it's official

 today is Halloween. yup. October 31, 2020 and this year's Halloween is one for the record books. pandemic, daylight savings time rollback, elections 2020, trump, the year of the rat, and damn if we're not just having us a good time. anyway, be safe everyone. mask up those kids and mask up the adults. it is entirely possibly to trick or treat during a pandemic just be smart about it. however and don't pay ANY attention to articles on the web informing families to "sanitize" the old Halloween treats. that would be a very bad thing. definitely do NOT use Clorox on any treats. treats wrapped or otherwise. hospitals are under enough stress as things stand at present. there's no reason to make things any worse than they already are. enjoy people. love those trick or treaters. on to today's machine art and stuff.

fossil surrealism -

a pause and/or a deco pause -

let's have us a nifty Halloween and one for the books. :]

October is done

 October is over, an October for the record books. yeah yeah, there's still a Halloween to get through and that will happen tomorrow. wow and go figure. Halloween has really never been an actual part of October. nope. Halloween is it's own stand alone and very short month. a one day and done sort of month. this Halloween is a trifecta of special events. a 'blue moon', a Halloween, and the cessation of daylight savings time. oh yes and I've probably brought this up previously but, I really hate the daylight savings crap. it's pointless and really mostly stupid. however that is an amerikan stupidity and there really is no explaining amerikan stupidity. then after all the end of October festivities, it's going to be election day 2020 and regardless of how the election turns out, thank god it's over. what an aberration of which most aberrations aren't really as bad as this election aberration. I think I'm more sick of the 2020 election aberration than I'm sick of the daylight savings bullshit. election crap, daylight savings crap, pandemic crap, and golly jeepers we've had to put up with a whole lot of crap. break away from this crap and on to more pressing crap.

the Utah Department of Health's Division of Epidemiology boss lady, and that would be one Dr. Angela Dunn, has been the face of Utah's 'fight' to keep Utahns from dying of the Covid-19 since just about day one of the pandemic in Utah. Utah's feckless governor, and that would be one Gary 'wishes he had a spine' Herbert, has been more than absent in the Department of Health's battle with the Covid. Dr. Dunn has been front and center taking loads of heat from Utah idiots that think they know better than a doctor of epidemiology of which Dr. Dunn is one of the best. Utah's feckless governor Gary has refused to take any of Dr. Dunn's advise which the guv promised Utahns he was going to listen to. yeah right. Anyway segway to one Eric Moutsos, a Utahn of no real value, who thinks he know better than everyone how best to stay healthy in the midst and face of one killer plague. Moutsos knows absolutely nothing about epidemiology or pandemics or how one should protect oneself from getting the disease and die. Moutsos got his ass fired from the Salt Lake Police Department several years back for being a really shitty cop. and so, Moutsos got a collection of hysterical church ladies all wound up and prodded these dumb ass women to go up to Dr. Dunn's home and protest. directly in front of Dr. Dunn's home, her children, neighbors, and in general try to intimidate Dr. Dunn. The women assholes did manage to spook Dr. Dunn's children and had the situation been reverse, the fucking really fucking stupid women protestors and their evil-spawn children would have been screaming bloody denial of their rights murder. so Moutsos being the brave and disgraced ex-cop that he is, prodded these idiot women to go and do his dirty work so Moutsos wouldn't look really bad on tv which the local tv news people were all over the outrage of a protest. Dr. Dunn's neighbors called the Salt Lake PD and the cops made the women and their inbred children ditch their protest signs and stay strictly on the sidewalk ACROSS the street from Dr. Dunn's home and to not impede pedestrian traffic or they would face getting ticketed and/or get their ignorant asses tossed in jail. I was so hoping for the last part to take it's proud and civil turn. the protest did no more than piss off a whole lot of really important people, left the women holding the ugly bag side of very bad public relations, and Moutsos having fled to hiding so tv news people and the other important Utah people couldn't ask this fuck head what in hell does he think he's doing. the really old and radical part of me was incensed by the protest and Moutsos' being behind this failed attempt at social relevance. my first thought was to gather up some old acquaintances, fill up old coke bottles with kerosene, stuff rags inside the old coke bottles, and then have a visit to where the protestor women and children were gathered and shower them with molotov's and watch the hilarity commence. of course that would be a very bad idea and would be socially disavowed by every side possible in this continuing civil discourtesy and I couldn't really get to Moutsos anyway and he's personally responsible for all the mess that would follow and then there's all the damn paperwork that would be involved and the 'splainin' to the PD why in hell was I being such a dick. I have had some personal growth through the passing of years and that is best for all involved. Moutsos needs to have his balls crushed with a big rock and I'll make no apology for that remark. assholes all of them! okay and on to machine art and stuff and then I'm gonna needs a cookie and a time out for a breather.

juxtapositional artistry -

the band plays on -

breath in...breath out...let it go...

off with her head

 in France one of those really deranged mooslim terroristas, attacked people at a Cathedral in Nice (that's pronounced neece) and beheaded a woman that was worshipping at the Cathedral. two other people were killed as well. I believe the 'headsman' was arrested on scene but details remain a mite sketchy due to the time difference between where I live and France. evidently France's mooslims got their knickers all in a knot on account of France's Macron announced a security alert about France's mooslims going nuts and attacking and beheading people. a French school teacher was beheaded in a previous attack by a mooslim terrorista. go figure. and mooslims wonder why people get all pissy when mooslims go around killing people. obywan (that's erdogan if I were being polite. I'm not) il duce of Turkey thinks the French are just being rude and mean to mooslim people and to obywan in particular for obywan's commenting about France's Macron and, well, mooslims. oh yeah and, the mooslim attacker in Nice was shot by French police and then arrested. go figure. mooslims in general seem incapable of keeping their lunatics in line. and in an eerie if not Halloween coincidence, klanvangelical christians seem incapable of keeping their lunatics in line. to be almost fair here, klanvangelical christians seem overall more likely to be lunatics than their mooslim counterparts. klanvangelical christians are more likely to use glocks and AK-47's to kill people rather than the uncivilized practice of beheading. gosh, that's got to count for something? or maybe not. killing is a rather lunatic and messy proposition to begin with. so thinking about the murderous mess in France, it's probably a good thing that trump is not mooslim. god ahmighty, amerika would be armpit deep in running cold blood. should trump lose the presidential election, it will be interesting to watch and see if trump's tenuous grasp on reality finally frays and the thin line snaps. very interesting. on to machine art and stuff.

tranquil dreams of not being in France -

africa's big cats -

the cheetah wanted to vacation in France and then thought better of it. the cheetah didn't want to end up a rug to be sold by some mooslim. yes that was intentionally mean. :]

Wednesday October 28, 2020

 so here it is Wednesday and the Dodgers won the World Series. I'm a Dodgers' fan from way back in the day so congrats to the Dodgers and that about wraps things up for a Wednesday. I've not got a lot to say and were I to go on, well, it would simply be another in a rather lengthy list of bitching about this and bitching about that with a side of ragging if not angry vitriol. what has become of amerika? the answer to that is obvious so, on to the machine art.

round a bend -

open window -

remember everyone...it's Hump Day! yeah I snuck that in at the end. :}

gosh, that's not a surprise

 so amerika has a new supreme. not even close to being a surprise. the rethuglicans were going to push barrett's nomination through the procedures with complete disregard for the hypocrisy they invoked in the process. the rethuglicans went all asshole when Obama nominated Merrick Garland in 2016. can't be nominating a supreme in an election year. of course, it's perfectly okey-dokey for the rethuglicans to do it. what a collection of hypocritical assholes. so now amerika is chained to amy farrah fowler coney barrett for her natural life and that is as is said that. today is Tuesday October 27, 2020 and the countdown is on. election 2020 is six yes count them six days in future. six days will not go by fast enough. political ads are spinning wildly on the television and damn if enough isn't enough. I even got to see a Joe Biden ad last night and that was a complete surprise. just about the first Biden ad I've seen a way out here behind the Zion Curtain and golly jeepers, I thought old joltin' Joe had forgot about Utah. anyway and that's about enough politics, judicial hypocrisy, and hurricanes. oh yes, there's another hurricane heading for New Orleans. sorry kids but, climate change has your precious little berg squarely in it's sights. still denying that climate change stuff? oh yeah and, saints ain't coming to save your sorry asses. heavenly saints and not football saints. next up...machine art.

empty roads -

holistic impressionism -

alrighty and see you all later on down the road. :]

one week to go

 the great election showdown of 2020 is one week away. yup. come Tuesday November 3, 2020 and it's guns out voting day. boy is amerika on edge or what. amerika's wacko militia guys are locked and loaded for some election day killing. local law enforcement is on edge on account of the local law enforcement guys won't know who to shoot first on election day. but shoot they will. mothers might want to keep their young 'uns inside on election day. however should the bullets start flying as promised, well, the little kiddies won't be safe wherever they are hiding. the world will get to see first hand how amerika handles elections. the world's media concerns will be camped out all across the amerikan wasteland so as to get to see the violence first hand. the shooting could very well start out in Montana. however, Arizona might come in a very close second with Nebraska running neck-and-neck for third. amerika has a lot of damn guns all over the place. gun sales and the bullets of course, are selling like hotcakes. or griddlecakes if that's how you like your cakes served. on election day, the hotcakes or griddlecakes, will be served with a side of gun powder and lead. on a completely unrelated note, Halloween being this Saturday it's also the night that amerika turns back the old clocks from daylight savings time. amerika will get the hour back that was lost when amerika jumped ahead one hour last March. personally, I hate the spring forward, fall back bullshit. turn all the damn clocks ahead and then later on it's turn the clocks back. judas, turn the clocks ahead or turn the clocks back just set the damn clocks on one time and leave them alone. so that's just another aggravation amerika has to put up with and damn, folks are going to be irritable enough what with Halloween, the Covid plague, election day, AND turning the damn clocks back. this could easily turn out very badly for everyone concerned. I am hoping that trump will keep his promise that if he loses the freaking election, he'll leave the country. maybe the trumpster could go live in the Philippines. trump could hang out with his buddy old what's-his-name Duetarte? Duetarded? Due-something? Shoot 'em up Duedirty? whatever. I just hope (yes I already voted and NOT for trump) that the fucker looses. I could suppose that we shall see what we shall see. okay and on to machine art.

arrival -

bull knockers -

amerika gets a new supreme today. yippee!

snow :{

 it's snowing. oh yippee. the Wasatch Front certainly needs the moisture. it hasn't really stormed for quite a while. but does that needed moisture have to be snow? oh yuck! I don't care for snow. I don't mind rain. ain't not a damn thing I can do about it. snow. the snow was inevitable and it's almost the end of October. but shoot, we were having such nice weather and now...snow. I'm gonna need to dig out my snow sneakers. the skiers will be ever so happy. oh...fuck them.

dancers -

the bus the dancers rode in on -

spit spit snow spit!

one week to go

Halloween is exactly one week away. yippee! all the little ghosties and goblins and creepy if not scary things will be out and about trick or treating for candy and the good stuff that comes out on Halloween. love that Halloween. not so much as back in the day but, it's still pretty darn fun. putting up Halloween lights and decorations still holds a world of fascination for me. seeing my neighborhood get transformed from the usual well-coiffured front lawns to gigantic skeletons sitting where the lawn jockeys used to sit and black cats and dragons and witches and I even learned how to tie a hangman's noose so I could 'hang' pumpkins off the awning. looks pretty cool. anyway and I believe that Halloween night is when daylight savings time ends for this year. you know, really early in the a.m. on November 1, 2020. that ought to be scary. don't forget to set your clocks back an hour before bed on Halloween night. I'm sure no one will forget about that. of course if you've a mind to, you could set your clocks back early on Saturday night and give the trick or treaters an extra hour to canvas your neighborhood for treats. that just might work. however with the Covid pandemic and all, there might not be so many ghosties out on Halloween night. I could suppose that we'll all have to wait and see. we'll all have to wait and see if the nation survives the change back to regular time on a Halloween night. however all the changey stuff should keep amerika on edge until after the election on Tuesday and that would be three days after Halloween and two days after the switch from DST to RST. that would be daylight savings time and back to regular standard time. gosh that isn't confusing at all. right. so let us move on to the really important stuff and machine art. which by the way is pretty darn cool for today. right.

boxing -

surrealistic surrealism -

just above us here is a mystery thing. yup. a genuine mystery thingy. :]

friday fish

 evidently the good folks at the "presidential debate commission" decided it might be a good idea to give the moderator lady for the, thank god, last debate a whip and a chair. so as to keep the combatants in line and abiding by the debate rules. about damn time. anyway, trump maintains that he won the debate. joe biden maintains that he won the debate. neither claim amounts to more than ridiculous braggadocio and the bottom line would be that the amerikan people lost the debate. in a rather fascinating turn of debate events, fox aired the thursday night football game. goes to show that the NFL has more pull these days than even a presidential debate. I don't really know if fox aired the debate and then joined the football game already in progress. I wasn't watching fox. to be honest I almost never watch fox for any reason. I just thought it rather surprising that the fox network would air football and not the debate that featured their favorite guy. that would be trump and not Troy Aikman. or Joe Buck for that matter. I did catch the last part of the football game and was a little surprised at fox's airing the game and blah blah blah. presidential debates or football games and television entertainment are not what they used to be. on an unrelated note, the pope and yes that's the catholic pope, has decided that the lgbtq's and whomever are entitled to get a civil sanction on their civil unions. the lgbtq's are not allowed to get married, just civilly sanctioned. it could be that the pope is merely trying to rile up amerikan catholics. amerikan catholics do get their panties in one tight wad at the mere mention of the lgbtq community's wanting anything. or asking to be acknowledged. or asking to be given a chance to live in peace. of course amerikan catholics are generally wound up tight on a good day. the only brand of religious intolerance that might be worse than amerikan catholics would be the klanvangelicals. the klanvangelicals are wound up so tightly, their mainsprings are about one half turn away from coming completely unglued. yes, the klanvangelicals are straight up insane. religiously insane and that's about the worst form of insanity one might possibly be inflicted with. conservative mooslims come close but the klanvangelicals win by more than a half length. yes it is a religious horse race. so much for friday fish and stuff. on to the important end of this and just about any other blog entry and that would be of course, machine art.

mexico -

walden -

there is a pond there but after I ran it through the machine, the pond sort of faded into obscurity. :]

televised train wreck

 the "last" presidential debacle will be tonight. yes indeed, this train wreck of a political "debate" will be on the tv this fine evening and on just about every dang channel you'd care to tune in to. maybe not on espn or some of the 'other' cable channels. I don't do the cable thing. I don't do the satellite thing. no I do not. I use the old fashioned yet digitally high tech old school antenna and you plug the gizmo into the tv and go with whatever broadcast channels you can find. so I really don't exactly know what's going to be on the cable channels. I don't exactly care what's on the cable channels. more than likely there will be loads of crap AND the televised presidential train wreck that is being billed as a "debate." there won't really be any debate. there will be trump hissing and spitting and dodging questions and trump blaming Joe Biden for just about everything and that's to include the Lindbergh baby kidnapping. Biden will of course dodge any number of questions. that's what the so-called 'debates' are come to. dodge then bait and switch. the only positive take away from the debate is that there are now less than two weeks until the really big election 2020 and that should count towards something. whatever. oh yes and today is October 22, 2020 and amerika is nine days from Halloween. now THERE is something to look forward to. with the Covid-19 raping and murdering large all across amerika, Halloween just won't seem quite so scary. not this year and not even with trump doing his very best to scare the crap out of amerika. alrighty then and on to machine art and stuff.

panels of artistic paneling -

and come the dusk. by the by, that's a sunset for the literary challenged -

be well everyone and remember to mask up. :]

kiss the Beppo

I pooched the entire entry and so...it's been relegated to the scrap heap of pooched entries. damn, don't you just hate it when that happens? however there is still machine art just no stuff.

a port of call -

train time without any trains. go figure -

so that's the stuff for a Wednesday and it just so happens to be...wait for it...

HUMPDAY!!!

a fitting end

 according to Dr. Neil DeGrasse Tyson, the Planet is gonna get hit by an asteroid on Election Day 2020. dang if that won't just suck. seems almost karma and a fitting end to a presidential campaign that is just this side of being obscene. barely. trump has gone rabid and does his spitting, hissing, foaming at the mouth drill at his every stop. trump is, once again, all manner of pissed off at Dr. Fauci. it is NOT Dr. Fauci's fault that amerika is trapped unmercifully in the Covid-19 pandemic. that is trump's fault and trump's fault alone. the stupid freak wouldn't listen to the doctors, scientists, and in-the-know professionals that warned el trumpo IN THE VERY BEGINNING about the dangers of the Covid and trump ignored that advice and amerikans started dying in clusters. damn horrific clusters at that. anyway and with an asteroid plunging it's way toward Planet Earth, well, we all might as well go out and have ourselves a good time. 

the Planet isn't really going to get hit by an asteroid. at least that's what the science guys are saying now. we don't want to be starting a panic now do we. not this close to the election day. no that wouldn't be prudent. so after reading as many science articles on the subject of getting smacked cold by an asteroid and as many as I could google and put up with, our Planet will or won't get hit by an asteroid and every last one of us is pretty much left to our own conclusions. I really hope Dr. Tyson is wrong. should the Planet get hit by an asteroid, well, that is really gonna fuck up everyone's day. damn messy too. oh well, ain't not about a thing can be done about any of it. however and should the Planet get the asteroid whammy, I hope and pray that the asteroid lands squarely on trump. wherever the asshole may be on election day. I'm thinking that trump will be out on one of his golf courses in New Jersey. okay New Jersey, get your affairs in order and kiss your sorry asses goodbye. a 7.5 earthquake in Alaska will seem like a piker's picnic should the Planet get smashed. oh yeah...

it's now time for machine art. first up will be 'boys from Brazil' -

and a really big house -

two weeks left and then...and then...WHAMMY!!! or not...toodles everyone. :}

MonDaze

 so a lady in 'Somewhere, Amerika' is going to have a baby. sometime in November. no big deal right? wrong. the lady having this baby is giving birth to her granddaughter. what? yup and according to the article on the CBSNews page, the lady is carrying her daughter's baby as a loving favor to her daughter that can't have babies on her own. the daughter not having the baby has had medical issues that prohibit her from carrying and giving birth to a baby so the daughter's mother stepped in and volunteered to have the baby for her daughter. damn, all this mother/daughter interchanging gets a mite confusing. it is however giant leaps in the field of in vitro fertilization. which has been around for a long time but doesn't get a lot of mention in the mainstream media on account of pro-life and/or pro-abortion issues and the in general heated dialog that goes along with issues such as these. I'm not a woman so, I can't figure out what the big deal might be. anyway, it seems like a very kind thing to do. kind on the mother's part and trusting on the daughter's part as mom gives birth to her granddaughter and the granddaughter will be the natural daughter of the mother giving birth BUT the daughter gets the baby on account of...oh crap, you figure out all the connections as this one gets a little complicated. i'm sure there are a pile of legal issues that have to be sorted out in the before any of this gets started. you know, the in vitro stuff. so after the baby grows up a bit and starts asking questions about origins and stuff that kids tend to ask questions about, well, does the baby ask her mom about grandma that is her biological mom and what the hell is up with that. and if grandma is really the baby's natural mom well, where does the baby's not natural mom fit in to a rather convoluted scenario? I don't know and I don't have any answers for the kid which is probably a good thing cause anything I might contribute to their situation would NOT help in any case. there is a picture along with the birthing article that shows the happy family all standing together with the pregnant mom, the non-pregnant daughter/mom and her husband and husband is holding a homemade poster that reads "made with love and a little bit of science." that's all fine and picturesque but I think the sign should have read "made with a lot of science and a little bit of love." well and a collection jar, petri dish, lab technicians, and some snakey photos so the "dad" can get his rocks off. yes that last remark is rude. so what. the article has lots of cutesy photos of mom and daughter/mom and yes it's all so "loving" and what happens after the divorce? the divorce is inevitable. this is amerika after all and stuff like this ends badly about 75% of the time. that's NOT my fault but, it is a rather cold reminder of how shit works in this here land of the free to choose misery over company. yes, cynicism reigns supreme on this fine monday. :] speaking of cynicism, it's the final two weeks to the election 2020 and damn that can't get here fast enough. all the political ads on tv are more annoying that I can remember. annoying, bald-faced lies, bullshit, political bullshit, rude bullshit, some bullshit that should get people prosecuted, ads pleading for money, ads pleading for support which is ridiculous bullshit, and if there were a "loving and caring god" in our universe, the bullshit would have been terminated about two months back. so much for theological relevance. on to the machine art and stuff.

standing rock -

a neighborhood Halloween dragon (it's for the kids, ironic no?) -

that's all for now and so...fair thee all well.

now for something completely different

 I was browsing around the net yesterday and I happened on a clip from an NBC program titled 'America's Got Talent'. the program highlights and showcases "talent" from around the land that hasn't really had too much notice by the people that count. you know, agents and talent scouts and network execs looking for a cheap something or other to slam into already vacant airtime. anyway, I happened on this 'AGT' clip of a clown known as Puddles Pity Party. I've never heard of the clown prior to yesterday. Well and oh holy clown shoes, was I ever in for a surprise. the clown saunters out on stage and made up as a very sad clown and the clown is carry a small case with the name of 'Puddles Pity Party' marked on the side of the small case. the "talent" end of the program start giving the clown questions and guess what...the clown doesn't talk. nope. he stands there making communicative gestures and that's it. well the network talent gets out of the way and gives the clown some rope to hang himself with. no one and I mean no one knows what to expect next. well and surprise surprise, the clown breaks into song and oh holy church pipe organs, the clown not only sings but this Puddles clown can sing like a choir of angels. I mean, holy shit...!!! I've never ever heard a voice like his. Never and I really mean never EVER. this clown has a voice clear as clear can be. tonal perfection and the guy does not miss a note. well, talk about being surprised like I've never had a surprise. as an honest disclaimer, I don't like clowns. in general and as a rule I don't like clowns. not silly clowns, not clowns crammed inside a circus car, not street clowns, not clowns just graduated from clown college, and sure as hell not sad clowns. damn if I didn't have to rethink that prejudice. this Puddles Pity Party clown is worth checking out if you've the time and an inclination to see something that is so unexpected it just might cause you to change a prejudice or two. google up Puddles Pity Party and see for yourself. it is a rather pleasant surprise and in these our dark days of horrific pandemics and idiot politics, being able to watch something unexpectedly uplifting is a welcome respite. and if you've already jumped on the Puddles Pity Party train and laughed at a "clown" such as myself for being way late to the party, well, what can I say except better late than not at all. onward to Sunday artistic crap and stuff.

still life -

Halloween kitty -

by the by, Puddles does a rendition of 'Bridge Over Troubled Water' that will knock your socks off. 

Halloween Countdown

 two weeks from today. of course today being October 17, 2020, that would make October 31, 2020 Halloween. go figure. there's going to be a blue full moon on Halloween no less. the moon will not actually appear as the color blue. blue moon is, evidently, just a catchy phrase. you know, once in a blue moon? pretty darn catchy but still, the expression makes very little sense. I could suppose you could google the expression to see if there's a root cause for the expression. yeah, one could. I'm not about too. I don't care. not really. there's bigger things to google up than a silly expression that probably has its roots in a song lyric. blue moon, paper moon, half moon, and this listing could go on for a ways. I'll not pursue the issue any farther than right about here. so...onward we go to the machine art part of this here Saturday morning drill. say, that's kind of catchy in it's own right. machine art part. I'd better trademark the phrase before someone else uses it. yeah...

ghostly dead guys -

mountain impressionism -

I cover it all right here. surrealism, cubism, impressionism, futurism, and some ism's that are best left unmentioned in polite company. yeah, like there's any polite company here. that's almost funny... :]

more October surprises

 well October is half over and the surprises just keep on surprising. today being Friday October 16, 2020 and Rudy Giuliani's daughter has endorsed Joe Biden and Kamala Harris for president. I did not know that Giuliani had a daughter. I did not know that Giuliani had any children at all. well he does and his daughter, Caroline Giuliani, has endorsed Biden and Harris. go figure. you see once upon a time Rudy Giuliani used to be amerika's mayor. that happened right after 9/11/01 the really big terror attack on new york that changed amerika and not for the better. at the time, our buddy Rudy was mayor of new york city. so on account of new york getting attacked by them dang mooslim terrorists, well, amerikan media started calling Giuliani "amerika's mayor." I don't know why they (the media) might do such a thing but they did. anyway and these days Giuliani doesn't have much to do besides waddling around his new york flat in his boat shoes and tell anyone that might care to listen that he (Rudy) used to be amerika's mayor. so with inordinate amounts of free time on his hands, old Rudy has taken to sucking up to trump. so and anyway with Giuliani having inordinate amounts of free time on his hands and his taking to sucking up to trump, well, Giuliani's daughter is sick of his antics and rather than have the former amerika's mayor interned in a nursing home she sits on the new york sidelines (Central Park) and watches as Giuliani makes a complete jackass of himself for trump and Caroline has had about enough. Caroline Giuliani endorsed the 'enemy' and Rudy is beside himself having to explain to his liege lord why his female progeny would endorse Biden and Harris. Reasons why Giulinai's daughter might not embrace daddy Giuliani's bestest liege lord in all the amerikan landscape eludes Rudy. yes, Rudy is clueless as the day is long. Giuliani should probably just stay in his new york flat and waddle around the place in his boat shoes. Giuliani thinks that he and trump are friends. Giuliani doesn't really know shit about trump. time to retire Rudy and for hell sakes listen to Caroline. okay and onward to the machine art.

portraits in chaotic confusion -

the master himself (Renoir) -

blessing to everyone on this here fine as fine can be Friday. weather wise anyway.

over is over

 it's finally here. yup. the last day of "hearings" for the madam amy coney island barrett. the woman managed to get through three grueling days of testifying before the imperial lords of the senate judicial committee. amerika learned absolutely nothing from the woman and the senate judicial committee was quite happy about that. barrett was heard to say to senator mike 'pinky' lee that she was grateful that "jesus" had given her the strength to lie with a straight face while testifying under oath. senator pinky lee was grateful to have just been in the presence of such a "skilled liar." the senate will slap a rubber stamp on trump's supreme judicial nominee and done is done. the senate in action proves the point that in amerika hypocrisy reigns supreme and in this case, hypocrisy reigns on the supreme court. what a waste of judicial space. amerika does have two yes count them two dueling "town hall meetings" this evening, one with trump and one with joltin' joe on the television agenda, and won't that just be a thrill ride for sure. be sure to keep your arms and legs inside the ride at all times. oh yes and don't forget to wear a mask even if you've no plans to venture out into the great wide open. okay and enough of that. it's on to machine art and stuff.

rugs of the orient -

spinning wheels spin -

remember to not throw rocks at the television screen. the screens are really expensive to replace.

day three

 it's day three of the laughable "senate confirmation" hearing for madam coney island. the hearings have been a cruel joke since day one. the hearings will continue to be a cruel joke until hell freezes over and that might take a while. it's that global warming/climate change thingy. madam coney island is one of those really annoying and cringe-worthy 'church ladies' and that ought to be enough said. considering I really have nothing of importance to mock, I'll just say onward to the machine art.

uptown surreal -

shine -

and for now, sayonara. :]

Tuesday October 13, 2020 The Year Of The Rat!

 yes my friends, it's the Chinese Year Of The Rat. given the ratty batshit crazy stuff you read in the news, well, the Chinese hit the old nail on it's head. I've never been able to figure out why you would hit a nail anywhere but on it's head. I've missed hitting a nail more than a few times and when you miss the head of a nail, the hit simply screws the nail up and it becomes useless. the nail and not any screw. I have hit screws in times past and that proves to be just as useless as when you miss the nail's head. go figure. so hypocrisy runs rampant in the U.S. Senate 'judicial committee' hearings. yeah, like anyone thought the hearings would be anything otherwise. the U.S. Senate is all about hypocrisy if the Senate is about anything. the "hearings" are putting amy coney island barrett through the usual paces and the woman is NOT about to say ANYTHING that might give the Senate Judicial Committee reason to put the kibosh on her elevation to the Supremes. the Senate is going to confirm the woman come hell or high water. yeah like anyone thought this charade would turn out any different. think Merrick Garland. amy coney island barrett is a tonguer. for the theologically challenged, a "tonguer" is any christian that finds 'gifts' of the spirit pretty dang slick and so...they get just a mite insane at church. healings and glossolalia and handling snakes and that would be rattlesnakes of the poison variety and loopy damn shit like that there. the sect barrett belongs to is seven shades of on the wrong side of Opus Dei. they're (Opus Dei) pretty damn loopy but, not as loopy as the 'People of Praise' that barrett belongs to. ah religion, the singularly most illogical function practiced by humans just about anywhere on the Planet. "you don't believe like I believe SO, god says I've got to kill you." yeah, religion seems more than a little fucked up. people probably should just smoke the marijuana and pray to the plant. at least there would be a whole lot less killing. I am speaking theologically theoretical. yup, that's the ticket. anyway and onward to the singularly most important stuff for this here Tuesday and that would be of course, machine art and stuff.

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happy Tuesday everyone and here's to the Chinese Year Of The Rat!

that's rough teddy

 protesters in Portland (that would be Oregon and not Maine) tore down statues of Teddy Roosevelt and Abe Lincoln. on account of today being 'Columbus Day'. I can sort of understand some ire being directed at Teddy Roosevelt as old Teddy liked killing animals. all sorts of different species of animals. then Teddy would have them stuffed and mounted. that is a part of "hunting" I've never been able to understand. it isn't bad enough that the nimrods have to take an animals life but to take it's skin? the nimrods aren't even eating what they hunt and then kill. oh hell no. the nimrods kill animals for their horns and skin and feets and ears and good god ahmighty, that's just sick and wrong on any number of points to be made. the protesters did this for 'Columbus Day'? sorry but, I don't get the connection. as for honest Abe, well he did "save the Union" and freed the slaves and this is the thanks the man gets for all the aggravation he had to put up with. sorry but, I don't get the connection between Abe Lincoln and Christopher Columbus. Abe didn't discover Amerika but neither did Columbus. Columbus "discovered" Cuba. Fidel never made much mention of that little anomaly. I think the protesters in Portland and that would be Oregon and not Maine, just like tearing down statues. Doesn't really much matter whom the statue is paying honor to. doesn't really have to make any sense at all. the protesters just tear down shit to be tearing down shit. to be fair, I could suppose the protesters are making a point. what that point might be is just a wee bit elusive. unless and of course the protesters are working secretly for some non-disclosed statue works. wow, it's another conspiracy theory for the qAnon folks to get all schizophrenic about. exactly three weeks from tomorrow. tomorrow happens to be Tuesday. so we've got us exactly three weeks from Tuesday until the really big showdown at the election polling places. well and unless you've already filled out your ballot on account of some previously unnamed County Clerk had sent you a ballot to be filled out and then returned by mail. that is IF you can trust the U.S.P.S.. which back in the day, the U.S.P.S. was never an issue. they could be trusted implicitly. well that trusted horse has left the barn. thanks to trump. god ahmighty, trump is an asshole! should trump lose the upcoming election, trump WILL blame the Postal Service for his lost cause. yeah, it'll be the Post Office's fault. oh well, go out and tear something down on account of today being 'Columbus Day'. right. remembering that Abe Lincoln freed the slaves and saved our Union and that really pisses off the protesters in Portland and yes one more time, that would be Oregon and not Maine. on to the point of all this. machine art and stuff!

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wooden Hamlet -

you know, "to be or not..." think it through. :]

sacrificial sunday

 so trump's "doctor" and that would be one Dr. Sean Conley, maintains that trump is not "contagious" for the Covid-19. alrighty then. turns out that trump's "doctor" and that would be one Dr. Sean Conley, is NOT a medical doctor. no he is not. this clown is a doctor of osteopathy. osteopathic practice is not medicine like a regular hospital or clinic doctor might practice. osteopathic "doctors" practice manipulation and massage of the bones and joints. the guy is a chiropractor. conley is also a commissioned officer in the Navy. I did not know that the U.S. Navy allowed chiropractors to be commissioned medical officers but it kind of figures in this our age of collusion and illusion. so this conley bozo did not offer any clinical laboratory testing results for trump being allegedly Covid-19 free and "negative" of the deadly Covid-19. all anyone has for conley's statement about trump is conley himself. convincing right? NOT! trump is a super-spreader and anyone stupid enough to get within trump's coughing distance is gonna get the Covid. these assholes are perfectly willing to get the entire nation sick with the plague just to please el trumpo. that seems worlds of treasonous if not out right criminal. our nation has been down the trump road of criminality previously. let's take a brief moment to give a shoutout to the U.S. Senate. hey you senate guys...FUCK OFF AND DIE! which any number of them will for spending time around trump. of course the senate fucks will be able to get the same "advanced Covid-19 treatment" that trump received as the senate fucks have that really super whiz-bang affordable insurance they never have to pay for while regular Americans are ass out. and in further Sunday news, limpy Graham the 'good' senator of South Carolina told South Carolina's black people they were free to go anywhere in South Carolina they might like to so long as they were "white and conservative." oh yeah, Graham said exactly that. which seems a really strange thing for graham to say considering that he's a white guy, a gay white guy even though graham stays in the closet, and a racist. there's been rumors about graham being gay for years. his being gay is mostly irrelevant except when he's talking racist bullshit to black people living in South Carolina and their being "safe to travel around South Carolina so long as...". amerikan people are being sacrificed for political advantage in this surely insane election year and that sacrifice is disgraceful, disgusting, a travesty, and treasonous in the simplest of terms. judas h. priest, but there's a brief glimmer of hope in that the election is only three yes count them three weeks off.

machine art and a momentary ray of sunshine -

goats, mountain goats, and this image turned out rather nicely -

that's all for now. stay safe and sane out there.

10 10 2020

 the tenth month in the year of the rat and mathematically that would be 10/10/2020. or 10/10/2020 if one uses the european manner of writing out the date. if one uses the correct manner of writing out the date, well, that makes today 10/10/2020. see? there's a difference. sure there is. as for the chinese astrological 'year of the rat', well, the year of the rat seems to be a goddamn plague and not just trump. president super spreader is out and about on campaign business and there will be another wave of Covid-19 infections on Monday. so Monday will be 10/12/2020 OR 12/10/2020 using the ridiculous european manner of writing out the day's date. :] anyway, amerika seems to still be here and there's no telling how much longer that little factoid will stand. however we have three weeks and two days until the much anticipated election and then we'll see how the lawsuits fly at that future date. I'm not about to go into the writing out dates crap-o-la again. one shouldn't drink from the old comedy well too often. it seems that trump's junior partner in presidential crime is taking some time off to lay low. evidently, pencey is a bit thin-skinned and is all manner of jacked out of shape on account of people making fun of the fly pencey had stuck on his head during the veep-steaks debate and switch. the fly was eating pencey's hair. do you know how it is a fly eats? google it and be ready to be grossed out. pencey's wandering around with fly puke on his head. yeah, that's gross. anyway and onward to the really important business of machine art and stuff.

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stay safe out there and mask up.

in and of itself

 some of trump's boys figured they'd kidnap the governor of Michigan, cack the woman, start a civil war, and then...well the 'and then' aspect is muddied in a lack of specific details. the F.B.I. probably has a pretty good idea of what the details might be and as is standard operating procedures for the F.B.I., they're not about to talk about it. that'll come later in federal court. the dumb ass militia bozos are in some serious trouble. if the government were to follow the law to the letter, the dummies would be charged with sedition and I do believe a conviction of sedition couples up charges of treason and a whole slew of other felonies and all of which require the death penalty upon conviction. of course trump would over ride any convictions for the fools by granting them all clemency and full presidential pardons. trump is of course a clear and present danger to these United States of Amerika. this all leaves me curious as to what the Secret Service has to say about trump. the Secret Service is protecting a treasonous asshole and the boys of the SS surely know full well what trump is about. the SS guys are any number of insulting things, but stupid is probably not one of them. this nation is in seriously deep shit. but we had us a pretty good run and all things must come to an end. eventually. even castles made of sand fall into the sea eventually. thanks for that line Mr. Jimi. anyway, good Friday to everyone and it's on to the surreal part of this here Friday. oh yeah...

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head shot. yeah, that's real sad. not. :]

vestigial tales of superfluous serendipity

 so the really big news for today is that, there is no big news for today. last night's debate was a whole lot of prattle and very few specifics. we don't want to be revealing details about how the candidates are going to "govern" the amerikan people. that just wouldn't be prudent. the really 'big' take away from the debate was that mikey pence has the pink eye and there was a fly stuck on the top of his head. evidently the fly took a liking to whatever hair glue pence had sprayed on his head. pink eye, flies, and hair glue. the amerikan people coughed up about $7 million dollars for that. talk about priorities. trump has been parading around the White House informing anyone that might care listen to his bullshit, that "god" did him (trump) a favor by giving him (trump) the Covid-19. I did not know that "god" doled out favors to assholes. but and evidently "god" does exactly that. like "god" doesn't have more important things to do in this overtly grand universe than giving an asshole like trump the Covid-19. well, it turns out that "god" moves in strange ways. whatever. so IF the universe is expanding at an alarmingly exponential rate, how and when might "god" find the time to waste on trump? shouldn't "god" be about the business of holding what remains of our universe together before the damn thing flies apart at the old universal seams? so IF our universe is expanding at an alarmingly exponential rate, where is the universe headed? hmmm...I'm thinking that Neil DeGrasse Tyson owes us all an explanation. or maybe two explanations. whatever. onward to the really important stuff which would be machine art and stuff.

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friends and associates -

so from the iguana side of my town, have a relevant Thursday. peace and out. for now.

addendum disclaimer - I did not attend nor did I watch last night's veep-steaks. besides, the "security" was not about to allow me inside to witness such an important event. the debate "security" was after more important intruders like the fly stuck on mikey pence's head. I think that is just too damn funny...

It's Here, It's Today, It's Live!

 yes my friends live from right here behind the Zion Curtain and from the Dark Heart Of The Mormon Homeworld, it's the Precedential Veep Steaks and Nationally Televised Debacle. holy crap people, there hasn't been this much excitement around the old neighborhood since the last time the Mormon Profit broke wind while speaking from His High and Wholly Podium at the Church General Conference in April of 2015. there are international news crews gathered at THE very spot from where the debacle will be televised from. that'd be the University of Utah's "presidents circle." wow, is that about ironic or what. mostly what and so what. all the local tv stations are televising live and all freaking day long coverage of absolutely nothing. you see, ain't not about shit is gonna happen until mikey 'little head' pence and kamala 'I'll kick his ass' harris show up for the debacle. which by the by, the two candidate teams are arguing about a plexiglass screen erected between pence and harris. you see, mikey 'little head' pence is a super spreader of the Covid-19 and ms. harris wants no part of that ugly pandemic failure of leadership. no she does not. so screen it is. damn screen is gonna stay "erect" until after the debacle. oh yeah, big shit is a happening right here in MY hometown. wow-oh-wow-whee! I've made NO plans to attend the histrionically planned debacle. oh HELL no. the national SS has erected an electrified fence around the very spot where the debacle will be held and to gain entry, one has to pass a thorough if not rather personal background check by the FBI. THEN, one has to pass a Covid-19 test, a full body pat down by the very best pat downers our fabled government has working for TSA, and THEN one must endure a body cavity search by the Mormon First Presiding Bishopric of the now closed Mormon Temple and believe you me people, those guys are good at their job. wow-zers and oh yeah, there is big shit happening today and right here on the Mormon Homeworld. in MY lifetime no less. golly and jeepers. okay and onward to what's really important here. machine art!

wonder world -

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okay everybody, go out 'there' and have yourselves a really good time. :]