Revenge: Echoes of Vengeance!

Vengeance!

Never let the sun go down on your anger -- get revenge first!

Devil's Advocate

Devil's Tower

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Give the Devil his due, for he is persistent! He's been trying to squeeze this hard, dry one out for several million years now . . .

From Sun-Ae's Birdland

Grey Thrush
Sun-Ae Hwang

Sun-Ae is filling a notebook with these sketches, and they look even better seen 'physically' than electronically.

A Little Bit Cuckoo

Little Cuckoo

Sun-Ae Hwang

While I was in the hospital last week, my family back in the Ozarks was trying to find out where I was and what was wrong with me, and I contacted them as soon as I was able:

I am finally well enough to assure all of you that I am still among the living.

I was very sick, and am still recuperating, but I was nowhere near death.

The misunderstanding arose from Sun-Ae's remark that she couldn't wake me up (or that I couldn't wake up, or that they couldn't wake me up, or something along those lines).

She said to me later that I seemed to lack the border between sleeping and being awake - and that I seemed to be in a state of dreaming while awake.

At the same time, I was hyper-alert and very articulate. Sun-Ae couldn't get me to stop talking.

I recall with clarity from the other side what was happening. I felt urgently that I needed to explain myself clearly about everything.

Sun-Ae took the opportunity to ask a couple of questions. "Do you love your wife?" Without hesitation, I said, "Of course!" So, she posed a second question: "Is your wife kind to you?" At that, I hesitated, then said, "Usually."

Anyway, we finally figured out that some medicines were interacting - along with some high fever - to render me delusional.

I'm glad that's past - trying to articulate all of the world's ills is tiring!

And no doubt tiresome to those who have to listen . . .

Another Bird For All To See

Northern Lapwing

My blog looks to be growing ever more fully engulfed by my wife's newly discovered realm of Birdland, which has powerful hegemonic forces toward expansion, more even than those expansive forces explored earlier by Hitchcock in his portion of that feathered paradise . . .

Newly Coined Word?

Kate Winslet

My hard copy of Korea Herald for Wednesday the eleventh of October (2017) has Kate Winslet stating, with respect to the recent Harvey Weinstein scandals:

"I had hoped that these kinds of stories were just made up rumors, maybe we have all been naeurove."

Naeurove? What kind of word is that? Is it even a word? Does it belong to the set of all words having no plausible meaning? I figure this is some sort of computer glitch, but what would the original word be? Naïve?

Gone, and Fast Forgotten

I left my throne totally unoccupied these past four days and . . . nobody noticed:

Oh, wrong throne. That's the throne of the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople. I must have mislaid my own.

I left under duress. I was suddenly stricken by a flu virus that hit me with the force of something like the walking pneumonia, boogie-woogie flu. The doctor immediately (Tuesday) put me in the hospital, where I stayed until today (Friday).

This pneumonia could flare up again if I don't get more sleep, so I'll to bed, to bed . . .

A Right Ruddy Kingfisher

Ruddy Kingfisher

Sun-Ae Hwang

Here I am again, relying on my wife for something blogworthy, so you get another bird, indeed another kingfisher. Must be terrible to be named "Ruddy" in England, though! Like a boy named "Sue" in that Johnny Cash song.

"Hey, Ruddy!"

"Shut up."

And so the exchange would go, back and forth, until the argument became a fight. Ruddy always won.

Still Another Bird

Blue Rock Thrush

Sun-Ae Hwang

Good thing that I have Sun-Ae as my wife, because if for some reason I cannot prepare a blog entry, I can always borrow one of her birds and put it on display for the world to see. My excuse this time? I've been under the weather. I still feel horrible. The flu bug has been bugging me every day since early last week, getting worse and worse. At the moment, I feel okay. But this flu is tricky, such that  every time I think it's weakening, it returns twofold.

Bodaciously Bold Bird

Kingfisher

Another Sun-Ae Production

As my friends know, I've been hit with the flu and been mostly suffering in bed and therefore been unable to meet obligations. (Hmm . . . I see that "been" is a four-letter word.) Anyway, here's yet another of my wife's birds:

The Kingfisher

Sun-Ae Hwang

This bird can dive underwater to catch its prey, and I'm pretty sure that it has no webbed feet, so it must be using its wings to swim, though I've not seen it doing so.

Does anyone know for sure?