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Beethoven. I know you. I've seen your name and picture on some of those smelly record covers Dad has laying around. You're that deaf dude who likes to play the piano.

"...As you are that disheveled dog who liketh to play with begrimed balls, yes."

Okay, okay, keep your Ludwig on. But how can you hear and understand me?

"I could well ask the same of you."

Don't reckon I know, partner. But I've always been able to talk. Most dogs can, to their owners and other dogs, at least. Ask anybody who has one. I'm just a little better at it than some, maybe. So what are you doing in my house?

"A more mysterious realm our universe could not be."

Huh?

"I am at a loss. My journey hath ended here."

Well, you're lucky. If I hadn't recognized you, and if you had a bum, I might have taken a good-size chunk out of it. I'm very protective of my family.

"I am aware. Santa's article in the daily Everlasting News was quite clear on this matter."

AHHH! Santa died?!

"No, but he is a positive spiritual being, hence was long ago issued a swipe card to Heaven's Gate. But still his beard is in knots over last December 25."

Hey, anybody I discover tiptoeing around our living room in the middle of the night while wearing a disguise and carrying a sack is just asking for it.

"Be that as it may, I am here on holiday. We every one get a week off Heaven every 200 years or so to travel whereupon we choose. I have begun with a visit to earth to discover if my music is still of note, to be droll, ahaha, ahaha."

I thought everyone in Heaven knew what was going on down here at all times.

"Not so, my fine furry friend. We cannot all be He. In my case, my music is constantly performed in my ears 23 hours a day."

23?

"He insists we every one play an hour of his favorite four-handed card game, Matzlfangen. You surely could imagine the clamor for Him as a partner every eve, ahaha."

Well, it sounds more like the opposite of Heaven, but anyway, classical music is still relevant today, though less so than in the past. Yours has always been right up there with the best. Look, Dad has your Pathétique Sonata right there beside you, it's one of his favorites. But there's lots of different music in the world today. Just about every country or culture has had indigenous music to an extent, and some of that has been creatively mixed over the years into a kind of musical soup of all kinds that is eaten up by anyone who has an appetite for it, and variations are still being created. Personally, I like '60s pop and rock'n roll, Irish folk and traditional --and of course, it goes without saying, every ballad ever written.

"Pop...rock 'n...folk...soup...as we speak, I am rolling over in both of my graves."

All this is a little TOO grave for me, Van man, so presto, I gotta run. Stay sharp, and don't lose the key to your flat.

(And on this coda, stay tuned for the next performance of

Conversational Clancy)

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531 Clancy 9yrs 35wks

Clancy's YEARBOOK 10: www.flickr.com/photos/130722340@N04/albums/72157720201164845

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rolled texture by gnarlydog

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refitted F.Zuiko 32mm f1.7

Path by Margus Sootla

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A man without direction is like a ship without rudder.

Press "L"

6x6 slide with 40mm f4 lens, Fuji Velvia 100 self-developed in full 6-bath process, IT8-calibrated & wet-mounted drumscan.

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Roll Call by Theo Van Rompaey

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DEAR FRIENDS AND COLLEAGUES; THANK YOU FOR VIEWING, FAVING AND COMMENTING MY DIGITAL OBSERVATIONS.

…Roll out. by Frank Bustamante

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Inglewood cemetery USA California

Rock´n Roll by Curl Swindlehurst

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week 247: Rock´n Roll

okay,the fingers look like amputated (original quote of my home rock´n´roller).....and I agree :/

roll in by Jeffrey

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brooklyn, dusk.

Roll Coal by Don Kalkman

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A pair of 100 car coal trains tied together as train N782-18 was coming off of the Old Main Line and into the Baltimore Terminal on a cloudy Saturday morning.

The majestic MARC depot at Saint Denis has witnessed many interesting trains pass by over the years and this wasn't one of them.

Roll the dice by Mirjam Markworth

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Roll On Baby by Abgewrackter

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Canon Eos 6D, Canon EF 16-35mm f/4 L IS USM

Roll Tide. by armyblackhawkpilot

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Half Moon Bay, CA

Roll on summer by steve bowden

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Let’s Roll by Mike Day

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“Let’s Roll"

Here’s the exact shot I was hoping to get tonight. I had this in my mind when I heard they were doing a Kansas City Chief’s Streetcar. I didn’t have to wait long (about 12 minutes for this version to roll into Union Station). A few people were taking selfies so I had to wait on them.

Click on the image for the larger view.

Hoping for a Chief’s win so we can go to the AFC title game with a chance to the Superbowl.

Mike D.

Roll Call Wednesdays. by Naz Hamid

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@rollcallsf Wednesdays. Good crew as always.

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Roll On Friday by Cycling Roadhog

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Candid Street Photography from Edinburgh, Scotland

Roll cake by yan wang

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