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 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 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 tha...

 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, moo...

 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. :}

 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 jeep...

 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...

  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!

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...

 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 tru...

  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 ba...

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!!!

  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 ...

  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. a...

 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 tale...

 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 som...

 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 tha...

  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 wit...

  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. :]

  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 t...

  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 aggrav...

  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!...

  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. on...

  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...

  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 im...

  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 plexiglas...