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.

Exercise In Composition

Friday Freak Out

"Entertainment Music". "The Blimp" & variations at (41:33). It is a good riddim.Much the same intro was used for the second number, "Corrido Rock", in April 69, 'though I think it was called "The Pachuco Hop". Apparently not an original.Note Art Laboe's no doubt unearned writing credit.

An Exercise In Boredom

Literally watching paint dry.

Note high-technology spray booth. Safety first!

Tedious Tuesday Tedium

The most exciting interesting stuff I've observed in at least 48 hrs.

Who made the strikethroughs?

Friday Freak Out

Scheduled yesterday. No working or nothin'!!

Cletus Safari: Meet The Moping Morons

Stupidity increased throughout the day.

Per Nancy Nall & The NYT, there's one born every minute:

The stupidest motherfuckers on the planet, ladies and gentlemen. The guy making that argument for not levying property taxes on people living in paid-off houses thinks he might enjoy that benefit someday. His tiny brain can’t conceive that the richest people in the country — the kind who can afford to pay cash for a house — would be the happiest recipients of this policy change. He doesn’t even understand what property taxes are, does he? No, he does not. And yet, his vote counted the same as yours.

Bring back civics education. And happy Wednesday to all who live in this stupid, doomed country.

Read it & weep. Or other visceral reactions. How many of these fools will nonetheless vote for a moderate, sensible (in comparison) Republican douchewallader like Li'l Marco "Tiny Feet" Rubio? Doomed indeed. Hope the "gift link" works.

Sanewashing Continues From Former "Tiffany Network" ...

... Which Is Now The Nazi Network

Idolatry: 15-ft. gilded statue of The Donald at Trump Doral.

Decoding Fox News tells us:

On Sunday April 26 President Donald J. Trump sat down with Norah O’Donnell for a CBS “60 Minutes” interview the day after a shooting at the White House Correspondents Dinner.

That evening a 13-minute edit of the interview aired on CBS. The network also published the full 40-minute version on “60 Minutes Overtime.”

I went through both and made a transcript of exactly what was included and what was cut from the shorter version that aired on network television. The final 13-minute edit that CBS broadcast on Sunday was a bit of a Frankenstein monster as the president was sometimes cut off mid-sentence while other sections were cut and moved around to give the conversation a better flow.

Throughout the longer un-edited interview the president gave disorganized rambling answers that were filled with false statements about foreign investment in the U.S., immigration, and the 2020 election. He also brought up transgender athletes more than once and trashed the Democratic Party and the members of the press.

"Transgender For Everyone"

My favorite part:

Things like transgender for everyone. [?!?] I’m against that. There’s so many things that I’m against. I don’t think they’re controversial. I think the other side is controversial, but I do a lot of things and I get things done. And, you know, we’re respected now as a country all over the world. And some people love that, but some people probably don’t.

He's gotten one hell of a lot of "things" done alright. Eternal war, internal strife, tariffs, the list of his accomplishments is never-ending. And he's kept us safe: Men can be absolutely certain that no lezbos are coming to their houses to "transgender" them in Lumpy's America.

Echoing the reported opinion of former US secretary of state Rex Tillerson, Lebowitz thinks the biggest danger of Trump is that he is a moron. “Everyone says he is crazy – which maybe he is – but the scarier thing about him is that he is stupid. You do not know anyone as stupid as Donald Trump. You just don’t.”

Stupid, & scared of things that don't exist. Paranoid delusions.

AI Overview: These delusions are a severe form of paranoia, often involving persecution, and are treated with a combination of medication and psychotherapy.

P.S.: Who the hell's this "Al" who's suddenly everywhere, acts as if he knows everything & is a great surrealist painter?

Let's Hope We Don't See Anything Else This Stupid For The Rest Of The Day

"86 47"? That's nothing. Try these: Impeach, indict, imprison! Off w/ his head!! Kill him before he kills you!!!

Now I just sit here & wait to be indicted. C'mon you chickenshit bastards. Do you have the nerve?

In Its Own Words

WATCH: Trump's Own Words Prove HE Is the Source of Most Violent Rhetoric, Not the Left

You'll have to click, as Zeteo doesn't offer embedding of its videos.

Same Stuff Saturday

More mind-numbing images of stupid clouds, the stupid sky, & pathetic palms.

It Was Fifty Yrs. Ago Today ...

No memory of watching this 50 yrs. ago (or any time since). 

Scheduled months ago, possibly before Mark (The Phlorescent Leech) Volman passed. And Martin Mull's been history for almost two yrs. now. Half-amazed I'm still here. One of these days this may be posts from a ghost. Have an item scheduled almost a yr. & a half out, because that's the 100th anniv., & no one cares about 99.

The Wiccan Menace Threatens Us All!

Get Help Before It's Too Late, Weirdo!

Will this delusional witchfinder order the Navy to start bombing Monterey because Wiccans give him the willies?

Here is a video of new Acting Navy Secretary Hung Cao warning that a wave of Wiccan "witchcraft" is taking over American and threatening Christianity pic.twitter.com/uwpkf03ENm

— FactPost (@factpostnews) April 23, 2026

What rocks does the Pervert Party turn over to find these bizarre specimens?

“We can’t let it turn like this. There’s a place in Monterey, California called Lovers Point. The original name was Lovers of Christ Point, but now it’s become– they took out the Christ, it’s Lovers Point, and it’s really– Monterey is a very dark place now,” said Cao during an interview with former Bethel Church pastor Sean Feucht. “A lot of witchcraft and the Wiccan community has really taken over. We can’t let that happen to Virginia.”

Business Insider reported at the time that while there did appear to be a Wiccan presence in Monterey, there was “little evidence that the community has ‘taken over’ the sunny seaside locale.”

It's the 21st damn Century, people: Comic books & fairy tales are not real. Fun, but fiction!! And now, the First Amendment's guarantee of the free exercise of religion is becoming fiction.

Fact check: It's in Pacific Grove, not Monterey, it may not have been "Lovers of Christ Park" since the 19th Century, when it was a Methodist retreat, & it's now a city park, so no endorsement of religion. Acting Sec. Cao seems to know more about fairy stories than our Constitution & its First amenedment.

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Why We Are Screwed

RFK Jr: "President Trump has a different way of calculating percentages. If you have a $600 drug and you reduce it to $10, that's a 600% reduction." pic.twitter.com/MjDNADqc8p

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) April 22, 2026

Commander-in-Chief Lumpy Don doesn't know shit from Shinola®,& Bobby-on-the-Knobby couldn't give less of a fuck.