JAMES M. EMMERLING
James M. Emmerling
- Birthday
- June 24
- Title
- Gentleman of the Very Old School
- Bio
- ''Is this a holy thing to see
In a rich and fruitful land,
Babes reduced to misery,
Fed with cold and usurous hand?''
William Blake (1757-1827), British poet, painter, mystic. Holy Thursday
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''Beneath them sit the aged men, wise guardians of the poor;
Then cherish pity, lest you drive an angel from your door.''
''"And we are put on earth a little space,
That we may learn to bear the beams of love,''
MY RECENT POSTS
- Memorial Day 2012 Memoir
May 28, 2012 03:10PM - HAM DINNER
May 27, 2012 04:39PM - My Memorial Day Post to the
Warriors I have Known
May 26, 2012 05:29PM - THE HAM IS FINALLY READY !
May 23, 2012 03:40PM - MY INVITATION TO THE KINGDOM
OF HEAVEN (no rsvp)
May 22, 2012 02:29PM
MY RECENT COMMENTS
- “hm, E,
our stahi
gave us an interesting
complement, no?
"I
trully love what
yo…”
6:05PM - “Who knows only his own
generation remains always a
child." I
think it
should…”
6:00PM - “yo bro.
what be an
"inslut"?
sirentia,
she say asia
is the gal
who cant t…”
5:53PM - “Oh yeah Ginsberg came to
mind indeed.
Didn’t
know you were so
sad.
Truly.
I
gu…”
5:39PM - “Got zero kids. Trust
me.
This is a truth,
conditionally: “
fighting dirty
is…”
5:31PM
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Memorial Day 2012 Memoir
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 »
HAM DINNER
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 »
My Memorial Day Post to the Warriors I have Known
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 IS FINALLY READY !

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 »
MY INVITATION TO THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN (no rsvp)
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 »
THE PRELUDE TO A SURREALISTIC FAMILY DINNER

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, with the help of science , i hope
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 »
GEORGIE PUPPY SUFFERS AN oedipal crisis
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 »
debauchery doesn't cut it in a nihilistic age.

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 »
HAPPY 90TH BIRTHDAY DAD...&...SORRY I KILLED U

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 »
PART TWO: THE FATE of bullyboys in Our System
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 »
FOR MY DEAR GAL ELEANOR: happy mother's day, mom

(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 »
FOR MY father, ON MOTHER'S DAY

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 »
50 SHADES OF black & white...science fiction erotica

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 »
THE FATE OF BULLY BOYS in our system...part ONE
schopenhauer:
§ Compassion is the basis of all morality.
If there is anything in the world that can really be called a man’s property, it is surely that which is the result of his mental activity..................................................
SETTING UP A F.-DATE after dealing with the bullying crisis.
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 »
VERY TROUBLING TIMES FOR georgie puppie, my nephew
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 »
WHY I AM A DIE HARD OBAMA SUPPORTER
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 »
INTIMATE SEXUAL LEARNING with a gal mom approves of ?

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 »
MATRICIDE CONSIDERED as a gentleman has Supper

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 »
GONNA GOTTA GET BEHIND MAY DAY, TOMORROW!

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 »
Perhaps It is Nobody's Fault that the Dog has Panic Disorder
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 »
AN INCENDIARY POST ABOUT RELIGION, WATCH OUT!
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 »
In deepest Homage & Friendship: WHERE IS ART JAMES?
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 »
The Birthday of DNA, the Apotheosis of Aldous Huxley
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
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It’s the 59th… Read full post »
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