Visiopoetics

FRIES

+ FIELDS

+ IDEAS

+ IDEALS

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PEOPLE

Happy Independence Day Week(end) from Fry and Laurie.  (Friday Alphametic still to come.)

(Artwork, “Where Have All the Flowers Gone?” is oils on 12″ x 16″ canvas board.)

It doesn’t matter if you’re black or white; treating autoimmunity could save your life.

The Lupus Foundation of Virginia’s Charlottesville chapter is back.  If you or someone you care about has any sort of autoimmune disease, we’re here for you.

Our monthly meeting is this Saturday 07/04 (first Saturday of the month) at 12-noon, at ridiculously wonderful local business C’ville Coffee off Harris Street.  As always, I’ll have local resource lists, pretty pamphlets, assorted swag, and a wide open mind.  Talk autoimmunity to me and I’ll buy you coffee.

Contact lupusfoundationofvirginia at gmail dot com for more information.  After we cure lupus, we can still be friends.

TURTLE

+ TURTLE

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BISQUE

I am so behind
in all the things that I don’t
schedule:  art, songs, sun.

(Artwork:  “Afternoon,” oils on 16″ x 20″ stretched canvas, as published in spring ‘09 Amalgam.)

(Artwork is oils on 16″ x 20″, on display somewhereabouts the Climatology Office in U.Va.’s Clark Hall.)

Russian dolls:  turtles all the way down.

DOLLS

+ DOLLS

+ DOLLS

+ DOLLS

+ DOLLS

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WITHIN

Next week:  turtle soup.

Or is it a sunrise?  The evidence out of context lacks full predictive power.  (Hey hey hey, I said that with as much blunt force trauma to language as a true academic!)

In which I divine your week in political horror.

ARIES:  Go to the grocery store and read Allen Ginsberg talking about reading Whitman in the grocery store.  Pick up a peach and feel its fuzz, thinking of Georgia.  Taste its sweetness.  Smile politely and pay when the produce stocker wants to know who you think you are.  It’s summertime and you’re the boss, that’s who.

TAURUS:  If voters had your focus, we would have referenda on every piece of legislation passed in all 49 states.  Would that kind of democratic Californication resuscitate long-term U.S. hegemony in the face of global economic meltdown, shattered American image, and the general frustration of rising powers whose incipient middle classes aren’t getting their basic human needs met?  Or would you just enjoy watching everybody fight?  Fffooooccccuuuuuusss…

GEMINI:  You want everything.  You want nothing.  Why can’t you have it both ways?  That’s what the Rememocraps always said.

CANCER:  Hey nonny nonny, hey nonny nonny, hey nonney nonney, pander!  It’s not really having an agenda if you’re on the payroll but you would probably do it for free, right?

LEO:  At Baskin & Robbins, they pride themselves on offering 32 flavors.  But since some of these are rotating guest flavors, the actual number of B&R flavors far exceeds 32, so the nickname of record “32 flavors” is technically dishonest.  Intent and chocolate fudge, baby.

VIRGO:  It would please the czars to know that French and Russian sound somewhat similar to the modern American ear.  I’m pretty sure the Bolsheviks, however, would be pissed.  Even if they saw how well French rap and Russian ninjas go together.

LIBRA:  You know that cartoon skunk who was always hugging the struggling black cat with that unlucky white cat?  Ever wonder if he was superstitious – if he would actually be afraid of her if he knew the truth?  This week, the stars say you may find out.  If you’re the one whose been playing a part and misleading your supporters, let them show their true colors before you assume you know how they’re judging you.

SCORPIO:  There is a season, turn, turn, turn.  To quit your day job, turn, turn, turn.  Wait, am I liable for saying that?  First, consult your mother.  No, seriously, call her.

SAGITTARIUS:  Two, four, six, eight, who do you appreciate?  While you’re enjoying the wonderland that is doing your job this week, couldya let your supporters know how much you appreciate them?  It’s ok if you’re too busy gleefully throwing yourself under some cosmic bus – you can thank them again later anyway.

CAPRICORN:  Next time you win a golden violin from the devil in a politicking duel, consider this:  selling at the height of the commodities bubble is a great idea, if you know where the top of the bubble is.  <>  Never mind.

AQUARIUS:  Dive down deep into the abyss of political internets.  What will you find besides ever-evolving phishing and a fine assortment of kelp and spam?  If you dive deep enough, will you come back out on the other side of the world?  And will the North Koreans arrest you for swimming for the Americans?

PISCES:  My uncle Hank supposedly kept all his foods separate on his plate.  No meat in the potatoes, no warm vegetables with the salad, that sort of thing.  Don’t be like him this week.  Mélange your heart out.  If this means gerrymandering, so be it.

Shenandoah:  The Washington and Lee University Review is having a Flannery O’Connor party, and we’re all invited.

Deadline for writing and art on the life and work of Ms. O’Connor:  Oct. 1, 2009.  Best in show:  $1,000.  Publication planned for June 2010.

Peacocks!