So... I understand you are untamed?

I've been lost both in worry...

and my OCD-ness...at the same time..?

I would not have thought this combination possible
within a single human unit..?

the American baby-boomer insanity over 
buying the now, super expensive 
muscle cars from their youth..??

Perhaps it's nostalgia for some..?

I was there, you know, I'm a true boomer..and 

I love cars as much as the next guy but---

the American cars of the sixties were awful..just shit for quality control,
knobs, levers and dials just fell off them when you tried to use them.
The true sign of a good car was if the clock actually worked
the day you picked it up...?

A very, very, long distance trip back then was 250 miles,
 they were hot/cold inside
and breakdowns were the accepted norm...?
Tune-ups were required all the fucking time....

I just read that a 1969 Camaro sold for $770,000.00 at auction???

There is no fucking way a Camaro ZL1 or whatever specialty
model,1969 American fucking car could be worth $770,000 at the latest
Barrett Jackson auto auction...
NO FUCKING WAY!
You spent how much on that old car???

The concept of buying these muscle cars as an investment?
Well, that's over with the death end of the boomer generation.

There will always be a few, rich gear heads around..
buying these types of cars to crash...
but not there's not enough of these kind of guys,
or this kind of money out there,

 to re-coup the investment of all the old boomers 
who over spent on an old car that might, might
have got them laid when they were young...
Big Harley's---
are already starting to suffer the this resale hell---

When we boomers are gone you won't be able to 
give a big chrome laden, electric heated seat,
Harley away--
and Harley Davidson knows this...
they are desperately trying to figure out this
new world that is coming...
where people cannot afford nor justify 
25 grand for a motorcycle..

OR $770,000.00 for a Camaro?

 working on..

"Something in the Air"

by

Thunderclap Newman..

YouTube--thunderclap Newman

You gotta love a song by anyone 
who could possibly be named
"Thunderclap"

Surprisingly..
I've got two gigs this week....

very rushed with little prep---

I'll fill you in on what happens in the next blog---
If these gigs go well it will be a true miracle tho--?

But a gig's a gig you know???

There was a great deal of press in the U.S. this week
about the death of "free checking accounts".
Which were probably never really free to begin with..?
So---
how can you start a bank account in the U.S.
if you can't even afford the fee's?

If we Americans lived in an actual civilized country,
we, regular people, could bank at the post office 
as they do in Japan for example..
Slate Magazine--bank-of-america-shows-why-we-need-postal-banking

In fact the Japan Postal Bank Services were designed specifically
for low income persons and rural areas that lacked services..
the Japan Postal Bank is now one of the largest, richest banks in the world.
No fees, open an account with even a penny...
Postal Banks provide services such as 
savings, checking, money orders,
wire transfers etc....
at a Government required minimum profit demand..
Which of course, would kill the concept in the Republican,
massive profit for the few,
 dominated America.
how Japans postal service got 3 trillion

The funny thing is we used to have Postal banking

in the United States but it was shut down in 1966...

just around the time when US banks started to become powerful 

and greedy once again

because our citizens had lost their suspicion of them,

that we had gained at a severe price from the 

Great Depression....

A suspicion hard earned and way too soon forgotten....

We should restart Postal Banking in the US AGAIN!!!

Not only would it be a profound service to our society

but would help the Post Office's profitability.

Banking should be a service--

with a reasonable profit

not the fucking profit scamming...

shareholder slave,

money laundering industry 

that it has become...

Ursula K. Le Guin passed away at 88.
An outstanding Science Fiction writer..
although she resisted that terminology.
I'll have to re-read 
The Left Hand Of Darkness.

Remembering-ursula-le-guin

On DVD...
I cannot believe that some geek reviewers
panned this movie...?

Excellent plot, awe inspiring backgrounds,
and a logical view of future super megalopolis's..
I will buy it as soon as it hits the bargain bin...

I mean-----

I am already a member of an oppressed
economic group in my personal future,
so bargain bin..!

On Amazon streaming...

This is a French TV series which is sort of a

cross between the X-Files and Twin Peaks...

strangely compelling---?

Grooming is between you and the lord God.

Doing what I can..when i can....

while attempting to ignore everything else....

Who knew that there was a specific

 machine for trimming landscaping hedges into sphere's..?
Did they pay extra for the mesmerizing effect...?

completely-mesmerized-by-this-machine

the last time I read or watched an American news sources...

I stopped a long time ago...

I get my news, as they say,

from British outlets...

For one thing....

A British accent makes news on terrible events
or horribly stupid things----just sound
better somehow?

bbc news

British reporting on American issues,
or even on American life is actually so honest...
so well written and thought provoking.
Compared to our useless propaganda..
failing to address our true status as a nation...

I also freely admit that I love a news organization
whose homepages have
encrypted drop sites built into them for
whistle blowers, or Leakers...
Take a look at the Guardian's main page!
This alone gives me hope for the world!!

The guardian

You won't find encrypted drop sites on CNN.com
or especially that P.O.S. FOX for shit sure...

British news sites are still free compared to the 
1%er owned American
sites like the New York Times or the Wall Street Journal

that demand payment for viewing...
and block their sites with expensive pay walls....

I wonder how they think they will enlist young, 
possibly future readers...

who cannot afford to read their shit in the here and now--?
They will simply become adults ignoring these organizations for the
rest of their lives
paying-for-online-news-sorry-but-the-math-just-doesn't-work

Then again--
A well read, educated public 

is a danger to the 
1%, elite owners of these publications so,
this may not be simply bad decision making on their part
but rather a plan for a stupid, easily led, future?

In reading about this latest Japanese invention 
one's mind
screams repeatedly
Why...!!!

As in...
Why, would any human, possibly need a, 
nose-hair trimmer attachment for their cell-phone.
Did the inventor suddenly have to make a life or death
decision whether to answer his mobile phone or
trim his nose snakes--when this brainstorm hit him...???
as in
Why not be able to do both????

Japanese-smartphone-attachment-trims-your-nose-hairs

everyone will love this..

I might....

 There's a new concept from Amazon..
Amazon Go stores...
amazons-first-automated-brick-and-mortar-store-opens

Sort of an upscale neighborhood store..
with a lot of pre-made meal content..

The most unique element is that computers 
track you in the store and all you do is put an item in your
bag and your Amazon account is charged..?
So no check-out just walk in,
grab it and go---

Supposedly all the kinks on the software has 

been worked out....

amazon-go-works-technology-behind-online-retailers-new-grocery-store

An Amazon GO store nearby,
would be awesome for those days,
 I really don't want to deal with people, 
you know?

I found it most interesting that there is absolutely

Zero procedure anywhere within the US Government,

or state and local governments...

as to whom does one call--

if while hiking in the woods,

you trip over a dead alien...

Or if a UFO lands in your backyard...

or if you see something possibly earth threatening 

as an amateur astronomer

as in planet killing meteor..??

if-you-find-aliens-who-do-you-call?

In fact, based on the responses to the link's article's

reporter from varying agencies quiered---

Be absolutely sure, NOT to call NYPD..

they were massively pissed just being asked if

they could be called...!

On Netflix streaming---

Follow up to Blindsight...