Monthly Archives: June 2017

Three Cowboy Jokes

June 28, 2017 – 6:06 pm

# 1 How do you know when you get to Oklahoma? You smell cow shit. How do you know when you get to Texas? You step in the cow shit. # 2 An old cowboy sat down at the bar and ordered a drink. As he sat sipping his drink, a young woman sat down […]

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In Vino Madidus

June 23, 2017 – 10:33 pm

Staying with Latin. Sitting at home with a bottle of wine. Non veritas Solo madidus In vino madidus A paraphrase of Caesar’s classic ‘veni, vedi, vinci’ or ‘I came, I saw, I conquered.’ Adepto madidus means I came I drank I fell over. We’ve all been Classical Latin at some time. For a related article […]

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The Ferocity of the Fat Front

June 20, 2017 – 6:23 pm

Obesity is a human dietary condition, in which over-eating threatens a human with heart disease, type 2 diabetes, the failure to breathe, cancer, and osteoarthritis according to Wikipedia. Obesity is determined by Body Mass Index or BMI = kilograms in weight divided by your height in meters squared. 18.5 is considered underweight 18.5–24.9 is normal […]

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Mark Frechette ZABRISKIE POINT

June 20, 2017 – 4:17 pm

“As you get old, you forget. As you get older you are forgotten.” James Steele Some of us never get to be old or even older, especially those doomed by the James Dean’s curse ‘live fast, die, and leave a good-looking corpse’. Few men of the counter culture were as good-looking as Mark Frechette. In […]

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CHAPTER 9 – AMONG THE REDWOODS from BACK AND FORTH by Peter Nolan Smith

June 19, 2017 – 12:35 am

Overfishing in the 1940s had closed Monterey?s canneries. Gone were the bars and people immortalized by two of John Steinbeck?s Great Depression novels and the only sign of life along Ocean View Avenue were two cats fighting over a mangled fish carcass, so I wandered away from the forlorn harbor toward the Presidio. Two young […]

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