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  The land behind the Zion Curtain hasn't seen moisture in the form of snow since October 2021. Today is the last day of November. Winter is creeping its creepy dang season forward and time along with the seasons waits for no human. The phrase used to read 'time waits for no man' but in today's mea culpa correctional trending bullshit, ain't not a supposed to say "man." That in and of itself poses any number of problems for men. Oh crappies I digress. Back to the beginning all over again. We ain't not had no dang stinking snow and politicians that are heavily indebted to the ski resort lobbyists are freaking out. You see a way out here and behind the Zion Curtain we get an atmospheric inversion that is conjoined to the winter season. Brief definition would read, cold air sinks to valley floors and warm air rises aloft and therefore and thereby trapping the cold air down where the peoples live and that cold air traps and collects all the human inspired ...

  A way out here behind the Zion Curtain, we've got us a genuine dust up over books. Books in high school libraries to be quite specific. Or exact. Doesn't really matter much. You see there are parents living within the Canyon School District that have their puritanical knickers all in a wad over icky books. Any and all books that fall into disfavor with puritanical parents are 'officially' considered as icky. Books about critical race theory, that gawdawful "homosexual love", gays with children, lesbians in general, and anything that doesn't quite fit in with today's postmodern conservatism. That should read fascist/nazi nuance. You see there are nine yes count them 9 books that have fallen under the old fascist/nazi censorship guidelines AND the puritanical parents (one single fascist/nazi mother) demanded those dang icky books be removed from school libraries and the questionable books have been removed. That's how censorship works a way out her...

  The new virulent variant is spreading like wildfire around our Planet. Leaders that think they only have to please themselves and their close pals. It's sickening and it's shameful. Politicians are splattering friends and close associates with largesse provided by taxpayers and the practice is damnable. Pick a politician, any politician, and the corruption is a pornographic stain on public service. The ugly truth of the matter is that the general public elects these vermin to public office and there really is no one else to blame. Damn them and damn them all to heck! Machine art is next. three yes count them three - walking nowhere - bitch bitch bitch. wisdom and grumpy theory from an old guy. 🙅

  We danced together Once A long time ago I remember  Every move and Touch An incidental ballet Of memory machine art is next Sevier River - feathers - memory seems a twisting fantasy OR is fantasy a twisting memory...who can tell. 😯

  The 'official' post-gluttony season is well upon us. Stuffed like the sacrificial turkey, Americans are out and about shopping. Rack up those credit cards and make your kiddies happy. Charge it! I mean, don't your little darlings deserve to see you spend into bankruptcy? Spend that money as if you were under the influence of Congress. That's legally referred to as S.U.I.. Shopping or spending under the influence. Spend as if you're to spend next Christmas living out of a refrigerator box. Speaking of boxes, where do the homeless folk get those spiffy tents they mount up on any available public space? I've been in the way upscale Kirkham's Outdoor Products and those tents aren't cheap. Kirkham's used to be AAA Tent and Awning way back in the day. Now Kirkham's is upscale, trendy, tres chic, and you just about need reservations to get in the place. Almost like Tiffany's and Company. Tiffany's and Co does NOT allow homeless people inside t...

  Happy Thanksgiving! So be thankful you're not a turkey. Oh the turk-manity! Okay so, here's a little poem for this here pigging out day. I think therefore What's it all about Alfie God bless us Michael Caine The end written by Don Nash produced by Don Nash graphic representations by Don Nash narcissistic gloating by Don Nash now for some Thanksgiving machine art. also by Don Nash accept no other please as previously stated machine art the general public is hereby notified - longing - so until we meet again...TTFN 🍗

  ThumpDay would be the Wednesday before Thanksgiving. You know because Wednesdays are unofficially a 'hump day' and Thanksgiving is generally celebrated on a Thursday. So Thumpday. The fourth Thursday in the month of November. I could not tell you why Thanksgiving is on the fourth Thursday in November but it is so there... After a google research on the subject of Thanksgiving being the last Thursday in November, we can all blame Congress. Congress passed an official law declaring the fourth Thursday in November to be Thanksgiving. That was back on December 26, 1941 the year that will live in infamy. Gosh doesn't that just about figure. Anyway there was some manner of dustup over what day Thanksgiving should be celebrated on and after some push, shove, name calling, fistfights, AND presidential executive orders, Congress legislated the fourth Thursday in November as Thanksgiving and done is done. Let's eat! Don't you just know that Congress could fuck up a half dec...

  Today then tomorrow then...PIG OUT! Yes America you've almost made it to THE day. There'll be football and beer. Hors D'oeuvres and beer. Family and beer. Then and only then will the carnage commence. Turkey! Turkey and smashed potatoes. Turkey and gravy. Turkey and stuffing. Turkey and rolls. Turkey and wine then beer. Pig pig pig then pumpkin pie and beer. Oh lordy the drooling is starting already. So the goal is to get through today then tomorrow then...then...EAT! Eat like there'll be no tomorrow. Of course for some Americans there won't be a tomorrow. Heart attacks, strokes, family squabbles with guns, beer induced gun violence, football induced gun violence, taking a nappies then gun violence, and won't Thanksgiving be just an extra special treat. Or not. For all those homeless Americans there's always the soup kitchens. Thanksgiving meals delivered to a homeless favored city park somewhere. Yes, Americans all across this overly indulged and pampered...

  I found out this very morning that the neighborhood I grew up in, called Rose Park, is hosting wild turkeys. There weren't any wild turkeys in Rose Park when I was growing up. We had some rats and the occasional raccoon but no wild turkeys. The current denizens of Rose Park have adopted the turkeys and watch over them with diligence. That is so cool. I lived in Spokane for several years and there were wild turkeys all over the place. I even have some wild turkey feathers I was able to collect when back in the day we lived in New Mexico. Yeah I've been all over the dang western United States. All that being said, we're back behind the Zion Curtain for better or worse. My wife and I. Wild turkeys...go figure. On an unusually insane note, some asshole in Wisconsin drove his car down a Waukesha, Wisconsin street that was hosting a Christmas parade. Five people are dead and about 40 people are injured. The fuck drove through a police barricade to hit the parade folk. Christ! P...

  That's right, A. Radical Jesuit. Now the truth can be told. Back in the day I studied for the 'priesthood'. Not anything mormon. I took a number of theology classes way back in the day from Fuller Theology Seminary. That's seminary and not cemetery. Although and looking back in hindsight, all the good that seminary did was about not much and could have just as well been a cemetery. All the theology study did was instill a raging disbelief and worlds of doubt about theology and christianity itself. However, the years spent in theology study did leave me with an unquenchable curiosity about things spiritual. Or mystical. Or sorcery. Which I did indulge in for years. Sorcery and not anything theological. I spooked my second wife so badly she decided life with moi was not worth the spooky shit and she left. Can't really blame her. I conjured up some dang thing that spooked the bejesus out of me. Whatever the thing was, I couldn't control it and for all I know ...

  In a seriously serious turn of events, Kimmy the K is "officially dating" Pete Davidson. Kimmy the K is of course the Kardashian woman that was married to Kanye 'crazy as hell' West. West has changed his name since his break with the K. I'm not all together certain what moniker West goes by now. YeeYee or Yippee or Yo or YoMama or EIO or Icky or yeah we could go on about forever here. I was altogether unaware that dating needed to be "official" and when did that happen. Back in the day you went out on a date and if there was any chemistry or slightest chance of a connection, well, you went out on a second date and there was no need for an "official" declaration. Intentions were on the table and that much was obvious. "Officially" I find the Kardashian woman entirely useless and the woman needs to get over herself. I haven't a clue as to who, or whom, Pete Davidson is or claims to be or would like to be. But the Davidson guy is n...

  Let's put on our very best 'snooty' and ramble on. With today being Friday, we should end the week on a respectably high note. One of those mezzo soprano high notes. So freaking high that scraping fingernails down a chalkboard would be preferable. The obvious problem with that would be that mezzo soprano high notes are so gawd-awful, the fat lady should be shot on sight and put out of everyone's misery. Hmmm...so much for taking any "high road" to sophistication. I'm not. Sophisticated. Simply old guy rude and happy with that. You see a way back in the day, this was a very different America. Not a lot of uppity shit or nonsense like that there. Cowboy boots were considered chic. Navy dungarees were high fashion. Braless women caused a sensation. AND really loud Led Zeppelin music was all the rage. Yeah, those were the days my friend and we all thought those days would never end. Damn if'n that wasn't about some naive bullshit. Nixon took America...

  Time marches on! Details at 11:00. Congress declares a mistrial in bipartisan deliberations over money. You see Congress takes the money and then squanders that money like it hardly matters to the Congress. It doesn't matter. Not to the Congress. That's not their money that money belongs to the American people. Americans give and the Congress takes. Simple as that. The buffalo head wearing buffoon that was a real showstopper during the January 6, 2021 insurrection and riot at the U.S. Capitol goes to federal prison for 41 months. Awww, is that a pity or what. The dumbass evidently thought that he wouldn't get prosecuted for his "antics." So this asshole gets prison time and what about trump? Trump should be in prison for squirting out 'Barbie' Trump. That would be Ivanka. An actual and for reals waste of human existence. Okay so that will be quite enough for now. I'm starting off being insulting for this here Thursday and so what. Insulting is as ins...

  Hi there. It seems like only yesterday we sat down to have a wee chat over a cup of coffee. Hmmm, I suppose it was yesterday. Gosh how time flies when you're having fun. We are having fun...aren't we? About the only way all of this could be even more fun was IF you had red hot needles pressed slowly into your eyes. OR you were forced to sit in a room with trump and being forced to listen to his blabber about stolen elections. Gosh, that just passed analogy leaves having needles poked in your eyes sound like it might not be so bad. How is trump not in prison? Talk about the wheels of justice turning slowly. When it comes to trump, the wheels of justice grind to a complaining halt. Say and speaking of trump, what's happened to his 'Barbie' daughter Ivanka? I think that's her name. Married to that Jared guy? That Jared guy what lost about seven hundred pounds using the Subway sandwich diet? Yeah, that guy. Oh hell, who cares. With any luck the insipid trump twins...

  It's Tuesday. Which makes perfect sense considering that yesterday was a Monday. Wow is that existential or what. So some country singer guy received news that his daughter had been murdered. That has so got to suck. The guy had to cancel his country singer tour. Yeah that has so got to suck. Not cancelling a country singer tour. News about a daughter being murdered. Sucks for sure. However and on to happier news, Britney 'Barbie' Spears was freed from enslavement to her father. Spears' slaver father can't help hisself to Britney's money anymore. Good news for Britney and sucky news for slave master daddy. The Britney's daddy comes across as a for real and genuine asshole. Insufferable prick to be certain. Steve Bannon, one of trump's racist provocateurs, gets to see the inside of a federal jail. Bannon is going on trial for contempt of Congress. However the federal judge overseeing Bannon's case let the fucker free on his own recognizance. I have ...

  Yesterday was a rare autumn day out here behind the Zion Curtain so, the wife and I drove out to the west desert. The weather was perfect and surprisingly warm for mid-November. Hmmm, must be that climate change thingy in action. I suppose that I wouldn't mind the climate change thingy if the changing didn't affect the climate. Problematic no doubt. Anyway it was a perfect mid-autumn day and I'll be posting up some photags just as soon as I unload those pictures from the old Nikon. Yes I have me a Nikon camera and I love to take the photographs. No apologies to Paul Simon. My Nikon is a work horse and the Nikon and myself have been together for quite a whole now. So and back to the beginning, t'was a beauty day...eh? No apologies to the Mackenzie brothers or Canadians. Kind of eerie that we didn't spot too many raptors. You know, hawks and eagles and falcons they're raptors. We spotted one eagle and possibly two red tail hawks. Hard to tell about the red ...

  Today is a day to celebrate nothing. There's not much to celebrate. I'm almost certain that people, somewhere, are celebrating Britney 'Barbie' Spears' release from a court ordered conservancy. I'm almost certain that 'Barbie' is happy to get her money back. The Spears' daddy had control of her money. No more of that. Steve 'suck ass' Bannon is going to prison. That's almost something to celebrate. I wonder if Bannon thinks all that trump bullshit was worth going to prison over. One of the guys that went to space with Captain Kirk was killed in a plane crash. That's probably not a good reason to celebrate. Had it been Shatner that had been killed, well, that's an entirely different story. Still there's not much to celebrate there. So that about sums it all up for this here Saturday. Nothing overly rash is going on and that's probably reason enough right there to celebrate. So I'll move on to the machine art and call ...

  For some reason known only to the google kids, today celebrates Johannes Vermeer. A Dutch painter considered by some (?) to be the 'finest Dutch painter in all the world'. That's some heady praise there boy. Vermeer was born sometime in October of 1632 maybe. An actual Vermeer birthday is shrouded in the mists of fading history. Well and the Dutch were about really crappy at keeping track of birthdays. During a Baroque period, Vermeer specialized in scenes of domestic violence and mid-life crisis. Wait...is that right? Dang, I'd better google that and make certain, hang on for just a sec...CLARIFICATION - Johan buddy specialized in scenes of domestic interiors and middle-class life. Vermeer was only moderately successful painting in a provincial genre. That sounds like a little backhanded praise for sure. I googled up some of Vermeer's work and the guy wasn't bad so why the man would be considered as only moderately successful is beyond me. So sayeth the art c...

  The Alien Worlds Coalition has sent a message to Planet Earth. Yes my friends, it's true. Oh so very true. The Alien Worlds Coalition message came while most of the denizens of Planet Earth were busy doing "other things." So and of course, most of humanity remains clueless. There's stuff going on that requires attention spans to be focused elsewhere. Covid-19 plague and pandemic. Inflation. Supply chain disruptions. Mask and vaccine mandates. Excessive worries over who might win the America's Got Talent farce. Excessive worrying over who will be eliminated next on that silly dang Dancing With Some Star Or Starlet That Nobody Really Knows Whom The Star Or Starlet Might Be program. Gerrymandering. Merrymandering. Did O.J. Really Kill His ExWife. There you see? Humans are simply too freaking busy to notice when some really important message comes a wafting down from 'outer space'. Dang, don't you just hate it when that happens? Me too. Oh yes and what d...

  Do you know what day it is? It's been awhile for obvious reasons. That being said, I do love the hump day camel. Cracks me up every time. So there's really not much on the docket for today. To be quite clear on the matter...I've got nothing. Sure there's an abundance of crap to bitch about. I'm not in the mood. Not today. So we'll segue over to the machine art portion of today's program and call it good. wreck of Edmund Fitzgerald's car - kid buddha - some days it doesn't pay to turn your clocks back an hour at the end of daylight savings time. 👾

  Automated gatekeepers and the kingdoms they control. The automated gatekeepers piss me off no end. Have you tried to call any one of the big service providers lately? You know like the power company, gas company, phone company, or any of an incredible number of business venues that back in the day were easily contacted by phone. These automated gatekeepers have also taken over just about ALL of our government agencies. Such as Social Security comes to mind right off. You call a 1-800 number expecting to be greeted by someone close to being human and no, you don't get to speak to a human you get to be greeted by some automated gatekeeper that may or may not allow you to proceed further in a quest to resolve some issue that the aforementioned resolution ABSOLUTELY needs the human touch. If nothing else, to be understood one human to another human. But no...you'll get some wise ass artificial intelligence that will pose to you any number of kafka-esque responses to ba...

  Fifth generation is longhand for 5G. 5G is of course all the rage and people are snapping up the 5G crap-o-la as fast as the 5G  devices can come off the assembly lines. There seems to be no 'supply chain disruption' to the 5G nonsense. 5G towers are popping up just about everywhere. The dang towers seem to pop up like mushrooms after a heavy summer thunderstorm. I've had 5 of the spooky things erected in my neighborhood and no one and I do mean absolutely NO ONE said word one about those towers going up. You see, local authorities are "mandated by Congress" to under no circumstances interfere with the 5G towers being erected. I find that really freaking curious. Why would Congress author such an outrageous and dictatorial piece of legislation? Short answer is...money. Yes that good ole fashioned cash in hand lobbying by the tech concerns that own ALL the 5G bandwidths and ancillary bullshit. You know, Verizon and T-Mobile and Sprint and all tho...

  Daylight savings time has ended for another year. "Spring forward, fall back." Come to find out, no one saved any time at all. The whole ordeal is smoke and mirrors so don't you believe it kids, it's all a trick. A trick of the light. Our world gets the same amount of sunshine during the 'savings time' gimmick and that settles that. Sure the days get longer and that happens with or without the savings time bullshit. I admit to loathing the switch. All the savings time does is mess up my body clock for about two weeks and I get that twice a year which curiously coincides with the switch the clocks forward then switch the clocks back. Ridiculous. Arizona has the right idea as Arizona does NOT participate in the turning clocks forward then turning clocks back illusion. So it goes and America is back on standard time. Yippee. Life becomes two weeks of a fucked up body clock give or take a day or so. America can be called any number of names and stupid is right u...

  After much scientific study it has been determined scientifically that trees communicate with one another. So the tree huggers don't seem so crazy after all. Don Juan Matus maintains that brujos can turn themselves into trees. Personally, I haven't been able to pull that one off. Not yet anyway. I'll bet that the trees are talking some serious smack about the stupid humans. If you've ever wondered why there seems to be screaming at forest fires, it's the trees screaming while being burned alive. Damn that has so got to suck. Being burned alive. Ouch! It has always occurred to me that trees are speaking to one another but, I can't speak tree so there you go. Turns out that trees are worlds of patient. The trees don't seem to mind too much being peed on by the dogs. The trees are welcoming with open branches for birds to nest in. And the squirrels of course. Trees have to be welcoming with open branches, the trees don't exactly have arms. Not any arms in...

  Yes my friends, today is the first Friday in November. There just might be at least 3 more Fridays and possibly more than 3. It could happen. It seems more than likely that there won't be a "black Friday" the day after Thanksgiving. Not for this year anyway. The "black Friday" crap-o-la has started up already. Won't be too much longer and the whiz-bang retailers will start their 'black Friday' bullshit the day after Labor Day. There's something to look forward to. There is always something to look forward to. You know like the Covid or eviction or Aaron Rogers peddling ivermectin or the almost certain return of trump. Yeah some things are not worth the effort of looking forward to. I always thought that Aaron Rogers had better sense than to take a horse dewormer thinking that might protect him from the Covid. What'd ya know, Rogers is just another stupid footballer jock and will more than likely catch the Covid and wish to holy hell that he...