WKRLEM: In The Garden

I might have posted this before...but it is one of my favorites.

No guru no method no teacher!

What if a asteroid hits the earth!

Graham Hancock is a very interesting guy. His appearances with Joe Rogan are classic and are well worth checking out on Youtube. Highly recommended!

WKRLEM FM: ANTIFA Portland Footloose

Typical of the planning and effectiveness of the animals and criminals of Antifa and Black Lives Matter.



Pig in the Kevin Bacon?

Witches and Portents

"There was a witch and soothsayer in England. After she died, when the priests were singing Psalms, devils violently snatched her up and bore her away through the air on the back of a terrible horse. Their awful cries could be heard for almost four miles."

The Nuremberg Chronicle (Nuremberg, 1493) is an ambitious history of the world from Adam and Eve on. It is one of the first illustrated books, and certainly the first lavishly-illustrated one; it contains more than 1,800 woodcuts (including, possibly, some by Albrecht Durer, who was a young apprentice at the shop which produced the book).

One of my prized possessions is a page from the Nuremberg Chronicle. Page CLXXXIX, in fact. At the top of the verso is the above woodcut and text. The rest of the page is all emperors and bishops and scholar-monks.

On the recto, amid a whole bunch of stuff about Holy Roman Emperor Henry III, is a little woodcut of a burning two-by-four in the sky, with a matter-of-fact line of text:

"A flaming wooden beam of remarkable size was seen in the sky, flying in the region between south and east above the setting sun, and falling to the earth."

No doubt the fireball from a large meteor.

I was surprised at how cheap the page was; I paid more to have it framed than I did to buy it. As a book-lover and former bookseller, I cringe at the thought of someone tearing up a perfectly good book to sell it page-by-page. I prefer to believe that some kindly soul disassembled the fragments of a damaged copy and offered the pages for sale, so that people like me could own at least a piece of a famous incunable. This is much like trying to convince not only your children, but yourself, that Bingo has gone to live at a nice farm upstate, and is very happy.

Back to the Garden

This time I got several unblurred (almost) pictures of things that were further than six feet away. I continue my slow, steady progress toward becoming this century's Ansel Adams.

"My God, It's full of flars!"

The Mutant Japanese Maple oozes onto the walkway in search of prey.

We got Canada Geese around here like New York City's got rats.

Tennis Balls of the Gods

A New Natural History

The Huff (left) and a Gloat near a patch of I-Told-You-So. 

The Hoodwink on a spray of Ragamuffin. 

Left to right: the Thesaurus, the Stereopticon, and
the Hexameter. The tree is a Sacroiliac.

Thurber, of course. These are from his A New Natural History, which, along with a whole lot of other good stuff . . .

. . .can be found in Alarms and Diversions, one of his best collections. You can download it for free, in PDF, EPub, HTML and a bunch of other formats, here.

Whose that girll

You would want to give her your best shot on the battlefield but that kind of love is for children. She led the spandex life in the eighties but lived to tell the tale.

She survived many a ham sandwich and a lot of hog.

Whose that rock and roll heart breaker?

Tom Terrific is dead.....and so is baseball

Tom Seaver was my Dad's favorite player. He was an old time Dodger fan who switched to the Mets as a lot of National League fans did when the Dodgers and the Giants fled to the Coast. Tom was one of the two men he admired most along with Roger Maris even though he was a hated Yankee.

I vividly remember this game as my Dad let me stay up to watch the game with him. One of his cronies was over and they were going to go out but they stayed to watch the game. He let me stay up. He even let me sip from a can of Reingold. I felt bad for him when Jimmy Qualls got that hit in the ninth inning.

The simple please of the game visible on that clip are gone to us now. It's all social justice posturing and political slogans to appease the left wing monster machine..

Tom Terrific has passed away. A lonely nation turns its eyes to you.

But you're dead.

Just like the game.

Do as I say not as I Jew.....

Joe Hiden decided he had to pander to the murderous savages of Black Lives Matter so he went to visit the family of the skell who got shot when he refused arrest for his warrants for sexual abuse. Jacob Butler is a real beauty and typical of your basic black activist.

He is a hard core Anti-semite like Al Sharpton or Jesse Jackson or AOC and the Squad. His face book posts are full of posts of how Jews control the world and typical blood libels. Too bad Joe didn't visit him on Rosh Hashanah for Seder.

We hear the Democrats talk about how we have to kneel and worship our poor black brothers because us white people are criminals who indulge our white privilege as we hate on everyone. Meanwhile the members of BLM and Antifa and the Democrats are generally vile haters who hate white people especially the Jews. Just look at the many posts I have made about the knock out game and what is going on in NYC. Look at the Anti-Semitic administration of Comrade Bill in NYC to see how he discriminates against the Orthodox Jews who just want to live their lives in their faith.

You are never going to see any of this discussed on the main stream media Just as you are not going to hear about who this skell is and what he was guilty of in his long criminal career. Pardon the phrase but it is all going to be "white-washed."

So listen to the media and the Democrats. Do as they say and kowtow to the moolies and beg them for forgiveness. Just don't get in the way when they go after the Jews.

Language Log Noun Pile Headline Collection Post

The folks at the Language Log blog like a good "noun pile," and so do I. (They seem to have coined this useful term themselves; I've seen it nowhere else, and an internet search yields no results.) I suppose a "pure" noun pile headline would contain only nouns, like the one pictured above, and like this one . . .

               Fish foot spa virus bombshell

               --The Sun, 10/18/2011.

. . . which I love for the surreal imagery it conjures up.

These three are all from the BBC (!); each consists of a seven-word noun pile supported by a single verb:

               Ministers mull volcano ash cloud flight chaos measures

               --BBC News, 4/18/2010

               Citizen science charts horse chestnut tree pest spread

               --BBC News 1/24/2014

               Pilot Fish Project English Channel crossing bid begins

               --BBC News 8/5/2016

The champion seems to be this one, which even the Language Log people had trouble decoding:

               Napa wildfire LNU Lightning Complex Gamble Hennessey Fire –

               August 2020

               --SFGate 8/18/2020

WKRLEM: A Little Less Conversation

We need less conversation and more direct action. Listen to the King.

Do these animals have a shred of decency?

"The king is gone but he's not forgotten."

Those are the words of famous left wing asshole Neil Young in his song 'Hey Hey My My'

Well the fascist shits of Black Lives Matter don't remember shit. They want to destroy everything that is good and decent about America. They tear down statues. They burn churches. They despoil everything they touch.

They vandalized Graceland.

These savages painted slogans like "Black Lives Matter" and "Defund the Police" on the stone wall outside of Graceland. Covering up and defacing the heartfelt tributes written on wall by fans from all around the world. These fucking savages have no limits.

I bet if we shot in the crowd randomly we would hit pedophiles, wife beaters and felons. Wait we already did that. 

Black lives matters is the scum of the earth and they need to be eradicated.

WKRLEM TV: This seems very familiar.....

I am a big Martin Clunes fan. You might know his most popular series '"Doc Martin." When I find an actor I like I investigate his filmography on IMBD and see what else he might have done. Lo and behold I found this excellent little series "William and Mary."

Let's see. The plot is this big fat cheerful dofus goes online meets a beautiful buxom brunette who bosses him around and he is delirious happy as she yells at him and his bumbling ways.

I don't know it just seems very familiar.

On Amazon Prime's Brit Box and highly recommended.

Small businesses that didn't quite cut it

In the early 1950's the Sears Roebuck Company devised a new law mower for the germ conscious housewife. It enclosed the driver in a clear plastic bubble so a woman could mow the lawn while wearing a nice dress and pearls and never spill her cocktail.

Best of all it allowed her to take over the lawn care so her husband could repair to his study with his cigar and his whiskey while the little woman took care of all domestic chores.

Unfortunately with the dawn of radical feminism men were no longer to enjoy their status of King of castle. On the other hand rabid bitter hags who loved feminism would have to hire indigent gardeners if they wanted their lawn trimmed. Or if they wanted any trim at all.