Friday Finger

Andre Ethier has two for you, world.

Just wait 'til next year!!

No Joy In Mudville

Perhaps not the wisest bobblehead?

Swept? A fucking sweep? Not seven games of hard-fought ball? Well, just like this reporter, they are old & tired. Maybe a bit o' hubris involved as well, talking "three-peat" so much.

OOOOOH. Maybe the Dodgers shouldn’t have visited the White House LOLOL. Here’s me celebrating.

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— Allison Gill (@muellershewrote.com) October 15, 2026 at 8:12 PM

I hope the Guardians beat the Devil Rays & provide an all-Midwest series that no one will care about except the residents of Wisconsin & half of Ohio, & Fox Sports loses big.

Perhaps this abomination will be balanced by a Democratic sweep next month.

C'mon Iran

Los Angeles & San Diego Love You Too,
You Fat Piece Of Dog Shit

Republican/Xian Naionalist/fascist sense of humor: They're cheering, not laughing. And every damn Republican will laugh it off w/ "Oh that Trump's quite the jokester, isn't he? Lighten up", if they admit to hearing it at all.

Los Angeles Times:
Trump suggests letting Iran ‘take out’ Los Angeles and San Diego at campaign rally  California Gov. Gavin Newsom called the president ‘deranged and dangerous.’  — The crowd in Grand Island, Neb., cheered the remarks about Los Angeles and San Diego.
Juan Cole / Informed Comment:   No, Mr. Trump, Iran can't “take out” Los Angeles and San Diego

Matthew Rozsa / Alternet.org:   Trump jokes about Iran destroying Los Angeles and San Diego

Brett Meiselas / MeidasTouch:
Trump Says to Let Iran ‘Take Out’ Los Angeles, San Diego in Nebraska Speech

Tom Wait / CBS News:   Trump suggests allowing Iran to “take out” L.A. and San Diego during campaign rally

Michael Luciano / Mediaite:   Rally-Goers Cheer as Trump Says, ‘Let Them Take Out Los Angeles’ or ‘San Diego’z

Siladitya Ray / Forbes:   Trump Draws Backlash For ‘Let Them Take Out Los Angeles’ Or ‘San Diego’ Iran War Remarks

Alyssa Ray / The Wrap:   Gavin Newsom, Jim Acosta and More Torch Trump After He Dares Iran to ‘Take Out’ Los Angeles or San Diego in Rally Speech

Paul Campos / Lawyers, Guns & Money: More thoughts from the mental acuity and youthful vigor candidate

Carter Schroppe / Washington Examiner:   Trump was ‘well aware’ of energy price risks before Iran decision, energy secretary says

And fuck the cheering Grand Island rally-goers. I'm sick of these hicks. Now can we have that war between the states?

Monday Modeling Story

Sunday Supercut

I know Lindsay Graham is dead, but where'd all the others go?Every one of these lying bitches & sons-of-bitches will tell you to your face that they are big Xians, even as they ignore every one of the Ten Commandments.

Don't qualify as Xians or Mohammadeans. 

Self-Diagnosis

The hernia that popped out about four months ago is now what the croaker called "a big hernia". He suggested surgical consultation, but there's no consultation w/o an ultrasound, & the first one I could schedule was 5 December. Three months, if you've lost track. Worst things that could happen? More pain, inability to evacuate & gangrene.

Other crap: Exhaustion & enervation are probably not due to sleeping sickness, as I've no symptoms beyond the inability to remain upright, even in a chair, for more than three hrs., & certainly don't remember being bitten by a tsetse fly.

Depression? The heat? The sheer droning boredom of your awful idiot-filled world?

Dehydration, for which the nurse practitioner actually advised me to consume more salt? (Bought a bag of Fritos® & some cheese dip, as there's almost no protein in me either.)

I also suspect that gravity (Weakest of the four forces.) is increasing, especially in the outside world. Or the atmosphere is denser/heavier, to the point of pressing me down.

Weds. Already?

Oh, fuck me, thought it was still Tues., have nothng scheduled & no effing inspiration whatsoever. And in exactly a month, I will turn 73, if the gov't. hasn't killed me by then.

Typing things has become a drag, like gravity, or having to breathe. Damn you, autonomic nervous system! Let me be!There. That should hold the little bastards.

Oh, Great

This reporter's Representative. I voted for the farthest left candidate, Angela Gonzales-Torres, in the primary; Gomez is not radical enough for me. We'll see what happens in '28.

Kate Santaliz / Axios:

House Ethics investigating Rep. Jimmy Gomez over sexual misconduct allegations  —  The House Ethics Committee announced Monday that it is investigating Congressman Jimmy Gomez (D-Calif.) over allegations of sexual misconduct. … - The committee provided no further details about the allegations.

Josh Christenson / New York Post:   House Ethics panel probing Dem Rep. Jimmy Gomez after he admitted to cheating on his wife following Post report on staffer makeout

Lauren Green / Washington Examiner:   House Ethics Committee confirms investigation into Democrat Jimmy Gomez

Fox News:   House Democrat investigated over alleged ‘inappropriate sexual contact’ with staffer

Sudiksha Kochi / The Hill:   House Ethics investigating California Democrat Jimmy Gomez over allegations of sexual misconduct

Caitlin Yilek / CBS News:   House Ethics Committee investigating Rep. Jimmy Gomez for alleged sexual misconduct

Nicole Silverio / The Daily Caller:   House Ethics Committee Opens Investigation Into Democrat Rep Jimmy Gomez For Sexual Misconduct

Jeff Charles / Townhall:   Lawmakers Set to Introduce Legislation to Target Sexual Misconduct in Congress

Jim Hᴏft / The Gateway Pundit:   House Ethics Committee Investigating Democrat Rep. Jimmy Gomez Over Sexual Misconduct Including “Inappropriate Sexual Contact” With a House Staffer

Much ado about necking, per the usual imitation information sources above. Drier facts here.

Hurtful & just stupid, Jimmy, what the hell?

In Memoriam, Zombie Rotten McDonald

This is terribly sad. Zombie Rotten was a long-time close iNternet acquaintance, whom I knew from Sadly, No!, & elsewhere on the web. Can't find his blog, which may have gone the way of all things.

Tengrain's better at these painful events, & he's remembered Zombie Rotten well.

Extra suck: I usually enjoy outliving people, but not this time. Zombie (legal name, Brain L. Miller) was a mere 64, & died of a fall at home, of all things. Watch yourselves, people! And a mensch in meatspace, judging from the memorial page.

Still remember Lucy, the Leaky-Ass Dog, whom he often mentioned.

Excitement At The Bunker

Maybe 90 mins. ago ago I heard various noises from just outside the galley window, & then heard people clumping down the stairs. This was followed in a few more mins. by several police officers outside the window, one of whom advised me my upstairs neighbors had just been burglarized. The ossifers were trying to figure out something about where & how to move the ladder. Should've looked to see what the hell the noise was.

Hoping it was someone the neighbors know who wanted something specific. Can't imagine wandering around w/ a ladder, picking a random window & then leaving it there. Stats indicate over 50% of burglaries are committed by people known to the victim. I wonder if any of the cameras in the lobby actually work, & if the bastard slumlord will put bars on my window.

Friday The 31st: End Of A Horrible Month

Brick. From the Int'l. Review of Music.

Local luminary, author of Brick's Picks for the L.A. Weekly & other writing, drummer & one-time friend Phillip "Brick" Wahl up & died, unexpectedly to me at least, leaving his wife of many yrs. Phyllis, his brother Lex & many friends. For many yrs. Brick & Phyll hosted a bash the Saturday night before Xmas, an obligatory gathering. I've no words, but here are a few. Search results.

And Jennifer Finch, bassist of L7 & photog, at 59, of "aggressive" brain cancer. She stopped by bar-be-ques at my party house w/ band-mate Suzi Gardner a couple of times, & rehearsed a rasslin' women event conceived & directed by Tequila Mockingbird on cardboard spread over the living room floor. People on F-book who knew her were quite broken up. Rolling Stone.

In a 2017 Rolling Stone profile of the band, she was described as “an ill-behaved and untrained bassist who added instant verve to their live act.”

Rest of the month: Studio tenor giant Plas Johnson, who made 92, & a few others who created good stuff & lived into their late seventies & eighties.

Confuzzled

Holding Pattern

Definitely have to wait for the flex track."Expected Delivery" is Monday, but the pkg. left PHX suburb Avondale at 0822 today, so my optimistic heart hopes it's already in town & will be at the Nat "King" Cole station in time to be delivered tomorrow. If not, an exciting wknd. of replacing plastic wheelsets & couplers w/ metal ones & adjusting coupler heights.

Auto-focus my ass, SONY.

Even the Catalina is in a holding pattern atop the desk.Minutes later: My stuff arrived at the L.A. Reg. Dist. Ctr. at 1916, so my optimism may not be wrong. Sad when all one's optimism is because one's somewhat wiser than a Postal Service robot.

T.V. Eye

We're pivoting to video at Web of Evil (& Ennui). It'll be nothing but ranting & raving about how miserable everything & everyone are, & plenty of death threats to anyone & everything, so you chickenshit little assholes can call the police & squeal to your heart's content. Why do I think everything is shit? Because your species has been making it so for over a hundred thousand yrs., as confirmed by paleontology & history, & by this cheap mother-fucking slumlord son-of-a-bitch. 

Waterboarding to death would be a very appropriate punishment. "I CAN'T BREATHE!! GLUB GLUB GLUB ..." Warms my heart.

Electricity!

Copyright 1876 by Currier & Ives, New York

Today is National Electricity Day, commemorating Ben Franklin connecting electricity & lightning on this date (or 10 June) 1752.I'm thinking this electricity stuff is overrated, or worse.

Look at that. First there is juice, then there is no juice, then there is.

Some of that intermittency is due to the searchlight car itself, so I s'pose now I'll have to blow 20 or so bones on a voltimeter. Battery makers: Please make an inexpensive battery small enough that it doesn't require a permanently coupled box car & will last four or five hrs. Thank you for your attention to this matter.If I have to buy a soldering iron & solder the damn rails together I will not be a happy camper. Unfortunately, there's really no one to blame but myself.

So. ++Fucking. ++Tired. A Partial List

Typed this list of agonies & looked for an image,
only to find I'm not tired, I'm fatigued.

• Tired of breathing. 
• Tired of being forced to breathe by some bullshit "autonomous nervous system". Am I not free to stop breathing whenever I want? 
• Tired of moving. 
• Tired of having to "do" anything. 
• Tired of existing in a world of shit & pain made & run by sadists. 
• Tired of pretending.
• Tired of this stupid game infecting the world that seems to have been designed for amputees. Use your hands! Are all you furrin weirdoes fucking animals w/ paws or handed humanoids? 
• Tired of all your stupid games, whether athletic competitions or all the other fucking games you shitheels play w/ each other. 
• Tired fucking of the gross incompetence & non-stop negligence of your shitty species. 
• Tired of the police. 
• Tired of teacher's pets who can't wait to squeal to their pig friends. 
• Tired of all attempts at entertainment. I am not amused by or interested in any humanoid expression, because I've heard it all before. There is absolutely nothing new. Human "culture" is played out. Give it up, already. 
• Tired of having mother-fucking robots at the supermarket tell me to remove my purchases. You cock-suckers don't want to pay people to run cash registers, don't have your fucking robot order me to hurry up! 
• Tired of the mother-fucking son-of-a bitch parasite slumlord. Very goddamn tired.
• Tired of the lies
• Tired of the bullshit.  
• Tired of your bullshit! 
• Tired of you!
• ++So. Tired. Of. Living.

Not, however, tired of being angry & bitter. Hell, I'm cultivating it; you awful rat bastard people have already fertilized it w/ your incessant bullshit & w/ the agony you cause me daily.

Friday Finger

Thursday's Terror Threat

Haven't the energy to waste screaming & shouting at you lying, cheating pukes. Into the pit w/ all of you!!

Garrett Anderson Passes At 53

Damn. Just saw him on the telly Tuesday, talking about the Jackie Robinson Museum.This is one time this reporter is not happy about outliving someone.

I Am The Doctor

Natalie Allison / Washington Post:

Trump post appearing to depict him as Jesus removed amid backlash  —  Before the post was deleted, Evangelical and Catholic allies called the image blasphemous in a rare public break from a base that has largely stood by Trump.  —  President Donald Trump's posting of an image that appeared …
Dan Mangan / CNBC:   Trump deletes Truth Social image depicting him as Jesus: ‘I thought it was me as a doctor’

Derek VanBuskirk / The Daily Caller:   Trump Takes Rare Step Of Deleting Post Depicting Himself As Jesus After Christians Cry Foul

Kathryn Watson / CBS News:   Trump faces backlash after posting AI image appearing to depict him like Jesus

Hafiz Rashid / New Republic:   Trump Deletes Photo of Himself as Jesus After Total MAGA Uproar

Alex Woodward / The Independent:   Trump claims controversial post depicting him as Jesus was actually him as a doctor: ‘Only the fake news could come up with that’

Jennifer Bowers Bahney / Mediaite:   'I Can't Even Look At It!' The View's Whoopi Goldberg Disgusted By Now-Deleted Image of Trump as Jesus

Fox News:   Trump's meme depicting himself as Jesus Christ draws backlash from allies

Joseph Gedeon / The Guardian:

Trump deletes post with AI image of himself as Christ-like figure after outcry  —  The US president's conservative, Christian supporters decried the Truth Social post, calling it ‘disgusting’  —  Less than a year after signing legislation that will pull nearly 12 million Americans off health insurance …

Edith Olmsted / New Republic:   MAGA Freaks Out After Trump Posts AI Photo of Himself as Jesus

The Hill:   Trump takes down Truth Social post of AI image portraying him as Jesus

Associated Press:   Donald Trump launches extraordinary attack on Pope Leo calling him ‘weak’ and ‘terrible’

Ben Meiselas / Meidas+:   Monday Afternoon News Updates: Blockade Begins, and So Does the Fallout

Anna Skinner / Newsweek:   Donald Trump Deletes Jesus Photo After Conservative Fury

Adam Kinzinger:   You Gave Him Your Faith. And Now He's Posting Himself as Jesus.

Zach Jewell / The Daily Wire:   Trump Slammed For ‘OUTRAGEOUS’ Post Depicting Himself As Jesus Christ

Joe DePaolo / Mediaite:   Trump Cooks Up Bonkers Explanation for Why He Posted Meme Seeming to Depict Him as Jesus: ‘I Thought it Was Me as a Doctor’

Lest we forget:

A "doctor" w/ healing crystals, but no lab coat or stethescope? Sure, Donnie, whatever you say, you big fat loser.