"Of all the cants..."

"...wider exposure..."

the images are the san fransisco peaks...the tallest in arizona and the other image is of me with my new (used) tripod...when i got it to the truck i realized it only has two legs...but it was on SALE!...HALF PRICE!...now i have 4 tripods, one bi-pod and two mono-pods...thats enough probably... last day in the room with a microwave and a refridgerator...no rain or snow predicted this week and warmer temperatures...got to watch a lot of C-Span and i must say my opinion of humanity did not become greater...perhaps even less...i watched a legislator named senator cotton bad-mouth "china" (the country not the dinerware) with a steady stream of accusations which sounded like the middle eastern radicals bad-mouthing the USA...first of all china has 1.3 billion people and they do not all look, think or act the same any more than the americans do the government of china does a lot to promote their own interest just like the american government does...i do not know how you can call a country with the number of billionaire capitalists they have truley communist...anyhow when i watched "little chinese everywhere today i did not see any rabid american haters...i found in my notes this information USA has 2.2 million people incarcerated or 690 out of every 100,000 citizens...china has 1.5 million incarcerated...russia has 440 citizens out of 100,000 incarcerated...damn! i think i have enemies that wish me ill...perhaps the "ROSKOMMADZOR" are the ones who mess with my blog...and me...i get stalked everywhere and now my arthritic shoulder has been targeted by being hit when someone walks by me...assault is what it is... i read that there are optical lattice clocks that are accurate to within one tenth of a second over the age of the universe...my watch is off by about 15 seconds...good enough... I picked up a DVD called "KAWEH" which is a group of excellent musicians playing international music i really like some of the documentaies i have picked up at the thrift stores etc...i finally took the time to figure out how to post videos on youtube and posted "2 TEXAS COWPUNCHER"...which is an excellent documentary about working cowboys (cowpunchers)...the best line in the documentary is..."I'm not punchy enough"...look for it... "...wider exposure gives you a keener sense that there is a war going on and you have to choose a side...which is "battlefield mentality"... if you take an even wider view you realize that you are an earthling and you do not have to choose a side!

"The nomads..."

I just finished watching the american national high school womens basketball championship...i rarely watch sports but this contest had none of the taint of money that so much of sports has...these women were expert level players and after one overtime IMG (i don't know what that stands for) outscored the other team by two points...i was going to say they beat the other team but it was a contest from begining to end...not just intertaining but engaging...probably builds character for the playes too The handsome lad in the photograph is a young Bix Beiderbecke renowned trumpet player and pretty good piano player also...he died at the age of 31 years...there is an extremely good interview called "louis Armstrong remembers Bix Beiderbecke" where armstrong is asked what killed his good friend Bix...and mr armstrong tells it without backing off...his friends killed Bix...a must hear for anyone who wants not to be a victim of "friends"... i read a good description of american consumer habits which recounted how J.C. Penny the department store decided to quit having sales and just lower prices and they dropped 4 billion dollars in sales and their stock share price dropped by half...the observation was that the psychological effect of taking advantage of a "SALE" is so powerful with shoppers that it is drives actions in a fundimental way...i have fallen victim to a lot of sales in my life and might be motivated by a few more by the way bird flu is why the price of eggs went way up...not political decisions...there is a lot of half truths and lies being bandied about these days...i heard one financial pundit call the drop in stock prices "a nasty correction"...yep it is that too... but there is still some desire for "quality" (snootyness) in some places...i saw an interview with a representative of NYC Innovates which has these health spas where you can join for $750 to $4500 per month and purchase a bottle of "Amazon water" $150...they condense the water from the air...sounds snooty to me...this spa says it helps to build better human relationships...snooty people like to hang with other snooty people and try to out-snoot one another...they should adopt a dog i highly recommend a listen to Steven West the philosphy sherpa who has posted some good presentations recently...Canus was a clear eyed "artist"(and a philosopher too) i watched the movie "Color out of Space" which is a science fiction/horror movie based on an H.P. Lovecraft story filmed in 2019 i would say staring Nicolas Cage but all the actors did remakable work and the three kids did exceptionaly well...tommy chong did a good "stoner in a cabin" act and it does not end well...not for those with a weak stomach... i also really liked "Just a dream on my mind" by the secret six jazz band...excellent vocals by the banjo player...i think the trumpet player my have taken a page from the Bix playbook as he looks wasted...but plays very well despite it... "The nomads tribal structures provided no central authority to destroy or negotiate with, and they had no cities, cities that could be taken nor crops to be burned" from "Historical Atlas of the Ancient World"

"The bitterness of the potion..."

steady!...STEADY!

different play different players...or cactus

nice gray moth hidden on gray plastic truck door

grave for MINDY...

my loudmouth nosey neighbor who arrived an hour after me...license plate had been obscured

 whoa buddy...stock market stampedes many trampled...hopefully less plastic Chinese products sold in the dollar stores...as mr musk already said... "success is uncertain but entertainment is guaranteed..."   billions of dollars being made by short sellers on the stock market...some of the economic coelacanths might wake up and evolve for the 21st century...

as for my own evolution since not trimming my beard beginning last july when i turned 70 years of age  i am daily surprised by my "presentation of self in everyday life"...i began looking like a manson family reject but then evolved into more of a walt whitman beard "whitmanesque" you might say...not full ZZ however...i must remember to keep it brushed and inspected for debris,,,but it is like having a new pet...just another responsibility...and i get to hear a lot judgment about my missing teeth but i can assure you that is well worth it considering how much pain a bad tooth can cause...still have the "rustic living in a truck" look... 

i read about a 2016 study by alan kruege of princeton who found that nearly half of working men between the age of 25-54 in the labor force use pain killers daily...damn!...also a specialist in "CUTE STUDIES" at Tokyo university found that looking at cute things can reduce stress and improve mood...which i guess is an antidote to "gloom scrolling"...

"The bitterness of the potion, and the abhorrence of the patient are necessary circumstances to the operation. It must be something to trouble and disturb the stomach that must purge and cure it." M. Montaigne

 
 

"Method and dispatch"

 

this fellow stayed around for quite a few days...he had long white hair and a white beard!

since mr musk is always being described as "the richest man in the world"...i thought i would display my yearly income..i don't mean to be braggadocios but this is probably why i get so much attention from the constabulary...my wealth and social standing....right!

the snow is starting to stick now so i just went out to sweep the snow off the truck...and absorb the reality that i ain't in the desert any more...or i would be dead...dead...dead...i have lots of warm clothes and new truck tires and i bought 10 tv diners for ten  bucks yesterday and i have eaten 7 of them already...this should bolster my resistance to the cold...always thinking about survival and at 70 years of age the parameters have changed...i be an old guy now...

so i heard that a mr. booker talked in the legislature for 25 hours..."a triumph of triviality"...i think that the way this country is run should be dragged into the 21st century...like presenting all information to all members of government 24 hours or more before being added to the public record...and anyone who feels the need to stand their butt up in front of their co-workers should have to wear a shock collar and if they start spewing lies they will get zapped...eventually this Skinner approach to government would make government more efficient...or else...

it is a great temptation to criticize the trump/musk coalition but when all is said and done the reality is personnel  are usually the most expensive part of any business and to cut costs personnel need to be reduced...do the math...

so "little Chinese everywhere"  broke her foot (i think her husband is too heavy to ride double on those small scooters) and true to her brave and determined nature she kept the camera rolling even in the hospital...what a tough lady!...still a great episode however no drones in the hospital...

ever heard of "cheddar man"? according to a youtube presentation this was a blue-eyed black man whose remains were found in europe and they figure there were no white people until 9 thousand years ago at the soonest...interesting what they can determine from DNA these days...

a watched an interesting DVD called "Attack of the Killer Leeches" a horror classic!...also i watched "10 violent women" (1979) 97 minutes directed by Ted V. Mikels...i watched it with mr. Mikels commentary which helped to endure the...well anyhow i counted several times and never seemed to find ten women violent or otherwise...

i recommend Herbie Hancock's youtube presentation as he is undoubtedly one of the most talented musicians in the last 50 years...and he just got another award at the age of 84...

there is a or i should say there was a rapper named "Nitric Acid" who was executed by the military junta in Burma for criticizing the government...people that put their life on the line to express their opposition are more intense than the folks who rap about bling and puss...

i heard General R. Honore' explain "operational security" on Talk Louisiana recently...its worth listening to...

"Method and dispatch govern the world. Method goes far to prevent trouble in business; for it makes the task easy, hinders confusion, saves abundance of time, and instructs those who have business depending what to do and what to hope."  Penn 

"I'm your huckleberry"  thanks val!

"To-day is not yesterday..."

 

                                                uncommon blossom on a common cactus

head of unidentified horned lizard

                                         horned lizard waiting for an ant

miles and miles away at the mesa site

rear of unidentified horned lizard

                                             middle portion of uidentified horned lizard

                                              rabbits reduced to eating cactus even in the mesa

well i could not find my blog when i typed in bootlegcircus.com and the helpful librarian said i could type in "bootlegcircus. blogspot.com" and so it works ....i don't mean to "give myself airs above my station" but i am going to try to get my readership up to 15 people...but i need a dramatic hook...i read that some folks have claimed to be abducted by a space alien and "probed" whatever that means...so my story is this..."all i remember is being tossed out of this alien craft (which looked very like an AMC Matador...which is a butt ugly car) and there was a guy driving it who was blue and he was laughing and he said in plain english with a southern accent..."i did not have sexual relations with that woman"

that's my story and i am sticking with it... 

i don't want to be the turd in the punch-bowl but as i research the zoonotic diseases (6 of 10 infectious diseases are zoonotic) i cannot help but think that perhaps "cuddle buddies" might want to put a warning about this very real problem...and see toxoplasmosis warnings 

i have been listening to the only radio station in this mesa area which is run by the local native tribe so i have gotten a lot of native news and view-points...the word "colonizer" is used a lot...and not in a complimentary way...the truth of the matter is that one tribe pushed another tribe from their "ancestorial" lands from the very beginning...i read that there were 150 million natives here when the white folk arrived and 90% of them had died from diseases within 50 years

so i watched a series called "West World" season 2...one of the actors called it "the Olympics for actors" well wasn't no walk in the park for the viewers either...it was like watching three dimensional chess with the 4th dimension of time thrown in...damn...never did figure out who was human and who was semi-human and who was the good folks and who was the bad folks...damn...the ladies seemed to prefer a long barreled large bore six shooter hand gun to do their slaughtering with...damn...dead folks everywhere...Bernard seemed to be heavily medicated with something to make him drowsy all the time...some of these people/robots (hosts) such as Delores you were kind of rooting for them hear that she has been re-cooked many times...millions of times for some of these host/creatures...it kind of got tedious after a while...is there a season 3?...is this how Artificial Intelligence will ruin the human race?

so politics seems to be rearing it's ugly head everywhere...i suspect that the president of the USA has a case of PYROLAGNIA...for which there is no cure...and i am sure that P. Hegseth practices AMBELOPULIA...these things happen...neither condition impeachable offenses...

"Today is not yesterday.-We ourselves change.- How then can our words and thoughts, if they are always to be fittest, continue always the same- Change indeed is painful, yet ever needful; and if memory have its force and worth, so also does hope."   Carlyle

"Neither snow nor rain..."

                                          orlando in the desert

                                                my 3 dollar therapy instrument

                                              looks like a good place for an airy b and b

 watching the farm report this morning...cattle doubled in price in the last two years...hogs down in price...good to know...while trans people are all over the news trans-portation should be getting a lot more attention...in La Paz Bolivia they built a cable car which allowed people to cut their commuter times by 80% and  commerce is much greater...they do not have to drive around the crowded mountain roads...why in the hell is there virtually no attention paid to mass transit in this country...also i see where a cargo ship ran into a fuel tanker THAT WAS NOT EVEN MOVING! i have spent some hours in a ships wheelhouse and i cannot even imagine an entire crew ignoring a fuel tanker in their course...the captain of the cargo ship was russian the fuel was headed to the american military...go figure...the ruined environment is english...damn

!...got a great business idea...gonna make a fortune...going to call it "AIRY B AND B'...i'm going to rent people a sleeping bag and feed them oatmeal for breakfast in the desert...this is going to be BIG BIG BIG!...already have a sleeping bag and oatmeal so i need very little start-up capital...water will be extra...and it ain't gonna be cheap....

so i have been thinking about law enforcement in this border area (mexican border) first of all the difficulty of enforcing the law in a place where 10's of thousands of people come to escape the winter weather where they are from and being on the border...it is a made to order crime scene...so the incidence of people moving contraband north is probably much greater than any other place in this country...or most countries...AND! now there are powerful and violent "CARTELS" that seek to control as much of the border areas as possible...if that were not enough there are at least 4 US special forces trained former military working for the cartels...the body count is rising...a while back i heard a report about the number of military veterans who joined the border patrol only to resign within a year or so,,,i suspect that a lot of those people just got the lay of the land and then went off to join the smugglers...one of the more detailed youtube presentations is "Sicario Warfare" by Ironclad...very depressing...also CJNG is a criminal organization run by young man named Nemesio Ruben Osequrea Cervantes or El Mencho...there is a 15 million dollar price on his head in chicago alone!...

on a happier note i found a great musical talent named Muireann Bradley who plays guitar (very well) and sings (very well)...

one of my history DVDs talks about the "Royal Road" of Cyrus the Great who built this road from one side of his kingdom to the other...they had a sort of pony express that had 110 stations and they could get from one side to the other in 6 days...now that's good transportation planning... the historian Herodotus described the official couriers..."Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds." sound familiar? it was adopted in 1912 by the james a farley post office in new york...