"Thoughtful men, once escaped...

coypouright Bootlegcircus@blogspot.com 2012 

been harassed by the usual oprichniki
but i have
a certain
 jollity of mind
pickled in the scorn of fortune
thanks  francois rabelais
rabelais believed in god
five days out of seven
he's got me beat

just read of an account of fiscal
mysteriousness
360 tons of united states paper currency
loaded onto pallets and flown to iraq
12 billion bucks
none of which is accounted for
this according to lou illar
an author who wrote
believe me, or your lying eyes
are we stupid or what

american student loans amount
 to almost a trillion bucks
they pay students to go to
college in denmark

but virtual classes are our future
and education will be more evenly
distributed among those that  seek it

in europe they had the velvet revolution
here we are going to have the
velcro revolution
everything will stick

looked at an employment ad for a
fashion editor at one of the local papers
yesterday
while i was rooting around in the library dumpster
for magazine recycleing i snatched a bag
with a copy of gq
gentlemens quarterly magazine
i read this magazine
i am amazed
are we stupid or what
i need to apply for this fashion
editor job
i have not worn long pants
or socks
for more than a month
my feet have a nice healthy glow
i am fuckin
fashionable enough
i need this job

but right now i need to
pack my stuff and
head for the suite van

fashion is a circus
mr cayetano

"Thoughtful men, once escaped from the
blinding influences of traditional
 prejudices, will find the lowly stock whence
man has sprung the best evidence of
the splendor of his capacities,
 and will discern in his long progress through
 the past, a reasonable ground of faith
in his attainment of a noble future."   T.H.Huxley

"To call war the soil..."

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i was sort of ready to go into a tirade about the state of the nation etc. but i'm tiraded out for the day mr cayetano  "To call war the soil of courage and virtue is like calling debauchery the soil of love." George Santayana

Inversnaid  gerard manley hopkins

THIS darksome burn, horseback brown,

His rollrock highroad roaring down,

In coop and in comb the fleece of his foam

Flutes and low to the lake falls home.

A windpuff-bonnet of fáwn-fróth

5

Turns and twindles over the broth

Of a pool so pitchblack, féll-frówning,

It rounds and rounds Despair to drowning.

Degged with dew, dappled with dew

Are the groins of the braes that the brook treads through,

10

Wiry heathpacks, flitches of fern,

And the beadbonny ash that sits over the burn.

What would the world be, once bereft

Of wet and of wildness? Let them be left,

O let them be left, wildness and wet;

15

Long live the weeds and the wilderness yet.

"To burn always...."

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went to see a musical group friday evening
memorial day weekend
free
heard they were a rock group
some people are embarrassed by their
rock and roll past
not me

they played rock
jazz
blues
fusion

the namesake of the group
edgar
edgar winter
i had never seen before
never bought any of his albums before
he has been playing rock and roll for almost
half a century
he is rock and roll
he was there for the birthing
honest credentials
and he aint riding on nobodies coat-tails
or resting on no laurels

mr edgar winter has assembled a quartet
of superb musicians
mr jason carpenter ruled the drums
mr koko powell controlled the 5 string bass
and himself
and throw mr doug rappoports name in the hat
for worlds best rock guitarist
he does not just play guitar
he dominates it 
conquers it
makes it perform to his command

mr edgar winter
shows what half a century of
performance can achieve
leadership
musicianship
showmanship
class
mr edgar winter played keyboard
stationary
and dangling from his neck
and saxophone
and drums very well thank you
and his lips larynx tongue and throat
gave an excellent performance

and when all was said and done
you felt like you had made 4 new friends
and the show was a success
and they rocked

"To burn always with the hard gem like flame,
to maintain this ecstasy,  is success." Walter Pater

rock on
mr cayetano

"We are nauseated by the sight..."

fake book
sell the bastard out
are we stupid or what
wothehell

excursion eastward
trails and travails
saltlife
sand life
sunlife
incompetent spies
call in the pros

"We are nauseated by the sight of trivial personalities decomposing in the eternity of print."
                                                                    Virginia Woolfe   (1925)

and the circus continues
mr cayetano

"This miserable state..."

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trying to make progress in my guitar playing
hired a highly recommended guitar teacher
here he is trying to get me to play the "b" chord
it's too hard for me
when i really need some relief and encouragement
i break out a little ozzie and listen to music made in heaven
no not that ozzie
ozzie kotani hawiian slack string guitar master
i especially like "ku u kika kahiko"  (my old guitar)

i get a hell of a lot of criticism for about every aspect of my life
of course i do  a lot of criticising also
i try to keep from being too distracted by all those who have condemned
me to roast in perdition and i found this description of the
 "stay in line and never talk back champions of mediocrity"
given by Dante
i don't want to only get half-way there

"This miserable state is borne by the wretched souls of those who lived without disgrace
and without praise." 
                                       Dante Alighieri-   "Inferno" referring to the souls of the futile

got to go
getting out of line
as much as i can
mr. cayetano

"It is of the highest importance in the art...

the harassment is increasing

supposed to be a law against harassment

and bullying

goes with the whistle blowing

i suppose

been to the fbi

and the us attorney

they just laughed in my face

my room was entered recently

and my property stolen

my vehicle was entered also

and my property was stolen

said it was government employees

goes with the whistle blowing

i suppose

"Government can be a kind of gangsterism and is in Russia

and is likely to be here if we don't take care of ourselves

pretty carefully." Frank Lloyd Wright (1958 T.V. interview)

listening to a report on the radio

concerning an exhibit somewhere

about thomas jefferson

and his slaves

slavery

been around a long time

spartans had 'em

really rough on 'em

greeks had 'em

back when socrates was alive

free gentlemen of color had 'em

in new orleans

back in the 18th & 19 century

irish came over to the usa

as indentured servants

some asians still do

and some europeans

so i was wondering about

people who are in business

you know the successful ones

who allow workers to work for

say $7.25  per hour

and people who allow wait staff

to work for $2.50 per hour

plus gratuities

they will not allow that in europe

i have heard

i wonder if squirmin herman

ever advocated for better wages

for restaurant workers

tough work

but not slavery

by todays definition

 "When you see a situation you can not understand,

look for the financial interest."  Tom L. Johnson

been mostly staying in the swamps

real relaxing mostly

listen to the radio

lots of news and such

dead folks

news seems to be a lot about

dead folks

heard mike mullen say

a while back that

no person who serves in combat

will ever be the same

he should know

heard the commander in chief

say he thinks maybe

four thousand jobs will be

made available to veterans

as policemen and firemen

better reconsider that

chief

i wonder why the government

affords me no help

for my serious problem

with being harassed

they can kiss my ass

"It is of the highest importance in the art of detection to be able to recognize out of a number of facts which are incidental and which are vital...I would call your attention to the curious incident of the dog in the night-time."

"The dog did nothing in the night-time."

"That was the curious incident." 

Arthur Conan Doyle "The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes"

                                    "Silver Blaze" (1893)

Panem et Circuses (Bread and Circuses) Satires, X Juvenal

mr cayetano

"The use of force alone is but temporary.

   

listened to an interview with the

chief law enforcement officer

for this parish

sometimes known as

the high sheriff

interviewer asked

chief law enforcement officer

 why this area

has the 3rd highest homicide rate

in the nation

drugs

was his reply

drugs

i had just eaten a motrin for back pain

i looked around to see

if i was going to be murdered

or if i might murder someone

apparently not

been reading in a book called

ceremonial chemistry

about

the ritual persecution of drugs,

addicts and pushers

by thomas szasz

he says

...for the facts here, quite simply, are that some

people want to take some drugs which some

others do not want them to take. The drug users-

called "drug abusers" or "drug addicts" by the authorities-

regard their drugs as their allies, and those who try to deprive

them of their drugs as their adversaries; whereas the politicians,

psychiatrists, and ex-addicts- who call themselves

"experts on drug abuse and drug addiction"- regard the prohibited

drugs as their enemies, the persons who use them as their patients

and their own coercive interventions as "treatments".

a fellow asked me for a cigarette this morning

i smugly told him i don't smoke anymore

then i went to the store and bought myself a

jar of instant coffee

for a quick fix

i found this info somewhere

17th century prince of the petty state

of waldeck pays ten thalers to anyone

who denounces a coffee drinker

and this

17th cent. russian czar michael federovitch executes

anyone on whom tobacco is found.

czar alexi mikhailovitch rules that anyone caught

with tobacco should be tortured until he gives

up the name of his supplier.

damn

the chief law enforcement officer says

he has increased

boots on the ground

to help stop the murders

boots on the ground

that's a military term

not a peace officer term

read in the national review

jan. 23, 2012

an article by james lileks

that there are now over

40,000 statutes on the law books

at the state level

he called it the

incremental criminalization

of some element of life

damn

we're screwed

i think the

chief law enforcement officer

only got half of the answer to

the interviewers question

the whole answer would be

drug laws

"Dilige et quod vis fac"

"Love and do what you will." St. Augustine

"The use of force alone is but temporary.

It may subdue for a moment; but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again: and a nation is not governed, which is perpetually to be conquered."   Burke, Edmund

this place is a circus          looking at the stern of the oil supply boat just before
                                           going back to secure the vessel to the oil rig with a line
                                           all in a days work...unless you get washed overboard!

mr. cayetano