This Is It!

 Happy Halloween everyone. We made it to the big day. CANDY! Go out there and gets you lots and loads of candy. Enough candy to make every last dentist across these amber waves of sugar smile and longingly. Lovingly? Of course and you know, tomorrow will mark the beginning of Thanksmas. Thanksmas is that new and especially legislated holiday that covers all the shopping days from the day after Halloween through New Years Day. America's retailers pressured Congress into legislating this new and improved holiday where everyone can spend money at the retailers and make the retailers ever so happy. Curious that this new holiday would commence on Dia de los Muertos. Yes, quite curious. If Americans were to spend money like the retailers want Americans to spend, well, Americans would be dead broke and headed to the poor house. The 'poor house' for this incarnation means homeless and living out of a refrigerator box in one of those civil engineered if not genius designed homeless zones that cities across America have taken to creating so America's elite won't have to look at all those icky broke and poor people. The day AFTER Halloween is Dia de los Muertos. I thought I'd better be clear on the subject. This year's Halloween should be a gas gas gas. Thanks Rolling Stones who are now in need of a new drummer. What with the Covid-19 pandemic and all the rancor over masks, vaccines, social distancing, and Congress, America should be able to enjoy what might possibly be America's last Halloween ever. Goes out there and gets youself some CANDY!!! Machine art is next and should be followed by Thanksmas.

french kisses in darkened doorways -

posies and not poseurs -

Dia de los Muertos cometh and that right soon. 👻

Oh So Close

 Halloween is tomorrow. Halloween is so close you can almost taste it. CANDY! Thanks to Craig Ferguson. You know, because Ferguson used to throw candy to his studio audience at the close of his monologue. I do miss Ferguson. Ferguson was easily the funniest man on late night television. I miss Geoff as well. So tomorrow is Halloween and if you were paying any attention to this week's news, well, you've already witnessed how scary things can get. Pretty dang insane too. So hold on to your butts, keep your arms and legs inside the ride at all times, then bring on the trick-or-treaters. Tomorrow of course. Tomorrow is Halloween. Redundant to the bitter end. Machine art is next up.

she - 

puppet -

you know... puppets are pretty dang creepy. CANDY! 😖

Now It's Time For Freaky Friday

 Today is 'Freaky Friday' on account of it's the Friday before Halloween. So here and deep behind the Zion Curtain, there's a seriously raging debate on whether the kiddies should trick-or-treat on Saturday night or Sunday night. Halloween falls on a Sunday this year and through no fault of the Gregorian calendar makers, it is what it is. You see here in the land of Zion, the mormons aren't supposed to do more than about squat on a Sunday. Well except golf is okay and fishing is okay and hunting is okay and washing the car is okay and just about anything other than mormon worship is okay. If a holiday should fall on a Sunday, the mormons have their "virtues" tested mightily. Such as... should the 4th of July fall on a Sunday, the mormons hold 4th of July celebrations on the Saturday before the 4th. Halloween falls on a Sunday for this year and so mormons are torn over whether to send their costumed little mormons out on Saturday or Sunday. Trick-or-treaters should celebrate Halloween the way 'god' intended the holiday as would the candy manufacturers. Trick-or-treat on Halloween. It's not that hard. A Saturday before Halloween is NOT the holiday. Moving Halloween up a day, well, that would certainly upstage Dia de los Muerte and we absolutely can't be a having that. A move like that might piss off Mexicans and we really can't be a having that. Anyway, there is much gnashing of teeth and high energy particle charged argument about when to send off the children out into the Halloween night for fun and later visits to the dentist. Silly dang mormons will argue over just about anything relative to a Sunday's non scripted soirees. Unrelated to all of this, mormons also believe that all Democrats are Satanic. Jesus H. Christ, ridiculous is as mormon does. Machine art is next.

home is where a jack-o-lantern might be lit -

muralist -

have a grand Halloween weekend everyone and don't take any wooden KitKat bars. 😈

Those Ever So Fond Memories

 The good people of Massachusetts are, evidently, freaking out about the return of 'Jaws'. Yes the Great White Shark has returned to haunt the beaches of the Bay State.  Possibly more than just the movie shark. It is entirely possible that an entire fleet of Great White Sharks are swimming just off shore and hunting the Bay Statesmen. Well and of course Bay Stateswomen and all the nonbinary androgens wandering around confused. Say, the Massachusettsites could feed all those nonbinary confused folk to the sharks and solve two problems all at the same time. It's always a good idea to get a solution for all those annoying and nagging problems that pop up every so once in a while. I think that Richard Dreyfuss is still alive and he could lead the pogrom to rid Massachusetts of all their androgens, witches, icky people and the likes thereof. Roy Sheider and Robert Shaw are dead so no help there. Dreyfuss will have to lead the mobs all by hisself. You'd think that the Bay Statesmen would be happy with the return of the Great Whites. The sharks return marks an indication that the Atlantic Ocean is returning to a reasonably healthy condition. Seals are back and Great White Sharks really love them some seal meat. Personally, I'm not about to eat seal meat served with steamed oysters or whatever. I like the seals and I think the seals should be left alone. That would to include Great White Sharks. Back off you Great White Shark bastards! Leave them seals alone. So there you have it, panicking Bay Statemen and Stateswomen on account of the sharks. That's probably why the Red Sox choked in the ALCS to Houston. Shark induced loser syndrome. Houston more than likely cheated to get to the World Series anyway but no one will find out about that until Spring Training begins next February. Dang Texans... Okay and now let us resume our normal programming and machine art is up next.

rainy day dream away -

the curse of vanity -

did you know that sharks, Great White and all others, really detest mirrors? well they do so there. 😳

It's A Busy HumpDay

 Places to go, people to irritate, and so it goes. Machine art is an absolute.

cosmos and thank you Dr. Sagan -

beastly -

we'll see what tomorrow brings. 😃

Nothing From Nothing Is Still Nothing

 Have you ever sat down to consider what might happen after death? Aa one gets older, well, you tend to think about deep philosophical crap like that there. Are we born to simply suffer then die? Was Jesus really a Capricorn? Did the Buddha ever pick his nose? Did Mohammed sport around with 70 virgin wives? Did L. Ron Hubbard actually exist? Is Tom Cruise really an actor OR is he simply the victim of his own ego? So many philosophically pressing questions. So let's say you die today and now you need some advice as to what the fuck happens next. Well let me offer up some salient points that might just come in handy. First off, you die and that's mostly it. Your body no longer needs to eat. You won't feel anything on account of your being dead. Your brain won't work on account of your being dead. You certainly won't be able to wander around on account of your being dead. Do you see the trend developing here? You won't be able to see anything, you won't be able to taste anything, you won't have to go pee, and you won't have to do a dang thing. You's dead for hell sakes. So...now what? Well I don't have a clue. I do have loads of questions that seem unlikely to get a reasonable answer. I do have lots of conjectural points to make. But, what's the point? No one and I do mean NO ONE has any answers to so many questions about the what if. Religion offers up more than a few ridiculous answers to questions that no one really asks anyway. No help there. Science offers up conjecture but that's about all science can offer is conjecture or the theoretical equivalent to their nonsensical pontifications about the big bang. I find the entire big bang notion to be just about as ridiculous a bullshit as would be 'god' creating the world in 6 days and then taking a day off to rest up. 'God' needs a day off? Really? So we are all in the same problematic boat. No clear or believable answers to questions that have vexed humanity ever since the first humans crawled out of the bush and went a hunting for something edible to eat. Did the first humans understand the need for salt? Cause you know, whatever is cooking needs salt. So when you die you die and that's about all can be said with any certainty. But we do have machine art and let us thank 'god' for that. 

metaphysical flight -

violin musica for the dead, grateful or otherwise -

de you ever wonder why it is that life races by too goddamn fast? 👴

Mostly Nuts

 The National Association of Insane Fascists or NAIF for short, held their annual confab right here behind the Zion Curtain. Salt lake City to be specifically specific. NAIF is an umbrella assortment of lunatics, psychotic schemers, and flat out raving assholes. Some British lady gave the closing address to the silly freaks and the best the woman could proffer was to flash the crowd with her ass. The gathering closed yesterday. Sunday. The gathering wasn't exactly a 'crowd', it was more of an undersized grouping of all those that were able to obtain a day pass from the local nut house. That local nut house has an actual and official name but I'll leave that part out as I really can't afford a lawsuit at present. I don't think that Medicare covers lawsuits. Yeah I am that old. I am also old enough to be grateful for Medicare. Getting insurance isn't the piece of cake that all the television commercials would have you believe. Talk about your Kafka-esque freaking nightmare of bureaucratic buillshit. Medicare is that. Anyway the loonies were out running wild on the streets of Salt Lake and the usual collection of street crazies, homeless junkies, and mormons kept out of sight so as not to catch blame for anything that might have gone wrong while the NAIF fuckers were here in Salt Lake City. Damn, talk about raving maniacs. The local crazies and not the NAIF freaks. So it goes and today's Monday so it's all down hill from here. Machine art coming up right about now.

a boot made for posing -

album coverage -

a possible album cover. 😃

Today Marks The Start

Today marks the beginning of 'Unholy Week'. It ends with 'Dia de los Muertos'. Yes that most excellent time of year when the heebies and the jeebies put on their best costumes and frolic the week away doing "unholy" things for all to enjoy. Halloween is one of my all time favorite holidays and the celebrations end with another of my favorite all time holidays and that would be Dia de los Muertos. Day of the dead Mexican version is another of my all time favorite holidays. Dia de los Muertos stretches that Halloween celebration into a two day festival of dead people and stuff like that there. You get to visit cemeteries and bring marigolds and eat Dia de los Muertos food. Bring on those chili verde enchiladas. Chili Rellenos too Yummy! Paint up your chillin's and throw scary shit at your neighbors. Fill up a big bowl with candy and greet the little trick-or-treaters as they come a banging on your door expecting handfuls of the good candy and not the crappy candy. KitKat bars are always a big hit. So are Skittles but I've never understood the fascination with Skittles. Personally I think the Skittles mostly suck. Oh get it? That's a play on words. Skittles suck and you have to suck Skittles to get them to do that candy thing. Oh yes, a most excellent time of year to be quite certain. Disembowel pumpkins and stuff a candle inside the carcass. Be sure to carve up a spooky pumpkin face. Be creative and let that gutted pumpkin shine for the world to see. You can always box up those pumpkin guts and send them off to your least favorite congressperson. That should bring a smile to any politicians face. If it didn't require all that tedious paperwork and incriminations, well, you could always just carve up a politician's face. What a nifty way to celebrate not only Halloween but Dia de los Muertos as well. There is simply no end to the merriment one could have and remain out of jail at least for the present. Don't do anything rash for hell sakes. I'm just being flippant. So with the beginning of 'Unholy Week' that will end with 'Dia de los Muertos', let us delve into the machine art and let the fun rise from the grave. Ewww is that spooky or what.

a shroud of tureen with lots of pretty color (think of this as pumpkin guts) -

puppy is sooo cute -

I mean...look at those puppy eyes. 😛

Absolutely Nothing Is Still Nothing

 I've got nothing for this here Saturday October 23, 2021. Sure there's worlds of political bullshit. Damn if'n that don't just get tedious. Same crap over and over day in day out. Sinema said this, Munchkin said that, Itchy McConnell tripped over his tongue and fell down stairs. Democrats hate Republicans and Republicans hate everybody. Same same. It's all irrelevant crap and the American people get to watch this farce and can't do more than about nothing to make any effective change. So we'll simply move on to the machine art and all the other nonsense can suck it.

head down -

Vincent's clogs -

it would be nice IF every once in a while the politicos would simply shut the fuck up. well and the media buffoons that stick those live microphones into the politicos faces. 😝

That Magical Day

 Yippee! It's Friday and about damn time. I do love me some Fridays. Before you know it, it'll be Halloween. Problem is...Halloween won't be on a Friday. Not this year. Halloween will be on a Sunday for this year and that will prove problematic for mormons. Mormons aren't supposed to do a thing on Sundays except go to "ward meeting." You see the mormons are divided up into 'wards' and that's where the mormon obedient go for church. They don't actually worship at their "ward meetings." No they do not. Ward meetings are more like a neighborhood meet and greet so's the ever so obedient mormons can check up on one another. That and see what's up with returned missionaries so the missionaries can meet and greet the daughters of the attendees at a ward meeting. Gots to keep all that mormon bullshit in the family. Did you know that the mormons still practice polygamy? That's true. These days the mormons call their polygamy 'the taking of a spiritual wife'. Yup those crazy dang mormons are...well...a mite crazy. Did you also know that the mormons believe that "God" drives a Lincoln Mark V on "God's" home planet of Kolob? Well "God" does so...so there. Now we'll move on to pertinent and relevant crap, the machine art segment of today's program. 

ruralism -

beast mode -

be well folks and we'll see you all on the rebound. 😃

Irrationality Becomes Ideology

 Welcome to Utah. Home to ideologues and the devotees that love them. Ideology has just about always been an Utah "virtue." It's mormonism you see. One religion to rule them all, one religion to bind them, one religion to wed them to one another and therefore inbreeding spawns the weak-minded. Utah boasts of being the 'Life Elevated' state but that notion is propaganda. Once again, it's the mormonism. Question not thine religion leadership and We won't have to smack your peepee. Ideology/religion, it's the same bullshit wrapped in fancy paper. Thin paper but paper nonetheless. Mormons even have their very own golden idols. That golden Angel Moroni standing atop each and every one of the mormon temples. So let us cut to the chase. A mormon legislator, one Lincoln Fillmore (Ideologue-South Jordan), wants all social study syllabus material to be pre-screened for ideology purity. What that means is, social study material would never and oh no not ever, be in conflict with teachings of the mormon church. We are talking public school education here. All public school education. Stray from the official mormon dogma and woe be unto thine 'lefty liberal ass for sure'. Public schools are in theory, supposed to educate children according to national standards and accepted learning. However that doesn't apply in Utah. Utah education is a hodgepodge of the trite and trivial. Torn from the grounded roots of learning that is accepted as fact just about anywhere in this here Amerika. Well with most of southern Amerikan states being in the exception column. You don't want to accuse southern Amerikan states of being mormon. No you do not. Most of southern Amerika is evangelical and that becomes klanvangelical with political drift as impetus. So there you have it in a nuts shell. The ideological insane run the very mormon state of Utah and that's the way it goes. Please note that being on the outs with the ideologues here in Utah is great sport and a whole load of fun. The fuckers take offense so easily that it's almost not even a challenge. Machine art cometh and that right soon.

woman -

spots on wall by I.P. Freely -

the dummies around here actually pay good money to be mormonised. go figure... 😆

Cumbre Vieja Pendejo

 Cumbre Vieja Pendejo is Spanish for "oh shit it must be Hump Day!" Or possibly it translates to "oh shit that volcano is fixin' to blow!" Yeah and probably that last one. I've been watching ole Cumbre Vieja in the evening. It's dark and night time in la Palma so that makes watching the volcano much easier. You gets to see the hot lave blowing out the calderas. Yes I said calderas. There's more than just one. I'm almost positive that the volcanic vents number at least three and quite possibly four or maybe even more than that. So IF those vents collapse on one another and hook up to be just one really freaking large vent, well, look the fuck out then. La Palma won't need to evacuate anyone that's still on the island. Nope. Our trusty and damn twitchy Cumbre Vieja Pendejo will blow whomever might be left there clean out to open ocean. Talk about tsunami. People tsunami happening pretty dang soon and details will be handed out at eleven. Cumbre Vieja Pendejo is fascinating to watch. From a distance of course. I do love me some geology with emphasis on volcanology. We don't need no water...let the mofo blow. Machine art is spitting out the vent right about now.

sun king on blue -

white macaw -

the folks living on la Palma might need to toss a vestal virgin into that volcano. it just might help. or not... 😃

It Must Be Tuesday

A perfectly logical conclusion considering that yesterday was Monday. Logical...yes. It would also be logical to conclude that I've got absolutely nothing. Yes...logical. So I'll move right on and directly to the machine art. There's always that.

sun no moon -

 chronicles -

some days the fog can be really thick. brain fog. first thing in the morning brain fog. 😕

Sad News And A Monday...Go Figure

 Gen. Colin Powell has died from complications due to the Covid-19. Damn if that doesn't about suck. I had much respect for the good General. He seemed a man of integrity and that quality is in very short supply these days. Gen. Powell could have been America's first black president but alas, it wasn't to be. Can't blame the General for that decision. The good people in America that SHOULD be holding public office refuse to run. The political dog fights have gotten that bad. Pity that. C'est la vie. Rest in peace mon General. Machine art Monday is coming up right about now.

one lone tree -

oh girlie cue -

the good men die and the assholes are left standing. damn that really sucks! 😒

Stuff And A Sunday

 Pressing questions for a Sunday from the CNN.com page. Question the first, what happens IF Gabby Petito's fiancé isn't found soon? Seriously? WTF can possibly happen now that might change anything. Ms. Petito is dead and not a dang thing can change that. Authorities find the Laundrie asshole, the authorities don't find the Laundrie asshole it's almost irrelevant. Ms. Petito is still dead. What might be poetic justice would be if authorities find Laundrie's corpse after he'd been strangled by one of those Florida swampland pythons. Boa constrictor? Either way. That'd be some righteous karma there boy. Second up and not necessarily a question, the Supreme Court is keeping secrets. Wow and no way man. Not the Supremes. Secrets? Secrets like Antonin Scalia liked whipping hisself? The Kavanaugh prince clown in a judge suit likes being lewd with the female justices? That would be a conjectural question. No surprise there. Once a skirt dog always a skirt dog. Lastly and third up, 17 American missionaries are reported kidnapped in Haiti by "gang members." No shit, by gang members? That's a question. Maybe. So an appropriate response would be to inform the "gang members" that they can keep those 17 American missionaries. No harm no foul. No big loss there. Those 17 American missionaries would be "god's" problem...no? America is much better off without 17 American missionaries annoying people and aggravating Haitian "gang members." So there are some Sunday highlights. Have a great day everybody and machine art is next.

run, you're free, run fast away -

too loose the goose -

with today being Sunday, it might be a good idea to go out and worship a golf course. 😈

Lincoln Logs Redux

 The political braintrust along with the developers that own and run Salt Lake City came up with a brilliant solution to the current housing crisis. Salt Lake has priced itself right out of the affordable housing market. Back to the theme for this here Saturday, the local politburo decided that shipping containers would make for some really spiffy housing for all those that are ass out when it comes to affordable housing. You see those shipping containers, which everyone sees loaded onto flat railway cars and winding their way to stores and shopping centers all across America, seem to be ideal for ready made homes. Don't need to lay foundations or crap like that there. You know like walls and ceilings and except for a need to cut windows and doors into the shipping containers, well, slam a shipping container on the ground and PRESTO! Ready made for occupancy homes. Toss in some plumbing, electrical, flooring, cabinets, closets, and all the necessary junk that makes for a home and you're almost all set to rent or sell or whatever. Turns out the shipping containers stack up just like Lincoln Logs. Wow and go figure. Lincoln Logs were a big hit for boys of all ages back in the day. The Lincoln Logs were designed and marketed to boys so all you nonbinary assholes...GET OVER YOURSELVES! Well, there's a hitch in the old shipping container to housing giddy up. All and I mean ALL the shipping containers that might have been converted to housing are sitting at anchor just outside shipping ports all up and down the east coast and the left coast and they is just no available containers to be converted. Pity that. So that's why President Joe Biden decided that shipping ports will be open 24/7 for the foreseeable future. The Port of Los Angeles, the Port of Long Beach, ports in Oakland, Portland, Tacoma, Seattle, the Port of New York and New Jersey, Boston, Philadelphia, Miami, and any other dang port city that might just have the shit necessary to unload those shipping containers will be working overtime to get those shipping containers unloaded and ready for the incredibly short on shipping containers housing market. Gosh, who knew? I didn't. I almost and for a certainty did NOT care in the least. Shipping containers to homes...almost a dang genius idea for sure. I could suppose that the notion to turn shipping containers into houses is a booming idea for the longshoremen and iron workers. Well and the electricians and plumbers. However for the developers and home builders, the idea is a bit offensive. There's no money in the idea for the developers and home builders. Dang if'n that don't just figure. Oh well and c'est la vie. Machine art is next.

barkley -

orchid? -

I find it hilarious when the best laid idiot plans of Salt Lake's political movers and shakers turns up a crapper. damn if'n they all ain't just about stupid. 😁

An Old Gregorian Chant Isn't

 The ever so famous 'Friday' old Gregorian chant isn't Gregorian. I just found that out. Well...my bad. Nope the chant isn't Gregorian it's Celtic. Damn, how come people never tell me these things. I find out the truth about years later...damn! So the ever so famous ex-Gregorian chant being referred to here goes like this -

Friday...Friday...Fri iii (sung upscale then down) i-day... Friday! rinse then repeat.

So I must apologize for being misleading low these many years. The chant is Celtic and we all need to remember that. The chant actually has it's origins in Scotland. That's where the Celts came from in the first place so don't believe any of the Euro-freaks trying to maintain that the Celts came from Europe. It's blatant plagiaristic bullshit to be sure. Dang Euros anyway. The dang Euros would have everyone believe that they invented chop suey. They didn't. Chop suey was invented in San Francisco. Yup that's true. Now that I've cleared the air on that touchy little matter, it's on to the machine art and after all that is what's important here.

helpless and hopeless in postmodern Amerika -

the Jillian is out there -

we have us a nice crisp and clear Friday morning a way out here behind the Zion Curtain. won't be very warm today but the sun shines and that is very much a good thing. 😎

DAMN! I Missed It

Yesterday was 'No Bra Day'. I missed it! Dang it all, here I was being all pertinent and timely and I missed it. There must have been a memo somewhere. Today is just any old regular Thursday and the bras will be back on today. Double dang it! Evidently 'No Bra Day' falls on October 13th and I did not know that. Well don't that just beat all. I DID NOT KNOW! Crap diddly crap crap. Guys all around our breast-centric world have a chance to see them breasts all unleashed and stuff and I was about the day's business clueless. Boy if'n I don't feel kind of sheepishly stupid. I do love to see me some breasts and I missed my chance. The 'free-the-nipples' day is gone and won't be back until next October 13th. Okay so I really do know why 'breast cancer awareness' is important but still, I missed 'No Bra Day'. Yes I can admit to being more than teenage juvenile when it comes to a woman's breasts. The breast obsession can probably be traced back to being bottle feed as an infant. I don't know what the psychiatric prognosis has to say and I really don't care. I do know that I do love me some tits and I missed the day to celebrate my fascination. Crap... machine art is next. Crap...

sometimes you feel like a nut -

 flight -

what's the point in 'acting grown up' when you every so often can't act childish. 👶

Up To The Great Wide Open

 To boldly go where he's never gone before. Who you might ask? Why Captain Kirk that's who. William Shatner gets a ride on Bezos joyride rocket today and our good Capitaine finally makes it to space. The final frontier. Good for Shatner. I'd really like to get a ride to space but I don't know the "right people" to make that happen so I'm shit out of luck. Maybe Demi Lovato could get a ride to space. However, Lovato would insist that the 'crew' be nonbinary or she'll hold her breath until everyone agrees that nonbinary is the wave of the future. Is the wave of A future? Not necessarily everyone else's future, just Lovato's. I think that Lovato might be dipping into the crack bag again. I'm not certain of that so I should just probably leave it in the speculation stage of celebrity stupidity. A real space fact, Scotty made it to space long before Kirk. Yup. James Doohan's family got his ashes smuggled onto the International Space Station and Chief Engineer for NCC 1701 USS Enterprise and my favorite crew member next to Mr. Spock, one Montgomery 'Scotty' Scott is now floating peacefully in space. The final frontier. Mr. Doohan died in 2005. Shatner died in 2020 but no one has told him yet. Oh my god...earth zombies in space! Shatner is so dang old he's now a zombie. Wait...that's not right...Shatner is a mummy. Mummies In Space! Did you know that Shatner once insulted Demi Lovato and hurt the ditzy bitch's feeling in such a manner it made the crazy lady cry. I'm not certain if a rocket would be nonbinary. I suppose that would depend on the number of rocket engines there are to be in use. I suppose. THE FINAL FRONTIER! Machine art is coming up next.

spatial curves in space -

dead roses -

Bezos joyride rocket is a one up then back down so that's not exactly like being in orbit OR on the ISS. 🙈🙉🙊

Strange Waves

 According to CNN, "strange radio waves" are coming from the center of the Milky Way Galaxy. The Milky Way Galaxy plays host to this Island Earth. How in hell "scientists" can know for certain that radio waves, strange or otherwise, are coming from the center of our galaxy remains an unanswered part of the "strange radio waves" conjecture. The "energy signal", which by the way is the strangely curious switch up by the alleged 'scientists', is unlike ANY phenomenon studied before and could suggest a previously unknown stellar object. So what we have here is "strange radio waves", "energy signals", and a "previously unknown stellar object." So geez science guys, what is it? Strange radio waves? An energy signal? An unknown stellar object? Make up your dang minds. So whatever the thing is, the brightness of the object varies dramatically. So now whatever it is, it is an "object." You see the science guys are dramatically confused as to what this strange astral-thingy might be by way of physical description. First off we have us "radio waves." Then "energy signals." Then an "unlikely phenomenon." ??? I think it more than a little bit funny when pseudo-intellectual genius types get stumped. The boys and girls is confused to be quite certain. The use of "is" is intentional. Consult Bubba Clinton for definitive definitions on the word "is." The science guys are stumped chumpy and there you go. What the space thingy might be is, of course, the Borg. You know, THE Borg from StarTrek The Next Generation? And furthermore, resistance is futile. You will be assimilated! The Borg are coming to assimilate Demi Lovato. Lovato is back in the news for wildly insane prattle about the usage of the word 'alien' and how that usage demeans space aliens. You see 'space aliens' aren't out to hurt anyone on Planet Earth and after all, space aliens are nonbinary. Lovato has never watched the movie 'Alien' and she obviously has never watched StarTrek The Next Generation. Dang Borg fuckers assimilated Capitaine Jean Luc Picard for hell sakes. Lovato is out of her mind and is grasping at tenuous straws to remain relevant. Nonbinary aliens...I mean really. Anyway, watch out for cube-like space craft structures showing up in near Earth orbit. We'll be in some deep shit then boy. Machine art is next. Enjoy the art fest while you still can. 

nonbinary absurdity -

bleak street not milk street -

Jon Gruden who WAS head coach of the NFL Las Vegas Raiders had to resign as coach of the Raiders. Turns out Gruden got caught being a racist ass. Wow is that about a shocker or...not. 😂

Indigenous Peoples' Day And

 Happy IP Day to all of North America's First Nation Peoples. IP stands for Indigenous People. Christopher Columbus can suck it. Columbus DID NOT discover America. Columbus stumbled ashore in Cuba and how's that for missed it by that much. I think the fucker landed in Cuba but I can readily admit I might be almost close. Doesn't really matter much. Not now and it's way too late to undo the damage caused by the colonial genocide that followed Columbus' discovery (?). Hell, the Vikings were in North America long before Columbus. Yeah you go Norwegians. I've got Norwegian ancestry as well as Scottish. I think I'm entitled to a slice of Greenland. Not that I want any part of what soon will be a tropical paradise. Climate change you see. Anyway, we've bigger fish to fry on this here Monday so let's move on to the really important parts of this diatribe. Gravity. Gravity is next up on our cavalcade of minor crap that manages to show up on the headline news feeds. A rock climber fell to his ultimate demise yesterday afternoon while climbing in Little Cottonwood Canyon. That's a canyon in the Wasatch Front and we've mentioned the Wasatch Front previously. So the young man was climbing Gate Buttress when a rock broke loose and the young climber fell as well as the rock that broke loose. According to the rescue authorities, the rock was about the size of a Subaru. That's a dang big rock. Anyway gravity kicked in and the rock came crashing to the ground as well as the young climber and the rock fell on the young climber. SQUISH! Gravity thou art a heartless bitch for sure. Also, Galileo's observations that objects will fall at the same rate regardless of mass is proven to be true once again. Young climber had hold on rock that broke free, young climber encountered free falling as the broken rock did same and as young climber hit the ground so did the broke free rock. Hence and therefore...SQUISH! Flattened like a meat pancake. Some laws can be broken without consequence like presidents and sedition with a side of treason (think trump) but, not the law of gravity. Thou Shall Not Mess With The Law Of Gravity OR...You'll Be Sorry. From the Book of Genesism Physics. Chapter 1 verse oh lets say about 15 or so. Another one bites the dust. With a rock topping. Machine art is coming up right about now. What did you expect on a Monday...caring compassion? Nah, where's the fun in that.

hear my train a comin' -

fleurs vibrantes -

fleurs for squished climber. please note that it isn't the fall that kills a person, it's that sudden stop at the bottom of a fall with a rock in this instance, that'll kill you. 😲

Dang Blizzard Anyway

 Yesterday the "DC Peaks 50" contingent of masochist marathoners held an 'ultra marathon', whatever that might be, along the Wasatch Front. The mountainous Wasatch Front. The really rugged and dang high up Wasatch Front. So it is not uncommon for storms to bring rain to the valley and snow to the higher elevations especially in October. That's Utah. Anyway and, the 'ultra marathon' had been scheduled for some time and the marathoners were not about to let a little inclement weather spoil their fun. Fun? The runners began their 'ultra marathon' at 05:00 hours and that would be in the a.m.. About four hours later and as the runners were heading to the top of Francis Peak which by the way is at 9,560 feet in elevation,  pretty dang high up there no doubt, the winter storm that had been predicted by ALL the weather folk in and around the localized area hit with a blizzard like vengeance. Estimated totals for the top of Francis Peak were estimated to be at 12 to 18 inches of early winter snow. What that means in regular Utah terms is that the snow will NOT be like that ever so famous Utah powder snow oh hell no. Early winter snow along the Wasatch is wet cold slushy icy-like snow and the runners were running their way right into the heart of aforementioned storm. Snowstorms at the upper elevations of Francis Peak aren't like regular snowstorms, pretty much the entire mountain is shrouded in blinding blizzard snow and the wind is a real bitch. Cuts right through a person. So the runners being prepared for all manner of running conditions, not, are wearing running shoes, shorts, and teeshirts with those fancy marathon numbers hanging off the front of a teeshirt. Not a one of the well prepared runners was prepared for what they met when they started one serious damn climb to Francis Peak. I've been to the top of Frances Peak more than a few times and you do NOT want to be up there IF the weather turns a crapper. The Davis County Sheriff Search and Rescue team had to be called in to get the runners off the mountain while there were runners still alive. Runners had to be treated for hypothermia, one runner was treated for a fall, and Davis County Sheriff Kelly Sparks said that none of the runners had to be hospitalized. However just about all the marathoners were soaked to the bone and their feets were freezing damn cold. Wet running shoes are so uncomfortable. Just a few of the weather highlights on top of Francis Peak where the ambient air temperature is about 20 degrees Fahrenheit, wind speeds at about 30 mph and swirling, and maybe 18 inches of snow. The ancillary weather details are accurate as the National Weather Service has a weather station at the top of Francis Peak so the conditions a way up there are Weather Service accurate. Damn lousy conditions for a marathon ultra or otherwise. Now the weather forecast had called for exactly what was happening along the ultra marathon route and it isn't like the runners hadn't been informed of what to expect. The marathon planners maintain their ultra-freeze out race will go on next year come hell or deep snow. That just might be exactly what the runners will get. A mountain marathon in October is just begging for trouble. But the Davis County Sheriff Search and Rescue squad got all the runners off the mountain and that's probably a good thing. Personally, I think the fuckers are just nuts (the marathoners). Especially so if a marathon is scheduled for October when the snow begins to fly in mountainous Utah. Oh well, what are you gonna do? I know what I'm gonna do and that would be to post up the machine art and be grateful I'm not an "ultra marathoner."

cherry -

Vincent's boots -

those ultra marathoners are probably lucky they still have all their toes. frostbite will take those toes in a blink. 😆

It's Here It's Finally Here

 Autumn that is. Throw in a splash of monsoonal rainfall and the autumn season is on for reals. Saturday October 9, 2021 and it's raining buckets of wet a way out here behind the Zion Curtain. Rain falls on the lower elevations and SNOW is falling up the mountains. Elevation is key to the snow crap. This time of year it's still mild enough for rain to fall but up in the mountains where elevation is everything, snow and snow and more snow. The highway guys closed the Mirror Lake Highway on account of snow. That happens this time of year. It is a relief to see the rain. Bless the rains and not down in Africa. Bless the rains right here in about to be a river city. Because it is raining that hard. Couldn't even get the dog to go out the back door for a morning pee. Dog looked out the door and said "I'm not going out there it's raining." Dog turned around and headed back to her bed. Yes my dog is a 'her' and she doesn't buy into any of that nonbinary gender bullshit. My dog is a lady and don't try to convince her otherwise. She'll bite your dang face off but she's gonna start at your ankles and work her way up. You ought to see what our dog does to the neighborhood rats. Well and mice, birds, balloons, and she'd really tear up squirrels IF she could catch one. The squirrels are smart enough to know when to taunt the dog and when to beat those little squirrel feets and head up the nearest tree. Our neighborhood squirrels are pretty smart and pretty dang funny too. Anyway that's all I've got for this here Saturday and now we'll move on to the machine art portion of today's program.

river runs -

egg'd oh yeah -

I was watching the volcano erupting on la Palma last night. fascinating television for me but not for folks living on la Palma. 😲

Friday Wrap Up

 Made it to Friday. Whew...things were touch and go there for a wee while. Britney Spears has been freed from slavery to her father. News? I don't think so. Trump is back in the news, again, for an attempted coup back on January 6, 2021. How is that tub of guts not locked away in prison? The asshole should be tried for subversion AND treason then when found guilty, the fucker should be frog marched out on the National Mall and made to face a military firing squad. That would be worth the price of admission all in and of itself. President Joe Biden, according to the political rumors, will reinstate the Bears Ears National Monument to its original size and shape today along with Grand Staircase - Escalante and a marine monument somewhere off the New England coast. How can a national monument be under water? I suppose it can and will but should it? It isn't like you can just drive out there and have a lookit at the monument. You'll need a boat, scuba gear, possible a shark cage, breathing apparatus, and it might be a good idea to let the Coast Guard know what you're up to. Bears Ears and the Grand Staircase you can actually drive to and get out your car and have a walkabout with very little trouble other than making sure you've topped off your car's gas tank. Bears Ears and the Grand Staircase are a long way from civilization and if you consider that the monuments are in Utah, well, civilization as we all know and love it takes on a somewhat different interpretation. There's some weird shit goes on a way out there. If you intend to visit Bears Ears or Grand Staircase, have a stop in Tropic, Utah. Now we're talking X-Files weird. Scully and Mulder might know the truth about Tropic. Anyone else that might know isn't saying squat about Tropic. It's Utah and there isn't much can be done about that. Okay and so it's Friday so get out there and enjoy what little we all have left us. Machine art is up right about now.

chixlet -

winter cometh and that right soon -

so much excitement to look forward to. yeah yeah sure sure...👽

Insanity And The County Sheriff

 Utah is NOT known for having intellectual lawmen. Most of Utah's lawmen are decent enough folk. Just not necessarily towering strengths of intellectual prowess. A case in point, Cache County Utah has for their sheriff one Chad Jensen. Sheriff Jensen really likes to shoot his mouth off. Jensen likes to shoot his mouth off almost as much as he likes to fire off his shootin' iron. Shootin' iron is Utahese for gun. Anyway, the Utah Department of Public Safety's Bureau of Criminal Investigation released a report on crime rates in Utah. The report covered the year 2020. It would seem that crime is on the rise in good ole Mormon Utah. Utah's Sheriffs Association, which is headed by Cache County Utah's Sheriff Chad Jensen, issued a retort on the report. Retort on the report...almost whimsically rhythmic. Back to the topic of the day which would be the intellectual ability of one Sheriff Chad Jensen. Jensen acting in his capacity as head of the Utah Sheriffs Association stated, "the George Soros catch and release, cashless bail, defund the police, radical agenda is good for criminals and a disaster for public safety." But wait there's more..."Unfortunately it (the George Soros catch and release scenario) has caught up with us. The result is a seemingly endless cycle of career criminal who believe there are few consequences for their actions. They (career criminals) will continue to offend, get released, and re-offend until we stop this nonsense." The nonsense being that "George Soros catch and release plan." It is worth noting here that Utah's Bureau of Criminal Investigation report was about crime rates and had absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with George Soros having a plan for catch and release. The term 'catch and release' is a favorite Utah slogan for fishermen to use when fishing Utah's famous trout rivers and streams. Catch a fish and put that fish back in the water so's a fisherman can catch the fish one more time. Please note that criminals do NOT inhabit Utah's trout fisheries. It would seem that good ole Sheriff Jensen was jousting at windmills here and his disconnect from any daily reality of a non George Soros world is striking. Sheriff Jensen is straight up batshit insane and his heavily rightwing world view is prohibiting his (Jensen's) ability to function rationally as a county sheriff. Unfortunately for Utah and the good citizens of Cache County Utah, Jensen holds the office of Cache County Sheriff by vote of the registered voters living in Cache County Utah. Yes, there is NOT much hope for the citizens of Cache County Utah. On an unrelated note, George Soros is a 91 year old Hungarian born naturalized American that earned a gigantic pile of good ole American money doing some damn thing or another and has ended up as the boogey man for fascist rightwing America. I have no idea how Soros made his money. I really don't care. But Soros seems to piss off the really crazy side of American fascist politics and I find that a good thing. Good god the wingers are straight up fucking nuts and so would be Cache County Sheriff Chad Jensen. Jensen is of course the product of Utah polygamy and Mormon inbreeding. So there you go and let us now move on the really important stuff here and that would be machine art.

exposed -

home is where you plant your keister at -

and that's all folks. 🙈🙉🙊