JAMES M. EMMERLING
James M. Emmerling
- Birthday
- June 24
- Title
- Gentleman of the Very Old School
- Bio
- random experiences yet to be given
meaning , in luminous
retrospect
when i
can
manage
it.
MY RECENT POSTS
- MY INVITATION TO THE KINGDOM
OF HEAVEN (no rsvp)
May 22, 2012 02:29PM - THE PRELUDE TO A SURREALISTIC
FAMILY DINNER
May 21, 2012 05:56PM - I'LL REMEMBER YOU, with the
help of science , i hope
May 20, 2012 09:58PM - GEORGIE PUPPY SUFFERS AN
oedipal crisis
May 19, 2012 02:32PM - debauchery doesn't cut it in a
nihilistic age.
May 18, 2012 05:31PM
MY RECENT COMMENTS
- “KEIKO:
My own take
on Jesus is this:
if he
was at a gathering, it would
preferably…”
2:17PM - “ok..this will be a two
part response,
in
that
i must first fully
process the
photos…”
2:02PM - “ART:
graybeard
Librarians are often in the
interstices of
my
existence,
my grand
fr…”
1:32PM - “ah thank you for letting
us walk beside
you!
joni:
"Then
can I walk beside
you…”
1:19PM - “Nan: yeah, that
‘what is truth ‘
quote of his
demands a bong
session.…”
12:55PM
James M. Emmerling's Links
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MY INVITATION TO THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN (no rsvp)
DYLAN: 'tHINGS HAVE CHANGED':
Only a fool in here would think he’s got anything to prove
Lot of water under the bridge, lot of other stuff
too
Don’t get up gentlemen, I’m only passing
through
I got an invitation in… Read full post »
THE PRELUDE TO A SURREALISTIC FAMILY DINNER

My father, myself, and Rena went to the house with a ham for Mom to cook for a “victory dinner” after we’d successfully concluded our meeting in Dad’s principal ‘s office at his high school. It had been a face to fac… Read full post »
I'LL REMEMBER YOU, with the help of science , i hope
i'll remember you
after i've forgotten all the rest
you to me were true
you to me were the best.
DYLAN, whose performance of his tune 'i'll remember u"
is seen at
youtube in myriad moods and modes................
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T/… Read full post »
GEORGIE PUPPY SUFFERS AN oedipal crisis
Uncle James is here this weekend to take care of me, because Momma has once again deserted me to go off with the New Guy.
She “retired” from her job on Friday, after 40 years of working. I assumed it was so that she could stay home &… Read full post »
debauchery doesn't cut it in a nihilistic age.

I opened my coffee & spaghetti-stained copy of Camille Paglia’s Sexual Personae and was immediately rewarded with a thought provoking sentence which was rather an earthquake to me.
Page 522 (it is 700 pages!):
Discussing The Picture of… Read full post »
HAPPY 90TH BIRTHDAY DAD...&...SORRY I KILLED U

My sister called this morning.
“Hey,” I said.
“Jimmy, no big deal…uh, just knowing you are thinking of Dad today, like I am. He would have been 90!”
I took a slug of coffee to make a response. It was 7 am, for… Read full post »
PART TWO: THE FATE of bullyboys in Our System
Culture is activity of thought,
and receptiveness to beauty and humane feeling.
Scraps of information have nothing to do with it.
A merely well-informed man
is the most useless bore on God’s earth.
What we should aim at producing is… Read full post »
FOR MY DEAR GAL ELEANOR: happy mother's day, mom

(DAD: ah el you look just like doris day!)
“ I am a terrible person, arent I, James?” Mom would sometimes say, in the end days.
I would giggle.
“Hush. I mean it. I shouldn’t be so hard on your father. He has… Read full post »
FOR MY father, ON MOTHER'S DAY

I've seen old men with broken teeth
stranded without love
Do I understand your question , man?
'Is it hopeless and forlorn'?...
'Come in ,' she said
'I'll give ya
Shelter from the Storm' "
Dylan.
“It’s Mother’s D… Read full post »
50 SHADES OF black & white...science fiction erotica

ORIGINAL VERSION OF DYLAN'S "if you see her say hello..."
if you makin love to her
kiss her for the kid
WHO always has respected her
for doin'what she did..
i knew it had to end that way
it was written in the cards.."… Read full post »
THE FATE OF BULLY BOYS in our system...part ONE
schopenhauer:
§ Compassion is the basis of all morality.
If there is anything in the world that can really be called a man’s property, it is surely that which is the result of his mental activity..................................................
SETTING UP A F.-DATE after dealing with the bullying crisis.
S FREUD: "A man like me cannot live without a hobby-horse, a consuming passion — in Schiller's words a tyrant. I have found my tyrant, and in his service I know no limits. My tyrant is psychology. it has always been my distant, beckoning goal and now since I have… Read full post »
VERY TROUBLING TIMES FOR georgie puppie, my nephew
FREUD:
The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind.
§ The Interpretation of Dreams (1900), from The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud, translated by James Strachey.
§&… Read full post »
WHY I AM A DIE HARD OBAMA SUPPORTER
Mama,
take this badge off of me
I can't use
it anymore.
It's
gettin' dark, too dark to see
I feel I'm
knockin' on heaven's door.
OUR PREZ:
Well, because I am learning so much about him from his old girlfriends, that’ s why!… Read full post »
INTIMATE SEXUAL LEARNING with a gal mom approves of ?

Rena Oblong and I took a lovely excursion to the flesh, last night, understanding that this is what it is, it is nothing more. I had serious objections to this, but stayed mum. I gotta admit I got connected to her, while i was inside her, but… Read full post »
MATRICIDE CONSIDERED as a gentleman has Supper

Rena Oblong, my colleague at the local high school where my 85 year old father has been principal for 40 years now, was nude with her breasts pushed up against my shoulders as we read a text from my mother. Mother is new to texting, and has arthritic… Read full post »
GONNA GOTTA GET BEHIND MAY DAY, TOMORROW!

May Day tomorrow. Some of you may remember it, from the Cold War…
(To me the Cold War is a nearly forgotten deficient dream, this struggle between Capitalism and Communism)
It became an important official holiday of the Soviet Union, celebrated with elaborat… Read full post »
Perhaps It is Nobody's Fault that the Dog has Panic Disorder
My new girlfriend and I were cruising around town looking for my dog Joseph, who’d leaped through a screen door at a clap of thunder about a half hour ago and disappeared to the south.
I shouldn’t say she is my girlfriend. She… Read full post »
AN INCENDIARY POST ABOUT RELIGION, WATCH OUT!
Watch out, readers. This might be incendiary. This post.
I am under the sway of Christopher Hitchens, that erudite drunken atheist who wrote God is Not Great,
a book that has destroyed all respect for religion I ever had, which wasn’t a lot to begin with.… Read full post »
In deepest Homage & Friendship: WHERE IS ART JAMES?
I have pm-ed my friends about the alarming lack of Art James for eleven days now.
best artists' rendition of the good farmer..

I am not equipped emotionally to deal with an OS sans Mr. James. Thus selfishly I must inquire after his situation.… Read full post »
The Birthday of DNA, the Apotheosis of Aldous Huxley
alfred n. whithead "the aims of education"1929:
That knowledge which adds greatness to character is knowledge so handled as to transform every phase of immediate experience
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It’s the 59th… Read full post »
A DOG'S LIFE:underground reflections of a radicalized puppy
. Oh, gentlemen, perhaps I really
regard myself as an intelligent man only because throughout my
entire life I’ve never been able to start or finish
anything.
f.doystoyevsky
Georgie puppie here. Gosh, I am a changed dawg.
Uncle James is here, schooling me. showing me, well, me.&nbs… Read full post »
In Solemn Commemoration of Wm. Shakespeare's B-Day!

Shakespeare is
universal.
Harold
Bloom,an
American literary critic and is Sterling
Professor of Humanities at Yale
University
Today is Shakespeare’s birth and death date.
I have decided to lend him the space of my… Read full post »
Meet the Parents & the Beloved Pet, God Help u, dear gal
The last time I’d laid eyes on Rena Oblong, she was naked and lanquidly posed in her bed, where we’d made delightful strenuous love til the break of dawn. That was just 12 hours ago. Now she was walking up the driveway to my parents’ house to pick me up… Read full post »
CONTINUATION OF: Beating Bullying by a Big Breakfast.
And it was this that awed him —
the weird combination of fixity and change, t
he terrible moment of immobility stamped with eternity in which,
passing life at great speed,
both the observer and the observed seem frozen in time.
THOMAS… Read full post »
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