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WALKING ON THIN ICE

don the con

November 1, 2024 No Comments

Don the Con
will soon be gone
his stench will linger longer

– Smith, 7.26.2024
image me&Chat

me&Chat

August 7, 2024 No Comments

Selected images past month by me&Chat
created for poems. here without.

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money coffin

April 13, 2023 No Comments

Water leak from ceiling started last Friday.

Called Roto Rooter, they came out, checked things out, turned off water, said they’d be back Monday to fix. Called Monday, no call back; called Tuesday and Wednesday, no call-back; called this morning and asked for a supervisor – he works in a national call center, so connected me with our local R.R. who had our initial plumber call me, he explained there were delays he had told the office to tell me about, but they never called. So I cancelled R.R. and called the local Jack’s Plumbing. They were here in 30 minutes, took 2 hours, fixed the problem.

While they were here, the garbage disposal decided not to turn on, so we had 2 plumbers and 1 electrician prowling this 143 yr-old house.

Plumbers sawed through walls and ceiling so repair work needs to be done after the drying-out.

Money money money . . . 2.5 yrs here = rewiring old fuses in basement to circuit box, new toilet, new tub, solar panels, new roof and termite control for 3-car garage, 10 new windows — plus buncha other money-eatings weed-brain has lost.

Being 27 years older than The Wife, this was to be my retirement home . . . now think it’s more a money coffin. Thank goodness she’s bringing bread in. In Oaxaca Mexico 2007-9 my social security covered everything with funds left over; up here, maybe cover food and mortgage.

But we love the place. Built 1880, last house on the left on a red-brick one-block dead-end street overlooking Zoo parking lot — sometimes at night we hear elephants trumpeting.

And this morning in our backyard pine tree I heard an owl go ::hoo hoo hoo-hoot, hoo hoo hoo-hooo:: often enough I had time to look up and see it moving – 3rd owl I’ve seen here . . . along with groundhogs, skunks, turkey vultures, deer, coyotes, raccoons, snakes.

And, if we’re talking beasts, me.

shadow of the not-Yeti

April 11, 2023 No Comments

Stopped by MetroHealth Pharmacy for vitamins and found the underground parking lot and most doors blocked off, with a metal detector at the open main entrance.

Perhaps gun violence is reaching corporate concern level and the money being lost will finally push gun control in Congress, for as we all know most politicians care about money more than anything.

Strange thinking about population numbers versus social development. There are arch building ants, I believe in Africa, who keep trying to build arches, but they keep collapsing until the ant population becomes large enough that (seemingly) mass-mind kicks in and they suddenly know how to insert a keystone. This boggles my mind.

On the obverse side of the situation, there are some Texas rabbits who bang and breed until there are too many per square mile to support them all so they develop a nervous condition and start dying off until there’s enough room to bang & breed again.

Perhaps the ever escalating gun violence in the U.S. is our people-version of this rabbit-neurosis. Wife pointed out in a rabbit warren, rabbits at the top of the power structure eat better and live longer and happier than any of the rabbits below them, and the lower you go, the shorter you live (due to stress).

And of course monkeys and birds have been documented lying and thieving by uttering fake danger calls to try to scare companion away from found food so they can eat it instead.

So lies, and theft, and death by social order are part parcel of nature’s blueprint.

Hmmmmm.

This is but a few of many mysteries . . . for example, are sexually loose female trolls called trollops?

Or, if you ain’t a Yeti, does that make you a not-Yeti?


Shadow of the Yeti

Smith & Lady travels more or less Aug 2006 – Mar 2009

August 15, 2022 No Comments

Smith & Lady travels more or less Aug 2006 – Mar 2009

We first left with 70 pounds of backpack each — returned with 35 pounds each . . . quickly learned you REALLY have to want something in order to carry it on your back.

>>>>> to chiplis (1 mile)
>>>>> to chicago — (312 miles)
>>>>> to london — (3,954 miles)
>>>>> to north england — (250)
>>>>> to london — (250)
>>>>> to amsterdam — (221)
>>>>> to london — (221)
>>>>> to lodz poland — (719)
>>>>> to krakow poland — (204)
>>>>> to lodz poland — (204)
>>>>> to london — (719)
>>>>> to pula croatia — (788)
>>>>> to zagreb (122)
>>>>> to pula (122)
>>>>> to trieste — (54)
>>>>> to venice — (71)
>>>>> to pula — (125)
>>>>> to beziers — (914)
>>>>> to barcelona — (156)
>>>>> to madrid — (314)
>>>>> to marrakech — (652)
>>>>> to essarouira (95 miles)
>>>>> to marrakech — (95)
>>>>> to london — (1,432)
>>>>> to braithwaite — (250)
>>>>> to london — (250)
>>>>> to marseille — (623)
>>>>> to albeilhan — (120)
>>>>> to paris — (393)
>>>>> to albeilhan (393)
>>>>> to barcelona — (156)
>>>>> to nyc usa — (4,083)
>>>>> to cleveland — (402)
>>>>> to mexico — (1,946)
>>>>> to cleveland — (1,946)
>>>>> to mexico — (1,946)
>>>>> to cleveland — (1,946) = 26,499

perhaps the world’s biggest LOSER

May 19, 2022 No Comments

Trump’s Trutch social media network partners filed the 2 paragraphs below in their S-4 registration statement acknowledging Trump’s past failures:

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Of Trump’s lengthy history of bankruptcies, it states:

Entities associated with President Trump have filed for bankruptcy protection. The Trump Taj Mahal, which was built and owned by President Trump, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 1991. The Trump Plaza, the Trump Castle, and the Plaza Hotel, all owned by President Trump at the time, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 1992. THCR, which was founded by President Trump in 1995, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 2004. Trump Entertainment Resorts, Inc., the new name given to Trump Hotels & Casino Resorts after its 2004 bankruptcy, declared bankruptcy in 2009. While all of the foregoing were in different businesses than TMTG, there can be no guarantee that TMTG’s performance will exceed the performance of those entities.

Of failed license agreements with Trump, it notes:

Trump Shuttle, Inc., launched by President Trump in 1989, defaulted on its loans in 1990 and ceased to exist by 1992. Trump University, founded by President Trump in 2005, ceased operations in 2011 amid lawsuits and investigations regarding the company’s business practices. Trump Vodka, a brand of vodka produced by Drinks Americas under license from the Trump Organization, was introduced in 2005 and discontinued in 2011. Trump Mortgage, LLC, a financial services company founded by President Trump in 2006, ceased operations in 2007. GoTrump.com, a travel site founded by President Trump in 2006, ceased operations in 2007. Trump Steaks, a brand of steak and other meats founded by President Trump in 2007, discontinued sales two months after its launch. While all these businesses were in different industries than TMTG, there can be no guarantee that TMTG’s performance will exceed the performance of these entities.

“The foregoing does not purport to be an exhaustive list,” the document warned.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/donald-trump-business-failings-detailed-filing_n_6285e0f8e4b00685b668f891

soft shuffle

November 28, 2021 No Comments

soft shuffle . . .

White Man – Macy Gray
The Caravan Moves On – Charles Lloyd
Shut Up And Drive – Shawn Colvin
Junkie Doll – Mark Knopfler
Dancing Barefoot – Patti Smith
Federal Funding – Cake
Pedestrian At Best – Courtney Barnett
Fretless Nostril – Critters Buggin
Peroxide Beach – Sloppy Jane
Little Head – John Hiatt
A Rainbow In Curved Air – Terry Riley
Sex And The Church – David Bowie
Busted Up – The Replacements
Bad Things – Jace Everett
Christine’s Tune – The Flying Burrito Brothers
Top Floor, Bottom Buzzer – Morphine
Sex And Gasoline – Rodney Crowell
I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry – Hank Williams
The Boy Can’t Help It – Bonnie Raitt