"Grief is not in the Nature of things..."

                                                                                                                                                                                                 

 some of the native americans thought the coyotes would be the last animals on earth

coyote came around for a drink of water here in the desert last night...very nice to see them again            governor of california may try to get vigilantes to enforce assault weapons bans...not a very good idea

watched "the people versus o j simpson' on dvd...outstandingly performed...there was a bit of genius in the casting by courtney bright and nicole daniels...read in a science journal where new undiscovered germs are being found as the perma-frost thaws in the arctic...more than half the deer tested in america  have tested positive for covid...so we a can assume that any animals with lungs can be vectors...humans had best realize that deadly viruses will become increasingly common and all precautions should be taken to protect against infection...lots of nurses have said they have had enough and are going to take the money and run...good for them...i have been diagnosed with "FATTY GRUNT SYNDROME" and my lawyer "HARVEY BIRDMAN ATTORNEY AT LAW" says i can sue the grocery store...yeah!          also i have HOMOPHILY...as does everyone else...it means liking those like yourself...EVERYONE is prejudiced...manatee starving in florida...we have lots of lettuce leaves left in the fields in Yuma...found a dvd in the dollar store called "American Buffalo" with dustin hoffman, dennis franz, sean nelson...a shockingly emotional film which only re-enforces my opinion that hoffman has never made a bad movie..."Grief is not in the nature of things, but in opinion" cicero

 

"The importance of an individual thinker..."

 another animal burial in the desert....so long Zookie

heard a commentary about bill gates opinion that most meetings will be held via META...the commentator suggested otherwise...i told a long time acquaintance from the zoo biz that i thought the zoos of the future would be 3d and not live...he said i was wrong...mr zuckerberg is right to evolve into the 3d technology which has been so prevalent in our si-fi writing for so long...however if people can't look at their e-mail without becoming addicted they will really be in trouble when their senses are immersed in a 3d world...by the way mr zuckerberg is not yo' mama or yo' daddy...he did not take you to raise... he is a promoter of technology like henry ford and mr edison...i hope that some ambitious people can get enough 3d film footage of the vanishing wildlife that people can get a sense of these animals lives...while they are still alive...

I picked up a copy of  "Journey to the Center of the Earth" with 4 3d glasses a while back...very nice

"The importance of an individual thinker owes something to chance. For it depends upon the fate of his ideas in the mind of his successors." Alfred N. Whitehead

"Consider the wheelbarrow..."

                                              

"The Formation of Vegetable Mould, Through the Action of Worms, With Observation of Their Habit"         Charles Darwin (1881)

read a very good article in "Natural History" magazine collection by Stephen J. Gould,                             who was one of the best interpreters of science in the world...the article was about how a thinking person can figure out what happened in the past by making careful observations of the present...and so we have now a future which seems uncertain but perhaps fraught with turmoil and discomfort...to say the least... 

 I would like to recommend a movie...I watched "Deathproof" last night...Directed by Quentin Tarantino and with Kurt Russell and several nubile young females...this movie was produced by Bob and Harvey Weinstein...so one must wonder whether they hustled the women onto the "casting couch" etc...as much as i like Kurt Russell i cannot recommend this movie as it has too much gratuitous violence and way too much inane girl talk...and car porn...if you like car chases...however, I would like to recommend another Kurt Russell film which is one of my favorite of all time..."Captain Ron" which has a message. also I would like to recommend a music DVD song which is "Sweet Operator" which is on the "Sade Lovers Live" DVD...excellent singing and world class musicianship....

i see where "Noose Boy" is back in the news and his fate looks kind of grim..."Here's a good rule of thumb;/ Too clever is dumb. Ogden Nash

"Consider the wheelbarrow. It may lack the grace of an airplane, the speed of an automobile, the initial capacity of a freight car, but it's humble wheel marked out the path of what civilization we still have."    Hal Borland....i like this quote as i took a Ph.D in wheelbarrow and shovel... 

 

"We can do without butter...

                                       i prefer butter thank you very much....

motivation? gun...                                                                                                                                              tucson policeman shoots man in wheelchair 9 times from behind...may be fired from force                           motivation? gun...                                                                                                                                              school shooting...motivation gun!                                                                                                  "The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts."  Charles Darwin....lets face it the empowering force that guns have on many human is so overwhelming that it changes the way people encounter the world......              "....they can ignore me but they can't ignore my gun!" so mental health issues will need to be taken into consideration much more if the citizens are to be safe from those who would "run amok"....so I will recommend a movie that was the first movie for Kirk Douglas..."The Strange Love of Martha Ivers" (1946) 1hr.57min.           with Barbara Stanwyck  and Lizabeth Scott and Van Heflin...and the subject is one of my favorites the corrupted District Attorneys office...

"We can do without butter, but, despite all our love of peace, not without arms. One cannot shoot with butter, but with a gun." Paul Joseph Goebbels (1936)

 

"Superfluous branches..."

                                    moral dilemma-had to compromise...

awoke in the campsite next to the road above the lake on the edge of the ravine...                                          and there were kittens in my campsite...according to the bird people cats eat at least                                   a billion birds a year...not to mention rodents, lizards and insects....my general attitude is                     that for wildlife to live...cats must die...however the theory is easier to expound than the practice            of killing cats is to implement...so I was weak and just put out some food and water before I drove away...i hear a lot of coyotes at night here so they will probably be eaten before long...

now i don't want to sound like a person enthralled with death...but after listening to a couple of weeks of the climate summit in glasgow the one thing i never heard anyone mention is the possibility                     that the human population is going to have to be reduced for any of the goals to be met that will         result in less carbon in the atmosphere thereby alleviating the rise in temperatures and...well you            know...making things nice again...yeah right....so there was a lot of the little people wailing about            the fact that they did not spew the carbon into the air but they will suffer the most....blah blah and blah    i think the big people who they want to cough up a hundred billion bucks to give to the little people        to...? what? buy boats? insurance? what what what! i know of a famous animal trainer who used             to say "i can train any animal that has to eat"...and I say that all money should be tied to the stipulation that the "endangered" people will have to reduce their numbers...until this basic reality is accommodated there is not a snowballs chance in the sahara that the temperatures are likely to be               moderated for the better...now i think that since replication of our genes is what got us into this                pile of do do governments should start a gene bank so that when the human population gets down           to a survivable number...a hundred million? a billion? 5 billion? 3?...whatever it is having a lot of genetic material will be good for the gene pool...SAVE THE GENE POOL!

"Superfluous branches                                                                                                                                  We lop away, that bearing boughs may live" Shakespeare "Richard second"                 

 
 

"All spiritual interests..."

 looks like baby foxes on the way

as anticipated the flat screen world has expanded to META-L world  NOTHING ALIVE EVER!  3 damned dimensions...time will make it four...no need to walk the sidewalks move...but there is no door         the entire human culture is based on our relationship to nature...until now...      

heard that 1500 white sided porpoises were in killed in Norway during a "re-enactrment  of a viking ritual...only meant to kill 25 but the kill lust just took over i guess...how disgusting...                                   

"All spiritual interests are supported by animal life." George Santayana                                                 

"He has made his weapons his Gods..."

 this is the hole in the rock and what was ground in the hole in the rock...long ago

guns guns guns in the news....17 year old on trial...bad judgement as is common with 17 year olds               senseless death in new mexico...claudine longet killed spider sabich with a single shot from a 22 short ..    happens all the time...guns do kill people...30,100 veterans died by suicide since 2001...most with  guns I would imagine...4 times as many as died in combat...before guns it was harder to               kill I would imagine...just watch a whole series of Dr. Who...never seen it before...fascinating...I saw where Dr. Who is unarmed....go figure...still reading the American Rifleman mag. from NRA  good       mag ...NRA needs to change leadership...about timed out...got to go

"He has made his weapons his gods                                                                                                                when his weapons win he is defeated himself."  Rabindranath Tagore                                                                                                           

"It is better to be Socrates dissatisfied..."

                          awoke to find slipper missing-suspect caught on camera sticking out tongue

NEWS FLASH NEWS FLASH NEWS FLASH

Horace Hogwash demands end to systemic bias against hogs

in recent news release it was announced that a pig kidney has kept a human alive for 32 hours                   the human was already "brain dead" according to the report                                                                     the pig was probably cooked and eaten                                                                                                        Horace hog has been subjected to unspeakable prejudice due to the systemic and historic                           hog hatred which has been promoted by two major religions...the patron saint of hogs                               Saint Anthony (Bourdain) has always spoken well of all things pig...cooked pig mostly                     and the historical importance of pigs cannot be understated...many cultures respect and even                    worship pigs...cooked mostly....however there are some very serious problems with feral pigs                  around the world as they are rooting up the ground and releasing much carbon into the air                        like maybe as much as many million automobiles...so if more people worshiped pigs...cooked               is of course the best form of pig worship... there would be more chance of pigs becoming less                    abundant in the wild...and that would be a good thing....

"It is better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a pig satisfied."  John Stuart Mills (how would he know!)
 

'The joint is jumping all around me and my mood is really not in style,,,'

                                the garbage that goes with purchasing weed...not acceptable

after 52 days of cannabis consumption on a daily basis it was only after I had                                            quit for 21 days that I had my first dream...and it was pretty tiny...after 4 weeks                                         much of my cognitive ability had returned...but not all...perhaps the speech and                                        memory faculties have been permanently damage...fatigue amplifies the problems                                    having read  a lot about "neural plasticity" I knew that the reading and guitar was                                     helping to realign my cognition...perhaps my senescence has been accelerated by                                      the consumption of weed...but 9 grams in 52 days hardly seems excessive....Snoop                                 and Willy don't act like retards... one of the things that...where was I?...oh yeah...back                             in the 70"s I was a pothead...now I have "cannabis use disorder"...disorder being the                                operative word here....also I remembered also that once you have a habit of taking                                    something into your system you are very at risk for being poisoned by your enemies                                anyhow I somewhat cured me as the pain was far worse than the pleasure....

found a DVD in the junk store of Rory Gallagher at Montreaux  from 1974 to 1995                                    this has has to be one of the best guitar players in the business...he died from complications                       of a liver transplant....too damned bad!  one of my favorite songs is one he wrote called 

"A MILLION MILES AWAY"                        

 The joint is jumping all around me and my mood is really not in style

Right now the blues want to surround me but I'll break out after a while

Well, I'm a million miles away, I'm a million miles away
I'm sailing like a driftwood on a windy bay

Why ask how I feel, well, how does it look to you?
I feel hook line and sinker, I lost my captain and my crew
I'm standing on the landing and there's no one there but me
That's where you'll find me, looking out on the deep blue see

There's a song on the lips of everybody, there's a smile all around the room
There's conversation overflowing, so why must I sit here in the gloom?

This hotel bar lost all it's people, the piano man has caught the last bus home
The old bartender is asleep in the corner, so why must I still be here, I don't know

Well, I'm a million miles away, I'm a million miles away
I'm sailing like a driftwood on a windy bay  

"Good!..."

                                                               water is not a luxury...

picked up a copy of J.J. Rousseau's "Confessions" at the library book store...thought                                        I had read it but don't remember much of it...a good read and bold look at a mans                                         life and times...maybe too bold...J.J. was not held in high regard by some of his fellow                                citizens and had to move to avoid harassment...I know the feeling!                                                              when he was 16 years old he went to work for a woman who was dying and he was in the room                          when she died...her last words according to him were.... after a big poot...                                                           "Good! a woman who can fart is not dead!"   then she died 

"The narrowness of a generation..."

 Just thought I would show the names of those men who died                                                                      on the SEACOR Power when it capsized in the Gulf of Mexico                                                                  I spent a year with SEACOR on the San Jose an oil supply boat                                                                  and know the dangers associated with being in that line of work.                                                                Most people dont think much about what it takes to put gasoline                                                                 into their gas tanks...                          

• Dylan Daspit, 30, of Breaux Bridge
• Jay Guevara, of Lafayette
• Quinon Pitre, 31, of the Lawtell area
• Chaz Morales, 37, of Slidell
• Gregory Walcott, 62, of Abbeville
• Jason Krell, of Texas
• Darren Encalade, of Belle Chasse
• Cooper Rozands, of Houma
• Capt. David Ledet
• Ernest Williams
• Anthony Hartford
• Tracy Wallingford
• Lawrence Warrens

"The narrowness of a generation writes not with a pen,                                  but with an erasure."

"No pleasures free from pain..."

                                                     big bobcat looking for a dinner guest

well the death of tom t hall signs off one of the best song writers in the business...below is one                 my favorite songs of his...not exactly politically correct...which is what I like about it...

He was an old-time cowboy, don't you understand His eyes were sharp as razor blades his face was leather tan His toes were pointed inward from a-hangin' on a horse He was an old philosopher, of course
He was so thin I swear you could have used him for a whip He had to drink a beer to keep his britches on his hips I knew I had to ask him about the mysteries of life He spit between his boots and he replied
"It's faster horses, younger women, Older whiskey, and more money"
He smiled and all his teeth were covered with tobacco stains He said, "It don't do men no good to pray for peace and rain. Peace and rain is just a way to say prosperity, And buffalo chips is all it means to me."
I told him I was a poet, I was lookin' for the truth I do not care for horses, whiskey, women or the loot I said I was a writer, my soul was all on fire He looked at me an' he said, "You are a liar."
"It's faster horses, younger women, Older whiskey, and more money"
Well, I was disillusioned, if I say the least I grabbed him by the collar and I jerked him to his feet There was something cold and shiny layin' by my head So I started to believe the things he said
Well, my poet days are over and I'm back to being me As I enjoy the peace and comfort of reality If my boy ever asks me what it is that I have learned I think that I will readily affirm
"It's faster horses, younger women, Older whiskey, and more money" 

now for some critical thinking...which must be attended to with some education...which is why                   I highly recommend some DVD's by Professor Patrick Grim entitled "Questions of Values"                          I came across a DVD with 2 movies by director Michael Powell one of these is "Age of Consent"                  with James Mason (of "Lolita" fame) and Ms. Helen Mirren (famous in her own right)...the story is               is about an artist who is looking for inspiration and visits Australia and meet a girl/woman who                  inspires his artist desires...she spends a lot of time revealing a lot of flesh...very inspiring! in a very             natural way...                        The question that interests me is whether this lass is "available"...

"No pleasure free from pain; in all our joys                                                                                              Something of trouble ever comes between." Ovid

"It is better of Cicero..."

All Afghanistan all the time! never been there...always want to see it...not now! after 52 days of cannabis therapy(almost deadly..but I survived) it occured to me that war and the expenditures humans have utilized to engage in war...will(has...destroyed the viability of the planets life support for humans and much wildlife...some smaller more resilient organisms will survive...extremo-philes...not encouraging I know...but reality sometimes sucks. for the here and now...enjoy what remains... and if it matters the spirit of freedom has been implanted in the Afghani people and they must fight.

"It is better of Cicero to have extended the boundaries .of the Roman spirit than the Roman Empire." Julius Caesar (according to Pliny the Elder)

"In 6,734 criminal suspect line-ups..."

                                                  the necessities of life are becoming scarcer                                                    

 I have been thinking a lot about crime lately. Seems to be a lot of it. I read this article                              which was a real eye-opener. It seems that there are a lot of mistakes made by law enforcement               when it comes to obtaining eye-witness testimony. They tend to coach the witness and sometimes          they are not aware of the impact of their statements on the fairness of the trial of a suspect. I think           some cops just get tired of not getting a conviction and they screw over the suspect...and some of them   spend many years in prison but were not guilty of the crime...just a bad legal system.                               Below is an article worth reading.

 "Psychological Science and Eyewitness Identification and its Impact on Police Practices and Policies"        American Psychological Association 2020 vol. 75 number 9         Gary L. Wells author 

"In 6734 criminal suspect line-ups witnesses identified the wrong person as guilty 23.7% of the time."

"Optimism is always the primary justification..."

                               perhaps a truce can be called as they all get a cool drink of water

ate two fudge bars for lunch...not too bad really...

"Optimism is always the primary justification for its own existence." 

"How small of all that human hearts endure,

 good radio reception at #24...which allows me to keep up with the latest news and information....           united nations reports that climate change is going keep changing...sooooo....I was wondering if             perhaps instead of me always hearing about how we humans will need to CHANGE OUR WAYS!         if we are going to survive...now from what I can see if the problems of the severe weather occurrences   are a result of human activity then the chipmunks can be considered to be mostly free of blame....now      I have never heard anyone bring this up...but I will do so now...LESS PEOPLE WOULD HELP...           I will assume that one half of the people would make one half of the bad stuff and from following that    line of reasoning one eighth of the people would be one eighth of the bad stuff...etc...of course in some countries there are fewer people being born than are dying and the government has decided that more     people are needed to take care of the older people....how bogus is that! most people who want         there to be more people want more people to sell stuff to...BUSINESS RULES!...that line of reasoning   has to be exposed as being bad and unworkable for a sustainable future...and those people who are         here need to be a part of the solution and not a part of the problem...

"How small of all that human hearts endure,                                                                                                 That part which laws or Kings can cause or cure.                                                                                        Still to ourselves in every place consigned,                                                                                                   Our own felicity we make or find."            Samuel Johnson

                                                                    neighbors helping neighbors

well since my game camera is being monitored and the images stolen                                                        and since these images have been made available to the public                                                                    there are people showing up armed to the teeth to kill every animal that they see                                         this problem has occurred for years and the so called "law enforcement" has spread                                  the word that I am a criminal and they are therefor justified in stealing my property                            undoubtedly these "oath Takers" types seem to believe in only one amendment in the                                 constitution which is the dubious 2nd amendment allowing them to have a gun....balderdash!                  and shoot any and all animals and people they deem "dangerous to the public"...my 14 day                      camping adventure on the national forest campsite was quite an adventure in "criminal law" as                there were way many cops and cop wanna-be types...one fellow asked me what I was building                (as in "BOMB") when I sat my propane tank and black rubber solar water heating bag out by the             tree stump in the sun to heat them up...now it would seem to me that after so many years of being          stalked, harassed, poisoned, drugged, and having apparently zero constitutional rights I would like          to expose the fact that much of the problem in the justice department seems to stem from unbridled         corruption...and more nefarious is the fact that some of those persons who have served in the               military have decided that they too are qualified to engage in "extra-judicial" activities because they        are "vigilant"...I dont think so! 

 so unless people take the time to provide for the wildlife they will perish as the desertification of             proceeds.  

"I was amazed, and at the same time I felt it was ridiculous: in my first shot at the west I was seeing        to what absurd devices it had fallen to keep its proud tradition."  Jack Kerouac "On the Road" 

"I do not avoid women..."

     life in the shadows

been watching my Art History DVDs...one of them mentioned the "Iconoclastic Rage" (8/28/1566)         which was quite a long time ago but just goes to illustrate the destructive power of totalitarian                influences...these folks destroyed all the art that they figured was "iconoclastic"...what a bunch of           morons...and they are still with us! the Chinese government did the same thig in China and of course     the ISIS folks and also various and assorted religiously based coalitions here and abroad...                      the great thing about living in a democracy...well I am reading a book entitled "A war like no other"         and the myth that the 5th century BCE government in Athens was gods gift to a free people...is bogus...first of all the citizens voted to kill a lot of folks who had fallen into dis-repute...Socrates             being only one citizen who was condemned to death...just because the majority of people are in              favor of something hardly makes it good or ethical...which is why in the USA the  Constitution has         restrictions to keep people from whacking unpopular people...there is the practice of "Politicide" which was recently practiced in Haiti...and has been used since...well, forever...we tend to dissuade this type      of extreme political maneuvering in the USA...but it happens...now as the noose tightens on our ability to survive in this climatic extreme event (which should be over within 100,000 years or so) it will          be increasingly prevalent for "big man" politics to become prevalent...not good ("big woman" either)      I think that populations will segregate and form PODS and share resources within their like minded        group...not unlike 5th century Greece...lots of small city states ,autonomous but still depending on          protection from outside military powers...for a price... 

                                    high power area

"I do not avoid women, but I do deny them my essence" Jack Ripper
     

"Foolish is he..."

                                             got to leave some water for the critters

                                              plain titmouse-(Parus inornatus)

                                            mouse that didn't realize the fan blade was dangerous

                                            California thrasher-(Toxostoma redivivum)

                                            probably a great basin fence lizard

one of the things about living around wildlife is that you are always wondering if they                              have a better deal than humans...what with not having to deal with traffic jams and such as that                but they are having to deal with severe climate extremes which they are not going to survive                    unless humans provide for them...i was remembering the tiny one inch salmon that were in                      streams in Oregon...they can only survive a 2 degree increase in temperature...then they die                     so I suppose in a few years all of the wild salmon will be gone from the pacific northwest....                according to what I read the bizarre relationship humans have with clothing will probably do                  far worse damage to the environment than domestic livestock...                                                                  global consumers buy 80 billion tons of clothing a year...20% of mass produced clothing does                not sell as clothing...20% of water pollution is from clothing manufacturing...24% of all chemicals          go into clothing manufacturing...90% of all water sampled has microfibers...2.1 billion tons                    of clothing is discarded every year...over 700 gallons of water is used to produce a t-shirt...Now              I have some doubt about that number...its like the number of gallons of water they said it takes                to produce one hamburger patty.                                                                                                                  If you are not depressed enough by now here is more alarming information....humans share 26 diseases   with poultry, 32 with rats, 35 with horses, 42 with swine, 46 with sheep and goats, 50 with bovines,       and 65 with dogs...why they failed to mention cats is a mystery...but I know toxoplasmosis is one          disease that felines can transmit to humans...and it ain't nothing nice....                                                      so I suppose we should all go around naked and alone to live a longer healthier life! Have a nice day!

"Foolish is he who levels cities, temples, tombs, and the sanctuaries of the dead; as he sows                    destruction, so later he himself perishes." Euripides "Trojan Women"              
 

"Buy me a flute..."

         PROBABLY A MERRIAM CHIPMUNK (EUTAMIAS MERRIAMI)

spent 13 days at a new bio-type which is sort of between desert and mountain and I suppose                    a "Mediterranean" climate....still hotter than hell and deadly to a lot of species                                          I did the usual hard core animal stalking...not really...just sat in the chair and read and ate                        and read some more and ate some more until after 13 days most of the critters were no longer                 alarmed at my presence and began to get pretty close...I was backed into a scrub oak thicket                  which not too surprisingly had lots of scrub jays (Aphelocoma coerlescens) in residence...as well            as a couple of California ground squirrels (Citellus beecheyi) and some hummingbirds which I               think were Costas hummingbirds (Calypte costae) I never figured out how hot the temperature  was      but probably over a hundred...but it stayed comfortable under the large oak tree.  I found a water pipe     coming out of the ground which was de-commisioned but still had a slight leak and was wetting the       concrete slab so I put a cast iron griddle which had been abandoned in a campsite under the dripping and then put a half a water bottle with a rock in it under the drip and there was a good spot for the          true residents to get some life giving water...because the wildlife are going to suffer and die if the           humans don't get busy realizing they do not have the capacity to travel great distances to get water        anyhow by the time I left there were a lot of birds and a rabbit hanging around the water spot....              also there was a California thrasher (Toxostoma redivivum) which came around a sifted through             the leaves with great enthusiasm and helped to keep the bug population in check...there were more         insects at this site than anyplace I had been in a while...which is a good thing!

"Buy me a flute, and a gun that shoots a tailgate substitute ,                                                                        strap yourself to a tree with roots, we ain't going nowhere..."                                                                                                                                    Bob Dylan

"A wrong doer..."

         double rainbow near peach springs...the one on the left is the brightest I have ever seen  

just saw a news story about whether video games are the key to winning in "real life"...on FOX....           i must say 48 hours of being around a television with a hundred stations will certainly alter ones            world view...now i am watching a weather report from Tokyo, Japan...and sports...who knew so much    of human endeavor in the 21st century revolved around people manipulating spheres...amazing....I think historians a few hundred years from now will attribute the decline in western civilization to failure to      prioritize expenditure of resources to maximize survival...this just in...monopoly charges dropped against FACEBOOK...stock prices surge and company now worth more than a trillion bucks...maybe I   should get a facebook account...i almost got sucked into the vortex a while back when I suddenly found myself surrounded on the computer with an icon ready to seduce a click...and then my entire existence  would be in the memory banks of the real MOLOCH...just like AMAZON...I buy two items and now      they have everything I have ever looked at in their electronic grasp...even this sad little blog seems        seems to have become a thorn in the side of some folks...I recently met a woman who warned me not      to mess with the "C"...she also said that "DRUGS" is the biggest problem concerning national security....I don't think so...CORRUPTION is the reason society has so many problems...in my opinion...with 18 intelligence agencies sniffing around one would think the corruption would have a       hard time effecting our lives...but some of the folks in the intel biz are a little dirty...a lot dirty really       I have been the target of some of these tainted folks for a long time...I was told that my life would          be "TRAGIC" and I cannot make any money and I must live in the "BOX" for the rest of my life...how    it came to pass that I would warrant  the attention of such important and powerful people remains a mystery to me...I did meet a fellow in central america who told me the first day I met him       "YOU HAVE TO FORGET ABOUT INTEGRITY....NO INTEGRITY!" no integrity Dave I call him.     I guess over the last 30 years or so I have seen much if not most of society become increasingly psychologically conditioned to various external stimuli...brainwashed really...there were the whistlers and the coughers and the burpers and the laughers and the red shirts and the blue shirts and the multitude of secret handshakes ...I'm really just too stupid to keep it all sorted out...I just have to  continue with my tragic life...hang out with chipmunks and birds and such...this just in...Swiss beat the    French in a game with a ball on a field...very exciting!...not really...                                                        now for some interesting animal facts ...Turritopsis dohrnii is a small jellyfish discovered in the Mediterranean  1883 and researchers have discovered that it can curl itself into a small ball and split into a colony of individuals (this is called transdifferentiation) they also can repair their telomeres  which allows them to not age...which goes to show reality is more interesting than living a fiction                     

"A wrong doer is often a person who has left something undone, not always someone                               who has done something." Marcus Aurelius

 

"A lot of people think they are good..."

                          a raven couple who kept me company for a few days

the national forests were declared off limits around flagstaff until it gets some more rain                           so I headed west as I figured the BLM land near peach springs would be the closest                                  legal place to park...the temperature there was about 90 a week ago but yesterday it was 105 degrees   which is getting into the fatal range for humans...so I packed up this morning and headed west....             got to needles and the temperature was 115 degrees...now at 9;30 at night it is 105 degrees....but I          got a room...really didn't want to spend the $77 bucks but really didn't want to burn up the engine           on the truck and possibly have a stroke and the price of the room when compared with the price             of a truck and a stroke seems like a pretty good investment... the last time I got a room in this town         it was $37 bucks...but this is a much nicer room....

I keep reminding myself that the weather extremes are now going to be normal...floods, drought, wind     events...and maybe pandemics also...I had been reading a few very good books while sitting quietly      in the shade of a juniper tree and listening to the only radio station I could pick up...it was the official      radio station of the Wallop-Eye tribe who own about a million acres of land near peach springs...the station plays everything from hip-hop to rock and roll and classic country....real classic country like old  hoyt axton and such as that...i heard where Jay Z got inducted into the rock and roll hall of fame...I have  not listened to a lot to rap music but I have a Jay Z DVD and several Tupac DVD's and a DVD       from a tour of several hip hop artists...Snoop Dogg, Eminim and some others...as a genre of music it      is so different from Rock and Roll I can't see why they would think Jay Z could qualify as a rock and         roll hall of famer...he has enough expendable income you would think he could build a HipHop hall      of fame...some of the hip hop I hear (like on the Wallop-Eye station) is pretty "artistic" but much of        it is pretty self-indulgent drivel... I picked up a Herbie Hancock DVD a while back and the fellow is        so talented I don't see how most Rappers could even look him in the eye and call themselves musicians. I picked up a hardback copy of "On the Road" by Jack Kerouac...which I have never read and now I  have about finished it and the main "protagonist" in the book is a guy named "Dean" who is actually  a fellow named Neil Cassidy who drove the bus "FURTHUR" when Ken Kesey et.al went across  the country...Cassidy's wife wrote a book called "Off The Road" about what  it was like to be around a bunch of acid head, speed freak, stoner types...it wasn't very complementary of the "Beats" and  proto-hippies...and she has a few pictures of Neil Cassidy after his already close to edge self did acid  a few times...he looks like a man who has seen the devil...in his own brain...he lay down on a rail-way track in Mexico and was killed...maybe a suicide maybe an accident...but definitely the result of a person who was not in complete control of his mental faculties. Another book I have been reading is called "A War Like No Other" by Victor Davis Hanson and it is about "...how the athenians and the Spartans fought the Peloponnesian war..." they fought for about 27 years and during the second year        of conflict they had a pandemic which killed tens of thousands of people living in the walled city of Athens...a lot of the main leaders in the city died ...Pericles being the most prominent,  and the attitude     of the citizens was altered a great deal...the people became mean spirited and vicious and there was a     lot of cruelty...Hanson likes to compare the Athens of that period with the USA of our time...I suppose   if things start to fall apart health-wise and with weather events and possibly even some military conflicts this countries "moral fiber" might be stretched to the breaking point...I was just watching the head of the FBI in a lengthy discussion about the multi-faceted challenges facing the nations law enforcement...in a country which is heavily armed...the ancient greeks had thousands of troops who could fling a rock with a sling and kill a person  at a few hundred yards! I may have to get myself one of those slings and practice...anyhow society seems to be slip-sliding into changes in attitude which may not bode well for "peace, love and understanding"...but my own life gets closer to its finish every day and I just need to live it one day at a time...

"A lot of people think they are good...but they are not good they are just well behaved..."                                                                         Mike Tyson from the DVD "2-Pac 4 Ever"   

"The person who emerges from childhood..."

     Colorado Chipmunk and short horned lizard....my friends in the forest

awoke early enough to watch the BBC news on the television and there was a story about                        a report on climate change that was leaked to the news organizations....it wasn't nothing nice!                  as has been predicted for years and years the melting of the ice caps is causing the melting                       of the ice caps which is causing the melting of the ice caps....and making things warmer which               is drying things out and causing them to burn and that is part of the Cascading Effect which means         the situation for the inhabitants on this planet is going to change...just as predicted many years ago...      But! the good news is that the planet can expect another ice age due to the tilting of the planet and          also because the orbit of the planet will take it further from the sun...and also another reason which         I forget...but look it up...But! the bad news it may be 100,000 years before this cooling begins to            to happen...I probably won't be here for the next ice age so I figure I better see what I can of the              planet while me and the planet are fairly healthy....someone asked me recently about COMMUNITY      as if I was supposed to say I love my neighbors or my neighborhood or my city or my state or my           country....I have had some pretty good neighbors for the last 20 years or so because I spent so much       time around lizards and chipmunks and foxes and such as that....the people are not my favorite               neighbors....I am fairly fond of the planet Earth and wonder if humans will have the ability to                 engineer the environment so that more of it will be saved from destruction due to the environmental      changes. I have some DVDs about "Super Engineering" feats humans have accomplished from the         building of the pyramids to the building of super skyscrapers to the building of Mac trucks....and          I must say it is pretty impressive what humans can accomplish. I guess if a little more incentive is          needed by the "government" to actually start building the "infrastructure" thing in this country maybe    the fires and floods will incentivize the congress.  or not.                                                                            the animals above cannot drive out of the forest to escape the fires which now threaten their homes        and the environment they need to survive...I suppose if more people become interested in keeping          the wildlife alive some places can be set aside where these animals can be cared for until their                habitat returns...but that may be a long time off... 

"The person who emerges from childhood and raises their eyes does not find nature, as it were,              pure and naked around them...they are so enclosed within imposed acclimatization's, conventional          usages, favorite customs, venerable traditions, treasured monuments, beneficial laws, and so many         splendid products of  art that they never learn to distinguished what is original and what is derived."                                                                                                                                            Goethe

"I have sinned..."

                                                 ms.GaGa...a person who loves her pets

NEWS FLASH NEWS FLASH NEWS FLASH                                                                             MISS MOO FOUND  WITH RUPERT                                                                                          the prize milk cow owned by the Teatsqueezer(c) dairy was found yesterday.                                 she jumped over the gate a few days ago  and was assumed to have gone to visit                         some of the other milk cows in the neighborhood...but after Horace the prized                             Mule-foot hog began to root under the gate Mr.Teatsqueezer and Mr. Panza decided                    to put on Horaces harness which he used at the hog shows when he was younger               using his very good sense of smell he tracked Miss Moo and Rupert to a meadow                  nearly two miles away...Miss Moo was laying down in the tall grass with a sprained                  ankle and Rupert was faithfully laying by her side...Sancho returned to the dairy to get               the truck and trailer and they loaded her and Rupert into the trailer and Miss Moo                      gratefully returned to her stall where she immediately drank nearly 20 gallons of water               the veterinarian said that she would be fine in a few weeks of limited walking...Rupert               ate several pounds of fried liver with bacon which is his favorite...

"I have sinned against my brother the ass."                                                                                     Dying words of St. Francis of Assisi