Bibliomancy

  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bibliomancy

"According to the Oxford English Dictionary,[1] the word  

bibliomancy  

(etymologically from βιβλίον biblion- "book" and μαντεία -manteía " 

divination by means of") "divination by books, or by verses of the Bible" was first recorded in 1753 (Chambers' Cyclopædia).  

Sometimes this term is used synonymously with stichomancy (from στίχος stichos- "row, line, verse") "divination by lines of verse in books taken at hazard", which was first recorded c. 1693 (Urquhart's Rabelais).

Bibliomancy compares with rhapsodomancy  

(from rhapsode "poem", "song", "ode")  

"divination by reading a random passage from a poem".

  

All your donut tires are flat with shrapnel, dentures, titanium knee screws, platinum promises, passport staples.

We push as we pull, tank always semper duh. Here's industry, pulling the tape off the crime scene. It's theirs. 

Need a lift, have a mre from 2014, 2008, 1967. They equale para crappola.  It's hope that fills the aorta. 

Dunk the night in phosphorous delirium, it's ball oligarchy. Can I buy a lay up of water for my Mercedes? Just one half a jaw.

Rotten Moon

  

"The Thacker Pass lithium project is expected to use 

 1.7bn gallons of water annually  

to produce 60,000 metric tons of lithium carbonate a year. " 

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/oct/13/native-americans-1865-massacre-lithium-mine-thacker-pass

"Thacker Pass, named Peehee Mu’huh – Rotten Moon, in the Numu language.  

 Thirty to 50 Native Americans are believed to have been killed, including women and children.

The pass is also the site of the largest known lithium deposit in the US and one of the largest in the world" 

Bloody Good Expensive

  

  15,000 views in the past 30 days. Now the party is over. Back to normal. 

The last surge like this was all Russia

  

Peri Bathous, Or the Art of Sinking in Poetry  

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peri_Bathous,_Or_the_Art_of_Sinking_in_Poetry

 

"Pope introduced the use of the term "bathos" (Greek βάθος, depth, the antonym to ὕψος (hupsos), height) to mean a failed attempt at sublimity, a ridiculous failure to sustain it, or, more generally, an anticlimax.

Although Pope's manual of bad verse offers numerous methods for writing poorly, of all these ways to "sink", the method that is most remembered now is the act of combining very serious matters with very trivial ones"

 Idlesse market torturous 

Calciferous periwinkle short-winded 

Estrangement 

Shorthanded 

Superfluous 

Most 

Dual purpose fund 

Sinker 

COVID still killing

  

Total Deaths in America

1,144,539

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https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#maps_percent-covid-deaths 

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2.7% of all deaths in America 

Are from COVID (Sept) 

Doodlebug OKC

  

The West Edmond Field was Oklahoma's most important oil discovery of the 1940s. It developed through the persistence of Ace Gutowsky, who claimed to know the location of potential oil fields by using so-called "doodlebug" techniques, a modification of the divining rod.

 He was convinced that oil was located to the west of the Edmond, Britton, and Oklahoma City fields, but reputable petroleum geologists dismissed his claims due to a lack of adequate geological and geophysical evidence.

Gutowsky found a backer for his project in D. D. Bourland of San Antonio, Texas. 

They spudded in on the Number One Wagner on January 2, 1943, in the NW 1/4 of the NW 1/4 of the SW 1/4 of Section 32, T14N-R4W, Oklahoma County, a few miles west of Edmond. 

The well came in on April 28, 1943.

_________

Almost immediately pipeline service was established, with the bulk of the production going to the Champlin Oil Refinery at Enid. 

The West Edmond Field produced 7,752,000 barrels of oil in 1944 to temporarily bring the state's sagging oil production to 1.5 million barrels more than the previous year. The field contributed to yet another statewide increase of 15 million barrels in 1945.

http://www.okhistory.org/publications/enc/entry.php?entry=WE013

_________

Gutowsky's father, Assaph "Ace" Gutowsky, was in the oil business. 

 He became convinced that a major petroleum deposit lay under the area north of Oklahoma City and scouted the area extensively.

 In 1942 or 1943, Gutowsky's father discovered an oil field at West Edmond, Oklahoma, that was estimated at 117,000,000 barrels.

 Gutowsky's father discovered the oil field using a "doodlebug," a "homemade divining rod" and "struck it rich" as several major oil companies bought leases from him.

By 1944, Time magazine

 called the West Edmond field

 the "greatest concentration of rotary drilling rigs in the world."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ace_Gutowsky

empty the shelves of expired food and stale bulk bin items

  

"volunteers who came to clean up the landscaping around the store and  

empty the shelves of expired food and stale bulk bin items.  

You made a huge difference in helping to keep the pests at bay..." 

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https://foodfront.coop/home/home/food-front-update-9-23/1055/

How's the Wellness Section.  

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some of our current Board members are tired.  

All roads do not lead to selling 

However, the road to reopening is a long and uphill one, and  

the current Board 

 just doesn’t have the time and energy anymore..."

Champions of Community

   

Trying to figure out who's browsing 1000 bloggod pages per day the past few days. Is there a seminar going on in Singapore? 

Here's today's Washington Post.

Artwork sure resembles my published artwork.  

"Shrubhaderp Mutherlee "

______ 

Frackricide Kings

 

"Nationwide, fracking has used up nearly 1.5 trillion gallons of water since 2011. That’s how much tap water the entire state of Texas uses in a year." 

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"the 1980s and 1990s, the company experimented with application of different techniques of hydraulic fracturing of the Barnett Shale of Texas, eventually finding the right technique to economically extract the natural gas in the formation. 

 The approach was widely adopted by the gas industry and spawned a new gas boom in North America. 

 The Potential Gas Committee estimates that U.S. recoverable reserves will last 118 years at current production levels.

 production is expected to more than triple by 2020. 

 Because of the technological progress in industry fracking, George Mitchell is now known as the "pioneer of shale." Mitchell Energy & Development Corp. was later acquired by Devon Energy." 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:MitchellGeorgeP_2011.jpg

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Harold Glenn Hamm (born December 11, 1945) is an American business magnate in the oil and gas business. He is known for extracting shale oil resources. 

 As of February 4, 2022, Hamm's net worth is estimated to be US$49.3 billion, making him the 63rd wealthiest person in the world. 

He is the founder and chairman of Continental Resources.  

In 2012, presidential candidate Mitt Romney named Hamm as his energy advisor, and Hamm donated to and advised Romney's election effort."  

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Hamm

isn't isn't

  

unknown region isn't eluded google's net

unknown region isn't the seychelles

unknown region isn't a sub in the columbia

unknown region isn't a dacha in maryland

unknown region isn't a hub or fusion center 

unknown region isn't a drone and all the other above things

unknown region isn't a pubic inplant

unknown region isn't a fiber optic nest of lies

unknown religion isn't a region nor is it vatican

unknown region isn't negative space hiding plain sight

unknown region isn't getting away with everything

unknown region isn't a studio ghibli anime

unknown region isn't in a race to anonymity 

unknown region isn't gerrymandered or german intel

unknown region isn't full of refugees and slaves

unknown region isn't lacking red ink or radar

unknown region isn't for the have nots

unknown region isn't warm in the antarctic vodka stew

unknown region isn't masked like a gru batman

unknown region isn't a caterpillar pushing down settlements

unknown region isn't capable of lone ranger jokes

unknown region isn't a fourth dimensional intrusion

unknown region isn't harboring decent water

unknown region isn't yet, nyet

unknown region isn't a trillionaire's hobby horse

unknown region isn't hopping with mirrored fleas

unknown region isn't a tool of confidence men

unknown region isn't false/true or between/addresses

unknown region isn't the map to our inner circle

unknown region isn't fog draped liberty holding a torch

unknown region isn't worth the cramp or crap

unknown region isn't born to crawl honestly

unknown region isn't a pandora can of giggles

unknown region isn't particular about hosting 

unknown region isn't manned by cyborg serfs

unknown region isn't chuck barris in a paper sack

unknown region isn't doomed to the funny pages

unknown region isn't a dart board made of air

unknown region isn't a stable genius or noble twit

unknown region isn't O

unknown -regional, a truman show on steroids

unknown rejion ain't above the flaw

unknown region cain't tie its own flip flops 

unawaeegion won't sequester the molester 

unknown region dupes the media scoops

unknown region isn't a pea under the prince's futon

unknown region isn't likely

unknown region isn't a stopover for gulliver or odysseus

unknown region isn't a grey zone of wolves

unknown region isn't GPS on LSD or the CIA's LCD

unknown region isn't in the right lane

unknown region isn't space saying YO whassup

unknown region isn't a flat balloon or a halo

unknown region isn't atlas holding gaia on his shoulders

unknown region isn't much help nor hinderance

unknown region isn't a smoke free zone for harmony

unknown region isn't aware of poetry

unknown region isn't on the tourist slate for yaks

unknown region isn't semi autonomous or partially woke

unknown region isn't a constellation to implore

unknown reach'n isn't carte blanche or a pussygrabbed siren

is it?

Swine

  

 

Purrade Cat

 

Gobble it up, always hollow enough to wean, free knock knock peeps at formless gleaning, only 40 nights from sweet tooth don't brain on my purrade black cat. Cluck cluck lil duck, on the table feet stuck up, pumpkin candle burns at both ends the shopping seasoning, just a dash in the car we'll be there by Easter. 

I'm so excited to begin the process at Food Front

 Store Close. Sic

Food Front is NOT Community Owned.  It's owned by people from anywhere and everywhere who've paid to become Owner Members. 

"Lastly, we have some exciting news to share with you. Food Front is in the process of due diligence on a $1M loan so we can

 pay all of our vendors,

 close the loan with Beneficial,

 and  

begin 

the process 

of exploring  

next steps -   

reopening, leasing, selling, etc. "

Nainsook (2020)

 

deposit

literalism                                                    entitle

bluff                                                            muckraker

disproportion                                              conservative

nones 7th                                                   corvette

roundup                                                      crossing

thump                                                               furor

planned parenthood/plane/plant                 bone black bomb

pineapple                                                    bulwark                             

funny                                                          seed

head

fullback/fullblooded                                   hipster

pompous                                                     least common

portfolio                                                      explorer outofbounds

solid                                                            valuable oval

pedagogy                                                     precipitate

seek

Sarg Major                                                  coxswain

fencing                                                        bock bond

accomplishment                                          burden

blinder/blinddate                                         sentinel

country music                                              Chippewa chickchild

tram                                                             considerable

unfruitful                                                     futuristic

exaggerate                                                   ecclesiastic

independent (boss)                                      dine

regardless of                                                continuation

replica                                                         nitty gritty

determinism

strange                                                          nainsook

incantation (3 claps                                      re negotiate

weight                                                          master key

whole                                                           magdalen

bleed                                                            dorm 

juice up                                                        shine

brotherhood                                                  flair fig

place                                                             engross enrich

upwards of                                                   shah shakespeare

mean (average                                             savage

p pa                                                              radiate

octagon                                                        communal

forte                                                             happy go lucky hari kari

Geranium                                                   satanic Sanscrit

sober                                                            poet

waspish                                                        germ germane

 Board                                                          residua

dilatory                                                        carmine

indiscreet                                                     trouble trooper

squeal                                                           secretive

ply                                                                requiem

indubitable                                                   foretell formless

teleview                                                       tom tom trashcan

outbalance

wet                                                               lymph

microfilm                                                     farm

contented                                                     stolen Ray

trio trinket triennial                                     exobiology

peace                                                           tenure

plumber                                                       discover

stratify                                                         universal joint

Epiphany/epiglottis                                     angina

tongue                                                         huntsman

exculpate

fruitcake

dissent                                                         polarity

bridle                                                          smart shepherd

doorknobman                                             toddle

mayfield/floodplain                                   odd

tete-a-tete                                                    stilted

paragon                                                      ghat

subsist                                                        eucharist

precious                                                     make enact

circular                                                        binary

Viking                                                         discern

Dada Thread Lint 

June 8, 2020

Fort Anomaly

 

Empiric prorogue (2018 )

 

saboteur board

fluere to flow influence

brig rinse riot

pipe muzzle

obsidian blunderbuss 

nobel prize

spick and span

can passive resistance

sour prorogue

bulbous placebo

NIMBY nincompoop

lap empiric

dada dictionary poem

1-23-18

diamond stylus of fantastic night stereo (1987)

 

diamond stylus of fantastic night stereo (1987)

___

Dark crippled night draws the shades sealing long haze

Envelopes of rust and navy, feeds potted

Geraniums with postcard whispers of breeze bulk rate

Thirdclass it bounces around the world without

Direction ready by a million snoopy clerks

Cautious night unsheathes the porcupine quills

Brushed by rushing trucks and arabesque shoplights it

Dips into the inky murk of a million

Lonelinesses, sighing lovesick sailor, wraps our\

Leftovers with nocturnal foil

Goofy prankster night carves earth’s shapes into

Shadowed heaps and fills our plates

With wine glasses, her apron is

Never peeled off and runs with the bug juice of a million

porch lights, squeezed hearts, spit out seeds in

Biodegradable coffins, starved pits, plastic dirt,

Formaldehyde prayer

Dusty tongued night yields a stick of charcoal

And sketches the latest ridiculous fashions

Frazzled hair tucked behind the ears,

Evening wear of spread-eagle clouds, hearty bibs

That wipe clean meal after meal,

Long deciduous robes without hint of starch,

Plaid stairs of mute moonlight statues and trellises one and

The same, rosewhisper patterns of wind

That hush the anxieties and fill in the cracks

With the sleep crust of a million eyes pulling living flowers

And doves from the tophat, drawing the diamond

Stylus of fantastic night stereo, painting

The blackness with forms loose,

Supernovas no less, sleepy atomic metronomes,

Tender moonlight wisps of collected scraps

That dogs of day wouldn't touch

Diamond stylus of fantastic night stereo

bloggod at 1:16 PM

Pulp medicine

 

"Open country 

Beckons like a treacherous

Woman." 

 

 

Sing A Poor

 Welcome🌲

Harassed while busking

  

Some white haired, bearded man about 60-65 in neato bike clothing went out of his way to harass me at Food Front today around noon.

I actually had a good day there finally, after 3 non profitable days. Then as I'm playing, off the sidewalk and on Co op property, this guy comes zooming by on the sidewalk and swerved toward my case which was open to collect tips. There were no other people around, no pedestrians, nothing to swerve away from. 

I called after him, "going pretty fast." He was 30 feet away. "Fuck you" was his eloquent reply.

"Come back here" I said.

He pedaled on up Thurman past the Dragonfly. 

See you later 

Food Front WW Week Dopey Soapy BS

 

"Tis the gift to be simple, 'tis the gift to be free,

'Tis the gift to come down where we ought to be,

And when we find ourselves in the place just right,

'Twill be in the valley of love and delight.

When true simplicity is gain'd,

To bow and to bend we will not be asham'd,

To turn, turn will be our delight,

Till by turning, turning we come round right."

____ 

zeit·geist

/ˈzītˌɡīst/

noun

the defining spirit or mood of a particular period of history as shown by the ideas and beliefs of the time. 

___ 

"On a recent Friday afternoon, a violinist in jeans stood outside the fenced front door of the shuttered grocery co-op Northwest Food Front playing “Simple Gifts,” the poignant Shaker hymn."  

___ 

fence 

/fens/

Crime · Informal 

Fencing

verb

past tense: fenced; past participle: fenced

1.

surround or protect with a fence.

"our garden was not fully fenced"

Similar:

enclose

surround

circumscribe

encircle

circle

encompass

bound

form a barrier around

form a ring around

divide up

section off

separate off

partition off

cut off

cordon off

close off

isolate

segregate

seal

close

gird

girdle

engird

compass

2.

INFORMAL

deal in (stolen goods).

"after stealing your ring, he didn't even know how to fence it" 

___ 

'On a recent Friday afternoon, a violinist in jeans stood outside the fenced front door of the shuttered grocery co-op Northwest Food Front playing “Simple Gifts,” the poignant Shaker hymn."  

Look at the photo.

Is the entrance fenced?  How am I standing near the entry way. It's NOT fenced. 

____ 

Which brings up another pressing issue:  

Who, exactly, is the membership?

Me.

The violinist who was unaware of any photo being taken or article being written. 

My Food Front member tag is displayed in my violin case.  

___ 

'Chronic graffiti sprawls across the co-op’s windows. For a time, an unknown benefactor wiped it away during the night. "

 

Wrong again.

I wiped away the black marker that covered all the windows on Thurman side. 

I did it at noon.  

And I'm not a benefactor, but an OWNER.  

"But an especially large graffiti display installed last week is too much for a good Samaritan to tackle with a bucket of soapy water." 

90% pure rubbing alcohol.  Try soapy journalism.

____ 

 

"They may have to take out ads in local newspapers to find members, Grivas said."  

Oh, the guy who had a roofing contractor there may fork over our money....to some....local newspaper.

 

___ 

So I'm Urban clutter.  

https://www.wweek.com/news/chasing-ghosts/2023/08/23/a-beloved-northwest-grocery-co-op-approaching-foreclosure-faces-dwindling-options/

158, 953

 

Empty Ballcap

 

Cody kicked his bucket

But I know nonothow, heard the idle chatter on the last bus home 

A gas station guy on the counters other side

He was ringing up beers just yesterday  

 *

Bussing from the pool over in cheery blossom

Feeling not too bad for Thursday

There at the mall got on the grim news, out of the mouth of Rene  

*

He just die

Just like that

Another hard fact

Just like that

____

Probably the Covid I'd think, he was heavy, 40 in a wide orange vest

Smiling Colorado, a blond ole hick, said he knew

             Nostradamus from his history class 

Lived at the corn, the unicorn inn, said his nayburr near                     burnt it up,

He smiled and moved his big ballcap, rubbed his belly

 tweren't a flu, twas MTN spew  

*

He just die

Just a fact

No more alive

That's where he at

___

Sweating in the field there                         pump #9

Idaho family gotta make good time, 

school starts up and dad's three jobs 

Cody wipes his brow, sounds lots like mine 

That's why I'm here on the worst damn road,

  filling tanks

 with petroleum 

*

Back inside turn the slushy machine, 20 little cameras record the scene 

A maskless montage of death on the go, 

   poor Cody poor Colorado,  we all know 

Life in a motel

 so far from home, friends to all but close to none 

Standing and breathing just hours close passed, 

 Cody lie still and none soon asked 

____

Why we go 

Just like that

Leaving no mark 

Just an empty ball cap. 

Plumb line

 

Leaning on yer shovel, staring at the phone 

Holes don't dig themselves 

You ain't al Capone 

Your ex can wait to nag over what you'd soon forget 

Drop the call

Drop the gadget 

Drop it in the cement 

 Ring out the bandana

Sweating overtime 

Silence all incoming domestic jive 

 

Pick up that hoe, mix the mud a little more 

Eighty bag to go 

It's not worth the weeping 

Toss it in the box

Muriatic heartbreak got you soggy in your socks 

Pull the forms, it's nearly set 

We've finalized separation 

Rebar lattice the details 

It's the pour around the nation 

Dump the squawkie talkie 

You got yourself to blame 

Your necks gone red to white 

Blue balls feel the same 

Fido is doing great 

The kids getting straightish B's 

Run a plumb line on your own time, honey please 

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/aug/27/al-capone-miami-mansion-demolition-ron-desantis

Sleep Deprivation

 

'Scientists have proposed various biological explanations for the connection between soaring temperatures and mental health disorders.  

At least some of these illnesses may have a simple origin: disrupted sleep.

Room temperature needs to dip below 68 degrees for a comfortable rest.  

On warmer nights, people fall asleep later and wake up earlier, and the quality of their sleep is poorer." 

Heat Singes the Mind, Not Just the Body https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/10/health/heat-mental-health.html?smid=nytcore-android-share

beachglass money fused

 The kobold from the ship unappeased at the $24 burger and $18 margarita

The wind spirit ravenous from waters boiling, the gallery belching wealth gas, greed fumes, oil paintings and polymer monstrosity

People scramble to the sea 

It sweeps, sweeps, sweeps us out to deaths safety 

The jewelry fused with base metals from campfire popcorn tin, Lahaina goes away in a jiffy 

The banyan inches on 

Onward, a tourist parrot escaped in soot plumage wracked 

The fancy cars all convertible now explode 

Yachts kilter to sink popping sparks and champagne cases 

The kite store releases it's kites as they box shiva's gift 

The kami dance 40 feet tall  

It fuses, it's a new thing done the old way, ocean hisses our DNA into the $13 brownie wrapped in chiffon

All town is crepe and blood from a sealess sharkless snark ridden coconut popsicle stand with our celebrity photos fire signed Was Here 4 stars 

The bikinis melt unfabric 

As waves turn it over, over and under the waves, the foundations and sand buckets and floaties emerge from  trillion gallon cat of $34 rocky road, pineapple zing 

Howlies howl 

Sand tumbles our tears smaller, more round than our delusions can imagine 

 

"Although usually invisible, a kobold can materialize in the form of a non-human animal, a fire, a human, and a candle. The most common depictions of kobolds show them as humanlike figures the size of small children. Kobolds who live in human homes wear the clothing of peasants; those who live in mines are hunched and ugly and some can materialise into a brick; kobolds who live on ships smoke pipes and wear sailor clothing." .

"August 2023, Maui County filed a lawsuit against Hawaiian Electric, accusing the utility company of failing to turn off power on August 7 despite a red flag warning from the National Weather Service.  

The lawsuit also claims that Hawaiian Electric knew high winds would topple power poles, knock down power lines, and ignite vegetation."

"One tradition claims that the kobold enters the household by announcing itself at night by strewing wood chips about the house and putting dirt or cow manure in the milk cans. If the master of the house leaves the wood chips and drinks the soiled milk, the kobold takes up residence." 

"The sight of a Klabautermann is an ill omen, and in the 19th century, it was the most feared sight among sailors" 

 Holding your nails while you pound them in 

My face is done cracking from all that silly grin 

My fingers black and blue

Held together with super glue 

Holding your nails while you pound them in 

____ 

 

What's in it for me 

Beside the infamy 

You're just another perch in the sea 

Not steady 

Over ready 

Bait n switch eloquent

Can't make a dent 

Irrelevant 

What's in for us 

All blunder no blunderbuss 

I hear that stuff 

It ain't cuss tho cross my heart I like the guff 

Meet ya half way almost there 

Don't need to stare less you want a punching 

Put it on my tab that saucy blab 

Under my belt holding up the flab 

It's on me but it ain't free 

Your dime don't roll 

In our square peg monotony 

Quaker swing

 Hey can I borrow your porche 

Gotta turn around 

My bucket of bolts 

Flannel not linen 

Three point steering

I got the right o way 

But I'm needing a porche 

Yes assembled with gas 

And a three day pass 

Plus a soliloquy 

That's not plagiarized 

I need a porch 

With a quaker swing like Mickey mantle dusting his 

Porche for fingerprints 

I need a porche.

 Go out of your way to be nice 

It's a steeplechase 

Watch out for the soffet 

That's the wasps den 

Gotta turn the other cheeky 

Cheek cheek and eat that peanut butter lest the lippy lip flap 

Don't take that sophist advice 

Best be the vice 

Bob Barker their nuts when you hurdle the moat spin the clickey wheel 

Bend down and say hello 

I'm taller but only cuz you're six feet under, 

Go short on courage 

Hide in their aprons that's ginger and spice 

Napping under the sofa eating tofu what we should do soaks up all surrounding 

Go out of your way 

Take off the flip flops 

Drop some LSD hug a tree 

Nicely done give thanks we didn't hatch from silver banks 

Moms did it, mostly or they tried or they didn't but that's all dad's fault 

Going over the hell an extra mile leap the anthill you'll land just dandy 

With an egg carton cap 

And that quantum map for loafers won't stub you toe just 

Be 

Nice. 

(SE PDX.)

Detritus

 

There's an old frying pan, some clothes, assorted trash mixed into a nest of driftwood, but we can't find the diamond ring, nor much trust amid a sleeping beauty hedge with her limbs bonsai, slumped away from grandchildren toward some aesthetic weaned on motor oil jugs and dental floss unspooled. I like it she says, back toward the lone window with the blinds glued shut. Away goes her mom, away goes her boys, her book of laurels, her yellow pads streaming non sequiturds. Asterisks and arrows, highlighter battles, every other notion underlined, her right hand with a death grip on the TV remote that crushes juice out of the wee battery. Everything worth a look fits in a small backpack and all but a chapbook of photos is shit. She's elated I find some tiny scissors, put them in my purse which has an old bank card in it but nothing else. We used to drive around Portland, she'd point at sheds, barns, homes. I could live there, and I know where to find an old frying pan.

Never now we know

The body huge and weak can hardly speak it's had coffee sugar and fat it's had sleep it came from somewhere lithe it's gone without sleep and food for weeks it was stronger the hands to play the violin barely manage to operate in unison the marionette doesn't respond more sawdust syrup don't help the body slumbers in a maze of gorilla glue and balsa dreams 

Muscles stretch the shirt and rip the pants the shoes lose their stitches and skin between toes grown together makes a pungent jelly that's breeding 

Hair still comes in thick just not atop brain ready to create about three hours per day go ahead and kick me I'm tired of caring other than misplacing my immortality

Eat away the isolation get a few pounds fat the soul hoists a surrender hankie greed prevails get in line the minerals go back to market cheaper than never now we know says the hat that has fits.

Didactic

   

"Daddy took me out at the best restaurant and got me a creme puff, I thought he was the most handsome man in the world. " 

Mom said, the day after her brother died. I'm sorry you lost your brother. I'm sorry you lost your uncle. 

Daddy chased the mule around and around. Was he angry or playing? Yes. 

He was never mad at me. You were his little girl. 

Did he ever fight with your brother? Daddy took his money from bucking hay at the farm. He was saving to buy a car. He never spoke to him again.  

Who? 

 

 

 

Tillis, Wyden, Sondland

  

"$15,600 went to Ron Wyden, Oregon’s Democratic senior senator.

U.S. Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., got $21,600. Sondland and Tillis have long been friends and political allies.  

When Sondland was nominated to become President Donald Trump’s ambassador to the European Union, it was Tillis and Wyden who formally introduced him to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. " 

https://www.oregonlive.com/politics/2023/07/gordon-sondlands-hotel-company-former-executive-fined-for-political-donations.html

Diarmuid O’Scannlain Sadist

 

'Senior 9th Circuit Judge Diarmuid O’Scannlain called the panel’s initial ruling 

an “egregiously flawed and deeply damaging” mistake 

 that is “at war with constitutional text, history, and tradition, and Supreme Court precedent.” 

 https://www.oregonlive.com/crime/2023/07/9th-circuit-court-declines-to-rehear-ruling-that-upheld-homeless-right-to-sleep-outside-when-no-shelter-space-available.html

 

"...the city of Boise, which he wrote “invented” a federal constitutional right to sleep on public property" 

"He also argued that the U.S. Supreme Court hasn’t found that the Eighth Amendment applies to  

conduct not of one’s free choice,  

and that local officials should have the right to prohibit a 

 “species of antisocial conduct.”

"O’Scannlain and judges who signed onto his statement 

 urged the court to come out

 from behind its “marble walls and sealed doors”  

"needles flooding parks, 

and rubbish (and worse) 

 marring public squares" 

"the city couldn’t  prosecute homeless people  

for sleeping in public “if there is a greater number of homeless individuals  

in a jurisdiction than the number of available shelter spaces.” 

"When there is no shelter space, jurisdictions may still enforce limitations on sleeping at certain locations,” they wrote in their amendment" 

"They accused O’Scannlain and Smith of mischaracterizing their ruling with  exaggerations." 

Their decision, they wrote, holds only that governments can’t criminalize the act of sleeping  

“with the use of rudimentary protections,

 such as bedding, from the elements in some public places 

when a person has nowhere else to sleep.”  

Senior Circuit Judge Susan P. Graber sought to offer a middle ground. She said she agreed with the legal premise 

 that the Eighth Amendment protects against criminal prosecution 

 of the “involuntary act of sleeping,” 

The panel found that “as long as there is no option of sleeping indoors, the government cannot criminalize indigent, homeless people for sleeping outdoors, on public property, on the false premise they had a choice in the matter.”  

"When Boise sought a full court review of the ruling, the 9th Circuit rejected such a review. 

 The U.S. Supreme Court in 2019 then denied a Boise petition to review the case." 

Sinkhole

Interdepend, dunce 

Day away, shoot hoops at Mount Tabor, at noon it's

90, ball bounces down the volcano, fugue. 

Ball all net, regardless down

The mountain.

Knees near 6 decade gristle 

Swoosh, free throws plunder at about 66 percent, all net.

Several from 3 range

More than paltry from be baseline at 16 feet 

Off with hat, sweat better on dusty hands, grip 

Miss and fetch, tank and trot,

Slow roll nope, air on air Icarus ball, finger roll there's no ball just poetry 

Hustle now or hoof more gopher, go fer it or go further fer it 

Ligament tax cartilage boycott lung garnishment hand thumbscrew yoga 

Swish, swish, I'm back to bike shirt drenched coasting all brakes, past the sinkhole 

Cordoned off for weeks, it's OK Corral five cop cars ten cops one handcuffed brown woman not happy 

The church by the sinkhole, unfixed, unfixed. 

Oregon Country Fair 2000, FMR :Boyer, Reisch, Richey, Bloodgood, Vandemar, North

 

Idiot Wheeler, Gonzalez, Ryan, Mapps

  

"Multnomah County District Attorney Mike Schmidt said Portland Police Bureau officers will have to contact a person three times to offer services before anyone is given a citation. If someone doesn’t comply, they could face a $100 fine or 30 days in jail. 

A fine seems a little bit pointless to somebody who’s indigent and can’t pay for anything as well,” Schmidt said.

Schmidt also said he doesn’t see people facing any jail time for violating the ban.

“I’ve said this over and over again, you know, a jail bed is our most expensive housing option in our community I think it’s $314 a day or something like that and it’s the least effective at long term stabilization so it’s not a cure, it should not be a housing substitute,” he said.

Plus, he said it would be a challenging process to build a case for a misdemeanor.

You’re talking about three different officers that, theoretically, if this somehow couldn’t be resolved, and we didn’t connect the person to services and we went to trial, now all three of those officers have to come in and talk about their interaction, have their police report and remember what they offered and what that looked like and that those services were actually available. So, I think it’s a work-intensive process for enforcing a city ordinance and I know that’s a concern PPB has,” Schmidt said. 

https://www.kptv.com/2023/06/28/multnomah-county-district-attorney-weighs-camping-ban-days-before-it-goes-into-effect/?outputType=amp 

_____ 

 

A person was faint headed on the bus.  There, in the photo, the woman in a white blouse and head covering. The bus driver calls 911. 

They walked to the ambulance, two paramedics, watched by a Cavalry of 7-8 Firemen who arrived in an articulated bus 50 feet long.  

The Hospital on NW 23rd is 6 blocks away. 

____ 

$700/hour of  labor going thru the motions in a $2million dollar Firetruck, with the $750,000 ambulance .

Wonder why Portland Street Response is targeted by Portland Firefighter Union? 

Gravy.

Treetop

" GW170817, was first detected on Aug. 17 at 8:41 a.m. Eastern Daylight Time"  

"Our background analysis showed an event of this strength happens less than once in 80,000 years  

by random coincidence, so we recognized this right away as a very confident detection and a remarkably nearby source,” 

 adds Laura Cadonati, professor of physics at Georgia Tech and deputy spokesperson for the LIGO Scientific Collaboration.  

“This detection has genuinely opened the doors to a new way of doing astrophysics. I expect it will be remembered as one of the most studied astrophysical events in history.”

___ 

"The gravitational waves tell us that the merging objects had masses consistent with neutron stars, and the flash of gamma rays tells us that the objects are unlikely to be black holes, since a collision of black holes is not expected to give off light."  

"Approximately 130 million years ago, the two neutron stars were in their final moments of orbiting each other, separated only by about 300 kilometers, or 200 miles, 

 and gathering speed while closing the distance between them.  

As the stars spiraled faster and closer together, they stretched and distorted the surrounding space-time, 

 giving off energy 

in the form of powerful gravitational waves, before smashing into each other."

Kilonova. 

https://www.ligo.caltech.edu/page/press-release-gw170817

Usual Suspects

  Multnomah County sues big oil, coal companies for $51 billion over deadly heat dome

"The suit names Exxon Mobil, Shell, Chevron, BP, ConocoPhillips, Motiva, Occidental Petroleum, Anadarko Petroleum,  

Space Age Fuel, Valero Energy, Total Specialties USA, Marathon Petroleum, Peabody Energy, Koch Industries, 

 American Petroleum Institute, Western States Petroleum Association and McKinsey & Company, a New York City-based global management consulting giant."

Ivan Petrovych Kotliarevsky

   Ivan Petrovych Kotliarevsky 

 (Ukrainian: Іван Петрович Котляревський) (9 September [O.S. 29 August] 1769 in Poltava – 10 November [O.S. 29 October] 1838 

" in Poltava, Russian Empire, now Ukraine) was a Ukrainian writer, poet and playwright, social activist, regarded as the pioneer of modern Ukrainian literature. " 

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_Kotliarevsky 

"Although Ukrainian was an everyday language to millions of people in Ukraine, it was officially discouraged from literary use in the area controlled by Imperial Russia. 

 Eneida is a parody of Virgil's Aeneid, where Kotliarevsky transformed the Trojan heroes into Zaporozhian Cossacks. 

 Critics believe that it was written in the light of the destruction of Zaporizhian Host by the order of Catherine the Great." 

___ 

This morning: 

"Subsequent examinations by Latin experts determined that the fragment bore a quote from Virgil, best known as the author of the epic Latin poem the Aeneid." 

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/jun/21/virgil-quote-found-on-fragment-of-roman-jar-unearthed-in-spain

 

___ 

"The translation of the Georgics into Ancient Greek by Eugenios Voulgaris was published from St Petersburg in 1786 and had as one aim the support of Russia’s assimilation of the newly annexed Crimea by encouraging Greek settlement there.  

Virgil’s theme of taming the wilderness was further underlined in an introductory poem praising Grigory Potemkin  

as a philhellene Maecenas and the Empress Catherine the Great as the wise ruler 

 directing the new territory's welfare. The inference is also there that Voulgaris himself (now archbishop of Novorossiya and Azov) has become thus the imperial Virgil.[35]" 

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgics

Annuit coeptis commination

 Alias/Ali baba castellated 

Dopamine joint syllogism 

Stepfather scotoma fop 

Lynch medulla smarty-pants 

Static videocassette gable 

Commination booth buccaneer 

Calcaneal absenteeism king 

Tailfin temperate run a temperature  

Devote puma rayless 

Reparation rock annuit 

Coeptis 

 

Stupid things Portland Leaders say

  

"The $2.5 million investment will allow the program to employ  

an additional 25 people 

 experiencing homelessness in the upcoming fiscal year, McIntyre said." 

That's $100,000 per worker. 

Trucks, rakes, trash bags, a Boss earning 3 times the workers, dump fees, truck.  

____ 

"This expansion of Central City Concern’s Clean Start program will put Multnomah County’s unspent dollars 

 into the pockets of people who need them most 

 — those currently living without housing — 

 to help them develop the skills to stabilize and stay that way,”  

Vega Pederson said in a statement. 

___ 

"Develop skills 

In trash clean up. " 

Who's the stupid? The homeless?  

____ 

"The Washington County District Attorney’s Office asked the court to order the public defense system to boost the hourly rate for criminal defense lawyers to as much as $500 if the agency fails to quickly find lawyers for three men facing felony sex crime charges, according to new legal filings.". 

https://www.oregonlive.com/politics/2023/06/washington-county-da-asks-court-to-assign-public-defenders-to-cases-or-bump-hourly-rate-as-high-as-500.html

I agree.  

___ 

'Legal experts say the ordinance is not in line with the intent of a federal 9th Circuit Court decision known as Martin v. Boise, 

 that determined is was cruel and unusual punishment to fine or arrest homeless peopl 

e for sleeping on public property 

 when a city doesn’t have enough shelter beds  

to accommodate them all." 

https://www.oregonlive.com/news/2023/06/portlander-homeless-nonprofits-say-they-need-help-to-meet-expected-increase-in-demand-following-daytime-camping-ban.html&subscribed=facebook%7C1288640567