Tuesday, June 17, 2014

Midnight Afternoon In the Garden of Good and Evil*

This looks bad...


I think it's a stand-off, for the moment.

*With apologies to John Berendt.  He wrote a damned good... no, great... book. 

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  1. LOL. I've been meaning to comment that your originals seem to be fading a bit. Time to get out the spray can. Guess there are not enough brine shrimp in the "water flats" of Portales' streets after a rain to maintain their color, eh? :)

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    1. Yeah, shrimp are in SERIOUSLY short supply in the 17th Street Canal and Intra-City Waterway. I also noticed that our weather has been pretty harsh on the old resident flamingos, which is to say there's serious body cancer in the form of gaping holes in their flanks (unseen here, by design). They MIGHT be heading off to Happier Hunting Grounds in the very near future.

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  2. I think you could go as far as calling that a New Mexican standoff.

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  3. Those pinkos don't stand a chance.

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  4. Damn but those new flamingos are mean-looking.

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  5. Several possibly comic retorts present themselves but with the choking PC atmosphere nowadays, I realize all of them would probably be considered racist. Pretty soon I think I won't be talking at all.
    I very much agree about the book; it's a great one. Liked the movie too.

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  6. @ Skip: You don't have ANY ideer about how much I agonized over using that phrase. I'm getting too damned PC for my own good.

    @ Curtis: Heh. Those pinkos are walking wounded, too.

    @ Chris: They're DEBBIL flamingos. At least that's the way they were advertised.

    @ Dan: I hear ya about the PC thing, see above.

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  7. Those black flamingoes sure do look threatening. I bet the pink ones would cross to the other side of the street, if they could. . .

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    1. So... They cross the road. Then we'd have yet another existential question to ponder.

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