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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Monday, September 30, 2024

Canine Cousin Of Howlin' Wolf ... (Comic Relief #5954)

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LONNIE MILLSAP
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PhotoVerio #770: The Blue Wind

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© Oliverio
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Sunday, September 29, 2024

PhotoVerio #769: Full Moon Autographed

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© Oliverio
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Saturday, September 28, 2024

HOODA HELAMI Poem Inspired By Margaret Atwood Novel

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Say hello to yesterday
and give tomorrow
a kick in the pants

Stretch out solid
in a coffin
then get up to dance
***

© HOODA HELAMI ©
Alter Ego #142857
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Friday, September 27, 2024

Wisdom With Curvature From ... AMBROSE BIERCE

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AMBROSE BIERCE                 Fables
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Fontella Bass + Sugar Pie DeSanto + Jackie Ross

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If Fontella , Sugar Pie,
and Jackie can push a car
as well as they can sing
...
This Mustang will be doing 
90 mph
in a school zone
CHESS UPTOWN SOUL
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Wednesday, September 25, 2024

A Churchy Quote

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Every time 
you move like that
I have to go to
Sunday Mass
***
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Tuesday, September 24, 2024

ANDY BOROWITZ ... Is Still Worth Reading, However ....

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I still believe
Mr. Borowitz
is our greatest 
political satirist
but posting 
presently requires me to 
stand on my head
while reciting
The Pledge of Allegiance
in both 
Russian AND Chinese
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So Controversial ... It MUST BE Printed Sideways + Curvaceously

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+
A Secret Lover
DAWN POWELL        Turn Magic Wheel
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Monday, September 23, 2024

OTTO JENSEN Photo Of ... The Shamika Bryant Dancers

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Inspired by Comment 
© OTTO JENSEN ESTATE ©
  

The Shamika Bryant Dancers
were dancing to
the music of
at 
in 
South-Central Los Angeles
≈ 2004 ≈
  
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Sunday, September 22, 2024

The 203rd Bullet: Country Politics

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 If 
wrote only
+
there would still be
101 female country singers
with hot lips
who were breast-fed
Patsy Cline's music
***
 
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Footnote
is the copyrighted property
of LCSoL
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Friday, September 20, 2024

A Peter Blake-ish Found Piece Of Lost Art ... Page Six

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*** CHARRY SCURO ***
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NAKED But Found Piece Of Lost Art ... Page Five

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*** CHARRY SCURO ***
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Sgt. Pepper Oliverio Poetry With Price Tags

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Sixteen-Year-Old Souvenir From ... MILAN, ITALY

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 sang both
"Hear No Evil"
+

© PhotoVerio #768.5
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Thursday, September 19, 2024

Please Don't Let Mrs. CarPeo Read This Poem

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EXCAVATION
 
Fireman stop their trucks
to get one look at her
Her  soft  and single touch
makes mountain lions purr
 
She knows when truth is truthed
and when a lie is told
She excavates sadness
 and silver turns to gold
***
 
© PAUL OLIVERIO ©
January 3, 1975
 
six beats to a line 
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Good News About A Pathetic NFL Team From New Jersey

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The New York Giants are an American football team
whose stadium is in New Jersey.
 
To describe the quality of their play
during the first two weeks 
of the 2024 NFL season,
the word "pathetic"
comes to mind
but I hate to think
that's the result of
the aging process: 
 
This football team is one year short
of its 100th Anniversary
as a sports entity,
winning eight NFL Championships
including four titles
   prior to the SuperBowl
 
One of their Hall Of Fame quarterbacks
is named Y.A. Tittle
 
  His birth name
[Yelberton Abraham Tittle]
has been a mantra to me
since his retirement
in 1971
 
And I am proud to post
today's NYTimes Spelling Bee
because "Tittle" was an acceptable word.
 
This enabled Mr. and Mrs. CarPeo
to reach the status of "Genius,"
an antonym of any accurate word
to describe the un-Tittled NFL team
with a stadium in
 
 
 

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Wednesday, September 18, 2024

Guns Are Everywhere (Comic Relief #5937)

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+ a shot of my  Ego is  here
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Tuesday, September 17, 2024

Some Schools Invested Entire Year To Prepare For This Event

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My students did not win
a ribboned prize
but did get
"Honorable Mention"
when the prizes were awarded
for a Saturday indoor audience
at USC of at least
5000 people

However,
none of the titled projects
had more "legs" 
than what our students did
with the Richard Berry project:
three years after their presentation,
the late great CATHY NADLER
(our liaison with History Day)
was still presenting it to very large
and very interested groups of teachers
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***

 
special gratitude to GINA LAMB + ROLAND GANGES
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Slightly Tilted But Very SLANGOMETRIC ... + Most Necessary

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And most necessary
to have "fun" with Math
and not fail it
***



Oliverio's Math students routinely had 
highest Jefferson HS scores 
on State-wide tests
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A Hypothesis Posed By JEFFERSON AIRPLANE

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From their album VOLUNTEERS
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Monday, September 16, 2024

PhotoVerio #768: Shades, Shadows, Pinocchio Doll + Arch

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© Oliverio
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Well-Worthy Of Being Double-Posted ... McCarthyism

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JACK + MARY McCARTHY
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Sunday, September 15, 2024

Leaning Tower Of Pisa ... And The Pixilato Family

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© PhotoVerio #767.5                      2008
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Saturday, September 14, 2024

PhotoVerio #767: The BlackStar Of My Dream World

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Eleanor G. CarPeo
© Oliverio
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Friday, September 13, 2024

From Someone With A CODE NAME ... Plus Deleteable Advert

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***  😱😱😱  ***
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Thursday, September 12, 2024

Still Another Found Piece Of Lost Art ... Page 4

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*** CHARRY  SCURO ***
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Quoting RAISE HIGH THE ROOFBEAM, CARPENTERS

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Jerome David SALINGER
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Alternative Title Of That ... J.D. SALINGER Book

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J.D. SALINGER


Truth intervention:
this book is from
the Long Beach Public Library,
more particularly:
It is from the
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Wednesday, September 11, 2024

Updating Andrew Wyeth ... And Posted Annually On This Date

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"Always Remember, Never Forget"
 
"After Christina's World"
 © PETER GALASSO © 
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Tuesday, September 10, 2024

Hopefully Presdidential Debate Is Not Sponsored By The WWE

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is the property of
a multi-billionaire
and most dubious associate
of Donald Trump

He is married to Linda McMahon,
a former professional wrestler
who was chosen by Trump
as a cabinet member
 
Hopefully,
the Wrestling Rule Book
will not govern tonight's
Presidential Debate
between Trump
***
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The Poetry Of The 87th Precinct

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ED McBAIN                             Killer Wedge
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Monday, September 9, 2024

... There Was A Russian Woman And A Flushing Sinner ...

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And their Tennis skills 
just reached the highest honor
their sport has to offer
on American soil
 *** 
***

CONGRATULATIONS 
are in order for



and


for winning
Tennis tournament
in 
Flushing NY
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Saturday, September 7, 2024

This Bullet Bears Repeating ...

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Good artists borrow
Great artists steal
The best artists
are the ones 
most stolen from
***
Two English-language
writers for whom 
this is true

"Stealing" from Fitzgerald
requires stealth
 cunning and caution
because Great Gatsby's author
is a tad too famous
for some literary authority
to not notice
(unless he/she is the thief
or professor of same)
 
But the justifiable question is
Who the hell is 
Dawn Powell
 
To answer that question,
read any essay
and/or
 thank the late, great
Gore Vidal for unearthing 
her brilliant melange of
novels, short stories
and plays
 
He was also responsible 
for having her remains 
removed from Potter's Field
and given a proper burial
in Ohio, her birthplace
 
OR
 
Just read
from this anthology
and you will understand
why this page exists
***
 
 
The only thing that demands 
Oliverio's copyright attention
is the three bold lines
subsequent to
"Great artists steal" 
 
Anyone wanting to 
quote any other part 
of this page
to promote
the quintessentially
brilliant-but-forgotten
Dawn Powell
deserves my gratitude
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The Best Story Ever Written ... By HOODA HELAMI ...

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Sorry but
that story
truly has 
nothing to 
do with this 
suspect page
 
Except for
using a 
title that
might make you 
think I'm a
head-scratching
but cute sage
***
 
© HOODA HELAMI ©
Alter Ego #142857
 
w/3 Beats per Line 
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Friday, September 6, 2024

The Indoor WOODSTOCK FESTIVAL ... With An Eight Pack

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Imagine the Woodstock Festival
without mud 
but with
a near-perfect 
sound system
and a mind-boggling
A+ list of performers
including co-host
Chuck Berry

No need to imagine such a thing
because it actually happened
in December of 1964
and
 I present it
to you with 
eight rectangular images
+
two hyperlnks
 
***   !!!   ***
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HOODA HELAMI Corrupts Cliches

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Life is a game
of inches
and snitches
***
 
© HOODA HELAMI ©
Alter Ego #142857
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Thursday, September 5, 2024

The Photograph Below May Be Subject To Litigation

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I photographed the Grand Hotel in Milan 
and received email from them requesting
usage of the image on their website
 
I asked for monetary compensation
but they said NO
 
Therefore 
if you see the image posted below
on their website,
please notify me because I have
an Italian copyright attorney
who owes me a big favor 
© Oliverio                        December 2008
 
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