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noogies for you. Oh, you so silly.

A ship, if it be listed too far to the port, or too far to the starboard, it will breach the waves and go under. The ship must not be listed over too far or it will swamp.

Who helped you write these regulations?

Kafka or Orwell?

The form of the piece was literary farse. The author was too lazy to write a real book.

June 4, 2013 (6-4-2013)

well . . .

I think I've blogged enough today.

content goes stale and making it spin just makes it suck even more if it really does suck. If the content is anygood unless the spining has some function it might become quickly tiring.

~ OK Now.

Banish Nonsense was his scree. I'd have to delete this whole website!

There are new features here that are annoying at times but fun in some ways. This page is best viewed with firefox. Chrome doesn't seem to pick up all the rocking. This is very cool: angle spin gauge or John Barents Carousel. Because this page is rocking. Rocking rocking rocking. What it is, he said, what it is. The problem is, what it is. Span Rocker.Paper Sizes. envelope sizes. Look at this sample page and have some fun with it.

Why am I speaking?  
   Nobody is listening.
         I shout out 
      into the darkness.
 nothing echos.
      no one answers.

     When I speak
 inside my self
       it reverberates
     no one hears it
   who isn't in the message loop.
    no one calls back to me.


See the pretty lights
  
     yes it's opal
      and it shines so bright
   but only when it
       catches light.

    if you paid
   twenty thousand dollars
   for an emerald 
 that looks like 
      the deep forest green
    do you ever even go off
         and out into
        those woodlands 
         serene?

 
  Praise God!
  








Wake up!



"Apple Dappery? What the . . . does that mean?"

Very sad about bear that need to be put down, not really funny but . . . so we don't all die of sadness . . . for some reason I have made a parady about this which I share here.

Environmental Officials Put Down Bear in Alston

"The thing is, he was minding his own business, and he wasn't bothering anyone." said Mindy Minners, at the Grossn-keg (a Eurobar).

Authorities confirmed this, however, he was considered a menace.

According to reports from Harvard Avenue, the bear was first spotted milling around one of the various pubs in the area, stemming for quarters. Some say he was attracted by the live music at one of the clubs. Next he was seen going into Dudeba-r, a gay club, and sitting down at the bar.

"He ordered a shot, took it all in one gulp, and then another one. It was like something out of a three-D movie"

"When I first heard it was a bear I thought that they were talkin' about a gay-guy, a big jolly hairy guy maybe here for Pride week, someone you'd wantta share a cab with, let him pick up the tab." said Rockin' Robert, an Alston original, "but it was a real bear, a big black bear. I don't know where he picked up the wallet from."

Authorities, too, are perplexed, as to how this beastly bruin was able to yum it's way through Brookline and Newton all the way to Alston, picking through trash?

DEP wildlife coordinator is quoted as saying "The best we can determine is that the bear learned how to pick through the recylcing bins in these large-psuedo-burban neighboorhoods, and liberal backwaters, and pick out the recyclible cans, redeeming them at the kioosk on the sidewalk in the lot beside Mart-&-Eddie super-liquor on Storow-Drive along the Newton side of the Charles. The machine dispenses nickels for bottles, that bear was loaded up."

"He come in here and he puts down a paw full of nickels and asks me for a beer. I didn't ask him for ID."

Liquor officials say that it is not legal to serve alchohol to a minor but the law isn't written for bears.

"It's too bad we had to put him down, but he needed that."

Environmental Officials were sent in to put down the bear. "You're a dumb bear." one is quoted as saying. The other "You've got natty hair." The other "You're drinking stout? Yuck. Why don't you drink an American beer?" and another "Wow, what happened, who died. Oh, it's you. Did you ever hear of soap?"

After being put down with these severe insults the bear just turned it's head sideways and said "Is that the best you got?" And then to the guy who insulted what he was drinking "If you know so much about liquor then recommend something. Hopefully I still have enough nickels left."

And so, authorities conclude, even though they put down the bear, the bear had very high self esteem and did not suffer at all, but instead met some other bar patrons, some of whom were there for Pride week (and in costume) and they could be seen partying their way off into the storied evening. City of the endless yum.

I heard about people who shot a bear. Doing such is very bad mojo unless their is good reason to do it. It's bad enough that some had to do it, and face all that mojo, to have the public second guessing them.