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"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...

  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 Amer...

  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...

  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 creat...

  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...

  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 Rive...

  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 ...

  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 southeast...

  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. :]

  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 psychological...

  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 uncomfor...

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. ...

  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...

  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...

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 itse...

  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...

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 re...

  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 wi...

  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 pea...

  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. :]

  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 , w...

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 ...

  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...

  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...

  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...