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Plain, old-fashioned articles of modern design….
Ffolkes, Malaise. An innocuous word, wouldn’t you say? Almost sounds like one of those drinks you get on a cruise ship, in a colorful plastic cup with a bamboo umbrella sticking up from the top….....
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Fast Pan Soft Toe Shoe Affairs….
Ffolkes, Legal requirements are such that I must inform you that today’s Pearl may exceed the normal limits on acceptable behavior for blogs whose content consists primarily of personal observations...
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For lovers of panache, a film noir…
Ffolkes, As I walked to answer the knock at the door, I wondered who could be disturbing the usual quiet of my retreat; my granny unit house isn’t generally reachable from the street by the casual...
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Negotiating terns with aplomb….
Ffolkes, Round and round and round it goes…. and what we find here we’ll never know. Thankfully, too…. It goes to show that one can never tell just exactly what the universe might be up to when we...
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Dithering on the Wine…..
Ffolkes, Circumstances have conspired against me today, and will have an effect on this Pearl, so I’m notifying y’all ahead of time to tread carefully. I’m putting this together in hurry, and won’t...
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Abstinence of compassion is considered immoral….
Ffolkes, Wasted moments come back to haunt, rattling chains and screaming demons; unrequited dreams of love moan in despair. Yet time passes, and all becomes dust in the end. No pain, no gain, but, the...
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Small piles of duvets sat in a corner…..
Ffolkes, Coffee is on the way, so I won’t have to shoot anybody before it is ready. Or even because it isn’t ready…. I hate cleaning up dead bodies before breakfast…. So tacky….. Not that I’ve ever had...
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If only zucchini was more charitable…..
Ffolkes, In today’s world, it can become hard to maintain a positive outlook, especially about the future. The Beloved Ruling Class is so intransigent, and so self-centered, I can see little hope that...
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Artichoke juice is an efficient lubricant….
Ffolkes, Normally, streams of accidental tourists would be barging through the parlor, trying to see the latest version of Alice’s knickers, but the piano tuner forgot to shut down the coverlets, which...
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Safely insane amid the noise and tedium…..
Ffolkes, Unbeknownst to the rest of us, the warranty on this state of reality has expired, and I don’t think there will be any renewal, not for us, and not for the dreams we once held. Sad, but true….....
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Sweet, savory, sour, AND bitter….. nice choice…
Ffolkes, Honestly, I didn’t mean to wake up like this….. all crotchety, grumpy, and annoyed. But, then, I didn’t plan to wake up at 0430, with a ripping headache right in the middle of my forehead,...
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Building euphemisms on a budget….
Ffolkes, Powerful images often parade through my mind in the early morning, images I try to set down into words. I’m not always as successful at it as I’d like to be, but, occasionally, I get it right....
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The full gamut, from ho to hum….
Ffolkes, Yesterday, I dropped out…. I’ve been considering this for some time, especially so since the revelations by Mr. Snowden that proved the government hasn’t merely been spying on terrorists, but...
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He needs more time, or it won’t fly….
Ffolkes, One might surmise, given the relatively advanced age I’ve reached today, I might just be able to show a degree or two of restraint, and keep from ranting first thing. On the other hand, I find...
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Crafty solutions work well for hybrids….
Ffolkes, There…. now I’ve got time galore to get this going, and/or done…. It isn’t often I re-blog another writer’s work, but one of the blogs I follow had a great post, that fit so well into what I...
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Salting hummus makes it nearly edible….
SPOILER: The following introductory section contains an unusually powerful potential to affect the reader soporifically, without warning; should you find yourself yawning, or your eyelids becoming...
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Worldwide Celebration Held to Honor History’s Greatest Scam….
Ffolkes, A huge CRACK! boomed outside the cheap apartment door, just as a neat, round hole appeared in that door, as well as in the forehead of the small, weaselly-looking excuse for a human who sat,...
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Distracted by a classic diversion…. cinnamon-glazed potato cakes….
Ffolkes, Soft, puffy, pristine white clouds scudded lazily across the morning sky, looking like nothing so much as huge balls of cotton, tumbling through the blue vastness, dazzling in the bright sun....
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We have uncoded messages for the Betelgeuse delegation….
Ffolkes, I don’t care what anyone else says, I like this intro, so, here ’tis again….. from 12/11/2011: Ffolkes, So, I was walking down the street the other day, quietly minding my own, when I came to...
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Kindly confine the excess salivation to the spittoon…..
Ffolkes, “Brevis esse laboro, obscurus fio.” (It is when I struggle to be brief that I become obscure.) ~~ Horace ~~ from Ars Poetica The above picture is from NASA, the US Space agency; it’s a...
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