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ROD TRIP

Graffiti, el Raval, Barcelona

A phallatable post.  Take it with whipped cream.

Follow me.

IT'S THAT TIME OF YEAR

 
No greater gift is there than love.

WRITHING INSTRUMENT

Periods of disuse, I'm afraid, have made it difficult to get the juice flowing.

NOOK! NOOK!

Book's not there!

Does this e-reader signal the demise of hardcover and paperbacks free-browsing?  Technology stinks!

pic source: apcmag.com

THE LOST SYMBOL

Finished Dan Brown's new book last Friday.  While he, yet again, succeeded in keeping this reader until the last page was turned, the Lost Symbol came to a sputter at page 460.  Chapters 123 through 133 were just 40 pages of anti-climactic babble and thinly-veiled advocacy.  Yes, the story is festooned with symbols both archaic, e.g. religious, and phallic, e.g. Washington Monument, but its acquiescence to 21st century pop culture, e.g. twitter, gives it an edge that will appeal to a broad cross-section of readers.

SEPTEMBER MOURN: 091109

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SEPTEMBER BORN

I browsed my list and found a few...

Oh gosh, this can't be true!

September's here, your birthday's near! 

What could I give to you?

Another year waits at the bend...

Just days left to unfold.

I've felt though you're quite sober there, 

Didn't speak quite like before.

Guess that's alright, I understand...

Some changes can't be barred.

Like how your age turns thirty-four

While mine's still twenty-five! LOL

But seriously, don't miss the fun -

This day comes only once!

And if I've got one thing to wrap

I'd send the Cali sun!

_____

It has been three years since this poem was written by a dear friend, and every year since  on this very day I take liberty and claim ownership if only for a day (with her permission, of course).  Thanks, Ibyang.  No gift could be more precious. 

SEPTEMBER MORN

Liberty State Park, 02 September 2009

SEATTLE BECKONS

The Space Needle and the Seattle skyline peek through the Seattle Cloud Cover, one of the many public arts and installations dotting the Olympic Sculpture Park.

SEATTLE BEACON

Seattle, Sept 2008

The Space Needle peeks through the Seattle Cloud Cover, one of the many public arts and installations dotting the Olympic Sculpture Park.  

BADu AMERYKHAN

Finally hit the Governor's last night.  Always the consummate performer,  the Amerykhan was so baduful my friend is officially a convert.  If he smoked pot like most of the concert-goers, he would have jumped onstage.

*Pic was taken at the Liberty Jazz and R&B Fest 2008.  Friend borrowed CF of last night's concert. Dick!