Joe Hill of beans

  

 

"Beans have often been thought of as a food of the poor, as small farmers ate grains, vegetables, and got their protein from beans, while the wealthier classes were able to afford meat while buying it ready in styrofoam, avoiding guts,  i.e.  reality, and such"

 

"The Oregon jumping bean is a segment of a seed pod occupied by the larva of the moth Cydia saltitans, and sold as a novelty.  

The pods start to jump when warmed in the palm of the hand. Scientists have suggested that the random walk that results may help the larva to find shade and so to survive on hot days"

 

"Beans are a versatile and nutritious staple, providing protein, fiber, vitamins, and minerals.  

Beans are particularly important in many regions and are a dietary staple for millions of people worldwide. "

 

____

"Synonyms: row of pins; jack, jack shit, jack squat, squat; see Joe" 

____

"bean is the seed of any plant in the legume family (Fabaceae) used as a vegetable for human consumption or animal feed. 

The seeds are often preserved through drying, but fresh beans are also sold. Most beans are traditionally soaked and boiled, but they can be cooked in many different ways, including frying and baking, and  

are used in many traditional dishes throughout the world.  

The unripe seedpods of some varieties are also eaten whole as green beans or edamame (immature soybean)" 

"Beans in an early cultivated form were grown in Thailand from the early seventh millennium BCE, predating ceramics.

 Beans were deposited with the dead in ancient Egypt. " 

Beans can be cooked in a wide variety of casseroles, curries, salads, soups, and stews. 

 They can be served whole or mashed alongside meat or toast, or included in an omelette or a flatbread wrap.

 Other options are to include them in a bake with a cheese sauce, a Mexican-style chili con carne, or to use them as a meat substitute in a burger or in falafels. 

Soybeans can be processed into bean curd (tofu) 

or fermented into a cake (tempeh); 

these can be eaten fried or roasted like meat, or included in stir-fries, curries, and soups.  

*Most dry beans contain 21-25% protein by weight; 

 *dry soybeans are 36.5% protein by weight." 

India:

Chickpeas, lentils, and kidney beans are staples in Indian cuisine, used in dishes like dal, curries, and chana masala. 

Africa:

Black-eyed peas, kidney beans, and cowpeas are widely consumed in African cuisines, often used in soups, stews, and starchy dishes. 

Mexico:

Beans are a major part of the Mexican diet, particularly in dishes like frijoles refritos and chilaquiles. 

Europe:

Pasta e fagioli, cassoulet, and baked beans on toast are examples of bean-based dishes popular in European cuisines. 

United States:

Red beans and rice, baked beans, and chili are popular bean dishes in the US.  

India currently leads the world in beans consumption, with  

5,600 thousand metric tons in 2021.     (  12,345,886.7 pounds, dumbass)

 Brazil, Mexico and the United States follow in second, third and fourth place 

 

"A hill of beans"

"A Gaza of need." 

"A Sudan of need"

gobble hands time out in box tooth glue

  

 

"The entire planet that's mine.

Only force keeps this belly from going outside the body and consuming.

Loud mouth, inward cupped gobble hands." 

 

NHL suspends Florida Panthers minority owner for ‘51st state’ posts 

"Doug Cifu,  

minority owner and vice chairman  

of the Florida Panthers.... Cifu also serves as the Panthers’  

alternate governor chairman  

of the Florida Panthers.

Cifu is also barred President of Florida, talking his way back into non exile, one body language at a crime, rounding out an agenda of conquest, intimidation, belittlement, and scalped ticket skimming to pay for his Ice capades s & m dungeon theme park expansion.  " 

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/may/13/doug-cifu-florida-panthers-minority-owner-suspended#img-1 

"opposition on accepting the plane extends beyond party lines, notably from some pro-Israel Republicans long angered by Qatar’s diplomatic role on Israel’s years-long military campaign in Gaza, and its close communication with Hamas." 

Now I could be a stupid person and say: ‘Oh no, we don’t want a free plane,’” Trump told reporters at the White House. “I would never be one to turn down that kind of an bribe.” 

not-feel ejecta

   

Questions eat world as moth old scarf

As slug scour forest floor of insect hull

As server station process a zillion asinine 

As coal truck scurry as mine collapse

World feeds itself to itself

          Where you came from, death

      Where yer qwine, death

There's a disco accretion ejecta known in circles as life 

As sun casts mirror glims off the eye

It's old scarf nonetheless 

Mammoth hide, lemming skin, mole sack

Chat gtp where i leave my car:

The crusher, to feed AI 

Incinerate the incineration complex

Rain shows up, starts new fire

Ask why all ya like, moth 

Enjoy yo answers

Chew twice swallow once 

____ 

Eat chocolate, wash in milk

Makes you (feel) good

Fat mirror, pimple 

Makes you (seem) bad

Do some laps, pull ups 

Makes sweat laundry 

Go work to pay for sweats

Good/bad sweatshops mostly horrid hum

Nike empire sells milk

First log the jungle

Poison River that feeds tribe 

Now they got six arms, eight legs (good)

For goods 

More sewing machines

More logging machines

Replaceable parts in steady supply

More/less tree frogs to slow cogs

More Bezos/less Amazon 

More Knight/less day

Windowless box filled w/ chocolate

Good profit 

Makes you not (feel) 

____

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/13/rfk-jr-swim-rock-creek-washington-dc

"The US health secretary, Robert F Kennedy Jr, has revealed that he went swimming with his children in a Washington DC creek that authorities have said is 

 toxic due to contamination by an upstream, ageing shit system.

The “Make America healthy again” crusader attracted attention for the

 Mother’s Day dip.    ( in shit)

 Dumbarton Oaks Park  

with his grandchildren Bobcat and Cassius"

 

In The country per se

  

 

 

 

hobohippoid (2011)

  

new land of towering tree and bike

hobohippoid redundancies 

gentile flawscapes

germymandered boundaries 

(regarding decent ineptitude,

old flotsam in sterile barrels

wharfs buried on flat quests

slack under standing tall'er not 

depending the incoming bullshit

zeno's froze up arrow

false dichotomy in a salad roll

every plebe a grebe on reprieve

heel yes i wear the indian jewelry of poverty

under your alcoved grassy knoll

archie bunker ashtray  

June 11, 2011

wet piles of pet wiles (2012)

let's be productive, let's produce new crap

here is your fresh did i say new product

does it reinforce yer world vision of supreme harmony

or fill the spiritual void with its krumpled donut

all the old crap has been lost

to the grinders of time or it is now unfashionable shit

even free can't sell wrapped in gold foils

the newest bestest stuff is lining the arctic shelf

we have armies guarding their barcodes

we have predator drones thanking the tracks of shipments

we have inflatable santas by the crate

the best product we export is poverty!

when deadpoor, all the crap looks great!

can we eat the new crap

or will edibles germinate in its shadow?

we can sure wait to see

the promise of a did i say new trojan pegasus

its paint is still wet

does a leafblower dry wet crap?

lets order a dozen and see!  

December 5, 2012 

1 trillion semantics

  

"Back in January, Prince Mohammed said that Saudi Arabia would invest $600 billion 

 (£450bn) in the US over the next years. 

 However, Trump has already said that he'd like that to rise to  

$1 trillion, including purchases of more US military equipment.  

Saudi Arabia's sovereign wealth fund, the Public Investment fund (PIF), which controls assets worth $925bn, already has numerous investments in the US.  

These include Uber, 

 gaming firm Electronic Arts, and electric car firm Lucid.

Meanwhile, the UAE has already committed to investing $1.4tn in the US over the next 10 years, in sectors such as AI, semiconductors, energy and manufacturing " 

Transparent as south pars

Transparent as anti trans

Transparent as a ruptured pipeline in Gulf of shit Fascism

Transparent as windows in dubai 

Taped too transparent tape

 

moments before

 

Toast mole 

Moments later hunting machine momma

  

 

Sage and their kittens 

Nazi Ice Maga 2025 Ras

  

"politicians have accused the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) of reopening the detention facility, in contravention of local ordinances and without the necessary permits.

It is the largest such facility in the north-eastern US,

 and was the first to open after Trump’s second term of office began in January, 

 according to the Ice website." 

"federal officials blocked his entry, a heated argument broke out, according to Viri Martinez, an activist with  

the New Jersey Alliance for Immigrant Justice.  

It continued even after Baraka returned to the public side of the gates.

“There was yelling and pushing,” Martinez said. “Then the officers swarmed Baraka. 

 They threw one of the organizers to the ground. 

They put Baraka in handcuffs and put him in an unmarked car.” 

" Ice is out of control,” she said. “Ice thinks it can intimidate all of us. And it cannot intimidate any of us. And  

we the people will make sure

 that this administration adheres to the rules  

that separate us from dictatorships and other third world countries.”   

"Video attached to the tweet shows the 

 Congress members inside the grounds 

of the center talking to employees. Other clips show them 

 being threatened with arrest for trespass by  

Nazi Maga Trump clown uniformed

"officials." 

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/09/newark-mayor-ras-baraka-arrested-ice-protest-detention-center

Ras Jua Baraka  

(born April 9, 1970 

 is an American politician, author, and educator. A member of the Democratic Party, Baraka is the 40th and current 

mayor of Newark, New Jersey. 

"Newark native, Baraka is the son of poet and activist  

Amiri Baraka  

(born Everett Leroy Jones) and his wife Amina Baraka " 

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

"Baraka was featured on singer Lauryn Hill's 1998 The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill, as the narrator of several interludes on the album.

 He also recorded the intro to The Score, the Fugees' second album. "

"He succeeded Luis A. Quintana, who was completing the term of Cory Booker, who had resigned after being elected to the United States Senate in October 2013" 

Politico has described Baraka as "one of the most progressive Democrats in New Jersey, and possibly the nation"  

"2014, the city initiated a Valentine's Day building lot sale in which  

married couples could purchase housing plots in the city for $1,000,  

provided they built a house on the lot within 18 months.Nearly 100 plots were sold"

Fretless

  

"in Wim Wenders’s documentary about him, he said: “Revolution. Don’t be afraid of the word.”  

A word that for a while has been accompanied by a smirk or a sarcastic air-quote hand gesture even in progressive intellectual circles.  

That smirk is the sign of our loss of faith in humanity and the beginning of our submission to the darkest cloud.  

Whereas the pope smiled when uttering the word – big difference." 

The Guardian 

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/may/10/cloud-fascism-understand-resist-hard-right 

Well jeez, what's a Pope have to fret 

barbed wire richard the second, winningstad theater

 

Richard the Second as isis

flower sculpture as free range

"The Winningstad is a flexible, intimate, courtyard-style theater that plays host to a wide variety of performers. With 304 seats, the seating and stage can be set in a variety of ways to allow for truly unique experiences. Performances in the venue can extend off the stage and into the balconies, and seats can be removed to create additional staging areas. In a sense, the whole room is a stage, and the audiences become part of the drama."   

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

"raditionally, Shakespeare distinguishes social classes by having the upper classes speak in poetry while the lower classes speak in prose. In Richard II, there is no prose, but Richard uses flowery, metaphorical language in his speeches, whereas Bolingbroke, also of the noble class, uses a more plain and direct language. Shakespeare uses lengthy verses, metaphors, similes and soliloquies to delineate Richard's character as analytical rather than active. He always speaks in tropes, using analogies such as the sun as a symbol of his kingly status. Richard is obsessed with symbols: his crown, the symbol of his royal power, is of more concern to him than his actual kingly duties" 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_II_(play) 

flagstone loves

  

all four, picture by momma nat

the Dalles  

"I leveled those", Gale's Ridge Silverstein job

daddy and kids the Dalles

  

daddy and kids, the Dalles, Or 

Outsider Pope Snock Scribble

 "Today, it is the site of the papal conclave, the process by which a new pope is selected. The chapel's fame lies mainly in the frescoes that decorate its interior, most particularly the Sistine Chapel ceiling and The Last Judgment, both by Michelangelo." 

"Well, I paint a design

On a sign for you, mister

I paint a design

Pretty good

I paint a white horse

Or a fire breathin' dragon

I paint a design

On your wagon

[Verse 1] 

I've been around, I've been

Workin' this town

Till the sun and moon

Moon went down

Best kind of

A woman I found

Can never bring you up and

Won't let you down, Lordy 

paint a design

On a sign for you, mister

I paint a design

Pretty good

I paint a white horse

Or a fire breathin' dragon

I paint a design

On your wagon

[Verse 2] 

The sweetest thing that

I ever seen

Was just where she

Looked at me

And in them eyes I

Fold and foreseen

And I can't paint a picture

Of sweet mercy, well

[Chorus] 

I paint a design

On a sign for you, mister

I paint a design

Pretty good

I paint a white horse

Or a fire breathin' dragon

I paint a design

On your wagon 

[Verse 3] 

Back when they had that LA

Big earthquake

I paint the bridge and the

Cable break

I prayed for mercy and cried

Oh, heaven's sake

And I can't paint a picture

Of your heart when it break, real

[Chorus] 

I paint a design

On a sign for you, mister

I paint a design

Pretty good

I paint a white horse

Or a fire breathin' dragon

I paint a design

On your wagon

[Verse 4]

The crazy mama that I

Used to know

She followed me

Wherever I go

Name I remember but the

Number gone

She never had no number

For very long, well 

[Chorus] 

I paint a design

On a sign for you, mister

I paint a design

Pretty good

I paint a white horse

Or a fire breathin' dragon

I paint a design

On your wagon" 

___ 

 "Snock initially sought to engage assistants who were more well-versed in fresco-painting, but he was unable to find suitable candidates and determined to paint the whole ceiling alone" 

"Among the Florentine artists whom Michelangelo brought to Rome in the hope of assisting in the fresco, Vasari names Francesco Granacci, Giuliano Bugiardini, Jacopo di Sandro, l'Indaco the Elder, Agnolo di Domenico, and Aristotile.

Michelangelo soon began his work, starting at the west end with the Drunkenness of Noah"

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

 

Black Smoke Black Smoke Black Smoke Eight Track 

Black Smoke Black Smoke Black Smoke Eight Track  

Black Smoke Black Smoke Black Smoke Eight Track 

Stint Hurley

  

Two shows I played with Michael Hurley, Holocene and Cherry Sprout Market. Sprout was packed with admiring young audience sitting rapt on floor. Snock started playing the piano and did several. I flailed on fiddle, he never mentioned it. The one poor, in my opinion, segment of performance from me in our 30-40 shows, as he played piano. I saw a video of it and was aghast.  

The Holocene show was our second time there, or first of two shows I got to join Snock/Reisch.  Sally Ford opened for Michael. Are you kidding? She's something else.

"Sallie Ford and the Sound Outside was an American rock band from Portland, Oregon. 

The band has been described as "Rockabilly", or as having a "raw soul" 1950s rock-and-roll energy sound. Sallie Ford describes it as "Rock n Roll" and that people find it "more rockin’ than they expected." 

The group received positive reviews from USA Today's music critic Whitney Matheson and from The Oregonian critic Ryan White. 

In 2011, they signed a record deal with Partisan Records and released their first full-length CD Dirty Radio in May, began a US tour in June, and in August,

 performed on the Late Show with David Letterman." 

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

1. Sally Ford and the Sound Outside 
2. The Decemberists
3. Jolie Holland 

     4.Terry Robb 

Some bands/performers Michael opened for, or shared the bill with, in my near two year stint with Snock

Pickathon---- so many other bands

Batwater----many others 

The show with Terry Robb was a house party. Played alongside Alexa Wiley several times too, and Jake Ray. I organized the Maryhill Museum music one year and featured Jake solo on a set, Hurley/ Forest the next.  

Alberta Street Pub, that followed a house party in Eugene, Alexa played both and I played with both her, Hurley.

Laurelthirst Pub 3 different shows.

The Mint Erin Glenn winery, the Dalles, twice

Papa G 's vegan deli, Portland, Snock  played 2-3 times (forest accompany)

Michael Hurley at Ekone, outside Goldendale, Wa 

 

The Press Club, Hurley/Forest played 3-4 times. Sometimes with Reisch too

 

I don't have access to some photos or the recordings I made. Snock played at the Last Chance Barn Dance, I talked him into that one. He had a hoot, went on for three days. Two dozen bands? Don't remember exactly. Quick and Easy Boys were there, from a car crash in Hood River I think.

(Add more or redact as  time wanders on)

Oh, Snock opened for Jolie Holland at Ace Cleaners Hotel. Lewi/Forest accompany Snock

Hurley/Reisch/Forest opened for the Decemberists in Astoria, Liberty Hall

2-3 Hurley shows at Astoria Visual Arts center, several people opened those shows, including Wiley. 

Blue Catfish studios, Astoria

Mississippi Studios, Snock/Forest opened for Vetiver.  Played together for Antonia celebration on another occasion.

*

"How should I play, Michael?" Before the first time ever playing together, AVA

"Just play natural, like you always do" Snock said  

He kept me included for a good stint.

Rickshaw

 " The Rise of the Submission Industrial Complex "

"the data we see at Chill Subs, our platform that tracks thousands of literary magazines and submission calls, paints a pretty clear picture: 

submission fees aren’t the exception anymore, they’re the rule at the top. 

 Across all the literary magazines we track, about 13% charge fees. 

 Zoom in on Brecht De Poortere’s top 1000, and that number jumps to 24%. 

 Narrow it further to just the top 100 most popular magazines, and it spikes to 56%. 

 That’s not a slippery slope. It’s a cliff. The higher the prestige, the more likely it is that writers are paying just to be considered." 

"By 2015, several of the top names in the industry, including Ploughshares and American Short Fiction, had begun charging fees. 

And it snowballed from there. You can see the appeal. Multiply that $1.86 by thousands of submissions per month and it becomes one of the only consistent revenue streams a lit mag can rely on."

"Karan Kapoor, a writer from India, explains:

When I first started sending out work about six years ago, it was brutal. A $3 submission fee (slowly becoming $5) might seem like pocket change in the U.S., 

but thanks to conversion rates and a little thing called late-stage capitalism, 

in India it can buy you a full meal, a rickshaw ride to and back from the restaurant, 

 and a lecture from your mom about saving money. If you’re submitting to 100 magazines a year—which, let’s be honest, is what it takes to get two or three acceptances if you’re lucky (and I do mean lucky, not talented)—that’s $300. " 

*

"Benjamin Davis is the cofounder of Chill Subs, a platform used by over 50,000 writers to discover, track, and submit to literary magazines.  

He runs Sub Club, a top-selling Substack newsletter about opportunities in literary publishing, and co-created Forever Workshop, a monthly writing education series. 

 His work in the literary community has been featured in Electric Literature, Publishers Weekly, and Brevity and he’s written about the economics of indie publishing for Lit Mag News, The Writer’s Co-op, and more."

The Rise of the Submission Industrial Complex 

https://lithub.com/the-rise-of-the-submission-industrial-complex/ 

  

 

 

Tug of war, Tie. 

wanting toy

 "Trump has attempted to play down fears that the threat of supply shortages from his tariffs may lead to fewer toys for US children. 

He argued last weekend that “a young lady” wanting a toy “doesn’t need 37 dolls” and may be “very happy with two or three or four or five”. 

_____ 

Nine golf club sets

An inbred partridge in an Asian pear grove

True love co-signed for me

A normal doll in normal clothes

With normal Velcro in a normal cargo ship

Passing a normal gulf of American canal

Full of not bashed on fire teslas from China

Two or three or four or five slave robots

Young lady needs to woke up  

____ 

Carney says Canada ‘will never be for sale’ 

and Trump responds ‘never say never’ –  

Never never never never never never never never never never never never never never never never never never never never never never never never never never never never never never never never happens when someone is         like people 

will never be for sale 

Can I get it on credit at the never store

Shelves full of never

Shelves empty of never 

Always say never say never

Sometimes never say Always say never say never  

vicious never fascist capitalism  

____ 

"It’s always important to 

 distinguish want  

from reality,” Carney said last week.    

"Feed fascist baby

Arms spread-eagle 

Take a potshot, socialist " 

"The meeting between the prime minister and president is probably the most closely watched summit in Canada’s history, 

 amid fears of further diplomatic and trading friction between two countries 

 which have traditionally shared political and cultural values." 

"Donald Trump has said he “just want[s] to be friends with Canada”  

No, Trump threatened to take Canada repeatedly. "Never say never "

Greenland, Panama, Gaza....Canada

Don't provide Fascism any window dressing like this bogus " just friends" Guardian 

Jim Boyer cabin, last days 2020

  

 

Jim Boyer cabin, 2020 

 

 

 

 

 

,

 

 

 

 

raisin cain

  

Just in time the early birds tween

Sorry go play in the boonies

A guitar case aspirations few bucks likes

And start the tan by timpani trashcan 

Vegetable wilt in ten am sun

Toddlers dance fall and throw gravel in play

Parents don't tip saving for private school

Corporal punishment a disaffected browse

Sorry you can't browse entertainment

That theft like five handfuls of samples

My that tart and oh sweet and not in my budget nickel and dime ambience

What'd yawant mozart croaked age 35

Hendrix hank morrison winehaus 

Skipped busking for peanuts 

Wilt in the sun not so bad raisin cain 

 

'Cain is a biblical figure (Myth) in the Book of Genesis within Abrahamic religions. He is the elder brother of Abel, and the firstborn son of Adam and Eve, the first couple within the Bible. He was a farmer who gave an offering of his crops to God." 

"Noteworthy is the difference in the type of sacrifice: fruits of the soil are renewable and bloodless, while fat portions are set apart for the Lard 

and taken from the firstborn, pointing to an act of faith, since it is not guaranteed there will be more. " 

"In the Old English classic poem Beowulf (c. 1000 CE), the monstrous Grendel and his mother are said to be descended from Cain"

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

dilly-dally spend-time

  

"immaterial unmoved movers are eternal unchangeable beings that constantly think about thinking, 

but being immaterial,  

they are incapable of interacting with the cosmos and have no knowledge of what transpires therein.  "

"An infinite regress argument attempts to establish the falsity of a proposition by showing that it entails an infinite regress that is vicious. 

The cosmological argument is a type of positive infinite regress argument given that it defends a proposition (in this case, the existence of a first cause) by arguing that its negation would lead to a vicious regress.  

An infinite regress may be vicious due to various reasons:

Impossibility:  

Thought experiments such as Hilbert's Hotel are cited to demonstrate the metaphysical impossibility of actual infinities existing in reality.  

Accordingly, it may be argued that an infinite causal or temporal regress cannot occur in the real world.

Implausibility:    The regress contradicts empirical evidence 

(e.g. for the finitude of the past)

 or basic principles such as  

Occam's razor.

Explanatory failure:    A failure of explanatory goals resulting in an infinite regress of explanations. .

This may arise in the case of logical fallacies such as begging the question or from an attempt to investigate causes concerning origins or fundamental principles" 

*

" A cosmological argument can also sometimes be referred to as an argument from universal causation, an argument from first cause, the causal argument or the prime mover argument." 

 

"In the philosophy of religion, a cosmological argument is an argument for the existence of god based upon 

 observational and factual statements concerning the universe (or some general category of its natural contents) 

 typically in the context of causation, change, contingency or finitude. 

In referring to reason and observation alone for its premises, and  

precluding revelation, 

 this category of argument falls within the domain of natural theology."

 

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

"waste time through aimless wandering or indecision."

dilly-dally   

"spend time"

____ 

Tis the gift to be simple, ’tis the gift to be free

’tis the gift to come down where you 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 gained

To bow and to bend we shan’t be ashamed

To turn, turn will be our delight

‘Till by turning, turning we come round right.

‘Tis the gift to be simple, ’tis the gift to be free

’tis the gift to come down where you ought to be

And when we find ourselves in the place just right

‘Twill be in the valley of love and delight. 

*

'In a finite hotel, if the hotel is full, there are no more rooms available. However, in Hilbert's Hotel, even when full, there's always a way to make room for a new guest due to the properties of infinite sets. "   

Suppose the hotel is next to an ocean, and an infinite number of car ferries arrive, each bearing an infinite number of coaches, each with an infinite number of passengers. This is a situation involving three "levels" of infinity, and it can be solved by extensions of any of the previous solutions.  

*

"in an ordinary (finite) hotel with more than one room, the number of odd-numbered rooms is obviously smaller than the total number of rooms.  

However, in Hilbert's Grand Hotel, the quantity of odd-numbered rooms is not smaller than the total "number" of rooms"

"Hilbert's paradox is a veridical paradox: it leads to a counter-intuitive result that is provably true. "

"veridical paradox produces a result that appears counter to intuition, but is demonstrated to be true nonetheless:

That the Earth is an approximately spherical object 

 that is rotating and in rapid motion around the Sun,  

rather than the apparently obvious and common-sensical appearance of the Earth as a stationary approximately flat plane illuminated by a Sun that rises and falls throughout the day." 

"In logic, many paradoxes exist that are known to be invalid arguments, yet are nevertheless valuable in promoting critical thinking, while other paradoxes have revealed errors in definitions that were assumed to be rigorous, and have caused axioms of mathematics and logic to be re-examined.  

One example is Russell's paradox, which questions whether a  

"list of all lists that do not contain themselves"  

would include itself and showed that attempts to found set theory on the identification of sets with  

properties or predicates were flawed." 

"Examples outside logic include the ship of Theseus from philosophy, a paradox that questions  

whether a ship repaired over time by replacing each and all of its wooden parts 

 one at a time would remain the same ship." 

___ 

"What the Tortoise Said to Achilles", written by Lewis Carroll in 1895 for the philosophical journal Mind, is a brief allegorical dialogue on the foundations of logic. 

The title alludes to one of Zeno's paradoxes of motion, in which Achilles could never overtake the tortoise in a race. " 

"In Carroll's dialogue, the tortoise challenges Achilles to use the force of logic to make him accept the conclusion of a simple deductive argument. 

 Ultimately, Achilles fails, because the clever tortoise leads him into an infinite regression"  

move on (1989)

  

move on

(after baudelaire)

for the aging man playing with his guitar and

distortion pedal, the world is equal to his libido. and when

the Railroad calls you one morning, pulling you from

the rockgod dream of eleven-thirtyish, switching

one onto a fixed rail, the marriage of dream and dreamer

is annulled like a catholic fetus. reality

makes us dance on champagne glasses of fake security.

how grand were the urban honky tonks

of kansas city when your music defined the darkness,

how petty the arenas filled with westport humanoids.

one morning we set anchor after a wild sail and

prepare to die. no more the swelling

velvet of donboy's ax as he leans into a riff, planting

lightning trees in the air. soon he'll be

embroidering his fate on the corner of a lapclutch paycheck

due to arrive on schedule. the bank will

give him free cubs tickets, tho he prefers the sox.

some fly to a cheapness of comfort i detest,

others toughen themselves with

a creosote of the true voyager, those who simply move

to get gone, cheeks

bulged with adrenaline and bongsmoke, locomotive

heart thudding into a nasty harmonic groove,

butt shaking with hands trying to keep the harmonica from

jetting away. and their plans

were well oiled by lawrence longhairs and the art institute

coolcats in leather, nurtured by our energy stomp.

but alas, the Railroad engineered his

father's father's father's horizon, his name is on their list,

so off he chugs from the open elements,

the spit beers, the high of working in creative depths, moving

to chicago to pull'em levers

&piss fer the public good, burning the music

to get warm and set

 

sin city goddammit 1989 Lawrence Ks

queue bille cluck

  

"The etymology of "pool" is uncertain. The Oxford English Dictionary speculates that "pool" and other games with collective stakes is derived from the French poule 

 (literally translated "hen"), in which the poule is the collected prize, originating from jeu de la poule,  

a game that is thought to have been played during the Middle Ages.  

Supposedly, participants would put an equal amount of money into a pot 

and throw stones at a live chicken,

 and the person who successfully hit the chicken  

first would win the pooled money." 

 

"Billiards has a long history from its inception in the 15th century, with many mentions in the works of Shakespeare, including the line "let's to billiards" in Antony and Cleopatra (1606–07).  

Enthusiasts of the sport have included Mozart, Louis XIV of France, Marie Antoinette, Immanuel Kant, Napoleon, Abraham Lincoln, Mark Twain, George Washington, Jules Grévy, Charles Dickens, George Armstrong Custer, Theodore Roosevelt, Lewis Carroll, W. C. Fields, Babe Ruth, Bob Hope, and Jackie Gleason." 

the term's origin could have been from French bille, meaning 'ball "

Cue itself came from queue, the French word for 'tail "

 "A recognizable form of billiards was played outdoors in the 1340s, and was reminiscent of croquet. King Louis XI of France (1461–1483) had the first known indoor billiard table." 

the 'royal game of fortifications' 

"the United States, pool and billiards had died out for a bit, but between 1878 and 1956 the games became very popular. 

 Players in annual championships began to receive their own cigarette cards. This was mainly due to the fact that it was a popular pastime for troops to take their minds off battle.  

However, by the end of World War II, pool and billiards began to die down once again. 

 It was not until 1961 when the film The Hustler came out that sparked a new interest in the game. "

"early balls were made from wood and clay, but the rich preferred to use ivory.".

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"Throughout her career, Grable was a celebrated sex symbol. 

Her bathing-suit poster made her the top pin-up girl of World War II, surpassing Rita Hayworth. Hosiery specialists of the era often noted the ideal proportions of Grable's legs and thighs 

Her legs were insured by her studio for $1 million as a publicity stunt."

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Where's the sport in bombing

A dead chicken say old chap

Putting a dead soldier card on the submarine windowsill 

Gazing at the waves or betty grable

A high class dame take mind off pain 

 

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"Her 42 films during the 1930s and 1940s grossed more than $100 million, and for 10 consecutive years (1942–1951) she placed among the Quigley Poll's top 10 box office stars (a feat only matched by Doris Day, Julia Roberts and Barbra Streisand, although all were surpassed by Mary Pickford, with 13 years)" 

"the characteristic short, guttural sound made by a hen.

2.

informal•North American

a stupid or foolish person.

"a cluck too lazy to put up a clothesline" 

Shlomo

  

"United States:  

Shlomo is not among the most popular names in the United States, though it does appear in baby name lists. " 

Hebrew:

The name Shlomo (שְׁלֹמֹה) is of Hebrew origin and means "peaceful". 

Yiddish:

Shlomo also has Yiddish connections, making it a name with ties to both Hebrew and Yiddish heritage. 

Biblical:

It is a variation of the biblical name Solomon, known for his wisdom and the prosperous period of his reign. 

Historical:

The name Shlomo has historical roots associated with King Solomon, the third king of Israel, who was known for his wisdom. "

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She showed me her new stick, screwing

It together it's composite she blushes

What's their name i ask

It hasn't a name yet

It has a small tip i look 

hold mine next to compare 

How's the divorce going i don't ask

Chalks, puts away box

Solo, man 

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Shlomo Glickstein  

 "(Hebrew: שלמה גליקשטיין; born 6 January 1958) 

 is an Israeli former professional tennis player. 

Glickstein was born in Rehovot, Israel, lives in Ashkelon, Israel, and is Jewish. His parents immigrated to Israel from Poland. 

He reached his career-high singles ranking of World No. 22 in November 1982, and his career-high doubles ranking of World No. 28 in February 1986. 

Glickstein's victories include wins against World No. 1 Ivan Lendl 6–2, 3–6, 7–5

No. 9 Harold Solomon; No. 10 Eliot Teltscher; and No. 11 Brian Gottfried." 

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"The Guide for the Perplexed 

was originally written sometime between 1185 and 1190 by Maimonides 

 It was first translated in 1204 into Hebrew by a contemporary of Maimonides, Samuel ibn Tibbon. 

 The work is divided into three parts. According to Maimonides, he wrote the Guide "to enlighten a religious man who has been trained to believe in the truth of our holy Law, who conscientiously fulfills his moral and religious duties, and at the same time has been successful in his philosophical studies" 

"The part begins with Maimonides' thesis of the unity, omnipresence, and incorporeality of God, 

explaining biblical anthropomorphism of divine attributes 

as homonymous or figurative.  

The first chapter explains the Genesis 1 description of Adam the first as in the "image of God", 

as referring to the intellectual perception of humankind  

rather than physical form. 

In the Bible, one can find many expressions that refer to God in human terms, for instance the "hand of God".  

Maimonides strongly opposed what he believed to be a heresy present in unlearned Jews who then assume God to be corporeal  

(or even possessing positive characteristics)."

This leads to Maimonides' notion that God cannot be described in any positive terms, but rather only in negative conceptions.  

The Jewish Encyclopedia notes his view that "As to His essence, the only way to describe it is negatively.  

For instance, He is not physical, nor bound by time, nor subject to change, etc. 

 These assertions do not involve any incorrect notions or assume any deficiency,

 while if positive essential attributes are admitted it may be assumed that other things coexisted with Him from eternity." 

"Unrestrained anthropomorphism 

and perception of positive attributes is seen as a transgression as serious as idolatry,

 because both are fundamental errors in the metaphysics of God's role in the universe, and that is 

 the most important aspect of the world." 

*

"The Spheres are essentially pure Intelligences who receive power from the Prime Mover.  

This energy overflows from each one to the next and finally reaches earth and the physical domain.  

This concept of intelligent spheres of existence also appears in Gnostic Christianity as Aeons, having been conceived at least eight hundred years before Maimonides. " 

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"The most popular English translation is the two-volume set The Guide of the Perplexed, translated by Shlomo Pines" 

Trophy

  

"Buffett, a Democrat, has previously said that he plans to donate 99.5% of his remaining wealth to a charitable trust  

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/may/03/warren-buffett-retirement-berkshire-hathaway 

 overseen by his daughter and two sons when he dies. According to  Forbes, Buffett has a net worth of $165.3bn.  "

"It’s a big mistake in my view when you have 7.5 billion people who don’t like you very well,   

and you have 300 million who are crowing about how they have done."   

"Buffett, a longtime Democratic mover and shaker, did not endorse Kamala Harris in 2024 or Joe Biden in 2020.   

He had previously endorsed Barack Obama twice and Hillary Clinton." 

Herr Rubio

  

 https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy4vz9jed5lo 

"Germany's Foreign Office has defended a decision to classify the  

Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) party  

as right-wing extremist, 

 after sharp criticism from the White House."  

"The intelligence agency that made the classification found AfD's "prevailing understanding of people based on ethnicity and descent" goes against Germany's "free democratic order". 

"The AfD "aims to exclude certain population groups from equal participation in society" 

"We have learnt from our history that right-wing extremism needs to be stopped," the statement concluded - a reference to Hitler's Nazi party and the Holocaust."  

"Friedrich Merz as chancellor. He will be leading a coalition with the centre-left Social Democrats (SPD).

Lars Klingbeil, the SPD leader who is expected to become vice-chancellor and finance minister, said that while no hasty decision would be made,.

 the government would consider banning the (Nazi/Musk) AfD." 

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"The new classification gives authorities greater powers to monitor the AfD using tactics like phone interception and undercover agents" 

Good.

 

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The Holocaust  

(/ˈhɒləkɔːst/ ⓘ),[1] known in Hebrew as the Shoah (שואה),  

was the genocide of European Jews during World War II..

 Between 1941 and 1945, Nazi Germany and its collaborators systematically murdered some six million Jews across German-occupied Europe, around two-thirds of Europe's Jewish population.  

The murders were carried out primarily through mass shootings and poison gas in extermination camps,  

chiefly Auschwitz-Birkenau, Treblinka, Belzec, Sobibor, and Chełmno in occupied Poland. 

 Separate Nazi persecutions

killed a similar or larger number 

of non-Jewish civilians and prisoners of war (POWs)"

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

"Victims of Nazi Germany were people targeted by the government of Nazi Germany based on their ethnicity, 

religion, political beliefs, 

disability or sexual orientation.  

The institutionalized practice by the Nazis of singling out and persecuting people resulted in the Holocaust,  

which began with legalized social discrimination against specific groups

 involuntary hospitalization,  

euthanasia, and forced sterilization.

 of persons considered physically or mentally unfit for society.  

The vast majority of the Nazi regime's victims were Jews, Sinti-Roma peoples, and Slavs but  

victims also encompassed people identified as social outsiders  

in the Nazi worldview, such as homosexuals, and political enemies.  

Nazi persecution escalated during World War II and included: non-judicial incarceration,  

confiscation of property, 

forced labor, 

sexual slavery, 

death through overwork, 

human experimentation,

 undernourishment,  

and execution through a variety of methods. 

For specified groups like the Jews, genocide was the Nazis' primary goal." 

Taking into account all of the victims of persecution, the Nazis systematically murdered an estimated six million Jews 

and an additional 11 million people during the war.  

Donald Niewyk suggests that the broadest definition, including Soviet civilian deaths, would produce a total of  

17 million victims. 

ancestry who identified as a Jehovah's Witness.

"Non-Jewish victims of Nazism included Slavs 

(e.g. Russians, Belarusians, Poles, Ukrainians and Serbs), 

the Romani (gypsies), LGBT people; 

mentally or physically disabled people;

 Soviet POWs, Roman Catholics, Jehovah's Witnesses, Spanish Republicans, 

 Freemasons, people of color (especially the Afro-German Mischlinge, called "Rhineland bastards" by Hitler and the Nazi regime), 

 and other minorities not considered Aryan (Herrenvolk, or part of the "master race")

 leftists, communists, trade unionists, social democrats, socialists, anarchists, and other dissidents." 

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Trump news at a glance: Rubio now holds four titles after Waltz out as national security chief

Marco Rubio becomes the first person since Henry Kissinger to hold the national security adviser and secretary of state positions at the same time –  

"Nine people were killed when a strike hit a home in the Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza; 

 another six people died in a separate strike targeting a family home  

in the northern city of Beit Lahiya; six more died in a strike on a community kitchen 

 in Gaza City, and an overnight attack on the Khan Younis refugee camp killed at least 11 people 

 including three babies up to a year old" 

Israel resumed its bombing campaign in Gaza on 18 March, ending a fragile ceasefire. Since then, .

at least 2,326 people have been killed, bringing the death toll since the war broke out to 

 52,418" 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/may/03/israeli-airstrikes-gaza-death-toll-bureij-beit-lahiya-khan-younis