Take This Thing Back to Baltimore

  3/30/2024                Easte®             And some days and despite the beauty it’s all / mono©h®omo up on out on up on out on up on out on up on out on up in here, and things / is g®ey, though a little Joseph Haydn might enliven / the p®o©eedings as we do, mono©ome is all / we gots.   What it is of (t)his Easte® Saturday after before during and after it becomes Another Sadu®day Night and I Ain’t Got Nobody is that a pe®son looks back on the last few Saturday afters before during and after they become Another Sadu®day Night and I Ain’t Got Nobody, and is none too / impressed be©ause (t)his wild ©ount®y life that four-lettered word (hooky please, -id., we get it, it’s a g®ey day, even despite / the beauty).     Last week at this time it was on the way to a very tasteful Lamb dinner across the Ottawa river from here on the Onta®ia®ia®i...

  2/23/2024                Write ‘ em / up            And ye® / wel©ome, the presentation of the above didn’t go / exactly as planned be©ause people don’t plan / to fail as we do as much as we fail / to plan, and (y)our man ©in the humble(d) narrator of (t)his Take This Thing Back to Baltime-moi®es and w®ite em / up was not after getting a good night’s sleep of the TGIFF®iday night before during and after delivering / the   same be©asue putting the ‘fun’ in ‘fune®al’, innit G, though a local English school teacher at the ceremony did give (y)our man ©in the thumbs up before during and after audeeing and videeing (y)our man ©in stand / and deliver, and isn’t the English teacher’s feedback always most / important, ye® / wel©ome is all / we gots.   Course you can’t take it when you’re / gone that four-lettered wo®d – ‘it’s said that folks who marry / for money’, (y)...

  2016-04-24  Some habits die hard / though they probably should.    Or thereabouts, line is from Band of Robbers , a latter-day version of the Mark Twain Huckleberry Finn story.   What it is is that your man Huck Finn and his sidekick Tom Sawyer are updated to be millennial ©ops and ®obbers, quite literally, your man Huck (Tom ?) a local ©op, and his BFF Tom (Huck ?) just out / of prison.   They reunite, Blues Brothers -style, outside the local penitentiary, only this time it’s not the Bluesmobile, a converted police car, driven by Elwood that comes by to pick up his fare, brother Jake, but policeman Huck (Tom ?) driving an actual police car.   A whole series of picaresque (b) / (m) / (s) / (gl) and just plain / adventures ensue, whole series of picaresque (b) / (m) / (s) / (gl) and just plain / adventures ensuing is all / we gots. Tom’s / the cop, of course, why doncha read / the books before reviewing the movies based on / the same -id., Shakesp...

2016-04-23 How Deep Is Your Love  Good times, ‘no one said it’d be easy’ Chris Martin and Coldplay sing it better in ‘The Professor’, innit perfesser, ‘no one ever said it would be this / hard’, though your cintrepid and humbled narrator of this Take This Thing Back to Baltimore me-moirs and no one ever said it would be this / hard fully cintended to math the soaring landscape passing by him yesterday of a TGIFFriday after and evening, innit G, his walk down me-moir lane led him back to that cinfamous night in the Kingston, walks down me-moir lane leading him back to that cinfamous night in Kingston is all / we gots. Mind, that was / yesterday, today a new day, a Satu®day after, before, during and after it becomes / a Sadu®day night and I Ain;t got Nobody, innit Sam Cooke, and here is your man the cintrepid narrato® after spending this two-hour shift of me-moirs – your man the Melancholy Dane Kierkegard or whatnot (oh please hooker, it’s Knutsen, or somefink and he’s / a Swede, ‘an...

‘Would you like’ the secret service manager for (t)his train aksed it better of (y)our man ©in the humble(d) narrator of (t)his Take This Thing Back to Balti-memoires and Boobie Time before during and after as he boarded the To®onto Express (oh please hooker -id.) from O-Town ‘some extra / room?’, some extra / room is all / we gots. ‘Sure’ your man ©in replied and before during and after videeing some boobie time of his fellow travellers -  a la Harvey Keitel’s Bad Lieutenant in Abel Ferrar’s immor(t)al movie of the same name when LT comes across the double-homicide in Bryant Park and videes admiringly the lifeless chest of the woman driver, ‘it’s’ LT will say of the same in the next scene when aksed / the same, ‘terrible’ – terrible is all / we gots. Course everything in this world – ‘and there is no other world’ Sean Penn Sergeant says it better to a misbehaving Jim Cavallies (oh please hooker -id., it’s JC anyway, this actor played JC on and off his cross in Mel Gibson’s The Pas...

  2016-04-19    ‘Page 1’ the scroll bar reads it better ,’of 1’, page 1 of 1 is all / we gots.   After a life-alte ® ing and possibly career-cinhibiting fat finge ® mistake made earlier this mourning whilst he was e-mailing in si © k / to work – (y)our man © in the humble(d) narrator of (t)his Take This Thing Back to Balti-memoi®es and (f) / (b) / (c) / (s) log neglected to remove the gmail signature hyper-link to the same at the bottom of an otherwise cinnocous e-mail message as we do (‘ill communication’ it read, -id., and for the gmail signature it reads http://tttbtbb.blogspot.ca ‘loaded with enough honesty to ring true but also enough poetic license to defend against literal interpretation’, pas mal, right ?) to (wo)management – (y)our man ©in had to immediately restrict access to the blog, to, well, to no one, because career-cinhibiting. Artists and musicians, expecially the filthy rich and / or successful ones, swear up and down that they make their art...