Today's Dull

Almost three insufferable hrs. in the outside world & nothing happened beyond flashing lights.

Summer Re-Run Time

So effing exhausted, & sick & tired of typing crap here for neither reason nor reward. And of course every time I express myself &/or the truth I am at risk of being taken into custody & condemned to the psychiatric gulag, Soviet-style. What a shithole country. Proud of yourselves? Or just so fucking dense you have no fucking idea what's going on around you?

Here's a good one, from October 2009:

"Easy". Same paranoid sissy-pants bullshit for decades. You fucking cretins, I despise you all!!

Fake News Round-Up

These people certainly know from smearing & disgusting summaries.

John Nolte / Breitbart:

Netflix Smears ‘Gone with the Wind’ as Racist, Refers Viewers to Black Lives Matter  —  If you look for the 1939 masterpiece Gone with the Wind on Netflix, you'll be smacked across the face as a racist and scolded into seeking out the far left-wing radicals in Black Lives Matter.
Washington Times:   Netflix description for ‘Gone with the Wind’ cites Black Lives Matter

Amanda Harding / The Daily Wire:   Netflix Slaps Bizarre Disclaimer On ‘Gone With The Wind,’ Plugs Black Lives Matter

Cullen Linebarger / The Gateway Pundit:   Netflix Sparks Anger After Social Media Users Notice the Company's Disgusting Summary of All-Time Classic Film “Gone with the Wind”

Fred Topel / UPI:   ‘Gone with the Wind’ coming to 4K UHD in November

All in the eye of the beholder. Some beholders might need their vision corrected w/ a smack across the face. W/ a 2x4.

Not saying there aren't good parts.

"For Jah Never Made No King To Rule Mankind"

"Ruler" my ass! Sen. Scott should get his stupid, ignorant, mentally ill head out of his ass & "realize" the cliché is "leader" of the free world.

Tim Scott: I wish more people in our party realized that President Trump is the ruler of the free world…. Just like Lindsey Graham did. pic.twitter.com/Ntv7lzBT7S

— Acyn (@Acyn) July 14, 2026

And fat deranged Trump is neither. "Jah never appointed no president." To arms,citizens! Time for a Yankee Bastille Day! No kings to rule mankind!![Digby's Blog.]

How Do They Do It?

Originally expected Friday the 17th; now, tomorrow!

How does it get to Avondale from Bethpage (just northeast of Levittown) in 42 hrs. & one min.? Flown to PHX, then to Avondale for sorting, & is then trucked to Los Angeles? Hell of a lead-foot to get it to L.A. in four hrs. & 47 mins. Maybe it's flown from PHX to LAX & takes that long to be scanned. As if anything makes any sense anymore.

Anyway, Tues. beats Fri. Shameless plug for TrainWorld; good prices, large selection, & shipping one's stuff by USPS beats the glibertarian weasels at FedEx & UPS by days! My patience grows thinner as I mature. 

In other interactions w/ the outside world, fuck alla you moronic chumps. My patience grows razor-thin dealing w/ lying cheats, scumbags & rat bastards.

And to hell w/ the law that won't allow Home Despot to deliver spray paint. (Although Rust-oleum shipped me spray cans directly from Illinois that I ordered from Home Despot.) Now I have to drag my recently scrawny ass to the actual store & wait for an orange-aproned wage-slave to unlock the heavy-duty orange cage it's kept in.

What a fascinating existence. And why do I share this?Rocking live version.

Inanity & Idiocy Become Exponential

Talking Points Memo:
A Pro-Trump Christian Group Wants to Put a Cross on the Moon
Bennito L. Kelty / Raw Story:   Pro-Trump group has plans for a robotic lunar cross — and Elon Musk holds the key: report
The Register:   Ex-NASA boss points out small flaw in Moon landing plan: No lander

Stupidest thing ever? Sounds familiar.Do these buffoons live in an '80s &'90s cartoon universe? Shouldn't they be reading their "Good Book" (All other books are bad, dontcha know!?!) rather than watching telebision? 

Not that I think carving "CHAS." into the moon would be a bad idea, but what do I know?

Of course there's no lander yet. Bezos (Blue Origin) & Musk (SpaceX) are idiots. Are there no contractors other than the ones who bribe Fat Don?

Mounjaro® & Moi

Why I laugh & laugh (Sneer, even!) at your pathetic need for food. See? Breatharianism works!

I'm like a death camp inmate.

Note visible sternum, & hiatal hernia around navel. Not the one in the groin that is irritating. And tightened belt. Have gone from a 42" (107 cm.) to a 38" (96 cm.) waist & lost about 50 lbs. (23 kg.) in two yrs.

I now pay US$47.00/month for the stuff, but have literally no appetite. It's a struggle to consume a whole banana at one time; have to bag the remainder & refrigerate it until later. Occasionally I'll eat half a slice of toast (current loaf is "best if used by 6 May") or have a slice of cheese for protein. Haven't had or wanted meat for months now.

My only exercise is walking. No car, no moolah for Big Oil. (Gas & groceries? Wise up already!) Net result? Having paid all creditors their monthly pound of flesh, there is $1,150+ in the checking acc't. Barring disaster or emergency, I can't imagine necessary expenses being over $250, leaving me w/ 900 bones to blow on anything my foolish heart desires. Charity, maybe?

No, Eli Lilly and Company ("A Medicine Company") aren't paying for this, but I'll gladly take my money back from them if they're looking for a testimonial from a "real person" who is an "actual user".

Thurs. Throbber

The Weekend Starts Now!!*

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*Well, 25-30 yrs. ago it did. Now every day is Saturday.

Live Tee Vee

E.K. Sez "Bullshit"!

"E.K." being Dodger telebision analyst Eric Karros.

The DVR: Can't live w/o it. And hey, voice-over idiot, try pronouncing "veterans" as it's spelled, not "vetrins". It's almost as if you don't actually care.

Added Sat. Freak Out

I should've held yesterday's Freak Out for today, as Freak Out! was released 60 (Count 'em) 60 yrs. ago today. I see there's a docmentary for which Apple wants money.Standard rental $4.99, HD a buck more, HD purchase $12.99, standard $9.99. 

 Here's another thing you could watch about those halcyon days of yore when ...Sorry, no one seems to know where Part 1 is. I'm certainly beyond caring.

Dep't. Of Schadenfeude

Alright, it's a dumpster, not a "can". Available as a file for your 3-D printer, only US$3.00.

You Suck, We Hate You, Please Die!

Brendan Rascius / The Independent:

Two websites restrict reviews of JD Vance's book after savage critiques  —  JD Vance's new book is a memoir about his conversion to Catholicism  —  Two websites have restricted or banned reviews of Vice President JD Vance's new book following a stream of savage critiques.
Alexander Willis / Raw Story:   Torrent of awful reviews drowns JD Vance's new book: ‘Reads like garbage can’

Jordan King / Newsweek:   JD Vance's Book Flooded with Negative Reviews: ‘Unreadable’

Catherine Bouris / The Daily Beast:   Brutal Vance Book Reviews Force Sites Into Drastic Action

There's nothing inside that boy. Changes names, religions & politics at the drop of a hat. Not to be trusted.

"Sauerkraut!"

Only number I can think of w/ "sauerkraut".I have got to stop paying attention to the outside world & its inane droning bullshit, lies & stupidity. Unfortunately, it surrounds me & I'm drowning in it.

Wall Street Journal:
Everyone in Trump's Cabinet Is Eating Sauerkraut  —  JD Vance, RFK Jr. and other officials swear by a diet of grass-fed meat and fermented foods, even when the sulfurous odors cause friction at home
Solange Reyner / NewsMax.com:   WSJ: Trump Officials Embrace Sauerkraut Diet

Nikki Schwab / Daily Mail:   Pungent sauerkraut diet fad is sweeping Trump's Cabinet - and one man is resisting it

Cate Martel / The Hill:   Vance defends Trump's controversial Iran deal

Travis Gettys / Raw Story:   ‘Bet it smell crazy in there’: White House's sauerkraut fad triggers revulsion

Rhian Lubin / The Independent:   Trump's cabinet has a new secret weapon - a sauerkraut diet

Margaret Hartmann / New York Magazine:   Sure, the Trump Cabinet's Weight-Loss Secret Is Definitely ‘Sauerkraut’

Trinity Gentry / The Daily Wire:   RFK Sparks Diet Craze In The President's Cabinet

Reda Wigle / New York Post:   RFK Jr., JD Vance and others in Trump's Cabinet are all doing the same diet — and it stinks

Max Grinstein / Washington Examiner:   Trump officials are eating all the sauerkraut they can get

Yes, "a diet of grass-fed meat and fermented foods". Where do people even get ideas like this? The mind boggles.

Friday Freak Out

Per the composer: "This is a song about King Kong. The Americans brought him to New York City, made a few bucks off him, and then they killed him".I remember Frank was ticked because Jim Pons' bass track had been erased when the Lennon-Onos were mixing it for their purposes (Klaus Voormann dubbed the bass on Some Time in New York City.) but he didn't mention stolen credit. It may have been before Some Time was released.

The John Lennon Fillmore East Controversy

The song is also widely known for a dispute over copyright and royalties.

• The Performance: Zappa's band played a legendary set at the Fillmore East in June 1971, which John Lennon and Yoko Ono joined unannounced.
• The Agreement: Both artists were given access to the concert tapes for their own separate projects.
• The Plagiarism: When Lennon released Some Time in New York City in 1972, Zappa’s "King Kong" was included, renamed as "Jamrag," and credited to Lennon and Ono. Zappa was never compensated.
• Zappa's Statement: In subsequent interviews, Zappa expressed disappointment. He noted: "It's got a melody, it's got a bass line; it's obviously an organized song. Little bit [sic] disappointing.".]

In the long run, of course, almost all involved are dead.

And now I see the Mothers' version wasn't released until 1992. Down an effing rabbit hole there. Can't believe how long it takes. What a waste of my beautiful mind & time.

Clarification

O.K., this is a Brit Rail layout, but in Thailand, explaining the giant centipede, which is dying from regular fumigation.

A bite from a giant centipede is incredibly painful and requires medical attention; whilst we do all we can to preserve all insects in the shed, sometimes there are casualties.

Only insects that have visited my layout are small spiders, & I do blow them away, but w/ breath, not spray.

Sage Burning

Ritual cleansing of tunes from the'60s & '70s being used to advertise fucking air-polluting shitmobiles. An admission there's been little good music made in the last forty-odd yrs.?

Enjoyably stupid fun, & it does rock. Produced by Todd Rundgren, which helps.Proto-punk from the Great Northwest. Tacoma, to be speccfic. The ad agency cut the opening "Hey little girl" line.And this rousing "Fuck You" to all the sheep in their boxes, also used to pimp wheels, which just just appeared on Sunday Nihght Baseball on the Nasty Broadcasting Company."For families that don't fit in a box." A selective edit of a cover. Can't handle the truth. I hope the royalties are going to a decent cause, or at least a descendant, as Reynolds was the socialist type.

"Yeeeeessssss?"

When Tee Vee Was King

Kills me every time. Plenty more on YouTube; do your own research.

J.J. Sedelmaier, director of the Wendy's "Where's The Beef?" commercial & other popular '80s adverts, was 92.They're dropping like flies.

 New Jersey Online:

Donald Newhouse, who inherited a media empire, led Advance Publications' newspaper and cable TV divisions, and was Newark Star-Ledger president, dies at 96  —  Donald E. Newhouse, who as President of The Star-Ledger and head of Advance Publications' newspaper group presided over a prolonged period …

Jeff Jarvis / BuzzMachine:   BuzzMachine  —  I am terribly saddened at word of the death of Donald Newhouse …

Clay Risen / New York Times:   Donald E. Newhouse, Low-Profile Heir to a Media Empire, Dies at 96

Larry Arnold / Bloomberg:   Donald Newhouse, Who Led Family's Newspaper Group, Dies at 96

Genaro C. Armas / Newhouse School …:   Donald Newhouse's Belief in Higher Education Helped Establish Syracuse University as a Premier Training Ground for Journalists

Just saw this, for Saurday 19 November 1955. More Weterns than you could shake a six-shooter at, & Yma Sumac on Stage Show w/ the Dorsey Bros. In Jan. '56 Elvis Presley made his first national telebision appearance on the program.

[Sedelmaier obit from Off the Kuff.]

70 Yrs. Ago Today In Railroading History

Image by O. Winston Link. ©East Bumfuck Historical Society Collection. Used w/o permission.

A.T.S.F. Locomotive 2342 & Caboose 1353 pass the bean elevators at East Bumfuck, 19 May 1956.

Untitled

Can't be bothered.

Psychedelic Saturday

And a (B-)side dish of those white person blues.

Pearls Clutched & Panties In A Twist

Not that this web-log is in any way opposed to grilling.

Fake news thinks it's "owned the libs" again. "Foreign Communist", "Transnational Invaders" (That's a new one to me.) & "socialist". You tell 'em!

Jamie Paige / New York Post:
LA mayoral hopeful Nithya Raman proposes backyard BBQ ban
Jennifer Oliver O'Connell / RedState:   LA Mayoral Hopeful Blames Your Carne Asada—Not Homeless Fires—for Wildfire Risk

Grateful Calvin / twitchy.com:   From Our Singed, Smoked Hands! Nithya Raman Wants to Ban Backyard BBQs in Los Angeles

Natalie Sandoval / The Daily Caller:   Spencer Pratt's Opponents Propose Dentists For Meth Heads, Ban On Backyard BBQs

John Nolte / Breitbart:   Left-Wing Tech Organization Pays Full Salaries of 80 MSM Journalists

Ed Morrissey / HotAir:   LA Mayoral Race Focuses On the Big Problem Facing Angelenos: Grilling!

Dmitri Bolt / Townhall:   Nithya Raman Wants to Ban What? See Her Latest Proposed Fire Prevention Policy

Ace of Spades HQ:   Foreign Communist Candidate for LA Mayor Nithya Raman Wants to Ban Backyard BBQs Because the Transnational Invaders Instinctively Make Endless War on American Normies

Britta Miller / Washington Examiner:   Spencer Pratt roasts Nithya Raman in barbecue video

Brodigan / Louder With Crowder:   Spencer Pratt drops the PERFECT response to his socialist opponent's attempt to ban you from BBQing in your backyard

All very funny. It certainly wasn't "homeless fires" that started the Eaton fire, it was SoCalEd's high-tension power lines. The Palisades fire was set by a deliberate arsonist, & smoldered for a wk. because the L.A. City Fire Dep't. didn't fully extinguish it. Homeless people are forced to use fire, but their fires are usually in concrete-lined river bottoms & burn little but brush.

Note to Brodigan / Louder With Crowder: BBQ-ing doesn't stay in "your backyard".

And a note to Nolte of Breitbart: Who finances your little operation? Billionaire Nazis?

Dunno who this Spencer Pratt is (A prat w/ a surname for a first name?) but he would seem to be the darling of the droolers. Vote accordingly.