More Corrections

 Daylight savings time will change on Sunday March 14, 2021. Dang, I never get that right. Move the clocks ahead, move the clocks back, try and keep that little drill straight and good luck you just might need it. Amerika needs to set the clocks one time and just one time move the clocks forward or backward doesn't really matter. Just leave the damn time alone. Nobody and I do mean not anyone gains even a second more time than what is allowed for each and every individual. So I stated about yesterday that the change to daylight savings time would happen on the first Sunday of March and I missed it by about a week. Mea culpa... Changing the freaking clocks is hardly big news. Changing the freaking clocks is more of a nuisance and damn irritating. It will take everyone just about two weeks to re-adjust the old body clocks and that's a certainty. Circadian rhythms don't you know. It is a statistical anomaly that car accidents increase by about a factor of ten for the first two weeks after switching to daylight savings time. The number of Amerikans committing suicide increases by a factor of 7 point 3. The number of banks robbed directly after switching the time forward by one hour hasn't increased or decreased and that's not really any surprise. Any decrease in the number of banks robbed as reported by the FBI is more closely associated with the Covid-19 pandemic and bank robbers being in ICU's across these amber waves of strain and are directly in close proximity to the wearing of masks. Evidently the wearing of masks hasn't helped bank robbers whatsoever. The dummies haven't caught on to the fact that a bandana makes for a lousy preventative for the Covid. Anyway, I stand corrected on the switch the clocks forward drill and there you go. I hate the switch to daylight savings. I think that I'm getting way too old for this shit. Now we're on to the really important stuff which would be - - machine art.

selling humans -

even more Amerikan industry -

Amerika has always managed to sell one damn atrocity or some other damn atrocity. :/

Whoops My Bad

Yes my friends its correction Saturday. I needs a make the correction known to the general public and anyone else besides the NSA that may in fact be interested. I wrongly stated that the C-PACkers soiree was being held in Babylon-On-The-Potomac this fine last weekend in February. (bye the bye, Babylon-On-The-Potomac is Washington, D.C.) Wrong and as wrong as wrong can be. The C-PACker soiree is being held in Florida this year. Go figure. Orlando Florida to be quite specific. The Hyatt/Regency Hotel in Orlando Florida to be even more specific. The silly fuckers generally hold their hog-hollering contest in Babylon-On-The-Potomac just about every year but, not this year. So I stand corrected and that's what I get for simply relying on instinct and what used to pass for almost but not quite normal. My bad... Speaking of the C-PACkers, did you know the goofy freaks erected a golden statue of trump? Oh yeah they did. It's the 'golden idol trump' and you can get your picture taken with their golden idol IF you're willing to pony over some bucks. The C-PACkers love that money. Anyway, there's really not much in the way of unusual news for the very last Saturday in February. Nope and nary a splinter of out of the ordinary news and/or highlights from the day so we'll move it along to the really important stuff which is machine art. Machine art is important and political bullshit is hardly any of that. You know, important. Now if "God" were to smite the C-PACkers DOA, well, that would be some really big news. If "God" were to smite the C-PACkers for idolatry that would be at least something positive for our pandemic plagued world. "God?" Are you out there and paying any attention at all? Paying attention to the idolaters? No? Okay then...

succulent and not even surreal -

eminence front and/or whatever -

Don't forget to change your calendars and then your going to have to change the little date thingy on your watch and then next weekend it'll be daylight savings time and you'll have to change your watch AGAIN! Good god I hate that daylight savings bullshit. :/

Two Days Left

Yes my friends there are only two yes count them two days left in February. Dang if'n February doesn't just fly by. You know like when time flies while having fun? Almost but not quite like that. So what that all means is, you only have two days left to get in on all the 'presidents day' sales. Those mattresses and recliners and big screen televisions and new samstung cell phones. All the crap that Amerika's early presidents never got the chance to spend money on. There aren't any new iphones though on account of Apple targets the release of new iphones on prime marketing days. And yes, Amazon is threatening to sue Apple for trademark infringement. You know on account of Apple's 'prime marketing' research rubbing against the Amazon trademarking any and all associative uses of the word 'prime'. Good lord we live in the days of litigious knee-jerking at every turn. Won't be long and hungry Amerikans won't be able to head to their favorite steakhouse for some 'prime' rib. Which brings up another pressing if not distressing issue which would be prime rib. I don't care for prime rib. Raw and leaking bloody mostly uncooked beef that one can only imagine must taste even worse than it looks. Prime rib looks goddamned awful. I don't want a slab of meat that's still bleeding and twitching. Give me a fully cooked cheeseburger and I'm good with that. Gonna need some fries with that as well. Oh crap I seem to have digressed like a big dog. Where were we...oh right, samstung cellphones. There are only two days left in February and that's to include shopping days so get out there and shop 'til you drop. Of course should your blood sugars get dangerously low, stop in for some bleeding prime rib and head back out there for the shopping drill. :] Now for that highly anticipated machine art and we'll skip the stuff as I probably if not quite specifically covered the stuff already.  

theoretical if not surreal bars -

blimp and/or torpedo. this is surrealism so you'll just have to take your best guess -

that's all for now. be well everyone and don't forget to mask up. the pandemic ain't over yet. The fat lady isn't about to sing. The fat lady contracted the Covid-19 and straight up cacked. :/

Danger Will Robinson...

 Danger! That's right so be aware. The conservative rat pack mostly known as the 'Conservative Political Action Committee' holds it's annual soiree this weekend in Babylon-On-The-Potomac. Babylon will be filled with lunatic crazy people, conspiracy theorists, insurrectionists, white supremacists, racists in general, and donald trump. Trump is the "featured" speaker at the gathering. There are any number of marginally insane Amerikans that still think trump won last November's election. The clear and present danger to Amerika would be the fact that a)- these crazy bastards are armed to the teeth and b)- the freaks will be packing their guns. The Capitol Police will probably have to call on the National Guard, again, to help keep the Capitol Building from being invaded by the CPAC loonies. Again. Yes my friends this will be another shining example of Amerika the Homeland on display for all the world to wonder at. The world will be wondering what the fuck is wrong with the Amerikans. Any verdict on what the fuck is wrong with the Amerikans will have to await a decision by historians that keep track of important stuff like that there. Or not. It is quite conceivable that historians will be unable to come to ANY consensual conclusion about the Amerikans and so the historians will have to kick the old conclusive can down the road and leave further theses to anthropologists that might be digging through the remains of the Amerika after the fall of Empire Amerikana and given the way things seem to be headed these days, the fall of Empire Amerikana isn't all that far off. Seems a pity. So if you're living in or around the Babylon-On-The-Potomac area, make plans to be elsewhere this upcoming weekend. Things could get very ugly in a hurry and almost normal people would want to steer clear of Amerikans on the edge and wanting to shoot-to-kill somebody not quite unlike themselves. Good luck Babylonians-Living-Around-The-Potomac. Now it's time for machine art and stuff.

Gitana -

Texas -

I've been informed that I'm persona non grata in Texas. Gosh, I wonder why that might be? :]

Wednesday Blah Blah

There is news circulating that just about every politician in the Amerika is prattling bullshit. Blah blah blah and then more blah blah blah. Most of the blah blah is incomprehensible gibberish with a smattering of what the fuck did he/she just say. Sad really. Okay and now let us get on to the machine art and we probably just did the stuff.

surreal theater playhouse 42 -

 conga line up or something entirely different -

and remember the really important part...do you know what day it is? :]

The Last Tuesday in February

 Here it is the last Tuesday in February and I could suppose that we should mourn the demise of Tuesdays. February Tuesdays that is. Amerika should mourn the loss of 500,000 citizens to the Covid-19 that ex-pres trump allowed to die. Trump couldn't understand the science or the medical science behind the Covid-19 plague so he stood back in total ignorance (referring to trump as ignorant is giving the prick the benefit of any doubt) and let Amerikans die. Damn the man is an asshole. A murderous asshole at that. But the U.S. Senate let the asshat skate free. I'm hoping that the New York Attorney General and the Manhattan District Attorney will hold Herr trump to a by the law book standard which the U.S. Senate didn't have the balls to do. It is rudely apparent that at least 43 U.S. Senators are completely incompetent and are deserving of being removed from Office. Immediately. Enough of that and let us celebrate the last Tuesday in February with some machine art and stuff. Whatever in hell 'stuff' may in fact be.

yoga and not yoda -

l'fleur du jour -

that's all folks! :]

Nothing To Say About Nothing

 Yup, I got nothing. Nothing to say anyway. With the possible exception being, trump will continue to plague Amerika up to and until some legal authority somewhere puts his murderous ass in jail. Trump plans to announce his run for president 2024 at the annual CPAC soiree coming up here real soon. CPAC is an association of cracker idiots and other fascist nitwits that gather annually in Babylon-On-The-Potomac to cackle and crow about all things fascist. Ordinarily these freaks could simply be ignored. However, they've got about a mountain of money and that makes them inordinately dangerous. Treasonous? Yeah maybe that last one. Anyway it's on to machine art and I'll skip the stuff for today which just so happens to be George Washington's actual birthday. February 22 and a way back when. Not today. Machine artsy shit coming up right about now.

tusker and sadly, just about the last tusker left on Planet Earth -

look up and the vertigo will kick in -

Amerika should have excised trump when the chance was staring everyone right in the face.

Did You Know

 Today is Quadragesima Sunday. Well it most certainly is and I'm willing to bet that pert near everybody had no idea. Quadragesima Sunday is the first Sunday of Lent and the first Sunday after Ash Wednesday. Go figure. Go ahead and say quadragesima ten times fast. I dare you. I always thought that the Lenten season lasted forty days from Ash Wednesday. Damn if I didn't have that all wrong. Quadragesima Sunday marks the forty days to Easter Sunday. Or is the count to Good Friday...jumping jebus on a south bound bus, these ecclesiastical gizmos are kind of hard to figure out. So what might 'Quadragesimal Sunday' mean? I'm glad you asked. Quadragesimal means 40. Yup and that's it. Quadragesimal means forty. That's exactly the kind of miscellaneous bullshit you can take with you to a Jeopardy performance, you know if you happen to get picked to perform on Jeopardy, and win big. I'm also willing to bet that not even Ken Jennings knows the definition of 'quadragesimal'. That just might be a fairly safe bet. However Ken Jennings is one pretty dang smart guy so you might not want to bet against him. I would but I'm not a very good gambling sort of guy. I think that Ken Jennings would make the perfect replacement for Alex Trebek and Mr. Jennings did a helluva job as guest host of Jeopardy. I love Jeopardy and I've followed Jeopardy since the early days of the program. Rest in peace Mr. Trebek. Yes Ken Jennings would make the perfect replacement for Alex. Did you know that NFL Aaron Rogers is scheduled to be a guest host on Jeopardy? Well he certainly is. I didn't know that Rogers had the creds to host Jeopardy but he's going to host the show. So is Katie Curic. I can believe that Curic would have the creds to host Jeopardy but Aaron Rogers? Go figure. I'd bet that neither Curic nor Rogers has any clue as to what Quadragesima Sunday might be. Curic maybe but Rogers? Mayim Bialik is to guest host Jeopardy too. Ms. Bialik will make a good fit on Jeopardy, she's a Ph.D.  Say, is Rogers a Catholic? I think Katie Curic might be Jewish. As a disclaimer here, I have no idea as to religious affiliations for Curic, Rogers, or Bialik and their spiritual affiliations are none of my business. I'm just pounding out letters on the old keyboard and filling empty space with blah blah blah and some bullshit added for cultural flavoring. Quadragesima Sunday, who knew? Now for some machine art and I've just about killed the stuff for this fine Quadragesima Sunday. Damn, Quadragesima???

provocative - 

Wilbur Desoto -

Quadragesima? :/

Simple Saturday

 We'll keep things simple for this here Saturday the 20th day of February 2021. Politics proceed per usual. National hysteria seems a bit not so hysterical. Climate change continues to change right before our very eyes and although that's pretty dang strange, the changing is not so hysterical. Well unless one lives in Texas then all bets are off. I'd send them an electric blanket except the Texans don't have any electricity. The power is coming back on line be it ever so slowly. Hang in there Tex, help is on the way. Now let us get right to the machine art and stuff.

surrealistic jungle -

flamenco -

be well everyone and keep your feets dry.

On the 3rd Day of Lent

 Yes today marks the third day of Lent. So go out and have yourself a cheeseburger. No fair cheating with a tuna melt or a fish burger. Nope. To properly thumb your nose at ecclesiastical Lenten etiquette, eating a cheeseburger is the way to go. For even better effect on 'thumb your nose at proper Lent Day' have a double cheeseburger and live large. Yes indeed. Flaunt them churchy rules and catholic schemes. Eat meat for Lent and make a declaration of freedom from those ever so annoying catholics and vegan types. What the hell might a vegan actually eat? You know if one might be a "practicing catholic", one is not supposed to eat meat on any Friday during Lent. I know that on account of my mom was catholic and she made us eat fish sticks every damn Friday for the duration of Lent. I hate fish sticks. You can't hide the taste of fish sticks and not even with tartar sauce. Not mustard. Not even tabasco sauce. I hate fish sticks. I can proudly admit that I've never ever had a fish sandwich. No way and not no how. I'm not a big fan of eating fish in general. However tuna is an exception. The tuna stuff you can buy in the store probably isn't really fish anyway. That whatever it is doesn't taste so bad and if you add mayo and tabasco sauce, well, it becomes edible. I'm talking about store bought tuna. If you schmeer some store bought tuna mixed with mayo and tabasco on toast with some homemade pickles, you've got something that becomes a Michelin four star special. I don't care for lamb either Or mutton. Oh blessed mother of a shot-to-shit Jebus (you can say that on account of this is Lent), lamb or mutton is greasy and tastes like burned boot. When lamb or mutton is cooking, it smells worse than burned boot. I'm not a big fan of roast beef. Say, maybe I'm a closet vegan and didn't even know it. Maybe but I would have my doubts. Give me a cheeseburger any day and that's just fine dining as far as I'm concerned. A cheeseburger with chips and that would be lays potato chips and not the British version of chips which are really french fries in disguise. Why would the British want to call french fries 'chips'? I'm guessing here but I think that name association might have something to do with the overall and in general hatred between the British and the French. Remember, I am guessing here. Did you know that the silly French eat snails? Oh yeah. The little buggers what live in shells on the ground and slime their way through snail life and curse the very day they ventured out on a sidewalk and got stepped on. CRUNCH!!! Snails make a rather wet crunching noise whenever they get stepped on. Why might the French eat something that goes CRUNCH when stepped on? I think the French eat some really weird shit. Hell, the French might even eat shit. Boiled then fried lightly with some fava beans and a fine chianti. Boy, am I ever pissin' off the French. Oh well. It's the first Friday in the Lenten season so I can do that. You see the French are for the most part catholic and we're almost back to where this entire prattle began. I don't care for fish and even were you to slap fish and not tuna, on bread it's still fish. I'm not sure what you'd call tuna. Store bought tuna to be quite specific. Okay and now for some machine art and I've beat the crap out of stuff. :]

shadow foreplay -

estuary -

did you know that there are fish that live in estuaries? I'm not about to hold that against any estuary.

It's Freezing Down In Texas

 All the power lines are down. Or froze. Or just hanging in space limp and without juice. You know, electrical juice? Water pipes are busting out all over and there's icicles hanging off the ceiling fan that used to work but now on account of there's no electricity, the dang fan won't. Won't work. Roads are impassable and covered in ice. Yes people, that is the Texas of today. Yesterday and probably tomorrow. Of course the icy grip on the old Texas panhandle and elsewhere will pass into the record books and then the weather will turn off hot and hot as in Texas hot. Welcome to the new normal loving referred to as 'climate change'. Of course Texas Governor 'Wheels' Abbott is in complete denial over just about all of the ills facing Texans at present. The winter freeze strangling Texas and according to Abbott, its those dang wind farms and solar energy. Of course Texas gets very little of its energy from wind farms and solar generation. 'Wheels' should be removed from the Texas Governor Office for the simple reason that Abbott allowed Texas to be woefully unprepared for the disasters that are the NEW normal. All the Texas petroleum providers are simply stupefied that they couldn't provide for Texas residents and damn doesn't that just about suck. For the Texans of course. Too bad so so sad for you. There was a bit of comedy in the midst of all the suffering Texans have had to put up with. Texas Senator, one Ted Cruz, headed off to Cancun just as the winter disaster 2021 planted a firm grip on Texas. Cruz is an asshole almost as large an asshole as trump. I do hope that Texans will remember their gloriously if not cowardly Senator Cruz the next time the poltroon has to run for re-election. I do feel bad for the poor people in Texas that are bearing the brunt of Texas political ineptitude and republican arrogance. Of course by the time of the next election cycle in Texas, the ruling party of the One Texan That Counts, will have made voter decertification a number one priority and regular Texans that vote won't be able to. Vote. Oh happy day...oh happy days to come...                               Now we're on to machine art and stuff. Texans will have to fend for themselves and that's exactly how Texas Governor 'Wheels' Abbott likes it.

ocotillo -

up and/or down -

Okay and Thursday is in the books. The Mars Rover is supposed to make a Martian descent today and let us hope that all goes well for NASA. You know as in, don't crash the Rover. Please. :]

Oh No..,

 There goes Tokyo, go go Covid-zilla number 19 of course. Variants may apply at some future time. So remember ladies while in Tokyo and the Covid-zilla number 19 of course games, keep quiet so as not to upset the Japanese. And the Japanese wonder why they keep getting slapped upside they heads. The Covid-zilla games will be cancelled and there is very little doubt about that. The way the Covid-zilla number 19 of course mutates into REALLY nasty variants, the cancellation can only be inevitable. So sorry... now for machine art and whatever.

if a thing looks like work, well for hell sakes, it is -

this little number turned out better than I'd imagined -

pretty dang cool I'd say and I did. :]

Snow Day!

 Oh yeah, it snowed about two inches of wet, sticky, sloppy, and clogs up the snowblower snow. Got the snow blown and it wasn't a joyous Utah powder snow. Nope. It was work. Groan and bitchy old guy gripes and complaints. Utah powder snow is ever so easy to get the snowblower through. The wet, sticky, sloppy snow shit  simply is not conducive to good snowblower action. However and all bitching aside, the snow is blown and our driveway and sidewalks are passable. Yeah me. Now for some machine art and yes the machine art is a thing. 

zoot's allusion -

the return of donk -

happy Tuesday everyone, make peace and love as any alternative simply sucks. :]

The Day After

The slop-kissy Valentines Day seems to have came and went without much kerfuffle. Thanks to Boris Johnson for that understatement. You see Britain's Prime Minister, Boris Johnson and that would be the U.K.'s version of trump, stated categorically that America's face-to-face with insurrection and murder was nothing more than a "kerfuffle." Gosh Boris buddy, shut the fuck up! That's the best the U.K. could muster when Boris was being pestered with media journalist questions about what to make of the American Capitol riot. You will of course remember January 6, 2021 and the assault on America's system of government and the seat of that government which as it turns out would be the U.S. Capitol. You also might possibly remember the disgraceful performance offered up by America's Senators that allowed trump to skate free, once again, by refusing to vote enough votes to impeach the slimy slug that is trump. Trump sparked the riot on January the 6th. That bit of representative disillusioning bullshit happened on Saturday and that would have been February 13, 2021. The Senate would have need 67 votes to impeach and the Senate only voted up 57 votes to impeach. Yes it is a fair conclusion to state that America's dime-a-dance romance with a democratic republic is just about done and done. I suppose life was good while it lasted. So in an historical perspective, the America didn't last to very long when measured in an historical metric style measurement of all things democratic republic related. And yes that is a thing. Well, it is now. So we shall see what we shall see and one doesn't need to be on a mountain top to sense that things ain't all that great in the old 'motherland'. There are foul and odiferous conspiracies at work here and those foul and odiferous conspiracies have nothing whatsoever to do with a "deep state." Hell no. The foul and odiferous conspirators are republicans be they ever so gaddanged stupid and we all know you can't fix stupid. Now it is time for the machine art segment of our program and there possibly will be stuff to follow if there's enough time.

chain reaction -

twi-night in the land of zombie politics -

please to remember people, keep a pocket full of shells handy just in case. Thanks to that Rage Against the Machine guy. :]

The Surprise Is

 The surprise is, there's no surprise. Surprise? The U.S. Senate voted the article of impeachment against trump a failure. It would have taken 67 senatorial votes to impeach ex-president asshole and the Senate could only muster 57 votes to impeach. Senate minority leader Itchy McConnell voted to acquit and then offered up a rather weak-ass speech as to why trump is responsible for the Capitol riot but Itchy couldn't vote to hold trump accountable. What...The...Fuck?!? Yes McConnell is a glaringly sad excuse for a person of honor which is what U.S. Senators are alleged to be. Honorable. I mean the dumb ass freaks actually swear an oath to uphold and defend the U.S. Constitution. Of course it is entirely possible the U.S. Senate has changed the rules and Amerika's Constitution. Anyway, had the Senate actually voted to impeach now that would have been a surprise. Feckless, spineless, without cajones, and utterly corrupt. That would be 43 U.S. Senators. Amerikan democracy will need some time to fully recover from trump and the U.S. Senate's rape of our democratic republic. So trump will now be able to come out of hiding and blabber on and on about how he, trump, was sorely mistreated. The city of Washington, D.C. should charge trump in criminal court for inciting a riot that resulted in one of the Capitol Police officers getting killed. I seem to recall that another of the Capitol PD officers committed suicide directly after the Capitol riot. Either way and on top of incitement to riot, trump should be charged as an accessory to murder. Were this a perfect world, that would happen in a New York minute. Trump being charged and then convicted. Oh well, we are what we are flaws include our Senate and trump. God damn, that is just sad. Okay now on to the machine art and stuff relevant to anything other than trump.

killer diller -

music hath charms -

Happy Valentines Day to one and all. kissy kissy kiss kiss...:]

Friday Revelations On A Saturday

 Yes my friends, sometimes we have to wait until the 'next day' for really important stuff to hit the headlines. Here we go with some of yesterday's best - the CDC announced their brand newest project for Amerikans. The CDC announces, proudly I should add, the official and no shit Covid-19 Pandemic Coloring Book For Children Of All Ages Without Any Vaccine Of Course. Now that should be a best seller alright. Mighty Itchy McConnell, minority party leader of the U.S. Senate, announces his intention to "acquit" the trump. Gosh, that isn't new or news. Itchy had his head surgically implanted into trump's inner rectal sanctum a couple of years back. However with the Friday announcement from Itchy, Amerika is supposed to be surprised. Anyone paying even the slightest bit of attention to trump's historical if not sad impeachment trial, won't be surprised in the least. You see, most of Amerika's senatorial "leadership" is woefully retarded and abjectly corrupt. Did you know that you can get Itchy McConnell to drool uncontrollably simply by waving a one hundred dollar bill in front of Itchy's nose? Well you can and I dare you to give the 'experiment' a go. You will be pleasantly surprised at the results. Or maybe not so much. That little trick seems to work accurately across the senatorial spectrum. That is "spectrum" and not scrotum. Anyway, the Senate is not about to convict trump. First off the goofy freaks would need to have acquired a collective spine to share amongst their ilk. Secondly, very few if any of our gloriously overly pampered Senators are in possession of anything close to real cajones. With the possible exception of that AOC lady and she works in the House of Representatives. Lemme see here, there was a third Friday surprise and I seem to have left the notion somewhere other than here. Oh well and we can save the third one for some other day. On to machine art. Any other stuff will just have to wait until I can remember what the hell it was...

surreal if not a digital sphere -

fashion model in a future tense -

just in case you hadn't noticed, tomorrow is Valentines Day. don't forget your sweetie. now that simply wouldn't be prudent. 

Friday!

Friday and that just about says it all. Or not. Did you know that today is Abe Lincoln's birthday. Oh yes it is. Back in the day, Lincoln's birthday was a federal holiday and most states complied with the day's celebration. Now days it's a 'Presidents Day Birthday Sale' and you can go out and buy yourself a new bed or new car or new carpet or a tummy tuck or face lift or botox for your wrinkles or just about whatever a person's heart might desire. Of course 'Presidents Day' is Monday and that would be the day after Valentines Day and if you count those Gregorian calendar days, the day will be the 15th of February. Did you know that the proper pronunciation for February is feb-rue-airy. Of course had one been paying any attention to 7th grade grammar class, well, you'd know that. Or maybe not. 7th grade grammar class was one of those bore you to tears endurance runs and if you barely passed the class with a D- you were home safe. Safe enough. I was of course one of "those." Grammar matters not so much. Ain't that about a shame. Not. Anyway Happy Birthday Abraham Lincoln and happy Friday to everyone. Now go out and have yourselves a good time. Being mindful of those ever so annoying Covid-19 rules and regulations for wearing a stylish if not fashionable mask and for hell sakes mind your social distance. The Covid-19 variants are worse than the original Covid-19. Maybe we should start making plans for where to plant the body after the Covid-19 has done it's worst. None of that for me thank you very much. I'll do the cremation gig and get ready for an afterlife of unknown circumstance. Seeing as how there are loads more people that have taken the ride to the other side, what might come next is a crap shoot at best and nobody has any idea of what comes after this life is history and so we're back to where this all began. One more time...Happy Birthday Abe! Now for some machine art dedicated to Abe. 

spectacle and it's not Ford Theater -

storming seas -

Utah County in the State of Utah is giving away free Covid19 vaccine shots and you don't even need to be a resident of Utah County. Get some while you still can.:]

Isn't It Romantic Or

 Something almost romantic-esque. I'm not certain what might pass for "romantic" these days. I think the entire notion of romance has grown old and worn out a welcome. Back in the day and I'm not sure what 'day' that might have been, flowers and chocolates and formal wear and stuff like that there were the items that passed as romantic. The entire point being that it is almost Valentines Day and these days the guys are supposed to buy their sweetie some cheeky and adult "playwear" which is not about the woman. The cheeky adult wear is for the guys. Something that will make his eyes pop and get the old libido working overtime. Anyway, there's today and tomorrow which just so happens to be a Friday and then Saturday and then...BOOM! Valentines Day and you won't be able to do much cheeky shopping on Sunday. Cause you know, it will be Sunday and the cheeky shopping places will more than likely be closed on account of it being Sunday. Seems a bit puritanical to me but I've already got my Valentines Day shopping completed. I may be a lot of things but I'm not above getting the missus something for the big sweetie day. And yes, my wife is my big sweetie. Kissy kiss kiss baby, I love you. Hmmm, somehow that all seems maudlin under the scrutiny of a Verdana font. Is there a romantic font? I'll more than likely have to google that. Okay and so with all things being considered and Valentines Day looming large on the trending horizon, get busy and indulge the notion of romance. Go ahead on out and give someone you meet a big wet kiss and wish them happy Valentines Day. You see it will be perfectly okie-dokie to do that cause you should be wearing a mask and what with the social distancing rules being in play and stuff like that there, you'll be just fine and maybe not get yourself arrested for being cheeky. It really is not so easy to plant a wet kiss on someone while practicing social distancing and being masked up. No it is not. Okay and now for the machine art. We've already covered the stuff. :]

Obi Orb -

spiritual apparition -

did you know that the real St. Valentine was beaten to death and then beheaded? Gosh is that about romantic or what...

What It Is

 Is what it is. Wow is that about existentially deep or what. Let's go with what. I've got nothing. However that might not be so bad after all. It is however Hump Day and that's got to count for something. Cue the camel...

Machine art and not much stuff.

tiger -

ghosts -

TTFN.

Grab Hold Of Your Butt

And hold on tight. It's avalanche season a way out here behind the Zion Curtain. Yup. Storms have brought occasional snowfall to the Wasatch Range, be that ever so infrequent, and as the ambient air temperature gets warm with each passing day the snow melts a bit and then more of that infrequent snow and PRESTO! The perfect meteorological excuse for an avalanche. There have been almost 360 of those ever so annoying avalanches this winter and that's a lot of dang avalanches even for this part of our winter world. The weather guy on television stated that fact as of last night. The actual number of avalanches. So there you go. Avalanches are in abundance but will the faithful skier/snowboarder/snowmobiler take heed of the warnings? Hell no. The local weather journalists along with the National Weather Service's Avalanche Warning Center keep issuing warnings to stay the hell out of Utah's backcountry and the dummies just keep on testing fate and getting buried in wet concrete-like snowy tombs. On an unrelated note, the Avalanche Warning Center has this local "authority on avalanches" guy that wears a topknot. Hair is cut short all around his head but he sports a topknot that just looks stupid. He's a white guy and a bit graying around the edges wearing a topknot. Of course the guy can wear his hair any way he likes. But a topknot? Topknots are not exactly the style to be aging gracefully in the wearing. It does take all kinds to make a world. Oh sorry I digress. Where were we? Oh yeah avalanches. With the winter 20/21 not being anywhere close to normal for winter time a way out here, the weather authorities still haven't made any mention of climate change which is EXACTLY why this 20/21 winter has been so unusual. Here in the Valley of the Ain'ts, this winter has been mild and quite comfortable. For a winter anyway. With our world's climate being mostly unnatural, we should probably start getting winter by about May 2021. I'm really glad I've got my snowblower all primed, gassed, and ready. Yup. On to machine art and stuff. 

orange blossoms coming early -

the official flag of winter 20/21 -

okay and that's about all for a Tuesday. besides, today starts trump impeachment 2.0 and this should be good for a laugh. maybe... :]

The Misery That Is

 Monday. What other misery could there be? The question is rhetorical. Tampa Bay pounded the bejesus out of Kansas City so that settles that. Tommy Terrific has seven yes 7 Super Bowl of Sundays rings and pretty soon he'll be able to start wearing the rings on his toes. That would make the rings The Super Bowl of Toe Rings. Good for Tommy Terrific. The actual good aspect to Sunday's Super Bowl of Sundays is that Coach Bruce Ariens won himself a Super Bowl ring. The oldest coach in the NFL to have won a Super Bowl. Good on ya Coach and way to go. The Bucs could NOT have won the title without Coach Arien. Well and Tommy Terrific. Can't do a damn thing about that. Anyway its a Monday and the fun and games regarding the trump second impeachment starts about today and the media concerns are gearing up for what should amount to just about nothing. I seriously doubt the Senate will convict trump even at his second attempt at impeachment. Trump will skate as the rank bastard always does. I really don't hold much faith in the U.S. Senate. The Senate is home to a nest of evil, corrupt, and damn nasty vermin and history will prove the point and that IS if Amerika has a future to work through. Or whatever. Now it is time for the machine art and hopefully the machine art will offer up some distraction to counter the horrors of a Monday. Here we go -

don't look it's too horrifying -

but it's a new day or something close to that -

okay and we'll see y'all later round a bend. :]

A Super Bowl of Sunday

It's here. Super Bowl of football Sunday. Finally (yeah like there aren't more important things to do on this fine Sunday). Have you placed your bets? Have all you football obsessed Amerikans offered up prayers for your team? Teams? Stocked the fridge with beer and the ever so important snacks to chow on during the game? Made arrangements for the kids? You know something besides chaining the little darlings out in the backyard. Made peace with your annoying neighbor that always picks the opposing team from the team that you've picked? Stocked up on shotgun shells. Amerikans are supposed to 'rally round the family with a pocket full of shells'. Yeah that's a shot at the Rage Against The Machine guys. Actually I kind of like the song of the same name. 'Pocket Full Of Shells' or is the title 'Rally Round The Family'? I should probably google that up. Not now. Oh that's an unintended funny. You know, 'shot' and 'shells'? Comedy is never pretty on an early Sunday morning. Well I do hope the better team wins the game. I also hope that Tommy Terrific gets his game handed to him. I don't care for Tommy Terrific and I've never been a fan of his. I also don't care for his old team. Well and to be specific, I don't care for the Patriots owner. Robert Kraft is the owner and I think I'm pretty darn close. Kraft is another of those infamous "self made" billionaires. Yeah, Kraft is self made. Not the sorry suckers that have worked for the guy over the years and made Kraft mountains of money. Self made, right. Kraft is a shining example of who's really important in Amerika. Corporate swine. The over indulged asshole would not stand a chance in Compton on a Saturday night. Truth be told, Kraft wouldn't be caught dead in Compton. I'm thinking the guy couldn't find Compton on a map made especially for Kraft in large format print with the names spelled phonetically. Oh I apologize, I don't know the guy and I don't want to know the guy and as for Boston and the various New England types, stay the hell away from the land of Zion.😁 I found the emoji button. Good for me. Okay and that's about enough of vitriolic blah blah blah for a Super Bowl of Sunday. On to machine art and stuff. 

a giant placing his bet -

 a memorial for all those that will lose a bet placed on the "teams" -

I'm taking the Packers to lose by five. I think that just might be a fairly safe bet. :]

One Week And One Day Away

 It's true. Valentines Day is a week away from tomorrow. Gosh that sounds almost like science fiction. Wait, Valentines Day most certainly is science fiction. Hallmark and card creators across this here Amerika turn huuuuge profits off of gullible and love struck suckers and that IS the real reason why Amerika celebrates the martyrdom of some obscure Catholic saint. And yes, the day is honored as "holiday" for St. Valentine who got his fool head chopped off or burned at a stake or some other form of social sport that was popular way back when. Possibly the guy was brutalized by heathen. The martyrdom happened so long ago no one and not even Pope Francis knows the whys and wherefores of how the poor fool got himself cacked. However and in the meanwhile, we've got us a Super Bowl of football on tap for tomorrow and that might distract lovers both young and old for at least a partial moment in time. Or not. Will you be buying the winners of the Super Bowl of football a Valentines Day card? Collecting on a bet from your local bookie? Hiding from you local bookie for failing to pay up after loosing a bet? Damn, it seems to be one darn crisis after another darn crisis. Amerika is THE land of crisis and always has been. Amerika was born out of crisis. What are you gonna do... well let me tell you, machine art and stuff. That'll fix everything. Sure it will. 

canoes just in case you needs to beat feets -

one unabomber type cabin in the middle of nowhere. think Ted Kaczynski -

Go Packers! Damn losers! :/

A Day That Will Live

 Friday February 5, 2021, a day that will live until about 12:00 a.m. midnight... well maybe not exactly midnight but dang close. At 11:59 p.m. and after about a minute it will turn out to be tomorrow and tomorrow will be Saturday February 6, 2021. Wow is that about prophetic or what. Okay not prophetic. What we have here is the simple ticking of the old clock on a wall. An inevitable if not the eventual forward sweep of time. Time and not space/time although that notion could fit in here somewhere and we might ask Dr Stephen Hawking but Dr. Hawking is no longer around so we can't ask him. You'll just have to take my word of it. Wait a minute, you could always ask Dr. Neil DeGrass (DeGrasse?) Tyson. Dr. Neil fills in for Dr. Hawking when Dr. Hawking isn't available. Which given all the tricky little ancillary details, Dr. Hawking won't be answering any question so... Here it is Friday and Amerika is almost at the Super Bowl of football. I'm taking the Packers by five. Yeah I know, the Packers won't be in the Super Bowl of football. The Packers got beat by just about five. Go figure. So everyone has the NFL's permission to eat nachos and drink beer to excess all weekend long. Football Tommy Terrific will square off against the "kid" Mahomes and Super Bowl football should be really really if not really exciting. Problem is, there won't be any whiz fancy commercials so why even bother.The big advertising three, Coke and Pepsi and Budweiser, won't be running commercials during the Super Bowl of football craptacular and won't that just take all the fun out of watching. The commercials were always the best part of any Super Bowl of football. Oh well. Let us now move on to the really really if not really important stuff which is machine art. 

in keeping with the full contact aspect of this weekend we present...Warrior Caste -

nature's finest without any full contact whatever -

so regardless of how one might spend this weekend of revelry, don't drink and drive. That wouldn't be prudent. TTFN :]

Nuts Is Nuts

 Marjorie Taylor Greene. I think I spelled her name correctly although spelling hardly matters at this point. The women is exactly ten hairs short of being a baboon. Thanks to Lewis Black for the descriptive. Credit where credit is due I sometimes make mention. Lewis Black is one funny man. Anyway, the official and sacrosanct United States House of Representatives will vote today on whether to strip the crazy lady of any House Committee assignments she may have been given by the rethugs in the House. Greene is about one loose cannon on the rethuglican side of Congress and House Minority Leader, one Kevin McCarthy, refuses to even make mention of the woman's mental condition. McCarthy needs all the rethuglican votes he can muster and he could care less if Green poses a clear and present danger to the House, America's presidency, herself, or Democrats that reside in Congress. If Greene manages to get a pistol inside the House, well, let the bloodshed commence. You see Greene is unnaturally enamored of trump and believes whatever bullshit that craps its way out of trump's never ending dialog with himself. Greene holds a rather sick fantasy about having a love tryst with trump and bearing trump's love child as an Amerikan messiah. There is more than a little something wrong with MTG. MTG should not now nor ever be confused with RBG. RBG was a brilliant if not genius Supreme Court jurist and MTG is just treading water while she waits to be strapped snugly into a straight jacket. The House vote today should make for some interesting reporting and American media concerns are always on the lookout for something new and exciting. Relevance does NOT come close to being relevant with any media reporting. American media concerns will always report on the stupid shit as the stupid shit garners the news outlets higher ratings. Yes, American journalism has taken more than a mere glancing blow to its credibility. Okay and now we venture on to machine art which is certainly more pressing and relevant than media ass kissing another simple minded Amerikan freak.

smiley surreal silly face -

dome in a desert -

the above image turned out way better than I thought it would. kudos to me. :]