What Did I Know And When Did I Know It?

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In 1967,

I knew who 

"em Booze"

was

 

It was a Sunday morning

when my Father

drove me to Willets Point

 

He gave me $40

and said

Let's go Jets

 

This was to be 

the only football game

I attended at Shea Stadium

 

Joe Namath, 

Matt Snell, and Larry Grantham 

were the team leaders

 

But the star of this game was

Emerson Boozer,

who would lead the league 

in touchdowns

that year

 

There is no memory of

anyone chanting "BOOZE"

to acknowledge him

 

But 

I had a general admission ticket

and 

there were shouts of

Sock It To Me 

from black men

who also had

general admission 

tickets

 

At the end of the following season,

the New York Jets 

won the Super Bowl

 

That following year,

one of the funniest shows

in the history of network television 

premiered:

 

 LAUGH-IN

made the phrase

Sock It To ME

universally famous

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PhotoVerio #1005: Midnight Songbird Outside My Door

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© Oliverio ©

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All Letters Praising The President ...

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 All letters 

praising the President

must be addressed

to this box

© PhotoVerio #1004.5

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PhotoVerio #1004: Veiled Woman

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© Oliverio ©

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PhotoVerio #1003: Turntable

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© Oliverio ©

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So Glad That February Is Over ... !!!

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February 

was a trying month

and 

I am about to go

on trial

for crimes

I may have

—or may not have—

commit

 

But

nothing more about that

until TUESDAY

 

I need a day of rest today

and will do

nothing more than

post some

of 

my photographs

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Booze Will Be The Ultimate Judge ... !!!

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The three judges

determining 

my guilt or innocence

will not be wearing

black robes

 

They will

—however—

be wearing

black masks

 

Contrary to the implications

of the title,

alcohol has nothing to do 

with my case:

 

The code name

of the chief Justice 

is

emBooze

 

His associate justices 

are

LT and elMann

 

And

I could not be happier

with this information

 

TO BE CONTINUED  

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For Crimes I May Have OR May Not Have Commit

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For crimes I may have

OR

may not have commit

 

I must do something

about it

 

Being tried at

The Court Of

The Elephantine Ego

 

Where they do know

things about me

I fail to know

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© Oliverio © 

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Three Pages About Jefferson High School In Los Angeles

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(1)

 The B-Sharp Jazz Quartet

is a high-energy

and multi-talented band

with a well-deserved

global following

 

The band leader is

Randall Willis

 

He had been

the music teacher

at Jefferson

AND

the music director

for "donut concerts"

staged by yours truly

 

Randall + two of his students

performed in 

some of those concerts

 

My hand is included in

the photo above

to show how desperate

I am to hear from

my friend 

and colleague

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(2)

There is a new building

under construction 

in the middle

of the campus

I will only say

the following

about it:

 

The last time

I was there,

a Latino security guard

—with very limited English—

spoke one word perfectly

in English 

when he pointed out

this building and said

"Boondoggle" 

The construction

has been ongoing

for five years

and is nowhere near

completion  

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(3)

 The best Jefferson

student photo

I've ever taken

portrays a choreographer:

SHAMIKA BRYANT

 

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Bullet #225: Little And Big Money

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There is little money

available to 

school teachers

but

there is big money

available for

developing theories about  

how to teach 

   school children    

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Footnote

THE 225th BULLET

is 

the copyrighted property

of LCSoL

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Many Years Before Jimi Raft Became My Psychoanalyst

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© 

I hate my job.

The only reason I work

is so I can afford

to tell a psychiatrist

how much 

I hate my job.

 ©

 

 

I declined Jim's $25 offer because of HER

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PhotoVerio #1002: Elevated Bike Lane

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I May Risk Losing My Court Case For This But ...

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Before anyone accuses me of VOODOO ... 

 

Someone who died on February 21st

is listed on an Obituary Page for February 20th. 

 

When a father has taken his 11-year-old son

to a 1960 World Series game but 

—years later—the latter

wrote the following poem:

 

If forgetting were an art

I'd be Van Gogh

and forget where

my ear was

and cut off my toe

 

The two of us attended nearly a dozen games

at Yankee Stadium and I have blogged 

the beJesus out of most of them:

ALL of those games

were prior to 1971

when the boy became

an adult orphan! 

 

Since that time,

I may have claimed to have attended

the 7th Game of the 1960 World Series

 

That is an utter impossibility

because BILL MAZEROSKI

of the Pittsburgh Pirates

could never have hit 

the only Walk-Off Home Run

in the history of professional sports

in the United States of America

 

He proceeded to do exactly that

but in Pittsburgh

—Not the Bronx— 

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!   

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PhotoVerio #1001: 5 Minutes Before Very Wet Sunrise

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© Oliverio ©                       2/18/26 

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Eyesight To The Blind

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Sonny BoyWilliamson II

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the other Sonny Boy  

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