'They' Are Taking Over

 If you haven't noticed of late, machines are taking over corporate America. Oh yes they are. Try and speak to a human at just about any online retailer of shipping concern and all you'll get is one of those annoying and really quite stupid automated call directors. The machines really don't direct anything but they are fucking annoying and outright irritating. The machines can't reason and that poses a significant problem with communication. The machines are programed to deceive and are unable to answer the simplest of questions. I had me an "incident" with FedEx that left me with more unanswered questions than I had when I first contacted the FedEx customer service line. Which by the by, is a complete failure if not a rather offensive joke. After some hard fought full contact pugilism I finally got to speak with a "person" that was alleged to work for FedEx. I have my doubts and I think I was actually speaking to Punji the office boy somewhere in Pakistan or Bangladesh or possibly New Delhi. I am left with having to suppose at this point. My shipping problem is not resolved up to this point and the mess has only become even more messy that at the beginning of the conversation. Short story even shorter, my call was in utter futility. You see, I refuse to be assimilated into the corporate Borg and I will resist to my last dying breath which may in fact happen sooner than later if I ever have to deal with FedEx again. Cutting to the chase here, as much as this tale from the cyborg crypt can be cut, my issues with FedEx are unresolved and are unlikely to get resolved anytime in future. Jesus, FedEx really sucks and the freaks suck large. Anyway and my point would be, there are NO humans working at FedEx. The machines have taken over the business and dispensed with all humans that may have in fact worked for FedEx. The only humans remaining at FedEx are the humans relegated to menial tasks like delivery and sweeping out their warehouses. FedEx probably has a contingent of compliant cleaning "gals" to wipe down their office space and shit like that there but other than that, well, not a human that can effectively communicate is to be found ANYWHERE within close proximity to wherever in hell FedEx may in fact be incorporated. Somewhere in Cracker, Tennessee I think. If you happen to make a purchase online or are thinking about making a purchase online, check out with whom the seller uses for shipping. That's an often overlooked item that is fast become of primary concern. Especially if you've made a rather pricey purchase which is the case in this instance. I won't do that ever again. Oh FUCK no way! Okay and gimme a minute or so while I calm back down and then we can proceed to the machine art which is something I have absolute control over. And no damn machines except for what I use for the CGI and stuff like that there.

amerikan cartoons -

eat a couple of these and hold on tight -

I always thought LSD 25 was superior to mushrooms but that's just me and not anymore. the eating of LSD 25 or mushrooms. :/

Burning Down The House

 In the span of just a bit over one week, two apartment (condo) complexes have burned to the ground right here behind the Zion Curtain. Yup, the under construction mess is now a burned toast mess. For all the world to behold. That is IF you're able to get behind the roped off area that was roped off by the police. One in Salt Lake County that is now the city of Millcreek and one in Ogden that is still called Ogden. Seems there's a string of construction sites being burned to the ground. I don't know what's up with that but, burning seems to be one method of ridding a neighborhood of an unwanted development. You see city councils all up and down the Wasatch Front refuse listen to people in the neighborhoods that are affected by this obscene raft of new developments. The city councils all up and down the Wasatch Front are outright owned by developers and so it goes. Neighborhoods and the people that live in those affected neighborhoods are ass out and have no pull with city councils. That speaks to larger problems than just your everyday arson. Arson is not the preferred method of dealing with developments. Arson will get one's ass tossed into the slammer for sure. Don't do it. The developers will now face some serious setbacks in their quest to reshape cities and towns in Utah. The developers will have to carry most of the load from cleaning up a burn site and the costs not covered by fire insurance. That is of course IF the affected cities and towns made the developers carry fire insurance and well, all manner of insurance. I would have my doubts as to insurance requirements applied to developers by town councils. Council members seem to be thoroughly enthralled with being in bed with the developers. It is of course all about the money. It's always about the money. To the shame of this wonderfully grandiose Amerika. I find it less than convincing that these construction site burnings are coincidence. I suppose it could be possible, karma maybe, but probably not anything but fire related insurance fraud. Or some manner of social activism that borders on domestic terrorism. Whatever. I'm not sorry to see the construction sites leveled to the ground. The issue remains that the eyesore buildings should never have been started in the first place and that would have ensured that arson or whatever, would be unnecessary. But now, it is what it is and wreckage will make its way to the landfills and some developer is going to have to find more two by fours (that's lumber) and sheetrock. That is of course if the developer wants to start over. Could be a case of sixes. You know, half a dozen of one thing and then six of another thing. Get it? Comedy. Or whatever. Let us move briskly on to the machine art portion of today's program. Machine art is safer than speculation. I'm pretty darn good at speculation but that is mostly irrelevant at this point. :]

woods alight (or construction sites) -

more of Vincent's very own -

I really like Vincent's work and he's about my all-time favorite artiste.

Are You Ready For Some...Olympics?

 Mere days away from the big games. The Tokyo Olympics is set to start, or not, in about three weeks. Or something close to that. By way of disclaimer, I don't bother with Olympics anything. Way back in the day the Olympics were for amateur athletes and the competitions were fun to watch. Then NBC got hold of the franchise, those "amateur athletes" became paid performers, the IOC started adding any number of bullshit competitions that aren't even close to 'sport' and that ended that. Kayaking is now an Olympic sport. Kayaking is not a sport. Oh yes and skateboarding. Judas Priest... The Olympics have become a money albatross to ANY city that might want to host the Games. The 'Host City' will be required by the IOC to pony up and up front, gigantic piles of money that the 'Host City' may or may not recoup. Billions and I mean billions of dollars, on account of I believe the IOC requires their money in U.S. dollars. I don't think that the IOC will accept a Euro. The IOC will however, take Swiss Francs. Best dang money that money can buy anywhere on Planet Earth. The Swiss Franc and not a U.S. dollar. Anyway, NBC is advertising the jumping bejesus out of the 'Games' and even the local NBC affiliate is using their news reporting to advertise the "OLYMPICS - GAMES OF THE GODS!" That local affiliate would be KSL channel 5 and KSL is the "official" local media concern of the Mormon Church. Yeah, the Mormons. Hell, the Mormons own all manner of non binary and non religious shit. They's in it for the money and damn if the Mormons haven't got about a gigantic pile of bucks. The Mormons even have a slush fund of several billion and I do mean billions of dollars in cold hard cash that they stashed somewhere on Temple Square. The Mormons could have stashed all that cash in the granite caves of storage that just so happens to be at the mouth of Big Cottonwood Canyon. You know, the road what takes the idiot skiers up to Brighton Ski Resort? That Big Cottonwood Canyon. Oh whoopsies, I digress. The Olympics right. So the 'Games' are almost here and if NBC is anything at all, NBC is about turning crap into cash. Well so would be the IOC. Amateur athletics my sorry if not really white old ass. I'm an old white guy and I can say that. So mark your calendars or not as here come THE SUMMER GAMES OF THE TOKYO OLYMPICS! Broadcast to you live... or on Memorex to be shown sometime later on. Or not. Machine art for a Monday is up next but first we shall pause for a 'few' messages from our sponsor. Not really. I'm just making shit up as I keyboard along. HAH! Is that about funny or what.

please note that today's CGI is almost entirely in black & white. Switcheroo to be certain. :]

needle points -

hanging tree from a way back when OR today's version of Georgia the U.S. state and not the country over by Albania or whatever -

Gosh you know what? You could certainly use that hanging tree to string up any of the trump klan. Hmmm...

If This Is Sunday...That's A Snake

 The drought and wildfires out here in the West are sending snakes of all varieties into close proximity with humans. You see water has mostly dried up and with the wildfires burning down the natural habitats, well, the critters have gots to go somewhere. So that would be where the humans are clustered with their lawns and pools and cool spaces or cooler spaces, and stuff like that there. Well the animals aren't stupid so they head for where what they need just so happens to be. Antelope, deer, moose, raccoons, rats, rattlesnakes, skunks, and probably all of "god's creatures" are in the urban and suburban mix. The onus seems to be on the rattlesnakes. Dang slithereens be snaking out the woodpile for sure. Here's what you need to do IF you happen on a rattlesnake or any dang snake for that matter. First off, leave the critter alone! Dang snake ain't out to do more than try to get by. Snake might need a drink of water or a rat to kill and eat. Or a mouse or one of those stupid dang pocket pets. Some of the pocket pets are literally small enough to fit in your shirt pocket so yes, the thing would make for a fine snake dinner. Second thing that is important IF you happen on a rattlesnake...the rattler will give you plenty of advance notice that the snake is right there. Oh yes and I've happened on rattlers out wandering the wilds of the Great American West and you should simply stop where you're at and back the fuck up. Slowly and with a purpose. The rattler is NOT about to follow you unless you've done something really stupid to piss the rattlesnake off. You know like poking at the snake with a stick or your foot or tried to pick the snake up. You really DO NOT want to pick up a rattlesnake. You'll be dead before sundown and that's no foolin'. Modern humanity has encroached on wild lands that used to be there for the critters and not Bob, Marge, and the kids. So animals do what animals have always done, find new places to hang out and the suburbs are simply overflowing with the bounty of fresh grass and bushes and lots of water. Water the lawn, water the shrubs, water the dog, and make sure the pool is full. A veritable smorgasbord of animal delectables. And snakes too. If you happen on a moose, well, give Bullwinkle plenty of space. You see the moose is one very large animal. About as big as a dang horse. If it happens to be autumn and you happen on a moose...look the fuck out. If it happens to be autumn, a bull moose is in rut and the bull moose is more than a bit unhinged. Filled with the Pon Farr or in earthly terms, the moose is horny and he'll run you down and then lord knows what might happen next. Rapaciously ravaged by a bull moose. Hmmm, that would make for some interesting news reporting. Regardless of that hilarity, mind the snakes wherever you might be this bright and shiny if not freaking hot summer and leave the snakes alone. For your own good. Well and the wellbeing of your kids. Although if your kid happens to be fucking around with a rattlesnake, that would make for one serious life lesson. No doubt. Machine art is next.

lilacs -

centralized surrealism -

be well, stay hydrated, find shade, and leave the snakes alone. :}

Apocalyptic Wholly Week

Here it is the last week of June and it's the lead up to the 4th of July. Which is of course a big deal here in the America. The rest of the world couldn't care less. Most of the thinking world wonders why Americans insist on burning shit down come the 4th. On the 4th there will be barbecues and pigging out contests and gunfire and several mass shootings and fireworks that lead to fires breaking out all over the place. Just about all of those aforementioned fires will be caused by fireworks and the dumb ass people that figure those fireworks are a personal constitutional right. The fireworks are not constitutional or even smart. The Fireworks Retailers Association wants Americans to believe the premise that fireworks are somehow related to the 2nd Amendment. Fireworks are not related to the 2nd Amendment and not even on a wildest stretch imaginable. Americans can be really dense. So, the Apocalyptic Wholly Week lead up to the 4th is a go. The 4th of July is a week from Sunday and that would be tomorrow ergo...it's wholly an unholy week of crazed incendiaries and the glazed madness that comes with the lighting of bottle rockets and sparklers and those really spiffy fountains that shoot columns of fire up in the sky for children and adults to marvel at. There will be the professional fireworks shows which are almost safe BUT and however, damn if the shows aren't worth watching. Don't get me wrong here, I love fireworks and always have. I've never started a fire using fireworks that I'm aware of. This year with the drought and that drought being in very close proximity to cities and towns, well, using personal fireworks is just not a good idea. Stick with the professionals and let them set the fireworks fires so you don't have to invite lawsuits and legal culpability for any fire that results from the use of fireworks. Will people heed the ample warnings being issued by legal authorities wherever drought and the threat of wildfire is imminent? Oh hell no way in hell. People will use those fireworks and set fires and themselves on fire simply on account of it being the 4th of July. Celebrating the 4th requires that normally thinking folk check their brains at the start of Wholly Week and they will for certain, and then let the fun and trips to the burn unit begin. I'm thinking that being burned to death would really and I mean REALLY suck. Damn that would so have to hurt. Oh well, what are you gonna do? Watch those fireworks and watch out for your home and property. Well and your children and pets. My dog really hates fireworks. Well and thunder, gunshots, and thunder WITH gunshots. Okay and now it's on to the machine art. 

draft horses which were a big deal back in the day -

oasis not at midnight -

I wonder whatever happened to Maria Muldaur?

The End Of Fridays

The end of Fridays for the month of June that is. Yup, this is the very last one we'll ever see in 2021. Fridays in the month of June. Yeah that's comedy. At times not very pretty. Or funny. Or whatever. However our world is done with Fridays in June. Now it will be on to July. Fireworks and hot dog eating contests and watermelon and vomiting after those hot dog eating contests and I know that's sort of disgusting but it's true. What, you thought those silly freaks walked away from eating a hundred or so hot dogs in sixty seconds without any consequences or repercussions or regurgitation?  Oh hell no. Soon as the eating contest is over the fools head for garbage cans so they can expel all that synthetic meat and discarded animal body parts. But there will be a winner so, that's what's important. Right. Did you know that hot dogs are made from all the parts of an animal carcass left over after the good meats are sliced away from the bone. Oh yes and chicken lips and turkey lips and animal anus meat and various guts that normally wouldn't end up at the meat counter. In meat processing factories, nothing goes to waste so whatever might be leftover and isn't fit for dog food, well, there's your hot dogs. Sounds yummy. America on the 4th of July. What a spectacle. Most of our world wonders what the hell is wrong with Americans. There's nothing wrong with America except for maybe Mitch McConnell and the donald and the former mrs. trump and that would be iVanka trump and the inbred boys John jr. and eRick and those wacky if not satanical evangelical christians oh yes, the pillow guy. I suppose the pillow guy has a name but really, who cares. So you see? Almost if not really close to nothing being wrong with America. I like to spell America with a 'k' on account of that really peeves the "conservatives" that champion fake patriotism. The "conservatives" like to wear American flag shirts and bullshit like that there. The American flag is NEVER supposed to be apparel of any sort nor blankets or any of the other crap that is made from an American flag. Google up what's proper etiquette for an American flag. You just might be surprised and learn something in the process. On an unrelated if not thoroughly disgusting stream of consciousness sort of scenario, does the Melania trump get grossed out at the sight of trump naked? The National Enquirer should ask that question. America just might want to know. I don't. Not really. I get to just pose the question and move on. So there you go for a last Friday in the month of June. Hell, come next week there'll be even more dumb ass questions to ask and those questions will have nothing to do with Melania or a naked trump. The trump spawn will be an entirely different matter. Did you know that eRic trump's full name is eRick Baldrick trump? Go figure. Now let us move on to the really important portion of today's program... machine art and assorted CGI imagery and stuff. We can't be a leaving out the stuff... :]

baobab a tree in Africa -

travel to somewhere NOT in Africa -

TTFN peace and out...

The Splishy Splashy Of Wet Feets

 It rained! Not a particularly heavy rain but the cement is wet and the grass is wet and it's one of those fresh smells wonderful rains. It's been a while since the last rainfall and even though this rainfall wasn't like the rainfall in Louisiana, it rained nonetheless and that is almost if not quite a good thing. Speaking of rainfall in Louisiana, the Cajun pelicans ought to think about building a pipeline to the way out West and pump that excess rainfall out to where it's desperately needed. Louisiana could turn some bucks and States out West should be more than willing to pony up some cash. I mean it isn't like pipelines aren't being built for really stupid shit like tar sand slurry. Gasoline, oil, nuclear waste, sewage, hair spray for the trump, botox for the trump girls, and secret sauce that McDonalds uses on their Big Mac. Dang pipelines are going in faster than power lines are going up. So why not pump all that extra moisture from America's Southeast to way out here in the bone-dry desert scrubland. Way out here, we can't rely on rain. Not anymore. It used to rain and almost regular like. Not anymore. It's that dang climate change global warming thing. If a freshwater pipeline thingy won't do it, well, how about America send some Navy ships to Antarctica and hogtie some icebergs and drag those icebergs up to Los Angeles and the Angelinos could work the melting drill and then pump the water from there. The plan is so diabolical, it just might work. Of course the tree-hugging Green Peace mercenaries would pitch one titanic fit. There would be some to-do about whales or greenhouse gases or some other "issue" that causes the tree-hugging Green Peace mercenaries to get their knickers tied up in knots but, the U.S. Navy could be credited for saving the Western United States. That'd be a good thing...wouldn't it? Freshwater pipelines for peace! It's a winner no doubt. Not for oil though. That would NOT be a good thing. There's always a possibility of convincing the Canadians to sell the West some Canadian water. Build a freshwater pipeline through Montana and then to Wyoming where the headwaters of the Green River headwater at and you wouldn't even need to build excessively lengthy pipelines. Nope. Simply build a freshwater pipeline to Wyoming's Fontenelle Reservoir. Fontenelle is where Wyoming built a damn and hence a Fontenelle Reservoir, water gets let out of Fontenelle and the Green River flows to Flaming Gorge Reservoir and that's where another dam is already standing and that would be Flaming Gorge Dam. The Green River flows out of Flaming Gorge Reservoir and confluences with the Colorado River and by now you should be able to catch my drift. Or flow. See what I did there? Anyway, the Colorado River flows to a less than half full Lake Powell which in turn flows to the weakly Colorado River then to an almost empty Lake Mead. Wouldn't need so much pipeline as the water channeling crap-o-la is already in place. This idea would maybe, be the preferable BUT the politicians would want to get involved and a good idea would end up shredded to shit and that would be that. Oh well, at least it's not a damnably bad idea. Okay and so let us move on to the machine art CGI and be done with it. See? I think about stuff. :]

Mr. Mephisto -

binary non or otherwise -

that Mephisto guy is sort of a creepy looking fucker to say the least.

How Hot Will It Get

 According to the National Weather Service, the weekend highs in Spokane, Washington will climb into the low 114's. That's right and the Weather Service says so. The National Weather Service is THE official weather guy for these here United States of Freaking Hot. I used to live in Spokane and the folks up there don't bother with air conditioning. Nope it just ain't necessary. Well air conditioning is necessary now. Thank's to climate change and global warming and all those icky dang doom and gloom naysayers, our Planet is heating up in ways never seem hardly ever before now. Oh the Spokaners are gonna freak out for a certainty. 114 is Arizona hot and that kind of hot just doesn't happen in the Inland Empire. Inland Empire is how the Spokaners and eastern Washington people like to refer to themselves. So next time you happen on one of the eastern Washingtonguers, ask them how the weather is up there in the 'Inland Empire'. They will of course appreciate your asking. Sure they will. So Republicans in the United States Senate are holding the good people of America hostage. The recalcitrant Repubs in the Senate are intending to block any and all legislation that just might be beneficial to we utterly detestable Americans. Thats' right AND the assholes are planning on holding their collective legislative breath until America comes back to a sensible American state of mind and re-installs the trump as president. That's not going to happen so governing America will come to a grinding halt. Gosh, here's wishing for the good ole days of the Vietnam War and Nixon and Watergate and shit like that there. It was a bi-partisan House and Senate that went after Nixon and managed to drive that crazy fucker from office. Oh well, seeing as how the legislative deck is stacked against the American people there's really not much can be done. now it's time for the machine art CGI portion of today's program.

motherless African'ts -

a champions champion -

Mitch McConnell needs to stand trial for crimes against the American people. :|

A Tuesday Trifecta

 Time is short on this fine Tuesday so we's gonna haft to keep it short. First up would be machine art. Well of course it is. Then a little musical entertainment for your listening pleasure. Be sure to crank up the volume.

path ology -

for the benefit of Mr. Kite (no connections to the Beatles or Sgt. Pepper's) -

and lastly some Lord Huron. these gentlemen rock -

TTFN y'alls. :]

Catholics And Torquemada

 The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops is trying their damnedest to muscle President Joe Biden into believing as the Conference of Catholic Bishops believes. The Bishops are staunchly anti-abortion and with President Biden being Catholic, well, you can see where this is going. The ConCaBis, I shortened the title for brevity, will instruct all the lower caste Catholic Bishops across America into withholding the sacrament of communion from President Biden and any other Catholics that aren't staunchly anti-abortion as the ConCaBis wants all other Catholics to be. To be OR not to be and that is more a political position than anything relating to Catholic doctrine or Shakespeare. I could imagine the predicament their edict will place on Catholic priests or other churchly prelates conducting a Mass where America's President may happen to attend. President Biden is a genuine and for real Catholic and attends as many services as are possible for a sitting American President. Services that often include the 'Most Holy Sacrament of Communion'. It's a really big deal for Catholics. So what might a Catholic priest do should President Biden show up for communion? Inform the President that he can't receive communion? That might go over really well with the Secret Service. Most certainly would be embarrassing as hell for the priest and I'd bet that priest would have some 'splainin' to do with the Secret Service. It's simply not a good look for the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops who have evidently forgotten the part of clerical duty that covers pastoring and shit like that there. Besides, this collection of arrogant assholes seem to have forgotten what their real duty is to Catholics in general. The ConCaBis certainly have given up all manner of humility. I suppose that the ever so self-important ConCaBis good old boys network is overly occupied with playing grab ass with young Catholic altar boys. Yeah I said it and I stand by every last ever so rude sentiment. Fuck off you priestly freaks! Machine art...

dreams of winter -

fille delightful -

the bishops shall probably be richly rewarded in heaven and/or wherever. fucking clowns.

Wil Lie In State

 Sad news from Babylon-On-The-Potomac, President Biden's dog Champ has died. Damn, don't you just hate it when that happens. President Biden's dog Champ will lie in state at the pet capitol rotunda. For a little while anyway. Mitch McConnell is pitching a fit for having a pet dog lie in state anywhere on our continent. I've had to put two dogs down due to old age. Pancreatic cancer or terminal hip dysplasia will do that to dogs. The hip dysplasia left one of our dogs paralyzed and she couldn't move around at all. Our Chance dog got the dang pancreatic cancer and that was that. So it was like having to put down a couple of your own children. Sucks. President Biden's dog Champ simply succumbed to the aging process and there's not a one of us gonna beat the aging process. Champ was thirteen and that's pretty dang old for any dog let alone a German Shepard. German Shepards are quite handsome dogs. Anyway I can relate to how the President must feel. Took me a while to get over the passing of my all time favorite dog name of Chance. Our other dog that had the terminal dysplasia was named Daisy. Daisy was a cutey and she didn't have a tail. Nope. Daisy had a butt knot and that was it. Ms. Daisy could wag that butt knot when she was happy. I'm certain that the Biden's will remember their time with Champ fondly. There will be a load of tears for a while but then the sadness turns to happy memories and that's how it works. But sad memories will linger for about the remainder of your life. Dogs should be able to live on and on but, shit happens and dogs will get the cancer or turn up paralyzed or get hit by a bus or run off to never be found again. Shit happens. It is sort of funny that I get a mite weepy about a dog dying but should an asshole like trump bite the big one, well, I could not care less. You see trump is an asshole and for the most part dogs aren't. Assholes. And lastly my condolences go out to President Biden and the First Lady Jill Biden losing a dog to the Grim Reaper simply and flat out sucks. Machine art is next.

life in a rear view mirror -

ripples -

today is the "official" first day of summer...yippee! :/

Saturday the Juneteenth of June

That's right, today is Juneteenth. All the slaves in America were ordered freed by Abraham Lincoln back in 1863. Congress in an act of rare sanity, by the House and Senate, passed legislation marking the 19th of June a federal holiday. Juneteenth it is then. President Biden signed the bill on Thursday and that would have been the 17th of June. Summer "officially" begins on Sunday and that would be June 20th. Was the Emancipation Proclamation an 'executive order'? After careful examination of the presidential facts on the matter, the Emancipation Proclamation was in fact an Executive Order. That hardly matters now as Congress made it a federal holiday and the legislation was signed by the President and Biden made it so. 'Make it so number 1'. So now America can move on from race issues and stuff like that there and finally be at peace. Yeah...right. So what about America's First Nation peoples? It isn't like America's First Nation people were ethnically cleansed or were the victims of genocide. Nah...nothing like that. Yeah...right. Anyway, good for the descendants of slavery. They're free at last free at last, thank god ahmight free at last. Or something close to that. Now America can celebrate the official first day of summer and hold a barbecue over an open Western America wildfire. You see the wildfires are popping up like mushrooms in a rainy forest. You can head to one of about two dozen wildfires in the West and cook yourself a hot dog and not your family dog, just to make that clear. Several new wildfires are reported just about every day. Lightning, fireworks, gunfire, and really stupid people are mainly responsible for the fires and it's just about a once upon a time in the west sort of scenario. Did you know that San Francisco Peak is just about to be burned to the ground? Well that is really close to the fact of the matter. Arizona is burning and Nevada is burning and Utah is burning and Colorado is burning and New Mexico is burning and Oregon and Idaho and Montana and oh holy wooden matchsticks, we've gots us fires just about everywhere. But today is Juneteenth so have yourself a barbecue to celebrate and you just might not have to fire up your barbie. That's Australian for barbecue device. Is it Juneteenth in Australia? Probably not as Australia isn't racist or former slave holders. Just you ask Australia's Aboriginal Peoples that were living in Australia long before the whites showed up. Dang white people tend to screw shit up just about everywhere the white people have decided to plant themselves. Can you say colonial genocide? Okay and now we'll move on to the machine art segment of the Juneteenth edition of What The Fuck Is Up With That.

never bring a knife to a gunfight -

tree faced -

so there you have it on this Juneteenth day of June... :]

Frying Bacon and Incest

 Well it is pretty dang hot a way out here in the roasty Amerikan West. Why...it's hot enough to fry bacon on a sidewalk. I'm not certain I would eat that sidewalk fried bacon but it's hot. Big news there boy. So CNN is running an article on this very Friday that maintains one Tori Spelling sleeps with her children. Evidently that is a thing and that thing is called "co-sleeping." Tori Spelling is, evidently, somebody that was famous once. Well Spelling is going for famous twice and she's informing our 'need to know' world that she sleeps with her children. Oh right, 'co-sleeping'. Whatever. All in all, it sounds like a perfect set up for incest. However and all incest aside, why CNN would want to give Spelling's tale of probably cause incest any airtime or article space is beyond me. Slow news Friday I guess. Spelling is on the outs with her hubby and hubby is apparently sleeping on the couch. Spelling doesn't exactly say that but it would be a fair assumption to make in light of her 'co-sleeping' with the kids admission. 'Co-sleeping'? What...the...fuck??? Back in the day and in the early days of my own experience with children, we kept our first born young'un in a crib in our bedroom. That was sort of how it was down a way back then. The rest of my experience with children is a tale of reckless indulging my very personal if not insidious addictions. Haven't seen hide nor hair of any of my children in a very long time. I own that and I'm certainly not bragging nor would I be proud of my failures as a parent. Happy Fathers Day by the by. But one thing can be said, I never practiced any 'co-sleeping' with the children. It all sounds twisted if not sick and wrong. Spelling is going to write a book you see and Spelling will title the book 'How To Scar Your Children For Life And Make Money In The Process'. I'm sure it will be a big seller. Possibly a New York Times Best Seller. It could happen in these our days of criminally uncertain times. 'Co-sleeping'...what a fucking crock of failure. So just to enflame the fires of public ostracism, Angela Jolie does the same practice as Spelling and that should tell you just about all you need to know about 'co-sleeping' and fucked up kids. Mental scarring that will last long into adulthood. One more little nugget to be gleaned from Spelling's confessional, she and her kids also sleep with three dogs. Yeah like the dogs have any say in the matter. Spelling and Jolie for that matter, are on the outs with their husbands and so they get to screw up their children and our world is simply supposed to say..."ahhh, poor baby." Yeah poor baby the children and not Spelling or Jolie. IF Spelling and Jolie want to screw their lives up worse than their lives are screwed up already well fine. Leave the children out of their breakdowns, mentally of course, and move on with their lives. Get professional help of a psychiatric kind for certain. Not just for Spelling and Jolie oh hell no, get help for the children's sake. 'Co-sleeping', damn if that just about doesn't sound like bullshit. Pity party for one adult, four children, and three dogs not counting Jolie and however many kids that stupid cow might have. Oh yes and at the end of CNN's reporting on Spelling, Spelling informs CNN that her two oldest children have had to endure bullying. Given that most children are cruel as hell, Spelling's kids had to endure taunts like "your mommy is batshit insane!" Yes, children can be worlds of cruel. The children learn that from the parents. And now it is time we moved on to the machine art segment of today's program and now for the CGI.

sky -

joshua tree -

over at CNN old Wolf Blitzkrieg must not be pulling his weight so CNN had to resort to posting inane crap like the Spelling tale. :/

And Now It's Official

It's hot and it's going to get hotter exponentially and that's the official word from the National Weather Service. The Western United States of Baked America are basking under a seriously serious "heat dome" and that should not be confused with a 'Thunder Dome' which was a maudlin Mel Gibson movie. The West is under "severe drought" and a long-duration "potentially lethal heat wave." It's Death Valley hot and that's no joke. According to the Weather Service this is an "historic heat wave." Gosh...really? According to experts "this heat wave and the exceptional drought in the Southwest are part of a damaging feedback loop enhanced by climate change. The hotter it gets, the drier it gets, the drier it gets, the hotter it gets." That would be meteorologist-speak for no shit. I've never heard the weather referred to as a "feedback loop." Makes sense. Salt Lake has kept temperature records that date back to 1874 and there have been only two other times that June temperatures have reached as high as the temperature did just day before yesterday. Oh yeah we scored us a 107 and that was only the third time in Salt Lake history that it's been that hot in June. Yippee for us. So the massive ridge of high pressure, or heat dome, is rapidly gaining strength over the west and sinking air, clear skies and summer solar radiation will send the temps soaring to as much as 25 degrees over what used to be normal. The high pressure heat dome is also responsible for the "unrelenting drought." Wow, who knew. For an example of hot, Laughlin, Nevada reached 125 degrees hot. Laughlin, Nevada is on the shores of the Colorado River. Las Vegas is hot. Phoenix is hot. Tucson the same. Billings, Montana hit 105 degrees. Montana no less. North Dakota South Dakota Nebraska Wyoming Idaho and California are basking in the afterglow of good god it's hot. With the severe drought conditions come severe wildfire danger which also permeates the West and makes for some really crappy air quality. I don't think you're supposed to be able to cut the air you breathe with a knife. Have a slice of smoke? How about some whipped cream on that... The problems that are being faced now, should have been addressed years ago and I think I've already stated that. On numerous and previous occasions. So here it is and NOW all the silly peoples MUST deal with it. There is no other choice. Can't be "praying away" what should have been dealt with. Whoopy we're all gonna die as in cooked to a crisp. Now let us move slowly on to the machine art which may or may not have any effect on global climate change. We needs us a really gigantic refrigerator air conditioner. On a planetary scale no doubt. Oh sorry, the machine art segment of today's prattle. Here comes...

capture the wild -

a pretty flower that managed to dodge the heat -

and as an added bonus, some Nilsson.

I do love me some Harry Nilsson. from The Point. :]

Hot Hot Hot

 Yesterday was hot. Today will be hot. Tomorrow will be hot tamale. Sorry I couldn't help it. A really old joke that, somehow, seems prescient today. It was so hot in Phoenix yesterday...'how hot was it'?...it was so hot in Phoenix yesterday the Phoenicians were able to embalm Joe Arpaio and wrap him up like the mummy he'd become quite some time ago. On a good day Arpaio looks like The Mummy. You know, like that Mummy dude from the movies of the same name? Yeah, that Mummy. Okay so, it's freaking hot a ways out here in the old Amerikan West and what with the dust and the smoke and 1% humidity levels you can desiccate already dried beef sticks in about 3 minutes. You know, turn beef jerky into jerkier beef jerk? Although if some intrepid soul were to make a YouTube video of that exact process, well, it'd probably go viral in about as much time as it might take to render up a video like that. Yeah just like that. I've never ever recorded a humidity level of 1% and not never ever. I used to think that a lack of humidity like that was dang near impossible. Well it is not. I wonder what happens meteorologically if the humidity drops below zero? Do dried up lifeforms implode? Simply blow away like dust on the wind? I suppose we just might find out here real soon. On to today's version of 'holy hot screaming dust balls' it's time for the machine art. You know, before the digitally engineered images MELT! Yikes it is damn hot.

heat seeking landslide -

ecological tipping point -

find yourself some refrigerated shade on account of...it's gonna be more hot today. :]

Really Hot Tuesday

 Way out here in the wide open West, it's freaking hot. Just about anywhere west of the Mississippi is roasty hot. But and this is not much of a but, it is hotter in Phoenix than possibly Hell. Been there did that don't care to ever do it again. So this is gonna be a brief post as if'n there's chores to do, well, you need to do those chores now instead of later when about the only thing there is to do is roast. Hot stuff in the city today boy. So here's the really important stuff for Tuesday June 15, 2021. Well what do you know, the month of June is half over. Next up would be the wildfires started on the 4th of July. Yup. Happens ever year and this year will be no exception drought or not. Machine art -

gorge -

embryonic town car -

drink that cool clear water kids. that is IF you can find some. :/

That's Not A Dog

 The "Westminster Dog Show" was televised on Fox over the weekend. That would be the Fox that's owned by Disney and not the fascist news bullshit Fox. Anyway and so, Fox did a fair job at Disneyizing the dog show and in the end of it, The Westminster 'judge' picked a pekingese named 'Wasabi' as "best in show." That is NOT a dog. The dang thing looks like a dust mop on steroids. Fur growing steroids. You really can't see much of the dog. The genetic mutant is covered in really REALLY long fur and you can't even see the dog's feets. Judas Priest, what the fuck was that goofy ass judge thinking? That is not a dog. The Westminster Dog Show had plenty of real dogs. Damn fine looking dogs at that. Plus the show had some dogs I'd never seen before and that was pretty cool. Bt a pekingese name of 'Wasabi'? Come on Westminster, get a grip. I don't care for yappy little ankle biting wanna-be dogs. Pekingese, chihuahuas, toy poodles, poodlettes, shih tsu (pronounced shit sue), oh yeah and pomeranian. Dang dogs ain't close to normal. Whatever normal might be for a dog. However, a pekingese name of Wasabi is not a gaddang dog! Criminy, if it ain't not about one thing it's about a pekingese name of Wasabi. Judas Priest... can't watch a dang thing anymore. Considering that Disney owns the Fox network that posted the Dog Show, well, what should I have expected? Exactly what was shown. Pathetic and dog breeders need to knock that genetic mixing bullshit off and right about now. Someone told me that these miniature dogs are "pocket pets." Say...WHAT? Pocket pets? I've heard of 'pocket rockets' and hands in your pockets, and what's that in your pocket, and are you happy to see me OR is that a mouse in your pocket, but a 'pocket pet'? Holy Mother of the Blessed Virginian named MaryLou. A pocket pet? Well, none for me thanks. What if the dang pocket pet decides to bit your thing off? Or takes a chunk out of your sack? Or decides to do it's business while camping out in a pocket? I'd bet the evil pocket pet designers hadn't thought about that. So here's the bottom line - leave the dang dogs alone and let them be the dogs that nature intended for dogs to be. Pocket pets...oh spit spit spit and one heartfelt Judas Priest! I'm going to move on to the machine art portion of today's tirade. I get to thinking about the dang Westminster Dog Show and I get fired up all over again. A freaking pekingese...criminy.

Morticia and Gomez -

says annie -

that's a play on a name...Cezanne > Says Annie? that's a play on the word...or not. whatever and at least there's not a dang pekingese. THAT'S NOT A DOG!

Sacrificial Sunday

 On this very solemn day when folks should probably be at church and not out at the golf course, Pope Vesuvias the Umpteenth is calling for all y'alls to skip taking a shower just for one day. That might help conserve a little water. Won't help the physical funk that will permeate the earth's ecoclimate but a little water saved can't be a bad thing. We've all got to do our part. Save the whales. Save the rainforests. Save all the coral reefs. Save green stamps. And of course, SAVE THE OLYMPICS! The 'olympics' is gonna happen sick people or not. The "games" will go on and simply to save olympic global face and don't worry about the athletes. They will just have to suck it up and pray for oxygen. Well and negative Covid tests. No one seems to be too concerned about the Japanese people and especially not Japanese government. The Japanese government spent about a zillion dollars preparing for the 2020 Summer Games and we all know how that turned out. The Japanese government needs to recoup a little of the mountain of yen they pissed away preparing for an olympics that never happened. Might not happen yet. I'm of the opinion that the "modern games" are a complete hypocrisy and waste of time AND all that money. Once upon a time the olympics were held for amateur athletes from around the world to compete one against another to see who was really the best. The "modern games" haven't been that for a long time. Now it's quasi-professional athletes competing nation against nation. Entirely too much global political bullshit and histrionics. IF our world intends to continue the olympic farce there will need to be an in one place olympic venue for all the competing sports both summer and winter. Just think, a brand new olympic caliber skateboard park. Yes, skateboarding is now an olympic event. So is rock climbing. Ridiculous. Oh yes and kayaking is an olympic "sport" as well. But wait, what about rollerball? What about choosing up sides and sniffing armpits? What about LGBTQRSTHEYX2Z+- bowling for big bucks gold silver and bronze? What about cat juggling? What about poaching? The trump scion could bring home the gold in that event. What about farts through a lit BIC? That might qualify as an olympic event. What about olympic beer guzzling for sororities? And of course the 100 meter midget toss. It really is time to let the olympics die a well deserved death. Just think about how much money could be saved and spent on issues and things that really matter? How about spending some of that olympic money on a rehabilitation camp for African jihadis that have nothing left to lose? Yeah, how about that? Okay and now it's time we move on from Sunday prattle and focus on the TRULY important issues of our day and that would be machine art, CGI hammer time, and stuff that I create. Yeah how about it...

bug then and now -

to thine own self think twice -

remember kids, stay hydrated. you really don't want to end up all desiccated and looking like an old raisin you just found under the couch seat cushion. that wouldn't be very olympic now would it... :]

High And Dry On A Saturday

Yes my friends its Saturday. The second Saturday in June and still no rain. Not here behind the Zion Curtain. Well to be quite precise, there ain't not any rain dang near anywhere is the fabled Amerikan West. I read a headline on the Google news page that insisted there's supposed to be rain in Seattle. No surprise there. It just about always rains in Seattle. I've been to Seattle a number of times and every time I was there it rained. Which is probably the main reason people living in Seattle are so grouchy. Its always raining. I've never been able to see Mount Rainer either. Not while being in Seattle. Oh hell, if you've seen one dang volcano you've probably seen them all. Of course I should probably exclude shield volcanos and volcanos that are shrouded in clouds or mist or fog or some damn obscuring stuff like that there. Wait, what was I rambling about? Oh yes, still ain't no dang rain SO Utah Governor Spencer 'baby' Cox and his insipid call to "pray for rain" seems to be falling on those deaf divine ears. Does God really have ears? I could suppose that might be a bit of a stretch in an anthropomorphic imaginative styling sort of guess. The religious insist that "god" hears prayers. Okey-dokey...where is your proof? Oh I see, Spencer Cox is more than likely being disingenuous. Now that I can believe. Pity the fool what offers up disingenuous prayers. I am snickering to myself as I keyboard this indictment on Cox. Cox is sort of cute in a harmless schoolboy sort of fashion. Problem is, Cox is a damn politician so just about all of what he might have to pontificate on is bullshit. Utah is the universal capitol of bullshit. Refer to any Mormon on any given day and you'll get all manner of ridiculous bullshit. I can say that on account of I'm a direct descendant of several more than prominent Mormons going all the way back to Joseph Smith. No I am not related to Joseph Smith, I think that is the case anyway, but I am a direct descendant of one Richard Stoddard who was a close family friend of the Smith family in New York. I am also a direct descendant of William Madison Wall who was an associate of Brigham Young and Great Great Great Grandpa Wall helped to found the cities of Prove, Heber, Wallsburg, all in close proximity to the Mormon High Command in Salt Lake City. Great Great Great Grandpa Wall also built the stretch of highway that runs through Provo Canyon and that would be US Highway 189. Wow that would almost leave me fabulously famous. Yeah... or close to it in Mormon World. I am NOT now nor ever plan on being Mormon but I am directly related. Hell this is Utah and what might one expect? So anyway I had a point when I started all this and now, and now I haven't a clue as to what any point might have been. So it's okay to call me 'Oblio'. Oblio didn't have a point either. But like Oblio, I do have a dog so...that's a good thing. So I shall pointlessly dive right on in to todays machine art which is 'officially' to be referred to as CGI. Wow is that about impressive or what...

sheik your booty -

bigfoot -

if you happen to live out West, don't be playing with matches. there's enough dang fires a blazin' as it is now. :/

Dry As A Bleached Bone

Here we are at the second Friday in the month of June and no rain yet. Spencer Cox's plea for Utah citizens to "pray for rain" evidently didn't hold much water with a 'supreme being'. Oh that's a funny, "pray for rain" and not holding much water. Yeah...funny. So it's still pretty dang screaming hot in the West and there is still not a rain drop to be had. Maybe next month when the "monsoon" is supposed to begin. Maybe. We can always hope or pray or stand on one foot and do the jumpies up and down. To properly do the jumpies up and down, one should hold an egg laying chicken in your arms of course and then jump up and down. Scares the bejeepers out of the chicken and theoretically, the squawking chicken is what entices the rain gods to make some rain. Rain that will hit the ground and not that virga shit that evaporates before it hits the ground. Any shit storm reference would be political and not meteorological. If a shit storm hits, there is not an umbrella made anywhere on the Planet that can help. Evidently people are starting to wake up to the fact that there's no water in Lake Powell or Lake Mead. What a shocker there boy. No rain, no water for the lakes. That would include snow as in snow pack. Snow pack is that snow falling in the mountains during winter and then melting as spring and summer wax on. Wane on? Whatever... Anyway, water authorities in the West are informing farmers that their irrigation water is about to be turned off. On account of water for cities is way more important than water for alfalfa or hay or veggies or cattle or sheep or chickens or well, farms in general. Farms in distress is more like it. Did you know that a chicken will drown if it looks up during a rain storm? Turkeys and cows will do that too. The critters haven't enough sense to quit looking up during a serious rain storm. Of course there are some people that do that as well. Trump's children do that and the Eric scion is notable for his utter lack of good sense and multiple reports of his almost drowning during rain events planned for his daddy are notorious. Inbreeding will have that effect on any family. Okay and so it's drought conditions as per usual and it's a Friday which would normally find Westerners of all shapes and sizes headed for the great western outdoors BUT, western governors and fire authorities have prohibited outdoor campfires so if Westerners want a camp fire this weekend they'll have to fire them up indoors. An indoor campfire isn't quite the same as a good old fashioned outdoor campfire. That and those indoor campfires tend to set the house on fire and then the scenario gets out of hand and there goes another wildfire that is currently scorching the West along with the drought. Damn if it isn't one freaking thing right after another freaking thing. So here is a modest rain dance proposal for helping alleviate the West's historic if not histrionic drought: while doing the rain invoking jumping up and down drill, sacrifice the chicken you'll be holding. Cut the little fucker's throat and spray blood all over everywhere while doing the jumpies. The blood sacrifice will help to impress the rain gods AND you'll have a chicken all ready for a campout barbecue. Of course that campout barbecue will need be done in your house. :] Okay and enough with the Friday feel good crap so let us move on now to the CGI portion of today's program. Machine art it is...

volcano which will not help with the drought or the wildfire mess -

cascading effects -

send water to Governor Spencer Cox c/o Utah State Capitol Bldg Salt Lake City, Utah

It Must Be A Miracle

 Utah Governor Spencer Cox asked all the residents of the State of Utah to "pray for rain." Cox was being dead dang serious. 'Okay mysterious white sky guy, make it rain.' Cox did not ask Utah residents to be polite. Utah and the entire remainder of the American West are in a severe if not prolonged drought and have been for a number of years now. Cox seems to think that the drought will simply go away after making supplications to his white sky god. Planetary precipitation doesn't work that way. However Cox has never been one to let scientific fact and methodology stand in his very narrow cosmic view. Cox is sincere in his request to Utahns. And so there you have the powerpoint presentation of how Mormons approach damn troubling issues. The drought that is plaguing the American West is on an epic scale. Almost if not quite apocalyptic. Apocalyptic is a word that Cox might understand as long as any use of the word is disassociated from science and scientific fact. By the way, after Cox issued his 'pray for rain' soliloquy, it hasn't rained a drop. According to the National Weather Service, it's not likely to rain for sometime to come. Evidently the National Weather Service doesn't put much stock in any prayers for rain. Prayers tend to be not quite scientific. Go figure. The effects of this prolonged drought are staggering. All the way from Flaming Gorge reservoir (that's mostly in Wyoming) and down the Green River and the Colorado River to Lake Powell to Lake Mead, there's not enough water to water lawns or water any farmers crops. The water levels in the three "big" dam reservoirs would be just about on empty. However the draining lake levels will be a boon for archeologists. Ancient remains of lives past will be uncovered once again and the 'diggers' will have a field day if not a "prolonged" field trip. Trips? As for the dams that stand in the way of the Colorado and Green River basins, well, the dams will probably at some point have to be removed. Now that would be a darn shame. Not. The dams should have never been built in the first place but that hardly matters now. Anyway, one of the ecology science guys maintains that the current drought is not any manner of a hundred year drought, nope, this drought is a FIVE HUNDRED YEAR DROUGHT! Caps are by design. Won't take too much longer and the West's largest cities will be running on empty as in there ain't not no dang water to be had from anywhere. Pity that. Phoenix, Arizona will have to move as will Tucson, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Barstow, Page, Prescott, Needles, St. George, and even Moab. Moab is pronounced 'moe-ab'. I ad that just for clarity. All points in between the cities named are up for desertification. Not decertification. America will have it's very own Sahara desert directly to the west of the Mississippi River which will also suffer decreased water levels due to the drought extending to the east side of the continental divide. Oh yes, that is ever so true. Just think Amerika that grate land of capitalism gravy, will be a desiccated husk of its former arrogant self. Yeah everybody, pray for rain. Ignore the science and drought stricken evidence at face value. It is very much too late now anyway. Anything that could have been done to alleviate drought conditions should have been done years ago and that's no bullshit. It would make better sense theologically to pray for an early death. Adults and children are NOT going to like living through what is soon to be left for them. So on that cheery little doomsday note, let us move on to todays installment of CGI for fun and prophet. Get it? That a play on words. Fun and prophet instead of fun and profit...yeah that's pretty dang funny alright. :]

nuevo whatever -

pedro-glyphics -

we havin' us a high ole time yes-sir-eee.

That Special One Day

 Yes and here it is. Wednesday. A very special day set aside for camels. Not the cigarette. So enjoy this Wednesday as if it might be the very last Wednesday...ever.

It just might be. On to CGI. 

things that float freely about hither and yon -

serenity on the Serengeti -

kitty kitty doesn't give a shit if its Wednesday or whatever. :]

Damnable Devices

 Peace and blessings to all on this fine second Tuesday in June. Okay so, we've all seen the pleasant folk that are harnessed to their handheld devices. Walking around, jogging around, biking around, or simply standing absolutely still in the craziest of places. Heads bowed in reverential fashion as they worship their cell phones and/or whatever the hell they might be packing around and physically unable to break free from. I think that the marketeers of all those devices don't bother to inform people that as soon as they purchase the things, they become trapped in an inescapable slavery as the device fuses itself to the human hand and thereby devolving the human into a social cyborg that is now and forevermore a cyber-slave and e-zombie which almost but not quite resembles human form. And so, the FBI in cahoots with Interpol I believe invented an 'app' that advertised itself as some manner of high-end encryption thingy that was marketed to criminals. Ummm, cyber criminals I think. Anyway, criminals being not quite as smart as they tend to believe, bought up the FBI encryption app and thereby fell into one ingenious trap that required little law enforcement expenditure. The dummies literally gave themselves over to the 'app' and the long electronic arm of the policing agencies using the FBI masterminded 'app'. Talk about Sherlock Holmes meets the twenty first century. So the FBI and other global policing agencies led the criminal cyber-junkies down the e-path to incarceration and made a rather global dent into criminal world. Talk about e-genius. The point to be made here is, think about the device you might be packing around and all the 'apps' you've installed on the device and in addition, the government agencies that just might be following all that "encrypted" messaging you might be doing. You know like sexting and chasing after pretty panties with bad intent and insulting your boss and cursing the tax man. I found the report to be utterly hilarious. You see, I don't have a "device" and I've no intention of acquiring one. Ever. God damn, how stupid do you have to be too willingly have yourself enslaved to a machine?  Okay and so on that cheery note let us move on to today's chapter of CGI artistry at it's finest. Well, I think so anyway.

Flam N. Gogh -

mural or graffiti you be the judge -

I've seen people walk into light poles, walls, doors, and other people while fixated on their device. hilarious. :]

No Point

 Sit beside the breakfast table

Think about you troubles

Pour yourself a cup of tea

Then think about the bubbles

You can take your teardrops

And drop them in a teacup

Take them down to the riverside

And throw them over the side

To be swept up by a current

Then taken to the ocean

To be eaten by some fishes

Who were eaten by some fishes

And swallowed by a whale

Who grew so old

He decomposed...ooh

from 'The Point' (1970) by Harry Nilsson animated movie came out in 1971 so this year, 2021 marks the 50th anniversary of the animated release. Killer album, killer movie, and Mr. Nilsson was highly underrated as an artist. Some days I feel exactly like Oblio. And yes, I have been banished. The banishing part really sucks. :/ Let us move on to THE point of today's installment of 'who the fuck really cares anyway'... CGI if puzzled by the CGI thingy...google it.

what it is, is what it is -

cactus which has a point no doubt -

some things are best left to memory :]