as the morning weather indicates that high temperatures will reach 114 degrees south of here which is deadly to most mammals...heat exposure kills more people than floods, tornadoes and hurricanes combined...yesterday the air conditioning broke in the airport down south and the inside temperature went into the 80's quickly....when (not if) all of the electricity fails the death toll will be in the many thousands of people..i recently heard someone say that people can survive the heat better than the cold....that is wrong....i have slept in the van when it got down to 14 degrees below zero...clothing is plentiful and cheap...and effective in keeping the body temperature high enough to be survivable and comfortable...if the person is healthy...the old, the young, and the infirm will be the first to perish...i have spent the last 3 days and nights in a motel room to enjoy what conveniences are available...but today being my 71st birthday i will return to the forest to enjoy what nature can provide to the soul...i have viewed mostly music on youtube in the last three days....some of the more enjoyable presentations are..."War Pigs" with 6 year old Marco Hashemi on lead guitar...(screw ozzie hasbeeen!)...i would like to say that i have always sought to understand the popularity of frank zappa (died from prostate cancer) i agree with eric claptons view that his music is mostly un-listenable...zappa got a award (grammy?) for "Jazz From Hell" so I took the time to listen to the title track...which is equally un-listenable...in my view a tune like "Blackbird" or "Here comes the sun" is far more aesthetically pleasing than zappas pretentious drivel...Amanda Ventura has "The way" harmonica blues solo which is good and Ava Renn "Fortunate Son" (one of my favorite CCR tunes) is good, an entertaining presentation by Hillbilly Moon explosion "Johnny are you Gay?" is funny...The Cleverlys have several presentations of well known tunes in a bluegrass style... "Walk like an Egyptian" is good...Mike Nesmith got the first Grammy ever awarded for a video with his "Elephant Parts"...the drunks sitting at the bar scene is tragic more than funny however...one of the recent innovations on youtube is police body camera presentations...it is obvious that the marksmanship of most of these officers of the law is not very good...i picked up the entire third season of "Hill street blues" on DVD recently and the cops appear to be using 38 caliber handguns...I also picked up all six seasons of "the sopranos" for five bucks yesterday...i subscribed to Caolan Robertson "inside russia" who seems to think russia is on the skids...on a humorous note i found Drew Dunn comedy "Positive Stuff" (31 min} to be funny...
"Brains are evenly distributed but opportunity is not"...Betul Kacar .