"Where ever a man goes..."

 not sure what this was that appeared over the arizona desert....it is unidentified and flying....

wind gusts to 40 miles per hour last night...the truck rocked and rolled...i was comfortably beneath the blanket in my bed (the bed of the truck that is) high temp today about 67 degrees...pretty nice for the desert...wind is moving the "dust" around...actually it is small sand...the usual stalkers sniffing around while i am in town today...you know i was asked once about "community" and i suppose whether i felt the need to "belong"...uh...no...not at all...i have been from here to there and back...i am very well acquainted with "community"....if i was seeking an elected office perhaps i would feel more compelled to belong...at least until election day...no i have never been in any "community" that i felt would not become a problem...but i do read a lot...and a lot of quotations and history and science and i feel very much like i am not isolated or a recluse...i was listening to a woman from england being interviewed about her foray into civil disobedience...she flung tomato "T soup on a painting and then glued her hands to something...she has a battle cry which is "JUST STOP OIL"...now that idea is sort of like that which a 25 year philosophy professor lectured about as he traveled the country...he thought that all use of animals by humans was wrong...food, pets, transportation...everything...both of those ideas are absurd...but they get a lot of press... i am afraid oil and animals are here for a long while...ms PLUMPER the anti-oil advocate asked what is more important art or people...well thats easy...ART IS MORE IMPORTANT!...despite the Musk Melons belief that we need more people in actual fact there is a surplus of people and a dearth of art...i have noticed recently that a lot of people who are interviewed feel compelled to disclose that they are Queer...which i think means that they have sex with people of the same gender as themselves...i have a hard time understanding why this is worthy of disclosing unless they are in bed under the sheets with a person...it seems to be a non-issue to me...but from the number of women who disclose this predilection i am beginning to think that the word is out  and men may be running a distant second place as a sex partner...admittedly women would be my first choice too...but enough of this lamenting the evolution of sex...there is a fellow named david buss who heads a research organization which studies "THE MATING HABITS OF HUMANS"...i viewed one of their DVD's and was impressed with the amount of information they have obtained and how much of it is not what one would expect...sex is a mystery and deserves the attention of the learned....i am dismayed to learn that a man who murdered 17 people will have his food, medical and clothing expenses paid for the rest of his life...at the tax-payers expense...the problem is that there is not CLOSURE for those of us in society who are traumatized by these violent acts...we had to wait decades for C. Manson to die...while our trauma festered...heard about the open air drug market which has developed in what is called "THE TENDERLOIN" in San Francisco...used to live in that part of that city...i lived across from from the largest trans-sexual/ transvestite bar in the world (allegedly) called "THE MOTHERLOAD"...it was a busy place...according to the news report most of the drug dealers are teenaged men from Honduras recruited bu a mexican cartel that operates out of oakland across the bay...very sad situation that these people are allowed to degrade a city as wonderful as san fransisco...also in the drug news...there the largest opium harvest ever in Afghanistan this year 6200 tons of opium which can be turned into about 300 tons of heroin...i highly recommend "The Accountants Story" by Roberto Escobar (yes brother of the Pablo) this book details how the money made in the drug trade is used to bribe those folks who are supposed to stop it...it ain't pretty...once again i would like to highlight "EMBODIED ENERGY"...think of a guy who gets up in the morning and has breakfast and goes to work as a brickmaker...the bricks are piled up to make a wall and the walls a house and the houses a village...each and every brick has embodied energy...so when a brick is knocked down and a wall and a house and a village...a lot of energy has been wasted...i heard this part of a Sumerian poem from about 4 thousand years ago which addresses the destruction of Lagash..."...because the men of Umma destroyed the bricks of Lagash he committed a sin against the city's God..."....time has taught humans very little...

"Wherever a man goes, men will pursue him and paw him with their dirty institutions, and, if they can constrain him to belong to their desperate odd fellows society." H.D. Thoreau