Category: daily prompt

My Or-G.A.S.A.N.

Posted on by Pete
Let’s hear it, RDP!

Seems we are all drowning in advice.

Keep in mind a big chunk of that word is vice.

Forest Bathing: A Growing Japanese Trend

While forest bathing might be good for you, is showering your being with nefarious negative ions? Fear not. Negative ions are good for you too. Allegedly.

Craiyon

I have been urban bathing most of my life, except for a decade and a half residing in a more bucolic setting. Now I found that a bit too narrow of a bandwidth experience. In other words, I found my GASAN was not as rich out over yonder as the everything, everywhere, all at once particle flow of urban bathing. So I got my butt back to the city where I belong. Don’t get me wrong. I still enjoy a good negative ion pummeling from time to time in small doses. I get that molecular abuse when visiting the more pastoral settings that my city and my suburbs have on offer.

Mine. Mine. Mine.

So you can keep your negative ions because I much prefer doin’ the ….

My Advice

Take an electron. Leave an electron. But keep your filthy protons to yourself

me

Triangle Club

Posted on by Pete
RDP Friday! Triangle!

Everybody has heard about The Bermuda Triangle. But there are others.

  • Bridgewater Triangle
  • Bennington Triangle
  • Dragon’s Triangle
  • Michigan Triangle
  • Matlock Triangle

Now, submitted for your approval:

The Schurz Triangle

Carl Schurz High School

In the third quarter of the last century I attended high school in this historic edifice. I know I did not appreciate it’s elegance and grandeur in my tender years. After all, back then I knew everything. So I did my four and out quick like a bunny with nary a peek around. The murals I remember. The building a puzzle. But the one section of the building that should not be spoken of was, 🎶bum bum bum🎶 The Triangle.

Much has been written about the original main building. The much ballyhooed wing additions. The murals are exquisite. The 21st Century renovation sublime. Yet through my perfunctory research I found no mention of The Triangle. That’s because even back then there were rules about The Triangle:

  • 1 You Do Not Talk About The Triangle …
  • 2 You Do NOT Talk About The Triangle …

Whispers of Freshmen going in and never coming out. I know for a fact there were rooms in The Triangle that you had to go to the third floor, then down to the first, then up to the second to find. In other words, there was no good way to get there from here. Who added The Triangle? Ancient alien theorists have their theories. But I have Proof!

Attention Triangle Abductees Anonymous. I suspect alien hybrid experimentation with the alien construct D.N.A., because there is an alleged twin school on the south side of Chicago called Bowen High School and …

Voilà!

Bowen High School

No Triangle!

I rest my case.

Top Cat Scat

Posted on by Pete
RDP Tuesday

Itten bitten little kitten
have a herringbone
trombone with righteous timbre
to play a caterwauling concert.
Though it takes a lot to laugh,
It takes a train to cry.
So don’t squash that dwarf,
hand me the pliers.
Not a cat but a textbook
on how to tune a piano,
not tune a fish.
The confuse a cat
railroad trestle catastrophe
has gone big bada boom
and the Chattanooga choo choo
will never chuga chug again
Now that the pump don’t work
cause the vandals stole the handle
So look out kitty in
the cats in the cradle
with the silver spoon
All watched over
by machines of loving grace
perched above us
in the catbird seat
reading up on foliables
for feline domesticus
as the textbooks say
with a cornucopia
of tuneziz that croonziz
and phrases that payziz
that can haziz chezzburgerziz