One Of My Very Own

EMAIL: ralph.henry.at.folio.olio@gmail.com

233

LET'S TALK ABOUT ME, SHALL WE?

My bar serves those for five bucks. What makes it doubly worth it is that they come with a reduced maple syrup concoction that is dreamy.

=1=

When the Beatles were first on American TV I didn't give a shit.

It wasn't (in my opinion) until years later that they showed their true genius.

=2=

I am not myself unless I have someone to be in love with.

Me and Teddy...

On this day in 1884, Theodore Roosevelt lost his wife.

=3=

I don't think much about death even though I'm old. I've come to realize that there is no need worrying about something that you have no control over.

=4=

Writing books was a real trip for me.

I once wrote a 309 page novel that I really liked.

I titled it Riverbend because most of the action takes place on a farm that is located in the crook of a river so that the legless woman couldn't escape. Behind the farmhouse was a sheer cliff so that she was, indeed, trapped.

Well, I had several people read the book and many told me that they had never seen anything like the location of the farm that I described.

Then I stumbled across this...a perfect match.

=5=

I like things like this.

That reminds me of my fascination with magically superimposing every human footfall all over the landscape to see how many places are left with no footfalls.

It also reminds me of the University of South Carolina leaving their quad unfinished for a semester so that the footfalls would show them where to put the sidewalks.

And then there was the German soccer game that was played on newly fallen snow and it looked very much like the image above...at least for a while. Oh, and the tracks of the balls were straight lines.

=6=

Saw an old girlfriend at the grocery store today so I put one of those big bags of almonds in my cart to make her think I was rich.

ART AND ARTISTS

I've stated several times - but it needs repeating - that you can't appreciate art unless you have studied it.

It's the same thing as me trying to understand opera if I knew nothing about it. Without knowing what the artist was trying to do, how would you know if he accomplished it?

=7=

Now let's do a close up of the round red sign on the right.

And, oh, yeah, I have come to accept the computer as just another art tool.

And...

I enlarged that man walking in the lower left.

=8=

I've been told I am pretty good at it. Early in my blog career, I received a comment that stated that my aesthetics were dead on.

=9=

David Fullarton

=10=

[hiding under bed from a murderer]

Cellmate: I know you're there.

SHIT YOU DON'T SEE EVERY DAMN DAY

=11=

That's one hungry pup.

=12=

*MNBT

=13=

Marvin Gaye's passport

His I Heard It Through The Grapevine is my favorite song.

=14=

I almost missed that it's an alphabet.

=15=

How did he get his phone in his mouth?

=16=

Indeed.

=17=

How to completely ruin your life in one easy step...

=18=

I almost missed the oddity.

=19=

Not sure why they stopped filming so soon, cause those fuckers don't quit.

Now imagine razor-sharp tusks being welded by this bad boy coming at you...over, and over, and over again.

=20=

If you're religious, you get to confess your sins.

If you're not, you get to enjoy them.

SCIENCE AND STUFF KIND OF LIKE SCIENCE

Her horse became ill and this is the gallbladder stone the vet surgically removed.

=21=

I think every restaurant and school cafeteria should be required to have one of these.

=22=

I don't know. Anybody know?

=23=

Making an iron fence.

As I understand it, you can take an iron section and just press it into wet sand for that mold.

=24=

Mysterious 900-Year-Old coded message in Viking runes.

I would just assume it is a tally of something, maybe livestock. Long marks for adults, short marks for babies.

=25=

=26=

The neighbors left a perfectly good doll at the curb with their trash and I’ve seen enough horror movies to know to leave it there.

Hahahahahahahaha!

ABOUT FEMALES

Everybody’s got a thing.

I have nothing against kink.

Do whatever it is that blows your skirt up.

I make fun of it in

but really I don't give a shit.

But many women have an unhealthy attitude concerning their appearance.

Then you will have to sell something, Darling.

Really? Do these same people have a problem that people like me can't become a male model. Of course not.

Businesses spend a lot of money to present themselves positively to clients. The paint color on the walls, the perfect carpet, the furniture...all tasteful and presenting the right image. All that is for nil if you have that grandma from the Beverly Hillbillies sitting behind the desk as a receptionist.

There are demands that go too far, however.