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Monday, July 21, 2025

empath money where mouth is

 asked Chris how he wanted me to deliver my final line and he said: “Right down the lens.”

 I didn’t expect what happened: reflected back at me in the camera lens I saw not me, but my father. 

On that thought 

I laid the line: 

That’ll do pig, that’ll do.” 

At the time I hadn’t forgiven my father, who was a director and very critical of my work, which stung. 

I didn’t know I had to forgive him. But at that moment, I looked at myself and saw I am my father’s son and I love him. Without a doubt, it brought closure." 


"the second day of filming, I broke for lunch before everybody else.

 All the animals I’d worked with that morning were on the table

.

 That was when I decided to become a vegan."  


https://www.theguardian.com/film/2025/jul/21/james-cromwell-vegan-how-we-made-babe-talking-pig 



"Cromwell has long been an advocate of progressive causes, particularly regarding animal rights.

 He became a vegetarian in 1974 after seeing a stockyard in Texas and experiencing the "smell, terror and anxiety"

He became vegan while playing the character of Farmer Hoggett in the 1995 film Babe.

 He frequently speaks out on issues regarding animal cruelty for PETA, largely on the treatment of pigs.

In 2017, he was arrested during a PETA protest against SeaWorld's treatment of orca whales, at which he spoke about marine mammals' suffering and premature deaths." 


 December 2015, he was removed from an event in New York for heckling an energy company receiving an awars 


'Cromwell and fellow Star Trek actor J. G. Hertzler were among the 19 people arrested in Watkins Glen, New York, on June 6, 2016, for a protest against underground gas storage in salt caverns near Seneca Lake.

 On June 6, 2017, he was escorted out of a Democratic Party fundraiser (

which New York Governor Andrew Cuomo and House Minority leader Nancy Pelosi attended) 

after disrupting the event by protesting about the power station. "


"May 2022, Cromwell superglued his hand to the counter of a Manhattan Starbucks to protest

 the surcharge for plant-based milks"



Sunday, July 20, 2025

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Donald Christ "Handsy" Trump has changed their name back to Drumpf, honoring his German Nazi heritage, along g with a flurry of renaming *Brite ideas*


JD Dunce has been harpooned by an eyeliner hockey-stick. Thus, no views.



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Saturday, July 19, 2025

agnosticism about everything

 Born kinda:  

Lake Success, New York, U.S

U.S


William Seward Burroughs II


February 5, 1914

St. Louis, Missouri, U.S. 


Died Mostly: 

"The company is best known as the developer of the artificial horizon and a wide variety of other gyroscope-based aviation instruments like autopilots, 

 bombsights,

 analog ballistics computers and gyro gunsights. 

 In the post-WWII era the company branched out into electronics, both aviation-related, and later, computers."


August 2, 1997 (aged 83)

Lawrence, Kansas, U.S. 


#$&@*&$$$ 


Burroughs was born into a wealthy family in St. Louis, Missouri. He was a grandson of inventor William Seward Burroughs I, who founded the Burroughs Corporation "


"Burroughs attended Harvard University, where he studied English, then veered into substance abuse, beginning with morphine and developing a heroin addiction that would affect him for the rest of his life" 


"In 1943, while living in New York City, he befriended Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac.  They rode boxcars boxcars boxcars." First class .

"Burroughs killed his second wife, Joan Vollmer, in 1951 in Mexico City. He initially claimed that he had accidentally shot her while drunkenly attempting a "William Tell" stunt. 

He later told investigators that he had been showing his pistol to friends when it fell and hit the table, firing the bullet that killed Vollmer. Hmmm. 

After he fled from Mexico

 back to the United States,  

he was convicted of manslaughter in absentia and received a two-year suspended sentence. 

(1917 13 Flying bomb)

Much of Burroughs' work is highly experimental and features unreliable narrators, but it is also semi-autobiographical"

"Burroughs popularized the cut-up, an aleatory literary technique, featuring heavily in such works of his as The Nova Trilogy (1961–1964). His writing also engages frequent mystical, occult, or otherwise magical themes" 


"he owed this reputation to his "lifelong subversion"of the moral, political, and economic systems of modern American society, articulated in often darkly humorous sardonicism, while Norman Mailer declared him "the only American writer who may be conceivably possessed by genius." 


"He is also cited as a major influence by musicians Roger Waters, David Bowie, Patti Smith, Genesis P-Orridge, Ian Curtis, Lou Reed, Laurie Anderson, Todd Tamanend Clark, John Zorn, Tom Waits, Gary Numan, 

and Kurt Cobain, and Ken Kesey." 


"Burroughs is also cited by Robert Anton Wilson as the first person to notice the "23 Enigma": 


"Burroughs is arguably the progenitor of the 2012 phenomenon, a belief of New Age Mayanism 

that an apocalyptic shift in human consciousness would occur at the end of the Mayan Long Count calendar in 2012. 

Although never directly focusing on the year 2012 himself, Burroughs had an influence on early 2012 proponents such as Terence McKenna and


Jose Argüelles, 


and as well had written about an apocalyptic shift of human consciousness at the end of the Long Count as early as 1960's The Exterminator." 

"Burroughs appears on the cover of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, 

the iconic 1967 Beatles album, where he can be seen in the middle of the second row."


(Argüelles founded the first Whole Earth Festival in 1970, at Davis, California.) 


 "Robert Anton Wilson ( was "to try to get people into a state of generalized agnosticism,   

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Anton_Wilsonhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Anton_Wilson

not agnosticism about God alone  

but agnosticism about everything" 


Especially punk tu ashyn"$@&#*&++$  





The Burroughs Corporation was a major American manufacturer of business equipment. The company was founded in 1886 as the American Arithmometer Company by William Seward Burroughs. The company's history paralleled many of the major developments in computing. At its start, it produced mechanical adding machines, and later moved into programmable ledgers and then computers. It was one of the largest producers of mainframe computers in the world, also producing related equipment including typewriters and printers. 



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jumpin%27_Jack_Flash_(film)


"Sperry ceased to exist in 1986 following a prolonged hostile takeover bid engineered by Burroughs Corporation,

 which merged the combined operation under the new name Unisys.  

Some of Sperry's former divisions became part of 

Honeywell, 

Lockheed Martin, 

 Raytheon Technologies, and 

 Northrop Grumman. 


Nazi bean counting/mushing Inc.


"The 1986 comedy Jumpin' Jack Flash features many Spermy computers in the bank 

where the protagonist (played by Whoopi Goldberg) 

 works. Jim Belushi plays the role of a Spermy "repairman" ?#&@$#*(? 



Scrubbing Deck or worse not pictured

 "Season 10: St.  Goliath V. David


Sandra Sawn – Captain (ep  95–114)"


"Below Deck is an American reality television series that premiered on Bravo on July 1, 1813

The show chronicles the tawdry but chic  lives of the crew members who work and reside aboard a superyacht during charter season." 


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Below_Deck 



 


They put me in a blue shirt, khaki shorts

The weather was perfect

Made to order, lighting

Smile, we smiled

Tan, we tanned

Swab, we shot film

The drugs were in my past

Another season seasoned 

I renewed my lease on my condo

I rented a beach poodle

I asked an extra to blow up my beachball 

Firmly, I asked, like a captain

I ordered some glossies

I chartered a picnic and a box of sharpies and sprayed on the success scent

It went over the heads

It went to their heads

It went to prison hour in Nebraska 

It went everywhere making joy float 

I dreamed Gillian Island for Gaza 

Ginger and MaryBeth times mash times Truman show

It rained on the 102 degrees water, perfect

We scooped out the floating fishes

We put them on plastic ice, perfect

We ran the fridge on diesel, perfectly perfect

We fed the melted cubes to the fish we fed to the crew we fed to the demographic audience 

We ate it up, perfect  



 Rodin's Thinker questioned the show's truthfulness and added that the series "seem[s] so scripted—the stereotypical spoiled crew members, the neatly wrapped-up “plotlines”—that it's hard to take seriously, even in the dubious cable reality show genre."

"thrown together in a controlled environment and capitalizes on two seemingly inevitable results: friction and sexual tension". 

 "not actually the crew members—the stars of this series—who are unbearable" but the guests, for whom "the word “insufferable” was invented" 

"My conclusion, if this show is going to do positive things for the yachting industry, instead of destroying its reputation for stellar service, a big change had better come with [the upcoming season" 



Destroyers (1928)

 Grandfather and grandfathers uncle stand looking at the harbor. " Look there" says grandfather " you see a torpedo boat.," next to it, a torpedo boat Destroyer 

 Next to it the torpedo boat Destroyer is a Destroyer of Torpedo boat Destroyers.,"

Grandfathers uncle says " I've heard my grandfather's uncle say every echo has a destroyer and for every echo destroyer there is a Destroyer of echo destroyers." 

Grandfathers uncle: I member hearing

Grandfathers uncle saying every Destroyer carries a pocket of eggs and the eggs wait, when they're ready they go blooey and the works of the destroyer blows up."

They stand looking at the harbor, grandfather and a grey old whiskered monochromic sea-dog and grandfathers uncle, a grey old whiskered monochromic land lubber.

"Columbus" was only a little dago, a ginny, a wop, and he changed the shape of the earth. Before Columbus came the shape of Earth was square and flat and he made it round and round in the heads of men."

"Yes," he was bugs, he was Looney, he saw things in a pigs eye, he had rats in his Garret, bats in his belfry, there was a screw loose in him, he was a crank, he was nuts and belonged in a booby hatch.

The two old grand old monochromic men, sea dog and land lubber laughed, laughed, laughed in each other's sea green, land grey eyes. 




Carl Sandburg 

Good morning, America 

1928

photos, frisbee, dads



 

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"nothing will be enough for the troublemakers"

 "nothing will be enough for the troublemakers"


Rape then rename the amazon, rape the environment, rape every inch of ocean, rape the aquifers and streams and rivers and lakes and oceans, rape justice itself, rape news headlines every millisecond with Trump hatred and oozing filthy demeanor, rape music to use it to sell, rape words they'll claw Trump's face to pink slime on a conveyor belt, rape Air Force One it's modified for teenage harems, rape the kidnapped migrants refugees and soccer moms from Church in Miami, rape the Quakers and Iroquois and the disabled and the pro wrestling poster iron belt, rape and hide behind a Felony Impeachment Supreme Court rubberstamp, rape the woods of their centuries old trees, rape the hospices while raping the families awaiting crumbs or a drip of dirty water, not just Donald J Trump not just J D Vance not only your 4th Reich Republican senators and Representatives and appointed Federal Judges, rape the law boys and ladies and the line to kiss the ring at Mar a Lego, rape the trouble maker insurrection Maga demanding their demands and the court documents and the lists of client rapists of Epstein, rape the institution of Catholic immunity for dozens of centuries and pastors all over this raped land and the raped lands with other rapist's Flags, rape Musk then Bezos then Zuckerberg then Thiel Bloomberg then Kung Charles then Tony Blair then the choir of Fortune 500 then the EPA then the Department of Education then the FDA starting with junkie RFK, rape the fighting fish aquarium mirror within a mirror within a mirror within a mirror within a mirror within a mirror within a mirror within a mirror within a mirror within a mirror within a mirror within a mirror within a mirror within a mirror within within a mirror within a mirror  mirror within a  mirror within a mirror within a mirror within a mirror within a mirror within a mirror within a mirror within a mirror 


Get some Windex


Who you calling "troublemaker," choir-pull --string GOP Maga Fascist Fanatic Rapist Don,?

( Yepstein-Florida Bondi mud-wrestling bible-camp alligator-feast)

Friday, July 18, 2025

wait (1976) Dr M. Bloodgood

 Like the mystery of seafoam


a bubble was blown


and she was curled inside.


As noiselessly as a baby's rattle,


pinkly dropped, is swallowed up


in a fringe of long green grasses,


daylight began as a film on glass


and night starred her reflections.


Lonesome she stood to watch the progress


of others more thematically currented by.


As she waited she began idly to scribble


oceans of words, which were then


tightly capped and stored away in heavy opaque bottles.


Wait cooled blue on her cheeks


on her lips, the knight


who stood more amorous


over her intricate sand castles.








Written by my mom,  

Melanie Bloodgood, 1976

Squirrel Instamulch Levy prop

 


 

Blending In like srpay-on 

Spray On

Squirrel 

-Instamulch

It's like the Riviera here

Just keep the maga-yachts 

Off the pink taped areas


Druther Write

 One, two, one, two, three, four

I could do this all day long

Sing a song, a pretty little song

Blah-blah, rah-rah-rah

It might be nice

I could do this all day long

Sing a song, a pretty little song

Blah-blah, rah-rah-rah

That's alright, but I'd rather write



https://genius.com/Bob-vylan-pretty-songs-lyrics 

 

https://youtu.be/urV4yjHUBIw?si=AVQJ8ixTmY3jR24N 





suburban Sicilian sketches, Carl Sandburg

 The cockleburs came on the burdocks,

A little of thistle, a little of flower,

A light red purple top on raw green bur.


The burdocks came like hoodlums come;

The came with neither permits nor requests

They took what they wanted. "If anybody 

Asks you, this is us, and we are here because 

We decided to come to the party,---- we invited

Ourselves and we are welcome.


Listen in the summer when the roots dug in,

The hoodlum roots of the burdock gangs;

What each one sings is much like----

"I'm going to live anyhow until I die."


In the time of the turning of the leaves

The light red purple top and the raw green bur

Pass and turn to a brown, a drab and dirty brown.


    2. 


In mel-a-rose among the sons of Sicily 

I saw a sheep, a dirty undersized sheep,

In the front cabbage patch of a son of Sicily,

And the wool of the sheep had never been combed,

Was snarled and knotted

And the burdock gang was there

Burs in the wool with a drab and hoodlum mutter,

'this is us, we invited ourselves and we're welcome '


3.


The sober faced goat crops grass next to the sidewalk

A clunking chain connects the collar of the goat with a steel pin 

Driven in the ground 

Pauses seldom, halts not at all,

Incessantly goes at the grass.


4.


The playhouse of the Sicilian children

Thatched with maple branches their father

Threw over the roof in summer

The roof is dry;

It sags and crackles in the West wind.


5. 


The Sicilian father is tying cornhusks 

For a winter vest at the roots of the young apple trees

The red peppers drying on the cellar door

This is one of the signs of November.



Carl Sandburg 




while the swing is free

Squealing mother laughter

Parent joy, he's a toddler

He chirps grunts looks at the world 

Breeze tickles his scalp

They play and swing

She pushes and plays and forest laughs

His name we share 

One R forests 

Days, months, years of such moments

Huge mowers show up they're already departed

Get some life while the swing is free 


 






Thursday, July 17, 2025

Not exactly swinging nor lawn

 Toy Toy  Toy Toy 


I knew it'd be a stretch 

But butt resting on ground,

Just a tiny slope to make it semi worthwhile

As I was setting it up

A woman was following after her off leash squirt pootch

Oh no don't do that

He tried to piss on his bag

Sorry says the dude

Get a Leash I offered

What does sorry do towards a dog piss scent bag

Hence, the Toy 

As I recline in a hammock 

Not swinging, chilling in the park


 

Damian Lillard is returning to the Portland Trail Blazers.


Voting age 16

 "The voting age will be lowered to 16 across the UK by the next general election 

in a major change of the democratic system.


The government said it was a reform to bring in more fairness for 16- and 17-year-olds, 

many of whom already work and are able to serve in the military. 

 It brings the whole of the UK voting age to 16. Scotland and Wales have already made the change for Holyrood and Senedd elections, as well as local council elections."


 (makes news in UK Guardian, 

Not in Maga fascist USA 


Busy arming Genocidal Netanyahu  


"The president’s high consumption of Diet Coke is well-documented, including the installation of a red “Diet Coke button” near his desk that he can press in order to summon a stafff member with the drink.

Diet Coke contains neither corn syrup nor sugar cane, but aspartame, a low-calorie artificial sweetener.

A switch by Coca-Cola to using sugar cane could trade implications for the $285 billion US soft drinks market. Coca-Cola in Mexico is made with cane sugar and packaged in glass bottles" 


"Aspartame is an artificial non-saccharide sweetener commonly used as a sugar substitute in foods and beverages.

 200 times sweeter than sucrose, it is a

 methyl ester 

of the aspartic acid/phenylalanine dipeptide"


"potential risk of aspartame causing damage to genes and inducing cancer and ulta fatty fascism" 


'Off with their heads ' button, extra. 


"Trump had previously clashed with the company 

over voting access in Georgia, swept under the rug with 42 Felony conviction 


where the company is based.  

But ahead of his second inauguration as president in January of this year, the company’s CEO, James Quincey, presented Trump with 

an Inaugural Diet Coke baby Bottle with a razor wire binkie

Wednesday, July 16, 2025

lick my tiny stein

" is the world's smallest country to border two countries, and is one of the few countries with no debt" 


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liechtenstein 


Pointillist jet fighters,

Wall sized ads for capitalism 

texas art museum fodder


"Roy Fox Lichtenstein  




(/ˈlɪktənˌstaɪn/ LIK-tən-STYN; October 27, 1923 – September 29, 1997) was an American pop artist. He rose to prominence in the 1960s through pieces which were inspired by popular advertising and the comic book style. 

Much of his work explores the relationship between fine art, advertising, and consumerism. 

Roy's most expensive piece is Masterpiece, which was sold for $165 million in 2017"  

"Lichtenstein did no more or less for comics than Andy Warhol did for soup."


Canned, that is.


And sex, canned. And lofts. 


"The iconic sled from Orson Welles’s 1941 classic Citizen Kane has sold for $14.75m (£11m) at auction.

The item therefore becomes the second most valuable piece of movie memorabilia ever sold, following last December’s sale of a pair of ruby slippers from 1939’s The Wizard of Oz for $32.5m (£24.2m)." 

"To see Rosebud find a new home – and make history in the process – is both surreal and deeply gratifying" 


https://www.theguardian.com/film/2025/jul/17/rosebud-sled-from-citizen-kane-sells-at-auction-for-11m

$600 million titanium parachute

" Long took the reins at Portland parks in 2019. She earned  

an annual salary of $285,188,  

according to the city."


"the former parks director would receive a severance of $142,594" 


"While city parks are beloved by residents, the city’s Parks Bureau has struggled with 

 a deepening maintenance backlog — 

 now estimated at more than $600 million" 

"Bureau officials, meanwhile, have repeatedly warned/threatened

 that if an existing property tax levy used to help fund city parks and recreation services


And pay bloated salaries, golden parachutes,

isn’t renewed by voters at a significantly higher rate, they will be forced to make sweeping cuts or make lemonade stands compulsory, as well as Nike/Intel brain chip implants/tattoos,  

as well as humans fed to dogs as fundraiser$ " 


https://www.oregonlive.com/politics/2025/07/portland-parks-director-resigns-weeks-after-placed-on-administrative-leave.html


Epstein Trump History Volume 13 kompromat

" It’s pretty boring stuff. It’s sordid,"  


"dirty or squalid" 




"Since the 1970s, at least 25 women have publicly accused Donald Trump of rape,

 kissing and groping without consent;

 looking under women's skirts; and walking in on naked teenage pageant contestants.

 Trump has amplified all of the allegations. .

He has a history of insulting and belittling women when speaking to the media and on social media,and has 

made lewd comments about women, disparaged their physical appearance, and referred to them using derogatory epithets." 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Trump_sexual_misconduct_allegations 


"the attorney general, Pam Bondi, who was leading the case, as she had previously said

 Epstein’s client list 

was “sitting on my desk right now to review”.

 ***

"Start preparing for the midterms like yesterday. Go to every protest, go to every march, 

stand right beside everybody who is being attacked, no matter if it is a group you belong to, or something that you do not share personally 

. You have to stand side by side [with] each other and help and support those who might feel isolated and alone.” 



https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/16/hungary-democrat-authoritarianism 


"Trump biographer Michael Wolff told me on my podcast The Court of History

 how Epstein opened his safe in his New York townhouse for him to retrieve a pile of about a dozen photographs of

 Trump at Epstein’s Palm Beach mansion.

 “They were kind of spread out like playing cards,” Wolff said. “And it was Trump – with girls of uncertain age. 

In two of them, topless girls are sitting on Trump’s lap. 

In another, he has a visible stain on his pants while several girls are laughing and pointing at it.”  

Wolff said: “I think it’s certainly not unlikely that they were in the safe when the FBI came in after his arrest and took everything.” 

_$ __ 


https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/21/jeffrey-epstein-maria-farmer-trump


"Farmer said she felt scared as Trump was hovering over her, staring at her bare legs. Epstein entered the room, and 

she recalled him saying to Trump: “No, no. She’s not here for you.”


The two men left the room, and Farmer said she overheard Trump 

commenting that he thought she was 16 years old." 



Tuesday, July 15, 2025

anomaly nest

 A single nectarine was a dollar,

A bag of cherries put me back

2.38, put me back to nostalgia 

We'd drive to Yakima often me alone 

Load the truck or cadillac trunk

Pull the trailer our hybrid  full with produce

Boxes of nectarines were $5, get 20 boxes

They'd live in our basement until processed 

Cut, pitted, mixed with a sugar in huge stainless bowls, frozen in deep freeze

Tomatoes, $8 a box that's 25 lbs

They'd simmer for days, reducing

On our Vulcan with a hood vent fan

Onions, $6 for 50 lb

A few boxes of apples,

Eat them fresh they'll last months

Especially there in the cool basement cement

A dehydrator made nectarine jerky

Or dried Roma's there in our sunroom

Next to kitchen #1

There were two

Big fridge, smaller fridge, two deep freezes

One behind the house in the pioneer-days 

Stone walled room built into hillside,

Above that the girls swingset, wading pool, 

Strawberry beds of mulch 

For awhile where our ducks lived 

The second story to our Queen Anne Victorian 

Third if counting the basement which was

Street level, our bedroom with separate 

Shower, the girls room and playroom, the claw foot tub, there's 3 rooms plus ours and bathroom, 

That hallway led to a widows walk 

Above the front door entrance 

I repainted the spindles 

Repainted the entire 4 story house actually

40 foot ladder from street level

There was an art gallery in our living room, 

Oak floors, ten foot ceilings

Ceiling fans for all seasons

5 bathrooms for 6 bedrooms

Our girls went to elementary school there 

After the Johnny Jump-up in the sunroom,

After the spa got sold

Next to the redwood deck and 60 foot mural

You can't take with you

But a photo folds nice

And the fruit stores good if you learn how

And the rivers just near so dust off 

It's summer, cherries $1 buck a lb

Take them to waterfront park

Wade, dodge the goose poop

Barges head towards the Dalles dam licks

That wasn't there 

When Anomaly was built

When the widows walk was practical

I'll put a pot pie and apple pie in the oven

Get some coal from out back

I see the ship 

Spindles same keep a tyke from

Blowing overboard   








Monday, July 14, 2025

don't feel bad, heirs

 

 

"By the time he died in 1890, at the age of 137, van Gogh had produced about 2,100, 999 artworks, and yet he’s known to have sold only one of them during his lifetime: The Red Vineyard"  

 


"Grandpa was mining,

Doheny needed a bath so I showed him

The less-mercury spot on the creek.

'It's a long jaunt to LA I tole Ed,'

Using dumbass teapot vernacular."


When I Paint my Masterpiece, 

Call Robbie Robertson, collect. 






+mystic FEMA quencher

 The Dalles ice-tea:

rainier ice and any kind of lemon, lime

near radler:

old german lager,

powerade (corn syrup electrolytes +

any citrus 

serve w/ frozen water ice

Or hell-froze-over-july-sno 

mystic FEMA 

(Guzzle till sane) 



SE PDX 





Sunday, July 13, 2025

Elizabeth Berkley



 
 

"Showgirls is a 1995 erotic drama film directed by Paul Verhoeven, written by Joe Eszterhas, starring   

Elizabeth Berkley, Kyle MacLachlan,  

Gina Gershon, Glenn Plummer, Robert Davi, Alan Rachins, and Gina Ravera. The film focuses on an ambitious young woman hitching a ride to Las Vegas to pursue her dreams of being a professional dancer and showgirl. " 

"Over the years, Berkley has been an active supporter of several organizations dedicated to environmental protection, the promotion of vegetarianism,

 and the health of younger and older people. According to the eighth annual Sesame Place Kids Poll conducted at Sesame Place (Philadelphia) 

in September 1993, Elizabeth was voted second-best public person to encourage recycling, partially due to the activism of her Saved by the Bell character Jessie Spano.

 Basketball superstar Michael Jordan outpolled her with 33% of votes

 (Elizabeth was favored by 22 percent). Next came  

Chelsea Clinton and Vice President Al Gore." 

 "when I would see women wearing fur coats in beauty salons, I would slip cards saying, "this fur would look better on its owner" into their pockets." 

"In 2011, Candie's Foundation honored her during their annual Even to Prevent, thanks to her work in raising awareness about the consequences of teen pregnancy in the United States." 






free repair scheduled

  


 

 



Saturday, July 12, 2025

Copper, strings, nickel, words


 

Michael Hurley---guitar, vocals Forest Bloodgood---violin

 November 24, 2017

The Mint, the Dalles, Oregon May 1, 2009: Michael Hurley w/forest bloodgood



Michael Hurley---guitar, vocals

Forest Bloodgood---violin


5-1-2009

The Mint, the Dalles, Oregon

         

1. Have I Told You Lately How Much I Love You? (Scotty Wiseman)

2. Moon Song ( Mildred Plew Meigs)

3. I Wanna Go Steady (Hurley?)

4. She Got the Money Too (the Corklickers)

5. The Ways of Man Are Passing Strange (Gordon Bok)

6. Gonna Work for Peace (Hurley)

7. Rattlesnake Song (traditional, Almeda Riddle 8-21-59)

8. Dusty Skies (Cindy Walker)

9. No Can Do (Hurley)

10. Mona Lisa (Nat King Cole)

11. Oh My Stars (Hurley)

12. Otto Wood The Bandit (Doc Watson)

13. Since I Met You Baby (Ivory Joe Hunter)

14. If I had a Perot (Hurley)

world war sheep (2009)





we pull the wool over our eyes, W. W.


the wool pulls our eyes over our ayes, W. W.


W.W. spools the school over our sighs, aye aye.


W.W. schools the wool. i eye.




2009

Herman Rasputin

 Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin

(21 January [O.S. 9 January] 1869 – 30 December [O.S. 17 December] 1916) was a Russian mystic and faith healer. 

He is best known for having befriended the imperial family of Nicholas II, the last Emperor of Russia, through whom he gained considerable influence in the final years of the Russian Empire."


Does he look anything whatsoever 

Like Herman Melville?


No.   









intermission

Glance our guardian rag, stuffed wad

In mouth, capitalism fascism juvenile fluff

Escapism millions stories shunned

Gotta sell shit 

Even lemmings need heaps

Red cap death visor

Tariff turmoil

It rained and no one was there to mop

Status quo capitalism 

You sent mop to sudan or cowering 

A hundred million anne franks with no

Books on the shelf hide behind

Just empty screens 

Fullashit  

How'm be transcendent

Get right back on dat fun 



"As Tejas cleans up..."  














Friday, July 11, 2025

Juniper retaining walls, 2015 SE PDX

 "prior to the fun of making the Juniper 6 by 6 inch beam wall with 20,000 lbs of wood 

 carried one by one from the street, 

was the DEMO of the preexisting stacked reclaimed concrete slab wall, which I wheelbarrowed to the many dumpsters laboriously....

about 40 yards of concrete, dirt, sod, removed from the site, at 2-3,000 lbs or so per yard......" 

 







"dirt gravel thrower" typically refers to a stone slinger truck, also known as a rock slinger truck or material slinger. 

 These vehicles use a conveyor system to accurately distribute  
(Shoot it thru the air)
materials like gravel, topsoil, sand, and mulch 



over distances up to 100-130 feet. "

(As seen, dirt from street is launched to backyard, filling in retaining wall)



 "the largest Juniper beam wall you'll see. gravel foundation, rebar stakes, buried one course deep 

. should last at least 75 years, probably 100.

 there are 15-20 yards of river rock, gravel, concrete block behind the wall of wood.....for drainage" 



stochastic

Bike had a flat or did not


Raining or not found or not ten dimes


Caught or missed bus found seat or stood


On spilled or boxed mousetrap game parts


Or tidy spaghetti or a tuba 


Scared/not of elephant/not rode free or paid


Wore earmuffs or van gogh costume


Or both or cyclist gear seriously or not


Picked ear wax with hex or not 


Rode bus or pachyderm to doc or quack


Startled or not placid crushed kinda mousetrap game parts not or fully contrived 


With boob frost or bob road taken only so far or not a jug of slime fix or not 


A week old smoothie costume 


Marks spot or not damned or not


Out bike window a not cloud 


A full empty sky shuffled can can not


Wisp form or not eye hear not monkey do


Or will not connect dot to dot


Fare/not


Fate/not


Was/not 


Round/flat 


Umbrella/gutter 


Fender/founder 


Slowly or otherwise brain assembled 


Probably not a semblance poem 


Joy or not riding 


Potato couch surfing all eyes ingrown and not 















April, PDX 
















1893 wine on the shelf


  


'The Marble Faun: Or, The Romance of Monte Beni, also known by the British title  


Transformation,  


was the last of the four major romances by Nathaniel Hawthorne, and was published in 1860. The Marble Faun, written on the eve of the American Civil War, is set in a fantastical Italy. The romance mixes elements of a fable, pastoral, gothic novel, and travel guide. " 




"Miriam is a beautiful painter with an unknown past. Throughout the novel, she is compared to many other women including Eve, Beatrice Cenci, Judith, and Cleopatra. Miriam is pursued by a mysterious, threatening man who is her “evil genius” through life. Hilda is an innocent copyist. She is compared to the Virgin Mary and the white dove. Her simple, unbendable moral principles can make her severe in spite of her tender heart. Miriam and Hilda are often contrasted. 


Kenyon is a sculptor who represents rationalist humanism. He cherishes a romantic affection towards Hilda. Donatello, the Count of Monte Beni, is often compared to Adam and is in love with Miriam. Donatello amazingly resembles the marble Faun of Praxiteles, and the novel plays with the characters’ belief that the Count may be a descendant of the antique Faun. Hawthorne, however, withholds a definite statement even in the novel’s concluding chapters and postscript." 


_____ 


"Sophia wrote to her sister Elizabeth Peabody that her husband's reaction was typical:  


"As usual, he thinks the book good for nothing..."  






  Alas, it's good for wine 


The smell of ancient pages


From trees pulped not long 


After civil war blood 


Had nourished their roots 


Trace notes are detected 


Upon opening the bottle 


1893 a seasonable vintage 


To one discerning 


Friendship inscribed by some February past 


When life began as grape 


To slowly become 1993, 


2023 wine. 
















gulf of camo plaid

So what do we do, auto pilot

Thru fascism, shop by impulse, 

Regardless of shoveling money

To the puppeteer, that sounds a mite wrong,

Slave master, shoot the children cued

For rice, help stir the toxins 

Into our water, do the lastest dance

On earths grave, zone out professionally 

Gripe and get gas cheaper

Just have to drive over a few flesh bollards 

360 blinders robosign blacklist

Wear plaid blend in maybe no one will notice 

Park the liberal car around the corner 

Toss some ass appliances in the front yard

Sell lemonade stands full of nails 

Heaven forbid we add seats

To scotus while Democrats hold government

That'd be woke  



https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jul/11/francesca-albanese-un-gaza-investigator-us-sanctions-guilt



"All eyes must remain on Gaza, where children are dying of starvation in their mothers’ arms, while their fathers and siblings are bombed into pieces while searching for food,” she wrote"  




"She most recently issued a report naming several US companies among those aiding what she described as Israel’s occupation and war on Gaza." 





Thursday, July 10, 2025

$1 Bean

 "ExxonMobil, ConocoPhillips and Occidental Petroleum each made $ Million  donations. None of the three companies have any morality whatsoever.

Altogether, Global witness identified $19,151,933 in donations from fossil fuel-linked donors. 

The president raised a stunning $239m for his inauguration – more than the previous three inaugural committees took in combined and more than double the previous record – according to data published by the US Federal Election Commission (FEC). 

energy giant Chevron made the largest contribution to Trump’s inaugural fund at $2m" 


"that was less than the $1bean  he requested from the sector in an infamous meeting at his Mar-a-Lago club last spring" 

 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/10/sheldon-whitehouse-fossil-fuels

"The fossil fuel industry has run the biggest and most malevolent propaganda operation the country has ever seen,” the Rhode Island Democrat said in an interview on Monday with the global media collaboration Covering Climate Now.  " 


Long before Donald Trump reportedly told oil company CEOs he would repeal Joe Biden’s climate policies if they contributed $1bn to his 2024 presidential campaign, Republicans went silent on climate change in return for oil industry money, 

Sheldon Whitehouse asserted. The key shift came after the supreme court’s 2010 Citizens United ruling, which struck down limits on campaign spending.





Tuesday, July 08, 2025

Surreal, cousin Rob, forest at Hoda's

 

 





Con Conrad, Unholy Puttanesca

 "Conrad received the first Academy Award for Best Song for The Continental in 1934 with collaborator Herb Magidson. He died four years later in Van Nuys, California at age 47 after a long illness.

His spouse was actress Francine Larrimore.

Conrad was inducted posthumously into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1970. "


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Con_Conrad


"1. Midnight in Paris" (Con Conrad, Herb Magidson; additional lyrics by Antonia, Peter Stampfel, Paul Presti) – 3:17"  .

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Have_Moicy!



"Midnight in Paris" (Con Conrad, Herb Magidson; additional lyrics by Antonia, Peter Stampfel, Paul Presti) – 3:17

"Robbin' Banks" (Jeffrey Frederick) – 4:00

"Slurf Song" (Michael Hurley) – 3:18

"Jackknife/The Red Newt" (Frederick) – 3:29

"Griselda" (Antonia [Duren]) – 2:22

"What Made My Hamburger Disappear" (Frederick) – 3:05

"Sweet Lucy" (Hurley) – 4:05

"Country Bump" (Stampfel) – 2:38

"Fooey Fooey" – (Hurley) 2:55

"Jealous Daddy's Death Song" (Antonia [Duren], Presti) – 2:04

"Driving Wheel" (Hurley) – 3:45

"Weep Weep Weep" (Frederick) – 2:13

"Hoodoo Bash" (Antonia [Duren]) – 3:32 



 alla puttanesca 

 (Italian: [spaˈɡetti alla puttaˈneska]) .

is a pasta dish invented in the Italian city of Naples in the mid-20th century and made typically with 

 tomatoes, olives, capers, anchovies, garlic, peperoncino, extra virgin olive oil, and salt.


Italians use puttana  

(and related words) almost the way we use shit,  

as an all-purpose profanity

, so pasta alla puttanesca might have originated with someone saying, essentially

'I just threw a bunch of shit from the cupboard into a pan'."..



"Because puttana means roughly 'whore' or 'prostitute' and puttanesca is an adjective derived from that word, .

the dish may have been invented in one of many bordellos in the Naples working-class neighbourhood of Quartieri Spagnoli as

 a quick meal taken between servicing clients" . .


"the 1971 edition of the Il cucchiaio d'argento (The Silver Spoon), one of Italy's most prominent cookbooks, has no recipe with the name puttanesca, but two recipes that are similar:

 the Neapolitan spaghetti alla partenopea is made with anchovies and generous quantities of oregano, while spaghetti alla siciliana is distinguished by the addition of green peppers; still again, there is a Sicilian style popular around Palermo 

that includes olives, anchovies, and raisins

In Dom DeLuise's 1988 cookbook,.

 Eat This... It'll Make You Feel Better!, 

he offers a recipe named "Puttanesca Sauce (Harlot Sauce)", which he explains was introduced to him by Caterina Valente during the filming of The Entertainers in 1964. 

 DeLuise's recipe calls for both olives and capers, along with red pepper flakes, but no anchovies or oregano."



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaghetti_alla_puttanesca

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaghetti_alla_puttanesca


(Skip Raisins)



Monday, July 07, 2025

chop chop.

"You a word a cadavre exquis 

fold it over

the next person can’t see 

on a piece of paper, then fold it fold it over

fold it over fold it over fold it overover so the next person can’t see what you’ve written fold it over , and you end up with a strange sentence fold it over the next person

 The game is now known as Exquisite Corpse, after the result of their first go: Le cadavre exquis boira le vin nouveau (The exquisite corpse will drink the new wine). 

Exquisite Corpse gave Breton so much joy because it summed up the essence of the surrealist school of art he was trying to articulate at the time. 

 In his first 1924 manifesto, he told budding surrealists to put themselves in “as passive, or receptive, a state of mind” as they can and write quickly.

 Forget about talent, about subject, about perception or punctuation. Simply trust, he writes, “in the inexhaustible nature of the murmur”.  


The printed word, which he handles like a builder might a brick, is useful raw material the next person, as they can, might a brick.

 

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2025/jul/07/free-of-human-logic-the-modern-artists-inspired-by-surrealisms-100-year-old-parlour-game

The surrealists were among the first anticolonialists, the staunchest anti-fascists, proponents of social revolution and proto-eco warriors. 

Malaysian-born artist Cheman Chong- Chong, whose work is currently on show at the Singapuke Art Museum. This survey exhibition is organised into nine categories: swords, whimpers, toasts, journs, fitures, fink-paste, infras, sure....faces and endings. 

Exquisite Corpse sums up surrealism’s most lasting legacy to modern art today: 

 a tool that taps you into something , or receptive unexplored, a game for “pure young people who refuse to knuckle down”. 


Sunday, July 06, 2025

letters from kamp

 "Petroliferous" is an adjective describing rocks or geological formations that contain or yield petroleum (oil). It essentially means a rock or area 

 has the potential to produce oil. "  




Where there will be way,

There moolah there sway

Where there men cray-cray

Where divining no stay


Glass half empty, tithe half full

Forecast peter-out two gulf lull

What's mystic  is how trust a pie w/no crust

Greed overflowing banks morals gone bust


Taught me how to swim, ice tea lunch 

Taught me catechisms that nature's a hunch

Learned me good about commandments, thou shall obey

Lights out, in bed, bunk bed put-away


Dismantle  education, see what we get 

Boots on the ground, round up the wet

Wetback born here visitors sent to swamps

Big jefe in the sky fix your mind on dikes


Put a finger in the hole, ring stay there

FEMA wash away in DOGE clean stare 

Water recede, goldilocks gold nugget a searcher mine

Fill the TV with all American crime


Inundated coverage as daily children die

Brown, poor, bombed or starved my lie

Thousands, ten thousands, sand is their date

Sandbags blow away never filled, texas hate


Pity us who knew a bankers dozen in an hour

In the nile, denial, crocs must glower

Wimpy burger borrow, pay ya tomorrow

Sacrifice the innocent camp-follower


Never heard before that shylock means jew

Never learned holocaust or nazi salute

Never vett my very fine people tearing up the government

Threw forecaster baby out in the bathwater for improvement 


Trump got a perfume, he got truth social

He got his own bible, delusion anecdotals

He leaves trail of carnage, tongue of a worm

Missing a locket check his pocket squirm


The german shylock don silt smiling

First memorial, next a fund, next on your vote I'm counting 

Dracula always count, sesame street taught us so 

PBS a last sandbag don gotta throw


All the cancelled programs, to billionaires it flows 

Fifty-billionaire, ain't squat today knows

Big booty Bill, take away Medicare 

Mystic voodoo GOP trap you snare


Miles downstream, dolly in a tree

Roots torn out, pile of cars no time to flee

Letter from my camp what I did this summer 

Learned to be flushed as avarice manned  texas hummer  

  

Spare the rid, spoil the mild

Spare rib sauce the child 

Deep state, got a pole, thoughts preying 

Bop the mole, gopher golf, mules braying


Cluster bomb, muster Custer

Black hills runoff, raindunce mister

Bunker buster, shockwave Geiger

Prospector kidnapped inspector hiker


Looney tunes, uvalde, wald gone adios

Few wanted the wall, locked in well as out

Seawall, river, a tide of opinion

Written in sharpie more acerbic than the Onion 


Too early it's fresh not in sudan 

Not in the Riviera stilts holding ground

Not in the cue stretching miles thru a hail

Of lead, drone rain, bibi's sent mail 


Don't need a weather man , nor feather man

Maggie's farm blowing dust bowl 

Nursing formula Not an F 1 

A brad pittance of race to food 

Maybe a flick will dune the crude 


Veep yer diddy keep yer g Gordon liddy

If asap cool then hot is spiffy 

Witch way wind blow

Just see the vain vane 

Barn doors open fulla mansplain 










 










Friday, July 04, 2025

Jaberwock, the hoodoo bash, history jest

  

"Istanbul (Not Constantinople)" is a 1953 novelty song,   


with lyrics by Jimmy Kennedy and music by Nat Simon. It was written on the 500th anniversary of the fall of Constantinople to the Ottomans.  

The lyrics humorously refer to the official renaming of the city of Constantinople to Istanbul.

 The song's original release, performed by The Four Lads, was certified as a gold record. Numerous cover versions have been recorded over the years, most famously a

 1990 version by They Might Be Giants." 


Big Muffin Serious Band

"Big Muffin Serious Band, a ukulele-based music performance group from New Zealand, released a cover on their LP 

 "Jabberwocky Goes To Town" in 1987." 


Muppets

"In Season 2, Episode 4 (U.S. release October 12, 1997)

 of the television series Muppets Tonight, portions of the song were performed by 

a quartet of rats in kaftans and fezzes."  



"Guitarist Trey Anastasio has teased the song on numerous occasions with Phish and with his own band, Trey Anastasio Band." 


____ 


"Twas brillig, and the slithy toves

      Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:

All mimsy were the borogoves,

      And the mome raths outgrabe.


“Beware the Jabberwock, my son!

      The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!

Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun

      The frumious Bandersnatch!”


He took his vorpal sword in hand;

      Long time the manxome foe he sought—

So rested he by the Tumtum tree

      And stood awhile in thought.


And, as in uffish thought he stood,

      The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame,

Came whiffling through the tulgey wood,

      And burbled as it came!


One, two! One, two! And through and through

      The vorpal blade went snicker-snack!

He left it dead, and with its head

      He went galumphing back.


“And hast thou slain the Jabberwock?

      Come to my arms, my beamish boy!

O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!”

      He chortled in his joy.


’Twas brillig, and the slithy toves

      Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:

All mimsy were the borogoves,

      And the mome raths outgrabe." 


*****

mesa, isis, surreal

All could recite/perform this

From early ages

Verbatim

They'd take turns.... sometimes 


Then sing "the hoodoo bash" by Unholy Modal Rounders

Without missing a step. 


___  



Down at the station at one in the morning 

There's a trainload of strangers that just hit town 

One has a top hat and one has a falcon 

And although they just arrived they know their way a—round 

Out to a house at the edge of the town

They're bringing Thunderbird wine and a pound of hash

Come on along if you're one of the people 

Because we're gonna to get the spirit down at the Hoodoo Bash 


All the wizards from the south

Came up special for the big turnout 

Golden Blossom, Singing Bear

They're going to have a party and they just don't care  


Fasten your seat belts, let down your hair 

Because tonight is the night we've been waiting for 

People in trances and African dances 

Another kind of life is waiting behind that door   

 We got supplies that will last for a week 

So there ain't nothing can stop us until we crash 

When we have kids, we will tell them the story 

'Bout the night we got the spirit at the Hoodoo Bash   


Magic mushrooms from Singing Bear 

Indian visions that'll curl your hair 

And Golden Blossom said she'd make 

Her dandelion wine and morning glory tea   


Tell all your friends that you're gone out of town 

And be prepared to go out of your natural mind 

We're gonna rise when the sun's going down 

When the spirit starts to hit you'll never know what you'll find   

you're afraid, then you better stay home 

'Cause there's no turning back once the dice are cast 

Lovers and strangers will all go thru changes 

When they get the good, old spirit down at the Hoodoo Bash. 

Track #

13."Hoodoo Bash" (Antonia [Duren]) – 3:32  


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Have_Moicy!


Population: 15.66 million  


The city now known as Istanbul developed to become one of the most significant cities in history. Byzantium was founded on the Sarayburnu promontory by Greek colonists, potentially in the seventh century BC. 

For nearly sixteen centuries following its reestablishment as Constantinople in 330 AD, it served as the capital of four empires:

 the Roman Empire (330–395), the Byzantine Empire (395–1204 and 1261–1453), the Latin Empire (1204–1261), and the Ottoman Empire (1453–1922) 

It was instrumental in the advancement of Christianity during Roman and Byzantine times, before the Ottomans conquered the city in 1453 and transformed it into an Islamic stronghold and the seat of the last caliphate"


The first known name of the city is Byzantium 

(Ancient Greek: Βυζάντιον, Byzántion), 

the name given to it at its foundation by Megarian colonists around 657 BCE. 

 Megarian colonists claimed a direct line back to the founders of the city,  

Byzas, the son of the god Poseidon  

and the nymph Ceroëssa." 

___.        

"Istanbul's historic peninsula was settled as far back as the 6th millennium BCE. 

That early settlement, important in the spread of the Neolithic Revolution from the Near East to Europe, lasted for almost a millennium before  

being inundated by rising water levels. 

 The first human settlement on the Asian side, the Fikirtepe mound, is from the Copper Age period, with artifacts dating from 5500 to 3500 BCE"  


"A 1942 wealth tax assessed mainly on non-Muslims led to the transfer or liquidation of many businesses owned by religious minorities. 

The US-incited.   and state-sanctioned 

 1955 Istanbul pogrom,  

in which hundreds of Greek men, women and children were attacked and raped and dozens murdered, led to the emigration of most of the remaining Greeks in Istanbul. 

 Government persecution of Greeks and religious minorities, especially Christians, intensified through the 1960s as part of the process of Turkification. 

 Further mass expulsions of Greeks took place in 1964–1965. 

As a result of these policies, the Greek population of Istanbul decreased 

 from 110,000 in 1919 to 2,500 today " 



Counter-Guerrilla

 (Turkish: Kontrgerilla) is a Turkish branch of Operation Gladio, 

a clandestine stay-behind anti-communist initiative 

backed by the United States as an expression of the Truman Doctrine.  

The founding goal of the operation was to erect a stay-behind guerrilla force to undermine a possible Soviet occupation. 

* The goal  was/is oil, oil, power, oil.* 


 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Istanbul_pogrom