MooPig's Poetry Coroner :: Jerry Orbach and the Big Soup Tureen

We will have to buy the Book, but ...  

Retrieved by Pat Darnell and Poetry Coroners

"Actor Jerry Orbach,  died in 2004, but over his lifetime wrote hundreds of poems, including one everyday to his wife, Elaine. During predawn hours before filming, he scribbled on sheets torn from a page-a-day cat calendar. Awakening alone, she found poems by her coffee cup: "I would read and enjoy each one, then toss it into the big soup tureen given to us by producer David Merrick." After years, the tureen overflowed."

"When Jerry Orbach's poems were read at his funeral, several suggested Elaine do a book. Along with biographical chapters, she puts the poetry in context, explaining relationship references and showbiz buzzwords in a marriage memoir many will find appealing."

"The poems are all light verse, and more than a few could be labeled ultralight verse. Orbach had a penchant for playful rhymes, and he could be clever, as in this poem about film locations:

Today I've a pickup at 7:45
in less than a hiccup 
I'm at Riverside Drive! 
Then Zabar's for coffee
and back down to here
on West 52nd, the QE2 pier!

Jerry Orbach might be best remembered for roles such as tough New York detective Lennie Briscoe on "Law and Order" or the man who tries to put Baby in a corner in Dirty Dancing, but who knew that he was such a romantic?

Over the course of their 25-year relationship, Jerry wrote love poems to his wife Elaine. Now they're compiled in 'Remember How I Love You: Love Letters From an Extraordinary Marriage.'

Jerry would leave the short-but-sweet notes next to her coffee cup so that she'd have a "good morning poem" when she woke up.

His tough "Law and Order" shooting schedule often required him to come home when Elaine was asleep, and he'd still be sleeping when she was awake.

When Jerry died in 2004, a family friend asked to read some of the poems at his memorial service, and that's where the idea for the book took shape. It's a collection of the notes and Elaine's memories of life with Jerry.

Elaine passed away earlier this year right after the book was completed.

(Nov. 3, 2009. ebookstore)"

Update: Later this Week -- Leonid Promises Fireballs Tuesday Morning:: 3 AM CST ::

Heads Up
retrievals by Pat Darnell
11.25.2009


Leonid meteors shower 2009 from Think Pictures on Vimeo.
This years' Leonids came a couple days early, and not only did it put on an excellent show this year, I captured a couple of those really high altitude smoke trails left by the larger meteor streaks. I've only seen this one other time and that was by the naked eye during the Leonid meteor shower event in 2004. Seeing it timelapsed really offers a unique look at the dissipation of the smoke trail that follows the streak.

You may have to step through it to see during the main event, but I've showcased both of them at the end of the video.

Every 33 years the Tempel-Tuttle Comet visits the inner solar system filling Earth's skies with a shower of meteors. Debris from this particular comet are called Leonids because they appear to originate in the part of the sky where the Leo constellation is located. Though this year's Leonid Meteor Shower took place last week, the meteors that people observed were actually emitted by the comet in the years 1466 and 1533. Most of the meteoric activity was predicted to occur over Asia, but it seems that the most stunning amateur video came from other parts of the world, including the US. Some of it looks like it came straight out of a big budget sci-fi thriller. [SOURCE]

This [next]video was captured on November 21st by an office building's security camera in Midrand, South Africa. It takes a few seconds but boy is it worth it.

Footage from the security camera of the Mustek building in Midrand of the meteor shower that took place on 21 Nov 2009.



Footage from Leonid Meteor Shower November 17th, 2009

"When to watch:
Earth will pass through one of the denser debris streams at around 4 a.m. ET (1 a.m. PT) Tuesday. If you have only an hour or less to watch, center it around this time. Leo will be high in the sky for East Coast skywatchers, putting more meteors into view. In the West, Leo will be low in the eastern sky at this time, so fewer shooting stars will be above the horizon, and therefore Western skywatchers should also try to stick it out until daybreak."

[SOURCE]
It’s prime time for colorful meteor shower
Annual Leonid display should be good in North America, even better in Asia
[Excerpt]" ... This year the moon is near its new phase, and thus it won't be a factor that detracts from the show. For anyone in the Northern Hemisphere with dark skies, away from urban and suburban lighting, the meteor shower should be worth getting up early to see ... "
By Robert Roy Britt, Editorial director

"We're predicting 20 to 30 meteors per hour over the Americas, and as many as 200 to 300 per hour over Asia," said Bill Cooke of NASA's Meteoroid Environment Office. Other astronomers who work in the nascent field of meteor shower prediction have put out similar forecasts.

"Urban dwellers and suburbanites will see far fewer, as the fainter meteors will be drowned out by local lights.

"Behind the Leonids
"The Leonids are created by Comet Tempel-Tuttle, which passes through the inner solar system every 33 years on its orbit around the sun. Each time by, it leaves a new river of debris, consisting mostly of bits of ice and rock no bigger than a sand grain, but including a few the size of a pea or marble." (Cooke, Bill; NASA, excerpts retrieved today by PDarnell, SOURCE)"
_______________Reserves
[See: also --]
On This Date in History - November 16
From Nick Greene, About.com Guide
[HERE]
[-- AND --]
[HERE] November Highlight - A Lion Roars
Mike Koop (California Meteor Society), Peter Jenniskens (NASA Ames Research Center)November brings the usual suspects [ ... ], but more on that in a moment. November also brings the Leonids Meteor Shower. [ ... ]

The Leonids are expected to peak on the 17th.

Jupiter is still well placed for viewing with your telescope. Mars is now rising before midnight and visible through most of the night. Saturn climbs higher in the morning sky while Venus sinks lower. Another treat this month could be the asteroid Vesta in the early morning hours of the 24th.

It’s always for me a rhetorical synthesis: “What if…?”

http://www.cmt.com/artists/az/george_lowell/43601/album.jhtml

I think Lowell George might have liked how this discussion is going down… *[I think this link was his solo album...]* “Thanks, I’ll Eat it Here”
… this week’s blotters and chatter klatches remind me of LG, and his ambience… no? As in Fred McDowell, guitar face, Delta Blues and slide… Lowell would’ve writ another couplet had he been here today.

It’s always for me a rhetorical synthesis: “What if…?”


*I should have been a pair of ragged claws
Scuttling across the floors of silent seas.
T. S. Eliot, “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”

2009 NEIDLESS MAERKUPS Holiday eCatalogue

Sneak Peak from MooPig
by Pat Darnell and Fashionistas of Lubbock

With a closet of feminine, pretty pieces, you're ready to steal the leading role.

The feminine-ista. Downtown girl. The "it" girl. Something she'd say? "Can you hold my clutch for a second?"

Independent, trendsetting, and free-spirited. For you, fashion is all about having fun.

The bon vivant. The girl next door. Something she'd say? "If it isn't fun, forget it."

Always pulled together with a strong, well-edited fashion sense and a weakness for the new wave of American designers.

Old Hollywood. Vintage vixen. Something she'd say? "I know what I want when I see it."

You know how to appreciate the creature comforts like soft silhouettes luxurious fabrics.

The natural beauty. Something she'd say? "Form follows function."

Inspired by ladylike, iconic styles of decades past, but unafraid to put your own modern twist on it.

The overachiever. The multitasker. Abidingly stylish.
Something she'd say? "I expect perfection."

With an eye on the runway, you want the newest trends. You're willing to take a risk and always add your own interpretation.

The drama major. Fearless. Something she'd say? "I don't do casual Fridays."

Italian designers, red-soled shoes, and logo-engraved everything! Luxury fashion is your hearts content.

The fashion addict. The collector. The Milanophile. Something she'd say?
"I live every week like it's fashion week."

They call it Hot-lanta for a reason; the weather's warm but the fashion  social scenes are what really heat it up.

It's a city with a definite history of revolution that lives on in its polished fashion sense that refuses to follow the status quo.

With "chic" actually in its name, it's no surprise that this city knows how to dress its miles magnificently.

A little bit country, a little bit rock 'n' roll — Dallas is perfectly poised between urban-chic and its cowboy roots.

Diversity and a high-octane spirit propel the fashion sense of the Energy Capital of the World.

An eye-catching mix of glitz and glamour make it our first resort.

If it's the City of Angels, why's it so easy to find mischief? LA fashion always captures that untamed, fun-loving spirit.

Year-round warmth and a dizzying mélange of old, new and sizzling

New York, Chicago, home and heart to millions of style conscious inhabitants ... proving if you can make it in America's first second city of fashion, you've essentially conquered the world...

Constant reinvention and a love for the new make the Valley of the Sun a rising metropolitan star.

From Nob Hill to the Golden Gate, this city puts the polish on California cool.

Find the groups that best suit you — Start exploring now

Surrounded by a lush natural landscape, the Emerald City boasts style as innovative as its technologies.

Fashion~Radarista, see something different, that sets the whole world on its ear.







Along with our usual Holiday Fare of hard to find products, we will be offering once again full cheese jacket of Greenbay Packers unliscensed gigaws.

Clarinet Face

THE Bb BENDERs

About New Orleans and Clarinet Players
"...Those were happy days, man, happy days. Buy a keg of beer for one dollar and a bag full of food for another..." "...There were two thousand registered girls and must have been ten thousand unregistered. And all crazy about clarinet players..." Alphonse Picou.
Retrieved by Pat Darnell and Friends [HERE]   |   Response to PRIBEK.net  GUITAR FACE [...]

Louis Jordan

Artie Shaw

Jimmie Noone

- The ALBERT SYSTEM makes easy to bend notes, to make glissandos as a trombone slide does.-The BOEHM SYSTEM block to bend notes so easyly.

13,000 days

A System of a Downer Syndrome?
Conjecture by Pat Darnell and Pa Rody

MooPig Wisdom - According to a "one-size-fits-all" twenty question web page estima-guess survey on my age now and how long I should last .... [Source Lost] ...
I have about 13,000 days left; or --
35.6 more years to walk the Earth -- or, rather
104,000 hours left to sleep, and,
208,000 hours left-over to be awake on Earth ... That's sobering!  ](;.,)   'waaaaah ..'

That's 8,667 days awake, give or take. GULP !

------------------- BOK
I think I will get back to this finite time-left-to-live downer buzz-kill puzzle later ...

BOK, that means Body Of Knowledge. I had a professor once tell me that the "ultimate PROJECT would eventually include everyone and their BOK on the planet." How does your BOK stand up? Let's put current events to the scrutiny of our collective knowledge bases, okay? According to MSNBC.com -- in categories of Health\Science, Economic Indicators, Environmental Science\Politics, and Top Rated Stories on MSNBC.com .

November 23, 2009

------------------- MEDICINE

Man in ‘coma’ heard everything for 23 years

Mother says her son received wrong medical diagnosis after 1983 car crash [SOURCE]

updated 2 hours, 8 minutes ago, Mon., Nov . 23, 2009

BRUSSELS - For 23 torturous years, Rom Houben says he lay trapped in his paralyzed body, aware of what was going on around him but unable to tell anyone or even cry out.

-------------------- ECONOMICS

Home sales rise to highest level in 2.5 years
Only a 7-month supply of homes on market; bidding wars are erupting [SOURCE]
updated 3:26 p.m. CT, Mon., Nov . 23, 2009

WASHINGTON - Home sales surged for the second month in a row in October, climbing to the highest level in 2 1/2 years as first-time buyers rushed to take advantage of an expiring tax credit.

Home sales nationwide are now up nearly 36 percent from their bottom in January, data Monday showed, though they are still 16 percent below the peak in autumn 2005. At the current sales pace, there is only a 7-month supply of homes on the market and in some areas there are bidding wars.


-------------------- ENVIRONMENT\CLIMATE
CO2 levels keep rising as key climate talks loom
Scientist: ‘Coin-flip odds for serious outcomes for our planet’ [SOURCE]
"For the past million years we've never seen 390. You have to wonder what that's going to do," said physicist John Barnes, the observatory director.

Carbon dioxide concentrations this fall are hovering at around 385 parts per million, on their way to a near-certain record high above 390 in the first half of next year, at the annual peak.

Far from this mid-Pacific government observatory, negotiators from 192 nations gather in wintry Copenhagen, Denmark, next month to try to agree on steps to head off the worst of the climate disruptions researchers say will result if concentrations hit around 450 parts per million — in 30 years at the current rate. Some say the world has already passed a danger point, at 350 ppm, and must roll back.   *[ROLL~BACK LIKE AT WAL-MARTS ???]*

Today's emissions curve is tracking the worst case among seven emissions scenarios set out in 2001 by the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, or IPCC, British climatologists reported in September.

'The U.N. expert group projects that such a path would raise global temperatures between 4.3 and 11.5 degrees Fahrenheit by century's end."

------------------ JOURNALISM
Top rated Stories at MSNBC 
Nailed: EPA finally ties toxic water to old mine
After decades of denials from the owners of a Nevada mine, dangerous levels of uranium and arsenic in drinking water have been tied to a World War II-era copper mine.

-- Other Headlines-- go to [SOURCE] for links:

• Thousands of new species found in deep sea
• Predatory fish are nearing Great Lakes
• Subway carries 3-year-old boy’s dad away
• Man charged with raping, killing N.C. girl, 5
• Fired therapist: Stressed Marines got bad care
• The clothes are clean ... but what's that smell?
• Millions of children worldwide suffer abuse
• Cops: Girl raped, killed on day she was taken
• Ex-Air Force nurse acquitted of killing patients

 CONCLUSION
No one has a personal expansive Body Of Knowledge available to handle all of these issues by one's self: -- like an MD, Climate Specialist, Enviromental Scientist, Economist, and Editor -- all wrapped into ONE ???? NOT LIKELY !!

Each specialty attracts persons from that field. That is the beauty of a Project Body Of Knowledge ... right? That synergy thing that Bucky Fuller delineated, that the total is greater than the sum of the parts. Although we here at MooPig Enterprises like to think we can handle any information that explodes onto our screens, it is a system of a downer. It is a syndrome soon to be described by specialists involved in Brain Industries... hey man you got  BOK NOD Syndrome, or something like that.

------------------------ HEY !!
Wait just a Gall Darn Minute, Matthew; did I just say no one can command a personal body of knowledge greater than the sum of the parts of the project?? That is not absolutely true .. WHAT ABOUT :: YIKES !! How soon we forget -- Oh NO  --- "ONO" it happened once, it can happen again.

TAKE ME NOW, JESUS !!!!

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