Beginning with Biltmore
By ice rivers
For the next 24 hours I'm going to write as much as prolifically as I can while Mary and Lynn visit the Biltmore Estate.
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Krell Ice Dialogue
Krell Rivers Dialogue Part One Krell : Hey old man, we finally get a chance to talk. I’m gonna be ‘free” for the next few hours so let’s see what we...
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Dialogue Part 2
Krell Rivers Dialogue Part 2 Ice: I don’t get it. Krell : It’s an echo Ice: huh Krell: An echo speaks without a mouth, hears without ears and is...
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Why Not Some Booze and Blues
Snowy Village Blues Daryll discovered that the streets were uneven and filled with unavailable wicked women as he trudged from bar to bar after...
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From Plato to Carlin
Let's get this straight. I'm not disparaging others when I refer to myself as an intellectual. We intellectuals are in the minority and for good...
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Tick Tock Time in Justice
In the days before automated systems, most town clocks required manual attention, including the ringing of bells every hour. The responsibility of...
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Eleanor and Robert
Fowler's dedication to the town clock continued, and he took great care to pass on his knowledge to his daughter, Eleanor. Eleanor developed an...
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Enlightening Justice
Fowler died a happy man in the company of Eleanor and Robert as the bells rang and the lanterns blazed throughout Justice. Eleanor, now the official...
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The Square Wheels of Eden
Back in the days of Eden, it was a lot easier to be original. Today all you hear is, "everything has been done before". Even more discouraging is the...
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Stay the Hell off the Sun
Some people insist that there is nothing new under the sun. How do they know? Have they ever been on the sun. I don't think so. Nobody's been on the...
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Monkeying Around With Originality
What I'm about to write isn't new. It's new to me and maybe even to you as none of us has ever seen it before and at this precise second even it...
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So Long Smitty
Hey in America when we're looking for something new, why not head to those bastions of progress... Alabama, Mississippi and Oklahoma. All three...
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The Rub
My first tussle with pre-determination versus free will came early. My teacher told us that everything has its time and when that time comes whatever...
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Orgasmic Emma
Through the grapevine I leaned about Poor Things a few months ago when I first heard raves about Emma Stone's performance in a film that might be...
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From Doldrum to Oklahoma
I woke up this morning on the doldrums near the cascade of depression. Nobody's returning my email or messages. I feel like I've done something wrong...
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Whining While Winning And Wining
Like most of us, I tend to whine about my misfortune. I buy scratch offs and lottery tickets continually but have lost far more than I've won. Far...
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Mercy Ring Renewed
Our daughter Mary is getting married in October. My mother was also named Mary. My mother graduated from Mercy High School in 1939. In the midst of...
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Reeling In the Whacks
I'm afraid I've reached that point where I try Facebook and I don't hear from any of my friends anymore. I just keep getting ads for pop-on veneers...
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Ice is Old and Blue
Ice is old and blue. Ice is intricate, beautiful and formidable; fragile yet ancient. It can be borrowed and it can be new. Ice is related to clouds...
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Super Darkness
Let's face it; predicting the future is like navigating through darkness. We are all in the dark, blindfolded, yet we march forward, trying to...
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Humor is all about Timing
Gotta tell ya, some jokes just ain't funny any more. Most of us loved Rodney Dangerfield with his self effacing, get no respect barrage of one liners...
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Sad Happy Meal
Busy, busy, busy but not as busy as I remember it from last century. The cost is too much for the products and the vibe is kinda desperate. Yeah,...
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An Unforgiving Blizzard
We had been preparing for weeks, for months, for years. We were woefully unprepared in every way We didn't expect a blizzard on March 8. We had no...
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Chemistry Lingers
Watch out now. I'm about to get all English teachery. The subject is chemistry and the chemistry is from Shakespeare. Yeah, let's talk about Romeo...
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Changing with Susannah
I have had a long association with the song Oh Susannah . Probably started the first time I heard the words about "raining all night" while the "...
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Pursuing Happiness Through Immaturity
Because we are born with such big noggins overcrammed with gigantic brains, it takes us a long time to mature as we are born shockingly...
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Going Sape Shit again
Nowadays, we sapiens are the only humans who walk the earth. We proud of dat. We survived. We got fire working for us. We the top of the chain. That...
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Meanwhile in Eden....
Meanwhile in Eden, Adam and Eve began talking about things that were invisible. They talked about things like happiness, fear, pain and pleasure. The...
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Something sweet in Eden
It was hard to find something sweet in Eden. The others found it first...... She noticed and wondered She called herself Eve but nobody else did yet...
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I'm Happy To Say I'm Happy
I'm happy. There I said it. I'm happy for a lot of different reasons. I'll give you a few. I don't have a toothache. The Russians turned back during...
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Birth of Fiction
Where were we? Oh yeah, at what we humans like to imagine as the beginning although there was a whole lot a shakin' goin on before Adam and Eve. Adam...
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The First Murder
Disobedience Murder Crime Punishment Oh Yeah. Cain was a farmer. Abel was a shepherd. Cain was a hunter gatherer and wanderer. Cain was a farmer and...
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The Discovery of Ignorance
Even though we keep them caged, we are moved by their self-regard and lack of inhibition. Look into the eyes of a great ape and you will see no signs...
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Snerk Factory
Five minutes before the end of a successful working day (Is there a more blissful moment?) I was sitting in my cubicle gathering wool while...
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Sacred Snerkle?
I get it. We like to think that the voice of God speaks perfect English and sounds like Morgan Freeman or James Earl Jones or Orson Welles or all...
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Babe Out of the Woods
A mere 20 years after Arthur Moore mistakenly heard the voice of God (or did he?), 1% of the Ameican descendants of Adam and Eve heard the first news...
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Broadcasting Babe
Babe Ruth was born before Arthur Moore thought he heard the voice of God. Babe made it to the Yanks in 1920 when radio began to take off. As the...
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Introducing the Bomber
By 1939, radio had become an integral part of American culture, and a substantial portion of the population regularly listened to radio broadcasts...
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Thank God for Teevee
When the men returned from WW2, the women were glad to see them. BOOM. Here we come. I'm in this particular me too movement. What are we gonna do...
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High and Mighty
We knew for a long time where God was. He art in heaven. We knew where heaven was. Heaven was up there. Kings and Queens and rulers of all kind were...
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Me and Hitch
Hitch and me been zigging and zagging and zigzagging for years. He called me up a couple of days ago. He was gonna build a campfire and thought it...
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In the Begining It Had to Happen
Well, I suppose it had to happen didn't it? I have become a minister and I'm starting my own religion. We'll only call it a religion for tax purposes...
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Mother Mary
I'm closing in on 1300 posts. God only knows how many words I've used yet I've very rarely written about my mother. If I had written all of those...
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