GeographyIs An Art Form

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Map provided by Mrs. CarPeo.

It is quilted to her heart & soul 

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PhotoVerio #991: Another 4th Street Power-Walk Photo

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has deleteable 

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PhotoVerio #990: This Rose Has Something To Say

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"I express more emotion now

—as death approaches—

than I ever expressed

when I was

in full blossom."

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Having Both Hatred + Eternal Gratitude For Tom Price

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An argument

to name 

Evan Hunter's

best novel

would result in

blood-soaked

bar fights

 

ITALJust for the hell of it,

I'd throw a first punch

ITALif and only if

I'm wearing my

Super-Speed Keds

 

However, 

THE MOST IMPORTANT NOVEL

written by the man 

whose birth name is

Salvatore Lombino 

is 

not subject to dispute

 

The title of that book is

The Blackboard Junglex

 

Obviously not the only novel

—with film adaptation—

 about a ghetto classroom

with a "virgin teacher"

BUT 

it is the most important novel

in the vast domain

of the man 

who is legally known as

Evan Hunter

 ❗❗❗  

 

 

To those who believe 

TO SIR WITH LOVE

is more important,

I would state that

—LuLu be Damned—

 

Sidney Portier's

singing

is captured on film

in the adaptation

of Evan Hunter's novel

but not 

in the other classic film

 

TO SIR WITH LOVE

succeeded as a "musical"

but 

Blackboard Jungle 

is as musical as 

the Disney-produced

film

"Mickey Urinates on Minnie Mouse"

 

The name of the teacher is

"Dadier 

and the students

treat it like a Rubber Ducky

 

Glenn Ford

with a crew cut

exemplifies

perfect casting 

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After writing 

"The Wanderers, 

The author I "hate" 

—Tom Price— 

had the distinct privilege

of working with 

  Ernest Dickerson

and 

New York Knicks Super-fan

Spike Lee

in the film version

of another Price novel:

Clockers

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_________

________________ 

 

 I now proceed

to express 

my gratitude

to Mr. Price: 

 

I am presently reading

the 50th Anniversary Edition of

The Blackboard Jungle

but 

I am reading it

at a pace slower than

a heron on heroin

AND

I am doing so

  without any guilt 

 

Why? 

This book junkie 

could easily have read

The Wanderers

—in its entirety— 

while sitting on the toilet 

 

I say that

not to insult 

the toilet

but because 

virtually ALL

of my reading

is generally 

fast-paced

 

OTHERWISE

idiot-guilt 

smothers my soul

 

BUT

Pricee's Bronx-based novel

proved so revolting

as to change

my attitude

about 

slow-reading:

 

I am immensely enjoying

every sentence, paragraph

chapter, and scenario

of Blackoard Jungle

because each page

has crystal clarity

only after each word

is read five times 

  

 Thanks to Tom Price

for this uplifting

Attitudinal Adjustment 

   

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CAT E. CLISM ... Green-Lighted This Page

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SHE 

resembles a divining rod

that is capable of 

splitting the earth

into 28 pieces

of equal volume

 

Then each piece

is stripped

of one dimension

and 

converted into 

a grade school book entitled

UNIVERSAL UNDERSTANDING

OF THE UNIVERSE 

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Unfortunately,

when Ms. Clism

referred to 

"The first order of business."

it had nothing to do with

this "Social Ambassador's"

exclusive access

to a Super Bowl commercial:

 

I am required to 

compromise

my hatred of an author 

 —Tom Price—

as stated

in the previous page 

 

See You There 

 +

 

Thank you Ms. Clism

for allowing me

to conclude 

this page with

 

© Oliverio © 

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A Novelist I Hate ... With Ethnic Justification

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If 

you read 

a specific 

 ten-page chapter

of this "novel"

you would be 

mind-numbingly awestruck

by the deadly behavior

of Italian street gangs

in the Bronx

 

You could easily 

repeat that process

with a much shorter chapter

 

Virtually

everyone in the novel

is from one

of three generations

of Italians

and 

ALL of them

speak in the most imitated dialect

that does not involve 

black folk

 

My birthplace

—Hunts Point—

 is mentioned 

on the third page

 and possibly

someone three blocks away

heard me screech

with delight

 while reading that page

at 3AM on my 

smoke/coffee-stained patio

 

I know the fuh-getabout-it

speech pattern 

more than I care to admit

and I began life as

a third-generation

full-blooded

Italian,

rarely spending a Sunday

with less than

ten family  members

and half as many bowls

of delicious pasta

to feed us

 

YET 

only one

of eleven members

of the middle generation 

duplicated 

that immigrant dialect

as opposed to

other siblings

[Aunt Kay/Aunt Jean]

being mothers of 

 a paternal cousin

who introduced me to

Ernest Hemingway

+

a maternal cousin

who introduced me to 

Catcher In The Rye

 

One on those cousins

became a very successful

Long Island dentist

and the other

is best remembered

as being verbally assaulted 

by Ted Koppel:

my cousin Richard 

was the public face

of something called 

The e-cigaret   

 

There is no link for the dentist

because he is alive and well

and still painfully refusing 

to correspond with me 

  

But the reason I hate

RICHARD PRICE

—author of The Wanderers—

is because that book

reads as-if

all Italian-Americans

have no choice

but to become

murderers, thieves or prostitutes

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______________

 

The two "chapters" mentioned

at the top of this page

are legitimately known as

vignettes

while the rest of 

The Wanderers

is the conjunction of

misch and masch

+ 

steaming bowls

of spaghetti & meatballs

BUT

the book 

sold enough copies

for the author

to presently live 

in a five-storey 

estate

overlooking

the East River

 

—Undeniably—

The Wanderers

became 

a successful movie   

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______________

 

Regarding 

authored words

as give-and-take,

2 good vignettes

does not

a novel make

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© Oliverio © 

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Explaining The Significant Absence Of COMMENTS

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Regarding my 

"exclusive access"

to 

 McDonald's SuperBowl

halftime show 

I am dealing with someone

code-named 

Cat-e-Clism

—based in San Pedro—

and 

she presently 

has assumed

a greater degree

of control 

   over this blog 

than anyone but me

has ever had

 

Cat-e-clism 

is disallowing comments

until further notice

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🏉🏉??🏉🏉   

 

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Midway Through My 4th Street Power-Walk ... I Shot Her

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 Muralist Unknown

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Bullets With Disclaimer ... Number Three

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The world is your oyster

if you are not allergic

to fish

 

 

© Paul Oliverio © 

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Bullets With Disclaimers ... Number Two

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Church is 

a conversion system

where SIN converts to 

money deposited 

in a straw basket

BUT 

the comfort 

they can give

to people 

is enough 

to 

fill the heavens 

 

 

© Oliverio © 

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Bullets With Disclaimers ... Number One

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If 

you cannot 

take criticism

 

Then 

you should not take

IQ Tests

 

Unless 

they are created 

by

Artificial Intelligensia

***

 

© Paul Oliverio ©

 

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10 Days Before SUPERBOWL LX = An I.I.R. Exclusive

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The

Institute of Inane Results 

has determined that McDonalds 

+ Host City 

 [San Francisco] 

are staging 

a half-time celebration

with 

Absolute-Zero

public knowledge 

 

PLEASE NOTE:

6 days after the game

marks the beginning

of 

Valentine's Weekend

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 The privileged secret

given to Oliverio

exists only because

I am an

Uber-Social Ambassador

of 

downtown Long Beach

 

HOWEVER,

the McDonald's Representative

I am working with

is disallowing me from

(1) using a company photo

better than the dubious one posted

(2) not allowing me

to complete this page

until tomorrow 

other than to say

it involves 

20 NFL Hall of Famers

representing

20 different teams

 

To Be Continued 

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Hawaiian RAP MUSIC By A White Boy From Mississippi

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JIMMY BUFFETT

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PhotoVerio #989: California Newbie

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With sunlight 

in her hair

+

her heart

© Oliverio ©            2016       

 

 

She became 

a legal California 

resident

one week before

this picture was taken

 

She became

the legal "Co-author"

of this blog

one week after

this picture was taken  

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A Criminal Offense + Long Overdue Post

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The image above

will naturally be 

enlarged below

because

that is a bylaw of

The Blogiverio Kingdom

 

But

the "Criminal Offence"

involved posting 

my Uncle Preston's image

without completing

the daily

NY Times Sudoku puzzle

before doing so

 

I am 100 percent certain

that has never happened before

 

However,

the Artificial Intelligensia Factor 

may reduce that percentage

significantly

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Uncle Preston

is seated on 

the viewer's left

with his second wife,

"Aunt Caroline" 

gleefully smiling

in front of him

  

Like a gazillion couples

on Planet Earth,

they met in recovery 

 

 

The message to my Uncle

is this:

 

I love you more than 

numbers can count 

and 

THANK YOU 

 for successfully 

including me

in your will

 

But your first wife 

—my mother's sister—

AUNT BETTY

was responsible

for the other

successful inheritance

 

 

 She is also responsible

for 37 per cent

of the irregularities

in my personalities 

and is no stranger

to these pages 

 

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© Paul Oliverio © 

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