It's Friday

So on this special occasion we'll skip right to the important stuff. Machine art of course.

untitled collage done in the surreal -

 next up we have 'tribecka trifecta' -

TGIF and TTFN :]

Crawfish Ratatouille

 The idea doesn't really sound very good. Not to me anyway. So there's these two guys on the PBS cooking channel and the pair are all gentrified and southern and singing the praises of southern fried whatever. Catfish and flapperfish and some other dang fish that I'd never heard of. Soak the fish in buttermilk overnight, then drag it through corn flakes, season with Louisiana's best salt, and then dip the mess into hot bacon grease and then and then...it was about at that point I'm thinking there is no way I'm about to visit the south or Louisiana or somewhere that's greaseifying fish. Not just fish but soup served cold with frozen bacon grease and corn meal balls dipped in olive oil and then fried in bacon grease. Talk about heart attack ready. So the fish frying southern guys are now on to crawfish ratatouille. Oh yeah, cold vegetable soup with crawfish bodies. Evidently in Louisiana and places of southern food origins, eating bugs and water critters that look like bugs is somehow a very big deal. I'm of the opinion that crawfish look like midget lobsters. I'm not a big fan of lobster either. That's just me. In the first place any creature that's about to be a meal and needs to be caught in a cage is pretty darn close to being not fair game. I could suppose that might apply to clams and oysters. Neither of those snot-looking creatures would find themselves on my dinner plate. I mean the clams and oysters really do look almost identical to snot when pried from their shells. Good lord and oh yuck! Also and by way of a disclaimer, I've never eaten clams or oysters. I did eat lobster back in the day just so long as I didn't have to look at the lobster before it got boiled. Did you know that lobsters scream when dumped unmercifully into boiling water? Well they do and if the boil masters of the poor damn lobster had ears that could hear, well, they'd hear the screaming lobsters and think twice before ever boiling live lobsters again. And yes, lobsters are boiled alive as are crawfish which brings this tirade back full circle. Crawfish ratatouille and southern cooking guys are actually about to make crawfish ratatouille and first the boys have got to boil crawfish. So you can see the crawfish wiggling around in a bucket that 'them boys' have at the ready and the poor crawfish are watching and screaming in horror as their fate is sealed. Par boiled? Anyway I'm not a big fan of cold soup. I'm really not a big fan of boiling any animal long enough to elicit the animal's death by boiling water. Damn if that doesn't sound torturous and cruel and definitely not edible. So I guess those frisky southern boys made their crawfish ratatouille and sucked head in the process. Sucking head is a Louisiana expression relating to crawfish. So if humans really are what we eat, well, I want no part of that. I think the food nazis should call their experiments in culinary torture for what it really is. Boiled alive lobster here! Fresh shucked clams and oysters here and get them before they run away. Which would definitely happen if the sorry little fuckers had legs. Snot served raw and cold on a half shell. Yummy? None for me thanks. Machine art comes next.

Amerikan cottage -

tusker -

I suppose that humans will eat just about anything that moves, doesn't move, wiggles, jiggles, and/or holds still long enough to be boiled. or roasted. or eaten while still alive... :/

Camels, Geckos, and Dr. Gates

 Today is that blessed of all days, a Wednesday. I'll not indulge in the usual 'do you know what day it is' prattle. So I can now appreciate the work Dr. Henry Louis Gates has to go through to get that 'Finding Your Roots' program to work. Genealogy is like a garden spider's web. Dang lines run everywhere and cross over then cross up and get sort of muddled if not outright muddy...and then the lines trail off into obscurity. Obscurity and the blurring of millennia. I'm giving up the genealogy stuff for a while. I can't make much sense out of most of it and there's entire sections that are simply outlandish. I found the Wales part of my heritage and after much searching and scratching of head, I found out I'm in no way related to the 'Prince of Wales'. Gosh, isn't that a pity. Or not. I am related to some prominent Mormons a way back in the day and that's not saying much as there is much polygamy and the bearing of children and damn if I haven't got me an ark load of cousins. Anyway, President Biden will address the nation and some members of Congress on this very Wednesday night and that ought to muck up the old television viewing for any number of Amerikans. I'm not planning to watch. Even with the address being delivered by Joe Biden, the address will mostly be a lot of blah blah blah and then some irrelevant blah blah blah and then some applause will interrupt Biden's speech and the big finish will be even still more blah blah blah. I am willing to bet that Biden's speech will get better ratings than the "Oscars." Evidently the Oscar crowd didn't give an 'oscar' to the dead black guy and holy rotting corpses and who cares, it's a thing now. The dead black actor guy was not killed by Minneapolis PD. Lucky him. Okay and here comes machine art right about now.

tropical dreams about the tropics -

boxcar going just about nowhere -

surrendering to surrealism is NO sin. :]

Dr. Henry Louis Gates

It was Dr. Gates that got me started on the genealogy thing. Genealogy is kind of fascinating if you're inclined to be intrigued by that sort of stuff. I watch his program, 'Finding Your Roots' on PBS. Anyway, using the 'Family Search' thingy is quite easy to explore and I had no idea how far back my familial roots may in fact turn out to have been recorded. Tracing your ancestry all the way back to Ragnar the Bad Ass was quite fascinating. I didn't know. I do know now. Some of the old familial lines stretch to Wales. The Welsh names are just about impossible to pronounce. The Welsh names are harder to pronounce than the old Viking names. Almost seems like gobbledegook and when you try pronouncing those Welsh names you'll get a cramp in your tongue that stings like crazy. So anyway, finding Jewish relatives is not only a surprise but leaves one wondering what the hell might have happened to the segment of the family that parted ways with the Jewish side of the old familial roots. Must have been some familial shit went down and down went the Jewish recognition of relative affiliations for the duration. I have no idea what might have happened and I find that troubling. Gaps in the old genealogical record are dang near impossible to fill in the blank spaces. Ain't not about a damn thing can be done about any of that now. So now for a while I'll not worry about Hanukkah or stuff like that there. I will however continue with kosher pickles and corned beef. Bagels too but I'm not certain that bagels are necessarily a strictly Jewish food item. Those soggy dumpling lumps are off the menu for certain. I don't care for soggy dumplings. Nope and I'm not about to give them any further consideration. Yuck...

time for Tuesday machine art.

a tree of ancestry -

nighttime kitty -

I suppose that doing genealogy would have to rely on someone's word for things. the ancient records are open to interpretation and I'm really lousy at interpreting stuff that's mostly incomprehensible. Linguistically speaking of course. :]

I Did Not Know

 I tried one of those genetic tracker things to see what my genetic make up might be. So I spit in the tube and put the tube in it's pre-addressed and postage paid box and off it went to the gene detectives and I waited for the results. I waited and waited and waited some more and after about a long while the results came back BUT, all the genetic detectives letter would say is "check with this web site." That is not what I expected. I followed the bullshit instructions inserted ever so neatly within the genetic detective letter and after some web-related 'issues' I found out I'm Norwegian, Scottish, and Irish. That's according to the genetic thingy. Having very few familial details to work with, I was mostly on my own to figure out exactly what I might be genetically and ethnically. I always figured I was just your ordinary and regular Amerikan mutt. Turns out I am as figured, your ordinary and regular Amerikan mutt but with some interesting twists. I found a website called 'Family Search' and filled out their forms and pressed some buttons and what do you know, I have family that dates back a helluva long way. Turns out besides being a genetic and ordinary Amerikan mutt, I'm directly related to Mormons that were personal friends with Joseph Smith and Brigham Young and all manner of cousins and second cousins and related by virtue of having polygamist cousins and second cousins and third cousins and that's not even the really curious part. The Norwegian relations go back farther than I had imagined and turns out I'm a direct descendant to one 'Ragnar the Bad Ass' and evidently, there are movies and tv docudramas made of that guy. That sort of explains some of my social bad behaviors over the years. Anyway and tracking back in time I find out I've Iraqi relations and Jewish relations and there's European relations but back then they weren't European. Oh hell no. There's Normans that weren't Mormons and Burgundians and plenty of Suffolk English but I couldn't find any Irish or Scottish. I'm not finished doing the genetic detecting on my familial blood lines. There's probably some blood clots or clods in there somewhere. I just have to keep looking. I think the most interesting find was the 'Ragnar the Bad Ass' find and the Jewish find that dates back to before the time of Jesus the Crucified. Did you know that Jesus the Crucified was a Jew? Well he most certainly was and I'm fully able to understand that but, Jewish relatives? Holy Moses I had no and I mean absolutely NO idea there were any Jewish relatives from way way way back in the day. Dang and go figure. On to machine art for a Monday. Gosh, do I need to go out and purchase a yarmulka? Curiouser and curiouser...

wonder fuels an incurious world -

goghist -

Vincent Van Gogh invented cubism. who knew...:]

To The Bottom

 note - any use of the pronoun 'we' in this or any other context splattered on the pages of this here, refers to myself and my wife. just to be clear.

Ode to Road

we drove to the bottom of Life Elevated

then drove back north up the Staircase

the drive was spectacular

reds the color of an angry god

blue the color of clean sky

yellow is everywhere pervasive and

time seems to refuse a measure

metric  or by some other means

of understanding

that's about all there is for today. TTFN :]

A Valuable Lesson

 We took a road trip to get away for a bit. Having been in virtual lockdown for the better part of over a year, well, we needed a change of scenery. One can only stare out the same window for not so very long. Anyway we went south. If one decides to travel north from where we live, you'd end up in Wyoming or Idaho. I've been to both and those places are not all they're cracked up to be. Not the scenery. Most of Idaho and Wyoming are geographically splendid. It's the people that are just a mite scary. So we tripped our way south and then back north and I've got a camera full of images that I've got to process. That's gonna take me a while. I'll post images as the images get spit out of the photo art machinery. I even wrote a poem. Ewww, is that about artistic or what. Probably just what. Onward to machine art.

all the young girls love -

boats float -

and there you have it...Saturday surrealism or some crap that might be close. :]

Friday And...

 We took a road trip and it's been quite some time since we've been able to do that. The trip was wonderful and by all appearances, Amerika seems to be doing fine. By all outward appearances, it would seem that Amerika has survived the Covid pretty close to alright. However appearances can be deceiving. The Covid variants might just reek more death than the original. The CDC seems to be saying exactly that. Ain't not about a damn thing we can do about but to keep wearing those dang masks and get vaccinated. Get your vaccination and the shot doesn't really hurt at all. Okay and there'll be more about the road trip later on with road trip machine art. I have to process all the images I took. A damn camera full of imagery. Anyway it is good to be home safe and sound. Friday machine art coming up right about now...

surreal good time -

Friday fleur -

TTFN ;}

To The Bottom

 We're gonna drive to the bottom of 'life elevated' for a much needed time out. Having been in virtual lockdown for the better part of an entire year, well, it's time to go out and about. With masks and our CDC passport card thingy. So be back later on and TTFN. Some machine art to follow.

touch the face of god -

window framed -

a photo excursion to be quite certain. :]

A Day Of Rest

 Yes it's Sunday that ever so blessed 'day of rest' for some. Not everyone mind you, just some. Some folk don't get a day of rest and it really doesn't matter what religion says about it. Religion is more fantasy than it is anything other than that. Fantastic stories, fantastic rules, fantastic beliefs, and more simply fantastic expectations. Yes today is Sunday and so what. Jews and I believe Muslims find Saturday to be the day of rest. I'm not a theologian so I could be wrong here by about a day. I really don't care. Buddhists are open to Uposatha as a day of rest but not all Buddhists. Sikhs don't hold any particular day as sacred, all days are sacred. I missed any numbers of religions but hopefully you can catch my drift. The point being that in white anglo-saxon Amerika, Sunday is the day. Of course there is that glaring exception that applies to mass shooters. Any day is a restful day to load up them dang firearms and go out a shootin' to kill. Oh yes and 'white anglo-saxon' Amerika is how the neo- fascist and neo-nazi white supremacists are branding themselves these days. Just ask that crazy bitch Marjorie Taylor Greene about 'white anglo-saxon' political traditions. The bitch is literally bat-shit insane and she's a member of Congress. You see the Greene bitch thinks Mein Kampf is holy writ. Greene needs to take a big dose of Thorazine directly in her neck. You know, fired from one of those spiffy keen tranquilizer guns. SWACK! A tranquilizer gun is not your usual fire arm so it's okay to advocate the freakish cow get shot with one. Yeah that's a "bad" suggestion and I admit that straight up. So much violence in the old Amerika these days. But hey, take out one of the loonies and it's a good start. Oh shit, I've digressed in a totally 'other' direction. Day of rest, yeah...the dreams of bloody damn lunatics hell-bent on shooting up wherever it is they think they can make a kill are out of control. The fuckers are shooting innocent people just about anywhere and this bullshit needs to stop. Like about years ago. We can't expect Congress to do squat about the gun violence epidemic. I use the epidemic phraseology as all the gun violence is mostly confined to the U.S. of A. and damn aren't we about the luckiest people on the Planet. Or maybe not. Congress has been pressured for years to do something about the gun violence and the Congress hasn't. I'm guessing that the gun violence is a really sick obsession for the Congress. Evidently the assholes must like seeing Amerikans gunned down in multiple numbers as the Congress seems unwilling to do more than pontificate on the issue. The suggestion I made about what's her name Greene getting a big shot of Thorazine and well I can do that. Hell, there's not anyone paying any attention to anything I have to see on any issue so prattle on baby. Be on your guard if you happen to be out and about on this 'day of rest', you just might find yourself in a situation wherever you might venture and some stupid freak will show up with an assault rifle and commence to killing people. Christ......

machine art to follow.

surrealistic baobab tree -

a sunny day somewhere -

and the congregation shall say AMEN!

Hip Ho Columbia

 Thar's hippos in them there waters. Oh yes there are. Hippopotami are alive and thriving in Columbia. South America Columbia. I did not know that but I know that now. I read the article on CNN. I'm gonna post a link to the article right about here -

https://us.cnn.com/2021/04/16/americas/colombia-hippo-gothere-intl/index.html

Back during the inglorious drug days of Columbia, yeah like that's all over now, Pablo Escobar gained fame and a vast fortune in the drug trade. Cocaine made Escobar almost a national hero in Columbia but eventually the drug trade got Escobar killed. So while all the drug trading was happening and the money was blowing in Escobar's direction, old Pablo imported himself a zoo replete with all the various types of animals that make up a post-narcotic zoo. Evidently Escobar liked foreign animals of the jungle kind. Of course Columbia has 'jungle type' environments but Escobar wasn't too happy with that. Anyway the guy created a zoo on his lavish ranchero along the banks of the Magdalena River. He called his ranchero Hacienda Nápoles. Gosh, that has a kind of Latin flavor to it. Anyway and while we've still time for more intrigue, all the menagerie critters were taken to elsewhere zoos or outright killed on the spot. After Pablo got cacked. But not the hippos. The hippos were left to bask and thrive in the waters of River Magdalena and thrive they have. So if you were planning a trip to Africa to see hippos in the wild, well let me set you straight on that note, you don't have to go all the way to Africa to see wild hippos. Just head south to Medellin, Colombia and then find the Magdalena River and there they be. Hippos just doing their hippo things but remember that hippos kill more humans than any other wild animal on the Planet. Probably a good thing to know if you've a mind to go and see wild hippos. I'm thinking I'll just wait and see the movie which should be out on Netflix just about in time for Christmas. I don't really use Netflix. Netflix is way too pricey for my cheap ass and besides, there really isn't anything I'd care to watch on Netflix and I'm perfectly happy watching PBS. Which by the way PBS had a Nova program that ran just the other night highlighting the fact that the predominant males of the science fields are a collection of lecherous and women groping assholes that like to intimidate women scientists and in some instances will harass and rape the women of science while out of field study trips. What do you know, scientists are just like any other dumb ass male of the species and figure that women are there for the sole purpose of sexual entertainment. That's my opinion only but I'd bet I'm not too far off the reality. Okay and now for some Saturday machine art. 

tavern grab ass in digital impressionism -

back on a farm -

I'm wondering if Amerika can make it through a weekend without any mass shooting... :/

The Banality Of Mass Murder

More mass murder. It seems that just about every damn day there's another 'mass shooting' here in Amerika and on this Friday we've got us a verified two-for. A mass shooting in Indianapolis and another in San Antonio. Of course there were any number of murders/shootings that went under the media radar. These days only the best of the best mass murders receive any media attention. For a shooting/murder to qualify for media coverage there needs to be a significant body count, loads of chaos, plenty of late arriving cops and or swat teams, hysteria, ambulances galore, AND sobbing people for the media vampires to pester with endless and pointless questions. What did you see? Were you hurt? Did your friends get hurt? Did you know anyone that was gunned down? Is that a blood stain on your shirt? How many inane questions will you put up with before your punch this media star in the face? Oh I see, you're carrying a Glock so, did you think about shooting the shooter? Do you think that Congress is right or wrong on gun control? Of course all the questioning goes on in front of the cops yellow tape to "isolate" the crime scene. That yellow tape makes for 'good' coverage of the killing field. Chalk outlines on the ground to highlight where the bodies were or just in case the "authorities" haven't yet cleared the scene of the dead, well, the bodies will be covered with a sheet. Damn if that doesn't just make for Pulitzer Prize winning coverage of senseless violence. So it's just another day in cynics paradise and let's not bother with body counts as no one is paying any attention anyway. Have Glock Will Point And Shoot. Click Bang You Dead! No big deal. No consequences. No justice for victims. Plenty of televised bullshit. Blah blah blah... We've reached a point in Amerikan society where if someone moves shoot them. There certainly is enough weaponry and ammunition to go around for every man, woman, and child in Amerika to have and cherish with affection their gun/rifle or whatever. How about a ghost gun you can make in your garage on the weekend and by Monday have the accursed thing locked and loaded so's you can go out and join the endless soft parade of killing. That soft parade kicked off a very long time ago. So don't be late ya hear... This face in palm moment has been sponsored by Smith and Wesson. Guns for everyone!

machine art :

three trees -

tea pea -

you may want to consider doing your weekend shopping online. the grocery store might not be a safe place to shop. :/

Half Way Done

 The month of April is half over. Dang it if'n time doesn't just fly by when we're having fun. We are having fun...aren't we? Well life might be fun if there weren't all those senseless mass shooting events. Every day and all across the Amerika the gun nuts strap on those side arms and head for the grocery store. Or the mall or the movie theater or damn near anywhere loads of people are gathered. Of course after strapping on those side arm, the lunatics pick up their AR-15 assault rifles with extra ultra-loaded clips and commence to gunning down anyone within sight. Some of the gun bozos prefer those laser targeting red dot gizmos and then they can really shoot shit up. Yesterday in Arizona, two idiots strapped on their pistoles and had themselves a duel in the street. "Draw pardner...!" Those Arizona idiots shot each other. Where in hell is Matt Dillon when you need him? Or Wild Bill or Wyatt Earp or anyone with the sense to mandate some freaking gun control. The gun killing bullshit is out of hand. Hmmm, that's probably a bad metaphor. The gun killing bullshit has hit an all time high if not an out right emergency. Congress won't help Amerika. It would seem that the members of Congress are held hostage by the gun lobby. Give a member of Congress a set of chrome-plated dueling pistols and they'll be your friend until the next election cycle. I could suppose that all this gun idiocy might be funny if it weren't for all the innocent people that end up dead on account of the guns. That should read, on account of the use of guns. Yeah that's better. On an almost unrelated note, Utah Senator Mikey 'no brains' Lee (Retarded-Utah) is proposing legislation that will make it legal for Amerikans to purchase silencers for their Glocks, Smith & Wessons, Colts, and whatever else falls under that sidearm premise. Yes my friends, Mikey Lee is insane. Not in any funny sense of the insane designation no indeedy. Lee is dead damn serious about the silencer idea. Lee thinks he's a fucking genius and constitutional scholar. Lee IS however a clear and present danger to civilized Amerika. Shit like that is just not funny anymore. Not even close. 

Machine art without further ado. 

the eye of persistence -

children need heroes -

seems almost sad that Amerika hasn't a single hero to be had anywhere. :/

Did You Know

 On this day in history, that J. W. Booth guy shot Abraham Lincoln. On this day in history American flyboys got into their first aerial dogfight over France in the first World War. On this day in history America bombed Libya and that was Ronnie RayGun that managed that fiasco. On this day in history the Soviet Union agreed to pull out of Afghanistan as the Soviet Union was getting their commie asses kicked by the Mujahadin. We know the Mujahadin today as the Taliban. Today or someday pretty darn close to today, Joe Biden will announce that he's planning to have all American troops pulled out of Afghanistan by September 11. That hasn't been any nation on the Planet that could subjugate the Afghan people for very long. On this day and every dang day through out recorded history, Wednesday is determined to be 'hump day'. What more needs be said? Hump Day is what it is...Hump Day! On to machine art.

gorilla -

Pablo platters -

somebody cue the camel and lets get busy... :]

Extemporaneous Tuesday

 The title sounds almost impressive but what it really means is I'm just making shit up as I keyboard along. In Utah local headlines, the crackers down in Washington County, Utah are pissed off to no end at Mittens Romney. Washington County, Utah domiciles St. George, Hurricane (pronounced her-cane), Ivins (pronounced evins), and Uncle Joe's Bottom and that's lovingly pronounced as Uncle Joe's Bottom. Washington County Utah is not exactly known for intellectually progressive thinking on any subject. So given that most of Washington County denizens are more than likely to be dragging their knuckles in the dirt as they prattle along, well, they're being pissed off at good ole Mittens is no surprise. In other news, wind is blowing along the Wasatch Front, Salt Lake Mayor Erin Mendenhall will step out of her office today so as to get her hair done, former Congressman Benny 'boy' McAdams is on a countywide search for relevance, and Utah mormons are having to do without on account of their Salt Lake Temple is closed while the mormons rebuild the damn place after Angel Moroni threw his 'horn' down is utter disgust with Utah mormons. I made that last part up just to rankle the mormons. The mormons are really easy to piss off and I've made it a lifelong adventure to do exactly that. Piss the fuckers off. Okay and so much for extemporaneous bullshit and it's on to machine art.

a Dali homage -

vintage surrealism -

so if today is Tuesday then tomorrow will be...you know... :]

The Body Count For A Monday

 Yes my friends between the fatalities from the Covid-19 pandemic and the fatalities from mass shootings in this here 'land of the free to die', we're racking up some impressive numbers of dead from either/or. That is certainly nothing to brag about and I'm fairly convinced that being cynical about our daily existential struggles is one way to cope. Not necessarily the best way to cope but hell, works for me. Anyway and yes there were more Covid-19 deaths over the weekend and the mass shootings keep on piling up the bodies. Gad-ah-mighty, ain't living in Amerika pretty dang spiffy or what. Moving on to the machine before the next killer headlines hit the old Google news page. At least there's something to look forward to.

an existential hillside somewhere -

an existential mandala done in the surrealist fashion -

TTFN and here's hoping we all make it to tomorrow. :/

Djinn

 Djinn and the missing 'princess'. See the link -

https://us.cnn.com/2021/04/10/middleeast/un-concern-princess-latifa-intl/index.html) 

An Arab princess is come up missing and THE United Nations would like to know what's up with that. Seems Princess Latifa of the U.A.E. has vanished like an Arab Djinn. Whisked away unto an Arab mystery. Princess Latifa is one of the daughters of one Sheikh Mohammed Al Maktoum and Maktoum is king of the Emirates. That would be officially known as the United Arab Emirates. Seems good old Maktoum is having worlds of trouble with his kids. Darn kids can be a real pain for just about anyone living on or near Planet Earth. Anyway, Princess Latifa has been missing for a while and the United Nations wants to why and where she might be OR if the girl is even alive. The Maktoum people haven't exactly been forthcoming with any specific details about the girl being alive or you know, the opposite of that. Being alive. Arab monarchies deal with family matters any dang way those Arab monarchies want to and it's their business and everyone else can butt out. Except this time the U.N. is getting involved and I'm not certain as to why the U.N. would want to nose around Maktoum's personal family matters. There are any number of missing people around our cruel world and the United Nations doesn't really give a fig about those people. Give a fig...that's funny. Fig? Arabs? Figs and Arabs? That's an insensitive poke at Arabs in absolute control of Arab sheikhdoms. Any old day in these here parts of a world, you can go to a grocery store and find missing children photos on cartons of milk. The U.N. doesn't care and their not even close to giving a shit about the missing here in Amerika. Anyway, it just seems a bit weird that the U.N. is stirring up a shitstorm over one missing Arab princess. Besides, a recanting of this tale of Arabian intrigue fills up some space while I get the machine art in order and ready to post. And here it is, machine art.

headaches of the familial kind -

rock split and that could have been the work of a Djinn -

rock split could have been the work of a Djinn but I don't know that for an actual fact. I'm just filling empty blog space for the fun of it and to poke at those silly darn Arabs.

It's Still Early

 With this day just getting underway and there's still plenty of time for another mass shooting with that prerequisite death and mayhem. Gun lovers new motto will be 'have guns then kill people!' Dang it, isn't Amerika just great? Amerika can't feed the hungry but Amerika can certainly supply all the assault weaponry and ammunition any fool gun-nut can cream their jeans over. Did you know that "Jesus" loves assault rifles and Glocks? Well he most certainly does and you can ask any klanvangelical and they'll tell you all about it. Guns, not "Jesus." You just might find out when it's too late that you should be packing an AR-15 to get into 'heaven'. Okay and now for some machine art without any assault rifles or Glocks. 

trail head -

lonesome tree -

sad state of congressional affairs. :/

Friday Festivities

 We've made it to Friday. That's probably a good thing and there aren't too many days left in this week to go out and commit mass murder. Every freaking day it's a mass shooting here then a mass shooting over there but America can't have any form of gun control. So if you've a mind to avoid all the mass shooting and accompanying death, well, stay close to your home and keep a wary eye out for anyone packing an AR-15 assault rifle. That could be anywhere in America. I'll not be going to any great lengths to condemn the violence. There exists in America mountains of words, prattle, empty promises, and crocodile tears on the subject of guns and gun violence. No one cares and no one in any position of authority gives a flying fuck and is NOT listening to reason. Oh well... machine art.

butterflies are free -

Babylon and the end of objectivity -

be safe everyone. :/

At The Speed Of Goodbye

 Well there you go. Another mass shooting spree and more innocent Americans get to die. For no reason that is apparent at the moment. Investigating sheriff's office will release details on the shooting when details become available. Wow. Senseless violence IS the Amerikan way. Senseless violence with a gun or assault rifle. The worshippers of Amerika's Second Sacrosanct Amendment are cheering loudly for the shooter's constitutional right to "keep and bear arms" while murdering people that were unsuspecting of their impending doom. You'd think that at some point, rational minds would take the high ground in any debate on 'gun control' and make the point for less guns in Amerika. But that is not to be. Probably not now nor in any foreseeable future. A damn bloody future but...oh well. This round of pointless murder goes to a "former" NFL player that shot and killed his doctor, the doctor's wife, and the doctor's grandchildren. All former professional NFL player then shot and killed himself thereby ensuring that the grieving family will not receive any justice. Are you ready for some mass murder? More mass murder and fuck the football. Gun violence is now an everyday occurrence and shootings with that accompanying bloody murder are simply boring if not blasé. America is numb to the killings and so it goes. All the gun violence does have a silver lining for the mortuary businesses and their business is booming at the sound of gun fire. Programmers at ABC/Disney are planning an all new spinoff from that 'Bachelor' bullshit. The spinoff will be called 'An Evening With Mass Murder'. The premise will have Donald Duck getting all aggravated with his nephews, chasing his nephews down to Scrooge McDuck's mansion and then Donald will shoot and kill everyone at the McDuck killing field and then go over to Daisy Duck's domicile where Duck shoots and kills Daisy and then old D.D. goes to Mickey's house and blows his duck brains out all over the sidewalk in front of Mickey's house. Now that might be television worth avoiding at all cost. Oh and the speed of goodbye is actually the sound of a speeding bullet traversing its way to an intended target. 

Moving on to machine art without bloodshed and murderous drama.

in the limelight -

abandoned -

Amerika might find peace when the last shooter is standing. :/

First Wednesday

Yup, it's the very first Wednesday in the month of April 2021. That's why it's called 'first Wednesday'. So on this fine and springtime sunny first Wednesday of April go out and do something first. You know, like before anyone else does it. Whatever that "else" might be. Some ideas to consider for 'first Wednesday', do like those Amazon delivery people do and pee in a bottle then, if you happen to live in Florida, throw that bottle of pee on one of trump's Florida golf courses. Just use pee and don't use gasoline on account of the use of gasoline could and quite possibly be construed as "domestic terrorism" and we all know that the "domestic terrorism" tag is reserved almost exclusively for Capitol insurrectionists. You know, from back when on January 6, 2021 and the screwy fuckers went ape-shit on the U.S. Capitol. Go out and buy a gun. That would help all those horribly deprived and barely making it gun shop owners. Remember, in Amerika you can't have too many guns. Or assault rifles. Just be sure to NOT go out and shoot up your local grocery store. Or local mall. Or hair salon. That would be rude. Take your young un's to a local park. Remembering of course to leave your assault rifle at home where it belongs. Assault rifles are reserved for those all out assaults on the local grocery store or mall or hair salon or whatever seems convenient at the moment. I'd bet there are any number of gloriously inventive things one can do on 'first Wednesday' that involves assault rifles or guns. You could always pack up your assault shooting iron and visit your voting district's member of Congress. Given how Congress is all kinds of supportive of that sacrosanct 2nd Amendment, your congressperson probably won't mind a bit if'n you're packing serious heat. Now it's time for 'first Wednesday' machine art. Without any guns of course.

bleeds red -

three horses -

I like horses and horses are way more approachable than some 2nd Amendment nut job carrying an assault rifle with ample sidearms attached to the 2nd Amendment nut job's side. You know Glocks, Colt .45's, S&W .357 magnums, hell one could probably mount up six or seven sidearms given a moment or so to think about it. :/

If It's Tuesday You Can Lick Those Wounds

 NCAA basketball is over for 2021. Mens and Womens Finals are done is done and the winners are...Stanford Cardinals on the womens side and Baylor Bears on the mens side. The women's final was actual basketball the way basketball is supposed to be played. Close all the way to the final buzzer. Stanford won their title the old fashioned way by exactly one point. Baylor on the other hand kicked Gonzaga's collegiate ass up one side of the court and back down the other side of the basketball court. Not even close. The 'Zags' shouldn't have been listening to all the pre-game hype. You see Gonzaga was "supposed" to win before the game had been played and golly, was that a mistake. Baylor evidently wasn't listening to all the 'Gonzaga' bullshit and so Baylor Bears are the national champs and the Gonzaga Bulldogs are the national chumps. Wasn't even close. Oh well, maybe next year eh? On a totally unrelated note, the cop trial of the century over the murder of George Floyd and the Minneapolis Police Chief took the stand to testify that the Chauvin former cop was "not following Minneapolis Police procedure" while kneeling on Floyd's neck for 9 minutes. Gosh, ya think? There is so much cell phone video of Floyd's death shown at the trial, proving that Minneapolis cop innocent could be problematic. Police brutality is nothing new in this here Amerika. Remember the Rodney King beatdown in L.A.? That was way back in the day so folks thought that police brutality would certainly be brought to an end. Wrong on all counts. Police brutality is a mere symptom of the root cause of police beatdowns/murders. Institutional racism IS the norm for law enforcement in Amerika. It's not a very pretty picture when Amerika is forced to look at murder by cop square in the face. That cop trial is supposed to last about a month. Gosh, what will Amerika have to watch then? I know...Aaron Rogers hosting Jeopardy. I watched Rogers hosting Jeopardy and I thought he did a damn fine job. Ken Jennings is still my hope for the Jeopardy hosting gig but Rogers was better than I expected. Katie Couric did a fine job too. Dr. Oz sucked and he sucked large as a Jeopardy guest host. But then I'm not a fan of 'Dr. Oz' and I'm of the opinion that the Oz guy is an asshole. So's Dr. Phil but that's not the point of today's tirade. Machine art is the point and will always be the point. So for today...

deep mourning (for Gonzaga?) -

alien -

bookies in Vegas are paying out this Tuesday morning. HAH!

Monday Morning

 Well here it is, the very first Monday in April 2021. Major League Baseball is underway, NCAA basketball is just about finished with 'pandemic era b-ball' go Zags', and spring is well underway. The springy birdies are back within the confines of the 'Land of Zion' although not in the numbers that the springy birdies used to gather in. That's more than likely due to climate change. Thanks to all those criminally nefarious corporate environmental polluters and their equally nefarious cronies that work for the criminally nefarious corporate environmental polluters. Did you happen to read about Florida and that "leaking toxic shit retention pond and hold on to your butts cause the dam's about to break and won't Florida have themselves a godawful mess then." Did you? Well you might want to get up to speed on that freaking disaster and guess who's to blame for the toxic "spill"...you guessed it, Florida rethuglican politicians that allowed such a fucking nasty event to happen. Should that retention pond barrier break, well, Florida is gonna have to evacuate Tampa Bay the city and let us all right now wish Florida good luck with that. One thing is for an absolute certainty, if anyone can thoroughly fuck up an ecosystem it's rethuglicans. Evil and retarded freaks! So here it is the very first Monday in April and for all things even remotely relevant to things happening on a Monday, the single most encouraging thing would be the return of baseball. Go Yankees! Now let us traverse the blog-scape and dive into machine art and all the shit that is really important for today's modern existence. Wow is that about existential or what...

an orange spectrum -

guys in ties OR men in suits -

and there you go, Monday artsy stuff and we all know that 'art' is whatever you can get away with. :]

So This Is Sunday

 The very first Sunday of April 2021 is here and now. Oh yeah. Springtime is happening and the flowers, birdies, and squirrels are all outside doing their springtime thing. Yes and today is Easter. Here is a bright and cheery Easter Sunday message -

"Man invented language to satisfy his deep-seated need to complain."...Rigmore Ingabitchen

So for this here Easter Sunday 2021, NASCAR is holding a special '50 Lap Demolition Derby' at the CrackerAss Race Track in CrackerAss, Georgia. NASCAR will celebrate Georgia's recently passed law that disallows voting for anyone in Georgia that isn't "of the White race." That ought to be just loads of laughs. The NCAA will hold the Women's basketball final, pro golf will hold an Easter Sunday championship round of play somewhere that is sunny and pleasantly warm, MLB will be playing ball all around the country just not in Georgia, AND trump along with the Melanoma trump will make their annual appearance close to any bank that happens to be open on Easter. Yes my friends there are loads of things to do on this fine Sunday so get outside and enjoy the springtime. Also be kind to bunnies, baby chickens, and baby ducks. In keeping with Easter Sunday traditions that are culturally relevant wherever you might happen to be celebrating an Easter Sunday. Bunnies, baby chickens, and baby ducks are so dang cute and when those bunnies, baby chickens, and baby ducks grow up they turn out to be pretty darn tasty. Fried up nice in some olive oil and served with fava beans and a fine chianti. Did you know that Julia Childs loved to cook with veal? Well she did and she cooked up that veal in the "French style." Go figure. Now let us move on to Easter Sunday machine art. Without veal or baby chickens.

what's the frequency -

in a surreally prone position -

you know, Greeks like to eat lamb and that's almost like veal. :]

Nothing But Net

 Nothing says Easter weekend like college basketball. Yup. It's to be all basketball all the time. College basketball and not the parent NBA team basketball. The women's championship game will be University of Arizona against Stanford University. An all PAC-12 final and that has got to be a first ever matchup. NCAA Men's Final Four begins today and the women's championship game is tomorrow and that would be of course, Easter Sunday. Tell all the world, "She Is Risen" to new heights! That's a burn on those wacky christians going all 'Peeps' crazy at Easter. Basketball, back in the day, was quite enjoyable to watch. That's not the case these days. Basketball has been incentivized and profits are all that matter to the universities and the pros. Way back in the day we played full contact street basketball. That was almost nothing like the basketball you can watch these days. We didn't have referees or none of that. We simply went all out to grab the ball, dribble at least three or four times and then go to the hoop. Hmmm, I could suppose that does sound exactly like today's basketball. Oh well. Let us move on to the machine art and leave basketball and those 'Peeps' crazy christians alone. Let It Be...

the suffering of Palestinians -

pollock-esque -

take it from Jackson Pollock, anyone can do art and have and as we all know, art is whatever you can get away with. :]