Today you're getting the whole enchalada
This
is Monday June 3, 2013 and I did not type yesterday. It’s Billy Joe day, and the anniversary of a
slightly dubious day in 1982. Bill told
me that that “Plum” Oriental guy that sits at my table- died this morning. John and Paul both told me that he died, but
Larry Cramer said it was only a roomer and he’s just in the hospital. I sure hope so. Last night he was fine and he ate his
dinner. Last night we had roast beef - -
and this other little piggy had none - - never mind. We had applesauce for desert. We had the usual mashed potatoes and gravy
and mixed vegetables with that. I have a
few notes scrawled on the back of a laundry list. Actually it’s a grocery list- - four calling
birds, three French hens, two turtle doves, and a Partrage in a pear tree. Donnie had medication - - and I had to fix
myself another cup of coffee to get the tuna breath out of my mouth. It was the ABC network news and later “On the
Red Carpet”. I had AFV on for just a
bit but switched to Sixty Minutes where reporter Bill Ward and his camera crew
the Dominos were in charge - - - wait a minute.
No- - it was the Six Million Dollar man come to life. Now we have the technology. They actually perform brain surgery where
they take a prosthetic (robotic) arm and hand- - and wire it directly into the
brain motor cortex, and you can literally will the arm and hand to function
just by your thoughts. Now there’s a
fantasy come to life. You see I’ve be
worried about maybe it had super human strength. They say you can actually lift weights with
this thing. It seems you’d go to shake
someone’s hand and crush their hand. Or
maybe you’d catch yourself making some dumb mistake- - and in reflex slap your
forehead but it would be heavy iron and you’d knock yourself out and wake with
a splitting headache. Apparently (from
what they were saying) amputations are simpler because they don’t have to do
the brain surgery but have merely to hook up with the nerves with the brain
impulses going to the phantom limbs with brain signals still intact. But now they are working on feeding impulses
from said hand back to the brain thus restoring the sense of touch. Some
of the videos on AFV are tricky. For
instance the one with the cat doing the jump.
It’s actually a longer jump than we were led to believe because of the
camera angle, so the cat fell short.
Then there is that substitute teacher from hell that Lisa Simpson had to
contend with. I’ve seen that episode before and it was too depressing to watch. I know how Lisa feels. Who would believe the teacher didn’t like her
because she had her pegged as a “pretty party girl”. Then it was Bob’s Burgers- - where I guess
that little kid with the rabbit ears is actually a girl named Louise. It’s the episode with them crawling around a
sewer or something. Then it was “Family
Guy”. It turns out I smoked seven
cigarettes since dinner which flabberghasted me. I guess I must have been bored or restless.
I
had more strange dreams last night as I did the night before. There are so many dreams where I’m with some
group traveling around from social gathering to social gathering- - but decide
to leave and try and take the bus home or something. Or else I’ve got some kind of problem - - and
my Black councilman agreed he’d take up my problem and discuss it in a press
conference. But he didn’t have the time
for that so I wrote him, “At least discuss that one topic YOU wanted to talk
about - - do Something”, but he didn’t want to do that either. I got up at twenty to six and had loose
bowels. I have no idea what causes
that. I see no diet trend at all. Stephanie Miller was on. Certain words don’t fly well in
Romulan. The word “Stephan” means “cripple’
in Romulan. And oddly it’s a word
without a verb derivative- - kind of like the word “buggar” is in England. In both cases it’s a derisive word that isn’t
used in polite conversation. Of course
other names of interest like Geraldo Rivera.
The word “rivera” means “to settle” and the word “Riviera” means “settlement”. And then we have viragosa. The word “Vira” means “to break forth” literally
like the hatching of an egg. It also
means to bloom like a flower, and it’s also used in reference to ariel
fireworks bursting. The word “goso” with
an “o” means “Conceit” or “full of himself” or “puffed up”. We continue. I was thinking about that Antonius Pious
fellow. Christian writings allude to “Christians
in Ceasar’s household”. Actually - -
since this guy had no official biography- - I think they just exhumed the grave
of Tony Di Mira and Neil Savedra used him as a sock puppet. And we all know- - that God is the ultimate
sock puppet- - and when you take your hand out of his ass he reverts to just a
lifeless piece of cloth. I wish someone
would pull the hospital room plug on the tea party. Because basically they’re surviving on fumes
as it is. Their fuel tank is empty. Apparently I’ve having lapses of
memory. I watched Meet the Press
yesterday morning but I don’t remember any woman on that show who said “You
know- - we women actually LIKE it when we get paid only 78% the salary of a Man
for the Same Work”. And this led to talk
of fifties commercial. I think it was
Chesterfield that advertized that it’s the brand endorsed by doctors. And now I hear doctors used to encourage
pregment woman to smoke “to relax them”.
Uh huh. You know there is some
internet site I used to go to that referred to me as “Chesterfield2”. I don’t remember ever giving myself that
Handle but maybe it was when John Lennon was possessing my body. Stephanie says that medical costs are
dropping in the blue states like California but “she feels sorry for people in
the Red states, where medical costs are continuing to rise”. OK.
We are still one of the countries where both infant and maternal
mortality is on the rise. Is it now? It seems that 49 other countries in the word
have better figures than ours. The controversy has arisen again - - about
Mitch Mc Conell’s possibly not running because he has sunk so badly in the
polls. Mc Conell is still upset because
someone bugged him with a cell phone recording him as outlining the smear
campaign against Ashley Judd saying that he planned to exploit the fact that
she has a history of bi polar disorder.
But I heard the woman who is replacing Ashley in the campaign- - is
running ahead of Mitch Mc Conell in the polls.
Anyhow
that Plum guy was not at breakfast.
Brenda misses him because she liked him for some reason- paying special
attention to him. He would be at least
the third guy to have died at that table of four. John Darling, the Black guy died. And of course Rose died just before I transferred
over to that table. Of course Manfred
left, and the buzz on him is that he’s happier than he’s been in a while
because his health is improving. We had
corn flakes and then a fried egg and toast and butter and jelly. This is page five and I have a lot of typing
to do. It would sure be nice if the tea
party would just “go away”. But it’s
going to hang on desperately cursing President Obama with its dying
breath. Racism is what drives the whole
reactionary syndrome right now.
Saturday
evening we covered the early part of. It
was the ABC game shows and then I switched to a CBS drama when Bill was out of
the room. I got hungry and went out for
an eight pack of chocolate iced donuts and smokes at the liquor store just
before nine. I checked FOX at nine but “Fringe”
or any other decent show wasn’t on. I
had a bunch of confused dreams. I think
someone was stealing my stuff or moving it around or something. There was one tall dishwater blond Pete Richard had
been interested in- - but when Pete wasn’t around I made a play for her and she
liked me- - and we were playfully grabbing at each other and wrestling around
and laughing. The question is why when I
dream about either of my brothers they are never married to their current
wives. But there was a scene in the [classified into] house where there was this imaginary person I kept talking to or
telling others about called “Fugenpox”.
It’s not bad enough the imaginary
people already in my repituire I have to invent more. Being in this house means I had to be at
least seven or so. It’s not like that
time when I was four- - I remember I was in my bed and looking at this strange
flashing lightning on the wall- - and there was this spirit being called Dax I
was a little afraid of. And I told my
parents about it- - and they only said “Dax?
Dax isn’t any kind of a name”.
OK. Only on Deep Space Nine.
John
Powel just reminded me we had French toast yesterday. I hadn’t remembered till he volunteered the
information, as if reading my mental mind quary. We had oatmeal and Delores gave me a second
whole bowl. Then it was Meet the Press-
- which I don’t remember being consequential.
Breakfast with the Beatles did the Sgt Pepper album in mono. Most mono tracks I remember from the radio -
- - but they dinked around with tracks 7 in 8 in unorthodox ways. Mono “Fixing a Hole” was always better
because the guitar part is louder on the mono- - and in the Stereo version the
song sounds “shushy” because the cymbals are too loud. It was the “Brian Wilson” version of She’s Leaving Home. And just for the record
for the millionth time- - the album actually came out on May 29th
1967. Brian Ray - - Mc Cartney’s latest
guitarist was on - - and he’s got his own rock group that actually puts out
good stuff. They’ve got a good
sound. Then it was John Dunsemor or the
Doors. He has a book out “Doors Unhinged”. Thumbs down on the title. He’s absolutely right about Jim Morrison. To a much greater degree than with myself- -
Jim Morrison was a guy who liked to be “in a group - - but not OF it” but was
in an information gathering mode later to incorporate in his own ways. As to that quote from the Tibetan Book of the
Dead- - about “The dead cannot find happiness and peace without us sending them
good thoughts” - - I had never had that before, and it doesn’t fit in with
Federation “theology” but it does comport well with Mahayana Bhuddism, which I
have studied. Just for the record “Another Girl” is Jim
Morrison’s all time favorite Beatle piece.
I have not heard from Jim Morrison in quite some time.
The
Chicago Blackhawks are up two games to zip over the Kings. We just had cold cuts for lunch. I had Leo Le Port on. I was talking with James Fisher in the
morning and we were both trying to remember the full cast of the movie “Easy
Rider”. Yes and I did write Dr. Levy
two letters. Allan says Marie is riding
her motorcycle for the first time in almost eight years since her
accident. I had no idea she hadn’t
attempted to ride a bike till now. She’s
always seemed fine to me. I watched “Face
the Nation” on computer, at least the majority of it. And I also caught a pretty sizable chuck of
the Detroit Grand Prix. That supply of instant
“espresso” is going down fast. I think
we’re done here.
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