THE SPANISH LIE
This will be answered.
The tears were not answered but thsi will be answered.
The tears of Madrid, of Barcelona, Valencia--
The tears were not answered.
The tears are dry on the faces.
The blood is dry on the sand.
The tears were not answered: the blood was not answered.
This will be answered.
Because the men of Guernica do not speak,...
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This will be answered.
The tears were not answered but thsi will be answered.
The tears of Madrid, of Barcelona, Valencia--
The tears were not answered.
The tears are dry on the faces.
The blood is dry on the sand.
The tears were not answered: the blood was not answered.
This will be answered.
Because the men of Guernica do not speak,...
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GIRL IN A NIGHTGOWN
Lights out. Shades up.
A look at the weather.
There has been a booming all the spring.
A refrain from the end of the boulevards.
This is the silence of night.
This is what could not be shaken,
Full of stars & the images of stars--
& that booming wintry & dull,
Like a tottering, a falling & an end,
Again...
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Lights out. Shades up.
A look at the weather.
There has been a booming all the spring.
A refrain from the end of the boulevards.
This is the silence of night.
This is what could not be shaken,
Full of stars & the images of stars--
& that booming wintry & dull,
Like a tottering, a falling & an end,
Again...
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my landlady was over the other day for pretty much the first time since I moved in almost 2 years ago--I had to go over to my sister's to babysit little neice & nephew for a few hours--so, as I didn't really have anything embarassing lying out & about I let her have the run of the house while her plumber fixed my sink (leaky...
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personal prejudice:
there is never ever ever a good reason for anyone over the age of ten to say "boo-yah!" unless they are being paid large sums of money to do so.
likewise with "any-hoo".
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also:
recieved "Ducknapped" (the Richard Thompson Band) in the mail the other day & have been listening to it almost nonstop. he's playing in SLC in a couple of...
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there is never ever ever a good reason for anyone over the age of ten to say "boo-yah!" unless they are being paid large sums of money to do so.
likewise with "any-hoo".
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also:
recieved "Ducknapped" (the Richard Thompson Band) in the mail the other day & have been listening to it almost nonstop. he's playing in SLC in a couple of...
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tororo:
And Black Adder! This Guardian guy forgot to mention The Black Adder.... I always wondered what a Thatcher-era season would have looked like...... if they decided now to resurrect this character in a Blairist context, with the Black Adder as Blair's spin doctor, the result could be..... rrrowwwwrrr.....
cool site if you have some time on yer hands.
tororo:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,3604,1019096,00.html
" 'We call them customers,' says Holding.....Their job includes processing claims by Iraqis for damage when American troops shoot at vehicles or homes, or when Iraqis are wounded by unexploded bombs".
This "We call them customers" will keep haunting me for a while....
" 'We call them customers,' says Holding.....Their job includes processing claims by Iraqis for damage when American troops shoot at vehicles or homes, or when Iraqis are wounded by unexploded bombs".
This "We call them customers" will keep haunting me for a while....
li'l bit sad this morning--just checked out New York Press a little bit ago to read their "Billboard" items (as I've done just about every morning for about 2 years now) & found out they've decided to discontinue it indefinitely.
it's most likely entirely coincedental, but after I moved here to the sticks & finally got my hands on a computer with an internet connection,...
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it's most likely entirely coincedental, but after I moved here to the sticks & finally got my hands on a computer with an internet connection,...
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strange dream this afternoon (I'm still in the flipped-over world of the worker on Graveyard shift) in which I was talking with my sister & a liitle (sort of like a dachshund) came paddling thru the air like it was water.
I thought this was a bit unusual & said something droll like: "What the hell's that?"
sister (blandly): "That's one of those air-paddling dogs."...
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I thought this was a bit unusual & said something droll like: "What the hell's that?"
sister (blandly): "That's one of those air-paddling dogs."...
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kingskottie:
PIMP for a qtr? wow...is it the silver covered copy?
tororo:
I assume you'd already read this article, but anyway....
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/10/national/10ALAB.html?th
"That rocket is now history," Mr. Abrams said. "This community is now one rocket safer."
The idea crossed my mind that the above sentence could prove really useful in our planned Devil's Dictionary supplement: as an example quote for either the "History" and the "safety" entries.
Totally unrelatedly, may your secret dreams come true.... (if they do, could you keep a cub for me?)
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/10/national/10ALAB.html?th
"That rocket is now history," Mr. Abrams said. "This community is now one rocket safer."
The idea crossed my mind that the above sentence could prove really useful in our planned Devil's Dictionary supplement: as an example quote for either the "History" and the "safety" entries.
Totally unrelatedly, may your secret dreams come true.... (if they do, could you keep a cub for me?)
new picture--I'll try & get a better one up later, one that more fully demonstrates what a devastatingly attractive person I am,--but this'll do for right now.
(actually I was just gettin kinda sick of the one I've had up for well over a year now.)
(actually I was just gettin kinda sick of the one I've had up for well over a year now.)
tororo:
Amazing what a little change in lighting can do...
.... dunno why, this picture unexpectedly makes me think of Brewster Mc Cloud.
.... dunno why, this picture unexpectedly makes me think of Brewster Mc Cloud.
I've had this song from Disney's Robin Hood bouncing around in my head for the past while--it seems to start on internal playback whenever Bush's name is mentioned, but that's probably just a coincedence....
The Phony King of England
Oh the world will sing of an English King
A thousand years from now
And not because he passed some laws
Or had that lofty brow...
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The Phony King of England
Oh the world will sing of an English King
A thousand years from now
And not because he passed some laws
Or had that lofty brow...
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tarbaby:
funny,i always have oo-de-lally rolling around in my head...
ah, technology...
it can make our lives easier, it can bring people from far-flung corners of the globe together to exchange ideas, hopes, fears (& occassionally naked pictures of each other)--it can keep a heart beating, show glimpses of a child forming in a womb, allow us to play solitaire for hours without a deck of cards, etc.
it can also be an absolute pain...
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it can make our lives easier, it can bring people from far-flung corners of the globe together to exchange ideas, hopes, fears (& occassionally naked pictures of each other)--it can keep a heart beating, show glimpses of a child forming in a womb, allow us to play solitaire for hours without a deck of cards, etc.
it can also be an absolute pain...
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tororo:
What day was it? I remember having been awakened at some ungodly hour three days ago by some strange sound I have been unable to identify so far.... but I can't tell for sure....
not sure quite what to say about this, so I'm a-gonna just set it on the sidewalk here, & kinda saunter away with my hands in my pockets, humming innocently.
you may THINK you hear a slightly maniacal chuckle, but it's just humming...
you may THINK you hear a slightly maniacal chuckle, but it's just humming...
tororo:
Il ne faut pas souhaiter la mort des gens,
Ce n'est jamais assez mchant
Dominique A
"Il ne faut pas souhaiter la mort des gens"
[Edited on Aug 06, 2003]
Ce n'est jamais assez mchant
Dominique A
"Il ne faut pas souhaiter la mort des gens"
[Edited on Aug 06, 2003]
trip to SLC was mixed:
I spent too much money, as usual (weakness for impulse buys--usually of the utterly useless variety combined with a debit card recently fattened by payday plus alcohol consumption doesn't help)--hooked up with some old friends & made some new ones, which is always nice (especially when they're of the curvy female intellectual type)
saw a band at a sort of...
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I spent too much money, as usual (weakness for impulse buys--usually of the utterly useless variety combined with a debit card recently fattened by payday plus alcohol consumption doesn't help)--hooked up with some old friends & made some new ones, which is always nice (especially when they're of the curvy female intellectual type)
saw a band at a sort of...
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tororo:
Thanks for welcoming me back!
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I've read something strange about stones....
In France most gravestones were, until recently, carved in Bretagne, out of good Breton granite that's said to be rivalled (regarding hardness) only by Breton skulls. But in the past years, Breton gravestone-carving workshops were shut down one after another, 'cause what they could not rival with was the attractive discount prices proposed to the major undertakers companies by their Southeast Asia competitors, who used to offer carved stones for so cheap that their price remained affordable even with the shipment charges added...
.... it means, of course, that the epitaphs are digitally composed on some French undertaker's office's PC, sent to, say, Singapore through the ether and engraved on some laser-carved piece of volcanic Indonesian rock by some other laser-guided machine operated by a girl from Kalimantan who probably studied for becoming a computer programmer but found out the only other jobs that were offered to her were assembling either cameras or M-16...
I wonder how much things go differently in Nevada?
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I've read something strange about stones....
In France most gravestones were, until recently, carved in Bretagne, out of good Breton granite that's said to be rivalled (regarding hardness) only by Breton skulls. But in the past years, Breton gravestone-carving workshops were shut down one after another, 'cause what they could not rival with was the attractive discount prices proposed to the major undertakers companies by their Southeast Asia competitors, who used to offer carved stones for so cheap that their price remained affordable even with the shipment charges added...
.... it means, of course, that the epitaphs are digitally composed on some French undertaker's office's PC, sent to, say, Singapore through the ether and engraved on some laser-carved piece of volcanic Indonesian rock by some other laser-guided machine operated by a girl from Kalimantan who probably studied for becoming a computer programmer but found out the only other jobs that were offered to her were assembling either cameras or M-16...
I wonder how much things go differently in Nevada?
Speaking of relevance.... Do you remember these days (it seems so long ago now) when the UNO inspectors used to present to the press weekly reports on the state of Iraq's disarmament? To arrive at the conference room the presentations were made in, journalists needed to walk a gallery a large reproduction of Picasso's Guernica was usually exposed in... some day somebody noticed the gigantic picture had been covered with a even more gigantic UNO blue flag... asked why, UNO officials answered it was for "technical reasons": for offering to TV cameras a suitable background.... in case cameramen would have to follow the UNO representative outside the conference room....
They were right, of course. As a background, a plain pale blue hanging is suitable for almost any imaginable circumstances.
Except, probably, a landing of pale blue-skinned aliens.