"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...

"In the boundless panorama..."

rock found in the desert...tool?...

praying mantis found in the desert...2 inches long

coyote appears to be on it's last leg...but they are pretty tough

large hole next to a rock...who decided this location?

this creosote bush was in bloom even after a severe lack of rain...these plants are tough too

rained in the desert yesterday...but not much...cloudy today in town and some rain...not too much...big news from the government...as usual...4500 transgender humans fired from the military...according to the internet there are 1.6 million humans who identify as transgender in the USA or 0.6% of the population...the city of washington .d.c is removing the "black lives matter" verbiage from the street...i found a DVD called "Bomb It-street art is revolution" about so called graffiti artist...it was very exciting...i see where the entire documentary is available on the youtube...yea!...they might hire leon keer from the netherlands who does amazing "anamorphic" art...i was amazed at the trump/zilinsky meeting and the thug who asked zilinsky why he did not wear a neck tie...they never ask e.musk that!...i found "Where did neck ties come from" by ben bowlin of "brainstuff" (3 min.) i heard on the radio that on march 9th 1945 the USA military firebombed japan and killed over 100,000 people...the most deadly bombing raid of the war...i have been watching "Criminal Minds" on my DVD's and was confronted by a moral/ethical decision when one of the FBI agents named Elle confronted a fellow who was suspected of half a dozens rapes and more but was not held in custody so Elle followed him and pretty much caught him preparing to commit another rape...she put 3 bullets in his chest and rather than be subjected to intense interrogation quit her job...so the question is "was she wrong"...dead people are in the news a lot lately old gene hackman was just too damned old...his wife however died from hunta virus which is usually transmitted from mice poop dust in the air and kills in less than 48 hours...i listend to an interview with sister helen prejean who advocates for death row inmates in louisiana i was amazed to learn that when a person is executed in the prison a death certificate must be filled out and under "cause of death" they must put "homicide"...

some good youtube i watched was "little chinese everywhere" "china's steepest mountain" she and her baobao flo do a lot of hiking and as usual the drone footage is great...speaking of drones "The killer ground drones hunting russians in ukrain" (21 min) is pretty damned scary...as they kept saying...this is not war in the future...it is war today...i don't want to see dead russians any more than dead ukrainians..

.I really liked "london cafe blues" by the secret six... mellifluous! 

"In the boundless panorama of the existing and visible universe, whatever shapes appear, whatever consciousness cognize, all are the play of manifestation of the Tri-Kaya the three-fold principle of the cause of all causes, the Primordial Trinity. Impenetrating  all, is the All Pervading Essence of Spirit, which is Mind. It is uncreated, impersonal, self-existing, immaterial, and indestructible.                                                                                                                        Lama Kazi Dawa-Samdup  

 

"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