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| © Oliverio Along the shore, past the bicyclist |
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Sunday, April 30, 2017
Oh How Happy
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| The Birthday Girl was glowing on Catalina. The photographer is reflected in her glasses and the title song is here.
Moments before
this picture was taken,
an oceanfront photograph
with a tricky finger
got posted there.
|
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Saturday, April 29, 2017
Five Quotes From Leonard Cohen
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It's hard to hold the hand of anyone
who is reaching for the sky just to surrender.
*
*
How can I begin anything new
with all of yesterday in me?
*
*
The last refuge of the insomniac
is a sense of superiority
to the sleeping world.
*
*
Reality is one of the possibilities
I cannot afford to ignore.
*
*
All of us are footnotes
to the words of Chuck Berry.
Leonard Cohen song
I ever heard:
(1967)
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Wednesday, April 26, 2017
Equally True For A Successful Woman
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| David Brinkley |
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If JEOPARDY ... Believed In Pure PUNishment ... And Red Text
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Answer:
Question:
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Footnotes
The bottom image was photographed
by Mrs. CarPeo.
Her lesser half assumes responsibility
for all else, including an apology to
Alex Trebek.
The bottom image was photographed
by Mrs. CarPeo.
Her lesser half assumes responsibility
for all else, including an apology to
Alex Trebek.
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Tuesday, April 25, 2017
They Will Say You're Good ... And Then They Will Say Goodbye
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Play the game
play the ball
till your talent
is ten feet tall
Kick the ball
through the
goal posts
They will cheer...
they will drink
to you they
will toast
They will cheer
they will drink
and say
you are
the most
...
...
Play the game
play the ball
till your age
is nothing small
Then they kick you
through the
old posts
They will cheer
they will drink
someone new
is now the most
They will cheer
they will drink
but to them
you are now toast
Paul Oliverio
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Footnotes
THEY WILL SAY YOU'RE GOOD ... AND THEN GOODBYE
is the copyrighted property of LCSoL.
The poem was enhanced by Mrs. CarPeo.
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Sunday, April 23, 2017
Saturday, April 22, 2017
You Heard It First ... Newest Antonym For JFK Is Donald Trump
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| From the Huffington Post The next GoFather/Trump page— featuring Benjamin Franklin— is here. |
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Friday, April 21, 2017
Photoverio © (#242): Walk This Way
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| © Oliverio The House of Duke A companion photo for this image is here. |
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Thursday, April 20, 2017
CarPeo Set Piece ... [#63] ... Up From The Coast
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Inland from the Catalina coast,
we ascended a long road
with a 35º incline.
The maximum speed
for the golf cart
was 15 mph.
But the birthday girl
(and her chauffeur)
could not have been
happier.
Of course,
there were rest stops
along the road
where her eyes
could not have
opened wider.
Of course,
there were rest stops
along the road
where her eyes
could not have
opened wider.
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Footnotes
Photograph by Mrs. CarPeo.
The next page for
the Catalina Birthday girl
is here.
The next
CarPeo Set Piece
is
there.
The next page for
the Catalina Birthday girl
is here.
The next
CarPeo Set Piece
is
there.
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From HIS Side Of Paradise
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There was something most passionate in Eleanor's reading aloud. They
seemed nearer, not only mentally, but physically, when they read, than
when she was in his arms, and this was often, for they fell half into
love almost from the first. Yet was Amory capable of love now? He could,
as always, run through the emotions in a half hour, but even while they
revelled in their imaginations, he knew that neither of them could care
as he had cared once before—I suppose that was why they turned to
Brooke, and Swinburne, and Shelley. Their chance was to make everything
fine and finished and rich and imaginative; they must bend tiny golden
tentacles from his imagination to hers, that would take the place of the
great, deep love that was never so near, yet never so much of a dream.
This Side of Paradise
(1920)
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Tuesday, April 18, 2017
A Letter To President Trump About ... How To Avoid Impeachment
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Dear Donald
You need to do two simple things:
1. Drop 59 Tomahawk Missiles on Syria.
2. Attack an Isis tunnel network with
the "Mother of All Bombs."
No Congress in its right mind would dare
dislodge a President who initiates war
with two countries.
Quite the contrary, for challenging Assad
and his chemical warfare, you will be
praised to the heavens.
Sincerely,
Paul Oliverio
Dear Donald
You need to do two simple things:
1. Drop 59 Tomahawk Missiles on Syria.
2. Attack an Isis tunnel network with
the "Mother of All Bombs."
No Congress in its right mind would dare
dislodge a President who initiates war
with two countries.
Quite the contrary, for challenging Assad
and his chemical warfare, you will be
praised to the heavens.
Sincerely,
Paul Oliverio
The next GoFather/Trump
page is here.
________________________________________________________________________________________________One Golf Cart Approaches Another ... Then We Coasted Along
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| © Mrs. CarPeo Her Birthday Celebration on Catalina Island The next page in this series is here. |
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Monday, April 17, 2017
CarPeo Set Piece ... [#62] ... Looking Down At The Cruise Ship
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| © Mrs. CarPeo Her Catalina Birthday: En route to the Botanical Garden [us, not the cruise ship] The next [un-numbered] CarPeo Set Piece is here. The next numbered CarPeo Set Piece is there. |
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CarPeo Set Piece ... [#61] ... Cave Man For A Day
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Sunday, April 16, 2017
Photoverio © (#241): Wherever We Were...
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| © Oliverio The flowers talked to her Cross River, NY (2015) |
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Friday, April 14, 2017
Time Was On HIS Side (Comic Relief #1700)
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| Roz Chast |
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This Is Not Berscolini's Italy
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Imagine a nation that would give
this jack-hammering beauty
the highest level of access
to top secret information
to top secret information
plus an office right next
to the highest elected official
in the government.
Imagination becomes fact
when you consider
that the nation is
the United States of America.
As for the title, click here.
The image is from there.
The next
GoFather/Trump page
is
elsewhere.
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The image is from there.
The next
GoFather/Trump page
is
elsewhere.
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Step Right Up To Egon Schiele
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| An
artist makes his drawings at the stairway of the famous Albertina art museum, featuring Austrian painter Egon Schiele, on April 12, 2017 in Vienna, Austria. Photographer = Joe Klamar  Best Photos of the Day 4/14/17 _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ |
Tuesday, April 11, 2017
CarPeo Set Piece ... [#60] ... Flavored Sunset
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| © Mrs. CarPeo Sunset Flavored with White Light The next CarPeo Set Piece is here. |
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CarPeo Set Piece ... [#59] ... Above And Below Redux
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| © Mrs. CarPeo Wall Above... Casa Del Mar Below The next CarPeo Set Piece is here. |
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Window, Window ... [ pST #12]
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| © Oliverio |
The next
Superimposed Text page
The p in the title
stands for
photoverio
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Fries From The House Of David
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| Artist = Katia Swihart |
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Monday, April 10, 2017
CarPeo Set Piece ... [#58] ... Above And Below
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| © Mrs. CarPeo Sky Above Casa Del Mar Below The next CarPeo Set Piece is here. |
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A Scholarly Teaser For Serious Fans Of Existential Literature
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| Gentlemen, Start Your Search Engines |
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Footnotes
THEY SHOOT HORSES, DON'T THEY?
was published in 1935.
starring Jane Fonda and Michael Sarrazin,
was released in 1969.
The following quote is from page 9
of the edition pictured above.
Shortly after meeting Robert, Gloria says:
Let's go sit and hate a bunch of people.
The essay quoted is excerpted from here:
The following quote is from page 9
of the edition pictured above.
Shortly after meeting Robert, Gloria says:
Let's go sit and hate a bunch of people.
The essay quoted is excerpted from here:
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Sunday, April 9, 2017
Don Rickles, R.I.P.
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One of the faces
on the Mount Rushmore
of stand-up comedy
would be Don Rickles.
≈Jerry Seinfeld≈
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| Don Rickles born: May 8, 1926 died: April 6, 2017 |
on the Mount Rushmore
of stand-up comedy
would be Don Rickles.
≈Jerry Seinfeld≈
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Is This The Warm-up Act For The Chief Executive 'Peachment?
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| Will Donald Trump be sympatico with Robert Bentley |
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A Few Words From A Prehistoric Dictator
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| Frank Cotham Comic Relief #1699 |
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Comforting Words From The Godfather Of Peanuts
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Don't worry about the world
coming to an end today.
It's already tomorrow in Australia.
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Saturday, April 8, 2017
Another Poem For DT
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CURBING DELIRIUM TREMENZ
The garbage dump
said to the garbage Trump
I am where you
are now found
But the world would be
a safer place
if you made not
another sound.
Paul Oliverio
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Footnotes
CURBING DELIRIUM TREMENZ
is the copyrighted property of LCSoL.
Delirium Tremenz is defined as
a profound sense of confusion
caused by a withdrawl
from Reality.
But the DT in the title
stands for
Donald Trump.
The next GoFather/Trump page is
here.
CURBING DELIRIUM TREMENZ
is the copyrighted property of LCSoL.
Delirium Tremenz is defined as
a profound sense of confusion
caused by a withdrawl
from Reality.
But the DT in the title
stands for
Donald Trump.
The next GoFather/Trump page is
here.
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Lesser Artists Might Have Called This Woodworm
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| Flora C. Mace + Joey Kirkpatrick Unearthed (1985) |
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2,780,000,000 Is Almost THREE Times 963,000,000
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2,780,000,000 Furniture websites
 |
963,000,000 Religion websites
If worship of the almighty dollar
qualifies as a religious belief
then it is indisputable:
A primary cause
of every war
is Religion.
BUT
if the furniture movers
of the world could remove
all religion and replace it
with furniture...
And nations went to war
over whoopee cushions
and wooden work tables...
The Masters of Furniture
could almost triple
the number of wars
in this world!
in this world!
THEREFORE
we should be grateful that
Furniture ≠ God
Because we cannot afford
anymore wars on this planet,
particularly President Trump's
bomb thump in Syria.
The next
GoFather/Trump
page is
here.
Because we cannot afford
anymore wars on this planet,
particularly President Trump's
bomb thump in Syria.
The next
GoFather/Trump
page is
here.
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Thursday, April 6, 2017
Photoverio © (#240): They've Got To Land Somewhere
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| © Oliverio The Seagull Society of Belmont Shore |
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Tuesday, April 4, 2017
A Poem For DT
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Vanity dovetailed with vulgarity
and morphed into hilarity
with comedic clarity
then got experimental
and executively Presidential
cacophony Trumped clarity
but flavored with
hideous hilarity
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This Is Not ... This Is ... [TIN/TI #40]
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⬆⬆
⬇⬇
The first image
is the final scene
of Dustin Hoffman
and Jon Voight in
MIDNIGHT COWBOY.
is the final scene
of Dustin Hoffman
and Jon Voight in
MIDNIGHT COWBOY.
The final scenes
of both films
take place
in a bus.
There goes the bus
with the happy ending
⬇⬇
with the hands
of the "photographer."
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Monday, April 3, 2017
Photoverio © (#239): Stalagmites And Stalactites
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| © Oliverio Fanged and De-fanged |
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Saturday, April 1, 2017
Feel The Flora ... [ pST #11]
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| © Oliverio |
The colors
of our flag
have always been
Red
White
and
Blue.
But the colors
of our flora
are sometimes
Red
White
and
Purple.
The next
Superimposed Text page
is
here.
The p in the title
stands for
photoverio
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