2018.01.08 07:00 - The Sky Falling Issue

The Guardian for this meeting was Eden Haiku. The comments are by Eden Haiku.

Riddle, Eden and Adams in 2018

Family relaxing in SF

Eden Haiku: Hi gentleman!
Riddle Sideways: hello Eden, it has been so long
Eden Haiku: You look so sharp in your winter clothes!
Eden Haiku: Yes, I have missed you. How are you doing?
Riddle Sideways: ㋡ ha respectful greeting, to one not earned
Riddle Sideways: ha, had no warm cloths to sit in snow areas
Riddle Sideways: well, the ugly holiday sweater
Riddle Sideways: both holidays were on your Mondays this year
Riddle Sideways: so missed your sessions
Eden Haiku: reminds me of the time when my brother and his girlfriend were wearing only white: sweaters and pants and boots and coats...
Riddle Sideways: blending into the snow
Eden Haiku: She was a weird girlfriend :)
Riddle Sideways: laughs
Eden Haiku: How were your holidays Riddle?
Riddle Sideways: so good
Eden Haiku: Nice to hear :)
Riddle Sideways: family relaxing in S.F.
Riddle Sideways: in-laws rented a very nice airbnb and then could not come
Riddle Sideways: we ended up with it
Eden Haiku: Museums involved into the mix?
Riddle Sideways: played our favorite games, cooked, ate, drank
Riddle Sideways: slept
Riddle Sideways: then museums
Eden Haiku: Sounds wonderful!
Riddle Sideways: relaxing and exciting
Eden Haiku: SF is such a lovely city!

Rodin and Klimt

Riddle Sideways: Legion of Honor had a great show... looking
Riddle Sideways: ah: https://legionofhonor.famsf.org/exhibitions/klimt-rodin-artistic-encounter
Riddle Sideways: knew much of Rodin, but not so much on Klimt
Eden Haiku: Thanks. Klimt and Rodin, unusual :)
Riddle Sideways: did not know they were friends, collaborators
Riddle Sideways: helllllllooooooo, Adams
Riddle Sideways: very elegant
Eden Haiku: Oh, I didn't either.
Adams Rubble: Good morning Eden and Riddle :)
Eden Haiku: Hello gorgeous Adams!
Eden Haiku: Riddle was telling me about his stay in SF with family over the holidays.
Adams Rubble: how is everyone dealing with the artic weather?
Riddle Sideways: what is the occasion for the outfit?
Adams Rubble: ohhh, SF
Eden Haiku: And about an exhibit of Klimt and Rodin.
Riddle Sideways: weather, golden globes, NY times, Monday
Adams Rubble: nice
Riddle Sideways: was saying that did not know they knew each other, much less did work together
Eden Haiku: Still very cold outside but my cold is over yeah!!!
Riddle Sideways: yeah!!!!
Adams Rubble: glad you are feeling better eden :)
Riddle Sideways: the "thinker" was outside the Legion as the people entered
Riddle Sideways: fav statue
Adams Rubble: apparently they met only once
Riddle Sideways: remembering 'Doby Gillis'

--BELL--

Golden Globes and the weather

Eden Haiku: Watched the Golden Globes yesterday night
Riddle Sideways: read the stories of the Golden Globes last night
Eden Haiku: All the actresses were wearing black to make a statement about the harassments and it was sooo beautiful. And inspiring!
Riddle Sideways: (except 2)
Adams Rubble: saw headlines of the golden globes this morning
Riddle Sideways: most men in Black too
Eden Haiku: The Foreign Press lady was in orange yes, and who else?
Riddle Sideways: but, men wear black anyway
Riddle Sideways: forget
Eden Haiku: Will have to read the Hollywood Reporter :)
Riddle Sideways: and many women brought guesses that are famous for their works against
Eden Haiku: Natalie Portman adding: all male directors before they read the list :)
Eden Haiku: Ah yes, the activist women!
Riddle Sideways: yes, the (wonderful) white males committee did not nominate any women director

Eden Haiku:And Oprah delivered a remarkable speech!
Riddle Sideways: then scanning for all the people of color there
Riddle Sideways: were only the few guests brought in
Eden Haiku: Just thinking these women actors (I think they prefer being called actors than actresses) are paid much less than their counterparts...
Riddle Sideways: Yes
Eden Haiku: So most of the black people were brought as guests?
Riddle Sideways: and Oprah's speech
Riddle Sideways: is worth a read
Riddle Sideways: excuse being so tall on this soapbox
Eden Haiku: The solidarity of the women was obvious. No soapbox Riddle....
Eden Haiku: It's ok:)
Riddle Sideways: asking self stupid questions about the 99% getting shafted
Riddle Sideways: 50.8% of populate not getting the same pay
Eden Haiku: You mean, the rest of us?
Riddle Sideways: yes
Eden Haiku: Yes, very true....
Riddle Sideways: and the wonderful new tax reform
Eden Haiku: Back to the real world :)
Riddle Sideways: which one?
Eden Haiku: The warring one
Riddle Sideways: sorry, you took the evening off to enjoy Hollywood
Eden Haiku: The one with California fires in December and arctic temperatures all over the continent...
Riddle Sideways: good news: it rained overnight here
Eden Haiku: Don't be sorry Riddle. It's Monday morning, we have to face the music...
Riddle Sideways:did not go to Ventura for new years
Riddle Sideways: darn, music facings
Eden Haiku: Ah yes, too risky?
Eden Haiku: Ventura I mean
Eden Haiku: How cold is it where you live Adams?
Eden Haiku: Here it's a little bit less harsh. Still cold and snowing though.
Adams Rubble: we had two cold weeks but it is warming up to almost freezing today

--BELL--

Riddle Sideways: ㋡
Adams Rubble: but getting freezing rain and stuff for rush hour
Riddle Sideways:heat spell
Eden Haiku: Ah!
Eden Haiku: Freezing rain is the worst...
Adams Rubble: the ground is very cold
Eden Haiku: Icy roads
Adams Rubble: and sidewalks
Eden Haiku: Yes!
Riddle Sideways: careful riding your bike
Riddle Sideways: or walking
Riddle Sideways: or even going out
Adams Rubble: long walk this morning :)
Riddle Sideways: can get about 8K steps just staying inside ㋡
Eden Haiku: Civil Security recommends having survival kits ready in case of natural catastrophies. I have been meaning to assemble one for months...
Eden Haiku: My walks dwindle down to about 4000 steps after I hurt my knee :)
Eden Haiku: But now it's recovered so no excuse...
Adams Rubble still trying to come to grips with Klimt, Rodin and Dobie Gillis
Riddle Sideways: ouch, did not hear about your knee
Adams Rubble: ohhh, sorry about your knee Eden
Riddle Sideways: ha, yes Adams

A favorite Klimt

Riddle Sideways:was trying to find the favorite Klimt
Adams Rubble: the kiss?
Riddle Sideways: it was huge and and and and
Eden Haiku: Fell down on icy trail in the park. On both knees. But I'm fine now. Took a good care of it. Had laser treatments and a lot of rest.
Riddle Sideways: had the greatest back story
Adams Rubble: good you are recovering
Eden Haiku: Back story of the kiss?
Eden Haiku: Would love to hear :)
Riddle Sideways: sorry. not the kiss
Adams Rubble: I started to ride a bike because to strengthen my knees
Riddle Sideways: well, that is great too
Eden Haiku: Still riding a bike during winter Adams?
Eden Haiku: That’s quite brave!
Riddle Sideways: fitbit vibrates each hour to alert more stair climbing now
Eden Haiku: My favorite Klimt is called Plenitude. Looks like the kiss a lot.
Riddle Sideways: on icy paths and roads? Oh! dear!
Riddle Sideways: this was one of 5 or 7 ? huge wall hangings
Riddle Sideways: only photos exist now
Riddle Sideways: was in a world exhibition
Riddle Sideways: later, was taken by the Germans
Eden Haiku: Sad...
Riddle Sideways: put in some warehouse
Riddle Sideways: that burned
Riddle Sideways: and some other strange back story stuff
Eden Haiku: Only photos now, how sad...
Adams Rubble: where had it been?
Riddle Sideways:ah found! "Philosophy"
Riddle Sideways: https://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/de/Philosophy-final-state-1907.jpg&imgrefurl=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klimt_University_of_Vienna_Ceiling_Paintings&h=1957&w=1335&tbnid=Jj94Ztc43AVUZM:&tbnh=160&tbnw=108&usg=__V2tKW8B94Iz84_QETyF6aCPi-Q4%3D&vet=10ahUKEwjyqaGN2sjYAhXH3YMKHV2cAqQQ9QEISTAA..i&docid=jjAFmiHsQtPplM&client=firefox-b-1&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjyqaGN2sjYAhXH3YMKHV2cAqQQ9QEISTAA
Riddle Sideways: darn long link
Riddle Sideways: better: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klimt_University_of_Vienna_Ceiling_Paintings
Riddle Sideways: it is huge
Riddle Sideways: and get to stand under it and look up at the ...
Adams Rubble:ahh, the Schloss Immendorf castle in Austria paintings
Eden Haiku: How extraordinary Riddle!
Riddle Sideways: stars shaping into the ages
Eden Haiku: So beautiful!
Adams Rubble: Nazi's blew up the castle

--BELL--

Buffoons and wild turkeys

Eden Haiku: Had never seen that before.
Eden Haiku: Oh they did...how horrible. Such exquisite art!
Riddle Sideways: it doesn't say how big the originals were
Eden Haiku: Reading that Klimt was accused of pornography and pervert excess...What the Nazis called degenerate art I guess...:(
Riddle Sideways: the print of the existing photo covered the entire back wall
Eden Haiku: Wow! That must have been impressive!
Adams Rubble:I can't understand how a country could allow a paranoid, hating, greedy, ignorant buffoon to run their country
Adams Rubble: oh wait
Eden Haiku: Was thinking along those lines Adams :)
Riddle Sideways: Klimt and Rodin met and comtributed to an exhibition against the status quo art of the time
Adams Rubble: well it sounds like a wonderful exhibit there Riddle
Riddle Sideways: Oh! you must have read the cover of Sunday NY Times
Adams Rubble: ???
Riddle Sideways:ummm, He declared himself a Sane Genius
Eden Haiku: like, a genius :)
Riddle Sideways: Defending His Mental Fitness, Says He’s a ‘Very Stable Genius’ Tweet
Eden Haiku: We are not that far from the dystopia of the "Handmaid's Tale"...
Riddle Sideways: yes
Riddle Sideways: aand so many other novels
Riddle Sideways: and the 'other' countries that had bad dictators
Riddle Sideways: sorry, usually save this type talk for Tuesdays
Eden Haiku: Or clowns taking selfies :)
Adams Rubble: It's all my fault
Eden Haiku: Hehe
Riddle Sideways: right! just try taking the blame
Eden Haiku: Feel free please :)
Riddle Sideways: send in the Clowns
Riddle Sideways: and then there is the boosting of 'that book' sales
Riddle Sideways: is sold out on Amazon
Riddle Sideways: not that 'we' were going to buy it
Riddle Sideways: or read it
Eden Haiku: Had such pleasure having my brothers and their family over for a holiday brunch. Eight little leprechauns jumping on my bed and drawing on my pads, a little one taking selfies. Such good energy I forgot the state of the world!
Riddle Sideways: thank you, for the topic change
Eden Haiku: Hope these kids will live in a livable world!
Riddle Sideways: yes
Adams Rubble nods
Eden Haiku: So many smiles and hugs and laughs and songs.
Eden Haiku: So genuinely happy :)
Riddle Sideways: ahhhhhh
Riddle Sideways: those deep from the core happy(s)
Eden Haiku: Yes! It helps face the rest...

--BELL--

Riddle Sideways: watched the joy on the drummer's grandson with the fart sound gun his evil (not living there) uncle had given
Eden Haiku: Funny :)
Riddle Sideways: Boys ... love fart sound jokes
Eden Haiku: Boys and even older buffoons :)
Riddle Sideways: the little boy and the old buffoon suit
Eden Haiku: Some have bigger red buttons than others...
Riddle Sideways: *in
Riddle Sideways: ooooooo
Riddle Sideways: back to 'my button is bigger' topics
Riddle Sideways: truth is ... he does NOT have a button
Eden Haiku: Hence the survival kit in case of nuclear war or lasting freezing temperatures
Eden Haiku: He doesn't?
Riddle Sideways: no! he does not
Eden Haiku: Interesting point of view...
Riddle Sideways: there is a military guy with a brief case and phone
Eden Haiku: ah! yes, I see
Adams Rubbleis shocked and says "he lied about the button?"
Riddle Sideways: he has a card in his wallet with the pass code
Riddle Sideways: :)))))))) giggling
Eden Haiku: But the guy has to open the brief case for him?
Adams Rubble: be right back
Eden Haiku: Her secret lover is there!
Riddle Sideways: ㋡ yes
Eden Haiku: Hello secret lover :)
Riddle Sideways: just heard a car hong outside
Riddle Sideways: at the turkeys
Riddle Sideways: it does not help
Eden Haiku: Wild turkeys running around?
Riddle Sideways: they stay in the road anyway
Eden Haiku: Oh!
Riddle Sideways: down the block, but counted 35
Riddle Sideways: and can't see some others
Eden Haiku: 35!!!!
Eden Haiku: Is this normal or are they fleeing something?
Riddle Sideways: think they might have come to gether to debate the sky falling issue
Adams Rubble: back
Riddle Sideways: not usually that many
Adams Rubble: heh heh about the sky falling issue
Riddle Sideways: but, in times of national crisis like fog and rain
Riddle Sideways: they must all band together
Riddle Sideways: and gobble
Eden Haiku: The sky falling issue...
Adams Rubble: planning a strategy for next Thanksgiving
Riddle Sideways: and stand up for unknowns ... in the street
Eden Haiku: Is that when birds fall down on the ground with no reason?
Riddle Sideways: turkeys appear to spend most of Life with no reason
Eden Haiku: laughs
Eden Haiku: sometimes i feel like a turkey I must admit
Eden Haiku: especially when I have been stuffing Three Kings special dessert :)
Riddle Sideways: some people appear to think they are not like the turkeys
Adams Rubble: :)
Eden Haiku: That worst maybe...
Adams Rubble: still crazy after all these years
Eden Haiku: Looking at the snow falling through the window.
Riddle Sideways: but, watching those little chicks run and play silly turkey chick games with a couple grandparents watching
Adams Rubble: ohhh, better close the window
Riddle Sideways: watched the last epi of Game of Thones last night
Riddle Sideways: of season 7
Adams Rubble: OK, that was a terrible joke I know
Riddle Sideways: need to wait a year
Riddle Sideways: and at the end there is a scene
Eden Haiku: Remembering my 6'4 feet tall nephew, 30 something looking through this window during the holidays, remembering when he played outside in this courtyard when visiting his grandparents.
Riddle Sideways: of a snow flake
Adams Rubble still trying to get through Dobie Gillis
Riddle Sideways: on his glove
Riddle Sideways: in a land that does not get snow

--BELL--

Riddle Sideways: Dobie Gillis, was the philosophy teacher of the ages we are Adams. Learned so much about. 'Workkkk!!!!' ,the Thinker, "gotta kill that boy"
Adams Rubble: it was good to see you both this morning
Eden Haiku: we are being quite silly this mporning
Eden Haiku: Yes, always nice to catch up with you two:)
Eden Haiku: Have a great day and a great start of the year!
Adams Rubble: yes both of you too
Riddle Sideways: thank you both
Eden Haiku: Thank you for joining my turkey self :)
Riddle Sideways: and the readers
Eden Haiku: And the readers :)
Riddle Sideways: waves
Adams Rubble: yes, the readers--you know who you are!
Riddle Sideways: by All
Eden Haiku: Will be posting the lagging logs soon :) [not yet, sorry, but soon...]
Adams Rubble: bye
Eden Haiku: Bye Adams, goodbye Riddle!
Adams Rubble is off.....
Riddle Sideways: oh! standing
Riddle Sideways: Adams' is even better
Riddle Sideways: outfit
Eden Haiku: Yes, I didn't have time to snap a picture. Thanks for the Klimt's ceiling painting Riddle, That was great!