"The most brilliant intellect..."

                                     social inheritance

listening to the radio lately
news olds
old news

when i was around veterinarians
every day i learned something
about euthanasia
perma sleep injected into a vein
and the animal was dead without
a kick within about 6 seconds
or less
prison system might want to borrow some

heard that san fransisco is going to spend
more than 60 million bucks to hang a net
beneath the golden gate bridge
to stop jumpers
how odd

also heard that more people are incarcerated
in the u s a than in any other country
more than china which has 4 times
as many people

also heard that gun owners are twice
as likely to commit suicide with a gun
as non gun owners
and as a matter of fact
guns do kill people

there was a lot of talk about
looting at a plane wreck
there was a time when folks
living on the coast used to build
big fires at night to make sailing
ships think is was a lighthouse
and make them run into the rocks
then in the morning everyone in the
village would go out and grab up the
stuff that had floated ashore from the
shipwreck
and if i was still drinking and i was walking
along and suddenly a bunch of bodies
started falling from the sky
and i saw bottles of booze falling to the
ground too
i might just have to have a drink

went and got my business done
with the DMV today
pretty tough tests around here
almost failed the eyeball test
not the vision test
not the color test
the sqweenchy butt test
almost failed it
you have restrictions on your
licenses if you fail this test
they send around a sqweenchy butt
and if your eyeballs move around in your
head too much they make you drive
with those blinders on like they
used to make horses and mules wear
because they say if you are susceptible to
sqweenchy butts you could run over
someones puppy or something like that
never heard of the sqweenchy butt
well in primateology it is called
ischial callosities
and primates present
ischial callosities
humans sqweenchy butt the
gluteus maximus
but it is the same thing
just covered with some cloth

however i passed the test
as i explained that my eye-balls
always vibrate in my head like that
so i don't have to wear the blinders
next year they are going to have the
titty jiggle test
i may just ride a bike

"The most brilliant intellect
is a prisoner within it's own
social inheritance."  L. Hogben

got to go
mr cayetano

"I hate it and avoid it..."

                                    aphrodisiac mushroom

NEWS FLASH NEWS FLASH

washington d c  football team up for sale
auction slated for next month
due to controversy over teams name
the owner of washington team decides to sale
interest in team is growing

nevada indian tribe vows to purchase
the team and name them the white eyes
tillimook milk magnate says he will purchase
the team and name them the teat-squeazers
the donald says the will buy the team and
name them the strumpets and start the
first all woman team
but says he really likes the name
teat-squeazers and may collaborate
with milk magnate
georgia peanut tycoon says he will buy
the team and keep the name redskins
and will use the redskin peanut as mascot
 the competition for the team is fierce

in the meantime
i have been put on notice
that i am on the watch list
at the library
a simple misunderstanding
while speaking to the librarian
i noticed what i assumed was a fly
on her bare shoulder
as is the custom in these parts
i leaned over to lick off this fly
but it did not budge and i just
barely put a tooth on it
it was a mole and not a fly at all
but the librarian screamed and called
in the referee 
the referee agreed and said it was an
honest mistake but advised i wear my glasses
and not lick at any insects smaller than
a locust

"I hate it and avoid it, because it is not play
enough that is too grave and serious a diverversion,
and I am ashamed to lay out as much thought and study
upon it as would serve to much better uses."
   Montaigne comment on chess

however life can be a
chess game
mr cayetano

"My specialty is living..."

                                           your brain on vegetables

something i picked up yesterday
looks like a dried armadillo brain
but it is not
look
i need to make a retraction
i took a photo of a plane
i thought it was a drone
because i am stupid
there are only three people who
have ever read this blog
a police woman
sex crimes division
a lawyer
out of work
and a retarded person
myself
the lawyer said
that is a commercial plane
and we will sue you if you
do not make a retraction
but just to show i have nothing
against drones i will make an
argument in favor of drones
within the last year there was
a research plane which crashed
and the two researchers were killed
they were doing wildlife surveys
probably these surveys could have been
done with one of those 300 dollar
4 electric motor 2 camera drones
they sell online
lots of work can be done with these
drones which will make people safer
so go learn to fly a drone

i heard of a gathering of friends of ken
last week
or was it just a prank
i read some of kens writing
i watched some of kens films
i just dont like pranks
someone said that not many people
showed up for the ken gathering
they said it was because ken is a has been
those who say that are
never were's
mr ken has a solid place in literature
and a more solid place in as an influential
thinker and person who sought to advance
societies world view
he said himself he wanted to live a life
be a person of action
and not just a writer
he was a person of a lot of action
and he made a difference
thanks ken

was making the rounds this morning
snatching cans and bottles
always stop at the bridge to see what
kind of trash is floating in the backwash
yep several plastic bottles
i jump the fence to get them
i disturb a hornets nest
they sting my sorry self
i grab the trash and toss it ashore
i jump the fence again
they sting me some more
no good deed goes unpunished
actually because i usually feel
superior when i pick up trash
the hornets were probably saying
here ego boy hows about some comedown
then a hundred yards down the sidewalk
the tires go left
i go right
and the cans and bottles come down
between us
i walk over to the can 50 yards away
which is where i was headed when i
fell flat
i carry on
the baskets are filled now
a local detective suggests i go to
the college to get cans
he says there are a lot of cans there
these folks like to send me places
where i can be put under suspicion of
doing some heinous crime
i camp in the mountains for a week
within hours of my return to town
i am pulled over by the local constabulary
officer mumbles
running a red light
it was yellow
he sniffs the van
looks around for incriminating evidence
gets all my papers wet in the rain
not guilty
anyhow being a suspect can be a very
trying experience
for these last 20 years or so i have
been much suspected
but eventually i learned that it is
all a part of the game
i learned that from folks like
mr ken

still it is very distressing
to be constantly under harassment

but i dont feel like selling out

"My specialty is living said
a man (who could not earn his bread
because he would not sell his head)

squads right impatiently replied
two billion pubic lice inside
one pair of trousers (which had died)
               e.e. cummings # 51

got to go
wash my pants
mr cayetano

 

 

"If I devote myself..."

                                  slime mold   our friend

are we having fun yet
sitting here in the lie bury
watching home movies
of sigmund freud
what does that tell you
about my life
sexual repression
every where i look
sunday was interesting
biking the bike trail
snatching cans and bottles
i see a plastic bag
i will pick it up with the grabber
the left hand works good
the front brake works good
the brain
not so much
i am laying crumbled
on the sidewalk
surrounded by cans and bottles
bruised and disgusted
but not stopped
i pick up my cans
and dignity
and the plastic bag
a more cautious and
bruised biker
saved by the helmet again

listening to the radio
pundit talking about
a few folks who have
the most money
what a novel idea
not really
you hear it ten times a day
occupy
occupy
please
that is not a solution
the solution is to
start a peoples bank
a peoples employment service
a peoples insurance company
it is all legal
and very possible
listen to ralph nader
he is still alive and kicking
he says there is no place for
pessimism
and we must get on
with changing the system

"If I devote myself to other pursuits
and contemplations, I must first see
at least, that I do not pursue them
sitting upon another man shoulders."
                            H.D. Thoreau

every day is a
circus
mr cayetano

"The courtesan Flora..."

                                  drone overhead yesterday-eugene, or.

probably just looking for rare birds
yeah right
pretty big drone
could hold a dozen or so people

lots of sex talk this week
nut case with too many guns
shoots folks cause he
feels rejected
1901-1908 belle gunness
of indiana
murders 14 men suitors
may have killed 42 people
never caught
count your blessings pal

here in dysfunction junction
there is talk of who is guilty
of possibly rapeing a woman
one letter to the editor says
it was group sex consensual
the female says it was rape
the men says it was not
the district lawyer says
he wont prosecute
the female faction screeches
for justice
promiscuity
means lots of sex
however
even a woman who has lots of
sex
even a woman who has lots
of sex for money
any woman
at any time has the right
to say
no
not now
finish it
be gone
men do too

"The courtesan Flora said she
never lay with Pompey, but that
she made him wear the prints of
her teeth."  Plutarch

count you blessings
dont get bit
mr cayetano

"The great quality of true art..."

                                         the naked truth

con
contro
controversial
watched a film yesterday
murder by death
good movie
peter faulk said
i dont know what them society dames
are like in the kip you aint never had it
until you been with a big fat blond
waitress

watched a music video
jay zee
run
good production values
rotten subject
lots of guns
bang bang bang
no thanks

just finished audio book
mark twains auto-biography
well worth the time

went to the local art museum
they have on loan a very nice
van gogh
very nice

"The great quality of true art
is that it rediscovers, grasps
and reveals to us that reality
far from which we live, from
which we get farther and
farther away as the conventional
knowledge we substitute for
it becomes thicker and more
impermeable."
              marcel proust

got to go
dont mean to be
impermeable

mr cayetano
             

"Some of mankinds most terrible misdeeds..."

                                 the guy standing next to me

i am sitting here in the
lie bury
tap tap tapping out my
blog
i am watching a documentary film
on the mac
the goebbels experiment
it is very interesting
on the wall is a photo
of a local guy
someone said i dont like
locals
that is not the case at all
i dont like those folks
who want to abuse their
influence
and deprive me of my civil rights

i spent 4 days gathering signatures
to get a couple of
laws on the ballot in the fall
one of the laws is a 34 page
proposal to make pot legal
sort of legal
i read all 34 pages
there were lots of people
who wanted to sign the petition
none of them read all of it
so i thought i would mention a few
of the items in the bill here

a private person can grow 4 pot plants
and have 8 ounces of pot in the house
if you want to be a pot seller you must
pay 250 bucks to apply
and 1000 bucks a year
pay 35 bucks per ounce of bud
10 bucks per ounce of  leaf
and five buck per immature plant
that you sell 
the state hopes to collect
100 million bucks in pot taxes
40 percent will go to schools
now we get to some weirdness
you cannot let the plants be in public view
you cannot maintain an unsanitary establishment
you cannot be in the habit of using
alcohol, habit forming drugs, or pot
to excess
pretty funny huh
also you must be of
good repute and moral character
pretty funny
anyhow i am not sure who is going to be
on the morality and repute panel
but i doubt if keith richards could
go into the pot business here
me neither maybe
and i am as moral as
well as
as some other people
anyhow

"Some of mankinds most terrible misdeeds
have been commited under the spell of
certain magic words or phrases."  j b conant

well  i have to
avoid the legal circus
mr cayetano

"And may we heed.."

                                 yellow rumped (audubons) warbler

not much of a picture really
but someone said it was a rare bird
for this area
i sit around and eventually
i am part of the landscape

i never liked birders too much
they scurry
or is it flitter
about and usually scare
away the wildlife
but they are doing an important
service for documenting
what is happening with the
wildlife populations
its those damned life lists that
bother me
look what i have seen
i thought i saw a chimp
in the everglades once
but i just chalked it up to
chemical aberration's in the brain

i spent a week in the woods
praying
thats what i like to call it
being outdoors is praying
for me
i have not slept indoors
that is to say
in a house
or building
for nearly a year now
hope to keep it up
rather than succumb
to the hopelessness
of
acceptance

i was especially attentive on
easter sunday
and remembered something
that i read in one of my books
so i got out the book

"And may we heed the solemn
admonition set forth in this book-
not to fritter away in the worthless
doings of this world the supreme
opportunity afforded by human birth,
lest by our spiritual improvidence
we depart from this life spiritually
empty handed."
 Easter Sunday 1955 -w.y. evans-wentz
preface to the third edition of
"the tibetian book of the dead"

i wonder sometimes if i am
frittering or not

got to go
stay heedful
mr cayetano

"Understand first..."

                                  cat stares

sat watching the geese
hundreds
suddenly they all rise at once
not the dogs this time
from behind me
a bald eagle
it circles
circles again
swoops down
picks something up
it is white
it got the feral cat
i always wondered if an
eagle would eat that cat

yesterday
another wildlife viewing spot
cinnaman teal
hooded mergansers
american coots
a few more species
strange people show up
i listen to the radio
watch with the binoculars
green truck pulls up
guy gets out
with a gun in a holster
on his hip
pretty wierd
sign says no shooting
he makes sure i see his gun
la de da
i have a sharp stick
get a life

never ending drama
i listen to my life coach
thick neck hahn
mr peaceful
he says
they act the way they do
because i act the way i do
hey wait a minute
i have a sharp stiick
he says forget the sharp stick
they will get a bomb
then where will you be
bombed
i throw away my sharp stick

"Understand first that licensed
arms dealers in Briton regard
themselves as some kind of rough-edged
elite-did then, do now- and that they enjoy
quite disproportionate privilages at
the hands of the police, the bureaucracy and
the intelligence services. For reasons I have never
understood. Their grisly trade puts them in
a relationship of confidence with these bodies.
Perhaps it's the illusioin of reality they impart,
of guns as the earthy truth of life and death.
Perhaps, in the tethered minds of our officials,
their wares suggest the same authority that
is exerted by those who use them.  I don't
know. But I've seen enough of the street side
of life in the years between to know that more
men are in love with war than ever get a chance
to fight one, and that more guns are bought
to satisfy this love than for a pardonable purpose."
                                          John Le carre "The secret pilgrim"

got to go
untethered
mr cayetano

"It has been well said..."

                                 on the rocks

blog
blog
blog
here in the valley
valley of the harpies
harpie valley p t a
hip
hippo
hypocdrites
hip slick and cool

i was thinking about the bunnies
i was thinking about bunnie life
i remembered back a few years
to about 1970
i was a zookeeper
young
excited about wildlife
a woman and her daughter came into the
zoo
wit5h a bunnie
said they could no longer keep it
would the zoo take it
sure said mike
we can use a bunnie
they went away happy
mike held bunnie tenderly
in his arms as he
walked down the sidewalk
when he got to the crocodile exhibit
he tossed bunnie to the crocs
they were delighted
we had lots of bunnies
all over the zoo
and we daily had to catch them and
feed them to the crocs
bunnies can get out of hand
pretty quickly
next day
mom and daughter return
they say they must have bunnie
back
they miss bunnie
mike says
bunnie died of a broken heart
too bad
my first lesson in
life and death in a world
of lifes and deaths
good lesson

you might have read my movie
review
i keep hearing about it
stolen from my notebooks
and apparently published
life and death in a world
predators
anyhow i may publish it later
i got off on a bunnie story

learned a new word
gastrophori
look it up

"It has been well said that no
man ever sank undee the burden
of the day. It is when tomorrows
burden is added to the burden of
today that the weight is more than
a man can bear."  G. Macdonald

got to go
on the rocks
but not sunk
mr cayetano

"The stress laid..."

                                 puff

commentary

social commentary

socialist commentary

listened to the thin man

give his state of the union

speech

listened to all of it

pretty non controversial

did not take notes

but remember some of the

highlights I remember are

minimum wage

$10.10

  for federal employees

 not for the bottom

one percent

 eventually we will end

up with the 50 cent cup of

coffee costing a buck

then the minimum wage

will be useless

subsidize food

rent

 fuel

and stabilize the economy

there is no other reasonable option

however

there are some pretty thoughtful

people out there

who could come up with a

plan to get between

hard core capitalism and

hard core socialism

but they are not in economics

“Society turns away from the aged

  worker as though he belonged to another

species.  Old age exposes the failure of

out entire society.” Simon de Beauvoir

i noticed a short statement about

attempting to bring

young men of color

more in line with the national

unemployment statistics

their numbers are much higher

than the rest of the demographic

the pres skirted over this very quickly

and there was a palpable silence when

he brought it up

so i will elaborate on this idea

 i read a report about the graduation

rate in

predominately black universities

 i think southern university

 in new orleans had a 2% graduation rate

 the comment was that the worst thing for

 college education for young black men was

 more young black men

 the temptation to party is too great

 perhaps

 and they party till they flunk out

this is a fact

separate but equal does not work

now i am still a fan of the thin man

he has shown me that he is

far above a representative citizen

and an exemplary person

then I listened to the comments about

homeless

ness

in this town

the comment was made

that poverty is not pretty

but

they have tourists taking

slum tours in

rio de janero

and india

better them than us

  i suppose is the lure for gawking

some people who are classified as

homeless

prefer that mode of living

 but I know that the supposed 600 beds

 which are available

do not guarantee

sleep or safety or sanitation

the rate of respiratory infection

is extremely high

almost certain

and anyone who has caught the

shelter cough

knows whereof i speak

more tent space may be a better route

than more beds

and more willingness to hire people

for an hour or two a day

and let them put 20 bucks in their pocket

would be a life saver

reality is that there are more and more

people who are heading towards

homelessness

and if they can be helped

before they are homeless

the whole situation would be

much improved

it is a shame that for people

who are working and trying to

avoid live in the streets

there seems to be little help

for them

it is a never ending fight for

some people to just stay

in a home and in groceries

once a person takes the plunge

and is in a situation where they

have no permanent housing

they often slide into a lifestyle

and a mindset which they remain

in for years

the tough hardened so called

street people

are inventive survivors

the coyotes of the human race

they will always be with us

anyhow such are the comments

from this perspective

mr cayetano

“The stress laid on upward social

Mobility in the U S has tended to

Obscure the fact that there can be

More than one kind of mobility and

More than one direction in which it can

Go. There can be ethical mobility as well

As financial, and it can go down as well as up.”

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warrmer and wet

wet and warmer

listening to radio

trump and limbaugh

screeching global warming is a

hoax

they are a hoax

a bad dream

trump says we must be

competitive

with china and abandon

all those damned

environmental laws

I think he has some

reality issues

“Not only no result will foolish

counsel’s show,

But to disaster oft they doom mankind.”

                 Phaedrus “Fables I.

then i watched a science documentary

about the earth

from the inside out

inside planet earth

very good

and near the end

they interview scientists

and they say

there is this

anomaly

the south atlantic anomaly

which shows that the

magnetic field

is 30% weaker off the coast

of brasil and along the equator

and when the magnetic

field disappears

all the water and air

will disappear

makes global warming seem

pretty lame

so

i figure

the only way to live is

as if I might die

at any time

which of course is

true

anyhow

“Hide from our  eyes what

fortune has in store.

And grant that he who fears may

also hope.”  Lucan

hoping for a good

day

mr cayetano