"I do not avoid women..."

     life in the shadows

been watching my Art History DVDs...one of them mentioned the "Iconoclastic Rage" (8/28/1566)         which was quite a long time ago but just goes to illustrate the destructive power of totalitarian                influences...these folks destroyed all the art that they figured was "iconoclastic"...what a bunch of           morons...and they are still with us! the Chinese government did the same thig in China and of course     the ISIS folks and also various and assorted religiously based coalitions here and abroad...                      the great thing about living in a democracy...well I am reading a book entitled "A war like no other"         and the myth that the 5th century BCE government in Athens was gods gift to a free people...is bogus...first of all the citizens voted to kill a lot of folks who had fallen into dis-repute...Socrates             being only one citizen who was condemned to death...just because the majority of people are in              favor of something hardly makes it good or ethical...which is why in the USA the  Constitution has         restrictions to keep people from whacking unpopular people...there is the practice of "Politicide" which was recently practiced in Haiti...and has been used since...well, forever...we tend to dissuade this type      of extreme political maneuvering in the USA...but it happens...now as the noose tightens on our ability to survive in this climatic extreme event (which should be over within 100,000 years or so) it will          be increasingly prevalent for "big man" politics to become prevalent...not good ("big woman" either)      I think that populations will segregate and form PODS and share resources within their like minded        group...not unlike 5th century Greece...lots of small city states ,autonomous but still depending on          protection from outside military powers...for a price... 

                                    high power area

"I do not avoid women, but I do deny them my essence" Jack Ripper
     

"Foolish is he..."

                                             got to leave some water for the critters

                                              plain titmouse-(Parus inornatus)

                                            mouse that didn't realize the fan blade was dangerous

                                            California thrasher-(Toxostoma redivivum)

                                            probably a great basin fence lizard

one of the things about living around wildlife is that you are always wondering if they                              have a better deal than humans...what with not having to deal with traffic jams and such as that                but they are having to deal with severe climate extremes which they are not going to survive                    unless humans provide for them...i was remembering the tiny one inch salmon that were in                      streams in Oregon...they can only survive a 2 degree increase in temperature...then they die                     so I suppose in a few years all of the wild salmon will be gone from the pacific northwest....                according to what I read the bizarre relationship humans have with clothing will probably do                  far worse damage to the environment than domestic livestock...                                                                  global consumers buy 80 billion tons of clothing a year...20% of mass produced clothing does                not sell as clothing...20% of water pollution is from clothing manufacturing...24% of all chemicals          go into clothing manufacturing...90% of all water sampled has microfibers...2.1 billion tons                    of clothing is discarded every year...over 700 gallons of water is used to produce a t-shirt...Now              I have some doubt about that number...its like the number of gallons of water they said it takes                to produce one hamburger patty.                                                                                                                  If you are not depressed enough by now here is more alarming information....humans share 26 diseases   with poultry, 32 with rats, 35 with horses, 42 with swine, 46 with sheep and goats, 50 with bovines,       and 65 with dogs...why they failed to mention cats is a mystery...but I know toxoplasmosis is one          disease that felines can transmit to humans...and it ain't nothing nice....                                                      so I suppose we should all go around naked and alone to live a longer healthier life! Have a nice day!

"Foolish is he who levels cities, temples, tombs, and the sanctuaries of the dead; as he sows                    destruction, so later he himself perishes." Euripides "Trojan Women"              
 

"Buy me a flute..."

         PROBABLY A MERRIAM CHIPMUNK (EUTAMIAS MERRIAMI)

spent 13 days at a new bio-type which is sort of between desert and mountain and I suppose                    a "Mediterranean" climate....still hotter than hell and deadly to a lot of species                                          I did the usual hard core animal stalking...not really...just sat in the chair and read and ate                        and read some more and ate some more until after 13 days most of the critters were no longer                 alarmed at my presence and began to get pretty close...I was backed into a scrub oak thicket                  which not too surprisingly had lots of scrub jays (Aphelocoma coerlescens) in residence...as well            as a couple of California ground squirrels (Citellus beecheyi) and some hummingbirds which I               think were Costas hummingbirds (Calypte costae) I never figured out how hot the temperature  was      but probably over a hundred...but it stayed comfortable under the large oak tree.  I found a water pipe     coming out of the ground which was de-commisioned but still had a slight leak and was wetting the       concrete slab so I put a cast iron griddle which had been abandoned in a campsite under the dripping and then put a half a water bottle with a rock in it under the drip and there was a good spot for the          true residents to get some life giving water...because the wildlife are going to suffer and die if the           humans don't get busy realizing they do not have the capacity to travel great distances to get water        anyhow by the time I left there were a lot of birds and a rabbit hanging around the water spot....              also there was a California thrasher (Toxostoma redivivum) which came around a sifted through             the leaves with great enthusiasm and helped to keep the bug population in check...there were more         insects at this site than anyplace I had been in a while...which is a good thing!

"Buy me a flute, and a gun that shoots a tailgate substitute ,                                                                        strap yourself to a tree with roots, we ain't going nowhere..."                                                                                                                                    Bob Dylan

"A wrong doer..."

         double rainbow near peach springs...the one on the left is the brightest I have ever seen  

just saw a news story about whether video games are the key to winning in "real life"...on FOX....           i must say 48 hours of being around a television with a hundred stations will certainly alter ones            world view...now i am watching a weather report from Tokyo, Japan...and sports...who knew so much    of human endeavor in the 21st century revolved around people manipulating spheres...amazing....I think historians a few hundred years from now will attribute the decline in western civilization to failure to      prioritize expenditure of resources to maximize survival...this just in...monopoly charges dropped against FACEBOOK...stock prices surge and company now worth more than a trillion bucks...maybe I   should get a facebook account...i almost got sucked into the vortex a while back when I suddenly found myself surrounded on the computer with an icon ready to seduce a click...and then my entire existence  would be in the memory banks of the real MOLOCH...just like AMAZON...I buy two items and now      they have everything I have ever looked at in their electronic grasp...even this sad little blog seems        seems to have become a thorn in the side of some folks...I recently met a woman who warned me not      to mess with the "C"...she also said that "DRUGS" is the biggest problem concerning national security....I don't think so...CORRUPTION is the reason society has so many problems...in my opinion...with 18 intelligence agencies sniffing around one would think the corruption would have a       hard time effecting our lives...but some of the folks in the intel biz are a little dirty...a lot dirty really       I have been the target of some of these tainted folks for a long time...I was told that my life would          be "TRAGIC" and I cannot make any money and I must live in the "BOX" for the rest of my life...how    it came to pass that I would warrant  the attention of such important and powerful people remains a mystery to me...I did meet a fellow in central america who told me the first day I met him       "YOU HAVE TO FORGET ABOUT INTEGRITY....NO INTEGRITY!" no integrity Dave I call him.     I guess over the last 30 years or so I have seen much if not most of society become increasingly psychologically conditioned to various external stimuli...brainwashed really...there were the whistlers and the coughers and the burpers and the laughers and the red shirts and the blue shirts and the multitude of secret handshakes ...I'm really just too stupid to keep it all sorted out...I just have to  continue with my tragic life...hang out with chipmunks and birds and such...this just in...Swiss beat the    French in a game with a ball on a field...very exciting!...not really...                                                        now for some interesting animal facts ...Turritopsis dohrnii is a small jellyfish discovered in the Mediterranean  1883 and researchers have discovered that it can curl itself into a small ball and split into a colony of individuals (this is called transdifferentiation) they also can repair their telomeres  which allows them to not age...which goes to show reality is more interesting than living a fiction                     

"A wrong doer is often a person who has left something undone, not always someone                               who has done something." Marcus Aurelius

 

"A lot of people think they are good..."

                          a raven couple who kept me company for a few days

the national forests were declared off limits around flagstaff until it gets some more rain                           so I headed west as I figured the BLM land near peach springs would be the closest                                  legal place to park...the temperature there was about 90 a week ago but yesterday it was 105 degrees   which is getting into the fatal range for humans...so I packed up this morning and headed west....             got to needles and the temperature was 115 degrees...now at 9;30 at night it is 105 degrees....but I          got a room...really didn't want to spend the $77 bucks but really didn't want to burn up the engine           on the truck and possibly have a stroke and the price of the room when compared with the price             of a truck and a stroke seems like a pretty good investment... the last time I got a room in this town         it was $37 bucks...but this is a much nicer room....

I keep reminding myself that the weather extremes are now going to be normal...floods, drought, wind     events...and maybe pandemics also...I had been reading a few very good books while sitting quietly      in the shade of a juniper tree and listening to the only radio station I could pick up...it was the official      radio station of the Wallop-Eye tribe who own about a million acres of land near peach springs...the station plays everything from hip-hop to rock and roll and classic country....real classic country like old  hoyt axton and such as that...i heard where Jay Z got inducted into the rock and roll hall of fame...I have  not listened to a lot to rap music but I have a Jay Z DVD and several Tupac DVD's and a DVD       from a tour of several hip hop artists...Snoop Dogg, Eminim and some others...as a genre of music it      is so different from Rock and Roll I can't see why they would think Jay Z could qualify as a rock and         roll hall of famer...he has enough expendable income you would think he could build a HipHop hall      of fame...some of the hip hop I hear (like on the Wallop-Eye station) is pretty "artistic" but much of        it is pretty self-indulgent drivel... I picked up a Herbie Hancock DVD a while back and the fellow is        so talented I don't see how most Rappers could even look him in the eye and call themselves musicians. I picked up a hardback copy of "On the Road" by Jack Kerouac...which I have never read and now I  have about finished it and the main "protagonist" in the book is a guy named "Dean" who is actually  a fellow named Neil Cassidy who drove the bus "FURTHUR" when Ken Kesey et.al went across  the country...Cassidy's wife wrote a book called "Off The Road" about what  it was like to be around a bunch of acid head, speed freak, stoner types...it wasn't very complementary of the "Beats" and  proto-hippies...and she has a few pictures of Neil Cassidy after his already close to edge self did acid  a few times...he looks like a man who has seen the devil...in his own brain...he lay down on a rail-way track in Mexico and was killed...maybe a suicide maybe an accident...but definitely the result of a person who was not in complete control of his mental faculties. Another book I have been reading is called "A War Like No Other" by Victor Davis Hanson and it is about "...how the athenians and the Spartans fought the Peloponnesian war..." they fought for about 27 years and during the second year        of conflict they had a pandemic which killed tens of thousands of people living in the walled city of Athens...a lot of the main leaders in the city died ...Pericles being the most prominent,  and the attitude     of the citizens was altered a great deal...the people became mean spirited and vicious and there was a     lot of cruelty...Hanson likes to compare the Athens of that period with the USA of our time...I suppose   if things start to fall apart health-wise and with weather events and possibly even some military conflicts this countries "moral fiber" might be stretched to the breaking point...I was just watching the head of the FBI in a lengthy discussion about the multi-faceted challenges facing the nations law enforcement...in a country which is heavily armed...the ancient greeks had thousands of troops who could fling a rock with a sling and kill a person  at a few hundred yards! I may have to get myself one of those slings and practice...anyhow society seems to be slip-sliding into changes in attitude which may not bode well for "peace, love and understanding"...but my own life gets closer to its finish every day and I just need to live it one day at a time...

"A lot of people think they are good...but they are not good they are just well behaved..."                                                                         Mike Tyson from the DVD "2-Pac 4 Ever"   

"The person who emerges from childhood..."

     Colorado Chipmunk and short horned lizard....my friends in the forest

awoke early enough to watch the BBC news on the television and there was a story about                        a report on climate change that was leaked to the news organizations....it wasn't nothing nice!                  as has been predicted for years and years the melting of the ice caps is causing the melting                       of the ice caps which is causing the melting of the ice caps....and making things warmer which               is drying things out and causing them to burn and that is part of the Cascading Effect which means         the situation for the inhabitants on this planet is going to change...just as predicted many years ago...      But! the good news is that the planet can expect another ice age due to the tilting of the planet and          also because the orbit of the planet will take it further from the sun...and also another reason which         I forget...but look it up...But! the bad news it may be 100,000 years before this cooling begins to            to happen...I probably won't be here for the next ice age so I figure I better see what I can of the              planet while me and the planet are fairly healthy....someone asked me recently about COMMUNITY      as if I was supposed to say I love my neighbors or my neighborhood or my city or my state or my           country....I have had some pretty good neighbors for the last 20 years or so because I spent so much       time around lizards and chipmunks and foxes and such as that....the people are not my favorite               neighbors....I am fairly fond of the planet Earth and wonder if humans will have the ability to                 engineer the environment so that more of it will be saved from destruction due to the environmental      changes. I have some DVDs about "Super Engineering" feats humans have accomplished from the         building of the pyramids to the building of super skyscrapers to the building of Mac trucks....and          I must say it is pretty impressive what humans can accomplish. I guess if a little more incentive is          needed by the "government" to actually start building the "infrastructure" thing in this country maybe    the fires and floods will incentivize the congress.  or not.                                                                            the animals above cannot drive out of the forest to escape the fires which now threaten their homes        and the environment they need to survive...I suppose if more people become interested in keeping          the wildlife alive some places can be set aside where these animals can be cared for until their                habitat returns...but that may be a long time off... 

"The person who emerges from childhood and raises their eyes does not find nature, as it were,              pure and naked around them...they are so enclosed within imposed acclimatization's, conventional          usages, favorite customs, venerable traditions, treasured monuments, beneficial laws, and so many         splendid products of  art that they never learn to distinguished what is original and what is derived."                                                                                                                                            Goethe

"I have sinned..."

                                                 ms.GaGa...a person who loves her pets

NEWS FLASH NEWS FLASH NEWS FLASH                                                                             MISS MOO FOUND  WITH RUPERT                                                                                          the prize milk cow owned by the Teatsqueezer(c) dairy was found yesterday.                                 she jumped over the gate a few days ago  and was assumed to have gone to visit                         some of the other milk cows in the neighborhood...but after Horace the prized                             Mule-foot hog began to root under the gate Mr.Teatsqueezer and Mr. Panza decided                    to put on Horaces harness which he used at the hog shows when he was younger               using his very good sense of smell he tracked Miss Moo and Rupert to a meadow                  nearly two miles away...Miss Moo was laying down in the tall grass with a sprained                  ankle and Rupert was faithfully laying by her side...Sancho returned to the dairy to get               the truck and trailer and they loaded her and Rupert into the trailer and Miss Moo                      gratefully returned to her stall where she immediately drank nearly 20 gallons of water               the veterinarian said that she would be fine in a few weeks of limited walking...Rupert               ate several pounds of fried liver with bacon which is his favorite...

"I have sinned against my brother the ass."                                                                                     Dying words of St. Francis of Assisi