Ha. Tony Soprano brought down by natural causes.

Perfect!

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The weird thing to a sopranos nut like me is: the death of Tony woulda been just as big as the demise of Gandolfini.

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I say… Read full post »

My sister has been hounding me for weeks now about my goddamn JETPACK usage. A JETPACK is what Verizon now calls what used to be called a HOT SPOT.

I shall leave the sexual connotations aside…

I got 5 GB. Every month? I come… Read full post »

It was brought to my attention that tomorrow, June 12, is “Loving Day”.

As I am fulla love these days, and freely exhorting the power of  love upon my friends and relatives , I was delighted to learn this.

Loving Day is an annual celebration held on June 12, the anniversa… Read full post »

Today, June 7^th, is traditionally First Day of The Vestalia.

Last celebrated in the Roman Empire…

Since they say, “yknow, America is just the Roman Empire all over again”, I thought it might be appropriate to celebrate this holiday.

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Vesta is a goddess. Or , was… Read full post »

• Man's chief difference from the brutes lies in the exuberant excess of his subjective propensities — his preeminence over them simply and solely in the number and in the fantastic and unnecessary character of his wants, physical, moral, aesthetic, and intellectual. Had his whole
… Read full post »

DYLAN; 'AINT TALKING'

They say prayer has the power to help
So pray from the mother
In the human heart an evil spirit can dwell
I'm trying to love my neighbor and do good unto others
But oh, mother, things ain't going well

I live in a… Read full post »

 please allow me to introduce myself...the rolling stones

I was reluctantly reading the New Yorker on the smoking porch when Sarge came out and placed himself on his plastic lawn chair. I was in the sun, in my shorts, legs crossed, trying to accumulate a bit of culture, cuz… Read full post »

To understand /you know too soon/there is no sense in trying…Dylan ‘its alright ma’

Sarge and I were out on our ‘’smoking porch”, which faces East & gets the first sun of the day.

The subject of Socrates came up.

Here… Read full post »

 Space, like time, engenders forgetfulness;

but it does so by setting us bodily free from our surroundings and giving us back our primitive, unattached state.

Yes, it can even, in the twinkling of an eye,

make something like a vagabond of the pedant and Philistine. Time,… Read full post »

I can hear those ancient voices calling,
"Children, children"/

when the coalbrick man comes round,
On a cold November day
You'll be on the Celtic Ray,
Are you ready?/
I can hear those ancient voices calling,
"Children, children, children".

come home, children..

I've been away from th… Read full post »

  I am listening to the first rock n roll album I ever bought, The Wall, by Pink Floyd, as I write this.

(I was 12. It was 1980. The LP came out in November 1979. All the cool kids at the Junior High were listening to it. The hippest dudes… Read full post »

Why didn't they leave us to wander through buttercup summers

Why didn't they leave us to wander when there was no other

van morrison, "the master's eyes'

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I am ambivalent about this Boy Scout thing. Ambivalent as in: 1. I don’t give a shit… Read full post »

 

‘LOVE WALKS ON A RAZOR’S EDGE

SOME DAY I’LL MAKE IT MINE

COME ON IN SHE SAID

I’LL GIVE YOU

SHELTER FROM THE STORM”

BOB DYLAN.

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Tomorrow is Dylan’s 72^nd birthday, and I am encumbered  with the need to write something or other.… Read full post »

   

HOMO:A member of the genus Homo, which includes the extinct and extant species of humans.

 SAPIENTIAL:showing, having, or providing wisdom

 Today was my last day of taking care of Georgie Doggy. I was up at four a.m., him barking single ‘’woof&… Read full post »

Some of you read with me 40 years ago a portion of Aristotle's Ethics, a selection of passages that describe his idea of happiness. You may not remember too well…CHARLES VAN DOREN

I am currently taking care of my canine nephew, Georgie Doggy, perhaps the most spoiled dog on… Read full post »

I am rather pleased with myself, feeling as if I have made a fine subversive move on The Man this morning. You all know The Man: the authority that is keeping us down. Once easily defined; these days rather amorphous, ill-defined. This a.m. The Man was the motherfucker whoever… Read full post »

 i'm a dweller on the threshold 

and im waiting at the door

i dont wanna wait no more..

van morrison ,  dweller on the threshold.

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Today would have been my father’s 91^st birthday.

That is why I hate death today.

Most days I… Read full post »

there is something about time and space that is not real,

and something about us that is.

However man may have tumbled into this world of indefinite space,

he does not belong to it at all.

Real space for him is the eternal… Read full post »

Weather forecast for tonight: dark. GEORGE CARLIN.

It’s Mother’s Day across the land, and moms ---if they are  genetically lucky---or are faking maternal affection  well enough as ‘stepmoms’---are basking in the glow of their sons’ and daug… Read full post »

I have gone the “repost” route because I am utterly out of new things to say …no doubt because I am safely ensconced in a new apartment where things are the same as  they gloriously once were: namely, I have nothing really to lose, yet...something, intangible...that prevents m/… Read full post »

Rena Oblong has been out of my life for five months now, ever since we disagreed about whether her brother ought to be euthanized. 

Her “brother” is Rudolf the parrot, previously her Mom’s pet til Gladys Oblong went into the hospital for a hip rep… Read full post »

My mom Eleanor used to want me to become a doctor. I told her, “Mother, I am a meta physician, not a physician!”

“And that is what , pray tell?,”mom said.

“Meta, mom,” I improvised. I had a little Aristotle in… Read full post »

 I have gotten to know my older sister quite well these past two weeks that I ‘ve lived with her and my canine nephew Georgie Doggy.

Waiting for my new apartment to be ready. Which it will be, Wednesday.

Some of the things I… Read full post »

Things seem… Read full post »