Friday 1 August 2025 10:35:45 PM CST





Friday 1 August 2025 11:09:52 PM CST

That's the third night. First one is still unavailable at Amazon and just now I'm too lazy to try to run it down somewhere else. The ME-262 on the cover is what one of the songs on the Secret Treaties album. Still hot as all get-out but nothing like that last couple weeks of July. Can't even mow with the regular tractors as they can get the radiators clogged with grass particles and dust and overheat. Don't watch the temperature gauge and the the only warning you get is steam coming out of the hood and you better shut it down fast.

Whiskey of the day is Jack Daniels. Nuthin' fancy, just the Old No. 7. They got flavors, most of them do these days. Don't want the fruit flavor or the cinnamon or whateverall, just gimme the whiskey. All them flavors take up shelf space and I asked about low-octane Turkey and they said they didn't sell much so discontinued it. Maybe have them order a case now and then. Anyhow Jack got a lot more cool in the last few decades and priced accordingly. Cost you forty or so for a big bottle. Cigars are still Swisher 4x30s and except for the annoying erratically functional zipper on the foil wrappers they're pretty good.

Classic movie of the week is Anne of a Thousand Days on account of I mentioned Henry a while back. AOFATD had considerable liberties taken with it and the place where Henry comes in and cross-examines Mark Smeaton didn't happen as Henry wasn't at the trial. And Anne gets the tragedy privilege as she was probably for Thomas More getting the axe and certainly encouraged Henry to break up with the Big Church. Not that the English version was any better, just a different boss. Still there was a lot of excessive head-lopping and head-chopping (actually Anne was the only one lopped and the others was chopped) and hangin-drawin-and-quartering went on during Henry's administration. Mainly notable for Richard Burton as Henry delivering the performance you would expect. I liked him when he did some action-adventure stuff like Where Eagles Dare and The Wild Geese. Him and Clint Eastwood in WED was pretty cool.

While I'm doing classics I should say I revisited Edgar Rice Burroughs' Synthedic Men of Mars. This one has the mad scientist Ras Thavas swapping brains between people and semi-people like NASCAR teams swap engines. John Carter is a peripheral character here as our hero is a regular soldier who gets the girl and since John Carter already has the smokin' hot Dejah Thoris (she has to have Ras Thavas fix her after a bad accident) that's the general idea. At some time in my life I had a stack of old 45 RPMs tossed out by a radio station and one of them had a song called Synthetic Man on one side and one called Last Man Alive on the other. 1966 or thereabouts. Postapocalyptic and all.

Other music is reminding meself to check out Adam Wakeman's band. He was with Ozzy for a good while and reportedly is in a prog-metal outfit. I'll put a link here so I can find it later. So much new stuff and old stuff in that space I haven't gotten round to yet.

Jerry Haynes tapped a quick series of Ctrl-Ws and Ctrl-Qs to close the windows and a couple of Ctrl-Ds to close the terminals. Click the shutdown button and select restart. Pull the USB stick when the bios message appears. He dropped the stick into a pocket and went to the door.

"Hello Jerry. Long time no see."

It had indeed been a while since he had seen Agent Al Speer. His first name was Alfred and always made Jerry think of the Nazi war criminal which was a good reason for him not to use it. But a lot of Alfreds and Alberts went by Al. Still between FBI agents these days and Nazis there wasn't a good choice to associate them with.

"If you wanted to wait a little longer I'd be good with it."

"I was in town and thought I'd see what you inventory looked like. Couple of nice classic 'vettes."

"I don't sell stuff that ain't nice. You looking for anything in particular?"

Before the Storm (2022)

Don't hear much about drug busts or other crime in Trumann but whether it's because nobody bothers to report it or not Idunno. This seems to be the latest. No details besides six arrested for drugs and guns. Four sentences, 327 characters including punctuation and spaces. Over in Earle where the nation's youngest black mayor when he was elected is still the mayor. At 18 he was about as young as any but maybe one of the other 18-year-olds that was elected was a few days younger. Anyway he trying to get the city cleaned up and is reminding people to obey trash ordinances.

The very sad case of the young woman who disappeared and was found dead the sheriff said drugs were involved. The question is which drugs - he said she probably was hot from using meth and went for a swim but she had been taking psychomeds and those can mess you up good and it gets worse when stop. I speak from experience as one who had them administered without my knowledge and without being diagnosed. Long story. Whatever the case it's a sad thing.

This one is ever weirder. Couple of people move here from another state (doesn't say where from) and are murdered while hiking. The description of the suspect seems like someone prepared to stalk and kill somebody but no one been arrested so we don't know of it was him. Just a thought and we'll see how it ages - if they came here from an undisclosed state (Witness Protection?) and someone found out where they went or just whatever they moved away from came after them. Problem is these things take a while to get worked out and the news people may not be interested enough to talk about it when they do.

Fifty years ago when people got busted for drugs and they had something on them the cops didn't find they'd try to shove it down under the back seat of the police car. Guess some people still do. The cops would check once in a while and see what all was in there. Bay Village is a little place on 163 northeast of Cherry Valley. Dunno how many people live there as it don't even seem to rate a Wickedpedia entry as a populated place. Follow that twisty road up from Levesque a good ways and somewhere there is Bay Village. Back in the day a chick from there - or claimed to be from there - showed up in Wynne and was cruising around in her red TR-6. Chatting with the kids - we's about 18 or so, just out of school. Seriously hot and said she was 35 but looked maybe 25. Some of us went cruising with her and smoke a joint and talk and stuff.

What, Chris?

No, not gonna dig this hole any deeper. A TR-6 is a two-seater so it was only one of us at a time. Another chick that had a TR-6 I hung with was a gal in the Air Force in the U.K. a few years later. Had a dark green one - actually one of the pilots she dated did or bought it for her - and right-hand drive like English cars were. I told about her elsewhere.

What, Chris?

She was way hotter than the chick from Bay Village. And wasn't even 25 yet. And there was women that dated pilots but when they weren't around would deign to consort with enlisted guys. When you're 25 and horny you're 25 and horny and young enlisted military personnel are college age and have the morals of college kids.


Firefox still has their funnies page up so I'll commentate. End of the age for NGOs? Pretty much. Even if they get a Democrat in four years it'll take time to rebuild all that. Local officials in most of the worst trouble spots were already not helping ICE except in places like Florida and Texas. Elsewhere they at least are mostly staying out of the way. Funny how when you turn off the money the people who research weird animal sex and stuff go... where they gonna go? Europe and Scandinavia don't have the trillions to subsidize their hobbies and are in enough trouble already. The invasion problem is worse in their most likely destinations. Do some useful work and maybe someone will pay you. Always the children. Windmills kill more bald eagles than anything else and the government isn't subsidizing those any more and the economy refuses to crash. Yeah, ole Jerome Gollum (I call him that because looks like Merrick Gollum) will do his best to prevent it from continuing to improve. As for the last item you gotta be a special kind of stupid that even the other lefty tools on the court move away from you. If I were to believe in really weird stuff I would suspect that some people automatically get law degrees and pass the bar because somebody fixes the records. That is one stupid human being.

Little Memphis news. Dunno how many peoples or how many coffins there were as they just had a pic that showed maybe a few hundred. All the people that gonna die because illegals are getting kicked off Medicaid and SNAP. I suppose some of them believe it. The usual suspects are unhappy about xAI and the big data centers that are paying millions in utility bills alone. Maybe that's why the next one is over in Mississippi. How do you get 200K in electronics from Wal-Mart without paying for it? Hit a bunch of places in three states. Iphones and those VR thingies are small and expensive. But the way they got them things locked under glass even in Jonestown why do I wonder if there's somebody on the inside helping out? The headline was "Man Found Dead on Elvis Presley" and I thought about it being over at the Elvis place but it was on the street named after him. So nothing to do with whether Elvis is really dead. The guy they found on Elvis Presley Boulevard is apparently definitely dead.

The other TV station in Jonestown says it will be unavailable on DirecTV and you should use some other way including an antenna. Wonder how many people have those these days? Or how many actually watch their station. Or how many watch KAIT. Haven't watched TV in years except on the interwebs and looking at KAIT's schedule I don't plan to start anytime soon.

Couple of quickie opinion pieces from the Jonestown paper. Apparently someone gonna have food shortages if we keep on deporting people. I suppose if you get rid of all 20 million or whatever there might be shortages of fruits and vegetables (the plant kind) from California until they find legal workers. The corn and wheat and soybeans and all take a handful to plant and harvest and if the butcher shops have to pay their cutterupppers a little more so be it. Like where are the scientists supposedly fleeing when the taxpayer-funded gravy train is turned off if potential terrorists and spies can't get in maybe?

Back to a place near one of my my undisclosed locations it seems the City of Cherry Valley annexed the roads out there in the country where they build the solar panel farms. Ain't nothing there but big forty-acre or so fields covered up with solar panels and the roads running through them for maintenance and inspection and stuff I reckon. Now they just gravel roads and shouldn't have much traffic but they ain't even near Cherry Valley and somebody making a lot of money there and it ain't the people of Cherry Valley.


A lot of former federal government employees are black women. What the settlement with Paramount says about press freedom is... wait for it.... exactly nothing. As others have observed the Colbert propaganda program was losing somewhere around $100 million a year and the the owners of CBS would use any excuse to dump him but that wasn't it. CBS got their ass kicked for fakery in an attempt to help Giggles get elected. Like the exploding gas tanks and fake grocery store "documentaries" and Westmoreland fiasco all the alphabet news outlets have been lying for years and if some of them have to pay up it's about time. Actually I suspect most or all will be sold off cheap before long. If some are bought by non-leftists look for more weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth. Some criminalogist or something got famous with the theory and it was the next big thing for a while. Had a TV show or two, naturally a moderately attractive young woman instead of an old white guy for the star but there you are. That led to a lot of serial killers being undetected for a long time because they were looking for white men and a lot of the serial killers turned out to not be white men. Among other things Katrina caused the denizens of New Orleans to realize that food stamps work anywhere you go and HUD housing is available wherever you go so a lot of them moved. Houston being so close got the worst of it. The economy not crashing yet has got some people upset. I suppose if Liberia had not become dependent on handouts from the U.S.A. they would have figured out something. Should obesity be classified as a disease? I suppose the cause might be if it's mentall illness, same as starving yourself to be excessively skinny. And the Russia hoax was known by those paying attention to be such but the Trump administration is slapping the receipts down on the counter. And finally X is the center of the universe of socio-political discourse. And that's the Firefox funnies for now.