31 March 2025 12:35:54 PM CST





27 March 2025 10:21:32 PM CST

The Instrumental Works was released in 1988 and it seems that the idea was to have one track from each of the first ten albums. The only important ones for me although I like some of the new stuff Alan has done. The live show in Israel a few years back is real good. All of the ten had at least one instrumental track and some had as many as three. I've got an old CD around here that has all of them - not sure of the origin. Wonder if people bootleg CDs like they used to with 8-tracks and cassettes. I seem to remember it came from a Big Lots store back when they had something worth buying. Some of them are or have been used at sporting events and as bumper music - somehow seeing fine art being used at basketball games or 'wrestling' matches is a bit offensive but that's just me.

What happened in NEA or just Arkansas lately? The photo with this was amusing but you have to look close and maybe google something you see in the background. That's all right - they got the whole month of June and a couple dozen holidays and holiweeks.

Another illegal turned over to ICE after an encounter with the police up in Clay County:

The sheriff’s social media post said the stop occurred around 12:19 p.m. on March 20 at County Road 139 and Highway 328. Deputies pulled over a vehicle without headlights, grille, or front bumper and with a fictitious license plate.

The driver, identified as 33-year-old Jonathan Ramon Orozco Soza, reportedly did not speak English and provided only a Little Rock identification card. Authorities said he had no insurance.

NEA Report
At least they're finally being deported instead of being turned loose to maim and kill citizens. With the incoming stream nearly stopped there should be less of this. Sadly there are lot of them out there and with little places in Arkansas being infected it may take a long time to get rid of them. Clay County is where Cornig is. Don't get up there much but had an aunt on mother's side of the family lived there. Husband big farmer and big fancy house, one of Mom's favorite sisters and went up for Thanksgiving a lot of times. Kids pretty wild, the boys heavy drinkers and two died from it - one in an accident and the other liver disease. One of the girls real pretty and real nice, other only a half-cousin I guess as uncle was married before he married my aunt and had a couple of kids. Half cousin girl was pretty hot too....

What, Chris?

She was only a half cousin. Whatever. What I's gonna say before Chris interrupted was my uncle was into guns big time. Gunsmith and had a big shop - what they'd call the man cave these days - and all kinds of machines. Make replacements for parts on old guns, any kinda screw you wanted. Used to go to gun shows and come back with all kinds of stuff. Once a box of about a dozen Lugers. Luger are cool - never figured to spend the money on a regular German one but got a replica in .22 and one in .32. As I remember they made some in .380 as well but wasn't into it enough to run one down then. This back in the 1980s. Chris giving me that look. This here blog is about whatever I want it to be about. As the great El Rushbo always said. Which reminds me...

What, Chris?

Alright, lessee if anything new in northeast Arkansas. Or Arkansas anywhere.

The Parkin police chief that got hisself indicted for perjury a while back got fired now. Didn't say why.

This guy FAFO'ed down aroud Little Rock. Sounds like a Glock switch. Jamal can't read or write but he can install a Glock switch or burn a key fob. Dumb down technology enough it gets scary.

I got some other stuff in the stack, probably time to call it a day. Hasta la vista muchachos. As I remember the plural for a group of both sexes uses the masculine form but you can only have so many lingos rattling around in your head and keep everything straight. Okey-dokey.












28 March 2025 09:52:24 PM CST

If the allegations in this are factual it won't surprise me but that place seems to be a bit of a mess.

You'd expect Mike to have some critics given his history. He's been wobbly a time or two but mostly gets it right. Did I mention his daughter is the governor of Arkansas and just might be a president someday. Believe me she got what it takes. Anyhow the so-called West Bank is historically part of Israel and so is the East Bank and a lot of other territory going back, oh, a few thousand years.

Jonestown paper finally got some new content up in the editorial space. I suspect that whatever actual Reagan Republicans are extant are now supporters of President Trump. Donald Trump is what they wanted Ronald Reagan to be but maybe it wasn't the time. The similar experience of both Reagan and Trump surviving assassination attempts is interesting. Trump two of them. As for a post-constitutional order we were well on your way there before 5 November last. Or 20 January as you could never be sure until then. This clown starts out talking about Woodward and Bernstein taking Nixon down it goes downhill from there. Pretty much everything Bernstein has written lately has been thorougly discredited so what makes you think he was telling the truth them? I've known a few of these people and they seem to actually believe what they say but then I've never met one that wasn't a midwit at best.


Plants need CO2 and if that all goes away there won't be any more plants and before long not any animals or people. I'm sure somebody that wants to remove it from the air can tell me how much needs to go. AI tools are made by people and manipulated by people. I don't use Sora so dunno what the problem is but I know some are criticized for being too realistic. I know a lot of Americans who aren't thinking about fleeing and a lot who said they were gonna because Trump haven't done so yet. Of course they said that last time. And when Bush was elected.












29 March 2025 10:23:54 PM CST

Dude in Jonestown swinging a sword around in the street. No word on whether anybody heard him yell "THERE CAN BE ONLY ONE!". I only watched one or two of the sequels and bought the swords because they were pretty cool. I admit to having a thing for samurai swords and got too many. Sean Connery was real good and Christopher Lambert was as badass as you can be. The scene in the interrogation room was epic. Roxanne Hart I like in about everything I've seen her in.

Jonestown paper laments the possible - it's probably gonna be in court a while - demise of the tax-payer funded propaganda outlets of the former regime. I suppose the Trump administration could allow them to continue as long as they only report facts but probaly would have to hire new staff as the ones there now couldn't take it. Like the exodus from the Washington Compost when the owner told them to straighten up. Whether that was just talk remains to be seen but a lot of them bailed right away.












30 March 2025 10:12:33 PM CST

These days they call that FAFO. Lot of times people get away with stuff for so long they don't ever see it coming when they go too far. Conan the Cimmerian (that's what Howard mostly called him) said that "Civilized people are more discourteous than barbarians because they don't have to worry about having their skulls split, as a general thing". Seems too many people these days are too civilized, to the point of being sheep.

If the first time a tranny boy had entered a girls' dressing room and was promptly beaten to a pulp and dragged outside and advised not to try it again and the girls all stuck together and no one saw anything...

If the first time an 80-something-year-old woman was dragged out of a bank by police for not wearing a mask, a few bystanders set upon the cops - with empty hands if necessary - and made them reassess their commitment to enforcing the law...

It might have taken more than once but sadly it didn't happen even once that I am aware of. We are already too civilized and have been for quite a while.

Alex@MyndCryme


When the 36 trillion dollars in debt is paid off and replacecd by a substantial surplus I will cheerfully consider foreign aid a legitimate activity if the recipients behave decently - representative governments reasonably free of corruption. GQ cares about UFC? And how did the "bullies" steal it? Probably if Conor wasn't running for president they wouldn't care. I don't give him much of a chance - Ireland is about gone. Michael Collins is probably rolling in his grave if dead people do that.












31 March 2025 09:22:48 PM CST

Got a few .22s. Rifles too, the Ruger 10/22 being a favorite along with the cheap little Marlins they used to sell at Wal-Mart and Kmart pretty regular on a special deal. Probably the last one I bought was at the K-Mart store in Wynne. Bought a 10/22 there too, about a hundred bucks. The Marlins went for about $65 - too good not to buy another one now and then at that price. Gal that worked at K-Mart then a cute little thing, real fun and friendly.

"What, Chris?"

Actually I probably don't need to tell the rest. About the girl anyway. First .22 pistol I had was a Ruger, then it was just one model. Later they made them with different barrels - the 10" heavy barrel the best not just for target shooting but generally to knock around with outdoors if you don't need something bigger.

Bunch of little stuff happening. Wreck down in Prairie County, little east of Little Rock. People from Memphis according to one of the survivors were returning from a vacation. I guess if you go on vacation with some one like this:

Police say Hambrick was found to have an outstanding extradition warrant from Shelby County, Tennessee, for probation violation. Hambrick is a registered sex offender.

According to the Tennessee Sex Offender Registry, Hambrick has had charges since 2012 of domestic assault, aggravated assault, driving while license suspended revoked canceled, unlawful possession of a weapon, aggravated robbery, and possession of controlled substance.

WREG.com
Guess they had no idea all this stuff was in the vehicle. Somebody runs from cops in a pickup truck too smart to begin with. Four of them and all the drugs and guns and stuff probably a crew cab.
During the investigation, troopers found two firearms, an unknown amount of money, a bottle of promethazine, marijuana, and narcotics in the vehicle.

WREG.com

This happened in Osceola. I guess some people not real bright. Osceola one of those places that has quite a few of them.

The day before the party, a flyer advertising a “Pisces Stripper Party” in the 400 block of W Semmes Ave. circulated on social media, police said. The flyer boasted "free food, free liquor, free weed."

KAIT.com

Today was transgender day of visibility. I didn't notice and it wasn't even in the headlines on the places I look. Maybe things are improving.

Believe I'll call it a day.


























































In the eighth grade I came home from school one day and before anything else Mom said "Jerry is dead." Young as I was I knew a little about Vietnam, knew what had happened. Jerry was a second cousin on Mom's side but more like a big brother to me. Mom's family is pretty big, most of them had more kids than her four, and a lot of us lived in the area. And the large families meant there was considerable age differences between some of the relatives you palled around with. Jerry's folks lived close to Mom's parents and I was over there a lot, hunted and fished with Jerry, he taught me about cars. Had a '66 Chevelle SS, the 396 engine. Like a lot of young guys coming back from Vietnam he bought a new sports car. Good times, he got married to a real nice girl. Then a couple of years later he was sent back to Vietnam again - leaving his pregnant wife behind - and this time he came back in a coffin. I don't know and never asked if he volunteered for another tour. Once he re-enlisted he was fair game, I know guys that did three tours. The conscripts did their one and most got out when their time was up. He was interviewed by a local newspaper and said he believed 'we needed to win' and 'prevent the spread of communism'. We didn't know much back then, just what the newspapers and TV told us. I would have gone when I was eighteen, if they'd called me. Mom and Dad had no use for draft-dodgers and protesters and would have disowned me if I didn't go. Dad was in WWII and an uncle went to Korea and we didn't question authority. I do have a soft spot for Nixon, since he shut it down before they got around to me. Anyway Jerry was KIA a couple of months before the end of his tour, and his son never knew his father. Trish - the nice girl he left a widow - eventually married again and moved away. I would eventually enlist in the Air Force, but that was a ways off.

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I was about ten. One day the local radio station reported on the six o'clock news, we always listened to that. It would be he last news of the day, a one-hour jazz program called Bourbon Street Parade came on afterwards and ran until seven. From seven to ten was a pop program (they played country all day after the morning show, with a one-hour show at noon where people could call in and advertise stuff for sale. Describe the item and give a phone number. And a price generally. Then back to country - Merle Haggard and Willie Nelson and Johnny Cash. And some stuff that made me think Mom wasn't listening too close. Even at that age | knew what The Grapes in Mary's Vineyard was about. Seven to ten was contemporary pop for the young Folks. When | was older, just after high school, the DJ was a girlfriend for a while, Fortunately For one or both us it didn't last long. | know For me it was good, and probably for her as well. Ten PM was the end until six or seven the next morning. Anyway news that day was a shooting, a Fatal one. Fairly unusual, we'd have maybe one killing a year or maybe none. Rarely multiples. So any killing was a major event. The news (we had a newspaper too and they'd tell you about it on Friday) was supplemented by the grapevine. So all we knew until then was a Fellow was shot and killed. Had his name - Thomas Hall. Worse Than I Thought (2024)

Mom said he was a justice of the peace. | didn't know what that was but it sounded important. Actually it meant he had been elected to the quorum court, kind of like a city council only For the county. And they could perform marriages, | probably knew that. Well, the next meeting of the quorum court would have be short at least one member for a while. By the six o'clock news the next day we pretty well had it all. Seems Mr. Hall made a living hauling gravel. There were big gravel pits all along a nearby ridge of low hills, and the clay gravel was used For roads and driveways and parking lots and such. The county roads accounted for a lot of it, and a Few miles or private roads on our farm were built with it. It was a pretty good business For a guy with a truck or two as it was always in demand. Thomas had a truck, maybe more than one. He got into a habit of parking it ina shed owned by another guy, without permission. The owner of the shed objected and Thomas beat him up a time or three over it. On the last day of his life he drove the truck over and the owner of the shed told him he couldn't park there. Thomas beat him up again. According to witnesses the beat-up fellow crawled into his house and before Thomas had gotten around to getting back in the truck he came out with a .22 pistol. Fired four shots, all of them connected but one just grazed the target. Thomas fell down on his hands and knees and cursed for a bit and expired. Worse Than I Thought (2024)

A.22 pistol is right handy for a lot of things. They're fun and cheap to shoot. I'd prefer something more substantial (.45 for many years but now | prefer a 10mm) for stopping an attacker, one shooting at me or wielding a large weapon edged or not, but a .22 will killa man quite nicely. Put three of four in the ten ring or somewhere close and it won't knock him down right off but he probably won't keep going For long. Personally I'd use more than four. A Ruger MKI, real popular back then, had a ten round magazine and you could empty it in a Few seconds and stay on target. Not long afterwards Mom bought me new bedroom furniture. Fancy cedar four-poster and matching chest and dresser. She said it was too good a deal to pass up - a customer had ordered it at the local Dixie Furniture and never did come to get it. Because he beat up the wrong man one time too many. Nice Furniture, not that I was particular. Worse Than I Thought (2024)