November 16, 2010

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    the best poems never are written down anymore,

    clouds/words just trailing off
    into that special place

    where you stay;
    eternally so.
    the sun is always shining there,
    i like to see you when i can.
    these little visits mean so much to me
    in my present condition at my current station;
    the radio but a poor substitute for
    your voice
    the music i want to make
    forever the deepest
    shade of what someone like me
    would like to call
    home.

     © adm, 2010

November 7, 2010

November 3, 2010

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    Just a few  shots from our trip to Austin...sorry there's not more, but we had a great time.This was the best one yet...mebbe we can get some of the bonfire later, these were just some random cell phone camera pics we took. Enjoy!

    Swamp Mama's Fortune Telling Booth


    Fonty and Me


    Swamp Mama Herself

     
    ps: oh, and the coloring invitation contest? The judging was at midnight, and I won first place (!!!), which was my choice of several fabulous  prizes...I chose a book on history by John Stewart, although i kinda wish I woulda went for the potato gun instead...i have won first place a few other times years back so it was a kind of good feeling. but the best prizes were yet to come. I had found some round playing cards a while back in little metal tins while out searching for scrap metal and treasure had brought them with me for door prizes...when we walking back to our camp after the the invitation judging, some random person walked up to me, smiled, and choose a random card out of a deck in the dark and said to me with a knowing look, "This is your card." I thanked them and took a look at it.
    It was the 8 of Hearts.
    I wondered what it meant.
    We went back to camp for a bit..started trying to analyze the circular shaped playing card...turning it round and round..
    That's when it hit me, as a flash of color...
    last time i checked, 8 represented *infinity*...
    -wow, man-
    Infinite Love
    we got a good laugh out of that.
    we had a great time at the party, so many cool people...the human canvas won best costume in my book...i painted magic symbols on his shoes...
    and when it was finally time to rest a bit, we crawled into our tent in the early hour just before dawn,
    Hannah congratulated me on a successful evening and winning the contest, I said somewhat happily and sleepily,
    "I've won many times, babe."
    Right then a shooting star fell from the sky outside the window of my tent.
    It was a perfect ending to a perfect evening.
    Goodnight.

October 23, 2010

  • Party Invitations, 2010

      ...just getting ready for the annual celebration...there is an invitation coloring contest every year.... first is the black and white original, then  the bottom two are my entries. there will be several other people trying to win the (fabulous) prizes, but i just want to have fun....anyone wanna come to the bonfire this year, just let me know.
    it's fucking crazy, man. the best party i've ever been to, and believe me, i've been to few....
    this will be # 20 for me.
    enjoy yourselves, and have a Happy Halloween!

     

     

October 10, 2010

  • UFO's over China

    There have been at least 8 confirmed UFO sightings over China since July, 2010.

    The still shots and the video are just amazing.

    We are not alone.

September 26, 2010

  • "Famous Last Words"

       
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    It's a lovely day, gray and chilly late September and naturally my thoughts would be of cemeteries and Halloween 'n stuff  so i thought it would be interesting to share the last confirmed words of various individuals. Special thanks to (this is by no means the complete set of quotes) www.corsinet.com  for providing this touching, funny, sad and yet ultimately fascinating glimpse into human condition, in all its confounded wonder and glory.

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    Am I dying or is this my birthday?
    When she woke briefly during her last illness and found all her family around her bedside.
    ~~ Lady Nancy Astor, d. 1964


    Codeine . . . bourbon.
    ~~ Tallulah Bankhead, actress, d. December 12, 1968


    Nothing, but death.
    When asked by her sister, Cassandra, if there was anything she wanted.
    ~~ Jane Austen, writer, d. July 18, 1817


    I must go in, the fog is rising.
    ~~ Emily Dickinson, poet, d. 1886

    Do you hear the rain? Do you hear the rain?
    Minutes before her plane crashed.
    ~~ Jessica Dubroff, seven-year-old pilot, d. 1996


    It is very beautiful over there.
    ~~ Thomas Alva Edison, inventor, d. October 18, 1931

    I can't sleep.
    ~~ James M. Barrie, author, d. 1937


    How were the receipts today at Madison Square Garden?
    ~~ P. T. Barnum, entrepreneur, d. 1891


    I am about to -- or I am going to -- die: either expression is correct.
    ~~ Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, d. 1702


    I should never have switched from Scotch to Martinis.
    ~~ Humphrey Bogart, actor, d. January 14, 1957


    Ah, that tastes nice. Thank you.
    ~~ Johannes Brahms, composer, d. April 3, 1897


    Et tu, Brute?
    Assassinated.
    ~~ Gaius Julius Caesar, Roman Emperor, d. 44 BC


    I am dying. I haven't drunk champagne for a long time.
    ~~ Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, writer, d. July 1, 1904


    I'm bored with it all.
    Before slipping into a coma. He died 9 days later.
    ~~ Winston Churchill, statesman, d. January 24, 1965

    That was the best ice-cream soda I ever tasted.
    ~~ Lou Costello, comedian, d. March 3, 1959

    Goodnight my darlings, I'll see you tomorrow.
    ~~ Noel Coward, writer, d. 1973

    Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit.
    From Luke 23:46
    ~~ Jesus Christ

     

    Does nobody understand?
    ~~ James Joyce, writer, d. 1941

     

    Why not? Yeah.
    ~~ Timothy Leary, d. May 31, 1996

    Damn it . . . Don't you dare ask God to help me.
    To her housekeeper, who had begun to pray aloud.
    ~~ Joan Crawford, actress, d. May 10, 1977


    That was a great game of golf, fellers.
    ~~ Harry Lillis "Bing" Crosby, singer / actor, d. October 14, 1977


    I am not the least afraid to die.
    ~~ Charles Darwin, d. April 19, 1882


    I know you have come to kill me. Shoot coward, you are only going to kill a man.
    Facing his assassin, a Bolivian soldier.
    ~~ Ernesto "Che" Guevara, revolutionary, d. October 9, 1967

    Let us cross over the river and sit in the shade of the trees.

    Killed in error by his own troops at the battle of Chancellorsville during the US Civil War.
    ~~ General Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson, d. 1863


    Go on, get out - last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
    To his housekeeper, who urged him to tell her his last words so she could write them down for posterity.
    ~~ Karl Marx, revolutionary, d. 1883


    Get my swan costume ready.
    ~~ Anna Pavlova, ballerina, d. 1931


    I am curious to see what happens in the next world to one who dies unshriven.
    Giving his reasons for refusing to see a priest as he lay dying.
    ~~ Pietro Perugino, Italian painter, d. 1523

    They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist. . . .
    Killed in battle during US Civil War.
    ~~ General John Sedgwick, Union Commander, d. 1864


    I've had eighteen straight whiskies, I think that's the record . . .
    ~~ Dylan Thomas, poet, d. 1953

    Moose . . . Indian . . .
    ~~ Henry David Thoreau, writer, d. May 6, 1862

    I die hard but am not afraid to go.
    ~~ George Washington, US President, d. December 14, 1799

    Go away. I'm all right.
    ~~ H. G. Wells, novelist, d. 1946


    It's all been very interesting.
    ~~ Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, writer, d. 1762


    Either that wallpaper goes, or I do.
    ~~ Oscar Wilde, writer, d. November 30, 1900

September 21, 2010


  • "Primitive Camping at Hannah's Ancestral Lands"  by Aaron McNees



    Heya. What's new with you folks? As the title would indicate, we went camping over the weekend at Hannah's parents land way out in North East Texas, and as we watch a lot of survival shows (Man vs Wild, Survivorman, Dual survival, Man Woman Wild) where they build shelters from scratch, we decided it would be kind of fun to give it a go ourselves...I'm just glad we didn't have to eat grubs for food.
     

     







    That's all, Folks!


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    Bonus: Obligatory shirtless pic!:(with chopping device).

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September 11, 2010

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September 6, 2010

  • * "Sick Sad World" *     by Aaron McNees 

    Lately there have been several shocking videos of animal cruelty circulating on the web, often embedded in blogs written about (human) morality and societal responsibility. The blond girl throwing newborn puppies in the river, the dolphins in Japan being herded into coves and slaughtered in such numbers the sea turns red, that bag lady in Britain trapping a cat in a trash can, now in hiding...

    There have been debates and death threats.

    I won't comment on the death threats, I feel actions speak far louder than words.

    A far as debates go, one often recurring theme among Westerners is that somehow we as a society care more about animals than we about people, and this is also somehow intrinsically wrong. I'm not feeling particularly verbose these days so I'll give you out of context quotes instead that sum up my feelings : 

    "A man that don't love a Horse, there is something the matter with him. If he has no sympathy for the man that does love Horses, then there is something worse the matter with him." ~Will Rogers.

    "I never met a horse I didn't like" ~ paraphrase of Will Rogers I-never-met-a-man-I-didn't-like quote on meeting Leonard Trotsky.

    "WuDunn told the story of an American aid worker in Darfur who had seen great suffering but never broke down. On a vacation back in the United States, she visited her grandmother and noticed a bird feeder in the backyard. "She was in her grandmother's backyard and she basically broke down. And she realized that not only was she able to feed and clothe and house herself but also see that people in her country were able to feed wild birds so that they don't go hungry in the winter. She knew that with that luck and fortune also comes great responsibility."

    Which brings me to the the latest headlines from *Sick Sad World*  and how I feel about humans and the planet Earth in general.

    In the last sweltering days of August this year in the Darkest Heart of Africa,

    "Some 240 women, girls and babies may have been raped after rebels recently seized a town in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the UN says."

    "At Bunia, they  allegedly raped the girls of a secondary school so savagely and so systematically that seven of them died. They also reportedly raped women in the maternity unit of the town's hospital and raped and battered nuns in the town's convent."

    "Assailants often forced members of the same family to have incestuous sex, mother and son, father and daughter, brother and sister, aunt and nephew, etc. Families were also forced to witness gang rapes of one of their members, most often their mother or sister(s). The victim's family members were sometimes forced to dance naked, to clap to or sing obscene songs during the rape." "

    Why isn't the U.N doing anything?

    Why isn't anyone doing anything?

     Why ask why?

    Africa has long been a basket case. This doesn't mean the people aren't human. It's just that at such times, we tell ourselves that the only explanation for why people do these things is that they are savages, that they don't have the same feelings we do, that they are somehow less than human.

    Beast.

    Animal.

    Which is wrong. 

    Animals don't do these things.

    Animals are innocent.

    Those of us who feed the birds in the winter or cry for hours for missing cats and dogs or swerve to avoid running over squirrels know what I'm talking about.

    I never met an animal I didn't like.


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    A good friend of mine once made a bumper sticker that read:

    Inhumanity is the enemy

    so very true.
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    I do miss the old headlines on *Sick Sad World* ....

    "Neo-natal skinheads, next on Sick, Sad World."

    "Are fish using our oceans as their own private toilet? A Sick, Sad World exclusive, right after this."

    "Can renegade surgeons transplant your brain while you sleep? The frightening truth, next on Sick, Sad World."

    * Sick Sad World *    (title from a fictional television program that existed on MTV's animated series Beavis and Butthead)