Thursday, April 3, 2025

"The bitterness of the potion..."

steady!...STEADY!
different play different players...or cactus
nice gray moth hidden on gray plastic truck door
grave for MINDY...
my loudmouth nosey neighbor who arrived an hour after me...license plate had been obscured

 whoa buddy...stock market stampedes many trampled...hopefully less plastic Chinese products sold in the dollar stores...as mr musk already said... "success is uncertain but entertainment is guaranteed..."   billions of dollars being made by short sellers on the stock market...some of the economic coelacanths might wake up and evolve for the 21st century...

as for my own evolution since not trimming my beard beginning last july when i turned 70 years of age  i am daily surprised by my "presentation of self in everyday life"...i began looking like a manson family reject but then evolved into more of a walt whitman beard "whitmanesque" you might say...not full ZZ however...i must remember to keep it brushed and inspected for debris,,,but it is like having a new pet...just another responsibility...and i get to hear a lot judgment about my missing teeth but i can assure you that is well worth it considering how much pain a bad tooth can cause...still have the "rustic living in a truck" look... 

i read about a 2016 study by alan kruege of princeton who found that nearly half of working men between the age of 25-54 in the labor force use pain killers daily...damn!...also a specialist in "CUTE STUDIES" at Tokyo university found that looking at cute things can reduce stress and improve mood...which i guess is an antidote to "gloom scrolling"...

"The bitterness of the potion, and the abhorrence of the patient are necessary circumstances to the operation. It must be something to trouble and disturb the stomach that must purge and cure it." M. Montaigne

 
 

Wednesday, April 2, 2025

"Method and dispatch"



 
this fellow stayed around for quite a few days...he had long white hair and a white beard!


since mr musk is always being described as "the richest man in the world"...i thought i would display my yearly income..i don't mean to be braggadocios but this is probably why i get so much attention from the constabulary...my wealth and social standing....right!

the snow is starting to stick now so i just went out to sweep the snow off the truck...and absorb the reality that i ain't in the desert any more...or i would be dead...dead...dead...i have lots of warm clothes and new truck tires and i bought 10 tv diners for ten  bucks yesterday and i have eaten 7 of them already...this should bolster my resistance to the cold...always thinking about survival and at 70 years of age the parameters have changed...i be an old guy now...

so i heard that a mr. booker talked in the legislature for 25 hours..."a triumph of triviality"...i think that the way this country is run should be dragged into the 21st century...like presenting all information to all members of government 24 hours or more before being added to the public record...and anyone who feels the need to stand their butt up in front of their co-workers should have to wear a shock collar and if they start spewing lies they will get zapped...eventually this Skinner approach to government would make government more efficient...or else...

it is a great temptation to criticize the trump/musk coalition but when all is said and done the reality is personnel  are usually the most expensive part of any business and to cut costs personnel need to be reduced...do the math...

so "little Chinese everywhere"  broke her foot (i think her husband is too heavy to ride double on those small scooters) and true to her brave and determined nature she kept the camera rolling even in the hospital...what a tough lady!...still a great episode however no drones in the hospital...

ever heard of "cheddar man"? according to a youtube presentation this was a blue-eyed black man whose remains were found in europe and they figure there were no white people until 9 thousand years ago at the soonest...interesting what they can determine from DNA these days...

a watched an interesting DVD called "Attack of the Killer Leeches" a horror classic!...also i watched "10 violent women" (1979) 97 minutes directed by Ted V. Mikels...i watched it with mr. Mikels commentary which helped to endure the...well anyhow i counted several times and never seemed to find ten women violent or otherwise...

i recommend Herbie Hancock's youtube presentation as he is undoubtedly one of the most talented musicians in the last 50 years...and he just got another award at the age of 84...

there is a or i should say there was a rapper named "Nitric Acid" who was executed by the military junta in Burma for criticizing the government...people that put their life on the line to express their opposition are more intense than the folks who rap about bling and puss...

i heard General R. Honore' explain "operational security" on Talk Louisiana recently...its worth listening to...

"Method and dispatch govern the world. Method goes far to prevent trouble in business; for it makes the task easy, hinders confusion, saves abundance of time, and instructs those who have business depending what to do and what to hope."  Penn 

"I'm your huckleberry"  thanks val!

Tuesday, April 1, 2025

"To-day is not yesterday..."

 

                                                uncommon blossom on a common cactus

head of unidentified horned lizard
                                         horned lizard waiting for an ant
miles and miles away at the mesa site
rear of unidentified horned lizard
                                             middle portion of uidentified horned lizard
                                              rabbits reduced to eating cactus even in the mesa

well i could not find my blog when i typed in bootlegcircus.com and the helpful librarian said i could type in "bootlegcircus. blogspot.com" and so it works ....i don't mean to "give myself airs above my station" but i am going to try to get my readership up to 15 people...but i need a dramatic hook...i read that some folks have claimed to be abducted by a space alien and "probed" whatever that means...so my story is this..."all i remember is being tossed out of this alien craft (which looked very like an AMC Matador...which is a butt ugly car) and there was a guy driving it who was blue and he was laughing and he said in plain english with a southern accent..."i did not have sexual relations with that woman"
that's my story and i am sticking with it... 

i don't want to be the turd in the punch-bowl but as i research the zoonotic diseases (6 of 10 infectious diseases are zoonotic) i cannot help but think that perhaps "cuddle buddies" might want to put a warning about this very real problem...and see toxoplasmosis warnings 

i have been listening to the only radio station in this mesa area which is run by the local native tribe so i have gotten a lot of native news and view-points...the word "colonizer" is used a lot...and not in a complimentary way...the truth of the matter is that one tribe pushed another tribe from their "ancestorial" lands from the very beginning...i read that there were 150 million natives here when the white folk arrived and 90% of them had died from diseases within 50 years

so i watched a series called "West World" season 2...one of the actors called it "the Olympics for actors" well wasn't no walk in the park for the viewers either...it was like watching three dimensional chess with the 4th dimension of time thrown in...damn...never did figure out who was human and who was semi-human and who was the good folks and who was the bad folks...damn...the ladies seemed to prefer a long barreled large bore six shooter hand gun to do their slaughtering with...damn...dead folks everywhere...Bernard seemed to be heavily medicated with something to make him drowsy all the time...some of these people/robots (hosts) such as Delores you were kind of rooting for them hear that she has been re-cooked many times...millions of times for some of these host/creatures...it kind of got tedious after a while...is there a season 3?...is this how Artificial Intelligence will ruin the human race?

so politics seems to be rearing it's ugly head everywhere...i suspect that the president of the USA has a case of PYROLAGNIA...for which there is no cure...and i am sure that P. Hegseth practices AMBELOPULIA...these things happen...neither condition impeachable offenses...

"Today is not yesterday.-We ourselves change.- How then can our words and thoughts, if they are always to be fittest, continue always the same- Change indeed is painful, yet ever needful; and if memory have its force and worth, so also does hope."   Carlyle