Popular Season For Songwriters

100°F-ish autumn, that is.

More Serenades

In honor of the heat wave. Oddly, I didn't steal it from BarkBarkWoofWoof, but heard the Joanie Sommers version on the radio, & the Coltrane-Hartman take was recommended by a robot/algorithm/something.

Marsha "Ol' Sparky" Blackburn Is A Truly Awful Person

Sarah Davis / The Hill:
Blackburn calls on Tennessee to ‘bring back’ electric chair after botched Christa Pike execution
Rena Rowe / Washington Examiner:   Blackburn calls to reinstate electric chair after Tennessee death row inmate's botched lethal injections

Leif Le Mahieu / The Daily Wire:   Blackburn Says She'll Resurrect Old-School Punishment After Botched Execution

Awful events in what must be an awful state, judging from their having returned this demon-possessed witch to the Senate in '24.

Meanwhile, back at Rancho El Stupido:

Emily Goodin / New York Post:
Trump dumbfounded on why death row inmate Christa Pike couldn't be executed: ‘Should be easy to do’  —  President Trump expressed disbelief about Christa Pike's botched execution, wondering how it could happen given that the lethal drugs should be “easy” to administer.

What say we bring back beheading? That's pretty certain. "Off with their heads!!"

16th Century Czech headsman Jan Mydlář, who has a Wiki entry.

That Blowed Up Real Good!

“This sinking exercise not only validated the power behind U.S.-U.K. offensive weapons but delivers a clear message to adversaries that the U.S. Navy and Royal Navy remain a ready allied force,” U.S. Navy Capt. Kelechi Ndukwe, Commander, U.S. Task Force 65, said in a news release.

So the U.S. & Royal Navies are able to sink a sitting duck that's neither moving nor firing back w/ only three different missiles & a torpedo. Not sure how impressed I am.

[Details at USNI News]

The End Is Near

75%+ through this annus horribilis, but it isn't over yet. Could well get considerably worse. More war losses, Election Day may be "Anything Can Happen Day", & prices & temperatures are still rising, yada.

As in temperatures of 100°F (37.8°C) predicted for tomorrow through Monday. So much for autumn in L.A., as Aug., Sep't. & Oct. are the hottest months. Guessing between poor circulation & anemia it won't bother me much.

Autumn Serenades

Ms. Sommers is best-known for her Top 40 hit, "Johnny Get Angry".She doesn't mean Johnny Hartman should get angry.

Weasel-Dick Wednesday W/ John Wayne

Changing from bus to train in Beverly Hills I snapped some images of the John Wayne/Great Western Savings statue.

Note that it's on a 10' pedestal to reduce chances of artwork being added by spray can.

And here is J.W. shooting his Murkin flag pop-gun w/ two ho-mo-sexual closet cases. Guy on the right's some kind of tranny, too: He's sporting a dress, a lovely sash & lots of hair! Wotta fruitcake!

How it was titled when downloaded: "JESUS CHRIST PHOTO PRAYING WITH PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP JOHN WAYNE". Course it's not a "photo", nor do I see any "praying" going on. Note boarded-up Executive Mansion. This is what & who we have to deal w/: Religious weirdoes living in a world of delusional fairy stories & bullshit.

Still On The 'Phone

"Her wrist surreal, a heart and winged skull, lettered 'Life & Love Pass Swiftly'"

NB, kids: Vampires are not all fun & games.

Idle Thoughts I Barely Care About

Surely None Of You Will

Positive development: My primary care physician apparently over-diagnosed the thing on the bottom of my foot. Went all the way to Westwood to see a podiatrist, who said it was a mere callus, not the plantar wart (caused by a strain of HPV virus) the M.D. thought it was. He applied cryotherapy twice, the podiatrist simply shaved it right off. No pain, then or now.

Other non-negative note: Rec'd. both pension & Social Security today, & still had US$505.87 in the credit union & a twenty in my pants. Guess I can afford several turnouts at $30.00 each now.

Completely negative: Watching baseball on Peacock, & its few advertisers. Does NBCUniversal no longer have a sales staff? I'm more than ready for TikTok to be banned worldwide & all involved to be imprisoned if I see that effing advert once more. What a crock.If they can't get more than five or six sponsors, could the sponsors make a couple more commercials so we needn't see the same damn ones approximately 50+ times per game? Nor am I interested in any Peacock streaming series, let alone seeing the same promos over & over & over & over. And yes, we understand very well that "This copyrighted broadcast is presented by the authority of the Office of the Commissioner of Baseball. It may not be reproduced or retransmitted in any form, and the accounts and descriptions of this game may not be disseminated without express written consent." Most broadcasts only recite that once. I'm wearing out the mute button.

Good to see the Pale Hose beat the Houston Cheat-os. The South Siders might be fun in a Series w/ L.A.'s former Bums of Brooklyn. And maybe next yr. the Cubs & Sox can face off in the Series.

Mr. Know-It-All

How Your Gov't. Worked

But Not Any More, Not That It Was Much Better Then

Don't forget the hideous racism that was still enshrined in law. And the sexism. Filthy hypocrites.

The Heights Of Racist Absurdity

I do have better & more important things to do than re-post inane Nazi horseshit from the iNternet & make threats that idiots will call the police about (8647!) but something like this is so illustrative of how damnably stupid & hateful the wrong-wing of American politics is; how can I resist? I mean, the yout' really are all lazy sods, aren't they?

Nikki McCann Ramirez / Rolling Stone:

Right-Wingers Are Mad Anti-Welfare Ad Isn't Racist Enough  —  Sarah Huckabee Sanders has been attacked by her own party for depicting a lazy white guy named “Brad” in an ad about fraud  —  No racist Republican trope has survived the test of time quite like that of the “welfare queen.”

Lauren Green / Washington Examiner:   Huckabee Sanders slammed for ad featuring white man on welfare

The Post Millennial:   Sarah Huckabee Sanders skewered for ad making white man the face of welfare fraud in Arkansas

Mary Rooke / The Daily Caller:   New Republican Midterm Ad Betrays GOP's Critical Voting Bloc

Sean James / Mediaite:   Conservatives Skewer Sarah Huckabee Sanders Ad Depicting Young White Man as ‘Welfare Queen’

They certainly like the word "skewer".

The WashEx notes:

However, the portrayal of Brad was met with swift condemnation on social media by many conservative voices, who noted that white men are among the Republican Party’s most loyal voters.

“This is a massive own goal, @SarahHuckabee, and you should fire the consultants who made this ad,” Senior Counsel Internet Accountability Project Will Chamberlain wrote on X. “Do not portray your core voting bloc as losers, period.”

“Years ago, Democrats abandoned young white men and turned them into enemies for political purposes,” wrote Jake Bequette, a former NFL player and 2022 Senate candidate in Arkansas. “It was only a matter of time until Republicans explicitly did the same. That time is now. The crown is in the gutter for anyone who unapologetically fights for young white men.”

Speaking of losers, J.B. couldn't make it out of the '22 Republican primary. Poor widdle white boys, so abused. The DC:

Consultants have a stock slacker, and for a decade, that slacker has been a white male. They’re the butt of every sitcom joke, portrayed as an idiot in commercials; they are the cautionary tale in political ads. Meanwhile, every other demographic is the hero or victim of the white male slacker. The ultimate insult of Sanders’s ad is that the GOP is perpetuating this insanity.

Oh, my heart pumps piss for these whining weenies. Break out the tiny violin.

Marion Morrison Monday

Monday Modeling Story

Angels Season Over, Chargers Lose Again, Dodgers Win 100th In 10 [UP-DATED]

Looks as if the Angels, Chargers & Clippers will all suck for the foreseeable future. How are the Raiders doing?
3-0 is how. Pick a winner!

Baseball, however, looks to be sucking up to a loser. Good rant from Nancy Nall: What is this crap, Commissioner Manfred?

UP-DATE, 28 Sep.: Lest we forget, the University of Spoiled Children's Trojans also lost, whipped 41-27. Factoid: the Angels won 62 & lost 100, the mirror image of the Dodgers' record.

Current Economic Situation

From the customer before me: Two pints of Ben & Jerry's® & 22.3 oz. of Screamin' Sicilian Pizza®, US$20.97, put on a Mastercard. Yup, 21 bucks of debt for a junk food dinner & dessert. Making America Healthy Again!!

In other consumption news, purchased a 200 sq. ft. box of Kroger Aluminum Foil® for eight bones from a guy selling them from a folding table under an awning on the sidewalk. Retail at Ralphs: US$13.99! Six dollars saved, & I s'pose, open to charges of receiving stolen property & aiding & abetting. Come & get me, coppers!

Heard This Before?

Speechifyin'

How 'bout this one?