I never thought the end of the world would be so annoying?

Things are slowly getting on a more balanced plane.

but

life here is in no way normal as of yet.

My hair has reached that crazy growth stage just before I am able
to tie it back..one half inch short.

It is the longest 1/2 inch there is..

a half inch from normal...

This should not be considered an earth shaking problem,
however..
People have a tendency to stare at crazy hair and judge,
you can feel their opinion of you being transmitted.
Especially if you are an old dude..
Having crazy hair at the moment places me
in excellent company--

But I have become very self-conscious about my crazy hair.
Hopefully I can make it through the old guy hair crazy stage
to the old guy tie your hair back cool stage,
without breaking down and cutting it all off?

I managed to successfully install the ScangaugeE 

I recently ordered in the Pocket Rocket.

Right now there's not much to display since the 

Pocket Rocket's one inch ground clearance cannot be driven

with the still remaining deep snow on the roads...

When once finally in motion I can monitor fuel consumption
in an ultra detailed fashion (even by graphing) or with the push of a button 
monitor 30 other engine/performance details.
Once i figure the complicated little fucker out that is?

I installed an aftermarket windshield mount to
house the unit at an easily viewed location while driving.
I was lucky in that the Pocket Rocket's OMBII port 
resides right below the drivers left in an accessible position
which meant that I did not have to run the ugly wiring a visibly long distance.

It's going to be spring before the freshly tuned,
new tire'd, electronically superior Eco-geezer hot rod of mine
burns up the streets tho---

Updating the Oregon Militia Patriots pleas for supplies to the Internet from my last post..
I am proud to announce the Militia members holding the
Oregon bird sanctuary have received all the full boxes of Dildos they may require...

Stop mailing us DILDOS pleas pissed off militia leader
This is exactly the type web response that makes me
proud to be on the Internet...

am totally uninterested in food?

but that i cannot 
live without

I am again on one of my useless attempts to slow
my smoking...
I know it's impossible for me..
I don't know why I try?
I guess i just needed something new to feel bad about?

There are some of us who require tobacco
the same as vampires require blood.
We require a cigarette to think, write, bullshit creatively with others.
To wake up, to go to sleep...
to simply survival the world..

Without cigarettes i would truly be a far lesser
human.
So what the fuck then am I doing?

On remastered analog cassette:

After long drought like conditions on Ebay in the search 

for reasonably priced boomboxes...

I discovered a GE 3-5265a box reasonably priced and immediately bought it now.

Disguising itself as sort of a modernistic shelf unit stereo--
this GE is a true boombox unit in that the speakers do not detach.
For a large mini-box, (apply the term jumbo shrimp here)
 this box is actually fairly feature filled with 
multiple LED indicators and separate bass and treble controls,
(individual bass and treble is always a huge plus factor)
larger speakers and tape type selector.
 I did begin the first steps of a complete cleaning/reconditioning.
It is going to need much work, new belts, etc....

This particular GE was not a star of the street music revolution,

it wasn't played on the subway or seen in films,

but it was affordable--a condition rapidly disappearing within

my world of collecting old boomboxes.

I get what i can afford and wait for a deal.

Rural Japan is pretty much dying out..
The population is aging and not being replaced.
This lone schoolgirl is the only reason the train stops at 
this station--so she can get to school.

The Japanese government was going to close this train station
due to lack of use..that is until the Japanese government
  discovered that this lone remaining schoolgirl would
have a 73 minute walk to the next nearest operating train station.
So the government is keeping this small, lonely station open
morning and evening until 
this single student graduates high school..
only then will it be closed.
There was no pressure group involved, no Internet campaign to do right.
 The Japanese government just did what they are suppose to do.
the link to this amazing courtesy

We are tearing through the second season of True Detective on DVD.

I had refused to read anything on the second series in advance,
knowing that the web world would unfairly compared anything
constructed in season 2 against the first year...
I wanted to view #2 with clean eyes...
I am totally and completely enjoying the new season,
we are about 3/4 through the DVD set as i write this...
My favorite element in season two is the barroom--
The Black Rose.

It is a repeating background, a meeting place for
several of the main characters. 

The Black Rose is absolutely the most depressing barroom
on the face of the earth---
a dark dive
featuring all night live, suicidal music--

If it truly existed,

 thousands of Japanese, preparing for ritual suicide 

would travel to the Black Rose for their last night on earth,

reveling in the decor and ambiance 

no doubt inspired by the bar's scarred manager--

A barroom like the Black Rose is 
never around in real life when you desperately want some place to
sit with your pure shit feelings, quietly surrounded by everybody else 
who thinks their life is pure shit.

I love this shitty place.

Now is the time to get off your ass and support Bernie Sanders for President.

Tommy Chong supports Bernie.

If we take Iowa and New Hampshire we can win

and actually change our society for the better in our lifetimes!

Could you have had a platonic relationship before Plato?

Six days later----
We can finally get out of the driveway--
Go somewhere if we want to or need to?
Snow is piled sky-high everywhere in my yard because of shoveling--
There is nowhere left to put snow that had to be moved..

I have no concept of how long this piled snow shit will take to melt?
Right now I cannot seem to remember what the ground looks like?
I worked out math-wise that I moved over 
18,000 lbs. of snow--4800 cubic feet
in shoveling the driveway alone...

Wet snow can weigh up to 20 lbs. per shovel full,
 this shit was wet--then turned to big chunks of ice.
It had to be shoveled and lifted--it couldn't just be pushed to
an open area, there was no open area.
I was working out the weight transfer in cubic feet & average lift weight
in my head while shoveling--

Working the math behind what you are doing,
while you are doing it,
--does not make the thing you are doing fucking easier--

Doing the math while shoveling simply reinforces the fact
that it is a wonderment that we don't all fall over dead while shoveling snow.

I haven't left the homestead since the storm--?
This week tho--I am planning on getting out for
coffee and lunch with friends..if i still have any?

have become completely addicted to those
conspiracy documentaries on streaming?
I sit and watch them late at night, chain smoking in the kitchen?

These shows are so so so fucking weird. 
Absolutely no entertainment value at all--but I sit fascinated.
Weirder still are the people interviewed..who claim to have found some
strange shit or another...

Ranking out at ultimate bizarro levels are the shows supposed experts.
The conspiracy talking heads...

Since i have watched these shit shows for awhile now---
 I can finished their experts excuses as to 
why there is no proof to anything these guys are saying
 before they even start making excuses...!
I find myself nodding in agreement that everything is a cover up!

The featured subjects on these kind of shows range from---

Bigfoot to Aliens to reptile people to Atlantis to Bible mysteries to ancient ruins,
to the search for the Holy Grail--

to Egyptian pyramids to Mayan pyramids to King Solomon's mines..
to the lost Dutchman mine,

 to secret societies like the Knight's Templar,
the Masons, the Illuminati, the deep government---

to buried treasure, lost treasure, sunken treasure,Nazi treasure,

religious treasures, Aztec treasure and pirate treasure---

I seem to be able to binge watch any & all of these stupid fucking shows?

It is nice to sort of turn my brain off, allowing myself
to wonder if there really are Nazi-reptile-pyramid building-
treasure hiding, 
aliens living on the moon?

So the mondo strange Bundy militia 

is at it again?

Don't these freedom fighters have jobs to go to?

This time the armed weekend warriors for freedom have taken over

 a Federal camp-ground at a bird sanctuary in no-fucking-where Oregon?

For reasons no one seems to understand?

Especially the locals?

People like this don't really know what they are mad about,

they just want to be mad and find an excuse..

Which does make some of them dangerous...

But

It's cold there--

They are out in the middle of bum-fuck nothing playing revolutionary

luckily they've built their play fort where they can't hurt anyone else.

These guys are just lost souls...

They want to be the great warriors they pretend to be?
They talk about how tough and willing to die they are for their principles?
It's just tough to play last stand for 
principles which nobody apparently can figure the fuck out?

A real-life benefit of this current militia freak show is
that they are their own worst enemies.
This incident has caused the world to realize what clowns these guys actually are
and instead of society being concerned and outraged,
 the world is laughing.
 Without a doubt these right wing, religious wacks are not only freezing
but worse they are probably massively depressed 
over the names the web has been calling their group.
To list a few of the funnier nicknames--
Ya'llQaeda
yeehwdi's
Fort Freedumb
&
VanillaISIS
My personal favorite term that turned up on the web
is Meal Team 6.

Apparently even dumber than we think they are---

The freedom fighters put out a call on the Net for people to send them boxes of
supplies so the occupation of this remote, Federal park, bird watching
sanctuary can continue to be held in the fight for um--freedom... 
but--
This has sort of backfired as well in that,
liberal websites are sending them care packages filled with
gay lube, condoms, instant Quiche Lorraine as well as books
supporting gay marriage and women's liberation...

Hey Bubba--did y'all order this shit?????

In all actuality things are working out perfectly...
The Feds are just letting these guys sit in the snow--
ignoring them--a very, very, smart move--
 they want the law to fuck with them.

If the Feds attack or arrest them it proves their validity as oppressed freedom fighters,

as compared to the clowns that they are.

It's smart to simply ignore them and

let them sit and freeze while the rest of the world makes fun at their expense
and hopefully laughter this time costs them what respect they might have had
and cause potential members to stop and think about becoming a laughingstock. 
Humor may even cause some of their followers to figure out what assholes 
they really have been and quit this kind of shit
and go home?
Laughing at these people is the most effective punishment we could ever devise...
laughter hurts them and their stupid causes the most---

In route--Cyberpunk from the late 1980's.

On DVD: