Shadow of Diogenes

Beer Trivia

A labeorphile is a person who loves or collects beer bottle labels or beer bottles. Will wonders never cease ?

3 People Whom I Am Tired of Hearing About

(1)  Mark Sanford - Well so much for listening to him about "family values".

(2)  Michael Jackson (The King of Pop) - He is dead. Let him rest in peace without vulture media types nosing around.

(3)  Paris Hilton - She gives new meanings to the word "Dah".

Memories Came Rushing Back (Poem)

Today

I saw a car on fire

As I exited the grocery store.

A power pole was snapped in half

With flames, like a vision of hell,

Soaring above the doomed vehicle -

Thick, black choking smoke

Poured towards the blue sky.

Then I heard the sirens

And the Brothers appeared

 Scurrying to put out the fire.

For few moments I was a young fireman again

As the memories came rushing back.

Then I got into the car and left.

 

Camus Had It Right (Poem)

I think that Camus had it right

When he said

That life is absurd.

It doesn't take a pied noir

To know that life hits like a sledgehammer

And then smiles as if to mock your pain.

It devours one's essence.

Some say that rhyme and reason

Govern our existence - that it will work out in the end,

But my doubt remains

And like Camus I have to face the future

Where even more questions beget themselves.

Once a rebel of a kind

I took the philosophical fall that humbled my being.

Life is absurd -

Camus had it right.

Trivia Question of the Day

(Q)  In the popular television series Married With Children (1987-1997) what was Al Bundy's  favorite movie ?

Please guess before you google it but do have fun.

Clue # 1 : It is a Western.

Clue # 2 : It is not Shane.

 

Heat Haiku # 062709 (Poem)

that heat

 laying on my skin

taking the breath away.

IM Dr. Danny Kopec at the Columbia Chess Club

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walking down a trail

beneath snowy mountain peaks,

monk meditation.

Fidelity

Whatever happened to fidelity in marriage ? Fidelity comes from the Latin word fidelis which translates as faithfull. Mark Sanford , the South Carolina governor, admitted to having an affair with an Argentinian woman. I wonder how his wife and four boys feel. The sad thing is that the man was a poster boy for "family values". If you talk it you had better walk it ! Governor Sanford couldn't and now he is sorry. His wife will forgive him - she is a fine lady - but her pain will last a long time. I was only married once for four years, but I never played around. For that I am thankfull. I remember my Great Aunt Mae and Great Uncle Frank who were married 62 years and passed away three weeks apart. I spent some  time in the summer with them and the last thing I would hear them say before bedtime after they had said their prayers on their knees beside their bed was, " I love you Mama. I love you Papa."

Haiku # 062509 (Poem)

that pawn

walking down the board,

scary.