The Black Rifle Coffee Company Explains the All-American Gun Free Zone to You. Yes, you. So Listen Up. And, hey, sing along you old fart.
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Stone-cutters fighting time with marble, you foredefeated
Challengers of oblivion
Eat cynical earnings, knowing rock splits, records fall down,
The square-limbed Roman letters
Scale in the thaws, wear in the rain. The poet as well
Builds his monument mockingly;
For man will be blotted out, the blithe earth die, the brave sun
Die blind and blacken to the heart:
Yet stones have stood for a thousand years, and pained
thoughts found
The honey of peace in old poems.
— Robinson Jeffers
His soul stretched tight across the skies
That fade behind a city block,
Or trampled by insistent feet
At four and five and six o’clock;
And short square fingers stuffing pipes,
And evening newspapers, and eyes
Assured of certain certainties,
The conscience of a blackened street
Impatient to assume the world.
I am moved by fancies that are curled
Around these images, and cling:
The notion of some infinitely gentle
Infinitely suffering thing.
Wipe your hand across your mouth, and laugh;
The worlds revolve like ancient women
Gathering fuel in vacant lots.
— Eliot
I CELEBRATE myself, and sing myself,
And what I assume you shall assume,
For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.
I loafe and invite my soul,
I lean and loafe at my ease observing a spear of summer grass.
My tongue, every atom of my blood, form’d from this soil, this
air,
Born here of parents born here from parents the same, and their
parents the same,
I, now thirty-seven years old in perfect health begin,
Hoping to cease not till death.
— Walt Whitman
The scientists are in terror
and the European mind stops
Wyndham Lewis chose blindness
rather than have his mind stop.
Night under wind mid garofani,
the petals are almost still
Mozart, Linnaeus, Sulmona,
When one’s friends hate each other
how can there be peace in the world?
Their asperities diverted me in my green time.
A blown husk that is finished
but the light sings eternal
a pale flare over marshes
where the salt hay whispers to tide’s change
Time, space,
neither life nor death is the answer.
And of man seeking good,
doing evil.
In meiner Heimat
where the dead walked
and the living were made of cardboard.
Gerard Van der Leun
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Wow, who is that woman!?!
OT, but important: Are you and Miss Olive safe in Chico at least for now? From what I can tell from the InciWeb map, Chico is some distance to the southwest from the North Complex/Bear Fire, but if the wind picks up again and changes direction, who knows? Prayers still up for you and your Editor.
https://inciweb.nwcg.gov/incident/6997/
I need all the humor I can get. Love BRCC vids.
Otherwise, cannot keep up with news as it happens. We were in a blackout for 24 hrs (wind and fire damage) and I’m scrambling to catch up.
Did Mattis talk coup? I doubt it because Woodward is a first class cunt. OTOH, the good general did mess his own drawers when he went anti-Trump on us. So, he is not above reproach.
Will Pelosi, et al., try to flush election night? They’ll have to get through a lot of patriotic ‘Muricans to do it.
Did the USFS fail (or worse yet?) the campers in the Mammoth area, only to have the Cali NG swoop in for a daring air rescue? That’s a rumor but I wouldn’t put it past the USFS, whose egregious mishandling of the forests should make them criminally liable. In my day, the forests were managed, FFS.
Hell if I know anything that’s going on. Not a GFZ here, though. Just saying.
Olive and I are fine. Safe and snug and well away from fires. (though smokey.)
“Olive and I are fine.”
To quote the Bard: “For this relief, much thanks.” And I hope the smoke clears soon.
Alex, ” that woman” is Mrs. Best.
Another good one from BRCC. If you haven’t heard “Quarantine” enough to sing it from memory; well, get with it.
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