Fort Worth tornado
- And Finally – A Special Tribute by, and for, Katy Beth on behalf of her sister Vikki
March 6, 2000 (#13)
- “Everything?”
- Regarding the Texas Rangers new marketing campaign
- American Beauty – My comments on the Academy Award-nominated film, in response to a “Letter to the Editor”
- A PROPAGANDA PRIMER, THANKS TO PAT ROBERTSON – Robertson’s “vicious bigot” attack on Warren Rudman deserves comment and reveals much about the man behind the ‘minister’
- And Finally – Your In Analysis
February 17, 2000 (#12)
- Grass on Campus High jinx returns
- Confessions of Awareness, or Lack Thereof
- Four examples of awareness/non-awareness: Cause/Effect (?) Oxymoron, Anyone? Reading Labels, Ignoring Labels
- And Finally The Divine Right of King’s Name
February 2, 2000 (#11)
- Groundhog Day and Other misLeading Indicators
- Knock on Would, and Other Silli-stitions (How about dropping superstitions?)
- The Ultimate “Oops, I didn’t mean to do that!” (Let’s be careful out there … with those email addresses.)
- Rocker Update (Baseball punishes John Rocker)
- More Words and Consequences (Kids say the darnedest threats)
- And Finally (re-instituting But You Thought …)
January 21, 2000 (#10)
- Bush League Words (My COMPLETE letter, a portion of which was printed in the Dallas Morning News)
- Forbidden Words 2000 (Words condemned for further use, from a Matt Groenig cartoon)
- Shrubbery Words
- Quote regarding words (I say what I say. I do not say what I do not say. – Alfred Korzybski)
- Rocker Words, ‘Racist’ Words? (On reactions to John Rocker’s remarks)
- Ship Words (Seen at the Orlando airport)
- And Finally (On The Cider House Rules)
January 1, 2000 (#9)
- Quoting Barry Manilow, Scarlett O’Hara, and Roseanne Roseannadanna (My Y2K status)
- Guides to Changing Your Life (Making mo’ better discriminations)
- What’s Wrong with These Lyrics? (Is it the song, or the songwriter?)
- Draft Dodger1967 = Draft Dodger1999? (Muhammad Ali as “Sportsman of the Century”)
- “Absolutely!” Respect Me, or Else! (Forget a “Sir”, break a law)
- And Finally (“Beauty is in the eye of the beholder”. What else?)
December 15, 1999 (#8)
- Blame it on Rio, but not on Y2K (Mistakes happen, even without Y2K)
- Surgeon General on ‘Mental’ Health (1 in 5 Americans have illness; some comments and a rant on Santa Claus)
- Let’s Talk About Sex: “Don’t!” (Compares sex education in the States vs. France)
- Master of Whose Domain? (Preventing hate by hoarding domain names?)
- Stacy’s Poem And Finally (“ART”)
- But You Thought …
December 1, 1999 (#7)
- “Dogma” (Comments on reaction to the movie, and the movie)
- Georgia Baptists (On expelling gay congregations)
- Other Baptists (On the role of women)
- Taliban Justice
- Evolution, Creationism and Prayer
- And Finally (On the belief of beliefs)
- But You Thought … (25 Heloise-like tips)
November 15, 1999 (#6)
- Thankstaking (10 steps to appreciating yourself in preparing to thank others)
- And Finally (“Bleepers” in the meet market)
- But You Thought …
November 1, 1999 (#5)
- Mindfulness (“Where’s my toast?”;
- Ellen Langer’s “Mindfulness”;
- “Knock on wood”)
- Coming to Age (An updated map of 80)
- And Finally (No stir on “Hope” … but “Lactose Happens”)
- But You Thought …
October 15, 1999 (#4)
- Apology (Dupes the word)
- Classifications (Roger’s homework, “team” vs. “group”; organizing CDs – the classification doesn’t change the music; “liberals” and “conservatives” – the classification doesn’t change the ‘music’)
- Huh??? (Scratching the surface; Route 404; conphronting fonics)
- And Finally (“Hope” happens) But You Thought …
October 1, 1999 (#3)
- “Let’s Get Conditional!” Pavlov and conditioned responses
- Wedgewood Baptist Church shootings
- Smokers or Junior ROTC – you make the call
- And Finally (“Watch Me!” revisited, and personalized)
- But You Thought …
September 15, 1999 (#2)
- Signs on the Road
- An Experiment (3 buckets of water, relativeness of temperature)
- “Watch Me!”
- Quote
- In The News (rising ‘stress’ levels in London; “Ragtime” and the ‘N’ word; Mesa Jr. High and “Tom Sawyer” – NOT)
- And Finally (Friends bring something to the party …)
- But You Thought …
September 1, 1999 (#1)
- “What is This About, and Why Have I Received This Email?”
- This Is Not That Anecdote (Regarding painting, spots, re-painting, more spots, etc.)
- Observation (Braum’s ice cream store)
- In The News (Bill Bradley quote; Katy ISD prayer in school; Irving Youth Action Center; Irving ISD surveillance cameras)
- And Finally (Lexus radio commercial)