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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 fac...

  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 ...

  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...

  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. 🐪

  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...

  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 stup...

  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 s...

  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...👻

  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 twi...

  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. 😟

  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.  🌂

  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 virgin...

  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 🙇

  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 s...

  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 cr...

  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. ...

  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 Kam...

  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...

  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 u...

  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 nothin...

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... :]

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 p...