A legally carried handgun discharged in the pocket of an attendee at Easter vigil Mass at the Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament on Saturday evening. A critical piece of the handgun apparently caught on the man's pants as he stood up, according to Altoona police officer Christy Heck. The safety apparently was not engaged, she said.
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Ballad of the Sunday Gunny by Lance Thruster
Well, I don't care if it rains or freezes,
long as I can do trigger squeezes, sittin' in church, packin' in my pants.
Comes in colors, blued or silver.
My good book don't try to pilfer.
I'll mow you down if you so much as glance.
Get yourself a Great Equalizer.
Your congregation won't be any wiser,
A manly grip of abalone shell.
10 round mag, now ain't that scary,
right in front of the Virgin Mary, I will send your sorry ass to Hell.
Gun goes off, now ain't that somethin'.
Folks'll think that I'm a bumpkin.
I almost shot my nuts clean through.
Make sure you're safe on Easter Sunday,
and not some boob laughed at on Monday just because you put a bullet in the pew.
Cardinal Burke said that the Roman Catholic Church, led by Pope Frankie, is a 'rudderless ship.'
I love my Papa Frank. As long as we are flinging poo, Cardinal, I think I will join in the fun.
When I was confirmed at Immaculate Conception, there was an altar rail between me and the Bishop's johnson. I never see pictures of Pope Frankie with some guy's face in his crotch. I wonder if the phrase 'tone deaf' has any meaning for the Cardinal.
Pope Frankie did not ask for much. Pope Frankie only asked Burke to shut the fuck up. You would think a prince of the church would have the grace and good sense to accommodate God's representative on Earth. Hey, do not give me any lip. I am just holding the RCC to its own standards.
Do you think the Cardinal is a power top? If it looks like a power top and walks like a power top ... well, you know. Cardinal Burke has so much 'rudder' he needs some nameless, faceless boy to carry it for him and look after his hat. See that big honker of a ruby ring that matches Burke's rudder?
Cardinal Burke says it is not a good idea to invite my same-sex-married Sister and her spouse to Christmas Dinner because it may hurt the children to see them. Never mind the happy couple has a son biologically related to both Women.
First, when did Cardinal Burke become the Host at my holiday dinner table? What hubris. What revolting narcissism.
Second, I do not want my children and grandchildren to see Cardinal Burke. They might point and laugh, and that is rude. We must avoid "occasions of sin."
Thank you, Federico Fellini, for the fabulous fashion tips. Do you think all this satin and lace and nasty remarks about my family is what Jesus had in mind? Do ya think Cardinal Burke would look better in purple than the red with ermine? So stodgy. Cardinal Burke needs help.
"Of the many things we have done to democracy in the past, the worst has been the indignity of taking it for granted." Max Lerner
I am becoming accustomed to being frightened. Maybe all of us are suffering in the midst of NONLINEAR WARFARE. How do you resist a war that nobody but Carl Bernstein says outloud we are fighting?
"Oh Ma, I don't want to die. I don't think I can stand to smell the bodies fry." - Tina Toxic Queen of Trash
War. Is this not our condition? Nationally, we are now doing two mass shootings a week. Authorities in Texas responded to a bomb explosion at Random, a beer garden near Boerne Lake, KENS-TV reports. There were 2 pipe bombs at the Capitol. Gun deaths now exceed car deaths in 21 States. We have had 239 mass shootings in 2021 so far.
If it looks like a War, and it sounds like War...well you know.
"The Kremlin, according to Barack Obama, is stuck in the “old ways,” trapped in Cold War or even 19th century mindsets. But look closer at the Kremlin’s actions during the crisis in Ukraine and you begin to see a very 21st century mentality, manipulating transnational financial interconnections, spinning global media, and reconfiguring geo-political alliances. Could it be that the West is the one caught up in the “old ways,” while the Kremlin is the geopolitical avant-garde, informed by a dark, subversive reading of globalization?
The Kremlin’s approach might be called “non-linear war,” a term used in a short story written by one of Putin’s closest political advisors, Vladislav Surkov, which was published under his pseudonym, Nathan Dubovitsky, just a few days before the annexation of Crimea. Surkov is credited with inventing the system of “managed democracy” that has dominated Russia in the 21st century, and his new portfolio focuses on foreign policy. This time, he sets his new story in a dystopian future, after the “fifth world war.”
Surkov writes: “It was the first non-linear war. In the primitive wars of the 19th and 20th centuries it was common for just two sides to fight. Two countries, two blocks of allies. Now four coalitions collided. Not two against two, or three against one. All against all.” https://foreignpolicy.com/2014/05/05/how-putin-is-reinventing-warfare/
"What do I cling to that is useless to understanding our condition?" I ask myself. I have no real answer. Who can focus or think when under constant "shelling?" And gaslighting. Psychopaths can. Psychopaths like Trump and Putin. I am not enjoying government or World by psychopath.
This is the focus that may work. If my personal integrity is no more, what do I have? Nothing. Some ideas that work for me:
“The wise warrior avoids the battle.” ― Sun Tzu, The Art of War
“All I have on earth is me, myself and my word and I don't break them for no one. So as long as I got those things, I'll be the bomb, you're just a false alarm.”
Definition dog days
noun
the hottest period of the year (reckoned in antiquity from the heliacal rising of Sirius, the Dog Star).
I found this Dog treat on the internet and just had to share. The dog days of Summer will be here soon. I am making this for my Baby dog. Picture is kind of fuzzy but the recipe is great. If the Dog does not like this, I will try them myself. I think I will try one anyway. I like peanut butter and banana.
"The site is a living database with new materials added every day, featuring prints, photographs, maps, manuscripts, streaming video, and more."
These images come from the Collections for Designers - Ornament and Pattern: Pre Victorian to Art Deco.
The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Art & Architecture Collection, The New York Public Library. "1. Foliage; 2. Foliage; 3. Flowers and foliage" The New York Public Library Digital Collections.
The material in the collections is a treasure chest of graphic and abstract design. I spent a long time just poking about and I have not exhausted the resource yet.
The provenance of the abstract Tulips.
The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Art & Architecture Collection, The New York Public Library. "[Multicolor tulip shapes; on purple field.]" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1930.
This is a Living Script. It transforms. All the work belongs to me. I said I was not going to do any more theatre. I must be out of my fucking mind to be doing this again. NONE OF THIS IS CONSECUTIVE. Nowhere near continuity, This is what my handwritten notes look like when I write on paper. When I figure out how to draw the set etc. I will include.
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Donnie Bonespurs
Wanted to be Prez.
Quick he hired an audience
To claque for what He sez.
See my swagger? G.O.P.
I will grab your pu^^y.
You will elect me.
Just you wait and see.
Donnie Bonespurs
Got elected Prez.
Everybody gasps and laughs
At all he does and he sez.
Pesterbee! He's oozing all over me. Fat right winger on a spree, Peddling God for the GOP.
Suckabee! Calling me 'slut' for a fee, To take The Pill from me, Peddling shame and eternity.
Hucksterbee! Left FUX Snooze TV, To run for the Presidency An act of cupidity.
Refrain: Just ignore the crucifix in the parlor.
Suckabuck sells Jesus for the dollar.
So we have to put The Holy Man the Priest in this comedy. He has appeared. Is it a Tango?
ok so today I feel this is all crap it is crap but I wrote one good thing: Marjorie Taylor Green. Obscene obscene obscene. Go back to Georgia. Here's a bus ticket for ya. Sit down STFU, Peach Queen. - Selah
I think The Lovers are Bonesaw and Miss Twinkle - no sex this is a love song truly and it is the most intimacy the closest tenderness our villain has in its life or will allow love your villain know your villain i need more verses
Oh no a wrinkle. Come here Miss Twinkle.
I need you now to take my spots away.
I cannot be dirty
My look is what I have to make my way.
May brain is fertile. Unlike that Turtle. ////TERRIBLE BUT FUN
i wish i spoke poetry or music it would be so helpful cannot know everything................that is why I need to work with Others...shudder...
I need a name for Lady MacBeth. I was doing melatonin...but stupid obvious crass really not crass enough...suggestions if i still have anyone reading this mess? superhuman detachment like a survivor of war or someone stoned solid...worra worraha
Ingenue...stick with miss twinkle for now.. twinkle twinkle avatar how i wonder what you are
This four line set belongs to the Chorus it is the bass base line
THIS IS BILLY AND THE CHORUS
Billy Bonesaw
Wants to be Prez.
Quick hire an audience
To claque for what He sez.
See my swagger? G.O.P.
I will grab Your pu^^y.
You will select me
Wait and see.
Billy Bonesaw
Got elected Prez
Everybody gasps at
Everything he sez.
Characters are appearing:
Bill BoneSaw
Miss Twinkle
Babbits - Skip and Winona
Senor PuttingItIn as in golf
Dr. Woo - Man of Reason - always referred to this way
Chorus
Avenatti (every female Italian gene in my body lusts after him I confess) is Harlequin
Senor PuttingItIn:
Rentboy, rentboy, life is sweet!
Come and do me when I tweet.
Commedia dell'Arte structure. The really good thing about working a modern subject through a classical base is the structure works so flexibly and perfectly. Test of a million Piazzas in a Cart. Plus ca change, plus c'est la meme chose. Should there be a real cart?
Billy Bonesaw is Pantalone and Il Capitano? Leering and bullying and lying. Not a buffoon.
BB is not the former guy. He is all the former guys. Stalin was not a buffoon. But it is about an American tyrant conman. worra worra
No Melantonia...VictorAntonia? ...making me laugh...SenorPuttingItIn...order there needs to be order....
A Patron of mine has suggested I turn 4 years of doggerel into a performance piece. I am going to have to stop saying "I do not know what to do with myself." Always some miscreant with a suggestion around,
I am already thinking I need a Choreographer and Percussionist for performance. Maybe Temple will help me find a way to do this. I think I have the gravitas now to get this done...maybe...
I will combine material from the Bill Clinton era piece. A picture of America and...how power is exercised...and by whom...and sex...and drugs...and rock and roll...and filth and dirt...flags...drums...
I said I was not going to do any more theatre. I must be out of my fucking mind.
I am going to develop the script here. Sort of like The Living Theatre this will be The Living Script. And it is for me. I really do not give a fuck what you think and I really do desperately care what you think. God help me.
Hang on to your eyeglasses. This could get really sick and really boring...and really disconnected for awhile...like making bills and sausage...nobody has to read it...maybe nobody will?,,,god help me...please to throw money...no quarters...andiamo...
