1.31.10 "F*em if they can't take a joke.", It was something between big C and little c we think.

1.30.10 Speech therapy above.

1 .29.10 It is id.

Some bad album covers or the new Toopine Troopers.

1.28.10 Server went down for a while. Zeepo fixed it.

1.26.10 Solzhenitsyn said:

"How can you expect a man who's warm to understand a man who's cold?"

Hippocrates wisely said:

Ars longa,
vita brevis,
occasio praeceps,
experimentum periculosum,
iudicium difficile.

([The] art is long,
life is short,
opportunity fleeting,
experiment dangerous,
judgment difficult.)

1.24.10 Normal.

1.23.10 Sunny January days are great, blue sky, grey sticky trees and ochre grasses. First daffodil tips just starting to pop up. Not for you folks in Vermont yet Dan. The monts are not vert for a few more months.

1.22.10 detail:

1.21.10 Sweet sleep at last. Sleep is a reward for the good and insomnia is....

1.20.10 Or, as the Oman says this morning:

"Rumors of my 'life' have been greatly exaggerated."
--my paraphrasing Mark Twain

1.19.10 The news of my (impending) death has been greatly exaggerated (by me).

I've been reading Chekhov short stories on these endless nights- the Russians suffer so interestingly. I just found his last words:

I am dying. I haven't drunk champagne for a long time.
~~ Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, writer, d. July 1, 1904

This is more apropos:

I can't sleep.
~~ James M. Barrie, author, d. 1937

I will probably say something closer to this:

Codeine . . . bourbon.
~~ Tallulah Bankhead, actress, d. December 12, 1968

Sedation ain't doin' it but Joey, Dee Dee and Johnny no longer worry- they're dead.

1.18.10 Sleep deprived zombie.

Mr. Michaelsen sez:

A PAINTING

Simplicity made to befuddle,
The artist would redden or ruddle.
Adorned with gold leaf,
It's a detailed motif
But the theme is a duck in a puddle.

1.17.10 Multi-colored toenails.

1.16.10 Louie is doing much better- can walk again. The Haitians are doing worse. How will they ever walk again? We better get use to mega-suffering as the geometric progression of world population continues- nature will deal with us like every other species. A new dark age is coming when religious zealots of every stripe will surpress human intellectual growth using violence. It's always been this way but when elbow to elbow it explodes. Deconstuct your belief systems or nature will do what it does so well- balance the system. Think freely- dump your training, programming!

1.15.10 Poor no longer describes Haitians, and I'm worried about a dog. Whataworld. Poor Louie woke up this morning and couldn't walk- dead from the waist down- like a giant doggie stroke. Just back from the vet who said he has 3 different tick diseases and put him on several drugs. More test results are in process. Fingers crossed.

1.14.10 Whataworld.

1.12.10 Deepest winter. I like this painting by Belgium artist Guy Charles Albert.

1.11.10 O.V. Michaelsen here and here:

REX MARKS THE SPOT

Our dog marked the house--every PLACE in it.
We thought he might see the disgrace in it,
But his learning was poor,
For he flew out the door
After rubbing his own ugly FACE in it

1.10.10 Nada

1.9.10 Painting.

1.8.10 Winter is great. It brings out the beast, I mean the best, in people. In cold Canada they do things like this:

Box Animation by VFS students.

The big snow last night-3/4":

1.7.10

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1.6.10 Light increasing.

1.5.10 Louie and a titmouse eye to eye.

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12.31.09 2010 has to be better than this year. (wanna bet?)

12.29.09 Mr. O.V. Michaelsen on evolution:

To some, this might not offer solace,
But nature has never been flawless.
Evolution, my friends,
Has had many dead ends--
After all, it created George Wallace.

On Docs:

A shortage of hopeless conditions?
They're as common as dope and musicians.
Deep I dug with a shrug
And would chug from a jug
On a drug just to cope with physicians.

12.28.09 Celeto ist eine Kiefer.

12.27.09 Hit the fullscreen button on the player when you watch the amazing new movie from Toopine: For Me Too:

For Me Too from celetus on Vimeo.