"The nomads..."

I just finished watching the american national high school womens basketball championship...i rarely watch sports but this contest had none of the taint of money that so much of sports has...these women were expert level players and after one overtime IMG (i don't know what that stands for) outscored the other team by two points...i was going to say they beat the other team but it was a contest from begining to end...not just intertaining but engaging...probably builds character for the playes too The handsome lad in the photograph is a young Bix Beiderbecke renowned trumpet player and pretty good piano player also...he died at the age of 31 years...there is an extremely good interview called "louis Armstrong remembers Bix Beiderbecke" where armstrong is asked what killed his good friend Bix...and mr armstrong tells it without backing off...his friends killed Bix...a must hear for anyone who wants not to be a victim of "friends"... i read a good description of american consumer habits which recounted how J.C. Penny the department store decided to quit having sales and just lower prices and they dropped 4 billion dollars in sales and their stock share price dropped by half...the observation was that the psychological effect of taking advantage of a "SALE" is so powerful with shoppers that it is drives actions in a fundimental way...i have fallen victim to a lot of sales in my life and might be motivated by a few more by the way bird flu is why the price of eggs went way up...not political decisions...there is a lot of half truths and lies being bandied about these days...i heard one financial pundit call the drop in stock prices "a nasty correction"...yep it is that too... but there is still some desire for "quality" (snootyness) in some places...i saw an interview with a representative of NYC Innovates which has these health spas where you can join for $750 to $4500 per month and purchase a bottle of "Amazon water" $150...they condense the water from the air...sounds snooty to me...this spa says it helps to build better human relationships...snooty people like to hang with other snooty people and try to out-snoot one another...they should adopt a dog i highly recommend a listen to Steven West the philosphy sherpa who has posted some good presentations recently...Canus was a clear eyed "artist"(and a philosopher too) i watched the movie "Color out of Space" which is a science fiction/horror movie based on an H.P. Lovecraft story filmed in 2019 i would say staring Nicolas Cage but all the actors did remakable work and the three kids did exceptionaly well...tommy chong did a good "stoner in a cabin" act and it does not end well...not for those with a weak stomach... i also really liked "Just a dream on my mind" by the secret six jazz band...excellent vocals by the banjo player...i think the trumpet player my have taken a page from the Bix playbook as he looks wasted...but plays very well despite it... "The nomads tribal structures provided no central authority to destroy or negotiate with, and they had no cities, cities that could be taken nor crops to be burned" from "Historical Atlas of the Ancient World"