mostly silly stuff

             
                                     
                                       
Get off computer stool.
Go directly to toilet.         
Do not take a side trip.
Do not save/ joke for today.               
                                       
-                                       
                                 
Gorgeous George fell in a gorge,          
and now the gorge is gorgeous, George.              
                                       
-                                          
                                    
As I told a security guard           
one night in Gainesville:             
I used to be a slut for              
the FBI.                                     
                                     
-                                             
                                       
Brina had a little goat.           
She used to grab it by the throat.                
                                    
But when the goat grew big and strong,              
Brina left the goat alone.                    
                                          
Then one day the old goat died.                
Poor Brina, she was mystified.               
                                    
-                                    
                                    
So I've been having trouble                 
getting to the hidden places on my blogs,
and trouble connecting to AOL,              
and trouble getting comments to show          
on other blogs; et, et, et, et.             
Well--not that I hadn't seen this before--
come to find out from Google:               
Your browser has cookies disabled.
This time it hit me, and so I minimized out        
and went to my browser's advanced settings   
and removed the check mark from the request   
to clear temporary files each time         
my browser is not being used.                
It hadn't occurred to me until today           
that clearing the temporary files        
also meant cookies would be cleared.             
                                           
                                          
                                         
                                         
bl00351 

yesterday today notes

                                     
                                        
Yesterday:                                
                                   
Spent most of my online time             
changing things in AOL Mail          
and in my blogs.                      
-                                 
Took a short parking lot walk.            
                                     
                                  
Today:                            
                                  
In the early morning of this                
Memorial Day the green-tinted          
(beneath its heavy translucent         
covering just under the roof         
of the apartment building north   
of this one at its southeast           
corner where still growing         
Sturdy Bush is) light/ went          
dark.                                 
-                                  
My ever-changing body in its             
weaknesses/ forces ne to be     
ever innovative regarding it.              
-                                  
My subconscious continues its war     
against my conscious, but I can't         
let one dominate/ for I need the          
strengths native to each.               
-                                  
Having problems in my blog spaces   
I never had before, especially      
with the one migrated from AOL.         
The only recent major thing I did   
was open a Gmail account.  Seems 
my best move might be to record    
and/or PDF my books.                      
                                        
                                         
                                             
                                       
bl00344

all strung out

                                    
                                    
Mares eat oats
and does eat oats
and little lambs             
eat ivy.                 
A kid 'll eat ivy too,
wouldn't you?                              
                                          
-                                  
                        
In the April 27, 2009 issue of Time/
one of the results of a survey of 1000 people
taken by a group of reporters who fanned out
across America was: 14% said this nation is   
heading into a long slow decline.                     
                                                   
-                                
                            
According to one research,                     
men who drink 5 glasses of water daily--
an amount that would make me feel like an innertube--
lower their risk of having a heart attack by 54%.         
                                                     
-                                
                          
Beware of sodium benzoate,                          
which is found in certain margarines            
and other foods,                 
because mixing it with vitamin C           
is bad for one's health.  
Search it out.                            
                                          
-                                 
                           
There is something in peanut butter--      
I forget what it is--               
that is highly carcinogenic.           
I continue to eat peanut butter nonetheless.                                 
                                                      
                                                     
                                                   
                                                   
                                                
bl00341                                                                                     
 

Somehow I feel

          
                                           
                                                
everything I've wanted to say           
I've already said.                 
It's just a matter of finding      
where all of it is.                  
                                  
I could, of course, be wrong about that,
even infinitely wrong.                      
                                              
In any case, there's enough work to be done
with just that I know the whereabouts of    
to keep me busy for months                     
if the circumstances of my ongoing          
remain favorable.                              
                                              
One project I have in mind is              
an annotated PDF version of 1976 Today.         
366 sonnets would be in it                 
and each would have its own page.                    
                                            
Do need to finish posting the        
Brian's Brain journal,          
but that rest is offline and unready.          
                                        
                                          
---                                   
                                     
                                   
My computer was at a tech shop 
for over a week.                 
Got it back Friday afternoon.
Spent the time here reading, writing,
and going through boxes of materials  
I hadn't gotten to yet.
We took my old computer system 
and my printer I had stopped using
to a recycling place.
         
                                   
                                              
                                        
                                           
                                             
bl00340                                              
  

quik thoughts

         
                                         
                                           
Not that I haven't been ironic
both in my words and in my life
but I've grown tired of irony                     
                                     
and not that I haven't used allusions
but I have grown/ tired of allusions
and of being elusive and of illusions      
                                             
and not that I'm never contentious    
but I have grwon tired of          
contention and of being content i o u s.                 
                                            
-                                         
                                             
[ Note:  At K H is Stephen Burt Elliptical ]
                           
                                               
                                              
                                        
                                          
bl00337   

With winds gusting

                                         
                                       
through Sturdy Bush at noon, a butterfly that looked 
like a Monarch but seemed too small and so may have   
been a Viceroy was moving from one dandelion patch
to another.  Also caught a glimpse of a bee on this
now cloudy warm day.       
                                                      
-                                                   
                                                    
Have been following Bank of America this week.  A
slew of controversy surrounds its solvency and in  
particular its acquistion of Merrill Lynch.  BAC  
stock dropped to $7 briefly--I think it was early  
on Tuesday--but mostly has been between $8 and $9.  
                                                   
-                                                      
                                                    
Ron Silliman placed a challenging post up yesterday
which I may link to so I don't have to keep visiting  
it.  Henry Gould's comments are becoming more 
cogent, a fact that pleases me since I agree with     
most of his conclusions.                                          
                                                       
-                                                     
                                                    
Speaking of conclusions, Coversations With Myself   
has entered the contest for the title of my collected   
works.  Two others are Idiothead and Your Mother's
Dead, and She's Glad.                                  
                                                       
-                                                     
                                                      
PM 3:30 -- Mark Wallace's wallacethinksagain.blogspot.com  
is another site I've been visiting a lot of late.  Many 
of the discussions re American Hybrid radiate from there
and Mark nearly always states his thoughts in interesting
ways.                                                      
                                                          
-                                                        
                                                       
Reminder: If you don't have a link to a site I mention,
check to see if I do.                                 
                                                          
                                                       
                                                        
                                                     
bl00336       

Recently

                                                 
                                                   
a pair of warblers or finches                  
along with some zipping around  
swallows have been near Sturdy   
Bush.  Swallows do nest in the  
passageways, but I would like   
to know what kind of bird the  
other two are.  They may have   
been here past years too in a  
different location.                  
                                         
Recently I've been trying to eat a   
can of three bean salad.  It hasn't
been going well.  Too stringy and   
the kidney bean skins get stuck in  
my throat and other places, and the   
vinegar, well--it is vinegar.  Will be
eating the last of it tomorrow.   
                                       
Recently, though I haven't written any down yet,
I've been noting lines I like in the anthology of  
poems I got from the library, and have been  
attempting to ascertain why I like them.  Have
renewed the book and will probably do a post 
on some of Emily Dickinson's lines first.               
                                                   
Recently I've been trying to summon the energy  
to get back to posting the rest of Brian's Brain.
It's a large project that once was online at               
Tripod.  Six posts of it are done.  Am not sure
how many more posts will be needed, but the   
completed ones are in size 1 Verdana.  Those   
remaining, therefore, will also be in size 1
Verdana.                                                
                                                     
Recently in KH I posted the covers of 5 books,
each by a different author, along with 1 poem  
from each book.  A hazy theme connects the 5   
poems, so I didn't comment on them.  The five  
authors are William Michaelian, 
                    Tom Montag,                        
                       David Lunde,                      
                          Charles Behlen,              
and                       Gary B. Fitzgerald.             
                                                     
                                                    
                                                   
                                         
bl00334 
   

Stupid search engines

          
                                         
                                       
have angered me more than long enough; therefore,
I have devised a test.  I don't know what their 
problems are, but they consistently return results
that assign to me (Brian Salchert) statements     
made by someone else.  From now on/ whenever I   
comment (even on my own blogs), my comment will   
begin and end with the date and my initials.  If   
a comment doesn't begin and/or end with this info,
it is not my comment.  Admittedly, my test may fail.
If it does, I will end it.                 
                                                   
                                                   
                                                 
bl00330 

blog notes

           
                                         
                                       
Posted to all the blogs today.                
                                     
The post at Kyph Herm isn't complete but         
it's visible since I didn't leave it in draft.   
                                                
God bless my insanity.                       
                                                    
                                             
                                                 
                                                      
                                              
bl00328

change notes

           
                                        
                                          
Even if it does sound corny, and maybe because it 
does I will be staying with Baj's Lodges; but you can  
still use Rhodingeedaddee if you prefer it.                       
                                                           
Will be difficult, but plan to post money-related items
on Money Rho and not on the node blog.                      
                                                           
Joseph Hutchison's anthology post has rekindled my          
desire to build a list of contemporary American poets 
who though not unknown are either not known in blogland    
or are seen as inadequate.  Desire.  There are others    
who are doing what I want to do in the places they know, 
and organizations with rosters into the thousands; and 
I am physically disadvantaged.  So why should I even try?  
Besides, maybe those I list don't want to be so listed, 
or don't want to be listed by me.  Hype.                                  
                                                        
                                                          
bl00327     

Scrunched day

             
                                    
                                          
due to monthly grocery shopping, but though I'm
still behind/ I've caught up some.  Bought two  
envelopes and mailed my old chapbook out.  Also
got a film developed and over at Library Station
checked out a copy of the Shorter Fifth Edition   
of The Norton Anthology of Poetry edited by  
Margaret Ferguson, Mary Jo Salter, and Jon          
Stallworthy.                                       
                                                   
The air was brisk today but mostly clear and         
not cold.  Had forgotten how long the film I   
had developed had been in my camera, and so I   
was like saying to the clerk: "What are these,   
they don't look like any pictures I took."
Some are of me, which led me to say: "I look    
dead.  Maybe I am.  My body just hasn't figured
it out yet."  That led me into an unnecessary   
public meditation on life and death.  If Jim
Kunstler is right, there will be a massive die
off of ill elderly soon if our leaders don't see
the policies they are pursuing are the wrong       
ones.                                           
                                                   
Have quit eating processed meat, and my body   
is saying thank you.  Have gone to using one
brand of nutrition drink, though I still have
four bottles of a second brand to use up.  I
didn't buy a blender though.  Am not sure    
what vegetables and fruits to get, and if it
would be better to get them frozen.  I have  
another month during which to decide.             
                                                
Had some strange dreams last night, and as
I awoke from the one that came after AM 3/ 
a song appeared:
-                                           
Attached to a Dream                    
                                               
Yes we can.                                
Yes I know we can.                          
Yes I know we can                            
because, well,                     
yes I know we can.                        
                                          
Yes we can.                    
Yes I know we can.              
Yes, I know we can                      
because we can.                                  
-                                                 
                                                
Not sure if this song is straight or satirical.    
                                                     
                                                 
                                                 
                                               
                                                
rho00325                                          


  
    
 

blog notes

        
                                                 
                                                   
No Friday report at Money Rho today.          
The DJIA went up a bit, and most of  
the stocks I've been tracking went up.
                                       
-                                   
                                        
As to the recommended search note           
beneath this blog's name, I spent     
much of Wednesday reading Rexroth's
essay, along with visiting various  
blogs.  One sentence from the essay:    
"The white race is going mad, but it
is the autonomic nervous system which
is out of kilter; what goes on in the
head is secondary--and the autonomic  
nervous system is, as a whole, the          
organ of communion."                        
                                         
-                                       
                                     
Spent much of Thursday visiting blogs
and reading.  Thursday night I left a  
comment beneath Martin Earl's Harriet  
post: Wernicke's area.  Today I was  
back there, and I left another comment   
because he had left one for me which  
included a question about Dickinson.
Martin Earl post.     
                                         
-                                           
                                     
Also, led to it by Don Share, I've 
been at Jacket 37/ reading a long  
Kent Johnson interview of David   
Shapiro.  Fascinating story of
natural talents coupled with the   
right environments.                  
                                    
-                                    
                                     
Posted a short-form haiku at      
The Ghost in the Dumpster.              
                                        
                                  
                                     
                                    
                                     
                                         
rho00314                            

several thoughts 4

              
                                          
                                     
My day yesterday away from the computer        
was not pleasant.  This morning all that      
turned around.                           
                                         
-                                         
                                         
May open my Flutterby blog for minutiae reasons.           
                                                   
-                                                    
                                                 
Even though I think                            
the 20-books me-me                           
is kinda si-wee, am                      
likely to use it as                           
a prod for a post                            
at K H.  Will see.                            
                                                   
-                                               
                                               
The market was strongly up earlier, but       
I so far haven't seen any reason why it            
should be.  .8:04 - It appears there
were market people who knew something/
since after a speech Bernanke gave/ the 
market closed +379.44.                                    
                                              
-                                         
                                         
Did open Flutterby.                        
                                         
                                         
                                         
                                         
rho00312

several thoughts 3

   
                                    
                                     
There is a study out that indicates          
social networking is bad: it tends   
to infantilize the human brain.               
                                           
-                                        
                                       
Also this, which has been floating around   
for a number of years: Most Americans don't   
get nearly enough vitamin D3.  Do your own  
research on this, but apparently a body can   
tolerate significantly more than what is   
recommended.                                    
                                                
-                                           
                                              
Here is a link to Gregg Greenberg's        
6 Dumbest Things on Wall Street.              
                                                     
-                                                   
                                                    
Water is the new oil.                    
                                     
-                                       
                                        
In January of this year the FDA ruled     
that products containing carmine, a    
red dye made from crushed Peruvian   
beetles that eat a particular red berry,
must reveal on the label that carmine   
is in the product because some people   
are allergic to it.                      
*                                    
A side note: Wild red salmon are red   
because they eat krill.  Farmed red  
salmon are red because they have red
dye in them.                              
                                       
-                                        
                                          
Not only is Australia near China, but
it also has petroleum and natural gas  
and a variety of needed minerals.  Do  
a Wikipedia iron_ore search.               
                                       
                                       
                                        
                                         
                                        
                                         
                                           
                                        
rho00309 

several thoughts 2

       
                                  
                                       
Through my Google Help Features link in my   
Unlike List/ I sent a search complaint.  
I leave comments beneath posts on blogs   
maintained by other bloggers.  When I do  
a search of my name, results are returned  
which include some of those comments, BUT
allmost always nothing of my comment is
there.  What is there is a portion of a   
comment made by someone else.  Obviously,
there is something wrong with the algo-
rithm used.  This error is not peculiar  
to Google.  All the major search engines
make the same error.  This problem has   
persisted for years.  In April of 2000
I first came online.  My question was:  
Can it be rectified?                       
                                         
-                                           
                                      
I recommend that you go to Money Rho and   
watch the Karl Denninger video, listening   
carefully to what he says.                   
                                          
-                                          
                                             
At Sprintedon Migrasaurus/ song lyrics 50  
is up.  Although I know others will enter  
my consciousness, my present mindset is   
to not post any more.  I'll just place them   
in the notebook I am using then.         
                                              
-                                          
                                          
There is a link to a long article over at   
Linh Dinh's blog.  It is entitled:  How   
to Survive the Coming Century.  This is  
that century.  If you read nothing else  
in it, read the last paragraph.  Chances  
are slim to none for our survival.      
                                        
-                                        
                                       
For positive news, do this search:          
fighting flu with engineered antibodies         
                                     
-                                        
                                        
Also this search if you need to know     
what caused the financial crisis:     
wired magazine gaussian copula function
                                       
-                                       
                                     
At Kyphotic Hermit/ links to posts by  
Joseph Hutchison and Adam Fieled on the   
topic of greatness wait for those of you  
who are interested.                       
                                         
                                             
                                      
                                         
                                        
                                         
                                          
rho00308  

several thoughts

           
                                   
                                   
Even if one does not favor it, it appears that  
the ideas of American Hybrid and of hybridity   
have, by consensus, won the day.  As a maker  
of poems and poem-like artifacts, definitely  
I am, and long have been, a hybrid; yet, I am   
not comfortable with that term.  [ Have you   
ever read any thing made by that hybrid slut,
baj salchert? ]  I would rather be known as a
u-f-o (utterly-futile-oddity) poet.  Notice:
I used "a" before "u-f-o" because the letter
"u" sounds like "you".  I put the "." outside
the second quotation mark for "you" because  
the "." represents the end of the sentence.  
It has nothing to do with "you".               
                                         
-                                           
                                         
Regarding my love(?) for poetry and a list   
of 20 books that fostered said love, forget
it.  Yes, there are poets and poems I could
list; and, of course, books (anthologies   
mostly) were where I first encountered them.
Surveys and questionnaires make my skin itch.
                                             
-                                             
                                           
I have some issues with Google and Blogger;
and since help files and forums also make  
my skin itch, I am trying to figure out my  
own ways around those issues.  Unfortunately,
the new and improved Followers messed up the
look of the bottom of this blog, and there's
nothing I can do about it.  One example of a 
work-around is: latest post info.               
                                            
-                                             
                                           
If David Orr's article on poetic greatness  
was meant to arouse discussion among poets,
it was an inordinate success.               
                                            
                                             
                                              
                                          
                                           
rho00307   

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During the night and through and after dawn         
(angling west), snow.  Miniature flakes.  It
was heaviest around 8:20, and by 8:45 almost
imperceptible.                                
                                               
-                                                
                                               
This is the last day-date-only title.               
                                             
-                                           
                                               
Another minimal song lyric is arriving.               
                                             
-                                              
                                              
All my heuristic math projects are in what was   
Salchert's Weblog (Sprintedon Hollow) and now  
is Sprintedon Migrasaurus.  Don't know when,   
or even if, I will be posting more.  In 1994 in
Gainesville, Florida, I had a Kinko's store help
me put together ten copies of a hand-written  
work of nearly 600 pages: Meanderings of an   
Amateur Mathematician.  Fermat's Last Theorem  
was the focus of it.  Convinced there was a      
geometrical proof, I began to seriously toy     
with it when I was in the Iowa MFA Program  
(1965-1967), but I soon/ set it aside.  The  
mathematician now credited with proving that  
Fermat was right/ secretly forged on, driven
by his childhood dream.  At heart, what drives
me is a need to accomplish more than any in     
my immediate family's prior generation.  So   
far I am failing admirably.  One does what   
one can.  I do what I cannot.  For several   
years I maintained a site at ThirdAge.  In it
was a project: Number Theory Investigations.
That project has not yet been placed online   
again.  Uncertain about it.  I do know that 
someone made/ ten copies of it.                 
                                                
-                                              
                                               
I am not your usual blogger.  I am not your   
usual human.  Just had another dozing dream.
In it I lift a rug and two roaches scurry to
a different hiding place.  Why is it I drop  
into REM sleep so quickly?  Why is it these  
dreams are consistently weird?  I have an 
unexplainable fascination with Saturn's    
Titan moon.  A playlet I wrote/ orbits it.
                                              
-                                              
                                               
.1:21 -- Barely visible snow still.      
May have mentioned this, but because I   
have 6 posts of my old Tripod Brian's 
Brain log in this blog/ I will be posting 
the remainder of it in this blog.                           
                                                
                                                   
                                                
                                              
                                               
rho00304     
 

27

             
                                          
                                             
Living Contradictions by Adam Fieled
                                           
Read this PF post and the comments
                                                
Hybrid Likes and Dislikes by Mark Wallace
                                           
poems for Obama's first 100 days  
                                          
-                                                
                                             
At The Ghost in the Dumpster: 
a fun poem re Silliman's The Alphabet
                                                    
-                                                       
                                                    
At Money Rho: Closing Prices for 14 stocks                  
                                               
                                                      
                                                
                                           
                                               
                                                 
rho00303

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Yesterday was difficult through the morning.    
                                            
-                                             
                                           
After midnight there's a 50% chance of wetness.   
                                                 
-                                              
                                               
You never know what's around the corner           
unless you have a periscope, or command    
an advance guard snoop, or toss guesses    
into the air to see which way the winds
blow.  Cum see, cum saw, cum he haw haw          
                                          
-                                           
                                          
The DOW went down but 
the
bank stocks went up.           
                                   
-                                    

At Money Rho: When buyers no longer trust    
                                               
-                                          
                                             
Circumstances may have finally pushed me  
into becoming a vegetarian.                
                                         
-                                       
                                         
Watched a Murray Gell-Mann TED talk.          
                                             
-                                        
                                          
By my irreproachable reckoning     
Wallace Stevens and John Ashbery      
are magic carpet poets.                      
                                         
                                        
                                         
                                    
                                         
                                         
rho00302        
 

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