Confusion over venue. Oh, well, I did not need to sell fifty copies of my works, anyway, heck I might, why I’m gonna, why I oughta, no it is way cool.
It is a zen lesson. BOTTOM LINE - DO NOT GO TO CAFE VIO THIS MONTH LOOKING FOR FLUID DRIVE. Maybe next year.
By the way. I was at a winery yesterday named Zenaida trying to sell my services and my new album Fluid Bouquet. Previously, I had thought zenaida was a twofer, zen aida, Suzuki and Verdi’s opera. But nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo. Zenaida is reallly a kind of mourning dove and it loves to vacation in the Caribbean and caribbean means canibal.
“Well, did you ever? What a swell party this is!”
jack luna moth
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I am not the consistent type. But, while, as Emerson said, “A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds” I opine consistency to save a toe is no hobgoblin at all. Furthermore if the consistency involves a couple journeys daily 7×7 to Outpatient Surgery to hook your double barrelled PIC (Pistol of an Intravenous Catheter) into the Alaris IV pump, and thereby consume six hours a day, and if you have been trained as a systems analyst to identify and study “systems”, and you have as a result of that systems analysis inculcation a desire to observe the human element in systems, well then, you fellow member of the tribe of inconsistents, You may find it not only is NOT a world full of hobgoblins, it is a world full of dedicated angels (male and female) who are on a mission… day after day after day.
Yes, a similarity does exist between Outpatient Surgery nurses and systems analysts. It may appear to be magic. No, it is pure science. It is a win-win. The old lady headed for surgery has a mind full of history. She is longing to tell it all just in case the knife slips.
While the nurse listens as attentively as a bartender knows how to lure tips, dispense judgment, serve the drink of choice, she plants the required questions into the old lady’s tale, collects the absolutely necessary answers, smiles, yes, smiles sincerely because she does hear every word the old lady says, records the info she collected, correctly surmises she is the first person to listen to the old for many a year.
Data collected. heart blessed, surgeon’s and anesthesiologist’s visitors recorded, the nurse finishes the prepping of the old woman and the transport surgical nurses take over and wheel the old lay off to surgery.
Now, talk about consistency! (S)he does this patient after patient, hour after hour, day after day. Hobgoblins, Mr. Emerson? Little minds? I am sorry, sir. Surely you speak not of these. For these are precise, these are pragmatic, these are giant in mind, steady of hand, and bold of heart.
I salute these professionals. While I simultaneously chuckle at the idea of the typical scion of greed who want his insurance company stock to make him rich and a health insurance that will make him whole. These to whom I pay tribute do not spend their day loving or hating the company they are paid by. They have a job to do. They do it well. That smile, by the way jack, by the way, Mr. Emerson, is genuine. Seeing it descend from the vertical her to the horizontal you places you among the truly blessed.
Click on the OSU pages in the header splash for info about and a look at the album, OSU PROSe Tibute and Sampler.
Thanks, OSU
jack luna moth
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I said in this month’s newsletter like note about the Fluid Drive program for November that — if we have time and I can arrive somewhat inte greated graded grated after IV therapy — we would take a moment as we have been doing and play with poetic devices. I suggested we treat the device called zeugma — pronounced zoogma usually but a sharp and erstwhile writer suggested would be more interesting to talk about if it were pronounced zoygma. I was delighted because I have always pronounced it zoygma, never having heard anyone else attempt to pronounce it. I will leave that teaser for you to ponder and see you with a sample poem that illustrates the device right after you click the “more or read the rest” button. Read the rest of this entry »
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The next Fluid Drive event will be 7pm, Thursday November 5
Cafe Vio, 1111 Riverside Drive, Paso Robles, CA
For additional info call Cafe Vio, host Pablo Marlen (805) 237-2722
Fluid Drive will feature this month:
Deborah Tobola and The Poetic Justice Project
and
Elizabeth Buckner aka Lilybea Antonie
See separate posts on this site for full description of featured artists and their work.
Also see the current flyer on the flyer page.
Please feel free to print the flyer and post publicly.
Additionally:
- - An open mike for poets, songwriter/musicians, comedy, and short narrative pieces
- - Games and prizes on art and music
- - No corkage fee
- - Cafe Vio’s kitchen will be open with its splendid menu
- - A product table is available for any artist who wishes to offer their work for sale
- - A five dollar donation is requested
- - No one turned away.
- - If you do not wish to donate to Fluid Drive be sure to ask for Jack for entry should you need to
- - You may apply your five dollar donation to a price reduction on any work offered on the product table by jack luna moth.
jack lunamoth
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Mystery novelist, Sue McGinty, alias Bella Kowalski, will be featured at the Oct 1 episode of Fluid Drive to talk about her work, her book, and sign your copy. Oh, you don’t have a copy. Don’t worry. Sue will have one on Fluid Drive’s product table.
Here is a link to the Fithian Press review of Sue McGinty’s new mystery novel.
Sue McGinty - Murder in Los Lobos
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The next Fluid Drive event will be 7pm, Thursday October 1
Cafe Vio, 1111 Riverside Drive, Paso Robles, CA
For additional info call Cafe Vio, host Pablo Marlen (805) 237-2722
Fluid Drive will feature this month:
Sue McGinty, novelist
Jack Lunamoth, poet, musician, writer
See separate posts on this site for full description of featured artists and their work.
Additionally:
- - An open mike for poets, songwriter/musicians, comedy, and short narrative pieces
- - Games and prizes on art and music
- - No corkage fee
- - Cafe Vio’s kitchen will be open with its splendid menu
- - A product table is available for any artist who wishes to offer their work for sale
- - A five dollar donation is requested
- - No one turned away.
- - If you do not wish to donate to Fluid Drive be sure to ask for Jack for entry should you need to
- - You may apply your five dollar donation to a price reduction on any work offered on the product table by jack luna moth.
jack lunamoth
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W H O: Fluid Drive will present its next program on September 3 at 7pm.
W H A T: SPA - Song, Poetry, Art - Special features and open mike
W H I C H: Two special features this month will be:
Deborah Tobola, Our Lady of the Lamp and Jerry Douglas Smith, Brogue Smithy, both descriptive appellations mine but, descriptive they are.
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Poet Deborah Tobola and members of the Poetic Justice Project will present poetry, music and theater.
A San Luis Obispo native, Deborah has published her poems in dozens of literary magazines and anthologies, most recently Rattle. Among her awards are four Pushcart nominations and two Academy of American Poets prizes.
Deborah is the Artistic Director of the Poetic Justice Project, dedicated to the creation of original theatre that examines crime, punishment and redemption.
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Jerry will be featured at Fluid Drive SPA (Song Poetry Art) on Thursday, September 3rd.
Here is a short bio on Jerry Douglas Smith:
Jerry has lived in San Luis Obispo for almost forty years. Although a storyteller all of his life,
he’s been writing poetry for fifteen years and greatly enjoys this form of expression — minimum words and maximum punch.
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Posted by: admin in Current
press release:
Artist reception and poetry reading, Friday August 14th from 6:30pm to 8:30pm at Café Vio in Paso Robles, for
“Give of Your Soul….without expecting”.
This multi-media art exhibit features acrylic painter Penny Monmonier, assemblage artist Pat Argo, photographers Sandra Lobos and Persia Dubois and poet Norma Cole.
Jack Luna Moth, and other poets, will highlight the evening with poetry readings inspired by the artwork. In addition, olive oil and wine tastings will be provided by Alta Cresta Orchard and Bella Collina Weideman Vineyards.
The exhibit, which is currently hanging at Café Vio, will run through August 28th and then move to EOS Estate Winery.
Café Vio, located at 1111 Riverside Drive, is open weekdays from 7am to 3pm and weekends from 8:30am to 3pm.
For information call 237-2722.
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