Sunday And The Countdown's On

A mere twenty days until Xmas. Yup. Just a wee day short of three weeks. Not much time left for shopping. Anyone interested in giving the ole familia a grander than grand Xmas had better get out there and shop...shop...SHOP! Rack up those credit cards and why not. What's more important than Xmas? I can't think of a thing with the possible exception of having red hot needles pressed into your eyes. Call your credit card holder and see if you can get your credit limit increased. In a last desperate attempt at "saving Xmas" use lay-a-way. That's how Xmas was finalized back in the olden days. The olden days were great provided you didn't have to live through them. Painful memories for sure. So what the hell, this is Xmas 2021 and there just might not be a Xmas 2022 so...go all in and spend. Yes, spend like this Xmas will be the last Xmas ever. And on that cheery holiday note we'll move on over to the machine art portion of today's program. Charge it!

vista du jour -

 Sevier -

time honored traditions and all manner of bullshit like that there. 😆

Paint The Town Red

 The University of Utah's football team, the Utes, are finally going to the Rose Bowl. The Utes put the smackdown on the University of Oregon Ducks in the PAC-12 championship football game and Salt Lake City and parts of Utah went nuts. The Utes win was met with silent disdain in Utah County that plays host to BYU's 'Cougs'. So let the festivities commence in Capitol City and party on to New Year's Day and the Rose Bowl. Who the Utes will play in the Rose Bowl is yet to be determined. Possibly the Utes will play Iowa or Ohio State. I don't usually pay much attention to college football. The Ute's win is different. You see I live not to far from the campus of the University of Utah and the neighborhood I live in is 'Ute' territory. Yes, the University's use of the term 'Ute' is racist and insulting. However the actual and for real First Nation Ute tribe gave their consent to the 'U' to use their name and done is done. Why the Ute Nation would allow their tribe's actual name to be used as a football mascot remains a bit of a mystery. But they did. I'm thinking there may have been an under-the-table cash "donation" made to the Utes but, I can't prove that so we may in fact never know. Money does make the egregious insult tolerable. So good luck and go 'Utes'! The Utah team certainly plucked the ducks. A "sound thrashing" was how one sports writer put the Utes win and there is much grumbling in Oregon on this fine Saturday. One Oregon newspaper headline reads, "Ducks Scalped By Utes!" That's crass to say the least. The Oregon football season is over now and the crying will continue for some days to come. Machine art is next without further mention of college football.

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Mt. Nebo in the surreal -

yes I am all over the Utah thing. like a really cheap missionary suit. 🙋

Friday Fricassee

 Just like that a week is over. Weekend comes next and won't we all be having us some fun for sure. Well maybe not Alec Baldwin. I thought that with the guy's name being Alexander, he'd go by Alex. But no, Baldwin is special and chooses to go by Alec. Whatever. What Baldwin needs to do is quit giving interviews to the media vultures. The Baldwin explanation he's giving for why he shot the cinematographer woman keep changing on a daily rotation. The most current explanation Baldwin is proffering seems to be that A- he didn't pull that trigger. Logical reaction would be, that's some bullshit there boy. B- he didn't know that gun was loaded. Logical reaction would be, that's more bullshit there boy. C- he merely cocked the gun and in the process of un-cocking the gun, well, the dang gun misfired. Logical reaction would be, that's some contrived bullshit there boy. D- Baldwin has lawyered up and his legal team told him to say whatever it his he's going to say reading from the lawyer prepared script and go impromptu emotional with tears. Logical reaction would be, Baldwin's acting needs a whole lot of work and that too is some bullshit there boy. In Baldwin's most recent interview, he's singing the blues as his acting career is over and Baldwin used real tears and not that fake dribbly crap Hollywood make up professionals use to give an actor emotional credibility. More bullshit to be certainly certain. In other news, Florida Governor Ron 'little Adolf' DeSantis wants his very own well regulated militia. Given that we are referring to Florida, any notion of "well regulated" is laughable at best. DeSantis wants a personal goon squad so's he can "deal with" his political enemies and in a certain to be controversial move, DeSantis will detain donny boy trump as DeSantis wants to run for president and DeSantis doesn't want trump getting in his way. That DeSantis is politically astute if not a clear and present danger to American Democracy. I'm not exactly certain that the U.S. military will grant DeSantis permission to concoct his own militia however, the 2nd Amendment of our U.S. Constitution does grant states the right to have and to hold a 'well regulated militia' so we'll all just have to wait and see how that little slice of spooky-ass news plays out. Damn if'n we're not out and about having us some fun for sure. Machine art comes next.

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fly away fly fly -

donny 'boy' trump may just regret moving to Florida...😛

Frogbots And Self-Firing Guns

 Yes my friends this here Thursday is simply loaded with news you can use. Scientists have created a single cell frog robot that can self-replicate. Isn't that just marvelous? Why it most certainly is. Won't be so very long and the dang single cell frogbots will be able to evolve into multi-cellular bots and 'terminator' here we come. Why in hell scientists would want to create a single celled frogbot has for the moment gone unexplained. Frogbots? Whatever. In other incredibly strange news, Alex Baldwin claims he did NOT pull the trigger of the gun that killed that cinematographer lady. Nope. The dang pistole fired itself. That could certainly go a long ways towards proving claims of self defense in murder trials. So what Baldwin was holding was a genuine new and improved gun that can self-fire. Wow is that about some exciting news or what. Gun nuts all across America can now go out and get themselves a self-firing gun and save themselves the time it takes to actually pull a trigger. However, I do have several and possibly germane questions to be asked about a gun that fires itself. Do guns that fire themselves pose a risk to customers at a gun shop? I mean suppose that Jed Clampshit and son Junior Clampshit wander into their local and neighborhood gun store and the guns on display start to fire at random. Would Jeb and Junior duck and cover? Run screaming from the gun shop and then and only then call 911? Demand to know what brand of firearm is self-firing and want to be placed on a purchasing list on account of the self-firing guns are on backorder? Purchase one of those self-firing pistols and take one home to his missus so she can have the surprise of her life? Does Junior Clampshit take his self-firing gun to school and simply leave it in his school locker to add some excitement to hall patrol? The defense lawyers hired by that school shooter kid's family in Michigan just got their 'A' material for the kid's defense at trial. Michigan is planning on charging the little freak with not only murder in the first but terrorism as well. That kid is gonna need to get his trial moved to Wisconsin. He'd be able to get off scot-free no doubt. Wisconsin is having some "issues" at present with murder trials and dumb ass children using guns and rifles to kill people. An entirely separate discussion. So there are just several of the highlights from today's news. Plus, the Supremes are gonna undo Roe v Wade and won't that just spark a shitstorm of epic proportions. The Supremes undo Roe v Wade and that could very well be the straw that breaks the camel's back. Evidently straws can break a camel's back but I remain skeptical and I suppose we'll have to wait and see. I'm of the opinion that women in these here United States of My Body My Choice are gonna go ballistic should the Supremes deliver for conservatives. Won't that be a joy to witness. Okay and so that will cover things for now. Machine art is...NEXT!

cedar waxwing -

far far off -

I'm not sure that Baldwin can get away with his claim the "gun fired itself." seems worlds of fishy if not outright stupid. Baldwin's lawyer may have made him say that. 😆

Uriah Humpday

 Aimless Noman had a headache. An industrial strength triple AAA rated screaming damn headache. A headache caused by life, consequences, a feeble attempt to scam the IRS, toss in the aging process with all its complimentary side effects and PRESTO, one nasty headache. So Aimless decides on a remedy for his ailment. Noman picks up his solution and racks the cure. Aimless places the business end of his self-prescribed fix all snug under his chin, settles his finger on the dispenser, then engages the action that will unleash a horde of steel bees that race at the speed of gun powder to work their magic on a human body. Aimless takes a last longing look around his domain and then paints his room in a macabre Jackson Pollock work of abstract imaging. Art being of course whatever one can get away with, Aimless Noman has used one of the oldest of artistic mediums. Splatter and so a seemingly worthless actuality, his headache, his regrets, his existential agony of existence terminates into darkness. Aimless Noman no longer has his headache. Machine art is next doncha know.

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DISCLAIMER...the preceding might not be for anyone of delicate sensibilities. 😎

Inversion Season Begins

 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 particulates and pollutions so the air we breathe isn't breatheable. Breathable? Yeah, probably that one. Can't breathe and there isn't any policing agency planting a choke hold on folks so can't blame the police. We can however blame the dumb ass politicians that refuse to do more than about squat regarding atmospheric particulates and in general pollution. So little by little earlier and earlier inversion sets on and by about February, folk can't breathe. Tie in the Covid-19 in all of its inglorious variants and talk about pulmonary distress. Death? Death by lack of clean air to breathe. While choking to death slowly might seem like not so bad a way to croak, I find the notion to be anathema. Anathema is a fanciful big word meaning oh shit not that and vehemently so. It is 'big word Tuesday' so big words it shall be. Long story short and I can understand why any reader will be happy about that, skiers are vexed and woefully unhappy. Ski resort owners and operators can't make snow fast enough as the artificial snow melts away faster than the snow maker guys can make fake snow. You see the inversion only plagues valleys and up in the higher altitudes where the snow might ordinarily lay, the elevations are out of any inversion troubles so it's warmer at elevation and the fake snow melts. Dang if'n it ain't about one thing it is about several other dang things and so it goes. According to climatologists and various weather professionals, there isn't gonna be any snow for quite a while yet to come and the Great Western Drought 2021/22 shall plod merrily along and oh those pesky dang drought plagues shall continue to continue. Actually the Great Western Drought has been about the drought business for years now and won't be too much longer and there won't be a drop of water to be had anywhere west of the ole Mississippi. All points west shall dry up and blow gracelessly out to sea. Say bye bye to livable and hello barren wasteland. Now we move it along to the machine art part of todays inversion themed program. Cha-cha...

adventures of pigbone -

happens -

as an added bonus at the start of inversion season, I tossed that 'cha-cha' in just because. I can do that. 💃

Burn Them Books

 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 here behind the Zion Curtain. One lone mother that wouldn't know literary freedom IF that literary freedom were to bite the bitch on her rather large tookas. Mom has to wear a 'wide load' sign on her rather large keister so as to give folks notice that she's a coming or going this a way. Or that a way. Just get outta her way or she'll hip knock you to the side of a road. Or aisle. Whatever. You'd think that in this here early quarter of the twenty first century, people would have intellectually evolved beyond Neanderthal knuckle dragging. Well not here in Utah. So to add insult to First Amendment injury, the goodly folk living within the confines of the Canyon School District are going to hold a book burning the week prior to Xmas. There was some serious discussions over whether to burn several of the local witches along with the books but that notion was tabled AS it was decided that burning local witches might seem controversial. Yeah, controversial. It is however almost perfectly legal to burn witches in Utah and the burners don't even need to get a permit. You do need a permit to burn books but that technicality will soon be removed by Utah's genius all old boy network Legislature. Can't be a havin' no dang permit requirements to burn books by golly. Restrictions on burning witches is under "discussions" at Utah's Legislature. There's even a legislative committee on the witch burning subject. Go figure. Machine art is next.

wonder of wonders -

jelly rolls -

living in Utah can be at times, entertaining. borderline retarded but entertaining. 👯

OhMyCronyism

 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.

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walking nowhere -

bitch bitch bitch. wisdom and grumpy theory from an old guy. 🙅

Verse

 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. 😯

An Opaque Friday

 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 their stores. Anyway, get out there and shop shop shop. Christmas is now less than one month off. Time flies when you're out shopping for Christmas doncha know. Shop shop shop and then head back home for leftovers and pie. Not pumpkin pie. I detest pumpkin pie. Well and pumpkin latte. Pumpkin latte...almost makes you wanna gag at the mention of the name. Okay and on that cheery post-thanksgiving sentiment let us move on to the machine art.

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floral -

so there you go all exquisitely beautiful and crap like that there. 💬