The GoFather Of Math: February 2017

Monday, February 27, 2017

CarPeo Set Piece ... [#51] ... Captain Scallion's Art Club Band

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© Mrs. CarPeo
Captain Scallion
Eclipsing
Sgt. Yellow Pepper

But we defer to
The Beatles

(with an advert
that can be deleted
after five seconds).

[#52]
is
here.

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The Long Awaited Return Of Adan And Eva

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"I think I found fleas,"
said Adan, while scaling
Mount Big Cheese.

Eva's feet dig into
a Cheesy cheek.

She was not
feeling
meek.

She was thinking:
"I can't wait to
hump his rump."
***

"His Cheesy hair"
exclaimed Adan
looks like a wizened
Italian Trump.

"Your mind,
as always"
said Eva,
"Is under the bus
and all you really are
is jealous."

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Footnote
THE LONG AWAITED RETURN OF ADAN AND EVA
is the copyrighted property of LCSoL.

Photograph + animation by Mrs. CarPeo.

Text by Mr. CarPeo.
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Tangents Are Everywhere ... [ pST #7]

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Sunday, February 26, 2017

Message On A Sandbag ... [ pST #6]

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The Vertical Church

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The congregation
is non-sectarian.

Church members
are not held together
by common faith.

What they have
in common is
a physical feature:

All members are
six feet six inches
or taller.

There is no crucifix
in the Vertical Church.

There is only
a basketball hoop.

The Pastor's name
is "Coach."

Today's sermon:
Transcending the D-League

Pews are made of
splintered wood
because no one
wants to sit
on the bench.

But there is no ball.
Only hope.

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Footnote
THE VERTICAL CHURCH is the copyrighted property
of the Lewis Carroll School of Logic.
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Friday, February 24, 2017

Yesterday's Photograph Of A 1976 Image

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A Photograph From Virginia + A Poem From Vonnegut

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Sweet wraith,
Invisible mist of . . .
I am—
My soul—
Wraith lovesick o’erlong,
O’erlong alone:
Wouldst another sweet soul meet?
Long have I
Advised thee ill
As to where two souls
Might tryst.
My soles, my soles!
My soul, my soul,
Go there,
Sweet soul;
Be kissed.
Mmmmmmm.

KURT VONNEGUT

Cat's Cradle

This link connects to

entire text of

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A Multiplication Of What Titian Painted Almost 500 Years Ago

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Titian (12x)
Pope Paul III and his Grandsons
(1545)

QUESTION:
If the grandsons of a Pontiff
were than acknowledged as such
then today, there must be
legitimate descendents
of a Pope.

Are such people
stockholders of the Vatican?

...
advisors to Pope Francis?

Or are they
just plain folks?

Peter ... ... Paul ... ... and ... ... Murray

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The Prez Wants Our Nuclear Weapons To Be ... Top of the Pack

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Why does Donald Trump
look so natural
in this infernal
image?

In the United States,
every four years we have
a Presidential election
BUT
on November 8, 2016
there was no
Presidential Election.

What we had was
a Suicide Mission
spellt
T-R-U-M-P

The next
GoFather/Trump
page is
here.
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What Is A Dad To Do ... A Poem For Michael

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What is a Dad to do

when every work day

is a hell hole of teenagers

though some call it a classroom

What is a Dad to do

when every home day

is a battlefield with three

gender opposites

though some call it family

What is a Dad to do?

Squirrel away every bent

syllable and verb

until another poem

is born

though some call it esoterica

What is a Dad to do?

Squirrel away every dollar

without budget collar

and at season's end

of every hellhole

say Hello Europe

with three gender

opposites

He goes through hell

to give them a taste

of heaven

and the comfort

to call him

Terrible

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Photoverio © (#234): She's Got Her Eyes On You

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Thursday, February 23, 2017

Did You Hear The One About The Teacher Who...

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Had a student who ditched

his Math class for the last two

months of the semester

But gave the student
C+ as a final grade

???

The student wasn't
ditching school,
he was just
spending
his Math time
in the print shop.

The student was doing
computer work instead of
solving equations.

The Math teacher was chummy
with CW, whose print shop
did work for fifteen schools
in the area in addition
to printing weekly
advertising circulars.

The Math teacher was not
mad at CW for harboring
one of his students.

Quite the contrary!

CW allowed the student
to use his printing facilities
for a "special project."

Of all the triangles
not named for Pythagoras,
THE PASCAL TRIANGLE
is the most important,
the most intriguing,
and the most practical.

It is also incredibly easy
to understand and,
visually, is very delightful.

If I wanted to be abstruse,
I would use the following
formula to explain
Blaise Pascal's
masterpiece:

But I would rather
just show you what
Miguel Cardenas created
for me to receive a C+
final grade for a class
he ditched for two months.

This image is
one-eighth
actual
size.

It is the first 20 rows
of the Pascal Triangle.

I was so proud

of Miguel Cardenas,

his art work became

patio decor when I moved

to Virginia.

Five of my little neighbors there,

none older than ten, were very curious

about Pascal's Triangle.

I asked them to figure out

where each number came from

and they did so on their own:

Each number is the sum

of the two numbers above it.

Unless it is at the end of a row

in which case, the number is one.

I did, however, explain to them

Pascal's Hockey stick.

Check it out.

Not until their ages had doubled

would the five Virginia children

ever have learned about

Pascal's Triangle

if it had not been for

MIGUEL CARDENAS

of South-Central

Los Angeles.

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Footnote
Here is an enlarged detail
from Pascal's Triangle:

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Jammin' The Blues With Eight Screenshots In Thirty Seconds

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Jammin' The Blues

The most MUST-SEE
jazz video ever
created

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The False Dichotomy

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The classical orchestra and the jazz combo are fixed images of polar opposites.

Solid structure and loose improvisation may fit on the same musical globe but have the proximity of the north and south pole.

Or do they?

THE CLASSICAL ORCHESTRA:

Fifty chairs set in perfectly curved rows and columns containing fifty tuxedoed musicians segregated by instrument: violins/violas in one section, cellos/double bass in another; upper-register wind instruments in the mezzanine, lower-register in the rear of the stage.

Behind them, tympani/percussion is placed diametrically opposite the Conductor.

For every chair, a music stand with sheets of symbols demanding absolute obedience.

What is the end product of this assemblage?

It is the music that the Gods listen to
when they takes the phone off the hook.

The musicians will probably sip champagne after the concert.

THE JAZZ COMBO:

A piano, drum kit, and maybe a microphone for the stand-up bass player are set up on a small stage with poor lighting. Maybe a chair if the band contains a guitar and maybe mikes for the horn section, if there is one.

Possibly a singer will tell a tale of sexual promiscuity. Hopefully the club owner will pay everybody.

What is the end product of this assemblage?

This is the other music the Gods listen to
only now they pull down the shades and tap their feet.

The musicians will probably smoke a joint between sets.

And the Gods laughs olympically at the so-called “improvising” of the jazz band. As if the musicians were making it up out of thin air when they’ve spent entire lifetimes preparing the sounds they are creating.

Can this music function without a “Conductor”?
Definitely!

Drumsticks are transformed batons that become the two hands of a clock and every drummer is Father Time’s alter ego.

And Father Time wears a Conductor's suit.

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Footnote
Originally written in 1998, THE FALSE DICHOTOMY is the copyrighted property
of both the LCSoL and The Neither/Nor Journal.
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You Never Know Who You Will Meet (Comic Releif #1618)

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Charles Barsotti

OR
Who you will miss

Liza Donnelly

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His Mother And Father Also Attended Shortridge High School

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BUT
Kurt Vonnegut
was not a true
Snarfield

AND
hyperlinklessly
(but factually)
I will tell you this:
Kurt Vonnegut
graduated high school
in same year that
Scott Fitzgerald died
and J.D. Salinger had
his first story
published.

This was not a coincidence.

It is just the way

the literary ball

bounces.

So it goes.

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Pat. E. O. Klicka ... In B + W ... With Grat E. Tude To Me K. Deeze

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Footnote
Pat E.O. Klicka is the copyrighted property
of the Lewis Carroll School of Logic.

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Wednesday, February 22, 2017

CarPeo Set Piece ... [#50] ... Call Me "Furious Yellow"

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© Mrs. CarPeo

But Mr. Leitch knew me
when I was
Mellow

[#51]
is
here.

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Tuesday, February 21, 2017

CarPeo Set Piece ... [#49] ... This Is Not A Painting

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Double Your Reading Pleasure On Their 92nd Birthday

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Before happiness becomes illegal,

I would like to say

Happy Birthday!

New Yorker Magazine

premiered exactly

ninety-two years ago,
today.

The first cover
looked so nice,
I can see it twice!

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Monday, February 20, 2017

A Presidential Debate About A Round White Thing

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In honor of President's Day,

the question is asked:

Which President threw out

the BEST First Pitch

???

The tradition of a President

throwing the First Pitch

of a baseball game

dates back to

William Howard Taft

but MLB.com presents

video of every President

since John Kennedy

doing so.

As for the bold italic
question above:

I never thought I would say this but

PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH

was the best.

He is the only pitching Prez

who did NOT make the catcher

move out of "his crotch"

to catch the ball.

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Rorschach Page #16: Not A Beauty Contest Winner

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Saturday, February 18, 2017

CarPeo Set Piece ... [#48] ... Loops And Scoops

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Thursday, February 16, 2017

We've All Been There (Comic Relief #1609)

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With/without

this logjammed freeway,

we all know these road signs
↓ ↓ ↓

Michael Crawford

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This Is Not ... This Is ... [TIN/TI #39]

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⬆⬆

THIS IS NOT
Wilfrid Brambell.

THIS IS
Wilfrid Brambell.

⬇⬇

Wilfrid Brambell
is an actor
beloved by one and all
in Great Britain.

The first image
is an actor
beloved by one and all

in the United States.

He is

–quite obviously–

Wilford Brimley.

In the United States, Mr. Brambell

is best known for portraying

Paul McCartney's Grandfather in

A Hard Day's Night.

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Hauntingly Reproduced Word Pillow: Powell's Powerful Palabras

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Good artists borrow, great artists steal.

But the greatest artists are the ones

most stolen from.

These photographed words
[palabras en espanol]
about
Dawn Powell
are from
this book:

Happy Googling
and happier Hyperlinking
to one and all, especially those
who click
here.

The next Dawn Powell page
is there.

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all

began

with

a

little

green

thing

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Monday, February 13, 2017

What Bob Dylan Had To Say About His Need For Mama

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...

I need a steam shovel mama

to keep away the dead

I need a dump truck mama

to unload my head

...

Bob Dylan

From A Buick Six

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They Are Not... (Comic Relief #1604)

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They are not the peasants:

they are the TFA

(Trumped Fools of America)

Charles Barsotti

The next
GoFather/Trump page
is
here.

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Sunday, February 12, 2017

Trump Must Hate MSNBC Less Than He Hates TIME Magazine

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Despite the implication

of the quotation marks,

MSNBC assumes that

Donald Trump's Presidency

will exist for 100 days.

But last week,

TIME Magazine

suggested Congress begin

Impeachment proceedings
immediately,

less than 21 days

after Trump became

the President.

The next
Donald Trump page
is
here.
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