9 a.m….

( I was ‘’sleeping in”; a holiday, after all) :

BOOM!

Sounded just  like when a “transformer”, whatever that could be, used to  explode  and I lost my electricity for awhile til the problem was fixed.

N, not that at all… I… Read full post »

  I had a half naked woman squatting in my Father's garden, seemingly imbued  by the good rich earth she was sinking nude toes and hand and shins and rear end  into.

Dad boomed, “James! Miss Oblong! The ham is ready! Who wants ham?”

  “George, would you… Read full post »

WINSTON CHURCHILL:

" Less war, more talky-talk"

 Peace will come
With tranquillity and splendor on the wheels of fire
But will bring us no reward when her false idols fall
And cruel death surrenders with it's pale ghost retreating
Between the King and the Queen of Swords.

 Bo… Read full post »

The ham dinner was presented finally, for me, Dad, Rena, Mom, and Joseph our dog to eat.

  Mom had gotten dressed in her best jeans and sweatshirt  (a loosefitting “Black Dog” gray favorite) and worked assiduously to present it to us, with her usual humble… Read full post »

 DYLAN: 'tHINGS HAVE CHANGED':

Only a fool in here would think he’s got anything to prove

Lot of water under the bridge, lot of other stuff too
Don’t get up gentlemen, I’m only passing through

  I got an invitation in… Read full post »

  My father, myself, and Rena went to the house with a ham for Mom to cook for a “victory dinner” after we’d  successfully concluded our meeting in Dad’s principal ‘s office at his high school.  It had been a face to fac… Read full post »

 i'll remember you

after i've forgotten all the rest

you to me were true

you to me were the best.

 DYLAN, whose performance of his tune 'i'll remember u"

is seen at 

youtube in myriad moods and modes................

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T/… Read full post »

Uncle James is here this weekend to take care of me, because Momma has once again deserted me to go off with the New Guy.

She “retired” from her job on Friday, after 40 years of working. I assumed it was so that she could stay home &… Read full post »

I opened my coffee & spaghetti-stained copy of Camille Paglia’s Sexual Personae and was immediately rewarded with a thought provoking sentence which was rather an earthquake to me.

  Page 522 (it is 700 pages!):

Discussing The Picture of… Read full post »

My sister called this morning.

“Hey,” I said.

“Jimmy, no big deal…uh, just knowing you are thinking of Dad today, like I am. He would have been 90!”

I took a slug of coffee to make a response. It was 7 am, for… Read full post »

Culture is activity of thought,

and receptiveness to beauty and humane feeling.

Scraps of information have nothing to do with it.

A merely well-informed man

is the most useless bore on God’s earth.

What we should aim at producing is… Read full post »

(DAD: ah el you look just like doris day!)

“ I am a terrible person, arent I, James?” Mom would sometimes say, in the end days.

I would giggle.

“Hush. I mean it. I shouldn’t be so hard on your father. He has… Read full post »

I've seen old men with broken teeth

stranded without love

Do I understand your question , man?

'Is it hopeless and forlorn'?...

'Come in ,' she said

'I'll give ya 

Shelter from the Storm' "

Dylan.

  “It’s Mother’s D… Read full post »

ORIGINAL VERSION OF DYLAN'S "if you see her say hello..."

if you makin love to her 

kiss her for the kid

WHO always has respected her

for doin'what she did..

i knew it had to end that way

it was written in the cards.."… Read full post »

schopenhauer:

§  Compassion is the basis of all morality.

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 … Read full post »

 S FREUD: "A man like me cannot live without a hobby-horse, a consuming passion — in Schiller's words a tyrant. I have found my tyrant, and in his service I know no limits. My tyrant is psychology. it has always been my distant, beckoning goal and now since I have… Read full post »

FREUD:

The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind.

§  The Interpretation of Dreams (1900), from The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud, translated by James Strachey.

§&… Read full post »

 Mama, take this badge off of me
I can't use it anymore.
It's gettin' dark, too dark to see
I feel I'm knockin' on heaven's door.

OUR PREZ:

Well, because I am learning so much about him from his old girlfriends, that’ s why!… Read full post »

Rena Oblong and I took a lovely excursion to the flesh, last night, understanding that this is what it is, it is nothing more. I had serious objections to this, but stayed mum. I gotta admit I got connected to her, while i was inside her, but… Read full post »

Rena Oblong, my colleague at the local high school where my 85  year old father has been principal for 40 years now, was nude with her breasts pushed up against my shoulders as we read a text from my mother. Mother is new to texting, and has arthritic… Read full post »

May Day tomorrow. Some of you may remember it, from the Cold War…

(To me the Cold War is a nearly forgotten deficient dream, this struggle between Capitalism and Communism)

  It became an important official holiday of the Soviet Union, celebrated with elaborat… Read full post »

My new girlfriend and I were cruising around town looking for my dog Joseph, who’d leaped through a screen door at a clap of thunder about a half hour ago and disappeared to the south.

I shouldn’t say she is my girlfriend. She… Read full post »

Watch out, readers. This might be incendiary. This post.

I am under the sway of Christopher Hitchens, that erudite drunken atheist who wrote  God is Not Great,

a book that  has destroyed all respect for religion I ever had, which wasn’t a lot to begin with.… Read full post »

I have pm-ed my friends about the alarming lack of Art James for eleven days now.

best artists' rendition of the good farmer..

I am not equipped emotionally to deal with an OS sans Mr. James. Thus selfishly I must inquire after his situation.… Read full post »

 alfred n. whithead "the aims of education"1929:

That knowledge which adds greatness to character is knowledge so handled as to transform every phase of immediate experience

It’s  the  59^th… Read full post »