Freaking Out On A Friday

 Monster Hurricane Ian tore Florida to shreds. Fires, floods, roads washed out, mobile homes tossed aside like...mobile homes, and what a freaking mess. No electricity, no running clean potable water, and in total...KARMA BITCHES!!! I have no empathy for Florida. If ever there was a state that deserved to get an ass whooping like Florida received...it would be Florida. We can blame all this disaster on Florida Governor Ron DeSantis. He's a genuine and for reals world class asshole. Sort of ironic that trump lives in Florida and DeSantis is Governor of Florida. Two world class assholes in one state. Gosh, that's almost like a Bush scenario. Wasn't Jeb Bush the Governor of Florida once upon a time? I believe he was. Now for a special edition of Friday machine art. Florida can suck eggs. ☺

dancer -

cowhand -

frontier -

catcher -

village -

it's probably unfair to put all the blame for Hurricane Ian on DeSantis. the voters of Florida elected this slime crawling asshole to office. 🙊

Underground And The Balrog

 Rio Tinto's Kennecott Copper Mine in Bingham Canyon Utah is getting back into the underground mining business of mining for copper. You see Kennecott Copper Mine has been an open pit copper mine for the better part of one hundred years. But now, Rio Tinto is to get back to mining coppers roots. Well, the underground mining stuff is literally deeper than roots. Tree roots anyway. I've had relatives that worked for Kennecott Copper back in the day and my wife's father worked for Kennecott Copper so Kennecott Copper is sort of like family for me anyway. I've been to the bottom of the Kennecott Copper pit and the scale of the open pit mine is quite the site to see. Being at the bottom of the pit puts the imprimatur on exactly how small the human species is in actual fact. I had an acquaintance that I'd known when growing up and we were sort of friends. So as a young man my sort of friend was able to get a job working in the 'pit' and that turned out none too well for the guy. At the very bottom of the open copper pit is a gigantic thingy called the crusher. Big dang open pit mining ore trucks dump their loads of raw copper ore into the crusher thingy and the ore begins its transformation into the copper wire that brings the electricity to your homes and stuff like that there. Long story short, the 'new kid' got to work at the mouth of the crusher to make sure that the ore was swallowed and the crushing process began its work of reducing raw copper ore into the sludge that gets purified at the processing mill and smelter. Now this tale of tragedy gets cruel...kid is working at the mouth of the crush monster and slips then takes a header inside the ore crusher. The kid did not survive and there wasn't enough of him left whole to load inside a casket. Sad story no doubt. I'm very familiar with Rio Tinto's Kennecott Copper Mine in Bingham Canyon. Now with the news that Rio Tinto is going back to underground mining, well, I sort of had to pause for a couple of minutes for some personal reflection. I had to wonder what the hell those underground miners are going to do when they mine into a Balrog. Gandalf might not be of a mind to save the miners collective asses and that underground mining is that deep and going deeper. I realize that this was a long and winding road of verbose posturing to grab a modestly unfunny joke from the depths of a copper pit. ☺ Machine art comers next and I didn't even have to dig too deep for machine art gold. Or copper in this case.

dancer -

post -

hammer -

collage -

the retelling of the kid that was crushed in the bottom of the copper pit is true oh yes the tale is true. names have been intentionally left off for legal reasons. 😬

Shocking News From Behind The Zion Curtain

 The Salt Lake County Democratic Party is calling on a sitting Utah State Senator, from Salt Lake City, to resign his seat in the Utah State Senate and go away. The sitting Utah State Senator by the name of Gene Davis, has been accused of improper advances on an "intern" working in Davis' office. Considering that Mr. Gene Davis is a lifelong Democrat, this is almost unheard of in Utah politics. Had the political party involved in this ugly social drama been republican, well, the Utah State Republican Party would have paid the "intern" off and buried this tale of icky ass grabbing by an old guy deeply in Republican archives and that would be that. Well, that's not how this well publicized tale of sexual intrigue is playing out behind the Zion Curtain. You can almost forgive an old guy for eye-balling a young intern. Just about every old guy still able to walk around Planet Earth aided or otherwise, is eye-balling the young ladies. However, most old guys are come to terms with age and how ridiculous any 'contact' with a young lady would turn out. Old guys with buckets filled with money, gold, diamonds, new cars, and being unashamedly comfortable with social deprecations, can and do play that ass grabbing card for better or worse and to hell with consequences. Mr. Davis finds himself NOT in that manner of situation. Now it is a given that there is presidential precedent for ass grabbing a comely young "intern." But that manner of bullshit happens only in Babylon-On-The-Potomac and unlikely not so much in Utah. Bye bye Senator Davis and your Utah Democratic Party overall and for the most part hopes you do NOT let the door hit you in the ass on your way out to parts unknown. Now for our Hump Day machine art. No "interns" will be harangued in the posting of our machine art.

hot young intern -

unsaid -

gallows -

death as a final hallucination -

I wonder what Monica Lewinsky is doing these days... 😏

Close Encounters Of The Jupiter Kind

 Monday night and the Planet Earth will be close to the Planet Jupiter. I mean Planet Earth will be so close to Jupiter, you'll be able to almost reach out and touch it. Yup and the astronomical community is buzzing loud and with NASA colliding a probe into an asteroid, testing planetary defense, the stargazers are simply going orbital with excitement. I watched the 'planetary defense probe' crash into that tiny asteroid that was in orbit around a separate asteroid and talk about much ado over nothing. You could see the tiny asteroid getting closer as the 'planetary defense probe' closed in for the big finish and then...all visualizing was abruptly ended. The tiny asteroid wasn't moving except in it's orbit around the larger asteroid. The 'planetary defense probe' was doing the moving and the closing in on its target. The data that will confirm if the NASA crash test probe motif actually did work, or not, we have to wait until all data is processed. Hurry up and wait. Just so figures. Now it's back to Jupiter and it being close enough to almost reach out and touch. Jupiter will be a mere 367 million miles from our current home world of Planet Earth and that's not much in strictly astronomical terms. You'll be able to step outside and see good old Jupiter unaided. Gosh...is that about exciting or what. Next time I keyboard up, I'll let a reader know if I was able to see Jupiter or I simply forgot and headed for bed. That could happen and does on a regular basis. Now for that Tuesday machine art. No images of Jupiter were available for running through the old artistic machinery. There are loads of images of the Planet Jupiter, I was simply too freaking lazy to google up an image. That happens quite regularly. 

clipper -

old world -

beast world -

cloak no dagger? -

I enjoy watching the NASA folk while they track one of their scientific endeavors. you can almost feel the excitement the NASA folk exude while doing a countdown. 😎

No Place For A Home

 Happening on the Mormon Homeworld from where I came from, comes this tragic news - two women are jogging in the early cool of a Sunday morning up Millcreek Canyon. A lovely slice of intact Wasatch National Forest that has remained a singularly beautiful piece of the original mountains of the Wasatch Front. Almost pristine and I do mean almost. Millcreek Canyon is off limits to dogs and that's about it. Millcreek Canyon is mostly off limits on account of the canyon being part of the Salt Lake City watershed and has been since the days of Brigham Young. We'll leave Salt Lake and Mormon history out of this here narrative. Anyway, these two women are jogging up Pipeline Trail and as the pair rounds a bend in the trail they come face to face with a cougar. A for reals and genuine mountain lion. This sudden situation is a bit of a shocker for the ladies AND the cougar. The women start to back away all the while maintaining eye contact with the cougar. Maintaining eye contact with a cougar is fundamentally sound in the given encounter. The women are backing away and one of the joggers loses her balance and the cougar makes a grab at the fallen jogger. A bad situation takes a fall for the worse. The cougar takes a swipe at the fallen jogger and the fallen jogger gets the worst of a cougar swipe. The other jogger that is still on her feet picks up a rock and gives the rock a good shot at the cougar. The thrown rock causes the cougar to flee back up the trail on a run. So...the first responders are called in to care for the cougar swiped lady jogger and of course Utah's Division of Wildlife Resources charge in with coon hounds for tracking the cougar and the ever so butch DWR honchos find the aforementioned cougar and shoot the cougar dead. The cougar, who happens to have been a maturing young cougar is, and to be perfectly and socially correct here, "euthanized." The butch fish and game guys could have trapped the cougar and relocated the animal AS Millcreek Canyon is where the deer and the cougars like to hang on account of the entire rest of the Wasatch Front has been urbanized, civilized, developed, over developed, and all the prime cougar habitat has been raped and denatured several times over. Had this cougar been after taking the joggers as prey, the joggers would have gone missing for days and possibly weeks before some other jogger found the eaten corpses. But now no one has to worry about a scared to death cougar as the startled cougar is now to be stuffed, mounted, and put on display at the headquarters of Utah's Division of Wildlife Resources. The joggers were in the cougars habitat and the cougar has to die because the joggers startled a young cougar trying to figure out how to survive in our gloriously civilized world. This unhappy tale of wildlife encounter has a bullshit ending and the cougar is not to blame here. The joggers should have been making noise to announce their presence. THEY WERE JOGGING IN COUGAR HABITAT!!! Damn shame no doubt. Now for Monday machine art and NO cougars will be "euthanized" in the presenting of our machine art.

soaring -

spreading wings -

eye of the beholder -

totally absurd -

some day, maybe, the fish and wildlife guys will learn a better method other than euthanizing a wild creature and how to relocate offending startled cougars that scare the bejesus out of the precious white people who have no right to be encroaching on wild creatures habitats. damn shame no doubt. 😡

Conscription Or...'Hell No We Won't Go'

 In the former Soviet Union that's now known as Russia, Vlad Putin who currently holds the position of 'Czar Vladimir' has unilaterally announced a "draft" for young Russian boys to head off to the Ukraine to fight in Vlad's war of naked aggression on Ukraine. Sorry about that first windy sentence. Might that be a run on sentence? Having failed 7th grade grammar, I neither know for sure OR I simply don't care and have never cared about the proper use of English. Considering the fact that I neither use or speak English, I speak the crude American, I could not give a shit less. About run on sentences or whatever. Anyway and back to the subject at hand, Russian laddies not wanting anything to do with Czar Vladimir's war on Ukraine, well, the young Russian laddies are heading for the borders of any number of countries that are unlucky enough to be conjoined to Russia. Sad state of global affairs no doubt. So and with young Russian laddies attempting to bolt the Russian scene for greener if not safer pastures anywhere BUT Russia, the current state of local affairs in Russia are a mite tense. With official Russia responding in typical Russian heavy handed response, arrests are being made and the protests against Czar Vladimir's war on Ukraine are picking up social momentum not seen in Russia...ever. Burn your draft cards boys! Hell NO they don't wanna go. "C'mon all you big strong Russian men, Uncle Vlad needs your help again..." or possibly for the first time. Think back to anti-war protests against the Vietnam war and Lyndon Baines Johnson. 'Hey Hey LBJ, how many boys have you killed today...' Russian boys? You are perfectly welcome to use those 60's anti-war slogans and change them up to suit your particular needs. We's simply tryin' to hep. (that would read help if I wasn't being a wise ass) Having to sacrifice one's young existence for some lunatic and warmongering politician really REALLY sucks and sucks hard. Okay now for some Sabbath machine artistry. You won't even have to dodge incoming shelling.

bird -

a polite reminder for the Russian kids -

speed of light -

dancer -

Russian kids might could head for Sweden but they're gonna have to get through Finland first. 😳

Knickers In A Knot...OR

 The closeted world of professional chess, yes that is a real thing, is in an absolute uproar. It would seem that our world's two best players were all set to match up for a winner take all, knock your ass out, championship tourney. However the one guy that's older than the kid that is the old guys opponent, breath, made an opening move and then...he quit the match. Wait...is that right? Wait...maybe it's the other way round. I'd better go google up a check and see so's I have the chess facts straight. Hold on for a moment or so...please...BYB. Ahrighty then I've got the story straight. The current chess player champion is one Magnus Carlsen and he's 31 and Norwegian. The champs opponent is Hans Niemann and he's 19 and American. A side note of relevance here...the kid beat the older guy two weeks back. So, the two chessmen are squared off on (in?) a 64 square chess board. The first move is by Niemann who has the white pieces. Second move is Carlsen who has the black pieces and then and then...holy chess smoking guns...the Champ calls it quits and gets his ass up and walks away. The winner by forfeit is...Hans Niemann the kid. Niemann is 19 mind you and something of a chess prodigy. So while the professional chess world is reeling in horror at the sudden and strangely undignified end to this world class whip yer ass pairing, the now former chess champion Carlsen had absolutely nothing to say. To anyone and especially nothing to say to the good people that had arranged for the Julius Baer Generation Cup tourney to be held in St. Louis, Missouri and the tourney is actually called the Sinquefield Cup. I have absolutely no idea why the chess match is called a Baer Generation one thing and/or a Sinquefield Cup could be another thing. Like so much of chess...makes no freaking sense whatsoever. Now I can play chess. I'm not good at playing chess and I make no bones or excuses for my inability to play chess. I insult chess and that's about it. Hmmm, I guess I'm sort of like the former chess champion, I suck at the game. Did you know that there is an International Federation of Chess? I did not know that. Well there IS an International Federation of Chess and the guys what call the shots and decide who's champ and shit like that there are livid. I mean the guys are turning green at the events of the Julius Baer Generation Cup/Sinquefield Cup whatever in hell the folks are calling what happened. Long story short, the ex-champ Carlsen is making like a whiney spoiled nerd guy for getting his ass handed back to him by an American upstart kid name of Niemann. After one opening move! I used to work with a very nice lady name of Niemann but I'm not certain that there's any connection here. Maybe but I'll never know. I sort of don't care about chess or chess tourneys. But I find it funny as funny can be that these uptight and straight-laced people are freaking out at how their dreamy chess champ Carlsen made like a whipped dog and slinked his ass out the back door. Or maybe a side door, I don't know. All that is more than a little funny. I think so anyway. Now for some Saturday machine art. I get the first move. Well and the second then third and on and blah blah blah.

hippo -

bricks -

fly -

float like a butterfly...sting like a really sore ass loser name of Carlsen. 😊

The Big Show Must Go On

 At the United Nations headquarters in New York City...New York City?...yes New York City, the annual meeting of heads of state and world law-dee-dah elites gather each and every September to make their respective cases for continued membership in THE United Nations General Assembly. What all that b.s. boils down to is...a whole lot of blah blah blah and miscellaneous blunder with occasional outbursts of incoherent falderal and the ever so popular "I'm really important, I really am." Presidents, Prime Ministers, almost prime ministers, dictator/generals, various and assorted war criminals with a dash of sultans and the like are gathered for a week of wine, dancing, and song with dancing. It's September kids and the big boys are gathered to point accusatory fingers at one another and peacock for the vast global media concerns. Which brings us to my case in point. The Shaw of Iran, President Ebrahim Raisi who holds the title of the 'Shaw of Iran' courtesy of Iran's Supremely Glorious Ayatollah Ali Khamenei who just so happens to have been lucky enough to be mentored in atrocity by the original Supremely Glorious Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomenei who was the bane of Iran way back in the day and ended all presidential aspirations of one former President Jimmy 'peanuts' Carter. That and Khomenei made Ronny Raygun look like a liar and an asshole. Anyway, Shaw Raisi had been scheduled to do an interview with CNN's Christiane Amanpour but, Raisi cancelled on account of Ms. Amanpour refused to wear the hijab. Evidently the hijab is some kind of big deal in Iran. Turns out that Ms. Amanpour was not in Iran and she was not even close to Iran AS Ms. Amanpour was at the United Nations headquarters in New York City, for a sit-down with the Shaw of Iran Ebrahim Raisi. Funny thing and possibly ironic, Christiane Amanpour is Iranian and American (at least I think she's an American and if I'm incorrect on that account...oh well). You see Ms. Amanpour isn't about to concede any points to Raisi and if the "Shaw of Iran" doesn't want to sit down for an interview with Ms. Amanpour...oh dang if'n that ain't about tough shit. So and in conclusion, our world's big cheeses and tin pot dictators being gathered at the General Assembly does NOT change a gaddanged thing. Wars still rage, women and children are slaughtered daily, and life grinds on and interminably on. The United Nations is mostly about being a dog and pony performance that means mostly nada. Oh well... Now for some Friday machine art and one doesn't has to wear a goddamn hijab or burka or whatever bullshit apparel is trendy in the Mooselim world of late. And here we go -

gazeteer -

dorado -

trifecta -

cabaret -

I could suppose that the U.N. is sort of like a cabaret. crappy ass political histrionics, social irrelevance, global slaughter, and ain't we just so grateful to have a United Nations... whatever. 👃 that's a nose for holding while the U.N. is in session. Not former Senator Jeff Sessions. say...whatever happened to good old Beauregard?

Antiquities In Gaza

 So go figure. Byzantine antiquities found in Gaza. Gaza as in the Gaza that continually gets pounded by Israel? Yes...that Gaza. One Palestinian farmer name of Salman al-Nabahin, was clearing his land in preparation for the planting of trees. Yes Palestinian farmers do routine and regular stuff like farmers the world over. So Mr. al-Nabahin uncovers a Byzantine era mosaic floor that had been buried years and years ago and now this mosaic floor is seeing the light of day courtesy of Mr. Salman al-Nabahin. It's almost ironic that this Byzantine era mosaic floor hasn't been blasted to little tiny pieces by Israeli military dropping bombs and then Israeli tank shelling that is run of the mill for Gaza on an almost daily basis of bloodletting simply because Gaza is Gaza and filled with Palestinians and Israel finds Palestinians on par with how Nazis treated Jews way back in World War II the really big one. Now that is the truly ironic aspect of this little slice of daily Palestinian life. The complete news account of Mr. Salman al-Nabahin's discovery can be found on CNN. Every once in a while CNN reports on a news story that actually portrays Palestinians as regular if not normal people going about their business all the while paying close attention to the skies over Gaza and the next blitzkrieg by Israel. Life as an Israeli military punching bag for keepers. Those Israelis are a really fun bunch no doubt. Sure...sure. Now for some Thursday machine art and with any luck, we'll not have to put up with random Israeli bombing runs. Not here and not now anyway. 

allegro -

kids -

quad ro frenesia -

palm tree up close -

even with all the Israeli brutality that Palestinians must put up with, they still manage to live life as life should be lived. life shouldn't have to be lived under constant harassment. well and Israeli inspired death...😖

If You're Thinking Of Going...

If you're thinking of going to Bhutan...don't. Bhutan is a tiny slice of the Himalayas tucked neatly inside China and borders India. Not so easily accessible. Okay so here's the straight dope on travel to Bhutan. It's really freaking expensive. So freaking expensive as to give rich people pause and a moment of economic reflection before booking a trip to not even close to paradise. Bhutan is on average 8000 feet above sea level and that translates to oxygen transpiration of minimal abundance. You'll not be able to breath. Anyway, the "authorities" that lord it over Bhutan have decided that anyone desiring to visit Bhutan will now pay an entrance fee of $200.00 dollars U.S. a day and gimme a sec while I google up the what ifs on Bhutan currency...okay I'm back, Bhutan uses the Indian Rupee and 1 rupee equals 0.013 dollars. That's about 1 penny and a bit so an American dollar can buy a mountain of rupees. Anyway and so...Bhutan hasn't been getting enough bang for their rupee and have jacked the entrance fee on a daily basis due each and every day one might stay in Bhutan. There's also an enormous amount of other fees that aren't included in a Bhutan entrance fee. You know like airfare, lodging, meals, tips for the numerous servants, and not to mention cars or those little put-put gizmos that are ever so popular in places like India, Bhutan, Nepal, and all points Asia. Probably in China as well but China doesn't talk about that. Loose talk rattles those commie Chinese bastards to no end. Communist China is "moving forward to a brave new commie century." Just ask them and they'll deny everything. Especially regarding those rickety put-put thingies. Anyway one last time, it seems that Bhutan has just about priced themselves out of the travel market. Why in hell anyone would want to travel to Bhutan is way beyond me. Just to be able to say you did that? Nah...no thanks. I prefer closer to sea level. Oh yes and a desert landscape is always a nice thing. Now for some Wednesday machine art. 

the wives of the sultan of Bhutan -

glass -

sun -

living the dream -

those wives back up at the top of the art column seem just about happy as happy can be. sure sure...😁

Pomp And Circumstances Dictate...

 Queen Elizabeth II ... her funeral was a thing to witness. Over here on the left side of the pond, the "funeral" began at 12:00 a.m. PDT. I did not get up to watch. I did however start watching after I'd clambered out of bed and got some coffee in me. Quite the show. Spectacular funeral the likes I've never seen before...ever. Television coverage began at midnight. Way too early for my liking. Quite the show indeed. Back on the ugly side of the pond and the Sheriff of Bexar County Texas, one Javier Salazar, is opening a criminal investigation into whether criminal activity accompanied the bullshit stunt made infamous by Ron DeSantis Governor of Florida. The migrants were LEGALLY in the U.S. and were "lured" to Florida by agents working for DeSantis and then loaded onto a plane and flown to Martha's Vineyard and that's in Massachusetts. Evidently Sheriff Salazar didn't take kindly to the DeSantis stunt and is out for 'blood' and that's a Texas term for 'I'll skin your dang hide and you can count on that'! By the way, Bexar County Texas is where San Antonio is the heart of. As in 'deep in the heart of...'. I'm wondering if Bexar County Sheriff Salazar finds enough evidence to bring charges against DeSantis, will Texas Governor 'Wheels' Abbott (Retarded - Texas) try and interfere with Sheriff Salazar's investigation and evidence uncovered? Sort of serves up a political pickle for DeSantis AND good old 'Wheels'. Golly, isn't it simply great to watch how the shit hits the old fan in political America? Of course DeSantis AND Abbott are assholes extraordinaire. Possibly even more so than American traitor trump. Now for some Tuesday machine art. On account of...machine art is the salve America needs right now to heal our damn near mortally wounded nation. Indeed.

Dr. Faust -

plaza -

caravan -

hollywood -

of course, two of these artistic works are quite similar. can you tell which is which? by the way, don't believe what your eyes might perceive, it's a trick! ☺

Horrors East and West

 Typhoon batters Japan, typhoon batters Alaska, Queen Lizzie the Deuce is getting buried, and political shit is building to a roaring crescendo. Election 2022 is almost upon us like a case of really itchy bad herpes. Oh the horror... The greedy fuckers at Apple are about to unleash another way overpriced iPhone and all you'll need to do is pony up about 2 maybe three grand and the spiffy Apple thingy can be yours. You'll only have to wait about three maybe 4 months and the gizmo will ship as soon as Apple can get all the microelectronics necessary to stuff the guts in and then...and then...maybe your Apple spiffy cellphone will be yours. Happy Monday everyone and ain't we just living the dream. Monday machine art is now to be yours at no cost to you. If you happen to tune in for a read. 

atlas -

treason -

poster -

gabby -

Gabby Petito is here due to an institutional and systemic failure of those that are supposed to be keeping victims like Ms. Petitio safe from psychotic and murderous assholes that continually seem to be able to skirt law enforcement designed to protect. 😡 sure...sure...

The Ubiquitous Scrunchie

 The inventor of the "scrunchie" has bought the big one. And the farm. Taking a dirt nap. Bid this mortal coil a fond adieu. That's right, Rommy Hunt Revson invented the 'scrunchie' and is now resting peacefully in death. I don't know if Revson is resting peacefully or otherwise, I'm not dead yet. Not yet anyway. Tomorrow is a new day. Back to the 'scrunchie' lady. She was at one time married to some bozo that owned the Revlon complexity and when that bozo died, Ms. Revson evidently didn't get a dime from that extremely deep pocket and had to make things work on her own. And she did just that. The 'scrunchie' is ubiquitous all around our precious little blue planet. Back in the days when I had really long hair, I used a scrunchie. The scrunchie was handy as hell. Kept the curly dang locks in place and out of my face. So Ms. Rommy Hunt Revson has left her mark on our world and anyone with the long hair can thank Ms. Rommy for one quite valuable hair tool. Now for some Sunday machine artistry. 

obscura straight up -

a beautiful neighborhood -

let there be peace -

screen...Japanese or Chinese or whatever -

the neighbor lady upstairs -

with the sabbath being upon us, let us all feel sorry for the christians as, and according to the NPR webpage, the fuckers are a shrinking majority in America. yeah well maybe not sorry. christians are like a bad case of crabs that you just can't get rid of. 😆