Depression is a Writer

In a late response to Bukowski ramblings is some less than cheery info here. The discussion starts here: [click]
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Some comparisons:

Under the Volcano, Malcolm Lowry

The book is a tragedy: each of the three protagonists is consumed with guilt: the Consul for becoming a drunken failure, Yvonne for cheating on her husband and leaving her marriage, and Hugh for not achieving enough in his youth. Fittingly, the book takes place on Mexico's Day of the Dead. The Mexicans' celebrations of death form a running counterpoint to the protagonists' strained attempts to battle against their lives. The Mexicans revel in death, while the Counsul, Yvonne, and Hugh, mope through lives that are very much already over.

Henry Charles Bukowski (August 16, 1920 – March 9, 1994) was an influential American poet and novelist. Bukowski's writing was heavily influenced by the geography and atmosphere of his home city of Los Angeles. He is often mentioned as an influence by contemporary authors, and his style is frequently imitated. A prolific author, Bukowski wrote thousands of poems, hundreds of short stories, and six novels, eventually having more than fifty books in print. He is often remembered as "The Poet Laureate of Skid Row."

Insightful : In full sight

I can't get away with lighting a little firecracker, and this guy lights up the entire Gov'nors' Mansion???? In full sight, while videotaped...

AUSTIN, Texas - Investigators said Monday they believe someone angry with the government set the Texas Governor's Mansion on fire this month, and they offered a $50,000 reward for information leading to his arrest. (Copyright 2008 The Associated Press.)

State Fire Marshal Paul Maldonado had said last week that investigators did not believe the blaze was politically motivated, but he changed course Monday. (AP; updated 1:35 p.m. CT, Mon., June. 16, 2008)

"It is likely that feelings of anger may have motivated his crime," Maldonado said at a news conference Monday. "He may be known to get angry and express strong opinions about the government, Governor Perry himself, the death penalty, the renovation of the mansion or other political issues."

Texas: Angry man set governor's mansion fire
Investigators offer $50,000 reward for information leading to arrest


The suspect is probably physically fit because he was able to scale an 8-foot chain-link fence to get onto the mansion grounds, he said.

Investigators have said video footage shows a suspect in the early morning hours of June 8, standing in front of the Governor's Mansion, igniting an object and throwing it onto the porch of the historic landmark, creating a fireball and blaze that ravaged the 152-year-old structure.

Department of Public Safety troopers were on guard at the time. (AP)

Every Good Secret needs an authenticated Relic

This [Carbonized Grist] hit the Fan over a year ago, and grew into a head of carbuncle puss on the face of Americans through Al Gore...

MooPig has to ask the tough questions, so here goes:

Q: "Has anything happened since?"

Answer: Yes; oil prices have risen to $130 a barrel... In London, August Brent crude rose $2.86 to settle at $134.86 a barrel on the ICE. Gas prices will likely hold steady near current levels, as long as oil continues trading in its current range between roughly $132 and $138, analysts say. (MSN/AP; 20/ June/ 2008)

Al Gore won an Oscar for his movie ‘An Inconvenient Truth’. This was a lock, of course, because all the beautiful people in tinsel town are environmentally sensitive and love the beauty of nature. Many own second homes built in pristine areas of the country so they can enjoy all the untouched beauty of these places. Not counting the slight touching necessary to build their homes.

Their new mantra is global warming and the recession of the polar ice cap. I guess things have been warming up lately and the polar ice cap is receding. The cause of all this is not really clear however. The polar ice cap used to cover most of North America and extend down to Kentucky and has been receding — for the last four million years. Another one of those inconvenient truths.

Al Gore’s Convenient Oscar
by beth — published on March 6th, 2007

‘Ol Al wants to help the environment by asking all of us to reduce our carbon footprint thereby doing our part for the climate. Good idea Al, maybe you can start by reducing the dimension of just your regular footprint. Have you seen the size of this guy? He is rapidly becoming the poster child for morbid obesity. The best thing he could do for the environment is to back off the grub a little bit and give the rest of the food chain a break.

Al Gore would have won the 2000 presidential election if he could have carried his own state of Tennessee. We could have a President Gore! He may decide to run again. That is an inconvenient truth that should cause all of us to break out in a cold sweat.

author: Beloved Curmudgeon

(This entry was posted on Tuesday, March 6th, 2007 at 10:06 pm and is filed under America, Cartoon of the Day, Hollywood, Modern Culture, Progressive-ly Insane, Useful Idiots.)

BuzzKill Word for the Century: Levee

"Why does it always have to come down to a low tech rubberband repair like Sandbagging??" asks MooPig the Wiser for having been trapped in flood waters after Allison Hurricane.

"I'm not going back after this one," 83-year-old Lois Russell said as she watched water surround her house near Gulfport. It was the third time she had fled her home because of flooding since 1965.

"It was a good place to raise my seven kids," she said, crying. "I know I haven't lost anything that feels important because I have a big family."

Gulfport, IL.

Then on Tuesday, the worst happened: The levee burst and Gulfport was submerged in 10 feet of water. Only 28 property owners were insured against the damage.

"They all told us, `The levees are good. You can go ahead and build,"' said Parks, who did not buy flood coverage because her bank no longer required it. "We had so much confidence in those levees."

Around the country, thousands of residents who relied on risk maps from the Federal Emergency Management Agency, [FEMA], may unknowingly face similar dangers.

"People put all their hopes in those levees, and when they do fail, the damage is catastrophic," said Paul Osman, the National Flood Insurance Program coordinator for Illinois. "New Orleans is the epitome; a lot of those people didn't even realize they were in a floodplain until the water was up to their roofs."

Midwest Flood Victims Feel Misled
By TAMMY WEBBER and MARIA SUDEKUM FISHER, AP Posted: 2008-06-20 11:13:32

GULFPORT, Ill. (June 20) -- Juli Parks didn't worry when water began creeping up the levee that shields this town of about 750 from the Mississippi River - not even when volunteers began piling on sandbags.

After all, local officials had assured townspeople in 1999 that the levee was sturdy enough to withstand a historic flood, and FEMA had agreed. In fact, some relieved homeowners dropped their flood insurance, and others applied for permits to build new houses and businesses.

Do Limp Plumber's Work? [spell check] err... Lip Plumpers?

To try and answer this Frequently Asked Question, I checked as many classic sources I could, in hopes of finding a thread, or tip for a discussion on "whether lip plumper's work" or not.

Only one source referred to "whether limp plumbers work," to which the answer is "not as often as they should."

[To view that source Please click here . Variations of lip plumbers... plumper's ...limp... work]

John Limp Plumbing
799 W Madison Street, Franklin, IN 46131



Then I went to more modern sources and of course plenty of lists came up with lots of referrals to Angelina Jolie:
Product name: Too Faced Lip Injection
Product name: Avon BEYOND COLOR Plumping Lipcolor with Retinol
Product name: Origins Underwear for Lips
Product name: CITY Lips Collagen Plumping Treatment
Product name: Eyeko's Super Size Shine
Product name: DuWop Venom Gloss
Product name: N.V. Perricone Alpha Lipoic Acid Lip Plumper with DMAE







Soon everything started to fall in place, and it became a story worthy of the Crucifixion.

A pair of lips on fire, to sensualist, to occupy and mystify...

Well you can imagine reports flooded in saying "Hey, you can't do that!!!"

So the rest is deleted, but it was a good start to something untold...

Do Lip Plumper's Work?

At this time we can only conjecture that lip plumper's work as much as, but do not exceed, limp plumber's work.





PHOTO: The "most beautiful lips on Earth!!!". They might quite possibly be the biggest lips (even bigger than Angelina Jolie's). These lips measure out at just short of 1 kilometer wide.