December 23 2011

Nice overcast day in Cherokee Village. JerkyVille. I trimmed numerous cedar, a holly, a redbud, a sassafras, and a tall sweet gum, sixty foot up spikeless, heavy trimming. A neighbor wanted the chips so 4 a small fee we unloaded up the hill a ways.

            Southfork River running sweet made me wanna try out my new wet suit. Put in n Missouri. Run the length of the extraordinary resource waterway. Take out@ Creekside Loft in Hardy. The Loco Moko 40k. The lucky Moko. Salem witchhunt. Saddle Paddle 30k Slick Rock Rockin. Hart2Heart. Toothless Flathead.

            `THE MIKE GRAY BAND takes the stage @ Copper Feather New Years Eve. Panadox will accompany the music with giant screen and video service. This will be fun. The house will be rockin’, so don’t bother knockin’.

December 20 2011

Rain out. Sweet. Time4 some sweet me time. Willow and I may go hiking 2moro! Nature trip. Get away from it all. Get down with wilderness. I’m down with trees and stuff. Maybe we will c an owl! Owls rock. Owls are endangered. They need old growth forest, and there is none. We have chopped the earth's surface into squares, shaping it 2 our merchant whim. Yesterday I saw where an entire forest was bull dozed and burned to keep leaves from blowing n2 the adjacent yard. We would level the Ozarks if possible, straighten all streams,  burn all forest2 establish huge Bermuda grass lawns, where armies of Mexicans could mow in straight lines year round, tiny genteel ladies could sip juleps and curse the lazy greasers, golf carts could bounce over slight wrinkles, and tiny trees could struggle 2 survive many years b4 failing.

            Politicians could argue over the last global oil. Wait. They are doing that now. Adults of the next generation will be shocked 2 learn the concept of recycling. They will be surprised 2 learn that in WWII people recycled 2 win the war, grew hemp2 win the war. They will wonder why seventy years have went by with no main stream mention of these things.

            So the eight ball careens about the table. Some will be squashed, the skinny masses destroyed by pork barrel carts bound for parties of the rich and lucky. The ninety nine percent will have 2 tighten their belts while the one percent gets bail out bonuses. Romney will rent his multi plex cabin in the Hamptons 2 an insider 4 more money per month than many c in a lifetime, but no money will change hands. It’s who u blow.

December 19 2011

Quiet dark night. Fire popping, orange glow. I’ve been working on Panadox, best of LALA. 4 them2 show on tv. Idol. I’m not supposed2 talk about it. Panadox is hard work, whether setting up a large screen video show, or compiling video collages from endless bad footage. Capturing those gems, arraying them… It takes hours, and it’s a roller coaster ride, I laugh and cry. I made a good one 4 CRAIG DUNBAR’s memorial. I made one4 my old guitarist BURN. It showed him partying2 hair metal with every hot chick around in ninety. He went from being the goat of the air force base2 the king. People were crowding into his apartment 2 watch the video. BURN and PILLAGE have gone on2 sell out careers and bullshit marriages.

            This morning was rough and tough ice storm damage in Jonesboro. Hard scrabble spikeless climbing and meticulous trimming of suckery hickories. Also a tall dead red oak, and a nice straight white oak. Hard day on the ridge. Moron tap l8r n the week.

            Blingrich bottoms out. He didn’t want gays2 marry because it is a sacred institution. And third times the charm. Ron Reagan confronted him hand in hand with his buff boyfriend Fab. Ron Paul now the frontrunner. His platform is simply dismantle all forms of government, abolishing all laws and erasing state and national borders. He is a Libertarian disguised as a Repoblican. His son Rand is a weasel. He is the Ben Quayle of empathy.

            Don’t know who’s  been winning NFL. Tim Tebow is a great story. He is like 7 and 1 as a starter this year. The sh*t packers are undefeated. Penn State execs are on the hot seat explaining exactly how much and when they knew about sexual abuse(s). The NBA is back, off strike and dunking and mouthing off. The players were pissed about the no cocaine clause. Owners wanted the younger blackamoors to jump through the hoops, and clean up around their yards on off days. Michael Jordan tweeted, “I had my own shoe logo @ twenty. Show me the endorsements. Wanna buy a Tiger Woods Hooter’s towel?”

            Korea’s Kim Jong dead. His son took over. Maybe this will trigger a pay it back scenario, where north and south Korea unite, or Cuba get’s trash pick up. Jeb Bush denounced the peaceful transfer of power as “UnKorean.” He facebooked, “I have several Koreans. They do my roses full time. And Korean hookers,” he added accidentally, “they lickee long time.”

`December 17 2011

Bright morning in the Ozarks. Quiet. Birds outside. I am warm and safe, sage and tenacious. I will piddle vehement, or play a game with my wonderful great  nieces, I am taking my mother2 Wal Mart, that promises2 b an adventure.

            I’m stripping the motor out of my four wheel drive chevy. Looks like I’ll have2 replace it. My old van is shooting water from the radiator, My other truck has no tail lights. Minor problems when compared with the payments 4 new vehicles. And the insurance.

            Rebel Tree Care on tap Monday and Tuesday, Good2 b back. Welcome Hardly Smash Flat Jerkyville, 2 Rebelriver.com.

December 16 2011

Word. Blue Jays outside 4ever uncertain here as I stoke the fire. 2day promises 2b uneventful and melancholy. Speaking of Collie, A.J. possum killer passed away from eating coyote bait I figure. Paralysis and death. The dog was a prodigy, catching a frisbee or running the obstacle course, A.J. will solve problems in doggy heaven 4ever.

            Blingrich in command. The “no one works in poor neighborhoods,” candidate. The “take a bath” candidate. I’ll find a link 2 catalogue his best quotes. “Whining” Newt. What a piece of smug shit. He needs 2 b flogged with a pistol by a disgruntled third grader. He will quick quote until he fails or not he will fail the people. But the one percent will pull his visible strings and make him dance grotesquely. Like a zombie propelled by cash suspended 4ever just out of reach he will dance or fold as the one percent dictates. I didn’t watch last nights debate, but we’ll c what the pundits and pollsters, panderers and talk drivel pricks say.

            That’s right. I’m baaaack. Pay n bills n kickn it w my mom. Hardly ain’t a bad place. Smash Flat Jerkyville is okay 2. I’m okay, your okay. Warren Peace signing off.

December 15 2011

I’m baaack. Large and in charge. The big nword on the block. Until all my money is gone. Almost surreal how the last couple of weeks has played out exactly as planned. My mother is sassy, Willow Ford welcoming, Debby and Mike happy. LALA is in a final round of Idol, I don’t think I can say much here, suffice it2 say she is do n well. I hear tell of a standing ovation4 her, and JLO has a favorite. Big doings in LALA land.

            So I’m piddling joyously, I am @ one, in a good place, I am living right and kicking ass. I rock my world.

            I need a few days off. Then Rebel Tree Care will march forth and upright into a gum clump on Flathead, then back2 Jonesboogie Rockinsaw4 more. I’ll try now2 line up January, back in the day I would have had it booked by now and working on Feb. This has been hard on me.

Dececmber 13 2011

Memphis is swinging. To the sounds somewhere. Not here. I am serene with friends. Decompression Two massive midtown oaks  less threatening a roof, a solid rick of fire wood 4 the client and a truckload of chips 4 the neighbor. That’s the way u do it.\

            We hit the wall though, I postphoned Jonesboro till next week. Shaves a percentage off the bottom, but that’s the way I deal.

            I will heat my house and shop up. I will ride my bike2 Willow Ford’s. I bought new rain pants and I bought a wet suit. Now I can canoe in the winter and not die if I turn over! This is huge!

            I will begin the process of decompression. I must fall 2 mechanical labors of the self now. Take care of my own. Maintain. Represent. Respect. Recycle…

December 12 2011

Beautiful East Memphis day. I got it up in a huge oak, stripping the old bitch of clingy English Ivy. Then it was storm damage in another massive oak, some slight line clearance of some green patinas I  think. We are dragging a little, wear and tear physically and mentally taking toll. Relationships.

            Then it was over a few streets, a few blocks away, an elm over a house. Meticulous rigging and lowering.

            2moro is  big reductions of two big oaks over a two story house. We have2 haul the chips2. Then it’s on down the line2 Jonesboro, a huge dead red oak and numerous storm damages. Then. It. Will. B. Back. 2. Hardy…

Next time I think I'll bring a canoe. A trip down the Wolf River is long over due. I may not hit Beale or shop4 Christmas presents or anything. The only thing that matters is getting back intact.

December 11 2011

Lack of Communication. 2day was a declining Lakeland gum Looks like four large oaks the next two days.   And some shrubby line clearance. Then depending on the Mississippi estimate over2 Jonesboro. Then maybe2 Fayetteville but not2 work.

            I did a good hard ride to Hooter’s and back. Don’t say anything, my girlfriend reads this blog sometimes I bet…                   Blingrich and Rumney will non battle to hoarseness,  neither willing2 commit an emotion or empathy lest it be seized upon to drum a candidate out of contention, ala Howard Dean. Gore won, but his robotic stoicness was unbecoming 2 nauseating , just as polls predicted, he barely beat Bush, whittling close enough that Bush stole Florida. Osama Bin Lauden put the plan in place two months later when Bush was certified as the winner. Same thing in 04, after Draft dodging Bush attacked War hero Kerry as a coward, Cheney and Diebold swindled Ohio’s popular vote rigging  many local elections nationwide in the process. I remember the night Dan Ashcroft lost 2 Mel Carnahan’s wife, Mel u remember was Ashcroft’s opponent 4 Missouri Governor, who mysteriously died in an ‘accidental”  plane crash just b4 the election, anyway Ashcroft was screaming in rage on Missouri radio , I swear it sounded like Hitler, something about voter fraud, and how he would see that whoever perpetrated the voter fraud would be prosecuted  vigorously and  zealously. Evil crazy screaming that night b4 anyone knew about dangling chads and other preppies, next thing I know he is the attorney General. Then, a week after nine eleven, the commercials, if you know somebody that smokes pot, you are a terrorist. The emporer wears no clothes. The many headed beast. Peace.

December 10 2011 

Hard ride down I40 ends peaceful and warm in Memphis. A warm bed has been hard on me 2 find the last few days, camping in the van is the rule lately. As long as I have a working electric outlet within one hundred feet I got it. Traffic was one lane 4 many miles around the White River. Sucked.

            2day once again I spent the day many feet aloft, this time removing two Jacksonville Loblollys. Rough and tough over houses. I am skilled yo. Rebel Tree Care.

            Last night was WHITE COLLAR CRIMINALS @ Dugan’s downtown. First though we hit Kregan’s in Argenta(North Little Rock) and checked out PUDDIN HEAD. That was hip enough, but I wanted loudness. JOEL the lead singer of WHITE COLLAR CRIMINALS ran the show with talented voice and witty front man stuff. JOEL rocks. Great band.

            So 2moro it’s a mountain bike ride, checking on some jobs, Rehab. Working till dark then heading over here has spent me. I am taxed. But I am poor. Take our country back. Critical Mass.

December 9 2011

Sweet ride in the Rock. Hillcrest. I went up the hill 2 University on Cantrell and Kavanaugh, jetted down the big hill. Glorious romp. I hit Bossa Nova. Brazilian food. I mean I almost stopped@ The Afterthought mostly cos I used2 work there, really wanted2 hit U.S. Pizza cos I been crave n U.S. Pizza. Nice ride this early Friday Evening. Hillcrest, where the word vegan doesn’t evoke smirks.

            Once again I spent most of the morning over sixty feet in West Little Rock Loblolly’s. Reduction pruning near a house. Spikeless as always. Rough and tough. But 2moro in Jaxon ville I’ll strap on the spikes, removing 4 loblolly’s, unless I talk them out of it.

            Congress voted the EPA down on some farm dust bill. I’m no expert on these doings, but little mention is made of contaminated farm runoff into streams. On the same day fracking fluid from gas wells is confirmed in drinking water. The natural gas industry will discredit and destroy reputations and testimony of dutiful scientists, it is all some left wing devil stoner myth that our water is being polluted by God fearing  Ben Cartwtights and Victoria Barkley’s. Meanwhile twenty seven NATO fuel tankers torched in Afganistan yesterday.

            2nite it’s WHITE COLLAR CRIMINALS. At Dugan’s Or doogans. Beale Street is call n my name though. It’s over2 Mfis soon.

December 8 2011

Quiet night in Hillcrest. Way tired. I spent most of the day far aloft, eighty, ninety feet up a couple of times in West Little Rock loblolly’s, fifty and sixty in white oaks. Reductions over houses. Also maples. Way rough and tough 2day. Long day. Did I say I was tired. 2moro it’s more of the same, two more way tall loblolly's near a house and a removal. The guy dealt with my dad in the Auto parts industry 4 years. Now he is the father in law of a woman who was married 2 a child hood friend of mine. I just met a woman from Pocahontas, a child hood friend of a cherished friend, and EL BUHO. Small world. RUNAWAY PLANET. I dated the wife of the drummer of WEAKNESS FOR BLONDES in the day. The lead singer of  WHITE COLLAR CRIMINALS and I remember people from Murray Park. I don’t want 2 incriminate anyone here. And they say if u remember it u weren’t really there.

          Big jobs, big trees coming up two more days here in central Arkansas. Time to bear down. Stand under?

December 7 2011

Snow. I awake2 an inch or two of powder frozen2 tops of all branches I assume city wide. Most likely won’t work 2day. I have some daunting tasks in front of me. Ariel pine work. Serious shtuff.

            I do hope4 a mountain bike blast through downtown again. My ex drummer is in town with his wife from Hardy. I don’t know if it’s about the hate bombing or what. Ex Con. Drummer. Explosive combination.

            So my trailer sits in some lonely cold driveway. I am in the van outside my intern’s cousin’s house. They do some drywalling an investment house just off 630 when it’s not raining so it’s not a total loss.

            Traffic on Lee zips by. General Lee I’ll wager. Last night I heard geese honking a lot.  Then u got acorn and snow clumps falling. Beautiful creeks with twinkling white water falls decorate West Little Rock yesterday as creeks greened up after the flooding, but still sit or rapid flow and fall@ medium 2 high water. Princess High Water.

            So a good old romp in the Rock.  I may circle Alltell  arena just2 say that I was in North Little Rock. The pedestrian bridge@ the Bill Clinton Library is really nice. Beats the hell out of Broadway Bridge. Broadway bridge must have been built@ a time when politicians were trying2 destroy bicycles. Progress  Hmm.

            In the day on my little Fuji ten speed Broadway or Main either one weren’t a problem. I even hode over the railroad bridge. Bridges have glass, as a younger man with a lighter bike I rode out with traffic more, now I prefer sidewalks but bridges have broken glass where drinkers throw bottles. Or syringes in the case of the Wolf River bridge on Summer Avenue in Mfis.

            I may ride the Big Dam Bridge. The longest pedestrian bridge in the World. That is a nice trip. So it’s quit stalling and ride. Let’s roll. Just Do it. Saddle up Pardner. Now just how big a fella r u?  There is one trail in the area I never rode. It is a mountain bike trail that plunges straight down from Hillcrest to Lower Cantrell. An acquaintance in the eighties had a big  black robust dog, the black bearded, bright eyed adventurer would take two hits of Acid and plunge with his dog down the trail off toward Murray.

            OK no more foreplay. Time 2 quit stalling. Peace.

I did it! Hard tooling n2 North Little Rock this cold bright day. Blagoyevich sentenced 2 fourteen years. About right. Gov Beebe signed a law relaxing the pot laws. The Hardy Race Bombers pleaded guilty@ the last minute once they saw that everybody showed up. I ate Brazilian food 4 the first time! Lookn 4ward2 some good Rebel Tree Care 2moro.

December 6 2011

Hard ride winds down so quiet in Hillcrest. I went up to the old Kroger and ate a decent meal for five bucks. People watching. I never used 2 b a people watcher, I was watched. Now I chill a little, patient, enjoying the little things. When I am tired it is easier. And I am. I did a ride up the hill 2 loosen up, that worked. There is sleet and rain in the area, but that doesn’t deter me.

            This morning the rain finally let up so I got into a maple very near a house, reducing, removing a trunk over the house with included bark, same thing with a sprawling Bradford.

            Then it over2 another location, another Bradford pear over the house, a stout white oak over the house. Reducing… My version of proper pruning.

            Things are rolling nicely. I’m collecting coin of the realm, Work keeps snowballing, it’s back 2 Jacksonville Saturday after three more hard days here in the Rock, and then it’s Mfis and Jonesboro, then work awaite in Cherokee Village. Rebel Tree Care. On tour. I’ll ride this crazy train till it bucks me off.

            Huntsman flip flops on Global Warming. He immediately recorded an upswing in the polls from three 2 four percent.

December 5 2011

Rain. Heavy. Consistent. I mean yesterday we needed a day off after five hard days straight. So Sunday was tooling around, lining up stuff, I keep getting more work, and that’s good but this rain is  wack.  We were going 2 work in the rain 2day if it was not 2 hard, but it is sheeting.

            Saturday nite was THE MEANIES.  Awesome band. All hard edged hair metal done exactly like the originals. My attractive date and I took JOEL of WHITE COLLAR CRIMINALS, we all moshed and screamed with a great crowd. What? Loudness @ West End.

            So the Hogs r n the Cotton Bowl. Yay.

            I went on a mountain bike romp through downtown late yesterday, tooling in the rain, checked out the tent city of Protesters in Occupy Little Rock. In D.C. they tried 2 erect shelter, but we’re arrested.

            So if it slacks off I’ve a maple reduction and also a Bradford reduction 2day or 2moro, then plenty of hard stuff b4 skipping bail 2 mympho.

            Snags on solar power development. I have a hunch it’s billionaire powers that be that resent China making alternative fuel and power available 2 poor people. Our government pledged 2 cooperate with them on this, but now we’re not. Trump and Boner toasted in a secret skull and bones ceremony, “they need2 quadruple that price,” they laughed, “that’s 2 damn cheap,” Trump slammed a fist2 the table, “people will be building towers with these panels, it’s un-American.” Cantor tweeted, “this can’t go down, if Big Coal slips a percentage my whole portfolio will crumble.” Rick Perry howled @ a frat party, “ “Next thing u know they’ll make cars 4 solar power. And then where would Texas be?” Michelle Bachman facebooked, “worshipping the sun is evil.” Hunstman told a sparse crowd that China should strive2 “be like Americans. They are wasteful and inefficient, but not yet near our level of sophisticated waste, greed and inefficiency. Those yellow slant eyes have a ways 2 go.”

December 3 2011 

The Rock continues. Rough and Tough on Colonel Glenn. I don’t know who Colonel Glenn was, Civil War, some other war, War of 1812? That was the hemp war, France and the United States and England fighting over the flotsam and jetsam left from the New Madrid Earthquakes. And other stuff.

            This morning I got into some huge oaks, reducing, trimming larger branches over houses. Also a gum under wires. The snow ball is rolling, much more on tap here, Mfis and Jonesboogie await.

            December 2 2011

Hard ride in Little Rock resting easy this dark night. Early I was into Numerous Bradford pears reducing, trimming major branches 2ward houses and parking, streets etc.  they were largish, and had been topped a few years ago, so I was extra busy taking some of the stubs off. Huge amounts of chips on two locations. The trees look nice now, clients well pleased. Looks like I may have clients on Westchester 4 years 2 come. Kind of like Vine Grove in Cordova.

            Bradfords need attention often. Especially when they have been topped. Topping is against ANSI standard. 4 good reason. There is a better way. I have it. Trees have biological systems. Don’t ignore science. There is no debate by any legitimate source. The only people who tell u spikes don’t hurt trees and topping is good are the chumps who prey on unsuspecting clients by doing discredited, nonstandard hack work. Look into it.

            I’m just gettn started here. I have a solid week of largish jobs. And over n Mfis I have steady clients chompn @ the bit. Rebel Tree Care. Ethical. Informed. Consistent…

    Last nite was first thursday of the month in Hillcrest. My old neighborhood hummed with hip shoppers and revelers. I tooled about on my bike or walked it, slightly out of sync with traffic and flow. 2nite it's chillaxin @ tha  crib. Good night.

December 1 2011

It’s on. Little Rock hums with purpose this rush hour. The lower heights are quiet and busy, my old neighborhood flushes random memories. Love won and lost. Basketball. I’m relaxing b4 I take a mountain bike blast. 2day was a tall west Little Rock pine over a pool, a cherry over a fence, and an oak over the pool2. I tied in the pine about sixty feet up, spikeless as always, making proper reduction cuts. An adjacent pine was supposed 2 b done next, and I prepare lines and ladders, but there was structural defect, the beast was bent weirdly, I just didn’t like the situation. So we’re reevaluating. 2moro is numerous trims and removal of Bradford pears and pruning several crepe myrtles. Rebel Tree Care. We Rock.

November 29 2011

Hard ride eases down b4 dusk. Last night there was a blizzard, I didn’t really think I’d end up working 2day. But we got a full day in, removing large and small oak, hickory redbud, elm… I also trimmed a cedar. Chumps had preyed on this client, United Methodist Church of Cherokee Village. Improper pruning abounded, several rounds of it over the years. I have hurriedly pointed it out when delivering packages 4 UPS over the years, or when I’m helping set up a wedding(Petals n Lace). I did help them with weeping cherry’s out front, didn’t even charge them. But I got a nice job done 4 them, thanks 2 friends at the Spring River Area Chamber of Commerce.

            A little detailing in the morning then it’s getting ready 4 Little Rock. I have lots 2 do there, it should be a good week, then it’s over2 Memphis Tennessee 4 a few jobs, then it’s Jonesboro. Rebel Tree Care. Needed.

            My brother Rodney showed with a big trailer. He filled that up with firewood twice. Kemper was on the job2.

            So it’s off 2 sweetness. I will c Willow Ford b4 I head out. And hopefully after. Peace. Alan.

November 28 2011

Cold. Windy. Snowy. Time4 a Wal Mart trip. Get road ready. Lunch with Mom. I want 2c her as much as possible, so she won’t get depressed while I’m away. My sister and brother c her 2, but they have busy family lives, and their hustle and bustle doesn’t suit mom well. I  am laid back.

            2moro I won’t b so laid back, as I have numerous dead trees 2 remove, Largish job 4 me. I’ve got Rodney coming w the trailer 2 get the wood, there will be much. Hazards abound, Gazebos, sacred walking paths, reflection gardens, other trees, parking lots, streets, wires, poles… I like it cold. It’ll b fun. And I get paid!

            Haven’t seen the news or checked Yahoo. So I don’t have any humorless rants and obtuse commentary. Rest assured I will bring my barbed wit soon, lampooning the whales and Donald. Charlie Sheen will feel my wrath also. He’s not the only one wearing assless chaps right now. Peace.

November 27 2011

Bitter cold. Well not bitter, more like disgruntled. I have hot fires going,

Did u c where a Russian news reporter or anchor flipped Obama the bird. This is huge. The Russians, the communists, hate Obama. The republicans hate Obama. That means the republicans are socialists. Limbaugh is strangely quiet on this.

            Cantor was supposed to have plan In place 2day. He made a great show, heaving a stack of bound papers2 plop them down in front of Pelosi. He claimed2 have worked on it all night. Pelosi ran in fear upon opening the bundle, as it was 809 pages of penis drawings.

             Friday night was sweet night of the MIKE GRAY BAND. LALA took over, wailing strong and pretty, dancing or fighting in true Copper Feather form. I was Designated Driver, so kept it under the limit. Dancing a lot helps that, I also played numerous ladies in pool. I shoot real easy, so sometimes the ball doesn’t drop, just teeter at the edge, ready4 an easy shot2 knock it in. So my partner often has several gimme shots, and this peps a drunk chick up quick. CLAY (0ur cousin) wailed onstage with harmonica.

            I skipped it last night 4 quality time w Willow Ford.

I think I’m taking the old van2 Little Rock and Memphis. Take it easy on my canoe van. I have lots of jobs lined up starting real soon in Little Rock, Mississippi, Memphis, and Jonesboro. I like the old Ford, it’s got comfortable captains chairs, and turns shorter, but is less acceptable in nicer parking lots and neighborhoods. But I have a dirty job, my people aren’t going2 judge me on my van, only my work. And Rebel Tree Care always passes inspection. ANSI standard. Savior of this sorry industry.

November25 2011

Sweet Melancholy morning. The Razorback nation assembles. The Cajun crazies, fans of LSU, will be drunk this morning, spitting on the Hogs, throwing cans and bottles upon them walking from  the bus. The Razorbacks will beat them, u heard it here, yet in a profound lack of respect 4 Arkansas, the computer will somehow rank them lower than they are now. The BCS system has solved nothing. There are just as many controversies as b 4 as to rankings and bowl matchups, etc. GOTO endlesssportsdrivel.com 4 all the up2date washed up has been convoluted reasonings, reasonings, predictions, explanations and voice therapy.

            Meanwhile soldiers and civilians die in Afghanistan. LADY GAGA performs while starving Somalian tribes battle 2 the death with machetes.

            Beautiful thanksgiving on Turtle Island. Many of my nieces and cousins. CORY and CLAY did  a show, banjo and harmonica. I sold more tree jobs. December is booking up tight. Nice.

            2nite it’s the MIKE GRAY BAND @ Copper Feather in Cherokee Village Arkansas. This promises 2b a great show. And if we get lucky LALA will show her pretty face, unleash that voice of Spring River. I have some AUDIO SLAVE   I want her2 listen2, whenever I hear something with incredible vocals I turn her on2 it. She sings BLACK LABEL SOCIETY with me. I lubbee me some LALA.

This photo shows a huge problem with cattle production. In otder2 maximize hay production, or 2 have a purdy view, ranchers on Spring, Strawberry, Southfork and Eleven Point Rivers, and most others nationwide not under federal protection take their fields 2 the waters edge. They will not listen2 pleadings by environmentalists, instead attacking the Environmental Protection Agency, seeking it's destruction. 4 these and many other reasons I call 4 a boycott on beef. Break the industry down and do away with it. Let environmentally friendly crops and riparian zones grow on stream sides 2 prevent erosion and eliminate our number one source of pollution: BEEF!

November 23 2011

Naked I gloriously blog. Thorn in the sides of uptight, upright, upholders of the white wash. Establishmentarianism. Nice morning cutting, removing a dead red oak near a garage and cutting stumps4 aesthetics. We also generated a good pile of mulch ready2 go. Laid back, feet on the ground job. Flash flooding has hit the last couple of days, creeks are still singing good. I like that.

            Getting a lot done@ home and a broad. WARREN PEACE(ME) has been jamming, uh oh, I said has been. This is hard on me. Uh oh, I said hard on. I am so ready4 December in Little Rock and Memphis. Good jobs lined up, Christmas money 2 b had.

            I thought of a new stage name. It is the Mexican word 4 here or present. Ah-Key. Say it. Ah Key. I like2 say Ah Key almost as I like 2 say assless chaps. Tasteless joke, no but here’s a tasteless condom.

            So celebrate the extermination of Native Cultures this Thursday. The use of Germ warfare to waltz into material wealth, the use of bigger weapons, bigger bombs, the use of hypocrisy and political double speak, of manifest destiny, imperial ambitions, division and inequity. Where else but in America can a can gathering hermit live like a Saudi Sultan?

November 22 2011

Wow. Just got my technical difficulties fixed. Easier than I thought. What a sweet run these few days since last I blogged. Ozark Mountain Biking. Muddin. Deer. Geese. Armadillos. Birds. It has rained much lately, a couple nice three inch or so systems. I’ve got many weeks of firewood stocked. I have projects advancing smoothly. My Mother and brother and his family and I r 2 head down2 Bono 4 thanksgiving. Sweet cherished Rie/Davis family gathering. Winds move about outside this late evening, wind chimes busy now, leaves and acorns swirling.

            “Whining” Newt Gingrich poses and postures in pseudo intellectual innuendo and duality, ambiguous and vague, Blingrich stands upright and straightforward 4 all that is wrong.

            Arkansas in number 3 now, they take on number 1 LSU Friday at 1:30.

            I trimmed a cedar. I have a removal 2moro, a dead oak leans over a garage. I renewed my insurance 4 the twentieth year in a row. Congratulations 2 Hardy Insurance 4 partnering with me all twenty of those years.

            Did u c where the security cops pepper strayed those non violent students doing nothing more than sitting and locking arms. Boy do those pompous fascists pigs need a good ass kicking from a tough hippy.

            Greece in financial trouble, Italy. England has this huge poverty problem. We are pulling out of Iraq, poised 2 occupy Iran or South Africa. Boner was caught off camera giving insider tips 2 Boeing, “if u guys get that new drone built we’ll do Iran. But I think if it’s Lockheed’s version I may take that to Korea because Cantor has a line on this new napalm that you can’t c.”

            TAYLOR SWIFT wins big at the AMA. Boy can she look surprised. I bet she slept with someone. It’s who you blow. I guess I’m old school, but everything seems wimpy2 me. We need a SLASH, or maybe a LEMMY from MOTORHEAD, and OZZY, or JESSE JAMES DUPREE from JAKKYL.

            I have been gorging on deer meat. Eating lots of it. I do watermelon in the summer and deer meat in the winter. I inherit strength and stamina from the animal. A wild spirit is transferred. I almost OD’d on shrooms one night. I dig AUDIO SLAVE.

            Thus we hurtle through space and time continuing. We waddle 2 our shiny metal boxes and we ride high and mighty like Alexander the Great or Cleopatra, we float along at high speed with our cell phones and stress. We heard that others die so we can have gas, but we do not conserve unless we are out of money. Will not modify only justify. We are the many headed beast of Revelations. We are the War Machine, the Ghetto Scene, Naked Emperor, militant cripple, sexless whore, cold slut, super imposed on neighbor hood rear views, drink holders ready, we buy cosmetics, diet pills, breast enhancement, teeth whitening, liposuction, collagen injections…Ride a bike.

            A lady somewhere posed as a doctor and actually put plaster and fix a flat into other people. That. Is. Not. A. Joke. She cut a deal with a jailer secretary 4 huge boobs and rock hard abs.

November 11 2011

Bright breezy day in the Urban Forest of Cherokee Village. At a very prominent location, we got a small oak out of the way first, then a big leaning ash. It felt like a Monday, rocky, viny slopes, dull saw, throw ball mishaps… Soon we were sharp and efficient, while my unpaid intern chipped brush I trimmed chinkapin oak over the roof, a clump of white oak needed a hackberry removed and lower branches or extra trunks thinned, a redbud needed a quick prune, and several Russian olives got facelifted and tucked and trimmed, removing volunteer mimosa and cherry also. Nice Rebel Tree Care morning.

            So we careen about the table. I am mulling my options 4 Little Rock and Memphis, should I take a van or truck, trailer or stripped down version? I am preparing2 take the motor out of the 4x4, I want2 save the good van4 canoeing next summer, the more I trim trees with it the greater the chance of catastrophic failure.

            2nite is Highland vs. Nashville. Rebels/Scrappers. Nuff said. I hope 2C Willow2. MIKE and Debby r gone 2C LALA, it’s her birthday, she heads2 Hollywood soon. They are going 2C BLUE OYSTER CULT. It’s probably the bass player and some new guys. Some of their stuff is classic, though, and they play a flute.

            Hot shower time. The wind chimes r sounding off, Birds and squirrels stocking up. Wind of late is stripping  trees quickly, new views open up, stark new landscapes, brighter sun. All the better reason2 wear cool shades. Hey, when your future is so bright===u gotta wear shades.

November 10 2011

Blog fifty. Tired. Quiet this late night in Highland. Fire popping, glowing orange. Many miles of hard Ozark hills under my belt the last two days. Over forty miles I’ll wager, through frosty dale and sunny crest, nice work out has me rock hard tired. Plus I got into a huge uprooted white oak, Did I say I was tired?

            Joe Paterno fired. Jo Pa let us down. He helped cover up abused children 4 the sake of his corporate image. C ya. Rick Perry couldn’t remember which government agencies he would shut down. Dumb ass.

            2moro I have a big ash over a building. And some Japanese style pruning of Russion olive etc… Nature’s way. Wise. Common sensible. Uncommon.

            Highland opens up the state playoffs 2moro nite. Beevis and Butthead were barred from the school grounds after it was revealed that they monkey wrenched the scoreboard and lights in Salem their first freshman year in 94. Still freshmen, they have been implicated in numerous shenanigans but oddly never convicted. The list of near misses is long. Mr. Sublett reviewed the probable but not proven allegations and notified campus security to bar them forcibly if needed. Beevis was seen at Red Mule with a long black trenchcoat and cup of cappuccino.

November 9 2011

Wow. Crazy cold wind this morning. Last night was a couple inches of hard rain. Tree are dancing and stripping their leaves. Fall is officially here. I plan2 ride a couple dozen hard windy Ozark miles2 Willow Ford this afternoon. It will b fun.

            Big storm poised2 slam Alaska. Tropical storm hitting Bermuda and the East Coast. Storm of protest in Ohio. The Republican governor was contrite and sheepish as he acknowledged the huge loss he suffered when the ninety nine percent voted his union busting bill down. Off camera he made a masturbatory gesture 2 a television, calling up a Kock brother2 plan his next moves. “Planting violent protestors is not working, that just uses up our cops and then they want decent pay.” He quietly invested in a rubber bullet company.

            Crazy winds outside. Riding will rock 2day. I have2 piddle hard a while, I have already taken me mum2 the grocery store. I have vehicles2 maintain, A home2 tighten up.

            I am the recipient of three huge Rebel Flags left in my van by teenagers. I want2 set them up and watch them fly 2day. The Rebels play Nashville(Arkansas, from down by Texarkana) Friday night @ home. We played them the year we won it all. Joey Westmoreland and the O7 Rebs ended a good run down there. Lotsa blacks. I wear my bandana TUPAC style for many years now, that night one lone black kid tailed me a ways as I walked alone through the parking lot, “say bra,” he ventured,  I stopped, “you a blood?” I smiled, “nah.”

November 8 2011

Rain out. Sweet. I barely got the tools 2 a dry place it burst upon me so fast. Now my gear is warm and dry in it’s metal box. Even my gear has a metal box. Speaking of metal box, I need2 play Mr. Alvarez. Tommy Delay will be set2 eleven. Doctor Behringer will be in house. I may plug Mister J.B,  Player in. There are no drums set up in my shop anymore, so I have taken2 roaming the riser. Freedom. Drummers are dumb. I hit the strings of my bass extra hard to give perfect percussion, drummers invariably don’t know my songs. Except Cyclops. Drummers love that one if they have any balls.

            So it’s the grocery store wit me mum. Fire up the metal box. I rode late last night after Monday Night Football, really felt nice streaking2 Red Mule in the warm November night. Well, not streaking. That would get me arrested, and you don’t go far in Highland without seeing a cop. We have one cop per person in the Hardly Smashed Flat JerkyVille area.

            There are more constables, auxiliary policemen, deputies, troopers, wardens, rangers, marshals, “firemen,” etc. than normal citizens. Don’t get me wrong, these are good things in general, but then u got these narcs, scumbags who got busted4 drugs so go around begging everybody4 drugs 2 get those people in trouble, under pressure from the Drug Task Force they lie and steal from any friend or family they have left. These people under the eyes of law and policy are policemen.

            Acorns hit the roof like gun shots. Birds chirp and chortle. I keep the blue jay population in check and keep a feeder full4 the birds. Especially this time of year and colder. It’s really nice in the ice and snow when other birds show up.

            Obama says vote4 the Unions. Ohio is voting 2day on overturning an anti union measure passed by the new Repoblican governor elected a year ago. There was this huge tide of Republicans voted in last year, but they got drunk with power and overstepped themselves. They have awakened a sleeping giant. The American. The ninety nine percent. We rule them. They don’t tell us 2 cut our hair and pay a cover charge4 walking down the street anymore. We. Have. Had. Enough.

            Over grow the government. Did u c where Rand Paul tried2 kill Bike lanes? It was odious. He wanted2 cut funding 4 Bicycle Lanes. How backward thinking is that. He’s a shill/whore 4 coal. Big Coal wants bicyclers shot just on principle. And not just the anal ones in Spandex. The bums2. The alcoholics getting2 work@ dawn. Children on bikes. Big Coal would like to Death Race 2000 them in a Cadillac with those killing spiral spikes that jut out from the hubs. Lotta points Bicyclers.

November 7 2011

I’m baaack. Rompin n stompin. Rough and tough on Southfork River. The good life. God’s country. Fine fine folks on steep Ozark slopes flush with crimson dogwood and white oak. We dropped a bunch of dead hickory and ash. Basically that’s it. But of the half dozen or so we dropped, each had certain obstacles, mainly dogwoods. Beautiful dogwoods dotted the slopes, we were loathe 2 damage even a branch. So tree removal becomes tree care. Also I got way up in a big white oak, proper pruning. Spikeless of course. Huge difference. Rebel Tree Care.

            Haven’t checked Yahoo or Facebook so I don’t have any ranting or raving right now. Just know that I am back, I am alive and kicking, I am available4 free consultations concerning tree work. I have a large part of December booked in Little Rock and Memphis. Get some Christmas money up.

            I really shouldn’t rag on politicians so much here, many of my customers or ex customers may take offense. But I gotta be me. I was losing jobs 2 short haired chumps anyway. May as well let everyone hear about it. It’s not that I am so great, although I am very good. It’s that the others are very bad. Most don’t meet the minimum standard of Quality. But if you want hack work, malpractice, nonstandard work, if that is what u want, then they will do what u want.

            Time4 a bike ride. I plan2 get in shape. Two years ago I had the stomach of a teenage athlete. Now I don’t. but don’t count me out. I am resilient. I am irrepressible. We shall overcome. I’m underwhelmed.

November 6, 2011

Dday. Pearl Harbor. Good movie. What a night last night in Little Rock. I squired a beautiful woman about town. We bar hopped. First it was Markham bar and grill a bunch of crazy Razorback fans packed the house. And the hogs delivered, defeating top ten South Carolina Gamecocks handily. I won’t repeat some of the jokes about the Game Cocks. EXIT 111 took the stage while number 1 LSU  squeeked out an overtime victory against Number 2 Alabama. I didn’t realize using Kumho tires got super models2 leap upon u in lust. Then we bounce to Kaleel’s, where Karaoke folks tore it up surprisingly not bad. But West End found us rocking out frontstage2 THE GETTY’S. We stood and danced many songs, I was the lone male in the middle of a couple dozen hot women and one pissed off newlywed. We joyously bounced till it was over.,then bounced outa there. Sweet night in Little Rock. All is well as my ears ring the new day in.

            Back2 Hardly Smash Flat Jerky Ville 2moro via Jacksonville. The sweetness I know beckons4 me.

            Herman Cain denied denying not knowing he knew about sexual allegations. “I ain’t no fag ya’ll” he said outside a strip club, “but I git mine, ya know what I’m sayin’ Yo. Yeah I hit it. And gave her the raise I promised. Tit4tat. Next question.”

            Liz Cheney whimpered, “he promised me the Vice Presidency if I gave him sex.” She wiped runny black mascara from both cheeks, her blonde hair matted and tangled, “and  I did it with all my self. I gave him all, as a woman should. He made me gay. I will never take a man again.”

            Rick Perry bottomed out in the polls after making a facial expression. He loosened up and had fun in a speech, dooming his campaign.

November 5 2011

Hard ride in Little Rock. I got all over my adopted area, talking2 homeowners I found in yards of potential jobs. I did sell a job4 December, I have another here, and several in Memphis. I don’t often knock on doors or cold call, I have never needed2. But I’m trying2 break into a new market here, they don’t know me like the Memphis folks, hopefully they soon will. I’ll be hitting the gun show @ Jacksonville 2moro, and may take it on home. I have work waiting there, I’m ready 2 ride all winter and get in shape for next summer. I enjoy riding. It saves money in gas, and gets me healthy. Nuff said.

            Games 2nite. The Number seven Hogs take on number nine south Carolina. Number one LSU takes on number 2 Alabama. Number one versus number two. Sounds like a Jackass movie. Peace.

November 4 2011

Quiet in the Hillcrest area. I lived here four years in the eighties. It hasn’t changed a bit. Pizza D’Action still great food. I went on another monster ride 2day, heading downtown, crossing the Broadway bridge again, again heading down the North Little Rock River trail. This time I moved north across I40, all the way to Macarthur 4 lunch, then back 2 Burns park 4 a round of frisbee golf. It’s a challenging sport, I shot over par I think, had no mojo on putts, often shooting 4 the wrong hole. Whatever. Then it was a return trip all the way 2 to the Clinton Presidential Library, All through the downtown area again. Again I was dragging. Again I am spent, Again I will sleep the sleep of the ginger bread man.

            So many choices. The Greeks are reeling, They have the oldest government after China, they may fail from old age. China and Russia are hacking us. Boner stated that he would send cyber marines in2 begin a cyber ground war. Freddie Mac loses Six Billion in a quarter. One analyst wishing 2 remain anonymous tweeted, “they lost the money from the bailout and investors. But paid five billion in bonuses.”  Repoblicans block the infrastructure jobs bill because it contained a micro percentage of taxes on the very wealthy. Boner said on Face book,”I can’t c giving Obama help w the budget if he doesn’t agree2 dismantling social security. Tit help w the budget if he doesn’t agree2 dismantling social security. Tit4tat. Let’s get this thing done.” He marched downtown with a sign: “occupy the Middle East Now.”

November 3 2011

            Hard ride in Little Rock. Big ride. I am spent. I started way out Colonel Glenn, zigging and zaggin north through nice neighborhoods and newish developments of industry and retail. All the way2 Cantrell Highway 10. and beyond. A glorious romp down 2 the Arkansas River was sweet. I hit the bridge over the Little Maumelle River, the Big Dam Bridge over the Arkansas River. Big water. Big wind. I tooled along in North lIttle Rock some time, crossing over the Broadway bridge 2 limp slowly through Down town Little Rock. I got a ride back.

            Massive ride in Central Arkansas. 2moro is another ride all over, but 2nite is old friends WEAKNESS FOR BLONDES. In my old neighborhood. See Hacky Statement.

November 2 2011

            Rockin the Rock. Hangin w/ WHITE COLLAR CRIMINALS. JOEL. I’ve got my bikes tuned, I am rip roarin’ and ready 2 hit the trails. I rock. This2 will rock. I’ll keep u posted.

November 1 2011

Hard ride  over.  The day is downright warm now. But early this chill morning I squeezed into a driveway on Iroquois Drive. I went up up on side of a dead post oak and lopped a few large branches off, then abandoned that one till later. A large squat blackjack was dead, spread all over the house. Traffic wizzed briskly just out of range of the truck pulling the beast over. Soon it lay defeated, then the laborious process of chipping and cutting it up 4 wood began, then we dropped the first oak on top of that. Chipping was very near the wizzing traffic. It was a Monday 4 me, but now it is over. Nice day in Cherokee Village. Jerkyville. Lunch @ China Garden was rewarding, the royal treatment from pretty Chinese girls. They  like me, they just won’t admit it.

           Government sues mortgage lender. I hope this is a trend.  These particular money changers took advantage of HUD. That’s why they were anti abortion, so they could get money from all the unwed mothers. Unwed fathers filed a class action suit against them, citing sexual bias in favoritism for contracts. Unwed uncles also filed, and divorced aunties. Gotta go.

            Did u c where the elections 4 judges are funded by conservative foundations? The War Machine is smart. There is not a Hardball or Rachel Maddow 4 back woods states and counties. Not enough  policy warriors 2 make sense of it all. I read a book called the Emperor Wears no Clothes back in the early nineties. It detailed the collusion of big industries to demonize Hemp. Dupont, maker of nylon and chemicals, he stood to gain the most. We can no no longer make rope as we have 4 centuries, even millennia. We must buy nylon. Hearst and his newspapers would not need 2 use trees if they made paper from hemp. Dioxin, a glue used to bond wood fiber is not needed in Hemp paper as it makes it’s own glue. Bleach is not needed in hemp paper as it is 4 wood. Forestry contracts would be changed. Cattle ranchers would have competition 4 use of fields. Lawyers would have lesser case loads, some  judges would not even be needed, a massive prison system, massive domestic war on drugs could be scaled back. Bankers were in the room the night they did this, they knew that the miracle fiber hailed one month b4 on the cover of Popular Mechanics magazine as the savior of the family farm could hurt their bottom lines, disrupt the system of foreclosure and corporate take overs of family farms. Big coal and Big Oil were in the room, hemp can reduce our dependence on these companies for heating oil and fuel. Big Pharmaceuticals were in the room, Medical Marijuana would  decrease their profit by easing simple ailments as it had for thousands of years. Alcohol and cigarettes knew the truth, that their products kill millions every year, and Marijuana does not kill, can not kill, has never killed. Pot does not cause domestic violence, there is very little cancer causing agent.  Fear mongers and Army recruiters didn’t like pot, it produces a feeling of peacefulness and well being. You can build cars with hemp, Big steel would have none of that, You can build houses with hemp, make concrete with hemp, Big contractors joined the secret crusade. One doctor made the midnight session, he pointed out that the plant was very important and needed, but local drug task force agents from around the country testified that pot made negros and Mexicans rape white women and laugh at authority. Later in World war II it was briefly relegalized 2 produce products that helped us win the war. Then, the propaganda was, it makes u lazy and pacifist, we needed Nazi killers. Hearst and his system of newspapers nation wide fed this false hysteria. Hearst has grown and conglomerated in2 Gannet, controlling ninety five percent of what we read in newspapers or watch on tv. Manufacturing Consent. You can feed the poor with porridge of ground hemp seeds, one of the purest essential fatty protein foods in the world. Even the bird seed  people hated hemp because it was such efficient and inexpensive bird food. Hemp fields control erosion, decades of river pollution could have been filtered and slowed before it made our rivers dangerous and created dead zones in our oceans. Hemp needs no fertilizers, little maintenance. One German man saw what destruction of his beloved black forest in Germany was doing 2 rivers there. To promote hemp use he invented a machine, also featured in Popular Mechanics one month before the midnight session, but he disappeared. One blue print was found  decades later. All of this is unchallenged truth, no one has ever debunked the Emperor Wears no Clothes even though a standing reward exists for anyone who disproves even part of this story. Pretty big story, never reported on television as far as I know. Hmmm.

            Think I’m crazy? Look into yourself. Or F U. Think we’re free? We can’t make rope. We can’t carry a sacred pipe 4  medical, religious or recreational purpose, it makes us one with the universe, but 2 cops, jailers, judges, lawyers, etc,,, it’s a forty year felony.

October 31 2011

Nice day in Arkansas. Shooting guns. Four wheeling. Hiking. Thinking. I had a postponement on this mornings job. Life is sunny. Uless you’re Cher. Or Chaz. U remember Chaz? That crazy bastard bitch, Poor thing got eliminated from Dancing With the Stars. He/She immediately filed a transsexual discrimination law suit.

            Charlie Sheen was seen in Assless chaps on Hollywood boulevard. Lindsay Lohan had a pair of assless chaps on backwards. She sipped starbucks while picking up trash on the L.A. Freeway.

            One percenters are starting 2 get beat up. The cops are tired of them. The cops didn’t get 2 beat up enough Iraqi’s because they were supposed 2 capture the hearts and minds of the citizens. Over here they don’t figure they have 2 protect and serve hippies. I mean God if a crew cut twenty four year old cop on steroids can’t beat up a sixty year old protestor then who the hell will they ever get2 beat up?

            It’s Halloween, do u know where your little protestors are? Keep plenty of candy cos the little monsters are bloodthirsty 4 mayhem. And your insurance policy doesn’t cover that.

            Kill the inner Rock Star. Walk like a zombie 2 your metal box. Hit go and stop till u park. Get to ur boob toob. Sink deeper, watch ur commercials, pay more and more 4 the grand privilege of watching the clever commercials. Do not question how the news is reported, do not wonder why certain things are publicized, why others are not, Trust the politicians, do not search 4 truth, Do not seek answers or solutions.. Cut the forests in straight lines. Straighten the rivers, make them mind u. Pave the road, widen the ditch, stop the flooding, curse the rain, curse the tree, fear the forest, sink deeper into your recliner. Eat your processed food, your processed drinks, wear socially acceptable clothes, socially acceptable hair styles, socially acceptable comments on face book, make sure there are no dents in your metal box. Wash your metal box. Cut your green space annaly. Stress over it. Don’t plant trees. Don't mulch or recycle. Wait mulching is recycling, so don't do both. I mean either, I mean. Duh oh. Do nothing. Consume and die. Mean nothing. Don't make a difference. Conform. Fear. Spend. Stroll the mall and buy duct tape.

October 29 2011

Nice day outside I think. I am loafing. Last night I loaded up a rowdy group of teenagers and made off 2 Pocahontas, where Highland defeated the Redskins 4 the district championship. I wore my red bandana TUPAC style. I gave John Katrosh a big hug, talked with his wife some time. Sam Hill stood behind me on the upper rail of bleachers. His savage barks startled or inspired. His son Spencer worked the sideline as head coach. Pocahontas disappointed me. At the end yes it is expected 4 the clock operator 2 shave a couple of seconds off a play or 2 2 help the home team ala Russia in the Munich Olympics in 72. But four plays in eight seconds? The debacle sorted out over long minutes as Pocahontas tried 2 muster another score. The fact that they needed two more is beside the point.

            All this as the Cardinals were winding down the magical run 2 a World Series title. What a story. So as the Rebels celebrated on the field, the Cardinals were spraying champagne. Good night 4 a fan of Highland and Saint Louis.

            The only bad note was Beevis and Butthead. They ran naked in red body paint through Pocahontas and ended up in Randolph county jail. They were high on K7, a synthetic “potpourri”. Beevis had also drank some spiked coffee at the Pocahontas class of 91 reunion and gobbled a hand full of caffeine pills he bought from an unidentified Pocahontas third grader. Initially put in juvenile hall, late that night it was discovered Beevis and Butthead, though still in ninth grade at Highland, are well over thirty.

            Since I had my game face on I made way 2 Copper Feather, grabbing up a hot little drunken philly2 dance with the bad ass sounds of MIKE GRAY. JOHN BROWN banged the drums with raw talent and enthusiasm, LEE BUTLER has moved over 2 bass4 a while 2 make it work. Team effort. Nice night in Northern Arkansas.

October 28 2011

Sweet. Last night the Cardinals pulled out an improbable win in the sixth game of the World Series. David Freese. They should name a ride @ six flags 4 him. The seventh game is 2nite,  but I may miss it, I’m headn2 Pocahontas 4 the annual

Rebel/ Redskin conference show down. I’m taking a van full of teenagers. I’ll have 2 take it easy on the booze. Make sure the LSD has already peaked.

            Breakfast with Edna and Lucy this morning. Lucy is a  pushy bitch. Tabby and A.J. are pushy bitches2. Only Capone, Rufus, and Molly are nice dogs.

            I think I’ll shoot pistols 2day. Maybe rifles. Maybe shotguns. Maybe all of them. I will shoot from the hip, point and shoot, quick shoot…

            Choices. Romney says let the mortgage crisis hit rock bottom. Then people can start renting the houses. He actually said that. He wants us all 2 rent from his people. He has auctioned his soul2 the highest bidder. Rick Perry was offended @ the suggestion he could be bought 4 five thousand dollars. “Try five million,” he smirked with his best George Bush chimpanzee smirk. His platform is straight out of the big coal/big oil/ big pollution/ big deception  handbook. He admits he will immediately begin dismantling clean air and water laws if elected, with his evil culmination comes a total abolishment of the Environmental Protection Agency. They actually say this. And they say they will raise the retirement age 2 70. They will privatize social security. And we will elect them. Amazing.

            @ least Perry is @ six percent in the polls. Michelle Bachman is @ 2percent. Ha Ha Ha Ha. Evil little insignificant sluts. Santorum is less than one percent. Heh heh. Cain is polling well, but u gotta believe he will stumble, or his constant stumbling will catch up 2 him. Romney is viable, and he did universal health care. He’ll get a running mate from the south or west, he will disavow any socialist tendencies or lower class  help, he will bomb Iran, kill prisoners and claim he is pro life. He will pollute, divide and conquer us. He will drug test and denounce it, he will kill immigrants 2 preserve our way of life. Korea and Somalia will be burned wastelands so our way of life can continue unabated, unregulated, unmoderated, only our morals will be dictated 2 us by evil pious  podium poachers, the constitution will be whittled away 2 favor corporations,  disfavor the poor. It will be crime a 2 smoke, crime b 2 lust, crime c 2 b poor. Living in the woods will be giggled @ by commuters. “Uh oh, Unabomber,” pretty plastic preppies will chuckle knowingly. “Mommy what’s a bird?” A child will wonder in 2014.

Brisk morning in the Urban Forest. We had a wasp tree 2 do, so this morning was a good time, temps close 2 freezing. That’s the way I like it. The subject was a huge dead red oak by a high dollar home and deck. Dogwoods and other trees complicated things, I had 2 strap the spikes on and do some aerial work, lopping off some large branches. Soon the bitch was beaten, lying broken in pieces. I diced it up a little, put some slots in the trunk and zipped the stump close 2 the ground. The day is warming now.

            Big doings @ Creekside Loft 2nite. LALA is in town 4 a sold out show. With all the Idol buzz everyone wants in it, they finally know what I have known 4 22 years. LAUREN GRAY is the bomb. She will sing pretty4 me 2nite. I forget the menu, Willow and her son Skate are 2 accompany me.

            In a good place. I am a happy person. Irrepressible. My house and grounds are in order, Willow is stocked with firewood, My vehicles are insured and running or inline 4 repairs. My house is warm, my shop more orderly each day. The blue jays are respectful, dogs do not bark all night. My mother is healthy and happy.

            So now is the time 4 all good men 2 come 2 the aid of their country. Voter Suppression. Ranks of uninsured. Minimum wage. Pollution. Ashton Kutcher. Still we FACEBOOK, texting and twittering, hitting go and stop on our metal boxes content 2 kill foreigners with drones so our kids don’t actually get shot. Cops send dogs 2 find our weed so they don’t put themselves in danger. But the terrorists have figured out that those 72 virgins are really hookers. They don’t buy the picket fence story any more.

    Obama ended the  Iraq war 2day. Repoblicans immediately began tweeting, “this will not stand,” stated Boner flatly. Mitt Romney facebooked, “once again Obama has failed us.” Gadafi was beaten, dragged, and killed by the rebels. He offered them a cool hat 2 let him go, in return he was stabbed multiple times

October 18 2011

Rain. Cold. Awesome. Maples are blaze orange. I piddle and tweak, preparing now in earnest 4 winter. I must line my stoves with gasket, I have firewood stacked and ready, weathered and dry, also Willa is stocked up till next year. My mother is happy and sassy, daily visits merry and pleasant.

            War in Iraq. Afghanistan. Somalia, Libya. Pakistan. Several others. More importantly the St. Loius Cardinals are in the World Series. However improbably cos they didn’t even know they were making the playoffs till the last minute of the season. Atlanta had an epic meltdown 2 enable them.

            Eric Cantor changed the course of American Politics 4ever. In response2 the Occupy Wall Street marches he said that yes, there was an income gap. Shocking. This means that he is 4 redistribution of wealth and is a communist. Boner tweeted immediately, “If this causes us 2 lose that minimum wage lowering bill I’ll personally bust his ass down 2 key grip. I’m the director of this movie.”

            LADY GAGA serenaded Bill Clinton. Hillary and Chelsea laughed it up @ Lewinsky jokes. Rick Perry tweeted that “Satan is upon us. Only I can summon the Holy Power2 kill him.” He offered the massive dust storm that hit Lubbock as proof positive. Of what he didn’t say. Michelle Bachman face booked, “dismantle the pro abortion federal government now.” She had2 log off because the subsidy office was back from lunch. Herman Cain is the front runner. The Godfather. We’ll c how he’ll do in the debate 2nite. I won’t watch it, but will check out the pundits and highlights.

            The bait and switch is on. Strutting chumps advertise and brag of being professional, but deliver nonstandard work each and every job. Pathetic. Only Rebel Tree Care has consistently delivered quality standard work each and every month since 1989. The others are really bad.

October 15 2011

Hard ride winds down this warm afternoon in Little Rock. So much going on, races, marches, fairs and gatherings. Occupations.This morning I was high in a massive mid town post oak. Way up I relieved it of dead and bothersome. At stake was a shiny new fence and streets. Then it was over2 another huge post oak, this one splayed was over a guest house and said shiny new fence. I got all over that one 2 spikeless on both as always. The client was well served and pleased. Rebel Tree Care.

            The Occupy Wall Street crowd is down town. I was all set2 go, but this job came up and I do what I can when asked.

            Last night (and 2day) I rode in a convertible Mercedes about town with buddies. CATFISH JACKSON did a sweet gig @ White Water tavern. I used 2 hit White Water way back in the day, it’s bigger and better now.

            I had a cancellation, so this trip is a wash probably. I may head2 Hardly Smash Flat. Ohhh. Baby I just don’t know.

October 10 2011

Hard Monday winding down. Lake Chanute was placid as I got into many post oaks and cedars. Also some hickory and Pine. Black capped chickadees intense around us, blue juniper berries so striking. Big morning. Rebel Tree Care. Now I have a fat load of chips 2 grace a fine landscape in Highland on the morrow.

            Trip 2 Little Rock imminent. My skills hit the road. Back2 the rock. Rockn the Rock. Big Sexy.

            I need2 jam, rock the shop. Let the blue jays know there is a spirit here. Cyclops. And I don’t mean zit. NO WEASELS.

            Letz c. Politics. Obama traded preexisting conditions 4 no medical pot. He stated flatly, “Pot is a preexisting condition, Compassion. Empathy. U think u got any left after three years of this shit. I hate this. I do not want 2b reelected, I will not serve if elected.”

            Biden tweeted simultaneously, “I may switch2 the Tea Party just b4 the election.” Eric Cantor accidentally tweeted an email2 a Kock brother, “no. Keep the price of gas up over 3.50 or 3.65 a gallon till we get Obama out. Then we can drop it down to two ninety and those pathetic sheep will lick our ball sacks.”

            Donald Trump grinned @ the camera hosting a huge function. “Poverty is preexisting. So let’s just grandfather anyone in the slums into a higher sales rate on Malt Liquor and Cigs.

            And the protestors," he giggled, “there is a little known facet of the Patriot Act that I myself paid two million to have enacted. If, “ he held a hand flatly to silence unruly audience members, then gestured very quickly 2 security guards, “if perpetrators of domestic protests don’t obey security guards, “ he gestured in stern warning at the disrespectful audience, then continued, wild blonde hair falling into red cheeks, “If they don’t obey security guards, there is a particularly vicious form of tear gas I have been itching 2 use on my own people."  Rosie O’Donnell tweeted immediately, “once again Donald, aka Donny the don, Donny duck, Donny the shmuck, has proven the case 4 abortion.

            Highland beat Valley View2 stay undefeated. MIKE GRAY rocked the Copper Feather, He’s doin’ three piece now, I missed it, but he said it’s started 2 really click.

            Thailand should b  flooding right now. I figure Texas is still burning. Mississippi has the shakes. Florida got ten inches of rain yesterday. Oklahoma got rain all day, but I figure it’s all burning up if it gets here. We’re barely gettn cloud cover. We need rain. The water table and creeks have been up since all the flooding last spring, but now it’s a full on drought, pools are shrinking. Sick Willow. The horse. Peace. Wa-do,

October 6 2011

Nice night in Highland. Serene. Nice day cleaning up a lot in Cherokee Village. Now I have a truckload of chips 4 landscaping! Chips could save the planet. The miracle recycled product. Lay down roots. Hemp could save the planet. Bicycles. Magnets. Oil on the other hand, is destroying the planet. But oil barons have killed all the innovators of Hemp, magnets, wind energy, etc. I offer no proof, just vague suspicion and unsubstantiated claims of conspiracy. I 2 will be killed some day, or framed in some heinous false accusation, I will kill policemen and go out in an explosion of some sort.

            Henry DuPont.  He did not want the billion dollar crop 2 save the family farm, he could not sell nylon and pollute the rivers, hemp paper needs no dioxin based glue 2 bind fibers, he could not sell dioxin glue to pollute rivers. Hemp paper needs no bleach 4 that bright white look, he could not sell bleach 2 pollute rivers. Oil barons would lose money if it was found out hemp could be used 4 energy. Cattle barons could not pollute rivers if hemp were growing in fields. Massive prison and law enforcement budgets would not b needed if hemp was legal like it had been since the dawn of man. Wars over oil would not need 2 b fought. Whole countries of starving masses could survive on essential fatty proteins in hemp seed. Pharmaceutical companies would lose the fledgling death grip on humanity if Hemp and marijuana based medicines were allowed 2 continue. Prohibition forces, having produced the modern mafia just a few years b4, would lose the gang mentality, enable poor farmers 2 keep their farms, Hate mongers could no longer imprison blacks and Mexicans for the evil weed. Judges and lawyers, jailers, clerks, etc would have little 2 do without a constant stream of non violent pot offenders. We are victim of a vast conspiracy. Hearst and the newspapers, cable networks, politicians, why does no one even mention this huge hypocritical scam? Wall street will never mention it. Slowly, we are allowing Marijuana 4 cancer and AIDS patients, but just 2day Obama bowed and fellated the pharmaceutical industry by cracking down on Medical Marijuana facilities in California. we can at great expense import hemp from Canada or the Philipines 4 bracelets and necklaces. Thank you o great politicians 4 allowing this free country 2 truck fibers in from other places that continue 2 grow it just as they have for twelve thousand years. Please don’t ruin our lives and shoot us down in front of our children if we happen 2 have a plant growing near our house, Thank you o great corporate conformity government, o great politically correct MASSACRE MACHINE(great band I saw @ New Daisy).

October 5 2011

Chillin. Warm quiet night in Highland. This morning was a rough and tough maple over 2 houses and tangled in a Southern Magnolia. Chumps had gotten 2 it during the ice storm, Stubs had helped decline, complicated my job immensely. I tried 2 top and reduce the tree according 2 best management practices, but my cuts were only slightly nonstandard, good leaders only slightly less than one third the size of the parent stem. The tree looks great now, but will need attention each year as a direct result of the improper work done by chumps. And the chumps strut and pose, the bait and switch continually working.

            Unrest in Saudi Arabia. A bomb in Mogadishu kills eighty innocent people. Pakistan warns the U.S. not 2 come there unless carrying suitcases full of unmarked twenty dollar bills. Greece on the verge of economic collapse. Texas burning. Iceland pissed. More importantly Ashton Kutcher got a kitten.

            How about the Wall Street Occupiers? I would do that I think, put zombie make up on and mountain bike crazily. Maybe Little Rock will have such a demonstration, other cities are doing it. Critical Mass. Maybe the one percenters could have a little fun with it, wearing Dracula makeup and cloaks, or Roman Emperor garb, fiddling while Burning poor people.

            Hank Williams Jr. called Obama the enemy, and Hitler. Even Fox reporters were a little put back, or at least auditioning 4 a soap opera.

            On and on this crazy eight ball spins. Friday night is Homecoming. There is a special reunion of the state champion football team. I plan on making that one. Jubilant high fives, old buddies.

          I’ ve been sick. I got a sore throat and snot problem 4 a few days, hard work has helped it pass. Last weekend was BACKFLASH in house, MIKE GRAY rockin it nicely many hours.

            2moro is a job over on the North Golf Course in Cherokee Village. I continue 2 grace Cherokee Village with standard tree care, even though chumps proliferate. Some have dropped out over the years, others crop up like ugly pimples, posing as legitimate tree services, continuing bait and switch operations through false advertising and misinformation. Soon they will forge checks. They are all free men, though what they do is unethical, unprofessional, dishonest and just wrong.  At best. Ordinances will not be passed here in Arkansas, politicians and bureaucrats have no balls, no teeth, no will 2 c justice done. I wouldn’t mind losing the occasional bid if I knew standard work would be done, but 2day, just like 1992, and every year since, the bait and switch is on. Peace.

September 27 2011

Hard ride winds down sweetly.  Four giant red oaks lay slain. I was loathe 2 destroy them, but they had all been topped and showed advancing decay, and the money was decent. We chipped up some, diced up some in nine foot log length, and left some pieces 4 a tractor pull. Four huge stumps are cut nearly flush with the ground. Four piles of chips decorate the war zone. This was on the other side of Evening Shade(yes it’s a real town.) On the way back through Evening Shade(yes it’s a real town), we stopped @ an attractive young lady’s home and got a mulberry branch off her roof. Some quick pruning of dead wood and stubs, and the tree looks awesome now, but doesn’t touch the roof. Rebel Tree Care---skilled.

            Yesterday was St. Michael’s Church. First off I strapped the spikes on and topped part of a big dead red oak, then flopped it perilously near a prominent sign and a telephone pedestal. No damage. Then it was way up another red oak, big storm damage high above(80 feet) parking. A few snags on the way down and that task was done, spikeless climbing on the trim job of course as always when pruning.

            Then it was several cedars and a pine near the parsonage, many branches over trails, wires, roof and yard. Comprehensive pruning, I got many suckers and long dead branches. The Father can walk 2 church with harmony now.

            Then it was down the hill 2 a prominent business in Hardy.  Recycling the trimmings 2 mulch established shrubs; mixed mulch. Cedar chips always popular,  red color and sweet fragrance loved by many.

            And 2moro it’s Hardy. Rebel Tree Care. Needed.

            Let’s c. Politics. Lu hardin got off with probation and community service. 4 ripping off taxpayers and alumni of  University of Central Arkansas. He lied about a couple of astronomical bonuses and got about a half million given 2 him because he asked 4 it. I can’t even work up a decent rant about this quasi entitled scum bag.

            Unrest in every other country. War. Abortion. Corruption. Corporate uniformity and correctness. More importantly Chaz Bono is set 2 dance his/her way 2 acceptance.

            I need 2 hit a Highland Football Game. Sterling Stowers is the bomb. He comes by it natural. His dad Richard was and is a respected friend of mine 4 many years. We worked 2gether@ IGA. Richard was I believe all state in Baseball and as a ninth grader footballer electrified Highland @ home with a fifty yard kick return in the Senior High state tournament. Ed French started most of the Senior High games as a ninth grader and three straight years thereafter. Eddie was known 4 football. Only a Hansen starts  more senior high games than that. Not even Terry Jamieson. Started that many I bet.

            We were playing @ Salem. They had some guys named Rogers that were scary good ball players. Marty Rogers was this left handed pitcher destined 4 the Arkansas Razorbacks. Brent Propes was a great pitcher, only decent @ second base. Ed French was wildcat quick, spirited. I’m sure Terry Jamieson was heavily in the mix, if not starting over senior Jeff Stone. Stone was stalwart, but Terry Jamieson on a baseball diamond was not 2 b denied. @ some point I replaced sophomore Bryan Russell @ third. Salem great Marty Ninemire lined one over the bag. I lunged smoothly 2 back hand the hard line drive, whipping the ball instantly 2 I think Dennis Sublett 4 a real quick out. A great memory 4 me.

            What I’m saying here is that even though I brag about playing Senior High as a ninth grader, others have done things that over shadow mine. Jeff Shultz Cory started most or all of a Senior High season as a ninth grader in basketball. Most Hansens: Jay, John, Jim, Jeremy, Timmy, probably did it, possibly many long b4 or long after my window of recollection. David Brogdon and several others played Senior High after the junior hlgh season, I think David probably put up twenty points as a freshman playing in the Senior District Tournament.

            I also have the record 4 the longest play in history. Ninety nine and two thirds of a yard. I ran the ball from my own end zone 4 a touchdown. But it was junior high. Prolly not official. Yada yada. I took it up with AAA athletic commission just kidding…

            Stan Maag has a solid claim 2 best team player. He started as a Junior on the state championship football team. He started three years In basketball, as a senior beats Violet Hill, the eventual Over all champs. Many district champs prolly. He played on I think three state finalist baseball teams.  Magley was the ultimate competitor, the voice of the Rebels now. He and James Bragg have a nice radio show.

            I loved the crowd. I had cheerleaders competing 4 my notice. Maybe that’s why we only won half our games my senior year. I would lob a ball toward the wall beside the back board and Invariably one person in the crowd would instantly comment something like, “you idiot. Why are u just throwing the ball away?”

            Then Scott Street would jettison upward above the rim and snatch the ball. Taking the ball high off the glass with another incredible leap 2 the tune of over twenty points a game. I led the team in assists.

            Certainly my sister debi contributed greatly 2 the senior high cause once her junior high career was over. She was a major player on a high school dynasty that culminated with a state championship her senior year.

            With my brother claiming state champion honors in football, and me in baseball, our family has the distinction of having members on all three major sport state champions from Highland.        

September 25 2011

Chili day. The food. It rained all night, even hailed around dawn. MICHAEL JACKSON trial jury selected. They finally found twelve people who never heard of him. McCauley Culkin will testify that MICHAEL  was a gentle lover. Yesterday was a dead pine by a house in Franklin. Looks like a full week of Rebel Tree Care coming up. Sweet. Stay the course. Don’t switch horses in midstream. Especially in the upcoming presidential election. That’s right. I am not racist. Earnhart was the greatest racist. I am sexist.

            I want2 hit the river4 a few daze. Fish. Camp. Get in touch with myself. Freed hikers now on U.S. soil. They were detained when walking the Appalachian trail by park rangers with drug dogs and sent to Guantonemo Cuba 4 years of water boarding.

            Turks @ war now. Unrest in Bolivia. Yemen. Mogadishu. Syria. Libya. Michigan. More importantly trillions riot over Facebook changes. The social network had 2 shut down because of all the unlike.

            Herman Cain the front runner. Perry has turned into a robot. I hope Romney wins so we can have socialized medicine. Saudi Arabia will allow women 2 show their faces in public and vote. In five years. Good thing we liberated them.

            Kock brothers both in top five richest. No wonder the new repoblican governor of Wisconsin discussed illegal ways 2 deal with protestors with a Disc Jockey he thought was a Kock. The Repoblicans caucused sixty hours 2 figure a way to embarrass Obama. They have no health care plan or jobs, but know dependable hookers and the publisher of the National Enquirer.

            The air force dropped off one point four billion dollars 2 Iraqi governors. They forgot 2 get a receipt, though. A small business owner can’t get a government guaranteed loan of a thousand dollars without collateral and triplicate paper work.  The collateral must b worth ten times the amounts requested. Crippled or disadvantaged business owners must demonstrate the ability 2 jump through hoops. Government is not our servant. We are government’s slaves. You can’t be king of world if your slave 2 the grind. SKID ROW were not posers.

            So life rocks on. I’m irrepressible. I will not go down. I can take a punch. I have a hard head. And a hard hat. Spikeless climbing gives me a thick skin. I alone know the secret of sycamores weeping.

            Swimmer hits jellyfish. Surprise. Did u c the roast of Charlie Sheen? I missed it, but it must have been the mother of all roasts. Was Charlie in assless chaps? Did he have a glow about him? Were his wives and hookers there? Did they take the podium and join the mayhem? Were they able 2 read the prompter or memorize things? Were they bleeding from the nose? I plan 2 get the DVD and  watch it many times.

September24 2011

Listening2 PINK FLOYD wearing my LYNARD SKYNARD tee shirt. Light rain here in Highland. Last night was a sweet show by BACKFLASH.  I had some classic pool runs while jamming.