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A monumental week it was, then yesterday …

Winthrop Frank, Jerome, and I got in one three-person Full Olympic Circle on Wednesday morning.

the list looked like this:

pretty nice, right?

Then Frank and I walked to Beachmont via the Winthrop Greenway 2000. A day at Pure, then I participated in my now-annual public talk series with the secret danse society.  

After returning home 36 hours later, the next morning Brother Jerome and I got another circle in, it looked like this:

pretty nice, right?

Then he and I walked to Beachmont via the Winthrop Greenway 2000:

… and more, so much more …

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Just a few days remain until Black Sabbath Monday XIV.  This years subscription is at an all time low.  There’s a good chance I wont be seeing The Old Kings Highway this year while basking in the Glory of Black Sabbath.  2013 did allow for lots of extra Sabbath Good Times so perhaps this is cosmically correct.  BSMXIV will happen, but how it manifests will be possibly new and different and maybe even The Way …

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… with a grand Circle Game.  On Monday Brother Jerome and I spin four Circles, or 2 Hellequin Circles in the 2-person Standard Olympic Style.

Here’s the list:

pretty nice, right?

Here are some of the images of the day including Calliope Blue, the Dining Room, TNGHbtS, and an Ice Cube:

The Good Times

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Introducing Calliope Blue, The Blue Cat:

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Yesterday we  had a couple rounds of The Circle Game dedicated in the memory of Yukio.  Nothing overt, but a lot of Feeling.  

Tracks 1 – 8 were The Host and Winthrop Frank in a Standard Olympic Circle.  Songs 9 – 10 were on call mingling with track 10 played twice for Visitor Blim’s transition into the Circle. Tracks 11 – 22 were a Standard 3 person Full Olympic.

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… and yes, The Host did play Carouselambra as a Danse Round.

A Curry with fowl filet, mushrooms, and eggplant was served to the music of Live Black Sabbath via youtube.

Thank you all for the kind vibrations.

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Yukio Goodcat

2000 – 2014

May he ascend the Great Cat Tree in Paradise, Now Today.

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Winter Concludes at 1257hrs.

Vernal Equinox

Spring Begins.

Spring is the weirdest of the Seasons.  

It’s also the anniversary of the current Incarnation of Brother Jerome.

I wish I had more time to write.

Books could be written, but it’s Thursday and I have to catch the 0530hr bus.

Many Good Vibrations in the Direction of Brother of the Path and Keeper of Things Holy Now Today:

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… and counting until 

Black Sabbath Monday XIV

What’s it gonna be?

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After a three year hiatus of “The Quarterly Chess Society”, last night saw the advent of the new “Saturday Night Chess Society”.

It was fn excellent.

We need to thank George for getting the ball rolling again.  Hopefully it sha’n’t be another 3 years til we convene again.  Perhaps July …

Doors were at 1900hrs.  The participants were:

The Host

MPM

Bob Nicoll

Monsieur Mechanic (Bob Berry)

George Kneeland

Michael F Buckley

As ever, better documentation should have happened, but, we have these photographs as proof of the Good Times:

The original “Friday Night Chess Society” began in 1996 and met one Friday a month until July 26th 2002.

The “Monday Night Chess Society” was formed on April 28th 2003 and ceased to exist after June 16th 2003.  

Both Society’s convened at Doug’s.  There was one expedition to Bob Nicoll’s place in Arlington sometime in the late 20th Century.

“The Quarterly Chess Society” was formed on September 7th 2008 and met at The New Great Hall by the Sea. The final meet was on March 6th 2011.

So begins the next chapter, a new society, “The Saturday Night Chess Society”.

Join Us.

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As many of you know by now, my birthday is in November.  This year OPETH have elected to stage a concert in Amsterdam on the same day.  This means there is now an Official Event in the works.

Birthday Expedition IV: The Odyssey to See Opeth

Here is the link for a rough outline:

CLICK HERE

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In other news, Winthrop Frank and I celebrated “fat tuesday” by going to Fuddruckers to take on the 3lb burger challenge.  One has an hour to eat this “sandwich” and fries.  If accomplished one gets a tee shirt and respect.

We left with neither.  But kept our dignity.

Here’s to Lent 2014!

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