bellyjack

Went for a haircut today thus transforming from an Enkidu-like figure to a more civilized look.

When I got home and was unpacking groceries heard geese, and it sounded like they were close; at the corner of the yard.

Within a few seconds their vee formation went overhead only a hundred feet or so off the deck. Guess they were hanging south longer than normal...
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Spawn, Fawn, Jessica Hawn

Alcoholic poodle
Swilling Grappa di Barbera and Nocello walnut.
Hair stuck out like a mugshot
played for the amusement of the rubes.

Eating food cooked by surrogates of the ultimate corporate clown.
Bozo's his name.
Take it not in vain.

Watch the hand that grasps the knife,
and it'll be through your belly and 'cross your throat.
Pay attention to what...
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Petroleum distillate
spread thin upon flat rock
Arkansas stone.

Oil wards steel fragments
from filling it's pores, and,
destroying its utility.

Back and forth
scrape
at precise angles
honing the edge.

Too shallow, and brittle
Too abrupt, and a chisel
The right degree
and it slices and dices
better n' Ron Popeil.

It's all hype
"Showtime solid flavor injector"
What the hell is that?
Late...
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Shortly after the 2004 presidential election folks at the University of Michigan posted a map of the county-by-county breakdown of the 'blue state/red state' buzzword-buzzkill that has become popular in recent years.

This is way more interesting than blocking out entire states, and more informative as well.

A couple of features strike me :

1. The deepest of the deep red areas tend to be...
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Except for last night I've either been asleep, busy, or its been overcast, but wanted to see comet Pojmanski. Couldn't find it in binox so its probably still under the local horizon by morning twilight.

Did hear a couple bands of geese going overhead, and, as dawn broke, heard other birds presaging spring.

I don't go hunting often these days, but it isn't because my outlook has changed. If one eats meat it is crucial to understand where it comes from, and that fellow inhabitants on this earth must die for you. I simply don't need to hunt anymore, and the spirit hasn't moved me in awhile.

Once you have killed an animal is your responsibility to not...
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Found myself wondering just how long ago our ancestors first tied into psychotropic substances, what they were, and what our forebears did about it.

Beyond the obvious mental alterations, and different ways they may have been interpreted a pronounced effect for several of the candidates is macropsia (enlarged seeing) sometimes in conjunction with mydriasis (puplillary dilation).

I'd suppose such substances taken in moderate doses could...
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Been a long, long time since first hearing "The Thrill of it All" by Roxy Music, and its the same questioning, driving, melodic primal scream I remember.

Eno 's gone, but the ivories are solid. Piano starts up and traces out the skeleton, a few phrases with Phil Manzanera and John Gustafson stretching it out, then all hell breaks loose when Paul Thompson starts cracking...
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Next time I hear a Government official utter the equivalent of "Who'd a thunk?" (situation gone out of control in Iraq, New Orleans under water, yada^2) I'm gonna puke through my nose in their general direction, and hope it picks up enough mile/seconds to hit 'em square in the eye.

Gut-starved, weak knee'd slack jaws to the left of me
Glad handing Luddite, uber Christos...
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