Wildlife: How many turtles can fit on the log in the lake? On a sunny day there's been as many as thirteen, but there's room for more!
Weather: Rain last night. Low scattered clouds and patches of white ground fog today.
Charity Alert: The Animal Rescue Site : Feed an Animal in Need
Media Watch: Reading about Rene Descartes in The Scientists.
For all his attempts to stay off the Catholic "banned" list, he still made it -- by doing good math and telling the truth about it. That'll larn ya'! "The Church" (fill in whatever church you want between the quotes)ain't in the truth business anyway.
Jonathan Creek is a pale shadow of what was once a good show.
Wolfen -- the late Gregory Hines at the high point of author Whitney Streiber's success. That "perverted aliens" schtick he's also done may make money, but it's pathetic.
Tuesday, June 15, 2004
Monday, June 14, 2004
Wildlife: Bluebirds nesting at the foot of our hill!
Weather: Sweeping clouds overhead, lots of wind, and some rain.
It all gathers over Glacier National Park and really storms there!
(See Media Watch, below)
Charity Alert: The Hunger Site
Media Watch: NBA Playoffs -- Shaq is big and strong,
but the Detroit players physically outlast everybody else on his team, plus Karl Malone is hors de combat with a knee injury.
L.A. is down 3 games to 1 -- looks bad for them.
SPEAKING OF GLACIER NATIONAL PARK!
I saw Heaven's Gate on Trio Network last night.
It was mostly filmed on the Blackfeet Reservation,
about two hours east of here. Nice scenery! They even gave the constant,withering wind out there a supporting role in the movie.
I know a little bit about the Johnson County, Wyoming range war
which it was based on, and Michael Cimino's infamously indulgent
flick bears little resemblence to the facts.
At the same time, FMC was showing My Darling Clementine,
another violent tall tale vaguely derived from a historical incident.
The shootout at the OK Corral was just one ugly episode
in a range war in Arizona that lasted over 20 years.
Trio Network is featuring FLOPS this month, but they don't quite
specify if they mean financial or artistic failures,
or just plain crummy movies that nobody liked. They did show a
documentary about "New Coke" from the 80's -- Now THAT was a FLOP!
Weather: Sweeping clouds overhead, lots of wind, and some rain.
It all gathers over Glacier National Park and really storms there!
(See Media Watch, below)
Charity Alert: The Hunger Site
Media Watch: NBA Playoffs -- Shaq is big and strong,
but the Detroit players physically outlast everybody else on his team, plus Karl Malone is hors de combat with a knee injury.
L.A. is down 3 games to 1 -- looks bad for them.
SPEAKING OF GLACIER NATIONAL PARK!
I saw Heaven's Gate on Trio Network last night.
It was mostly filmed on the Blackfeet Reservation,
about two hours east of here. Nice scenery! They even gave the constant,withering wind out there a supporting role in the movie.
I know a little bit about the Johnson County, Wyoming range war
which it was based on, and Michael Cimino's infamously indulgent
flick bears little resemblence to the facts.
At the same time, FMC was showing My Darling Clementine,
another violent tall tale vaguely derived from a historical incident.
The shootout at the OK Corral was just one ugly episode
in a range war in Arizona that lasted over 20 years.
Trio Network is featuring FLOPS this month, but they don't quite
specify if they mean financial or artistic failures,
or just plain crummy movies that nobody liked. They did show a
documentary about "New Coke" from the 80's -- Now THAT was a FLOP!
Friday, June 11, 2004
Ray Charles RIP
Your music repeatedly helped change MY life for the better.
Weather: Mountain snow and valley rain, all over the Rockies!
Wildlife: The birds love the way I placed the box feeder on the rail of the deck.
Let's see if it frustrates Skunky at all.
Charity Alert: Let's do this every day: The Hunger Site
Media Watch: I'm still enjoying The Scientists by John Grebbin.
(Shudder) CSpan showed video of Lyndon B. Johnson's funeral from 1973.
Sugar Hill from 1973-74 was on the satellite --
a really goofy dawg-assed voodoo/zombie flick with Robert (Count Yorga) Quarry.
So bad, it's well, BAD! (Does that mean it's really bad? YES!!)
Funky Update: Speaking of beautiful African-American women,
Starr Cullars' Enterprise band is playing Boulder, Colorado tonight,
and touring into Utah and California.
She and husband Lige Curry have given a lot to the P-Funk All-Stars over the years.
Give 'em something back, Funk-fans!
Your music repeatedly helped change MY life for the better.
Weather: Mountain snow and valley rain, all over the Rockies!
Wildlife: The birds love the way I placed the box feeder on the rail of the deck.
Let's see if it frustrates Skunky at all.
Charity Alert: Let's do this every day: The Hunger Site
Media Watch: I'm still enjoying The Scientists by John Grebbin.
(Shudder) CSpan showed video of Lyndon B. Johnson's funeral from 1973.
Sugar Hill from 1973-74 was on the satellite --
a really goofy dawg-assed voodoo/zombie flick with Robert (Count Yorga) Quarry.
So bad, it's well, BAD! (Does that mean it's really bad? YES!!)
Funky Update: Speaking of beautiful African-American women,
Starr Cullars' Enterprise band is playing Boulder, Colorado tonight,
and touring into Utah and California.
She and husband Lige Curry have given a lot to the P-Funk All-Stars over the years.
Give 'em something back, Funk-fans!
Thursday, June 10, 2004
Charity Alert: Five years and counting!: The Hunger Site : Give Food for Free to Hungry People in the World
Wildlife; I love those long-winged swallows that dart around the lake eating insects. They're erroneously named "Nighthawks."
Weather: Low clouds and scattered showers. I'm feeling well enough to go to work today.
Funky Update: P-Funk graphic artist and 420 Funk Mob performer Stozo Da' Klown (Ronald Edwards) has a very pleasant CD available on his website: STOZO'S LAND Sounds GREAT, Stozo! (He autographed a copy for ME!)
Review by Robert "Maggot Minister" Ward -- STOZO THE CLOWN PRESENTS DigiDonz 'The Lower East Side Story Vol.1 DAYUM! Stozo's DigiDonz is the funk done with digital horns,all kind of guitar noise on top of some fonkyass beats.This one will put a hump in yo back. Known for his legendary album covers for Funkadelic,The Horny Horns,Fuzzy Haskins,Zapp and Parlet just to name a few,Ronald P."Stozo" Edwards is funkin' in clownred,and now filling those album sleeves with some FUNK !Not to be confused with just a borrowed sample but ample,right from scratch with no scratching.Hatching a modernmaggots class-sick! The DigiDonz scartoon minds and multicolored sound has gone not only from visual to audio but into some new territory.FUNK has always been accused of being futuristic or ahead of it's time in time,but the sound of the DigiDonz is new even for the Funk. IT jumps off with a serious instrumental with Stozo the Clown on guitar and bass.Psychodelic as his good friend Eddie Hazel,and a Jimi influence but the whole thang is in a new context with Zo also on the digital horns.While instrumentals fuel this collection of streetwise mackadelic funk,'She Freaked Me Out!'has some flow on the track Kenya D.O.G.,while Stozo dropped some p-fied backing vocals,over a slick bass track by Brian Vasquez.The beats are plain stoopid enough to keep a party jumpin' as the colors are filled in with that carnival like atmospheratic mastery that says it was laid down by the funkiest clown around.But,'Guitar In The Closet' is just on a grand funkmatization level with some in-perspirational organ keys.9/11 Emergency is some laid back groove with Stozo hangin' way out there on lead guitar sounds.Hangin' on the roof.The bass on the whole thang is monster. The cover art depicts the 'Lower East Side' night skyline and under such conditions you drift with the groove that is the soundtrack for million stories of the naked city.All endowed with technical wizardry fused and fussing with some old analog getback, as only the funk can bring.In the tradition of concept meets music meets a tale of the LO-E-SO!
Media Watch: It seems like only medium where people are telling the historical truth about Reagan's stint as "thief-in-chief" is the Internet. Most news people and commentators are simply being civil to his family, thereby enabling propagandists and liars to dominate the general mass media with their self-serving rubbish.
Wildlife; I love those long-winged swallows that dart around the lake eating insects. They're erroneously named "Nighthawks."
Weather: Low clouds and scattered showers. I'm feeling well enough to go to work today.
Funky Update: P-Funk graphic artist and 420 Funk Mob performer Stozo Da' Klown (Ronald Edwards) has a very pleasant CD available on his website: STOZO'S LAND Sounds GREAT, Stozo! (He autographed a copy for ME!)
Review by Robert "Maggot Minister" Ward -- STOZO THE CLOWN PRESENTS DigiDonz 'The Lower East Side Story Vol.1 DAYUM! Stozo's DigiDonz is the funk done with digital horns,all kind of guitar noise on top of some fonkyass beats.This one will put a hump in yo back. Known for his legendary album covers for Funkadelic,The Horny Horns,Fuzzy Haskins,Zapp and Parlet just to name a few,Ronald P."Stozo" Edwards is funkin' in clownred,and now filling those album sleeves with some FUNK !Not to be confused with just a borrowed sample but ample,right from scratch with no scratching.Hatching a modernmaggots class-sick! The DigiDonz scartoon minds and multicolored sound has gone not only from visual to audio but into some new territory.FUNK has always been accused of being futuristic or ahead of it's time in time,but the sound of the DigiDonz is new even for the Funk. IT jumps off with a serious instrumental with Stozo the Clown on guitar and bass.Psychodelic as his good friend Eddie Hazel,and a Jimi influence but the whole thang is in a new context with Zo also on the digital horns.While instrumentals fuel this collection of streetwise mackadelic funk,'She Freaked Me Out!'has some flow on the track Kenya D.O.G.,while Stozo dropped some p-fied backing vocals,over a slick bass track by Brian Vasquez.The beats are plain stoopid enough to keep a party jumpin' as the colors are filled in with that carnival like atmospheratic mastery that says it was laid down by the funkiest clown around.But,'Guitar In The Closet' is just on a grand funkmatization level with some in-perspirational organ keys.9/11 Emergency is some laid back groove with Stozo hangin' way out there on lead guitar sounds.Hangin' on the roof.The bass on the whole thang is monster. The cover art depicts the 'Lower East Side' night skyline and under such conditions you drift with the groove that is the soundtrack for million stories of the naked city.All endowed with technical wizardry fused and fussing with some old analog getback, as only the funk can bring.In the tradition of concept meets music meets a tale of the LO-E-SO!
Media Watch: It seems like only medium where people are telling the historical truth about Reagan's stint as "thief-in-chief" is the Internet. Most news people and commentators are simply being civil to his family, thereby enabling propagandists and liars to dominate the general mass media with their self-serving rubbish.
Wednesday, June 09, 2004
Wildlife: We saw the Bald Eagle flying over the lake again -- four Cowbirds were chasing it. HEY! Those things chase ME.
Weather: It's been overcast and occasionally stormy. I have some kind of flu, not a cold.
Charity Alert: Visit these guys, and their four other sites: http://www.thebreastcancersite.com
Media Watch: I can't concentrate when I'm sick, but I had a laugh or two watching Queer Eye for the Straight Guy.
I browsed through the latest Tolkien Companion, and re-realized why nobody was interested in The Silmarillion during Tolkien's lifetime, except the old professor.
He told a much more interesting story by revealing it in the background of Lord of the Rings.
Galadriel's "long defeat" was much more poigniant as a vision of deeper things.
I started reading a book of science biographies, with interlocking discoveries being the subject of each chapter.
Weather: It's been overcast and occasionally stormy. I have some kind of flu, not a cold.
Charity Alert: Visit these guys, and their four other sites: http://www.thebreastcancersite.com
Media Watch: I can't concentrate when I'm sick, but I had a laugh or two watching Queer Eye for the Straight Guy.
I browsed through the latest Tolkien Companion, and re-realized why nobody was interested in The Silmarillion during Tolkien's lifetime, except the old professor.
He told a much more interesting story by revealing it in the background of Lord of the Rings.
Galadriel's "long defeat" was much more poigniant as a vision of deeper things.
I started reading a book of science biographies, with interlocking discoveries being the subject of each chapter.
Tuesday, June 08, 2004
Update: Some good stuff here: Hockaday Museum of Art - Prime visual arts resource in Flathead Valley of Northwest Montana.
Wildlife: Ducklings by the dozen -- all over Middle Foy's Lake (mostly Goldeneyes). The Canadian Goslings on Firehouse Pond are over a foot tall.
Weather: Rainy and blustery Sunday and Monday -- I think I got a minor cold.
Charity Alert: The Child Health Site : Help a Child in Need Lead a Healthy, Active Life
Media Watch: Not much news has been talked about, or shown, since Ronald Reagan died.
It''s all ass-kissing, all the time in the mainstream media, as if their right-wing owners and enemies will respect them for repeating GOP lies.
Trust me, a lot of stuff has gone on in the world that's had nothing to do with the late, lousy president -- except there have been complications from the actions of his mean-spirited, corrupt party affiliates.
Wildlife: Ducklings by the dozen -- all over Middle Foy's Lake (mostly Goldeneyes). The Canadian Goslings on Firehouse Pond are over a foot tall.
Weather: Rainy and blustery Sunday and Monday -- I think I got a minor cold.
Charity Alert: The Child Health Site : Help a Child in Need Lead a Healthy, Active Life
Media Watch: Not much news has been talked about, or shown, since Ronald Reagan died.
It''s all ass-kissing, all the time in the mainstream media, as if their right-wing owners and enemies will respect them for repeating GOP lies.
Trust me, a lot of stuff has gone on in the world that's had nothing to do with the late, lousy president -- except there have been complications from the actions of his mean-spirited, corrupt party affiliates.
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