The Last Day

Yes my friends, today is truly the very last day...in July. Where might we go from here? I know... More Covid-19 the Delta variant. More unvaccinated people for some reason, want to get vaccinated now. Gosh I wonder why that might be? The Covid-19 the Delta variant is one damn nasty virus so, that could explain the sudden increase in the unvaccinated wanting to get the vaccine. You know, 'Delta Virus' could make for a snazzy rock band name. On tonight's program we have Billie Ray Irish and then the Delta Virus will rock your world. Bille Ray Cyrus the Virus will not be appearing. Neither will that 'other' Cyrus name of Miley. Miley? Whatever. So one could suppose that the unvaccinated had themselves a 'come to vaccine' moment. You know like a 'come to Jesus' moment except without all the upraised arms and shrieks of "amen" that are in actual fact really annoying. Unseemly too. In somewhere fantasy Jesus land, fantasy Jesus is doing that face-in-palm thing. I'll bet fantasy Jesus is... In Florida, there were 110,000 new cases of the Covid reported for the week and that would be this week. Dang that is a helluva lot of the Covid-19 the Delta variant. However and in Florida, Florida mortuaries are reporting a significant uptick in the business of planting Floridians in Florida's dirt. Must be something about the survival rates of the vaccinated as opposed to the death rate among the unvaccinated. Yeah that's got to be it. Unvaccinated dummies anyway. Time now for the machine art segment of today's program. Cultural enlightenment for Saturday. The wearing of masks and proof of vaccination are strongly suggested.

showtime for dancers -

garden of earthly fauna -

if anyone out there hasn't yet, well, get vaccinated. that just might save your sorry ass. 😮

Some A This Some A That

 It's Friday and with no particular place to go, I'll just fake it. (at least that's the theory) It finally rained a way out here behind the Zion Curtain. Yippee! Thunderbolts and lightning very very frightening. My dog doesn't like thunderstorms. It rained a bucket full in Moab. Flash flood rainy and the Moabites had to break out their waders. An excellent article in the New Yorker magazine that shows up online. The article is dated July 29, 2021 and is authored by Mr. Mike Spies. Spies takes the gloves off and goes after Wayne and 'deadeye' Susie LaPierre. He-man LaPierre is the NRA. You know as in the National Rifle Association. In case you missed the particulars the NRA is where nimrods, mass shooting enthusiasts, mass murderers, and various if not assorted mental moonbeams like to hang out and talk shop. Well and shooting just about any damn thing that might move. Shoots 'em dead they do. Anyway, back in the day and that day would have been early fall 2013, LaPierre and the Mrs. 'deadeye' went on 'safari' in darkest Africa so's they could hunt and kill endangered species. Like lions and zebras and elephants and animals like that there. LaPierre's brought home or rather they secretly smuggled home, "trophies" from their shoot 'em up time in Africa. The LaPierre's managed to massacre one cape-buffalo for it's skull, two sheets of elephant skin, two elephant ears, four elephant tusks, and four front elephant feet. That's not all of the "inventory" received by the LaPierre's oh hell no. Along with the elephant "trophies", there was an assortment of skulls and skins from warthogs, impalas, a zebra, and a hyena. It seems the LaPierre's were having a field day shooting the shit out of just about every damn living thing they could fix their sights on. They took elephants feet to make an end table a trash can and an umbrella stand. The LaPierre's had the animal parts shipped back to the States anonymously so as to avoid any legal entanglements for killing endangered species and taking ivory. Also our intrepid 'great white hunters' didn't want any "undue" media scrutiny as their hunting for "trophies" schtick might seem uncivilized if not out right illegal. Of course their hunting in Africa is perfectly legal and that's why so many of Africa's wild animals are endangered. Okay and for clarity, that's one of the reasons why so many of Africa's wild animals are endangered. The bottom line in this outrageous tale of butchery, illegality, and inhumane cruelty to other living creatures would be that the LaPierre's "felt secrecy was needed to avoid potential blowback if details of their hunt were made public." Oh yes and little Susie LaPierre wanted the elephant skins made into personal accessories and a handbag. You see the elephant skin had been washed to remove all signs of elephant blood which would have made her elephant skin bag rather gauche. Also after the LaPierre's trophies sere sent back to the States, they received "free taxidermy work" on account of LaPierre is the NRA. Gosh is that about butch or what. The bloodthirsty LaPierres should be forced to parade down New York's Fifth Avenue, wearing nothing but the blood from the animals they'd shot dead and for all their very special and trump connected friends to behold. What an outrageous pair of consummate assholes and fuck the NRA. The article in the New Yorker is a compelling read to say the very least. The New York Attorney Generals Office is going after the LaPierres with a rather lengthy indictment that would include violations of international law. Smuggling and fraud...that's what the NRA actually stands for. Well and butchery. Read the article, it's worth the time spent. Now moving on to machine art that shouldn't be construed as bloodthirsty or inhumane. 

artist tree -

homestead -

if you happen to indulge in that 'international travel' schtick, stay the hell away from Botswana. that's the killing field used by the LaPierres. well...one of the killing fields. 😠

ThirstDay A New Normal

 I'm playing cutesy with the days of the week. Thursday is now ThirstDay on account of the American West is under extreme drought. Ain't not no dang water to be found pert near anywhere. Not out here anyway. Out here being of course the arid American West. Where we do have wildfires aplenty. We even have the monsoon rain. Of course that monsoon rain is spotty, torrential, flash floody, and that monsoon rain really doesn't hang around for long enough to make a measurable dent in the drought. You see our blessed Mother Earth is bone parched dry and baked to the consistency of concrete. To dig any hole these days you need dynamite or some handy C-4 plastique. The C-4 works like a charm and gets a hole dug in a hurry. However there are some ancillary drawbacks to using C-4 explosive. There are some collateral damage issues with baked hard dirt chunks flying around all over a blast zone. Local authorities seem to take a rather dim view of using C-4 to dig holes. Gosh is that about so twentieth century or what. You also need to be just a mite circumspect when using the old C-4 and watch out for grass fire which will turn into a wildfire in just about no time at all. Yesterday there was flash flooding in Rock Springs, Wyoming. Rock Springs is not exactly anywhere near where you'd expect to encounter flash flooding. Rock Springs is in Wyoming for hell sakes. Flash flooding in Rock Springs?!? Go figure. Yeah this climate change crap has turned the tables on what to expect. Next thing you know the NWS (National Weather Service) will be issuing blizzard warnings for Death Valley. Of course that might be about next December or January so, don't hold you breath or worry about such things happening any time soon. Of course I could be totally wrong here and I look forward to exactly that. Being wrong about snow storms in Death Valley. I mean there was flash flooding in Rock Springs. I wouldn't have guessed that in about...ever. Okay and now for the important stuff and that would be machine art. With art being whatever one can get away with. Take a look at the "art" of Jackson Pollock. 

soliloquy -

c.z. rider -

born to ride/ride to live. 💣

Daze Of The Dromedary Ungulates

 You might need a dictionary for this one. The title. So the Tokyo Covid Olympics is 'surging' along and with ample infections among the athletes, it's a perfect bowl of Covid ramen for the Japanese. I don't think that Japan will be able to get their money back. The money the Japanese have already spent holding 'the games'. Oh well, what are you gonna do... mask up that's what. Enough of the preachy crap for this very special day. We all know already what day this is. Anyway and on to the actually important crap and that would be... are you ready for it?...machine art. Were you expecting something entirely different? Yes, life is one bitter disappointment after another. 

head 2 head -

griz -

lemon tree -

remember to play nice with the ungulates. they need a little respect. 🐪

Down Goes SuperWoman

 Simone Biles is out of the Tokyo Olympics. She "withdrew." Yeah okay and whatever. It seems that little miss SuperWoman of American gymnastics had to pull out of the competition on account of "medical issues." Alright if that's how the media intends to spin her collapse. Biles was in the vault competition and botched her attempt at the vault. Vault should not be mistaken for fault as in...it's her (Biles) fault she faulted her vault. Yeah. So now Biles will have to come back to America and there will be waiting for her an endless stream of questions as to why she (Biles) didn't win Olympic gold. I mean if it weren't for Ms. Biles, well, America wouldn't have an Olympics team. Gracious me, there were certainly a mountain of expectations placed on the young woman. What the hell happened to the other American gymnasts in the medals competition? Of course and it is a given that there simply weren't any other American gymnasts in the same league as Biles. I mean, Biles WAS the entire American olympics team. Wasn't she? Anyway, Ms. Biles will be expected to run the gauntlet of the morning talk shows and have to explain over and over and over what the hell happened. "Medical issues" you see. Medical issues have absolutely nothing to do with a not up to that gold standard performance. You see once more, winning the gold is the only acceptable outcome for Ms. Biles and the 'other' Americans in Olympic competition. Ms. Biles might want to consider taking a slow boat around the Cape of Good Hope and then cross the Atlantic and that ought to take about a month and by then all the media frenzy should have died down. That 24 hour news cycle. The morning news/bullshit programs are entirely too self important. Boring and ridiculously tedious. There aren't too many other gymnasts in the entire sporting world that can boast of as many Olympic gold medals as Ms. Biles has already. But America is famous for that "what have you done for us lately" crap-o-la and so it goes. Take some time off Ms. Biles and enjoy life on your terms and fuck the expectations placed on you by so many others. Now it's time for the old machine art. There are no Olympic competitions for machine art. However there is now Olympic competitions for skateboarding and rock climbing. What bullshit.

weird shit for a Tuesday -

osprey -

the big bitch on Simone Biles is she let America down and allowed the "Russians" to win Olympic gold. what a crock of crap...😱

Monday Mourning

 America's anti-vaxxers are singing the blues on account of they seem to be getting all the Covid-19 variants and they're dying because of their stupid refusal to vaccinate. I'm fully of the opinion that the anti-vaxxers are clinging to a really bizarre death wish. That death wish borders on the suicidal. So what we have here is...a 'public health crisis' of epic proportions. Dang fools want to die and take as many other stupid Americans the anti-vaxxers can infect and take with them. In death. Wow, is that about psychotic or what. Really dang stupid? The silly freaks are taxing the American health care system and the American health care system is on wobbly legs as things stand at present. There simply is NO excuse for not getting the Covid vaccine. The several different vaccines are proven safe and effective. So...what the fuck is wrong with these idiots? The question posed is rhetorical. If the dummies want to die, well, go for it. However, take your really stupid ass out to the boondocks somewhere and kiss yourself off where no one has to clean up your mess. It's not that hard. Okay and enough with that. Now we're on to the important stuff and that would be of course, machine art and here we go...

then -

jimmy -

dang if we don't need some rain in ample quantity so as to wash the rancid smoke out of the air. the smoke is so thick you can cut it with a knife and that's no bullshit. I did it yesterday just to test the premise. you wouldn't want to eat that slice of smokey air. no you would not. 😬

Tomorrow Would Be

 If today is Sunday then, tomorrow would be Monday. No...really it would. Wow is that ever existentially deep. Or what. Mostly what. Yeah I got nothing. Yesterday trump was in Arizona and given the wholesale collapse of reasonable Arizona sanity, nobody noticed. It used to be that California was full of lunatics, raving weirdos, and Mansonesque streetwalkers. Well they all mostly moved to Arizona. Having once lived in Arizona, I can assure any good reader that might happen along, steer clear of Arizona. You wouldn't be safe. Not from the heat, the fires, the lack of water, and the screwy fuckers packing guns. Yup. All the nuts left California to burn and moved to Arizona and brought all that California fire with them. You see, with with a fair segment of the left coast burning, well, all that freaking smoke wafts into Utah and quite specifically, the Wasatch Front. That's where I live mostly indoors these days on account of you can't breath due to all the wildfire smoke. It's dang thick too. Can't even see the Wasatch Front mountains. Or maybe and it's entirely possible that somebody crept in during the night and stole an entire Wasatch Mountain Range. You can't see the Wasatch Mountains and dang if'n that a doesn't just suck. Well and the lack of breathable oxygen. There isn't any. Damn that just sucks wind. Well if there were any wind. There's not. Just upper level smoke movement into my neighborhood. I'm thinking about suing California, Nevada, and Oregon. They should simply keep their dang smoke to themselves. I mean really... okay and moving on from the utterly ridiculous, it's time for the Sunday portion of machine art for lovers and friends. Well Sunday's machine art would be for friends IF I had any. Friends. Poor poor pitiful me.

tree-ish -

that's a big damn hole -

if you happen to live in a part of our world where there just happens to be breathable air, breath some for me. 😟

Long Before

 Long before anyone knew what 'it' was...'it' was art. Cave drawings, sand painting, wood work, stone carving, from the beginning there was ART! So let us proceed to that already historic portion of whatever this is. Art and machine art at that.

out west where the men are men and the sheep are nervous -

all alone -

Etruscan -

grazing in the grass -

so there you go and in keeping with historical perspectives...👻

High Wholly Daze

 Yes my friends, here inside the Zion Curtain we've arrived at the 'High Holy Days Of 47'. Yup it's the annual "Days" wherein Utahns of all shapes and sizes, there is only the one color and that'd be white, celebrate the divine arrival of Brig and his band of merry pioneers to the Salt Lake Valley. 'Brig' would of course, be Bring'em Young. That's an inside the Zion Curtain joke. (really, his name is Brigham Young) Utah's Mormons get all worked up and break out their finest rodeo clothing just like the pioneers wore, and head to the 'Days Of 47' rodeo where Utahns get to watch rodeo hands poke, prod, torture, and in general be ever so abusive to "rodeo" animals. The rodeo hands will insist that the animal are in fact having a "great time." Sure they are. Just think how much fun you could have if a raw surface rope were tied around your testicles and cinched up nice and tight so you'd have to buck and twist turning as hard as you might to throw off some asshole wearing spurs could ride you for about 8 seconds. I think the ride is for about 8 seconds. I've never tried it so...yeah. The "official Days Of 47 parade" goes off this fine morning and that would be Friday July 23, 2021. Back in the day, the holiest of holy 'Days of 47 Parade' only occurred on July 24th. Well that was a way back when and this is now and last years parade was cancelled on account of the Covid-19 pandemic, plague, and lockdown. Pity that. Anyway, the 'parade' is on for this year and...yippee-ki-yah! I'll leave out the M-F'er phrase that good old bald Bruce Willis made famous in those 'die asshole' movies. So not even the start of the Tokyo Olympic Games 2020/2021 can stop the "official and ever so important Days Of 47 Parade." Nope. The parade is that important for the Mormons. I'll not be watching the 'parade' nor the Olympics. I simply do NOT care. Not for a minute. If the Mormons want to sit outside in the roasting toasting screaming hot desert heat to watch floats, marching high school bands, and local television celebrities mounted safely on those floats and waving condescendingly to the locals, well, good on 'em. First off, it's too goddamn hot to be sitting outside on the concrete. Second off, the entire parade is one titanic celebration of hypocrisy, religious fantasy, with some genocide and cultural appropriation thrown in for some in your face laughter. Yeah we are having us some fun now. You betcha! Machine art and stuff that just might be relevant is coming up fairly soon. Or not. If you do care to celebrate Utah's 'High and Wholly Whimsical Daze Of Mormon Fantasy' well, keep yourself hydrated and wear lots of sunscreen. About a bucket full would work nicely.

tink -

collisions of the buffalo kind in the surreal -

we're gonna have a good time...thanks Lenny. 💤

Mycross Hackberry

 The man, the mythos, and all of it. A twenty first century tale of intrigue, mystery, quixotic adventurism, sullen lust, AND a penchant for high crimes of comedy but not as a day job. A riveting read throughout. Coming soon to a bookseller near you or somewhere close enough you won't have to travel for very long. The tome should be out and available for sale sometime next whenever. Now for Thursday's installment of machine art with some CGI thrown in just for kicks.

west of the Pecos and that's a river -

everybody's doing it the loco motion -

be sure to make nice with someone today...you might not get another chance. 😟

Do You Know What Day It Is

 A local news reporter (talking head) asked Utah's boy Governor Spencer Cox about the extreme drought the western U.S. is in and has been for about twenty years. Cox's plea for "prayers" went unheeded by the 'gods'. Anyway our buddy Cox replied to reporter, "the drought needs to be taken seriously and SOMETHING needs to be done." Utah's boy Governor Spencer Cox has a tenacious grasp on the glaringly obvious. Machine art comes right about now -

working on mysteries without any clues -

rain inside a paper cup -

TTFN and peace out. 🌂

Apocryphal And Arcane

 We (Americans living west of the Mississippi river) are living through the 'Great Western American Drought' of the early portion of the twenty first century. Ain't not seen no rain for a dang long time. No rain no snow no wet and dang if'n it ain't about hot as a bejeepers. So in dealing with the 'GWAD', Westerners have had to dig into the archives and break out the old if not reliable, 'A Rainmakers Guide To The Atmospheric Gods Of Moisture' and the particular section of the "guide" on dealing with drought. The 'Guide' is "apocryphal and arcane" and there is not much debate about that. So...

According to the "Guide", when in need of almost if not immediate rain and/or snow, one needs to offer up a "pleasing sacrifice to the Gods of Atmospheric Moisture" and that pleasing sacrifice needs be the blood of an innocent young child. A virginal young lass is appropriate but in case of any shortage of virginal young lasses, well, a comely young boy child will work. Hey these are some serious dang times we are living in so drastic problems require a drastic solution. With the American West on fire and burning out of control, drought withering the crops, dang bugs running rampant, well, western Americans aren't left with too many good options. Actually there are no good options. So the search is on for a virginal young lass OR a comely young boy child which would prove acceptable in a pinch. Turns out there are some serious issues in finding a virginal young lass in western America. Searches are proving somewhat problematic. Searches have found that there simply aren't very many virginal young lasses remaining in the West. Seems the young ladies are hellbent on embracing their womanly desires and are getting laid at a fantastic rate of penetration leading to a loss of virginity. Young ladies and young men are testing the boundaries of hormonal overdrive. Ah to be young once again. Or not. Anyway, as soon as a virginal young lass (or comely young boy child) can be found, Utah's Governor Spencer Cox has proffered his services to perform the "sacrifice" for the good of western America and the ending of one godawful drought of biblical proportions. Denial of the biblical proportions of the drought would be "ignorant" and that is the very and official word from Governor Cox. We'll pause for a moment so as to allow the chuckling over Cox's last name to subside. I mean...grow up people. So there you have it. Western Americans are in seriously deep shit and that shit is dry as a prairie cow pie. All flakey and dust like. There really is not much to laugh at here. Take a look at the New York Times webpage. They've got some satellite footage of the Bootleg fire in Oregon that is quite shocking and drives home the point for the reasoning behind a need for a 'GWAD' use of the 'Rainmakers Guide To the Atmospheric Gods of Moisture'. So let be written so let it be done. Or some bullshit like that there. :] Machine art is next up on today's whining about stuff that requires whining over.

biscuit -

basic black -

so there you go 'apocryphal' and all that there. 🔊 sound the alarm!!!

Projet d'art de la machine sans fin du dimanche

 So here we go and first up -

shrooms can be a life changing experience -

zen and the art of zen -

smile and wave thank you -

swirlies -

TTFN 🙇

Saturday's Dust Bowl

 Utah's Great Salt Lake is drying up. Might be on account of an extreme lack of water. Anyway the lake is drying up and several thousand years of salt and dirt and various if not assorted other dried earth chemicals are now blowing around the lake bed and scientists don't like it. Not one bit. These "scientists" are demanding that "something be done." About the Great Salt Lake drying up. I'm not certain what it might be that these "scientists" want done. It isn't like you can simply pull rain out of one's ass. Or snow or whatever wet material the "scientists" are demanding something be done about. If one were able to make rain materialize out of the sky and fill the Great Salt Lake, well, there would be a boatload of cash to be made. You could, quite literally, be awash in the money. None of that is about to happen and we've got climate change to thank for that. The "scientists" didn't have more than about squat to say about the climate change issues our entire Planet Earth is dealing with at present. So the Great Salt Lake dries up and blows away. It isn't like the politicians are going to do anything about the drought issue. If the "scientists" were capable of doing ANYTHING about climate change other than bitch about it, well, we wouldn't be having to deal with one damn ecological disaster after another. The current mess our Planet faces is directly the fault of our world's politicians. Own it boys and girls (the politicians) and close then lock your windows because you're about to get hit with one toxic dust storm of your very own making. On that cheery note we shall move on, depending on which way the wind might be blowing, and hit the old machine art button and whoop there it is. The machine art. The dust will happen on its own schedule. Today is a Saturday trifecta.

stump to trip over -

free flight -

lastly a lily out of my wife's garden -

fleurs du jour no doubt. 💀

If It's Friday, We're Saved

 And so is the Hubble. You know, THE Hubble Space Telescope? NASA saved the Hubble and so we can all rest a little easier tonight knowing that we'll still get to view the Cosmos for a while longer. NASA performed a cyber-tech brain transplant on the Hubble and PRESTO! The Hubble lives for now. The Hubble Space Telescope is about the coolest science project EVER. The science is unparalleled and the images that Hubble sends back to Earth are simply out of this world. Really, the images are out of this world. Pretty dang cool too. There goes Jupiter...Hubble got it. Here comes Mars...Hubble got that too. Everybody on 'this island Earth' benefits from Hubble and gets to see the Universe in unprecedented detail. That is so dang cool. Way to go NASA and we can't wait for more Hubble photags. Well I can't anyway. I love that the Hubble lets me see things I've never ever dreamed about. After I die I plan to let my soul and spirit fly into the mystic. Unencumbered by crappy earthly physical limitations I fully intend to roam the Cosmos and see it all for myself. I think one can do that. After death all you are is soul and spirit or spirit and soul or whatever. You certainly won't be limited by a body so, let's fly away let's fly let's fly away... Of course not anyone at NASA or anywhere else will know for certain IF the Hubble is working once again. Gots to wait for the pictures to pixel their way back to Earth. Come on Hubble...you can do it! Anyway some good news for a Friday and these days there simply is not much in the way of good news. Fires, floods, famine, hotter than a bejesus it's hot, and trump. Yes my friends we are STILL chained to Mr. Straight Up Fucking Nuts. Criminy, you'd think that republicans had grown sick of the trump bullshit with screwy antics thrown in for spite. But no and not yet. It seems that Kevin McCarthy (he's the minority "leader" in the U.S. House of Reprehensibles) can't get himself unglued from the trump anus. McCarthy is a chump and so it goes. So let us move on from the political nonsense for now and focus on America's Hubble Space Telescope and of course, machine art. Yup and here it comes.

Junior -

and bonsai in the surreal -

weekend is here and the time is right for protest in the streets! 🌅

Break Out The Life Boats Adolf

 Western Europe is getting drenched with "severe thunderstorms and flash flooding." Lucky them. So much rain in fact that Andreas von Weatherdudette (she's a German weather person) maintains that "Germany has not seen this kind of flooding in over one hundred years." So to be able to get a sense of how much rain has fallen, the German province of Rhineland-Palestine received 207 mm of rain in 24 hours. Sounds like a real gully washer. By the way, 207 mm of rain is exactly 8.15 inches. I really don't care for 'metrics'. Nope. Metrics tends to make measuring sound larger or deeper than it really might be in English. However, 8.15 inches of rain in 24 hours is a dang river full of rain. Wet oh yeah wet for days. Maybe the Germans might offload about half of that rain and send it over here where we could use some of that torrential rain water. So German cars, houses, cows, beer stands, roads, and people were washed away and washed out to the North Sea. It's not just Germany that's getting pelted with horrific rainfall, nope. Belgium, France, and the vast kingdom of Luxemberger are underwater and drowning. On top of all that, it's been freaking hot. Europe tends to be a might humid on a July summer day so add flooding on top of all that metrically measured heat and just about all of northwestern Europe has the prickly heat something awful. I wonder if the Germans have to worry about snakes when it rains and then floods. Hmmm, I really don't know. Or really care. Not so much. It's Europe and Germany for hell sakes. I don't go there. To Europe. Nope. The Euro-fuckers kicked my people out of Europe a long time ago so, good luck kids you'll need it. Well that and rubber boats. You know cause rubber boats will float. Usually. Anyway, CNN had a photag of some guy sloshing down a flooded German street and guy was up to his arm pits in flood water and there's detritus and shit floating all over the top of the water. Dang that has so got to suck. Sloshing around in flood waters up to your armpits and you just might not make it to high ground on account of getting tagged with some floaty crap or some other floaty crap and you are a goner. Pity that... so it's up against the wall in floaty crap mother... that's some lyrics from a 1970's pop hit. I of course altered the lyrics just a snidge. I can do that. Onward to today's installment of CGI machine art. Oh yeah -

bridge over flooded Madison County -

vineyard without flood water -

I wonder if'n all the flooding will cancel Germany's Oktober Fest? not that I'll be there no way... 😩 see? I found the emoji button. emoji, who came up with that silly name...👃

Day Of The Camel

 So let the humping begin. I'll refrain from stating the obvious. But I have to admit that it's hard. So...heat and wildfires are withering the American West. No big news there. Trump still claims that the election 2020 was stolen from him. Trump needs to stop acting like a disgruntled pelican. Disgruntled pelican, that's funny. President Joe nominated former Senator Jeff Flake to be Ambassador to Turkey. I think that's supposed to be some sort of "honor." I mean...Turkey? Alrighty then. That nomination could have been worse, President Joe could have named Flake to be Ambassador to India. Bud bud. The nomination for Ambassador to India went to Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti. Evidently Eric Garcetti insulted President Joe or some such like that there. Ambassador to India? That's not anywhere close to being a political honor. India seems to really suck and the Covid pandemic in India will kill you in a blink. It is entirely possible that Vice President Kammy Harris had something to do with Garcetti being nominated as Ambassador to India. Could be. Or not and I admit that I haven't a clue as to what President Joe or the Veep Kammy might be thinking about for nominations and ambassadors and stuff. Ambassador to India? Oh yeah, that's got to be about one smelly if not freaking hot nomination that may in fact be like life in hell. You see the Veep Kammy used to be a senator from California. You know, an U.S. Senator? Out of the Chamber of American Lords? Yeah, that senator. Hmmm, maybe Garcetti's nomination might be some manner of political payback. Or not. As already stated, I don't know. My job is to make shit up as I keyboard along. Well and machine art and CGI stuff. That brings to mind the next phase in today's program and that would be the machine art. Oh yeah...

fleur -

bot net left -

so there you have it on a Day Of The Camel. 🐫

No Particular Order

 South Korean "officials" have banned sweating in gyms. Yes it's true. South Koreans will no longer be allowed to "splash sweat" on other gym rats. There's a lot of sweating goes on in gyms anywhere. I know as I used to, back in the day, be one of those gym rats. I was addicted to pumping iron and I got quite large in the process. I also generated a lot of sweat but I never 'splashed' sweat on any other gym rat. That kind of shit would get you in a fistfight in a hurry. The exercise was good for me and it helped me get through some issues I was dealing with at the time. Problem with being a gym rat, if you don't keep up the gym routines, well, all that muscle turns to fat and you find yourself in an 'overweight' situation. That 'overweight' situation needs time to work off the excess. Excess muscle turned into fat. Anyway, South Korean 'officials' are freaking out about sweating in gyms spreading the Covid plague. You'd think that South Korean 'officials' would be more hysterical about foreigners visiting South Korea spreading the Covid plague than the sweating that happens in a gym. Evidently it's the music in the South Korean gyms causing people to sweat profusely. Go figure. Dancing to the K-Pop hits causes sweating in aerobics classes and the apostles of K-Pop dancing to the hits in a spin class, are needing splash guards. So and evidently once more, South Korean K-Pop spin classes are almost like taking a sweat shower and that sounds really disgusting. So listen up South Koreans, quit splashing sweat in your gyms. Show some courtesy and knock that sweating shit off. I thought the article about South Koreans splashing sweat was funnier than the article about the silly girl that got herself arrested and booked into jail in Panguitch, Utah for smirking at a cop. Holy crap, there aren't bigger criminals to fry in our schizophrenic world than dance class sweating South Koreans and smirking girls in Panguitch, Utah? On the upside, cops will have more folks to shoot and kill in addition to the regular black folks the cops shoot and kill at present. Sweaty fat ladies at the gym, smirking young women in Panguitch, and oh yes I forgot about the Texas Democrat lawmakers on the lamb from Texas. Texas Governor 'wheelie' Abbott is issuing warrants to have all those on the lamb Texas Democrat lawmakers arrested then shot. Wait, or is it shot and then arrested...ummm, I'd better google that to make sure of what might be the proper order for Abbot's insanity. Abbott's gone batshit insane on account of he's got to sit in a wheelchair all the Texas day long. Abbott's got the "prickly heat" irritating his bottom. Well and on the lamb Texas Democrat lawmakers. Texas Democrat lawmakers bolted from Alamo land so's Abbott can't get the Texas legislature to pass laws making it illegal for Texans of black and Mexican heritage the right to vote. Abbott is an asshole in a wheelchair. On to today's installment of machine art. Art for the masses and some Texans.

victorian -

styles of the japanesque -

remember to be courteous and don't be a sweating on your neighbor in spin class. damn if'n that ain't about funny or what. 💦 - splashy sweat emoji :}

If It's Monday...It's Hot

 Oh yeah, screaming hot and now we've got smoke. Thick smoke. The smoke does NOT smell like burning wood. Although the smoke is from wildfires in California, Oregon, Idaho, and as far away as Washington. The state and not the D.C.. Smoke is so dang thick you can cut it with your air knife. We have those a way out here in the ole American West. You've got to have something to cut the dang smokey air so you gets yourself an air knife. If you lived out here well then you'd understand what it is I'm prattling on about. An air knife...that's rich. Not monetarily rich. So to be quite precise about the wildfire situation, there are wildfires burning in Arizona, Nevada, Wyoming, and Montana. Oh yeah and I forgot about Colorado. There's wildfires burning in Colorado. That might comes as a bit of a surprise to the denizens of Colorado. Surprise! Anyway, we need rain. We need a whole lot of rain and then snow on top of that rain. Of course with all the wildfires burning up the landscape and forests and stuff, that leaves a forest full of burned barren ground. Ain't no trees left to be burned or the dang wildfires would come back and burn the shit twice. Anyway, after any forest wildfire and IF rain happens to fall out the sky, well, that wet earth turns to mud and the mud slides downhill and that's not exactly an Olympic event. But the damage caused by a mudslide is on an olympic scale. So you'll get warned about flash flooding after heavy rains. Warnings about mudslides tend to get overlooked. Either way, we've got us a disaster in the making and any mudslide disasters are on top of the wildfire disasters we've already got. Dang, things can't get any worse. That's a bit of an understatement AS things can always get worse. And things WILL get worse when the rains finally come. Might take about ten or twenty years for the rains to come but eventually the rains will come. You see the American West is suffering from one of those "on a geologic time scale" drought. Those kinds of droughts can last a couple of hundred years and there is geologic record that reveals exactly that. Damn, folks are gonna get a powerful thirsty if this drought last even one hundred years. Look out middle and eastern America, the westerners are gonna be moving your way and maybe sooner than later. That should make for some good time no doubt. East meets West in that traditional American way of welcome. Oh yeah, some really 'good' times. Okay and moving on to today's really important stuff and that would be of course the machine art portion of our program. 

warner brother -

train time -

I wonder if Alaska is on fire...maybe somebody could ask Sarah Palin. Did you know that our gracious Ms. Palin is looking for a new 'soul mate'? Well she is you know. Good luck with that Sister Palin... 💔 poor woman, she sleeps alone. HAH!

Thou Shall Not Smirk

 Dateline Panguitch, Utah - - - Woman is arrested for smirking at Panguitch Cop! According to an unnamed Garfield County Deputy Sheriff, ""I observed one of the friends … stomping on a 'Back the Blue' sign next to where the traffic stop was conducted, crumple it up in a destructive manner and throw it into a trash can all while smirking in an intimidating manner towards me," the deputy wrote in the affidavit. This is from a KLSNews report. But wait there's more. There's always more. First off, the Deputy Sheriff had pulled over the woman's friend and offered the woman's friend a 'speeding ticket'. You really do NOT want to get caught speeding in Panguitch. Panguitch is in Garfield County Utah. Panguitch straddles US-89 and US-89 takes you past the cutoff to Bryce Canyon National Park. That's the Panguitch claim to fame. Well and their less than brave deputy sheriffs. "She smirked at me." Here are the facts ma'am nothing but the facts -  a 19-year-old woman was charged Friday with a hate crime accusing her of stomping on a pro-police sign and throwing it in the trash — all in front of an officer who had just given her friend a speeding ticket. And there's that "smirking" enhancement and that falls under the legal category of a Utah 'hate crime'. Bet you did not know that smirking was a hate crime enhancement. Well it is in Utah. More nuggets of reporting it as it actually happened, "the woman is charged in Garfield County's 6th District Court with criminal mischief. The charge was filed with a hate crime enhancement, making it a class A misdemeanor punishable by up to a year in jail. The woman was also charged with disorderly conduct, an infraction. In Panguitch, disorderly conduct is an "infraction" but smirking is a class A misdemeanor offense and can get you up to a year in the Garfield County slammer. Here are more electrifying details from Garfield County Deputy Sheriff Parley Spriggs. I had to make up a name for the deputy as the 'official reporting' does not give the deputy's name. Back to our narrative - "I stated to (the woman) that our sheriff's office produced those specific signs and that I believed she had acquired it in our community," the deputy wrote, adding that he checked with gas station employees who said the sign was not theirs. After reading her her Miranda rights, the deputy said the woman provided "inconsistent stories" and eventually said she had found it on the ground.

"Due to (the woman) destroying property that did not belong to her, in a manner to attempt to intimidate law enforcement, I placed her under arrest," the deputy wrote, adding that she was taken and booked into jail. "Due to the demeanor displayed by (the woman) in attempts to intimidate law enforcement while destroying a pro law enforcement sign, the allegations are being treated as a hate crime enhanced allegation." I mean really, is there anyone in these here United States of Buffoonery that doesn't get 'demeanored' by getting a speeding ticket? More details - according to the charging documents, the criminal mischief charge with a hate crime enhancement was filed because the woman damaged or destroyed the sign "with the intent to intimidate or terrorize another person or with reason to believe that her action would intimidate or terrorize that person."

The Utah hate crime statute for civil rights violations referred to in the charging documents says: "'Intimidate or terrorize' means an act which causes the person to fear for his physical safety or damages the property of that person or another. The act must be accompanied with the intent to cause or has the effect of causing a person to reasonably fear to freely exercise or enjoy any right secured by the Constitution or laws of the state or by the Constitution or laws of the United States." So Deputy Spriggs felt "terrorized" by the girl's smirking at him in an 'intimidating manner'. Whatever. So there you go people, there's high crimes and misdemeanor smirking happening right now in Panguitch, Utah and their law enforcement personnel are NOT going to take it anymore. No how and no way. The young woman is lucky she wasn't shot and killed by the Garfield County Deputy Sheriff Spriggs. By the by, had the young woman been of the 'black persuasion' well she'd have been shot dead on sight. For smirking. Yes my friends, down in Panguitch law enforcement is more than a bit edgy and intolerant. Smirking can get you killed and/or incarcerated for at least a year. Yikes that's some tough ass law enforcement no doubt. Smirking...😏 That's an official smirking emoji. Go figure. Now it's time for machine art and let's keep the smirking to a minimum thank you.

see what the tide washed in -

windy -

that wind will blow the smirk right off'n your face. 

Another Day Older And Closer To Death

It happens to everybody. You get older by the day and that puts you closer to the demise of existence. Ain't no one on 'this Island Earth' is gonna escape the stark reality of death. You're born, you live (?), and then you die. That's the gist of existence. Life will streak by so dang fast you simply won't believe it. Just a not so subtle reminder on the fragility of life. Live you life one day at a time because that's all you're gonna get. One day and bingo, it's over. Odds are you just might make it to tomorrow. However, tomorrow never comes as it will always be tomorrow when today finally shows its happy little face. So all of existence gets boiled down to today. Fatalistic no doubt. True no doubt. Cynical, probably. Saturday? My calendar says so. Machine art? Coming up right about now. Pointless babble? Absolutely!

foliage for a screaming hot day in July -

 square circles -

yeah I got nothing. that much should be obvious... :]

From The New Yorker Magazine

Dated today and that would be July 9, 2021 and this is pretty dang funny. Yeah I ganked the article. I can do that. Excerpt from The New Yorker -

PALM BEACH (The Borowitz Report)—Claiming that he has been “treated very unfairly,” Donald Trump is suing eighty-one million American voters for banning him from the White House.

“This was all part of a Big Tech conspiracy,” he said. “Many of these eighty-one million people were users of Facebook, Twitter, and TicketyTock.”

Trump called the decision by eighty-one million people to ban him from the White House “a bad thing. A very bad thing.”

“This would mean that it’s up to millions of Americans to decide who gets to use the White House and who doesn’t,” he said. “This should never be allowed to happen in this country.”

The lawsuit was delayed for several weeks, sources said, while Trump sought to determine which, if any, of his attorneys still had a law license.

That's some funny shit there boy. Now we'll segue to the machine art portion of today's program. I really like to work the blog thingy when I don't have to write much at all. Someone else is "invited" (that's my story and I'm sticking to it for now) to author up some well crafted literacy. Yeah sure sure -

fork off eh? -

incline terraced -

screaming hot a way out here in the American West. keep hydrated and find shade. :]