tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post2915349483673785641..comments2024-01-28T03:56:39.351-08:00Comments on TOM CLARK: There must be somethingUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-36284890460115727272015-11-27T06:07:32.683-08:002015-11-27T06:07:32.683-08:00Vassilis, that's an undeserved welcome to a ge...Vassilis, that's an undeserved welcome to a generous mansion... and truth be told, these days --<br /><br />now that the world’s become<br />an endless hotel<br /><br />-- it's hard to imagine finding more durable accommodation anywhere.TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-47899651253959589682015-11-26T00:47:38.278-08:002015-11-26T00:47:38.278-08:00We don’t celebrate Thanksgiving in Hellas but we d...We don’t celebrate Thanksgiving in Hellas but we do give thanks every day for having poets who give us <a href="http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/181853" rel="nofollow"> plenty of food for thought </a>, like you do, Mr. Clark.vazambam (Vassilis Zambaras)https://www.blogger.com/profile/14515165428574974933noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-50992691790828144812015-11-25T19:09:00.700-08:002015-11-25T19:09:00.700-08:00What a pleasure, to be alone here, on Mars, among ...What a pleasure, to be alone here, on Mars, among such pleasant visitors from the blue marble.<br /><br />My hand magnifying glass, without which nothing, wobbling unsteadily, gradually revealed an alarming disparity in the distribution of the tall cold ones there in the cutaway house (which frankly reminded me a bit too much of the houses near ground zero in Allendale in 2026, the year the humans left and their robots didn't), with the males seeming to be enjoying a Ballantine's everywhere one looks... while for the busy females, upon whom the holiday workload invisibly descends like so much radioactive fallout... no, not even for the poor bright toiling woman at the sink, all smiles... but no, no Ballantine's for the ladies, not even under magnification. <br /><br />It was a small relief to be reminded that by the following Earth-year, there had came at least a hint of equity.<br /><br /><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/retroarama/6997169200/in/photolist-bEjjCh-brK8uc-7pJGYz-4xjAmU-qMyy5T-5tnCLD-7wcu2t-9m59xj-a4bfc2-u81dx-hLrhdf-7RFPrC-7t9NFe-pwtErC-bvtiCZ-bmRCkx-5X1X2F-4Kseaa-dxk4Rs-dxeBri-9nX3FM-8W7dsu-awBdeq-aFDQH8-copZXm-5BA6ki-qLMDoo-6stjfF-5BA6rx-5BA6o6-dVzA74-ocXdxN-5R4WML-9pfyTU-4KwuM9-6XEHnR-63s2kp-oKTr3U-7aQes6-8wNLCU-hfeto-dcLQ45-7kgZdv-2oCL3r-7kgZri-73BdBW-5DUKcR-6prm8R-an8oMc-5RsDYb/lightbox/" rel="nofollow">Ballantine Ale ad 1954: "It's so nice the boys are getting along, Marge"</a><br /><br />The ancient label of Ballantine having it seems latterly been "resurrected" (by Pabst) now appears revenant as a macrobrew in microbrew clothing, as it were, research shows.<br /><br />Have you not ever paused amid life's hurry and bustle to imagine for a moment how Americans might be envisioned, sans affect for the once, from afar, say from a tent, or mud hut, in a high pass in Afghanistan? <br /><br />And not then begun to understand why the native Martian tribes were never able to accept the incursion of the blue-eyed colonists, over all those dry, dusty, windy years of the colonization?? <br /><br />Do you suppose there will ever be war crimes trials on Mars?<br /><br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17Wxxdw3XB0" rel="nofollow">Ballantine IPA by Ballantine & Sons: a review. "There's so much of our brain here that we don't know what's going on. And even more if you're a liberal... I'm getting pounded by the beautiful odor of the citrus."</a><br /><br />Upon these shifty hillsides the indigenes had their own ways of doing seasons. And what do we know?<br /><br />Set the dead bird afire, couple bong hits with the Quaker dude from the mayflower or like, wherever, a tall cold Ballantine's ... and Thou. <br /><br /><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/retroarama/6355937257/in/photolist-aFDQH8-7t9NFe-pwtErC-dVzA74-bmRCkx-ocXdxN-5X1X2F-5R4WML-4Kseaa-dxk4Rs-4KwuM9-dxeBri-9nX3FM-awBdeq-copZXm-5BA6ki-qLMDoo-63s2kp-6stjfF-5BA6rx-5BA6o6-oKTr3U-jFxTy5-7aQes6-8wNLCU-7kgZdv-6zjCEd-8S48nH-5bdEDg-buQ1nP-jSUJSu-5bdEEg-hfeto-dcLQ45-2oCL3r-7kgZri-73BdBW-5DUKcR-6prm8R-an8oMc-5RsDYb-3YJvLR-pxdiWL-5BEo6j-5BEo3f-48Vkpj-hrg5u8-7McAZj-d7gh7f-8NqrHT/lightbox/" rel="nofollow">Ballantine's Ale: Early American Custom</a><br /><br />Those black Martian winds have been absolutely ripping. We've had to batten down the hatches over here on dry land, I can't imagine how poor Nora stands it, out there on the houseboats, by the spaceport, where they night-test the ICBMs, but all in the interests of a two state solution, mind you.TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-5865601714429196852015-11-25T15:40:09.496-08:002015-11-25T15:40:09.496-08:00Dear TC: Thanks, as always, for your amazing plane...Dear TC: Thanks, as always, for your amazing planetary & interplanetary perspective.tpwhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05909239000589253931noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-77511787435593443162015-11-25T13:22:53.573-08:002015-11-25T13:22:53.573-08:00Impending destruction "...with the flavor tha...Impending destruction "...with the flavor that chill can't kill".<br /><br />I have a fierce sense of that poem as a postcard from the future. I hope my instincts are wrong.Mose23https://www.blogger.com/profile/01100756913131511440noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-54753208571391137952015-11-25T10:34:47.965-08:002015-11-25T10:34:47.965-08:00Thank you, Tom, for this incredible poem that I ca...Thank you, Tom, for this incredible poem that I cannot stop reading. Marciahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17150292834089323928noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-40444104334110158342015-11-25T09:06:49.451-08:002015-11-25T09:06:49.451-08:00Those Mars winds are especially cold this year.Those Mars winds are especially cold this year.Norahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14439557611640319928noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-43865090545232215152015-11-25T03:01:14.516-08:002015-11-25T03:01:14.516-08:00Tom,
There is always something we are trying to p...Tom,<br /><br />There is always something we are trying to protect. Sometimes just the right to protect. Lovely poem.<br /><br />manik sharmahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18055072451804840121noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-71641353206463907802015-11-25T00:37:19.866-08:002015-11-25T00:37:19.866-08:00YOU PUT THE TOM IN TURKEY.YOU PUT THE TOM IN TURKEY.kenthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12448791356455016794noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-86962292522943001172015-11-24T21:20:48.905-08:002015-11-24T21:20:48.905-08:00Thank you, dear Michael. Ever the discerning eye. ...Thank you, dear Michael. Ever the discerning eye. <br /><br />(The holiday bitcoin shipment is on the way...)TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-26240096259164303752015-11-24T20:35:09.224-08:002015-11-24T20:35:09.224-08:00brilliant post and poem, as always...brilliant post and poem, as always...Lallyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05310472614196384595noreply@blogger.com