Lizard People

My first lizard love: a horned "toad."

The Transmogrifer confesses to being a lizard person,
having been entranced by them in the Durfee Elementary
school yard of Pico Rivera, California in 1956.

I, shoulda known better with a lizard like
you, that I would love everything that
you do, and I do, and I dooooooo

Lizard men get the best babes

Hollywood lizards are phoneys!

The Lizard King, he changed everything!

The sound of birds singing
is very charming
until
it's in unison

George Orwell: Man of Vision

George Orwell's 1984 was required reading in high school.
Ever since I read it, I've imagined that he got the
inspiration for his omniscient police state and electronic
surveillance from Egyptian art.


Our political system offers a skeleton
in every closet, rather
than a chicken smoking pot.

Who put the "t" in normality?

Alice Miller author of From Rage to Outrage

for Alice Miller's website, click here

I'll bet you're one of those sensitive
cocksuckers I've been hearin' about
Private Powerless! The best part of
me ran down my momma's ass in
child birth, now I'm gonna make you
into a monster, just like myself
...you grabassitic piece of shit!

We wear uniforms: that makes us normal!
We carry our normality into town as
honor!
You are a useless piece of shit because I
am one rank above you and I say so. I out rank
you, that makes me your God! The more trivial
the infraction, the worse your punishment.
Helping you die on the battlefield will be
my pleasure and the normal course of
evolution in this fucked-up world we
create for each other! Remember that
word "normal"...you are going to feel
like it's an honor to die for your
country you stinking recruit. I don't
believe you were fucking stupid enough
to volunteer for all this verbal and physical
abuse, so it's my sworn duty to make
sure you regret every fucking moment of
your miserable life! When we're in
garrison I'll be your best friend, but out
here in public I won't be happy until
your sorry ass is laying in a flag draped
coffin while I'm fucking your wife in the ass!
You can take that to the fucking bank
and cash it! In God we trust asshole!
Do you know what "polemic" means
you ignorant excuse for a human being?
You aren't stupid enough to take any
of this personally are you, well are you?
Well, you shouldn't because you are not
even a person anymore, you are a wastebasket
for my egregious bile!

Humiliations, spankings and beatings, slaps in the face, betrayal, sexual exploitation, derision, neglect, etc. are all forms of mistreatment, because they injure the integrity and dignity of a child, even if their consequences are not visible right away. However, as adults, most abused children will suffer, and let others suffer, from these injuries. This dynamic of violence can deform some victims into hangmen who take revenge even on whole nations and become willing executors to dictators as unutterably appalling as Hitler and other cruel leaders. Beaten children very early on assimilate the violence they endured, which they may glorify and apply later as parents, in believing that they deserved the punishment and were beaten out of love. They don't know that the only reason for the punishments they have (or in retrospect, had) to endure is the fact that their parents themselves endured and learned violence without being able to question it. Later, the adults, once abused children, beat their own children and often feel grateful to their parents who mistreated them when they were small and defenseless.

This is why society's ignorance remains so immovable and parents continue to produce severe pain and destructivity - in all "good will", in every generation. Most people tolerate this blindly because the origins of human violence in childhood have been and are still being ignored worldwide. Almost all small children are smacked during the first three years of life when they begin to walk and to touch objects which may not be touched. This happens at exactly the time when the human brain builds up its structure and should thus learn kindness, truthfulness, and love but never, never cruelty and lies. Fortunately, there are many mistreated children who find "helping witnesses" and can feel loved by them.

Courtesy Department of Defense:
freeing fucked-up people in
far-off lands. No animals were
harmed in the process of
Abu Ghraib interrogations.

Arcane Aircraft

When this C-124 Globemaster
isn't feeling well it pukes up a tank or two.

There is no coming clean.

What were they thinking?

Is this what you mean by an "entry-level" position?


I'm not the nice guy people make me out to be.

I'm wishing in the other hand.

Am I dancing or acting?

I wanna play you a happy tune:
Jeffry MacDonald
murdered his family, e i e i o.

I'm proud to have a guitar named after me.


Don't let Mel molest me, I'm only
two years old and he's a drunken fool.

Aloha, motherfuckers!

I wonder why they call them "choppers"?

It's a long way to Neverland, Toto!

Don't put Michael Jackson above me.
I'm having a really bad day.

Hold it down Harold.

The IRS's motto: ask not what your
country can do for you.

King Kong Confidential

If I had a time machine, I would go back immediately to 1933 and physically stop producer Merian C. Cooper from shearing a majority of KING KONG’s animation. At least I’d demand he make a print for history. But Cooper, God bless ‘im, probably would have laughed and blown pipe smoke in my face. Nonetheless, the first cut of Kong included such Willis O’Brien stop-motion miracles as a Kong versus triceratops battle; a snake that threatens Ann Darrow when she’s pinned under the tree; and most famously, a styracosaurus that traps the crew-men on a log over a ravine, followed by Kong shaking them off into the pit below, where they are horribly attacked by giant spiders, lizards and other bizarre critters. This famous scene was only shown at a test screening, where patrons allegedly screamed and fainted. Cooper thought it “stopped the show” and cut the spider pit sequence thereafter, showing his salty dog producer’s cred by likely burning the footage. But that was not all that was sheared. After Jack Driscoll and Ann Darrow escape from Kong’s mountaintop lair, the ape angrily chases them down the face of Skull Mountain, replete with misty waterfalls (the photos of this are awesome). Other cuts include Kong jumping from building to building in New York and a comical encounter with a group of poker players. I think of all that lost stop-motion footage and I weep. Amazingly, one of the spiders survived the decades and here it is:

Fay Wray

Although many technological breakthroughs
have enhanced cinema audio, King Kong's
soundtrack remains a powerful reminder
of the crucial value of visceral acoustic
ambiance.

Ernst Fuchs meets Amy LaVere

Born on February 13, 1930, in Vienna, Ernst Fuchs is the best-known representative of the Viennese school of 'Phantastic realism'. He is admired for his recognizable, vibrant color paintings, watercolors, pastels, etchings, and masterful graphic works.

Viewing Fuchs' creations evoke
images generated by peering into
a psychic geode during a strange dream.

This photo reminds me of one of Dylan's great
albums:
I first heard Amy's superb music in the
movie Heartbreak Kid, the song was
Take 'em Or Leave 'em

Amy's lyrics show an amusing and
ironic texture: from Overcome

"Can't change the world from this chair on my space
Spider tag walls with their names in this place"

The song reminds me of Gordon Lightfoot's Cobwebs and Dust
another insightful song that I've enjoyed for years

I feel justified in killing time, after all it's killing me.