ON VACATION - BLOGGING WILL BE LIGHT - IF AT ALL

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  1. okjimmSat Jul 19, 10:59:00 PM EDT

    pppppffffffffffffftttttttttt....waz this 'vacation' schtick? Youse probly just in the basement drinking beer and eating crackers and sardines.

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    1. Les CarpenterSun Jul 20, 10:21:00 PM EDT

      Gosh, how did ya guess? Planned to do that after arriving back home from the beer and sausage fest. :-)

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  2. Will "take no prisoners" HartSat Jul 19, 11:23:00 PM EDT

    Is it a VAcation or a STAYcation?

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  3. dmarksSun Jul 20, 10:11:00 PM EDT

    Or a praycation? Like not, given your stance on religion.;-)

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  4. Les CarpenterSun Jul 20, 10:45:00 PM EDT

    I plan to pray to the gods of reason and logic over beer and sausage that republicans, democrats, conservatives, and progressives start looking beyond the absurd.

    I know, this will happen when the god of lslam and the god of christianity start getting along.

    Looking forward to the beer and sardines.

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  5. Shaw KenaweMon Jul 21, 09:40:00 AM EDT

    Sardines? Reminds me of this poem by Frank O'Hara:


    WHY I AM NOT A PAINTER

    I am not a painter, I am a poet.
    Why? I think I would rather be
    a painter, but I am not. Well,

    for instance, Mike Goldberg
    is starting a painting. I drop in.
    "Sit down and have a drink" he
    says. I drink; we drink. I look
    up. "You have SARDINES in it."
    "Yes, it needed something there."
    "Oh." I go and the days go by
    and I drop in again. The painting
    is going on, and I go, and the days
    go by. I drop in. The painting is
    finished. "Where's SARDINES?"
    All that's left is just
    letters, "It was too much," Mike says.

    But me? One day I am thinking of
    a color: orange. I write a line
    about orange. Pretty soon it is a
    whole page of words, not lines.
    Then another page. There should be
    so much more, not of orange, of
    words, of how terrible orange is
    and life. Days go by. It is even in
    prose, I am a real poet. My poem
    is finished and I haven't mentioned
    orange yet. It's twelve poems, I call
    it ORANGES. And one day in a gallery
    I see Mike's painting, called SARDINES.

    --Frank O'Hara

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  6. okjimmThu Jul 24, 09:44:00 PM EDT

    ya, I like dem mustard sardines too, but Shaw, was alla dis Orange stuff?
    see, I am not a painter, I am not a poet.... I am a jokester

    Knock, knock.
    Who’s there?
    Orange.
    Orange who?
    Orange you going to let me in?

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