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december 2011 gregfallis com skip to primary content skip to secondary content gregfallis com it s this or get a real job search main menu home photography intro to the series faux life traffic signals larking about in alleys sunday salon about me monthly archives december 2011 thinking of this and that on st stephen s day posted on december 26 2011 by greg reply today is st stephen s day the 26th of december all i know about stephen is that he was stoned to death for blasphemy which seems an unlikely entry on the résumé for a saint i m sure at one point i must have known who did the stoning and what the blasphemy was but it all escapes me now it couldn t have been very spectacular blaspheming though if they turned the day after christmas into his feast day st stephen s day is the day on which the events described in the christmas carol about good king wenceslas took place you know the carol wenceslas sees a poor man out in the snow gathering winter fuel he has a page gather some meat some wine and some pine logs why waste good hardwoods on a peasant and forth they went together to make sure the peasant didn t go to bed hungry that night i ve no evidence to support this but i d bet my paycheck if i had a paycheck that the page carried the food items and the peasant ended up toting the pine logs wenceslas might have carried the corkscrew it wasn t just a coincidence by the way that this happened on the feast of stephen assuming of course the carol is based on an actual event it s not as if there s anybody out there fact checking christmas carols christmas was the day set aside for exchanging gifts with equals stephen s day was for giving gifts to people who were below your social station it s the original re gifting day although he may have been good wenceslas was never really a king he was merely the duke of bohemia which isn t a bad gig in itself but it s hardly in the same league as king it wasn t until after he died that otto the holy roman emperor granted wenceslas the honorary title of rex justus a righteous king like st stephen duke wenceslas was also a martyr he was murdered by his brother boleslav as he returned home from church one day anybody who s ever had an older brother especially who can do no wrong will understand the impulse i suppose it could be said wenceslas had the last laugh after all nobody ever wrote a carol about good king boleslav in fact he is known in history as boreslav the cruel i suppose murdering your brother is something of a disqualification when it comes to being selected as a subject for a christmas carol still my guess is that given a choice wenceslas would have preferred spending a few more years leading his page around bohemia delivering foodstuffs to random peasants over having grubby school kids singing about him down the centuries during the holiday season pretty good carol though posted in you learn something new leave a reply still talking posted on december 21 2011 by greg reply it was 34 degrees fahrenheit when i gave into the fool notion to take a walk yesterday i decided to visit the chunk of curbing it s been over a year since i first came across it a small displaced bit of asphalt curbing around which somebody had tied a length of red pvc wire fashioned into a sort of carrying handle the bit of curbing had been toted a short distance from its original location though i ve no idea why anybody would do such a thing it made absolutely no sense at all that of course was its appeal after discovering it i returned periodically to the site an old deteriorating parking lot that once surrounded a supermarket but now surrounds the grassy field where the supermarket used to be to look at and ponder the meaning of the chunk of curbing and the wire it attracted attention from other folks as well i never saw them but the chunk of curbing was moved on at least one occasion since i tend to over think almost everything apart from my behavior i developed the conceit that i was engaged in a sort of ongoing conversation with the chunk of curbing i looked forward to seeing it which i realize sounds completely unhinged but there it is i d developed a peculiar fondness for a bit of molded asphalt on my last visit back in october i noticed somebody had tried to move it again and the red pvc wire had completely snapped the chunk of curbing and the red pvc wire were no longer connected i fully expected the next i visited the lot the wind would have swept the pvc wire away the conversation seemed to be over but i was wrong as you can see the red pvc wire is still there totally divorced from the chunk of curbing but it s still there i ve no idea why we ve had serious wind storms storms powerful enough to knock down trees and yet there it is splayed out slightly differently than before but in what appears to be the exact same spot the original chunk of curbing along with a companion chunk that appeared some months ago seem to have moved again which is entirely inexplicable and illogical but against all expectations the wire and the curbing are still there i find that reassuring i guess the conversation isn t over yet i ll visit again in a few weeks and see what i can see posted in inexplicable shit photography stuff i like a lot leave a reply i got your sign of weakness right here posted on december 20 2011 by greg 5 i declare living in iowa during primary season is a trial it seems i can t go half an hour without hearing rick perry s smug voice proclaiming some liberals say faith is a sign of weakness you know what s a sign of weakness making shit up then suggesting you re bold for standing up against a claim nobody made that s a sign of weakness it s also a sign of staggering douche baggery rick perry concludes that particular advert by saying i m not ashamed to talk about my faith dude maybe you should be on account of i think you must have skipped that chunk of the bible that goes for i was an hungred and ye gave me meat i was thirsty and ye gave me drink i was a stranger and ye took me in naked and ye clothed me i was sick and ye visited me i was in prison and ye came unto me it doesn t read i was in prison and ye came unto me and gave me a lethal injection i m not a christian and i m a tad uncomfortable judging another person s christianity but i m completely comfortable judging somebody s hypocrisy and douche baggery and no amount of smirking proclamations of faith can cover up rick perry s hypocrisy and douche baggery posted in politics stuff that pisses me off 5 replies looking at puddles posted on december 2 2011 by greg 2 yesterday was one of those cold windy wet altogether miserable days it snowed and the snow turned to sleet and the sleet turned to rain and the wind blew hard enough in some of the narrow streets that at times the snow sleet rain was actually flew upwards so i went for a walk partly because it was thursday and i belong to a group of folks who traditionally walk on thursdays but i d have gone for a walk regardless of the day because the snow sleet rain layered enough wetness on the streets and sidewalks to make them reflective even better we ve reached that time of year when it starts getting dark early which is a thing i both love and hate it casts a gloomy pall over the world despite having watched every episode of buffy the vampire slayer most of them more than once i m not generally a fan of the dark and the foreboding and the brooding but it s a condition that makes for great visuals there s a tipping point of course especially when it comes to puddles like most folks who ve picked up a camera i m intrigued by puddles but a puddle that s too big lacks mystery it just becomes a reflective surface but a puddle that s patchy that s barely there that s unpredictably disrupted by the contours of the surface that s the puddle for me that s a puddle with character that s a puddle that will get me outside despite the snow sleet rain and despite the wind and despite all rational thought some day when all my other projects are finished and i m casting around for something to do i ll develop a taxonomy of puddles a systematic classification of puddles based on the similarities and dissimilarities of their morphological features but no of course i ll never do that i don t really want to think systematically about puddles i just want to look at them i just want to walk around in the gloomy half light of early evening freezing my aging ass off in the snow sleet rain and look at puddles posted in photography stuff i like a lot 2 replies discovered follow gregfallis com on wordpress com recent posts may in monochrome rained out in which i look at an old photo part 9 is he making this up as he goes along obiviously iran 1 america 0 categories categories select category another mass shooting art stuff asshole culture awful people book reviews burn the patriarchy chores errands comrade trump confessional crap convo with knur gary corrupt motherfuckers covid19 pandemic current 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