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    When I was a boy at family picnics while moms were making the fixing the boys would to to the car sit at the steering wheel, punch radio buttons, and go in imagination to space. The mnemonic master: Flash Gordon - and his world with Zharkov, Dale, Prince Berrin. Yes, one time we end up in a '30s Hollywood serial. Another time we end up in an Italian futurist artist's atelier. Yet another time in a '60s Lockheed skunkwork's Airstream.

  Flash, Dale, Aura and Thun escape from the underwater city, but are are captured by King Vultan and the Hawkmen. Dr. Zarkov befriends Prince Barin, and they race to the rescue! The girl in my garden has grey fractious hair Silver radiation signaling.  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Uneven world Uneven the distribution of pork Uneven the path of dogfood Uneven the rebirth of commerce Uneven the availability of vaccines.                          -Nov 26 2021 ___ the magenta purple dawning sky ahead - it lights the foggy green salt marsh and its pools as the new england corridor train grunt-grouches east at sunrise - on connecticut shores a' dewing as the train crew talks about geography - and drinks morning black coffee. - 2010 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Sweet Sunny South Song I dreamed I was ported in a teletime stream to the sweet sunny south i did ride where toxic ill will  spreads like a swill and the snakes dont bother to hi...

 In 2020 exponential growth of a virus met exponential growth of social networking. The communal human brain  generally failed to keep up with the flow of information and disinformation. Voice of reason https://t.co/6vGthZuHQx pic.twitter.com/cCN0cam1cv — Jack Vaughan (@JackIVaughan) November 21, 2021

The Red Smith Stakes at 1.5M on the turf for 2021 finds a brisk, sunny fall day at Acqueduct.  Chad Brown's incredible statistic for layoffs, on turfs, in stakes make Serve the King an instant favorite (3-1 ML) A horse with possibilities that has some excuses for recent median runs is Correlli (at 12-1 ML). Someone I see as an outsider (5-1 ML), but in fact a solid second choice at post time is Clement's Soldier Rising. Channel Cat (4-1 ML) by English Channel has had a few long campaigns but is a board hitter or more at this distance. Johnny V on Channel Cat takes to the front as expected, without much pressure, leads the first quarter at a moderate 24 and 4/5ths, followed by Price Talk and Tide of the Sea... in the middle ranks are Serve the King ridden by Irad Ortiz, Value Engineering ridden by Dylan Davis and others. And trailers were Manny Franco on Corelli and Jose Ortiz on Soldier Rising. The half was 50 sec at which point Castelano on Shamrocket made a brief run at the f...

Christ on something like a chariot arriving in a mosaic in a mausoleum near St Peters  a threat to the Sun King du Jour - He held triumph over death in an orb in his left hand.  Life after death was a theme of early Christian art - found in what is now Italy.  But Old Testament stories appear too.  Shepherds show up, as they do in bucolic nostalgia paintings of the pagans whose kids went to the same schools and played on the same soccer teams.  Finally, a teaching Christ emerges not much distinguished from his followers save a Chi-Rho monogram.  The Eastern Provinces of the Empire show a divergent exposition. Byzantine art comes later. And it represents a totality of experience and effect that has few objective correlatives in other stations in the history of art and culture. Still, it introduces the dubious notion of secret knowledge - of art for the adept. Good for Yeats, T.S. Elliot - but mostly bleccch. Read the rest of the story.

 

This was a great bunch of horses - I named our publishing arm after the winner - that is, Proud Truth. Immortal!