Mockery

My daughter riffing on my notes to myself, with highly acerbic crackpot ideas that are supposed to be mine. At first i was all "heyyyy..... this is crazy...." then "wait! this is supposed to be ME!!!!!"

Hoppy Spadge

By Racey Helps

Quote O' The Day: Barry Gifford

"Sister Mary Margaret wore a classic black habit, wire-rimmed spectacles , and her facial skin was a pale as one of Dracula's wives. I had recently seen the Tod Browning film Dracula, featuring Bela Lugosi, and I remember thinking that it was interesting that both God and Dracula had similar taste in women."
-Barry Gifford, Memories From a Sinking Ship

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not really



here's why:


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RIP Art Clokey

NYT Obit Here
He got ripped off by protestants, doing Davey and Goliath.
He had a daughter with keyhole irises who committed suicide.
He became an acid taking hippie who left his wife and started palling around with Essalen type luminaries
Amazing work that never becomes tiresome.

Happy Birthday Sweet Sixteen

Exquisitely airbrushed Doehla Fine Arts Card #5211 as a Happy Birthday to my youngest child - also a link to a wallpaper!

My Next Tattoo

I refuse to give any background on this....

My First Moom Pitcher

Link at Pic !!!

Audio: Paternal Flatulence and Child Development

An audio story of Dad's (Lex09) digestive tract antics. Deftly and cleverly produced by my genius lad (Lex11), possibly award winning. Full of cusses. He promises me he will do the rest of the audio in a couple of installments. Even juicier stuff. Make him do it.




all last names have been "backwardized" to maintain anonymity.
Also, in case you're bad with math, that's me telling the story.

Dylan Hears a Who

Go here & listen to Green Eggs and Ham.

and yes; I'm referring something, aren't I? Hard work from clever strangers. Right down to the pops on the vinyl


link@pic

Benedictine Rewrites for Kids

Don't know how old this book is, I bought it for the illustrations, from a used bookseller I used to go see, an old communist in Egg Harbor- he had a real treasure trove and was always fair. There are links to larger images at each of the images below. This is an advertising piece that would never fly today- a kid's story with booze as the treasure.

Ali Baba or the 40 Thieves



Inside front cover: protagonist + distinguished/venerated hooch.



A brave tailor named Ali Baba lived another time in a small town in Persia........



Note the parsing of syllables for young readers.


Translation of caption: "After entering the cave he found a collection of elegant bottles..."
The treasure he found was the fascinatingly historied Benedictine


Caption translated" "He was surprised by the thieves and massacred (accosted?) by them."
Some mauvais-âne lookin' thieves alrighty...


Foul play against the foul


Trans: "He found the carefully hidden secret of Benedictine."
Only 3 people at any time are allowed to know its secret recipe..hence the smug look.


Inside back cover - view of the distillery. The big one is very nice..


Ali Baba finally gets to chill with his cache of Benedictine & Persian pals.