"Work hard for life..."

                                       some days you're in the mud

                     fall fuzz and flowers time

not everything was positive this week, or last week or for ever now that i think about it...i read a thought provoking bit of information last week on a site that posts "everything elon musk posted on twitter" today...this site "Jacob and Isacc" divides the tweets into several categories...on 9/1/26 there was a head turning post by "Brivael Le Pogan" which was a somewhat lengthy but lucid post about how the character of the state/nation/globe is being changed by forces from the inside...amazingly enough this post recounts how none other than senator joseph r mccarthy exposed how what he called "communists" had infiltrated all of government. well he was not scrupulous in his investigations and was called out on his rampant (rabid) denunciations of many publicly elected officials and employees. but neither was he wrong...however they killed the messenger and the infiltration has continued...i can say without fear of contradiction that employees of the libraries are hand picked and also the post-offices...if i was going to run for office i would try to find a more secure way to gather votes than by mail...

i read a very good article in the 12/1/25 New Yorker magazine entitled "The Big Ice is Sick' by ben taub with photos by ragnar axelsson...great photographer...very depressing information from greenland..."greenland is the largest island in the world. it is three times the size of texas. there are less than 57 thousand people living there"...this story is mainly about the people who hunt polar bears and how there are now not many polar bears to hunt....and the ones that are there are so imbued with toxins that it was determined that no more than ten grams of polar bear meat per week would be safe to consume...about the size of a grape!...serious bummer!...so anyhow, in a place that has such a low human population density you would think the environment would be pristine...so what this illustrates to me is that humans live on a globe and all parts of the globe are connected...for better or for worse...can't catch a ride with elon as his spots are all spoken for...might as well tough it out here...on a little more up-beat note i watched "Deep-Sea biodiversity on Mcdonnel seamount" from "nautilus live" (6min)...this few thousand meter dive shows how much life there is in the sea...hats off to these researchers...i did see a video a while back of a plastic garbage bag in the deepest trench in any ocean...serious bummer!...i found a very good video which illustrates what happened in nepal "What really happened during the 2026 nepal disaster" @anton petrov...mr petrov has used some great footage of the flood/slide event and points out that the higher air temperatures caused the ice to weaken and the rocks and ice slide in great volume down 50 or 60 miles of canyons and ravine at speeds exceeding a hundred miles per hour...he also studied the status of similar terrain and presents at least four places where similar disasters might occur...so don't go in the mountains, don't go near the volcanos, don't go by the ocean and the forests might burn up also...hello elon got a spare chair?!...anyhow the big news in europe is that the AfD political party in germany won an election...this means they get a sayso in government..."Will AfD take over germany?"@ UnHerd (36min) is a well presented and informative account of who and what AfD is...when all was said and done these pundits said what this party wants is to stop immigration...well that view has been around for at least 4 or 5 million years...those hunter gatherers got a lot of heat from those lifestock people...and here we are 4 or 5 million years later and 7 and a half billion more people and it must be addressed...less resources and more people can't be a good thing...lets not think about it...i dragged up some older interviews from "Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr." and thought that his interview with milton friedman was good as well as his interview with Madlyn Mura Ohare (atheist) and the Warren report interview was eye opening and i thought his interview with Hugh Hefner was good but best if only listened to because hugh is a strange looking guy...and i came across some good music in Pomplamoose "oh pretty woman" with the rainbow girls singing...what do you call that....ooooh, waaaa. etc....and there is a steller performance on the ball-point pen which should be noted...and Jazz Mexicano 1 hora de jazz @jazz world essentials is very nice...and i was very enthusiastic about Lukas Nelsons presentation of a tune/philosophy entitled "Dont loose your mind" (6:48) @ mr johnherring

"Work hard for life, dont act like you deserve it, though you know it to be true, the world can end on you."  Lukas Nelson lyrics from "Don't loose you mind"
 
                      

"...take the leap..."

                                             a good protein 
 

                                        rocks lining a path to a large fire ring

well the new old phone has been hacked so i get a lot of warnings about needing a new PDF reader and such as that...if you are not aware of how many and how determined hackers are watch this interview from "soft white underbelly" with "Steve Sims"...and if this makes you feel defeated...""The idea of progress is a dangerous lie" @institute of art and ideas with John Gray...on a more positive note Cobbler G rebuilds a pair of 1978 wedding shoes and also his rebuild of a pair of redwing boots is good...Ms "girl with the dogs" has a couple of recent presentations which are good...she obviously uses her grooming skills on herself in her presentation about her oldest fur family member and she has a compasionate groom of a rescue dog which had matting so severe that it lost a foot..."The revenge trap" is good advice from "Taboo education"(11min)..."What happens when you compress water to its absolute limits" @grandpa walter...this scientific view reveals how much of the physical world remains to be understood..."The lost sisterhood of Gnosis-Barbelo, Sophia and Norea"@"labyrinth of the veiled" just when you thought you had it figured out...and "Hobbits weren't as capable as we thought" @gutsickgibbon (48min) this very knowledgable scientist says that the remains of the floreinsis people indicate they were probably scavengers of the kills made by komono dragons and not very advanced as was once thought...there is a very good interview on "soft white underbelly" with david "nino" rodriguez the most dangerous puncher"...this bad ass wins 32 fights then looses his focus then realizes his heart is not in the game anymore...(an hour and five minutes) worth a listen...

"...take the leap of faith and the net will appear..." David Rodriguez 

"Once you start playing..."

                                           elk cows with cattle in the background

 

                                     six or seven pronghorn 

                                   

                                      lots of lobster mushrooms now pushing above the pine needles

as i sit here watching folks talk about gloria steinem and her life i realize i was alive and well when women in this country became increasingly vocal about equality for women... i keep hearing some static about how "feminism" is destroying society or some such guff..."What ancient DNA revealed about Sumerian women" @asian ancestry (25min) is a scientific view of the reality of womens lives in this era....and!..."Why Neanderthal men kept mating with human women (Homo sapians) and not the other way around"@Epochra (15 min)..."The secret history of big tech" @Anna Bocca (1hour and 40 minutes) this is a very well researched "history" of the evolution of computers from about 1940 till recently...it is disconcerting that several people who were formative in the development of modern computation were/are rather "totalitarian" in their world view...and very wealthy i might add..."Itchy Boots is in china now and still overcoming setbacks...she had mechanical difficulties but had a spare fuel filter which corrected the problem...then she had a very informative visit to "Unit 731" which is what remains of a "medical" facility run by the japanese during WW2...lots of evil goings on...i came across "Adrianna@adrianna-rust ridge ranch...this woman lost her job as a "machinist" (my grandfather was a machinist) so she spends her time with her "main squeeze" (Mr. Matt) doing things around the property...she has an affection for older machinery so she does a lot of repair work...she recently baled hay on her own property for the first time...not very good horse hay but cattle might eat it...she is off to Arkansas to the "National chuck wagon race" this weekend...(a while back there were several deaths at the chuck wagon races in Calgary Canada...it ain't no joke!)...Ashley Cooke has another good tune in "If i'm being honest"(about 3 minutes...watch the one with lyrics)

"Once you start playing golf, you've given up" Aella-girl  

 

"When the violence.."

                                           glass on wood in the forest

                       rusted metal ice-box door with pine needles

                        

                           brain food?

                        

                             multi-family dwelling?

ok lets get down to brass tacks...so to speak...mr musk was filmed down on the louisiana coast with the governor of the state announcing that he was going to build a very large space rocket launch pad...several launch pads actually...i have spent a fair amount of time in that part of the world...mostly getting on oil supply boats or getting off oil supply boats or loading oil supply boats...i imagine that in the future 200 mile per hour winds are a possibility from hurricanes in that exact spot...they might go over to Cameron and ask to see some before and after pictures of that city (they always rebuild)...the storm surge might be more than 20 feet and salt water...i would start (like yesterday) to plant bamboo...lots and lots of bamboo, to block some of the wind and water..."All about bamboo with Lee" @Heathanddome is a wealth of information from a guy that grows bamboo north of new orleans...the best informed site i have seen about SpaceX is @"what about it" this guy studies all things spacex and puts it in an understandable format...i am a "TELLURIAN" by choice and inclination so i am mostly interested in what benefits i can derive from staying on earth and using other peoples inventions...such as communications...i daily look at the offerings from Sabine Hossenfelder and "Scientist discovers a new type of matter" (8min) and also Anton Petrov has very good stuff such as "AI created viruses that don't exist in nature" (14min) @ whatdamath... there is also a presentation that says it was ripe fruit and honey in the diets of early (very early) hominins that caused their brains to grow...this contradicts the cooked meat and fat theory that says these foods in the diet made the brain grow...i know from experience that there is a lot more meat than honey in the world and fruit is very seasonal..."Nicht Wahr?"...well i need to recommend some music before i close this communication...Rita Paye's tiny desk concert is quite good...

"WHEN THE VIOLENCE CAUSES SILENCE WE MUST BE MISTAKEN..." from "Zombie" by the "cranberries"(l listen to this song every day...it creates a rise in my blood pressure... 

  

"I also dreamed...."

                                                  new meditation tool

                   the vandals got the handles 

i need to get/give the full dose of blog therapy...it might get messy...as i went out to my truck last night to look for "whatever" i noticed a bunch of lights in the parking lot...they were multi colored and seemed to be sort of "official" looking...perhaps the local constabulary?...suddenly a voice rings out..."there is the pedophile"...all right! instant identification...some flavor of law...why would these third world, second rate, half assed cops subject me to constant harassment!...well it is part of the deal they have made...pay to play...i need to rewind to the way back machine...a couple of years ago when i would visit a local used goods shop i noticed a picture on the wall next to the cash register...it was priced at more than a thousand bucks but less than two thousand bucks...not to my taste but a very distinctive style...i was perusing a magazine called "western art" i think and saw a page of very similar art...i took the magazine and showed the woman behind the counter the magazine and left it with her and she contacted the folks in the magazine and sent them an image of the picture on the wall and they said it was the long lost companion or the pictures they had and they paid her $85 thousand bucks for the picture...good score!...fast forward to last year and as i was in the same used stuff store i saw a large box maybe 5 feet by five feet by two feet tall with hundreds of pairs of shoes and i saw a Nike shoe which i did not think much about but later i saw the match to it...i fished this pair of shoes out and sat down and tried one on...oldish looking in style but it occurred to me that these were unique shoes...(sometimes i remember things that have not happened yet and it came to me that these shoe were very very collectible)...i carried them a few yards away into the office and there were a couple of black women who were trying to sell two lamps with what they said were Tiffany glass shades...i sat the shoes next to the counter and asked the young woman behind the counter if she had ever seen any shoes like this...she said no she had not...i said neither had i...i left the shoes with her and i could hear the black ladies trying to buy the shoes but she insisted that those were my shoes...she apparently took my look as indicating that those shoes were valuable...and indeed they were! she sold them for (wait for it!) two million bucks!...now every time i went to this store this young woman would come out from the back of the office with an intense meditative look...it turns out that she was praying that i would bring her something like the $85 thousand dollar picture...and so it happened...whether or not she told the owner of the used stuff store that she had shoes which she sold for two million bucks i do not know...however every one of the half dozen women who worked the cash register quit and the story i heard (endless stories) was that they split the money from the shoe sell and celebrated like it was 1999...my cut was exactly zero! and these felonious females also enlisted the coalition of corrupted cops to protect them...which became a campaign of constant harassment for me...now any allusion to my being a person of philosophic bent went right out the window as i would dwell on what it might be like to have a couple of million bucks...i do not understand the mentality of a woman who would think that i could bring her two million bucks (i heard that those shoes eventually sold for 11 million bucks...or maybe i dreamed it) but did not think any karma attached to her actions, anyhow, i do believe in karma or the wheel of the law...cannot be escaped...this incident led me to believe that the only thing worth "collecting" is ideas...i heard that these newly rich girls bought sex and travel and generally invested the money in things that could not be traced...anyhow i heard several years ago that this business was owned by a mafiosi guy...i would not want to be hiding from a fellow who takes his money very seriously...anyhow i have seen some of the party girls and they have changed their look (but not their worldview)...yesterday i was told that the girl who sold the shoes was considered a "hero" because i was left out of the monetary gain of my find...i do not want to trade places with any of those folks...

"I also dreamed that i might gather the wild herbs, or carry evergreens to such villages as loved to be reminded of the woods, even to the city,  by the hay cart loads. But I have since learned that trade curses everything it handles; and though you trade in messages from heaven, the whole curse of of trade attaches to the business" from Walden by H.D.Thoreau
 

"The sky continues beautiful..."

                                      sunset from a couple of days ago...

a very kind and generous person from tennesee went to the big choir in the sky recently...great song writer and lovely vocalist...i feel compelled to make a statement about Madona the entertainer who has recently resurfaced in "popular places"...whatever anyone thinks of her conduct today, in her prime this woman was a force to be reckoned with...it is only in the last few years that i picked up her early music videos and she was certainly one of the most dynamic and creative artist around...and very bold...she had a thing for publicity...so whether you like her music or not she was the real deal...

speaking of sex i have spent no small amount of brain energy trying to determine if the whole course of human existence is changing...from the earliest records of human history the "mating" events which occurred between humans have been determined by neuro-chemistry and chance... the single technological innovation which has changed the entire sexual lives of humans is the internet...a good and pretty accurate view of sex today is presented on "The francis foster show" "The rise of the simp economy" (30min)...mr foster makes some interesting observations about "Only Fans" (lonely fans!?) he says that 0.1% of the presenters make 76% of the money and average $147,000 per month...a good chunk of change... it is the 'THEA EX MACHINA" effect...think about it , if a woman can eliminate the need to "personally" engage every man that is willing to pay her for the encounters her market base is "virtually" unlimited...the internet is the great equalizer...there is a woman on "soft white underbelly" named Lexxi Lovelace who was working two jobs at fast food and decided to make a career change and went to be a sex worker....she started as a cam-girl and then a stripper and then worked in some bordellos and now she is an escort who says she makes $600K a year and only works with one person a day...she wants to teach yoga and likes to have a lot of free time...sounds great...my question is...are there any "pro bono" clients...any freebees for the financially challenged?...probably not...when the interviewer asked her what she had learned about men she sort of got an humored look on her face and she said that men "just want to feel good too"...but it ain't cheap (my words)...selling sexual access i do not believe is immoral, or wrong...i wonder however if once the entire female population is online and or commercialized will there be any desire on the part of women to have sexual relations without economic strings...i like to see what Aella_girl has to say on matters of sex and not to my surprise in a discussion with another woman she was asked whether sex always was about money...she said it was...but ms.Aella has always had "naked ambition" and like anyone she has her view of economic security...my question is at what point does the sex work become so un-economically rewarding that it must be abandoned. there is another woman on soft white underbelly who calls herself Nikole Mitchell (a return interview) who is the "Happy Escort"...she says with great joy that she has been having sex with three generations of one family...grand-dad and dad and grandson...she likes it a lot...such a blessing eh?....anyhow sex has not changed but availability of sex has changed and as one woman told me not too long ago " we now have half the money and all the pussy"...that about sums it up...

"The sky continues beautiful...the pleasure of men with women shall never be sated...nor the pleasure of women with men...nor pleasure from poems..." from "Leaves of grass' (1855 edition) by Walt Whitman 

 

"Barely disguising..."

                                     fungi growing with the rains

                          white flower in the morning...down but not out

 

                              approaching sunset...day before yesterday

been reading some very good articles...mostly in new yorker magazine...i am somewhat embarassed to say that i used AI for the first time...wrote my inquiry so i can not really be prosecuted for it..."does taylor swift have any tattoos?"...this line of inquiry came from a photo in new yorker magazine of october 10, 2011...the photo is by katy grannan...ms swift is shown with writing on her hand and arm..the intelligence responded with the information that ms swift said she might change her mind so she has no tattoos...my view exactly...might change my mind...no tattoos...another "influencer" who is in the medias sights has said in a 14 page "manifesto"(?!) that he wants AI for all...mr zuckerberg who allowed the common folk to have international faces has decided to let common folk have all-knowing intelligence...for better or worse...yeah!....more knowledege is more better....however in an article entitled "Breeding ground" (new yorker june 1, 2026) (not about Only Fans) ms. Shayla Love has investigated the evolution of microbes on planet earth the subtitle is "The climate is changing, microbes are evolving, are we ready?" to put this in perspective there is a description of this evolution..."The gap between the rate of human evolution and the rate of microbial evolution is like the difference between a drifting tectonic plate and an F-16 fighter jet"...wow!...that is quite a difference...what about hand washing....well if it makes you less anxious about infection...go for it....but one of the alarming statements is about the cleaning team in a hospital dis-infecting a room and when the floors were tested there were hundreds of microbe species detected...oh well...there was an interesting article about the swiss people voting on a law to keep their population below 10 million people and it was rejected with 55% against...because it was said that the GDP would be lower by 12% by the end of the century (new yorker 6/15/26) I say let the plump ones in...also some very good youtube presentations are "What is democratic socialism (15min) @ carolyn kraft the subtitle is "no one in america understands socialism"...this woman brings some light to the conversation about forms of governance...also "Empire with michael portillo" India segment is 45min..there are also segments on USA and south africa...very well done...by the way a fellow named Mangal Pandey who was an Indian sepoy (military) smacked a british officer and began the "sepoy revolt" which began the outster of the brits as the ruling class in India...a very interesting presentation which gets the old synapses cranked up is "Open Sauce 2026 blew my mind(15min) @chris herr...this is billed as a inventors gathering...great stuff...

there was an article in new yorker 7/20/26 in the london postcard section about a "gathering of madonna!? promoters"...two of shit is shit!...the thinly veiled contempt of the writer is apparent in his statement concerning a drink offering..."barely disquising a watery want of flavor."   not unlike madonna herself!