Adan & Eva Without Adan

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Eva climbed  twelve-steps
without her Adan...
Why?
   
She did it just
to prove she can...
And
 
She was fed food
by a thumbsy man!

After she was fed
the blue-eyed girl said:
 
Nothing beatsa  slice of pizza! 

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Tall Men & Ostrich Eggs

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If this walking man 

needed an ostrich egg


He might say

Brother, can you spare an egg?

And his brother would say

I sure can, Brother

The brothers are Alberto & Diego Giacometti.

 Alberto was 13 months older.

Both sculptors worked in the same studio.

Alberto Giacometti
(1901-1966)
who created  The Walking Man

Diego Giacometti
(1902-1985)
who created  The Ostrich Egg

All brothers
should be 
so accommodating!

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Profundity Trumps Accuracy + Vice Versa (#2)

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Rene Descartes 
(1596-1650)

Profundity Trumping Accuracy:

I think, therefore I am.

Descartes

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Paul Valery 
(1872-1945)

 Accuracy Trumping Profundity:

Sometimes I think,
Sometimes I am.
Valery
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Reducibly Jimi Hendrix: Proper/Improper & Reciprocated

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If six turned out to be nine...I don't mind

Then two would be three...Reciprocally
I would be... Me-and-a-half    
with a mirthematical laugh    

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Once upon a time
I "raised my freak flag high!"
but Time + Experience
changes things 

Footnote
For many years, a very large poster of  Jimi Hendrix
graced the walls  of an inner-city classroom.

A balloon caption in the framed poster
mathematically corrupted the lyrics to  If 6 Was 9.

In the background of a photograph featured
in the  March 13, 1996  Los Angeles Times,
the Hendrix poster is visible.

The  2nd-Generation photographs above
are the copyrighted property of LCSoL.

But this website welcomes inquiries
regarding usage or purchase
of both images.

As Jimi might have said:
Proper & Improper are only 
the names of fractions.

And now...possibly prefaced by an advert
6 + 9   seconds in length... I present a song
from the Jimi Hendrix Experience:
© If 6 Was 9.

Once upon a time, there was the GodFather of Math.
It features a handful of pages about Jimi Hendrix.

Those pages can be found by searching for–
verbatim– Jimi Hendrix "Godfather of Math"
But the most interesting of those pages is  here.

You may preface that link with this hint:
Once upon a time,  Jimi Hendrix–a superstar in England–
was virtually unknown in these good old United States.  
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Mr. Photoverio © (#8): Let There Be Light

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© Oliverio
But Her Shine Did Prevail
(2014)

The SUN

Did Sleep

Undercover



Photoverio #9  is here.

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Mr. Photoverio © (#7): Schnazzola Tribute

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© Oliverio
LBSC Tissue Dispenser
(2013)

Mr. Durante:

We have your nose!

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Mr. Photoverio © (#6): Unlit Candle Intruders

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© Oliverio
Long Beach Promenade 
(2013)

Bah bah...

Bas Relief




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Acrimonious Acronyms: P.T.A. & A.T.P. (#1)

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Example of Profundity Trumping Accuracy:

 Time changes things

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Example of Accuracy Trumping Profundity:

Most often, Time changes things,

but not always.

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Footnote
This page is the copyrighted property of LCSoL.

The next example of PTA/ATP is here.
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Way Down Upon A Pawny River

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 A Poem by Mrs. CarP
 Media pays the poor in dreams
 Media pays the dreamy well
 Media lets us peek it seems
 Media tells us "you can go to hell."

 But on that trip to hell
 They ring the dinner bell
 To distract with what they sell
"Buy our garbage. Don't rebel."


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 Footnote
 WAY DOWN UPON A PAWNY RIVER is the copyrighted property of LCSoL.
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$uper Dollars For A $uper Hero

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A near-flawless edition of the first book featuring cartoon hero Superman from June 1938
has fetched $3.2 million at auction, according to e-Bay, surging past the previous record
for a single comic book.
 

© artdaily.org

 
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Vincent, 2 Rocks & David Hockney

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A Visual Analogy:

Vincent Van Gogh 
The Potato Eaters
(1885)

is to:

Norman Rockwell
 Freedom From Want
 (1943)

As

Norman Rockwell
Love Ouanga 
 (1936)

is to:

David Hockney
Mr and Mrs Clark and Percy 
 (1971) 

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People Who... (#1) ©

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Say only what other people want to hear
make everybody's best friend list.

BUT

People who say only what other people need to hear
never get invited to anybody's parties.

HOWEVER

The need-sayer is more likely to be never forgotten.
Sometimes, the memory is tinged with gratitude.
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Another Layer Of The Onion ©

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Area Facebook User  Incredibly Stupid 

“I like looking at things
  on Facebook, but I don’t
  understand a lot.
  Help, please.”

© OnionNews.com
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From The Canvas To The Kitchen

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Giuseppe Arcimboldo
 Vertumnus
 1591

The Godfather of Tomfoodery

This is his oil painting

The website is "watermarked"

Twenty-one generations later...

We have a cute confectionary concoction

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One image makes me hungry  while the other image
makes me want to correctly pronounce: trompe l'oeil.


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Footnote
Anyone who has ever referred to the 16th Century artist Arcimboldo
as the ancestral Godfather of Surrealism
knew what they were talking about.

Arcimboldo  
The Librarian

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3.5 Questions From Dawn Powell

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For the New York Times review, Click there.

Was it true that this world was filled
with men and women merely 
marking time before 
their cemetery?

When did courage's lease expire,
was there no renewal possible?

What specialist in mediocrity
determined the prize winners
and ruled what measure
of banality was required
for success?

Dawn Powell
A Time To Be Born
(1942)




The next Dawn Powell page is here. 
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Mr. Photoverio © (#5) : Only Interested In Jimi

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Fret Not The Abominable NotiPadious

© Oliverio  
For Ray Peterssen
 (2014)

It
wanted 

nothing 
more

than to 
attend the...


Jimi Hendrix Concert


at the OatMeal Stadium








The soundtrack is...


Still Raining, Still Dreaming








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BONUS TRACK:

The Wind Cries Mary
After all the jacks are in their boxes,
and the clowns have all gone to bed,
you can hear happiness
staggering on down the street,
footprints dress in red.

And the wind whispers Mary.

A broom is drearily sweeping
up the broken pieces of yesterday's life.
Somewhere a Queen is weeping,
somewhere a King has no wife.
Jimi Hendrix ©


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Footnote
The next Photoverio page (#6) is here.

The next Hendrix page is there.
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Mr. Photoverio © (#4): My Paraphrasing

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With an Apology to Langston Hughes

© Oliverio
Jefferson High School Yearbook 
1990

Cover design & illustration:
Ishmael Lewis

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Mr. Photoverio © (#3): We Hold These Truths To Be

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Did Thomas Jefferson
dance with
the Flappers
???

 The Pursuit of

Flappinefs?


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Mr. Photoverio © (#2): Triad

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© Oliverio
Hard Sale/Yard Sale 2014

Vest-pocket Twain

Giotto Jesus

&

Diego Rivera Glove

with hint of skylight



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Mr. Photoverio © (#1): Hallelujah

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© Oliverio
Lindero-2013

Let 

There 

Be 

Light






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God, Sumerians, & The Onion

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Sumerians Look On In Confusion As God Creates World

 

According to recently 
excavated clay tablets 
inscribed with 
cuneiform 
tablets, 


thousands of Sumerians—the first humans to establish systems of writing, agriculture, and government—
were working on their sophisticated irrigation systems when  
the Father of All Creation reached down from the ether 
and blew the divine spirit of life 
into their thriving civilization...

© TheOnion.com







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Footnotes
For the most recent exclusive ONION news
about Mr. L. G. Almighty, click here.

O.N.O. (the Oregano News Organization)
is intent upon proving the following:
the journalists responsible for such
revelatory news–as appears on this page–
are all products of Catholic School Education.
But rather than achieve the highest grades in class,
they preferred to get the biggest laughs.

A non-journalist who definitely fits this description
is a fellow by the name of George Carlin.

Headquartered in Eugene, Oregon →
the Oregano News Organization is an affiliate of LCSoL.
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Francisco Goya: Sketched & Translated w/ Qualifier

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    Francisco Goya   
Caprichio #43

The

Sleep

of 

Reason

Produces 

Monsters



If all our monsters
existed only in our sleep,
we could be reasonably happy!
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Nicanor Parra: The Next Centenarian

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People visit a photographic exhibition in honour
of  Chilean poet Nicanor Parra in Santiago, on August 19, 2014.

 THE LAST TOAST


Whether we like it or not,
We have only three choices:

Yesterday, today and tomorrow.



And not even three

Because as the philosopher says

Yesterday is yesterday

It belongs to us only in memory:

From the rose already plucked

No more petals can be drawn.



The cards to play

Are only two:

The present and the future.



And there aren't even two

Because it's a known fact
The present doesn't exist

Except as it edges past

And is consumed...

like youth.



In the end

We are only left with tomorrow.

I raise my glass

To the day that never arrives.



But that is all 

we have at our disposal.
Nicanor Parra


The Chilean poet, mathematician, and physicist
will be celebrating  his one hundredth birthday
two weeks from today on September 5, 2014.
¡Feliz cumpleaños!



The AFP Photo by Martin Bernetti appears
in today's Art Daily newsletter.

© artdaily.org








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Footnote
To read the poem in Chilean, click here.
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Authenticity, The Uber-Camera, And Friends (CR #764)

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Here you go...

There it is...

Tony Carrillo
 F Minus

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Art Daily & Big Ben

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Time & Time Again

London's Big Ben
gets clock face clean-up.

Five days have been
set aside for the job.



AFP Photo/
Ben Stansall

© artdaily.org





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AFP PHOTO / BEN STANSALL.

More Information: http://artdaily.com/news/72271/London-s-Big-Ben-gets-clock-face-clean-up--Five-days-have-been-set-aside-for-the-job-#.U_X-SUiMTN9[/url]
Copyright © artdaily.org

London's Big Ben gets clock face clean-up; Five days have been set aside for the job

More Information: http://artdaily.com/news/72271/London-s-Big-Ben-gets-clock-face-clean-up--Five-days-have-been-set-aside-for-the-job-#.U_X8x0iMTN8[/url]
Copyright © artdaily.org

He Said...She Said (He/She #32) ©

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"I've got a new acronym: Big CATS."

"Is this related to the Big Game
 we played a few weeks ago?"

"Big game?"

"The one where everything we said 
  began with I believe in a God who...?"

"Yes! Of Course. I'm glad one of us
  can remember the games we play."

"So who are the Big CATS?"

"The Creators of All Things."

"Shouldn't that be Big CAT?"

"No. Because there are 2 creators,
 I pluralize the word."

"Of course: God & Godette!"

"Exactly. They are also known as Mr. & Mrs. God"

"They are known by as many names as there are religions."

"Right. Anyway...In the embryonic days of existence,  
  oceans and rivers were easy for the Big CATS: 
  all they  had to do was add water."

"Sounds simple enough."
 
"The sun and the stars were self-standing light fixtures. 
  But mountains were a problem because Mr. God, 
  sitting at the drafting table, used simple folds of paper
  as a model.
"Meanwhile,   from across the room came a chant 
  of ‘Boring! Boring!’"

"Was that Mrs. God–I mean Godette?"

"It certainly was. And she said:
 'I have an idea on how to shape the mountains.'
 Godette, being a creator and being a woman,
 naturally created beauty."

"Sounds logical."

"Godette was beautiful enough to make
  Marilyn Monroe look like Marilyn Manson.
  Her body had the kind of curves  that make
  people dream in stereo."

"So what was her idea?"

"She placed a red silk sheet on the floor...
  Then stretched her stunningly gorgeous naked body  
  across the silken surface."

"Holy odalisque!"

"And then there were mountains!"
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The Difference Between Information And Intelligence

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09/10/01
There were nineteen dossiers,

each in the sole possession 

of nineteen different agents.

Each dossier finely detailed 

the daily behavior and lifestyle 

of nineteen different "suspects."

Each of those dossiers contained information:

very elaborate and articulated information.

But none of those dossiers contained intelligence

If intelligence were involved, the dossiers

would have all been common knowledge

to each of the nineteen agents.

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***

And the next day would have been nothing more

than a sunny September Tuesday in New York.
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The Abominable Notipadious...

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Was sighted outside the Doctor's door...

© Oliverio 
Footprints

But keep your fear
beneath the floor

Into your ears,
let the music sink

Just click on
the hyperlink

South of the
photo border:

The podiatrist is
Wayne Shorter


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When Is An Athlete More Than An Athlete?

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When he can write an essay such as this:

Will the recent rioting in Ferguson, Missouri, 
be a tipping point in the struggle against racial injustice, 
or will it be a minor footnote in some future grad student’s thesis
on Civil Unrest in the Early Twenty-First Century?
The answer can be found in May of 1970...

The author of this TIME Magazine essay is in the NBA Hall of Fame

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

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STREET ART UTOPIA (#11)

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  Question: Is this a Vegetarian King Kong? 

Foliage incorporated into a wall painting
(Keramikos, Athens, Greece)

Only

Street Art Utopia

Knows the

Answer



Artist = WD







The next STREET ART page is here.
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Sixty Three Years Ago Tomorrow...

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There is nothing Photoshopped in this image

Eddie Gaedel
August 19, 1951

In a Major League Baseball game

between the St. Louis Browns

and the Detroit Tigers,
Eddie Gaedel pinch-hit
in the first inning.

With the St. Louis Browns (who would later become the Baltimore Orioles) 

languishing near the bottom of the Americn League standings, 

legendary owner Bill Veeck sent 3-foot-7 Eddie Gaedel 

to the plate as a pinch-hitter in the first inning 

of a game against the Tigers.

After showing the umpire his official contract, 

Gaedel walked on four pitches, was replaced 

by a pinch-runner at first base and received 

a standing ovation from the crowd.

The shortest player to ever record 

a Major League plate appearance,

Gaedel's jersey --number 1/8-- 

is preserved in the Hall of Fame.



This italic hyperlink is from a "Small Sports Bar"
but the good folks at Wikipedia also have something
to say about Edward Carl Gaedel, including this:

Due to its scarcity, Gaedel's autograph now sells for more than Babe Ruth's.   
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The Bible According To Wiley Miller (CR # 756)

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Wiley Miller 
Non Sequitir
©

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Tear-stained, Hazy & Non-existential image

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The original  image is from 2013

from The F. Scott Fitzgerald Society

The tears might as well have been mine.

The photograph of the image was taken
this morning with my dim-witted smart phone.

I wanted to scream at that stark sentence:

Scott, you are so beloved...
Robin Williams named his daughter ZELDA  

I cried because the great unwashed will believe 
that "Zelda" originated with a video game.

Scott & Zelda Fitzgerald

 

The next Fitzgerald page
is here.
 
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