PHOTOSHOP 3/29/20

Carrie Potter Devening

Miss Most Photogenic

INTRUDER

....in desperate times, desperate people

do desperate things

There are many people who were desperate before the pandemic.  They are more desperate than ever.

The longer this lasts the worse it will get.

BEWARE....!!

Early last week in the afternoon I was sitting by the window when suddenly there was a loud banging on the door.  That was red flag #1.  They weren't knocking.  They were banging.

Who is it?  Someone sed. it's me.  I just got out of jail.  I got cigarettes and candy. Open the door.

Three red flags in a row.  Failure to identify, a bribe and a command.

I went to the door and put the chain on.  Then again asked him to identify yourself.  Again he did not identify himself and repeated the bribe and the command and added he was looking for John.

No John here.  If you don't leave I'll call security.  He banged some more.  I peeked out the peep hole but all I could see was a silhouette.

I went and sat down and  called the guard.  He didn't answer.  I found out later I had the wrong number.  Not knowing the local police # I dialed 911.  The operator tried to convince me it was the security guard.  When I convinced him it was not he sent the police.

After another ten mins. the intruder left.  I get a call from the lobby.  It's the intruder who is looking for a 

John Trovoto.

Nobody here by that name, the police are coming, you should leave.  He thanked me for my help and hung up.

The police show up.  I crack the door.  I'm in self quarantine so don't come in.  They had masks on and stood six feet from the door.  

I told them what happened and the guard should have it on video, they left.

The next day I told the office.  When I mentioned the name the response was they might have known the person.  It was determined that the person was not from the building and probably had the wrong apt.

IT COULD EASILY GONE THE OTHER WAY.

If I had gone for the bait and obeyed the command there would be no way I could keep them out.  Once in they could take food, money and injure me.

BEWARE...!!!

Some people view old folks as easy targets.

KNOW WHO YOU LET IN

OLD AGE

BABBA RAM DASS

Died recently at 88

I remember him saying;

Dying is a process of 

letting go.

First your hair

Then your

seeing

your

teeth

and

bowls

ready 

or

not

MORE/LESS

SUMMER PONY

CORONA VIRUS

In certain parts of Tibet monks live alone like hermits in huts and caves as a way of gaining enlightenment.

Of course nobody can live in a cave by themselves,  They need food, water and heat.  They depend on a monk in the village below who once a month re-supplies the hermit.

He must carry supplies on a mule and walk for a day before camping at the foot of the mountain over nite and in the morning climb for most of the day, with a pack mule up ward.

The supply list for the trip was as follows;

A large bundle of dried cow dung for heat.

A fifty pound sack of rice.  There was a spring nearby.

A bag of dried onions, tea, two bottles of night time cold medicine, two roles of toilet paper, two qts of Japanese beer, some chocolate, a small amount of marijuana ......and

....a face mask, rubber gloves and  a large, plastic container of....hand sanitizer.

The monk told him of the pandemic and he should take precautions.  First self isolate.  The hermit chuckled.  Always use a hand sanitizer, wash your hands for twenty seconds at least in hot soapy water. Don't touch your face.

 Bump elbows and cough into your elbow. Minimize contact with strangers like me.

The hermit didn't want a plastic container in his cave.  Said it was pollution.  The monk persisted.  The hermit gave in.

They had a meal, shared a beer and went to sleep.

In the morning the monk left.  He died of the virus within three days of returning home.

A week later the hermit died alone in his cave.  Because of social stress it was ten years before he was discovered.

He was a skeleton with clothes on underneath a blanket.  Near by were two empty beer bottles, an empty cold medicine bottle and a small amount of marijuana and a barely used large plastic bottle of hand sanitizer.

MISC ART

RANDOM STUFF 3/15/30

2ND LOOK

ALF ALERT 23

This is an official announcement

Elevevating

LISA PALANDRANO

To the position of

MOTHER SUPERIOR

Of the

Arts Liberation Front

So say I, Capt Flash

PHOTOSHOP

RANDOM STUFF 3/7/2020

SIMON GAD

......was a artist model I used years ago.

She claims to be self taught

Here's one of her collages that you can snap up for a measly two grand.

Here is a more recent piece 7-16-20

This is the mush school of art, designed to cover lack of talent.  Just because you can push paint around a canvas doesn't mean your an artist.  But if you got a lot of ass kissing friends you can delude yourself for a long time LOL