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 Conversation overheard while in line at Coffee Shop this morning: "Have you read his novel 'The Crying Game of 1949'?" "Wasn't-- isn't-- that-- a movie?  With, what's his name? Stephen Rhea?  The same actor who was in 'bloom'?" "Right. He in 'bloom'.   But you're thinking of the movie 'The Crying Game'.  A film has yet to be made of 'The Crying Game of 1949'." "Was it written by Thomas Pynchon?" "No.  The author is Tomasso V. Pinecone!" "Is this a Python sketch?"

Of course, the pressed-on ceremony of pointily was forever pressed. When he was in the stories for her, he could not touch her skin or treasure it.  Especially in the city.  Better than most thought, though.  He would eat what his mother had given him.  And in his pockets he had just enough sand to rise above the sea level. On an impulse, he picked up an exhausted person, faced the door behind her.  Before long he could not keep it up.  The brass and glass together crumbled and crashed away out of the corners of curtains.  Gold script lets us sing of the river courses, of losing jobs, and getting Dr Benway to operate. Mr Peabody scratched his inner Self and started composing a letter in his head.  He knew he was cheap.  He felt that for his health he would need to disown the ones who made him ill.  Benway had suggested that.  He kept feeling that in time he would get his act together.  His passion was like that of others,...

 Thanks to Kelly and Dermot, hosts of the Podcast (and Blog) Blooms and Barnacles, for interviewing me about Henrik Ibsen and James Joyce. https://www.bloomsandbarnacles.com/episodes/ep-97-henrik-ibsen-w-paul-ringo

Other than the studied, reflexive stance, These festive fans are serious in place (Relative to the standard atmosphere): Standing out in a crowd (of course) in pants, Out of the ordinary, with straight face, In with the in-crowd (those not drinking beer), Crude picnic grounds, olives for Wendell Holmes, Beaten out of the Beatnik bars, too old For the Lost Generation—broken eggs. As the soft Burroughs Machine now becomes A Singer-songwriter Factory, bold And formless musical trees (with no legs).   Free concert in the Park today—golden.   Step up to the Gate: it feels like Holden.

​ I hear we have more guns than people in this country. But that’s not enough! We need to keep making more, bigger and with more deadly capacity! For each child born, there should be 1700 guns manufactured! And give each child their own semi- automatic weapon at their birth! Christen them both together with God’s will.   It would be an infringement on our rights to limit the number of guns made, and it is our right to purchase as many guns as we want.    Don’t start placing restrictions on gun ownership! Once you start doing that, we’ll never get to have another gun.  What a beautiful country! More than enough guns, and more than enough politicians to stand up on behalf of gun lobby.  God loves us! Guns love us!

 Blooger blog.  Let them noodle nod.  It's all a back and forth from truth or sod.  We got letters from them....  After the apocalypse.   It's Thursday, two weeks after Bloomensdag 2022, the big One!  100 years since the first bloomsday?  But if on June 16 1904, doesn't that mean 118 years?  Right, it's the book.  We're celebrating the anniversary of the novel, published in February 1922.   Just watched (for maybe the sixth time) the movie "Midnight in Paris" . Some things i really enjoy about the film.  I tend to fast forward a little through the scenes set in 21st century.  My favourite character from the 1920's is Salvador Dali.  Love the way Adrien Brody plays him.  I laugh out loud every time.   The music and cinematography are certainly pleasing to look at.  It's all a bit of an idealisation, isn't it? I had a Covid test turn positive this morning.  Forced isolation.  Mayb...

 Today is June 9.  One week until Bloomsday.  That's a day like any other.  Or, like June 16, 1904.  A day in Dublin is like a day anywhere else.  Leopold Bloom is like any other man.  Is Molly Bloom like any other woman?  Time will tell.  But that "Penelope Episode" is timeless, isn't it?  Says so in the Gilbert Schema.  What so, m'lord?