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Once again, a huge thank you to Clementine. I just can't help myself so please tell me if it's WRONG.

I favorited, commented, and am linking back. I just want more people to SEE it.

I'll probably do that periodically unless I find out I shouldn't, as you always find amazing stuff for your blog.

All best wishes to you and everyone...

http://reflectionof.me/amazing-hdr-photos-of-new-york-city

It's 5am, which wouldn't normally be too early for me as I wake early, but I was up late, mostly trying to avoid sleep.
It didn't feel like a good thing at the time.
To my flu and headache delirium.
Looking back it's like putting an infant down.
Take 'it' for a drive so 'it' can feel the calming effects of the road.

My cousin does that at 2pm every day with both of her little boys.
I think it's 2. PM, that is.

I just got a comment on one of my posts!
"O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!' He chortled in his joy"
Chortling is harder than it 'sounds' by the way.
If you do it even a little wrong.

It is a wonderful thing to know you're being read,
Even though it has a very definite shyness factor, putting oneself out there.

The embedding is the easy part.
Place an object on the table in your mind
And riff on it. To greater or lesser effect.

But to tell the stories of your life,
and possibly the ones born in your brain
Is a different Story.

Let's see, maybe I can write a tiny story.
I persist in thinking I can't, so experiment I must.

Mary and Larry set off across the continent to see what they could see.
One brilliant time later, consisting of a concussion, the year turning into 1980
Amidst strains of Tom Petty's "Pretender"
Heading for a side trip to San Diego and
Seeing the vast Pacific for the first time with water from eyes cascading to meet its foamy shore,
Spending a night on the beach around a series of bonfires.

I remember a much too sunburned man, suffering around our fire.
I remember kids roaming the street and stealing any wood they could
To keep the fire burning high...
That wasn't nailed down or fenced off.

I never saw so much protected wood in my life.

I remember everyone on wheels.
Nobody walked.
It was roller or in-line skates, bicycles of ALL types, scooters
A world of wheels, riding on by.

Back to 'One brilliant time later... we went home,
Crazily from Arizona through Colorado to New Jersey.
In January. To visit two old friends - totally worth it, '
but scary as s#%&.

Just going from Tucson to Phoenix we lost our oil pan
And with it all the oil in the car,
Which we really couldn't do without.

So we were towed 60 miles to get fixed back up and
On the road.
Grand Junction was where our friends lived....
And the cyclical ride up the mountain was a bit
Harrowing. I didn't know there WERE that many owls per second
Anywhere.

What with that and the real
Snowy/icy possibility of plunging of the side
Off the tiny, narrow road...
The country music station - which was the only one we pulled in -
Was actually cheering.

That despite it being heralded as a
Totally Led Zeppelin trip.
We were shocked at music.
Odd turns.

I won't bore you with the end of the trip,
being directed in a van
In Brooklyn to being so close to the car to the right that
ANY way I moved was an 'accidental' loss of property.

And you know that it's bad when property is involved.

I had two people helping me drive into an empty parking space
On the street, only to end up
Hugging a Chrysler of North American descent.

One of the more embarrassing moments in life,
Climbing those stairs and telling those people
The state of affairs affecting their vehicle

Doh! What an idiot.

Luckily it wasn't the first nor the last time I goofed.
That's Life, love it or love it - one choice really
If you want to be Happy
Which I don't always know
How to be.

Actually I DO know,
But I fight it quite successfully.
And why, exactly.

It's late and I'm truth-telling.
And you're reading
And we're together for this time.

I wish you well in your journey.

It is time for it after all.
Discipline in life is essential.
I wish I could get me some on a cart that comes by the house.

Wouldn't that be convenient?
Come on - haven't you ever thought in that direction?

I knew it.
I'm the sole human to pass that way.

I think it's my super power.
But I may have spied another.
I don't pursue it.
Just curious - like a doppleganger in the brain.

Surgery? or Serenity?
What is your plan for your super power?

I love this movie.
I know there are a lot of difficult issues in it.
It may not be for everyone.
I found it incredibly uplifting.
The journey from darkness to light.
But don't watch if you're sensitive.
Sensitive people are very important to the human species...
as are all the many types of folk.
Be as you are, and feel really good about it.
Unless you don't want to...
Today.

Love it. Leave it. See it. Don't. Walk out whenever you need to. You are a great person.

OK Computer.... here's how it went down:
Thinking about the end of "Six Feet Under," but didn't want to post the series finale clip and be all spoilery, so I grabbed onto one of my other favorite scenes from the series - "Lucky" bonfire.... I could only find it in Spanish, and I did decide to post it second as I think the scene's expressions and action says most of it.

So, having "Lucky" by Radiohead in my head, I went a'searchin' for a version I liked, when I found this, with Michael Stipe as well... the first clip at ...

"Tibetan Freedom Concert 6/14/1998 Lucky: [from OK Computer] I'm on a roll, I'm on a roll this time I feel my luck could change kill me, Sarah, kill me again with love it's gonna be a glorious day... "  ~ YouTube description - thanks!

And now the - I believe, Spanish dubbed version of one of my favorite scenes of a touching and wild series, "Six Feet Under." This is Season 4, Episoode 3, a clear turning point in the lives of all assembled. I've watched it over and over... decluttering one's life is a life's work now, isn't it? The getting and the leaving behind; all of it (shout out to P.S.A.).

Just found out 'Rogo' is Italian (not Spanish) for fire or stake. Wish I knew more languages. I'm fell on that side of the coin.

You could get started tomorrow.... right?

It's a theme. It's not that I'm proud, but I want to post that's all. It's like a discipline that I can actually do now.

So, off to find something I hope you will enjoy... And if you don't? I'm sure to try again a little later when IT calls to me again - the pre"posterous" love of life!

This is one of the most amazing edits I've ever seen in 70mm film. I hate that it ends a few seconds too early, but that's life.

Beautiful, Brilliant, and Bunique, it's the match cut scene from David Lean's epic, "Lawrence of Arabia."

I love that movie more than words can tell - but don't be fooled by mediocre versions.... It's worth it to see the best way you can.

You probably already have, given that it's been out more than a few years.

Thank you for putting up with all of this non-original material today. I am truly sick, more than usually... and ...CUT.

Match Cut.

Interesting, all things considered. But not tooo. Feel a little guilty for this one... except for a certain driver for hire. But it's still the fingers, or I'd be writing MORE.  ;)

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Happiest of Happy Birthdays to you, sweet Emily.

Here's a song for you. Don't worry about the words - just be happy and dance!

You are loved, as you must know. I'm just signing on the dashed unlimited line.

Thinking about - and loving you - all the day long.... and this is the beginning of the barrage.

So so sorry and happy happy happy day(s) for you. Don't worry; no one reading this knows who you is!

"Eh...... What's up doc?"

I challenge you to find someone who does not recognize the catch phrase of one of the most famous fake Brooklynites.

Representing that street smart snark, I love Bugs.

Kinda totally fearless. Provacative. Witty. Good diet for eyesight. All these things got him where he was and is today: icon of Unruffled Playfulness. Jon says it's similar to vaudevillian mischief. It all comes together with Groucho, he says, which explains a whole lot to me. There's a pattern somewhere close by.

And.... happy Baseball Season... (pixels but still funnnnnnnn!)

Mel Blanc - never be another!

Now that my posterous blog is growing and I have the flu, I don't want to look back to see if I already mentioned wine and cheese with 12 folks, including Joseph Campbell at the start of a 3-day conference at my uni. I was invited as a senior Lit Major. Ha! A perk.

So, 28 years ago the revelation of his Monomyth structure of Story theory invigorated my mind, and then it was revealed that George Lucas had used it to structure the original Star Wars trilogy, but I never knew that it was also the basis of The Matrix.

Enjoy this clip.

He was a lovely, brilliant, inventive man - and dug on Jung... again. I'm really on a roll here, it would seem . I feel lucky.