Most Meaningful Illustration Of Chuck Berry For The Year 2017

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Possibly based

on a promotional photo

for his classic song

School Days

OR

was it based  on the story
of Chuck Berry's teenage years
when  Chuck would read
school books while playing guitar
in front of his father,
hoping Mr. Berry
would buy a car for his 
studious son.

Thus, inspiring the song
Dear Dad

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Footnotes
The illustration was drawn
by  Ben Kirchener for Dave Barry's
Year In Review

To answer the question
Why is Chuck Berry
the Lou Gehrig
of Rock n' Roll?
click
here 
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Pretend Today Were The Last Day Of June And A Small Child

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...
Without parent or guardian

providing advance notice

about this sculpture

—And it was six month after Christmas—

If a small child

encountered
up close and personal

what you see here:

It is thirty feet tall
!!!

The small child
would probably scream
out of fear.

But fret not:

It is not the last day of June.

It is the last day of December
and the behemoth SANTA CLAUS
still holds sway at the centerpoint
of the South Coast Plaza Mall
in Orange County.

SANTA will be on display
through (at least)
the first week of the new year.

The thirty foot decoration
is equipped with magnets
that will draw out
all credit cards
of everyone
carrying them.

That probably excludes
the very small children
but purchases will be made
within a reasonable
radius of SANTA:

Much to the delight
of the children
and, of course,
the merchants
of the mall.

Timing is everything.

But most stores still accept cash
every day of the year. 

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Footnotes

IF TODAY WERE THE LAST DAY OF JUNE
...AND A VERY SMALL CHILD
is the copyrighted property
of LCSoL.

Happy New Year
to anyone who reads this. 

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The Ultimate Wrestling Champion + The Ultimate Speechwriter

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Let us pretend

this is a photograph
of Gustavo Gargantua,

who has just won 

the World Wide Wrestling

championship from

Hillario Klintock.

He fights dirty 

and the wrestling fans

go crazy over his

Dastardly Detailed Demonics.

It would not be difficult

to imagine Gustavo

—with gusto and bravado—

ranting to the crowd. 

I am the greatest!

I know all the dastardly details
about winning

better than anybody

—better than the greatest wrestler—

I know the demonic details

of taking down opponents

better than a ghost.

Better than a ghoul.

If I didn't, I couldn't have put

one million people in this arena,

ultimately to get booed

for being a bombastic

bad boy.

My first act as the new 

World Champ is to put

the defeated Hilario Klintock

in Jail.
***

But sometimes we have  to pretend
to get to a greater truth.

For example, 
I pretended that 
Jinder Mahal changed his name
to Gustavo Gargantua.

But only a small stretch
of the imagination
would have him
ranting like he did
in this scenario.

However,
instead of me
authoring the words, 
they would have been written by

the C.E.O of World Wide Wrestling.

That man is Vince McMahon.

More recently
—and quite factually—

a similar-sounding speech

was given: 

And if I didn't, I couldn't have talked

all these people into doing [it],

ultimately only to be rejected.

That speech was given by this man:

Is it possible that

the Donald Trump's speech

was written by Vince McMahon?

Frightening as it may seem,

the answer might be

YES

***
***


The next
GoFather/Trump
   page is  here    

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Breakfast With Scott And Zelda And Franz And Yelberton And ...

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I asked Kafka to pass the salt.

He passed it in the other direction.

Joan Rivers told a joke about saltpeter.

Zelda didn't think it was funny

But Scott laughed hysterically:

"I'm gonna give saltpeter

to all the other men in your life."

Y. A. Tittle served bacon.

He frisbeed slices

onto everyone's plate.

John Lennon sat on a cornflake

and waited for

the milk to come.

Langston Hughes told a story

about cornflakes

and the merchant marines.

Zelda laughed hysterically.

Scott echoed her laughter

without understanding why.

Gertrude Stein asked if anyone

wanted more

chapter and verse.

Richard Pryor asked for 

a few punctuation marks.

I passed him the orange juice.

He passed it to Lewis Carroll

who was sitting between

the Bishop and the Queen.

The juice made it all around the table

but Marilyn Monroe double-gulped.

The more people drank,

the more juice there was.

Then in walked Yesterday,

with her notebook,
gathering autographs.

But all she said to me was
"You need more sleep."

***

***

Paul Oliverio

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Footnotes

BREAKFAST WITH SCOTT AND ZELDA

AND FRANZ AND YELBERTON AND ...

is the copyrighted property of LCSoL.

The next GoFather/Fitzgerald
page is
here

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Imagine A Chess Board ... With Naked Kings And Queens ...

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This is NOT fake news

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The Ultimate DR. FRANKENSTEIN ... Quoted Before And After

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Tony Schwartz 
was the ghostwriter

hired by Donald Trump to write

his autobiography

Tony Schwartz said this
during the 2016
Presidential campaign:

BUT
the Ghostwriter
is quoted again:
  

Both text images are from
New Yorker Magazine

The next
GoFather/Trump
page is
here

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24/7 (Minus) 24/7 (Equals) Zero [HKu #49]

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The pursuit of knowledge
24/7 leaves no time
for wisdom.

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Footnotes

24/7 (MINUS) 24/7 (EQUALS) ZERO

is the copyrighted property of LCSoL

The next GoFather Haiku page is
here

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Blending Into The Night ... [ pST #34]

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The quality of
Alicia's Music
is superior to 
the quality of
this photograph

***

***


The next 

Superimposed Text page

is
here

The p in the title

stands for

photoverio 

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There Is Hope For 63% Of Him ... [ pST #33]

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© Available from this Website ©
$20.02
 
***

The next 

Superimposed Text page

is
here 

The p in the title

stands for

photoverio

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FOOTNOTE
Our mailing address will be made available
to anyone who inquires about purchase
of this very cool and contemporary
t-shirt.
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If I Were A Life Coach

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Shallow be thy shame

if life's game

Needs more variety

than anxiety

***

Know when to detach

when to be flirty
 

Know when to spit

 when to curtsy
 

Know when to jump in

when to jump out

Know when to whisper

when to shout

 

Know where the door is

always

Know what the score is

almost always

***

Not all

similarities
are the same
 

Not all

your enemies are friendly

with  each other
 

Not every

uptown is UP TOWN

not every

double negative is a yes

not every

ziggurat is a smoke
 

not every

thing is a joke

***

***

Paul Oliverio

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Footnote

IF I WERE A LIFECOACH

is the copyrighted property

of LCSoL

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MEETING OF MINDS ... Superior To My Own ... Sur Really (Sic)

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There is not enough

seriousness

in what we do.

Everyone wanders around

having his own

individual perceptions.

These, like balls of different colors

and sizes and shapes,

roll around the green

billiard table of consciousness.

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Footnotes

Image =  Man Ray

Text =  Donald Barthelme

This page = [MoM #1] 

 MoM = Meeting of Minds

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Happy Birthday, Rickey ... He Has Same Birthday As JC

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The greatest lead-off batter
in the history of the game,
Rickey Henderson
is also 
one of the most
quotable baseball players
on the planet.
***


BONUS QUOTE:
If my uniform doesn't get dirty, 
I haven't done nothing
in the baseball game. 

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The CarPeos ... Have Something To Say ... On This Special Day ...

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Mr. Topor Wants To Give Christmas Thumbs Up To The Unknown

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Roland Topor's illustration

reveals someone discovering

the World's Greatest Unknown Christmas Carol

Ball and Chain signify honest admission
that the background musicians
are mediocre at best
BUT
Jack McCarthy's lyrics for
Willie The Christmas Weasel
should be required listening
for anyone celebrating
this holiday

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Helpful HANKSgiving Christmas Gift From ... The SON OF TOM

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Colin Hanks, 
who portrayed 
a priest on  Mad Men
and a priest-killer 
on  Dexter,



gave his Father
a special gift
this Christmas:

ACTING LESSONS

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Footnote
Gus Sipsallie, columnist for the  Institute of Inane Research,
is responsible for this copyrighted page. 
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We Look At The Trees ...Then Everyone Agrees With Joyce Kilmer

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I think that I will never see

a poem lovely

as a tree 

BUT
If we bleach all color
of an individual tree
—rotating the results—
what you see may be
 disturbing

HOWEVER
I think that only
gives more validation
to the words of
Joyce Kilmer

UNLESS
you prefer to substitute
the word  lovely
with the words
as beautiful 

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Footnotes
The second image on this page
is the copyrighted property of LCSoL

Bonus Link:
Listen to Bruce Piephoff sing
I Wanna Be A Tree
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The PeeCee News About How To Avoid The EssAitch Allegations

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The sheriff
announces
NO MORE HUGS
***

Fist-bumping
okay if consensual

The curtsy is making a return:
buy stock
a.s.a.p.

 

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Footnote
Title and caption are the copyrighted
   of the Lewis Carroll School of Logic

Excluding second half of title,
this page was created by
Ms. CarPeo  
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Do Do Do Do [HKu #48]

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You do for me
I'll do for you
BUT do me badly
I'll do you worse

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Footnotes

 DO DO DO DO
is the copyrighted property of LCSoL

The next GoFather Haiku page is
here

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Murky Mixed Super Stream Of Consciousness Co-Alphabetical

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Alligators allegations

bespoke badly

coigning contemptuous

dastardly daggers

everywhere everyhow

fraudent fakery

got girls

healing holistically

in intense

jibbering jabberwocky

kindly killing

loose legged

mannish men

neither nor

opining opinions

posturing piously

quite quixotically

really rampant

socially sanctioned

tsunami tears

united users

voluminous voltage

wildly waking

x-rated xenophobia

yakety yaking

zero zolerance

***

PAUL POETVERIO

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Footnote

MURKY MIXED SUPER STREAM

OF CONSCIOUSNESS CO-ALPHABETICAL

is the copyrighted property of LCSoL

The acrostic structure of Mr. Poetverio's verse

is best appreciated  when read aloud

Zero Zolerance is defined as a social mechanism

that is more destructive than constructive.

While giving the appearance of justice,

it provides a podium for pontificators.

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#33's Whorehouse Joke Inspires #45 Who Is The Ultimate Madam

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The 33rd President of the United States
was eminently aware that
the letters of
"White House" and "Whore House"
 are 80% identical.

The brothelized White House
of the 45th President caters only
to the highest bidders.

But sometimes #45
accepts payments from tricks
who grovel with ass-kissery. 

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The next
GoFather/Trump page
is  here.


BONUS QUATRAIN:
Make the it
into an or
the the white
becomes a whore! 

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'Tis The Season To Have A New Friend Such As Him + His Guitar

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Everybody's saying

that the lights don't shine

But the lights shine down on me

I've got a new friend and

my new friend's name is Jesus
 

I met him in the parking lot
He took me in his car

***

We rode around all afternoon
He sold me his guitar
***

CRAIG FINN

New Friend Jesus

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Lifeguard's View ... If The Chair Wasn't Empty At That Hour

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Hey Now...

I think the lifeguard

is on his way

.

.

.

Nope!

It was just another

of those early morning joggers

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Footnote
This 6AM photo shoot was inspired
by what a friend did last Saturday
at approximately 7AM.

I was supposed to be with him
at that time but my feet
were acting under protest
against the rest of my body.

If any of you know where
I can pick up a new pair of feet
—fleet and free of pain—
please let me know.

All images on this page
are the copyrighted property
of LCSoL. 

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I'm Not Sure I Understand Her Words But This Quote Is Brilliant

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Happiness?

I've tried the two-legged ones,

and the four-legged ones win.

LAUREN BACALL

Birth name =
Betty Joan Persky 

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The First Time I Saw New York City, The First Thing I Saw Was

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... My Mother's elbow. 

I was five years old and she was much much taller than five feet. She was holding my hand and used her other hand to point to something.

It was a statue of Atlas.

He was holding up 

the world.

Then she pointed across
the street and said: 
That's St. Patrick's Cathedral.

I had a friend named Patrick.

The Cathedral did not look 
anything like him.

The date was September 30, 1954.

It was the day after the World Series began.

It was the day after I saw something

on television that was described as 

what must have been 

an optical illusion

for some people.

Willie Mays performed
a miracle with his glove.

If Atlas saw what I saw, 
he would have been 
so impressed, he might 
have dropped the world
on his head.

We were in Manhattan because my Father had tickets
for Game 2 of the World Series at the Polo Grounds.

We were meeting him one block away from where we were.

We walked through a Promenade to Rockefeller Center and then walked down one flight of stairs.

Again, My Mother pointed. This time to a place were tables full of people were eating outdoors. This five-year-old's tour guide said: 
The next time we come here, that will be an ice skating rink. And that's Prometheus, across the way. 

It was another statue–a golden statue—of someone stretching inside a ring seemingly mounted on a rock. Prometheus was about ten  times as tall as I was.

We walked through a big glass door and more people were eating at tables but beyond them was a bar and ten patrons were transfixed by a man telling them something. The man behind the bar stopped in mid-story and said:
That's my wife and son. 

He then told them my favorite TV show was American Bandstand

and how I danced across the living room floor whenever it was on but always ended up crying when the show ended.

Do you want to see him dance?

My mother asked the bar patrons.

Of course they did and I was placed on top of the laminated bar and danced a "Boogly Woogly," wiggling my ass in front of a bunch of people drinking alcohol.

The dance is part Lindy and part "shake your money maker."

My favorite words at the time were
"Boogly Woogly" and "Willie Mays." 

From one end of the bar to the other, there were about thirty people. They all cheered me on and put so much money in my father's tip cup that we rode in a limousine to the Polo Grounds.

Willie Mays didn't do anything spectacular in this game but we were sitting four rows behind the New York Giants dugout and I waved to him, certain that he waved back. My Father said he heard Willie say Hello Paul but I think he was lying.

The Giants beat the Cleveland Indians by a score of 3-1. 

Just like the first game of the World Series, DUSTY RHODES hit a home run. 

In the first game, after Willie Mays had made that other-worldly basket catch with his back to home plate, DUSTY RHODES hit a three-run home run in the tenth inning to give the Giants a 5-2 victory.

We rode home in a limousine. I loved saying Boogly Woogly and Willie Mays but I expanded my vocabulary: in the fifty miles to Piscataway, New Jersey, I must have said Dusty Rhodes fifty times.

On the block where we lived in 1954, we had the biggest rooftop TV antennae. It could pick up American Bandstand on WGIL in Philadelphia. This was three years before Bandstand broadcast nationally with Dick Clark as the host.    

In 1954—pre-Dick Clark—the dancing teenagers on television were only broadcast on that local Philadelphia channel.

The only non-locals who could then watch American Bandstand were those within a radius of Philadelphia with a gargantuan rooftop antennae. 

Each of the houses underneath those antennae probably contained a five-year-old kid who could dance as good as I could.

But it is now 2017 and if any of those 5-year-olds are still around, I challenge them to a dance contest.

I wanted the contest not because I needed a senior citizen dance trophy. I had no desire to win anything. I don't have the kind of ego
that must get approval for others for talents that I have.

To pulverize a  Vince Lombardi  quote:
It was not about winning...It was about being there.

Victory pales in comparison to memory.

Maybe some of former 5-year-olds would still have 60-year-old photographs of the antennae that brought American Bandstand into their lives and god knows what dreams would fill their heads after the dream dispensers were wowed by the massive antennae signals.

What was it my Father use to say?
A rooftop TV antennae is just like a crucifix but only different. The crucifix is the reason we go to church every Sunday, because we believe in Jesus. The antenna is the reason we turn on the television every day because we... ah, crap... I always forget the reason why.

  

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Footnotes
THE FIRST TIME I SAW NEW YORK CITY, THE FIST THING I SAW WAS is the copyrighted property of LCSoL.

People who know virtually nothing about baseball are not be ignorant of the name Willie Mays but the same can not be said about Dusty Rhodes. That might explain why, ten years after being a New York World Series hero, he was earning less money than a drunken 15-year-old punk Catholic school boy. You can read all about it by clicking  here.

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In The Cards Or The Card ... When The U.S.A Became The D.S.A.

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where once was

our country  'tis of thee

is now

our country what's left of thee

once

united, proud, punctual states

now

Dysfunctional States of America

once

all the way with the USA

now

all the way down with the DSA

they say

it aint over

til the fat lady sings

but sometimes the fat lady

has orange hair and is a man child

who spews instead of sings

not a diva

but it rhymes

with "dump"

work hard and jump high

is now

work high and jump hard

our fate reduced

to a trump card

***

Paul Oliverio 

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Footnote

The next GoFather/Trump page
—reducing the Prez to a number—
is  HERE 

IN THE CARDS OR THE CARD...

is the copyrighted property
of LCSoL

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