Non Binary Shit-To-Ding

"Authorities in Texas arrested a man that was planning a mass shooting event at a Walmart." Dude was evidently pissed off that Walmart didn't have whatever it was the guy was looking for in the first place so then dude decides to go postal. Happens damn near every day. So now we can all join the James Brown choir and sing "Living In America!" Or not. The Indy 500 has came and went at the speed of really fast hyper-tech race cars. Back in the day, the Indy 500 was held on Memorial Day. NASCAR held a race to celebrate Memorial Day but the NASCAR race looked like any day at rush hour traffic time so the NASCAR race was a bit of a bust. There were shooting all across America but not a one of them exceeded the threshold for reporting on mass shootings so, as you were. Happy Memorial Day to one and all. Not that the expression holds any meaning. Not these days. At least America isn't in a war. Not any sort of declared war. A few minor bush wars, several proxy wars, an almost race war but that may have been connected to the NASCAR thing, and the ever present if not popular war on terror. Of course these days the war on terror has more to do with domestic terrorists and that Marjorie Taylor Greene lunatic from Georgia than any old war on terror schtick. Insurrection is alive and well at Mar-A-Logo and anywhere the klanvangelicals are holding service. Go out and have yourself a barbecue on this fine last day of May. It may be your last chance to have family and friends close together. You never know where some deranged fuck will show up with an assault rifle and start popping armor-piercing caps into people. 2nd Amendment 4 Life! Really, that 2nd Amendment crap is more about death and a shooters ability to hit folks on the run. Maybe that's why shooters like a Walmart somewhere, there's no room to run. Hmmm...could be... now for some image manipulation. It's the new term for machine art. Evolution are us. :]

winter bridge -

stump in linear relief -

TTFN and hopefully we'll be right back here on the morrow.

From The Beginning

 Since before the inception of the United States of America, there have been about 98 major incidents of racial violence. The incidents are race riots. This disgraceful number is recorded by one BlackPast.org and the numbers are verified. Here's their link -

www.blackpast.org/special-features/racial-violence-united-states-1660

So since 1660 white people in America have been pounding the bejesus out of black people simply because the white people can. The numbers are recorded acts of white on black violence and these are not isolated incidents. You know, one white cop shoots and kills one black man. Or woman. The incidents are hordes of white people venting spleen and the white rioters have for the most part gone unpunished. Okay almost always do the white rioters go unpunished. So would the rioters be domestic terrorists? No one is held to account and I am referring to the white people. Historically in the U.S. it is perfectly acceptable for white Americans to kill black Americans and the white Americans are held up as "heroic." Use the link and check out the details for yourself. So living the American dream is for white Americans the opportunity to beat, harass, lynch, and murder black Americans. Americans are living the dream to this very day. White Americans wonder why black Americans and Asian Americans and First Nation Americans get a touch pissy when it comes to discrimination and idiots like Tucker Carlson. To be quite specific here, Tucker Carlson would be an insufferable little prick AND an idiot. Yes our America has some 'history' alright and 'history' that refuses to be swept under the racial carpet. Like a serious blood stain, the history refuses to go away. Livin' the dream...right. On a separate but will become history at a later date act of civil insanity, in Hialeah, Florida about 25 people were shot and two people were shot dead at a billiards club and the details are hardly shocking. People were gathered outside of the billiards club milling around when a white Nissan Pathfinder drove up, three shooters got out of the Pathfinder and opened fire on the crowd. Using assault rifles and handguns (no surprises there) spraying the crowd, the shooters amiably got back into the white Pathfinder and drove off into a Miami night. Miami-Dade police spokesperson, one Alfredo Ramirez III, stated "these are cold blooded murderers that shot indiscriminately into the crowd and we will seek justice. This type of gun violence has to stop. Every weekend it's the same thing. This is targeted. This is definitely not random." Gosh Fredo, you think? Miami-Dade police are also looking for a "silver Nissan Maxima." So Florida mass shooters prefer to drive Nissans and also prefer to use assault rifles and handguns. 

Yes my friends, violence and race riots are at the very heart of the American experience and you most likely won't even have to go out looking for "that" experience. Judas Priest, America is screwed sideways. Now for some Sunday machine art without random acts of racial or civil violence. No assault rifles or handguns will be involved. Judas Priest...

catcher at his day job -

most every thorn has its rose -

TTFN and watch your back. :/

Dateline May 29, 2021 114 times

 From St. Johns County Florida comes this startling slice of news, one Aiden Fucci age 14, is accused of murder in the Nth degree. It seems young Fucci stabbed his classmate 114 times thereby causing the death of one Tristyn Bailey age 13. Stabbed 114 times. Once is never enough. The murderous child Fucci is being charged as an adult and is being held in the St. Johns County jail. That would be the St. Johns County adult jail. 114 times. Once being never enough, two is probably close, but 114 times? Talk about over kill. That is not meant as a joke. St. Johns County Sheriff's Office says that Fucci mentioned to classmates (the news article calls the classmates witnesses) that he, Fucci, was intending to kill someone by stabbing them. Evidently no one thought to take the kid seriously. The kid was dead serious. Tristyn Bailey serious. Here's a link to the gruesome details -

https://abcnews.go.com/US/14-year-boy-adult-allegedly-stabbing-teen-girl/story?id=77961546

The girl's murder happened on or about May 9th and the Sheriff's Office reported details in a May 11 news release. Media reported the murder Friday May, 28, 2021.  The entire incident is savage. Brutally savage. 114 times? The kid is more than likely to enter a plea of not guilty by reason of insanity. The kid is more than likely clinically insane but savagely insane is not entirely out of the question. Good gawd, 114 times? That has got to be an olympic record for the number of times a person can be stabbed causing death. You see in the upcoming Tokyo Olympic games, atrocious murder and mass murder will be events for Olympic gold medals. Canada will enter a record number of indigenous deaths found at an Indian school in Kamloops, British Columbia. The number of bodies found stands at 215. The Indigenous school in Kamloops just happens to have been Canada's largest internment institution for First Nation children. The youngest body found was a 3 year old child. Here's a link to that little nugget of barbarism -

https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/200-bodies-found-indigenous-school-canada-77977389

It's Memorial Day weekend so, y'alls head out and have a high old time. More horror will be waiting until y'alls get back now hear? Now a brief respite and machine art -

negative -

troupe du jour -

114 times and you'd think the kid would have worn himself out after about 60 or 70 stabs. :/

All Fridays...

 For the month of May, Fridays are over and done with. Yup. No more Fridays. There will be one more Saturday, Sunday, and one last Monday. Of course that last Monday will be Memorial Day. Memorial Day has lost some of its original glory as the holiday has been watered down, soaked with beer, and held to be oh so popular with retailers. Memorial Day was originally a day for laying flowers on the graves of people that have died and especially all those that have died giving service to the U.S.. These days Memorial Day is a day to buy a new car. Or a mattress. Or offer prayers to NASCAR. Or the Indy 500. I'd be willing to bet that fully 60% of all Amerikans think that Memorial Day is a holiday created for the sole purpose of getting a day off from work and so with Memorial Day being celebrated on the last Monday in May, the holiday is a three day weekend and damn if that's not the important part. Contrary to what beer brewers would have Amerika believe, Memorial Day was not created for the consumption of beer. Highway Patrols all across this beer swilling nation are reminding drivers not to drink and drive. That drinking and driving rule doesn't simply apply to beer drinkers. Nope. Wine drinkers and variously assorted other winos are given the same caution about driving as are beer drinkers. Goodness me, people that imbibe shouldn't have to be reminded not to drink and drive. Everybody knows the law, or should know the don't drink and drive law, but people figure that after "just one drink" they are perfectly capable of driving safely. People that think they are just fine after one drink are impaired already. Of course people are going to drink and drive and that is exactly why state troopers and other law enforcement types will be out on Amerika's roads pulling people over and then sending those 'only had one drink' people to the drunk tank. A sober visit with a judge will follow very soon after one clears the drunk tank. Okay so there's a holiday tip and let us now move on to the machine art segment of todays program. 

dinae -

the "other" dinae -

be safe everyone. we almost made it through a year long lockdown and it would really suck to screw your world over on account of Memorial Day. :/

Ready Or Not

 Today will mark the beginning of the exodus. People shall flee the cities and towns across Amerika and head for somewhere else. Memorial Day weekend and Thursday is the unofficial start to Memorial Day carnage and mayhem. After having been in lockdown for the better part of an entire year, Amerikans are rarin' to go. On holiday of course. So for race enthusiasts the Indy 500 or anything NASCAR can throw up will not be where the racing action will be. Nope. The interstates and highways will be glue your butt to the front seat time and hold on while Amerika gets the hell away from home. Holiday frenzy like you have probably never seen before. I fully intend to stay home and enjoy a little peace and quiet. I plan on installing one of those Green Man thingies to do my part and help to alleviate the drought the western U. S. is suffering under. Suffering under? Hmmm...suffering without? Ain't not no dang rain so's we gots to do what we can. Rain dances, call the 'rain man', don't bother watering the lawn which is an adequate explanation for why there's a damn drought. Idiot folk can't break wise considering there's no snow pack for runoff, all the reservoirs are emptying fast, and to add misery to discomfort the Colorado River isn't. Not anymore. The Colorado is not running its usual springtime runoff high. The Green River is running not so usually high. The Virgin River... same deal. They ain't not no dang water anywhere. So installing a Green Man totem can only help. That and the Green Man thingy I ordered looks pretty cool. The Green Man is supposed to come on Friday and that would be tomorrow. I have Amazon's word on that. Delivering my ordered Green Man thingy and not any rain but I'd be willing to bet that if Bezos thought he could turn a dime on delivering rain, well, he'd be all over that. I have to wonder if Bezos will be able to produce any MGM quality movies. Cause you know, Bezos bought MGM. I don't think the MGM deal includes the MGM casino in Vegas. I could be wrong. It could be I really don't care. Yeah that last one. Amazon the movie making scheme let Amerika down when they didn't finish the 'Marvelous Mrs. Maisel' series. I watched that and thought it was pretty good. I watched it on account of it was on tv. I don't go to movies and not for a long time. The movies are mostly a rather large and expensive disappointment. One shouldn't have to take out a mortgage to take the wife to dinner and a movie. Dang popcorn is way too pricey for me. Anyway here comes the holiday weekend and so it's time for machine art. The preceding was mere prattle to set up the machine art diorama. Yeah that's my story for now and I'll stick with it. For now...

a surreal rain dance tango -

Patois de foie gras -

so there you go. be back around about the same time tomorrow provided...

'That' Day

 Do you know what day it is? The question is of course rhetorical. So a wee bit of good news for that special day of the week...trump is getting his sorry ass dragged before a Grand Jury in New York. Yup and the news broke last night and that would have been Tuesday evening. A factual specific would make that Tuesday evening May 25, 2021. Because and you know, today is Wednesday May 26, 2021 and it's a given that Wednesday evening hasn't happened yet. Not in this part of our world anyway. Herr trump might not be able to weenie his way out of this one. A Grand Jury is serious business. The kind of serious business that can get you sent up the river for a very long time. Oh be still my beating heart. Trump gets his fascist ass sent to prison will be cause for jubilation and celebration all over this land. So and on that cheery note, it is time for machine art. Let the joyous news be spread all across Amerika.

Paria River bed and yes there's not much water in the Paria River. There never is. -

Japanesque -

the time might be right for dancing in the streets :]

Tuesday And The Race Is On

 I am of course referring to Memorial Day. The very last week in the month of May and the very last weekend in the month of May will signal the officious start of summer season 2021. Memorial Day will be May 31 and gosh, that's the very last day in a month of May. Is that about astounding or what. So you'll want to get all your motorized toys fueled and loaded onto your toy haulers, stock up on beer, stock up on bandages, get more beer, and then head for the great outdoors. With any luck you might not start any wildfires so that should be a plus. Start a dang wildfire and that will muck up a holiday weekend for sure. This time of year and wildfires happen all by themselves and certainly the wildfires don't need any dumb ass human component playing fast and loose with matches, sparks, and/or campfires. Remember what Smokey Bear has to say about fire..."only you can prevent forest fires." Or a grass fire that quickly becomes a forest fire. Leave the damn fireworks at home as this upcoming holiday weekend isn't the 4th of July. Close but not close enough to be setting off fireworks. Fireworks should be outlawed during any drought and the West is drought stricken. We had a nice little rain over the weekend last but that just prompts the grasses and stuff to grow like weeds. With that cheery note we shall move on to machine art. You see, machine art in general will hardly ever start a wildfire. Yup, hardly ever. 

little chapel on the flats -

muralizer 2000 -

Memorial weekend 2021 could be a nice one so long as people don't go all apeshit. :]

Monday Oh Yes It Is

 Congratulations to Phil Mickelson as he claims the PGA Championship 2021. I watched the final hole of the PGA and I usually don't bother with golf. I mean I do admire those that can play the game. I tried to play...once...it turned out I embarrassed the game and gave it up out of respect for those that can actually play the game. Phil held his own coming down the stretch and that was pretty dang cool. One for the old guys no doubt. Yes, I am one of those. Old guys. We had us a doozy of a rain storm over the weekend. Raining buckets full. I think it snowed in Montana which is not exactly unusual. It snowed in the Sierras so there you go. The southeastern United States is basking under a "heat dome" and thus sayeth the Weather Channel guys. Ummm, I don't live there so if the southeastern part of this here Amerika is baking, yeah that's tough. We get lots of serious heat but we don't have the humidity so all things being considerable, good luck to the southeastern U.S.. Moving on to more pressing matters, here comes the machine art. 

surf's up -

camera's obscura -

so there you go for a Monday. I'm willing to bet that Tuesday will be just as bad.

So It's Settled

 Today is Sunday and that settles that. As if there was ever any question. All seems quiet for now on the Gaza Front and Palestinians can get to the work of rebuilding all their infrastructure obliterated by Israel. Israel does love that collective punishment crap. You see, Israel gets their knickers in a frothing knot at the mere mention of Hamas so they beat the living bejesus out of all Palestinians so as not to miss any member of Hamas. The murder seems fair as far as Israel is concerned. Israelis miss the irony of their treatment of Palestinians and how Jews were treated at the hands of Nazis up to and during World War II. Irony is not "blood libel." No it is not. So enough of that. On to the machine art which is exactly why Sundays were invented in the first place. That's my conjecture and I'll be sticking to it for now.

spookytooth -

snow and it's deep too -

so for this fine Sunday, here's a cheer for Captain Phil. you go buddy. :]

Saturday In Non Binary Terms

 With celebrities taking flight and losing all sense of existential realism, it might be time to extol celebrities to get a grip. On themselves and on how those celebrities are perceived by the public at large. You see, regular folk haven't the time nor the privilege to be able to indulge in self-serving flights of fantasy. The world in general could care less whether Molly and Moe Schmoe are gender specific, non gender specific, non binary in fashion choice, positively binary when it comes to food choices, and so it goes. Celebrities overall tend to be more than a bit self absorbed and raging neurotic when it comes to the daily grind of being pretentious. Which is exactly what any number of celebrities are. Glaringly pretentious and pampered to a fault. When Demi Lovato comes out to the Hollywood media and declares herself as "non binary" what does that even mean. Lovato is no longer magnetic and therefore is non binary in polarity? Lovato is so screwed up psychologically, she no longer knows if and or whether she is female or male or androgynous or your basic run-of-the-mill hermaphrodite. What is it? Which is it? Who cares? Did Lovato so much as give a cracker crumb that Palestinians are being slaughtered wholesale by Israelis? Does Lovato even know what the dust up between Israel and Palestine is about? Does she have even the slightest clue as to what 'brexit' might mean for Scotland? Or Northern Ireland. Or Wales and yes Wales is part and parcel to any 'brexit' situation. You see and given a little time to brew, Wales might end up in the same situation as Palestine. I mean, who knows? Certainly not Demi Lovato. She overdosed on heroin (?) had a stroke and totally missed any opportunity to actually make changes in her life that might matter. Best the woman, if she still considers herself thusly, could come up with is 'non binary'. I think that's more than a little sad. Over indulged and pompous and of course wholly without a clue as to what might be important in our ever so rapidly deteriorating world situation. Climate change could very well bring the Pacific Ocean right over the woman's home. That is IF the woman lives in Los Angeles. I am making an assumption here. About all of it for sure. Doesn't really matter as I do not now nor probably ever, in what little time I have left for this here Planet Earth, give a fuck what Lovato thinks or feels about anything. Certainly not about whether Lovato thinks of herself as an "it." Yes, that is more than a little sad for Lovato and all the other self-important Hollywood celebrity types that can't figure out for themselves what to be or not to be and that isn't even a question. See what I did there? I injected a little Shakespearean non binary humor into this here prattle and venting of spleen on my part. Good for me. Let us wander our way in a non binary fashion into today's machine art. Today's art may in fact be non binary. But then again...maybe not. :}

pastoral with binary subjects maybe -

arctic buffalo -

the arctic buffalo could be non binary AS he (she, it?) seems to have lost his homeboys. Homegirls? Home-its? Hominids? oh damn, this could turn into a comedy gold mine without a doubt. is it possible to be non binary and bi-nary at the same time?

Is The Ceasefire Non Binary?

 I mean that could be an important cog in the gears of an Israeli/Palestinian ceasefire. Non binary should apply to both sides in a lopsided diplomatic (?) negotiation. Lopsided is of course how negotiated anything applies to Israel. Palestinians get whatever is leftover. As an added benefit to negotiated deals with Israel, the Palestinians get to keep all unexploded bombs dropped by Israel on Gaza. Sounds like a win/win no doubt. Israel wants the Hamas "terroristas" in Gaza to quit launching bottle rockets at Israel. The Palestinians want to be able to live which proves to be somewhat problematic so long as Israel is stealing Palestinian land in the West Bank and dropping indiscriminate devastation on the Gaza Strip. Disproportionate destruction? Whatever and why quibble over split chick peas or wholesale destruction of Gaza. Disproportionate is a bit of an understatement. But for now and "now" could prove to be short-lived, quiet reigns over Gaza. An uncomfortable quiet but there may be an inordinate number of people rendered hard of hearing due to all the bombs going off after being dropped by Israel. The Palestinians living (interned?) in Gaza could quite possibly miss the call to prayers due to that ever so annoying ringing-in-ears syndrome. It's called tinnitus. You know when your ears start ringing after loud noises from gunfire and/or bombs exploding? Yeah, tinnitus.The Israeli high command should be made to stand trial by the International Criminal Court at the Hague for war crimes and crimes against humanity. Of course that is NEVER going to happen on account of the civilized world is scared shitless of Israel. The Israelis will start screaming about the Holocaust and everyone in the entire goddamn world being anti-Semitic. The entire world is not anti-Semitic so much as simply being anti Israeli genocide of Palestinians. This irrational bullshit has been going on for a long damn time now. The irrational bullshit will continue for a long damn time yet to come. And so it goes...time for machine art. There will be no indiscriminate bombing for now. I hope -

for the love of a vestal virgin -

tears in heaven -

Israel must really love the Palestinians as the Israelis certainly inflict a world of pain on Palestine.

It's Non Binary Thursday

That's right, today marks an historic first in binary pairings. Get it? Binary and pairing? Yeah well, never mind. Thursday is now and officially 'non binary'. Can't be offering any sort of bended gender-associative day of the week affiliation. Not any more. So what used to be "Thor's Day" is now simply The Day After Wednesday. Cause Thursday is 'allegedly' named after the Norse god of thunder, Thor and he was angry. And possibly confused but not about gender. Can't be a giving any gender monopolistic nomenclature to a regular day of a week. Besides them dang Norse gods were way over the top misogynistic as a general rule and all that Norse-based misogyny was and/or is getting out of hand. So from now on, all gender-based days of the week will have to be androgynous. Sorry all you Norse people, that's IF we can still call Norse folk...folk. We don't want to be insensitive now do we. So a Sunday should be okey-dokey and not insensitive. Sunday is gendered after our sun. I think. Monday should maybe still be alrighty then. Monday is named after our moon and I think our moon is not gender-specific. Lennon and McCartney did pen up a delightful little ditty titled 'Mr. Moonlight' but we really shouldn't make too much out of that. I think. Tuesday, well, Tuesday could be a bit confusing for the simple reason that it's Tuesday. I think. It could be that Tuesday is named after Tuesday Weld. But maybe not. Friday is probably close to being a thumbs up. Friday is named after the Norse god Frida. Frida or Freya? Oh hell that's close enough. However, Friday is really named after Frida Kahlo and Frida Kahlo was THE goddess of really cool art stuff. Uh-oh, that gender crap has reared it's insensitive head. Friday just might have to remain the same. Did you know that Frida Kahlo had this thing going with Diego Rivera and Rivera was sort of an asshole. Rivera was a pretty decent painter however. Rivera wasn't a god of anything other than helping Ms. Kahlo maintain her continued state of confused. Oh sorry I used the 'Ms.' associative and that should probably read "Mz." And there you go. As for Saturday, that day is named after the planet Saturn and it is more than obvious that naming a day of the week after one of our planets is really cool. Even Neil DeGrasse Tyson could agree with that. I think. Tyson is an astrophysicist and that's pretty dang heady stuff for any day of a week. Non binary or otherwise. I'm wholly of the opinion that all this gender non binary gender bullshit is really out of hand. I mean nothing really changes except for those "trans" people and I'm of the opinion that they've got more problems all in and of itself than any human, if we can still use that term, might care to deal with. Human, non binary human, non human binary, it, they, what, cares how, and/or what the fuck ever. Moving on...it's machine art time and there's not much gender bended bullshit there but I could be wrong and it isn't like that hasn't happened before. Non gender specifically of course.

south central and rugged Utah -

and here's more south central and rugged Utah -

wild Utah does not give a flying fuck about gender non binary gender or whatever. you don't play by wild Utah rules and you'll be a dead person. there see? I didn't 'gender' the dead person thing. I get absolutely elated when I can make even a little social progress. Of course that progress is mostly gender specific. :]

12 Days Of May

 That's all the days left in May, 12 yes count them 12. Not very many and not even two weeks worth. May will end up with Memorial Day as the very last day of the month and that will bring a close to May 2021. Seems more than a bit ironic that Memorial Day and the last day of May fall on exactly the same day. Ironic no doubt. The irony is of course a harbinger. Something unexpected this way comes. The troubling part of all this would be that there ain't not a dang thing can be done about it. Nope so hold on to your butts kids as here it comes. The end of May. Not yet but with the passing of each and every day the 'end' edges closer and closer. You know that there is hope though. Trump could get bitten by some parasitic mosquito down in Florida, catch the freakin' tropically strange mosquito fever blaster, get himself balled up in a tight knot, and simply vanish from this here plane of existence. Gosh, would that be so bad? I think not. So on that cheery note we move on to the important stuff. Machine art.

desert big horn sheep -

south face way off in a distance -

tails from the old west. get it? on account of desert big horns have tails. not so very big tails but tails nonetheless. :]

It's Two'sDay!

 Oh yes it is. Tuesday May 18, 2021 and thus the month of May is more than half over. Dang if'n time doesn't just fly when you're having fun. We are having fun...aren't we? I mean besides the bloodthirsty Israelis bombing the bejesus out of Palestine and Palestinians, the Ganges Covid variant bombing India, Amerika almost going one entire day without a mass shooting, horse racing gone to the steroid dogs, and time simply flies right on by. Oh yeah fun for sure. On the Israeli bombing of Palestinians atrocity, that's how Israel acts all butch for the entire world to watch. Talk about bloodsport. The Israeli venting spleen on Palestinians is like shooting Palestinians trapped in an internment camp. Can we all say 'war crimes'? Moving past that minimalist crime against humanity, with today being Tuesday it's time for machine art. Without any bombing crap. Here we go...

archies of south central Utah in the surreal -

friends from back in the day -

time for a group hug. :]

And Dive They Shall

A long overdue cleanup of Lake Tahoe is now underway. The cleanup began on Friday last and will take more or less, six months. To date there has been about 4 tons of garbage and litter pulled from Lake Tahoe. Here's a for real link to all applicable news worthy items -

https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/scuba-divers-begin-month-effort-rid-lake-tahoe-77701549 

So far an overwhelming collection of beer cans was to be expected as beer drinkers will usually toss an empty beer can and go back for another. Beer can. Divers are scouring the bottom of Lake Tahoe down to about 50 feet. The divers doing cleanup will need serious diving gear to clean up the bottom of Lake Tahoe any deeper. Lake Tahoe is really really really deep. The cleanup is mostly focused on the shores of the lake and out to the not quite so deep part of the lake. Divers have found beer cans, bottles, fishing poles, an old boat or two, outboard motors, buckets filled with cement and that's a story all in and of itself, awning, an airplane wing, two rather old Desotos, and no the body of Fredo Corleone hasn't been found. Not yet anyway. Humans and especially Amerikan humans are freaking slobs. Can't be bothered with a trash bag, nope, just toss your crap out wherever one might be standing while finishing off that tasty can of Coors. Or sandwich wrapper. Whatever. Freaking slobs. Anyway and just about lastly, kudos to the divers and all their support teams for undertaking a herculean job. Lake Tahoe is a pretty dang large body of water and it's a natural body of water and not a reservoir. Of course Lake Tahoe has been Californized on the California side of the lake and Vegasized on the Nevada side of the lake. Lake Tahoe straddles both the Nevada and California border so Lake Tahoe is a borderline body of water. Okay and let us move on to the really really really important crap...machine art.

Frida not Fredo -

layers of surreal layering -

I have to confess to having a rather unnatural crush on Frida Kahlo. I mean the women is dead and has been for quite a while now but...back in the day I would have made a serious play for the woman. That Rivera guy wasn't worthy... :]

Sunday Therefore Comes Before Monday

 Yes indeed, Sunday comes before Monday and there isn't not about much can be done about that. It's a calendar thing. Did you know that the days of a week and the months of a year were named without so much as polling data? Oh yes that is true. Gregorian calendar or Julian calendar or Universal Time calendar...ummm...there might not be a Universal Time calendar but there probably should be. There is however a Chinese calendar and a Muslim calendar and a Jewish calendar and a liturgy calendar and, holy crap, how is one supposed to know what freaking day it is or what month it might be? So if everyone just makes up their own calendar, would our world be better off? I suppose we'll never know. Not now. Besides it's probably too dang late for a new calendar. As you may have noticed, I've got nothing for this here Sunday so let us move on to the really important stuff. The machine art of course and here it is ...

my favorite flower was also Vincent's favorite flower -

making artsy stuff up -

and that is how art is made...simply make shit up as you go along. :]

A Fresh Breath Of Rectal Air

Oh yeah it's true. A mite disarming if not outright rude and here we're barely past breakfast. It seems that rectal breathing is now a thing. I'm not sure why that would be a thing but, it is. Here's the actual link to the ridiculous side of science -

https://scitechdaily.com/no-joke-pigs-and-rodents-can-breathe-through-their-butts/ 

Why in hell would anyone need to know IF pigs breathe through their butts? I haven't a clue. It would seem that science has way too much research money to spend foolishly and scientists have way too much time on their hands. For ridiculous research. So pigs and mice can breathe through their butts. Damn if that's not about a comedy gold mine. So would breathing air through the butt smell like a fart? Would one need an air freshener to breathe through the butt? Febreze will have an entirely new market to freshen up the money. You'll be able to freshen your kitchen so it smells like ass. Scientists took valuable time out of the researching allotment of time for sciencey research to give credibility to the notion that pigs and mice enjoy rectal breathing. It's perfectly fine to have a face-in-palm moment right about now. It might take a major act of yoga enhanced back bending with a twist of enjoy a face-in-ass moment. You know, I've heard about people that have their heads jammed up their ass. See trump for the classic powerpoint presentation on head-up-ass syndrome. You had to know that was coming. Respiratory therapy people are going to have to open up an entirely new line of therapeutic respiration. Therapist to patient, "okay now just relax while we duct tape your face and then breathe deeply through your butt." Sounds like authentic respiration therapy to me. Holding you breath will take on an entirely new meaning. Farting in an elevator will become acceptable and no longer a social taboo. Excuse me folks I'm just having a deep breath of ass air. I'd bet the elevator will still clear out in a blink. Just when you think there is no longer anything funny in our world and along comes this little scientific nugget of pure asinine absurdity. I mean...what the fuck?!? We'll dispense with the holding of breath on this fine Saturday and get to the machine art. I know any number of politicians that talk out their ass. Would that be in the same venue? Science might research that oddity.

Mr. Fingers -

pair n thetical surrealism -

did you know that fish can breath under water and without the use of their butts. :}

Friday the 14th!

 Yup. Friday the 14th and you may not want to venture out of your house today. It's Friday the 14th after all. Spooky no doubt. I mean there's Covid-19 variants on the loose. There's mass shooters on the loose. Tigers on the loose in Texas. Yes Texas. Okay, to be quite specific there's one tiger on the loose in Houston. The tiger is alleged to have a peculiar fondness for children. Yikes. However and with all the icky news for this day, the CDC says we won't have to wear masks any longer. For the most part. Except in places where the wearing of masks is still enforced. Wear a mask, don't wear a mask, you don't have to wear a mask over there, you still have to wear a mask at that one place, AND the "mandates" will change about Monday. Seems that the pandemic officiate can't make up our minds. But do still get vaccinated. That is if you haven't been vaccinated yet. Get yourself vaccinated it's painless. In other big news, Aaron Rogers will not be playing football for Green Bay this season and for the foreseeable future. Nope. Rogers is looking for greener pastures that won't involve getting the crap knocked out of him on any given Sunday. Rogers is banking on getting the new host gig on Jeopardy. My money is on Ken Jennings getting the hosting gig but I'm totally out of any loop that involves naming a new host for Jeopardy. Probably doesn't matter to Rogers if he plays football or not. The man has more than enough bucks to last him until hell freezes over. As for knees, well, Rogers is probably ass out on that note. Knees out? Matters how? Congressional Republicans are planning a barbecue for this Sunday and the Congressional Rethugs will be barbecuing Liz Cheney. Oh yes. Cannibalism is the "new" Rethuglican thing to do on a Sunday whenever Congress is not in session. Seeing as how Congress is rarely in session anymore, Sundays are open for all manner of Rethuglican hijinks. The Republican cannibals will be using Kansas style barbecue sauce for the Liz roast. They plan to barbecue Cheney guts and all. Hmmm...sounds Wyoming tasty. There will be Rocky Mountain oysters on the side along with virgin Kansas sweet corn. Almost makes one want to head to Babylon-On-The-Potomac for the eats. Yummy. Okay and enough frivolity for a Friday the 14th. On to the machine art.

the stuff barbecues are made of -

springtime flowers -

are we having fun yet?

Kid Kushy vs. the World

 Palestinians and Israelis are at each other...again. Hamas which just so happens to be the legitimate government in the Gaza Strip launches new and improved bottle rockets into Israel and Israel responds "in kind" with massive air strikes that blow up entire multi-floored buildings in a single blast. The Israelis maintain their using overwhelming force to try, "once again", to exterminate Hamas. The details of ongoing violence are the same as always. The one side hates the other side and wishes they would all die. The other side hates that one side and wishes they would all die. So in wades Kid Kushy (that would be Jared Kushner spouse of Barbie Trump) who declares, "why won't you guys make nice with each other. You are making me look bad." You see, Kid Kushy set up this fabulous "peace" deal that greatly benefits Israel and the Palestinians not so much. If at all. That sort of thing will happen anytime bungling idiots try and negotiate peace deals that not all sides are in agreement with. So the snot hadn't even dried on the "peace accord" signed by Israel and the United Arab Emirates when violence broke out between Palestinians and Israelis. United Arab Emirates you might ask... yes indeed, Kid Kushy negotiated a "peace deal" between Israel and United Arab Emirates. The alleged "peace deal" has absolutely nothing to do with Palestinians and therein lies the problem. Muslims worshipping at the Al Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem during Ramadan were attacked by Israeli security forces. You see, Muslims fast for an entire all day long during Ramadan and get about irritable right before they (Muslims) break their fast. After prayers at the Al Aqsa Mosque right before meal time and Israeli security forces start up acting tough guy with hungry Muslims so the shit hits the fan before the breaking of bread commences. That crap happens just about every Ramadan but this time the violence was not simply contained to the Al Aqsa Mosque. The violence spread to Jerusalem in general and then violence broke out all over Israel. Hamas engaged Israel with their bottle rockets and Israel responded with "overwhelming force" to counter Hamas' rockets. Back and forth and forth then back. The fighting is endless and has been endless for a very long time. But and anyway, Kid Kushy has his panties in a wad on account of his feeble attempt at adult diplomacy turned up a crapper. Poor baby. The Palestinian/Israeli violence will more than likely get far worse before things cool off and could very well turn into full scale war. Israel is mass troops and heavy artillery along the Israeli border with Gaza as I keyboard this rather succinct prattle. It's gonna get bloody damn ugly people so hold on for further details when details are available later on. Be sure to laugh heartily at Kid Kushy, he's a for real dumb ass and today's candidate for DumbAss of the Year award to be given out at some future date. Machine art is next.

artsy stuff in gold leaf surrealism -

rocks not rockets -

Israeli Arabs are asking themselves on this fine morning or afternoon as the time zone might reflect, "we can't we ever have nice things?"

So With Today Being

 That singular extra special day, we'll skip the bullshit and get right to the point. With the point being of course, machine art. And so...

Paria River cottonwood -

Cottonwood Canyon rocks of the surreal kind -

now let us pause for a moment of quiet reflection and a sincere hope that Liz Cheney fulfills the promise of a woman scorned. this should be fun to watch. :]

147...194 Give Or Take

 There have been 147 mass shootings this year, according to the Gun Violence Archive, which defines a mass shooting as when four or more people have been shot or killed, not including the shooter.

The U.S. was wracked by a record high 610 mass shootings in 2020, the most of any year since the organization began tracking the number in 2014. (remember that Amerika was locked down because of the Covid)

This year, the U.S. is on pace to have 511 mass shootings—more than any year between 2014 and 2019—though mass shootings are historically more likely to occur during the latter half of the year, meaning the rate could increase. 

In 2019, there were 417 mass shootings, up from 337 in 2018. 

Nearly 20,000 Americans died from gun violence in 2020, more than any year in two decades in what was the highest one-year jump in homicides since the U.S. began keeping records in the 20th century, according to the Washington Post, while about 24,000 died by suicide using a gun. 

The U.S. is currently on pace for about as many Americans to die from gun violence as last year, with 5,415 killed so far.  From Forbes magazine here's the link -

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jackbrewster/2021/04/16/more-than-one-mass-shooting-per-day-has-occurred-in-2021/?sh=362a724f6493

The 194 number for mass shootings comes from NPR and here's the link -

https://www.npr.org/2021/05/10/995380788/there-have-been-on-average-10-mass-shootings-in-the-u-s-each-week-this-year

However and this is the really important part, GUNS ARE NOT THE PROBLEM!

Oh bullshit. Guns ARE the problem. Every damn insane idiot in our blessed Amerika has access to guns, rifles, assault rifles, and ammunition that absolutely have nothing to do with sport shooting or hunting. Amerikans are adept at killing one another with guns. And remember, guns do not kill people. Yeah right. It's those godawful bullets fired from guns or rifles that kill people. You see, bullets will not kill people in and of themselves. Nope. It takes a goddamn gun or rifle firing bullets that kill people so the entire issue of guns and mass shootings is a bit of a circular firing squad or clusterfuck if one prefers. Congress refuses to address the issue. The sacrosanct 2nd Amendment argument is ridiculous. The 2nd Amendment is more than a little convoluted and the Supremes (ths U.S. Supreme Court) will not now and possibly never address the constitutionality of the Amendment. The Supremes would rather have blood on their hands than any mud they might have to wash off in translating one muddled Amendment. Oh well, innocent men, women, AND children will continue to be gunned down in cold blood for the simple rationales that gravitate around guns and who can or cannot have a gun. If even one congressional official in the House or the Senate were to go nut up and manage to get a gun into the chambers of our legislative branch of government and shoot lights out on our "dear leaders" well there would be gun legislation passed out of the Congress so fast that particles traveling at the speed of light would get run over by accelerating legislation. Yes my friends this is a brave (?) new world of death. Be careful going out and about today as there hasn't been a mass murder yet to be reported. Not yet...

machine art without gun violence.

royalty -

is it possible for Amerika to get all the way through one day without someone having their life taken by some fucking freak with a gun?

It's Your Lucky Day

Well it might be IF you happen to be one of those ever faithful dreamers that play the lotto. Oh yeah. Today just so happens to be 5/10/20...1. That should read twenty...one for all you dyslexic folk out there. That's okay to say, or write, as I happen to be one of those hapless fuckers that's lived with dyslexia all my life. So the numbers 5/10/20...and 1 can you play them in any combination and shoot, how miss can you? That's dyslexia in actual format. Sort of sucks but you learn to get along. Back in the day, dyslexia wasn't even a thing. Not in schools. The dyslexic were simply tagged as annoying, doesn't work or play well with others, twitchy, the question was posed "why does the child make so many faces and pull on his twig"? Back in the day it was common practice to call your thing a "twig." I have no clue as to why that was fashionable. So and on to more pressing matters, the Gates' divorce has a story behind it that has for the most part gone unreported. Oh yeah. Old Billy Gates is tied up in that rather icky if not out right nasty Jeffrey Epstein scandal. Oh that is true. Turns out our plucky Gates-man had to fess up to the wifey and that was when Melinny got the lawyers involved. It seems that Gates was pretty darn chummy with Epstein and the Mrs. Gates wanted truthful explanations. In steps...THE LAWYERS! the link is coming up linked in right about here -

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/may/10/melinda-bill-gates-divorce-jeffrey-epstein-meetings

Billy was getting his jiggy the old fashioned and illegal way, using the rather twisted services of Epstein. Evidently the fabulously über-rich can do that without any consequence. Of course the consequences come later and sometimes sooner rather than later if the wife pulls in THE LAWYERS! Old Billy has some serious 'splainin' to do and not just to his soon to be ex-wife. Oh no, Billy will have to explain himself and his twisted obsessions to a divorce court judge and the divorce court judges really don't care much for aberrant behaviors. Splitting those Gates' sheets isn't going to be neat and tidy. Billy's gonna need himself one really pricey lawyer. Or team of pricey lawyers. Yikes and OUCH!!! So goodbye yellow brick road. Yellow brick roads paved with real gold bricks. Gates should have just ponied up the price of a good hooker in Nevada and he wouldn't be in the mess he's in today. Which by the by is a good day to play the lotto and we've come darn near full circle. Pretty dang nifty...no? On to machine art which is the point of all this prattling bullshit. Machine art coming up about right now...

American Bison -

walking the yard (this is how it works Billy boy) -

as for an American Bison, they are really large with the emphasis on the large part. I have first hand experience with up close and personal with a really large American Bison. beautiful animals too. 

It's Raining

 All around our Planet it's raining rockets. Yup. Space trash bends to the will of that old gravitational pull and PRESTO! Space crap fireballs back to Mother Earth and makes for a spectacular re-entry. Great balls of fire streaking across a night sky. But the space junk will fall back to earth during the day. It's pretty much the rule that whatever goes up will, for the most part, come right back down. Well except for the space crap that can break free from the old gravity gig. Evidently the Chinese launched the beginnings of a Chinese space station and the "modular" section made it to orbit but the booster rocket didn't. There are any number of 'laws' you might care to break and for a while you might get away with breaking the 'law'. But the law of gravity is unforgiving and relentless. Gravity will eventually have it's way and BLAM! Back to earth. Or the ground. Whatever. Whichever? Anyway, the Chinese falling space crap may or may not have re-entered our blue orb from it's failing orbit and splashed down harmlessly in the Indian Ocean. So say the Chinese space guys. Maybe it did but then maybe it didn't. We only have the Chinese' word on the matter. The Chinese space guys wouldn't try to fool the rest of the world...would they...? The alleged rather large piece of Chinese booster space junk has space scientists more than a little worried and NASA and/or the ESA have NOT issued any word on the subject and the silence is more than a bit eerie. Should the Chinese booster rocket space crap hit some populated city or region, well, folks are gonna be more than a little put off by the Chinese raining space junk on innocent populations somewhere. You see, there is a space load of junk orbiting Planet Earth. I mean the space litter is literally everywhere orbiting our Planet and so near Earth space is a trash heap of epic proportion. Talk about litter bugs. This is space littering and it's unsightly and dangerous. Of course we earth ground pounding regular folk usually never get to see the space garbage. But when the space garbage makes its way back to earth we can sometimes get to see the fireball. Sometimes. It's the space crap you can't see that poses the danger. According to NASA there are roughly 500,000 pieces of space garbage orbiting our Planet and eventually it will all of it fall back to earth. Some sooner than later. That is a lot of space garbage. Damn interplanetary litter bugs anyway. Someone is going to have to clean that mess up before some real damage is incurred. Of course it may very well be too late and I'm not so certain that NASA nor the remainder of our Earth's space guys are prepared to offer any hope of a clean up. On the upside, if would be rather rude (?) IF the Chinese booster trash fall directly onto Mar a Lago. Now that would be karma worth the price of one lesser orbit. Thus endeth our Sunday Sermonette and now it's on to the machine art portion of today's service. 

crossroad -

sun spots and maybe not any space junk -

now we shall press on to Monday as, that would be tomorrow's installment of 'How The Earth Gets Hit By Space Crap'. hmmm, would that suggest something like when the shit hits the fan? 

Money Can't Buy

 Bill and Melinda Gates are splitting the sheets. Yup. Divorce billionaire style is about to hit the headlines and isn't Amerika just lucky as can be to be able to witness a very public division of their property. Amerikans will want to know who gets what and when will whomever gets whatever the other doesn't want. What? It's complicated. So our intrepid Billy boy is in possession of $130.5 billion dollars. Oh yes. That's how the Forbes folks have Gates' net worth posted as. One hundred thirty billion and 500 million bucks. There are nations on and around Planet Earth haven't that much money on their very best day. So Billy and Melinny (that's Gates' pet name for Melinda) will have to split one titanic mountain of sheets to satisfy the divorce court judge. That judge will NOT be Judge Judy. If their divorce were to be handled California divorce style, well, the billionaire pair would each get $65 billion and $250 million dollars and that would I suppose be equitable. Face in a palm plant goes right about here. The Gates' bungalow located along the shores of Lake Washington (that's in Washington state), will be sold to the highest bidder and the proceeds divided between Billy and Melinny. The Gates' call their digs Xanadu 2.0. That seems silly but that's just me, besides the movie Xanadu really sucked. Of course the mansion is not the only property owned by the Gates. Oh hell no. They own a beach front mansion along the shores of the Pacific Ocean in Del Mar, California, an "equestrian estate" in Florida, 242,000 acres of farmland in Louisiana, Arkansas, Nebraska, and miscellaneous lots here and there where squeezing rent out of the poor is maintained for sport. Farmland? The Gates' own farmland? Golly, who knew. Well, the Forbes people obviously knew but just regular folks and the folks what ain't got more than about squat didn't know. The folks what ain't got more'n about squat most likely really don't care. Billy and Melinny have been married 27 years. Jeepers, if a couple hasn't figured out how to live together after 27 years, there was something wrong with the relationship from the start. Anyway, this tale of love gone wrong and what does the bank statement read today only proves that money can't buy them love. Insert a Beatles sound track right about now. The Beatles popular hit 'Money Can't Buy Me Love'? If you've never heard it well, google it and enjoy. I'll bet the lawyers working the Gates' divorce are gonna pocket a king's ransom in 'time billed'. Yeah lawyers suck too. Now it's time for the lowly and poverty stricken machine art. While it's true that money can't buy you love, it is true that money can buy you a cup of coffee. However if you head to a Starbucks, you're gonna need more than a buck. Starbucks sucks! 

circles -

green not the color of money -

I'm thinking that Melinny is gonna want the horse property in Florida. The notion seems almost plausible. :]

First Friday In May

 Just a mere week ago we were still in April. Now an entire week has passed by and here it is the month of May. Wow is that about a shocker or what. Won't be long and we'll be having us a Memorial Day which just so happens to arrive on the last Monday in May. Coincidence? I think not. Don't forget that this upcoming Sunday is Mothers Day. Just about every last human experience would be entirely different if we didn't have mothers. Why, there'd be no humans at all. Which given our current state of planetary onslaught, that might not be such a bad thing for life on Planet Earth. Humans do tend to fuck shit up at just about every turn. The humans have turned this blessed Island Earth into an almost pig-like sty. Tain't fit for beasts and/or fishes at present and I'm willing to guess that time is just about up for all life on our Planet. I could imagine that life will carry on. Life does have a way of surviving just about the worst that existence can toss Earth's way. I'm more than a bit doubtful that humanity can survive much more abuse. I feel badly for the really younger humans. They shall inherit a planetary mess not of their own making. I won't be around to see any of that and I think I'm more than a little happy I'm gonna miss the karma. For all those idiot klanvangelicals out there thinking that Jesus is going to snatch them off the face of Mother Earth as the end of life actually happens, well, you are sorely mistaken if not wholly mislead by fools. Jesus himself states and quite clearly, "you shall reap what you sow." Thus the entire premise of karma is spelled out in gospel truth. You see, any number of pressing "issues" lay at the feet of those loony klanvangelicals and they alone bear responsibility and will suffer consequences for being arrogant if not outright ignorant while raping our Planet. So on that cheery note we shall move on and highlight that ever so popular machine art.

boxed -

really big fish -

it's a fish shrine and any number of souls will commence to worship it's glow. :]