Famous First Words: I
saw the best minds of my generation... Howl --Allen Ginsberg
Today is the anniversary of Casey At The Bat: Bob didn’t believe that Fred’s dog could talk. So Fred asked his
dog, “What’s on top of a house?” “Roof,”
the dog barked. Bob wasn’t convinced. So
Fred asked the dog how sandpaper feels.
“Rough.” He still wasn’t
convinced. “OK, who was the greatest
baseball player of all time?” Fred asked the dog. “Ruth.”
With that, Bob walked away, shaking his head in disbelief. The dog
turned to Fred and asked: "Was it Hank Aaron?” --Submitted by Emily S., Oswego, Ill.
.........."Strike
three", the umpire said.........Bob Dylan
.....Catfish
The weight of the world is
love...the weight, the weight we carry is love.
--Allen Ginsberg
It is a beautiful (57°F) Friday morning
with a golden sunrise. The sky is
streaked with pink strings of cotton candy.
A cacophony of birds serenade the rabbits silently munching their way
through the dawn. As we enter the
backyard (decorated with a sail which is laying out sunning and mooning itself)
the unseen little dog behind the privacy fence is already swearing a blue
streak at squirrels which are everywhere and Puck must repeat the
Not-In-My-Backyard message to each one, loudly.
The birds take away their matins hymns and then only the sound of the
city recycling truck makes it through the anti-squirrel noise. The world is so beautiful and lush and green
and other colored. Flowers scent the air
and clog my nose so that I cannot smell them.
There is little breeze to spread the aroma but it still comes in gusts
and wafts - honeysuckle, tea rose, mown grass.
I love to stand and watch the morning while the earth takes me 100 miles
or so farther around the sun. The clouds
have paled past pink to white and the squirrel
lecture has begun to wear so Puck and I retreat to the indoors, the quiet, the creamy
Moose Munch decaf and you.
Hope your weekend hits it out of the park,
ePistliers.
I will never have a heart
attack. I give them. --George Steinbrenner. / Baseball is not
boring. You are.
We've had so much rain
in Kansas, Puck has stopped worrying about squirrels in the backyard and has
become concerned about fish.
..........Don't let anybody
say that it's just a game.........Eddie Vedder
.....Go All the Way
Trivia Questions: Casey and his poem...
^ Who wrote Casey at the Bat?
^^ For what baseball team did Casey play? ^
^^^ Who (by name or base they reached) hit
before Casey?
^^^^ Can you quote the last line?
^^^^^ Without talk
shows, how did the author promote the poem?
Fake
Library Statistic of the Week:
35% of the pleasant dream of librarians involve patrons pushing in their
chairs. https://www.facebook.com/FakeLibStats/?fref=ts&ref=br_tf
Science
Fiction Convention of the Week:
British Fest...Bringing the best from across the pond to Omaha, NE. http://britishfest.weebly.com/
Moonbeam: What thoughts I have of you tonight... A
Supermarket in California --Allen
Ginsberg
Trying to sneak a fastball past
Hank Aaron is like trying to sneak the sun past a rooster. / Baseball is like church, many attend, few
understand. --Leo Durocher
The winds have been so
powerful lately, Puck's favorite watering hole, the IsoBar, is closer than
ever.
..........Our ball club may
be minor league, but at least it's triple A.........Alabama .....Cheap Seats
Something To Think About of the
Week: Holy the supernatural
extra brilliant intelligent kindness of the soul!” --Allen Ginsberg
Big Hello: Hello - English (US, UK +)
Week of the Week: Great American Brass Band
Week (June 2-5) --Brass Bands: Strange
groups of people who get very drunk, or not depending on their moral stand
point, who then attempt to play music on long metal tubes of different sizes
that have been twisted round to make the almost portable.
Quote of the Week: The only way to deal with an unfree world
is to be so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of
rebellion. --Albert Camus
There have been only two
authentic geniuses in the world, Willie Mays and Willie Shakespeare. --Tallulah
Bankhead / Baseball is the belly-button of our society. Straighten out baseball, and you straighten
out the rest of the world. --Bill Lee
It's so wet all the
dogs and cats are indoors; it's raining ducks and geese.
.......... He runs the bases
like a choo-choo train.........The Treniers
.....Say Hey (The Willie Mays Song)
^ Casey
at the Bat was written by Ernest Lawrence Thayer born in Lawrence, MA in
1863.
Almanac: It is Friday, June 3,
2016. The moon will be new tomorrow and
is in Taurus. In the Bahamas it is Labor
Day. Because it is the first
weekend of June it is also Doughnut Days or Donut Days [Salvation Army], Horseradish Days, and Positive
Power of Humor and Creativity Days.
Among
those born on this day were Richard Cobden (1804), Jefferson Davis (1808),
Ransom Olds (1864), George V (1865), Maurice Evans (1901), Charles Drew (1904),
Josephine Baker (1906), Paulette Goddard (Marion Levy, 1911), Tony Curtis
(1925), Allen Ginsberg (1926), Colleen Dewhurst (1926), Chuck Berry (1929),
Curtis Mayfield (1942), Michael Clarke (1944), and Ian Hunter (1946).
On
June third De Soto claimed Florida for Spain (1539), baseball players first
wore uniforms (1851), John Lynch became the first black major party national
convention chair (R, 1884), Casey at the Bat was published (1888), the
Supreme Court ruled child labor unconstitutional (1918), the Gila Wilderness
Area was established by the Forest Service (1924), the first negro was
graduated from the US Naval Academy (1949), Dragnet debuted on radio
(1949), the Rolling Stones began their first US tour (1964), and Gemini 4 was
launched (1966).
Tonight's Night Sky: Watch the east now. The rich
Cepheus-Cygnus-Aquila stretch of the Milky Way starts rising up all across the
east late these nights, earlier and higher every week. Dawn Planet: Mercury; Morning Planets: Uranus and Neptune: Evening Planets
Mars and Jupiter: Saturn is
visible all night.
This Week: Saturday, June
4 - Drawing Day aka Pencil Day and Wicket World of Croquet Day
Sunday, June 5 - Festival of Popular Delusions Day and
National Moonshine Day
Monday, June 6 - Atheist Pride Day and Drive-in Movie Day
and Yo-yo Day
Tuesday, June 7 - World Pet Memorial Day
Wednesday, June 8 - World Oceans Day and Upsy Daisy Day
Thursday, June 9
- Toy Industry Day and World Archives Day
I watch a lot of baseball on
radio. --Gerald Ford / Little League Baseball is a very good thing because it
keeps the parents off the streets.
--Yogi Berra
Puck is saving for a
rainy day. So far he has a slicker, two
towels, and canoe.
..........We'd pick out
captains and we'd choose up the teams.........Peter, Paul & Mary .....Right Field
^^ The outlook wasn’t brilliant for the Mudville nine that day...
Funniest thing I read of the Week: If 666 is considered evil, then 25.8069 must
be the root of all evil
Moonbeam: Sappho's 26 centuries of cadenced
breathing... 5 A.M. --Allen Ginsberg
Late Night Snacks: It's being reported the Obama family is
planning to move into a nine-bedroom mansion in Washington, DC after the
president leaves office. I guess he wants to be close enough to drive by the
White House every morning and shout, "Sucks, doesn't it?” --Jimmy Fallon /
The Secret Service had to sweep our building for the second day today. I've had
so many pat-downs this week, one of the Secret Service guys told me to get
checked because I had a lump. --Jimmy
Kimmel / Beverage maker Capri Sun has announced that it will be releasing an
all-new line of organic juice pouches. No word on how it tastes, because
nobody's been able to get the straw into one yet. --Seth Meyers / This is a crazy election.
But, of course, you know that, unless you have been in a coma. And if you were
in a coma, you might want to slip back in for the next six months. --Stephen Colbert / The extremist militant
religious group the Taliban has appointed a new leader. So congratulations, Ted
Cruz! --Conan O'Brien / The electronics
company LG identified a new phenomenon called low-battery anxiety. People
become nervous, distracted, and frustrated when their phones are about to die.
If you are not familiar with low-battery anxiety, it's a real condition that
primarily affects people with no actual problems. --James Corden
Everything is holy!
everybody's holy! every day is in eternity! Everyman's an angel. --Allen Ginsberg
Beethoven can't really be
great because his picture isn't on a bubble gum card. --Charles Schulz / A baseball game is simply
a nervous breakdown divided into nine innings.
--Earl Wilson
Puck stores his rain
in a cloudbank.
..........He started
baseball's famous streak..........Les Brown
.....Joltin' Joe DiMaggio
^^^ But Flynn let drive a single, to the wonderment of all,
And Blake, the much
despised, tore the cover off the ball;
And when the dust had
lifted, and men saw what had occurred,
There was Jimmy safe at
second and Flynn a-hugging third.
Worthless Fact of the Week: FYI: the baseball teams didn't play naked
before uniforms were introduced. The
straw hats, blue full-length trousers and bloused white shirts that the
Knickerbocker Base Ball Club of New York City wore on June 3, 1851--the first
recorded use of baseball uniforms--are a far cry from the form-fitting,
synthetic fiber uniforms of today.
Weird Word of the Week:
Kludge: A work of computer programming that was done hastily
and inelegantly. German klug, smart or
witty, presumably also being influenced by bodge and fudge. http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-klu1.htm ~~We used to call it spaghetti code.
Wacky Uses for Common Products: Steam-proof mirrors. Spam can be used to keep the condensation off
the bathroom mirror when showering, also according to the New York Times
Magazine. http://www.wackyuses.com/wacky/spam.html ~~I
feel like I should be looking up the original source.
I never took the game home
with me. I always left it in some
bar. --Bob Lemon. / A manager uses a
relief pitcher like a six shooter, he fires until it's empty then takes the gun
and throws it at the villain. --Dan
Quisenberry
Puck says, it's
raining so much because God is listening to too much Drake again.
...........He could throw
that speedball by you.........Bruce Springsteen
.....Glory Days
^^^^ But there is no joy in Mudville—mighty Casey has struck out.
Second Funniest Thing I Read of
the Week:
Word Shakespeare Made Up of the
Week: Amazement - a feeling of
great surprise or wonder. --King
John Act V Scene I (Bastard)
Puck the Brave Episode of the Week: Here's our fearless Puck doing the two
step in the case of Haggard's Harrier.
You don't realize how easy this game is until you get up in that broadcasting booth. --Mickey Mantle / In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is. --Yogi Berra
Rain is just a bunch of humidity that's tired of living a lie.
..........Swings his bat all
the way around.........Kenny Rogers
.....The Greatest
^^^^^ Over nearly five decades Thayer
recited "Casey at the Bat" as many as fifteen thousand times in
theaters and at other public and private gatherings throughout the country, and
he played Casey himself in a brief silent film of the poem made in 1914.
Month of the Week: June is International Surf
Music Month --Here is a live version of Jan and Dean's Surf City. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6dJO8nAoYY
Reflections on Reflections of the
Week: In case you were still
wondering, it has been determined that the Art Exhibit** had 66 dogs and 2 cats
rather than 67 dogs and 1 cat. One thing was obvious, the rich and powerful are
pretty much jerks whenever they live. Apparently the decision of whether to put
the portrait of the prostitute in with the middle (i.e. working) class or with
lower class was a concern. The prostitute had no status in the community as did
the lower class but hookers had money. There was a portrait of man. I don't
know who painted it. The man looked like every other portrait I've seen in
every museum I've been to. He was dressed all in black (it was the most
expensive material to be found, apparently), all in the same shade of black and
yet it was possible to tell what part of his outfit was satiny and what part
cotton and what part leather. All that from the way light reflected off of it.
It was impressive. I loved the Vermeer which was exquisite, but the enjoyed the
pictures of people working most of all.
**Reflecting
Class in the Age of Vermeer and Rembrandt
Famous Kansans: Douglas Youvan was born in Frontenac in
1955. Along with Mary M. Yang,
Youvan developed instrumentation to study the spectra of bacteria directly from
a petri dish. This technology was later employed by NASA. He also wrote Questions of a Christian Biophysicist. http://www.youvan.org/
~~You have no idea how many times I had a petri dish full of bacteria
and no way to study the spectra.
Today's Peace of History: June 3, 1900: The
International Ladies' Garment Workers Union (ILGWU), a consolidation of seven
smaller east coast needle trades unions, was founded.
I think I throw the ball as
hard as anyone. The ball just doesn't
get there as fast. --Eddie Bane / I
don't want to play golf. When I hit a
ball I want someone else to go chase it.
Puck's benediction:
For all of you who prayed for rain, I hope you're happy now.
..........It went zoomin'
cross the left field wall.........Count Basie
.....Did You See Jackie Robinson Hit That Ball?
Month of the Week Too: June in National River Month - One
day three men were walking along and came upon a raging, violent river. They
needed to get to the other side, but couldn't figure out how to cross it. The first man prayed saying, “Please God,
give me the strength, courage and ability to cross this river.” Poof! God gave him big arms and strong legs,
and he was able to swim across the river in about two hours. Seeing this, the second man prayed saying,
“Please God, give me the strength, courage, and ability to cross this river.”
Poof! God gave him the skill to chop down a tree and fashion it into a rowboat;
he was able to row across the river in about three hours. The third man had seen how this worked out
for the other two, so he also prayed saying, “Please God, give me the strength,
courage and ability to cross this river.” Poof! God turned him into a woman,
and he walked across the bridge.
Moonbeam: I'm immortalizing your exhaust, Avenue A
bus... Fourth Floor, Dawn, Up All Night
--Allen Ginsberg
Cost of War:
Tax
dollars spent in Afghanistan: as of 6/2/16: $738,355,802,178.
Tax
dollars spent in Afghanistan: as of 5/26/16: $737,690,673,879.
Tax
dollars spent on the Iraq war since 2001 as of 6/2/16: $819,511,425,548.
Tax
dollars spent on the Iraq war since 2001 as of 5/26/16: $819,491,988,384.
Tax
dollars spent on Daesh conflict as of 6/2/16: $9,860,974,368.
Tax
dollars spent on Daesh conflict as of 5/26/16: $9,758,740,289.
Tax
dollars spent on the Pentagon Slush Fund as of 6/2/16: $121,062,686,978.
Tax
dollars spent on the Pentagon Slush Fund as of 5/26/16: $120,493,873,983.
Tax
dollars spent on all wars since 2001 as of 6/2/16: $1,691,737,333,681.
Tax
dollars spent on all wars since 2001 as of 5/26/16: $1,690,348,362,810.
To gain your own voice,
forget about having it heard. Become a
saint of your own province, and your own consciousness. --Allen Ginsberg
..........Especially Willie,
Mickey and the Duke.........Terry Cashman
.....Talkin' Baseball
The best way to catch a
knuckleball is to wait until it stops rolling and then pick it up. --Bob Uecker / The game isn't over until it's
over. --Yogi Berra
Famous Last Words: O children of Wichita! --Wichita
Vortex Sutra # 3 --Allen Ginsberg
May Peace be your pitcher
And Joy your runner
prairie mama
christine
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