PHOTO PROMPT © Jennifer Pendergast The Wheel Rolling along green in a golf cart with boot-licking lackeys, cracking crude jokes about wives, he can’t figure out which he disdains more, weak twitterings of lackeys or how uncomfortably tight his pants are after lunch. He lets out an onion-garlic belch, feels bile erupt, as sharp pain…
#MMB Music Quiz 2 — The Beatles
Glyn Wilton is the host of Mixed Music Bag’s Music Quiz. Glyn says: Remember, I just mainly need one or two worded answers (no essays!). Answers posted next week. No Googlin’. 1. What is the title of the first Beatles movie? Help! 2. Who wrote “Yesterday”? Paul McCartney 3. What is the name of Paul’s…
dVerse Poetics Tuesday — a poem inspired by Johnny Cash’, Folsom Prison Blues
“The Circus,” by Albina Felski blues with no bridges: burned middle learning toxic lessons from the cradleprivileged take sun for granted on vacationpoor don’t notice it while scrambling to surviveprivileged are blessed to have cozy nanniespoor learn a bottle soothes when it’s fullprivileged own institutions that let them slidepoor, the face of crime, bludgeoned by…
#TNG 107 / 229
Judy Dykstra-Brown is the host of The Numbers Game. This is the 107th time, and this time we are looking for images that pop up when we put 229 in the media gallery search box. My slideshow is below. Please look for the small dark arrow to the right of the image that will take…
dVerse Q239 — when…
when… when you’re lostin ruminationdown a dark hole when you’re doom-scrolling, wound uptight in agitation you may needa bit ofrespite when you leastwant to do itfind a way to smile sun sear throughclouds. gold gleamon snow For anyone who hasn’t watched, “The Life of Chuck,” I highly recommend it. De Jackson (aka whimsygizmo) is today’s…
#SLS — “Monterey,” by Eric Burdon & The Animals re: The Monterey International Pop Festival on June 16-18, 1967
Eric Burdon & The Animalsimage from Best Classic Bands website, which also has an article about Monterey I know that today’s song is supposed to be about a mode of transport. The airplane in it is not explicitly used as a mode of transport in it; however, I will argue that the song and the…
The Oracle Speaks — About Ache
About AcheSymphony skin, honey dream,rock crushing diamond driveis in me, boiling beneathdelirious fiddle music;but shadow has shot throughmeanly with never, itssleepy, lazy chants coollust in blue blows. It’s been awhile since consulting The Oracle. Magnetic Poetry Original Set
Tao Talk 