FIVE SECOND STORIES

First ripe tomatoes of the season! I made an appetizer out of thinly sliced baguette, vegan Boursin cheese spread, basil leaves and sliced cherry toms. Yum!

The butterfly bush is blooming:

Cherry toms and the two surviving blooming cosmos;

Buddy chillin', which he does quite well. However, the other day I saw him display a bit of kitten behavior-he was reaching up off his hind legs to bat at some flying bug with his paws.

 Some serious cuteness here with his tail between his legs:

The seashell from Bimini amidst the callas:

Business at the Diner has been booming as folks are beginning to bulk up for Fall. Mr. Chickadee enjoying the spa

No sighting of Chuckette Jr so I believe MamaC is alone. She enjoys peanuts:

She was prairie dogging and DHS was keeping an eye on her:

Yep, that's a half-eaten green tom next to Bud. MamaC comes up on the deck, stands up and starts pruning. Bad Chuck!

The hydrangeas have pretty much turned except for a few areas of white bloom:

We had finished up watching the Tube and it was getting dark out when I noticed Bud in the back watching the fireflies who are still around. 

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Extraordinary design and tile craftsmanship: Shah mosque, Isfahan, Iran built in the 17th century:

Three species, three environments, similar shapes: 

From left to right:

Fly agaric mushroom, Jellyfish, Dragon's Blood Tree

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Fun vids:

A very trippy AI piece from Kelly Boesch:

Dreamlogic:

 Visions:

 

Interesting talent:

 The mystery of the 3 hare symbol:

Huge gator taking a stroll in a FL neighborhood. Count yur blessings living in MI!:

 Frost flowers in China:

A long vid from Simon Whistler's Side Projects: 50 Most Mysterious Places on Earth complete with his dry English humour. Fun to dip into:

 

FUBARland:

One of the things that most annoys me about the Roach is that there is no break from him. Every single effin' day, his 5 year old narcissistic mentality demands attention. Good or bad-it doesn't matter and it is like the old show biz joke about publicity playing out in real life. Gawd, with normal people as presidents, you'd hear about them a couple of times a week. He's signing some bill or on an overseas trip or visiting a natural disaster. Not with this needy fuck-I want, I want, I want! 

How long before the trigger (oh, perhaps a poor choice of words) is pulled on the 25th? And then who will we have? I would not assume it's gonna be dumbassJDvance. No, I think there's gonna be a huge internal struggle and it ain't gonna be pretty. You only have to look at history in the past century to learn that these things never end well. 

Meanwhile, our own piece of shit, professional ex-soldierboy Tom Barrett, has been targeted by a PAC going after State Level GOP reps with some heavy airplay on my YT feed basically saying "you voted for Roach's BBB, so YOU personally OWN the fact that now OUR prices are going up, healthcare is gonna be a shitshow etc". I've been getting emails and FB posts from him wanting my opinion on things.

Nope. I have enough paranoia to wonder if this is part of an info gathering scheme that will put a target on my back down the road because I expressed "disloyal" opinions towards the current administration's policies. I realize that they will find this blog but why hand it to them?

The warnings are out there-several news sites are reporting that Palantir Technologies, a data mining tech giant is gonna be given access to all our information. The CEO and co-founder, along with Peter Thiel, is Alexander Karp:

Once again, the brilliant prescience of The Simpsons emerges with a fine example of how satire truly is based on real life. Their own narcissist: 

And finally, the sad case of Jackie Kennedy's Rose garden. Yet another part of our history and culture that the Roach has delighted to urinate on. The garden has been paved over and is a porch. A weird aspect has come to light-the drain grates are designed to look like American flags:

Did none of these idiots put together the symbolism: America's going down the drain and who's responsible? Got the presidential seal right next to it! WTF!

Apropo: From the Australian band The Avalanches Frontier Psychiatrist 2001: