Dahl, Francis Bacon

 "I’ve warned my publishers that if they later on so much as change a single comma in one of my books, they will never see another word from me.  

Never! Ever!” he said.

With his typically evocative language, he added:  

“When I am gone, if that happens, then I’ll wish mighty Thor knocks very hard on their heads with his Mjolnir. " 

 https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/feb/25/roald-dahl-threatened-publisher-with-enormous-crocodile-if-they-changed-his-words 

"it was also the weekend when Francis Bacon was amazed to discover Dahl was one of his earliest collectors, at a time when the artist was still struggling in the 1940s and 50s:  

“The surprised painter noted in a soft earnest voice, looking straight at the writer, ‘I knew there was someone out there buying my early pieces, but I had no idea it was you.’  

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Ted Wheeler , Made by Money

 "Seven years ago, Ted Wheeler ran to become mayor of Portland and led with one audacious pledge: 

 He would eliminate unsheltered homelessness in Oregon’s largest city by the end of 2018." 

https://www.oregonlive.com/politics/2023/02/mayor-ted-wheeler-says-he-is-made-for-this-moment-can-he-convince-portland.html 

https://www.oregonlive.com/politics/2023/02/mayor-ted-wheeler-says-he-is-made-for-this-moment-can-he-convince-portland.html 

Miller: But some donors did choose to identify themselves, including Tim Boyle, the head of Columbia Sportswear. What did you hear from him?

Ellis: Boyle said early on he was supportive of this campaign, but that’s really changed six months later. He said he backed the campaign because he thought it would do two things: A) Help people living on the streets who were in a clear crisis, and B) Pick up the trash. And look at THOSE BOOTS! Ca-ching" 

(achoo) 

"Tim Boyle: Being angry doesn’t help. What I want to see happen is that the issue around the treatment of homeless individuals in the city is improved, and that the trash is picked up. So that’s my focus. I’ve seen, so far, neither of those things have happened."

_________ 

"There is a gale force wind blowing against the current local elected officials" 

In their condo in Cannon beach.

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New Commissioner Rene Gonzalez bans Portland Street Response from distributing tents 

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.opb.org/article/2023/02/15/tent-ban-rene-gonzalez-portland-street-response/%3foutputType=amp

Sand all gone

  

Sky deep blue, sun very bright, sand all gone 

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1927, fearlessly aloft, as bankers had not yet leapt from their office windows 

In-between wars 

Not a guinea pig. 

Not a newsreel, yet, before black and white distractions and piano by the auto roll.

Grayman, not icarus 

Not tempting fate like his father. Resigned to supercede 

Limit. 

My mom, on the phone, babbling about sand like a 12 pound dead baby. An antenna? Broken.

Misunderstood, in time. 

Note the details,

Heading out, heading in. Departing, arriving. There's poetry.

Misprision of Felony

" The Hillsong founder, Brian Houston, believes he did the “right thing” not going to police after his father told him he had molested an underage boy three decades earlier. "

 

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/dec/21/brian-houston-believes-he-did-the-right-thing-not-going-to-police-after-father-admitted-molesting-boy 

"Brian Houston is charged with concealing the crime until his father’s death in 2004, to which he pleaded not guilty."