"The desire to grab attention..."

                                           yummy yummy yummy.....

back at 4200 feet and juniper and mesa land...weather supposed to change for the colder in the next few days...got my long underwear and my down jacket handy so i suppose i will not freeze to death...while i was viewing Utube a few days ago i saw something i have never seen before...a T. swift album..."the tortured poets department " i think is the name and something about phantom vinyl something etc. I saw there were 31 songs available to view...whoa, buddy that's a lot of swift...i watched the first three completely and a few seconds of the remainder of them ...one a day is about all i can handle...now i know this artist is pretty popular and i know that i am an old guy so the esoterica of this presentation is largely a mystery to me...but it was interesting anyhow...then i began to think about what music i would recommend and i think willie nelsons album "Phases and Changes" is his best and it is a "concept" album and i do not need to have any of his lyrics deciphered...and as long as i am exposing my old guy taste i might as well confess to my frequent indulgence in "Bubblegum" music...it is great stuff..

.and i think " you are not charles bukowski and i am not Johnathan Swift" would be good lyrics...

"The desire to grab attention seems to incentivize stylistic sin. The social-mediafication of writing has steered the tone from offence of euphemism to its twin offence exaggeration."  "The Economist" 2023