Of course you have to know something about Quentin Tarantino's film Pulp Fiction for this post to make any sense, if not then maybe you want to stop reading here.

 Alrighty then. Outta the blue, thinking about the film the other day these crumbs came to me  when I… Read full post »

 Martinis

The Waiter

Frosted Grass

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Give me all your bear fat

All your red berries too

I've come for your tobacco

And I'm taking the buffalo

I want all your arrowheads

Your woman on her knees

Blow my smoke into your sky

Chase the birds from your trees.
 

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Letter from Abraham Lincoln to Andrew Johnson on March 26, 1863:

Hon. Andrew Johnson

My dear Sir:

I am told you have at least thought of raising a negro military force. In my opinion the country now needs no specific thing so much as some man of your ability, and… Read full post »

An early morning helicopter

Chopping through the sky

Spotlighting the neighborhood

For the one who got away


Running from the whirlybird

Chopper's on my trail

I will hide here underground

Until I can make my getaway

My getaway

I'll make my getaway.

Pennies are on the bottom

The dimes are on the t… Read full post »

Things change. For the first time since August 2008 Open Salon is not on my top 12 most visited web sites as provided by my Firefox browser. Three and a half years it had been listed there, never making it higher than #3 (behind Google and CNN), but always somewhere… Read full post »

I plucked a string to create a note

That vibrated throughout the empty room

Then I plucked two strings, a G and C

And contemplated their harmony.

While this minimalist spirit was afloat

I recalled a promise made to me

'If two have gathered in my name

I too will be in your company.'

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"What did I see, what did I hear, that's all you ever want from me," Clayton groused to Melissa as the attendants hovered all around him, each busily working at his or her assigned task.

"But that's what you signed on for, Clayton."

"Nope. Just came in here for the… Read full post »

The queen is dead.

She was not our queen you ape, she was our sister.

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Amuse.

There's a concept for you.

As in asea. Or astride.

Withness.

On top of.

Amuse.

With the muse.

Riding the muse.

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CONVERSATIONS WITH EINSTEIN

Yo Stone.

'st los, hund.

Crumbs of chance is what is.

Crumbs of chance?

Yes. Crumbs of chance.

Oh. Yes, I see. Well, here's to crumbs of chance then.

Back at you, pal.

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Two lazy Brits walked into the Old English store

And saw cleofan and clifian for sale upon the shelf.

I'll take the clifian said one to the clerk

To bind my sins ever hidden closer to the secret me

And I'll take the cleofan said the other

To… Read full post »

CONVERSATIONS WITH EINSTEIN

They're asking why are we?

Ach. Typical. So few know where are we.

Well, I know where I am.

And where is that?

C'mon Doc. We're sitting on my deck looking at the stars. See, there's Venus.

Ah, Venus. A planet. You know the Venuvian day… Read full post »

CONVERSATIONS WITH EINSTEIN

So, let me get this straight. You think a line should be drawn in the sand?

Metaphorically speaking, yes I do.

By whom?

By the Occupiers. The 99%. 

A line in the sand to signify... what? 

A simple central… Read full post »

CONVERSATIONS WITH EINSTEIN

What you feel like singing tonight, E?

I'm in the mood for some anarchy. I think I'll have a go at one I call The Occupier's  Cadenza.

Well, let me get the old guitar down. What key you be in?

That would be the… Read full post »

Rise you up and meet the coming day

And hope you that no one has followed

To where they lurk at the lip of your nest

Waiting for you to make your next move


Slide you on by them beside the day

A shadow moving unseen amongst them

Share you not a word with… Read full post »

CONVERSATIONS WITH EINSTEIN

I'm thinking tonight of chuckleheads.

Do you mean the propensity for certain anglo males to prepend to their response to every parry a hgyuh-hgyuh-hgyuh before their rejoinder? Those chuckleheads?

The very ones. And their variants.

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CONVERSATIONS WITH EINSTEIN

Sing me some of those down home blues, E. 

You ask me to tell you of the meanest thing that I have ever seen:
The rage collected until the spirit unleashed spawns man's inhumanity to man
Add to that the ones who point out the/… Read full post »

CONVERSATIONS WITH EINSTEIN

You know what else creeps me out about this place?


Was ist das.


There's no humor. No jokers, riddlers or wits. Oh a few. You know who. But for the most part it's just so... forlorn.


Maybe even the whiff of desperation one senses at times?


Whiff? You mean stench. It/… Read full post »

CONVERSATIONS WITH EINSTEIN

He told me even if I tied a pork chop around my neck nobody'd read my blog.

So, what did you say to him?

I told him I agreed and that if he and I were to launch a contest to live blog… Read full post »

CONVERSATIONS WITH EINSTEIN

Headline reads, Europe, Torn by a Culture Clash. You think?

Ach.

Ach? That's all you have to say? C'mon partner, that's your old stomping grounds they're talking about.

Ach. New topic please.

Don't suppose you want to hear a… Read full post »

CONVERSATIONS WITH EINSTEIN

Interesting week so far. First the earthquake and now the hurricane.

Oh that's right. You were in the earthquake. Did you feel it?

Feel it? I was sound asleep. I woke up to it.

Bet that must have been weird.

Yeah, my bed is rocking and… Read full post »

No, I didn't misspell Hollywood, as in Hollywood California. It is Holywood as in Holywood, Northern Ireland, the birthplace of 22 year old Rory McIlroy, the current leader of the 2011 U.S. Men's Open Golf Championship at Washington D.C.'s Congressional Country Club.

The U.S. Open is one of professi… Read full post »

CONVERSATIONS WITH EINSTEIN

So, I'm sitting there thinking 'Is that my hard drive making that faint moaning whine of a sound?' and you gotta know I'm already a little paranoid after what happened with the power supply on that other box because it started out making a funny noise… Read full post »

Whether or not Barry Bonds is convicted of lying to a federal grand jury and ends up serving time in prison (more likely house arrest) it will probably come as a relief compared to having to share with the world the testimony from his former mistress as to how his… Read full post »