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 yes indeed it is the last day of November 2020. there are only 31 more days left in our year of utter catastrophic pandemic bullshit. you can start the countdown right about now. that would be all I have to offer with the possible exception of experimental machine art and stuff. the rather lengthy holiday and weekend left me a bit foggy and, well, lazy. onward to the really important stuff. grain - where grain is grown - and finally some antiwar sentiment - remember back in the day when amerika had george w. bush for a president? "nukaler!"

 today is a day for weird shit. it is a given that our world is filled to overflowing with weird shit. plagues, political plagues, pious bullshit, weird pious bullshit, regret, dreams of regret, weird shit regrettable dreams, and all things trump. trump is out on his golf course and there's not so much weird about that. just a fact. trump is trying to convince the first nine holes played that he really didn't lose the election. that could be considered as psychiatrically weird shit. and that about sums up trump. experimental machine art and stuff. at the table - glimmers of hope - tomorrow is the very last day of November 2020. we won't be seeing anymore of that again. ever.

I do hope that everyone made it through the thanksgiving festivities alive and well. I ate myself into a tryptophan coma and that's what thanksgiving festivities are for. isn't that what the feasting is all about? amerikans sitting around a table with family and friends celebrating the myth that is thanksgiving. I can just about assert that the first thanksgiving probably did NOT have any turkey. probably venison, clams, lobsters, oysters, squash, and whatever else the "pilgrims" could glean from that old 'plymouth rock'. the pilgrims probably ate the mice and rats too. hunger will induce one to eating just about anything that crawls, waddles, flies, wiggles, and/or whatever. anyway it would seem that our amerika made it through another November mostly unharmed with the possible exception of those that caught that goddamn nasty Covid-19. mask up people and for hell sakes, keep your social distance. you just never know who you might be stand next to and what go...

 have a good Thanksgiving everyone. stay safe, keep your distance, and mask up. eat like there'll be no tomorrow on account of, there might not be a tomorrow. we're closing up the old skulzwerks studios and the employees are getting the day off. without pay. no one here gets any pay. jeepers, there's hardly anything left at the end of any day. be well and peace out.  empty alleys - if a tree grows in the forest and there's no one there to watch it grow, well, does it still grow? - answer would be, well duh! :]

 how to protect oneself from the Covid-19 plague and pandemic. wear a necklace of garlic. the garlic might not protect you from the Covid-19 but it will keep the vampires at bay and probably your neighbors. wear plaid socks. don't wear any socks. hire a gypsy fortune teller to show you how to ward off the evil eye. hmmm, is using the word 'gypsy' socially acceptable these days? oh hell, I really don't care. hang out with homeless people. if they haven't any "herd immunity" well, I couldn't tell you who might. wish upon a star. wish for a vacation somewhere over a rainbow. wish for a herd of llamas. wish to make friends with the Dalai Lama. pray. seek shelter with a voodoo priestess. hire a snake. a really big python snake. that should in the very least keep most people away. steer clear of anyone associated with the trump regime. talk about infectious spreaders. build yourself a nuclear fallout shelter. about the only way this Planet Earth will rid its...

those ever so 'exciting' genius folk at M.I.T., Harvard, Tufts, Blades, Eversmart, Wanker, and Pullsome are working on a computer that will deliver the answer to life, the universe, and everything. that's already been done. see the books by Douglas Adams. Mr. Adams was a visionary of extraordinary literative prescience. that and Mr. Adams was pretty damn funny. the computer being designed and built by the university genius types will deliver up the answer to the aforementioned really deep question and of course the university genius folk will not understand the answer given by their whiz-bang sparkly if not spiffy computer. that answer will be the same as it has always been, 42. that's the answer every last computer ever built anywhere across our dynamic and infinitely expansive universe has given up every time the computations have been computed. ergo...42. problem is, no one understands the answer let alone the question. however the genius types WILL build that comput...

 11/22. almost sounds like a title for one of those Dan Brown books. picture this, rogue pontiff is having an elicit affair with the queen mum. several high ranking cardinals are aware of the pope's affair and are keeping the news quiet. so as not to upset the 'faithful' and so as not to rankle the archbishop of canterbury. you see the cardinals have been working hard behind the scenes to reunify the two not-so-different faiths and the archbishop of canterbury is in full agreement with the cardinals. the "conspirators" are well aware that should the news of their clandestine reunification and the pope's getting jiggy with the queen mum break, well, people will NOT take the news too lightly. as a Dan Brown footnote will want to indicate, there is a new queen in England as the old queen, lizzie the deuce, has passed on and England has a new queen and that new queen is not charlie's camilla parker bowls. or whatever. you see the monarchy has skipped over char...

did you know that today is 'world television day'? I did not know that. our world is in need of a 'world television day' and there you go. that does explain any number of bizarre global happenings. 'world television day'... what the hell did people do before 'world television day'? sit around staring at the radio? watch the chickens, cows, horses, and pigs? oh wait, a way back in the day there were those ever so impressive gladiator games. bloodletting spectacular. of course when things became really boring, the world simply went to war. of course our world still does that but it's not so glamorous as it used to be. now days folk can simply turn on the television and watch a war raging somewhere around the world and that does explain why we'd need a 'world television day'. I'm holding out watching the television until a team of bad-ass Navy Seals goes all invasion-esque on the White House and removes the trump   from the premises. now...

 it's Friday and following the directives given by the wholly order of machismo monks of Monterey, it's time for the Friday chant and here goes... Friday...Friday...Fri eye eye eye... eye day! okay, rinse then repeat as needed. okay and that takes care of the monks portion of today's program. on to the punks. trump is a punk. yeah like most of amerika hadn't figured that out already. the dangerous bitch is now attempting to subvert Electoral College members and try to get them to change their votes which are already won by President-Elect Joe Biden. that action in and of itself seems enough to warrant a change of open sedition by trump the punk. there actually is NO constitutional mandate that binds the EC members to any candidate in a presidential election. it is simply an historical tradition that the candidate who wins a state's popular vote also wins a state's Electoral College vote. Tradition! let us all thank Tevya for that. amerika has followed that tradi...

 the Covid-19 continues unabated in the amerika and the death toll climbs exponentially each and every day. el gordo trump allowed all this death to raise holy hell on amerika. trump and his 'run-and-hide' from the obvious strategy is failure now as it failed from the start of this disgraceful mess. trump and trump alone. why anyone with half a brain would have voted for this asshat is unfathomable. so it seems that rethuglicans will hang with the old el gordo and let amerika slide into disarray and whomever might be left after (if?) amerika gets a vaccine is just about alright with them. the rethuglicans are inherently evil and probably, for the good of our entire Planet, should be exterminated. hmmm, maybe exterminated is too strong a descriptive. how about eradicated. yeah that's the ticket, eradicate the freaks and get on with it. hopefully Joltin' Joe Biden will in fact be able to heal amerika. I think the man should at least get a chance. after all, Biden DID win ...

 go ahead...I dare you. okay and so things are pretty much the same as the things were yesterday. trump is spinning wildly out of control. the dumb ass ignorant freak is nuts. enough about trump. the grate state of utah has elected another loopy ass rethuglican to congress. that comes as no surprise. utah is loaded to the very top with loopy ass rethuglicans. utah is "officially" a soviet union satellite nation. utah has been that for a very long time. still, it is a scenically beautiful place to live. you just learn to ignore the screwballs. on to the experimental machine art and stuff. chop woodblock print - van gogh revisited again - it's hump day! :]

 one u.s. senator rob portman (r-oh) signed on with johnson & johnson to be a guinea pig for j & j's experimental Covid-19 vaccine. portman maintains the clinical trial was a "wonderful experience and vaccines are so wonderfully necessary what with the Covid-19 and all." the quote is close enough for it's use here. :] senator 'wonderful' portman wants "all amerikans" to be able to experience the wonderful joy of being a guinea pig and getting paid handsomely for that very wonderful and joyous experience. regular amerikans will NOT receive any sort of emolument for being a johnson & johnson guinea pig. that little perk only works for senators and other well-connected really important types. regular amerikans will get what they get and that's about the end of it. portman is adamant in reporting that there were very few "side effects from the vaccine" and that was simply "wonderful." portman did report that he now far...

should I mask or unmask, that is the question. whether it's nobler in the hearts and minds of men/women to be stupid and catch the Covid-19 OR should masking up for pandemic safety sake be the wiser of choices. wow is that shakespearean or what. it seems to me that if the dummies refuse to mask up if not for their own safety and protection, they should at least respect the rest of us trying to keep the hell away from one nasty virus. it seems to me that IF the anti-maskers won't, well, when they do catch the Covid-19 (and they most certainly will) don't come around asking for medical help and stay the hell away from hospitals and clinics that are helping sick and injured folk. if the anti-maskers catch the Covid-19, that's a personal choice and tough nuggies on them. yeah I know that seems harsh and uncaring...so what. I'm all about respecting personal choice. of course, the anti-maskers are the first to start screaming about right to life and bullshit like that the...

 the 'it' would be trump and he won't go away. I could suppose that karma is heavily involved here. amerikan karma earned with interest for amerikan fuck ups all around the globe. wars of naked aggression, proxy wars of naked aggression, torture, violations of the Geneva Convention, Guantanamo, trump's border wall, ted cruz, the klanvangelicals, bigotry, arrogance, elvis presley, and pro wrestling. yes folks, it all adds up to karma and amerikan existential suffering at present. about the only thing can be said for the amerikan denial of the Covid-19 pandemic and plague would be... karma. insane amerikan pro-trumpers protesting the election of Joe Biden as amerika's next president... karma. that karma can't be blamed on Joe Biden. that karma is placed squarely on the very weak-ass shoulders of trump. trump is of course, the reincarnation of benito mussolini and we can only hope and pray that trump should come to the exact same end as benito. swaying ever so soft...

 that would be Senator Mike 'Pinky' Lee from Utah. Lee is notorious for being an alleged 'constitutional scholar'. of course, old 'Pinky' wouldn't know the Constitution of the United States of America if that Constitution were to creep up behind the man and then bite him on his ass. Lee is simply enamored with Fox News and any other mentions he might get in mainstream media. Lee thinks that gives him credibility. what the exposure does get old 'Pinky' would be for America, and the world, to see he's an ignorant ass and an embarrassment to the State of Utah. Senator 'Pinky' waxes ever so profuse on "constitutional rights and privileges" that are being denied "conservatives in America" by Google, Amazon, and Tweeter. Lee does not like being proven wrong with facts as opposed to the imbecilic diatribe he espouses. what Amazon has to do with conservative/liberal political positions seems woefully disconnected from reality....

 experimental machine art and stuff for a Friday November 13, 2020. say, it's Friday the 13th! go figure. so whatever you do today, watch out for crazy guys wearing hockey masks, crazy guys wearing ratty old green and red striped sweaters, trump supporters, and crazy militia guys sporting assault rifles. you can tell the crazy militia guys from just your regular ordinary militia guys by the camo gear the crazy guys like to wear. gives the crazy militia guys a sense of dreamy fashion machismo. just remember that if the crazy guys are packing serious heat, give them a very wide berth. and you should probably call 911 and give the first responder folk a head's up. that public service announcement comes from you pals at skulzwerks. owl - a painter cat - thus endeth the sermonette for a Friday the 13th. :]

 wear those masks. a mask may be the last chance you might get to survive. survive the Covid-19 killer virus and yes indeed, the Covid-19 is one damn lethal virus. go ahead and laugh at the anti-maskers, the dumb-asses will be dead pretty darn soon anyway. the accurate and straight up facts of the matter, masks work. simple as that. thank you and this public service announcement has been brought to you by the good people at skulzwerks. experimental machine art and stuff may be our most important business however, if'n you all cack from the icky bug we won't have anyone to entertain now will we... homes with empty streets and yes that's a hint - superstition - not wearing a mask is superstition and a damn silly superstition at that. the image is Superstition Mountain.

 so amerika is slow rolling toward a coup d'etat. seems the rethuglicans aren't willing to follow the Constitution as written by the Founding Fathers and get behind President-Elect Joe Biden's victory. Biden won the popular vote and he won the electoral college votes. Biden won and trump is pitching a man-fit of biblical proportion and the rethuglicans are allowing the asshole to carry on and on in tantrum like fashion. rethuglicans suck. so and until Inauguration Day, things are going to get very ugly. yeah, like the antics in the run up to amerika's election weren't bad enough. the election is over, trump and his sycophants can't seem to come to terms with the inevitable. pity that... experimental machine art and stuff. portraits suitable for framing - flowers bloom - okay, I'm gonna say it - Mike Mike Mike Mike Mike, what day is it? IT'S HUMP DAY!!!

 wow is that profound or what. yeah, I've got nothing. I'm tired of trump's unAmerican whining and bitching about losing the election. I'm tired of the Covid-19 disaster that is costing hundreds of thousands of Americans unimaginable suffering and in many cases, death. that is DIRECTLY trump's fault. President-Elect Joe Biden will inherit the Covid-19 mess and talk about having to hit the ground running. President-Elect Biden should give a speech and thank trump for absolutely nothing. anyway and on to the artsy stuff. alone on a prairie - the bridge - the west entrance to America. :]

according to an article in The Independent (I believe that's an English tabloid), eating chili peppers will prolong one's life. if that's the case, I'm gonna live to be about 110. not that I'd like to, but if it happens there ain't not about a damn thing I can do about it. I love those peppers. green chilis, red chilis, yellow chilis, jalapeño chilis, poblano chilis, anaheim peppers, pasillas, but NOT habaneros. oh wholly fires of capsaicin hell, the habaneros are screaming hot. okay so, I got my wife to garden up peppers and this was a while ago. my wife can garden up veggies. yummy veggies and the veggies are organic. yeah like ANY damn veggie isn't 'organic' already. i think the entire notion of 'organic' anything is ridiculous and straight up bullshit. sorry, I digress. back to the peppers. so my wife grows up a garden full of peppers and potatoes and broccoli and corn and giant sunflowers and squash and all manner of green yellow red edi...

 congratulations are in order for President-Elect Joe Biden and Vice President-Elect Kamala Harris. I didn't think we'd find out on a Saturday but we did and that part is over. now comes the tricky part and that would to include getting trump out of the White House. I'm willing to bet that the F.B.I. will have charge the White House and drag trump pouty boy out of there by his heels. trump is his actual self when pitching a full-on man fit. that would be a missy fit? a man-trum? a his-trionic pout fest? anyway you'd care to slice it, it's going to be an ugly couple of months until the next inauguration day. just so happens that amerika inaugurates new presidents on MY birthday. wow is that a synchronicity or what. an accident of birth to be sure. so let us move on to the important stuff and that would be experimental machine art and stuff. mountain tops - track 9 - happy sunday everyone and hang in. the ride is gonna get goddamn bumpy from here on. : |

 Denmark is in the process of slaughtering 17 million mink. wow, talk about a genocidal holocaust. 17,000,000 fur mink. evidently Denmark is our world's largest supplier of fur mink. fur is still a thing? well and anyway, the Denmarkian mink contracted a particularly icky strain of mutated Covid-19 virus and so the Denmarkians are slaughtering every dang last one of their fur mink. I could suppose that there will be no Denmarkian mink fur for the market this autumn and winter. jeepers, is that about too damn bad or what. fur is still a thing?!? the Denmarkian fur mink are cute as can be and the Denmarkians have been butchering the little rascals so some asshat can wear a little fur. good god Denmark, didn't you learn the lessons of Hamlet? fur is still a goddamn thing???!!! I suppose that this will be a boon for the pet food industry and yes the pet food industry uses mink meat. mink meat is still a thing? the Denmarkians really need to quit the fur trade and switch to killing ...

 there aren't really any difficulties happening here. however, in other parts of this here amerika well, there's more difficulty than people should have to put up with. the difficulty would be trump. you just had to know that trump would be at the bottom of amerika's difficulties. the man is one ignorant asshole. the man's children are ignorant assholes. by the end of this day, amerika should finally know that Joe Biden is amerika's next president. it would seem that this very morning, Joe Biden has enough votes to claim an electoral college victory. Mr. President-Elect certainly has won by the popular vote count. But, amerika has got to go through the normal procedures that accompany any reasonable democratic republic and that is as it should be. absolute smarmy assholes like ted cruz should simply shut the fuck up and stay out of election commentary. as should eye-of-newt gingrich and the trump junior. as for trump himself, well, he's skirting the bounds of se...

 so amerika waits. possibly a wee bit impatient. amerikans have rarely been much about waiting. amerikans want it all and the all is wanted now! maybe amerika will know by the end of today. maybe not. however long it takes, the vote count is going Joe Biden's way and that's a good thing for everyone concerned. trump is pissing up rope, screaming, pitching fits, preparing to fire just about everybody working for trump, and in general making claims that are totally disconnected from reality let alone fact. absolute nothing new there. the vote counting continues. trump is filing lawsuit after lawsuit trying his best to stop the vote count. that's a bad idea for trump either way the vote turns out. as things stand at present, Biden has won by the electoral vote count and the general vote count. I'm not about to get into any explanation of the electoral college. the old e.c. defies explanation whether that explanation is rational or otherwise. the e.c. needs to go. anyway, t...

 so election day 2020 is over and the old election day spinning wheel is still spinning. round and around the wheel goes and where it'll stop, well, probably the supreme court will know. good lord, you'd think that two years of this bullshit would be more than enough for any nation. but no, the good old u.s. of amerika can't make up their mind and so... the bottom line would be, this here u.s. of amerika needs to ditch the 'electoral college'. an outdated and irrelevant concept from way back in the early days and the beginning of this here amerika, and is still hanging around on account of that part of the amerikan Constitution needs to be repealed. eliminated. struck from the books and sent packing. however and considering that the 'electoral college' is giving an advantage to the rethuglicans, this ridiculous and antiquated section of law will hang around for decades to come. or until the notion takes away a rethuglican advantage and then just you watch ho...