Theology

 Amtrak, Coast Starlight, 11, Ride Home

Portland to Emeryville

Then roommate pickup, to Berkeley

9:30p

Not much to say, the view is black, just me and my brain and my computer, to pass the time, and maybe come up with some blog ideas, if not an excellent essay or chapter or something.  Just bought a cheeseburger, and a powerade, and took my meds, and I’ll probably feel like sleeping at some point, but writing should be fun for now, or a few hours, or until the spirit doesn’t move me!

So, my card is always interesting.   I chose NOT to give it the Eric the drunk, but the woman next to me, on boarding, seemed like an interesting possibility, but she got anxious after I gave it to her, so I took my card with me (she left it in front of her on the tray table) when I moved to a window seat.  I didn’t get her name.  But she was friendly when we got off.

The internet and phone service are not operative - boonies! - but I can write of course.  Mental masturbation?  Or inspired literary afflatus?  Through the mountains we go.  No mount/in, here.  But we should come to Emeryville, in about 11 hours.  Merry evil?  Huh.

The kindle lights up, so it’s perfect for reading in the dark.   The Willamette weekly (WW), not so much.  I have my speed-reading book on it, which might do me some good to re-read.  But introspection and creativity are calling:  can I be my own muse?  Almost everyone around me is silent.  Train staffer is chatting, up ahead.  Me, myself, and I will have to commune with the spirits, I guess.  The potential reader, you (and me), mainly.  If this goes on my blog, my thoughts can reverberate through god-only-knows how large a span of distance and time.

I guess that brings me to the main idea bouncing around my head lately.   

     

     Could God be real?   I mean, like the one most people seem to believe in:  Creator of the universe, hears and answers prayers, lives in heaven, loves everyone, knows everything, omnipotent and almighty and supreme and all-powerful and can do anything?  I mean, should I stop playing around, and give serious consideration to a possibility, however slim, that God, the god of this paragraph, in a real and meaningful sense, actually exists? 

First of all, maybe I should stick with my blog’s premise, and see where that gets me.  As an adult of 50 years of age, can I create my own universe (or have I, already?).   Or, to get weirder, am I responsible for Reality, as a global telepath or something…. Or….. am I actually tiny, my mind a reflection of everyone else, and thus maybe in some sense the opposite of almighty (as in really weak and puny and powerless).  My blog is kind of a box, and I’m trying to step outside of it.   A train is as good a place as any for that, I think.  

Secondly, hearing and answering prayer - is that just a verbal phenomenon, or can god help you by rearranging reality to your liking, moving things around in a magical game of logistics, to  grant wishes, like the (mythological?) genie of Aladdin’s lamp?  That seems possible, to me.

Thirdly, God living in heaven (or Heaven).  A synonym for outer space, the universe, everything, is “The Heavens.”   Earth can certainly be heavenly.  Maybe there are zillions of inhabited exoplanets, that can also be heavenly, for the space aliens that thrive, each to his own.  Another angle, is each species in its own idea of heaven - (an alligator’s heaven is different from the cheetah’s).   So it’s not necessarily black and white.  There are winners and losers. Furthermore, if God is everywhere, then he lives in hell, too.

Fourthly, why should I believe in a God that loves everyone, even the Devil and all his demons, all the criminals, the war-mongers, all the sadists and torturers and cruel bastards, who surely deserve hell, if there is one (that’s another question).  Some people are Bad.  Either born that way, or made that way, or both.  Infinite love would surely be a source of infinite life, an afterlife, and would preclude a place or state of infinite torment.  That’s where the words of Jesus have real power.   We would love to survive death, with our loved ones, in bliss, not aging, without disease, etc.   Like all kinds of restaurants and no borders and teleportation throughout history and the universe, and freedom and great sex….  Heaven is a kind of library!  All the books, movies, records, magazines, websites, papers.   Personally, I like the idea of freezing time, and being born again, like a new life in a video game, starting over or starting fresh, or being able to turn off pain.  I’m getting off track.  Anyway, an infinite, universal love seems to entail making a lot of fantasy reality.   Maybe libraries are as close as we can ever get.  Virtual reality can be even more real than the quotidian facts of everyday life.   Escapism is Heaven, I think.

Fifthly, Omniscience.  Theoretically, I don’t think that’s possible.  But maybe all that CAN be known, eternally refreshed, is sucked into the black hole of curiosity of an Uber-genius deity.  Even a super fast speed-reading, computer-mind, that vacuums up data at ungodly speed, wouldn’t know everything.   I mean, right?  Maybe I’m wrong.  Knowledge and wisdom a     nd science and visualization and cyber-enhancement and madness: there’s some possibility, here.

Sixthly, and finally, power.  If everybody has freedom, then we all have a frightful responsibility to use our power wisely.  Power is money, knowledge, violence, authority, and people submitting to your will, by freely chosen deference, or by force and threat.  There is also electricity and potential energy and watts amps volts ohms coulombs etc, for the sense of power, in physics.  There are people with powerful voices, powerful rhetoric, and various superpowers, skills and talents and abilities, like say, bodybuilders or martial artists or writers or comedians.  Genius and wisdom and compassion and goodness and kindness and the ability to alleviate suffering and create joy.

I've had crazy dreams that have given me insight into brilliant, genius, mental worlds unlike my own, that give credence to the possibility and existence of godly superpowers, perhaps distributed corporately among different people with different talents, but that -in combination with computers and internet- make me a believer in a kind of God, if a bit different from the standard understanding.

Daily History commentary - April

 April 1

 1. Fool's day, and, according to one historian, the date (33 a.d.) of Jesus Christ's Last Supper, 2. busy teen empire, 3. Potosi o Poto-no?, 4. S and P, spain and portugal, Iberian, not Siberian, Sweden and Poland, Philip Sheridan, St. Petersburg, protection squadron, Palm Sunday, solar panels, space program, student protesters, secret police, safety pin, pragmatic sanction, 5. Bolivia and bowl, Potosi and pot, 6. HR, House of Representatives, home run, Haldeman, 7. feel so empty, MT, mexican Texas, margaret teshara, maintaining a mountain, 8. I sing of the poor, Singapore and Richmond, 9. Kong and Crete, 10. 3 species of midges are the only insects known to inhabit Antarctica (no ants), 11. toy dogs, and midget humans, 12. I spent a month longer in jail than Adolf Hitler did (!), 13. The book of Job, Steve Jobs, employment job, and jewish-owned businesses, 14. sleeping in Zealand, fucking in Falkland, 15. a military chicken coop, lol, or a chicken coup, the chickens take over!, 16. Okinawa is okay with me, 17. Hilo, Hawaii (hilo in spanish is 'thread'), hello, high and low, 18. Mark, the German, and Deutsche Marks, (Markus Ruhl?), 19. unfair orgasm? Faroe Islands, autonomy (auto, Otto, oh my), 20. the colors of spring in Colorado Springs, 21. a sniper in Cyprus, 22. learning about the Hawker Siddeley, in high school, the Holy Spirit and hassium, 23. fiends and funds, mustard and mustered, 24. England and Wales, angling for whales, 25. aikido and overthrow, 26. I have nothing to do with Nunavut, 27. SSM, same-sex marriage, the union of nazis and sadomasochism, 28. Bob Saget and Marvin Gaye, 29. maggot faggot, bag it and tag it, (and agate), 30. Amal Clooney and Amalric II, 31. brie cheese with Elle, in Brielle, 32. impractical jokes, too, 33. singing rock and choral coral, 34. eagles and beagles, 35. insurance and ensuring rants, 36. battle of 5 forks, 4 knives, and 3 spoons, 37. weather and a wet her, 38. bleeding the rich silver vein in Arizona, 39. vice and devices, 40. beer hall putsch and crackhouse coup, 41. Louis Marx invents yo-yo, dawg, 42. COJCOLDS: church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, is correct, I believe, 43. jawa from Okinawa, 44. from vine to wine, 45. "auto van" Bismarck, 46. Sergei and sir gay, 47. Mifune and my fun, 48. Manchester and a woman's bust.  

April 2

1. Juan Ponce de Leon, what a ponce (british slang for effeminate man), 2. minty mint, chocolate coins, and bitcoin, 3. green for the Green Party, 4. scout-o-rama, and Rama, king of Thailand, 5. salt, salary, assault, and meat preservation, 6. friggin' frogs!, 7. foragers, four acres, and the Foraker Act, 8. PR (public relations) for Puerto Rico, 9. ch, ch, chia; church; Charlie Chaplin, Chechen, 10. nirvana in Havana, 11. tennis rackets, making a racket, and racketeering, 12. the boss of Bosnia, the hurt in Herzegovina, 13. catholic mass and mass shootings/massacres and the god particle (Higgs), which imparts mass (?), and male ass, and Macedonia, 14. bears and barricades, 15. parachutes and a pair of shootings, 16. white trash and trash compactors, 17. saints, shot out of cannons, wo/men of high caliber, 18.  consecration vs. prosecution, 19. vegan monks and carnivorous monkeys, 20. sexploration, 21. Mamluks, out of luck, m'am, 22. Giza and Gaza, gazing geezers, 23. Agnus Dei, and Dutch East Indies, 24. 100 mates, decimated, 25. an ad hominem argument for aluminum alumni, 26. joint session of congress, lol, 27. banking on Rankin, 28. Ralph Nader on my radar, 29. the brainiac that invented ENIAC, 30. what's in Watsonville, James Watson?, a crick in Francis Crick's neck, 31. a ticket to watch cricket, 32. jockeys and a jockette, 33. the end of Menachem Begin, 34. Sadat is a dot, 35. Hans Pagan Andersen, 36. was Max Ernst a dad?, a son named Jimmy, dadaism and mamaism (!),  37. A SAG award (really) for Sir Alec Guinness, 38. Dana Carvey, David Cassidy, in D.C. (District of Columbia), 39. my Buddha-buddy, 40. a shitty diary (uh).

April 3

1. Mayan mayonnaise, Mayo Clinic, 2. Pius, pious, and pie for us!, Paiute people, 3. rich virgin from Richmond, Virginia, 4. Jack the Ripper, the grim reaper, and all the R.I.P.s in cemetaries (rest in pieces), 5. AA, and assassination attempts, 6. general secretary, lol, 7. Homma's mama, 8. Marsha and the Marshall plan and the martial, 9. crying foul about Ginsberg's Howl, 10. tornado "outbreaks" and breaking out of prison, in acne, 11. Tara Lipinski and Ted Kaczynski, going skiing in Poland, 12. Steven King's IT, and islamic terrorists, 13. pp, the Panama papers, peeing their pants, pissed off, 14. Robin Hood and robbing the neighborhood, 15. don't force the horse, 16. a chateau in Cateau, 17. witchcraft, she's crafty - just my type, 18. prime rib for the prime minister, 19. Samuel Johnson, s.j., 20. collecting the bounty on Jesse's head (under his hat?), 21. the internal combustion engine is cool, 22. pollywog declares war on germany, 23. Nansen listens to Hanson, 24. elocution for electrocution, 25. dad's bag of bags (and Baghdad), 26. vanilla from Manila, 27. armistice and leg-istice, 28. hotels and cold elle, 29. reading Howl while voiding my bowel, 30. Unabomber eats a big kahuna burger, 31. I owe it all to a poet, 32. a poet on pot, 33. female boar and Pygmalion, 34. dead can dance, and (sally rand's) fan dance, and Candace, 35. Doris Day and Bobby Knight, 36. a Kohl miner's Helmut. 

April 4

1. Moscow, mosques, moss, and cows, oh, 2. dogies, doggies, and a Venetian Doge, 3. Francis Drake and FD, grades, fire dept, 4. William Henry Harrison died just 31 days into his administration.  Schubert died at the age of 31., 5. earthquake and e.q. (emotional quotient?), 6. resting your eyes in Bucharest, 7. a Thuringia thing, 8. Gerald Holtom's 1958 peace symbol (semaphore of N and D, for nuclear disarmament), 9. Sue, Dan, and Molly (Sudan and Mali), S 'n a gal, 10. MLK jr. assassinated ('68, age 39), 11. milk chocolate and junior mints, candy man, sin, 12. Paul, appalled at Apollo, 13. Saigon - sigh, gone, 14. maiden and maidan, 15. chemical weapons? everything is made of chemicals!, 16. Merion PA, merry, mary, marry, and marionettes, 17. bad guys at the Good Guys! store, 18. James Earl Ray, shot and caught, 19. Augie, Auggie, OG, August, Augusta, and Augustus, 20. bank and banquet, 21. how tall was Ptolemy?, 22. I'm fond of Alfonso, 23. going to a bar, and the trade embargo, 24. scansion and expansion of my mansion, 25. Los Angeles incorporated in 1850, "then a rowdy cow-town," ow ow ow, 26. a psalm about the Somme, 27. spending a mint on rearmament, 28. Kato (the green hornet) and Nato and Nate, 29. assassin nation, a whole country of killers, 30. a photo of Yamamoto, 31. Pierre Monteux and Bonzo's montreux, 32. Arthur Murray in the a.m., 33. Muddy Waters was McKinley Morganfield, to be perfectly clear, all you scientologists, 34. why DOES the caged bird sing, anyway? Maya Angelou, a mayan angel; Tupac, neo-incan king; Aztec, A to Z of tech, -nology, all? oh gee, 35. perky Perkins, 36. Linus related to Elihu? a question at Yale.  

April 5

1. 2-tonic knights, toot toot!, 2. Poke-ahontas, 3. mayo, flor;  mayonnaise, floor; mayflower (setting sail in April), 4. veto power, v-toe, vampire theory of everything, it all sucks, 5. Jose de San Martin, John Stuart Mill, and my friends Julie, Sam, Miette :-), 6. Battle of Yorktown, oh boy, 7. Knossos, and oso (spanish for bear), 8. abc of american birth control, 9. pp, planned parenthood and pope paschal, 10. tornado, Putin wants torn nato, 11. Tupelo and three-pillows, 12. a floating shire?  a boat made of corn? lol ('42, hms dorsetshire and hms cornwall, sunk), 13. USAF off by one kilometer (oops), 14. Tito and Hirohito, and Sausalito, 15.  The Danish eat danish, 16. Malta and Yalta, 17. pulling a Rabat out of my hat, 18. Fire Code/Fidel Castro, better grades than the FD, 19. Fulgencio Batista on fb (Facebook), 20. Ripple Rock, cripple creek, 21. dang, da nang, 22. MAD, massive antiwar demonstration (should be Pro-Peace), 23. Rosebud Sioux Tribe, and citizen kane, 24. Sue sued the Sioux, and vice versa, 25. a universe versus verses, 26. dissolving congress like they were a solution, 27. AK bridge, longest in the world, (Akashi Kaikyo (strait), 28. Rockets, the rockettes, rocking chairs, rock music, Rocky, and rocks, 29. President Phuc (pronounced, rhymes with book), 30. Rocky the boxer, Rocky and Bullwinkle, and Rocky horror picture show, 31. wracking your brains for a rook, 32. rake, reek, reich, roku, Baruch, Rick, wreck, ruckus, 33. whatever's clever, and forever never, severing the lever (vandal stole the handle!), and lover's fever over, 34. was there ever an eve?, back in the day, or maybe in the evening?, 35. eve weaves leaves, 36. hot stuff, hot water, hot to trot, 37. jews with the blues, 38. Cypriot riot, 39. Mary Jemison and Emerson, 40. Maipu and my poo, 41. lava and Firestone tires, 42. Parrish, parish, Paris, and perishing by parachute, 43. contests and protests, 44. spy satellite of the s.s. , 45. Howard Hughes,  died from "too many drugs and too little food," 46. Hobbes' hobby, 47. virtuous bear, virtu-oso, 48. Joseph Lister and listening to Liszt, 49. a book by Booker T. Washington?, yes, several, 50. Eating Alberto Romero Broccoli, 51. crows pecking on the corpse of Gregory Peck, 52. Colin Powell's colon.

April 6

1. battle of pollentia, mm polenta, 2. Mehmed (medications? meh), med-okay-tions!, 3. revolt against voldemort, 4. cops and the committee of public safety, 5. a bad scene at Badajoz, 6. Amboy, Illinois? Amway, Amtrak, Amherst, 7. OG, original gangster, Olympic Games, Aug(ie), 8. pole dancing at the North Pole, 9. well, I'll be - Albania!, 10. fish, fins, finish, and Finnish, 11. Sara, Sarajevo, sorry, sari, 12. Tony award, named after an actress (Antoinette), 13. Pierre Elliott Trudeau's pet, 14. juvenile Juvenal, 15. Lithuanian lithium, 16. shit! fuck! San Fernando, 17. The rite of spring, the riot of spring, 18. a mermaid myrmecologist (ants), 19. E.O. Wilson, Borneo, and captain E.O., 20. Howard Hughes, Harry Houdini, Hulk Hogan, Henry Hudson, Herbert Hoover, Herbie Hancock, Hugh Hefner, his holiness, happy hall, heil hitler, Havana harbor, heartbreak hotel, 21. wearing black, visibly goth, and the Visigoths, 22. emo and Limoges, France, 23. driving an SUV to mount Vesuvius, 24. Joseph Smith, s.j., 25. Sayler's creek, sailor's ocean, 26. parliament for the course, 27. spectacular spectacle for spectacled spectators, 28. Merle Haggard, okie from muskogee, not an laggard with a dagger, 29. Marty Pattin and George S. Patton, 30.  Erich Weiss, and Elizabeth Warren, and electronic warfare.

April 7

1. Ah, the gall (Attila the Hun and Gaul), 2. Hilda, Matilda, waltzing, 3. Prague-gress, 4. aunty, does an antipope worship the antichrist?, 5. pie from Portuguese East Indies, 6. Burmese-siamese war, a bunch of b.s., like Bernie Sanders, bible studies, black sunday, Basel Switzerland, 7. NT, New Testament, northwest territory, neurotransmitter, neurotypical, intuitive thinker, 8. ants in pain in france and spain, 9. US national beer day (beer prohibition repealed), 10. peal of bells, peeling an orange, appealing, 11. king zog, lol (no joke), 12. air marshall by day, prime minister by night, arctic monkey by day, portfolio manager by night, 13. Clamato on the Yamato, 14. have a blast in the oblast, 15. who is in charge of the world health organization?, 16. happy birthday, internet! ('69), publication of RFC 1 (request for comments), 17. pseudocide and pseuicide, 18. neutron bomb, getting old, 19. IHS, (plus a cross, T), the christian symbol, his shit, 20. Iran-Contra, I see, 21. covid, covideo, covidiots.. , 22. egress, regress, negress, progress, congress, aggress, odessa, 23. William Wordsworth and Walter Winchell, 24. HL, House of Lords, 25. guitar, sitar, and Ishtar, 26. highs and lows in the battle of Shiloh, 27. India and out Out-dia, 28. the turpitude of Dick Turpin, 29. Omg, Joseph Priestly discovered oxygen, 30. meat, meet, meter, meteor, metier, 31. Mt. Tambora, Indonesia, kills some 49,000 people (1815), 32. Some sum!, 33. John Walker invents friction match (1827), 34. Daytona beach and a night on the beach, 35. scolding the deputy attorney general, Dag Hammarskjold, secretary-specific, 36. lame-o's at Los Alamos, 37. Josip Tito, sipping a tit, 38. an H-bomb "fell off" an american b-52, found intact off the coast of Spain (!), 39. Hutus "murdered an estimated 500,000 to 800,000 innocent civilian Tutsis (a Rwandan minority, in1994 genocide),"  40. Ravi Shankar, and prison shank, ravishing, and car, rav4.  

April 8

1. Marcus Opellius Macrinus (mom!), 2. pray to the praetorians, Ian, 3. Tulum and Tusculum, 4. Mongols v. Jins, monkeys v. djinns, angels and gin, 5. Krak des chevaliers, are you on crack?, maybe on the sidewalk, ha,  6. Milos and Milosevic, 7. Socks, soccer, Salk, and Sauk (native Americans), 8. awesome trees, Austria!, 9. supermarkets, supermodels, superconductivity, superman, 10. Daria and sharia, 11. fishing in Bataan, 12. Hanover, so over Han, 13. papa ooh mau mau (n' Mao), 14. in the maw of Moose Jaw (saskatchewan), 15. noble COBOL, 16. Pah! rain, he said, in Bahrain, ahh rain, she said, 17. star art, it's a start, 18. dude died, 1887, aged 45, from masturbation (!), 19. Nefertiti and nephritis, 20.  Buddha's birthday?  563 bc, by tradition, 21. bill gates, billingsgate, watergate, and the latin vulgate, 22. goofy Sufi on a roofie, 23. electric kool-aid and the electric chair, 24. SI, st. Ignatius, sports illustrated, spheres of influence, Siam, somewhat intelligent, stupid ignorant, systeme international (units), 25. Austria-Hungary, hungry trees, hung Gary, 26. nazi sunspots, 27. Kashmir is not a dispute over mere cash, 28. Jomo the homo, with Cuomo, Romo, and slow-mo, domo arigato, 29. Hank Aaron, thanks for carin', 30. a PLO plot, 31. Kurt Cobain dies, well, nevermind, 32. a martini with Tartini, 33. orchestra conductor, train conductor, lightning conductor, conduct and behavior, products, and "the behavior panel" (on YouTube), 34. (Josef) Krips, kripke, and bluds, bludgeoning, 35. tenor a perfect ten...or?, 36. holler of fame, 37. apple choreographer, 38. Julian calendar and Julian Lennon, and Lenin, 39. Ponce de Leon and Richard the lion-hearted and Pygmalion and Leo and law enforcement officers and lyin',  40.  Lion king and king of the jungle, urban jungle, concrete jungle, it's a jungle out there, Jung, lions used to be in europe and Asia, but now only in Africa.

April 9

1. "incarnated words" (our names!), 2. belisarius the byzantine (BB gun?), and Big Ben, and Belfast blitz, Betty Boothroyd, 3. Liegnitz and Liebnitz, 4. Lodi, in California, in Lombardy (of "stuck in, again" fame, ccr), 5. rivers have mouths (do they speak? do they eat?), the earth swallows us up,  6. The Australians had a destroyer named HMAS Vampire (sunk by the Japanese), 7. Jim Crow, Jesus Christ, John carpenter, Jean-Claude, James Cameron, junior college, Julius Caesar, James Cook, 8. corfu and the marine corps, fu, 9. guns from Irgun, 10. Hugo Ballivian was, in fact, Bolivian, and Karl Dane, in fact, Danish, 11. aa, architect of apartheid, assassination attempt, 12. Sadr's sad story, 13. nuclear submarine crashes into a cargo ship (!), 14. Georgia is a state and a country, 15. s.s. spree shooting (gun), stab and slash (knife), strike-slip (earthquake, act of god/God), schutzstaffel (government), sex symbol, 16. St. Stephen's school, sibilant slithering snake, social security system, short sharp shock, sinful satanic slaughter, schoolgirls seized, in slavery, 17. cannibalism and sir francis bacon eating pork, 18. Manic Mani, Jay-Z, Jesus + Zoroaster, manic street preachers, 19. Halley's Comet, hey Lee, all hail E, 20. Christ's College, Cambridge - si, si, si!, putting the cult in faculty, civilian conservation corps, 21. pals with La Salle, 22. reasonable treason, 23. steamboat pilot, sleeping pills, streetlight prayer, snarled parachute, Samuel percy, pilgrim stampede, 24. Billy the Kid at Burger King, goat burger, 25. aerial ferry?, 26. war-torn, or ore, boring gore, 27. Marian Anderson, marrying the band, 28. salon in Salonika, 29. Bataan baton, bait on (hook), 30. Jorge Gaitan and triton, fight on, 31. an instance of Winston, Funston, 32. a mite's mitochondrial DNA, 33. Gregory Pincus (inventor of birth control pill), and tattoo (ink us), 34. PPP, Paulina Porizkova Prostejov (Czech model, actress), and purchasing power parity, power point presentation, post partum psychosis, public-private partnership!, people-power party, partition plan for palestine, 35. (Robert E.) Lee surrenders (1865), Bruce Lee fights on (until '73), 36. nazi satirical songwriters.

April 10

1. prosopon and person, 2. nestorius in his nest, 3. hail, Halley's Comet!, 4. pod, prince of dharma (not darkness), 5. copying Anne (statute of anne, copyright law), 6. statutes and statues and statistics and states, and static, 7. war of austrian succession, the war that was, 8. very Bavarian, 9. tambourines and mount tambora (killed 71k people, in 1815), 10. phosphorus in the bosporus, 11. YMCA and ASPCA, 12. Abyssinian abyss, 13. Great Gatsby, good god, gossip girl, Gigi, great goddess, 14. AA's BB (big book), 15. Croatia, a crow ate ya, 16. personal and professional reasons, ping pong, table tennis, begin bombing, red river, constitutional crisis, 6.6 earthquake, 17. lord, Livorno (italy), 18. drinking cola in Angola, 19. Good Friday (most of them are, no?), 20. black holes, white holes, rainbow holes, (and ho's), 21. whores, holes, and ho ho ho, 22. nominal, noumenal, and the Newman center, 23. am big, ambiguity, 24. deduction is so PC (premise(s) to conclusion), induction is in a duck (general from specific), 25. dog duty, dog doodie, 26. protagonist and contagonist?, 27. voices, vices; exits exist; oncologist on call; waiter and writer; witty writ; all he wrote; when is god an atheist? I'm a Riddle; does medication (and food and drugs in general) impact Authenticity?; demon deontologist; satori- sudden insight into nature of self, world; premises and promises; Gr, golden rule / universal theistic morality / supreme categorical imperative; piece of reasoning, piece of cake; the status of moral judgements as true or false is merely approval or disapproval; monkey, donkey, monks, don quixote, lackey, and keys, hanky panky, funky; agnostic and agh/aggie gnostic, 28. adultery and childery, 29. AK, Anna Karenina, AK-47 (kalashnikov), akashi kaikyo, 30. GM, general manager, grilled monkey, grandmaster, genital mutilation, google maps, 31. Easy does it, Emiliano Zapata, Emile Zola, 32. the Estates General, for example (e.g.), 33. the French lose at Toulouse, to A and W root beer (Arthur Wellington), 34. b.s. - brutal sadist (have mercy!), 35. Belgian judge convicts for Antwerpitude, 36. Morelos, more or less, 37. 666, fighting forest fires, 38. a blind plea for sight, plebiscite, 39. persecuted for a cute purse, 40. kkk, concentration camp killers, 41. Superman, God, and cape cod, 42. Somerset and a set of sums, summertime schoolwork, 43. guerrillas, gorillas, gore, war, wards, warm words, warren, 44. Hannibal and Chris Hani, 45. a hug for Hugo Grotius, father of international law, 46. Hazardous to your health, Hazlitt, 47. dodge, commodore Perry, thrust, 48. Lew Wallace and David Foster Wallace, 49. Booth had a loose tooth, the truth; an essay on the Salvation Army, 50. Pulitzer kneeling on the pew, 51. Frances Perkins, irked by urkel, 52. maximum dow, and max von sydow's shadow, 53. Omar Sharif, don't like it, rock the casbah, sheriff, 54. P.T. boat off the mosquito coast (Paul Theroux, Peggy Teshara, Phineas Taylor) ("patrol torpedo"). 

April 11

1. battle of mohi, mochi, bulge, 2. raving mad in Ravenna, 3. exploit and ex-PLO (it), 4. magician, Utrecht me!, 5. Spelman college cast a spell on me, 6. a teaching assistant from Tel Aviv, 7. a book about buchenwald, 8. Ian the Korean, 9. the stone of scone, 10. self-rule and measuring yourself, lol, 11. spike and mike, and I like ike, and eichmann and the reich, 12. Pacem in terris, peace on earth, pit and poe, conditions for world peace, unconditional love?, 13. Idi Amin with e.d. (erectile dysfunction), 14. broad daylight and a guy's nightlight, 15. Los Angeles, love affair, and the London Agreement, law-law land, 16. ridiculously instupicuous, 17. Dante left and Daunte Wright, 18.  Harry Potter and Kimberly Potter, 19. a cold bank, and Burbank, 20. wham! and William and Mary, 21. be mine, possessed, 22. melba toast on the island of Elba, 23. Pulaski? just ask, 24. MG, Morris garages, marathon Greece, movie Grease, (Franciscan) minister general, 25. wheezing in Louisiana, 26. God, go, devil!, gone - Gandhi, 27. Idi a mean (one, mr. grinch), 28. Blissful mama, Lillie P. Bliss, co-founder of NYC MOMA, 29. Christopher Smart reads the cs monitor, 29. Nick La Rocca rocks! (the cornet), 30. Auschwitz, Buchenwald, Dachau, bad, 31. Anatoli Berezevoi, cosmonaut, abc.  

April 12

1. wre, no worries, western roman empire, 2. Sade's crew, and the crusaders, 3. suicide bomber, synagogue bombing, soldiers on a bridge, spell-binding, steamboat, 4. fort pillow?!, 5. garrison keillor, 6. Junkers aircraft, piece of junk, 7. S and P, strikers and picketers, 8. SIN MNH, Smithsonian institution national museum of natural history, 9. superb and supercalifragilisticexpialadocious!, 10. I and I, aye aye sir, schizophrenic split-mind, yes-men, 11. I have no pull in Constantinople, 12. Trade union, and the Union Jack, 13. Galileo Galilei with 2 gals, 14. Battle of the Saints, and jihad, 15. anal Anna and the annals of anesthesia, 16. Siberia and (sigh) beer, ya, at Humboldt state, 17. rotting in the R.O.T. (republic of texas), 18. insurrection and out-surrection, 19. transexuals from Transylvania (and transvaal), 20. exchequer and checking out your ex, 21. aviator? a V ate her!, 22. biting an orb in orbit, 23. Ng, and nerve gas, 24. William Tolbert and Steve Colbert, 25. Bobby Moore was the shit, 26. Vince Gill, evincing guilt, but very good.

April 13

1. can you handle listening to the messiah?, (mess, yeah), handling handel, 2. crow crown, clown crown, 3. Constantinople, constantly, 4. the byzantine's business, 5. M-pyre and F-pigher, 6. fun on Funajima, 7. a peek at Pocahontas, 8. a triple double, and a trip to Dublin, 9. roaman' cats, and Roman Catholics, 10. Kossuth ain't the boss of me, 11. Sumter, a little sumptin sumptin for the confederates, 12. MMA, metropolitan museum of art, fool, (NYC), 13. the cold facts about Colfax, 14. insultin' the sultan, insulation, and insulin, 15. Pixar in Amritsar, 16. newt neutrality, 17. mg, morris garage, mass graves, mentally gifted, milligrams, 18. memorial, me-less, 19. Oreos and Ariel, 20. guarding ellen again, Gardelegan, 21. ambush, am a bush? in a vegetative state, Dubya, bring me a shrubbery!, 22. never a dull moment with Allen Dulles, 23. piss and cum, p n' o, piano, 24. 13, bad luck, for Apollo mission, 25. PRC and ROC, both RC, 26. RC, mass, arse, ass, 27. popular front, unpopular behind, 28. Buck, Bill, and a doll (-ar), 29. the end (fin!) of 40 Fins, 30. sorry man, about Mansouri, 31. third world, empty; tiger woods, masters tournament, 32. turn 'em in, amen, tournament, 33. MOAB, moabites, mother of all bombs, massive ordnance air blast, barbaric thermobaric, 34. Arian aryans, 35. Pope Paschal, that rascal, 36. the state church, vs. separation of church and state, leaving the church "in a state", lol, 37. entomologists would be into malls, if they sold bugs there (the japanese have beetle vending machines, though, I read), 38. put your ear to the earth, heard the herd, 39. Gary dresses garishly, Harrison was part of the garrison, 40. an elephant is not a type of ant, 41. Devil's Island, off French Guiana, where the devil lives, in a hot-el, lol, 42. Helsinki and Hell's Kitchen, 43. dire situation with General Reginald (gr) Dyer, 44. The Denmark strait is between Greenland and Iceland (kinda weird), 45. a burning van, and Van Cliburn, 46. Sydney Poitier, S and P, aa for ba, 47. beginning with gin and ending with ass, 48. An Loc, and Anne Lock, 49. news coming out of Katyn Forest, 50. bucking bronco and Buckingham palace, 51. Alfred Butts invented scrabble, to dabble in gab with the rabble, 52. Gary Kasparov, haunted by Casper, the friendly ghost, 53. there's a tiger in the woods, a gump in the forest, a phoenix in the river, and pope urban in the city.

April 14

1. the consul's tonsils, 2. emperor Otho, not from Lesotho, 3. throwing rinds in the Rhine, 4. losting and founding of the polish state, the state of my pole, 5. impressive empress, 6. Temur's femur, timorous Temur, 7. eating a York peppermint patty in Lancaster, california, 8. "aerial battle" over Nuremberg in 1561?!, 9. defeated, and de-feet'd (ouch), 10. Jedis are warrior-monks, like Sikhs are warrior-saints, 11. I sing a song of Singh (un-singed, unburned), 12. Khalsa, call Sara, 13. rabble for abolition, 14. Barbados, the bar is a bad operating system, 15. Seward and the sewer, 16. "4 dead in 5 seconds" shootout, 17. pent-up demand for pentecostalism, 18. you can move to Montana, and listen to Santana, but you still won't be as cool as Shan-na-na!, 19. misery on the Missouri river, 20. Cilicia and a silly CIA, 21. Nick has a tight tan, titanic, 22. eating a lemon on The Bremen, 23. John Gotti's Bugatti, 24. Dust Bowl, dust to dust, dusty Springfield, 25. Royal Marines, Rose Marie, risk management, rhesus monkey, 26. a tack attack, 27. bombing Bombay, 28. razing, then raising, a city, 29. secular and Laika, 30. let's go to Togo!, 31. it's easy to pronounce Tblisi, 32. hailstones, and the black stone of Mecca (kissed, but not worshipped, however), 33. mine, you are mine, says the trained dolphin, 34. bouncing on Sid's knee in Sydney, 35. 99.99% of human genome sequenced, by human genome project (each individual's genome is unique, however, right?), 35. Abu Abbas, what a name, 36.  you too, Yushu, 37. jeering Nigerians, 38. 276!! (abducted schoolgirls from Chibok), 39. 276 is also: the highest number of rounds in boxing history (1875 bare-knuckle match, lasting 4 hours 30 minutes), and an "untouchable" number, and 1 to the 5th plus 2 to the 5th plus 3 to the 5th, 40. Daniel Hough, first man killed in the civil war; private John J. Williams, the last, 41. Rosa Bagley and Rose Marie Hennessy, a war of the roses, Sarah from Lancaster, 42. hit by a cannon, canonized, 43. Noah Webster, and Noah's ark, with spiders, 44. Brigham Young, and Ransom E. Olds, 45. Titanic degree of incompetence, 46. done with Verdun, 47. Ernest Shackleton on Elephant island, and a shackled elephant, 48. listening to Tool in Toul, 49. Volvo means "I roll" in latin, 50. Hatin' Athens, 51. alma (soul) on Dalma, UAE, 52. lynx, links, and Lincoln.  

April 15

1. Hieria, hire Rhea, higher on E, uh, (ecstasy), 2. Rain, Bavaria (!), Prince Rainier, 3. Samuel Johnson, s.j., 4. American School for the Deaf, not SAD at all, 5. have a heart, Hartford, 6. apple juice for Andrew Johnson, 7. wrath, aftermath in Athens, 8. infantry, fighting for infants, and trees, 9. 710/2224 (titanic survival fraction), 10. mandatory Palestine and optional Palestine?, 11. Bergen-Belsen concentration camp liberated, bebe, st. francis of Assisi, 12. Ray Kroc, crocodile, crock, 13. Shaw University, Shawshank redemption, shaw thing, 14. Mekong river of blood, 15. discotheque tech, 16. Boston Marathon (shit), 17. Notre-Dame de Paris, our mother? yo mama!, 18. G-D, gunned down, 19. Clara Blandick, suicided by sleeping pills, plus a plastic bag around her head, for good measure, 20. Albert Einstein calls time the "fourth dimension" (is God in the fifth?), 21. Grauman's Chinese theater, don't have a cow, man, 22. be frank, Francisco Franco, about frankincense and ben franklin and frankfurt and frankenstein, 23. a louse from Laos, mice with lice, icky mickey, 24. Reading Sartre on Bart, 25. Leonardo, in bardo, 26. a guru from Uruguay, 27. sick?  eek!  I seek a Sikh, 28. striving to be as good an astronomer as Struve, 29. Henry James, and others with 2 first names, like Joe Frank, or Harrold Lloyd, 30. Bessie Smith, and Jesse's fifth, 31. Jessica Archer and Jeffrey Archer, 32. tight tan Nick, washing dishes at the sink.

April 16

1. carne Masada, 2. monster from Munster, 3. at war with rats, so let's ratify a treaty, 4. learned society on LSD, 5. gumbo and gunboats, light sabers and life savers, 6. bm, bat Masterson, 7. sh, Utah too much, (j/k), 8. Pets in Petrograd, 9. singing an aria in Bulgaria, 10. "operation 25" was the invasion of Yugoslavia, 11. ah, alert Hofmann, 12. Cee-Lo and Seelow, 13. 183/ around 6700, Goya, survivors, 14. Bernard Baruch coins "Cold War" ('47), 15. Walter Cronkite, go fly a kite, 16. LBJ, letter from Birmingham jail, 17. cape Canaveral (means reed bed, or sugar plantation), 18. doctor death, jack kevorkian, not kidding around, 19. Virginia Tech shooting, on TV, 20. cruel and unusual, as if lethal injection were normal and kind (!), 21. ss, sex scandal, space station, samantha smith, 22. Goya and the goyim, 23. excommunication... the sound of silence, 24. Sir Isaac Newton, sin, full of himself, sin-full, 25. Jacob bites, wind blows, vacuum sucks, 26. inauguration and out-auguration, 27. augury of rations, you're gonna eat, 28. abolish slavery, play ball, 29. a bull named Gary, from Bulgaria, 30. Paul Kruger and Freddy Krueger, 31. libel, that bull is a liar, 32. covenants and convents, do ants need to vent?, 33. Vladimir Lenin, Bolshevik, eats a bowl of veal, 34. LSD-25 (how many of them are there?), 35. Merlin and Berlin, 36. rate your night with Mona (and ammonium nitrate fertilizer), 37. hm, Henry Mancini, 38. Peter Ustinov stinks, 39. Wright's flight, 40. learning about Hans Sloane in high school, 41. jibber-jabbering Jean-Baptiste Rousseau, 42. Anatole France, French poet (of course), but Paris Hilton is american. 

April 17

1. canute canonized, dancing the can-can, toucan, 2. Morelos, more or less, 3. bopped on the head, and the bay of pigs, 4. write a check, right a Czech, 5. Saur revolution in Afghanistan (dinosaur? no, the name of the second month of solar hijri calendar), 6. greek oil tanker intentionally run aground, in Mozambique, spilling 60,000 tons of crude oil!, 7. windy at Windsor castle, long and winding road, law, 8. Ben Franklin sired "some two dozen illegitimate children,"  9. Dick Shawn, in the movie The Producers, played a "hippie version of Adolf Hitler" (?), 10. benediction, Benedict, Benjamin, Benji, binge-watching, 11. birds, angels, and diet of worms, 12. painstaking survey of the coast (George Vancouver) and vampire demise, dem eyes!, 13. in the maw of the mexican-american war, 14. form of a female bear! (Formosa), 15. Jesuits and the Sino-Japanese war, 16. cretins, cretans, concrete, creeton, cree, creek, creed, creep, 17. Gaza is a lost cause? caws, claws, and gauze, 18. aborted mission, aborted miss, aborted ted, 19. Khrushchev's crew, 20. Thornton Wilder, wilder than Oscar?, 21. William Holden, and Holden Caulfield.

April 18

1. renting a floor in Florence, 2. my lawn in Milan, 3. zig zagging in Gonzaga, 4. Italian renaissance and international relations, 5. silicates and St. Peter's basilica, 6. teaching the i ching to each, 7. Madrid, rid of madness, mom identity - is a doctor, 8. reverence for Paul Revere, 9. a loose tooth in Tuscaloosa, 10. Cerro Gordo ("fat hill"), gordon the gordo, 11. Guatemala and guatebuena?, 12. white war, black battle, gray goose, 13. bbc in 1930 announces "there is no news" (lol), 14. tourists getting out of Turin, 15. was Nasser a bastard?, 16. Canaan Banana (no joke), first president of Zimbabwe, 17. praying mantis, saying prayers in the streetlight, 18. Swaziland is Eswatini, fool, 19. "Genius" in mythology/roman religion, vs. Einstein: "only 2 things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity..", 20. Megan, me again, Morgan, and organs, 21. comedians from Gotha, Germany, 22. from Boston to Lexington, like a boss, in a Lexus, 23. Neuwied, and new weed, 24. 1906 SF earthquake approached magnitude 8.0, 25. a car path through the Carpathians, 26. crooked guards at the Dardanelles strait, 27. uncivil disobedience, 28. rah rah! Red Army, raw, sun-ra, 29. spirit of 76 (Albert Einstein, 1879-1955), 30. Ezra Pound, spent 13 years in a hospital for the criminally insane, (can one be criminally sane? like an assault on somebody that deserves it? has it coming? criminally out-sane? lol), is rubbing two balloons together the same as pressing charges?, 31. CR, cultural revolution, camp royaneh, costa rica, colorado rockies, consensus reality, consumer reports, cosmic rays, college of the redwoods, college republicans, cristiano ronaldo, christopher reeves, christina ricci, chris rock, chile relleno, cedar revolution, 32. Jessie Street (in SF), and also: Australian Aboriginal rights activist, born 1889, 33. Clarence Darrow, of Scopes "monkey" trial fame, said, "the first half of our lives is ruined by our parents, and the second half by our children." 

April 19

1. Nero the zero (committed suicide, age 30), 2. Raqqa and Iraq, 3. dizzy in Lisbon, 4. vague about ague in The Hague, 5. Attila the junta, 6. neutrality and old trality, 7. the pogrom program, 8. ghetto, get O, 9. wearing a monocle in Monaco, 10. the social list of the socialists, 11. Oklahoma City bombing, not okay, 12. engine ingenuity, 13. mormons and lessons, 14. bye, Ron (lord Byron), 15. Darwin and dar-loss,  Vickie and victory, 16. Darwin Northern Territory, and Victoria (state, Australia), 17. Charles Darwin had 10 kids, 4 sons and 6 daughters, 18. ooze, booze, boo's, blues, choose, dues, whose, coups, lose, news, ruse, sooz (Susan), two's, woozy, snooz, use, zoos, and Jews, 19. Protest-ant myrmecologist, 20. navigator gator, Wales whales, phish ghoti goatee, g.o.a.t, greatest of all time, yale goat, handsome dan, 21. beer on my beard, 22. bier and Bieber, this just in, 23. mining for tin in Great Britain, 24. counting sneezes at Mass, in Massachusetts (say, St. Brigid of Kildare, be rigid, dared to kill), 25. dancing the indepen-dance, 26. Uluru and Uruguay, you are you, 27. bye witch! (Wichita), 28. Chuck D, Charles Darwin, dies aged 71, 29. Guatemala, Guate-buena, 30. often, Waffen SS, waffles, wafers, syrup, sir, 31. rigging, Rigoberta Menchu, rigged election, big rigs, rigel, rig veda, and Riga, 32. wake up, Waco whackos!, 33. Aum Shinrikyo, meaning 'supreme truth', bomb reek, om, 34. d.c. doomsday cult, 35. TMV, the mars Volta, true market value, and Timothy McVeigh, 36. Ashley in Ashby, 37. Al Unser with cancer, 38. Paloma Picasso in Paloma, CA, 39. Dudley Moore, dungeon master, 40. Jim Marquis, Jayne Mansfield, James Madison, Joan Miro, John Muir, John Mortimer, John Milton, Just Muslim (non-denominational), 41. Eliot Ness, and Nessie (Loch Ness monster).

April 20

1. the bony face of pope Boniface, 2. some bull, in his bull, 3. a miracle for Heraclius, 4. Thaddeus Lowe, flies high, 5. essay on Spanish-American war, Stratford-upon-Avon, sexual assault, 6. Red Baron, karen and cairn, blue heron, Aaron and Sharon, wear and tear, care bear, airfare, 7. Klebold and Harris, bold error, 8. a six month oil spill?, 9. chauvinism, and Derek, 10. Ian, Iranians Albanians, and Sasanians, 22. a focus on Phocas, 23. Hitler was 5'6" and weighed 143 pounds, 24. "double dawn" eclipse (899 bc) - no mention in wikipedia (?), 25. usurp, you slurp, you sip, you drink, you vampire, drink up, drink it in, drunk, purple drank, drenk,  26. aches, fakirs, acres, and siege of Acre, 27. bake a cake, make a fake rake, 28. can I make a lake? I can pee a river, yellow river, yellow sea, 29. cum, "corrupt and unjust men", Oliver Cromwell's description of (dissolved) parliament, 30. dairy, derriere, and Londonderry, 31. Hot Springs, Arkansas (place) and a hot spring (season, time), 32. Fall fell, autumn ought 'm, 33. Poe's Murders in the Rue Morgue, generally considered to be the first detective story (1841), 34. Pasteur, out to pasture, 35. mail, male, chainmail, maelstrom, 36.  1896, first projected movie, as a commercial attraction, in NYC, at Koster and Bial's music hall, 37. I.D., Isadora Duncan, d.c. dancer/choreographer, killed from her scarf caught in the wheel of her car; and her 2 children died, too, from a different car mishap, 38. Panama, namaste, ack your ma is Anna?, amatory, and a cannibal cooking your ma (in a pan), 39. 1924, turkey adopts a constitution with islam as state religion, 1928 becomes secular (drops religion clause), 40. weed (420), Hitler's birthday, Marcus Aurelius' birthday, Columbine, 41. Philippe Pinel, French physician, founder of psychiatry, 42. Daniel Chester French and Ellen Covington-French, 43. George Takei, gin and tonic, Georgia Tech, Greg Teshara, google translate, cars (gran turismo), truism.

April 21

1. Babur, and baby baboons, 2. hanged, drawn, and quartered (sounds a bit excessive, to me), 3. allah in Karbala, 4. San Jacinto, s.j., 5. exhausted at Zossen, 6. World's Fair, and an unfair world, goodbye cruel world, 7. Bahai and b'bye!, 8. Grounation Day, g-d, 9. Rollie Fingers, can you give me a hand? , 10. Hu Yoabang-for-your-buck, 11. the cause of Basra, 12. Kharkiv and car keys, Kiev, key to an electric vehicle, 13. Islamists in Sri Lanka kill 250+, on Easter Sunday, (Jesus Christ!) 2019, 14. Halley's Comet appeared on both the birth of Mark Twain, and the day of his death, as he himself predicted (!) - he was buried in one of his trademark white linen suits, 15. a debt of gratitude to dogs, 16. Samuel Langhorne Clemens and Salt Lake City, 17. Redding CA - and CT, 18. Cicero, getting visceral, 19. R and R, Romulus and Remus, suckled by a she-wolf, Rome founded and found dead, 20. Tudors, tutors, and two doors, 21. Hannah Duston, in HD, 22. Santa Anna, generally not seen as Santa Claus, or Anna, 23. hustle and bustle, hustler and busts, 24. The Red Baron died with 80 victories, 25. I can't cope with Copenhagen; it's copacetic! 26. Formosa esta hermosa, 27. Wehrmacht, mocked, 28. "mission-style" furniture, and the missionary position, and catholic missions, blues brothers "we're on a mission from god," mission accomplished, 29. Joseph and Jenny McCarthy, 30. Brazil, Brasilia, brassieres, and brass, 31. Space needle, S and P ace, how many angels fit on the tip of a needle? rotating restaurant, 32. junta hoontah, 33. Tiber river and Tiberius, a river of beer, 34. Hey T, how's Haiti?, 35. Juan wearing a tie, in Taiwan, 36. coat of arms (wouldn't be much of a coat without arms, though, would it?), 37. 3 exoplanets discovered orbiting a star in Virgo (virgin planets, let's go f.m.), 38. Charlotte Bronte's panties, 39. Jane Eyre in the air tonight, 40. OH, Oscar Hertwig, 41. a question for Anthony Quinn, 42. lust for life, desire for death, eros and thanatos, 43. clearly, the scientologists have clarity about Larry T, and are clear about Bob Cleary, 44. firing on all cylinders, saline and insulin, sellin' penicillin, and still in the mix, 45. Dad's root bear and Iggy Pop, 46.  Piggy, Peggy, Iggy, aggie, eggs, Augie, and O.G, 47. original gangster, oppression and genocide, 48. Erik Beever and Easley Blackwood and Encyclopedia Brittanica and energizer bunny ("bunny snowshoes" and the snowshoe hare). 

April 22

1. maximinus thrax gets the ax (to the thorax?), Axum, 2. Pedro Alvares Cabral, pac man, 3. Hormuz, the fat cow, 4. IGWT, in god we trust, coinage act of 1864, 5. three guts in Guthrie, 6.  Haifa, bye fa, 7. red scare, and fear of the color red (erythrophobia), 8. California, Cali, Calcutta, Kali, 9. Ali in Bali, 10.  j/k, Junichiro Koizumi wasn't kidding, (apology for war record), 11. fuck, struck by a truck, 12. breakups and nervous breakdowns, and breakfast, 13. Henry Fielding, "money is fruit of evil, as often as the root of it," 14. investiture, investment, in vestments, tits, 15. steel, steal, and the Bastille, 16. Pac-man in Brazil, 17. Between S and P, Treaty of Saragossa, a treat for Sara, capital of Aragon, Teshara-gone, 18. damned hamsters from Amsterdam, 19. Morgan La Fey and Fayetteville, NC, 20. Makin' bacon in Macon, MS, 21. OT, Oklahoma Territory, Old Testament, Operating Thetan, oxytocin, overtime, occupational therapy, offensive tackle, off topic, 22. chlorine was used as a poison gas in WW1, but I assume swimming pools are safe, 23. protests as tests of, by, for professionals, 24. hey man, hymen, Hayman island, 25. Immanuel Kant can't read the manual, a metaphysician, have you met my doctor?, 26. philosophy and phi-win-ophy!, 27. vile villains, violins, and vladimir ilych lenin, 28. J. Robert Oppenheimer, robbery, operatives, hi and bye, myrrh, 29. sed (thirst) for seduction (a thirsty duck, lol).

April 23

1.  Dagobert III, and dogbert (dilbert), 2. arf!, clontarf, 3. order of the garter, garter snake, 4. a turkey's ankle, lol, 5. cops in the commonwealth of the Philippines, 6. a plan, for the people's liberation army navy, 7. new coke fiasco, in '85, 8. Shakespeare's death-day was on this, his birthday, 9. high king, hiking, low king, Loki, talking, ta! king, 10. anarchy and anne r. key, 11. Chu Hsi, don't be choosy, 12. Henry VIII, became king at 17 y.o., 13. nobility has no ability?, 14. miso soup in Missolonghi, 15. William Wordsworth xx (aged 80) in Westmorland, and the worldwide web, wild wild west, and witches, warlocks, and werewolves, 16. tropes and Zoe and the zoetrope, 17. attaboy!, Ataturk, 18. Tanya from Deganya, 19. landing in Nanjing, 20. elevator repair has its ups and downs, uprisings and downfalls, 21. Abu Sayyaf, signing off with a boo!, 22. James Buchanan, boo! cannon!, 23. Max Planck, plunking down a dollar, max, 24. quantum theory for my cutie, 25. Lolita ("that book by Nabokov"), Chiquita banana, 26. Simone Simon committed simony, simple Simon, Simon says, 27. a novelist with a novel list, a playwright that doesn't play right, all work and yoplait, 28. the body is a temple, surely, 29. Roy Orbison, with the royal orb.  

April 24

1. the dolphin of France, lol (dauphin), 2. loco about the library of congress, 3. bbww, buffalo bill's Wild West, ss, ee, sharpshooter, Annie Oakley, 4. frankly, it hurts (Franck-Hertz experiment), 5. Shackleton in shackles?, 6. Thorvald and Thor, 7. kashgar prefecture, and the cash cab, 8. Soviet cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov fell for four miles, to his death, from a snarled parachute, 9. did Davis deserve death for his debt? ($3.65!, lol), 10. using the toilet in Flushing Meadows, 11. Jerusalem cricket, playing cricket, rick with a crick in his neck, crikey!, 12. Kmart, martyrs, Marty, and culinary arts (mm, art), 13. bee stings, the battle of Hastings, and Sting (the sword, the musician, police operation), 14. loco about a burned library, 15. soda fountain, science fiction, street fighter, Sinn Fein, special forces, six flags, small forward, sacrifice fly, in SF (south Florida, San Francisco), 16. Flaubert and Flau-Ernie, 17. Fat Tuesday and New Orleans, 18. Shut Yarmouth, 19. Dublin your money, 20. Captain Nemo and San Remo and emo and Elmo, 21. teaching of evolution, and the theory of everything, and 2 toes, 22. New Jersey and new Jesse, :-),  23.  Jesse and Tennessee (J is the 10th letter of the English alphabet), 24. QE2, q.e.d., queue, 25. dated and knighted, 26. Indonesia and indoor amnesia, 27. drunk priests, and Bud Abbott, 28. military law (war itself should be illegal), 29.  ill eagle veterinarian, veteran aryan, beagles and sea gulls and legal eagles for egalitarianism, and Stephen Seagal, and L'Aigle, 30. B.S. with Barbara Streisand, 31. S and M with Shirley Maclaine, 32. rejoice with James Joyce, 33. Robert Penn Warren and Elizabeth, 34. Albert Einstein and abstract expressionism, 35. mooning Kooning, 36. ribbit, says the french frog to Robert Bailey Thomas, 37. John Graunt, founder of science of demography, gaunt like Rupert Grint, running the gauntlet, the ontology of ontogeny (recapitulates phylogeny).

April 25

1. Sparta and Peloponnesians, pawns play a part, 2. Pope fleeing Rome?, 3. Bishopric (yes, bishops can be pricks), 4. martial arts gi, and guillotine (gi o' teen), 5. Swan river / Perth, 6. Suez, so sue me, 7. hell at cape helles, 8. United Nations?  only if there's an invasion by space aliens, I'd imagine, 9. selling solar cells, she sells seashells..., 10. trying to take a trip and travel by uss triton, 11. carnation revolution, a military coup (in Portugal), not a peacenik putting a flower in a gun barrel, 12. sigh, nigh: Sinai, 13. Violeta Chamorro, and the Viet Cong, and Vassar College, 14. nepal, apples, nipples, appalling, any pal, yay or nay, Paul?, 15. my pal, president Abraham Lincoln, 16. the nazis also used the guillotine (but positioned the victims face upward!), 17. actor (George Sanders) commits suicide from "this sweet cesspool" "because I am bored", 18. York peppermint patties, orange crush, and a cast of characters, Lancastrians, Lanny, Castro, Ian, 19. Daniel Defoe and Dan De-friend, 20. RC, Robinson Crusoe, based on Alexander Selkirk, 21. ghee o' teen, 22. D.C. comics, and davy Crockett and Tubbs, 23. Ottawa, you ought to be sad, 24. Suez Canal, 101 miles, ten years, no so easy, 25. I declare this eclair to be clare, 26. eating off a license plate, 27. Guy Fieri and Alfieri Maserati, 28. Cossack cavalryman colonel, ARK, catechism of the Catholic Church, california correctional center, command control and communications, civilian conservation corps, crime and corruption commission, Corpus Christi college, 29. American and Russian armies, -ara, link up, 30. charter and Chartres, 31. Rocky Marciano and Running Man, 32. Nazareth, Pennsylvania, 33. bane or boon? LBJ, 34. the Kontum continuum, 35. EO Wilson and the Easter Offensive, 36. fake fucks in Falkland, 37. Roger that, Ginger Rogers, 38. the thousand yard stare of Fred Astaire, 39. Falun Gong, "wheel of law", Taoist-Buddhist sect, fg - French Guiana, field goal, 40. fruta del mare, Walter de la mare, 41. GM, Guglielmo Marconi, general manager, 42. Al Pacino, in chinos, 43. Keble college, and Keebler elves, 44. OC, Orange County, offensive coordinator, organized crime, Oliver Cromwell, 45. the Hubble takes a look at rubble, 46. Ella Fitzgerald throws a fit.

April 26

1. High Mass, and going to mass while high (lol), trippy!, 2. Cape Henry, Capitol Hill, and church, 3. Chesapeake, taking a peek at a chess game, 4. febreeze and Tabriz, 5. that darned Derne (Libya), 6. Wilhelm Marx, Karl Marx, and Groucho, Harpo, Zeppo, Chico, Gummo, 7. guerra comes to Guernica, 8. wussup, Uppsala?, Swedish weed, 9. where is the Wehrmacht?, 10. holy polio! playing polo with cholos, 11. locomotives and criminals with crazy motives, 12. aerial Ariel, 13. crazy about sunbathing in Tanzania, 14. Tasha and Kent, from Tashkent, 15. fetal surgery, in SF, 16. nobility chairing the committee on Chernobyl, 17. Finnish community in Andover, Kansas, 18. el el, nelson Mandela, 19. CR, camp royaneh, colorado rockies, consensus reality, costa rica, chile relleno, cedar revolution, 20. sol, Syrian occupation of Lebanon, Statue of Liberty, 21. sol, silence of the lambs; hl, hannibal lecter, holy land, 22. the guy who claimed to have shot John Wilkes Booth (Sergeant Boston Corbett), was a religious fanatic who had castrated himself to prevent himself from sinning, and later killed himself, strike 3, 23. Dhaka and Oaxaca rock!, 24. an awkward talk, with an auk/bird, 25. sassy assassin, 26. Paul revere and Sybil Ludington, 27. Russia, Prussia, and fuss about rush, 28. JW, Jehovah's Witness, John Wilkes (Booth), 29. Joseph Johnston, Walt Whitman, alliterative names, like world war, or Jim Jones, or woody woodpecker, 30. a riot at Riet, a trek to Treckkopje, 31. why mar my German good looks?, 32. where is Guernica?, 33. the integrated circuit, I see, is nice, Robert Noyce, 34. Chernobyl and dame Cher, I share no bull, 35. Hume on being human, 36. Audubon on the autobahn, 37. Bernard Malamud, add to the bm pile, 38. Anita uses the Loos, 39. a rude guess?, I'd say Rudolf Hess, 40. We get the gist of size, from the seismologist, Richter, 41. Sal Maglie, if you're into S and M, 42. singing while Rome burns, Carol Burnett, 43. Darth Vader and Donna de Varona, 44. devil lived, and lucille had a ball.

April 27

1. saeculum, 100 or 110 years, considered the longest possible length of human life, 2. late antiquity, and Los Angeles, 3. boorish moorish, 4. SI, Scottish independence, 5. interdicts, and interring dicks, 6. sirhan sirhan and chief lapulapu, 7. orks from orkney, 8. duma, doom, doing mom, 9. pp, parliamentary procedure, 10. Congo, Dongo, Tonga, bongos, 11. Quebec, Trebek, Star Trek, and heck, 12. bdsm in Serbia and Montenegro, 13. French fry (federal republic of yugoslavia), 14.  cynical about Senegal, optimistic about Optimus prime, 15. pneumonia and old Mona, 16. don't be an ass, and the Anti-Slavery Society, which proposed (would've been better!) to purchase the freedom of all the south's slaves (far more money was spent on war materials, and loss to destruction), 17. Emerson said, "a child is a curly, dimpled lunatic" (lol), 18. Montrose's montreux, 19. tears over tyranny, 20. yearning to burn Derna, 21. Y and T, York and Toronto, 22. mountain lion, and Sierra Leone, 23. description of conscription, 24. Hue are you, hoo hoo?, 25. David, bishop O'Dowd, and Daoud, 26. an essay on the gps satellite array, 27. history written by an ape (Gibbon), apes, rape, and grapes, 28. the craft of Mary Wollstonecraft, 29. Samuel Morse, no remorse, 30. Coretta Scott King reads the cs monitor, 31. Cuba good, better, best -ing, 32. the piercing cry of Kate Pierson, 33. Johannes Kepler (j/k) asserted the universe was created this day, 4977 BC (seriously).

April 28

1. Art playing a part in the Parthian empire, 2. Magnus Magnentius, and eminem, 3. king of Jerusalem killed by hashshashin, 4. nichiren buddhism: quite attached to the lotus sutra, lol, 5. battle of attock, an attack on buttocks in the attic, 6. Pitcairn island is the pits, the heat in Tahiti, the mob in mutiny on the bounty, 7. Cagliari, caligari, calamari, and Calgary, 8. billy the kid, william the goat, 9.  ass republic (azerbaijan soviet socialist), 10. killing Jennifer is not genocide, 11. Thor Heyerdahl on Thursday, 12. hukbalahap and hubcaps, 13. resignation, and re-signing (to a different nation/team), 14. dark side of the moon, and dsm (diagnostic and statistical manual), 15. don't have a Cao, man, 16. few light a fuse in a fuselage, 17. AA, Aldrich Ames, 18. opening (and closing) fire, 19. boo, grave, and Abu Ghraib, 20. deviltry in Devon, 21. amphibians, and military amphibious operations, and fibs by the fbi, 22. you want a Sherman tank? sure, man!, 23. Mussolini's megalomania, a symptom of syphilis?, 24. he said, "the history of saints is mainly the history of insane people,"  25. tight with Titus, 26. laws of motion, of a newt, 27. big brother, in Botany Bay, 28. mob, mutiny on bounty, 29. what color is my fever? 30. Il Duce and doing Che (Guevara), 31. Po valley and the po-po (police), 32. Microsoft and Bing Xuyen rebels in Vietnam, 33. Dominican Republic and Dominican priests and nuns, Domingo (sunday), 34. James Monroe, and Marilyn, 35. Piccadilly Circus, p.c., 36. Lord Shaftesbury and Lionel Barrymore, 37. Robert Anderson, and also the name of a playwright,  RA, 38. Harper Lee, musical name like Carol, hl, like holy land, 39. Sodom who's sane?

April 29

1. smoldering Smolensk, 2. Joan of Arc, Noah's ark, dog/tree bark, 3. the price of a trip to Castile, it's a steal, 4. serving the minister minestrone, 5. any bot can do botany in Botany Bay, 6. Martinique is unique, 7. Roget and O.J., 8. heart sank, in Frank (Canada), 9. Sing and laugh, tsinghua U!, 10. maquis, marquis, monkey, 11. in a mood for food, dude, 12. HMS Goodall torpedoed (it's all good?), 13. war crimes: war IS a crime, hunting soldiers, like meat, 14. Chinese sovereignty, Tibetan autonomy, how does THAT work?, 15. operation frequent wind, lol, 16. Star Trek enterprise and USS enterprise, 17. Bangladesh and Bangkok, 18. sriracha and Racha, Georgia, 19. riots, a wry wit, 20. farting at the chemical weapons convention (humor for a depressing reality), 21. Oldsmobile got old, 22. Clooney, Cluny, loony, 23. Hanoi Hilton, annoyed in Hanoi, 24. military science, martial arts and self-defense, school of the assassins, dark arts, ninjitsu, satanism, 25. AI and the Ashmun Institute, 26. the history of histology, and harry s. truman, hissed,  27. the urge to merge, eat sturgeon, and purge, 28. Stalin's car, stalled, 29. a lashing in Lashio, 30. truck driver from Truk, and hitching Hitchcock, 31. Hitler married brawn, lol, 32. this little piggy, named Tojo, 33. Royal Academy, to share RA, 34. trigons in Saigon, 35. Rodney King's queen, 36. Hirohito, a hero to hit O? omg, 37. the dow jones, and the duke of wellington, 38. czar, caesar, car, tsar, star, 39. Hearst, rehearsal, hearse, hers, Ursula,  40. publisher, republic, pubic hair, and pubs, 41. Aparicio's apparition, 42. Mehta and Metta world peace, 43. RC, race-car driver, 44. Andre Agassi, in Alcoholics Anonymous, 45. p.s. Peter Sutcliffe, the Yorkshire ripper,

April 30

1. 30 a.d., JC crucified at Golgotha, condemned by Sanhedrin (s-in?), 2. Mapuche on the map, 3. Hugo and the Huguenots, 4. ooo, oath of office, 5. LT, Louisiana Territory, long-term, Lake Tahoe, 6. Nick's car needs water, Nicaragua, 7. the mystique of the battle of shrimp (camaron), 8. Niger, Nigeria, and Niagara Falls, 9.  atomic subs and subatomic particles, 10. Sanford B. Dole and Stanford, 11. Navy plebes and plebiscites, 12. television and producer's visions, I have a dream, 13. Stalag Luft (p.o.w. camp), and stalagmites, 14. hoover dam and my damned vacuum, 15. Bo knows Bogota, 16. Alben Barkley, Charles, and his dog, 17. k9 and k-19, soviet nuclear submarine, with nuclear missiles, 18. John Dean and JD power and associates, 19. VW ends, '75 (Vietnam war), unconditional surrender of Duong Van Minh, south Vietnamese president, 20. Beatrix and the beat poets and tricky dick and trix are for kids, Netherlands and the netherworld, 21. siege and see, hear, smell, taste, touch, 22. 16 monks and one nun, murdered, witnessed by "thousands of people", with no arrests ever made (!!), so much for the "path of bliss" (or so one would think), 23. Bijon Setu massacre, no b.s., 24. mysticism - a "method of thought", ranging from ecstatic visions, theosis (humans gaining divine qualities), and contemplation of scripture (lectio divina), 25. cats from Yekaterinburg, cat-burger, 26. Chrysler, a (bankruptcy) cry, 27. ferry capsizes, and the size of my cap (!), 28. Casey Jones, you better watch your speed!, 29. (propaganda boss) Goebbels said of Hitler, "the whole nation loves him, because it feels safe in his hands, like a child in the arms of his mother" (there are arms, and then there are arms), 30. Pindar and Pixar, 31. total eclipse of the Earnhardt, 32. yawn, Avignon, Perpignan, 33. dropping anchor and dropping acid, 34. JT, Johann Tilly, bavarian creme and Swedish fish, 35. hungry in Hungary, let's hang Gary, 36. stabbed in Stabiae, 37. hilarious Galerius, 38. wicked war, and the earl of Warwick, 39. why are we swearing (in) at presidents?, 40. Louisiana Purchase, only $15 million, in 1803, 41. cyborgs take Viborg, 42. Sovereign independence and SI (st. Ignatius), 43. the Irish dail, daily, 44. hitler's fate: cyanide, shot himself, and cremated, 45. allies, ally McBiel, Albert's deceit, and a dark alley, 46. Kuala Lumpur, and a koala's lump of sugar, 47. S.S. singer/songwriter! superstar of stage/screen!, 48.  crypto-christianity:  Xian, paint, couch, fixture, 49.  give a shit, take a piss (gas tap), 50. urine, you'r in, urination, in a nation, pp - pulitzer prize, prose poetry, 51. putting Maputo on the map, 52. Toamasina and Tasmania, 53. hello, Dubai, 54. Portland of the heartland, 55. Damascus, damn - ask us!, 56. mischief-making, with marla maples, or mary moran, or eminem, 57. go kart, cargo, escargot, 58. take a poll on pole dancing in Poland, 59. break of day, prison break, fever broke, 60. arts and crafts, crafty (new order, beastie boys), warcraft, witchcraft, handicraft, kraftwerk, 61. cum and Gough, 62. staple and leaf, 63. ingress and egress, 64. egret, regret, eager to get, 65. the meaning of kind bars, 66. bloody crypts, crips and bloods, red and blue teams, 67. crying cryptologists, 68. rome, romper room, rahm, 69. smoking pot on the Potomac, 70. nomination, 'nam a nation, 71. caravan, barbara talavan, the taliban, and caliban, 72. Sheridan rom, Cher Dan Rahm, 73. clean and clear, 74. pure cure.

Amtrak to Portland

 3/12-30, Staying in Portland, Oregon

Sitting for my friends’ house and 2 dogs, Poutine and Banh Mi

I think this is my 4th time in Portland

I met Hugo, and saw S+P’s new house, and gave everybody gifts

Augie’ birthday is in a couple weeks

I’ve been reading DFW, and Augie’s books, and the IED, and

Writing for my blog, and

Walking the dogs 3x a day, and

Eating, mostly TJ’s, but yesterday Bulgogi (korean barbeque) from a nearby truck, and

Today I visited Pierre’s dad Peter at his apartment by the river, where we walked, and I saw a snake (garter, I think).   I bought a U-lock for Pierre’s bike.   I showed Peter my magic apple watch (Siri).  We took a few laps (5?) around the walkway by the river, and chatted.  He recommended the French movie La Beaute du diable.   One of his favorite books is Plato and a Platypus walk into a bar... (the plight of a platypus is perhaps to be served on Plato's plate?).  He eats a lot of bananas.  He thinks his recent heart surgery was unnecessary, and probably a scam, by greedy doctors.

SPAH are in Mexico, splitting their time between Mexico City and Mazatlan.  Pics are on Instagram.   I’m told everybody got sick.  But they look like they’re having fun.  Sara is recovering from falling down some stairs, recently.  

So I arrived like 3 days before they left, and I’m leaving 3 days after they get back.  They have a lot of books I could read.  I read Dark Matter by Blake Crouch, last time.  I’m listening to music on their Echo at the moment, though.  IED is NOT 'improvised explosive device'.  I'm aware.

Code:  Sara and Pierre, David Foster Wallace, Illustrated Encyclopedic Dictionary, Trader Joe’s, Augustus Hugo.

The weather is nice.   I don’t mind the rain.   Sunny, today.   Maybe I’ll ride out to Reed again.

The Amtrak ride was beautiful, scenic, amazing.   Coast Starlight.  I had no idea.   Conversation was interesting (mostly).   And Pierre was right there, waiting, across the street, in his Leaf.  It's been a long time.   A much appreciated change of pace.   Kind of a vacation, really.  I have fun playing with Augs.  And Hugo likes me.  We had thai food from a restaurant before they left.  And the dogs are friendly and fun.   I gave Sara a foot insert, Pierre a hiking book and edible coin (bitcoin, get it), Augie - 4 nerf guns and a bag of nerf darts, and Hugo a ball.   Also, Wonder by Palacio has a character named Auggie.  Which I bought/brought.  I remember getting a book with a hero named Jesse when I was a kid.  The David Foster Wallace book (I finished) is The Broom of the System.  This (blog) got 87 page views on Sunday, but only 8 on Tuesday.  Go figure.  I put out the bins, and bring in the mail.  I play wprb a lot (as usual).  I've been oversleeping, but not today.  My aunt Rose Marie sent me a St. Patrick's letter to this address.  Pierre and I built a bunkbed before he left.   I like this place.   Lots of moss.

I met Megan, who sits Hugo (and another baby, Olivia), here.  I remember her name from "me, again."  I ran into their friend Chris, twice, (walking his dog Bagel), who I met last time, while walking the dogs.   And Sara is off to the dentist.  Pierre is applying for jobs.  Rose Marie sent me a weird picture of the sun and moon looking like 2 suns, "moon hunter" or something, supposedly something to do with the earth's axis, which I shared.  Poutine is still a really noisy breather.  Hugo has the hang of playing ball with me, rolling it back and forth.  They had some adventures in Mexico: a female soldier, who was apparently confused, with giving incorrect directions, luggage down stairs that was too heavy for Augie (!), and a snafu with the seating on one of the flights, having the same seats printed as another ticket (!), which was ignored by the flight staff, on a full flight.  Sara and Pierre both got Montezuma's revenge.  I bought pepto bismol for them, (and desitin).  They ate an expensive, delicious dinner, cheaply.  Augie liked relaxing in the sun on the beach the best, which reminded me of the "go slow" motto in Belize.  Pierre said Mexico City is what L.A. is trying to be.  Augie and Pierre play video games downstairs, and I showed Aug how to use his yo-yo (it doesn't spin at the bottom, though, so it won't "walk"). There's a blue jay that I think eats their dog food.  Augs saw a lizard in Mexico.  I heard a woodpecker, saw a rooster.  Megan says people "go crazy" at Reed, and that they have "really good parties."   She's studying philosophy.   I gave her some of my cards.  Hugo is good-natured, and doesn't seem to cry that much.  Banh likes to chase the squirrels.  Plenty of other dogs, cats, joggers, bicyclists.  I had pepperoni pizza and a coke at Baerlic's, and a "little big burger" again.  Augie asked, "why are you always funny?," : possibly the best thing anyone's ever said to me,  :-)

perusing a dictionary

 Adults are adulterated?  Children are pure?

criminal contempt of congress charges

A witches brew in New Brunswick

Wicked wiccans

sad, strife and discord

Caw!  Country and western

Cunctation, delayed by a conk on the head

Curlew curfew, bustard bastard, goshawk at gottschaulk's

   Says the bored bird bard

Marsupials drinking an ocean of soup

Franco’s fascist falange

demons, dementia, and democracy

    demons, demonstrations, and demonyms

    democracy, I will not be mocked!

An embrace at the Ambracian gulf

I AM (Ahura Mazda), wise spirit

Ormazd, source of truth

a sage is a plant (in a vegetative state)

Bowling and tying a bowline

Lemmings in Fleming

Dog poo (bm) : bulldog-mastiff : (boxer)

What’s your angle, angel?

kid, kin, kind, ink, dink

   double income, no kids

Maligning the mullein

monstera is a genus of plants

Harrold's heraldry

dragon from aragon eats terragon

Ha, laughter (Halafian comedians)

Rite of passage, and right of pannage

Fabulous fabulists

in a yawl, y'all

Stuart the stupid student

  but a stud and stuff

  stumbled, stubbed toe, stuck

  stunningly stultifying

actinoid, acting annoyed

The Croesus-Jesus

Christian cretin

Ailanthus, tree of heaven

mohammed, minarets, muezzins, muftis

  Allah, Sharia, Quran; ask, and you shall get an answer 

     merciful, messenger, missionary, mecca, medina 

mechanization, medication, meditteranean, median

Culicide - insecticide that kills mosquitoes, kewl

Florentine, palatine, horniman museum

Honeysuckle and buttercup

Mickey mouse, a murine mammal, mm mouse milk

Freedom, freezing, Frisian, and a frieze

tears, tiers, frontiers

gift is a German word for poison

ate supper, and suppurate

cicadas and sick with aids and, well, ada

eristics, ekistics, statistics, ticks

perfunctory emunctory

irrelevant revelation

fugacious dragonflies

orchids, and ork kids

   orthodox, reform, conservative

ivy wards off goblins

elf:  energy, life,, food

ass is grass, and asparagus

you are a yew, you are the U, Yale University

you-niverse and me-niverse, whirlds

add, ads, adz, ladder, adder

energumen, possessed of an evil spirit

fields, realms, spheres

I'll oil wells need you (always)

bunny snowshoes! (buenos noches, good night)

plaster of Paris, pop!

rodents, roads, and Rhodes

ships, trains, airplanes, trucks - stat!

Rambo plays crambo

USA, university of southern alabama 

Bo Hai, hi beau, tae-bo

Cicero's sister, cyesis - pregnancy

dry wine (evaporated?)

head cheese and head costard

antelopes, cantaloupes, and eloping

sherbet and sorbet, sure bet and Kevin sorbo

Laurel and Hardy, filmed from '26-'45

Cheryl, Darryl, Meryl, Errol, aril, carol, feral

P and S, god pervades and sustains the U

hurry, Caine!  psych, alone!  thai foons!

fratricide, killing a fraternity

surinamese surnames

awful offal, don't worry about gurry

bike mechanic, bohemia/moravia, gun fed by belt, magazine

pp, polychrome pottery and powerful physiques

bristling at missiles, pistol from bristol

Bernard the gurnard

cuscus eats couscous

kingfish, the kingfisher, and the fisher king 

Rudy thinks the rood is rude

Holy Joe, a chaplain/clergyman, 

    or a pious and self-righteous person

Hinduism - a supreme being of many forms and natures

    (B-S-V) all aspects of one infinite truth

    avatars, castes, non-violence, reincarnation

mad and bad in ahmadabad (Gujarat, India)

hebetude, dullness of mind, mental lethargy

the battery powered robot "takes charge"

making a centaur in my lab (lawlessness, animal passion, barbarism)

Chiron, Kai and Ron, 

  if you own one you can pronounce it any way you like!

Hecate is a P.O.W. (protectress of witches)

Hercules stole a tripod

"smart" (intelligence, pain, or dress?) iPod

cycads, psych advertisements, hug a tree

what does ease and order have to do with:

    disease and disorders?

you and me, euphoria, uterus

Rumi and rum in my room

learn by heart, forget by brain

continually contemning cunts

Andy in the Andes

Toronto canada and Taranto italy 

pb, bp, piranha barracuda

tick talk, ixodiasis

minimum of minium

foramen, amen! immanent

'christ recrucified' -kazantzakis '64

jesus christ, parcheesi

kenosis, ken, keno, sister, keynote, gnosis, know sis, no sis

strike a shrike

hello mudra, hello fodder

calves and calve-knots (a cowboy thing)

medications, meditation, mediterranean

    music, ecstatic dance

song and dance, if you're sad

hg, mercury, Holy Ghost

hm, hitman, holy man, heavy metal

se, sensory experience of the south-east

clamant claimant

logical positivism and illogical negativism

ajax raped cassandra

reflect and repent

an essay on kayo

lordy, life or death why

eon, era, period, epoch, age

janus, genius, genie, and jean

size and strength, s.s.

dealing with shit, like a pure day with night soil

vegan AND kashrut?

nazis on jupiter