Not Terrible Much to Say

I remember that the football game last night was like a lucid nightmare but I can offer no commentary.  After the game I bought a bottle of Tisdale Merlot and then I had a leftover grilled burrito from Taco John's before I went to bed for twelve hours.  I'm still on an empty stomach today, at least technically.  I am only just now starting to feel even slightly hungry.  As soon as I'm done here I'll be heading to the grocery to gather ingredients for tonight's supper; fried chicken and rice; with salad, and Valentina's hot sauce by the metric fuck pound. 




In the past week I've been blessed to experience my personal Fela Kuti revelation. Take every bit of jazz, funk, and radical politics you've ever heard in music and then crank the levels of all of it up to about 25. Shit's pretty magnificent. 

Lately

I keep having the weirdest dreams of kids playing pee-wee football; with uniforms sponsored by beer companies, as in the old days.  Only except for the uniforms everything is free as a sandlot.  No coaches spilling nonsense about "The Character to Win' or inventing tales about a local sports hero working three jobs and saving puppies from fires while they make the kids do jumping jacks in unison.  No 'voluntary' prayer, no aggrandized macho nonsense.  Just kids drawing up their own quadruple reverses and flea-flickers; bouncing off of each other's chest pads because it feels funny.  Accepting whatever the score happens to be when someone feels hungry.  No clock. 

Every Now and Again.....

Something like this.

It's coming on to harvest season, meaning that narrow country lanes are increasingly filled with big trucks driven by people who are not truck drivers per se.  To be fair it is also common for small-district school bus drivers to be at something less than a professional standard themselves.  There are hazards to living in small communities that by nature lack modern-level specialization of social roles.  Strictly amateur firefighters, law enforcement who may lack experience with anything truly wicked.  It's necessary, somebody has to live out there and make the food;  and of course there are special hazards to living in any place.  All of us have only the slightest fraction of control over our own destruction that we imagine ourselves to have. None of us will ever be more than two steps from destruction from now until the day it falls upon us.  May the victims be always loved.

Rough Plans

I think that I'll be visiting the Denver/front range area sometime in the early Fall; via the southern tier of Nebraska (aka.  US 6/35 through Hastings, Holdrege, McCook)  If anyone who knows me might be interested in riding along let me know. 

I've never bought into the idea that mountains are inherently more scenic than flatlands.  It's the contrast of one against the other that's the thing.  With flatlands close by that you can quickly return to so that you don't have to eat each other. 

Oh, and there's high-grade drugs too.  But I'm old and that's incidental. 

This Woman & Friends Came Through Town Last Night.

It was a delightful time.  And as it turns out there are some painted turtles in the north of Idaho.  The general lack of them there has more to do with the dryness rather than the chillness of the climate, since of course they do hibernate. 

 


This Saturday might well be the first under 80F since early May.  Or not. 


Our prayers regrow amputated limbs.    Or maybe pray yourself some extra ones if you already have four that or up and operating.  I'm no theology expert so I don't know.  You'd have to ask Rick Joyner. 

Turtles are the official aymbols of the British Indian Ocean Territory.   Very serious imperial looking bipedal turtles. 

Sun Myung Moon

This guy was an interesting fellow. 

"Are you better than Jesus? You must be better than him. Yes, you must be confident that you can do better things and you can be better than Jesus, because Jesus died and could save the world only on the spiritual level. But you are going to save the world both on the spiritual level and physical level. You must be confident that you are better than Jesus. The whole world is in my hand, and I will conquer and subjugate the world. I will go beyond the boundary of the U. S., opening up the toll gate, reaching out to the end of the world. I will go forward, piercing through everything. Are you with that attitude? With that zeal and courage? Are you not scared? You must be with strength here. Unless you are like that, you cannot go over or win in the judgment of personality."


"Father thinks about the three races, yellow, black, and white. Orientals can contribute in the spiritual aspect, white people can contribute in the analytical, scientific area, while black people can contribute in the physical area-physical educational development of physical fitness, the area of health. That's one of the reasons Glenda Moody's project with black young people is very fantastic. From now on, two thirds of the athletes may come from black people. Even basketball teams have a dominant population of black people. The talented area of black people is in this physical aspect. So, the short cut for black peoples' achievement in this world is the physical area. So, Father has a special concern in this area."


"Modern war has occurred primarily in the Western culture. Western culture is short-tempered in a sense, always resorting to showdowns with weapons. It originated in the cold North with hunters who killed to eat and then moved on. The tradition of Vikings and pirates is strong in Western culture, and when Western culture moves into a new territory it is accompanied by rifles and guns. You don't like to hear this because you are Westerners, but someone must wake you up."


"In daily life, which sex is usually more disruptive or problem-causing? Percentage-wise, it is usually women. What contributes to that? It is mainly because they lack perseverance."


"The original language of the Divine Principle is Korean, so if you want to become a true authority on the subject you must learn Korean. What if, when you go to the Kingdom of Heaven. the only language is Korean? You would be in deep trouble! Later on. when the Unification Church becomes larger, the official language of our church will be Korean. All official conferences and meetings will be conducted in Korean."

"Jesus Christ is trying to follow me, my footsteps, all the way. He stayed in Paradise, because he did not marry. But I gave him marriage. Don’t you want to meet the wives of Buddha, Confucius and Muhammad? They sent letters of gratitude to me from spirit world. They pledge that even if their religion disappears, they will follow me. Can you imagine anyone in this world claiming to have married those past saints? The rings I prepared for their marriage cost a great deal per couple. Did I do that because I am crazy?"


My dream is to organize a Christian political party including the Protestant denominations, Catholics and all the religious sects. Then, the communist power will be helpless before ours. We are going to do this because the communists are coming to the political scene. Before the pulpit, all the ministers of the established churches must give their sermon on how to smash or absorb communism — but they are not doing that. We are going to do this. Unless we lay the foundation for this, we cannot carry it out. In the Medieval Ages, they had to separate from the cities — statesmanship from the religious field — because people were corrupted at that time. But when it comes to our age, we must have an automatic theocracy to rule the world. So, we cannot separate the political field from the religious. Democracy was born because people ruled the world, like the Pope does. Then, we come to the conclusion that God has to rule the world, and God loving people have to rule the world — and that is logical. We have to purge the corrupted politicians, and the sons of God must rule the world. The separation between religion and politics is what Satan likes most.

There A Generational Game Here of Some Longstanding

Some older Nebraskans will assume out of hand that the reason youngsters leave for Denver, Chicago, California, etc is because of 'high taxes'.  The youngsters themselves will always tell those who bother to ask that no, the reason they leave is quite simply the lack of things to do.  The oldsters respond by assuring themselves that the departed youngster who just told them to their face that taxes are not the reason they left are just strange, that of course high taxes are the sole reason why those other youngsters have left Nebraska to its gray and stagnant fate.  Good Americans after all are supposed to at least suspect high taxes as the cause of anything bad.  Everyone knows that taxes have a magically profound effect on human behavior in a way that silly abstractions such as general cost of living, cultural vitality, or personal liberty do not. 

Anyways, our provincial bigot of a governor is thinking about getting rid of the state income tax.  And he generally gets whatever he may decide he wants. The intended effect would be of course to move the burden of paying for the state away from the rich and onto the shiftless city poor where it belongs. Though in fact since we are a farming state; with so much of our wealth measured in land, it wouldn't actually be of much benefit to the wealthy either.  It would still be more conservative than thou, which is of course the only truly important thing.