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Ray Charles & Kermit the Frog- It’s Not Easy Being Green (Live)

Smalljones aka Paul Jones @smalljones.bsky.social · 2h

It's not easy bein' green
It seems you blend in
With so many other ordinary things
And people tend to pass you over
'Cause you're not standing out
Like flashy sparkles in the water
Or stars in the sky

But green's the color of spring
And green can be cool and friendlylike

youtu.be/9YyjHidYtMw

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Smalljones aka Paul Jones @smalljones.bsky.social · 3h

Not much to work with but I still got a four

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Smalljones aka Paul Jones @smalljones.bsky.social · 22h

Lazy bones, sleepin' in the sun
How you 'spect to get your day's work done?
You'll never get your day's work done sleepin' in the noon day sun

Lazy bones, sleepin' in the shade
How you 'spect to get your cornmeal made?

youtu.be/qROwjULKVj0

Leon Redbone Lazy Bones

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I don’t say things I don’t want to say or chew the fat with fat cats just because.

Smalljones aka Paul Jones @smalljones.bsky.social · 23h

Lazy
-David Yezzi

I don’t say things I don’t want to say
or chew the fat with fat cats just because

With favor-givers who want favors back,
I tend to pass on going for the ask.

I send, instead, a series of regrets,
slip the winding snares that people [...]
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Lazy

Come watch, the man says, shearing sheep with the precision of long practice, fleece, removed all of a piece, rolled in a neat bundle.

Smalljones aka Paul Jones @smalljones.bsky.social · 1d

Keepin' it four

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Smalljones aka Paul Jones @smalljones.bsky.social · 1d

Loving the Hands
-Julie Suk (1924-2025)

I could make a wardrobe
with tufts of wool
caught on thistle and bracken.

Lost—the scraps
I might have woven whole cloth.

Come watch, the man says,
shearing sheep
with the precision of long practice,
[...]
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/55580/...

Loving the Hands

Donovan - Season of the Witch (Official Audio)

Smalljones aka Paul Jones @smalljones.bsky.social · 2d

Oh Four Heaven's sake

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Smalljones aka Paul Jones @smalljones.bsky.social · 2d

You've got to pick up every stitch
The rabbits runnin' in the ditch
Beatniks are out to make it rich
Oh no, must be the season of the witch
Must be the season of the witch
Must be the season of the witch

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In the heat of it, what I believed was the heat of it, I shouted like a dockworker that I was unafraid. My burbling brook which must be traversed to get to the island of blue lawn chairs. My loaded ap...

Smalljones aka Paul Jones @smalljones.bsky.social · 2d

Cowpunk
-Diane Seuss

Do you think your suffering is exceptional?
Maybe. Maybe not.
The times are strange, no doubt.
In the heat of it, what I believed
was the heat of it, I shouted like a dockworker
that I was unafraid. Come at me,
[...]

www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...

Cowpunk

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Smalljones aka Paul Jones @smalljones.bsky.social · 3d

Oh Happy Day

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Meditation During the Sufferings and Deaths of Others

Smalljones aka Paul Jones @smalljones.bsky.social · 4d

Meditation During the Sufferings and Deaths of Others
-Sharon Olds

I did not deserve to be beaten,
and I did not deserve ballet lessons—
except insofar as everyone deserves ballet lessons.
Me mum thought I was well worth beating.
[...]

www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/161893...

I did not deserve to be beaten, and I did not deserve ballet lessons— except insofar as everyone deserves ballet lessons. And there were books in the house, I did not deserve them except insofar as ev...

Yusuf / Cat Stevens – Peace Train (Live at the Nobel Peace Prize Concert, 2006)

Smalljones aka Paul Jones @smalljones.bsky.social · 4d

Now I've been cryin' lately
Thinkin' about the world as it is
Why must we go on hating?
Why can't we live in bliss?
'Cause out on the edge of darkness
There rides a peace train
Oh, peace train take this country
Come take me home again
Oh, peace train soundin' louder

youtu.be/bwOscsBm2dk

YouTube video by Yusuf / Cat Stevens

Smalljones aka Paul Jones @smalljones.bsky.social · 4d

A gentleperson's four

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Smalljones aka Paul Jones @smalljones.bsky.social · 4d

2022 for the School of Data Science and Society
1931 for the School of Information and Library Science

All Watched Over By Machines Of Loving Grace by Richard Brautigan - Famous poems, famous poets. - All Poetry

Smalljones aka Paul Jones @smalljones.bsky.social · 4d

All Watched Over By Machines of Loving Grace
-R Brautigan
[...]
I like to think
(it has to be!)
of a cybernetic ecology
where we are free of our labors
and joined back to nature
returned to our mammal
brothers and sisters
and all watched over
by machines of loving grace
allpoetry.com/All-Watched-...

Comments & analysis: I like to think (and / the sooner the better!)

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The Byrds - Artificial Energy (Audio)

Smalljones aka Paul Jones @smalljones.bsky.social · 4d

But he could have the new School of Data, Information, Libraries, and Society named after him in return for an appropriate gift!

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Smalljones aka Paul Jones @smalljones.bsky.social · 4d

Artificial energy
Is wrestling my mind
I've got a strange feeling
I'm going to die before my time

I'm coming down off amphetamine
And I'm in jail 'cause I killed the queen

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YouTube video by TheByrdsVEVO

University leadership announces development of new school at Carolina | UNC-Chapel Hill

Smalljones aka Paul Jones @smalljones.bsky.social · 4d

“We shape our tools and thereafter our tools shape us”

Smalljones aka Paul Jones @smalljones.bsky.social · 4d

Time for the naming contest to begin. I'll start with the Kay Kyser Kollege of Knowledge in honor of one of UNC's best alums and is spelling choices.

Smalljones aka Paul Jones @smalljones.bsky.social · 4d

In the earlier post in which I drew from them I used their logo-ed page. In this case, I'm posting directly from the Provost's link having not yet read TBB. I do love them and respect them.

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Smalljones aka Paul Jones @smalljones.bsky.social · 4d

What would you name this new @unc School?

"This yet-to-be-named school is a bold step forward in our commitment to preparing students for a world increasingly shaped by data, information and artificial intelligence."

More: www.unc.edu/posts/2025/1...

The School of Information and Library Science and the School of Data Science and Society will be founding leaders of a new school to amplify and lead Carolina’s response to the information and data ne...

www.unc.edu

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Smalljones aka Paul Jones @smalljones.bsky.social · 5d

Back at 5

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Smalljones aka Paul Jones @smalljones.bsky.social · 5d

We gotta go!

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The Kingsmen - Louie, Louie (Shindig 1965)

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