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A villain is the hero
of his own myths
***
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Thursday, July 30, 2020
Something The World's Greatest Basketball Player Was Not
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| All About Michael Jordan, et al For the mini-series —THE LAST DANCE— my gratitude to ESPN is maximum |
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Photoverio #479: Swimming, Clown-Face Flora
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He made
me laugh
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| © Oliverio |
Nightmare Medicine With Hobbes Quote + Geography Lesson
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| GEORGE WILL The next GoFather/Trump page is here |
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Wednesday, July 29, 2020
Photoverio #478: Long Beach Fire Station
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Fire Station 2
We Salute You
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| © Oliverio |
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Tuesday, July 28, 2020
Photoverio #477: Stacked
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| © Oliverio |
Staircase Flowers
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Monday, July 27, 2020
Four Belated Appreciations From William Sydney Porter
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| At birth, his name was William Sydney Porter |
HOME
till you've left it
MONEY
till it's spent
YOUR WIFE
till she's joined
a woman's club
nor
OLD GLORY
till you see it hanging
on a broomstick on the shanty
of a consul in a foreign town
***
O HENRY
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Photoverio #476: Orchid With Pointer
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| © Oliverio *** Figurini Cheerleader
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Alter Ego Sidewalk Symphony Jazz Duet
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To promote
the Figurini Brothers staged
a sidewalk concert yesterday
in Long Beach
in Long Beach
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| © Oliverio Sally Streamer assisted with the staging of the event |
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Tweeting Toward Bethlehem
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| FRANK BRUNI *** The next GoFather/Trump page is here If you are curious about the title, click there |
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Sunday, July 26, 2020
Rest In Peace, Regis Philbin
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| REGIS PHILBIN born: August 25, 1931 died: July 25, 2020 |
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Saturday, July 25, 2020
A Baseball Story For Non-Baseball Fans
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| MIKE VACARRO |
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Power To The Pigeons ... (Comic Relief #3365)
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| PLO Pigeon Liberation Organization |
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Photoverio #475: Select Astaire Way To Heaven
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| © Oliverio Click and Pick |
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The Thirty-Seventh Page In This Series ... Rhesus Pieces
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We can't go on
The next page
in this series
is here
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in this series
is here
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Friday, July 24, 2020
Echolalia + Intelligence Testing ... A Semi-Tilted Archival Page
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| PAUL OLIVERIO |
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Footnote
Originally written in 1999,
ECHOLALIA + INTELLIGENCE TESTING
is the copyrighted property of both
The Neither/Nor Journal
and LCSoL
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Originally written in 1999,
ECHOLALIA + INTELLIGENCE TESTING
is the copyrighted property of both
The Neither/Nor Journal
and LCSoL
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No Peanuts, No Hot Dogs, No Beer ... But Plenty Of Cardboard
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Ravined from Reality
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| BILL PLASCHKE |
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The GREEK FOOD Quatrain ... Requiem For An LB Institution
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| © Oliverio After thirty-two years of satisfying customers, the Long Beach Cafe is now permanently closed 😥 😥 😥 The next page in the Quatrain Series is here |
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Thursday, July 23, 2020
Simple Proof That Blacks Are Smarter Than Whites
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There are 1001 ways
to measure or test
Intelligence
but they can all
be referred to
by the acronym
Intelligence
but they can all
be referred to
by the acronym
—IQ—
where the Q
stands for Quotient
Simple logic tells us that
The higher the test score,
Simple logic tells us that
The higher the test score,
the more people
you were smarter than
***
An IQ of 100
means your intelligence
is "normal"
But in the post 9/11
Trump-laden Covid-sphere
"normal"
But in the post 9/11
Trump-laden Covid-sphere
"normal"
is a word that has earned
an exit visa from everyone's
an exit visa from everyone's
in conjunction with
the Urban Dictionary
and T.A.U.
(Thugs R' Us)
has re-branded
the acronym
IQ
to stand for
Intimidation Quotient
And if we are allowed
to state
who now has the higher
IQ
—After repeating the
"simple logic" statement
from above:
from above:
Simple logic tells us that
The higher the test score,
The higher the test score,
the more people
you were smarter than—
There is obviously
a racial conclusion
to be drawn
from the re-branding
of an acronym
***
QED
(See page title)
The author sincerely apologizes
to anyone who may
be offended
by this page
There is obviously
a racial conclusion
to be drawn
from the re-branding
of an acronym
***
QED
(See page title)
The author sincerely apologizes
to anyone who may
be offended
by this page
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Sunday, July 19, 2020
A Frances Steerling Poem About Gratitude For Covid-19
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once i was bold
now i am just old
and so I am told
to not go outdoors
now i am just old
and so I am told
to not go outdoors
i am to stay inside
not commit "covicide"
by going outside
but what about my chores?
my food is on deliver
not commit "covicide"
by going outside
but what about my chores?
my food is on deliver
i am my own caregiver
if i shake or shiver
if i shake or shiver
i call it a new dance
outside: youth has no strife
outside: youth has no strife
old men bemoan the dead wife
others in crisis of mid-life
with them, i'll take no chance
never w/o computer or book
and i know how to cook
at myself i sometimes look
and i like what i see
i talk and joke to myself
others in crisis of mid-life
with them, i'll take no chance
never w/o computer or book
and i know how to cook
at myself i sometimes look
and i like what i see
i talk and joke to myself
—always words on the shelf—
(and my cute patio elf)
(and my cute patio elf)
i just let me be
i can exercise in place
powder my face
enjoy every inch of space
be well-enough alive
powder my face
enjoy every inch of space
be well-enough alive
i sometimes sip from a flask
thru a hole in a fake mask
what more can i ask
for a man of seventy-five?
as for enforced solitude
let me tell you, dude
i have some gratitude
for this existing scene
thru a hole in a fake mask
what more can i ask
for a man of seventy-five?
as for enforced solitude
let me tell you, dude
i have some gratitude
for this existing scene
i sleep and rise as i desire
go wireless or read w/o wire
avoid all the outside mire
thanks to Covid-19
***
go wireless or read w/o wire
avoid all the outside mire
thanks to Covid-19
***
FRANCES STEERLING
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Footnotes
A FRANCES STEERLING POEM
ABOUT GRATITUDE FOR COVID-19
is the copyrighted property
of LCSoL
The next
GoFather/Steerling page
is here
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Friday, July 17, 2020
This Is How We Began The Year Of The Corona Virus
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| GREG SARGENT Washington Post Op-Ed *** The next GoFather/Trump page is here |
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Thursday, July 16, 2020
Did OVID Know About Covid Two Thousand Years Ago ... ??? ...
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Mankind is a monster
confederate into guilt
All are alike involved
in ill, and all
relentless fury fall
Metamorphoses
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Wednesday, July 15, 2020
To Make A Quatrain ... Number Thirty-One Point Five
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To make a quatrain quoting
another when the need arises
another when the need arises
Honesty is the most subversive
of all disguises
of all disguises
***
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Footnotes
The video is prefaced
by a quickly deletable advert
The video is prefaced
by a quickly deletable advert
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Photoverio #474: Off-Color
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Photoverio #473: Bulldozer Beach
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Tuesday, July 14, 2020
According To JC ... If Life Was Fair
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If life was fair,
Elvis would be alive
and all the impersonators
would be dead.
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Sunday, July 12, 2020
When Is A BLACK FACE Comedy Undeniably Acceptable ... ??? ...
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When it is created
by twenty-four
black high school
students
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| Bewitched Sisters at Heart (12-24-70) *** Twenty-four students from Jefferson High School were invited by Elizabeth Montgomery to the studio filming Bewitched  |
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Saturday, July 11, 2020
Finally: A Measurable Need For The Number GOOGOL
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Besides inspiring the name
of the most popular Search Engine
in the world,
consider the names of writers
(listed below image)
who have been GoFathered
in the very recent past
Scott Fitzgerald, Joan Didion,
Fred Allen, Ivan Turgenev,
George Carlin, Oscar Brown
Dawn Powell, Jericho Brown,
Richard Wright, Paul Oliverio
***
One Googol
is equal to
how many times
these writers
have been plagiarized
Dawn Powell, Jericho Brown,
Richard Wright, Paul Oliverio
***
One Googol
is equal to
how many times
these writers
have been plagiarized
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To Make A Quatrain ... Number Thirty-One ... With Image
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To make a quatrain about
escaping from poverty's loins
escaping from poverty's loins
Baby needs
a new pair of coins
a new pair of coins
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Footnotes
TO MAKE A QUATRAIN
...
...
is the copyrighted property
of LCSoL
Some italic couplets
were originally written
in the 20th Century
and copyrighted
under the title
The Neither/Nor Journal
This copyrighted image
was photographed in
2006
The next page
in this series
is here
Some italic couplets
were originally written
in the 20th Century
and copyrighted
under the title
The Neither/Nor Journal
This copyrighted image
was photographed in
2006
The next page
in this series
is here
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If A Concrete Wall Can Wear A Mask, So Can You ... !!!
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| © Oliverio |
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Photoverio #472: Headless Red Shirt + Jumper + Telephone Pole
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| © Oliverio Belmont Shore Window |
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Friday, July 10, 2020
To Make A Quatrain ... Number Thirty
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To make a quatrain about
"other people" and Covid-19
"other people" and Covid-19
Every one of them is
a potential killing machine
a potential killing machine
***
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Footnotes
TO MAKE A QUATRAIN
...
...
is the copyrighted property
of LCSoL
Some italic couplets
were originally written
in the 20th Century
and copyrighted
under the title
The Neither/Nor Journal
The next page
in this series
is here
Some italic couplets
were originally written
in the 20th Century
and copyrighted
under the title
The Neither/Nor Journal
The next page
in this series
is here
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Four Images From Blues In The Night
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| BLUES IN THE NIGHT (1941) |
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Footnotes
It behooves me
to quote Frances Steerling
There are two types of jazz fans:
Those who know the song
Blues in the Night
and those who know both the song
and the film it was written for
Only because of WATCHTCM,
does this jazz fan
fit into the second category
(as of last night)
Mr. Steerling's next page
is here
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It behooves me
to quote Frances Steerling
There are two types of jazz fans:
Those who know the song
Blues in the Night
and those who know both the song
and the film it was written for
Only because of WATCHTCM,
does this jazz fan
fit into the second category
(as of last night)
Mr. Steerling's next page
is here
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Thursday, July 9, 2020
HELP ... I Can't Stop Quoting This FSF-ing Man
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America is composed not
of two sorts of people but
of two frames of mind:
The first is engaged in doing
what it would like to do.
The second pretends
such things do not exist.
***
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Footnotes
The next GoFather/Fitzgerald
page is here
Anyone who thinks the
Women's Liberation Movement
first became front-page news
in the Nineteen Seventies
needs to excavate
and read Fitzgerald's essay
published Ninety Years Ago
in a magazine called
Liberty
The next GoFather/Fitzgerald
page is here
Anyone who thinks the
Women's Liberation Movement
first became front-page news
in the Nineteen Seventies
needs to excavate
and read Fitzgerald's essay
published Ninety Years Ago
in a magazine called
Liberty
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To Make A Quatrain ... Number Twenty-Nine
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To make a quatrain about
cousins of will and won't
cousins of will and won't
For every one thing you know
there's ten things you don't
there's ten things you don't
***
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Footnotes
TO MAKE A QUATRAIN
...
...
is the copyrighted property
of LCSoL
Some italic couplets
were originally written
in the 20th Century
and copyrighted
under the title
The Neither/Nor Journal
The next page
in this series
is here
Some italic couplets
were originally written
in the 20th Century
and copyrighted
under the title
The Neither/Nor Journal
The next page
in this series
is here
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Wednesday, July 8, 2020
I'll Bet The House This Russian Author Inspired George Carlin
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"It turns out there's empty space
in my suitcase and I am
putting hay into it."
***
"That's how it is
in the suitcase of our lives:
it doesn't matter
what you stuff in
as long as there is
no empty space."
***
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You Can Never Have Too Many FRED ALLEN QUOTES
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| FRED ALLEN |
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Monday, July 6, 2020
A Confessional Quatrain From A Bovine-Brained Poet
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I admit to having
the mental capacity of a cow
I never played my cards right
so why should I start now
***
©©©
The next
Quatrain page
is here
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Joan Didion Answers A Very Simple Question
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| The 1975 interview is from The Paris Review |
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If He Had Lived To Be 60, There'd Be 60 Million More Plagiarists
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| F. SCOTT FITZGERALD What I think and Feel at 25 (sic) *** His next GoFather page is here |
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Sunday, July 5, 2020
Once Upon A Time, Executive Secrets Were Told In Black + White
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The only living witness
of the Lincoln assassination
shares his secret
with Garry Moore
of the Lincoln assassination
shares his secret
with Garry Moore
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| I've Got A Secret 2/8/56 |
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When Green Meant Go [Haiku #75]
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Sometimes, I look
into her baby blue eyes
and all my lights
turn green
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Footnotes
is the copyrighted property
of LCSoL
My haikus
are no longer linked together
because I did not
want to make life
too easy for our favorite thieves
But I'd risk a felony charge
if I could steal haikus from
these two guys
of LCSoL
My haikus
are no longer linked together
because I did not
want to make life
too easy for our favorite thieves
But I'd risk a felony charge
if I could steal haikus from
these two guys
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