It began as the GODFATHER OF MATH, evolved into the GOODFATHER OF MATH. Now this. Go figure...

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The kind of humor I like is the thing that makes me laugh for five seconds and think for ten minutes = G. CARLIN...Stain glass, engraved glass, frosted glass
–give me plain glass = JOHN FOWLES ... Music is the mathematics of the gods=PYTHAGORAS ... Nothing is more fluid than language = R. L. SWIHART
I cannot live without the oxygen of laughter = DAWN POWELL ... !!! ... But laughter cannot survive without the hydrogen of gravitas = PAUL OLIVERIO
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Monday, December 31, 2018

On The Last Day Of The Year, We Summarily Present ...

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from
Dave Barry
—The Journalistic Master of the Absurd—

the highlighted words
within the image
 are NOT hyperlinks
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Nathan Hawke's Academy Award Impersonation Of Nick Nolte

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Table Manners
 w/ short advert
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Many Words Of Wisdom From Poor Rich ...

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***
***
Many foxes grow grey, but few
grow good.

Many have quarreled about religion,
that never practiced it.

Many medicines, few cures.

Many princes sin with David, but
few repent with him.

Many would live by their wits, but
break for want of stock.
***
***

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
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Saturday, December 29, 2018

Signs, Symbols, Mortar, Foliage, Lamppost + Mondrian Window

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© Oliverio
The Mondrian Window
at
4th and Olive 
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Thursday, December 27, 2018

CarPeo Set Piece #83: Norton Simon Umbrella Sculpture

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© Mrs. CarPeo
Pond-side Umbrella Sculpture

The next
CarPeo Set Piece is
here 

The next Norton Simon page
is TBD 
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Photoverio #358: A House With Big Windows

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© Oliverio
Ocean Boulevard, LB 
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Fish-Eye Views Of Tony's Place On Christmas

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St. Anthony's RC Church
12-25-18

Featuring
a beautiful  choir,
our favorite priest
(Fr. Brian)
and favorite lector
(Greg)
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Photoverio #357: Fish-Eye View With No Fish

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© Oliverio
Christmas walk
above the beach

The Long Beach sky
partially provided
a White Christmas 
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We Can't Go On Meeting Like This ... #6

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Ernest Kirchner
Bathers Beneath Trees
Fehmarn
1913

NORTON SIMON MUSEUM

Sculpture by
Maillol 

Photo by
Mrs. CarPeo

The next
Norton Simon page
is  here 

The next
"We can't go on" page
is  there 
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We Can't Go On Meeting Like This ... #5

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John Glover
Figures in a stormy wooded landscape
≈1831≈

Art Daily

The next
"We can't go on"
page is
here 
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Tuesday, December 25, 2018

Our Most Satisfying Christmas Gift Was In Pasadena

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A dear friend
of the CarPeos
treated us
to an Art Museum
holiday

Norton Simon Museum


The image in
the lower-right corner
morphed into
a truncated and elongated
selfie of Mr. CarPeo
and Hans Arp 

The next
Norton Simon page
is  here 

A Norton Simon
museum image
was already posted
there 
 

This was Mrs. CarPeo's
first visit to
a major Art Museum
west of the Mississippi River 

It will NOT be her last
—holidays notwithstanding—   
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Christmas Greetings ... From The Godfather Of These Pages

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Lady dear, if Fairies may
For a moment lay aside
Cunning tricks and elfish play,
'Tis at happy Christmas-tide.

We have heard the children say—
Gentle children, whom we love—
Long ago, on Christmas Day,
Came a message from above.

Still, as Christmas-tide comes round,
They remember it again—
Echo still the joyful sound
"Peace on earth, good-will to men!"

Yet the hearts must childlike be
Where such heavenly guests abide:
Unto children, in their glee,
All the year is Christmas-tide!

Thus, forgetting tricks and play
For a moment, Lady dear,
We would wish you, if we may,
Merry Christmas, glad New Year!
***


(1867)
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A Christmas Carol For Our 45th And Final President

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***
***
All the old white snowmen
cold of heart
and densely packed, too
said we ought to make
Richie our King

They were blinded by
his brilliant orange hue
***
***

JACK McCARTHY
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Footnote
The next GoFather/Trump
page is
here 
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Monday, December 24, 2018

Photoverio #356: She Asked Me To Shoot A Duck

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© Oliverio
For Mrs. CarPeo

Norton Simon Pond 
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Sunday, December 23, 2018

STREET ART UTOPIA (#38): A Tree Grows In Brickland

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PEJAC

The next
STREET ART UTOPIA
page is
here  
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Award-Winning Reporter w/Cancer Gets Pink Slip For Christmas

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The story continues
here 
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Saturday, December 22, 2018

The County Fair

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he juggles expectations
crossing fourteen stations
beginning here

in three acts
his fistful of facts
vanish in thin air

his carousel of voices
and dartboard choices
are the county fair

in his eyes
everyone gets a prize
then they disappear

***



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Footnote
THE COUNTY FAIR
is the copyrighted property
of LCSoL
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Tuesday, December 18, 2018

And Keep My Fingers Crossed (Comic Relief #2608)

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Bruce Eric Kaplan
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Monday, December 17, 2018

I Don't Remember If I Previously Posted This Poem

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If forgetting were an art
I'd be Van Gogh
then forget where
my ear was
and cut off my toe

***
PAUL OLIVERIO


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Footnotes
I DON'T REMEMBER IF
I ALREADY POSTED THIS
is the copyrighted property
of LCSoL

Written in 1977,
it originally appeared in

At least fifty pages
from that journal
also appear in
The GodFather of Math
Trilogy
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Sunday, December 16, 2018

The Wrong Stuff Is Here And The Wright Stuff Is There

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George Harrison
and
Swami SendaBukorTwo
 ⬇︎⬇︎

There are two things wrong
with this page:
The "Swami" is
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
AND
Patti Boyd
is George Harrison's
ex-wife 

BUT
the Wright Stuff
is on the 
previous page 

Meanwhile,
the next GoFather/Beatles
page is
here 
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The Wright Stuff Is Here And The Wrong Stuff Is There

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More quotes from Steven Wright
who once confessed:
Some people are afraid of heights,
I'm afraid of widths.

BUT
the Wrong Stuff is
there 
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Saturday, December 15, 2018

On Screen: An Ethnic Fourteen Word Acrostic Poem

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Good Italians
Often act
Ostentatiously because
Monkey minded
Brain drained
Audiences like
Holy terror
***


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Footnote
ON SCREEN: AN ETHNIC
FOURTEEN WORD ACROSTIC POEM
is the copyrighted property of LCSoL
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Photoverio #355: Parking Lot Impressionism

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© Oliverio
Somewhere in New Jersey
(2006) 
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Thursday, December 13, 2018

Photoverio #354: Bleached And Wrapped Haystacks

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© Oliverio
Hazeburg Trail
(2006)
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Wednesday, December 12, 2018

This Page Consists Of Politically Incorrect Joke With A Profanity

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about the blind man
who was handed a matzoh
and said
who wrote this shit?

***
Season 2, Episode 8
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Photoverio #353: Hazily Boxed In, What Was She Thinking?

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© Oliverio
400 Ocean Boulevard-ish
(2006-ish) 
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Tuesday, December 11, 2018

Trump Establishes Age Limit For New Chief Of Staff

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The story continues
here 

The next
GoFather/Trump
page is
there 
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Chateaubriand Considers The Whole Of Human Existence

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Considering the whole of human existence,
one might be tempted to wish
for any accident 
that leads to oblivion
as a means of escaping
from oneself

***

≈ FRANCOIS de CHATEAUBRIAND ≈

The next Chateaubriand
page is TBD 
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Sunday, December 9, 2018

This Is Not ... This Is ... [TIN/TI #45]

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  ⬆ 
THIS IS NOT  
A bowl of cancer sticks


THIS IS 
A bowl of cancer sticks
 




But some refer
to cancer sticks
as cigarets

I prefer to
think of them
as anger management
devices 
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Photoverio #352: A Contoured, Concrete Canyon Of Manhattan

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© Oliverio
Highlighting Billy Bikesmith
(August, 2015) 
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A Prayer For Anyone Who Drives In Los Angeles

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You do not have to be
Catholic nor do you
have to believe in
the existence
of this woman but 
here is the prayer: 

Hail Mary
full of Grace,
help me find
a parking space

The image is from
here 
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Friday, December 7, 2018

My Christmas Gift To Anyone Who Reads This

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The Greatest Christmas Song
That No one Knows

can be heard by clicking
© Jack McCarthy
Willie the Christmas Weasel

There are, at least,
five sequels to
McCarthy's Christmas Caroling

one of them
is available
by clicking
here 

AND
the newest one
—posted on Christmas—
is
there 

  
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This Is A True Story

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Thursday, December 6, 2018

A Literary Quote From Frances Steerling

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Did you know there's a book
that should be known as
The American Frankenstein
???

Instead of the monster
being created
in a laboratory,
it was created
in a burning house
then "rescued"
in a laboratory

Stephen Crane wrote it
and the title is simply
The Monster.

You can read the story
by clicking



The next Frances Steerling page
is  there 
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Photoverio #351: A Bleached Glimpse Of The QM

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© Oliverio
The Queen Mary 
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Tuesday, December 4, 2018

He Said ... She Said ... The Historical HE-ness Of Frances Steerling

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"There is enough failure in the system
  to fuel everybody's ego and guarantee
  the creamy lubricant of paranoia."

"What the hell does that mean?"

"Do you want an honest answer?"

"I'll settle for an answer that
 appears to be honest."

"I honestly do not know
 what it means but I love the phrases 
 failure in the system, 
 fuel everybody's ego,
 and—the cherry on top of the cake—
 creamy lubricant of paranoia."

"Meaning I was supposed to be impressed
 with the sound of your voice
 and its romance with syllables?"

"I didn't say it to impress you."

"Really?"

"I said it to impress me."

"Even if it does nothing more than
 confuse the person you're saying it to?"

"It did a lot more than that."

"How so?"

"It gave us something to talk about:
  without being able to understand 
  what it was we were talking about."

"So what else is new."   


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Footnotes
This conversation took place in ≈1969

The woman conversing with Mr. Steerling,
is believed to be Christina Arsenault

The HE/SHE sequence
is the copyrighted property of LCSoL

This sequence is not linked together
because we want to make our favorite thieves
work for their money

The quote at the top of this page
has been attributed to
Sven Golvenstein

The next Frances Steerling
page is  here
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Quoting A Brooklyn/Zen/Latino/Cheerleading Cancer Survivor

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During terrible times, 
we can go to the darkness
or to the light.
I’m going to the light.

***


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Monday, December 3, 2018

(IF) It Is No Secret ... (THEN) It Should Come As No Surprise ...

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If it is no secret
that the phenomenon
of Selfies
derives from
Self-worship:
a manifestation of
Ego

Then it should come as no surprise
that the man with
the biggest ego
who worships nothing
but himself
was elected
President of the United States

The next
GoFather/Trump
page is
here 

 
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Is It Child And Mother ... Or ... Mother And Child Reunion?

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© Oliverio










We will let
answer the
question
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Saturday, December 1, 2018

Art Daily Quote: This Is Such A Beautiful Painting. If I Were ...

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If I were
I would display it
on the top
of the refrigerator

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Quoting The 41st President Of The United States

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When the word moderation
becomes a dirty word,
we have some soul searching to do
***



President Bush
with Lee Atwater + Sam Moore

He did jam with Sam
—without Dave but with Lee—
Now he will Rest in Peace

"The Prez"
born: June 12, 1924
died: November 30. 2018
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