Overheard at Table 4: IDK

Dad: What does IDK mean

Son: I don't know.

Dad: Well then who would?

Son: That's what it means, Dad, IDK.  I. Don't. Know.

Dad: See, now was that so hard?

Son: Geez Dad, WTF

Dad: What does that mean?

Son: Nevermind.

Dad: Well WTF to you too then!

Overheard at Booth 4: Etymology of GUERO

Hispanic guy:  You know why we call all you white guys "Gueros"?

White guy: I dunno.  Why?

Hispanic guy: Because you're always coming down to our countries saying, "GUERO all the Latinas at?"

Overheard at Table 2: If I Were a Trump Supporter

I actually read on Twitter the other day some Trump supporter tweet "I really believe he cares."

I couldn't believe that.  The lunacy of those five words is now burned into my brain.  There is nothing that says that he cares.  I mean, the man takes a human tragedy like the murder of 50 people in a gay nightclub and states "Thanks to all the people who now know that I was right" - and just the other day he tweeted "woman gets killed walking her baby.  African Americans will vote TRUMP!" I mean what the HELL.  Any reasonable mind understands that he's only in this for himself.

If I were Trump supporter, I wouldn't have any illusions that he's in this for the American people.  He's in this for his brand and for his brand and to improve his cash flow.  I'd support him because I would believe that he wouldn't want to do anything to stop his cash flow, and if the country's economy were tied to it, then he would work to defend it.

I'd also support him because he hates the TPP and wants to support tariffs.  I'd let people know that's going to raise the price of shit through the roof.  I mean, there won't be no more Wal-Mart markdowns.  T-shirts would be $20 instead of $5, but we all have to make sacrifices, right?

I'd also support him because he's able to mobilize the disenfranchised.  Those people who never voted before came out in droves in the primaries and blasted the shit out of the Republican Party.  I mean, this guy has shredded the Republican party more than any Democrat could ever do.  They'd been trying to fight these guys for a decades, and Trump does it in just a few short months.

So that would be why I'd support him.  But I would never, ever, EVER in my life delude myself into thinking he actually CARED about America or its people.  Because he doesn't.  And he never will.

Overheard at the Counter: Gardening and Music (a Playlist)

My dear friends, yesterday a Trump Troll, rather than attempting to discuss important civic matters in a rational debate, simply told my friend PK and I to "go back to our gardening and music"

How she knows I garden I have no idea, because I do not garden.   Attempted many times, but the Associated for Decent Treatment to Flora sent me a letter begging me never to touch one of our green-leaved friends again.  Apparently the Chrysanthemums accused me of abuse, the Pansies said I engage in hate crimes, and the Avacado trees tried to drag me before the World Court to be held accountable for genocide.  Suffice it to say, gardening is not my forte.

However, the Trump Troll did inspire me to cobble together a list of songs about gardening and music.  OK, songs that have "garden" in the title.   But here you go friends, get out your trowels, your top soil, your guitars bass & drums, and ENJOY!


ARTIST: The Various Artists
ALBUM TITLE: Go Back to Your Gardening and Music


Lawnmower Deth
"Lawnmowers for Heroes Comics for Zeroes"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGuQOv09PYg

Liars
"The Garden was Crowded and Outside"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrKH-nG6LG0

The Dentists
"Strawberries are Growing in my Garden (and It's Wintertime)"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b51TQOJawEg

Einsturzende Neubauten
"The Garden"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMqC7Wx2-nE&index=1&list=RDMMqC7Wx2-nE

John Denver
"The Garden"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3FkaN0HQgs

This one goes out to CARRIBETH
The Beatles
"Octopus's Garden"
[no YouTube video available - DARN YOU YOUTUBE!!]

This one is dedicated with much love to HEALING MUSE
Tangerine Dream
"Zen Garden"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0xEI3pJahA

Merril Bainbridge
"Garden in my Room"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EGfPCVThdo

The Explosive
"Who Planted Thorns in Miss Alice's Garden"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dp3nhDug5Cs

R.E.M.
"Gardening at Night"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9WMncHTtEI

Pink Floyd

"The Grand Vizier's Garden Party"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4ULb9YE3UI

This last one has been my favourite for decades, and we will fade out the day with this...
Rick Nelson
"Garden Party"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uAHR7_VZdRw

Overread at Booth 2: Writing Promt 08-22 "I Will Endure"

From @writtenriver writing prompt for August 22, 2016
"I will endure"



Though laughter, tears,
decades stretched to shrinking years,
deepening wrinkles and fading fears,

we
are still

here.







MR
2016-0822

Overread at Table 1: A section from "Unintelligible Yelling"

From the forthcoming book, which will be finished after the much-dreaded November 2016 Presidential election is over:


The week of 08-20-2016 -

But on this day Trump seemed to get back on his feet, like a struggling newborn calf trying to talk.  Trump bravely courted the African American vote in a room full of white people.  He also bravely flew down to flooded Louisiana to bravely hand off boxes of Play-Doh from a truck so that Louisiana children could forget that they have no home, no clothes, no food, and no clean water.

Yes, his monstrous popularity seemed to soar.  The LA governor praised him for his help in getting the focus on the suffering of Louisianans, white people praised how Donald Trump bravely stated that he would win 95% of the African American vote, and no one seemed to even remember how he nearly dry humped his own daughter during the RNC.

Overheard at Table 4: Suitcases Totally Lit

Wife: God, I was so embarrassed when we got to my brother's house.  Tami opened her suitcase and it just totally REEKED of pot.

Husband: Hm.

Wife: Don't start.

Husband: I didn't start anything.

Wife: I see your face.

Husband: My face is saying nothing.  My face is drinking my espresso.

Wife: Whatever.  I asked her did you bring anything with you you better not have brought anything with you.  And she said no she didn't and not to start getting on her case because she already lives on her own.  So she was right, I had no right to say anything on this trip.

Husband: Yes, you did.  You had every right.  You should have told her she's 19, and dope is still illegal in Texas.  If she wants to smoke pot she can move to Colorado or California or Oregon or wherever, but she'll still have to be 21 there anyway.

Wife: Well she doesn't live with us any more, because you got so mad.

Husband: She was smoking pot in our house!  Your 83 year old MOTHER told us right when we walked in the door from work.  What the hell did you expect me to do?  Give her a bong for Christmas?

Wife: She's out of the house OK?  God I hadn't talked to her in two weeks since then.  She came on this trip with me to help out my brother.  It was the first time we'd talked.   So just back off.

Husband: OK, fine.  Just glad she didn't blaze up in your brother's house.

Wife: Still, it was embarrassing.  So there's that.  Are you happy?  I was embarrassed, are you happy?

Husband: How in the hell could that make me happy?

Wife: Because you always like to be right.

Husband: What the hell is so wrong with wanting my daughter not to commit a crime in our house?

Wife: Maybe if she were your real daughter you would love her more.

Husband: Been in her life since she was three.  I think that's counts as pretty real.

Wife: It's almost real.  But not real enough.