Tuesday 20 May 2025 10:53:14 PM CST





Friday 16 May 2025 11:29:09 PM CST

You're not supposed to understand the lyrics of most BOC songs. If you're into the whole Imaginos stuff in the background you get some of it but as Swan's henchman tells Beef "nobody cares what is's about as long as it sounds good". Some of their songs are about regular stuff like Then Came the Last Days of May which was about some guys Buck knew in college that got killed in a drug deal. Wickedpedia tell us that BOC had some commercial success in the late 1980s and then their popularity declined. I suspected they didn't care much about commercial sucess but it was something that happened and they probably enjoyed it but never tried to be popular but just did their thing. They're one of the most cerebral groups and those come in all styles from Jethro Tull to Jefferson Airplane (I see BOC as sort of a heavier latter-day airplane) and they do a good show. Was fortunate enough to see them twice when they were doing the laser show, once the Mid-South Coliseum in Memphis. Saw a bunch of shows there back in the day.

This ain't the same body dump the other day. This dude is accused of killin' a guy and heaving the corpse in a lake. You may recall the other one was a cop that shot a guy in his (the cop's) patrol car and then dumping it in the Wolf River. Used to drive over it a lot back in the day when I would actually drive through Memphis.

Haven't had a killin' in Blytheville lately. This one had a female perp and a female accomplice. Accessory maybe? Tampering with evidence was the charge looking at the inmate inventory. Statistically fewer women kill people than men do and probably fewer of them have to pay up. Especially if they're good-looking but if the crime is bad enough and they got her dead-bang they go away. You may have seen the movie pretty much based on that except the murderess got her just deserts in an more satisfactory way.


Not sure whey they still taking digs at DeSantis. There was some talk about his wife seeking the office after he's term-limited out but it seems to have died down. It seeem probable that a presidential run is not in his future but you never can tell. If VP Vance succeeds Trump he might take DeSantis as veep but he might be a little old to go for maybe a chance in possibly 16 years.

Of course he was. CFPB was one of the ones that hurt the most - not that there weren't other small agencies that got eviscerated. Any reduction in government oppressiong is resented.

The family of a black kid who murdered a white kid raised over half a million so far. No word on whether they've apologized to the family of the victim. Having knives stuck in you or being shot a few times hurts a lot worse and more permanently that any words. Whether people as a species suck or not most of the ones that wrote the "news" do.












Saturday 17 May 2025 10:22:33 PM CST

Bad tornadoes yesterday in Missouri and Kentucky with 30 known deaths so far. Having been a small EF-2 it's scary when they come through. So many dead is unusual these days unless it's really bad multiples and/or they hit at night.

Dunno if it'll stay closed. Frayser had a bad rep from way back. Can't find it now and even the AI engines can't seem to dig it up but back in the day the Wake-up Crew at Rock 103 did parody songs and had one called "Deep in the Heart of Frazier" about how you didn't want to be going there and for sure didn't want there after dark. Like it a rednecky place or trash white or otherwise anyway but seems to day the demographics have gone further south. Used to be a separate town but Memphis annexed about everything around and not it's just part of Memphis.

Speaking of Blytheville - the killing a few days ago - seems the state officials and the locals are concerned about the state of education there. I don't know if Blytheville is the worst in Arkansas - I'm inclined to believe it isn't - but if it's getting attention from the state government maybe there something there. Fifty percent of students being in the lowest level maybe instead of just well below average? As for losing 1K students in the past five or six years Blytheville has been declining in population (5K since 2000) and the fact is once the Air Force base was gone it wasn't going to improve.


OK sweetie on the first two. Seems to me very few whites play major league basketball and foot ball probably less than half white. Is that a problem for these folks? Baseball has white people and black people and brown people and all sorts of people. People from Hispanic countries a lot, some Japanese do pretty well. And a lot of white guys are good at it. What's the problem. They say 18 percent are black and in the general population they're only 12.x%. I'd say it's pretty even there. Notice that's a.... nevermind.

What, Chris?

By general population I meant the population of the whole country. I see what you mean about prison and there they are a big majority. Poor choice of words but what to you expect from a guy that shows up for an hour or so and knocks back a couple of brews while his best girl is coming to take him to lunch. You think cats got it good? I was gonna talk about cigars but my phone just beeped. Catchalater.












Sunday 18 May 2025 09:23:43 PM CST

Cheryl had a 1977 brown with gold metal flakes Trans-Am . Buddy of mine bought a Smokey and the Bandit version before the movie came out. We was driving around Memphis one day and decided to catch an afternoon movie. That was it and he had parked up near the entrance and we came out and everybody around admiring it. Cool but I'll take my '75 with the 455 any day. Didn't care for the wheels on the SATB version either. I shouldn't have brought that up - two women in my life that had theirs end too soon in and in neither case did she deserve it or do anything else to cause it. But I see beautiful young women - girls even - brutally slaughtered by the vermin the past regime imported into the country and allowed them to slaughter American citizens in unspeakable ways....

Playlist same as last week - a collection of live sets from Blackmore's Night. Started off with a two hour piece with Ritchie and Candi sitting around with an acoustic guitar and singing songs and chatting and stuff. Past Times With Good Company includes the song by Henry VIII which is the title of the album. Somebody remarked on the Clay and Buck show the other day that Henry was a fairly decent king except for chopping off the heads of a few wives. Just two actually but Anne's brother and several other guys went for good measure. When the other one got it she went with the widow of the brother. Actually it was one chopping and one lopping as Henry had Anne done with a French dude that used a sword.

What, Chris?

Yeah, he was considered decent by some and mixed by others. Bloody time though as the wives weren't the only ones. Among regular peoples some say 50-70K executed and the big dogs (Thomas More, some big church people, eventually his hatchet man Cromwell) Wickedpedia lists about 53 of those. Okey-dokey, what else we got?



I revisted Shibumi and stuck it in the private library so I could search for parts of it. One of the weirder works I've read and not sure what the author was up to. He seems a bit loose with reality and most agree it's a satire so some of the more implausible parts would make sense in that case. Reminds me a bit of The Ninja that way or more it's sequels. The original work was pretty plausible for the most part but the sequels do what sequels will do.

An interesting bit was a comment by the main character that "Gô is to Western chess what philosophy is to double-entry accounting.. Whatever the author had in mind - the work is generally regarded as a satire - I recently read a comment on WWII about why Japan lost. There may be more significant reasons but one discusser conversations observed that the Japanese military commanders played Go while the Americans played chess. I'm a decent chess player when I rarely to it - kinda like golf - and have played Go some and I see what he meant. There are some who think so but it takes a while to explain if they are willing to listen.

However you take it showing Americans as trash and Japanese as the ultimate in virtue and philosophical superiority - I'll allow that that may be part of the satire - is incorrect because there are no good guys in just about any war. Some more bad than others maybe. In WWII there was more bad on the Japanese and German sides than the Allies.

On the used market it runs about $6-7 asking price and some Robert Ludlums are less. Some of the Pendleton Executioner books are more. Ludlum was decent for a good while but deteriorated later.

Poinsett County jail doing some expansion. I believe they were reporting some overcrowding. Harrisburg is one of the smaller towns in Poinsett County and wonder if they get more customers there. I was a bit surprised to see that the county population is declining with them being so close to Jonestown but Harrisburg has just dropped a bit after a small increase in 2010.

Not really NEA with Alma being way down there on the other side of the state but here it is. Weird but these things often are. Sometimes there'll be an update later and sometimes there isn't. Probably could look at the Van Buren - that's near where it happened - news for a while and see if anything new. Doubt if the local folks that reported it will do so. As of a couple of hours ago the local teevee station didn't have anything new. Guessing the NEA folks won't have anything either.

Do these folks know that a TV show ain't the same as real life. Even when it's "based on actual events" or whatever. A show about zombies has what to do with a manufactured - haphazardly and extemporized as it was - psyop and power grab. Some of them are seriously Trump-deranged.












Monday 19 May 2025 11:54:23 PM CST

Got the old bank in Jonestown tore down and reopened the street. Guess I could drive down there sometime and see what it looks like. Not much of interest down there in quite a while - some eatin' places and shops and stuff and no place to park. Saint Barnyard's main hospital is down there and traffic seems to be bad about all the time during the day.

Not any spectacular crimes lately. Told you about the one in Blytheville and the one way off in Alma. Jonestown paper had this piece that might seem like whistlin' past the graveyard but I'm not overconfident. Not sure I'm even confident given the Repulicans' talent for snatching defeat from the jaws of victory. The dims are going batshit crazy and don't show any signs of coming to their senses (they did hire the Hogg dude but letting him was a big mistake) but they have to be pretty bad to lose in Congressional elections. If the Republicans do hold both houses it could be a good four years.
Know a lot of folks won't like this. Meritocracy is a bad word to some people, being the opposite of affirmative action and DEI and all but raising the quality of the workforce. Most of the computers in the world - excluding desktops running Microsoft - run software developed by a worldwide network of mostly volunteers in a strict meritocracy. Talking about Linux and the universe of FOSS software. BTW most phone and tablets run on it, and even Apple's OS partakes of it the only difference being the OS kernel and a lot of custom Apple stuff.


Reason I don't turn off the pocket thingy on Firefox is so I can see what ridiculous idea they have today. Mozilla seems to be in the same camp as Microsoft and Fakebook and the others. They booted their CEO and co-founder because he donated money to an organization that supported making homosexual marriate not a thing it California. He's also the guy that invented Javascript.

So you can see what kind of people put this garbage out there. Still upset or upset some more about President Trump interrupting the gravy train for people they like. And I know what deep-sea mining will mean for the economy. If ProPublica (a leftist propagnadizer) says they don't work and it's Texas they guess who they think is right?





Tuesday 20 May 2025 10:22:55 PM CST

Chris reminded me I said I's gonna say something about cigars and didn't get around to it. Probably didn't mention whiskey of the week either. Haven't had any Turkey in a while but all I see for sale is the 101 stuff. I like the 80 better and it doesn't knock you on your backside if you have one too many. Not that I ever do that but like the mellower stuff. Baer Creighton swills Turkey like a... nevermind, don't keep up with the current things to probably say something racyst/sexist/ageist/whateverist. Anyway I knew a banker in Kentucky - where else would I have been - that got some stuff from the inside at Jim Beam. Had a label blank except for the Beam logo. Had the bottling date and proof in handwritten. Like 87.4 or something such.

Yeah, Baer was a moonshiner when his adventures began, got selected to be an avenging angel that always hits the right target. Anyhow he's got gold coins, Maple Leafs and the like, millions of dollars and since he's moving aroung making wicked people die he can hardly run a still wherever he happens to be. So he buys bottles of Turkey to drink as he cruises from one seriously weird adventure to the next. Anyhow I'll check around and see if anybody got the lower proof stuff. The Rare Breed - one I haven't tried and was thinking about is 116 so there's that. I'll get around to it if my condition remains extant long enough.

Oh yeah, the cigars. I should probably quit altogether. Smoke a couple or three a day or some days one or none. Kinda like cigarettes, forgot to buy a new pack - never a carton buyer - and the ones I hadn't smoked dried out and I'd just quit. Later on I got a rolling kit and smoked one or two a day but been years since I did that. I bought high-dollar cigars back in the day, aluminum tubes and glass tubes - still got a bunch of those I use for test tubes - but never really developed the habit of I guess kind of like meditating only with a cigar and likker. So I got to gas station cigars for casual smokes and the flavored ones and all. Finally got it down to the 4K French Vanilla and Swisher Sweet 4x30 cigarillos. I'm annoyed by the foil wrappers that rarely work as they're supposed to but about the right size.

Beam is still a favorite. Probably hit a jug of that in a week or two. Black label. Last time I got a jug of white it had a tag with a couple of those little airplane bottles of the black attached. Don't drink scotch btw. Only whiskey. Since so many of the ladies drink Canadian I keep some of that but don't drink it. Just whiskey and Canadian is whiskey. Just barely.

What is it? Tuesday. Okey-dokey, lessee what we got. More on the storms that must made it to the top of the stack. The 'news' outfits seem to just shove this stuff into the hopper and push the button and it squishes out like sausage. As someone said the two things you should never see being are made laws and sausage. I'd say news is another. As a kid on the farm I helped kill hogs and butcehr'em and make the sausage. Old hand-cranked grinder. Didn't bother me - watching a corrupt government in operation does. Same with the so-called news media.

Paragould having the Loose Caboose thing again. Believe it was suspended for a year or two for some reason because of difficulties with the venue, the venue being an area downtown where railroad runs though. Friend who was into that sort of thing and politics and all was on the committee one year and asked me if I had any suggestions for a headliner in the entertainment. I suggested Black Oak Arkansas for some reason, might have been because I ran into Jim Dandy in Walmart in Jonestown a few months before. They got hold of them and they came and entertained and I missed the show because something came up. Anyhow they never a favorite and only time I saw them was in Jonestown probably forty years earlier when they weren't that big yet.

Since we on KJNB here's a late piece on the weather a few days ago. Like I said they dump it in the hopper and turn the crank or push the button or whatever. I don't know why the other person wasn't arrested for anything and it don't say here so that's that.



Seems they were productive. Of course the Chinese will cheat but for the first time a president had the balls to call their bluff. To set the record straight - assuming the fake news is a record of any kind - the Qatari (nice to see them - including the Qatarians - calling it KA-TAR again instead of Cutter. Smarmy news people always trying to look smart like call Nicaragua NEE-HWA-RAGWA or something like that. Pathetic people but they get paid good for it. For now. Anyhow President Trump will probably accept the gift on behalf or the recipient (the U.S. Air Force) as a matter of courtesy. It's unlikely to ever be used for the purpose for techincal reasons but President Trump having all the mid-east bosses (that matter) eating out of his hand has got to upset some people. Is the U.S.A. responsible for the welfare of every human being on the planet? Isn't the 40 million or so welfare sponges here that got us 38 trillion debt enough? Not for some people. Seeya.


























































Belushi Speedball 1 hour ago Cartoon attacks don't age well and especially with things moving at the speed of Trump. They never learn. Those who are inclined to suffer fools gladly should plan to spend a lot of time suffering.   Civil Whites 1 hour ago That's why they always jump the gun and look silly afterwards. The offenders are coming over to make deals and the big one - China - is beind played like a fish. I Would Rather Be Governed By the First 2,000 People in the Telephone Directory than by the Harvard University Faculty. ― William F. Buckley Jr.   Jessica Atreides Marshall 1 hour ago China was in big trouble before and sure didn't need this. We have entered the time when all will turn against us and seek our lives.   Tarl Cabot 41 minutes ago I suspect cartoonists are the bottom of the barrel in intelligence and even trying to be informed. When the law no longer protects you from the corrupt, but protects the corrupt from you - you know your nation is doomed. ~ Ayn Rand   33 minutes ago

Fresh from zones of moisture And afterwards the meat With spangles on my long-tailed suits And songs to haunt the one that's saved Just call me Desdinova I'm sure to be The lucky one When destiny assigns wisdom Known to me The starry wisdom I am the one you warned me of I am the one who'd never, never lie

By the time I left there had been a couple of incidents that he might have had something to do with a couple of cash shortages, one of them the mysterious disappearance of a thousand dollars from the vault that couldn't be accounted for by a teller error. A thousand in 1978 was probably like five now but even a small amount was suspicious. His behavior was kind of suspicious but nothing was said. A report to the FBI had to be done because of the amount and a couple of agents came in and interview everyone who had access to the vault. One of the tellers had just bought a new Trans-Am and the agent wanted to know how she paid for it. She showed him the payment book and told him "I haven't." Her daddy was rich and could have bought it out of pocket if he wanted but she didn't want to. Sweet kid, a little wild when she was younger and didn't get old. Died tragically and young through no fault of her own. Anyway they grilled everybody and there was talk of polygraphs but I don't believe they got around to that. I was glad I was never near the vault. I don't suppose they would have asked me if I was growing weed along the wooded banks of a remote waterway and selling it bulk and filling Miracle Whip jars with money. Bad enough when they changed the bill designs and took the old bills out of circulation. Hundred a pound (undercutting the suppliers in Memphis - didn't realize then how much trouble that could have made for me) and nothing much else to do with the money. Dress up the Nova a bit under the hood. Put on aftermarket headers running out to Thrush oval mufflers, Edelbrock manifold with a Holley 390. All off-the-shelf bolt-on stuff, the Cragar SS wheels and wide Goodyears the only visible sign of anything out of the ordinary. Don't know how fast it would go as I never pushed past the 120 where the speedometer ended (it wasn't an SS model, they had different instrument panel with a 140 speedo) and didn't want to break something. The currency was converted to gold and silver long ago now so no problems there. Jim's gambling was known about back then but it was a few years before it got bad enough that he shouldn't have had a position of responsibility in a bank. His drinking got worse and he had always been a pack-a-day-plus smoker and wasn't that physically robust to start with. For some reason the president had a soft spot for him - his circumstances growing up mostly. Or maybe something I didn't know about - Twin Falls was a small town in an agricultural region and a lot of the people there knew others through connections - family or not - that went way back. So he kept him out of trouble and employed until the cancer got him at forty-seven. That was after I left. I worked for a software company that they used and was in there a time or three a year and still talked to some of the people I knew there. They told me about it and how his wife committed suicide shortly afterwards. As far as I could guess she either had no idea what he was doing or just didn't believe what bits came to her. She was a really nice person and sometimes they suffer from a naivety born of innocence. To die at forty-seven because you abused your body from the time you were able to get liquor and smokes is tragic but how do you judge people? A couple of people that I knew well who behaved that way or worse I suspected to have a mental illness but whether some are born with such defects or they are acquired through bad experiences.

DePloraBelle 2 hours ago Exactly. And we love it. What difference, at this point, does it make?   Nikki Niner 2 hours ago The Trump administration intented to say to NPR and the other commie leeches. His audience is the only people upset. So what's his point? I remember now. I remember how it started. I can't remember yesterday. I just remember doing what they told me.   Twisted Mentat 2 hours ago The usual knee-jerk reaction. It is by will alone I set my mind in motion. It is by the juice of Sapho that thoughts acquire speed, the lips acquire stains, the stains become a warning. It is by will alone I set my mind in motion.   KaliforniaDreamin 2 hours ago Whether or not it was meant that way - I suspect the president couldn't care less - I'm glad he took it that way. I don't feel his pain but I'm glad he's feeling it. Life is a lemon and I want my money back. -- Meat Loaf   Rosetta Stoned 1 hour I despise those people but don't care enough about them to insult them. Let them do their thing at their expense. Fanaticism consists in redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim. ~ George Santayana