Five years? Amateur.

Kermit Roosevelt (Teddy’s son, FDR’s cousin) & British Petroleum were instrumental in overthrowing Mossadegh/installing the Shah. Roosevelt/the CIA distrusted Mossadegh b/c he wouldn’t explicitly denounce the USSR; BP wanted Iran’s oil (they’d controlled the spigots before WWII disrupted things).

Sorry: Mat. Mis-typed. It’s been a really long week…

Nice work, Mats.

From Your lips to Your ears, Sir.

In which case, everyone’s getting “raptured” by current events.

The Gray Lady’s short some gray matter lately.

Back in the 90s, a weirdo in our firm was a Nixon apologist. Guy had a 3-ring binder FULL of letters from RMN, who evidently would correspond w/anybody who didn’t still hate him. On a first-name basis: “Hello, D*n. So good to hear you’re well…” Current pres. will have his (weirdo) apologists, too.

I’d propose a trade but I know I’ll get no takers.

Billionaires who’d like to plagiarize your art/data/literature and then sell it back to you.

This is too on the nose—did he really? I believe you; I’m just on a news-diet.

It’s a ai bot; there is no “they” there.

TBH, if I was married to the Knoem, I’m sure I’d need some kind of distraction just to get through the week.

Which he started to distract everyone from the Epst**n Files… and on it goes.

Nothing could possibly go wrong here…

Fingers crossed

Went to a Denver Broncos training camp practice once & that’s exactly what it was like. The first three rows around the practice field were all oddsmakers and fantasy dorks w/iPads, angrily turning around to shush kids who were playing on the hill behind them. Garbage environment. Never going back.

a man with a mustache and glasses says seems like an invasion of privacy ALT: a man with a mustache and glasses says seems like an invasion of privacy

Know how many times over the past 3 yrs I’ve been notified that there’s been a break-in at my bank, Dr’s, or a govt office & someone’s stolen my files? Zero. Number of online data breaches? Today makes thirty. Seriously, fuck your “online convenience”—I’ll fill out your paperwork when I get there.

Same energy.

If only.

Yeah, rural gas prices can be shocking. Back when gas was $1.15/gal., I recall rolling into Lee Vining, CA, w/a 1/4 tank to find $4.25/gal at the pump. I was young/dumb so I drove away w/o buying anything b/c eff that guy. Made it to Hawthorne, NV (at, like, $1.50) but those last 10 mi. were tense.

We don’t, evidently, so do what you gotta do. Lo siento mucho.

I like the cut of your jib, sir.

Sisyphean task, but it’s gotta be done.

Retirement via ballistic intervention.

Better than that, certainly. Hope you’re on the mend & feeling better soon.

Painted from a couple of photos taken in the El Paso Mountains, Kern County, CA, sometime Dec-Feb 2001 (date approximate). A Great Depression-era cabin with corrugated tin sides in a snowy landscape with three Joshua trees. Not sure of my photos’ locale—maybe Colorado Canp or Dutch Camp.

Detail 1

Detail 2

Palette

High Desert Snowstorm with Joshua Trees, 10“ x 10“, acrylic on canvas. A few details + my limited (for me) palette. Happy w/the the lighter values on the Joshua trees in the background. Sometimes things turn out the way you intend. Based on a circa 2001 photo when I spent a winter working in SoCal.

Found this a day later—makes my point better than I did in 48 words:

Anyoneone else sick of Ai intruding on every single online activity? No, I don’t want Ai to re-write my email—I got it right the first time and anyway, you suck except as a way to assemble raw intelligence that has to be scrubbed for hallucinations and other fuckups.

Red and yellow grasses and plants in the foreground; the green, timbered lower slopes of Fools Peak reflected in Charles Lake (Holy Cross Wilderness, Eagle County, CO). The mountain’s gray bulk becomes blue & hazy as it rises against a sky dotted with umbral clouds.

Autumn starting to sneak its way into my paintings. Charles Lake below Fools Peak, Eagle County, CO, 18”x24”, acrylic on canvas. #art #artist #painting #acrylicpainting #colorado #fall #landscape #landscapepainting #westernartist #westernart