this is absolutely terrible

thank you Kitty. i wrote it about 15 years ago.

lol

Auschwitz is liberated | January 27, 1945 | HISTORY The Soviet Red Army enters Auschwitz, Poland, and liberates the survivors of the network of concentration camps—and finally reveals to the world the depth of the horrors perpetrated there.

A grim but essential memory: 80 years ago today Auschwitz was liberated. That there was an Auschwitz to liberate is unspeakably tragic. . .
www.history.com/this-day-in-...

I’m proud to call the amazing cartoonist Ed Wexler a friend.

Yosemite 2020

fires are burning

blindly i reached out in the darkness, hands groping for purchase... and then found her and held on tight and was saved from a fall

Thank you @govpritzker.illinois.gov for standing up for migrant families and harding working Mexican Chicagoans who don't deserve being bullied or harassed by Orange Shit Stain.
#mexicanpeoplehaverights
#santuarycity
#protectingmigrants
#FUCKICEANDDJT

radio, television, and newspapers

some my favorites

the setting sun

i can't help but feel that the sun is setting on america

an alphabetical list of movies: 2001: a space odyssey, a clockwork orange, adaptation, american beauty, american splendor, being john malkovich, being there, benny and joon, brazil, breakfast at tiffany's, casablanca, chasing amy, clerks, crimes and misdemeanors, crumb, do the right thing, dogma, dr. strangelove, duck soup, easy rider, eraserhead, eternal sunshine of a spotless mind, final fantasy, garden state, ghost world, gone with the wind, good will hunting, hair, hedwig and the angry inch, jersey girl, key largo, lenny, little big man, lord of the rings, lost in tran- slation, midnight cowboy, notorious, one flew over a cuckcoo's nest, pi, proof, psycho, pulp fiction, rear window, seven years in tibet, sin city, sky captain and the world of tomorrow, some kind of wonderful, the adventures of baron munchausen, the birdcage, the caine mutiny, the corporation, the dreamers, the graduate, the maltese falcon, the meaning of life, the royal tenenbaums, the shining, the thin man, the world according to garp, this is spinal tap, three days of the condor, to catch a thief, to kill a mockingbird, trainspotting, twelve monkeys, velvet goldmine, young frankenstein.

i was there in 2018 with jules, who made me mug for her camera, lol. the scene was pretty groovy - a couple of talented artists painting that day, beautiful views of austin from this prominence, and an overall happy vibe from everyone.

Graffiti Park, Austin TX

it saddens me that graffiti park in austin has been closed off behind a chain link fence, though the group that curated some of the better graffiti is opening up another venue (hopeoutdoorgallery.com)

There are, strictly speaking, no enlightened people, there is only enlightened activity. ~ Shunryu Suzuki ~

A thought for the day