Dr. Rorschach ... It's The One-Eyed Tree Monster

_______________________________________________________________________________________________

It's about to munch

on a lettuce-free

cloud bed

© Oliverio

 

_______________________________________________________________________________________________

The 180th Bullet: The First Thing

________________________________________________________________________________________________

The first thing taught

in medical school

is how to 

speak with authority.

 

Not until the student

speaks with UA

is anything else

learned.

 

UA = Ultimate Authority

 

After 

achieving UM,

the student learns

whatever is necessary 

for his/her

medical speciality.

 

What exactly is said

to potential patients

is determined

by the prevailing

bottom line or

the BP Wheel of Fortune

 

BP = Big Pharma    

 

________________________________________________________________________________________________

Footnote

THE 180th BULLET

is the copyrighted property

of LCSoL

________________________________________________________________________________________________

18 Years Of Sharing A Zip Code Wtih HER ROYAL MAGESTY

________________________________________________________________________________________________

I have a  memory list

of being on the Queen Mary

that is approximately 

as long as the ship

All but one of those memories

qualifies for

second most memorable

moment

***

***

Indisputably, my favorite 

Queen Mary moment

is a response

to the performing duet

of CHALMERS/DECO

A woman in a sheer white dress

 that glowed angelically asked...

"Are you the house band on the boat?"

 

Chalmers replied quickly:

"We will be, starting November 28th"

 

There was no truth to that statement

but the amateur dulcimerian

—better known as Paul Oliverio—

concedes that his most regal

Queen moment

involves a flattering question

by an angelic presence

who was never to be

seen again

 

Flattery will get you

everywhere

 

Thus proving

my vanity is so vast

it could form

a mushroom cloud

over the Queen Mary

 PS

you might recognize

the guitarist as

Raymond Peterssen,

to whom 

the GodFather Trilogy

is dedicated

 

***

________________________________________________________________________________________________

There Is No Black And White In Nature

________________________________________________________________________________________________

© Oliverio

 

 

 There is no

 black and white

 in nature

 but

 thankfully

 that is not true

 for

 photography

 

________________________________________________________________________________________________

Photoverio #768: Pinch Of Sunlight In The Crook Of The Tree

________________________________________________________________________________________________

© Oliverio

________________________________________________________________________________________________

A Thriving Business In 2023 (Comic Relief #4877)

________________________________________________________________________________________________

GARY LARSON

________________________________________________________________________________________________

Hooda Helami At The Stream Of Consciousness

________________________________________________________________________________________________

The top is up there

somewhere

but I am not

looking

I am bottom-feeding

after dinner

of this, that,

and the other thing

 

Cherries nowhere

near the middle

but there is

an apple

in my eye

 

Frogs croaking

lemons soaking

the sun 

laughing

with yesterday

 

Today is

within inches

of another

yesterday

 

Some call it midnight

I call it 

Henry

but Oh

there must be a twist

 

Already kissed

on someone else's

mouth

pointing south

 

Toward crime

but that is

the last rhyme

and the biggest

rock

***

 

©  HOODA HELAMI  ©

Alter Ego # 142857

________________________________________________________________________________________________

Photoverio #757: A Pencil Tree And Its Shadow

________________________________________________________________________________________________

***

© Oliverio

________________________________________________________________________________________________

The History Of The Mystery Of Her Portrait

________________________________________________________________________________________________

???

JOAN DIDION

________________________________________________________________________________________________

The Fallen Leaf Who thought He Was A Comma

________________________________________________________________________________________________

Autumnal Punctuation

Photoverio #756.5

________________________________________________________________________________________________

Photoverio #756: Yawning Rosebud In Flower Bed

________________________________________________________________________________________________

© Oliverio

________________________________________________________________________________________________

ATWOODING ... Her Name Is Worthy Of A Verb Form

________________________________________________________________________________________________

Excerpted from Alias Grace

MARGARET ATWOOD

________________________________________________________________________________________________

Officially Ending That Hiatus

________________________________________________________________________________________________

This is what  Jack McCarthy  looked like in 1971

when he might as well have been singing

1000 bottles of beer on the wall

In only 10 days, I will drink them all

 

But before the end 

of that decade,

he met the woman

he is still married to

and they have been 

clean and sober

ever since

 

The occasion

was a Christmas celebration

for a large Irish family

+ two Italian boys

whose initials

are PO

and PG

 

The latter's

guitar is 

visible

 

It is a 1959 Epiphone

and I am presently

helping him

sell it

 

One of Jack's four sisters

was toying with an umbrella

but wasn't sober enough

to explain why

 

I don't know where

I was seated at the table

but I paid little attention

to the music

because chattering

filmed the room

 

Mostly, the person I spoke with

was a man of the cloth: Brother Edward

who taught math at Manhattan College

 

Mostly we talked about

the beatitudes of Geometry

 

When Jack sent me this picture [last week]

he referred to the professor as "my Uncle Eddie"

 

Excluding Jack's seven-year-old sister,

Brother Edward had consumed the least

amount of alcohol at the party

 

But in 1971,

on Christmas Day,

I was too drunk and stoned

to trust that assessment

A splendid time 

was had by all

***

 

Fast Forward to the present:

 

Within the past four weeks,

I have had at least

ten hours conversation

with McCarthy and PG

 

Their music is better than ever

*** 

Thank you for reading this

________________________________________________________________________________________________

About That Hiatus ...

________________________________________________________________________________________________

 

***

It will

officially

end at the stroke 

of  midnight

—approximately—

with an image from 

a1971 Xmas party

hosted by

a large Irish Family

with much verbiage

about what/who 

is off-screen,

including this

orphaned adult

***

________________________________________________________________________________________________

Please Don't Hate Us But ...

________________________________________________________________________________________________

WE NEED

A HIATUS

We will return

as soon as

humanly possible

________________________________________________________________________________________________

Doctor Rorschach Says: No, It Is Not

________________________________________________________________________________________________

It is not a crime scene:

it is iodine medication

for someone's

foot injury

The next Rorschach page

is TBD

________________________________________________________________________________________________

The Fifty-Third Page In This Series ... Who Are You?

_______________________________________________________________________________________________

 

We can't go on

meeting like this

© Oliverio

 

***

The next page 
in this series
is  here 

_______________________________________________________________________________________________

48 Years Later, Friday The 13th Becomes A Sic WEEKLING

________________________________________________________________________________________________

February, 1981

featured a 

Friday the 13th

and I caused a car accident

that inspired a pink slip 

from my job with

  Metropolitan Life

on Long Island

 

I had lost a job

but internally

I jumped for joy

and started singing

California, Here I Come

♓♓♓♓♓♓♓♓♓♓♓♓♓

 

Luckily for me,

no one heard me sing

because if they had,

I would have been

a victim of

justifiable homicide

 

I write about this

100 % purely factual event

because last Friday was also

Friday the 13th

and I pulled the proverbial sheets

over my head

 

Thankfully,

it was disaster-free

 ♑ ♑

 

However,

a Weekling

is defined as a day

whose impact

is non-existent until

exactly one week later

which would be today

January 20th, 2023

 

The disaster that struck today

makes me wish

I could re-live my life 

as a teacher

and I would preach

the following:

 

TO HELL WITH

READING, WRITING & ARITHMETIC

 

 It is light years more important

for children

to first learn how to

fix a toilet  that refuses

to flush

 

Hopefully,

before the day ends,

the $60 "snake" I just purchased

—exactly what Roto-Rooter uses—

will allow the toilet 

to do the right thing

***

 

© PAUL OLIVERIO ©

  _______________________________________________________________________________________________

Acknowledging Bill Withers On MLK Thursday

________________________________________________________________________________________________

If ever there was

a funnier acceptance speech

at the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame,

it has yet to be written

BILL WITHERS

________________________________________________________________________________________________

This Is NOT A Celebration Pose For A Simple Reason

______________________________________________________________________________________________

Novak Djokovic

is not spreading his arms

—eagle-like—

in celebration of

Rafael Nadal's defeat

in the second-round of

 the 2023 Australian Open

Nadal's loss did not occur

until hours after

this picture was taken

Tennis is said to be

an incomplete sport

when it comes

to photographing

a match 

because there are two players

at opposite ends 

of the court

and it is virtually

impossible

for them both

to be included

in the same photograph

However,

the look

of a single player

before, during, or after

stroking the ball

can be

quite stunning

and this image

is a classic example

"Rafa" Nadal  is,

quite arguably,

the greatest tennis player

ever to exist on planet Earth

To understand the impact

of his winning twenty-two

Major Tennis Tournaments

tournaments,

just imagine 

an American football team

winning twenty-two

Superbowls

 

If Novak Djokovic

wins the Australian Open,

he will have

three more opportunities

in 2023

to surpass

Rafa's world record of

Major titles

 

And the Serbian "Joker"

despite lacking

the universal love

and admiration

people have for

Rafael Nadal

may legitimately

become

the greatest tennis player

ever to set foot 

on this planet

 

I personally hope

that is what happens

😊😊😊

 

© PAUL OLIVERIO ©

 

Photographer = Aaron Favila   

______________________________________________________________________________________________

Dr. Rorschach, I Overheard A Policeman Say ...

________________________________________________________________________________________________

"This is called the Shaft Building."

 

Then his partner asked

"Can you see how it thrusts 

into the soft blank sky?"

 

She directed the question

to me but I was unable

to respond:

I was invited 

to join them

in the smoking section

outside the courthouse

after lighting their

cigarettes

and promising

not to say a word

to either of them

!!!

 

NOW,

what I need to know

—Dr. Rorschach—

© Oliverio

________________________________________________________________________________________________

3 Women + 1 Man + 0 Hyperlinks = My Commentary

________________________________________________________________________________________________

The 3 women are

Flannery O'Conner,

Natalia Ginzburg,

and 

Margaret Atwood.

They are

—indisputably—

three of the greatest writers

to ever put

pen to paper.

The 1 man is 

Louis Armstrong.

 

Any serious discussion

about the history

and beatitudes

of music

must include

the man also known as

"Satchmo."

 

One of his most famous songs

is

—indisputably—

What A Wonderful World

 

I love it as much as

anyone else does

but when I read

the written words of

the three women

named on this page,

I do not want to be

within 

ten miles of

What A Wonderful World

***

©  PAULOLIVERIO  ©

________________________________________________________________________________________________

Snoopy And The Man Who Called Himself An Idiot

________________________________________________________________________________________________

Under Construction

but feel free to research

the address:

730 3rd Street

Long Beach, CA

90802 

________________________________________________________________________________________________

4.5 Members Of The Black Family Of Whitestone

________________________________________________________________________________________________

My family portrait

without hyperlink

 The .5 member

of the Black Family

of Whitestone

is 

yours truly

(and was previously posted)

but the dining image

of Mother + Father

was unknown to me

until last week

________________________________________________________________________________________________

I Pledge AllegianceS To The Flags

________________________________________________________________________________________________

© Photoverio #755.67

________________________________________________________________________________________________

Pardon my Slang But Today: Honor The Milkman By Subtraction

_______________________________________________________________________________________________

From the word

"Milkman"

subtract the i

and the man,

Capitalize what remains

and call it a "day"

 

What you get is

MLK Day

as in

—Martin Luther King Day—

honoring a fallen American hero

 

If you do nothing more today,

somehow, someway,

commit

"A Random Act Of Kindness"

while Mr. Oliverio

dedicates all pages

blogged today

to

Reverend Doctor Martin Luther King Jr.

 

With or without hyperlinnks 

_______________________________________________________________________________________________

Better There Than Here (Comic Relief #4856)

________________________________________________________________________________________________

GARY LARSON

 _______________________________________________________________________________________________

The Swimmer's Paradise (Comic Relief #4855)

________________________________________________________________________________________________

BILL BRAMHALL

________________________________________________________________________________________________

The 21st Century Law Firm Of Bellyflop, Tuck + Grip

________________________________________________________________________________________________

Bellyflop, Tuck & Grip

would pronounce their clients

"Guilty"

before a jury had a chance

to do otherwise.

 

All of their clients were adults

who naturally 

lost their innocence

in childhood

unless the firm's secretary

—Nancy Cherrypopper—

needed to oblige them.

 

The municipal courts

loved this law firm

because all of its 

felony cases

were in and out

of the dockets

immediately after breakfast,

just before lunch

or an hour before

the evening's rush hour 

commute

to the homestead.

 

According to their accountants

—Googol And Plex—

the law firm made 

so much money

that when the Governor

needed a loan,

he visited the office of

Bellyflop, Tuck + Grip

***

 

© PAUL OLIVERIO © 

________________________________________________________________________________________________

Harpo's Blues

________________________________________________________________________________________________

 

I'd hate to be a grown-up

and have to try

to bear my life in pain

***

😜 PHOEBE SNOW 😜

with

de-

lete-

able

advert

________________________________________________________________________________________________

 

HOODA HELAMI's Rooftop Curiosity

_______________________________________________________________________________________________

I am curious about

The first person

on a rooftop

to shout the words

I LOVE YOU

?

?

?

Was this also 

the first person

to jump 

from that rooftop

?

?

?

© HOODA HELAMI ©

Alter Ego #142857

_______________________________________________________________________________________________

Positively 4th Street ... Intersecting Orange

________________________________________________________________________________________________

With  Candy-Colored Sky

© Photoverio #755.33

________________________________________________________________________________________________

Worm's Eye View Of A SOFIA MALDONADO Mural

_________________________________________________________________________________________________

Full Measurement = 100' x 40'

***    © Oliverio   ***

________________________________________________________________________________________________

THE KING Would Have Been A Full Keyboard Today

________________________________________________________________________________________________

Today

—January 8, 2022—

is the 88th birthday

of

ELVIS PRESLEY

!!!

Happy Birthday

to the King

in whatever afterlife

paradise

he is singing

and swinging

________________________________________________________________________________________________

The Flotsam Of HOODA HELAMI

________________________________________________________________________________________________

I had two pounds of flotsam

and a bag of jetsam

after eating  

dim sum

at Choo Choo Charlie's 

Chinese Restaurant

The eatery was housed

in a Pullman Dining Car

on Flatbush Avenue

in  Brooklyn

The flotsam was from Florida

where I had been

with a blink of 

my eyes

The bag of jetsam

also contained

a pickle

 ***

 

© HOODA HELAMI ©

Alter Ego #142857

________________________________________________________________________________________________