Sysprog.... God, will it take that long? I generally crap out after about twelve measures, when it starts to get hard. I always have to start over, so I must drive my neighbors to distraction.

WT.... How cosmic you should use the the term "parlous times." I just recommended a song called "Desperate Times" (Old 97's) to Kitt. It has some good banjo.

A book, 'An Unreasonable Women i...

A true story of Shrimpers, Politicos and the Fight for Seadrift'

Mother Jones awarded 'her' the 'Hell Raiser' of the month. It's a prestige honor. I love those who have skills. Ya's only must practice.

*Diane Wilson is an activist author, and etc., that's been via the courts of Austin

fighting chemical plants and takes a lead in environmental concerns. Respected.

I mention her because she is a keynote speaker at PASA's Farming For the Future

Conference-Sharing the Sustainable Story.

(there are grounded musical talents there)

The Farm Conference is at State College, Pennsylvania. Feb. 7-to-9-2008

The Farming for the Future Conference is titled: Ready To Grow.

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Oh well, what a school right here.

If I were a little shrimp I swim in a school as a rule...

I'd swim with friend and if there is a shark attack, jump back, kick back, shiny hook, look out!

No bite, flip outta' the net... swim fast, dive low, swim left, forward dive, twirl slow... no get caught or ya's get eat! Ah, ah, and why I say that? No one knows. Maybe it's the noodle brain needs a hug... so sorry... so silly! Poor shrimps.

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A perfect weather tonight before sleep would be if all the snowflakes were chocolate covered cupcakes? The music of that can't be beat?

The musicians here (not me) need a DVD!

Then we'd not need to be shrimp hungry?

We could eat a giraffe, a lion, or a leopard,

Or a horse, a calf, and gobble down a camel?

Maybe eat a goat, a bull, and if that sounds

too preposterous... anybody who is a hungry reader here can chomp on a walrus,

and wash it down with a few delicious skunk?

Maybe a elephant?

How about a grasshopper?

Or best yet-attend a flea circus?

O well. Practice. Teamwork and determination.

Weird? No. We need to eat, sing, and be merry.

Don't drink too many of those screwballs on a Friday night.

Enough with the naked bovines, already!

I’m getting all worked up here…

There are serious matters to contemplate and discuss.

Have you caught wind of this...?

Yes, AT&T is losing its mind (and might filter the Internet)

In a thoroughly enjoyable Slate piece last week Tim Wu, law professor extraordinaire, asked the only question a reasonable soul can muster after hearing about AT&T's unnecessary, infeasible, legally dubious, and most likely financially calamitous attempt to stem copyright infringement in the United States by closely scrutinizing the traffic that passes over its Internet lines: Has AT&T "simply lost its mind?"(continues)

http://machinist.salon.com/blog/2008/01/24/att_filtering/index.html

It is serious. I realize that too.

William made me sing and dance

With all the creepy GOPS in the DC,

The hermit hut is satisfaction for me.

Sorry, Mr. Mosby, for the rampant frivolity around here.... It is Friday, and the disaster has momentarily been averted. Bebop's back, in fine form, and the tubes are alive with the sound of music. We can at least celebrate fine words from Sen. Dodd, along with some tweezer-prodded backpedaling from the newly heroic Reid, who has suddenly gotten out his high-powered footlight, belatedly, that makes him look big, borrowed from Marvin Martian.

Back to business.

This, much tenderer Bach -- from the Anna Magdelena Notenbüchlein -- for bebop-celery (and for all the other lovers still left in the world):

Ach, wie vergnügt
wär' so mein Ende
Es drückten deine schönen Hände
Mir die getreuen Augen zu

Ah, how pleasant would be my end
Were your beautiful hands
To seal my faithful eyes in sleep

I was afraid my previous comment would give the wrong impression. JSB was one of the great souls. I wouldn't want anyone to think that I wasn't aware of it.

(Yes, this passage isn't exactly sprightly, either, but Bach lived in times as dark as ours are, and the melody isn't half as freighted with the knowledge of mortality as the lyrics. Very like Shakespeare's Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, and summer's lease hath all too short a date. Knowledge, even of terrible fates, is no match for love.)

unacompanied cello for me (to listen to, over and over, on my handy ipod thingy). And if you have ever heard some of it live, it will take you places.

If I see a flower that has no patent and is a rare fine-cross,

That blossom will be named Coctailhag after you, no joke!

The 'folk' (I'm self-conscious using the work folk because Mitt uses the term to include

the American people) here got me ordering Chocolate Sunflowers, Regatta Marine Blue

Lobelia, bee balm, sage, green granny heirlooms, and many other fruits, and Flashback

Calendula flowers etc.,

There is even candy onions seeds on the list.

Red Wing, Walla's Walla's feisty peas, and Stampede Jerusalem Artichokes..

.Hot Biscuits Amaranthus, and Celeric/Celery root. Who would buy burdock?

Good night.

The Second, especially. All are on my iPod, too, along with the Bartok quartets. The two great Bs, in my opinion -- very like our own B, as a matter of fact. (No disrespect to Beethoven or Brahms intended.)

I was just listening to Youngbloods "Get Together" and Simon and Garfunkel's "Last night I Had The Strangest Dream," and lamenting how far we haven't come, after all these years.

Have a drink, it helps when you're pissing in the wind. Or off the porch, Bop.

There is a rich, sweet, and pungent flavor Garlic we plant named, 'Music'...

It has a pink shading and is vigorous and hardy... . Make braided wands!

The seed catalogue I browse has a Bug Baffler Hat I'll order for Timberman?

If not that...

....I'll ask you to spray W.T. with a garlic smash insect repellent? It will subdue blackflies,

and mosquitoes. Research proves a pest like William T. can bite the flesh and drive people crazy.

It's a see thru-shirt. It's a no-see-um 'bad-bugs' with a woven netting with a built in hood. The W.T. irritating bugs are kept at a comfortable distance. The bug net comes with a zipper and easy to unleash waist opening buckle. If neither William T., and Jkalos etc., and Cocktailhag etc., weigh over 175 pound, maybe it's a 'gift' to consider for you?

Garlic is a stimulating bulb.

The garlic juice actually draws 'dormant' lovers together.

Anyway, keep some Lovage to lure and trap each other ?

Grow some in the heart garden and have innocent embraces.

C. Mosby. Go see Mosby and give him/her a big kiss. It was a tease.