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I tried to walk Ghoti at least once a day, around the block, at the park or any field I could let him run in. He wore a collar and leash maybe ten times in his life, due to the fact that he would listen to me, and respond accordingly. The mailman, Julian, was deadly afraid of his large, black, bulk, and would refuse repeatedly to deliver mail if Ghoti was sitting on the porch. Julian didn't realize that Ghoti would do no harm, and I went through many battles, not only with Julian, but with the local post office. Yeah, they were right, but I just wanted to let them know. Julian eventually came to know Ghoti, and they greeted each other whenever Ghoti was outside.<br />
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When we walked I would call him by many different names, for no reason whatsoever, other than as terms of affection. He never seemed to be confused, but would respond.<br />
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Below is a partial list of some of Ghoti's a.k.a.'s:<br />
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- Morvelda<br />
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- Pooka Dooka Doo<br />
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- Sweet Patooka<br />
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- Fordozia<br />
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- Bobba Loopa Doo<br />
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- Ba La La<br />
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- Va Roopda Loopda<br />
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- Fish Iosis<br />
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- Ponka<br />
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- Ooga Booga Boo<br />
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- Ba Lacha Gnu<br />
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- Baboonza<br />
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- Pooka<br />
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- Poomp Da Da Roo Doo<br />
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- Sadaunka<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">My quadruped's job was domestic</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">he kept all around him at ease</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">by licking and barking and napping</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">while he wasn't hard to appease.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">For more than a decade he never</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">the two of us had an agreement</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">that neither of us ever would stray.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">'Cept once when I had to move eastward</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">(I left him with capable care)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">still when I'd come home for a visit</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I knew that for me he'd be there.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">And I still have this scene in my mem'ry</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">of him taking naps in the yard</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">till when he heard my car coming</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">he'd jump with his tail wagging hard.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">It's true that a dog is man's best friend</span></div>
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At the tail end of 2014 - it seems so long ago - I found a Wikipedia page that gave a great number of web sites for Indie Papers (my caps) around North America. Since the Toledo Free Press had decided not to use my cartoons for their paper, I decided I had nothing to lose by sending my work to other papers around North America (by North America I mean there were some Canadian papers and a Nova Scotia one, too), so I sent out a plethora of e-packages with 5 samples of my work, from the Village Voice to the Memphis Flyer - and everything in between.<br />
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As of this date, I've had one inkling of interest from a Lansing paper, who requested to see additional drawings, then I never heard anything more. That's it. Though this annoyance hasn't diminished my drive to get my work out there, I can't help but to wonder if I'm totally loopy in thinking that ANY of my art is worth anyone's attention. </div>
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Sometimes I see other (local) outputs of art - in any of their various forms: music, theater, visual, et al - and wonder : 1) if this poor excuse of a town is cursed when it comes to the Arts, or 2) I, in fact, am delusional in thinking my work is worth anyone's attention.</div>
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It's only my thinking that #2 is bullshit, that I continue throwing stuff out there, and, not unlike throwing spaghetti against the wall, seeing what sticks.</div>
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With that in mind, I share a fresh sampling of the "cartoons" aspect of my work (even though I have posted some in earlier posts). Enjoy.</div>
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The above are all what are being referred to as "bad homophones," play on words, what were called "homophones" when I was in grade school, if I'm not mistaken. Silly? Yes.</div>
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These last two are an idea where a four-letter word is rearranged to form another word that can then be drawn in a picture integrating both words. Not sure "Dis Lexia" is the right name for it.</div>
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So, if anybody's got any ideas as to where this output can find a home, you know my name, look up the number.</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04129369436600128800noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6570005778277816092.post-53118317627397434442015-02-02T18:07:00.001-08:002015-02-02T18:10:49.870-08:00This Winter Means to Kill Us All<br />
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This Winter means to kill us all</div>
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Freeze our marrow to its core</div>
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each bird and beast and man.</div>
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Our bones will crunch in Winter's jaws</div>
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our skin will crack like ice.</div>
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We'll try so hard to break its grip,</div>
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yet nothing will suffice.</div>
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And while we yearn with all our might,</div>
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yearn for Summer's heat,</div>
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relentless cold and frost and snow</div>
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will make the kill complete.</div>
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A little goes a long, long way</div>
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when it comes to Winter's hold.</div>
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The skies are grey, both night and day</div>
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Yeah, this Winter means to kill us all</div>
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it has no real contender.</div>
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And if you're wise, you'll empathize</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04129369436600128800noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6570005778277816092.post-71908786515681818722015-02-02T09:20:00.000-08:002015-02-02T09:20:19.487-08:00February 1st, 2015 (While Da Cold Winds Blow)<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: verdana, palatino, serif; font-size: 14.6666669845581px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: verdana, palatino, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">(apologies for the weird white boxes framing the letters)</span></span>
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<i><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: verdana, palatino, serif; font-size: 14.6666669845581px;">"To have a sacred place is an absolute necessity for anybody today. You must have a room or a certain hour of the day or so, where you do not know who your friends are, you don't know what you owe anybody or what they owe you. This is a place where you can simply experience and bring forth what you are and what you might be." - </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: verdana, palatino, serif; font-size: 14.6666669845581px;">Joseph Campbell</span></i><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: verdana, palatino, serif; font-size: 14.6666669845581px;">My stoodio is a mess - and it should be. If I were working with pristine glass sculptures or shiny chrome pieces, maybe then it should be clean -maybe. But I'm not working those mediums. The works that come outta there reflect the squalor, I see it as a necessity. For 6+ years I've been working here, and I "cleaned" it for the first time at the beginning of January,2015, only because I was going to be working with a student.</span><br />
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<i><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: verdana, palatino, serif; font-size: 14.6666669845581px;">"I used to empty the studio out and throw stuff away. I now don't. There will be a whole series of dead ends that a year or two down the line I'll come back to." </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: verdana, palatino, serif; font-size: 14.6666669845581px;"> - Anish Kapoor</span></i><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: verdana, palatino, serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.6666669845581px;">In my stoodio you'll find a tub (one of those plastic containers that are meant to store Christmas stuff) overflowing with tissue paper, various sticks obtained while walking Ghoti, spools and spools (mostly rusty) of varying widths of wire, containers of brushes, pencils, colored pencils, markers, (more) sticks, scissors, cutters, Sharpies, a rolling pin (which I can't find right now), wire cutters/shapers of all shapes and sizes, rulers, photos, a tin titled "plastic army men" and one marked "toy money," works in varying states of completeness, Barbie heads, Ken heads, wire heads, plaster o' paris, polyurethane, pieces o' paper with various quotes ("Doubt not, o poet, but persist. Say 'It is in me, and shall out!'" - Emerson), a shop-vac (why?), a space heater, multiple empty small tins of Altoids for a future project, sketch pads, saws and tools, barn wood, lath . . . and that's the tip o' the iceberg. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: verdana, palatino, serif; font-size: 14.6666669845581px;">There is a huge blizzard that rages outside, with an expected accumulation of 10 - 12 inches before it's all done. But I am warm, not only from our imperfect furnace, but from the energies that emanate from my little haven. It's small. I hope, in one way, that I'll move to larger spot someday, but if that ever happens, I'll prob'ly wish for this spot where I will now close this entry and let my muse in.</span><br />
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As January nears its end, we still have February and March (and probably part of April) to deal with Winter. I find myself burrowing deeper and deeper into the comfort of our home, in an effort to ignore the drudgery of this season.<br />
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I have not been as creative in the studio as I'd like to be, but the work that does eke out is worthy of attention (see below).<br />
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I spent the workdays of January involved in the Winterim Program at Maumee Valley Country Day School, teaching art to a Junior at the school, Fareid El Gafy. The program winds up today with a fair at the school. I was truly impressed with Fareid's talent. He (wisely) has no intention of being an artist when he graduates from college (he's thinking of something dealing with international diplomacy), but he shows talent, nevertheless, with his work. Part of the daily ritual was to keep a blog of the day's events. This is the link:<br />
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My new side musical project (Chinese Purple) has been trying to make a mark on the local scene, with varying successes. The Village Idiot seems to have appreciated what we put forth, and have offered us what hopefully will be a steady flow of dates, March 6 being the next gig.</div>
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Poets, rappers and anyone interested in a rhyme have long been flustered and flummoxed over the inability to come up with a soundalike word for that damn citrus fruit, the orange. I have decided that the time is nigh to remedy that problem. I have taken the liberty to "invent" some words that will allow the rhyming class to come to terms with this age old problem.<br />
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<b>ectowournge </b>(<i>n)</i><i> </i>[êk'-tō-wærnj]: the outer surface of a used crustacean.<br />
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<b>phlornge </b>(<i>v</i>) [flörnj]: flapping one's legs as though they are wings.<br />
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<b>ournge </b>(<i>v</i>) [ørnj]: the intentional eating of an orange peel.<br />
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<b>dystopiornge </b>(<i>adj</i>) [dù-stōp'-ē-örnj]: a hellish orchard.<br />
<b>Example: "</b>The back 40 had a dystopiornge odor, not unlike Stella's inner pant leg.<br />
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<b>borange </b>(<i>adv</i>) [bõrnj]: the quality of being a lackluster citrus.<br />
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Damn, summer's waning. In the past, I've looked forward to Autumn, then Winter/holidaze - not this year. First time. Whaddya gonna do? Would I move if I had the dough???<br />
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Will get on a big metal bird in three days, always been trepidatious 'bout that. A couple o' Xanax and some whiskey on the flight will hopefully drain me of all fear. Never been to California, it will be nice to see Mick and Phi Ha.<br />
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Been true to the last post, and workin' a lot in the stoodio, and it feels really good. Good stuff (<i>I</i> think).<br />
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And after 61 years on this orb, it amazes me that there are things that still awe me. Velella Velella</div>
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04129369436600128800noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6570005778277816092.post-62830649890025529572014-08-17T14:13:00.001-07:002014-08-17T14:16:41.081-07:00August 17, 2014<br />
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It's as though I went away and came back . . .<br />
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I'll try again. Life has changed: I'm married. I'm older. I'm financially challenged (not really new). I/we survived The Winter of 2014 (some didn't, I'm sure).<br />
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The world around us continues with all its turbulence, and as much as that challenges all of us, it is strangely necessary. Savages beheading children in Iraq - and filming it. The continuing growth of police overstepping their boundaries, while their militarization - in no small part due to the Pentagon - only exacerbates the situation. Daily senseless gun shootings. The continued abuse of our planet - by ALL of us. Racism/ignorance/gullibility dominating our political arena. Senseless killing of innocents in the Gaza Strip. It seems that Nero is tuning his fiddle off in the corner somewhere . . . civilizations, they come and they go, doncha know. <br />
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But this path o' mine continues, with the aforementioned variations. I still create, and that is in no small part what keeps me on this path, thankful for the blessings that accommodate those challenges. And the blessings are plentiful: a beautiful wife, two thriving sons, a family that supports, two dogs, a NEW family . . . the list goes on.<br />
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OK, so wha's new? My cartoons/drawings are finally seeing the light of day, thanks to Michael Miller and the people at Toledo Free Press. They can be seen weekly (space allowing) and the paper comes out every Friday.<br />
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Here's a few samples:<br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><b>1) Changed my youngest son's name from Sam to Shamus (he was not amused)</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><b>7) Accidentally stumbled upon a great, new (to me) band: Les Tailleurs de Notes (<a href="http://inpolysons.free.fr/en/tailleursdenotes.html" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">http://inpolysons.free.fr/en/<wbr></wbr>tailleursdenotes.html</a>)</b></span></div>
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January 24, 2014 10:20 p.m.</div>
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<span style="font-family: LiSong Pro;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><u><b>RANDOM
COMMANDS</b></u></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: LiSong Pro;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>read
a crooked book</b></span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: LiSong Pro;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>throw
a wretched stone</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: LiSong Pro;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>know
the marks of cults</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: LiSong Pro;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>gnaw
on strangers' bones</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: LiSong Pro;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>laugh
at awkward mantras</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: LiSong Pro;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>sleep
on dirty sheets</b></span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: LiSong Pro;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>wriggle
like an earthworm</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: LiSong Pro;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>lather
then repeat</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: LiSong Pro;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>wrestle
with your conscience</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: LiSong Pro;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>chew
on tootsie rolls</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: LiSong Pro;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>maintain
a 3 point average</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: LiSong Pro;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>burn
the dead sea scrolls</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: LiSong Pro;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>fix
the country's problems</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: LiSong Pro;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>treat
your neighbors rude</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: LiSong Pro;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>schnizzle
on the dizzle</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: LiSong Pro;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>eat
some bacon nude</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: LiSong Pro;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>mark
your turf with pudding</b></span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: LiSong Pro;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>let
your parrot fly</b></span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: LiSong Pro;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>make
a 3 egg omelette</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: LiSong Pro;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>then
eat it off your thigh</b></span></span></div>
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<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: LiSong Pro;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>read
some Lewis Carroll</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: LiSong Pro;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>build
a swiss cheese tower</b></span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: LiSong Pro;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>tie
your undies in a knot</b></span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: LiSong Pro;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>and
take a golden shower</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: LiSong Pro;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>write
on snotty tissue</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: LiSong Pro;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>let
your dog be lazy</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: LiSong Pro;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>float
on towards nirvana</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: LiSong Pro;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>convince
your aunt you're crazy</b></span></span></div>
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</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: LiSong Pro;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>change
the course of hist'ry</b></span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: LiSong Pro;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>land
on both your feet</b></span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: LiSong Pro;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>read
the bible backwards</b></span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: LiSong Pro;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>grab
a stranger's teat</b></span></span></div>
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<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: LiSong Pro;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>recognize
your presence</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: LiSong Pro;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>call
on Yoko Ono</b></span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: LiSong Pro;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>dip
your toes in choc'late</b></span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: LiSong Pro;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>buy
some land in Bono</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: LiSong Pro;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>lick
your best friend's ice cream</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: LiSong Pro;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>raise
the roof beam high</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: LiSong Pro;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>never
trim your toenails</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: LiSong Pro;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>forget
that you will die.</b></span></span></div>
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-From the book "Random Commands, A Well Hung man & Other Claptrap"</div>
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by Steven J. Athanas</div>
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Pray for the birds</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04129369436600128800noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6570005778277816092.post-1562369773397311532014-01-20T14:14:00.000-08:002014-01-20T14:14:18.462-08:00<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Mom´sTypewriter, monospace;">Post
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<span style="font-family: Mom´sTypewriter, monospace;">some
of us eat each other</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Mom´sTypewriter, monospace;">we're
not proud – it's just what we do</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Mom´sTypewriter, monospace;">at
least we know just what we taste like</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Mom´sTypewriter, monospace;">which
is more than you know about you </span>
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<span style="font-family: Mom´sTypewriter, monospace;">our
m.o. is plain and it's simple</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Mom´sTypewriter, monospace;">we
do what we need to survive</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Mom´sTypewriter, monospace;">more
often than not we are leary</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Mom´sTypewriter, monospace;">of
just how long we'll be alive</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Mom´sTypewriter, monospace;">we
lack any ethics or morals</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Mom´sTypewriter, monospace;">we
live without guilt or regrets</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Mom´sTypewriter, monospace;">we
harbor no sense of a hist'ry</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Mom´sTypewriter, monospace;">no
ancestral line as of yet</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Mom´sTypewriter, monospace;">the
past is the same as the present </span>
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<span style="font-family: Mom´sTypewriter, monospace;">time
is a word that means nil</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Mom´sTypewriter, monospace;">here
at the end of the ocean</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Mom´sTypewriter, monospace;">time
is just something we kill </span>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04129369436600128800noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6570005778277816092.post-13294928612329989372014-01-19T10:18:00.000-08:002014-01-19T10:18:43.681-08:00<br />
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January 19, 2014<br />
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On Wednesday, December 11, 2013, my first book saw the light of day. "Random Commands, A Well-Hung Man & Other Claptrap," was welcomed by a reception at the Typographic Laboratory in the Field House at the University of Toledo. Prof. Timothy Geiger and the students of his bookmaking class did a SUPERB job of putting the project together, and I couldn't be happier.<br />
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I will post pages from the book intermittently, and I hope that you enjoy. As I've stated previously, I am hellbent on getting the book and my other work, out into the <b>world at large</b>. All comments, advice, criticisms and cash donations are welcome.<br />
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But most importantly: enjoy.<br />
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Thanks.<br />
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<span style="font-family: Mom´sTypewriter, monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u><b>Clothes</b></u></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Mom´sTypewriter, monospace;">My shoes are
shoes</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Mom´sTypewriter, monospace;">and that I say</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Mom´sTypewriter, monospace;">because of each
and ev'ry day</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Mom´sTypewriter, monospace;">I put them
where they seem to goes</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Mom´sTypewriter, monospace;">to cover my
heels, and all 10 toes</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Mom´sTypewriter, monospace;">My shirt's a
shirt</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Mom´sTypewriter, monospace;">of this I'm
blessed</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Mom´sTypewriter, monospace;">it covers up my
hairy chest</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Mom´sTypewriter, monospace;">no doubt, I'm
sure, if it lay bared</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Mom´sTypewriter, monospace;">all my
neighbors would be scared</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Mom´sTypewriter, monospace;">My pants are
pants</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Mom´sTypewriter, monospace;">they're nothing
more</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Mom´sTypewriter, monospace;">I thank the
Lord they have a door</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Mom´sTypewriter, monospace;">if they didn't,
you could bet</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Mom´sTypewriter, monospace;">sooner or later
I'd be wet</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Mom´sTypewriter, monospace;">My hat's a hat</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Mom´sTypewriter, monospace;">it doesn't roam</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Mom´sTypewriter, monospace;">it covers up my
shiny dome</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Mom´sTypewriter, monospace;">it keeps the
heat right up there</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Mom´sTypewriter, monospace;">a job once held
by all my hair</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Mom´sTypewriter, monospace;">Clothes are
clothes</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Mom´sTypewriter, monospace;">that's for sure</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Mom´sTypewriter, monospace;">someone was
cold they found the cure</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Mom´sTypewriter, monospace;">or was it 'cuz
we all were nude</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Mom´sTypewriter, monospace;">and someone's
mother found it rude?</span> </div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04129369436600128800noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6570005778277816092.post-10137667640763591692014-01-16T06:34:00.000-08:002014-01-16T06:34:07.512-08:00January 16, 2014<br />
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This is a small compilation of various photos that, more or less, make up my (mostly) current existence. I do this as a means of documentation, so that after the aliens abduct me, you will have something to laugh at and scratch your dome.<br />
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I promise I won't do this self-indulgent pap too often.<br />
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The O'Thanas Ranch Quadpeds</div>
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These are the protectors of the fort, the guard dogs. The large black one is Ghoti (pronounced "fish" . . . Google it) and the white one is Bijoux. They rule the roost.</div>
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Once upon a time, there was an agency that I chose to represent me - they shall remain nameless. The person who ran this operation saw me as a political artist, primarily based on this piece. [They] prodded me to make more political statements through my art, and as you may know, that's like telling a person they should grow more hair in their ears . . . it's just gotta happen, man.</div>
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This here is me 'n my woman (and da dog). She offers me strength, growth and a kiss or two when needed. We are intending to be betrothed in July of 2014, God willin' and the crick don't rise. </div>
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My sons, the other 2 bipeds who keep my world turning.</div>
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"The Lunatic Quads from Helsinki Escape the Asylum to Show Off Their Paintings in Lake Oulujarvi"</div>
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This is but one sample of an art form that I call "BOING!!!!!!!" Art. They are drawings/musings that are mounted on 3 strips of lathe by means of a handmade spring - hence the "boing" aspect of it.</div>
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Did I mention that a lot of my work is available to be seen @ https://www.facebook.com/artofstevenjay and https://www.facebook.com/pages/Kelly-OBrien-wSteve-Athanas/1410053135893477 ?</div>
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The other way I exorcise my creative demons (and make a buck or two). The Homewreckers is a 7 piece, rockin', dancin', laughin', no socially redeemin' enterprise that's been doin' its thang for longer than I care to remember. Whodda thunk I'd still be perpendicular and doin' this, lo these many years? Available for your dancing and dining pleasure. </div>
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My latest point of pride: my good pal and fellow rabble-rouser R.P. Fetters asked me (OK, I sorta suggested . . . ) to take a swat at designing the cover to his latest BRILLIANT output. Seriously, do yourself a favor and put these toonz into your auditory canal. You won't be disappointed.</div>
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First (completed) work of 2014 . . . tip o' the iceberg, baby.</div>
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I felt no inhibitions</div>
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it could've been the wine</div>
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Orion, Pisces, the Bear</div>
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I'm glad that I was there.</div>
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Here are a few of my works:</div>
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These are made using a rusty wire aperture, with tissue paper applied, using a 50/50 combo H2O and Elmer's. When dried, I can paint on them. A votive candle (in a votive cup!!!!) is placed within. I must confess, they do glow quite nicely - custom orders accepted.</div>
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One of many drawings with "pomes" (since I don't consider them worthy of the actual spelling). Prof. Tim Geiger and his bookmaking class just released a collection of these on the UT Aureole Press. Called "Random Commands, A Well Hung Man and Other Claptrap," there are a limited number of copies available. Here's the pome from "Enraged and Sick":</div>
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Enraged and sick of the
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annoying, bad pop songs</div>
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so he chopped up lots of
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And Neil Diamond's songs
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he tried to eat them all</div>
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but after Poison, Ratt and
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he coughed up 12 hair
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the drech of “Macho
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So the Village People he
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Sometimes drinks would
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but he made a thick, sweet
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when he ate Britney Spears</div>
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And Lady Ga Ga, Justin
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the whole damn cast of
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throw in Simon Cowell, too</div>
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a tasty potpourri</div>
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but then again, it would
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our musical aesthetic.
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This is how I look on the day I start this blog, January 12, 2014.</div>
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Just so you know, if you choose to read this thang, you'll hafta put up with my foibles, imperfections and slanted views - but ain't that what a blog does? The purpose of "Wrath O' Ath" is to (hopefully) expose my creative side(s) to new and bigger audiences.</div>
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There is no doubt in my mind that 9/10 of what I post will make me cringe somewhere down the road, but so be it.</div>
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