FC top 10

1. Bayern Munich
2. Barcelona
3. Paris St. Germain
4. Arsenal
5. Atletico Madrid
6. Cruziero
7.  Juventus
8. Manchester City
9. Roma
10.Raja Casablanca

I Need a DVD Player

Mainly I've been watching the 'Breaking Bad' marathon on AMC this weekend.  Today I noticed for the first time that the character of Jane, Jesse's first dead girlfriend, is to the very day exactly the same age as I am.  You can watch the vomit-choke/plane crash episode for yourself to find out exactly when that is. :-)  Personally I've tried most everything myself but never have danced with needles; not to claim exceptional wisdom for that but here I am alive enough to type this right now.  It was a tingly existential moment that one. 

My Mother is a Liquor Store Manager

For Christmas I got one hundred dollars and a bottle of Wild Turkey 101.  It is exactly what I would have asked for if I were the kind to be gauche enough.

A freak warm front moved onto the plains today, as happens from time to time over the winter, especially in the more unstable west.  Temps in the lower fifties Fahrenheit.  Earlier I took a hike to the southwest of North Platte, saw the lower South Platte valley and the hills beyond in all their starkness and felt renewed.  Once you reach the edge of this town, at 24,000 people the largest settlement in a hundred mile radius, the sudden change to frontier openness really is quite stark.  On South River Road I could have sworn that I heard a distressed fly.   

FC top 10

1. Bayern Munich
2. Barcelona
3. Paris St. Germain
4. Liverpool
5. Atletico Madrid
6. Cruziero
7. Juventus
8. Arsenal
9. Roma
10. Raja Casablanca

Hippies Get A Bum Rap Bill Jack

As a contemporary boho/lefty of course I would think so.  Hippies and mid-6o's to mid-70's culture in general get a bum rap.  (Either that or glorified as having invented rebellion and fun out of thin air, but that's another story.)  It was no radical break from American traditions that came before, quite the opposite.    And it is simply inaccurate to describe the flower children as hopeless utopian dreamers. They were in the main as perfectly well-versed in political theory, 'realism' and the art of the possible as anyone else.  

On the other hand, there was Billy Jack.

......................Yeah, the whole seven hours or so of three Billy Jack films committed to film are more or less like this, in fact generally worse.  No, no group of Native Americans have ever had themselves repeatedly injected with venom for inspirations sake.  You're smart people, I'm sure you knew that. 
 At any rate the White Indian Jesus seen above, Tom Laughlin, died last Thursday at the age of 82, still planning to get around to a new Billy Jack sequel  that would, in its own special way, deal with the War on Terror, police militarization in the drug war etc any day now. 

But though it is right and just that we despair the loss of a brother we should should despair not  the death of his work.  Steven Seagal has been making all the Billy Jack sequels fit to can for twenty five years now.  The spiritual parentage between Tom and Steve is clear in how both make action movies from a left-wing point of view: anti-corporate and anti-security state, instead of the more typically rightist  'punish bad guys and kill the foreign devils' bent of such film.  Seagal and Laughlin are also linked by a sympathetic but wincingly exoticized view of Native Americans (So Spiritual!  So close to the land!)  and most importantly by a hilariously earnest and wrong-headed messianic sense of self. 
Seagal's  "On Deadly Ground", is the film that betrays his celluloid paternity more than any other. In this famed career-killing opus Seagal saves the environment by firebombing an up & pumping refinery and invited to address the Alaska state legislature as a reward, which is of course the same favor those fine people would happily grant any other left-wing terrorist. 

Still, there's something about the tired look of a film still bleached by Southwestern sun that will always move my heart just a little bit more.  For me the original Godfather is the only dope that will ever truly do.  RIP half breed. 

Reminder

Internet trolls do not and shall never have shit on O.G. letter to the editor writers. 



"The Lincoln Journal Star should be more insulting toward communists in general and show much more respect to the so-called wing nuts because the wing nuts who hate and distrust today's government on both sides of the political aisle may just be the ones who end up saving this country from bankruptcy, civil war and World War III. The cartoon is fascist because it portrays American capitalists in much the same way Nazi Germany portrayed Jews."

Today's Feature in the Sunday Omaha World Herald

Good old fashioned eugenics!

Nikko Jenkins is by all means a bad person.  One who went on a killing spree after automatic release from prison for 'good behavior', made necessary to keep prison space open for I-80 weed smugglers and such so that small counties can pay their bills.  Jenkins was caught after killing the wrong person, a West Omaha white woman who legally existed before the fact, which brings us to where we are today.  But none of this remotely excuses the OWH's ritual shaming of 'Those People'.  This is nothing but Zenith style roll up the sidewalk  prig thuggery in three parts. 

FC top 10

1. Bayern Munich
2. Barcelona
3. Arsenal
4. Paris St. Germain
5. Atletico Madrid
6. Cruziero
7. Juventus
8. Chelsea
9. Roma
10. Real Madrid

Weather Conditions For Cairo, Nebraska

Clear. 35.2 degrees F., light snow cover, gentle north breeze.


Hmm...

What Mandela was Up Against

 I've no praise for the man that hasn't already been said at least as well, and in certainly with far more personal experience and feeling.  so in respect to some far-right diehards keeping the faith the Nelson Mandela was a communist, (Sort of but not really) or a terrorist; (a charge that, once the selective empathy and theatrically pious outrage is seen through, comes down to the simple belief that it is wrong for Anglo-Saxons to lose control anywhere they've invited themselves,  here's a quick review of some of Apartheid's greatest hit, the Sharpville Massacre

And lets not forget various cold-blooded assassinations of civilian activists, or not actually all that activist, such as  sleeping teenagers: (allegedly)

Or even, perhaps, the murder of disproving foreign heads of government,  who would otherwise be friendly fellow Westerners if not for the thing they were (allegedly) being killed in the defense of.

I am not personally a 'by any means necessary' sort of guy but then I have the comfort to not be.  And the United States, after all, made a violent break from the British Empire on far less severe provocation then what Black south Africa faced.  I'm not saying I'm just saying.      

FC Top 10

1. Bayern Munich
2. Arsenal
3. Juventus
4. Barcelona
5. Paris St.Germain
6. Atletico Madrid
7.  Roma
8.  Cruzeiro
9.  Chelsea
10. San Lorenzo 

For the New Winter I Bought my Own Grey and Logo Free Hooded Sweatshirt

And I'm coming to your suburb.  Fear my dark menace. 

In all seriousness these things really are a godsend in variable climates like the Great Plains.  It may seem both overflown and banal to christen the hoodie as North America's poncho but it's true anyway.  If one is say a truck driver, or otherwise has business that regularly moves them from Austin to Boston in the space of a week or from flatland to mountaintop and back again in a single day then the hoodie is straight up indispensable.  Finally I suppose it does make me feel a bit 'dangerous'/manly in a Celtic Punk sort of way.   I should of had one of my own long before now. 

But in the slim chance that anyone out there is curious; no, I'm not going to break my informal rule against showing my likeness on this blog so you can see how I look in it.  My mildly rangy Slavic mug is there for the searching somewhere out there in e-universe.  Use your imagination.

Being Gay: It's Metal as Fuck, Apparently

Mind you now that this is not just an excuse for posting a Judas Priest video. I actually highly recommend that you read Gina Miller's column while listening to their version of 'The Green Manalishi'.  It's a fucking glorious experience.  You'll thank me for it.  

 "While we certainly have human enemies aligned against us, our true enemies are Satan, his demons and the spiritual wickedness of those in places of great power. As Christians, we have read the end-times prophecies, and we know the warnings Jesus gave us about how awful things will become in the last days. Satan is working feverishly to fully cement his terrible, earthly rule and bring those hellish days to fruition.The Godless communists (or fascists, if you prefer) are using the homosexual agenda to work toward eradicating Christian opposition to their plans, which are Satan's plans. If you know your Bible, then you know that Christianity is destined to be outlawed. We are moving steadily toward a time when Christians here in America will be in danger of state-sanctioned murder for their beliefs. If you think I exaggerate, then you don't know what God has already told us, or perhaps you mistakenly believe that the United States is the exception, that it can't happen here. Christians throughout the world have always been persecuted, but here in the United States, we have enjoyed unparalleled protection and freedom during the existence of our nation. That protection is quickly being eroded, and the homosexuals are used as pawns in this process."

Over Thanksgiving

My stepfather let me have some of his Johnny Walker Blue.  The weather was mildly cool and there was stuffing.  My mother's dogs love me to death and I love them right back.  It was nice. 

A new guy in Writer's Group mentioned Karen Carpenter week before last so now when I drink alone and my feminine side slips out I'll start humming a bit of 'Superstar' instead of Donna Summer's 'On the Radio'.  At least for now.  I shall return. 

If you're from Colorado or driving with Colorado plates, my advice to you is to obey all Nebraska traffic laws to perfection and film yourself doing so.  Sucks that you have to do that but man, I know the No. Platte troop of the State Patrol is just hanging out at Big Springs junction straight fishing motherfuckers, pulling you over for doing 74 in a 75, saying you dis 76 and daring you to prove otherwise.  Federalism; bloody hell. 

FC top 10

1. Bayern Munich
2. Arsenal
3. Juventus
4. Barcelona
5. Paris St. Germain
6. Atletico Madrid
7. Roma
8. Cruzeiro
9. Chelsea
10 Dortmund