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Re: Zuihitsu

Post by stilltrucking » November 18th, 2020, 9:30 pm

I don't give a damn
I'm jamming !
at the NOLA cafe in Frederick MD with wireman today while sitting in the sunshine this afternoon, barely conscious been living in the gloom by the light of the 38 inch tv that is my computer monitor, sitting in that sunlit lawn chair wondering if this is Zuihitsu so I came inside to the gloom to write this Bbbbut I opened my blinds and flooded the room with sun shine

I been Thinking about american gods theology male religion of the white evangelical nationalists with John Wayne crucified in place of the Christ Jesus.
like you said I don't give a...

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Post by jackofnightmares » November 29th, 2020, 3:25 pm

winter tomorrow the weather here so digital
today mild bike weather
rained all day yesterday
i have-not felt sunshine the day before yesterday
would i rather have a porpoise or be void of purpose :?:
oceanography of a dark sea
i got to GO! catch a sunbeam
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Re: Zuihitsu

Post by the mingo » December 8th, 2020, 10:02 am

He killed me, Mal. He killed me with a sword. How weird is that?
Firefly

my cats ain't wearing masks
I been wearing one for months now
is what I mean -
and going on almost a year now to top it all off

I mean everyone here is wearing masks
while the news trumpets that Covid rages on unchecked
paying no attention whatsoever to our bullshit precautions

I mean none.

It's 19th Nervous Breakdown weather out there

given the choice between the disease
and living a proscribed life
give me the disease, please -

Live Free or Die
or
Live Free and Die


this Covid thing has the
same stink about it
as climate change does
I say, even if it all is as it's said to be
I say - so what?
Just so fucking what?
Humans have lived with disease
since time out of mind
you can't count them there are so many diseases out there
trying to take us down

BUT

we are still here
we are still here
we are still here

We are still here.
In-All-Our-Gory-Glory.

Fuck yeah, Mongolia!
Doll, you may have found a place of rest but I'm still on the trail.

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Re: Zuihitsu

Post by stilltrucking » December 8th, 2020, 8:27 pm

Does the Nose Talk to the Womb?
I believe that sometimes a little green genie comes along and pisses on the pillars of science.—My First 2000 Years by The Wandering Jew
https://archive.org/details/myfirsttwothousa00vier
I am grateful we are still here.
Let the good times roll!

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Post by stilltrucking » December 14th, 2020, 6:48 pm

we will be quite happy
to fuck ourselves
That's what I love about American democracy :wink:

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Re: Zuihitsu

Post by the mingo » December 23rd, 2020, 1:15 am

Well hell, now what?

Life as a virtual nudist?

This zuihitsu contains nicotine. Nicotine is an addictive chemical.

Maybe I should get a fire up in the woodstove. It's not frigid out but you wouldn't want to spend this night in the open. Grab some kindling, split up some firewood, get the whole thing lit off - from cold iron to warmth - warmth is good one day past the winter solstice -

I'm beating the shit out of some morbid thoughts that have gathered around.

this poem
was shot
going over the wall


Abstracted bears polish their socks.

No one remembers being hunted, attacked, & eaten by saber-toothed cats. No one remembers being helpless & having to watch it happen to someone they knew. Then coming to the moment when the screaming stopped.
Doll, you may have found a place of rest but I'm still on the trail.

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Post by stilltrucking » December 23rd, 2020, 10:36 am

i bear the hoop moo of a savage god
i am truly blessed with friends and so remember a thousand deaths
the morbidity faith
the suicide of children
1948 i experimented with death
almost succeeded in hanging myself
warning this Zuihitsu contains C21H30O2
reason impaired instinctive typing very likely
pineal observation of the area of the soul where words cannot penetrate


http://deathandreligion.plamienok.sk/fi ... HEALTH.pdf

sunny day warm in december today after a long dark night i awoke with the chills

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Post by the mingo » December 24th, 2020, 6:19 am

"It's 106 miles to Chicago. We've got a full tank of gas, a half a pack of cigarettes, it's dark, and we're wearing sunglasses."
"Hit it!"
Hypnotized by weather data @ 4:18 a.m. New toy.

Nancy woke up from a nightmare of churches and planes falling out the sky where we walk the dog. I had to run emergency emotional crowd control on spooks & demons of the id - I put in for combat pay.

My father running around on Harley motorcycles all Hollywood dreaming after the war - me on an electric bicycle running the back roads of Tug Hill, don't know if that's progress but it certainly qualifies as half-assed tradition -

Pulling stuff outta the air - rode yesterday cause it was mild for this time of year - 30 degrees, no wind - bout an hour was my limit - even on low pedal-assist, ya get chilled by your own wind -

New 5-in-1 wireless weather station on my wall - had to install the instrument cluster up on the roof yesterday - cleared the ice & snow first - up there slippin' & slidin' around - thought to myself "Time was ain't now, old man was glad to be back on the ground -

temp - 42 F
humidity - 63%
barometer - 29.47
wind speed - 4.6 mph SSW
forecast - big clouds @ 5:04 a.m.
it was I stuck out my hand, not she—ah time.”
Doll, you may have found a place of rest but I'm still on the trail.

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Post by judih » December 24th, 2020, 11:15 pm

cool installations all over the place.
on our roof, nothing but the longest pine needles ever created. When the pine cones fall, you'd think we were under attack. Weather forecast: nice for walking, better for jogging, best for smelling the pine trees.

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Post by the mingo » December 25th, 2020, 12:56 am

rain all day 12/24/20
just me & Nancy now
we decided to start a new tradition
and open all gifts on Christmas Eve instead of
hell, we're both retired and can do what we want
Hell yeah, Mongolia!

taillights disappearing over the hill looking blurry in the rain - my rain gauge says an inch and 3/10's rain the past twelve hrs - wind out of the SSW @ 2 mph - local conditions real-time as reported by the instrument cluster on my roof - coyotes in the gravel pit - my dog chased one two days ago - she spotted it from our position on top of the ridge, the coyote was crossing the field below - she had no chance of catching it but when she took off after it I let her go and didn't call her back - as long as we draw breath let's chase the wind -

old tradition of opening all doors and windows on the solstice to let the old year out and the new one in -

MERRY cHRISTMAS EVERYBODY !

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmWTZ3KfnXE
Doll, you may have found a place of rest but I'm still on the trail.

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Re: Zuihitsu

Post by sasha » December 25th, 2020, 2:55 pm

 
Christmas Day, 2020 - dull, gray, and wet here in the laurel swamps

And that's just fine by me. The NWS had originally called for pounding rain with gale-force wind gusts - and no amount of preemptive cutting can cull all those trees destined for imminent toppling. Forty-five mph (~65 kph) winds can do a lot of damage out here. And yesterday afternoon I received a robocall from the power utility, who were bracing for gusts up to 70 mph (110 kph), and urging customers to prepare for "days long outages".

70 mph - that's hurricane force, according to the old Beaufort scale...

Merry Fucking Christmas.

So last night I glumly put up several gallons of water (drinking/cooking, washing, flushing) and decided to keep the thermostat at its daytime setting to retain as much heat as possible before the blackout.

Which never occurred. I spent the night restlessly, not because of anxiety over a possibly extended period of darkness - but because I was too warm. I poked my head outside, where it was in the low 50s (10ish C). A light rain pattered the roof of the car. The snow shovel lay on its back in a shallow lake that was once the bank into which it had been stuck. There was barely enough breath to move the tips of the trees' outstretched digits. And I laughed. I have the Power! I can control the weather! As long as I prepare for an outage, none will occur!

The day ain't over - the trailing edge of the storm has yet to pass - but the NWS has downgraded the peak gusts to 30 mph (~50 kph) - and sitting here in my slippers, sipping my annual goblet (or two) of mead while the Brandenburg Concertos play, re-lighting my little rosewood pipe packed with some fine weed, I take a pause from tinkering my home-grown software to reflect on how wealthy I am. Food in the fridge, heating oil in the tank. I look around me. Dust and cobwebs that haven't been addressed in weeks. Stacks of books yet to be shelved. A pile of newspapers sitting atop the business end of my shredder, another on the couch. I think: Ya know, it ain't much - but it's enough. And its mine.

(ooh, Brandenburg #4 just queued up, my favorite one. Methinks it would not be inappropriate to refill my goblet now...)

This storm has treated my gently, as had the one before it.

The sun has halted its southward retreat and taken a few hesitant steps back in our direction...

The world beyond is still a jangling, contentious madhouse... but here, in this place, this moment...

...

May all of you at Studio 8 find a bit of inner peace today.
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"Falsehood flies, the Truth comes limping after it." - Jonathan Swift, ca. 1710

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Re: Zuihitsu

Post by the mingo » December 26th, 2020, 1:05 am

best for smelling the pine trees.
Hi judih - got pine and fir and native hemlock here in spades - a single snowflake falls on a small stone, lingers a moment then disappears back into the water it came from - 8)
Doll, you may have found a place of rest but I'm still on the trail.

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Post by the mingo » December 26th, 2020, 1:08 am

The world beyond is still a jangling, contentious madhouse...
Hey Sasha - Like Creedence Clearwater Revival said in their song "Green River"
"if you get lost c'mon home to Green River"
Doll, you may have found a place of rest but I'm still on the trail.

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Re: Zuihitsu

Post by the mingo » December 26th, 2020, 1:11 am

reason impaired instinctive typing very likely
Jack - Hell yeah, Mongolia!
Doll, you may have found a place of rest but I'm still on the trail.

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Re: Zuihitsu

Post by the mingo » December 29th, 2020, 11:33 pm

temps dropping here on Tug Hill Plateau - 15 degrees above zero currently - will be colder by dawn -

moonlight & no wind
tracks in snow
single coyote howls upriver


coffee, wavy potato chips, Green River by CCR playing, no bullfrogs though - they all dug deep into the mud of every river & swamp & pond for weeks now sleeping and dreaming their winter long dream
Doll, you may have found a place of rest but I'm still on the trail.

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