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.
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.
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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...
Now that REDpublicans are proposing to put women who abort a rape pregnancy in prison for more time than their rapist, I thought I would run this again.
I'm a radical feminist, not the fun kind. - Andrea Dworkin
The #MeToo Movement's power, and the chaos that has accompanied that power's expression, has me remembering Andrea Dworkin.
Ms. Dworkin was reviled for talking about pornography and the politics of rape and sex in the 70s. And is still reviled by folks making something off her strong back.
But what no one said, and what no one wrote in Dworkin's obituaries, was this: Dworkin's true legacy has been that far too many young women today would rather be bitten by a rabid dog than be considered a feminist. - Havana Marking
Andrea Dworkin and I were in college in 1968. Different colleges. Irrepressible, furry, thinking/being Andrea is the activist Sister I turned to in my mind when I began reading #MeToo accounts. So I went looking for her and this quote sprang at me off the page. She died in 2005 and ironically has become even more relevant in 2018.
“I don’t believe rape is inevitable or natural. If I did, I would have no reason to be here. If I did, my political practice would be different than it is. Have you ever wondered why we [women] are not just in armed combat against you? It’s not because there’s a shortage of kitchen knives in this country. It is because we believe in your humanity, against all the evidence.” ― Andrea Dworkin
I publish these quotes out of context. With Andrea Dworkin there is so much context.
I never met any of the New York media-darling Sisters in the flesh. I read them all religiously. Ti-Grace was the Southern Belle, Gloria was effective Seven Sisters, Valerie was Artist Nutz, Florynce the Cowboy Lawyer and Germaine was a Brit. What a Meme Bouquet.
In New Jersey we were busy looking up each other's vagina with speculums provided by nurses from NOW at house parties. We were not waiting for the government to say was okay we owned our bodies. We were learning menstrual extraction.
Why Andrea? She speaks to the burning core of my condition now the WombZombies are on the march again.:
“In her heart she is a mourner for those who have not survived. In her soul she is a warrior for those who are now as she was then. In her life she is both celebrant and proof of women's capacity and will to survive, to become, to act, to change self and society. And each year she is stronger and there are more of her.”
― Andrea Dworkin
