"Guerrilas win..."

way out in the desert livin' in a truck...must be nice!...it is!

i wondered why this creature needed two entrance holes...

a while back i saw a fig in the parking lot and realized that this is a fig tree usually found in the tropics...just add monkeys!

yep, its a hula-baloo in government now...musk the monster is firing people from the largest employer in the USA...about time!...i heard that the FBI building is up for sale...how is it that the executive branch of government can eliminate the judicial branch of government?...i guess as long as they keep paying my social security i won't have to go feral and start eating critters from the animal rescue...i have been watching the hog eliminator youtube presentations...way too many feral pigs and not enough folks eating them...and the non-native birds, and the iguanas , and lets not forget the nutria..etc....this country is "determined to be starved before it is hungry"...the best hog cleaning video i watch was "How to clean a wild hog" by Jman Random (40min) he insists the skin must be left on the hog for the best grilling so he burns the hair off with a propane torch,(A. Bourdain would agree)  another good youtube i watched was "Amazing process of making 4 axes from a leaf spring"...if you want to know what "can do" attitude is, this is it...ralph naders latest radio hour came down pretty hard on the honesty (or lack there-of) of the Israeli government...in the title it is inferred that the Palestinians will never give up...that is a suicidal approach to their problem...i was in central america once and was talking to a Finnish woman who had just come from nicaruagua where she talked to the folks there and she said most of them could give a fat rats ass about the form of government since they had been at war for nearly two decades... i just read a great book called "Vietcong Memoir) by Truong Nhu Tang (1985) it is interesting how the upper echelon of any government seems to not care too much what hardships the common folks endure...i am listening to some DVD's about the life of the common folk in ancient times...it was even worse then...the ancient greeks abused about half of the citizens as they were hardly even seen as humans...not very enlightened!

so i typed out "Teatsqueezer" on youtube and there is a colored boy who seems to have been pretty busy using the name and recommending videos...no crime in that...i watched the first one and was not favorably impressed. my observation is that first of all so called "hiphop" has largely lost it's vitality...it is banal and non-creative and emphasizes stupid stuff like bling and sex and drugs, alcohol and toughness...well now that i think about it the country western music seems to have the same things...with some patriotism thrown in sometimes...anyhow. the colored boy who is blowing smoke at the camera and I imagine he had a lot of help in putting together this collection..(possibly government ).i think there are some "black folks" who want to "sample" (steal) all of my "intellectual property"...insofar as i have never made a dime from any of it and except for my characters in my writing i relinquished the copyrite i will be dead and gone soon enough and i don't want to see Styrofoam "Teatsqueezers" in the walmart...i read that "Hello Kitty" makes about 4 billion dollars a year...i don't care for that character at all...miss moo i like however..

well now i have to pee so i will sign off

"Guerrillas win if they don't loose. A standard army loses if it does not win" Henry Kissinger (1968)

"...he bought our house..."

images from the top="someone to watch over me..."...moon rising over yuma this morning...moon rising over yuma this morning some more...liz is the only one looking forward to the 90 degree temps tomorrow...most of the desert looks like this...dry dry dry...broken plate from long ago on the desert floor

 

as can be seen from the photos the sky is not falling...much...mark twain thought a monarchy was the best form of government he had seen,,,and he saw a lot of them...one of the lecturers on history that i have on DVD...(i think is was rufus fears) said that wars could be stopped immediately when two auto-crats were warring but in a democracy the wars just went on and on and on...a good documentary on youtube is "The russian revolution; all power to the soviet" (33min) and also  "The mexican revolution-1910-1920" (25min)...those folks who keep talking up a "revolution" in the usa ain't thinkin' too well..."so you say you want a revolution, you know we all want to see the plan..." j.lennon...i have been watching all the stuff on the internet (youtube) by "The secret six"jazz band posted mostly by the new orleans jazz museum...the japanese woman trombone player is loving life (and makes me love life too!) can you guess what the secret is?..."Froggie Moore rag" is one of my favorites...

 

"he bought our house on the G.I. bill but it wasn't worth all he had to kill to get it..."david allen coe

 

"In a democracy such as ours..."

 descriptions of images in order from top to bottom...i am kneeling down and i see specks on the sand ...them i pick one of the specks up and determine that it is pretty hard...then i see more specks near by and pinch the top and realize that it is hollow beneath...and under the specks is like a piece of felt...compressed web i believe...this hole picture is a return to get a close-up with a different lens...the webbing is more noticeable...the next two images are un-identified objects in the sky which i presume are a launch if some company's rocket...there were smaller flair-ups which might have been parts of the rocket being jettison...the last image is the specks after soaking in water over night...

well hells-a-poppin in government now...bill gates who is a pretty straight shooter said he though government was about 10% to 15% too big also...i dont want to be a MUSKOVITE necessarily but musk does not not need a vote or a dollar and not many people can say that... i highly recommend that you listen to thoreau's "Civil Disobedience" and "Life without Principal"...i think he would have approved of the current approach to government reduction...i read where there has been about a $260 billion dollar overpay by the federal government....that's a lot of school lunches! and the 60 million dollar snatch back from FEMA for housing "asylum seekers" in NEW YORK city is music to my ears...what the hell kind of a person goes to russia with cannabis anyhow...mr fogel has pretty bad risk to reward  judgment....i watched some pretty good science presentations on youtube this week such as "10 minute neuro-science; visual pathways" and also "synaptic pruning" by alila medical...there was a good interview called "Neil Young talks about how media divides the USA"...also "What if all the worlds biggest problems have the same solution"(24 min)

"In a democracy such as ours military policy is dependent on public opinion" G.C Marshall (1943)

"Th future of humanity..."

$3.50 ECCO YAK shoes from my savil row tailor Paul de St. Vincent

never seen this size hole before

sun rose about 5 minutes after 7 this morning

view to the west with sand dunes and mountains

saw three of these birds on the lawn at laundryvill last week...nice looking birds

lots of news this week...i guess the commander in chief really likes multi-tasking....i am keeping a backpack packed and ready just in case the poop hits the fan... watched a very good youtube presentation by PETE BEINART on DEMOCRACY NOW entitled  "Being Jewish after the destruction of Gaza"...he brings in a lot of historical context and is probably not antisemitic...probably...someone said something about the Palestinians being sub-human...i think that many of them are feral...too long away from a civilized community...i was listening to a woman who wrote a book about ending the war in Ukraine which made me think of this song by Johnny Cash called "GOD BLESS ROBERT E. LEE" dont judge it until you hear it...i read the rolling stone with the interview with kid rock which was interesting...i dont have any of his music but i saw him in a willie nelson dvd with jerry lee lewis...mr lewis was very appreciative of mr rocks support...i think there was an advertisement for some shoes with a mr. s. dogg being the supporter of this brand...therefore i though it was a good idea to give an alternative option (and i don't mean to be braggadocios) but i bought 3 pairs of shoes for about ten bucks total which are very comfortable and sturdy...i keep getting an ad online to 'shop like a millionaire" TEMU...is that stupid or what!...shop around...buy used!...i watched an episode of "Nero Wolfe"  last night which indicates the time period is WW two not the 1950's...i think this current administration of the federal government will prompt the use of deep-seek of some other AI source to run most of government...

"The future of humanity depends on how many people achieve individuation"   Carl Jung
 

"Meet the first..."

 this beautiful bird walked up and stayed around for several minutes...i had no lizards to offer
 

 this is a piece of quartz...the gold miner types have pretty much smashed all the quartz above ground 

  i sit here looking at mr c. patel seek to convince congress that he can head up the federal bureau of investigation after listening to the commander in chief say he will only accept GENIUSES!!! on the federal payroll...we are in a world of hurt....crazy is the new normal perhaps...

i  have been watching a couple of good serial dramas on DVD..."Criminal Minds" is a pretty good crime show...but kind of depressing...these folks are a behavioral analysis unit...i think people are getting crazier by the minute...and no relief in sight...the other series is "Nero Wolfe" which is quite good and there are no unwashed people and everyone is dressed very well and the cars look great...i think this takes place in the 1950"s in the USA...i will say that every beautiful woman ends up dead...but always while the viewer is away...

i came across some great tunes on youtube..."It ain't my mama's broken heart" is a great video by a ms lambert i think and the never controversial ms nikki lane has a great video in which she sings and plays a beautiful guitar on her "Good Enough" video...never controversial...OK...also a great youtube musical presentation is Big Joe Williams "She left me a mule to ride"..great blues

i heard something about llamas as therapy animals...i worked around about 75 llamas everyday and i can recommend them for people who are too damned confident as they can be depended on to spit in your face for no apparent treason at every opportunity...now that's tough love!

"Meet the first beginnings; look to the budding mischief before it has time to ripen to maturity."   Shakespeare

 

"I paint things..."

burro banana from local mexican store...looks too old?

when peeled they are like custard!...very tasty

this hawk was trying to carry a whole dead dove

                 these planes are increasingly flying over....waiting for the word to fly to greenland !

lots of wind this week...and sand...and sun...no beach at all...but i found a fossil this morning one of only 3 i have found...looks like a marine organism...so beach was here only a few hundred million years ago...

woke up about 3 in the morning on monday just in time to projectile vomit about five gallons of sick out the back of the truck...and some more an hour later...bad food?...probably a touch of the flu since i had been feeling feverish for a few days...could barely stand up all day...missed all the inauguration...felt so bad about that...NOT!...well no world wars started yet anyhow...i did manage to watch some very good YouTube however...such as

"The Myth of David's Kingdom"...2 hours long and the presentation is well delivered...this academic talks about "criterion of embarrassment"...i had my book of historical maps in my lap which indicates that a country called "PHILISTIA" has surrounded a city called GAZA for longer than Judea or Israel existed...which gives the lie to the Biblical justification for Israel to exist as the big dog on the block....however as we remember from the lecture on HYPER-AGGRESSION humiliations probably precipitated the savagery of both Hamas and the Israeli defense forces...they are historically damaged people...and have a few thousand years of bad vibes...better them than me 

i watched mr musks "hand gestures"...which i believe are natural reactions for the occasion...i have seen monkeys and little children make the same gestures...normal...

the number of very wealthy trump supporters is not hardly an oligarchy...its just rich friends...all of these people contributed to national and international well being...get over it...musks contribution is much more than being THE RICHEST PERSON IN THE WORLD...I am sure he gets tired of that term...

it may be time to reevaluate the presidential pardon powers...for the executive branch to override the judicial branch seems like a mis-use of power 

i changed my mind about "Rolling Stone" magazine as i picked up a couple at the thrift and read some good articles...but still too much GLAMOR...it is not to my taste but some folks love it 

saw a good video called " BALTHVS OJOS VERDES"...very tight

"I paint things as they are. I don't comment. I record" Henri de Toulouse Lautrec

  

 

"Since the house is on fire..."

 images in order are top desert in town before "development" then view at dawn this morning from hotel door and lastly view across the street from first image desert after bulldozers prepare site for "development"...desert environments must be preserved more vigorously...

i am watching members of the congress interview gov. kristi noem for the position of secretary of homeland security...it occurs to me that many of these people have spent most of their lives getting  elected....this makes for a dearth of practical experience in activities which might allow them to better understand how to deal with practical problems....many of these people certainly hate everything about the previous administrations attempts to govern this country...well i have little hope that the next administration will have any better achievement record...

on a happier note i would like to recommend some music....which along with cuddle buddies helps me to stay positive..."Norah Jones and Mickey Raphael performing "Night Life" is good and Mickey Raphael with Jason Isbel performing "Pancho and Lefty" with Raphael on accordion

also there is a good youtube site from Nautilus research vessel and animalogic has a good segment on oarfish and stephen axford fantastic fungi time lapse is interesting...

"Since the house is on fire, let us warm ourselves.: Italian proverb