Ballet Mecanique Pt. 1

Looks like my mom, in the swing

Turkeys 'R Us

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What we would worship, would genuflect to
if the turkey had been chosen for our national
bird.

D-Day as Expressionism

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If Claude Monet
had been at D-Day,
these images would
have emerged.

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Time Train

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Hear that train
a'ticking, rolling on
down the mainspring.

The Count Censored

Dark Side

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There is a dark side
to Veteran's Day; those
we lost except in dreams.

Counting Cattle

Painting by Ernest Martin Hennings

Counting Cattle

A cowboy named Bud was overseeing his herd in a remote mountainous pasture in Montana when suddenly a brand-new BMW advanced toward him out of a cloud of dust. The driver, a young man in a Brioni suit, Gucci shoes, RayBan sunglasses and YSL tie, leaned out the window and asked the cowboy, "If I tell you exactly how many cows and calves you have in your herd, will you give me a calf?"

Bud looks at the man, who obviously is a yuppie, then looks at his peacefully grazing herd and calmly answers, "Sure, why not?"

The yuppie parks his car, whips out his Dell notebook computer, connects it to his Cingular RAZR V3 cell phone, and surfs to a NASA page on the internet, where he calls up a GPS satellite to get an exact fix on his location which he then feeds to another NASA satellite that scans the area in an ultra-high-resolution photo. The young man then opens the digital photo in Adobe Photoshop and exports it to an image processing facility in Hamburg, Germany. Within seconds, he receives an email on his Palm Pilot that the image has been processed and the data stored. He then accesses an MS-SQL database through an ODBC connected Excel spreadsheet with email on his Blackberry and, after a few minutes, receives a response. Finally, he prints out a full-color, 150-page report on his hi-tech, miniaturized HP LaserJet printer, turns to the cowboy and says, "You have exactly 1,586 cows and calves."

"That's right. Well, I guess you can take one of my calves," says Bud. He watches the young man select one of the animals and looks on with amusement as the young man stuffs it into the trunk of his car.

Then Bud says to the young man, "Hey, if I can tell you exactly what your business is, will you give me back my calf?"

The young man thinks about it for a second and then says, "Okay, why not?"

"You're a Congressman for the U.S. Government", says Bud.

"Wow! That's correct," says the yuppie, "but how did you guess that?"

"Well," answered the cowboy, "you showed up here even though nobody called you, you want to get paid for information I already know, you answered a question I never asked, you used millions of dollars worth of equipment to do it, and you don't know a thing about cows. This is a herd of sheep. Now, give me back my dog."

Christ in Winter

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Christ in winter;
pain frozen blue,
still ascending.