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| © Oliverio |
Thursday, January 30, 2025
PhotoVerio #807: Sky Grill
Wednesday, January 29, 2025
What They Told My Sister On OCTOBER 11, 1948
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TODAY IS YOUR SECOND BIRTHDAY
AND WE HAVE
A VERY SPECIAL
GIFT FOR YOU
You're giving me a brother?
YES
I don't think
that's a good idea
because
when he writes about this,
the three of us will be
more than a
century-and-a-half
beyond
life-on-earth
And he will idolize me
and everything
I could not do
while alive
He will think about
the three of us
more than he thinks about
any of the three gazillion
living breathing people
on earth
CAN YOU BLAME HIM?
No
but it will keep him
askew of current events
and hazards
and catastrophes
ISN'T THAT GOOD?
Yes
but don't tell it to
©
Happiness ain't nothing
but
tragedy
with a twizzle stick
©
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PhotoVerio #806: Falliage ... Sic Sic Sic
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| © Oliverio |
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Portrait Of ... Boo Boo + The GLASS FAMILY
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| © PhotoVerio #805.5 2006 "Park Avenue" |
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Sculpture Made Of Air ... Nothing Less + Nothing More Than Air
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No clay
no stone
no glass
Only AIR
in a sculpture
dedicated to
The Sky
Visible from anywhere
where there are
eyes
Some days
the sky is wet
some days dry
but it is always
SKY
Birds fly there
and so do humans,
mechanically adjusted
Turtles look up there
and so do humans
Up
down
over
out
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| © Oliverio |
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Tuesday, January 28, 2025
PhotoVerio #805: Eugene, Oregon
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| © Oliverio |
Self-Portrait Of Someone I Barely Know
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| © Oliverio ??? |
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No Fire Damage Here
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| © PhotoVerio #804.5 Catalina 2016 |
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Monday, January 27, 2025
PhotoVerio #804: Spotted Bird Of Paradise
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| © Oliverio |
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Sunday, January 26, 2025
PhotoVerio #803: Wet Winter Rose
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| © Oliverio |
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Begun in 1976 ... Completed in 2025
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Rake the muck
and gather the jewels
bless the dead
and curse the fools
but
never get too far
from the tools
Of destruction
or creation
whatever your intention
***
© Paul Oliverio ©
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The Man ... The Woman ... The Monkey ... And Scientific History
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Nature made man
out of a monkey
according to scientific history
But it took
a beautiful woman
to make a monkey
out of me
***
Video may begin
with a
deleteable advert
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Congratulations To The Italian Sinner
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We didn't invent sin
we just made it
into an art form
***
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However,
the "sinner"
we are congratulating
just won the
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| JANNIK SINNER |
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Friday, January 24, 2025
PhotoVerio #802: At The Risk Of Sounding Sacrilegious
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CROSSWALK
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| © Oliverio |
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Thursday, January 23, 2025
NEIL HOOS: One Word Says it All
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| NEIL HOOS |
Greetings From The LONG BEACH JETTY
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| PhotoVerio #801.5 2008 |
Plastic Fantastic TINA TURNER ... And Her Nutbush
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Recorded at
the Broken Brick Cafe
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| Tina Turner * Nutbush City Limits |
Wednesday, January 22, 2025
PhotoVerio #801: Yellow Down
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| © Oliverio |
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PhotoVerio #800: Natural Pornography
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| © Oliverio Bixby Park 2007 |
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You Know Life Has Been Pretty Good When ...
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1000 hours
of your life
has been spent
on
this beach
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| Rocky Point, 11778 |
Tuesday, January 21, 2025
A Warning To Our 47th President
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Bible-holding Melania Trump
looks like she'd rather be
the villain in a
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| !!! |
Monday, January 20, 2025
An Open Message To Our 47th President
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Donald J. Trump
is being inaugurated
as I write this on
Day
Dr. King
was a man of Peace
and I beg of you,
Mr. President
Please keep as much Peace
in this world
as humanly possible
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Saturday, January 18, 2025
Father Frank ... As If In A Dream
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In a most un-priestly wardrobe,
walks into my dreams
where he is
desperately needed:
both to whitewash
ALL his nephew's sins
and remind him
that his gut
is no smaller than
the gut
of the Holiest man
he's ever known
My Uncle
was photographed
in Rocky Point
where he twice served Mass
In 1959,
when his brother
[my father]
purchased a summer home
AND
on the day of this photo
[≈2010]
to honor Jean Maddalena
who was basically
the Catholic Mayor
of Rocky Point
I never saw my Aunt
glow with so much pride
as she did that day
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| © Oliverio |
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PhotoVerio #799: Stated Twice, It Must Be True
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| © Oliverio |
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Friday, January 17, 2025
LICHENSTEIN ... Not To Be Confused With A European Nation
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| © PhotoVerio #798.5 Long Beach Jetty 2010 |
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PhotoVerio #798: Fiery + Cloudy Sunrise
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| © Oliverio |
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CHUCK BERRY + MILES DAVIS ... The Second Question
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nine viable candidates
were listed
as the best "song"
by Chuck Berry
+
the best "song"
by Miles Davis
HOWEVER
a second question
is asked
about the listed titles:
Which is
the most important "song"
by each artist?
AND
one and only one title
is correct:
Chuck Berry's
most important song is
because sales of
Maybelline Cosmetics
spiked
whenever Chuck Berry
performed the song
on a television show
[American Bandstand, eg]
AND
the conclusion was drawn
by the advertising industry
in the middle of the
20th century:
Black artists
can effectively promote products
primarily used by
white people
In the year 2025,
proof of this is available
wherever video advertising
exists
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Miles Davis'
most important song is
because it is
the perfect response
to the statement
below:
"Our next-door neighbor
is a transvestite"
or
"The management of our
favorite grocery store
is all Black and Latino"
***
© OLIVERIO ©
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Wednesday, January 15, 2025
CHUCK BERRY + MILES DAVIS = 9 + 9 ... With 1 Question
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1. Johnny Be Goode
2. Sweet Little Sixteen
3. Reelin' and Rockin'
4. No Particular Place To Go
5. School Days
6. You Can't Catch Me
7. Maybelline
8. Rock and Roll Music
9. Roll Over Beethoven
1. On Green Dolphin Street
2. Sketches of Spain
3. All Blues
4. My Funny Valentine
5. So What
6. Summertime
7. Freddie Freeloader
8. Flamenco Sketches
9. Bags Groove
One question is asked
of NINE people
articulately acquainted with
Chuck Berry
Ditto
for NINE people
articulately acquainted with
Miles Davis
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WHAT IS THE BEST "SONG"
OF EACH ARTIST?
***
***
In total,
the answers are all different
BUT
each one is
as convincingly true
as all the others
HOWEVER
a second question
is asked
[given the same choices]
AND
there is
one and only one
correct answer
That question/answer
appears on
this TBD page
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Quick RIDE On The Slangometric QuaTRAIN
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Whatever you think he is
he aint
He's three parts Sinner
to seven parts Saint
© PAUL OLIVERIO ©
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Tuesday, January 14, 2025
GARIEL GARCIA MARQUEZ ... And One For The Other Gender
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The man with no memory
makes one
out of paper
***
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The woman with no memory
makes one
out of pepper
***
© HOODA HELAMI ©
Alter Ego #142857
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Monday, January 13, 2025
PhotoVerio #797: Named For "Kirstie Alley"
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| © Oliverio |
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Saturday, January 11, 2025
Jogging Is Deadly ... According To HOODA HELAMI
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Take this advice
to your heart and soul:
Jogging deadens
mental cholesterol
***
© HOODA HELAMI ©
Alter Ego #142857
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There Is No Terrorist As Dangerous As ... NATURE
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| Pacific Palisades 2025 |
FIVE-STAR COMMENT From ... The 207th Bullet ... Page
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*****
It is not necessary
to believe in what we think...
It is only necessary
It is only necessary
to make other people
think it is worth believing in
think it is worth believing in
ANONYMOUS
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Quoting The Author Of ... ANIMAL FARM + 1984
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I don't want ever
to be young again
I only want to be alive
...
Rare is the book
that reads like
a personal letter
to the reader
BUT
Orwell does this
masterfully
without sounding
anything
like his two
novels
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The 207th Bullet ... Paper Clip Paradox
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What we think
we know
and what we
actually know
have as much
in common
as a
Sunday in July
and a
paper clip
***
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Footnote
is the copyrighted property
of LCSoL
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| © Oliverio |
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Friday, January 10, 2025
PhotoVerio #795: Netscape
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| © Oliverio |
Thursday, January 9, 2025
PhotoVerio #794: Palm-Textured Architecture
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| © Oliverio |
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Wednesday, January 8, 2025
"Or Squash Us Underfoot" ... Comic Relief #6122
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| GARY LARSON |
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To Be Or To Be Not ... A Bold Quatrain
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The last are now first
The first are now worst
The only thing to be is
None of the above
***
© OLIVERIO ©
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