chapter one

IF YOU KANT STAND THE HEAT GET OUT OF THE KITCHEN

"why did i take this job"? he asked in rhetoric
he knew why. the path. the calling...

it started early, once clete boyer was announced

by bob

now batting #6...

"he is gonna hit a home run"

"how do you know"?

garagiola, deep to left...

"you've got the shine"

yeah. and i am claiming it now as mine.

he picked up the phone.

"mary ann, when the shit hits the fan, i am the man whose fanny is gonna wave in the breeze"
i ain't gonna truck food up a freight elevator to feed the 30 most important people in this corporation.

you call the salesperson who sold this piece of shit and tell him the client is coming for a visit. free some time
I.B.M. for breakfast-International Paper for brunch-lunch will be served at Celanese-courtesy of the chef.
call Houston- (we have a problem) i want Skip to agree to bankroll this trip-even tho' you and i know Bell will pay his way...
i need something in my tool kit, greater than my wit."

and get some tickets to a broadway show. something funny.
may i suggest P.S. your cat is dead-he'll laugh his ass off

"have you spoken to jack"?

"not yet, that's next-got to go-get busy"

he hung up.

gathered himself.

thought

"you have huge cajones"

yeah. living in a small hotel...

time to meet with the liaison.

this is going to be one hard sell...

houdini

david robertsen

now you see it

then you don't...

PS: he is amaZing

David Bowie Imagine (John Lennon cover)

irene's aftermath

lots of twigs and branches...

{not the 1st time i've been accused

of being in the dark.}

a wonderful time for contemplation...

and saying thanx.

be kind to one another...

gods other son

even got imus in the morn'....

ready, willing, able

i called in


4 hours early

store mgr.

what's up- got power

yes
but no one in your dept. showed up

see you monday

stay safe

Starman - The David Bowie Experience

PS: can u believe this?

mr bowie aint even dead yet.....

Red Hot Chili Peppers - Californication [Official Music Video]

PS: anthony is from grand rapids

Red Hot Chili Peppers - Dani California [Official Music Video]

David Bowie - America @ Concert For New York City

David Bowie Sings Frank Sinatra - My Way

PS: mayor hanna proud...

David Bowie - Buddha Of Suburbia [Music Video] - Starseed Pop-Culture

the power was shut off

(by lipa)

not irene...

(living in lies by the rail way ties

kant tell the bullshit from the truth...)

there is something going on here, but you don't know what it is-do you

mr. jones

(ballad of a thin man)

the power came back on...

14 hours off

i.f.c.

the door in the floor

(a widow for one year)

mr. irving

irony...

Bob Dylan - Shelter from the storm

SWEET

little willie

(1 hit wonder)

((ballroom blitz was not a hit)

sorry- i digress

SWEET

outside my door this a.m.

my digital cable box

just set it up

got c-span back

book t.v.

h.b.o.-i.f.c.

bbc-america


etc. etc.

pabloshouse is 1 happy couch potato

(as irene rears her fugly head)


windy had stormy eyes...

THE FUTURE - LEONARD COHEN - LIVE IN LONDON

Louis Armstrong What A Wonderful World

once; again too

same song-different images

the beat goes on...

the yankees hit 3

grand slam

round trippers

same game

( "poosh 'em up" hit 2 in 1)

never been done before...

baseball, alone, will keep me passionate for life...

what a wonderful world, mr. armstrong

canned soup

(sounds like a marx brother's title)

the canned soup aisle was also wiped out

i asked one man with,like 14 cans in his basket

"you must like soup"

"if the power go off, least i got something to eat"

(how are you going to heat it? over a sterno?)
((i see a busy day for islip F.D. if the power "go off"))

another-she usually shops on mondays' (monday,monday)
(mamas and papas)

{that one's for you-Dar-Ma}

she had an over-loaded cart (even for hers')

"whadaya doin"?

"just in case-i know i'm stupid, i watch fox news too"

"what are you afraid of"?

"the power going off"

so you are here buying a cart full of things that will fill your refrigerator and your freezer?...

PS: i am dumbfounded ... by the sheep

and know

i am not a shepherd...

(rock & a hard)

zookeeper's assistant

Bottled water

Batteries

Beef (ground)

Milk

T.P.

all gone, gone, gone

(phil & don)

'fore the day got long

{the line was 12 long at the deli for 1/2 the day...}

we ran out of plastic bags at the checkout...


people are crazy and times are strange
i'm locked in tight i'm out of range(bobby zimmerman)

people are strange(jim morrison)



saturday & sunday

i am going to pedal to work in the wind and the rain

i think all these animals

are fucking insane...

someone asked II

why do you hide it?

because if i showed it in public

and

couldn't control it

i would probably get arrested

my lawyer would plead "blood supply"...

i remember...

some folk ((1 in particular))

tellin' me

the people you meet in college will be life-long friends

yeah, right

cleopatra...



how many of us remain in contact with alma-mater "friends"?


PS: ships in the night

silver linings

cable company is charging $7 per month remote included. my bad. (by $36 annually)

( i had paul, call)

i can offer you a 1 year grace period.

install all digital boxes needed to your add-sets now
and you will not begin to pay the $7 monthly charge per box until september 2012

please send.

should be delivered in a few days.

so don't worry about covering the cost (i offered)
till next year.

oh,

and now you will get optimum

same as we have upstairs

all the movie channels
it's like 150 channels...


PS: sweet

(silver linings)

i felt the earth move

under my seat

(carole king)


the sky did not tumble.

by sunday

a few trees may

say

goodnight, irene

(john sebastian)

PS: a quake and a 'cane in the same week

{ GORE !!!}

(stephen colbert)

call the cable guy

(jim carrey)

((not you, larry))

my cable is off; 'cept a blue screen background with yellow letters

think it sez. ha ha we got ya.

now required to attach a digital box to your t.v. set to receive signal

box is FREE

call(866) 580-0535

yep.

box is free.

monthly fee?

10 bucks (if you want a remote)

PS: got you by the short and curlies (mick jagger)

i urge

the super congress

all 12

read simpson-bowles

then call your first meeting to order...

(among this disorder)

find where you can agree

(at least there's a woman to referee).

to the t.e.a. (party? really?)

partyests ...

pinky's up!

you brought this debate to the floor

of national concern

and for that you deserve kudos..


now

offer us independent, blue, doggedly conservative progressives a presidential candidate

not out of a lewis carroll classic

or stand down.



PS: even a broken clock is right

twice a day.

munia, munia, munia

yada,yada,yada

rudebega, rudebega

(the incessant noise of an uninformed crowd)

i am just a worker ant...

PS: i am working on my rewrite

(all right)...

succinct

precise

&

concise

PS:aye, there's the rub

(billy the shake)

borders

the nations largest book store is going out of business.

(well, shame on them for trying to compete)

((why buy a book when there's a thriving, lending library in town))

bricks and mortar...


vinyl (sam goody)

tape (blockbuster)

the book?...

see you in cyberspace

read you on kindle

(or a blog)

what a brave new world...

Bob Dylan - Things Have Changed

PS: 10 -10 thirty

ryan will pick up

A.M.?

things have changed....

did ya' know?

huntsmen speaks fluent chinese.

wow!

tho' i think we are 25 executive election cycles away from needing the president

to speak mandarin.

PS: got to go

my schezuan dinner is ready...

math class

i was good at plus and minus

got times and divided

geometry? a bit harder

algebra?

really tough for me

(what the fuck is X?)

half way thru the year

i am not doing well...

on the bus one morning

i sat next to jimmy

(he later became nypd blue
got shot on the job-now owns an eatery nearby)

he asked: "did you do your homework?"

no

me neither- i thought i'd do it during spanish

you do the first 5

i'll do the last 5

we'll exchange and submit...

at class

a few days later...

mr tanner

mr's paul and jimmy

see me after class...

you guys got 5 right and 5 wrong with exactly the same answers...

what gives?

1st tell me who got the 5 right


PS: later at a parent - teacher confab

mr tanner said i remember another son from a summer school-i have now seen light lightbulbs glow bright in both their heads...

PSS: my "lightbulb" lit when Popa explained how to figure batting average

and E.R.A.'s

(now we have bill james, saber-metrics and the elias sports bureau)

{evolution- Shh-it scares some...}

Allentown- Billy Joel

PS: symbiotic


levitown ?

Arcade Fire - "Sprawl II (Mountains Beyond Mountains)"

PS: something borrowed

something blue...

Subdivisions - Rush

PS: hear this....

now hear ....

someone asked

what's the best thing that ever happened to you?

Being born into my family.

to quote the iron horse...

i am the luckiest man on the face of the earth...

SPRING

(arab style) has turned towards summer

fall is soon to follow

libya, syria

winter can be cold...

PS: citizens of both,

be bold....

that's right

i'm working on the rewrite

(all right)

gonna take the title

and throw it in the trash

gonna change the ending

and turn it into cash.

PS: thanx mr. simon

(lookey that-we share a 1st name and initials)

PSS: P. S. i love you (john lennon)

PSSS: y tu misters king, irving & brooks

(sounds like a regal, legal & serene team)

you inspire me.

{not you, bobby z.- i love you

but

your brilliance intimidates}

P (how many now?) S:

there's a lone soldier on the cross, smoke pourin' out of a boxcar door
you didn't know it, you didn't think it could be done,
in the final end he won the wars
after losin' every battle.
(idiot wind)

or

don't need the weatherman to tell me which way the wind blows...


take a

stand...


set free your bears...

google mr. brooks

he sez

something stupid (frank and nancy)

then

something profound.

he sez

something funny

(acts the clown

then quotes a renowned.

he tells a story

maybe from the past

then a poem

then

maybe nothing

he is silent



(a repast)?

someone asked

"who is he, anyway"?

he
is you...


PS: come together (john lennon)

johns hopkins

study

(trial)

reduced caloric intake

1200 calories (a day)

(lab rats)

perform at much higher levels

than their peers

at advanced ages...

human trials are underway


i'm a believer (neil diamond)

as a writer

well,

as a poster

(impostor ?)

i am all over the fucking place

aren't i

PS: don't ask me why

(billy joel)

PSS: i think most times...

you are no vincent

you are more jackson pollack

throw it at the canvas

and see what sticks.

PSS: you are starting to speak in the 3rd person (rickey henderson)

stop it...

national geographic

this month.

(every time i see the magazine i think of christmas and marge and bill.)

(( in florida over lunch i called him uncle war hero whom never wants to talk about it.))

i should have referenced margie. (my bad)

i thought should i say aunt 4-H? or aunt national geo for i believe the subscription was probably her idea.

(missed opportunities)

national geographic magazine.

horseshoe crabs have an enzyme in their blood that detects pathogens that could kill mankind.

who knew?

(and whose brilliant mind even set off in this kind of discourse?)

PS: mea culpa

for all the horse shoes we overturned in the ebb tide sands of short beach
spike down-belly-up

to bake to death under the sun.

hurricane helen

was forced down my end tonight

(schedules)

(( i fight and debate at both jobs that they will work me within certain parameters))

i do not always get my way.

{ despite some co-workers belief in the contrary}

Another had to be cut-off at 9:00 p.m.

(he was "scheduled" to close)

NO OVERTIME!

the designated shift leader:

no no what am i gonna do!

you got 3 closers plus yourself and the svengali is here until 12

you gonna stay 'till 12? (d.s.l.)

i have been working since 8:00 a.m.-what do you want from me?

your scheduled until 12 (mgr.)

i will stay until 12- when rico gets back from vacation-we all need a pow-wow
hire another part-time cook. i'll train.


meanwhile- we need to have a discussion aboot' ms. hurricane
all night long you have been calling demands for extra things to a deaf woman.
(you are talking to me-but i aint working her mucking fess of a work station)
want me to start playing dumb?

PS: things will change

(and i will repeat)

i aint changing rooms no more...

at least not until an urn is interned

somewhere...

FARM AID II

No. ( as in "on the road, again" running from the tax man willie nelson)

Yes. (as to a provision in the "economic recovery act")

Farmers who suffered damage because of the economic crisis could get relief
by filing a federal form.

a shrewd barrister , al spire, went over the law with a fine-tooth comb.
he deduced that "attempting" to farm was covered.

To date: $2.25 billion (yes, that's a B )

has been paid out.

how much went into the pockets of "attempted" farmers
is hard to evaluate.

one true farmer was brave enough to stand in front of the camera and say:

"farming is in our roots. our fore-fathers worked americas' land for others profit.
every african american is due $50,000 that should have been paid to our grandparents.
this generation is collecting our reparation."

buffet said

"the rich should pay more"

(a yearling at work)

"i think the parrot heads agree"

PS: out of the mouths of babes in margaritaville

pooh, pooh

i wanted to deliver colbert's take on the anderson cooper laugh out

(i laughed like a 13 year old girl-he said)

any one wonder aboot' his "orientation" now?

but

i kant install adobe flash player

nor interpret

cave carvings

greek

latin

nor

most of what

steve duecy sez...

blow hard

i was the executive in charge for a term

plus

(left as nixon)

((sounds like a novel

save the wave and the 'copter))

you have to take a stand and demand

it may cost you in the long term

as it pays dividends to others in the short term

((early bird gets the worm))

be firm

in your convictions

((in youth- be not afraid to say

i don't know, no comprende, it's beyond my experience))

yet

fret

less

about biting off more then you can chew

at any time (alanis)

we have big mouths and

bigger brains...


(a blow...)

back in a few moments



{ this silence is brought to you by no sponsors )....


i get by with a little help from my friends...


post-script

i finally broke free

and got my first

Ta-too

i wanted to hide it

(unlike others whom seem to scream

look at me)

so i got a Ta-too on my penis

(well-hidden nobody has seen it in years)

what of?

a bigger penis

of course...

PS: show off

we got no place else to go

('cept gold or as mattress stuffing)

that's while we'll hold 10,800

or so

((anybody wanna buy H.P. (or should i say h.p.) or bank of america stock?

i think not

we lost $1.5 billion bailing and then selling chrysler...

(lee's rolling over)

And... to a french concern.
(or was it german? who can tell anymore)

((at least we can be sure they won't be building vehicles of mass destruction))


{i think the french invented soccer. who else would play a game that left their hands free
free to what? surrender?}

(curtis silwa)

i digress...


the bell is ringing

maria is singing

our 401 k's are burning

as

obama fiddles...


PS: nice bus

(made in canada)


PSS: we will never surrender

no matter the cost

(winnie the p.)

PSSS: and if your thinking "pooh"?


i just might,

take a shot at you...



got you

in my cross-hairs

(i mean: sight)

51%

of american tax payer filers


(emphasis on filers)

paid no federal tax in 2010


PS: taxed enough already?

whom?

PS: do the math

this system is not self-supporting...


everyone needs to pay a share

(carry that weight)

meatloaf

(i always loved it cold with ketchup-on a sandwich-next day)

((kinda-like possum innards mr clampet ))

{ tho' after my catholic school daze-brown bag was kept in your desk drawer)

then, we had pbj's and tuna fish.

(tuna fish?)

today, child services would send investigators

anywho

back to no point...

meatloaf was on piers morgan tonight

i saw him once

at oneonta

part of the national lampoon traveling revue

(a 4 person team)

comedy in prose & song

PS: later, he was the only of the troupe chugging beers in the rathskellar

(ask ricky)

Harry Nilsson - Turn On Your Radio

volume was low

friday's in august are usually slow.

maybe we've reached the low.

(or a new normal)

where's mark haines?

dow is about to tank

we will be below 10,000

by fridays' bell

PS:it's four o'clock

where's your $

maria

FIND THE HUMOUR

or have it your own miserable way...


PS: good day

new venture

glow-in-the-dark

sushi

PS:think it'll sell?

Harry Nilsson - Joy

3x06 The Mark of El Kabong

oh my darling

i'm a huckleberry

doc had a quick draw

dadoo's got a

babba looey

PS: doll holdings...

these are the best of times

these are the worst of times

(charles dickens)

by the by

i wear A & F as i blog..


any offers?

deep to left

back at the track at the wall we are tied

i don't believe what i just saw..

YES...

kick save and a beauty...

holy cow!...

Ps: fond soundtracks

80's Starkist Tuna Commercial

a blast from the past

Dream On - Aerosmith

PS: 1/2 my life is in books written pages

lived and learned from fools and from sages

BRAVERY

palex 52258 @ G-mail.com

(608) 630-2233)

come talk to me (peter gabriel)

talk to me (joni mitchell)




PS: publisher's calls take precedent

nobody's talkin to me

(mr nilsson)

ain't sharing a word they're thinking...
(only their echoes in my mind)

oh well

i'll put the lime in the coconut

and blog on...

ratzo rizzo

i swear

some days

i have to check this blog

PS: i think i sleep post

(i already know that i sleep walk)

((better than most whom seem to walk aboot' in a daze))

and think "post" is a cereal

if you are here

on an expired visa

or green card

(or you walked across the border)

you should be collected and sent home.

rasmussen poll

g.o.p. candidates

1. perry

2.romney

3. not sure

not sure?.

take a stand

get your head out the fucking sand

PS: #4?

bachmann

#5

dr. o.b.g.y.n.

i was watching

the "idiot box"

when they reminded

elvis died this day.

(hence the prior posts)

then bachmann guffaws (again)

and i think

jesus christ almighty

i cannot make this shit up!

elvis

has left the building...

PS: bachmann is soon to follow

"happy birthday"


tell me the one aboot' paul revere; again...

xavier beccera

muy bien senora pelosi

Ain't Talkin' Lyrics

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PS: god i wish i could write like this...

Paul Simon: Graceland, concert Zimbabwe / South Africa

TOP 5

(john cusack)

television programs

5. the twilight zone

4. south park

3. the colbert report

2. charlie rose

1. house

honorable mentions:

nypd blue

the mod squad

all in the family

all in the family


monty python's flying circus

as time goes by....

(keeping up appearances)

Neil Young - He Was The King

PS: r. i. p.

elvis aaron

Arcade Fire * Laika

PS: alexander

popular name in my company

REFORM

the tax code

entitlements

food stamps

the military budget

&

unemployment compensation

or

have it your own

miserable way

Dave Matthews Band - Ants Marching

PS: a response to an e-mail from my brother

keep moving forward, grasshopper

i tend

to dominate conversation

for it saves time

and prevents arguments

(oscar wilde)

PS: i suppose that is why few engage...

their loss

my gain

John Cale — "Song of the Valley"

VALLEYS

that is where thru introspection

mountains get moved

PS:not from the peaks

BOXERS

These are definitely

not my underwear


(ha ha)

PS: let the rain come

john...

an enigma

wrapped in a riddle

rolled in a paradigm

PS: as are we all

( whom are worth their salt)

i often

blow a ...(in person)

i am a tea pot

here's my spout.

i say what i mean

i am literal

(( that's my stubborn nature))

we both need to

"work on it"

MEP Music Video: "Warehouse" - Dave Matthews Band

IMAGINATION, n.

A warehouse of facts, with poet and liar in joint ownership.

(ambrose bierce)

i rarely

expound. (in person)

ask what you mean

i am literal.

((that's my stubborn nature))

working on it...

(as are we all) mr. vonnegut

customer service

one asked: "do you have a bathroom"

"yes"

another: "do you know what time it is"

"yes"

a 3rd: "do you work here?"

(i wear a logo uniform and a name tag)

"no"

PS: another :

"can i ask a question?"

"yes"

"where is the london broil on sale?"

"that's 2 questions"

i paddled

to work today. (well, almost))

i pedaled in a down pour (much needed)

((yahweh finally cried again))

the flowers, grasses and trees are thankful...

(((not to mention the reservoirs)))

in the garden

wet with rain

no teacher

no guru

just you and i in nature...

(van morrison)

be thankful

you have a visitor

a union honcho (guido)

he tried to announce his entrance in grand fashion!

but the boom box was a bit too loud and i ignored.

"sonny" "can you turn that down for a moment"

"sonny was my Popa's name" "what do you want?"

your e-mail address and your cell phone #

(over my dead body, jimmy hoffa)

"i don't have a computer"

((liar, liar, pants on fire))

"and my cell is at home and i do not even know my own number"

((true story))

"what if we need to mobilize quickly?"

((what do you mean "we", kemosabe?))

"i am sure that i will hear it thru the grapevine" ((marvin gaye))

Altruistic

adj. regardful of others

(opposed to egoistic)

self-preservation is hard-wired in our d.n.a.

anyone who self-identifies as being altruistic is a self-serving egotist

the key is :

how do i feed my ego

yet

have regard to the well-being of others

perry v. bachmann

my god is bigger than your god

oh, this advances the country

PS:

as zealots and darwinists

argue...

we all devolve

(a paraphrase and i promise that i will try (not) to quote myself again)

BOY OH

Danny boy

was i wrong

(thankfully)

boehner did not cave and appointed no "tea party activists"

bravo

((here's a tissue))

man-turtle mcconnel?

1 of 3

milquetoast reid

blue-dog democrats


ditto

((here's some personality))

pelosi?

hello

the meter is running....

PS: at the tune of $833 per minute on interest on the debt to china, alone.

PSS: pundits claim reid believes compromise is possible...

(therefore; no schumer)

PSSS: so far, 9 white people.

8 with a twig and berries...

i still laugh

everyday (dave matthews)

when i google pabloshouse

p

pandora?

pa

picasso?

neruda

escobar, sandoval, (kung fu panda?)

pablo francisco?

schreiber ...

PS: no no

just little ole' me


with my eyes bugging out....


PSS: did you know?

among all our body parts

the eye size remains basically the same from birth....

IF

you do not get my references

good.

(for instance: under a pomegranate tree)

((did you see harry reid's short speech on the senate floor just before the debt ceiling vote?))

{for shame}

If you get my references

better.

{for writing}

is useless

save

for the reader.


PS: born first as a reader
delight in story
&
follow the leader

born, again
weighted lighter
find your passion
&
become the writer

(the gospel according to...)

PSS: just another moment of zen....

straw poll II

bachmann wins

and

ron paul

finishes 2nd?

what an oxymoron.

((my favorite team is the yankees, my 2nd favorite team are the red sox))

what the #*@**#+#....

that's all we need to know aboot' iowan straw pollers...

now it's on to new hampshire

(and let's win there)

PS: not you pawlenty

you're fried rice

Utopia Life Goes On (HQ)

PS: todd does his best beatles impersonation

( a view of "eleanor rigby")

with a man in the title role

here comes perry

whose gonna be his running mate

yahweh?

PS: things should start to get interesting... right about now (mr. zimmerman)

romney, huntsmen, perry, newt and bachmann

on the same stage

how's murdoch gonna paint the differation? (sic)

straw poll

if i only had a brain...

as iowa goes

PS: so goes a nation?

i think not

jennifer

( how appropriate)

a newbie

if only

i was humbert humbert

lolita

Changes - David Bowie

PS: change we can believe in....

D.C.


that beacon on the hill...

Moby - mission impossible techno remix

PS: a previous post has self destructed

Van Morrison - Listen To The Lion - live - "It's Too Late To Stop Now"

FROM THE "NOSEBLEED SECTION"

You would like to think we elected people whom might deal with these things


but, no

many of them are sitting in the luxury box.

PS: or under a pomegranate tree.

i'll weigh in

(140 wringing wet)

now to another love

football

the giants and jerry reese are being beaten-up by the new york press

and the ink has not yet dried

on the new c.b.a.

behind the curve they are

(the mara's AND the tisch's?)

o'hara and seubert are too old by n.f.l. standards (esp. in a salary capped world)

smith will not be on the field for 2 months (or more)
kevin boss? you would think we have lost bavaro or bob tucker if you listen to these talking heads.

our $'s on offense:

eli

bradshaw and jacobs

nicks

snee

on D.

tuck, osi, canty, kiwanuka, phillips, ross, webster, jean-pierre paul

(too bad prince got hurt)

defense wins super bowls.

a managed offense (lessen the miscues)

good special teams

ball-hawking

Q.B. sacking defense

Brilliant!

the giants have more heavily invested in the defensive side of their football team

(save-as most others- their quarterback)

ARE YOU READY FOR SOME FOOTBALL

BEST WAY TO SAVE A BUCK

is a penny at a time.

unless my brother

you can spare a dime...

the old testament sez to give away 10 %

translations

put away 10 %

and give away

wherever your heart leads...

i dunno

if i was in charge of music at cnbc- as we go to commercial

should i play:

on the rebound

ride my see-saw

don't worry (be happy)

or

silver and gold ?

CRAFT YOUR WORK

WORK YOUR CRAFT.

derek jeter didn't get 3000 hits by not getting into the batting cage everyday.

mozart had to be dragged away from his piano

edison failed 99 times to invent a light bulb that soon will be legal only in texas

einstein worked in the very office that obama wants to reform

da vinci often wrote in code

nostradamus wrote in quatrains

galileo was imprisoned by the catholic church

darwin thought he had documented new bird species...

no said the scientific establishment

these are all finches...

(ay, theres the rub)


truth 1st revealed is ridiculed

later it is debated

later, still

it is realized as self-evident

PS: my moment of zen...

AN ANALOGY

Let's pretend that the home team at baseball games had to pay the umpires.

(pay-outs occur after each inning). would it not become soon apparent that favorable calls

towards the home team would benefit the umpires?

the home team are the investment banks.

the umpires are the rating agencys

(and you and i sit and watch from the grandstands)

standard & poors issued AAA ratings to the very credit default swaps that put us between this rock

and a hard place.

Joni Mitchell-Talk To Me

PS: (pabloshouse) is open...

real good...

(and free)


PSS: so is e-mail...

pre-season

(michael kay)

JoSoMo

(joba, soriano, mariano )

hey michael

take some r & r

(robertson and rivera)

Everlast - Naked

RUSS BALLARD - On The Rebound

i feel

like a

hamster on a wheel...

(where's the "super committee" zeal?)

((no more spiel))

balance the keel

"one small step" neil

seal the deal

we need to heal

{{ i wanna clap like a seal}}

and pray thanx for our next meal



{now prone,

head to heel

dreams in teal (and of jennifer beale)....


alarm clock ssqueeeaLLLs !!!

back to the real


hamster on a wheel...

Batter up

i am standing here in the sandbox

knob in my hand

anybody ready to kick...

anyone?

no no

they are all on recess...

Jackson Browne The Pretender

THE ONLY THING WE NEED TO FEAR

IS FEAR; ITSELF.

fdr

brave

(adj) exhibiting courageous endurance .

WHAT'S IN A NAME?

(a letter to the corinthians)

Saul

o'neill

simon (song-smith)

simon (bow tie)

mccartney

volcker

lynde

PS: ron

PSS: means

Brave

we were only freshmen

(verve pipe)

i spent my freshman year of college in "podunc".

the mayor had been in an argument with the city council

long before i 1st entered the registrars' office at the school.

as i was signing up for class,

he wanted a park in the middle of a depressed inner city and

the legislators wanted an "enterprise zone".

i had been counseled " take as many courses in your major as quickly as possible"

the cores are easy- you can back-fill anytime.

i got 3 of 5 for my 1st semester.

one was something called "advertising 341"

7th class

professor enters and says "someone in this room-i am told by the registrar- isn't supposed to be here-see me after class"

i asked the girl in front of me

"what does he mean by that"

"some one in this class didn't take advertising 241"

"i haven't even taken 141" "they were all closed"

"you better see him after class"

i packed up slowly after class. (i wanted no witness)

"i believe i am the student of whom you spoke"

"you?" " i will speak to the dept. head. he can waive the prerequisites-you are not leaving this room"


Later, that year, i went and sat in that inner city park where every day at high noon

(instead of the towered clock in the center of the park chiming)

frank sinatra sings my way...

PS: written by?...

paul anka

PSS: mcdermott

mr mcdermott

(took a day for the synapses in my brain file to fire...

i don't know anyone getting younger

monkey business

sorry.

aboot' the bananas

79 cents @ lb. (currently)

hey ben-print more $'s and how about Q.E. III?

the chinese:

"we reed international currency"

(yeah, right)

the euro was the test

now we have pigs.

P. I. G. S.

(an acronym)

portugal
ireland (italy)
greece
spain

pigs.

PS: let us not turn this into apigs

as in "a" for....

go figure

a banana is grown in brazil by a farmer who pays a picker

and a trucking company to transport to america

they arrive at a warehouse

where

a company pays for the transport

to the market

where a compensated produce head has ordered

for an underling to merchandise

so the customer can buy

for 66 cents @ lb.

PS: and everyone along the chain got enriched

i may have written this story before...

but my reasons will always be different

(oscar wilde)

i remember...

(memories in bits and pieces...)

1 time

margaret stevens came out fishing with us...

lake montauk for flounder.

another time, grandpa came

(i don't think he enjoyed, much)

and then another time

(i will never forget)

dad came with us

we went to start up again,

a return to trolling

and the rip-cord to the outboard

ripped out in his hand

we went trolling all right

(we were heading out to sea with the tide..)

we got WAY out there

(farther from home-shore than when Popa used to dig "chowder clams"

(nana's fritters-sometimes i can smell them cooking...) ((i mean frying)) {alliteration}

Popa finally took the helmet off the engine

gerryrigged the broken chord

and after a few futile attempts- started the engine!

whew

((maybe next year we should attend school on the jewish holidays))

{ha ha}

we went back in

got a new engine

(after consternation to the chief)

and headed back out...

PS: get back on that horse...

TARP

& the ensuing "economic recovery package"

for all the expenditure of a bill no one read until after ratification

we could have written an $80,000 check to every taxpayer

(instead of puerto rican rum makers and indian bow and arrow providers)

1/3 would have "banked" it

thus capitalizing the financial industry

another 3rd would have banked 1/2 and spent
thus helping both the institution and the economy

the other 1/3 would have just spent

PS: win, win, win

but don't ask me

(with a grin on my chin-i'm certain to win) ((peter gabriel))


i'm no economist

mr. krugman

simple together, alanis morissette

CONUNDRUM

we have a 1 man seafood department.

he recently transfered in.

2 weeks ago the store manager discovers a couple of hundred $'s of expired product on his shelf.


suspended - go home.

next day

i pull the expireds-the case is now relatively-empty

to dept head union brother:

"we can't let sales disappear because 1 of us fucked up"
where would be our integrity?
"we got to do something, anything" (todd rundgren)

"you got an hour?"

yeah.

he gets reinstated 4 days later. yo, bro

"i covered your case in the meantime, you got outdated crap in your frig too"

"scan it off-and pitch it-comprende, amigo"

he did.

4th day back after suspension

he is pulling the case of out-dates

manager checks

"why are you pulling these, they still have 24 hours"

"i am going to bump them another day"

go home.

now he has been demoted to the deli in a nearby store

and the schedule gets posted (no conversation)

and i am doing seafood & meat until?

PS: no one seems to know...

(or care)

PSS: at the public house:

gentlemen, i need some relief...

no problem, what's your concerns?..

THERE ARE :

Too Many People
(sir paul)

in this country with their head in the sand.

PS: ozzie the ostrich

Paul Simon - Rewrite - Late Night with Jimmy Fallon

remember?

(rerem rember)

the tv funhouse animated segment from saturday night live

years ago?

the super heroes

the ambiguously gay duo

ace and gary?

the voice of ace?

stephen colbert

GOLF

(d'ya know why it's called "golf"?)

all the other 4 letter words were already taken.

i played in a league 1 year with my brother.
( i sucked the place up)

late in season-scoring our cards after another poor performance

a couple introduced and said we play you next week.

"what is your handicap?"

(without an eye blink)

"my brother"

(ha ha)

years later we played 9 with his wife and son.

1st tee. i hit an iron dead center of green. 3-4 feet from cup.

my nephew,

"you got a shot at a birdie"

my young friend,


"you have not seen your uncle putt"

PS: yipes

(i got a 4)

true story...

what's wrong with this picture?

(dorian)

i recently finished a stretch of 19 of 20 days worked

including 13 in a row.

this week i worked 62 hours.

next week i am scheduled

64.

cnbc tells me that more than 9% of us are out of work as i work a job and a half.

PS: any body want half a job?

Metallica - Nothing Else Matters [Original Video]

i ain't

no anne sullivan


PS: but, i got 3 sisters

who R !

etc.

how aboot'

rand paul from the right

schumer from the left

from the house?

i'm still a pondering...

steny hoyer?

pelosi herself? (a la dick-dick with the bad heart tick)

PS: damn all the talent is on the gop side.

PSS: and where's the Hebe or the spic?


wowie zowie (mr. zappa)

a ps cont'd

"do you watch house?"

he is our house. omar is foreman, chase keeps changing yet remains the same

i'm cameron

to him

your 13

over the course of the next 30 days

he might assign a name to your face

if he does

your days are #'d.

17 times

was the debt ceiling increased under ronald reagan

(alone)

much ado aboot'....

everything

do not continue to kick the can...

triggers?

PS: super congress

you are in the cross-hairs...

PSS: let's guess (shine)

ryan, kantor, jordan

franks, etc. etc.

kyl, demint and a gop to be named later...

durbin, conrad etc

( i'll come up with some etc's before they are named)


PSSS: wiener cosponsored 91 bills in the house

zero passed

i am ever becoming convinced that politicians cannot solve problems

the gang of 12

(we have multiplied by 2)

each leader in the 2 houses pick 3

(reminds of the baseball playground)

batter up!....

wild thing

whatever happened to the

everet dirksens

of this country?

PS: the flip side was r.f.k.

i'll bet you can find it in Dadoo's 45rpm record library

my wifey said:

all u take with u is:

your soul

(the ballad of john & yoko)

monday morning quarterbacks

the vote in the house of representatives is hours away.

the "buzz" sez

the senate will approve.

"2/3rds-i'll take that" (paul ryan)

thanx to boehner, mcconnel, kantor

milquetoast reid (not u pelosi)

biden

we would not have this on our table.

"bless us oh lord for these thy gifts..."

please oh please lord may the house vote

YES!

PS: if we do this correctly

it will serve as the 2nd "emancipation"

(ok ladies-the 3rd)

and 20 years from now (hopeful forward wishful thinking)

our lincoln like president

(currently vilified)

will be seen as ....?