bi-polar escape

sometimes awake in the dark, 2-3a.m. my bipolar depression is waiting & can get quite bad. My escape is to find something, ANYTHING that was or is amusing. one route i have found is to recall everything i can from the comic strip, L'il Abner. so i begin w/ the cast of course, the main one being,L. A. hisself. He had an huge set of shoulders and we always saw him in bib overalls w/ one strap of the pair unfastened. the overalls were worn w/o a shirt, thus displaying his shoulders & amazing muscular development. Then of course, who could forget luscious Daisy Mae, L.A.'s contemporary, last name or family connection we are left to figure out for ourselves. She evidently wore only the blouse w/ the large polka dots, an old one which she had outgrown much to everyone's delight.She evidently had a limited wardrobe, apparently no shoes, nor sandals or footwear of any kind and if she had designs on L.A. she tended to be shy about it. The only covering for the lower part of her seemed to be a set of skimpy shorts, apparently ragged, but well-fitted and definitely short. Among the other ladies we recall Moonbeam McSwine who apparently owned only a black, one-piece, dress, which like daisy mae's was possibly worn out but we might say, smallish, looking outgrown. Moonbeam was about the same proportions as Daisy, maybe even a neighbor or school??mate. among the females was L. A.'s mom of course, Pansey Yokum who seemed to always have a corncob pipe in her mouth, and a strange kind of ruined black bonnet for her head. she was quite small, even little, as was her spouse, Lucifer.They seemed to lack ordinary livestock, such as chickens, but one family member. It was a pig, we may suppose was possibly to be sacrificed sooner or later. Her name was Salome.

some of us kin recall, yrs ago when cam-corders 1st became popular, they were the new fad. people would get one & shoot footage of evrything. some of that film is still around. eg. the guy who won the swimming medals in the recent olympics,---- somebody found shots of him on a pipe. now someone has found picture where our young lady subject is running for the Senate & apparently in old pictures she's embracingg witchcraft.

more thoughts. ha! thinking more ca serendipitous reading lists-----like mine. at some pt or other, i decided i oughta read the classics, if i could 1) figure out what they were & 2) find the time.


somewhere got me started on War &. i went thru a spell, of waking up middle o' the nite, so this is how i got thru W&P. but earlier, i was sick at home, flu as i recall, & tackled Look HomewardAngel. why? couldnt begin to explain. the, abouthe time i finished W&P i became motivated to find out more ca the South. (we had recently moved there, skimmed some Faulkner, but then discovered Walkr Percy who seemed to want to depict HIS South in a serious way. so i began with his 2nd book, Last gentleman which i enjoyed, so then his 1st-- the moviegoer, which i didnt think as good.

got to thinking about writing. fell into joseph conrad, nig. of the narcissus, & wondered how could someone who began speaking & writingin Polish, move over to geart stories in Eng. (i have an abiding interest in ships, the sea, etc.) still wonder about that question, now i have a fixation for Polish poets-----Zymborski, zagajewski, miloscz. their poetry is probably only considered 'quite good' but i am a total novice when it comes to reading good poetry,



but reading fiction, yes, i moved on. as atrained entomologist, i was naturally drawn to 'Lolita' but as i finished it, i realized, it had an audience best qualified who maybe had a few more birthdays & the occasional line in French threw me. i became fixated with his work, & his person. i have recently re-read Lolita & mainly what i got was what a wonderful writer he was. I may have read ALL his stories, some originally in German translated, but i must encourage anyone who enjoys GOOD short stories to dig out a cy of his 'Potato Elf.' I trulyliked his novel, 'Pnin' and it is well worth the read.

well, o.k. i was considering the question of whether our older cat might get on the waiting list to join the Harlem boys choir. we are aware from the outset (get go) there are formidable obstacles. To begin, Billie is a she. BUT TOTALLY BLACK. i have only ever heard her sing, very muffled, not a clear tune, so she would have to be evaluated. In complete honesty, i as her mentor/owner must confess, i really dont know how she could contribute. BUT she's agreeeable, docile, but to get her to her singing would be yr problem.

i have taken to addressing her whenever i get chance---'you're adopted'. i have mentioned to her, 'if she will sing, i will teach her to talk.' but so far no results. it is plain from eye contact etc. that she has alot to say but, so far conv. w/ her is one-way.

the latest as of yesterday

just back from a nice beach trip. voted yesterday, still cant seem to tune out all the campaign crap. anyways, a good trip if you dont include the welsh corgi which yapped seemingly steady for 6 days, except at nite. & the acoustics in the hse were not helpful, but seemed to amplify the little bastard's noise.

good voter turnout at the location i went to, ca. 1600 votes cast by 11 a.m.

gasoline here (asheville) still the game depending on the whims of the greedy. opportunistic Man.

bailout suggestions

so the solution is hand $700 billion to most of the same crowd that got us in the current fix.

good suggestion who sent that in?

stuck in Iraq?

my take on all of what seems to be swirling about these days revolves around a pullout from Iraq.

My personal belief is that a pullout was never in the cards. My reading of the situtation is that our shadow govt. Richard Pearle, Paul Wolfowitz and possibly Abrams were able to convince Current Occupant that the plan was to attck, invade and occupy Iraq. Withdrawal was never part of the original plan, probably still isn't.