Last Day Of Augustus

 August the month is over for all intents and purposes. Augustus was some Roman Caesar guy. I added the 'us' to 'August' to spiff it up a bit. Pretty spiffy...no? So America is done with Afghanistan. There was a four star general on the television yesterday afternoon explaining all the military nuts and bolts for bugging out of the AfghanisNam. Yes the "withdrawal" is a military bug out or retreat or however you may be inclined to call America's getting out a getting out. We's gone everybody. Just like the fall of Saigon then fast forward to Kabul and dang if'n that isn't about some deja vu or what. On an unrelated note, I think that four stars is about as starred a military general can get. The last five star general was Dwight D. Eisenhower. So Afghanistan is over and the 'next six months' will be filled with political insight, bluster, bullshit, recriminations, and hypocritical conjecture from armchair military advisors of all shapes and sizes. The political spectrum will be covered quite succinctly thank you. And yes there is plenty of blame to get spread around for the disgraceful performance that is "Bush's Afghanistan." George W. owns all of it from the start in October of 2001 to the Biden finish August 2021. What a fucking waste of lives and treasure. About one of the ONLY good things to come from the Afghanistan were all of the harvested human organs that were useable for transplant. What, you thought the American military was going to let all those human organs go to waste? I mean besides all the other waste in Afghanistan. American service members killed in the Afghanistan "theater of operations" were picked clean of anything salvageable. Human organ wise that is. For the naive that may, in some manner of discovery, discover that the military was harvesting organs, get a grip. America military wastes a helluva lot of stuff but, human organs does not fall into that wasted category. There's big and I mean really big money to be had in the harvested organs trade. American hospitals all across the America that are in the business of transplanting organs were dependent on those military organs and any number of transplant recipients can now know where those organs they're using came from. Isn't America's military just ever so noble? Sure they are. Okay and so now let us move on from the disgraceful and move on up to the machine art segment of today's program.

sun rise over the horizon -

fear of flying not -

if you've any questions or uncertainty about the U.S. military harvesting human organs from cacked soldiers, just ask any military surgical nurse that may have been working at the Landstuhl Regional Medical Center that's about 8 miles distant from the Ramstein Air Base in Germany. Ramstein Air Base is where just about all of U.S. military flights are destined from just about anywhere in Asia or central Asia or the Middle East or Africa or, you know, wherever. Or ask a hospital surgical transplant team here in the America. That is IF you can prod them into answering touchy questions about where they might be collecting organs from. Good luck with that. 😷

Political Hypocrisy

 A fallen Utah Marine arrived home in a box yesterday. That would have been Sunday August 29, 2021. The arrival destination is at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware. That's where President Joe Biden is from. Anyway, the Dover Air Force Base is where all of the U.S. military's soldiers arrive after being...killed in action. President Biden attended the arrival of the soldiers killed at Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan. I'll bet you didn't know that the airport in Kabul was named after Hamid Karzai. I didn't. Hamid Karzai was the Afghan 'president' for quite some time. Ole Karzai buddy is a real peach and helluva human being. Sure he is. Oh yes and it just so happens that President Biden's being in attendance at the Dover Air Force Base is referred to as "a dignified transfer." That 'transfer' honors returning remains of soldiers killed in any theater of operations declared active by the U.S. military. So that fallen Utah Marine that started this tirade arrived at the Dover Air Base and was attended by the Marine's family. the Marine's family was flown to Dover Air Base on a "private jet." The Marine was from Utah and Salt Lake to be specific. The Marine's family was flown back to Utah on a "private jet" just in time to attend a "special candlelight vigil" being staged at Utah's Capitol and attended by a host of Utah citizens packing flags, sidearms, and enough hypocrisy to fill Rice Eccles Stadium. The Rice Eccles Stadium is where the University of Utah plays football games. Anyway, the candlelight vigil/celebration was attended by ALL of Utah's 'important' elected officials and that's to include Utah's congressional delegation. There was hypocrisy seeping out of just about anywhere on/or near Utah's Capitol. A grander celebration couldn't have been cooked up if there had been advance notice. I'm not certain as to who, or should that read whom, planned this political circus but there it was for all of Utah to see and wonder at. Wonder why in hell such a fuss would be made over this fallen Marine. There have been any number of Utah service members killed in various proxy wars, military actions, covert ops, overt bombings, and war crimes over the years so why now and why with this Marine? I can't seem to find a straight answer from any of Utah's "special" politicos. Oh well. The spectacle was obscene to say the least. Now for some Monday machine art without too much political hypocrisy. I like to leave that to the professional political hypocrites.

bighorn sheep #1 -

bighorn sheep #2 -

so there you have it live from behind the Zion Curtain. I'm not certain that I'll be able to get out from behind the Curtain alive. oh well number twice. 👻

Korean Boy Pop Terroristas

 ISIS-K. Who exactly decided to call the Afghan terrorists 'ISIS-K'? Maybe it was the Afghan terrorists themselves. Abdul says to Osama Jr., "why don't we call ourselves ISIS-K so people won't think we're all that bad? You know like those Korean pop boy bands?" Sure, that's how it happened. Makes as much sense as just about anything else. We are living in some damn strange times. So I suppose ISIS-K the terrorist pop boy band is what we'll be living with for the next five to twenty years depending on whomever at the Pentagon is asking for six more months. You know, to hunt those pop boy terrorists down and bomb the bejesus out of wherever they might be hiding in plain sight. With the anniversary of September 11, 2001 dawning in about less than a month, the interim should prove to be interesting to say the least. Every last goddamned terrorista all across our Planet Earth is going to want a piece of the action and won't that just be a barrel of bloody laughs. I would advise anyone planning on traveling overseas in the next month or so to simply...not. Damn Covid-19 the Delta Variant is bad enough and now you toss some lone wolf terrorism into the mix and oh yeah, excitement to be had just about anywhere. I'd be willing to bet that George W. Bush had NO idea of the shitstorm he'd be stirring up when he authored the invasion of Afghanistan just about one month after 9/11. Bush owns all the Afghanistan AND Iraq atrocity and he needs to be prosecuted as a war criminal. So should Dark Cheney. Well and Condoleeza Rice and a vast assortment of flunkies, junkies, and violent assholes in American government. Six more months is all it will take. Sure sure... Now for some machine art and for the moment anyway, nobody should get bombed. Not even photobombed. 

because it's Sunday...cubit! -

pile and/or otherwise -

you can google the 'cubit' usage and that should explain it all. 😳

Saturday's Alright For...Whatever

 Today is your last chance to shop on a Saturday for the month of August. Christmas decorations are starting to pop up in retail outlets all across the America and it won't be long before those Christmas "deals" will be too good to pass up. Pass by? Pass over? Oh get it? that last one is a funny. Pass over and/or Passover? Bad joke and I can admit that. The last week of August seems a bit early for Christmas crap to be showing up but, there it is nonetheless. On an unrelated note, Utah hospitals are having to put patients out on the street. You see there aren't any beds left in Utah hospitals on account of Utah dummies refusing to get vaccinated for the Covid-19 with all the various variants of the Covid in full swing. Utah's dummies refuse to wear masks under any circumstances. Yes Utah dummies are dangerously stupid. Anyway, Utah's hospital-less sickly banded together and started up a sickly ward under an overpass in downtown Salt Lake. Not even Utah's regular homeless would get anywhere near the hospital-less encampment. Anyway the sickly hospital-less encampment got so crowded that Salt Lake City's elected elders sent the S.L.P.D. armed with a bulldozer over to that sickly encampment and they bulldozed all the sickly hospital-less types to the city limits of Salt Lake and left the sickly there to become someone else's problem. That's called an SEP. Got a problem? Get a solution. Might not be the right solution but a solution is what it is. So there you go and that's all the highlights from behind the Zion Curtain. Oh wait, there is one more little nugget of revelatory news stuff. Mormonlands very own el Jefe Jeffey Holland delivered a speech at BYU on Monday August 23, 2021 and el Jefe put all the BYU students on notice that "gays, lesbians, deviants in general, and nonMormon football players at the 'Y' had better be on their very bestest Mormon behavior or ELSE! Or else el Jefe Holland will personally wack their pee-pees hard. Oh yes and, BYU is Utahn for Brigham Young University. Holland has a particularly festering hatred for gays, lesbians, and just about anyone else that might not be Mormon. Oh yeah and it is standard procedure at the 'Y' for school leadership to ignore the behaviors of nonMormon football players. The nonMormon football players can't help how they behave at school, they're not Mormon BUT they can play football and that's all that's important. Just ask Kalani Sitake BYU's head football coach. And that about wraps things up for Saturday August 28, 2021 and now it's time for...machine art.

tuacahn sam -

tractor -

Les Blough offered me a tractor back in the day for free. all I had to do was go and get the tractor which would have been no mean feat. I just couldn't figure out where to put it and my wife was adamant that I couldn't keep the tractor in the house. so it goes...😳

Well, Here It Is

 The very last Friday in the month of August is upon us and this very last Friday looks very much like any number of last Fridays just about anywhere. With the possible exception of more atrocity and death, same old is same old. The Afghaniscam is ending almost exactly like how it started, atrocity and death. A lot of death. President Biden is promising "revenge" on the ISIS-K terrorists that detonated suicide bombers at Kabul International Airport. That might only take about fifteen or twenty years. The "revenge" thingy. So the 'ISIS-K' band of merry terrorists aren't very chummy with Afghanistan's Taliban. This could prove interesting in the very least. One band of terrorist assholes pitted against a second band of terrorist assholes and the outcome will be a bloody damn mess. No doubt. We can thank George W. Bush for all the Afghaniscam blood and debacle. On an unrelated note, the newly minted ISIS-K terrorists would be an anagram for the band Kiss. Of course you need to add an extra 'i' to the mix but it's curious. Yes very curious. I've always had my suspicions about the band Kiss. Kiss the band isn't actually a rock band. Oh hell no way in hell. The Kiss band is a collection of circus freaks that paint themselves up and then blow up an audience. Strangely circumstantial for sure. Okay so and this might be considered insensitive but who will be the last American soldier to leave a pair of empty boots in Afghaniscam? If that soldier has family, they'll know. Friday's machine art is up next.

work -

granny mural UK -

the blowback from Afghaniscam is only now beginning. politicians that start wars need to be held to account. 😠

Selling Space

 NASA is planning on a decommission of the International Space Station. Sometime in the near future, according to NASA, like about 2030 or later than that. I didn't know that the ISS was NASA's to decommission. 2030 or later than that. In real time that's not exactly soon. NASA made that announcement and the announcement was covered by CNBC news. I didn't know that CNBC covered NASA news or even 'space' news. However as it turns out, there's money involved so enter CNBC. Maybe CNBC could get NASA to launch that annoying Cramer guy into deep space. Without a return rocket would be nice. Anyway it seems that NASA is looking to private industry to build a next generation space station and one Sierra Space out of Colorado and Axiom Space out of Houston, Texas are well on their way to producing space stations that might contend for the title of an 'official NASA' space station. Maybe it'll be just one however two space stations are not out of the equation. Getting those space stations to space will require the work of NASA to get them up there. I think so anyway. I'm not certain if Elongated Musk has a rocket in the works to launch a space station OR if Amazon Bezos has one being built. Neither Musk or Bezos had anything to say on the matter. You might not want to count that Virgin Galactic guy what's his name out of any decision making by NASA. Oh right, Sir Richard Charles Nicholas Branson is the Virgin Galactic guy. Can't be forgetting him. Why certainly not your royal pain in the ass. Dicky boy blue will want a slice of space station pie or his name is not Sir Richard. Lah-Dee-Dah! Anyway, space belongs to NASA no anyone else as far as I've been able to determine. Not NASA, not the Russians, not the Chinese, not the Japanese, and not the India Indians cause you know the India Indians aren't in Cleveland. Oh right, the Cleveland Indians aren't in Cleveland anymore either. They changed their name to be considered apolitical and not insensitive. That cultural appropriation bullshit. So with nations starting to sell space, who gets that money? Me? You? Vulnerable third world folk that have suffered more than just about anyone? Afghans? Well maybe not Afghans, they've got enough trouble standing as things are now. Who will receive payment for space? What about 'DEEP SPACE'? Any aliens living there might have a thing or two to say about any claims on deep space. Heck, aliens might have a thing or two to say about near Earth orbit. What happens when aliens show up with a cease and desist order and an entire fleet of planet-enders to enforce their cease and desist order? Hmmm? What happens then? It would seem that just about no one in space command wants to answer that question. I suppose that we shall see what we shall see IF Planet Earth survives the next ten years. So now, let us trip the light fantastic right over to the machine art desk and see what's on the docket. Not rocket.

eVangie Veginal -

a rose by any other name would be...something else -

so there you have it, space foolery and stuff. did you know that in space, no one can hear you...period. 😎

Should We Stay OR Should We Go

 The statement/question is of course both rhetorical AND lyrical. Thank you to the 'Clash' with some minor changes. By me of course. Most of America's "politicians" want President Biden to delay the bug out from AfghanisNam. Yes this freaking disaster is EXACTLY a replication of America's withdrawal from VietNam. All that's needed to finish the metaphor is U.S. Navy guys pushing helicopters off the decks of American aircraft carriers. The Navy guys did allow the South Vietnamese tucked ever so sardine-like inside those soon-to-be fishbait helicopters to get out and on to the desks of those aircraft carriers. This time the U.S. military is using those gigantic C-17 Globemaster jets to remove Americans and Afghans from the AfghanisNam. Jam those people inside the jets like sardines in a really REALLY big freaking can. The C-17 is one large military jet. I got to see one, once, and holy crap I couldn't figure out how that monstrosity could fly. Pack'em deep and fly 'em cheap. Anyway, with both sides of the political spectrum screeching at President Biden to delay his already decided withdrawal, you can see where this is going. "Another six more months will FINALLY turn the trick." Or not. Of course the old saying goes "if you break it you've bought it." America broke the AfghanisNam and we've got exPresident George W. Bush to thank for that. Thanks Buckaroo, you did a bang up job. Or not. History will not be so kind to the Dubya. So I suppose we shall see what we shall see. And now it's time to get the fuck away from the AfghanisNam troubles and indulge in some peaceful and tranquil machine art. Yup, that's the ticket for sure. Or not...

a road goes ever on. almost like the AfghanisNam -

cottonwood the tree. it's in there somewhere -

stand your ground Mr. President and don't let the naysayers second guess your decisions. 😖

Is It Too Late For A Tuesday

 Is it too late for any day? So many existential if not rhetorical questions. Is it possible to teach a narcissistic man to be humble? Does donny 'boy' trump lick the toe jam from between Melanoma's toes? Yes that was sort of gross. So with it being obvious I've got nothing for this fine day, we'll move on to the machine art and dispense with the prattle and bullshit.

lost -

some rough country there boy -

TTFN 😎

The Day After Yesterday

And today it is. Monday August 23, 2021 and there is breaking news but, I really don't care so let's leave it alone. For now. I mean what could possibly be new to the news? We get the same depressing bullshit day after day and it seems to never end. Which is probably a good thing for the news reporters/talking heads. Seeing as how the t-heads are damn close to being irrelevant now, well, if there weren't any news to report all the bobble headed dumb ass news readers would be out of a job. I can't figure out how it is that George W. Bush has managed to escape scrutiny for the Afghaniscam debacle. Bush, at the behest of Dark Cheney, started the Afghaniscam war and not a word seems to get mentioned about that. The news rapists seem myopically fixated on President Joe Biden and his withdrawal of American troops from the 'Scam'. Now the Afghaniscam is a freaking mess? Newsflash for ya guys, the Afghaniscam has been a fucking mess for a long time now so, where in hell were you fuckers? Oh right, the news readers were sucking venomous milk from the teat of donny 'boy' trump. Just another day at the news desk and Lester Holt, in some other time or adjacent reality, may have been relevant. Probably not but I'll give the clown the benefit of any doubt. For now. So here we are arrived at the last full week in August 2021 and same old is same old. Lucky us. Okay and now for some really relevant machine art. Gosh, I guess I turned absolutely nothing into an absolute something close to pertinent. Sure I did...

streets of somewhere -

meerkats might not make cute pets -

so there you go for a Monday. good luck y'all. 😎

Let Us All Now Bow Our Heads

 Not in prayer oh hell no. It may in fact be a Sunday but, I'll not be offering up any manner of supplications to "god." One more time, oh hell no. The 'bow our heads' reference is about hanging American heads in shame. Shame, disgrace, and a disgusted sense of hubris. A way back just a wee bit after the 9/11/01 tragedy, then president George W. Bush involved these United States of America in Afghanistan. Pay back for 9/11/01. You see there was some dodgy "intelligence" that maintained the Afghan Taliban were in cahoots with the al Qaida terrorists and therefore were complicit with the 9/11/01 attack on the World Trade Centers. Turns out the Afghan Taliban didn't really have much to do with the al Qaida terrorists and really didn't even get along with the al Qaida freaks. So and working on very little credible intel, Bush got America involved and the rest is "six months tops" history. "Six months tops" turned into 20 bloody and quagmired years. America is now in the process of tucking tail and getting the fuck clear of Afghanistan. America should have never got involved in Afghanistan but, there it is and here we are. Screwed and without courtesy of vaseline or a thank you. It is adamantly clear that George W. Bush and his gang of merry war criminals SHOULD be tried for crimes against humanity and war crimes. A Guantanamo internment camp is still to this day holding uncharged and untried al Qaida "terrorists" and that all in and of itself is an international crime. So there you go and in Afghanistan the saying goes, and there "they" went. Disgraceful. If you've ever wonder why the United States has refused to join on to the International Criminal Court at the Hague, well, now you know why. Afghanistan, Guantanamo Camp X-Ray Texas Hold'em Hell Hole, Iraq, and numerous violations of basic human rights and international law all around the world are prima facie evidence admissible in just about any court anywhere but the ICC should be the start of international accountability. Oh wait I do have ONE prayer to offer up to "god", and that would be 'dear god, don't let Dick Cheney cack off this here existence before he has to face a war crimes tribunal. That is all for now'. You see Cheney is a half-heartless son-of-a-bitch that needs to be held to account. Cheney lives with another's human heart. His original human heart turned black and rotted in his chest so he needed to get another. human heart. Just think, some other human had to die so Cheney could continue insulting our shoddy existence. I think that is wrong on so many para-philosophical levels. Seems there isn't supreme justice for American war criminals and that's tragic all in and of itself. Machine art comes next. Happy Sunday y'alls.

the point -

cultural misappropriation -

in the America, genocide and human denigration 'r' us. 😬

Only 126 Days Left

 Yes my friends as horrible as this might sound, there are only 126 shopping days left until Christmas 2021. Dang it if'n time don't just fly by when you're having fun. We are having fun...aren't we? President Biden has got the fall of Afghaniscam almost under control, Covid-19 the Delta Variant is well on it's way to savaging the unvaccinated Americans that were too stupid to get the vaccine when the vaccine became available, and Marjorie Taylor Greene is planning a run for president 2024 under the Nazi-esqueRepublican Party For America ticket. Yup and the Greene shrike from Georgia is gonna have Matt Gaetz as her veep. Gosh if that isn't about a presidential ticket from racist hell, well, I almost can't imagine what one might be. 126 shopping days left so what are you waiting for? Get out there and shop until you drop. Or vomit. Or commit ritual seppuku. Or simply stay home and steer clear of the shopping madness. Of course Amazon would prefer that one do ALL their Christmas shopping needs online using Amazon. Of course. I'm thinking that headstones and cremation urns will be a big seller this year. You know on account of that Covid-19 the Delta Variant scourge. I think that Americans that refuse to wear a mask or get the Covid-19 vaccine are exercising their "constitutional right" to be assholes and spread the plague far and wide out of pure spite. The anti-vaxxers are getting even for being the first out playing dodge ball. That could be a possible but personally, I think they're just being assholes. So now we shall turn to the really important part of this here Saturday morning tirade and that would be the machine art. Presto and just like that.

wake up and smell the surrealism -

the mean streets of Tuscany...again -

you ever wonder how it is that Melanoma Trump can stay married to the donny 'boy' trump? I know, her name is Melania but Melanoma suits her better. 😲

Don't Do It

 If you happen to be thinking about coming to Utah for a vacation or a visit or a whatever, don't do it. Utah has finally de-evolved into a hateful and murderous place to live. Utah has been tracking this downward slide for sometime now. Don't be fooled by Governor Cox's 'ah gosh and a shucks' demeanor. That facade couldn't be further from the truth. If you're planning a move to Utah and you have children, ditch those plans and head for somewhere else. I couldn't tell you where you might want to consider moving to, just don't move to Utah. The cat is finally out of the bag. Mean spirited homophobic and utterly intolerant Taliban types have taken control of just about ALL forms of governance in Utah. The State's legislative body, school boards, town councils, county councils, and most of Utah's media are in the control of some really scary and crazy fucking assholes. Recently a lesbian couple living in Moab were found shot to death at a locally favorite camping site. That campsite is on the La Sal Loop Road. Fairly well travelled and now is dangerous if you happen to be of the lesbian persuasion. I make no judgments over LGBTQRSVP issues and choices in lifestyle. Live and let live seems a fairly evenhanded manner to approach human existence. The Salt Lake County Council ignored the medical advice of Dr. Angela Dunn who works as Salt Lake County's Executive Director for the Health Department. Dr. Dunn advised that Salt Lake County schools issue a mask mandate for students returning for the 2021/2022 school year. The Covid-19 Delta Variant is reeking holy havoc on students and assorted unvaccinated creepers in Salt Lake County YET, the County Council feels they know better than clinical science and sound medicine. "Ain't not a dang nobody gonna tell us what do with our kids going to school so get stuffed Dr. Dunn." That brilliantly defiant if not outrageously stupid remark comes from County Council Chairman Steve DeBry. DeBry likes to wear trump teeshirts to the Council meetings. DeBry even named his second daughter Ivanka so as to gain favor with trumpy boy. Utah State Senator Daniel McCray (Retarded-Salt Lake) maintains that IF you don't be a liken how things work in Utah, well, get the fuck out! Empathetic to the bone no doubt. Just about all of Utah is trapped behind that Zion Curtain and Utah, quite like the Taliban in Afghaniscam, will NOT tolerate difference of any kind. Stick to the Utah Mormon Party line or risk your very life. I can editorialize Utah's state of life issues on account of my being marginalized and have been so my entire life. On an unrelated note, I'm directly descended from one William Madison Wall. Willy Wall is my great great great grandfather. Is that enough greats? Oh hell, no cares anyway. Granpa Willy had at least five wives that I'm aware of. Sly ole geezer. Willy Wall was one of Brigham Young's favorite go-to guys for doing Brig's dirty work. Grandfather Willy built the road through Provo Canyon that is now US Route 189. That and Brig sent Grandfather Willy to Australia to proselytize for the Mormons. I'm sure that Australia is ever so grateful for that little Mesopotamian stunt. Mess-o-potamia is almost like Vegamite. Being a direct descendant of Willy sort of gives me cover with the Mormons. Somewhere along the line Granpa Willy's offspring went horribly off the rails and that's how things go sometimes. In my case, I am ever so grateful for the split in familial outsourcing. Okay and with that bullshit out of the way, let us move on to the machine art as the machine art is way more important that the everyday hateful bigotry of Utahns and especially with Utah's elected and inbred fucking idiots.

a hazy day of summer -

a little cabin off somewhere -

breathe deep the gathering smoke and CHOKE ON IT! 😵

Soggy Thursday

 Then came the rain. It rained and rained and rained and you can probably catch my drift here. Rain finally showed up in significant enough amounts to wet more than the driveway. Problem is, the rain wasn't enough to wash the wildfire smoke out of our air. The air now smells like a wet campfire. Thanks California. Yes the smoke in our air is from California wildfires. Oregon got their hellacious wildfires under control. For the most part. California wildfires are jumping ahead of fire lines faster than the firefighters can keep up. And so the future is spelled out in no uncertain terms. Prolonged drought then massive wildfire then heavy rainfall replete with flooding and mudslides. The mudslides are coming off the massive burn scars that now blemish what was, once, beautiful forested land. Bye bye beautiful forested land and hello hellish and barren empty forests. No trees, no bushes, no wildlife, and mostly burned stumps and debris. So with the forests now turned to charcoal, the carbon dioxide to oxygen exchange we received courtesy of the trees and forests is not about to happen anymore. There will of course still be the carbon dioxide but with nowhere to go for the ole exchange drill courtesy of trees. You see trees breath in the fucked up carbonated air and exchange the carbon dioxide for that refreshing and healthy oxygen which all life on Planet Earth has grown to depend on. And by 'carbonated air', I'm not talking about the fizzy crap that's inherent in soda pop. By all manner of measuring a healthy Earth, it ain't so healthy anymore and growing increasingly unhealthy by the minute. It's a fair bet that life will cease to exist on our homeworld having been strangled by a severe lack of breathable air. Which in hindsight is almost like choking to death on your own spit. I hate it when that happens. So let us all move on to more pleasant themes at least for now. You can choke to death on your own time. Pleasant...no?

grace not slick -

a for real collage -

gosh, life just gets better by the freaking minute. 😳

Drama Dery Forever

 We have, once again, arrived at that 'special' day. We have much to celebrate on this fine Wednesday. Why there are more wildfires in California, Texas Governor G. Abbott has the Covid-19 and the variant remains undisclosed, Florida Governor 'Rumbles' DeSantis has gone into hiding, and life is good all the way around. Or not. The quality of life will be heavily dependent on where you might live. A way out here in the smoke choked American West, we've finally received some rain. Not enough to put out all the wildfires but enough rain to back ambient air temperatures off just a snidge. Yes we've really got it going on today. Of course there is the ongoing crisis of whether to mask the going back to school children. Utah's grandiose legislature doesn't want ANY school district to mandate the wearing of masks. A surprising number of school districts have informed Utah's legislative body of Mormon zombies to fuck off and stay out of it! Good on them. It takes some seriously defiant cajones in Utah for any school district to defy Utah's legislative Loya Jirga. Google it. That act of defiance was unexpected but greatly appreciated by parents that can't figure out why Utah lawmakers would be so cavalier about the health and safety of Utah school children. Utah's legislative Loya Jirga is annoyingly trapped in their own myopic ignorance. Why Utah voters keep electing these miscreants has yet to find a reasonable explanation. Something to do with all the legislators being Mormon. That just might be the reasonable explanation. So the usual political and social dramas continue to play out comedic tragedy all across the America and so it goes. Drama Dery forever. Now we'll switch up for some machine art and non political binaryism. 

it is not a Covid mask but it could be -

S. Dali upgraded 2.6 -

to think what Dali or Picasso or Van Gogh could have done with AI software...😶

Random Thoughts For A Tuesday

 President Joe Biden is having to defend his decision to pull American troops out of the Afghaniscam. About damn time. President Biden made the right decision. It cost the American taxpayers roughly $2.261 TRILLION dollars for the Afghaniscam. Give or take a billion or so. So yeah, the Afghaniscam was one really REALLY expensive mistake. ExPresident George W. Bush owns this fucking war criminal mistake lock stock and with artificial arms and legs tossed in for good (?) measure.

Trump had a "deal" with the Taliban that was, allegedly, to get the Taliban to make nice. Yeah and one would be a really titanic dumb ass to believe anything the trump might have to say about anything. How is this lame fucker not in prison?

The entire United States Congress, both the House and Senate, Democrats and Republicans, are a complete and total incompetent failure and waste of time. Talk about disgrace. America's Congress is that. A disgrace.

Three bullshits do not an argument make. Or for that matter, any manner of debate.

machine art is next up on this here Tuesday -

wildfire -

linear accretion -

rectangle disks are all the rage. for this year anyway. 😵

Miasmatic Monday

 Yup, the air really stinks a way out here in the wide open and burning American West. Burns the eyes and clogs your lungs. Dang smoke particulates fall out the sky and coat your automobile with wildfire particulates. Well and your lawn and flowers and bushes and trees and the little birdies that have to live in the wild wide open. Your dog and cat and chickens and pigs and goats and all those very pricey llamas. You know, the alpacas and vicunas, those sorts. The ski resorts too but the ski resorts are sort of look on the profitable side of the western wildfires, the wildfire particulate crap is falling like snow up at the resorts so...the resorts are gonna allow skiing on the wildfire particulate stuff when the particulate stuff gets about three feet deep. Won't take too much longer. Skiers should have your smoke surfing gear ready and at hand. So aside from the fires and fall of Afghaniscam and Senator Lindsey Graham emphasizing he had no part in the Afghaniscam debacle and the flash flooding in Tucson, Arizona ain't not much happening on this here stinky damn Monday. Lindsey Graham is a swishy asshole to be quite clear on the subject. He owns the Afghaniscam quagmire as much as George W. Bush. About the only thing can be said about donny 'boy' trump is, trump started the Afghaniscam troop withdrawal so don't anyone try putting blame on President Joe Biden. President Biden finished what trump couldn't. Trump is incapable of finishing so many things AND he is a world class asshole and an even bigger asshole than Lindsey Graham. On that abysmal note it's on to today's machine art. At least a reader will have something nice to look at. For a brief while. With Bush and trump, is it any wonder why America can't have nice things...

mine shafted -

hand writing on parchment not the farm -

well on a second look, maybe it is a parchment farm. 😳

Sunday And...

 August is half gone. Wow if'n time don't just fly when having fun. I'm thinking that it must be sun up HOWEVER, I'm really not certain...I CAN'T SEE THE FREAKING SKY! Wildfire will do it every time. So we'll just cut to the chase. Machine art -

marching charging feet -

flourescense -

ewww...pretty colors! 😎

The Fall Of...Kabul?

 It's almost like deja vu all over again. A way back in the last century, America the wonderful was fighting a communist take over of Vietnam. America the not so great was getting pounded by the North Vietnamese/VietCong and after clearer heads prevailed in the Nixon administration, getting the hell out of Vietnam was the prevailing strategy. The last bastion of American corruption in Vietnam was the South Vietnam city of Saigon. Saigon was the capitol of South Vietnam. Anyway and so Saigon was surrounded by the North Vietnamese/VietCong (loving referred to as the 'VC' and there were other names for the VietCong but we'll leave that alone for now) and the U.S. military braintrust decided it might be a good idea to get the fuck clear of Saigon. Thus began a military airlift to get remaining Americans and Vietnamese "friends" of the U.S. out of Saigon and Vietnam altogether. In U.S. military jargon the authorized retreat from any besieged city is called a "bug out!" Especially when the U.S. is losing so badly that retreat is the ONLY option left for the U.S. military braintrust. A "bug out" order means grab you shit and beat feet ASAP. So the U.S. military left Vietnam behind and the rest is debated history. Vietnam today is a happy communist country and there is no longer a North/South Vietnam. Nope. Just the one mended and almost healed nation. However Laos and Cambodia are to this day dealing with the ancillary damages caused by the 'war in Vietnam'. So here it is the almost middle of the twenty first century and America finds itself quagmired in Afghanistan in another stupid and ill-conceived war in "that part" of the world that can't seem to get along without the U.S. or whomever, working a bloody "intervention" that just about and historically NEVER does what military minds intended in the first place. "Six more months and America will have fixed Afghanistan." Gosh that sounds like a recurring theme of bullshit spit out by, and you may have guessed it, American military minds that are basement level stupid. G. W. 'dubya' Bush got America in the Afghaniscam mess and Joe Biden is going to get America out of the longest war in American reworked several times over history. The Afghaniscam war began mere days after the horror of September 11, 2001. Yes my friends it has been twenty years almost to the day that America waded in to Afghaniscam to 'avenge those lost' on 9/11/01. Obviously the Afghaniscam war of naked aggression did NOT go according to plan and so, it's "bug out" time once again. President Biden is sending 3,000 battle hardened U.S. troops through the gates of Afghan hell to evacuate State Department/CIA spooky boys and "friends" of the U.S. involvement and those would be Afghans already targeted by the 'Taliban' to be executed for collaborating with the Americans. There you see? Deja vu all over again. In my lifetime, America had to get the hell out of Korea. Then came Bay of Pigs Cuba. Then and of course Vietnam. Along the way, there were also any number of American proxy wars. Angola comes to mind right off. America has always lived by the motto, if at first you don't succeed keep killing people until somebody cries "enough already." I mean it isn't like these missteps cost America anything. Well and except the soldiers killed or worse than killed and that would be of course maimed. Ain't nothing but an arm or leg or an arm and a leg or two arms and a leg or two arms two legs and half a face... goddamn this Nation can be really REALLY cavalier if not fucking stupid on an international scale. Oh yes and I forgot about the Balkan War. America has Bubba Clinton to thank for that little fuck up. Okay and now let us slow crawl our way to the machine art. Sans the bloodshed. Please god please let the blood letting cease and desist.

westend -

captioning a daily reality -

well that wraps up the week of August 8 through the 14th, 2021. damn we are having us some fun oh yeah. 😮

French Fried Friday

 Joe Bonamassa performed in Salt Lake City last night. That would have been August 12, 2021. Wow and you know what? Today is Friday the 13th! Be suspicious of anyone named Jason. So back to the party of the first part...Bonamassa played in the land of Zion and I'll bet it was a killer of a show. Bonamassa is pretty dang good on his guitar. Not bad with the vocals either. So the point of all this Bonamassa prattle is this, the tickets to get in to see Bonamassa live were not cheap. Not even close to cheap. Tickets for the front row were in excess of $300.00 dollars a pop. Floor seats reduced in price the farther back from front row you got. Be that as it may, floor seats in the overall were really pricey. Then there were the aerial seats and the nose bleed seats. Aerial being an upper deck in the Eccles Theater and then the freaking way up upper deck seating. The nose bleed seats were just a shade under $100.00 dollars a pop. I didn't go see Bonamassa. Nope that's too damn pricey for moi. So next year and that would be 2022 and in September of 2022, Roger Waters is coming to Salt Lake to play the Vivint Smart Home Arena. Stupid name for a concert hall but what are ya gonna do. The Vivint Arena is where the Utah Jazz play all their home games. Lah-dee-dah! So if Bonamassa tickets were in the really freakin' expensive zone, well, you can imagine that you'll need to give up a pint of blood of which 10% of that blood will go directly to the Mormon Church, the title and rights to your first born child, AND take out a second mortgage on your home to be able to get tickets to see Roger Waters. Roger Waters is at least half of the original Pink Floyd. I don't really care much for Waters so I could care less how much the tickets might cost for that show. I would however really like to see David Gilmore. Gilmore is the other half of Pink Floyd and the half that matters. As far as I'm concerned. Gilmore is more than likely never and not ever coming to Salt Lake City to play a concert. I can't blame Gilmore for that decision. Salt Lake City is a place you might want to visit but, on second thought, you'd be better off visiting Bryce Canyon National Park. If you do choose to visit Bryce Canyon, stop in Panguitch, Utah and have a meal at the Desert Grill which is the first quality restaurant you'll pass heading south to Bryce. Panguitch is a nice little town but you don't want to piss off the local deputy sheriffs. They are a might touchy bunch and the entire deputy sheriff contingent of 'bobbies' are scared shitless of any young lady from California that might just be a domestic terrorist. The deputy sheriffs in Panguitch are a feared of 'California domestic terrorists' so badly the deputies cower and quake at the mere sight of California license plates. Oh yes and there are legendary tales of the Panguitch deputy sheriffs fear of female domestic terrorists from California. A rather humiliating tale of twitchy deputies and torn up sign stomping. Oh the horrors... okay and let's make for the machine art and let the Panguitch deputies change their panties. On account of they tend to wet themselves in the line of domestic terrorist enforcement.

french stuff -

minimalist in the surreal -

I think I'd probably break the bank to see the Beatles live.that ain't never gonna happen for obvious reasons. 😭

Earth Is Going To Take A Hit

 That's right and the people of Earth are doomed. Our Planet is squarely in the crosshairs of Asteroid Bennu and wham bam thank you ma'am, we're gonna get hit. So it would be wise to get all your affairs in order and kiss you sorry tookas goodbye. Yup it's all over now but the hysterics. Asteroid Bennu will hit the Earth , if NASA is to be trusted here, in about 300 or so years. That targeted hit coming in 300 or so years isn't really much to get all worked up over. However IF NASA has the numbers wrong, well, good night nurse. NASA would only have to be off here by about anywhere from 290 years to about whenever Asteroid Bennu makes up it's asteroidal mind to smack the third rock from our Sun into a pan-galactic side pocket. But given the hysterical nature of our Earthbound hysterical types that seem to be just about everywhere these days, why wait for some far off panic to begin. Start panicking about Bennu's collision with Planet Earth today. By the time that Asteroid Bennu does hit our home world people can be worked up into an absolutely stellar frenzy of hysteria. I mean, if you have to wait for about 300 years to watch folks get all freaking crazy, where's the fun in that? I mean really... So why wait, start freaking out today and get your money's worth before it's too late. Asteroid Bennu hitting the Planet is way more serious than any damn anti-vaxxer concerns about taking a Covid-19 the Delta Variant vaccine. If you were to catch the Covid, well, that would be one long and dragged out if not utterly painful and embarrassing way to die. Our Planet takes an asteroid hit, well, shit will be over and done with in about a blink. You know and thinking about an asteroidal hit on our scuzzed up Earth, that might not be such a bad thing after all. The Earth would be able to make a clean break from an even more scarier plague than the Covid. People. The ugliest plague to have EVER infected Planet Earth. Fresh starts are universally wonderful and who knows what might come next... As for the present, what comes next is machine art. Just like that.

how it might look. you know, the Earth getting smacked by Asteroid Bennu -

a wild east end -

okay so, go out and have yourselves a dang fine day. 😬

It's Hump Day And Do You Know Where Your Camel Is?

 I know where the camels aren't...Siberia. Oh yes indeed. It seems and according to a report I read yesterday, the single largest wildfire in our world is burning in Siberia. Siberia? I pondered to myself. There wasn't anyone else around so...yeah I thought about that all by myself. The Siberian wildfire is so large that the North Pole is covered in wildfire smoke. Santa is going to need one of those spiffy KN95 hi-tech masks that has become wildly popular what with the advent of Covid-19 and those damn nasty Covid variants. Santa says..."Ma!, get me a respirator." I feel badly for the Clause's. I feel worse for the reindeer. And the polar bears. Well, and the walrus and seals and Inouit and the whales and oh yeah, the sled dogs. Nobody alive or partially sentient should have to breath that goddamn wildfire smoke filled air. Damn shit stinks and will give you the lung ickies in no time at all. All us poor souls trapped behind the Zion Curtain have been breathing the California, Idaho, and Oregon wildfire smoke for quite a while now. I think the grate State of Utah should sue California, Idaho, and Oregon on account of the dang smoke. Utah would sue those already mentioned states IF Utah could ever find the Utah State Attorney General. According to the last reported sighting of Sean Reyes Utah's A.G. he was in Florida with his head jammed up donny 'boy' trump's ass. Gosh that sounds worse than having to breathe the smoke polluted air. Well...that's about all for a Wednesday. See what I did there? I didn't use "the" metaphor. Good for me. Now we move on to the important part of today's program and that would be the ever so spiff-a-rama machine art. 

city in surreal relief -

down a garden path -

let us all take a moment and mourn the resignation of Andrew Cuomo...that's good. what a dumb ass. 😘

Beware The Smoke Demons

The western half of the United States is covered in smoke from the wildfires burning along the American left coast. The smoke is thick, smelly, and filled with dangerous particulates that'll drop on your unsuspecting lungs even if you're looking. Oh yes, those dangerous particulates will kill you off in about ten or twenty years. The smoke particulates deliver the seed cancers that will send one to a painful and lengthy demise. So...here's what you should do. Head to Home Depot or Lowes or one of the other big box DIY hardware stores and clear the shelves of duct tape and industrial size plastic sheeting. Yes my friends it's the ever so quaint 'Tommy Ridge Do It Yourself Home Sealant Project' that will protect you and your loved ones from those lung defiling airborne particulates that are being fired into Earth's upper atmosphere by all the wildfires burning up the American West. According to the bobblehead weather girl on the local Fox tv station, our air is like really "icky" to breath. I think the only reason the local Fox tv station keeps Ms. Bobblehead around is that she's blonde and has really large breasts. Yeah that remark is sexist...so shoot me for being spot on. Her name is Allison and however, she is NOT a meteorologist. Being a meteorologist is not a requirement for female television weather talking heads. Having really large breasts IS a requirement of female weather readers. Off topic no doubt. Back to the insular segment on how to protect yourself from the wildfire smoke. First off you'll need to get yourself an industrial gauge forklift. So's you can lift very large rolls of plastic sheeting high enough over your house to unroll plastic sheeting. Once you've covered your home in enough plastic sheeting to fit from rooftop to around the home where your home meets the ground. Be sure to attach plastic sheeting to the ground around your home so's it won't blow off your home. Next, start the duct taping process and tape all your doors and windows nice and tight so the particulate seed cancers can't get inside your home. Then be certain to have the plastic sheeting secure around the base of you house. Can't be having the seed cancers sneaking their damn little seedling selves underneath the plastic sheeting. Oh yes and, be sure to leave an opening somewhere on the plastic sheeting so's you can get in and out of your home. That part can be a bit tricky. Keeping the seed cancers at bay while allowing egress from the inside of your house to the outside. Or vice versa. I advise you also purchase seed cancer taser pistols that are rated to tase all forms of seedling cancers so you can eliminate the little fuckers while doing the in-out drill coming and going from your home. So there you go, public service advice from your friends at "skulzwerks studios" and machine art aficionados. Because at "skulzwerks"...we care about you. Sure we do. Now it's time for the ole machine art and custom graphix for people of all persuasions. 

hats -

phoenix -

all in a day's work and probably, I've got way too much time on my hands. 💀

Apocalypse HOPI Prophecy is Coming True | Floyd 'Red Crow' Westerman (Ka...

Well...Here We Are

 Just like that it's Monday all over again. Dang it, didn't we just do Monday like a week ago? It could seem like we're trapped in an endless feedback loop of irritating banality. Of course we are...trapped in an endless feedback loop of same old is same old. Day after freaking day with only another new wildfire or Covid-19 variant to break the monotony of did that. Yippee, we get to do this all over again and again... On the brighter side of news reporting for this here Monday, the U.N. has issued a rippingly righteous report that maintains 'climate change and global warming' is a clear and present danger to our shared world so, hold on to your cooling fans kids cause this shit is gonna get real. According to the U.N. "something has to be done RIGHT NOW!" Gosh, really? Is the U.N. certain that "something" has to be done but should have been taken care of like fifty years ago? It isn't like the warnings weren't issued. I'm fully of the opinion that it's way too late trying to fix our world's climate. I'm also of the opinion that Mother Earth will take care of the stupid humans and the human tendency to live like pigs in Mother Earth fashion. Humans wallowing around a mess of human creation and taking an entire planet down the tubes. Life in a lost cause. If you'd care to really darken you ever so fresh Monday, read the U.N. report on climate change but do NOT read that report if you happen to be sitting next to a loaded gun. Having a .45 caliber meal won't help a thing. Did you know that back in the day there was a song written just for those of us that are suicidal by nature. Yup and that spiffy little tune was titled, 'Suicide Is Painless'. I do believe the tune was in the sound track of the movie 'MASH'. I think so anyway. Oh well, climate change/global warming is almost like suicide except that climate change schtick is on a global scale. Humanity is doomed as doomed can be I must say. So on that chipper note we'll segue to the machine art segment of today's program and here's wishing everyone good luck for this here Monday and keep you chin up. Just don't look up if wherever you are happens to be raining. You might drown and considering all the peripheral issues, that could be construed as suicidal. Maybe could be...

inlay - 

Ramona da Lisa -

okay and we are off and running for this week. TTFN 💀

Well What Do You Know

 Today is 'ate ate 2021'. A play on numbers and words. On account of today is August 8, 2021. August being the eighth month of the year and today being the eighth day in August so... 'ate ate 2021'. Yeah that's pretty lame and that's about the best I can concoct for today. I got nothin'. So let's jump right on in to today's machine art fest.

who -

ebb and flow -

remembering Beit Hanoun (google it) -

Palestinian people are of course, Israel's punching bag and target of Israeli collective punishment. 😵

Utah Is Number One In The World

 That's right and the title reads correctly. Utah is number one in the world for polluted and toxic air. Yessiree Utah has really made the big time now. Salt Lake City, which is where I reside to be upfront about the matter, and that would have been yesterday August 6, 2021 earned the title of most polluted city anywhere on or around Planet Earth. Worse than even Beijing in winter time. It should be noted here that Salt Lake has some damn polluted air in the winter on account of temperature inversions so with Salt Lake being ranked as 'worst in the world' for that air pollution, well, that's quite an achievement. Ahhh...breath deep the gathering smoke. Yeah Utah and Salt Lake sort of backed in to the record books due to erratic upper air wind flow and wildfires in California, Idaho, and Oregon. Gosh, thanks guys. The stagnant Salt Lake air was eerily reminiscent of the air pollution days in Los Angeles a way back in the day. The gas and oil producer association is planning to award Salt Lake City and Utah their gold medal for championing damn dirty air and fuck the environment award 2021 and Governor Spencey Cox is making plans to receive the award on behalf of a grateful state and the city of Salt Lake. Yeah I'll bet I won't receive an invitation to that spiffy event. Utah's Governor Spencey doesn't like me one bit. I really don't blame him, I tend to get overtly rude to spineless and weak-ass politicians that are due nothing more than a kick in the ass. Well and in the case of d. trump, he needs to be frog marched out onto the National Mall and summarily executed by a military firing squad. Oh I do apologize, I seem to have digressed something awful here. What the hell was I prattling about...oh right, air pollution. So it's back to the same old story, smoke and other really nasty particulates are filling the air we breath and there's not a dang thing to be done about it. We must as a matter of meteorological circumstance, wait for the wind to blow in some other direction OR wait for the wildfire fighter guys to put the fires out. With all the wildfires burning the left coast to a burned out cinder, it might take until the snow falls this winter before the smoke actually abates. IF the west gets any snow come this winter. Gosh, that will take us all the way into inversion season. Yes, inversion season is a thing here behind the Zion Curtain. 'Life Elevated' no doubt. Just bring your own oxygen. Now it's time for the machine art portion of today's program.

cow chaos -

by any other name -

here in my neighborhood, all the roses have unbloomed themselves from public viewing. I really don't blame them one bit. 😟