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Tuesday, April 30, 2024
Inspired By The Trial Of The Porno Trump Pet ... Sic Sic Sic
New York Riot Police On High Alert ... Without Hyperlinks
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My level of joy
and happiness
will be beyond measure
if the New York Knicks
defeat the Philadelphia 76ers
tonight
at
MADISON SQUARE GARDEN
but
that level of joy
will be equally beyond measure
for approximately
six million New York City
residents
LET US HOPE
any such celebration
is totally void
of incendiary behavior
or random gunfire
©©©
Paul Oliverio
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Monday, April 29, 2024
Bizarro Museum (Comic Relief #5695)
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| DAN PIRARO |
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Sunday, April 28, 2024
Memories Of Katonah #428571
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The Raspberry Garden
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| © Oliverio |
Unfortunately, there are too many
Katonah photographs on this blog
to be linked together.
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Not Certain Of The Artist ... But I'll Go With My Hunch
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Correct Me
If I'm Wrong
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| © Mrs. CarPeo |
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What ... X And Y ... Think About Z ... Says HOODA HELAMI
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The poor people
think I'm rich
and the rich people
think I'm poor
But I am
none of the above:
just coated with
perverse love
and cheap verse
for order
in this universe
Give what you got
but don't need
to a million mouths
we must feed
Take what you want
as you feel
with great discretion
when you steal
Just don't get caught
and don't let yourself
be bought
That's not too bright:
do it if
the price is right
***
© HOODA HELAMI ©
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Thursday, April 25, 2024
Four Women With Something To Say About DIVORCE
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There is so little difference between husbands,
you night as well keep the first
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I never believed in divorce
until after I got married
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The wages of sin is alimony
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When I'm dating
I look at a guy
and wonder
Is this the man I want my children
to spend their weekends with?
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PhotoVerio #734: With National Pride + Awkward Rhyme
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| © Oliverio August 2016 |
As Of 7/6/71 ... Gabriel No Longer Blows His Horn
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has determined that
—due to gilded sexual ambiguity—
Gabriel no longer blows his horn
on Judgement Day
or
any other day
He also suffered from fatigue
and a rainbow of
retirement income
BUT
—upon retiring his horn—
Gabriel's last public words
were
"I've been Satchmo'ed"
!!!
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Transcending from his
earthly existence
on July 6, 1971,
appeared at the Afterlife Arena
to the greatest of fanfare
blew his trumpet
and sang
What A Wonderful World
This Could Be
Then he did some scat singing
with a Jubilee chorus
of two gazillion spirits
scatting along
BUT
ultimately
a translation to English
was provided:
Now that I am to
Heaven sent
There will be
no more Judgement
No more slaughter
or hatred on earth
+
No more tyrannical
razzmatazz
+
We will
give them nothing but
***
© OLIVERIO ©
[with deleteable advert]
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To Be Continued
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Wednesday, April 24, 2024
The 200th Bullet: What Curiosity Is
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Curiosity is a fence post
on the road to wisdom,
beyond the potholes
of ignorance
and due north
of knowledge
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Footnote
is the copyrighted property
of LCSoL
________________________________________________________________________________________________Quoting The Quote-Worthy ... One More Time Again
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One desires what one lacks,
or rather,
one does not desire
what one does not lack
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The Symposium
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Quoting The Quote-Worthy ... One More Time
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Her only weakness was a lack
of that natural cunning
and shrewdness
that does so much more
for people than
virtue
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The Fortunate Pilgrim
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Calendar Relations ... Today Is The Cousin Of
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Today is April 24, 2024
Let us drop the year
and repeat the above:
Today is April 24
BUT
we are prone to state
month and day
numerically
as a fraction:
Today is 4/24
AND
(4/24) = (1/6) = (2/12) = (3/18) = (5/30)
NOW
—reverting to month and day—
(April 24) is the "cousin" of (January 6)
+ (February 12) + (March 18)
+ (May 30)
***
You may justifiably believe
I am playing a stupid
trivial number game
BUT
there is more than
meets the eye
BECAUSE
I am having fun
with fractions
and their equivalence
WHILE
virtually nothing
in this world
causes more Math Anxiety
than fractions
AND
Any statement
that the United States
is truly trying
to improve Math Skills
is a steaming pile
of fecal matter
BECAUSE
Superior Math Skills
means
Superior Thinking Skills
[or Independent Thinking Skills]
and would create a generation
of people who would not
feel it necessary to buy
the products they see
advertised everywhere
OR
believe the mealy-mouth fabrications
of every politician
***
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© OLIVERIO ©
a/k/a
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Tuesday, April 23, 2024
PhotoVerio #733: Clouds +Power Lines
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Monday, April 22, 2024
PhotoVerio #732: The Cloud Conductor Revisited
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| © Oliverio |
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The 60th Anniversary Of The 2nd NEW YORK WORLD'S FAIR
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| © Oliverio |
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Saturday, April 20, 2024
Friday, April 19, 2024
I Had A Dream Last Night ...
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I dreamt about
waking up in this field
where I saw everything
in five colors
Just like the colors
in the Olympic Flag
I awoke just in time
to go back to
dreamland
But I was shaken
from that second slumber
by Olympic officials
who said
"Mr. Oliverio,
you will be
in the next heat
of this event"
What event
could that possibly be?
They want me?
I am someone
with the athletic abilities
of a caterpillar
But I dozed again
and dreamt again:
I am on the victory stand
winning a Silver Medal
because my body
has done
post-graduate work
in Sleep Segmentation
and NAPPING
had become an
Olympic Event
Did the crowd cheer for me?
Maybe .... Maybe not
Maybe I heard them
maybe I didn't
because
a victory stand is
as good as any
other place
for a 60-second
doze
because I can sleep
while standing
with or without
my eyes closed
***
© Oliverio ©
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PhotoVerio #731: Thumbnails Are Us ... With Deleteable Advert
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I'm younger
than that now
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| © Oliverio + Bob Dylan |
With Cute And Creepy Cropping (Comic Relief #5678)
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We're thinking about
getting out of the city
and moving to
a cute town
with creepy people
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| BRUCE ERIC KAPLAN |
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Thursday, April 18, 2024
Five Bold Women + One Question + Zero Images + Zero Hyperlinks
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Tamron Hall
+
Sara Haines
+
Sunny Hostin
+
Alyssa Farrah Griffin
+
Kelly Ripa
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What extraordinary pharmacy
is responsible for their
SINCERITY PILLS
?????????????????????????????????
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The Eternal Question (Comic Relief #5676) + Deleteable Advert
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| GARY LARSON |
An Image From My Thumbs Up-ian Friend From Poland
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👍
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| WNIEBOWZIETA |
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Wednesday, April 17, 2024
What Today's NYTimes Spelling Bee Will Not Accept
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According to the
Long Beach Urban Dictionary,
DOOMEDY
is defined as
"Comedy dealing with disaster"
However,
according to the
Doomedy
is not a word
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| But Damned is perfectly acceptable |
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Tuesday, April 16, 2024
JOHN UPDIKE Poem About ... The Hour My Day Begins
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3 A.M.
By the brilliant ramp
of a ceaseless garage
the eye like a piece of newspaper
staring from a collage
records on a yellowing
gridwork of nerve
"policemen move on feet of glue,
sailors stick to the curb."
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My Country 'Tis Of Thee
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I pledge allegiance
to the flag
of the United States
and
In my dreams,
a young artist/protege
who worked with Jasper
named
Michael Brown
At the time
of their collaboration
[≈1987]
I was Michael's
step-father
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Monday, April 15, 2024
PhotoVerio #730: Nested Hummingbird + Mottled + Aging Foliage
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Sunday, April 14, 2024
Two Weeks After Easter ... Now It Can Be Told
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A shocking discovery
was made by
regarding the
most important living
Jesuit,
better known as
The Institute has granted me
permission to post
an image of
what the altar of
every Roman Catholic Church
—worldwide—
looked like on
All church statues
are covered until
Easter Sunday
which represents
the most spiritually important
day of the Catholic calendar
According to the Church
that is when
Jesus Christ
rose from the dead
to live again
Other religions
refer to this process as
RE-INCARNATION,
but Catholics call it
THE RESURRECTION
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Be that as it may
on Friday,
—March 30, 2024—
the Institute of Inane Research
shockingly discovered that
the Jesuit leader
of ALL Roman Catholics
disappeared
for five hours
!!!
!!!
!!!
Pope Francis
re-appeared at midnight
[Pacific Standard Time]
and proclaimed
"There is no Good Friday"
!!!
The earth-shattering devastation
of this statement
is best understood
in the United States
by analogy:
Imagine the most influential
Catholic in our country
announcing on
November 5, 2024
"There is no Presidential Election today"
!!!
Maybe that is too realistic
a possibility
but
the Jesuit Pontiff's
explanation
for his proclamation
labelled Pope Francis
as
The Mad Man of MARCH MADNESS
He had spent
most of his absentee-ism
finding the best
Vatican underground hide-out
with a television set
tuned into the
Sweet Sixteen round of the
NCAA Basketball Tournament
where three Jesuit Universities
named
lost their basketball games
to three heathen schools
The university that ultimately
won the Championship
has a most dubious-sounding name
but it also has
an other-worldly amount
of basketball talent
AND
it is rumored that
Pope Francis
—denuded of shock + controversy—
has invited
the UConn basketball team
to the Vatican
with a personal tour
of Rome,
guided by none other
the first Jesuit Pope
ever to set foot
on this planet
***
© OLIVERIO ©
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Memories Of Katonah #285714
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