Wednesday, February 28, 2018
slake
bozo job with a bozo boss
three grams of lead paint
that's my loss
fetch me a saddle
that straddles the taint
ride that work
mule, don't say
cain't
wanna know yelping
i'm that guy
noise every night
i cunt buy
make the sheen
ultra obscene
sparkle that plank
back to the holocene
bozo boss with a bozo take
yer done old pizza
with piss i'll slake
Friday, February 23, 2018
Cornelis slowed down around 1659
https://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=rad1003&id=I21842&style=TEXT
Cornelis Segerse (van) Egmont (van Voorhout) was an ancestor of the
Egmont and Schermerhorn families of Albany, New York City, and Staten
Island. He was a desendant of the royal Egmont family of Holland. He was
born about 1599 in the town of Voorhout, a small village near Leyden and
Amsterdam, Holland. It is also a short distance to the villages of Egmont
and Schermerhorn in Holland.
He sailed from Amsterdam on the ship "het Wapen van Renssellaerwyck" Aug.
25, 1643 with his wife and children. On his arrival, he acquired a farm
formerly occupied by Brant Peelen in Renssellaerwyck on Castle Island.
This was located opposite Bethlehem, near Albany. His rent in 1644 was
276 scheppels of wheat and 320 of corn, by far the highest rent of any of
the farms in Renselarewyck at the time..
In 1646, Cornelis acquired "Welysburgh", the other farm on Castle Island,
thus coming into possession of the entire place. (Today it?s called
Westerlo Island).
He started a brewery as well. In an inventory of 1651,
this wealthy farmer had 13 horses and 22 cows on 70 morgens (140 acres)
of land.
https://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=rad1003&id=I21842&style=TEXT
Source: NYGBR (1915) p. 346
Cornelis was, well, ornery.
In October 1648 he was obliged to retract
derogatory comments about Andries de Vos, as well as remarks he had made
to the effect that Jan Barentsen Wemp was "a rascal, a thief and the
greatest liar in the colony."
The next summer court records show him in a
fight with a former employee, and the year after that, slashing a man in
the face with a glass. In Jan 1650, both Cornelis and Jacob were charged
with assaulting Rensselaerwyck director Brant van Slichtenhorst.
Cornelis refused to pay his rent year after year even though he was
leasing the most valuable property in Rensselaerwyck (it was called
Welysburgh) and was doing quite well. The rent was 1,210 florins (the
next most valuable property in the colony rented for only 810 florins)
and in Mar 1652 van Slichtenhorst went (armed with a court order) to
collect either cash or grain.
Cornelis nailed shut the door to the grain
loft and could not be reached.
Cornelis slowed down around 1659, when he
transferred his farm to his son Seger, who had just married.
Cornelis' temper lived on, fatally, in his sons.
They took up his two
favorite hobbies: drinking and brawling.
Cornelis, Jr. was charged with
fighting in 1649 and 1650 with three men, and with pulling his knife on
Christoffel s.
On 31 Aug 1658 Claes was in Hendrick Jochimsen?s
tavern when he began arguing with a soldier named Daniel Nonvou. They got
into a clinch, rolling around on the floor.
Nonvou managed to draw his
rapier, but it was taken away by a bystander. Claes tried to get another
punch in, but Nonvou drew a small knife and landed it in Claes?s chest.
On 23 Jun 1662 Seger got into a tavern fight with Andries Constapel.
Seger whacked Constapel with a pool cue. Constapel pulled a knife,
stabbed Seger below the short ribs, and then returned the favor in
spades, dealing Claes five blows to the head with the pool cue. The next
day Andries went to Seger?s bedside, and they forgave each other, but
Seger died that night.
Source: Mike Wolf, The Genealogy of the Greene County, NY Wolfes
http://home.earthlink.net/~wolfsbane/mar1996-2.htm
Christoph, Peter R. "Bradt: A Norwegian Family in Colonial America".
Salem, MA: Higginson Books, 1994.
PARENTS: Seger Van Voorhout and Tenjelgetze Trintje Van Egmont.
IMMIGRATION: 1644 From Amsterdam to New Amsterdam
Wapen van Rensselaerswijck
Sailed from Amsterdam Sept 1643, arrived New Amsterdam March 1644
Cornelis Segerse (van) Egmont (van Voorhout) was an ancestor of the
Egmont and Schermerhorn families of Albany, New York City, and Staten
Island. He was a desendant of the royal Egmont family of Holland. He was
born about 1599 in the town of Voorhout, a small village near Leyden and
Amsterdam, Holland. It is also a short distance to the villages of Egmont
and Schermerhorn in Holland.
He sailed from Amsterdam on the ship "het Wapen van Renssellaerwyck" Aug.
25, 1643 with his wife and children. On his arrival, he acquired a farm
formerly occupied by Brant Peelen in Renssellaerwyck on Castle Island.
This was located opposite Bethlehem, near Albany. His rent in 1644 was
276 scheppels of wheat and 320 of corn, by far the highest rent of any of
the farms in Renselarewyck at the time..
In 1646, Cornelis acquired "Welysburgh", the other farm on Castle Island,
thus coming into possession of the entire place. (Today it?s called
Westerlo Island).
He started a brewery as well. In an inventory of 1651,
this wealthy farmer had 13 horses and 22 cows on 70 morgens (140 acres)
of land.
https://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=rad1003&id=I21842&style=TEXT
Source: NYGBR (1915) p. 346
Cornelis was, well, ornery.
In October 1648 he was obliged to retract
derogatory comments about Andries de Vos, as well as remarks he had made
to the effect that Jan Barentsen Wemp was "a rascal, a thief and the
greatest liar in the colony."
The next summer court records show him in a
fight with a former employee, and the year after that, slashing a man in
the face with a glass. In Jan 1650, both Cornelis and Jacob were charged
with assaulting Rensselaerwyck director Brant van Slichtenhorst.
Cornelis refused to pay his rent year after year even though he was
leasing the most valuable property in Rensselaerwyck (it was called
Welysburgh) and was doing quite well. The rent was 1,210 florins (the
next most valuable property in the colony rented for only 810 florins)
and in Mar 1652 van Slichtenhorst went (armed with a court order) to
collect either cash or grain.
Cornelis nailed shut the door to the grain
loft and could not be reached.
Cornelis slowed down around 1659, when he
transferred his farm to his son Seger, who had just married.
Cornelis' temper lived on, fatally, in his sons.
They took up his two
favorite hobbies: drinking and brawling.
Cornelis, Jr. was charged with
fighting in 1649 and 1650 with three men, and with pulling his knife on
Christoffel s.
On 31 Aug 1658 Claes was in Hendrick Jochimsen?s
tavern when he began arguing with a soldier named Daniel Nonvou. They got
into a clinch, rolling around on the floor.
Nonvou managed to draw his
rapier, but it was taken away by a bystander. Claes tried to get another
punch in, but Nonvou drew a small knife and landed it in Claes?s chest.
On 23 Jun 1662 Seger got into a tavern fight with Andries Constapel.
Seger whacked Constapel with a pool cue. Constapel pulled a knife,
stabbed Seger below the short ribs, and then returned the favor in
spades, dealing Claes five blows to the head with the pool cue. The next
day Andries went to Seger?s bedside, and they forgave each other, but
Seger died that night.
Source: Mike Wolf, The Genealogy of the Greene County, NY Wolfes
http://home.earthlink.net/~wolfsbane/mar1996-2.htm
Christoph, Peter R. "Bradt: A Norwegian Family in Colonial America".
Salem, MA: Higginson Books, 1994.
PARENTS: Seger Van Voorhout and Tenjelgetze Trintje Van Egmont.
IMMIGRATION: 1644 From Amsterdam to New Amsterdam
Wapen van Rensselaerswijck
Sailed from Amsterdam Sept 1643, arrived New Amsterdam March 1644
Thursday, February 22, 2018
New Bloggod, 1673
Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919). New York. 1906.
IV. New Amsterdam becomes New York: The Beginning of English Rule. 1664-1674.
_________
"In July, 1673, a Dutch squadron under two grim old sea-dogs, Admirals Evertsen and Binckes, suddenly appeared in the lower bay. The English commander in the fort endeavored to treat with them; but they would hearken to no terms save immediate surrender, saying that “they had come for their own, and their own they would have.”
The Dutch militia would not fight against their countrymen; and the other citizens were not inclined to run any risk in a contest that concerned them but little. Evertsen's frigates sailed up to within musket-shot of the fort, and firing began on both sides.
After receiving a couple of broadsides which killed and wounded several of the garrison, the English flag was struck, and the fort was surrendered to the Dutch troops, who had already landed, under the command of Capt. Anthony Colve. So ended the first nine years of English supremacy at the mouth of the Hudson. 10
The victors at once proceeded to undo the work of the men they had ousted. Dutch was once more made the formal official language (though it had never been completely abandoned), and the whole scheme of the English government was overturned.
In the city itself the schepens, burgomasters, and schout again took the place of sheriff, mayor, and aldermen. There was very little violence, although one or two houses were plundered, and a citizen here and there insulted or slightly maltreated by the soldiers,—much as had happened after the original conquest, with the important exception that it was now the Dutch who did the maltreating, and the English who were the sufferers. 11
When the province was lost it was a mere proprietary colony of the West India Company; but this corporation had died prior to 1673, and the province was regained by the victory of a national Dutch force, and was held for the whole nation.
Evertsen, acting for the home government, made Colve the director of the province. Colve was a rough, imperious, resolute man, a good soldier, but with no very great regard for civil liberty. The whole province was speedily reduced. The Dutch towns along the Hudson submitted gladly; but the Puritan villages on Long Island were sullen and showed symptoms of defiance, appealing to Connecticut for help.
However, Colve and Evertsen, backed up by trained soldiers and a well
-equipped squadron, were not men to be trifled with. They gave notice to the Long Islanders that unless they were prepared to stand the chances of war they must submit at once; and submit they did, Connecticut not daring to interfere. The New Englanders had been willing enough to bid defiance to, and to threaten the conquest of, the New Netherlands while the province was weakly held by an insufficient force; but they were too prudent to provoke a contest with men of such fighting temper and undoubted capacity as Evertsen and Colve, and the warhardened troops and seamen who obeyed their behests. 12
Colve ruled the internal affairs of the colony with a high hand. He made the citizens understand that the military power was supreme over the civil; and when the council protested against anything he did, he told them plainly that unless they submitted he would summarily dismiss them and appoint others in their places.
Military law was established, and heavy taxes were imposed; moreover, as the taxes took some time to collect, those who were most heavily assessed were forced to make loans in advance. Altogether the burghers probably failed to find that the restoration of Dutch rule worked any very marked change in their favor. 13
This second period of Dutch supremacy on Manhattan Island lasted for but a year and a quarter. Then in November, 1674, the city was again given up to the English in accordance with the terms of peace between the belligerent powers, which provided for the mutual restitution of all conquered territory. With this second transfer New Amsterdam definitely assumed the name of New York; and the province became simply one of the English colonies in America, remaining such until, a century afterward, all those colonies combined to throw off the yoke of the mother country and become an independent nation.
http://www.bartleby.com/171/4.html
Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919). New York. 1906.
IV. New Amsterdam becomes New York: The Beginning of English Rule. 1664-1674.
IV. New Amsterdam becomes New York: The Beginning of English Rule. 1664-1674.
_________
"In July, 1673, a Dutch squadron under two grim old sea-dogs, Admirals Evertsen and Binckes, suddenly appeared in the lower bay. The English commander in the fort endeavored to treat with them; but they would hearken to no terms save immediate surrender, saying that “they had come for their own, and their own they would have.”
The Dutch militia would not fight against their countrymen; and the other citizens were not inclined to run any risk in a contest that concerned them but little. Evertsen's frigates sailed up to within musket-shot of the fort, and firing began on both sides.
After receiving a couple of broadsides which killed and wounded several of the garrison, the English flag was struck, and the fort was surrendered to the Dutch troops, who had already landed, under the command of Capt. Anthony Colve. So ended the first nine years of English supremacy at the mouth of the Hudson. 10
The victors at once proceeded to undo the work of the men they had ousted. Dutch was once more made the formal official language (though it had never been completely abandoned), and the whole scheme of the English government was overturned.
In the city itself the schepens, burgomasters, and schout again took the place of sheriff, mayor, and aldermen. There was very little violence, although one or two houses were plundered, and a citizen here and there insulted or slightly maltreated by the soldiers,—much as had happened after the original conquest, with the important exception that it was now the Dutch who did the maltreating, and the English who were the sufferers. 11
When the province was lost it was a mere proprietary colony of the West India Company; but this corporation had died prior to 1673, and the province was regained by the victory of a national Dutch force, and was held for the whole nation.
Evertsen, acting for the home government, made Colve the director of the province. Colve was a rough, imperious, resolute man, a good soldier, but with no very great regard for civil liberty. The whole province was speedily reduced. The Dutch towns along the Hudson submitted gladly; but the Puritan villages on Long Island were sullen and showed symptoms of defiance, appealing to Connecticut for help.
However, Colve and Evertsen, backed up by trained soldiers and a well
-equipped squadron, were not men to be trifled with. They gave notice to the Long Islanders that unless they were prepared to stand the chances of war they must submit at once; and submit they did, Connecticut not daring to interfere. The New Englanders had been willing enough to bid defiance to, and to threaten the conquest of, the New Netherlands while the province was weakly held by an insufficient force; but they were too prudent to provoke a contest with men of such fighting temper and undoubted capacity as Evertsen and Colve, and the warhardened troops and seamen who obeyed their behests. 12
Colve ruled the internal affairs of the colony with a high hand. He made the citizens understand that the military power was supreme over the civil; and when the council protested against anything he did, he told them plainly that unless they submitted he would summarily dismiss them and appoint others in their places.
Military law was established, and heavy taxes were imposed; moreover, as the taxes took some time to collect, those who were most heavily assessed were forced to make loans in advance. Altogether the burghers probably failed to find that the restoration of Dutch rule worked any very marked change in their favor. 13
This second period of Dutch supremacy on Manhattan Island lasted for but a year and a quarter. Then in November, 1674, the city was again given up to the English in accordance with the terms of peace between the belligerent powers, which provided for the mutual restitution of all conquered territory. With this second transfer New Amsterdam definitely assumed the name of New York; and the province became simply one of the English colonies in America, remaining such until, a century afterward, all those colonies combined to throw off the yoke of the mother country and become an independent nation.
http://www.bartleby.com/171/4.html
Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919). New York. 1906.
IV. New Amsterdam becomes New York: The Beginning of English Rule. 1664-1674.
Wednesday, February 21, 2018
life hunkers down
as if action works as bait,
moving toward the binoculars
overcoming stoned inertia
there appears an unknown bird
soaring over stark street
pale size seagull it could be more exotic
i could shop for birds in the field guide
but then i'd miss that lightning dart
of some tiny fast being, i'd fail
to catch the cause of snow clump's
sudden dump off the cherry branches,
as germinated weed seeds
bathe in hot window direct sun love,
jetted inches tall in three days
as snow crusts the old dead volcano hill
and our prominent porches
in a petri dish for poetry the like of which
rare birds and dormant liquid stone
keep time in chimney smoke puffs
idyllic mount hood
pulling his glacier's pendleton of ice up
in wrinkled prehistoric zigzags,
literally seeping from my pores
in the french pressed coffee made of
bull run watershed tapwater, the
reservoirs glimmer only blocks
away nestled in my neighborhood groves
---life hunkers down
the pine needle duels with light
and a heart of sweet sap holding sun all winter,
holding sun all winterwide
Mt Tabor Oregon
Tuesday, February 20, 2018
Grandpa Jeremiah died a Very Old Man 1856
Name: Jeremias "Jurri" Layman, Surname: Layman
Given Name: Jeremias "Jurri", Sex: M
Birth: BEF 3 Feb 1765 in Catskill, Greene Co, Ny
Death: 1856 in Conesville, Schoharie Co, Ny
"Jeremiah lived in Schoharie Flats, was a scout in the army
for Geo Washington, was an Indian fighter,
was a messenger for George Washington,
died a very old man was associated with Timothy Murphy,
rebel fighter, fought Indians, Tories,
and was affiliated with the British movements.
Jeremiah was a farmer after the war."
Phebe's Grandfather, Jeremias Layman, the scout and messenger for General Washington.
__________
*
"Timothy Murphy (1751–1818) was a rifleman in the American Revolutionary War. At the Battle of Bemis Heights (Second Battle of Saratoga) on October 7, 1777, Murphy is reputed to have shot and killed Sir Francis Clerke and General Simon Fraser. Murphy's life is the subject of John Brick's 1953 novel, The Rifleman."
Monday, February 19, 2018
sycamore 13.67 meters circumference
The earliest records of the Bloodgood name associated with nurseries relate to 1798 in Flushing (now Queens) New York. Flushing was religiously tolerant and became predominately Quaker with a large African population. French Huguenots immigrated to the area in the18th century, bringing knowledge of horticulture with them. Flushing became known for its various nurseries.
Large farms began to grow plants commercially. Among the names recorded were Prince, Bloodgood (1798), Higgins, Kimbers and Parsons families. Members of the King and Murray families purchased the Bloodgood Nursery in the 1830’s and moved it to land next to their Kingsland estate.
Although rumored that Benjamin Franklin visited and swapped seeds with the Bloodgood Nurseries, no proof of this visit was found. President George Washington recorded in his diary a visit to the Prince Nurseries on October 10, 1789. He was not impressed, but did purchase fruit from the trees.
In the same article in Newsday.com about the history of Flushing, there is a mention of Bloodgood Nursery being there in 1838.
In the History of Long Island, the following quote was found.
“The old Bloodgood nursery now owned and conducted by Wilcomb and King, has long been in high reputation, and is only inferior in quantity and variety to the Linnaean Garden.” John Warner Willcomb, who was born in Massachusetts in 1793 and moved to Flushing “lost the business by defalcation of his New York agent.”
We are unable to maintain the lineage of Bloodgood Nursery until mention of a more current name of Keene and Foulk. They were owners of Bloodgood Nursery of Flushing, as shown in a report of Entomologists in 1894 regarding the San Jose Scale. Apparently Bloodgood nursery stock had this scale infestation and was forced to destroy much of their stock as a result.
The company became became Foulk and Flemmer and moved to Flemington, New Jersey.
https://horshamhistory.org/bloodgood-nurseries
https://horshamhistory.org/bloodgood-nurseries
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Bloodgood planetree (Platanus × acerifolia 'Bloodgood')
Description:
Bloodgood planetree, a selection of the tough London planetree that is widely planted in urban areas, is a large shade tree with a broad open crown and bark that exfoliates to reveal patches that may be creamy white, yellow, or olive-colored. The signature ornamental feature of this huge tree is its brown bark, which exfoliates in irregular pieces to reveal creamy white inner bark. 'Bloodgood' has dark green foliage and is reported to have some resistance to the problematic anthracnose disease of sycamores.
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"The Buttonwood Agreement, which took place on May 17, 1792, started the New York Stock & Exchange Board now called the New York Stock Exchange.
This agreement was signed by 24 stockbrokers outside of 68 Wall Street New York under a buttonwood tree. "
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buttonwood_Agreement
Platanus occidentalis, also known as American sycamore, American planetree, occidental plane, and buttonwood, is one of the species of Platanus native to North America.
In 1770, at Point Pleasant, Virginia (now in West Virginia) near the junction of the Kanawha and Ohio Rivers, George Washington recorded in his journal a sycamore measuring 13.67 m (44 ft 10 in) in circumference at 91 cm (3 ft) from the ground.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platanus_occidentalis
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Flushing was the site of the first commercial tree nurseries in North America, the most prominent being the Prince, Bloodgood, and Parsons nurseries. Much of the northern section of Kissena Park, former site of the Parsons nursery, still contains a wide variety of exotic trees.
The naming of streets intersecting Kissena Boulevard on its way toward Kissena Park celebrates this fact (Ash Avenue, Beech, Cherry ...Poplar, Quince, Rose).
Flushing also supplied trees to the Greensward project, now known as Central Park in Manhattan.
A pint of aggie 101
a print, the likeness of president washington
surrounded by taxidermy, pin-up cheesecake,
invites to openings, ceramic totems,
his art department office still life
down the hall from easels,
my skateboard smooth on college concrete
two buildings down to where mom
as a grad student had her nook, teaching,
1978 vending machine cigarette in bold
chipped lead paint, general washington's hemp
fields in full bloom,
the cannons in bedlam boom-a-smoke
game day pistol pete frat-packs
a print, the likeness, a pint
of aggie 101
Sunday, February 18, 2018
sunday snow
cold cloud weight hardy
sunday snow february flurries
nine a.m. light (fogs of sense)
put out some popcorn
crow there on *heat * vent
of neighbor's frosted roof
cherry limbs near my window wind sway
bud-eager tips water hugging hurry,
greeting icicle wait
Mt Tabor Oregon
Saturday, February 17, 2018
Sunday, February 11, 2018
bull nose cat
grant and i work the pond in the canoe,
fishing for catfish and bass,
mom sunbathes on a blanket on the shore,
the back of the mazda open with her picnic ready,
once she grades twenty more bluebooks,
once we land the big fish or need root beer,
hope it isn't braunschweiger sandwiches
maybe it is peanut butter pickle relish mayo and lettuce
her perfect bread makes up for middle,
we hike the woods and look for morels or feathers,
jump the soggy trail patches, climb sandstone,
pull the tube socks up and get thru brambles,
bull nose catfish not much there
toss them on the bank says gordon and marty
but i can't.
living rooms
sunday morning bagel on the slab in tennis shorts,
newspaper crossword's first few trophies,
the purple martin house shadow over lines of mowed grass,
public radio on the way to the courts
the smiling banker sweeps the court,
pairs up the foreign exchange students,
sweatbands drip, the keys and spare change
rolling in an empty can the wind has given legs,
an empty stadium parking lot cloud guarded,
old station wagon sweat smelly
stop and get a six pack of three point two,
finish the puzzle one handed ham sandwich
in front of tom landry, hang the duds
out on lines in the sun not worried about wrinkles,
blue jeans, tube socks, that terry cloth skull cap,
mow some grass, shoot a few hoops, play scrabble
then out to the studio at night,
in the morning sometimes a new painting,
in the living room
stripper strikes
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Thursday, February 08, 2018
Tuesday, February 06, 2018
what isn't it?
it found me on the beach eye to hand
from the oregon atlantis sand
this talisman
this stone sculpture basalt puzzle
burnished blackish iron-rock heavy
the size of an egg
shape the interior of a palm with our wrinkles its map
what is it
what is it
twenty years and i see it the first time
definitive, from all interior angles,
the palm's mirror
pre-conscious conch,
a fertility tool for the fishing nomad
suggestive in every form, one arm
thin the other bulbed,
evocative as a lure for ocean beings must
compel, under hazel grey deep relief
cut by sand sweeping water
giving the magma mother
childbearing hips, the claw of crab,
the gash
the nostrils
the belly button
the fire hair
the rump of polished star brass,
what isn't it?
fiddle for the vicar
forced to play the violin at age 5
or was it 4, they can't recall,
took no photos
heard no concerts,
made to trudge thru chamber group
tuxedo gig for the beauty pageant,
had to stay in orchestra
in 10th grade even when i tested
in the top 5 science students
out of a class of 350 and
could have skipped biology 1 and
gone to 2 if orchestra wasn't
at the same hour,
took no photos or few
didn't hear the duets or solos at contests
one could call it vicarious
if one had the
education to ear out its meaning.
Sunday, February 04, 2018
oil hag
50 yard hag, don't got no soil
people turn to run and warn the patrol
the sun itself happy to recoil
she's the hoily hoily hag of Oil
lacquered and liquored
you've paid to lick worse
sober or snookered
we're born to that curse
get out a ruler
find one not a tooler
50 watt hag hair in curlers
fracking the earth like he was a high schooler
30 inch dick he on the case
measures the space
and forgets his place
50 ounce hag she got the taste
pumping gumption gas and hustle
30 speck dick lost and fussin
50 spoon hag, schlocking the gristle
no you gotta know there's a pistol
bam boom dumb
50 dicks in a hag slum
onomatopoeia see the dummy
drum stag bum
50 mite leech
pull her off of that long preach
of the 30 dick speech
that's all i fire-got . Impeach
sixth grade touchdown
age 50, i'm ready for high school football
having lifted a few million pounds of stone, sand, hay,
furniture, groceries, firewood, and children who
being girls, don't fully understand
football the way i don't also
get why it isn't handball, as hands are used
quite a bit more, though being fast
was my quality at age ten weighing around 67 pounds
able to sprint and dash like no one's business
so that when i scored an 80 yard
touchdown, evading grabs tackles and big jerks
my skinny cheerleading girlfriend rachel mcCurly
bouncing up and down when my dad
shows up "you just missed it!"
the field lit at night in junebug oklahoma,
soldiered on another couple years
being halfback, returning punts and kickoffs,
getting creamed as a shrimp
all to be one of the guys and have that jersey
to wear around school on game day,
so girls would like me
so i could prove tough
so years later i could reflect, and have one
recollection of making the endzone,
just out of reach the jersey stretching,
being popular, normal, strong, ready.
super bowl for crow
crow is worried about running out of popcorn,
eyes me from the slab
of golden sunset on the balcony rail.
crow chokes down single pieces,
flips them up by beak tip
catches them toward the back of throat,
jabs to form a cluster of five, six,
eyes me indoors ten feet away
puts them all back down,
gobbles a few more, then makes another
corn boquet, all they can carry
to the gutter by the neighbor's window,
where the super bowl woodpecker-ants
crash helmet-skulls, in singles,
in clusters ten, twelve, again line up
again on the balcony,
ants on a log
Saturday, February 03, 2018
know respect
know respect, as agate knows the silver waves of time's ocean as shells once armor now adorn what was once
known
NFL Woodpecker Brains
http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/02/could-woodpeckers-teach-nfl-how-prevent-brain-injuries
" woodpeckers have neck muscles and cranial bone structures that protect them from the 1200 Gs of force—that is, 1200 times the force of gravity—they sustain while pecking. "
" A new study shows that a protein whose abnormal buildup is considered a sign of human brain damage also accumulates in woodpecker brains.
That raises an intriguing question: Could the newly discovered “tangles” of this protein, tau, be protecting the woodpecker brain from injury?
The idea of concussionless woodpeckers dates back to 1976, when a seminal study that examined sections of the birds’ brains found no evidence of injury. "
"They asked several museums for woodpecker specimens whose brains they could study. Their final haul: six downy woodpeckers, one yellow-bellied sapsucker, one northern flicker, one pale-billed woodpecker, and one lineated woodpecker.
For comparison, they also got five brains from a non–head-banging species, the red-winged blackbird"
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Friday, February 02, 2018
666 Trump-Satan Brand Friday
"It was the worst day for stocks since President Trump took office"
Trump is the worst thing
for Earth since offices
were invented.
------bloggod
Dutch Intelligence, Prevezon, Veselnitskaya, Trump Tower
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-02-02/russian-firm-tied-to-trump-tower-chat-told-to-pay-5-9-million
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-02-02/russian-firm-tied-to-trump-tower-chat-told-to-pay-5-9-million
A Russian-backed company involved in a decade-long drama that touched the highest levels of the U.S. and Russian governments must hand over $5.9 million that it had agreed to pay to avoid a trial in New York.
A U.S. judge, who said events of the case "read like a John Le Carre novel,” ordered Prevezon Holdings Ltd. on Friday to pay the settlement, rejecting the company’s claim that it didn’t have to pay the entire amount until assets seized in the Netherlands were released.
Prevezon had struck a deal with U.S. prosecutors to resolve the case in May on the eve of a trial that threatened to shed light on a $230 million Russian tax fraud and an associated money-laundering scheme.
The Cyprus-based investment company was represented in part by Natalia Veselnitskaya, a Russian lawyer who sat down with President Donald Trump’s son during the 2016 election campaign, in a meeting that was sold as an opportunity for them to get dirt on Hillary Clinton.
The meeting came on the same day a New York court was hearing arguments in the Prevezon case and about a year before the lawsuit was settled.
Veselnitskaya represents Russian businessman Denis Katsyv, the owner of Prevezon.
Prevezon had argued that it didn’t have to pay the entire amount of the settlement because about $3 million euros ($3.7 million) of debt was seized by Dutch authorities as part of a separate investigation
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2018/01/26/dutch-media-reveal-country-to-be-secret-u-s-ally-in-war-against-russian-hackers/?utm_term=.a9eeaab01e65
"BERLIN — The Dutch domestic intelligence service AIVD had access to the infamous Russian hacking group Cozy Bear for at least a year starting in mid-2014, local media outlets reported Thursday.
According to the reports, the Dutch government alerted the United States to Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election after Netherlands-based officials watched the hacking of the Democratic National Committee and other operations by the Russians, including a 2014 State Department hack."
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-02-02/russian-firm-tied-to-trump-tower-chat-told-to-pay-5-9-million
A Russian-backed company involved in a decade-long drama that touched the highest levels of the U.S. and Russian governments must hand over $5.9 million that it had agreed to pay to avoid a trial in New York.
A U.S. judge, who said events of the case "read like a John Le Carre novel,” ordered Prevezon Holdings Ltd. on Friday to pay the settlement, rejecting the company’s claim that it didn’t have to pay the entire amount until assets seized in the Netherlands were released.
Prevezon had struck a deal with U.S. prosecutors to resolve the case in May on the eve of a trial that threatened to shed light on a $230 million Russian tax fraud and an associated money-laundering scheme.
The Cyprus-based investment company was represented in part by Natalia Veselnitskaya, a Russian lawyer who sat down with President Donald Trump’s son during the 2016 election campaign, in a meeting that was sold as an opportunity for them to get dirt on Hillary Clinton.
The meeting came on the same day a New York court was hearing arguments in the Prevezon case and about a year before the lawsuit was settled.
Veselnitskaya represents Russian businessman Denis Katsyv, the owner of Prevezon.
Prevezon had argued that it didn’t have to pay the entire amount of the settlement because about $3 million euros ($3.7 million) of debt was seized by Dutch authorities as part of a separate investigation
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2018/01/26/dutch-media-reveal-country-to-be-secret-u-s-ally-in-war-against-russian-hackers/?utm_term=.a9eeaab01e65
"BERLIN — The Dutch domestic intelligence service AIVD had access to the infamous Russian hacking group Cozy Bear for at least a year starting in mid-2014, local media outlets reported Thursday.
According to the reports, the Dutch government alerted the United States to Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election after Netherlands-based officials watched the hacking of the Democratic National Committee and other operations by the Russians, including a 2014 State Department hack."
Trump Tower Kaveladze Stillwater Mining Golden Touch
"What I see here is another Russian witch hunt in the United States,” he told The New York Times."----
In 2000, the Government Accountability Office alleged that Kaveladze was a central figure in a massive money laundering scheme for Russian brokers.
In 2003, the Russian mining company Norilsk Nickel nominated Kaveladze to the board of the Stillwater Mining Co. in the United States, which it planned to acquire.
But Kaveladze turned down the nomination “for personal reasons,” according to The Mining Journal.
One year later, according to his LinkedIn page, he joined the Crocus Group. The Crocus Group is run by Aras Agalarov, a Russian billionaire who met Trump in Moscow during the 2013 Miss Universe pageant.
Kaveladze can be spotted in one photo from the time with Trump and the Agalarovs at a private dinner.
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"Durban, South Africa - Some 955 gold miners were rescued on Friday morning after being trapped underground for more than 24 hours following a power cut.
They resurfaced unharmed, but some were suffering from dehydration and blood pressure issues.
They had been stuck a kilometre underground at the Sibanye Stillwater Beatrix Mine in Welkom for two nights and were finally rescued when the power returned to the mine."
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2018/02/south-africa-unions-demand-answers-miners-trapped-180202081631508.html
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2018/02/south-africa-unions-demand-answers-miners-trapped-180202081631508.html
titillation
because i cannot reach the bird book to identify
my friend there on the cherry tree
without making human waves,
i'll call her a towhee
i'll say he is a titmouse,
that's how to
sell books
that's how to gussy up
the utility-pole poem title
a thousand times
awaken to deer in the creekbed,
woodstove smoke in the moonlight.
three daughters sleep,
cats at the feet of their beds.
the rocks are slippery,
hooves prove.
Thursday, February 01, 2018
dallas puck
the deep state isn't that deep
looking up from a dallas shopping mall urinal
that also looks like an ice rink
with lots of staring
pee
poles
July 1984 Reagan letter to IPA,: April 29, 1943 FDR to the IPA
What is extra neat is that the West Edmond Oil Field came in on April 29, 1943, to supply America with oil for WW 2.
ere heirs care
cowardice and avarice seep thru the decades,
craven born if not judged that way in retrospect
is there a difference?
ask edward blood
good's ghost, court-martialed after brentwood
surrender to nathan bedford
forrest, no
gump intended, right.
edward, grandchild of francis, mayor of albany
who struck a man with a cane
who owned several slaves, an insurance company,
and married the widow of the son of the
financier of the American Revolution
robert morris.
seeps where,
sleeps,
ere heirs care.
beat oklahoma made klickitat
Babbs currently lives on his farm in Dexter, Oregon (near Kesey’s house) with his wife Eileen, an English teacher at South Eugene High School. In 1994, he helped Kesey co-write The Last Go Round, about the oldest and largest rodeos in America.
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I got my own bus for $400, a 1976 International, lived in the driveway on Glisan street for a couple months with my baby Surreal and her mom: the home on Glisan st with Jim Boyer, Bingo, and four other artists. Moved that bus to off grid 80 acre freedom, for nearly a decade.
When I went to his annual party a couple years back, the Dead were having their show, so
the usual hordes weren't in the Eugene area. I played fiddle with my buddies and Simon
Babbs who'd invited us down.
We rode down there in style; cray ass Don in his big truck. Another brother Babbs stuffed
in the pickup, giving all kinds of stories I won't go into in further detail. The party was fun,
if not as wild as I'd hoped. I got to play lots of music, slept in a hammock, as the field hosted
dozens of car campers.
Rodeo?
gruntled orgone
early this morning sky was gruntled
if being disgruntled is cloudy
so i could see across the miles into wash state
snow on the hills
and river fog over the columbia
if being cold
isn't incumbent on snowmelt,
sky has an excuse for the smudge grey twilight
we aren't mexico city or LA or beijing,
we're gruntled
and orgone
rubbing elbows with Allen Ginsberg
I met Allen Ginsberg in a memorable manner, while I was a student at the University of Kansas,
in 1987 at the River City Reunion; a beat poet gathering in Lawrence, Kansas, home of William Burroughs.
My dad had given me a copy of Ginsberg's Collected Works, recently published. I
had it at the K.U. Student Union ballroom where Ginsberg was giving a public reading. There were
hundreds of people there, several of my friends.
When it was time to start, Allen asked the audience if anyone had a copy of his book---he had
neglected to bring one. I approached and offered mine. He read from it, also singing with the Fugs
musician Steven Taylor. I got it back when he was finished, and he'd left a folded piece of plain
paper in it that read "poems to read." The following day or the next, I saw him again in the Student
Union. He signed my book. Then, he was in the audience for an open poetry reading, which happened
to be the first time I'd read my poetry in public. I sat with him awhile as others read, and he was kind,
friendly, supportive about the reading.
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I saw him a few years later in 1991 in Portland, Oregon, at Powell's bookstore, where he was signing
books. I arrived wrapped in an Aztec blanket. Those were some tough days.
I needed money not long ago, and sold that book White Shroud. Powells bought it back, and was
going to retail it for $80. I got $12 or so, and had a few beers.
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The last time I ran into Allen was in Powells, again, in the cafe magazine area with its big
glass windows overlooking Burnside street. He was sitting at a table, and I joined him. I asked if
he remembered me, and he did. He asked about what I was doing, who I was reading lately. I told him Richard Brautigan.
He didn't let on if that displeased him. I didn't want to bother him, or seek anything.
Being around grace and genius is a reward in and of itself.
Charlemagne Palestine, Allen Ginsberg
Charlemagne Palestine (born Chaim Moshe Tzadik Palestine) is a performance artist from New York.
"Born in Brooklyn, New York in 1947, Palestine began by singing sacred Jewish music and studying accordion and piano.
At the age of 12 he started playing backup conga and bongo drums for Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso, Kenneth Anger, and Tiny Tim.
From 1962–69 Palestine was carillonneur for the Saint Thomas Episcopal Church in Manhattan,eventually creating a piece that consisted of 1,500 15 minute performances"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlemagne_Palestine
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlemagne_Palestine
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2018/feb/01/charlemagne-palestine-18000-stuffed-animals-ccornuuoorphanossccopiaeeaanorphansshhornoffplentyyyhttps://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2018/feb/01/charlemagne-palestine-18000-stuffed-animals-ccornuuoorphanossccopiaeeaanorphansshhornoffplentyyy
“My mother, when I was around 10 or 11, thought I was too old to have these kinds of toys,” Palestine recalled ruefully. “
One day when I was at school, she took all my animals and threw them out. I came back and I no longer had any of my friends – my cuddly friends.”
These days Palestine has all of his cuddly friends. “I call them divinities,”
Palestine says. “But I use it as a sacred secular term, meaning I believe it’s sacred – it really is important to me and gives me all the reinforcement that sacred things can without it being dogmatic.
My religion has no name.
Maybe ‘Meshugahland’. You know the word ‘meshugah’? It means crazy.
"Born in Brooklyn, New York in 1947, Palestine began by singing sacred Jewish music and studying accordion and piano.
At the age of 12 he started playing backup conga and bongo drums for Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso, Kenneth Anger, and Tiny Tim.
From 1962–69 Palestine was carillonneur for the Saint Thomas Episcopal Church in Manhattan,eventually creating a piece that consisted of 1,500 15 minute performances"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlemagne_Palestine
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2018/feb/01/charlemagne-palestine-18000-stuffed-animals-ccornuuoorphanossccopiaeeaanorphansshhornoffplentyyyhttps://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2018/feb/01/charlemagne-palestine-18000-stuffed-animals-ccornuuoorphanossccopiaeeaanorphansshhornoffplentyyy
“My mother, when I was around 10 or 11, thought I was too old to have these kinds of toys,” Palestine recalled ruefully. “
One day when I was at school, she took all my animals and threw them out. I came back and I no longer had any of my friends – my cuddly friends.”
These days Palestine has all of his cuddly friends. “I call them divinities,”
Palestine says. “But I use it as a sacred secular term, meaning I believe it’s sacred – it really is important to me and gives me all the reinforcement that sacred things can without it being dogmatic.
My religion has no name.
Maybe ‘Meshugahland’. You know the word ‘meshugah’? It means crazy.
Amazon Slavery Tech
"Amazon has patented designs for a wristband that can precisely track where warehouse employees are placing their hands and use vibrations to nudge them in a different direction"
"The proposed wristbands would use ultrasonic tracking to identify the precise location of a worker’s hands as they retrieve items.
One of the patents outlines a haptic feedback system that would vibrate against the wearer’s skin to point their hand in the right direction."
And if the worker is saying anything that
Jeff Bezos doesn't like, the neckband system
overrides and moves their tongue, saying YESSIR BOSS
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/jan/31/amazon-warehouse-wristband-tracking
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/jan/31/amazon-warehouse-wristband-tracking
Stillwater Mine, Kaveladze, Prokhorov, Potanin, Putin, Mueller
As the GOP "retreat" at Greenbrier Bunker, with Jim Justice, owner of 70 mines. billionaire with the most outstanding FINES owed for safety and environmental damages.
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"JOHANNESBURG, Feb 1 (Reuters) - Sibanye-Stillwater said on Thursday that over 1,000 miners were stuck underground at its Beatrix gold mine in South Africa after a storm knocked out power"
https://uk.reuters.com/article/sibanye-gold-miners/update-2-sibanye-gold-miners-in-s-africa-stuck-underground-not-in-danger-idUKL8N1PR6VT
"ON MAY 4, 2017, SIBANYE GOLD LIMITED COMPLETED THE AQUISITION OF STILLWATER MINING COMPANY. FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION, VISIT: WWW.SIBANYEGOLD.CO.ZA."
___________________
"The Guardian has established that Kaveladze was involved in the $341m takeover of a US company by a Russian mining firm belonging to an associate of Putin, and was a business partner to two former senior officials at Russia’s central bank.
In 2003, the Colorado-based firm Stillwater Mining was bought by Norilsk Nickel, a metals corporation in Moscow led by Vladimir Potanin, one of Russia’s wealthiest oligarchs
As part of its $341m purchase of the American firm, Norilsk nominated Kaveladze to be one of its five handpicked directors on Stillwater’s new board, according to a filing by the company to the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).
Kaveladze was billed as the president of “an international consulting boutique” serving a “US and Eastern European clientele”.
The deal was the first time a Russian company had ever taken a majority stake in a publicly traded US company.
It was viewed as critical by the Kremlin. Putin was reported at the time to have personally advocated for the deal’s approval by US regulators during a meeting with then president George W Bush earlier in 2003.
Norilsk was then co-owned by Potanin and Mikhail Prokhorov, another major Russian oligarch, who later sold his stake.
Prokhorov, who has had mixed relations with the Kremlin, now owns the Brooklyn Nets basketball team in New York.
Kaveladze and Prokhorov had been classmates at the Moscow Finance Institute in the late 1980s
Kaveladze’s ascent to the Stillwater board was eventually derailed, according to a source, after the discovery of his earlier involvement in a $1.4bn California-based scheme involving shell companies and transfers from Russia, which US authorities said may have been used for money laundering. Norilsk said he withdrew from the process for personal reasons.
The Guardian previously revealed that Kaveladze’s partner in that operation was Boris Goldstein, a Soviet-born banker whose ties to former KGB officers attracted interest from US investigators after he moved to California in the early 1990s.
In a remarkable coincidence, the US attorney in San Francisco whose office eventually declined to bring criminal charges over their alleged money-laundering scheme was Robert Mueller, the special counsel now looking into Kaveladze’s reappearance.
Also previously unreported is Kaveladze’s close friendship with Andrei Kozlov, who was first deputy chairman of Russia’s central bank under Putin for four years before being assassinated in 2006 as he attempted to clean up Russia’s corrupt banking system.
More than 25 years after their first venture, Kaveladze continues to work alongside Agalarov at Crocus.
Their company has become one of the biggest corporations in Russia, carrying out government building contracts worth hundreds of millions of dollars from Putin’s administration – and sealing international deals with tycoons such as Trump.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/sep/18/trump-in-moscow-what-happened-at-miss-universe-in-2013
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/sep/18/trump-in-moscow-what-happened-at-miss-universe-in-2013
______________
"JOHANNESBURG, Feb 1 (Reuters) - Sibanye-Stillwater said on Thursday that over 1,000 miners were stuck underground at its Beatrix gold mine in South Africa after a storm knocked out power"
https://uk.reuters.com/article/sibanye-gold-miners/update-2-sibanye-gold-miners-in-s-africa-stuck-underground-not-in-danger-idUKL8N1PR6VT
"ON MAY 4, 2017, SIBANYE GOLD LIMITED COMPLETED THE AQUISITION OF STILLWATER MINING COMPANY. FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION, VISIT: WWW.SIBANYEGOLD.CO.ZA."
___________________
"The Guardian has established that Kaveladze was involved in the $341m takeover of a US company by a Russian mining firm belonging to an associate of Putin, and was a business partner to two former senior officials at Russia’s central bank.
In 2003, the Colorado-based firm Stillwater Mining was bought by Norilsk Nickel, a metals corporation in Moscow led by Vladimir Potanin, one of Russia’s wealthiest oligarchs
As part of its $341m purchase of the American firm, Norilsk nominated Kaveladze to be one of its five handpicked directors on Stillwater’s new board, according to a filing by the company to the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).
Kaveladze was billed as the president of “an international consulting boutique” serving a “US and Eastern European clientele”.
The deal was the first time a Russian company had ever taken a majority stake in a publicly traded US company.
It was viewed as critical by the Kremlin. Putin was reported at the time to have personally advocated for the deal’s approval by US regulators during a meeting with then president George W Bush earlier in 2003.
Norilsk was then co-owned by Potanin and Mikhail Prokhorov, another major Russian oligarch, who later sold his stake.
Prokhorov, who has had mixed relations with the Kremlin, now owns the Brooklyn Nets basketball team in New York.
Kaveladze and Prokhorov had been classmates at the Moscow Finance Institute in the late 1980s
Kaveladze’s ascent to the Stillwater board was eventually derailed, according to a source, after the discovery of his earlier involvement in a $1.4bn California-based scheme involving shell companies and transfers from Russia, which US authorities said may have been used for money laundering. Norilsk said he withdrew from the process for personal reasons.
The Guardian previously revealed that Kaveladze’s partner in that operation was Boris Goldstein, a Soviet-born banker whose ties to former KGB officers attracted interest from US investigators after he moved to California in the early 1990s.
In a remarkable coincidence, the US attorney in San Francisco whose office eventually declined to bring criminal charges over their alleged money-laundering scheme was Robert Mueller, the special counsel now looking into Kaveladze’s reappearance.
Also previously unreported is Kaveladze’s close friendship with Andrei Kozlov, who was first deputy chairman of Russia’s central bank under Putin for four years before being assassinated in 2006 as he attempted to clean up Russia’s corrupt banking system.
More than 25 years after their first venture, Kaveladze continues to work alongside Agalarov at Crocus.
Their company has become one of the biggest corporations in Russia, carrying out government building contracts worth hundreds of millions of dollars from Putin’s administration – and sealing international deals with tycoons such as Trump.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/sep/18/trump-in-moscow-what-happened-at-miss-universe-in-2013
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/sep/18/trump-in-moscow-what-happened-at-miss-universe-in-2013