He'll be riding in the trunk on the way back to Earth.....

The week started out rough---

but turned out to be pretty good---

I've written on this subject previously but---

There's been several articles on the Net this

week regarding Jeff Bezo's 

Long Now clock project--

Clock of the Long Now

The Long Now Clock is being built into a mountain

on a Texas ranch owned by Bezo's.

There has apparently been much construction activity 

at the site recently...

For reasons unknown, 
the concept of this clock,

and the fact that Bezo's is actually building it

fills me with hope--I have no clue as to why??

This type of clock i first discovered in a novel

by Neal Stephenson where monks maintained

a similar clock for humanity through the ages...

I enjoy the concept of leaving something
huge, technologically mysterious, behind---

something that is completely unconnected to our stupidity...

that will last through the ages and represent

us to those who have forgotten us...

jeff bezos begins installation

A short, true story about a Yale student who
could not afford both tuition and board,
so he lived in a ventilation shaft on campus...!

Talk about working things out eh?

Yale-student-who-secretly-lived in an air shaft

They are remaking and selling to the public,
the phone from the Matrix movies...

I'd love to have one of these...
but of course they will not sell them in the United States..?
We never get any of the world's cool shit, you know?
dreams of owning the matrix phone

I actually managed to construct a blog
for advertising my guitar playing and as a gig hunting 
reference...
This week I am working hard on writing content and
setting it up...
with the hope to find venues to make a bit of cash---?

Our neighbor's niece is visiting the US for three months.
 She is from New Zealand....

We were talking the other evening and
I think I found the best way to describe the
our current American Strangeness---
I told her we were have a 
National Nervous Breakdown...
because of Trump...

Later I was actually pretty proud of 
summing up our current condition in the 
fewest possible words or excuses?
I think I am going to hang with that description--?
Sort of sums us all up, right at the moment.

Finally,

 someone, in print, took on the fact that..

If you hear voices in your head you are crazy..

it used to be--

UNLESS:

It is God or Jesus???

Not anymore---

No--you are just fucking crazy....

It doesn't matter who they say they are...

hearing ANY voices means you are crazy...

Each time this year, the Winter stay-overs

at the South Pole have a 

THE THING

movie marathon...

How the fuck do they sleep afterward....?

these-south-pole-scientists-who-watch-the-thing-every-year

Streaming on Netflix--
Very dark!

This was cool--

a detective story set in the future....