"The great quality of true art..."

                                         the naked truth

con
contro
controversial
watched a film yesterday
murder by death
good movie
peter faulk said
i dont know what them society dames
are like in the kip you aint never had it
until you been with a big fat blond
waitress

watched a music video
jay zee
run
good production values
rotten subject
lots of guns
bang bang bang
no thanks

just finished audio book
mark twains auto-biography
well worth the time

went to the local art museum
they have on loan a very nice
van gogh
very nice

"The great quality of true art
is that it rediscovers, grasps
and reveals to us that reality
far from which we live, from
which we get farther and
farther away as the conventional
knowledge we substitute for
it becomes thicker and more
impermeable."
              marcel proust

got to go
dont mean to be
impermeable

mr cayetano
             

"Some of mankinds most terrible misdeeds..."

                                 the guy standing next to me

i am sitting here in the
lie bury
tap tap tapping out my
blog
i am watching a documentary film
on the mac
the goebbels experiment
it is very interesting
on the wall is a photo
of a local guy
someone said i dont like
locals
that is not the case at all
i dont like those folks
who want to abuse their
influence
and deprive me of my civil rights

i spent 4 days gathering signatures
to get a couple of
laws on the ballot in the fall
one of the laws is a 34 page
proposal to make pot legal
sort of legal
i read all 34 pages
there were lots of people
who wanted to sign the petition
none of them read all of it
so i thought i would mention a few
of the items in the bill here

a private person can grow 4 pot plants
and have 8 ounces of pot in the house
if you want to be a pot seller you must
pay 250 bucks to apply
and 1000 bucks a year
pay 35 bucks per ounce of bud
10 bucks per ounce of  leaf
and five buck per immature plant
that you sell 
the state hopes to collect
100 million bucks in pot taxes
40 percent will go to schools
now we get to some weirdness
you cannot let the plants be in public view
you cannot maintain an unsanitary establishment
you cannot be in the habit of using
alcohol, habit forming drugs, or pot
to excess
pretty funny huh
also you must be of
good repute and moral character
pretty funny
anyhow i am not sure who is going to be
on the morality and repute panel
but i doubt if keith richards could
go into the pot business here
me neither maybe
and i am as moral as
well as
as some other people
anyhow

"Some of mankinds most terrible misdeeds
have been commited under the spell of
certain magic words or phrases."  j b conant

well  i have to
avoid the legal circus
mr cayetano

"And may we heed.."

                                 yellow rumped (audubons) warbler

not much of a picture really
but someone said it was a rare bird
for this area
i sit around and eventually
i am part of the landscape

i never liked birders too much
they scurry
or is it flitter
about and usually scare
away the wildlife
but they are doing an important
service for documenting
what is happening with the
wildlife populations
its those damned life lists that
bother me
look what i have seen
i thought i saw a chimp
in the everglades once
but i just chalked it up to
chemical aberration's in the brain

i spent a week in the woods
praying
thats what i like to call it
being outdoors is praying
for me
i have not slept indoors
that is to say
in a house
or building
for nearly a year now
hope to keep it up
rather than succumb
to the hopelessness
of
acceptance

i was especially attentive on
easter sunday
and remembered something
that i read in one of my books
so i got out the book

"And may we heed the solemn
admonition set forth in this book-
not to fritter away in the worthless
doings of this world the supreme
opportunity afforded by human birth,
lest by our spiritual improvidence
we depart from this life spiritually
empty handed."
 Easter Sunday 1955 -w.y. evans-wentz
preface to the third edition of
"the tibetian book of the dead"

i wonder sometimes if i am
frittering or not

got to go
stay heedful
mr cayetano

"Understand first..."

                                  cat stares

sat watching the geese
hundreds
suddenly they all rise at once
not the dogs this time
from behind me
a bald eagle
it circles
circles again
swoops down
picks something up
it is white
it got the feral cat
i always wondered if an
eagle would eat that cat

yesterday
another wildlife viewing spot
cinnaman teal
hooded mergansers
american coots
a few more species
strange people show up
i listen to the radio
watch with the binoculars
green truck pulls up
guy gets out
with a gun in a holster
on his hip
pretty wierd
sign says no shooting
he makes sure i see his gun
la de da
i have a sharp stick
get a life

never ending drama
i listen to my life coach
thick neck hahn
mr peaceful
he says
they act the way they do
because i act the way i do
hey wait a minute
i have a sharp stiick
he says forget the sharp stick
they will get a bomb
then where will you be
bombed
i throw away my sharp stick

"Understand first that licensed
arms dealers in Briton regard
themselves as some kind of rough-edged
elite-did then, do now- and that they enjoy
quite disproportionate privilages at
the hands of the police, the bureaucracy and
the intelligence services. For reasons I have never
understood. Their grisly trade puts them in
a relationship of confidence with these bodies.
Perhaps it's the illusioin of reality they impart,
of guns as the earthy truth of life and death.
Perhaps, in the tethered minds of our officials,
their wares suggest the same authority that
is exerted by those who use them.  I don't
know. But I've seen enough of the street side
of life in the years between to know that more
men are in love with war than ever get a chance
to fight one, and that more guns are bought
to satisfy this love than for a pardonable purpose."
                                          John Le carre "The secret pilgrim"

got to go
untethered
mr cayetano

"It has been well said..."

                                 on the rocks

blog
blog
blog
here in the valley
valley of the harpies
harpie valley p t a
hip
hippo
hypocdrites
hip slick and cool

i was thinking about the bunnies
i was thinking about bunnie life
i remembered back a few years
to about 1970
i was a zookeeper
young
excited about wildlife
a woman and her daughter came into the
zoo
wit5h a bunnie
said they could no longer keep it
would the zoo take it
sure said mike
we can use a bunnie
they went away happy
mike held bunnie tenderly
in his arms as he
walked down the sidewalk
when he got to the crocodile exhibit
he tossed bunnie to the crocs
they were delighted
we had lots of bunnies
all over the zoo
and we daily had to catch them and
feed them to the crocs
bunnies can get out of hand
pretty quickly
next day
mom and daughter return
they say they must have bunnie
back
they miss bunnie
mike says
bunnie died of a broken heart
too bad
my first lesson in
life and death in a world
of lifes and deaths
good lesson

you might have read my movie
review
i keep hearing about it
stolen from my notebooks
and apparently published
life and death in a world
predators
anyhow i may publish it later
i got off on a bunnie story

learned a new word
gastrophori
look it up

"It has been well said that no
man ever sank undee the burden
of the day. It is when tomorrows
burden is added to the burden of
today that the weight is more than
a man can bear."  G. Macdonald

got to go
on the rocks
but not sunk
mr cayetano

"The stress laid..."

                                 puff

commentary

social commentary

socialist commentary

listened to the thin man

give his state of the union

speech

listened to all of it

pretty non controversial

did not take notes

but remember some of the

highlights I remember are

minimum wage

$10.10

  for federal employees

 not for the bottom

one percent

 eventually we will end

up with the 50 cent cup of

coffee costing a buck

then the minimum wage

will be useless

subsidize food

rent

 fuel

and stabilize the economy

there is no other reasonable option

however

there are some pretty thoughtful

people out there

who could come up with a

plan to get between

hard core capitalism and

hard core socialism

but they are not in economics

“Society turns away from the aged

  worker as though he belonged to another

species.  Old age exposes the failure of

out entire society.” Simon de Beauvoir

i noticed a short statement about

attempting to bring

young men of color

more in line with the national

unemployment statistics

their numbers are much higher

than the rest of the demographic

the pres skirted over this very quickly

and there was a palpable silence when

he brought it up

so i will elaborate on this idea

 i read a report about the graduation

rate in

predominately black universities

 i think southern university

 in new orleans had a 2% graduation rate

 the comment was that the worst thing for

 college education for young black men was

 more young black men

 the temptation to party is too great

 perhaps

 and they party till they flunk out

this is a fact

separate but equal does not work

now i am still a fan of the thin man

he has shown me that he is

far above a representative citizen

and an exemplary person

then I listened to the comments about

homeless

ness

in this town

the comment was made

that poverty is not pretty

but

they have tourists taking

slum tours in

rio de janero

and india

better them than us

  i suppose is the lure for gawking

some people who are classified as

homeless

prefer that mode of living

 but I know that the supposed 600 beds

 which are available

do not guarantee

sleep or safety or sanitation

the rate of respiratory infection

is extremely high

almost certain

and anyone who has caught the

shelter cough

knows whereof i speak

more tent space may be a better route

than more beds

and more willingness to hire people

for an hour or two a day

and let them put 20 bucks in their pocket

would be a life saver

reality is that there are more and more

people who are heading towards

homelessness

and if they can be helped

before they are homeless

the whole situation would be

much improved

it is a shame that for people

who are working and trying to

avoid live in the streets

there seems to be little help

for them

it is a never ending fight for

some people to just stay

in a home and in groceries

once a person takes the plunge

and is in a situation where they

have no permanent housing

they often slide into a lifestyle

and a mindset which they remain

in for years

the tough hardened so called

street people

are inventive survivors

the coyotes of the human race

they will always be with us

anyhow such are the comments

from this perspective

mr cayetano

“The stress laid on upward social

Mobility in the U S has tended to

Obscure the fact that there can be

More than one kind of mobility and

More than one direction in which it can

Go. There can be ethical mobility as well

As financial, and it can go down as well as up.”

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warrmer and wet

wet and warmer

listening to radio

trump and limbaugh

screeching global warming is a

hoax

they are a hoax

a bad dream

trump says we must be

competitive

with china and abandon

all those damned

environmental laws

I think he has some

reality issues

“Not only no result will foolish

counsel’s show,

But to disaster oft they doom mankind.”

                 Phaedrus “Fables I.

then i watched a science documentary

about the earth

from the inside out

inside planet earth

very good

and near the end

they interview scientists

and they say

there is this

anomaly

the south atlantic anomaly

which shows that the

magnetic field

is 30% weaker off the coast

of brasil and along the equator

and when the magnetic

field disappears

all the water and air

will disappear

makes global warming seem

pretty lame

so

i figure

the only way to live is

as if I might die

at any time

which of course is

true

anyhow

“Hide from our  eyes what

fortune has in store.

And grant that he who fears may

also hope.”  Lucan

hoping for a good

day

mr cayetano