On The Last Day Of The Year, We Summarily Present ...

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from
Dave Barry
—The Journalistic Master of the Absurd—

the highlighted words
within the image
 are NOT hyperlinks

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Nathan Hawke's Academy Award Impersonation Of Nick Nolte

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Table Manners
 w/ short advert

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Many Words Of Wisdom From Poor Rich ...

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Many foxes grow grey, but few
grow good.

Many have quarreled about religion,
that never practiced it.

Many medicines, few cures.

Many princes sin with David, but
few repent with him.

Many would live by their wits, but
break for want of stock.

***

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BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

Poor Richard's Almananck

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Signs, Symbols, Mortar, Foliage, Lamppost + Mondrian Window

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© Oliverio
The Mondrian Window
at
4th and Olive 

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CarPeo Set Piece #83: Norton Simon Umbrella Sculpture

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© Mrs. CarPeo
Pond-side Umbrella Sculpture

The next
CarPeo Set Piece is
here 

The next Norton Simon page
is TBD 

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Photoverio #358: A House With Big Windows

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© Oliverio
Ocean Boulevard, LB 

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Fish-Eye Views Of Tony's Place On Christmas

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St. Anthony's RC Church
12-25-18

Featuring
a beautiful  choir,
our favorite priest
(Fr. Brian)
and favorite lector
(Greg)

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Photoverio #357: Fish-Eye View With No Fish

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© Oliverio
Christmas walk
above the beach

The Long Beach sky
partially provided
a White Christmas 

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We Can't Go On Meeting Like This ... #6

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Ernest Kirchner
Bathers Beneath Trees
Fehmarn
1913

NORTON SIMON MUSEUM

Sculpture by
Maillol 

Photo by
Mrs. CarPeo

The next
Norton Simon page
is  here 

The next
"We can't go on" page
is  there 

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We Can't Go On Meeting Like This ... #5

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John Glover
Figures in a stormy wooded landscape
≈1831≈

Art Daily

The next
"We can't go on"
page is
here 

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Our Most Satisfying Christmas Gift Was In Pasadena

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A dear friend

of the CarPeos

treated us

to an Art Museum

holiday

Norton Simon Museum

The image in

the lower-right corner

morphed into

a truncated and elongated

selfie of Mr. CarPeo

and Hans Arp 

The next
Norton Simon page
is  here 

A Norton Simon
museum image
was already posted
there 
 

This was Mrs. CarPeo's

first visit to

a major Art Museum

west of the Mississippi River 

It will NOT be her last

—holidays notwithstanding—   

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Christmas Greetings ... From The Godfather Of These Pages

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Lady dear, if Fairies may
For a moment lay aside
Cunning tricks and elfish play,
'Tis at happy Christmas-tide.

We have heard the children say—
Gentle children, whom we love—
Long ago, on Christmas Day,
Came a message from above.

Still, as Christmas-tide comes round,
They remember it again—
Echo still the joyful sound
"Peace on earth, good-will to men!"

Yet the hearts must childlike be
Where such heavenly guests abide:
Unto children, in their glee,
All the year is Christmas-tide!

Thus, forgetting tricks and play
For a moment, Lady dear,
We would wish you, if we may,
Merry Christmas, glad New Year!

***

LEWIS CARROLL 

(1867)

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A Christmas Carol For Our 45th And Final President

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All the old white snowmen
cold of heart
and densely packed, too
said we ought to make
Richie our King

They were blinded by
his brilliant orange hue

***

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JACK McCARTHY

Richie, The Yellow Snowman

©©©

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Footnote
The next GoFather/Trump
page is
here 

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Photoverio #356: She Asked Me To Shoot A Duck

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© Oliverio
For Mrs. CarPeo

Norton Simon Pond 

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STREET ART UTOPIA (#38): A Tree Grows In Brickland

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PEJAC

The next
STREET ART UTOPIA
page is
here  

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Award-Winning Reporter w/Cancer Gets Pink Slip For Christmas

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The story continues
here 

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The County Fair

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he juggles expectations
crossing fourteen stations
beginning here

in three acts
his fistful of facts
vanish in thin air

his carousel of voices
and dartboard choices
are the county fair

in his eyes

everyone gets a prize

then they disappear

***

PAUL OLIVERIO

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Footnote

THE COUNTY FAIR

is the copyrighted property

of LCSoL

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And Keep My Fingers Crossed (Comic Relief #2608)

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Bruce Eric Kaplan

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I Don't Remember If I Previously Posted This Poem

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If forgetting were an art

I'd be Van Gogh

then forget where

my ear was

and cut off my toe

***

PAUL OLIVERIO

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Footnotes

I DON'T REMEMBER IF

I ALREADY POSTED THIS

is the copyrighted property

of LCSoL

Written in 1977,

it originally appeared in

The Neither/Nor Journal

At least fifty pages

from that journal

also appear in

The GodFather of Math

Trilogy

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The Wrong Stuff Is Here And The Wright Stuff Is There

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George Harrison

and

Swami SendaBukorTwo
 ⬇︎⬇︎

There are two things wrong
with this page:
The "Swami" is
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
AND
Patti Boyd
is George Harrison's
ex-wife 

BUT
the Wright Stuff
is on the 
previous page 

Meanwhile,
the next GoFather/Beatles
page is
here 

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The Wright Stuff Is Here And The Wrong Stuff Is There

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More quotes from Steven Wright
who once confessed:
Some people are afraid of heights,
I'm afraid of widths.

BUT
the Wrong Stuff is
there 

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On Screen: An Ethnic Fourteen Word Acrostic Poem

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Good Italians

Often act

Ostentatiously because

Monkey minded

Brain drained

Audiences like

Holy terror

***

PAUL OLIVERIO

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Footnote

ON SCREEN: AN ETHNIC
FOURTEEN WORD ACROSTIC POEM

is the copyrighted property of LCSoL

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Photoverio #355: Parking Lot Impressionism

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© Oliverio
Somewhere in New Jersey
(2006) 

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Photoverio #354: Bleached And Wrapped Haystacks

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© Oliverio
Hazeburg Trail
(2006)

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This Page Consists Of Politically Incorrect Joke With A Profanity

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Did you hear the one

about the blind man

who was handed a matzoh

and said

who wrote this shit?

***

ARLISS

Season 2, Episode 8

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Photoverio #353: Hazily Boxed In, What Was She Thinking?

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© Oliverio
400 Ocean Boulevard-ish
(2006-ish) 

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Trump Establishes Age Limit For New Chief Of Staff

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The story continues
here 

The next
GoFather/Trump
page is
there 

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Chateaubriand Considers The Whole Of Human Existence

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Considering the whole of human existence,

one might be tempted to wish

for any accident 

that leads to oblivion

as a means of escaping

from oneself

***

≈ FRANCOIS de CHATEAUBRIAND ≈

The next Chateaubriand

page is TBD 

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This Is Not ... This Is ... [TIN/TI #45]

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  ⬆⬆ 

THIS IS NOT  
A bowl of cancer sticks

THIS IS 
A bowl of cancer sticks

 ⬇⬇

But some refer
to cancer sticks
as cigarets

I prefer to
think of them
as anger management
devices 

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Photoverio #352: A Contoured, Concrete Canyon Of Manhattan

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© Oliverio
Highlighting Billy Bikesmith
(August, 2015) 

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A Prayer For Anyone Who Drives In Los Angeles

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You do not have to be

Catholic nor do you

have to believe in

the existence

of this woman but 

here is the prayer: 

Hail Mary

full of Grace,

help me find

a parking space

The image is from
here 

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My Christmas Gift To Anyone Who Reads This

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The Greatest Christmas Song

That No one Knows

can be heard by clicking

here

© Jack McCarthy
Willie the Christmas Weasel

There are, at least,
five sequels to
McCarthy's Christmas Caroling

one of them
is available
by clicking
here 

AND
the newest one
—posted on Christmas—
is
there 

  

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This Is A True Story

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Man donates $21 to Salvation Army
and gets fined $13,369

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A Literary Quote From Frances Steerling

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Did you know there's a book

that should be known as

The American Frankenstein

???

Instead of the monster

being created

in a laboratory,

it was created

in a burning house
then "rescued"
in a laboratory

Stephen Crane wrote it

and the title is simply

The Monster.

You can read the story

by clicking

here

The next Frances Steerling page

is  there 

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Photoverio #351: A Bleached Glimpse Of The QM

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© Oliverio
The Queen Mary 

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He Said ... She Said ... The Historical HE-ness Of Frances Steerling

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"There is enough failure in the system
  to fuel everybody's ego and guarantee
  the creamy lubricant of paranoia."

"What the hell does that mean?"

"Do you want an honest answer?"

"I'll settle for an answer that
 appears to be honest."

"I honestly do not know
 what it means but I love the phrases 
 failure in the system, 
 fuel everybody's ego,
 and—the cherry on top of the cake—
 creamy lubricant of paranoia."

"Meaning I was supposed to be impressed
 with the sound of your voice
 and its romance with syllables?"

"I didn't say it to impress you."

"Really?"

"I said it to impress me."

"Even if it does nothing more than
 confuse the person you're saying it to?"

"It did a lot more than that."

"How so?"

"It gave us something to talk about:
  without being able to understand 
  what it was we were talking about."

"So what else is new."   


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Footnotes
This conversation took place in ≈1969

The woman conversing with Mr. Steerling,
is believed to be Christina Arsenault

The HE/SHE sequence
is the copyrighted property of LCSoL

This sequence is not linked together
because we want to make our favorite thieves
work for their money

The quote at the top of this page
has been attributed to
Sven Golvenstein

The next Frances Steerling
page is  here
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Quoting A Brooklyn/Zen/Latino/Cheerleading Cancer Survivor

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During terrible times, 

we can go to the darkness

or to the light.

I’m going to the light.

***

VIC "THE BRICK" JACOBS

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(IF) It Is No Secret ... (THEN) It Should Come As No Surprise ...

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If it is no secret

that the phenomenon

of Selfies

derives from

Self-worship:

a manifestation of

Ego

Then it should come as no surprise
that the man with
the biggest ego
who worships nothing
but himself
was elected
President of the United States

The next
GoFather/Trump
page is
here 

 

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Is It Child And Mother ... Or ... Mother And Child Reunion?

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© Oliverio

We will let

Paul Simon

answer the

question

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Art Daily Quote: This Is Such A Beautiful Painting. If I Were ...

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If I were

Helen Frankenthaler's mother, 

I would display it

on the top

of the refrigerator

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Quoting The 41st President Of The United States

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When the word moderation

becomes a dirty word,

we have some soul searching to do

***

GEORGE H. W. BUSH 

President Bush
with Lee Atwater + Sam Moore

He did jam with Sam
—without Dave but with Lee—
Now he will Rest in Peace

"The Prez"
born: June 12, 1924
died: November 30. 2018

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