It's fair amazing,
such focus without any,
raising objections.

That poor little mammoth probably drowned. Or some crazy cavemen ran it into the ground. Probably Al Gore had something to do with it, too.

http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g2...ly-mammoth.jpg

http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g2...-mammoth-1.jpg

http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g2...akers-2006.jpg

Better than lawyers',
formulated more quickly,
& best of all free.

Happy Saturday, BadNick!

and to you, too, Ocm?

It's a beautiful, sunny, not too warm Saturday here, hope it is where you are, too. Fireworks tonight in town, tomorrow down in Philly at Penn's Landing down by the Delaware. I'm firing up the grill to burn some meat. Good times. Also have to cut up this tree laying in my driveway into manageable chunks.

Let's Dance

http://i253.photobucket.com/albums/h...W68_ldance.jpg

"Put on your red shoes..."
some extra arms & your trunk,
& we're good to go.

I took a cruise yesterday and ended up driving through old Bristol, PA.

The kids in Bristol are sharp as a pistol
When they do the Bristol Stomp

Rollicking
almost memory.
Intriguing.

It's not really the longest, but it was long enough...I took this nice drive

http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g2...ejuly32010.jpg

http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l5...q1jio1_500.jpg
A Boy’s Curiosity, by _*nikki*_

Curiosity
can be dangerous but fuels
imagination.

(What's up with King of Prussia as a place name?)

On and off since it was opened in 1963 King of Prussia Mall has been the largest mall in the world, but currently it is not. I generally hate malls but the "Plaza" part is a nice stroll, moreso than the "Court" part.

The Mall of America,
just down the tracks under the airport,
is good for people-watching.

(I only go there when out-of-town visitors want to.)

2+2+9=13

Street Road Boulevard Lane Place Circle hwy,

should happen, it just should.

Oh, and my mom used to buy her Paoli clay,
in Belleville Wi.

Stallion's disappeared.
The others are still bowling.
The dogs are hungry.

2+2-9x1=-5

Alright alright.

I'll write.

Thanks, darlin'.
I asked some fellows;
no response.

10 more days !! get ready.

or Bastille Day! In only 9 days!

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l4...8ifto1_500.jpg
This photo taken June 25, 2010 shows Kathleen Francis, of Clearlake,
California, clutching her purebred Chihuahua “Princess Abby” after
winning the World’s Ugliest Dog Contest in Petaluma, California.
With a pile of personality and some unusual dance moves, the
6-pound Chihuahua easily won the title of world’s ugliest dog
at the Sonoma-Marin Fair in Petaluma. --(AP Photo/Ben Margot)

Color me boring:
I'd rather look out windows
much closer to home.

(Not to mention get palindromic post #s)

I need to hail a cab.

I need tobacco
like some more holes in my head
& the air I breathe.

This was the first (and probably most recent) entry in my 'Nonsense' Webnote, so I suppose I need not hold onto it any longer...

PHOTODOM.COM | PHOTOGRAPHER: Andy Prokh | PHOTO: The Peaches (Pictures for Child)

I feel like I just drove for the longest time. Yesterday afternoon I drove to Erie, PA, stayed at a nice lakefront hotel, met with an important customer today, then drove home. Round trip was only 880 miles but it felt a lot longer....eerie!

Was it enjoyable? What did you listen to; what did you eat? What were you there for; why did you not bring back souvenirs? How is it you are, feelings-wise? Exhausted? Hungry? Effervescent? Did I spell that right? Would you really know? Can you offer an insight as to where such a topic tentatively-titled "chicks + bikes" would best be seen and viewed upon by such kin as yourself? Do you have a horse in the NBA-media-hoopla? Have you ever ridden a horse? What's the horsepower, currently, under the hood of your Supra, BadNick?

Thanks for asking, Jet.

I went with a fellow worker friend and yes, it was enjoyable. Last couple days here it's been over 100F outside so driving in a cool, air conditioned car is not so bad, especially since most of the way the scenery across northern Pennsylvania driving through the mountains is very nice. Until the battery got too low, we listened to my itouch since my car has a direct connection to feed its output through the quite good JBL stereo system I have in that car, my '07 RAV4. I need to get a cable that allows recharging the itouch in the car since I don't have one of those. Lately I've been copying every CD I own into my itouch and have about 7 gigs of music in there now. We listened to Jimmie Cliff's soundtrack album from "The Harder They Come"; Best of Van Morrison; Lead Zepplin IV; John Lee Hooker's "The Best of Friends" album; Ry Cooder's "Jazz" album; Blind Faith; Willie Nelson's "Across the Borderline"; Emmylou Harris' "Cowgirl's Prayer"; Crosby, Stills, and Nash; Easy Rider; Famous Blue Raincoat; Flyer from Nancy Griffith; Matthew Sweet's "Girlfriend"; Paul Simon's "Graceland"; John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman; John Prine; a couple of the "Live at the World Cafe" albums I get from WXPN; Iris Dement's "My Life"; Neil Young Unplugged; Beatles' Revolver; Enya's Shepherd Moons and Watermark; Boz Scaggs' Silk Degrees; Sade's Soldier of Love; Santana's Supernatural; Lucinda Williams' Sweet Old World; Bob Dylan's The Times They Are a Changin'; Toni Childs' Union; U2's Until the End of the World; the Cure's Wish...then ran out of power :( and listened to whatever radio we could get in the mountains.

I had a mediocre steak dinner last night. Three loose/wet scrambled eggs with thick sliced beefsteak tomato for breakfast, with a glass of cranberry juice and coffee. I visited General Electric, one of our good customers, who manufacture locomotives in Erie...cool factory. No souvenirs, sorry. In fact, I was exhausted when I got home since I didn't get enough sleep last night, stayed up way too late watching a car show on TV about a famous collector hunting for cars to buy and sell, with interesting facts about the specific cars involved. So what about the chicks - bikes? I have viewed such sites and enjoyed them. I have no real interest in the NBA hoopla...don't even know what the hoopla is about. Yes I have ridden a horse many times, also mules a few times. My sister used to own a horse. Ahhh, my Supra is still close to my heart...as much as a hunk of formed metal and plastic can be. My new and unique custom twin turbo setup finished as of the last couple of months is just totally awesome, surpassed all my expectations for responsiveness and power; on normal 93 octane pump gas it made 620whp which translates (with the typical 15% driveline losses of my 6 speed) to 730 hp from the motor; I'll clarify that I spray 50%/50% methanol/distilled water just ahead of the throttle body to suppress detonation, you can see the pump in the lower right where the battery used to be, now relocated to the trunk...it's quite healthy and fun, so much so that I can't imagine needing to change anything from now on. I'm sort of proud that some highly knowledgeable and respectable Supra motorheads around the world have said things like "that's the best powerband I've ever seen from a 2JZ". I hope to hit the track with it very soon to see how it feels now on a roadcourse. Here's a current photo of the underhood:

http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g2...0511-15181.jpg

I was about to ask if your pump had scales, but then I realized that's the left of the photo, and decided to retract such a statement
("what? Jet doesn't know his left from his right? How can this be?").

Thanks for all the details, BadNick; I fit in whatever queries cae to mind at the time, and also happened to fit into this box I'm typing in right now, as seen below:

http://img571.imageshack.us/img571/3...0708000128.jpg



Here's a few examples from the "chicks & bikes" not-yet-thread, since you asked:

http://i50.tinypic.com/242fns9.jpg

http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l1...6kako1_500.png

http://fafi.coolcats.fr/wp-content//picture-5.png

(seems I need to convert those last two images from .PNG to .JPG before moving on to finalization.)

//I never reckoned
my last hurrah was coming,
but I'm glad you did.//

I hope for my last hurrah
she'll press her breasts into my barely heaving chest
and kiss me full on my lips
and we can exhale our last breath together.

http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l5...r6ooo1_500.jpg

A few years ago, a mother and father decided they needed a break, so they wanted to head out for a night on the town. They called their most trusted babysitter. When the babysitter arrived, the two children were already fast asleep in bed. So the babysitter just got to sit around and make sure everything was okay with the children. Later that night, the babysitter got bored and went to watch TV, but she couldn’t watch it downstairs because they did not have cable downstairs (the parents didn’t want children watching too much garbage).

So, she called them and asked them if she could watch cable in the parent’s room. Of course, the parents said it was okay, but the babysitter had one final request…she asked if she could cover up the clown statue outside the bedroom window with a blanket or cloth, at the very least close the blinds, because it made her nervous. The phone line was silent for a moment, and the father who was talking to the babysitter at the time said, “Take the children and get out of the house…we will call the police. We do not have a clown statue.”

The police found all three of the house occupants dead within three minutes of the call. No clown statue was ever found.

http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ku...oyhno1_500.jpg
(I'm not sure what the above pic has to do with the story, other than it's
creepy, and was attached to the story. Hire a better search engine and
teach it to search for 'clown'.)

I hate bad clowns! They give bad a bad name.

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Thursday, July 8, 2010 -- A bird rests on a street sign as waters
from the Rio Grande continue to rise in Laredo, Texas. The river
continues to rise due to recent heavy rains and water releases.
--(AP Photo/Eric Gay)

reminds me of that cowboy song I like so much, Red River Valley

From this valley they say you are going.
We will miss your bright eyes and sweet smile,
For they say you are taking the sunshine
That has brightened our pathway a while.
So come sit by my side if you love me.
Do not hasten to bid me adieu.
Just remember the Red River Valley,
And the one that has loved you so true.

cowboys are much better compatriots than clowns, I hear.

Perhaps I should spread forth this message (elsewhere).

Last one for the nite:

http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l5...8ifto1_500.jpg
The HMS Bounty, left, and USS Niagara sail the waters of Lake Erie off Cleveland
Wednesday, July 7, 2010. Eleven sailing ships will be in the city for the annual
tall ships festival. --(AP Photo/Mark Duncan)

- - -

post-script:
tell me, if I were to curate a topic on surfboards and wicked waves, would you come running? (it'll probably never happen, but if I happen to find a source for it - then, yeah, totally, brother)

count me in on that one ...though you might have to point me to the thread if it's not here

Bizarre run of posts -
truly soothing confusion:
nonsense at its best.

...well done, comrades!

Cat's got my tongue today, so I'll post a pic of a dog.

http://i253.photobucket.com/albums/h...y/DSC_0281.jpg
Photo by ring - 2008

You can imagine
that the cat's tongue makes me think
of more than fur balls.

(2+2)-(9-4)=-1

damn, I missed the tall ships in Lake Erie when I was in Erie a couple days ago!

http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g2...ur-400x618.jpg

Over horizons
go the things on the water
but how far is that?

that's where the end of the rainbow is

I trust you, BadNick,
since you know that perspective
influences sense.

((2/2)x9)-4=5

coincidence monster sighting..!
I meant to post this yesterday, but I was too tired and too late to the party, so I let it roll over.. just in time, I say (to tangentially be relevant again)

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A statue of a deer is silhouetted against storm clouds and a rainbow as
a thunderstorm passes through southeast Colorado near Trinidad, on
Wednesday, July 7, 2010. --(AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)

We had a jetstream
catching people's attention
in rainbow colors.

I posted this in the lightning photos thread in the "found on the net" section

rare lightning + rainbow combination

http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g2...ngrainbow2.jpg

When you hear 'thunder', do you just think of the sound of the 'crack' and 'booms'?

When you hear 'lightning', do you only picture the stems and ziggings of coarsing electricity, making its touchdown upon earth?

Then why we do have thunderbolts and lightning bolts? What's the difference, bolt-wise?

Is one blue (lightning) and one golden (thunder)? These are the questions that classic English Literature have instilled in my wrought mind.

Thunderbolt and Lightning are also two of my favorite local tracks...at NJMP.

Thunderbolt 2.25 miles long:
http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g2...hunderbolt.png

Lightning 1.9 miles long:
http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g2..._Lightning.png

I see lightning, I hear thunder.

I feel the earth move,
but gravity's persistence
keeps me well-grounded.

Anybody else enjoy gravity boots? Since I don't have a rack available, this is good for the stretch.

http://www.reocities.com/Hollywood/S.../stretch01.jpg

oKAY, win again;
you know I'm haikuing
as fast as I can.

p.s. The mirth inherent
.......in the myths that we cling to
.......ought to be clung to.

Take your time, or it might run out. And then what?

A bottomless font
means I'm always looking up
for definition.

for BadNick:
 

http://img.ffffound.com/static-data/...08075d07_m.jpg
Forgotten-hopes.com

thanks, Jet. I like girls with the red dress. Plus, she has an umbrella!

Yeah, I like umbrellas also.

http://27.media.tumblr.com/pYleFrsZD...K1yQo1_500.jpg
secret code or Flag of Upper Volta

I should contribute to that topic about umbrellas more, considering, but I think only three people only ever visit it, and I put much too much effort into every single one of my posts here that I'd rather not add my own flair and methodical nature to someone's else's topic, especially one who abhors my complete and citable ways.

Nevertheless, I'm still building a study queue of posts into my "Umbrella" note, as you can see here:


And also, future posts go into my "Ribaldry Umbrella" note, sub-category under my "Random Nudity" endeavor, as follows:

Seems I added more than just umbrellas into that last hidden note... sorry. I need to update the borders I have between my themes and my randomness.

Betwixt & Between, by:

http://i253.photobucket.com/albums/h...andBetween.jpg
David S. Clayton

for NoSoup:
 

I've had this link in my "Forum Fun" note for approximately five months now, and unless I'm mistaken, I'm pretty sure I already shared this here. Anyway, getting rid of the "finger ribbon" now, so... post of content.

http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kx...iwcjo1_500.jpg
Ham Jin
Aewan, #1019 (2004)
Photographs, Chromogenic (C-print)
125.5 cm x 169 cm

Those figures perched around the rim appear to be made out of red onions,
Yes?

So thus:

http://i253.photobucket.com/albums/h...lRedOnion1.jpg
S.E. Bergman

and:
http://i253.photobucket.com/albums/h...reid_onion.jpg
Sarah Greene Reed

I don't like onions much at all. Very unnatural "crunchness" horrified me since I was a young'un, and continues to this day.

I've learned to not be afraid of garlic now, but the aversion to onions remains. I'll just substitute the former for the latter when cooking.

Luckily, I was able to find the author to the above artistic ceramic installation: S.E. Bergman Ceramic Sculpture

Feel free to feature your favorite pieces in the Food as Art topic, dear ring, if it would please you.

Onions seem to evoke strong likes or dislikes,
much the same as liver, or wintergreen flavored candies & Pepto Bismal,

& anchovies, & ......

- white chocolate?

Bingo.

I'm shuddering at the mere mention.

brussel sprouts - you'd better not say anything bad about them! I love brussel sprouts as much as I love life...if life was little green veggie balls.

I know this is not the useless announcements thread, which is why I'm posting here that I plan to have noodle soup for lunch today.

I recall an earlier cabbage conversation.

Brussels can be red/purple as well. Maybe that's what those figurines
at the top of the page are made of, or they might be radishes,
but radishes might be too similar to onions....I'm rambling.

Thanks, Grace. That brought back a nice memory of my friend's grandpa.

I never heard of or saw brussels other than green. I'll have to look for some and taste compare.

I don't know about the radish/onion similarity. Doesn't seem like it to my taste. But I'm not a Fraggle, so who knows? ...though reading this makes me want to be a Fraggle:

Fraggles live on a diet of vegetables, especially radishes and "doozer sticks". Fraggle Rock has caves filled with all manner of creatures and features, and which seem to connect to at least two different worlds that exist in different dimensions of time and space. Fraggles live a very carefree life, spending most of their time playing, exploring, and generally enjoying themselves. However, that does not make them by any means irresponsible or simple: they maintain a fairly complex culture and society, with each Fraggle having a particular responsibility to uphold.

I like Brussel Sprouts,
& white choc'late & onions...
all mixed together.

That mix does sound sort of crazy and modern. I would go with semi-sweet dark, though.

When you're right, you're right.
White choc'late's sublety's lost
nearing my palate.

I think this is an interesting chocolate palate:

http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g2...atepollock.jpg
Vik Muniz. Action Photo, after Hans Namuth from Pictures of Chocolate. 1997.
Chromogenic color print. The Museum of Modern Art. Gift of Patricia Phelps de Cisneros in honor of
Adriana Cisneros de Griffin through the Latin American and Caribbean Fund. © The Estate of Hans
Namuth and Vik Muniz/Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY

MoMA | Vik Muniz: Painting with Chocolate
One of Muniz’s most well-known bodies of work is a series of pictures rendered in chocolate sauce. Action Photo, after Hans Namuth (1997) is made after a 1950 photograph taken by Hans Namuth of Jackson Pollock frozen in mid-dance as he was making one of his paintings, Autumn Rhythm. Muniz’s subsequent appropriation and translation of this image into chocolate is a perfect marriage of subject and material. The viscous chocolate syrup (incidentally, he used the brand Bosco) is a perfect stand-in for Pollock’s wet, shiny paint drips. This new acquisition not only strengthens the Museum’s Muniz holdings, but is a welcome complement to MoMA’s rich Pollock collection.

You know how sometimes
you just don't know what to say?
This is one of those.

That's when I usually begin humming & rock back & forth,
while stroking my hair in a self-comforting fashion.

:) ...but I know what you mean. Bosco? I would have used Ghirardelli sauce

http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g2...chocosauce.jpg

hey, did you know they used Bosco chocolate sauce to simulate blood in original B & W film Night of the Living Dead (1968)?

http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g2...Boscosyrup.jpg

I'm using one of my 'Nonsense' token posts now, if only because I have nothing to say, and thinking has not come easily today.

#5 - "Lucky Day"

http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l4...navao1_400.jpg

I've never seen a head blown off, that's clean.

Here's a blown head, fortunately nobody was hurt. Not clean though, oil all over the place.

http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g2.../blownhead.jpg

Can't believe I spent more than an hour reading this: Print TV's Crowning Moment of Awesome

.. but, still, I'm not thinking it was worthless time spent. Once all is comprehended and compartmentalized, it's a great story.

Jet, I was already grumbling about anything having to do with TV being "awesome" or time well spent, but now that I read it's about the old The Price is Right show, I'm in full agreement with the worthiness of this story.

While I wouldn't say it blew my mind or head, it was a fun show that I watched often as a kid.

Recognize playing
off of others's what I do?
Sometimes it's harder.

The idiot box
sucks me in when I let it,
& Drew Carey's fun.

Bob Barker was best
in the fisticuffs, golfing,
with Happy Gilmore.

Prince & I need to be in a sturdier building...and soon.

Heading over to 'the fortress.' (The old brick school where my mom lives)

My handbag is heavy with three flashlights.

The hairs on the back of my neck are prickling.

yikes! that radar is scary! Grace, do you know what a cubit is? Good luck and I hope you're blessed with safety.

Coincidentally, earlier today I was looking at waterparks and found that Noah's Ark Waterpark in Wisconsin Dells has an awesome ride called the Scorpion's Tail.

However, for purposes of this longest thread, I'd also like to mention that The Holiday World Spashin' Safari in Santa Claus, Indiana has a water ride called Wildebeest which is "the world's longest water coaster", a soaking one-third-mile ride with a total of eight hills, the first conveyor lift hill ending in a four-story drop at a 45-degree angle, three tunnels (two underground) and a helix.

---------- Post added at 10:08 PM ---------- Previous post was at 10:05 PM ----------

http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g2...eestLayout.jpg

Yikes. Last night's storms were dramatic & some fun to watch.
(from a safe hole in the ground.)

Cubits? All I know of cubits are from an old text that commanded how many of them
a certain resting place for a specified item, required.

I suppose cubits could be those small broken pieces left over,
after trying to empty an ice-cube tray.

Also, 3 X 3 X 3 is taking 3 and you cubit. I like the ice thing, too. Those damn cubits are usually the reason my ice maker hangs up. I'll have to invent a cubit-resistant ice maker if you don't already have a patent on it.

Yeah, but still, Jetee,
a cubit's a measurement,
easily googled.

(2-2)-(9-9)=0

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Alex Mupondi hung dollar bills to dry after washing them in Harare, Zimbabwe, Tuesday (of last week).
Locals say the bills are often too smelly to handle by the time they make it to their country.
The Zimbabwean government declared the U.S. dollar legal tender last year.


-- courtesy of The Wall Street Journal's Photo-Blog

In local legal tender,
can I assume he's got some money?
What smells bad is relative.

money stinks, but no money stinks worse

Tell me about it,
I've been gaining perspective,
which most times is good.

2+2-(9-9)=4

hey buddy, can I lend you a dime?

dime

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3205/...fcccbee0_m.jpg
Finances On The Edge? by Chuck P.

People that are blind are able to discern monetary valuations by using tactile methods.

I laid awake last night, wondering what blind people's dreams might entail.

I took into account the whole blind from birth factor.

I realized that no matter how detailed my own dreams are,
they mostly contain visual references. I see colors,
but the smell/taste sense of the awake visceral experience,
does not cross the barrier of my dream experience,

so far?

That's probably one of the most existential theories of mind (in part) that we re-occurringly misremember about feeling uneasy to talk about: "how do the blind (from birth) dream? How do they associate what we so often take for granted: the visual cues and reminders that we are, indeed, at least for today, alive?".

I wonder if there's been a real pscylogical investigation on this musing.

Look out in the dark.
The monsters that remain there
are under your beds.

999 is 666 on its heads.

I feel a little bit graced since I often smell things in my dreams. Maybe taste, too. I'll have to try to remember that next time.