It began as the GODFATHER OF MATH, evolved into the GOODFATHER OF MATH. Now this. Go figure...

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The kind of humor I like is the thing that makes me laugh for five seconds and think for ten minutes = G. CARLIN...Stain glass, engraved glass, frosted glass
–give me plain glass = JOHN FOWLES ... Music is the mathematics of the gods=PYTHAGORAS ... Nothing is more fluid than language = R. L. SWIHART
I cannot live without the oxygen of laughter = DAWN POWELL ... !!! ... But laughter cannot survive without the hydrogen of gravitas = PAUL OLIVERIO
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Tuesday, December 31, 2019

Duct Tape Exercise Modelled By LORELAI GILMORE

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It would be impossible
to find a perfect image
to crystallize the appeal of
THE GILMORE GIRLS
so you will have to settle for
this goofy sequence I screenshot
from the very last hour
of the series 
that was good enough 
 to run for seven seasons
+
"A Year in the Life"

Equally impossible
would be finding
  the perfect quote
  therefore
   click here 
 for a page full of
Gilmore quotes

   AND 
  you can learn about
the pilot episode
of an extremely addictive
Gilmore drug
by clicking
there 
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Why I Truly LOVE The Long Beach Jetty

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© Oliverio
Photoverio #365.5
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Photoverio #405 : Hooked

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© Oliverio
Why I LOVE
the Long Beach Jetty
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Laundry Room Floor: Connect OR Cage The Dots

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© Oliverios
Art Director = Mrs. CarPeo
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Convergence Of Four Patrol Cars At 6AM

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Eight policemen
converged on a donut shop.

There was no crime there
BUT
there was hot coffee
***

PAUL OLIVERIO

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Footnote
CONVERGENCE
OF FOUR PATROL CARS
AT 6AM
is the copyrighted property
of LCSoL

The subtitle of this page is
Burbank Birthday
1982 
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Photoverio #404: Black Sand (2x)

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© Oliverio (2x)
Alamitos Bay 6AM
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Photoverio #403: Chase Your Dreams To The Black Sky

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© Oliverio
Belmont Shore 5AM 
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Rotated Bus Bench With Too Many Friggin' White Spots

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© Oliverio
Photoverio #362.5
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Monday, December 30, 2019

USWWA: The United States Of WALT WHITMAN's America

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...
...
Where Nietzsche would offer
the illusions of the Ãœbermensch,
Whitman would sing a song
of the “divine average.”
...
...



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Footnotes
USWWA is an acronym
created by yhe LCSoL

is the demi-God demagogue
with a vast following
who is really nothing more than
a hustler of hatred

The next
GoFather/Trump page
is  here 
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L.E.T. Music Explained By "Sonny Boy Williams"

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Let Me Explain
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Saturday, December 28, 2019

Widening A Danger Zone [Haiku #73]

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The most dangerous cliche
in the world is:
Please avoid all cliches

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Footnote
is the copyrighted property of LCSoL
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Thursday, December 26, 2019

CarPeo Set Piece #85: Through The Looking Glass, Decadently

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© Mrs. CarPeo 
Decadence Row 

The next
CarPeo Set Piece is
here 

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Tuesday, December 24, 2019

Bookshelf With ... Question + Qualifier + Answer + Comment

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Question =
Which book would be easiest to read?

Qualifier =
 Excluding bottom shelf titles


Answer =
THE OUTSIDERS
(S.E. Hinton)

Comment=
The question is
a no-brainer

© Oliverio
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Photoverio #402: Her Wings Are About To Sing

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Pelicanto the Pelican
© Oliverio
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Nostradamus Nordstromdamus Asks ... And Then Tells

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What is this?

A Free Bag


© Oliverio ?
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Monday, December 23, 2019

Holiday Greetings From Mr. CarPeo + Mrs. CarPeo

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© Oliverios

The Creature Picture
from
The Black Colorado
Lagoon
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Holiday Greetings From Mr. Scribbles + Mr. McCarthy's Friends

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from
Willy the Christmas Weasal
+

Richie the Yellow Snowman


 This page is dedicated to
Alex Trebek

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Friday, December 20, 2019

Jackie Robinson, Campanella, Snider, Newcombe, + Ernie Banks

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One billion and one
is a low estimate
of the number of
baseball fans
who have known
and loved
the five
Hall of Famers
named above

To quote John Lennon, 
Imagine
...
a baseball game
featuring 
JACKIE ROBINSON
ROY CAMPANELLA
DUKE SNIDER
DON NEWCOMBE
and
ERNIE BANKS

all around a baseball diamond
shining with their stellar
baseball talents

and less than seven thousand people
paid to see them play

because
it actually happened
 
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Footnotes
I apologize for having
only one hyperlink
and no photos

But I wish you
a happy, googling
Christmas week
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STREET ART UTOPIA #43 ... Please Do Not

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Artist Unknown

The next page
in this series
is here 
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The Chalk Swimmer

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Artist Unknown
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If I Had The Opportunity To Save The World ...

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I would not do so
until I could negotiate
an hourly rate

with a health plan
(strictly homeopathic)

and an isolation box
for all my enemies
giving enemas
to each other

which rhymes with Mother
and she would wear
the Queen's crown

my Father would be King

my Sister would date
Bob Dylan

then
I would need to do
nothing more

and
the world would thank me
***

 

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Footnotes
IF I HAD THE OPPORTUNITY
TO SAVE THE WORLD
is the copyrighted property
of LCSoL

The hourly rate
must include
a lifetime supply
of Sudoku puzzles
and wisdom from
Mrs. CarPeo
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The Night I Received A Phone Call From Willie Mays

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I was in a box
which was my bedroom
with the door closed

The rest of my family
was doing
whatever they did
 after dinner

The phone on my desk rang:
It was Willie Mays

I would have been less excited
if God himself
was on the phone

(Unless God was offering
 tickets to a Giants game)

Willie knew that my sixth birthday
was six days away

It was May 12, 1955

"Willie, you hit a home run
off of Johnny Klippstein

"What kind of pitch did he throw you?"

"It was a fastball,
low and outside,
just how I like it."

"Low heat and a big blast."

But then the door opened
and my father saw me on the phone

Instead of instantly shutting the door,
he lingered, laughed,
and then the shut the door

It shattered my excitement

The flatline truth was
that this was NOT Willie Mays
on the phone

It was my Uncle Tony
but I played along
and the last laugh was mine

"Willie, do you know
that my Father hates his brother Tony?

"Do you think you can give him a call?"

Before Willie could answer,
I told him I had to get
off the phone because
I was expecting a call
from Zsa Zsa Gabor

Not bad for a six-year-old
***



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Footnotes
THE NIGHT I RECEIVED A PHONE CALL
FROM WILLIE MAYS
is the copyrighted property
of LCSoL

This page is dedicated
to my Uncle Tony
and Aunt Linda
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Tuesday, December 17, 2019

The 136th Bullet: With A Variation

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True artists
take advantage
of their disadvantages.

Scam artists
take advantage
of other people's
disadvantages.
 
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Footnote
THE 136th BULLET
is the copyrighted property
of the Lewis Carroll School of Logic
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Sunday, December 15, 2019

A Washington Post BEST PHOTOGRAPH Of The Week

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Beijing Snowboard World Cup

photographer = Lintao Zhang
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Thursday, December 12, 2019

Photoverio #401.5: The Day Before It Blossomed

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© Oliverio
Our Sweet Bird of Paradise
Impersonating a Duck
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Photoverio #401: Outside Our Door

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© Oliverio
Our Sweet Bird of Paradise
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The Dance Floor Macabre

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Lean  to the left
Lean to the right
Let your politics
Take flight

Sharks on the left
Jets on the right
Use the dance floor
To plot your fight
***



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Footnotes
THE DANCE FLOOR
MACABRE
is the copyrighted property
of LCSoL

The author apologizes
to everyone who loves

The link
begins with an advert
that can be deleted
after five seconds
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A Portrait Gallery Of JR

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JR
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Monday, December 9, 2019

Wishful Thinking

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i want to be
your season finale

broadcast at midnight
in every time zone

with promos and clips
on all your favorite
morning shows

then when
you sip coffee
with Kelly and Ryan,

you will think of me
***



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 Footnote
WISHFUL THINKING
is the copyrighted property
of LCSoL
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WARNING: This Page Is Botanically X-Rated

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© Oliverio

Orgy at the Roots
with Foliage
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Photoverio #400: Craning Atop The Rooftop

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© Oliverio
Alamitos Ave @ Ocean Bull
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The Nineteenth Page In This Series

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We can't go on
meeting like this

Street Art Utopia 42.5  

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Footnotes
The twentieth page
of the We can't go on
series is  here

The forty-third page
of the Street Art Utopia
is  there
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A Church-Going Quote From A Literary Giant

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On my knees in church,
I enjoy a level of introspection
that is granted to me
at no other time
during my week
***

JOHN CHEEVER


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Footnotes
Cheever's churchy quote
appears at the sixteen-minute
mark of the video

Virtually, no where else
in this video
does Dick Cavett
or his two Johns
(Cheever + Updike)
mention "church"

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Politics Of The Modern American Lawn

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The next
GoFather/Trump
page is
here 


As for Donald Trump's
most adult-challenged
consigliere,
please click
there 
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Self-Proclaimed (Comic Relief #2955)

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A Dog's Best Friend
© Oliverio
3rd and Hermosa
90802

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Footnotes
If anyone knows of
a cuter fire hydrant
in Long Beach,
please let me know

Obviously,
the self-proclaimed cartoonist
is under the influence of
New Yorker cartoons
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Thursday, December 5, 2019

Still Looking Good After All These Years

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We met in Burbank
in 1992

© Oliverio
Stucko Barbie

(October, 2019) 
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Footonotes
I created Stucko Barbie
with a defective LED bulb.

The necklace was
a 21st Century gift
from the streets of Long Beach
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Photoverio #399: Macademy Award Winner

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© Oliverio
 Sunrise over Broadway
(90803) 
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The 135th Bullet: But Obviously Not Always

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______________________________

______________________________
 
 Sometimes,
first words are redundant.
 ______________________________

  ______________________________
________________________________________________________________________________________________
Footnote
THE 135th BULLET
is the copyrighted property
of the Lewis Carroll School of Logic.
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THE SUPERIORITY OF NUMBERS

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Tilting notwithstanding,
there is no debate:

It is universally understood
that the black and white numbers
in this image
are absolutely equal

© Oliverio

IF ONLY IT COULD BE
UNIVERSALLY UNDERSTOOD
THAT BLACK AND WHITE HUMANS
ARE ABSOLUTELY EQUAL
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Monday, December 2, 2019

The Eighteenth Page In This Series

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We can't go on
meeting like this

© Oliverio

Said the bat
to the abacus
as they waited
for a bus
***


The next page
in this series
is  here
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Sunday, December 1, 2019

Revisiting An Image That Always Makes Me Hungry

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Somewhere nearby,
there's got to be
a bowl of spaghetti
!!!

© Oliverio
Maybe it's close to where
they plug in the Christmas lights
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Brown Italian Shoes

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I dreamt I wore your shoes
last night
and my feet
ignored all Stop Signs

I walked and walked
and walked some more

I went to your Mother's house
and she opened the door

She showed me your war chest
including your Purple Star

With a wink
and a hallucination,
I walked
to the nearest bar
for a double shot
of Maker's Mark

It was Sam's Saloon
on franny lou
—your name for
Francis Lewis Boulevard
You were on stage with
McCarthy and Dugan


Three guitars
with one hundred years
of strumming

Dugan sang lead
on Mustang Sally
and three girls
dragged me
onto the dance floor

But I could not dance

I could only walk
and weave and wobble
between three gyrating
mini-skirts

Me and your
brown Italian shoes
***



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Footnotes
BROWN ITALIAN SHOES
is the copyrighted property
of LCSoL

The poem is dedicated to
Ray Peterssen

For that matter,
so is the entire
Godfather of Math
Trilogy
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Thursday, November 28, 2019

Are They What I Think They Are?

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Cloud-making machines
???

© Oliverio
LBCC
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Monday, November 25, 2019

Donald Trump Adds Bonus Feature To Freedom Of The Press

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There will be
Freedom of the Press
With Redaction

 
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Footnotes
 The image is from
a film advert
(11/17/19)

The next
GoFather/Trump page
is  here
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