GAZA STRIP - A Palestinian plays with fire crackers as he celebrates the Muslim holy month of Ramadan in Rafah. Photo @saidkkatib: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 3 June 2017
Police respond to an incident on London Bridge: image via Reuters Pictures @reuterspictures, 3 June 2017
People speak with police officers after an attack near London Bridge: image via Reuters Pictures @reuterspictures, 3 June 2017
People walk with their hands up after an incident near London Bridge: image via Reuters Pictures @reuterspictures, 3 June 2017
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Residents
in the Cox’s Bazar and Chittagong districts in Bangladesh walked
toward a safer area after Cyclone Mora hit on Tuesday. @epaphotos: image via Photojournalism @photojournalink, 3 June 2017
#Kashmir Women watch the body of rebel leader S. Ahmed Bhat, killed during a gun battle with Indian government forces. By @daryasinAP: image via Photojournalism @photojournalink, 3 June 2017
Kashmiris carry the body of rebel leader Sabzar
Ahmed Bhat towards his home after displaying it to villagers in the Tral
area, 45 kilometers (28 miles) south of Srinagar, Indian controlled
Kashmir, on Saturday, May 27, 2017. Police said Bhat and a fellow
militant were killed after troops cordoned off the southern Tral area
overnight following a tip that rebels were hiding there.: photo by Dar
Yasin/AP 27 May 2017
A
woman comforts the mother of an Indian man killed by a gang on early
Thursday night, near Jewar, south Delhi. Photo @AltafQadriAP: image via AP Images @AP_Images, 25 May 2017
#Iraq A shepherd herds his sheep in Mosul's western countryside during #MosulOffensive Photo @KarimSahibAFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 3 June 2017
#Bangladesh Bangladeshi residents offer Friday prayers at a mosque
during the first Friday of Ramadan in Dhaka. Photo Munir Uz Zaman: image via Frédérique Geffard
@fgeffardAFP, 3 June 2017
#Iraq Smoke billows during a strike in a neighbourhood of west Mosul during #MosulOffensive Photo@KarimSahibAFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 3 June 2017
GAZA STRIP - Palestinians harvest wheat during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, in Bureij refugee camp. Photo @mohmdabed: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 3 June 2017
GAZA STRIP - Palestinians harvest wheat during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, in Bureij refugee camp. Photo @mohmdabed: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 3 June 2017
Beyond the headlines. @rebeccajconway goes to #kashmir again and again to tell the story.: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 3 June 2017
#Germany A dressed up woman attends a so-called "Victorian Picnic" during the Wave-Gotik-Treffen festival in Leipzig. @tobiasschwarz: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 3 June 2017
#US A view of the Diplomatic Reception Room in the White House. Photo @b_smialowski: image via Frédérique Geffard
@fgeffardAFP, 3 June 2017
JERUSALEM - A Palestinian Muslim worshipper attends the first Friday prayers of Ramadan in front of the Dome of the Rock. Photo @ahmadgharabli4: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 2 June 2017
#China A fisherman stands in the water of the Yangtze river in Chongqing. Photo @freddufour_afp: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 1 June 2017
#China The interchange in Chongqing is made up of five layers, 20 ramps and goes in eight different directions.: image via Frédérique Geffard
@fgeffardAFP, 3 June 2017
In this photo provided by the Kentucky State Police, Rocco, a dachshund, peeks his head through the trunk of a tree in Salem, Ky., Thursday, June 1, 2017. Rocco, a dachshund, peeks his head through the trunk of a tree in Salem, Ky., Thursday, June 1, 2017. A couple of Kentucky State Police troopers and a firefighter have proved that man can be dog’s best friend by coming to the rescue of a dachshund trapped inside a tree trunk.: photo by Kentucky State Police via AP, 1 June 2017
#Thailand A woman sits with her three pomeranian dogs in her gardening supply store in Bangkok. @TheLilyfish: image via Frédérique Geffard
@fgeffardAFP, 2 June 2017
#UCLfinal
Policemen evacuate a Juventus' supporter in Piazza San Carlo during a
panic movement in the fanzone in Turin. Photo @MBer12: image via Frédérique Geffard
@fgeffardAFP, 3 June 2017
Juventus fans cheer in Torino as they follow the game on a giant screen. @juventusfc @AFP @AFPsport @AFPphoto @Mber12 @ChampionsLeagueFinal: image via Marilor Messana @Marilor_AFP, 3 June 2017
#UK Police dealing with "major incident" on London Bridge, Transport for London says Photo @DSorabji: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 3 June 2017
Photo from the scene of #BoroughMarket attack appears to show London attacker with canisters strapped to his body: image via BBC Breaking News @BBCBreaking, 3 June 2017
A full page ad today in @Oregonian #portlandstabbing: image via Mark Katches @markkatches, 2 June 2017
Jesse Jackson is in Portland right now, and spoke publicly before a private meeting at a church in #Portland: image via Beth Nakamura @bethnakamura, 2 June 2017
Colleague
@PatDooris 1st spotted this. Wanted to share this moving letter left at
Hollywood Transit Center. Hope this young man finds peace.: image via Mike Benner @MikeBennerKGW, 31 May 2017
An Ariane 5 rocket lifts off from the French Guiana Space Center in Kourou. @JodyAmiet: image via Frédérique Geffard
@fgeffardAFP, 2 June 2017
#UCLfinal Real Madrid's striker Cristiano Ronaldo tries for
an overhead kick against Juventus' defender Leonardo Bonucci. Photo
@f_monteforte: image via Frédérique Geffard
@fgeffardAFP, 3 June 2017
Military training exercise at Roodewal Air Force base. @SafodienMujahid : image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 2 June 2017: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 3 June 2017
Nearing Paradise
Nearing Paradise [California]: photo by the friendly user, 14 January 2013
It was a long, hard drive. When it was done, we had to destroy the vehicle,
to prevent contamination. Within moments it had burst into red, orange and violet flames
and when the gas tank exploded
a beautiful fireball rose through the charred trees. In Paradise
the streets were full of kids and people and dogs and cops and noise
and we looked around hoping to locate somebody we knew
but things were getting pretty crazy, the smoke and all,
and it didn't look too good until we got to the block where Stacy's folks live.
Then Christina came out of her house and called out to us
to offer help. Stacy herded the kids into the back of Christina's SUV
to offer help. Stacy herded the kids into the back of Christina's SUV
and we headed down to Bay Lumber
where they already had a support station set up out back
in the parking lot. Ed and Trish were down there
with a barbecue going, so we didn't feel
too worried. Not yet anyhow. But things
were starting to feel seriously wrong,
deeply, fundamentally incomprehensible in fact
and from the standpoint of rational thought
completely without meaning.
completely without meaning.
People were sharing their views now, there in the parking lot,
frantically and compulsively, and we started to suspect the views
we were hearing, the views being shared, were not actually the product
of excogitation, thus not subject to the usual logical
rules, and we didn't like that suspicion
at all. There was growing an uneasy consensus that this time
the situation might really be out
of control. And we didn't like that at all,
at all. There was growing an uneasy consensus that this time
the situation might really be out
of control. And we didn't like that at all,
either. Then Trish said she was getting pretty scared
and not really feeling hungry any more
so Ed started putting water on the fire
on the grill, and then the kids all started throwing up
and not really feeling hungry any more
so Ed started putting water on the fire
on the grill, and then the kids all started throwing up
at once. At that point this crazy looking guy with a hammer
started walking across the parking lot
toward us, screaming some unintelligible stuff
started walking across the parking lot
toward us, screaming some unintelligible stuff
at the top of his lungs, and Stacy said, this was a terrible idea, I just
want to get out of here
right now!
Un-edited Noon photo in Paradise. My friend Donna's photo, from her house. [Paradise, Ca].: photo by alphabunny_photos, 8 July 2008
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whitter: photo by live..simply, 3 June 2017
whitter: photo by live..simply, 3 June 2017
whitter: photo by live..simply, 3 June 2017
blue bike [SE Portland]: photo by bnzai9, 2013
Monrovia (suburban pastoral) [California]: photo by Thomas Willard, 21 December 2008
BAA911 [LA]: photo by Andrew Murr, 3 June 2017
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IMG_4904: photo by ]ezra[, 9 April 2016
IMG_4904: photo by ]ezra[, 9 April 2016
IMG_4904: photo by ]ezra[, 9 April 2016
Chicago_0380: photo by Thomas Willard, 5 May 2017
Big tree [SE Portland]: photo by bnzai9, 18 February 2017
Industrial fan palm, night [LA]: photo by Andrew Murr, 3 June 2017
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DSC_0676: photo by ]ezra[, 9 April 2012
DSC_0676: photo by ]ezra[, 9 April 2012
May 2010: photo by Ana.Caldas, 21 May 2010
Não há mar nenhum aquí. Lisboa 2017.: photo by Ana.Caldas, 18 May 2017
Não há mar nenhum aquí. Lisboa 2017.: photo by Ana.Caldas, 18 May 2017
Não há mar nenhum aquí. Lisboa 2017.: photo by Ana.Caldas, 13 May 2017
Heads [Astoria, Oregon]: photo by bnzai9, 13 January 2017
Gaviota [California]: photo by Thomas Willard, 21 April 2017
4 comments:
"Nearing Paradise"---brilliant, scary poem.
Thank you tpw.
What's also scary but unfortunately not quite brilliant is my #1 troll, who shows up every day of the Drumpf Epoch with sweetmeats, bonbons and threats.
Today he promised that the next time he sees me in Bay Lumber, he'll nail my foot to the floor. Scary or amusing? I'm told this sort of thing ought to to be taken seriously. (Well, it was the wife told me that, and you know how they are. Sane and all.) But... uh... taken seriously by whom, exactly? More to the point of the latest threat, his research (happily!!) is of the hit or miss variety so far, for I am a total amputee who hunt and pecks with the tip of his nose and my troll has not yet turned up that particular factoid.. Not famous enough to have a proper biography, and thank God for small favours as me old mother used to say! So I'm still a step or two ahead of his tracking data -- make that lurch, not step, but still.
For the first few months of the Epoch (are we having fun yet?) he kept ever so charmingly promising, day in day out, to tell Daddy Drumpf on me, and I'd better watch out, but the results so far show Drumpf to be variously occupied with other weightier matters, like inventing covrfefe and then firing the Mother of All Covrfefe at the mayor of London, implementing his travel ban on Muslim mayors of London, and so on.
Ruining America forever, hardly easy work. Bigly miles to go before I sleep. Up hill, down dale, sand trap, friendly mulligan for the Emir of Bahrain and his Orb caddy.
My mom also told me if we say our prayers Harambe might be coming back to life one day soon. Also she said that large lumpy thing under the sheet in the back of the SUV...
Promises, promises.
So... I ask, you, master tpw, What's a Bay Lumber, then?? A front for the meth labs of Paradise?
Dear T---I get all my meth at Home Depot, so I'm not familiar with Bay Lumber. But I'd say if you see it, avoid it. But, seriously, avoid crazy people most of all.
Have I shared that in addition to being a total amputee, I am blind? That should save me from seeing Bay Lumber. Though you never know. They're everywhere around us.
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