@POTUS turns to @SpeakerRyan after the House approved the American Healthcare Act.: image via Reuters Pictures @reuterspictures, 4 May 2017
You always promised me a Rose Garden
Thank you America for inviting me to indulge
Thank you America for inviting me to indulge
In your wish fulfillment fantasies
And for inducing me to occupy myself perpetually
With mere illusions instead of striving
To find a solution for the real problems of life
Thank you for reminding me that you aren't there
So that I can treat you as my intimate friend
And if your tone seems nervous, constrained, embarrassed
As though you were speaking always about yourself
It is because you have created a middle kingdom
It is because you have created a middle kingdom
For yourself and your creations
Which is forever remote from my world
But into which you would be ready to award me
Extra-territorial entry rights, leaning forward
To speak to me over the footlights
In a language I would never be able to understand
I had the tremendous honor to be in the Rose Garden today when the President issued an EO on #ReligiousFreedom: image via Eric Metaxas @ericmetaxas, 4 May 2017
No Muslim faith leaders at Trump's "religious freedom" event?: image via Justin Miller @justinjm1, 4 May 2017
House Republicans will join @realDonaldTrump in The White House Rose Garden at 3:30 post-vote comments re healthcare: image via Stephen Crowley @Stcrow, 4 May 2017
@realDonaldTrump delivers remarks at National Day of Prayer event: image via Stephen Crowley @Stcrow, 4 May 2017
Scenes from the National Day of Prayer event at the White House: image via Stephen Crowley @Stcrow, 4 May 2017
No Muslim faith leaders at Trump's "religious freedom" event?: image via Justin Miller @justinjm1, 4 May 2017
White House Senior Adviser, Stephen Miller, paces back and forth as @realDonaldTrump delivers remarks at National Day of Prayer event: image via Stephen Crowley @Stcrow, 4 May 2017
The President invited the Little Sisters of the Poor on to the stage to celebrate their victory on #ReligiousFreedom: image via Eric Metaxas @ericmetaxas, 4 May 2017
Boasting about the @nytimes coverage of his daughter Ivanka, who was with us. Tomorrow we will be in the Rose Garden. #NationalDayofPrayer.: image via Eric Metaxas @ericmetaxas, 3 May 2017
The
president told us that this was Lincoln's desk and then spoke about
Grant's success as a general and subsequent unsuccessful presidency.: image via Eric Metaxas
@ericmetaxas, 3 May 2017
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BANK - An Israeli border policeman takes position during clashes with
Palestinian protesters in Bethlehem. Photo Musa Al Shaer: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 4 May 2017
#China Clouds gather over the Hong Kong skyline. Photo @aartam #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 4 May 2017
#Venezuela Students clash with riot police during a protest against Venezuelan Government in Caracas. Photo @rschemidt: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 4 May 2017
#Venezuela A student protects himself during clashes with riot police in a protest against Venezuelan Government in Caracas Photo @rschemidt: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 4 May 2017
#Venezuela A demonstrator ran over by a National Guard control vehicle is dragged away by demonstrators during a protest in Caracas @FedericoParra: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 4 May 2017
#Iraq Children pose for a photo at a camp for internally displaced people in Hammam al-Alil after fleeing West Mosul. Photo Fadel Senna #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 4 May 2017
[Salt Lake County, Utah]: photo by Glenn Nielson, 28 April 2017
2017-96. Berkeley, CA. : photo by biosfear, April 2017
2017-98. Oakland, CA. : photo by biosfear, April 2017
2017-99. Berkeley, CA. : photo by biosfear, April 2017
Scenes from a White Riot -- Berkeley March 15th: A moment of not peace.: photo by Film and Photo Archivist, 14 April 2017
Scenes from a White Riot -- Berkeley March 15th: A moment of not peace.: photo by Film and Photo Archivist, 14 April 2017
Cats: photo by jhunter!, 28 March 2017
Who was the decorator? [Claremont, Oakland]: photo by efo, April 2017
Trailer trompe l'oeil [University Park, LA]: photo by Andrew Murr, 4 May 2017
Minor aggravation on Main Street, County Wicklow, 1901
Croagh Patrick, Westport, County Mayo: photo by Robert French, c. 1900 (Lawrence Photographic Collection, National Library of Ireland)
Croagh Patrick, Westport, County Mayo: photo by Robert French, c. 1900 (Lawrence Photographic Collection, National Library of Ireland)
Man talking to woman in cobbled square, County Dublin. [Woman in the photo is likely Elinor Wiltshire]: photo by Elinor or Reginald Wiltshire, 16 June 1954 (Wiltshire Photographic Collection, National Library of Ireland)
Traffic Jam. Main Street, Delgany, County Wicklow: photo by Robert French, c. 1901 (?) (Lawrence Photographic Collection, National Library of Ireland)
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[Untitled]: photo by Gina Maragoudaki, 19 April 2017
[Untitled]: photo by Gina Maragoudaki, 19 April 2017
[Untitled]: photo by Gina Maragoudaki, 19 April 2017
vancouver, spring 2017: photo by hossein shahrestani, 16 April 2017
vancouver, spring 2017: photo by hossein shahrestani, 16 April 2017
vancouver, spring 2017: photo by hossein shahrestani, 16 April 2017
Hong Kong, Playground: photo by Edas Wong, 3 May 2017
Hong Kong, Playground: photo by Edas Wong, 3 May 2017
Hong Kong, Playground: photo by Edas Wong, 3 May 2017
DSC_1149n: photo by ilan Ben yehuda, 6 February 2017
DSC_1149n: photo by ilan Ben yehuda, 6 February 2017
DSC_1149n: photo by ilan Ben yehuda, 6 February 2017
Hand: photo by Audsadang Satsadee, 29 April 2560
96-365: photo by Thanakom Laisakul, 6 April 2017
86-365: photo by Thanakom Laisakul, 27 March 2017
under Apolymon. Apolymon, cast luc1te sculpture by Bruce Beasley, State Office Towers, Sacramento, California: photo by Rick Ele, 2 May 2017
under Apolymon. Apolymon, cast luc1te sculpture by Bruce Beasley, State Office Towers, Sacramento, California: photo by Rick Ele, 2 May 2017
under Apolymon. Apolymon, cast luc1te sculpture by Bruce Beasley, State Office Towers, Sacramento, California: photo by Rick Ele, 2 May 2017
A hit on any format. My arthritic hands applaud thy service, sire. Ouchy! k
ReplyDeletekent,
ReplyDeleteWe really ought to get together on an astral cloud and commiserate. But never attempt a handshake. Like the orange ape with Merkel.
But who would get to play the orange ape. And my shrunken bent frame ... maybe Merkel sized these days but...
The gnarled and deformed hand lump that brought this post into the world reminds you that Justin Upton has just bounced into a twin killing with the socks jammed. Also the sacks. A chilly Friday night in the universe, and we blind people are listening, along with all 227 surviving fans...
But wait, has the universe been taken off the protected list, yet?
BTW, I know everybody's hyper curious about 2560, right??
ReplyDeleteThanks for the shout and game update. Hard for this 3am-rising baker to stay up for the left coast games, so my head hit the pillow (sack?) just as J-Up ended the rally. But I see, as expected, Michael Fulmer worked his murderous magic. Curious to read Okieland speed gun clocked his heater at 2560 K's per hour. Ah, bagels await me...k
ReplyDeleteCoincidences again. Bagels are survival. At 3:48 AM I encountered a dumpster diver with a pair of well used industrial strength boilermaker gloves diving for bagels in a fierce nor'wester. Had to talk him down. There were 2559 1/2 bagels left in that dumpster, and each no more than three to four days old. A deer ran across the street, against the light. I said, see that deer. Yeah, he said. Nice gloves, I said. He turned into the light, and I could see his face.
ReplyDeleteWill post on Bagel Factory website: BELOVED AMERICAN POET BELIEVES, "Bagels are survival." Off Sundays, will catch 9:00 pm start tonight.
ReplyDeleteAnd here's the funny thing. In 1980 or so I was "commissioned" to write a book about bagels. And wrote it, sort of. Believe it. Even worse, never got paid. Ha, serves you right!
ReplyDeleteOn the other hand that outcome was at least a relief to literature, he averred.
And did it ever exist? Or did all this happen in 2559? And the new year hadn't yet begun, and indeed doesn't actually begin until tomorrow morning, when the ship passes through the mists and lattices that surround the black hole at the center of the bagel galaxy?
That happened in 1979, now that I recall, exactly 381 years too early for them to feel the probe, enquiring gently upon the hull...
ReplyDelete(381, one of "those" numbers! The pieces are starting to fit...)
TV coverage just mentioned today Willie Mays' 86th b'day. Then reminder that our late HOF announcer Ernie Harwell never hesitated when asked: Say Hey the best player he ever saw. HOF Al Kaline agrees. Me too...k
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ReplyDeleteStill and however, on behalf of the lame and the halt, this I also get:
ReplyDelete...But his more meaningful comments are made between the lines, almost sotto voce: "The owners want you to eat baseball, drink baseball, think baseball. It's too much to expect.... The season should be cut in half. Double-headers should be banned. It takes me three days to get over a doubleheader.... Spring training is overrated. I'll admit I'm bored with it...." He sounds, at times, like an old lady with sore feet, and, in fact, he is a young man with sore feet. Very sore feet. No one except Kaline himself will ever know the agonies that have accompanied his long career as an athletic cripple, mostly because he has kept his mouth shut about it. When the doctors operated on him, they left him with a set of sharply swept-back toes on his left foot. Only two of those toes touch the ground when he walks, which has forced him to develop a special running style: on the heel and toes of his right foot and on the side of his left foot. The fact that he gets to line drives with the style and skill of a Mantle or Mays is one of the athletic miracles of the ages. All Kaline will admit publicly is that his foot sometimes hurts him -- "it's like a toothache in the foot." But there is a clearly discernible difference in his running as the game goes on. The Kaline who lopes out to his right-field position in the first inning runs almost normally; the Kaline who comes in after the last out is in pain and favoring the left foot. He is forever having his foot rubbed by Trainer Jack Homel to restore the circulation and relieve the pain. On top of that, he has suffered more than the average number of injuries, among them depressed fractures of both cheekbones, two beanings and a broken collarbone. Baseball has not been a frolic through sylvan glades for Al Kaline, and if a lot of Detroiters do not know it, at least one person does: General Manager Jim Campbell of the Tigers. "Al Kaline has had more reason to jake it than almost any ballplayer I know," says Campbell, "but I have never seen him give less than everything he had. That's the way he learned to play baseball, and that's the only way he knows how.
The Torments of Excellence, Jack Olsen, SI, May 11, 1964