This! Is Halloweeeen!

 

I'm waiting...

the dreaded finger drum

 

Come along and ride on my fantastic gourd

Ride, ride, slippity slide

 

Signs and Wishes

The human heart

Today's solutions:

Bulletproof it

Arm it

And ok....my god...

Since we can't possibly legislate the guns, let's legislate the results of the guns.  

We need to set aside money for the past, present and future communities dealing with mass killing gun violence.

A mass killing gun violence tax.

This will provide for the victims families and for the community.  We, the people will take care of the families that have lost someone to mass shootings indefinitely, they get a pension.  (This should also be the case for veterans of war--is this happening?)  The tax will provide for structural damage, demolition any expense incurred, which, of course includes physical and mental health therapy for the entire community.

The mass killing gun violence tax will come out of every paycheck, tiered and out of every purchase of firearms, including the industrial military complex--all weapons of war count.

You want us to accept this, then accept this.  It will happen again and again and again and again.

Fine, you get your goddamn guns, your goddamn weapons of war, but we need to have a plan for the carnage.

Halloween Donts

Don't laugh at a witch

 

Local locust

Did I hear a cicada song in October?!

I was in the house and in the middle of something when I heard the effervescent high pitched sawing…I didn’t get outside in time, all was quiet as I waited for maybe one last blast of an extended baked summer.

Channeling spirits ideas

 

We've got a thing that's called pumpkin love

Star crossed

Homemade

Interspecies

 

Dracula

 In messages circulated on Friday, State Department staff wrote that high-level officials do not want press materials to include three specific phrases: “de-escalation/ceasefire,” “end to violence/bloodshed” and “restoring calm.”

How fucking stupid.

Fauna, flora and funga!

The Fungi Foundation says we need to add "funga' to our "fauna and flora" phrase.  Fine by me!
"Fungi. They grow between toes, on bread and in the shower" -Jude Coleman, Science News Oct '23

Fauna, Flora and Funga! Oh my!

A spell of spooky funga to add to your witches cauldron

One Devil's Finger

A dollop of Witches Butter

Three drops of Bleeding Tooth

Dash of Zombie Fungus

Two Doll's Eyes

A knuckle of Dead Man's Fingers

Stir ingredients by the light of Mycena Manipularis

Photos from these two articles:

Malama Mushrooms Fungi Fact Friday

Kew Gardens 13 Spookiest Plants and Fungi

Human horror

Scarier than any October ghoul 

It’s 2023 and we have two raging wars on our globe

This planet.

We aren’t progressing

WWGHD?

Today it seems official

We are stupid

We shit where we eat

Why I’m not hopeless, I don’t know.

Maybe because I brought progeny here

Thank god I still see beauty

Even through this anger engine

If I had the power

If I had the power

If I had the power…

…I’m stupid

Last of the smart humans

A couple of swell eggs

 

October energy abounds!

 

Ima MFin Star Catcher

 

Bill Hicks on UFOs

And I'll tell you something, too, that's starting to annoy me about UFOs: 

the fact that they cross galaxies or universes to visit us, and always end up in places like … 

Fyffe fucking Alabama. 

Maybe these aren't super-intelligent beings, you know what I mean? 

"Don't you wanna go to New York or LA?" 

"Nah, we just had a long trip, we're gonna kick back and whittle some." 

Oh my god, they're idiots. We're gonna enter our mothership in the tractor pull!" 

Last thing I wanna see is some flying saucer up on blocks in front of some trailer, bumper sticker on it, 

"They'll get my raygun when they pry my cold, dead, eighteen-fingered hand off it!"

Get your pocket skeletons!

 

October begins!

I guess I just like patterns

Pauline Simon, art outsider

 

I don't like to be this jealous!

I do love to see how other girls draw their girls.

Baya!!!  

1931-1998 timeline....Active in late 1940s to early 50s and then again in early 60s til her death.

I want to see that red dress one behind her up close

Thought jar

Eagle-eyed inquiry

during decades apart re-watch

of 1987's Baby Boom

the timeline IS hilarious

Improbable

the baby is the same age

The yuppy is in Vermont

for less than a year

Yet she acquires orchards 

And has set ablaze a new industry

in gourmet baby food

Big food wants to buy

And yet

I now also have a dream

to be typecast

as a nervous wreck

and I still enjoyed the movie
because I love fixer-uppers

Harvest Gold

I’m on a Mexican UFO

 I’m on a Mexican 

Whoa-Oh

UFO 

Mexican Zoom Call

But we talkin bout practice

  Wages stagnated from 1973 to 2013, rising only 9.2% even as productivity grew by 74.4%.

Ever-so-quickly

The artist Jeff Koons reproduced two Frangelico advertisements, "Stay in Tonight" and "Find a Quiet Table", in his 1986 Luxury & Degradation series of paintings and sculptures based on the role of alcohol in culture. According to Koons he used the Frangelico ads to "defin[e] a $45,000 and up income", in contrast to other works in the series which correspond to lower income levels.  --Wiki, of course.

Found this excerpt...again..did I already do a post on this?

..when I was researching aperitifs/digestifs awhile back...
Chou chou income starting at $45,000 caught my eye.

I need:

Chartreuse

Benedictine

Vermouths

Frangelico

Maybe, Fernet, Pimms and one of the Lillets

Amuck Time

...Atlantic meridional overturning circulation (AMOC) could potentially collapse within three years... 

What is the AMOC? It is a complex system of currents responsible for keeping our climate relatively stable and transporting carbon and nutrients. As warm water near the ocean surface gets pushed northwards, it warms Europe on its way to the North Pole, where it forms sea ice. The salt gets left in the ocean, and, due to its salinity, it becomes dense and then drops to the ocean floor, where it moves south before being pulled back up to the surface to warm up again. This cycle can take around 1,000 years to complete, yet research in 2021 warned that the AMOC “could be close to a critical transition to its weak circulation mode,” where it will slow even further.

Read Simon Whalley's article in Alternet.

[Don't Worry] If there's a hell below, we're all gonna go

---Curtis Mayfield

Thanks to the commenter of this article for the song quote.

When come time to do, Everybody's laying

They say don't worry

They say don't worry

They say don't worry

...[C]limate systems all around the world will be altered irreversibly. Research in Nature Climate Change found that surface cooling will begin over the North Atlantic and expand Arctic sea ice before moving into the North Pacific and spreading south toward the tropics. This would result in the Pacific Ocean entering into a permanent La Niña phase, which could cause disastrous monsoons and flooding in the South Pacific and increased drought and heat in North America.

...Europe is projected to witness more frequent winter storms and see more summer heat brought up from the south, with Southern Europe becoming even drier—meaning more wildfires and intense heat waves. As Southern Europe bakes, Northern Europe will see increased precipitation, although it has been found that much of the U.K.’s arable land will rapidly become unproductive. South Asia will experience a weakening of monsoon circulation, and rainfall in Asia and Africa will be affected. (Whalley)

And everybody saying don't worry

They say don't worry

They say don't worry

They say don't worry

This article says people power can do something by not eating meat....I don't want to be apathetic, but I just don't see how people are going to get together enough to make a dent.  I'm still weirdly hopeful or I still have hope inside me.  Maybe because I'm a parent.

Our people power is supposed to be the government, but it's so damn divided it's hard to make a move.  A consumer strike would be interesting, but I guess it's too far in the future..three years..to be proactive.  

We are a reactive species.

And damn it, I just want to think about ETs and UFOs!

Tell me what we gonna do

If everything I say is true

This ain't no way it ought to be

If only all the mass could see

But they keep talkin' 'bout don't worry

 

Luv U Sinead

 

Fleur Flair

Journey into the Desert 
with Fleur Cowles
and Donovan
and Cary Grant
and Salvador Dali
and Queen Elizabeth 
and nearly everyone who was a big someone,
at one time--
Marilyn Monroe
Fleur made friends and kept them, as her memoir states.

I have to document my periodical curiosity with Fleur Cowles--I will love her style always,
but my focus has once again waned....like Robert Mitchum and Slavs.
I wonder what's next!  So exciting!

Desert Journey by Cowles, Donovan album cover

Picnic on the floor with Cary

Her study, my wish

Love the cig table setting

Her portrait, my wish

Fleur's extravagant magazine, Flair

For the jet set

For the art set

For the fox hunting set

For the New York set

For the sun set

Known for cool cut-outs in the cover

Inside the July 1950 issue

Cut-out by Dali for the Annual issue...

...Flair only lasted one year

But Fleur Cowles lasted 101!

"I have an idea a minute...I'm a born idea myself."  -Fleur Cowles

Look her up, it was fun!