Conversational Bits

1)  Lee:  (rushing up to a stranger) Do you have a cell phone . . . Can I . . . do you have a cell phone?  I've got to call my brother!

2)  Bitrick:  You think you can walk on water, then?

    Davidson:  I've never tried, but I'm told that's my heritage.

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Charly

Then not poor

Just smart enough to make investment sure.

I teach

What others' wealth put into reach.

They've no money now

To raise a peasant to the middlebrow.

Were it today,

A diminution, I'd be put away.

From charity

The system brought me into clarity.

The 'subject' Charly

I am he.

Teacher Man

I lecture so much -- I perform so much -- that I run out of throat.


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Artaud Apropos Of Van Gogh

Experience and understanding, a case in question.

When Antonin Artaud said  I even know what nothingness is, and could even say what is inside it,

did his 'knowing' later become 'becoming'?

Or had his 'becoming' resulted in 'knowing'?

Earlier Artaud:

Later Artaud:

Math Problem

A young person, Smith, attaining adulthood in the USA this year, was aged 9 when the Twin Tower attack occurred.

I was a significantly older adult at that time.

A similarly-aged child, Jones, at the time of the Pearl Harbor attack, equally-distanced in age from an older adult (as I from Smith) would know that older adult to have been born in 1886.

In what year was I born:

a) 1955

b) 1932

c) 1946

d) 44 B.C.E.

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What Does Fair, Is Fair

Approaching music like a simple animal

catching the body English with the same eye

that picks up flame, yet knowing this is not random

that this is intentional, a fire on purpose

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Teaching Debrief

I know what evals are.  I don't like any little reservations by anyone.

Reservations about me!

Sometimes a guy just wants to go berserk. Speaking of guys in general, not me myself. I'm the humorous one. They all like me, they do.

Well, maybe not all.

All are anonymous, names I do not know, don't want to.

And I'm glad they're gone.  Even dead.

But I wouldn't wish really bad things on them, like being sent to North Korea for comedy purposes, or to members of the Turkish army if the sendee were a woman.

Turkish Sultans used to marry a whole passel of them, women, if 'marry' is the right term.

So I don't look at my evals. They're in an envelope waiting. They're waiting for the day I retire so that I can send them to Borneo.

Borneo is the place where some people still eat some other people. It's said that is true, but I'm not sure.

But I'm willing to test it out.

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Crossing On The Yellow

Sometimes, from a shudder rippling the spine, it's clear that one of two things has just happened:

a)  A black cat has just walked across your grave; or 

b)  The wife's laughter means more than might be suspected

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Our Gang 2

Libertarians:  hubristically selfish

Moderates:  quietly fearful

Social democrats: stridently programmatic

Pass Me My Cardigan

Third day straight noticed my inadvertent, quiet chuckle sounded like that of Ozzie Nelson.

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Hobnobbed I Never

Talia Shire

Tallulah Bankhead

Tama Janowitz

Tilda Swindon

Tori Amos

Tova Feldshuh

Trish Van Devere

Twyla Tharp

Tyne Daly

Having never met women with such given names or surnames

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Artistic Concentration

New York Times Critic Anthony Thomassini on Mozart:

"Though he lived through the French Revolution you search his letters in vain for anything other than the most oblique references to this continental cataclysm.  He had no feeling for nature and no interest in the visual arts.   In his letters home during his wide-ranging travels he describes everything he heard and nothing he saw."


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Our Gang 1

Anarchists:  recklessly adolescent

Communists: homicidally ideological

Conservatives:  dull-wittedly self-satisfied

Fascists:  vengefully brutal

Liberals:  self-deceptively optimistic

Populists:  stupidly shallow

Progressives: impotently reformist

Reactionaries:  violently resentful

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Keine Scheisköpfe Hier!

Woman with bush from navel to knees

Man with tattoos ejecting his sleeze

Bottles got down to the dregs and the sneeze

Apartment let out all their scraws and their screes

The begging, the promise, the vows, and the pleas

Couldn't make up for the poxy disease


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Bad Cop, Good Cop

A: You must think the world revolves around you!

B: Yes.  Doesn't yours?