one of the many obsidian edged tools i have found at indian camp...
i see where there is a new head of the coconino forest...another woman...hopefully she will commandeer some workers to get the forest trimmed...a lot of rain this year and not enough grazers to keep the grass down...heard an "expert" say they would like to stop domestic animal grazing on a lot of the national forest...in some circles the "experts" say that the "silva grazing" is a good thing as it helps keep the burnable stuff from growing too much...i think the less fire the better...but i was in Kissimee prairie once in florida and they told me they had to burn every 18 months to keep the fires from burning up the gopher tortoises and such as that...forest management needs to be a priority or the damage will be catastrophic...feeling a little fatigued today as i was up in the middle of the night for the last two nights doing battle with the "RODENTS"...it sounded like maybe a cow had gotten under the truck it was so noisy...but when i shined my light into the engine compartment there was a rat sitting on the air filter...it was smaller than a capybara but bigger then a nutria...or so it seemed...to me.., durn their scurvy butts! i need to get several rat traps because the mouse traps ain't happening...
been keeping notes about whats in the news...while i was awake at one this morning i tuned in the BBC news and heard that yvon chouinard has bequeathed his 3 billion dollar business to the earth...or some such thing...this guy was a real mountain climber way back when...he built climbing gear with a forge he kept in his car...a volkswagon i think...and ate canned cat food they were so short of money...he probably does not eat cat food any more...also there was big news in australia...first human to be killed by a kangaroo since the 1930's...they did not say whether it was a great grey or a giant red but i have stood next to these large macropods and they sure seem like they can kick the stuffing out of you...plus they are pretty ugly up close...now the people locked up in jails and prisons in new york cannot be called inmates or prisoners but must be called "incarcerated individuals"...makes sense...nobody wants to be degraded in society...and it is obvious that this country has way too many people locked up...
i watched a DVD i picked up a while back called "Albino Alligator"...spoiler alert...there is no alligator albino or otherwise in this movie...it was supposed to be taking place in new orleans...but early in the movie they walk down some stairs into a bar which is in a basement...i don't think so...they dont even bury people underground in new orleans so a basement bar is not very likely...this story is about a crime that goes wrong...much as the movie goes wrong...the acting is as good as the script allows...which is not very good...there was a whiff of "Dog Day Afternoon"...actually more than a whiff...it reeked...also i had watched "Chinatown" just few days before so Ms Dunaway had a lot to live up too...i think when she introduced her "boy" to matt dillon he should have slapped her and she could have said "my son...my brother...my son...my brother..." it would have been a good nod to her other film...i will say that william fitchner was by far the best actor on the set and the most entertaining scene was when ATF agent Browning was being interviewed by the tv reporter Ferguson...that was quite funny...i did not like the ending too much either...
"Most humans have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted." Aldous Huxley
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