September 21 2014

Hard rain this morning. Cats and dogs hungry. I need2 get breakfast.

Intruders in the White House. Knife wielders. The National Knife Association held a huge rally @ the Washington Monument. The Klu Klux Klan marched, offering a standing reward of two hundred dollars4 anyone able2 stab Obama.

            Maybe a ride 2day. I have young attractive house keepers coming over2 help me out. I must clean up4 them.

            Strange tidings. I am mature. I must piddle. Sober and alert I limp about, chronic pain causing me2 curse. I must do tree work soon, work out my kinky ways. Do the freaky deaky sixty feet up.

            Petroshenko all pissed at us. “U only give us 2oo million in aid? We spit vodka @ u.”

            The NFL suspending players left and right. All players making inappropriate jokes or cursing or allowing friends2 use marijuana r being booted. In response they dropped the starting lineups from eleven down2 three. The gay guy was booted off because he goes out on Friday nights and beats up straight people. Reports of date rape and manslaughter brought half game suspensions unless proven by Utube, in which case the suspension leaps automatically2 three games.

            The Razorbacks beat up a smaller school yesterday. Slaughtered them. Maybe they can get that first SEC win in two years this year. The A State Red Wolves bumbled around and squeaked out an overtime win @ home. And Arkansas mega corporation Tyson Foods slaughtered it’s opponents on Environmental infractions. They lead in serious violations, fines paid, fines inflicted, and bribes paid. They lead in fish killed, people killed, and birds sickened. They also contribute heavily2 political action committees, and with the Citizen United ruling, they can stretch it all out with legal wrangling until EPA haters r elected and favorable judges are appointed. No prob.

September 20 2014

Muggy afternoon. Life is as it is. Visit with mom. Bumble around. Look @ trees. Try n2 get it 2gether. Piddling.

        Chief Justice John Roberts expresses concern over partisan quibbling on Judicial nominees. Repos oppose all Obama appointees, 2 the point of shutting down the government. Justice Roberts also expressed no concern when he opined that unlimited campaign donations have no effect on policy whatsoever. He never finished though, he had2 go shine the Kock brothers limo in time4 brunch.

        French Jets hit extremists in Syria. “NO, no, no,” said Boner, “we can police the world just fine without those smelly losers meddling in our affairs.”

        Floods. Fires, Cher. Violence in Yemen. The U.S. is training rebels2 fight the Islamic State, soon they will be a well trained Islamic State. Remember, we trained Saddam Hussein and Osama Bin Laden. We also deal in arms by shipping guns and weapons2 them. These weapons are not obsolete. They will be used2 kill Americans soon. The Navy is all pissed that Russian and China have nukes and subs and nuke subs. "Russia is aggressive," says our armed forces from the Black Sea. They get close2 Alaska2, and that pisses Sarah Palin off. if China encroaches n2 the South China Sea we consider it provocation.

                Lot’s of floaters out on Spring River this hot Saturday.

        So I am maintained and ready4 next week. And it’s not even next week yet.

September 18 2014

Safely back2 Highland. What a run on White River. The Great White. Ninety some odd miles of sweet water. Some of that was falling from the sky but let’s not quibble. We caught trouts, I was the big fish champ, Darrel the chump, I mean champ with most fish caught. I 4got Bonny’s dog food so she ate trout. Life rocks on the river. I have a few errands2 do 2moro, line up more work, then next week is a full slate of rough and tough Rebel Tree Care. Life rocks in trees.

        Big lightning and thunder escorted us, chasing, harassing. But the hard stuff stayed off, we stayed dry4 the most part, except when I woke up and my tent was under water. I’m obsessed with canoing2 New Orleans4 Mardi Gras. Now is the time in life2 step it up. Get a leg up. Not as high as the old days. My machine walk is way lower.

        Times r changing. Seems like last week it was still a hundred degrees. Now it is fall. I have my affairs in order, home was unchanged. My people will be back from California in a few weeks, a big show in Jonesboro on tap. Maybe they will rock the club2. I must carry the torch on an island. In the fog.

        AS always, the White rolls without me 2nite. And perpetually Dick Cheney pushes war, confusing the sheep as2 where the wolf is. Be afraid. We r not a force4 good. We r a force4 false profiteers. The United States Military is a private security force4 billionaires. We r in a Holy War we started, we continue, we foster as our child. And we wonder why they hate us. I read the Arabs may police themselves, but I’m sure that’s shot down. Boeing goes Boner. Blackwater keeps on rolling. By last count we beheaded some seven hundred insurgents. But none were caught on Utube.

                Strawberry Brown

Bitch MConnell. Whore4 huge pollution

September 2 2014

Rain out. First1 in some time. I had a hairy dead red oak leaning heavily over a house. Looks like that’s a Friday job now. And it’s right on Spring River. Right on.

       Tom Cotton speaks @ Repo summit: “We don't believe in climate change, and want no regulations on oil companies. We want huge corporate taxes reduced to almost nothing since we, after all, are the "job Creators Against Any Mention of Evolution." We oppose reform and regulation of Wall Street. We don't believe in a minimum wage, or unemployment compensation, or student loans, or Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid. We think public education should be privatized and turned over to the corporate sector. And we think as Christian people we should b free2 pollute and discriminate fully and thoroughly. I’m just a simple country boy from Arkansas. Thank you Charles and David Kock4 allowing me2 bend over4 u.”

       Bitch McConnel prominent, a hooker on each arm. “ I will drastically reduce oversight of rich oil companies drilling in the ocean, and continue to block popular, bipartisan energy efficiency legislation. Hey I’m Bitch McConnel. It’s what I do. Coal is the future.”

       Marco “Polo” Rubio neck deep in the honey hole. “There is no proof smog causes respiratory problems. Brain and flesh eating bacteria in drinking water is a liberal conspiracy. The Environmental, emphasis on mental, Protection, Agency, kills jobs. As Job Creators and Science Haters, whores of humanity and trillionaires against Medicare, we must develop chemicals2 pour n2 our water and kill the bad stuff, but leave bass and trouts. With no ecosystem2 support them, the bass and trout will be really hungry and sportsmen will be happy cos they'll catch one every cast. It so happens I have a new product on the market available4 99.99 that tests mercury in fish, and in the air. Ur gonna need it f repos r successful this election. And if we win a couple in a row,(evil chuckle) don’t toss a cigarette in the water cos it’s gonna flame up and burn, u better hope u have a fast boat. I do.”

August 31 2014

Clear blue sky. All the floaters that canceled yesterday will prolly hit it 2day. Plenty of E Coli in the water from the rain washing off the cattle fields. But cattle farmers would rather play dirty politics, Science Denier$, blaming Obama’s government over reaching power grab than do the slight simple things2 alleviate river and stream pollution.

        Bitch McConnel promising2 shut the government down if repos gain seats. “Just a few more and we can roll this train wreck off a cliff into a river. Then use big government2 clean it all up, but with no bid contracts4 the people I represent. My first priority is making Obama a 2term president.”

        “Head start will be gone first,” said Marco “Polo” Rubio. “The space center, the National Guard, all those r history if repos gain any seats at all. We don’t know what battle we make a stand on: immigration, the environment, health care, but we want none of either. Exxon must get their subsidies b4 children get health care subsidies. It’s the pecking order.”

        Rush Limberger @ it: “this brain eating amoeba, this liberal brain eating amoeba. It’s a big smoke screen4 the power grab. Next thing uno there will be a flesh eating parasite in Texas caused by cows. Wait a minute. There is a flesh eating virus in Texas caused by cows. The militant vagitiarians concocted this, I have a photoshop photo of a militant vagitarian, it shows her there in the lab coat holding a vial up, hair under her arms, butch hair cut.”  

    Huckaby endorses Cotton. "Cotton is way better than hemp. Cotton needs insecticides, fungicides, herbicides, and extra water. Hemp needs none of those things. Our chemical portfolios would take a huge hit. YEah. No. Can't have that. HEmp is evil and so is Oregon."

        I hit Strawberry River yesterday. Just wasn’t up4 a Spring River sojourn. I did some paddle boarding around in the rain. It’s hard. I’m2 big4 it I guess. I did it, but just barely. I’ve got no inspiration lately, no direction. I am an island spinning helpless, off the mainstream, disco floor revolving, spiraling, tightening… Is there a maelstrom ahead? A double whirlpool that will dash me2 pieces on rocky bottom? Slam me violently down?

    The Highland Rebels play Midland Texas in Razorback Stadium 2moro.

August 30 2014

Finally some rain. Substantial soaker over night. Jury still out on whether the amateurs will canoe 2day.

        Brain eating amoeba in Louisiana water. “U can still drink the water,” said an official, “just don’t get it up ur nose.” Not a joke, but this part is a sick joke, “Now we must get on with the business of dismantling and castrating the EPA. Instead of cleaning up the water we must fight dirty, attacking  character of dums. WE must saturate all airwaves with trillions of dollars of mind numbing ads and then claim we r broke. U say brain eating amoeba, we say job killer. Paid4 by Job Creators Against any Mention of Evolution(JCAME).

        Marco “Polo” Rubio all over it. “This brain eating amoeba is a liberal conspiracy2 take away our religious freedom2 pollute. This is about Christian ways and evil liberals. Big government cannot make us clean our water up. We want2 create jobs, but not green eco friendly jobs, only oil industry jobs. And I believe in Religious Freedom2 discriminate. It is anti Christian2 hire gays or Abortionists. The liberals took slaves away from Christians, we must discriminate and pollute just as Jesus would.

        Bobby Jindal accused Obama of a “power grab. This arrogant president with his over reach is causing this brain eating ameoba2 mutate and attack. WE must be fearful, we must send the National Guard2 a foreign country. WE must go2 the mall and buy duct tape. We must punish the EPA 4creating this brain eating amoeba.”

August 28 2014

And we roll. Slowly. It’s way hot. I declared an end2 major combat operations til this heat breaks. It’s like a hundred @ dawn. I must hit Strawberry soon, she will cool me down as  I get n2 her.

        Last night was a nice open Mic night @ Copper Feather. EROSION did a couple of makeshift blues sets, SARA SERENADE showed and part of PONTIAC HILL. SHAGGY2 did some Obama, I mean BUSH. DEWAN accompanied most songs, but my drummer has a job now, he is an EMT, and can’t make it lately so my stuff is kinda lost, not nearly as much impact without a real drummer so I let the kids play most of the night.

        Looks like a run2 the Strawberry on tap very soon. And one last epic upper Spring trip Saturday b4 the season shuts down. Then I will have all the rivers2 myself. Next up is a four day trip down the White in mid September. Bull Shoals dam2 Batesville. Life rocks on the river.

        Out of the loop. Don’t know what heinous war scam politicos in Congress and the White House are perpetrating 2day. What talking points are being repeated over and over? The poor don’t want war, but they will pay4 it. The rich will profit, war bucks will roll over and over, hand over fist, arm over hammer heading down up the left coaster wheels training bras, panties laced with acid, mortuary fluid leaking news2 Fox, death threats bombing down. The shit rain has begun, get ur affairs in order, have a gay marriage, get laid, drunk, or stoned, Egypt has begun the seven year war of the beast and Israel will soon be obliterated. They will knock a few lobs out of the sky, but the rain of Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles will overwhelm, and then just one will make it through, and that’s all it takes. Israel will be erased from the map, the fallout will poison Iraq but they prolly have good shelters, depending on the weather it may go elsewhere, But the initial blast and radiation will take out most of the country including Palestine.

        Instead of terrorists they should call them horrorists. “Horrorists destroyed the Federal Building 2day,” or “Al Queda horrorists are hiding in caves until the Americans leave.” We never encountered that b4. Caves. Why didn’t we think of that? Petraeus would b all, “we got this. This is a guaranteed win. This war is unlosable, unless, well, if people were2 go underground, in some sort of, of,” he would check his notes and stutter a moment, “cave. If horrorists hide in tunnels and caves until we leave, we, uh, we have a problem.”

August 27 2014

Quiet morning in Highland. I’m a little slow2 get around 2day. Brutal upstream challenge on Strawberry got2 me. But I did it2 myself on purpose. I began moving upstream from Barnes Road just4 the hell of it. The river is shallow now, but4 the most part I could paddle easily upstream in most places. I didn’t take time2 fish yet, just battled the heat and horseflies, stopping2 swim frequently. ON and on I battled, wading on up through rocky shoals and extremely shallow riffs. My general goal was 2 make the confluence of Piney Creek and experience the large waterfall there, locals know it as the Blue Hole. I think I made it2 the area, one stretch of smooth flat water was miles long, heavily strewn with fallen brown drought leaves, but the sun was getting low by then and I turned around near a spring and headed back b4 certifying my location. I began2 fish, instantly landing progressively larger panfish: blue gill, rock bass, then boom, a sixteen inch small mouth. I have a pic somewhere. Sweet hot afternoon on Strawberry, just me and Bonny.

        All our water  could be purer, but we have hated enemies 2 prop up then destroy. Hate unites us. Unite with hate and destroy. And with war inevitably goes pollution, and not just in the countries we are bombing. Pollution seems unimportant during war. Recycling seems anal or unnecessary during war. most any other time2 actually. Until Hitlers about2 win and we realize we need every scrap of everything. Huge conglomerates make billions during war. Daddy Warbucks portfolio goes through the roof cos he knows 2 invest in bullets. Bullets that killed Uncle Larry. Hundreds of thousands of Uncle Larry's. Or drones. And huge conglomerates do way better without the pesky EPA on their ass. Clean air and water are less important when we are shocking and awing brown people with strange religions. We patrol China with the overseers mentality, the masters. We meddle and prod, provoke and dare. Just yesterday we conducted huge military drills just barely out of North Korea’s myspace. We bully China on Facebook, and send Viet Nam pictures of small penises on Pinterest. Japan is our buddy only because we have shown we will obliterate them with weapons of mass destruction. We must seek out and destroy rumored keepers of weapons of mass destruction with weapons of mass destruction. WE believe in the right2 bear arms, in America, not anywhere else. We believe in the right2 freedom of Religion, but only in America. WE believe in the sanctity of life, but only in a holy crusade2 end legal abortion. Then we will sit our fat asses down and watch the news as we blow up other countries. But we love the surfing squirrel and we have atoned4 that abortion we had in seventy four by tirelessly harassing family planning clinics. Make sure u buried that flame thrower good Bobby Ricky. Momma what does ATF mean?

        Open Mic 2nite. Are u ready2 Rock Cherokee Village?

August 26 2014

    Wow. August is almost over. Time2 hit Strawberry River again2 day. Vag out. Yesterday was nice little sojourn over2 there, Just me and Bonny. I enjoy nimble little Strawberry, she has soft shoulders and long legs, curvaceous and thin. I must get2 her again 2day.

    Chinese plane almost clips us. Pentagon spokesmen r all, “this was an act of war, this was a dangerous provocation.” And the Chinese r all, “u patrol us so tightly u r the provocation.” And it’s true, we patrol China. IF they were2 fly a blimp anywhere near Hawaii we would obliterate them. But we Patrol the South China Sea with bombers and cruisers and tankers and subs. We spy and drone on, we bristle with guns, we posture and pose, we threaten Korea, we claim rights over Japan and Viet’Nam, we run the South China Sea like we have ever since George Bush’s granddaddy Prescott was allowed2 bring opium though.

    Scott Walker thought he survived that recall in Wisconsin. But the methods he used2 finance his campaign were illegal. He is facing indictment. He and Prick Perry called respective indictments “witch hunts,” and “partisan.” Street hoods and White Collar Rapists all across those states crafting new defenses based on “partisan,” and witch hunt defenses.

    Thumbing through the whose who of Huge Pollution u c many correlations2 prominent repos campaign finances. Walker streamlined mining regulations right after Gogebic Taconite LLC  gave his superduperpac 700,000 dollars. But contributions make no difference on policy. Yeah right. Donald “Rug” Trump gave fifteen thousand after lunch, when asked about it he laughed, “u don’t get favors4 fifteen thousand. That was the lunch tab.”

   “We use that money4 education,” said Walker nerdily smug, “educate them about evil liberals, educate them about liberal scientists with liberal agendas, educate them about good holy works of Job Creators Against All Mention of Evolution(JCAME). We must brain wash, I mean educate children now b4 they grow up.”

August 24 2014

Melon. Collie. Ecovery. Yesterday was a sweet ride down lower Spring river. BAD BRAD and B Rad entertained. WE swam a lot, I wedged myself n2 falls and let it beat me. It was all homeys and locals, we had a blast. Lot’s of children, my nieces and nephews and all their friends. Safely back2 Bartlett’s I jetted on home, I had a party here with an attractive young lady, but a cop came. Well, an ex cop. My neighbor.  A friend. Saul Goode though.

            I need2 take the bike2 Hardy or somewhere, take  a ride. Keep this body toned and sweat things out. Take a swim. Life rocks when ur an island.

            NO word from the outside yet. Only that Adam Phelp’s cooler is missing. Did Prick Perry perjure himself yet? Will douchebag allegations surface just as he accepts a Heritage award? Will Special Parents Against Music(SPAM) riot when an unarmed KISS protestor is shot seventeen times? The NRA will hold a rally complete with Chuck Heston, “while we hate KISS just as any Christian, If this woman had been packing, chances r she would have killed the attacker and wounded many others. But the attacker would be wounded and catchable, nothing is worse than police having no suspects. Just ask the West Memphis Three.

            That whole vibe is a trip. Heavy metal witch dabblers set up 4 a heinous murder by biased Arkansas cops and judges. Free now on some weird negotiated plea. One of the fathers used2 live in Cherokee Village. I took a tree down4 his neighbors back in the early nineties. When the tree landed, a tiny area of shattered twigs and such spread n2 his yard. B4 we had chance2 grab a rake and clean it up, he was prominent, “yew cain’t touch my yard.” Turns out he had a restraining order on my clients4 some evil doings lately, blah blah, the Cherokee Village police came, yada yada. when I left he was hissing under his breath2 as the client  raked the yard with police watching. Hissing some strange evil that convinced me without a doubt he did it. In my humble opinion Byers was behind the triple murder.

            Did Ben Quayle denounce the lack of force yet? Jeb Bush should b sounding presidential, but afraid2 run if Hillary gets the nomination, a Bush can’t beat a Clinton. Remember two defeated Bush’s is the cracked dam. B4 u know it people r buying veggies from democrats. The teamsters get stronger. Bush and Dole and Libby’s just fade away. From Z to A, the best of everything, and Spades.

            Blackwater. Grassy knoll. Shoot the shooter. Become the new Becomer. The sun is turning brown, the water is phos 4 us, we can do laundry in the creeks again. Better bring in some Chinese though. Kung Fu dirt. Kung Pow Dooky Dog. Cat on Fridays. U likey long time beeeatch. U try2 Eff on Me? U take big bulge outside. I call cops.

            Gotta go prolly. This ain’t gonna get less weird. Pace Al.

August 22, 2014

Conservative figures. Birds sing pretty. I want2 go2 my shrinking crawdad hole and scoop mud. Have a beer. But it’s only 7 in the morning. Maybe in twelve hours. Maybe a bike ride, I did one last night actually. That’s right. After tree work all day. I’m a machine, a soulless, sexless, mindless android existing only4 others. I am a wooden island in a concrete river watching metal boxes rolling. I am the bridge. I am a beam of bone. Wrong Way Rubber. Blue Jay Killer.

  Blue Jay Killer loved Little Jane. Tasked with maintaining a dam near his simple cabin, Blue Jay Killer led a simple life. Big heat bade many Cherokee stay cool, sleeping days in caves. Watermelons carted brought sweet relief.

  Winter would come soon enough, Blue Jay Killer knew. As a dam keeper he must keep wood aplenty4 signal fires should war erupt. He kept dry hickory hidden close by the dam. He put green locust4 smoky fires, oak held coals, ash made ash. Cedar quick.

  He used a saw, strong arm work much quieter than axe. No sense alerting Osage scouts who might be nearby or moving undetected by Cherokee Sentry.. He kept axes, very good with them, he might use them2 wreck a beaver dam during war.

  Beaver waddled unafraid here. They chewed during daylight hours, trusting Blue Jay Killer never harassed them. Until invasion occurred. At first signs of attack, smoke signals, bull horns, Blue Jay Killer took his axe2 the beaver house. He slaughtered all the animals in a quick flurry, very quickly pelting, and packing prime furs into a canoe.

  As sounds of war came to his lake he stayed near his dam. Adjustable spill ways would enable him aid evacuation by Cherokee children. Soon they came. Blue Jay Killer saw Red Mule loading smaller figures and shoving them off, first couple of birch canoes made way toward the dam. They would stall as other boats chased, soon a full dozen boats were making efficiently toward the dam. Horn toots and rifle fire sounded. The exact moment 2 open the dam would be critical. With  creek levels low the group of boats must ride the crest down 2 Turkey Lake, Osage riders would b impeded by hazards placed along trails by Blue Jay Killer and Little Gray Cloud. As older boys  James Running Turkey and Bartholomew Standing Bear held the group of boats in formation they made eye contact with Blue Jay Killer, held position as shots and yells increased. Fires now, and bull horns in coded sequence told tale, Blue Jay Killer nodded to the group and began opening his spill way, most of the way as the group  moved through in rush. He waved to tiny Amelia Ghost Dancing.

  Turkey Lifter would help them now. Blue Jay Killer must assess the situation now. Should he sneak through burning forest and aid Red Mule? Looking at the neatly packed beaver pelts he knew he must try to take them back to Bono. At peace on Crow Lee’s Ridge, the nation would welcome riches of fine beaver pelts. Also he would be aiding stragglers along the evacuation route. As last lake water drained he shot the rapids.

  Bull horn sequences told tale. Osage horsemen upon us. Flee. Blue Jay Killer heard Red Mules short musket shot. Rarely heard here, the sound did not bode well. Armed with only an axe rear guarding a dozen unarmed canoes, Blue Jay Killer pushed chasing dwindling water as the lake emptied.

  A canoe was sideways, spinning on a high rock, Blue Jay Killer using skill and luck caught them in stride and knocked them from the snag, together the last two boats hurried banging off rocks or avoiding shallows as the creek returned to late summer level. But turkey lake still held, as these last two stragglers moved into level water the news instantly relayed 2 Turkey Lifter waiting at his spillway.

  On a hunch Blue Jay Killer bade the others on. He moved into a side outlet, upstream to a small beaver dam. He took his axe and ripped into a sturdy beaver lodge, slaughtered some beaver inside then piled them in his boat, with the axe ripped the beaver dam apart. Now he moved quickly with swelling water into Turkey Lake, quickly across flat water to the point where it drained, Turkey lifter joined him now in similar packed boat. They paddled crazy wild chasing last of the floodwater. Again a challenge presented helping other boats right themselves, always the drain water dropping.

  Hurricane Lifter worked spinning like a berserk bear. He tossed birch canoes with scary strength as fleeing Cherokee switched to larger poplar canoes. Now the groups moved smooth and momentous as they cruised down Strawberry River. Should no more mishaps occur, should the Osage invasion be just a small rogue band of horse thieves as was usually the case, and should no unholy double cross be perpetrated by hated Chickasaw forming blockades or cypress top ambush ahead of them on Black River and Swamp of the Thunderbirds, then Cherokee survivors should make smooth move across flat cypress swamp back, maybe a dragging place or two this late summer back to Saint Francis River, there a sacred peace ruled. They would tell tale of the day, busy as a nation with the pelts and aftermath, they would burn bright fire as undisputed hosts of Crow Lee’s Ridge. They would look to the west and plan another piece of the sun.

    Blue Jay Killer tiredly lay down on a sandy camp that night. He thought of Little Jane at her post. Her importance increased during war as she was a lead agent. She contracted with Delaware captains for bullets. Blue Jay Lifter would move west to check on her in a day or so. She might want to make sinkers with him and fish together to feed the Nation. Enjoy Sacred Peace together.

         Looking @ some jobs 2day. Maybe a ride. In a good place. So give me a hand. Jobs r plentiful.

  The Discriminating Underlying Minority of Bigots(DUMB) combating the anti discrimination ordinance in Fayetteville. “Discrimination is the Christian way”, pouted a tea party fave. “As church goers we must discriminate and bully those different from us, just as Jesus did and would.”

  Tyson, the world’s largest and most profitable poultry company, busted many times4 environmental violations, known4 bankrolling candidates with billions of dollars and getting favors in return, won’t pay workers4 the time it takes 2 put on protective clothing. Until now. I guess they couldn’t’ buy this judge.

  Prick Perry fears Islamist terrorists crossing n2 Texas from Mexico. No proof, he admits, it’s “just a hunch, And it might distract from my ethics indictment.”

  Think Arkansas is behind the times? 2day’s headline: Ruling finalizes desegregation pact. That’s right, desegregation. This lawsuit about race and busing and racism and closet hatred is thirty five years old and was antiquated when it was started. So supposedly it’s over.

  Sears tanking. “We’re gonna have2 show a penis in the catalogue again.”

  Stocks up. “This will not stand,” screamed a Tea Party douchebag, “If Romney was in stocks would be sky high, way way way up and away. Romney would have helped the rich in Arkansas a lot.”

    Variable factors. Exactoids and Garrito's. Sally Mander. Say it. Uno it. Smile inside. Overcast. Thunder now. Open up sky. I love the rain. This drought is giving me ideas 2 flesh out Peyote Goat. It's about like this crazy trip in the desert where u think ur gonna die cos your car won't start and u got no more water and after a bunch of theatrics or drama you lay down2 die and c this fifty foot tall sign that says "we tote the note."  So presumably a kind car salesmen gives us a drink of water.

August 21 2014

Brutal day in Bono over now. I’m sure temps were triple digits by the time we wrapped it up. Finishing a big hot job and getting all the equipment put up and the final trims and rake ups done is always a little taxing. But we’re representin yo. Rebel Tree Care carrying the standard. We did a prominent oak, prominent pecans and mulberry, gigantic gum, several Bradford pears, removing a maple…Good neighbor AL ELVIS gladly took the chips, he may come up and sing2 my mom.

       So we had a good run this week after all. And. Now it is time. 2. Wait4 it. Wait4 it. Hit the river! Saturday will be off the hook I’m sure, I hope BAD BRAD or Rich or both r on the case and off the hook. Maybe they will do a SALIVA song4 me, that’s when uno it’s on.

        County governments after Citizens United money. They want the EPA2 jump through hoops and calculate money losses from Endangered Species designations. “Logging dried up because of the spotted owl,” whined a Tea Party nerd, “and there is still a fraction of a percentage of original old growth forest left we could chop down. Why recycle when we still have trees left?”

        Counties also oppose health care. “It’s 2 expensive,” said one county judge. Uhh, yeah, that’s why the real name of the act is Affordable Health Care. “As a repo I say make the consumer pay more, government can’t help us out with Exxon’s record profits down slightly.”

        American journalist beheaded. “If it was a Fox reporter I would understand,” said Obama. “But this guy was MSNBC, he was on my side. We gonna bomb the bastards. They gonna remember pissing the O- Bomber off yo.”

        Iran ousts science minister. “We will not have science corrupting minds of children.” Tea Partiers rallied in support of Iran. Job Creators Against All Mention of Evolution(JCAME) rallied with Huge Corporations Against Clean Water (HCACW) 2 unite haters and deniers of Science.

        Former Virginia Repo Guv Bob McDonnel in court. He is accused of accepting a couple hundred thousand dollar gifts in return4 pushing tobacco. “Hell we pushed a lot of stuff. Tobbaco, Coal, Firearms, Alcohol… I thought everyone got quarter million dollar Christmas gifts, except free loaders and moochers. My supreme court appointees r busy bullying gays so I’ll do all right,” he winked.

        Fayetteville bans discrimination against gays. “This will not stand” screamed Tea Party whacko Kim “drop the” Hammer. “Discrimination is in the bible. As Christians we must bully gays. Gays must b forced2 have illegal abortions.”

August 20 2014

Hard hot ride of Rebel Tree Care winds down4 the evening. Open Mic is prolly kickn up rite about now, but I had2 cancel cos of this big job in Bono. Rough day in triple digit heat. Trimming gnarly storm damaged pecans and a myriad others, Bradford pear, mulberry, storm damaged willow oak, removing or preparing2 remove a dead elm, and huge hollow pecan. 2moro is another brutal full day of the same.

       When I see triple digits on the bank sign a chill runs down my spine.

       I have a connection2 Bono. My mother grew up there, went2 school there. My aunt and uncle have a large farm there. They raised2 great children, now they have great grandchildren. Well not great grandchildren, very good grandchildren. They are great grandparents, I mean, well, not great grandparents, but very good grandparents.

       Karl Rove meddling4 huge pollution/war. His superPac is called crossroads, and he has another “nonprofit” superduperPac called crossroads GPS. Since it is “nonprofit” he doesn’t have2 disclose the identities of donors. Trillions of dollars have no effect on policy whatsoever, according2 hard core conservative right justice John Roberts, a bush appointee. His summation of the Citizens United ruling is a bogus journey. And not Bill and Ted’s.

       Prick Perry booked. Ha ha. It’s ironic, he gets caught in unethical acts by the ethics commission he is trying2 dissolve. “It’s cool,” he grinned, cocky, “I’ll just veto the commission itself, and veto the judge, veto the border, I’ll pardon republican murderers, Install Tom Delay and Ted Cruz as dual vice governors. But this indictment is partisan.”

              The Smithsonian opens a new wing dedicated2 gay and transsexual, lesbian and bi, LBGT or something. “This will not stand,” screamed Michelle Bachman(Turner Overdrive), “gays are an abomination from hell, we should bully and beat them, then pray over their beaten bodies, then dance in glee in praise of White Baby Jesus, irritatingly smug we are going2 heaven and they r not. I believe in the original core concept of no Taxation without representation. Except4 gays.” Drunk @ a bar later she pleaded with a pimp2 set her up with Britny Spears.

       Duke Energy back @ it. Oil spill in the Ohio River. “WE did it on purpose,” said a spokesman, “2 draw attention2 Obama’s power grab, this over reach of government that says we as job Creators against any mention of Evolution(JCAME) can’t pollute as we please. We will pollute, we will spill and leak, we will sponsor politicians with no balls that weaken inspectors and destroy the EPA. We are pro illegal abortion though, so we get the votes.”

       Repos backing off anti health care positions. “Turns out it’s fine,” said a key repo, “it’s really not so bad, millions getting insured, it’s not really jacking up premiums, that was just a Fox News thing, now that people r using the Affordable Health Care Act they know we were lying about it the last six years nonstop. But that’s over, I mean we’ll still bitch and lie about it a little blah blah but we have no replacement plan, we never did and we never will have a plan2 help poor people. Government is a corporation, increasing profits4 the rich on the backs of the poor is the only thing that matters2 repos. Stop legal abortions. Bully gays more. IT’s the American Way.”

       Housing starts up. “This will not stand.” Screamed a Tea Party whacko. “Obama’s over reach, his power grab, his arrogant partisan ways are destroying this country.”

      Stocks gain. “This is an abomination, this gay, womanizing, arrogant over reaching power grabbing president is ruining this country,” screamed another Tea Party whacko.

       Looks like a classic upper Spring trip Saturday. Uno it’s on.

August 19 2014

Hot. Driving all over doing estimates. And I’m not even in the phone book. I don’t have the net. Facebook has got me a little work though. Every now and then I remind my seven hundred friends I do quality tree work and that canoes r available4 the blah blah float. I like the occasional comment or pic, make few comments. I used2 try2 stir things up by pretending I was angry and thought I was sending u this private message and then the next day the exact same situation on another subject which is never clear what’s going on. But ppl take their facebook seriously and I got more questions in person about why I was mad and they heard I was fighting mad and I’m like it was a joke, but it’s a month later yada yada. Now I got a meth geek wife beater stalking me cos I'm gonna beat his ass and raise his children right.

            Prick Perry looking @ one hundred and nine years. He’s looking @ coercion and official corruption charges. specifically official oppression. God I hope it sticks, I mean he’ll get off, just like Tom Delay ultimately did, him or George Bush appointed most of the judges and such, but he’s got2 report in and get fingerprinted and a mug shot Monday. LMFAO. Maybe he should pardon Oprah Winfrey in the food disparagement case2 get the black judges on his side. She said something bad about hamburger in Chicago and got sued in Texas.

            Demo guv candidate calling repo stalwart opponent Asa Hutchison out on his vote2 privatize social security. U remember that failed scam Bush/Cheney Ashcroft tried2 perpetrate? The one that would have resulted in a catastrophe when the stock market crashed? Bringing that up is an old Democratic “false attack2 try and scare our senior citizens.” NO, it’s called learning from history. Ross will disappear b4 the election. I’m betting a plane crash.

            U don’t mess with Iran/Contra, of which Asa Hutchison knows much. Ollie North and the boys landed butt loads of crack cocaine and heroin in Mena Arkansas. Asa and Tim Hutchison as local prosecutors played ball, team players so good they were promoted2 head of the national DEA a few years later. U know those guys, the guilty until proven innocent, pot is just as bad as heroin and coke crowd.

            I wonder what Ashcroft is doing these days? U remember that asshole, his opponent4 governor of Missouri, Mel Carnahan, was killed by an “accidental” plane crash days b4 the election. Carnahan’s wife then beats Ass, I mean Ashcroft. That night I hear ass, I mean Ashcroft screaming on a radio address like a banshee, pissed2 royal hell that he lost, and he’s already screaming voter fraud and that when he caught them they would be punished severely yada evil yada yada evil yada. Then. A few hours later. Bush and Gore r having a dispute, that wouldn’t b decided4 a couple months, but @ some point Ashcroft is given this powerful seat next2 Bush/Cheney. I think that was when Bin Laden said, “let’s do this.”

    Asscroft was behind the "if u smoke pot then u r with the terrorists" ads immediately following nine eleven. Hypocrite ass hole.

            Looks like a brutal job in Bono the next few days. Many types of procedures, removals and trims. I’m sure I’ll detail it all here4 journal veterans.

            I’m skipping Open mic nite bcos I’ll b going late as I do when working out of town.

August 18 2014

Whew. Monday4 sure. Not that I was tired from the weekend or anything. Just a Monday. We went way out2 the boonies across the river from Williford. A giant dead oak was leaning heavily over a house. We 4got some things, another stress, I was pacing, mind racing, rigging, tensioning… On the notch cut I quickly hit plenty of thick metal fencing… Finally the beast was defeated in the yard. I slotted the trunk4 them and we were gone n2 the wind.

      Yesterday the wind pushed us downriver. Usually the opposite.

      Prick Perry all over Fox making his case that the indictment he faces is, get this, Obama’s fault. Not kidding. Only on Fox would anyone make this claim, and only Fox would nod and agree. He blamed Obama4 creating a fantasy world where the rule of law is ignored, resulting in the IRS “scandal,” the NSA “scandal,” and the border fiasco, of which Perry is more responsible according2 his recent diatribes. Now there is only one priority4 Perry, avoiding prison and winning a pr campaign. Prick Perry indeed.

      Freight trains hit head on in Hoxie.

August 17 2014

Nice day on Spring River. Sweet run of the lower section. WE caught bass, quite a few, we toured with an all ages group, made the scene @ Kurt’s. Rain caught us a couple of times, but briefly, we got2 the van b4 it really let loose. This was a two day trip4 most, strong finish2 a cool weekend. Now school starts, teachers and rules and conformity. Step out of line kids. Act up a little. Stand aside. Two of our guys got a pic w Candi, as did I, gorgeous supermodel fave of Rebelriver.net. Check the archives.

      Prick Perry indicted. LOL. And we thought his image of tough guy running roughshod over others was just an image. Scott Walker embroiled in his own little Watergate2. Chris Christies still mired with scandal. Jeb Bush chastised Obama4 playing politics with potential impeachment proceedings. “His failure2 comply with our requests that he resign are partisan in nature. He is playing partisan politics with these impeachment proceedings.” Asked what exactly the impeachment was about, he gestured grandly, “look around. He’s been involved in gun running, socialized health care, spying, border issues, Benghazi, IRS scandals, what have u. Just watch Fox news.”

August 16 2014

Nice quiet evening. Nice long canoe trip on Spring River. An attractive young lady sat with Bonny and we did six miles in style. We had all ages, rope swinging, Jacuzzi hole, shootn hi falls.

        Bill Oreilly up in arms over Obama’s failure2 cooperate with repos on impeachment proceeding. “We are ready4 impeachment proceedings, Darryl Issa Moron is fired up2 nail him on something and impeach him. It’s totally partisan that the democrats won’t cooperate. Imagine with Ted Cruz, what if they hated the arrogant black president as much as the repos. Deep down hate. He’s lucky we haven’t capped him. Biden would be way more digestible. But4 strictly partisan reasons they won’t join us and find something that sticks. We thought about planting protestors, staging a riot, a million farmers march on the EPA demanding freedom from job and people killing phosphorus regulation. I’m thinking open a Casino, people r broke, they need2 gamble f we can saturate the media with enough titties and gold. Do a malt liquor blitz. Or water purification systems, water pipelines, desalination, chemicals2 sterilize water bcos we don’t have any clean water. This is ur insider tip. Bleach. Cheap bleach. Duck tape. Gas masks. Automatic weapons. If Hillary gets in start digging bccos the repos will force her n2 a nuclear holocaust bcos she is the anti Christ. Turns out Obama is just an under demon. Hillary is the many headed beast, not the narco correctional military industrial complex."

        Another sweet trip on tap 2moro. We will leave Hardy after breakfast and float down2 the boat ramp @ the Wildlife refuge, We will pass my homies places, smiles and toasts high. It’s a little bony with the water down, but we got this.

        “I’ll have my fact checkers double check this,” Said OReilly snarkily, “but Bush never. Ever. Went on vacation. I mean Dick Cheney shooting that Judge in the face on purpose that, I mean accidentally, that wasn’t a vacation that was a retreat, there is a difference.”

        Al-Maliki relents in Iraq. U.S. arming Kurds. Ferguson Missouri on high alert. Voter fraud@ all time low, Repos work round the clock2 fashion repressive laws concerning I.D. “It gets us  a few points,” said a key repo, “and with the Dums still4 abortion, we can out spend them and barely win. Democratic voters just want free stuff. We may have2 balance the budget on the backs of gays. Triple their taxes. I mean we have already suspended taxation without representation4 gays, so we may as well get paid.”

    JCAME (Job Creators Against any Mention of Evolution) attacking the EPA, "Their is no solid science that deforestation causes a heat affect. And all cows should be allowed2 fart away until getting slaughtered. Special Parents Against Music(SPAM) chimed in, "Rock Music is evil," screamed an aging spokesmodel, "and homosex is bestiality. But we believe in the sanctity of all life." The Discriminating Underlying Minority of Bigots(DUMB) were up in arms, "Freaking lesbo yids, dago tree humpers, u got little nippers buying up the west coast, greaser spics pouring across the border, we believe marriage should be between one white man and one white woman. Life is a black hole. Unless your n2 white chicks."

August 15 2014

Hot afternoon. It wasn’2 bad working this morning. WE cleared a Highland driveway and trail of elm and oak, cedar, privet, serviceberry, hackberry, redbud, ash… Removing some. Pruning some. The chips graced the trail.

            Interesting article in the Editorial page of the Arkansas Democrat/Gazette yesterday. It kind of echoes some things I say here, albeit in a kindler, gentler, more politically correct and appropriate way.

            It’s an article by Paul Krugman, Nobel Peace Prize winner, who writes in the New York Times. (Collective Arkansas Groan)

            The article is titled Phosphorus and Freedom. It touches on the Toledo water crises caused by high levels of Phosphorus in Lake Erie. It touches on Repos rabid anti government bs, and how pollution controls are “over reach,” and “power grab,” by Obama. He writes of Corporations against Tort reform, part of the problem. He touches on Paul “whatever the Kock brothers sell I’m buyin’” Ryan and his stance that pollution control is just an excuse2 grow big government. And he touches on the major problem, The cozy relationship between big war/pollution and churches.

            The article rang with similarities2 Arkansas, and our own struggles against corporate spin and Big Beef/Poultry, our politician sell outs from the governor on down, and our own dangers of ruining the last of our water.

            So “government over reach,” is code word4 “government under reach”. “Power grab by Obama” is repo/ Heritage foundation code4 “power grab by huge pollution.” “Growing government” is repo code4 “controlling pollution.” “Anti Christ,” is repo/radical right slang4 “anti discrimination.”  Bill O'reilly lamented the "partisan" politics of the dums keeping Obama from being impeached. Rush Limbaugh ridiculed Antarctica and announced signees4 Obamacare were being imprisoned4 life by the thousands. Neal Cavuto railed against biased reporting, liberal agendas and unfair, unbalanced news.  SEan Hannity interviewed tear gas experts and attack dog trainers. Fox investment counselors recommended water purity and testing equipment.

            4get about it. With the Citizens United ruling, soon we will never be able2 swim in rivers and lakes again. Only swimming pools heavily chlorinated, and only when there is water enough2 fill them up.

August 14 2014

Sleepn n. I have another long ride 2 an airport 2day. Long drive back. I’m takn a few days off Rebel Tree Care, I’ll b back n it 2moro and next week.

            Last night was EROSION in house. I felt like we pulled off a powerful set. LITTLE ELVIS and D1. I got2 scream and make some non acoustic noise. I felt rocked.

            PONTIAC HILL came on and did a couple long sets of mostly originals. They change around, AMBER drums mostly, but likes2 stand w guitar and she sings real pretty. She does Radioactive and others.

            RUTHY took the stage, she sang pretty as always, but I don’t think she liked my bass playing cos I’m not the talent level she’s used2.

            JOSH SHAGGY GENTRY finished us off with some his cool nineties. Also KAT did the mushroom song, DAWNY sang a DEWAN original.

            Successful Wednesday night in Cherokee Village. @ any time there were only a few dozen people there, but it was our scene. We enjoy it. It’s my Saturday night.

            So I got Rebel Tree Care and Rebel River Adventures all set4 the next many days.

             I’m lined out proper. I come correct. I’m properly proportioned and everything functions as it should. Life is right fine, or left fine, I feed the dogs and pet the pussies. I am an island, where no man should b. I am the river, that no man can be. I alone know the secrets of sycamores weeping.

August 13 2014

IT’s over. The blood of the innocent has touched our soil.  Legislators vote2 oppose EPA. Dums and Repos alike are after the unlimited campaign donations available since the Citizens United Ruling. Job creators against any mention of evolution (JCAME)banded 2gether and voted pro huge air pollution.

            Nucor STeel sued Big River Steel2 stop them from competing. They said that their permit doesn’t meet air quality standards. “We don’t want or believe in air quality standards,” they said, “but we like our monopoly on steel, and don’t want2 lose it, because then the consumer would benefit from lower prices. Can’t have that. Furthermore and forthwith we hate frivolous lawsuits. Nucor’s plants are not in compliance with the Clean Air Act either. We just don’t want Big River2 hurt our business so we’ve got lawyers up the ass2 delay and continue this4 years. So don’t get us wrong. We hate lawyers and law suits. We hate the Clean Air Act. But we love profits a monopoly generates and wish2 continue these profits @ the expense of the consumer and the job force.”

            Another New Jersey casino bottoms up. Chris Christie took a break from his insanity aerobics class2 mop his brow with a towel, “The Revel Casino, the fifty story building built4 billions just two years ago, now in bankruptcy and empty except4 a couple dozen homeless crackheads? Yeah, that’s my new office. I like the helicopter pad on top.”

            If Lake Mead drops another eighty feet, Las Vegas will dry up. Seems maybe gambling is an iffy industry. Fountains out front of hotels are now recycled urine, sparkling yellow. Mulch, which conserves and retains water run off, is trucked and burned as a nuisance.

            Open Mic 2nite.

August 12 2014

Nice morning. Easy job. We put down some timbers and chips2 control run off, baffling, filtering… The fresh chips will prepare the areas4 planting in a few months.

            So my bills r paid and I’m thinking go4 a ride. Save money. Get in shape. It’s a win win.

            Repos up in arms over a study on School violence that focuses2 much on bullying, most often the cause of violence. “Gays r an abomination,” Repo dick Kim Hammer as well as said. “This study is obviously an attempt2 destroy Christianity. WE must arm teachers with automatic weapons and continue2 let Christian athletes beat up homos.”

            Robin Williams dead. A special talent is gone.

            Postal service posts record loss. Get rid of it. Just dismantle and drop it. Most folks can handle it. Just pay ur bills on ur cell phone. Drive2 town2 get sale flyers. 4 once I agree with repos on this. They want2 kill it becos of the unions, I say help the environment. @ least cut it2 once a week. That way we can give that money2 Exxon, and give the money we usually give them2 the poor. While were @ it cut garbage pickup in half.

            New three day truce attempted in Israel. “This will not stand,” shouted a Tea Party spokesman. “This is obviously Arrogant Obama’s attempt2 destroy Christianity.”

            Obama brokers help4 Ukrainian refugees. “This will not stand,” shouted Boner, Rush, Glenn Beck, Sean Hannity, Bill Oreilly and others, “This arrogant communist coon president is helping his communist, socialist cronies by giving free help4 lazy faking stoners and gays.”

            College athletes2 b paid now. Alabama’s Nick Saban smiled cryptically, “uhhh, yeah. Now and only now can we pay them.”

            Teresa Marks, director of the Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality is retiring. It seems her legacy of a plastic posing puppet will be tainted becos she will be known as the sell out who didn’t even know an industrial hog farm was being put very near Buffalo River. Somehow it just slipped by her. And weirdly, many hoops2 b jumped through were mysteriously lowered. I hope she enjoys her retirement in her brand new paid4 condo on some lake full of EColi. Bitch. Serves her right she gets2 spend her retirement testifying in court4 the next twenty years about what an incompetent dweeb she is. The ADEQ is history anyway. With the Citizens United ruling billionaires rule us from now on. And billionaires don't like the EPA. Clean water and air really shaves profits.

August 11 201 

Still no rain. It rumbled and bumbled last night and this morning, teasing and tempting, but nothing. Maybe a few sprinkles. I’m glad I’m not a rancher or farmer waiting4 that good shower that means thousands of dollars. I mean my crawdad hole is drying up and my fruit trees need water some evening, but drought doesn’t affect me much except4 killing trees and picking business up. Plus my purple canoes take more of a beating.

            This morning was a very large, bushy post oak leaning over a Hidden Valley home. That1 went well, now I have a load of chips4 landscaping a nice Williford Heights home 2moro.

            I need2 get a paper or watch the news and c what Ted the Head Cruz, Prick Perry, Marco “Polo” Rubio, and Rand “Bomb them and go2 the Mall” Paul r up2 2day. Hypocrites. But since the Citizens United ruling I’ve noticed the dums r even less liberal or left wing, more likely2 destroy the EPA along with the repos, more and more castrated, impotent, robotic drones with eyes looking2 the sides continually, wind gauges built in2 measure public outrage or support, computer like brains calculating percentage points, graphs rising and falling as they speak.

            We’re gonna put some fresh chips down2 slow runoff, and give them till next spring or late winter2 compost, preparing2 plant dogwoods and redbuds.

            I’m back on a yellow watermelon kick. Check the archives but I’ve missed a summer or two. Gorging myself on Certified Cave City yellow watermelons is one of my most intense pleasures. A little sea salt maybe. Ice cold. Google it but I think they r one of the healthiest things we can possibly eat.

            Rebel River Adventures set4 this weekend. I have a good all ages group that wants2 do a two day outing, camping and floating. I figure we put in out by Shade Tree which is seven miles upstream from Hardy. Then the next day we head downstream 2 the boat ramp @ the Alexander Wildlife management area2 put out.

    EROSION set4 the Copper Feather gig. PONTIAC HILL also. Plus I have invited MARX PRICE and his veteran band. And we always hope that MIKE GRAY breezes in and does a few originals. I wanted2 do Panadox, but I think we wanna wait till later in the year. But I sure love that giant screen on a Wednesday night in Arkansas.

            And we roll. It’s not2 hot, a little cool breeze and some clouds but it looks like we missed another chance of rain. I hope this drought breaks soon.

August 9 2014

Sunny Fayetteville morning. Time4 some Frisbee golf. I will spank an attractive young lady @ it. Or with my new boat paddle I bought.

            Prick Perry and Ted the Head Cruz hosting a Repos in Texas, calling Obama a criminal.

            Russia flying n2 U.S. airspace consistently. Probably every time we enter their air space. “Myspace is messed up now,” said Putin, “America must get on Facebook.”

            Obama authorizes air strikes2 Iraq2 stop genocide. Rush Limburger preached2 his sheeple about how Obama planned and “Authored,” this, no mention that it might, just might have been suggested by the military and advisors, but Repos railing4 broader and more intense war aren’t held2 any standard or advice. Hypocrites all.

            With the Citizens United ruling where a Bush appointee2 the supreme court says astronomical donations2 political super pacs have no influence on policy whatsoever, negative ad saturation and public opinion manipulation is going through the roof. Dums r all, “I hate Obama now, so vote dum.” Or, “I have hated Obama from the beginning, so vote repo.”

           The U.S. Military Industrial Complex, which caused much of the unrest in the world through meddling and espionage, weapons of mass destruction and secret genocide and assassinations, now dropping Baloney sandwiches2 Iraqis.

            “What’s this all aboot?” shouted a Canadien politician. “We wanted2 drop the sandwiches.” Britain is all, “screw the bloody sandwiches, blow them all up America, and while ur @ it hit Syria, Ukraine, and Iran. We’ll back u up.”

            Money and Partisan interests fail2 oust liberal supreme court justices in Tennessee. Kock brothers and other fake ‘prosperity4 billionaire” type groups funded a hatchet job, but the voters of Tennessee kept them in. I guess they r not so stupid after all.

            Sean Hannity pissed @ Stephen Colbert. “As a fair and balanced Fox lying head I’m challenging Stephen Colbert2 a duel with butterfly knives and napalm. Oliver North will be in my corner and he can have, oh, the Olsen Twins. This won’t b clay mation. We’ll do it here in Israel amid paid Obama haters, we’ll use it2 show how Obama is purposely destroying Israel because It’s in the Bible and he is a Muslim.”

            I got2 end this. Peace.

            BAD BRAD and company should b kickn it on Spring River soon.

August 7 2014

Hard run winds down this muggy afternoon. No rain so far but there is sposed2 b sum. Rough morning on Lake Thunderbird. A tall red oak was over a brand new house, it needed removal, I went up fifty feet, lopped off a large branch, lowering carefully2 the ground, this made the beast sufficiently narrow2 drop. We pulled two ropes as the tree leaned heavily 2ward the house, soon it was done, then I had2 chip the brush myself cos my ground man needed the day off, and I was limping and cussing quite a while, but now I’m chilling and feeling better.

            “Judge” Michael Maggio barred from the bench 4ever. Yes. This douche bag is a real piece of work. Racist, sexist, and capitalist, he typifies all that is hypocritical about our judicial/political system. I don’t want2 spend much more time here about him, he makes me sick2 my stomach. Copy and search. Google that.

            Russia boycott’s Tyson Foods. Putin spoke by a river, “long have we heard about this Tyson Foods environmental record, the polluting of the Cherokee Nation in Oklahoma, but this last thing about dumping raw by products n2 a Missouri Stream was the last straw. We will not abide polluters of water unless they r Russian companies, polluting Russian waters.”

            Twin hurricanes heading4 Hawaii.

            Prick Perry all about spending huge amounts of money4 small gains in border security. Game Wardens, National Guard, Rangers, Troopers, truant officers, all must keep desperate poor, weak, disenfranchised, hungry children out of the United States. “The Statute of Liberty is in New Jersey,” said Prick, “and my constituents love it when I make fun of New Jersey.”

            Car bombs kill fifty one in Iraq. Mosul strike kills sixty. Extremists in Benghazi. Ugandan politicians vow2 vote anti gay again. And again. U. S. drones kill seven in Pakistan. Repos vow2 kill the Affordable Care Act if it’s the only thing they ever do again. “It’s all about creation. Job creation. And destroying all mention of evolution in text books.”

    Last night was a sweet open Mic night @ Copper Feather. A cool new local band called PONTIAC HILL showed. SHAGGY did a couple sets4 us, and EROSION was in house, albeit acoustic. PONTIAC HILL have the requisite hot chick drummer, cool original songs, cool people. We had a good crowd, and we went fairly late. Did I say I was up a tree very early this morning?

August 6 2014

Hot. Nuff said. WE took it easy, maintaining. Easy little landscaping job. Bag worms had taken over a juniper clump on Lake Thunderbird. I hit them with poison. It’s been a hectic day, one errand after another, plus readying4 open mic 2nite. We have a new band of some sort coming in, don’t know what they play yet. But we got extra equipment courtesy MIKE GRAY of Southern Gray Records. It’s who u know. Or who ur sister is married2.

            Early 2moro I have a tricky red oak removal on Lake Thunderbird. Then. It. Will. B. Time. 2. Play Frisbee golf. I’m headed out of town4 a challenge. I’m a little off my game, but I’m a natural. Big gravity tugs me.

Humid afternoon. The humidity really kicked in when a light rain came down just after lunch. This morning early I was in Ash Flat dealing with a cedar all up in all kinds of wires. We lopped and topped, yada yada, now they have a nice pile of cedar chips and a beautiful log they plan2 mill n2 lumber. Great folks, state champs. Builders of men. Then it was down the street, an attractive young lady needed her seventies bush tidied up. That'll make the ex jealous. Especially knowing that I did it.

            Israel, Hamas accept Egyptian peace plan. “This will not stand,” shouted Tea Party spokesmen in a rage, “there will not be peace until we say so. We will undermine and obstruct all attempts @ peace as long as a Muslim is president of the United States.”

            Mississippi Tea Party hopeful Chris McDaniel challenging the primary results. “I really wanted2 win,” he whined, “and I can’t really do anything except fabricate falsehoods about Obama4 trillionaires under the guise of helping the common man. I have2 challenge this2 get attention another few weeks b4 I go the hell away.”

            The Environmental Protection Agency is history. Now that the supreme court has ruled that unlimited money can be poured n2 politics, with no influence on policy whatsoever, Dum and Repos alike r all, Obama’s over reach, Federal over reach, job creators, blah blah. It’s all about pollution, huge pollution and their right2 hugely pollute. Life is sacred, but not life sustaining air and water.

            “We will ban gay marriage. We will overturn the filibustered caucus2 ban gay abortions and argue flag burning4 months, we will fabricate and obstruct, blame and scapegoat, annihilate and obliterate, anything but mandate recycled energy and green, sustainable power.”

August 4 2014

Exhausted yo. Early this morning I was up a declining red oak. I say declining, one side was healthy, the other dead. Tricky and difficult this one, I went up over fifty feet spikeless, crashing and smashing very near the house. Miraculously no mishaps. Positioning was tough, calculations and deliberations rough. Finally the finishing cut was made, the half beast lay scattered. A partial cleanup and the hot morning was heating up. Now I’m chillaxin.

            I’m watching Noah. I wrote it years ago. Forester(Rebel Word). My version is better. But I didn’t sleep with Jennifer Connely @ the Sunset Hilton in ninety seven. In my version Noah is a member of a shipwright guild and uses professional sharing of knowledge and technique2 build the arc. In this version giants made of rock break trees and shove them n2 a huge ungainly structure.

            Truckers oppose toll road plan.

Orders for durable goods surge. “This will not stand,” said a key repo, “under Romney durable goods orders would b triple that. Maybe quadruple. Durable goods would b lighting up Nasdaq. I mean uh, what r durable goods?”

            Romney the front runner4 repo nominee. Prick Perry complained off microphone, “I’m wearing the god damned glasses, why am I still @ single digits?”

            Turns out, just like the Fox noise fake reports of The Affordable Care Act destroying small businesses, a key ad in Arkansas misrepresents the effect of the act also. This guy, who happens 2 b a failed Repo politician, also amazingly the treasurer of the repo party of Arkansas, claims Obamacare ruined his generations old business. Maybe it was that coke snorting nephew. Basically it’s been found out that the Kock Brothers and huge insurance conglomerates paid4 the ad. Lies. False representation.

            Obama haters now on the “don’t drill” bandwagon because he signed a bill allowing mapping of the ocean. “He intends2 drill someday,” said Boner, “@ the expense of ocean creatures and habitat. Just2 maximize profits4 oil companies. Bush would never have done that.”

            Jeb Bush chimed in, “as a former Governor of a state affected by the BP disaster I am uniquely qualified2 run Obama down. This arrogant black guy needs2 b impeached b4 his second term ends. We have Issa/Moron on it right now. And we need another Bush in there. Wars are ending, others beginning, we must act as the worlds leader in war, we must make preemptive strikes on evil nations with evil dark skinned religious wackos. In the white baby Jesus name I pray4 deforestation and discrimination.”

            Rand Paul mad @ Obama’s birthday vacation. “He’s so arrogant. Bush never, ever, and I’ll have my fact checkers back me up here, went on vacation. Never played golf. Hell, Obama’s the only black player ever on most of the courses he goes2. Except4 Tiger Woods, but he’s not really black. Crises in Gaza, Syria, Ukraine, Iraq… Obama’s fault. Obama’s fault. Obama’s fault. Obama’s fault.”

August 3 2014

Quiet Highland afternoon. Crazy ride over2 Northfork River yesterday.  Nice stream. Good crowd. It resembled Spring River in some ways. Cold clear water, throngs of floaters. There was less profanity except when bouncers over reached, causing problems when there was none. Short little prick bouncer wanna be cop.

            Daught Mill is a nice place, good scene. I wanted2 shoot the dam but they said there is rebar in the rocks that will tear a canoe up.

            Osage guardians held quiet court on Rock Bluffs facing east.

            Repo hypocrites @ it again. “We must end frivolous lawsuits against corporations and let hard working corporations go about the business of maximizing profits @ The expense of workers and the environment. That is why we must sue Obama.”

            Obama filed a countersuit against congress, alleging they were “douchebags.” Congress then filed a counter countersuit, saying a president cannot sue Congress, and demanded all access2 Obama’s computer. “And the passwords. 2everything, the girls MYspace and Michelle’s pinterest.” Darryl Issa "Moron," threatened, "Obama better lawyer up."

            Ted Cruz filed a separate law suit, essentially suing Obama4 being the Anti Christ.

            Lake Erie spilling toxic water n2 drinking reservoirs. “We must destroy the EPA,” said one key repo, “let industry police itself, we know the problems and how2 cover them up.”

            Charlie Sheen cavorted naked in Toxic water, a greenish hue developed around him and fought off the pollution, slowly growing as he grinned.

            Los Angeles responds2 the extreme water shortage by wasting millions of gallons in a main rupture @ UCLA, the new basketball court is ruined. Maybe it’s just retribution4 a town that has no lake sporting the Lakers. A massive crater in Sunset boulevard caused traffic2 crawl. Charleton Heston complained that “vagrants and college scum were trampling roses.”

            Factory blast in China kills sixty eight. Landslide in Nepal kills eight. Battles, bombings kill seventeen Iraqi soldiers. Azerbajain/Armenia fighting kills fifteen. Libyan violence swells. Syrian rebels hit Lebanon. Hamas talks a no go. Ebola cases rising. Pryor/Cotton contest called a toss up. Politics as usual.   

            Early 2moro I have hairy shtuff2 do. A dead side of a big oak needs removed. Over the house and wires. Strapping on the boots.

August 1 2014

Sweet rest in Highland. Early this morning I was up a tall oak over a house on a high hill near Hardy. What a view. The tree was in slight decline, had been butchered years b4. Ginger Lee we lowered dead branches and old stubs. Soon that1 was done, on2 the next one. A very tall oak was dead by a house. Extensive rigging and fretting, careful planning and cutting got that one down safe, no damage. Sweet tough morning in Hardy.

    Lunch @ Down Home really nice. Look4 VICKY MCGEE  in Mountain HOme this weekend.

            Repos mad @ Ted Cruz. Ted messed up the immigration deal, dividing them up, now it looks like congress is full of dysfunctional, partisan douche bags.

            I read this letter from a reader of the Jonesboro Sun saying that bike lanes were a propaganda scheme2 force people yada yada. Wow. I rarely call women dick bags but I would love2 know how much this bitch weighs.

Quiet Highland dusk. What a run2 Black Rock. We had2 push it a little 2ward the end. But that’s true4 all of us. Eleven Point joined with Spring River and slowed down. Very little compression and noticeable current. Then joining with Current and Black still very little speed, we had2 work it, there was no wind though. Dinner @ Bob and Sandy’s original barbque quite right.

            Last night was a Singer/Songwriter deal @ James Ranch. We pulled up our boats and set camp fifty feet from four bands. Epic night indeed. Bands like SAUCE, EPIPHANY, members of BLACK RIVER PEARL, and LOST CAUSE.  Quite a night @ a very special place.

            Eleven Point rolled nicely, not particularly up, avoiding trees in the water the only skill needed as there are few waterfalls. Kilo Vista 2day is a about a two foot drop, a man made dam, wide and easy, fun. Bonny perks up @ Myrtle as she was raised there by a smiling youngish fifty something rest his soul.

            We put in @ Riverton Missouri. The river comes out of the National Forest about there, through the narrows2 Myrtle and the State Line. Eagles and kingfishers, hawks of all sizes, Egrets and Herons, turkeys and quail, crows, blue jays and songbirds chirping and whistling often.

            Gar and red horse eased by, spooked by canoes finally. Darrel was the fishing champ, he caught a fifteen inch smallmouth and several others, I landed only one over a foot.

            It rained lightly all last night, but we were rocking out so it didn’t matter. And 2day it drizzled, no matter.

            Sweet Eleven Point run.

            Ted Cruz backs off his allegations that Obama is destroying Israel after a visit by the FBI. “Obstruction is best done as a group,” he smiled sheepishly, “when I am the only one out there fabricating evidence and falsely libeling a good man, it never looks as good as when all of the Repos on Capital hill do it 2gether. I mean is Obama the Anti Christ?” He made an apples and oranges gesture, “we shall c. There is no “me” in Holy War.”

July 28? 2014

Eleven Point slides by silent. Birds hee and haw, hay cutters loud going like hell. Nice day chasing kingfishers.

            I change position reclining back or stretching 4ward. It seems tree work helps.

           Ted Cruz no longer blocking a series of ambassadorial and other diplomatic nominees. He was seen in assless chaps, strutting the lobby of congress with a horse whip.

            Birds call. Chortles and whistles back and forth. We didn’t fish in Missouri(wink wink), but once n2 Arkansas I was quickly the champ bcos I landed an eleven inch small mouth. So as we cruised sweet cold Eleven Point finally Darrel caught some good fish, one legal, over fourteen inches. Darrel likes his smallmouth the way he likes his women, over fourteen. Crows call.

            As expected, I was in deep nature appreciation mode quickly. We reeled off miles, four an hour as Eleven Point compressed and accelerated or spread as geology dictated.

            Netanyahoo, “expect war2 continue. Judge: proceed with sale of Clippers.

            Lightning hits man in California, same day Maine hit by tornado.

Next day. Bright morning. Bonny eager2 hit it. Crows on high alert. We soon c y. A huge bald eagle wheels2 avoid them. When he hides we get great views of him because he is loathe2 fly and expose himself2 the crow pack.

            Lunch downstream of Dalton Arkansas. Cows in the riverL Maybe a chance of storms.

            We’re lookn4 BLACK RIVER PEARL @ James Ranch!

July 28 2014

And we wind down. Nice morning topping and removing a red oak. And some landscaping, chipping… Yada yada. Busy lately but that’s all going away when I set float on Eleven Point. Tension will wash away. BLACK RIVER PEARL will rock us.

           It’s been a good run. Politics be damned. “Obama invented coal power. Under Bush we used only clean, renewable, recycled energy sources.” Said one Repo with certainty. “Obama is getting us n2 wars,” said another, “under Bush we had eight years of world peace.” He corrected himself hours later, saying he was misquoted, he really said, “Bush had whirled peas 4 lunch.” Chumps like this Krauthammer and others: “Obama needs2 get us involved in new wars. He needs 2put his ten gallon hat on and be the world’s sheriff like Bush was.” Fox joined in, or lead the way, with diatribes similar this, “we r a failed miserable state thanks2 this arrogant, misguided, terrible president. Fox and the repos have supported him through thick and thin, we try and try2 help the environment and stop war and aggression, bigotry and prejudice, but he insists on destroying America2 help commie/muslim organizations he secretly heads.”

July 27 2014 

Hot morning. Sleepin n. U betcha. Finally some extra z time. And my body used it well. I must get out and ride. Bear down. I’m fit and tan. Healthy, properly proportioned. I must lean n2 the wind and shoulder weight of humanity. Feed the dogs.

       I’m thinking about working this Sunday. Do Monday’s job, and most of the rest of the week is flexible, so I may hit Eleven Point a few days.

       Ah, Eleven Point. Twisted wonderful bitch. Sweet cold natural restless river love. I will get the rhythm quickly this time, within a hour I will be in deep river mode. Singing WHITESNAKE 2 Bonny I will recline checking balance and cell phone 4gotten.

       I have serious stuff Friday. Rebel Tree Care never sleeps.

July 26 2014

Crickets serenade. Deep rest now. Zoning down. I’ve been on the river right up till this late night. We stayed @ High Falls shooting them umpteen times. This after a fairly quick morning from Dam Three. I had a great group from over by Mountain View. We covered sixteen miles well. There was little grumbling and a few mishaps, but we did the miles. I mean we checked out the DJ a few songs as Rich powered up. Clusters of early rafters complicated our first few rapids, soon we were ahead of the pack. We had2 rock on2 make Hardy. I just thought of a new “reality” show. Making Hardy.

      Or Forty Islands. About a grand Cherokee Chief feared in Virginia, allied with French, until the French lose the war. Allied with England, of late Great Britain, Until England loses the war. Allied with Spanish governors and captains, formal truce, latitude lines, thirty six thirty I believe, would separate Missouri from Arkansas. Spanish thinkers believed fostering Cherokee movement n2 Arkansas would fracture and weaken the Resilient Osages who truly held power on Southfork.

      Forty Islands could be the name of my miniseries. Wait, it’s already named Water Spider.

      Tired. Gotta go.

But no, Making Hardy could be about binge drinking contestants who must party hard on upper Spring until the last second then canoe or kayak2 Hardy. Or rafts raging until after dark, kayaks with serious daylight issues because they drank2 much. Many Islands and Spring River Oaks and the like don't count. Any drunken foolish alcoholic can make those places. A drunk triathlon deal where where the winners come back next Saturday. And the losers. Wait. That is reality. But reality shows aren't "reality." Except4 Clash of the Ozarks. y do u think Kerry Wayne had2 buy that automatic weapon?

June 25 2014

Finally I lay me down2 sleep. Long day. Early this morning It was a hollow dead red oak very near primary electric wires on a high hill over Spring River. Precautions were implemented. Soon the beast was slain. On2 another job nearby, numerous dogwoods, crabapple, a redbud it seems… On eaves and wires…ON2 another job this hot morning as it was getting. Reducing elms over the roof of a nice home near Spring River. Also cherries and dogwoods, northern magnolia, removing hickory… Now I have a truckload of chips and pieces 4my erosion control project shaping up nicely. Nice week of Rebel Tree Care…

   Now it is Rebel River Adventures, I have a very large group that seems serious about doing the entire river 2moro. Not entire, but the old standard trip of Dam 3 near Mammoth Spring2 Hardy. Sixteen miles. Sweet. Nine hours of river bliss. We will run well ahead of the pricks and crazies. We won’t c titties, we will listen 2 the murmuring, sighing, roaring.

   BAD BRAD and the gang will be doing there thing, 2b honest I was going2 join them with my paddle board or something, but this paying gig came up. I smell dead presidents.

   Ted Cruz implying Obama is on a Holy War against Christianity because the FAA stopped flights n2 Israel after a rocket blast near the airport. Another passenger jet downed yesterday by the way. Ted the head says Obama needs 2 base his decisions on policy and fact and not political spin. Classic. The kettle calling the pot black. Ted Cruz. What a sick joke. Leering, sneering, idiot fucker Ted Cruz.

   Paul Ryan screwing the crippled poor and pregnant. He has this weird master plan that flies in the face of conventional ways, this deal where people who need  help talk2 like this counselor and he decides how2 help them. Rest assured the disabled must demonstrate the ability2 bend over backwards and jump through hoops. The poor must pay big, the immobile travel far, the blind must pass eye exams. @ least the deaf will not hear anything bad about Paul Ryan. I guarantee u every single argument ever made against the affordable care act will stack up like bricks of hypocrisy against the Ryan Plan. But those things will no longer be brought up. The dismal failure train wreck will level out, and Paul Ryan and the repos will take the credit. I will get the blame.

    The counselor will send the poor2 his uncle's fat camp. The counselor will invest in drug testing equipment and mandate all welfare recipients get tested. The counselor will have pals with rehab facilities, the counselor will sentence many2 rehab. The counselor will use a horse whip and strut tile hallways in assless chaps. The counselor will find jobs4 mothers of seven washing dishes4 two dollars an hour a two hour bus ride from their home. The counselor will sell excess food stamps4 cigarettes, split WIC money with teen mothers, accept kickbacks from disabled veterans, and funnel unemployment funds of laid off air traffic controllers n2 private off shore accounts.

    @ The top of the pyramid will be Paul Ryan. The all seeing eye searching, seeking a king's ransom. Paul Ryan will be the flashing eye of Cyclops, lighting cobblestone streets with flickering lazers as carts of prime pork barrels crush skinny hungry protestors, greased wheels grinding bones n2 dust and meal.

   Working on an Eleven Point run next week. Several days. I need it yo. Veg out. I am a vagitarian uno.

July 24 2014

Fairly hot. Long day. First it was trimming cedar, oak, and shrubs on Lake Sequoyah. Small job, then a few errands. But I gotta call from a wonderful couple from Cape Girardo Missouri, they wanted2 do a river adventure. So we did. Upstream challenge. Nice afternoon on Spring River.

      Facebook circulating typical right wing trickery about Obama.

http://www.tpnn.com/2014/07/21/video-obama-signs-new-executive-order-restricting-religious-freedom/ 

The link reads “Obama signs executive order restricting freedom of Religion”. But if u check it out, it’s just2 make sure government contractors are not discriminating against gays. It’s called separation of church and state. No bullying. The headline is just a bait and switch by quasi moral tricksters of trillionaires. I checked out Fox4 just a minute and the hot blonde is all, “stay tuned2 listen2 Obama brag about how many people he’s killed.” I’m like yeah right. Then she’s offering her fair and balanced blonde opinion, “he won’t go n2 Iraq again becos it would b an admission of failure.” So that's the reason he works hard2 end and avoid war.  Feaux Noise. Randolph Hearst, foster father of racism and greed, the inventor of yellow journalism, would be proud.

 Marco "POLO" Rubio tired of bigotry against bigots. "Bigots r people2. If u try2 bully and shun bigots u urself r a bigot. This intolerance of white supremacists is intolerable. Unborn children should b worshipped and protected if born in the United States."

      Boehner says “trust us.

 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/07/24/obamacare-plan-john-boehner_n_5618180.html

We’re working on a replacement4 Obamacare. But it’s an election year, and since we still don’t have a plan we will just use our unlimited money2 saturate all markets with attack ads that slander and libel the other guys.”

      GOP decides Obama can protect the border with half of the money he requested. “I’ll deputize Prick Perry,” said Obama, “he’ll clean up a large part of it in his off hours.”

      Karl Rove all folksy funny lying about the IRS probe. “I invented the lost email excuse. That’s old school. I wrote the book on stonewalling congressional hearings, defrauding and cheating taxpayers and spinning it2 look like the dumocrats did it, and don’t 4get creating off shore tax havens2 conceal illegal campaign donations. and laundering illegal drug profit. U think the IRS is as smart as I am?  U want Dick Cheney2 shoot u in the face? I’m tired of these smart ass liberal bleeding heart tree huggers always pulling the Freedom of Information bullshit. Accountability and transparency. Lol. That’s fine until a shit storm hits. And the shit storm will hit. And then we blow the  Southern Kurds off the map. In God’s Holy name I pray.”

      We saw an osprey eagle flying about. Gar and sucker moved quickly, turtles loathe2 leap from sunny logs. I swam high falls, big currents tugged and tricked as I raced.

      Seven hundred dead in Israel vs. Hamas. A rocket hit Israel near the airport. @ least a dozen airplanes downed in the last few weeks. Several 777’s. Russia and Ukraine stepping it up. More importantly Jane Fonda selected4 the new Simpsons movie.

      The drought more intense than thought. Groundwater drying up @ alarming rates. Water cops and neighbors narking. Is it the end times?

http://news.yahoo.com/shocking-underground-water-loss-us-drought-185439412.html

    Green Goo killing fish in a stream in southern ARkansas. "Regulation kills jobs," shouted a repo spokesmodel. "As minimum wage job providers, it is our mandate2 maximize profits without arrogant Obama's EPA watching over our shoulders.  Huge industries can police themselves just fine and u can't prove otherwise in a court of law because we have the most vicious team of lawyers red e2 bury u in a mountain of confusing, conflicting, contradicting false witness. Cyanide leaching, price fixing, food additives, plea agreements, sorbates, false manufacturing records, FDA approval, bribes, False annual reports, suppressing and eliminating competition. conspiracy, mail fraud, kickbacks, Medicare billings, diversionary tactics, witness tampering, destruction of evidence and much more. But we r absolutely against abortion. In Jesus' name we pray."

http://www.evilgopbastards.com/

July 23 2014

Thunder. A little rain. Huge towering thunderheads. Strange varying clouds and pink linings, gray banks, charcoal slabs… C’mon sky, open up. I’m ready4 some rain.

       Early this morning I was over a fine home on Lake Thunderbird. Reducing a huge oak, it went good, no time consuming snags or incidents. Reducing large branches over the roof, lowering, etc. Then a hickory over the house, I removed a codominant stem. A redbud had storm damage, another crowding the driveway, other hickories, other oaks, an ash over the water… It look gr8 now!

       I took the chips across the cove2 finish out some landscaping.

       What a hot humid morning. Rough and tough Rebel Tree Care.

       No open mic 2nite. But I may jam.

       Asa Hutchison and Mike Ross “debated” last night. From what I gathered, It was basically, Hutchison railing against The Affordable Care Act, and that Ross’ big blasphemy was that he had voted4 it. I’m thinking go on the offensive, but he’s like, “no I did not.” He’s all ashamed of it. Dick.

       “I know things,” said Hutchison crypticly, “my superiors will be amused2 rage @ ur insubordination. One call2 Oliver North and u won’t be running 4 n e thing.”

       Now big chill winds. Heavy drops of rain. Squalls. Waves of big drops. Trees waving. Yes.

July 22 2014

IT’s getting hot. Last week was sure nice, and in some ways it helps now as we crawl 2ward triple digits every day looks like. This morning was a couple of landscaping jobs, replacing a wall crushed by a tree, not my fault, this was a wind storm damage, and stabilizing a raw run off area near trees on Lake Thunderbird. We use chips and landscaping timbers, rebar and nails. Nice quiet morning in Cherokee Village.

        2moro won’t b so quiet, I will trim quite a few on Lake Thunderbird, we will chip the branches.

        No open mic 2moro. My guitarist got ripped off and he’s got a lot going on. D1 is the shizzle though, he’ll persevere. I needed a break anyway, hot summer it’s hard2 load up, haul it, set up and tear down and haul it and unload it4 free. And I’m not good enough2 charge money.

        Prick Perry taking charge. He’s calling in the national guard2 stop children. “Don’t give us your weary, your poor, your disenfranchised, Texas ain’t no melting pot. I was already sick of all the Mexicans, I have2 court their vote, but little Bolivian children don’t vote, and sure as hell not Repo. We gonna Kent State their asses. Waco. Yeah. No I didn’t request help from Obama. I hinted around about it. I’m the damn governor of Texas, I shouldn’t have2 kiss his arrogant ass4 a little help over here. No. Yeah it’s a political stunt cos I’m running4 president, if it goes well it should get me up2 eight or nine percent, if I kick box Joe Biden there’s another couple points, Jump from a helicopter n2 Ukraine, another couple points. Get the Holy Spirit @ the Southern BAptist convention and call Obama the Evil doer, eight or nine points. Nail Wendy Davis on a pool table, I may lose a couple points but damn I want2 hit that hard.”

July 21 2014

Hard ride winds down this late afternoon. What a brutal job 2day. My feet were on the ground the whole day so that’s a huge stress off. But we got a lot done reclaiming a Cherokee Village landscape that has been in probate or otherwise neglected many years. Wisteria vine was the worst culprit. Vines plagued most of the day. I was expecting it, but that didn’t make it any better. We removed locust, trimming numerous cedars with long lower branches all over the yard and old landscaping plants. We trimmed or removed persimmon, dogwood, redbud, oak…….

    The day wore on, vines continuing2 plague… Luckily temps stayed reasonable, like under ninety. Now the folks have a great view of the South Golf Course, @ one time one of the highest rated golf courses in the state. Sounds simple now, but brutal day it was.

    I have a busy day looking @ work 2moro, nice job on Lake Thunderbird Wednesday, then probably open mic @ Copper Feather that night. I need2 expand my operation, add some amps, get even louder. Lol. I have2 wait4 the old people in the dining room2 leave cos it scares them.

    So if I can get freed up by noon or so I should hit the river. Be 1.

    Repos blaming Obama4 the illegal immigrant children crossing over. They say he got an email about it. No mention of the emails George Bush received pryor2 nine eleven.

    “Every child’s life is sacred,” said Prick Perry, “except illegal immigrant children coming n2 Texas. Obama started this with his socialist ideas and I’m thinking he okayed the Russkies shooting down that jet. He is illegitimate, he has no birth certificate, prolly no drivers license. That blacky better stay out of Texas. We got ropes. I’ll jump on my horse and drag his black ass back2 Chicago. In the Holy name of Jesus Christ I pray.”

    After the speech the Heritage Foundation sent him a big check, the Kock brothers guaranteed him funds2 saturate each and every market in the United States with negative attack ads.

    Ben Quayle twittered, "the whore will not rise. We as Christians must kill Muslims."

July 20 2014

Quiet morning. Ecovery. Crazy day on Upper Spring. I put in @dam3 with a batch of locals and we caught Rich in the DJ raft, relaxing and reclining in a thong, I'm sorry, throng of a couple hundred of his closest friends surrounding. Quickly Rich was in his speedo. He gave us a shout out. We hung a while then moved on down stream2 hang with BAD BRAD. Then we swung around his bunch most of the way2 Howard’s. Hanging @ Howard’s quite a while b4 threading the needle back2 Hardy. Assholes and elbows. Somebody tried2 avoid the state trooper road block and took out somebody’s yard and totaled their truck. Big trouble.

     I may work 2day. An attractive young lady needs her bush trimmed. I told her seventies bush is back, but she says she wants it trimmed. I’m gonna do it Japanese style. Samurai. Oy.

     I’ve got good rough and tough Rebel Tree Care lined up. I’m a simple man. With a simple plan.

     I need2 get around and feed dogs and cats. Go pick up a check. Visit Eagle Crest. Piddle.

     I’m not dynamic or magnetic. But I’m ok with that. I stand strong. I am antidisestablishmentarian in my core. Give me a river and a boat I’m good2 go. As long as I have the paddle.

     Spring River is tiring4 me. Endless parade of drunks. Endless crazy talk. I stay close2 the DJ not because I like the loud music so much. But when I’m close I can’t talk 2 others. And that works. I am shunned by plastic sluts, shaking flabby asses and posturing princesses. Dudes with beads zig zag looking4 tits. Little kids try2 offer beads2 chicks with lots of beads. Jello shot containers float along. Empty jello shot syringes. Litter is getting way worse now that Leland is dead. The hermit collected thousands of cans each Saturday. Now that he is gone, many of those thousands of cans end up in the river. @ Riverside asshole security tells u not2 step foot on their banks. U can stand there one inch in the water blah blah, It’s irritating having them act so smug. Not the security guards personally, they are usually cool, it's just what they are told2 do. Truth is u can access their banks legally2 the normal high water mark. Some1 needs2 challenge them. I just don’t want2 mess with it.

     I would sell my canoes and trailer, and van. I offer a cheap alternative and fresh perspective but usually get cheapskates, drunks, and assholes. My people get in fights @ Howard’s, generally cause more problems than they help. They embarrass me sometimes. I’m tired of it. It’s been a good ten years of the purple buffaloes. I would sell out and get one canoe. Do upstream challenges alone. Ride mountain bikes. The whole guided canoe trip thing is just wrong. My vision was2 help people get it right, help correct some of the problems on Spring River I grew up watching. I give up. Rafts are taking over, I couldn’t shoot even the most simple rapid without rafts and rented kayaks being stupid in front of me causing jams. Any responsible canoer has their own boats it seems. 4 every good group of appreciative floaters I have five groups of trash filled cigarette water spitting and cursing @ everyone,  spinning in their own drug and alcohol fueled  little whirlwind of frustration. I can’t do it n e more. Look4 Rebel River Adventures2 quietly disappear. But I’ve hinted @ that b4.

     4 that matter Erosion and Panadox could go away2. But two things r constant in this world. Rebel Tree Care is a force4 nature. And I don’t think Rebel Word will die until I do. Two out of five ain’t bad. Three in the stink. Two in the black. If u figure out what that means get back2 me.

    I'm still racing from swimming after twelve hours of sleep. I like2 wedge myself in the falls making a huge peacock tail of lit up splash behind me. U gotta go like hell, plenty of air intake when u get a chance, eyes wide, eyeballs 2 a side as other floaters endanger u, take off downstream like some do and I do, u swim @ like forty five miles an hour, swing over2 the back swirl and back n2 Howard's. The whole area is a class two point five rapid, and factor the intangibles like alcohol, sex, music, crowds, others I can't name this second, I think we could upgrade Saddler FAlls as a three. Now u put a stripper pole right on top of a class three rapid, well, u got a situation. I like2 swim over2 the rocks and mingle with commoners a while, Rich is over there2 the later hours. His speedo was still on last I heard. BAD BRAD carries on @ Howard's. He and Rich banter, air banjo, or trade naughty songs. N e way I'm zigzagging between rafts and crafts. I tied a rope to a snag and tried2 surf, but that got dangerous quick when floaters almost got tangled up in it. I'm still coursing adrenalin. Other times I sat on the far wing of the deck over the water in full sun, reclining back, or parked with a couple of purple canoes directly below the main stages, eye level with booty.  Howard's Hard Rock. The man is a legend.

    Prick Perry stumping continually in Iowa. "I'm not gonna say if I'm runnin' fer president or not," he says. "I just like corn." Asked how he would stem illegal immigration of children he quipped, "give them the death penalty."

    Asa Hutchinson gearing up4 a nasty negative saturation election, fully funded by trillionaires. "Obama has nearly destroyed this nation by being black. Regulations are killing jobs. 4 the future of our children we must pollute the water and air as much as possible. We must scorch the earth with napalm, but drones r immoral." Surprised @ this stance, a reporter asked4 clarification: "ONly the HOly God creates life. Recreating in a laboratory, life from a speck of DNA is wrong." When the reporter told him he was referring2 clones," Hutchison said "oops. No. Yeah, drones r good, we can kill Muslims with unmanned drones and we don't lose a single American life. That's a win win 4 bigoted holy warriors and huge war/pollution."

July 17 2014

Another cool day. Sweet. Fog was lifting off Lake Thunderbird as we arrived2 the job. Quickly a rotten red oak was on the ground, then it was trimming many trees4 a better view. Some of this involved rigging and roping above a boat and dock and patio and lights…. Then it was way up a tall white oak over the house, rigging numerous mid sized branches, slight reduction… Then a big dead red oak(recurring theme) needed removal, we got that down and cut up, a few miscellaneous trims and boom. Job done. Rebel Tree Care going strong…

      Last night was open mic @ Copper Feather. EROSION in house.  It was a decent night, we rocked, I was a little dissatisfied like all great artists, but that’s just the way it is. SHAGGY filled in nicely with his roster of nineties classics. DAWNY, DANIEL, CARI and others did quick cameo’s, LITTLE ELVIS  and DEWAN big players. Nice night. Late night. Drama. yada yada. Did I say I was up very early?

I finished the day with landscaping. Water purification and erosion control project. My chipper is fixed now and spitting out fine chips. I don't waste them. I haul them all, unload them by hand. Place and measure each and every fork or shovel full of hundreds of thousands. It is my time, with my dogs, @ my creek, with deer and turkey and coyotes and deep woods... Trickle and babble of tiny creek comforting. Old Cherokee Place haunted with ghosts dancing.

      2moro it’s peach on a roof. Also southern magnolia, redbud, mimosa… And a dead pine. Get ‘er dun ya’ll.

We stopped off @ Bojangles 4 dinner tuesday and found an awesome band. Check out FRAMING THE RED.

July 16 2014

Birds singing. Nice. Cool temps this afternoon. What  a nice morning. Blue collar guys smiling. Early we got2 a job in Cherokee Village. Instantly trimming or removing chinkapin oak over parking, cherry, southern magnolia, service berry, rose of Sharon, cedar, hackberry mulberry, elm… B4 we were done I was way up a post oak over the house, reducing… Solid Rebel Tree Care job.

    Yesterday was a long day of helping friends and family remodel an old family home in Walnut Ridge. We did some rebuilding and painting. Good group effort. Worthwhile project.

    Now it is open Mic. EROSION in house. It will be loud. Obnoxious @ times. I will feel rocked. No posers. Yeah right.

    Darryl Issa “Moron” in the news. He has manufactured a case against the Obama administration. He will frame them, it is his Holy Grail. This latest1 is something about the White House’s political moves. “I don’t care if Obummer and the boys r busy avoiding war and holocaust, I need them2 jump through some hoops4 yet another witch hunt. Only republican Presidents get2 do the things he does. I will smear his name or my name is not Darryl Issa “moron.”

July 14 2014

Storms. Dogs jumping around. We got three jobs done b4 it started. Well, two and a half. First we had a dead red oak over2 Horseshoe Bend. The guy wanted it cut high up so his hammock hook was still there. He’s a state champ, dear friend. His hammock hook is still in place. I left the stump up seven feet or so. My height definitely helped on that cut. The short pricks  would have had2 spike up a couple feet and it would have been more dangerous. Then it was another dead red oak(recurring theme), again in Horseshoe Bend, again4 an old friend. But these weren’t social calls. This was dead serious shtuff, Rebel Tree Care, Insurance certificate.

    Then it was back over here2 Cherokee Village. A lady bought a real nice scarlet oak in a burlap ball and wanted it planted just right. Rebel Tree Care2 the rescue. Rain cooled us off digging in harsh rocky clay soil, plus I think rain kind of puts a blessing on tree planting, keeps every thing moist and fosters root growth immediately I feel. Regardless, rain while planting is good.

    Yesterday was surfing. I took a paddle board2 the river and piddle paddled around. I was a little2 big4 it but lighter people and kids had a blast with it. A little Frisbee and surfing just like I was in California or something.

    So, I have a good week in place ready2 sweat, bleed, cry or scream, whatever it takes 2 get the jobs done. I’ve got large dead trees, and numerous2 prune or trim. Stay tuned.

July 13 2014

TONY SPINNER   in house @ Copper Feather the last two nights. LED house over yonder. TONY does Angel from Montgomery. He has this killer young drummer. VICKY MCGEE’s son JACOB. BRENT kicks ass @ bass, nimble and sure, proper level and cadence, vast knowledge of TONY’s repertoire. I wanted them2 do Her Love has no Chains, or whatever it’s titled, She got a roof that don’t leak, when the rain is falling down. She gotta place I can sleep lawd, It’s like rollin’ a 7, every time I roll the dice…” But they wouldn’t because I told them it reminded me of a woman I loved and might make me cry. So they didn’t’ play it, but I also told them Angel From Montgomery made me cry2, but they did play that; both nights actually. LAUREN did it Monday night in California. Lol, I should have imitated Cuba Gooding in Jerry McGuire, “your’e not gonna make me cry TONY". TONY and I r buds. I mean this guy basically took DAVID LEE ROTH'S place in a band. He's my hero. TONY rocks it way well. He prays bruisy.

    I’m a little wound up. I mean I’ve had a girlfriend4 fifteen of the last sixteen years. But not right now. And it is a stress not having another person2 use.

    Hungover Games is genius.

    I keep searching4 The Water Spider. N2 the sun. Actually I’m losing my tan. Skipped the river 2day. I still need2 do the paddleboard deal. And a canoe trip. Maybe. I will end the summer strong, I will revisit the nineties. I think we may hit Eleven Point4 many days soon. I did a quick bike run here in Highland 2day. Soon I expect some mountain bikers2 show4 a challenge. Ride2 Bayou Access on Upper Spring near Mammoth Spring from Town Center Cherokee Village. Canoe 2 Spring River Camp and Canoe(the old beach Club Barbeque). Quite a day, but we r some old gamers.

    I started @ shortstop in the Senior HIgh District Championship game as a ninth grader. I wasn’t the only ninth grader2 start or contribute, but I had a knack4 gobbling up ground balls and instantly tossing the ball2 another player. When ur a ninth grader playing with seniors u better deliver. Malcom Long, Roger Nicholson, intense, hard nosed, old school players with raging passion2 be the best. Jamieson was a ninth grader, starting many games 2ward the end of the season. French, like Jamieson, started many games as ninth graders, then every single game4 the next three seasons, including a State Championship, a State runner up, and a record over four years that probably didn’t total more than six losses 2 one hundred wins.

    I was sandwiched between two all state shortstops, Jay Hansen b4 me and Sandy Hall after. But I did manage2 start around forty games in that fantastic span of wins. Our Little League program had similar success in previous years,  going something like one hundred twenty and six or something insane like that, @ one time one of the elite programs in the United States.

    When I was twelve our only loss came in the district finals. I batted lead off and jacked a homer over the fence. I wore red canvas cleats. I made a diving catch. I was a superstar. But I’m a team player. Soon after that my body could not get down the first base line fast enough. Other players could beat me by a full step. And that’s a lot of base hits over the course of a season. Me being a little better fielder did not outweigh getting beat down the line.

    In football I was starting tail back in seventh grade. I threw more touchdowns from tail back then our quarterback. But again, I was getting slow it seemed, or the others got faster. I could reverse direction, use play savvy moves, use heart and desire2 compete, though, I managed a starting position on the best Highland junior high defense ever. Then starting as a sophomore I missed a tackle and pretty much ended my career. A humorous story explains why but I won’t tell it now.

    I was consistent in basketball. I always got seven rebounds, sometimes eight, sometimes six, I always got fourteen points, sometimes thirteen, sometimes fifteen, and I always got six assists, sometimes five, sometimes seven. I was voted most improved, best defense, most assists in basketball and baseball also.

    Now I limp. In my twenties I could literally dunk a basketball from the free throw line. I played softball a lot, great memories. My advice2 a young hot shot basketball player? 2 right handed players I would insist. Get very good @ left handed layups and passing. The other will come automatic.

    As a team leader I sucked. Finally getting my shot I used comedy and distraction2 prepare4 games. It didn’t work very good, we lost half our games after going like seventy five and three with Jay Hansen @ the helm. Pre game prayer and visualization might have gotten us several more victories.

    I want2 play old man ball. No contact twenty one. Shoot arounds. Horse. Or in softball they have this ball that u can’t hit hard enough2 really hurt someone but it throws like a regular ball.

    Then I'm watching these little kids in the outfield of the Major League HOme Run derby and there a bunch of kids catching, or supposed2 catch, the pop ups that don't go out. But they suck. They continually let the ball hit the ground. My people would have been playing five hundred, leaping high2 out reach other players and snatch the ball. 2 let a pop up hit the ground was tatamount2 treason.

    I’m rambling. Peace.

July 11 2014

Breezy afternoon, trying2 rain since day light off and on, but blows over b4 getting wet.  Kind of like some women. Another Monday this Friday4 Rebel Tree Care. Early I was over2 Ravenden. Up a huge oak, way up fifty and sixty feet, a big upper branch was hanging from the recent wind storm. On the way down I reduced over the roof, technical rigging and skill a must. Of course I was spikeless. Then a Bradford pear needed some clearance, that went quick. I had more problems with my old chipper, this delayed us, but it’s just a thing.

       On2 another job in Hardy. A declining box elder over Spring River needed trimming. It’s probably doomed, I sliced a bunch of ancient deadwood out. The green side didn’t look2 good. But @ least now the dead won’t fall on swimmers and fishermen. Standing on that leaning tree with the lazy green water moving slowly below I almost unclipped my climbing harness and plunged head first. It would have been sweet.

       Now I must enjoy. I cannot change some things. I can only march on. Be myself. Even if that means isolation. I’m a seething steam vent on an island. @ the bottom of the ocean.  Just relax.  Do a few estimates, line up next week. I want2 go canoing 2moro. I’m thinking Dam 3 in the morning. Then we got lower Spring Sunday. MIKE sings @ Eagle Crest Sunday morning.

       Prick Perry in the news: “yes, I feel in my heart we should allow grade schoolers 2 bring fully automatic rifles with hair triggers2 school. Hell they may not have time2 go home and change clothes after rabbit hunting.  If everyone carries guns there will be less gun violence. Who the hell was Ghandi? We ain’t Damn Canadians or Euro’s, am I right? Can I get an Amen? They can’t touch our murder rate. Americans r bad ass. If u come2 Texas u better b packin’.” He was interrupted when Austin police shot a toddler with a cell phone seventeen times.

       Paul “whatever the Heritage Foundation is sellin’ I’m buyin” Ryan was @ it again, caught on a taped conversation, “No. Don’t lower gas prices. Keep them up around five a gallon, and don’t 4get2 destroy those electric car battery warehouses, and kill the inventors of better batteries. Yeah. No plant some protestors in the hemp parade, I want them really drunk, and get me some people2 leap2 their deaths from tall buildings wearing pro marijuana shirts. Yeah, the huge green leaf ones. Yeah, about a dozen should keep Michigan militantly anti pot another few months. And pad those stats. Look, if u have a car wreck, and u smoked pot twenty nine days ago, well, duh, It’s a marijuana related crash. Use common sense Eric.  I don’t believe u. U only have a few months left here, u need2 double down on the evil doing. This is the big time. Now go fabricate evidence and sabotage America.” Sound of breaking glass. “Now!”

July 10 2014

Nice hot Rebel Tree Care morning. Monday4 me this Thursday. After a late start we got over2 Ash Flat, a dead hickory stood in the center of a nice landscape @ a fine home over Big Creek. I 4got2 tell them that I have canoed from there all the way2 Strawberry River and beyond. A quick trim of a storm damaged oak and we were off2 Cherokee Village, trimming crepe myrtle, juniper, oak, hickory, cherry, dogwood, redbud, Bradford pear…. They are regular customers so the trimming was light, few stubs 2b removed, stubs not only r a breech of ANSI standard, they complicate a working arborists job by multiplying the number of cuts and pruning decisions. Good morning in Arkansas.

       Last night was a solid Open Mic @ Copper Feather. EROSION in house.  No other musicians showed, so we were free2 make noise all night, ripping n2 four sets or so of originals. DAWNY, PAM, and VINI all joined in briefly with bits of lyric or songs read from smart phones. I felt rocked, and I think most others did2. But I’ll b honest. EROSION is not4 everyone. It’s hard and rough real blues noise. I’m no MIKE GRAY. My style turns music on it’s head. Not everyone gets it. And that’s ok.  No cover charge.

       So it’s unlax, I may have already shook the jet lag thing. Now I’m looking @ canoe trips. Many. I may do a walleye/volleyball tour. That reminds me I need2 get a new Frisbee. I don’t run and jump after Frisbees anymore, but I can still throw it well. Plus I’ve got access2 a paddle board I will try out this weekend. Bonny and the dogs and cats r glad I’m back. I feel well, my little place in the shade is just fine. I am an island.

       Looks like plenty of work knock on wood. I have quite a few estimates saved up. 2moro its trimming a gigantic oak in Ravenden. Then begins a long weekend in a canoe. On the river. In the sun. Or rain. No matter. I’ll b fishing and playing Frisbee, swimming. NO volleyball prolly, can’t have a blowout @ this stage. Got2 keep going right now. I missed mfis in may, I’ve seen California, now I must stand in the place where I live.

       Pace yo.

 Hundreds of tankers blown up and burned by the Taliban. A spokesman explained, "we just don't like tankers. They give us the creeps."

Sexual assault cases in the military way up. Bill O'reilly suck a pacifier in his mouth imitating a small baby crying, "wah wah wah. Liberal women always wining, look if u can't fight off a drunk killing machine u can't fight off the enemy."

    Obama figured out a way2 get the repos on board4 clean air and water. He denounced the EPA and called global warming a "hoax," and concerned citizens and scientists "alarmists and whackos." Repo powers clustered immediately on the Capital steps demanding that climate change and water pollution b escalated2 high priority. They accused Obama of being in cahoots with huge pollution and war, said the "left wing media is complicit."  "We r tired of this arrogant, war monger president. This pollution loving, corporate puppet career politician. Republicans in congress have long stood4 clean air and water, and battle4 the common man against corporate mind control and sabotage."

    Paul "out of my ass monkeys r flyin'" Ryan stood naked under a judges robe. With a massive gavel he pounded on a pure ivory table, spilling his tiger penis soup. "Hey Odummer. Nobody believes u. U r a known liar and hypocrite. U shame ur race. U shame the human race." He had2 stop his rant2 get ready 4 a crab puff luncheon with Michelle Obama.

July 9 2014

Nice quiet morning in Highland. Feeling wellness, rightness, whole. This is where I belong. I could conquer California @ my own pace, I just don’t want2.

       Israel and Palestine trading rocket attacks. Dozens dead. Obama escalating the war on illegal aliens. “U want a war mfer’s? Say hello 2 my little friend.” He chuckled a moment @ his unfunny Scarface reference. Repos were all over him, “we believe that each and every child’s life is precious, so send these children back2 a certain death or displacement.”

       Somali palace taken. “Samali” and “palace.” Nuff said. African church attacked. Vote tallies disputed by Afghan. The second place guy. Iraq2 try and form a government Sunday. “If not Sunday,” said one key leader, “then Monday, maybe Tuesday we will form a government.”

       Ted Cruz backing an investigation n2 Mississippi Tea Party loss. “I want the government out of our lives,” he said, “and 2do this I must travel from Texas in a helicopter and land in Mississippi2 look presidential.”

       New York2 put pot offenses on low level priority. “This sux,” said the police commissioner, “now we will never get that huge mega prison built.”

       Open Mic @ Copper Feather 2nite. MIKE GRAY should show, and I’m sure EROSION will make some noise. Good2 b back.

July 9 2014

And we roll. Safely back on Arkansas rocks.  Not much turbulence this time but I think the pilot was haveing2 much fun tilting back and forth, I think I heard him giggling shrilly. Good Google earth type views of Arizona and New Mexico, and I guess Catalina Island maybe. We took off from LAX headed out over the open ocean and I was like hey, even this dumb Arky knows we shouldn’t be flying west2 get2 Arkansas from California. I was about2 start a loud protest but I guess by then we were banking hard and heading back east. Dumb asses.

            Last night was THE LAUREN GRAY BAND! They did a killer showcase4 record execs and band savvy fans. I hung with MIXMASTER MIKE(THE BEASTY BOYS), and other bigwigs or Grammy winners.  MAGIC BRONSON and KILO VIRGA opened the show, KILO VIRGA wowed me with dramatic rock tunes similar EVANESCENCE. Beautiful blonde lead singer quite a presence.

            But LALA rocked the house this warm Hollywood night. The Hotel Café is a  cool place, good sound, and LALA wailed. Sweet and soulful she prowled the stage and jostled her new band of young Los Angeles prodigies, they did a nice charged up set. Then, 2 end the show LALA(LAUREN GRAY) invited her daddy(MIKE GRAY) onstage and they did a killer Angel from Montgomery. Sweet sweet night in Hollywood California.

            I rode Hollywood a couple times, Santa Monica boulevard cuts right through, and the Hollywood section of the street is the most entertaining until u get down about four blocks from the pier. I wanted2 check out Echo Park, The Whiskey and The Rainbow, I would love2 paddle board standing up or wind/kite surf . 4now it’s purple buffaloes on Spring River. The summer is just beginning4 me

July 7 2014

Showcase day. LALA and MIKE r2 play4 bigwigs this evening. I have been all over this town. I have held the dragon’s kettle and been forged by marrow of gr8 albatrosses. I have met lesbos, dagos, lesbo dagos, every manner of nation and ethnic strain except white people. I have body surfed on four separate beaches, made the scene @ the neighborhood bar on Winchester. What a sweet place with such sweet attractive young women from Thailand. Me likey.

        2moro we head4 Rockinsaw. Fayette’Nam, then on2 Smashed Flat/Hardly. The bright spot? Open Mic @ Copper Feather!

        Now I look 4ward2 l8 summer on Spring River. Cold water. I have trees2 trim and water2 paddle. I’m doing a mountain bike challenge soon, We will ride2 Bayou Access, canoe2 Hardy. Needless2 say the group is athletic.

        L.A. is full of beautiful women. Every disgruntled homecoming queen across the U.S. ends up here. But I sense an underlying hypocrisy, untapped by me.

        4instance water. They r all, “extreme drought.” “Don’t water your lawn @ noon.” I’m like don’t water your lawn @ all. Install native drought resistant plants so u don’t need2 water a lawn. Pepperdine University is a crown of hypocrisy, in the middle of eroding hills and good faith attempts @ smart landscaping, u c suddenly this massive green chem lawn with no sensible, sustainable bordering or Best Management Practice. This crown jewel of plantation thinking brought2 fruition, probably until some old white guy dies.

        We went2 China Town, or Korea Town, Downtown L.A. and also downtown Glendale. We sample local cuisine, I have some photos4 U! Not nearly as many as I should have, and some could get me busted but here goes:

        My girls @Winchester bar are lovely and talented: Kai(yum yum), Jan, SoMo, Anna, Apple, Lily, Judy…Listening2 them talk in Thai is fascinating as I am fluent in Thai and they don’t know this.

        I’m on California time, California dreaming, California is real. LALA land does exist.  Holly Weird. Left Coast. It’s all fitting. This is as far as u can go.

July 1 2014

Quiet Glendale evening. Nice day. Short Mountian Bike romp of downtown Glendale. Then I hit the neighborhood bar. Hot Asian chicks. Nice folks.

       I had flats. The cheap dream may be history. Cheap bikes are cheap. The Beverly Hills Huffy.

       So I may just take the bus2 Venice and walk a ways. I work on my airport walk, where u swing ur shoulders. It helps my hip. My pimp stride, cat stance, turkey trot, all help… But ripping off miles on a cheap bike is extreme yo.

Monday June 30 2014

Quiet Gendale afternoon. Weston in house.  LALA rehearsing, doing deals. Ecovery. Yesterday was a brutal surf set, three of four actually. I swam the wake! I do a preacher seat n2 a lay out as the wave is spinning me, I do a break dance underwater a minute then snap both legs down2 stand against raging current a moment, then stagger or lean n2 another, last millisecond kick and spin so my back takes the brunt. If it’s a double wave I can swim the curl2 dry sand @ times. I think people on the beach watching could feel me.

   Smaller rides lately, but I’m working on a tour of Burbank, maybe take a low trail over2 Hollywood, work over2 Venice cos Venice rocks.

   I need2 find the bike exchange. Give them my cheapo I bought. How I miss my mid level Treks. With big padded seats, smooth shifting and easy movement. I’m thinking take a bus2 Venice Boulevard, ride Venice Boulevard2 the beach, ride Venice Beach, Ride Venice Boulevard again, take the bus home. This may b the plan4 2moro. No I gotta do Burbank and Hollywood first. Venice Beach though, is sweet.

   Tens of thousands of beautiful women every age. Every character, male or female, every clown, every movie star, disguises r clever here, Pamela Anderson walks by every few minutes. That guy resembles Tony Danza, look @ that Asian Gymnast. Asian women all look like gymnasts here. Asian guys all look like nerds except4 a couple in tough Chinese Mafia I have a machine gun poses.

   I’m almost the only long haired man I have seen. MIKE is another though, we surf through security and police drawing eyebrows and uniforms seem2 appear around us often.

   We sample foods around town, cruise the canyons out lying, Malibu is cool, u got the ancient rock monuments. U c  a surfer wipe out with big air occasionally, or a skim boarder dart quickly n2 a big wave. Glendale park has this statue about the first Earth club in California where the ladies promoted trees and rivers. Check it out:

Glendales a little square though. I prefer the realness of Venice. I suppose there is danger2. We all gotta go sometime.

   So no Salt Water 2day. I do know swimming @ Howard’s and other places with serious current has helped me do this wake swimming thing. I think regulars were a little off put. Like I invented something. Hey I’m pretty sure the day I mountain Biked2 Santa Monica pier from Glendale, nobody else did.

   I like the markets and grocery stores. Even the bus. Pretty people r appropriately stand off ish, it’s not just an L.A. thing, it’s a city thing.

   I’m looking @ the weekly entertainment circular. Chess boxing. Where u play chess4 three minutes, then kickbox or box three minutes, then play chess three minutes, then box three minutes until someone wins/ or is dead I suppose.

   You got museums, readings, happenings every night of the year I suppose. I guess the Medical Marijuana shops r new even2 veteran Californians, but the general Jamaican feel is not new I don’t imagine. Hemp jewelry and all  manner of decoration on the strip. Skaters, bikers, boarders, hoarders and hip. Dreads and mohawks, way high and tight, silk see through is big with women with slight flaws, skin4 younger absolutely perfect creatures strolling.

   I prefer having my peeps with me. Alone I get shunned as a possible pervert, but with cool family as I have people gravitate2 me better. I’m no different, just the perception changes. Perception. It’s not a kayak.

June 29 2014

       Quiet California morning. What2 do? Yesterday I romped Glendale on the mountain bike, checked out trails and the neighborhood. Then it was Karoake @ the neighborhood bar, eclectic mix of folks. I bounced  early, but the singing was good and the scene nice. I shot pool, winning a while. What exactly is a transsexual?

       2day it’s another easy romp over2 Burbank. Maybe beyond. Find a little place4 lunch.

June 28 2014

                I watched this dude swing on the rings real artistic like.  Squirrels running4 the river when they thought the coast was clear. My crappy bike is a labor2 peddle, but I get n2 the street more and more as my rythm4 city riding returns. L.A. drivers are extremely  careful of bicyclers, sometimes2 the point of ridiculous so I wave them on when I’m resting. If a child is killed on a bike they make a white paint artwork thing I haven’t seen yet but heard about.

       I’m just gonna ride Glendal 2day. I’m beat from sojourns across the city.  I want2 ride easy and relaxed4 no long period. Replenish. I will do Venice Boulevard soon, and prolly do Burbank, Sunset…Maybe Downtown. Downtown should b easy2 get2, except4 Chinatown. But Chinatown prolly has a place2 get lunch.

       LALA land.   

June 27 2014 

Quiet morning in California. I prepare4 a brutal ride. C the city up close and personal. Take a huge metal box  back. I will make it2 the ocean 2day I feel. Head west. Head west young man. Where all the girls have big beautiful smiles. I hope2 ride the Santa Monica peir, hit the waves. Have lunch @ some funky outdoor beer joint. I want2 have a beer @ Whiskey a GoGo I think, where VAN HALEN and others played. I’m white. I still love VAN HALEN.

    What else? Just ride. Just do it. I cut across Los Peliz, it’s an easy way over the mountains. I hit the river trail many miles first, that’s centers me, grounds me, warm me up4 Santa Monica.  This time I’m gonna romp Beverly Hills. Stop and c the Clampitts. I hope I don’t c Mr. Drysdale. I don’t like him or his spoiled wife. Now Ellie May I would b right proud2 take2 the beach, and I bet Jethro would put them2 shame @ Muscle Beach.

    I’m trying2 get with CARMEN ELEKTRA. C f she wants2 b dinner, I mean have dinner…

June 26 2014

Ecovery. Smog awaits. I will make the ocean again 2day. I will plunge with abandon. I will ride hard, ride free. I will take notice of islands in the Los Angeles River. Willow and sycamore… Incredible root flares on Sunset, I believe they are China berry. There is  a tree/river statue/sanctuary right here in Glendale I need2 check out. I may walk in and get a job. Stay here.

     What a ride. Once again I left Glendale via the River. Again I enjoyed the riverbank ride, this time though I took off 2ward Santa Monica Boulevard, made it there, and kept heading 2ward the ocean with a jones4 salt water. Again my cheap ass mountain bike broke down. And it was especially embarrassing bcos I was in the rich neighborhood, specifically Beverly Hills.

     It was a long bus ride back but I only had2 make one connection2 get back over here2 Glendale. U bet ur ass I’m veggin’ on a fabulous couch.

     The streets tell a thousand stories non stop. There r no unattractive people here in LALA land. Every chick has a great ass and big tits. After a while it’s like, wait that’s a dude. Or is it? There are some pretty he shes on the strip.

     Every bus has a bike rack. Nuff said. I can get back here from the city @ any time twenty four hours. That means 2moro I will run even later. It is my holy grail now2 get2 Santa Monica on the bike. The bus ride back will be long and tedious, but I will enjoy the parade of people. I have a perpetual smile, perma grin almost, long hair hanging from my blue bike helmet. Yesterday I wore a Hawaiian shirt, but a good one, everyone knew I was a tourist, 2day I’m wearing an African artwork shirt so I look more local.

     If I had my bike with the padded seat and smooth shifting and better acceleration I could eat this town up. They have plenty of bike paths but sometimes I’m just not moving fast enough. I get passed by bikers wearing the fancy bike clothes on expensive bikes, hell I even get passed by joggers sometimes. But I hang2 the trail like a pit bull. I will ride all day and all night @ times. With purpose and vision I stick2 the trail, I stick. Like an old cowboy on a midnight run. Lonely like an island. In the middle of a city. In the middle of a desert. In the middle of the sea. U had me @ peace. One Korean hot dog and I’m all over this city.

     Moron tap 2moro. I may take the bus sooner, get2 the coast4 lunch, have a couple beers, set up a surf camp and kick it a while, ride part of the way back, take plenty of breaks. Make a day of it. Get in shape. Get a tan. C the wordly freaks and perfect bodies. B the wave.

     I swam with sea lions yesterday. Hit some big waves, got turned upside down a few times. Rough and tough surf and turf. I still want2 canoe the Los Angeles River b4 I go.

     Severe drought here though. Water rationing. There were fire evacuations in this very neighborhood. There is smart, drought resistant vegetation most places. Proper pruning 4the most part, a little sloppy occasionally. I could prolly make a living doing palms here. Parks are smart landscaped, wood chips in graceful shapes. Just like Rebel Tree Care would do it.

June 25 2014    

Hard salty run winds down. What a tiltawhirl since Pheonix floated like a movie set in darkness, oval and flat like Saturn, spinning like a frisbee in turbulence. I 4got2 kiss the L.A. asphalt on arrival.

      2day was a massive bike ride along the L.A. River. Blue herons and ducks, Louisiana water thrush, sea gulls. I rode all the way2 china town then made it over2 Roy Rogers beach by the end of sunset. We looked over @ lunch and there sits Jon Lovitz and an attractive friend. Yeh like she would be interested in him if he wasn’t John Lovitz.

      I body slammed relentless! Fat breakers pounded the surf as we cavorted. I was tossed asunder, spun senseless, dragged brutally over shallows, slammed and beaten ripped twisting breathless, then lay quiet some time.

      I have large rides 2do the next few days. Hollywood. Downtown. Santa Monica. I should have them drop me off @ the top of the mountain. That would be much more enjoyable.

      Traffic is insane. Legendary. The Hollywood sign is fixed. I could, and just might take a canoe down the L.A. River. Others have been doing it lately.

June 24 2014

Wet morning as birds sing. Deep rest. I have been tried by fire and found true. I have been struck by the deepest forge of Gonzodor and lie beaten and worn, dulled and damaged yet intact and wh

ole. I must travel2 the original fire, go2 the western water where the sun sets. I must fly2 the mountains, over the sky, under the influence I must coast2 salty froth, climb laborious and joyous2 Vertigo, fire in the sky matching glows like golden blondes with indoor tanning oil. Oranges and apples. Peaches. Herb.

        Tired. This day off will be appreciated like not in a while. It’s been a good run. My bills r paid, my affairs in order. Now I must ride. Keep this physical hone the tree run has given. Nay nothing is given, I have taken. I have grabbed life by the tits and twisted. Now it is time2 consume the fruits.

        Spring River will babble and roar, Impatient and expectant. Cold and alluring she will flow4 me, others will think they know her, but I alone know the secrets of sycamores weeping.

June 23 2014

And we’re off. Not2 bad hot2 day. Good thing. It was a gigantic red oak right next2 a house. Rebel Tree Care—Insurance certificate… Another in the back yard had2 b dropped just right. I had talked them out of it several times, finally I decided2 drop the hammer. So I’m wrapping up a tough run, unwinding, jamming2 TESLA. I  need some BEASTY BOYS, or PUSSYCAT DOLLS. U will know y soon enuff kind veterans. Even the women veterans. Especially the women.

       Pope Francis calls on Christians2 end torture. “Bullshit,” said Dick Cheney, “we do what we want. We tortured thousands of Muslims during my tenure, and we got information that lead not only2 the capture of Osama Bin Laden’s limo driver, but also got us vital info on pot smokers in Dubai, a street counterfeiter in Yemen, gay rock bands in Ukraine,  a tuna smuggler in Sri Lanka, and fake Saudi hookers. Polls show that most surfers think water boarding is cool. In God’s holy name I pray4 continued torture.” Off mike he was heard talking2 Karl Rove, “I’ll torture the effing pope u give me a half hour. He’ll be confessing2 killing Guatemalans and the  effing holocaust.” Only he didn’t say effing.

       Israelis killing Palestinians. South Koreans shooting @ fugitives. Protestors in Thailand arrested4 reading a book in the street. Escaped fugitives caught in Canada. Central American children flooding n2 the U.S.-

       Repo Kevin "r u a commy" McCarthy blaming dums in the senate4 not helping the house. “WE have voted time and again2 repeal Obamacare, expand investigations n2 Fast and furious, Benghazi, White Water, etc.. But the Democrats will not cooperate with these good faith initiatives, and this arrogant president continues putting on airs and a general obstruction of our obstruction. He continues2 sabotage our sabotage. All that we want is fairness. If a Macdonald’s worker pays ten dollars in taxes on every check, then trillionaires should pay ten dollars tax on every check they receive. Tit4 tat. Quid pro Quo. Heil Hitler. In the rich white baby Jesus’ name I pray4 war.”

              Potential jurors now subject2 study of facebook posts. In other words if u r n2 legal weed, u will not b selected4 a marijuana offense. If u have posted about getting beat up by ur husband, u will not be selected in a domestic abuse trial. Etc. Yada yada. It’s rigged. Lesbians will b screened thoroughly, hung juries will be electrocuted. If u post anti Obama tirades u will not b selected 4 a trial of murderous Natzi’s. If u have a wall paper that says I heart abortions then u will b selected in the trial 4 a slayer of planned parenthood workers. If u love animals u will not be selected in an animal cruelty case. Yada yada.

    Occasional hard rain 2 day. Muggy now I bet. Chillaxin big time.

June 22 2014

Another hot1. Whew. What a run. Just after daylight this Sunday morning I was up in a slippery oak. Rough job, tough finish. Traffic on the road we were working on was full of assholes, few slowed down4 hard workers. Smokers @ full throttle, all stressed out in their metal boxes. Talkative cell phoners inattentive and lead footed. Pricks forced 2 slow down hitting the gas once cleared, some had nice vehicles their daddy bought them, others pieces of shit that probably should have been impounded last night. Churchgoers eager4 worship whipped by us, one stumble would mean death and disfigurement. I guess it was our punishment4 working on the Sabbath.

   Last night was a sweet night of music @ Slick Rock. Crowbar’s birthday bash. We did some EROSION. We did some SIDETRACK. SIDETRACK is my Drummer and guitar players other band. I do a couple of songs with them, then hand the bass over2 GREG, their lead singer, as he is younger, better looking, and more talented than I am.

 Intense rain accompanied our shows4 awhile, but the roomy pavilion sheltered band and fans alike. Big rain on a metal roof was loud, we could barely b heard @ times. Other musicians took the stage @ times. I did a solo acoustic set awhile, then went electric other times.

   Then THE NATURAL STATE BAND took the stage. What an eye opener. I loved them. Groovy metal heavy on lead guitar. I had2 bounce b4 the show was over, knew I was in4 a brutal morning. Saule Goode.

   Thunder rolls. Big clouds boiling above.

   Water Spider heard the news with disbelief. England,  now Great Britain, had issued a royal proclamation that the colonies were not2 make hats. All hats worn in the “new world” must be made in London. The Hat Act forced strange emotions from stoic Cherokee. When Cherokee in Carolina were weakened with Chicken Pox, survivors rejoiced when told by English governors they could have mythical Arkansas as their own. In due time they realized the English had no credible claim2 the area, French governors and Spanish rangers acted as guardians, Osages held true power.

  Water Spider stewed many days and nights, then, speaking slow and clear, bade her nephew Gray Cloud fetch finest white possums. She would make the finest hat in all the world4 him2 wear @ important councils.

   She bade others get her a black possum. She stripped fur, curing skin as she planned hats. Of late many Cherokee had taken2 wearing Turbans. She cut fine strips of black or white possum fur, binding them with her new sewing loom, the only one in Arkansas she knew, soon the finest of turbans wrapped Cherokee heads. She selected finest beaver pelts4 fine derbies. Raccoon skins made hunting hats. Sage fibers woven made fine shade hats.“Hat act.” She spat the words.

Correction: I don’t think JESSE ORR plays in POWDER MILL. I’ll have2 check all this n get back2 u.

June 21 2014 

Hot1 again. But we had some haze this morning very early hitting it hard immediately as we do. Now big thunderheads r rumbling2 the south. Rain won’t stop Crowbar’s Birthday Bash 2day. The Gathering. That big pavilion out there accommodates bands and spectators aplenty. We’ll have people swimming in nearby Southfork River during the rain. And after. And b4.

        This job just came up so I gotta work early 2moro2. But it’s all good when the Benjamin's arrive. I’ll b taking music equipment out there this early afternoon, playing or spectating all night, then not long after daylight back n2 it. Saul Goode. Just like always. A quarter of a century I’ve been trimming trees and making shows. I’ve only been playing music4 ten years, and it’s changed my game4 the better. We all have2 evolve.

        So it’s hit it hard 2moro rain or shine, heat or hail, high water or drought. Then Monday I have a gigantic oak2 drop. And then by Tuesday night I have a special treat4 journal veterans. Next week u will be treated2 a completely different slant on this page. B patient kind veterans. The veteran’s administration may take a while2 get around2 helping u get ur fix, but deliver eventually. Lol.

        This morning was removing a row of really nice crepe myrtles. Had2 be done. Then trimming a gigantic oak, another huge1, other medium sized, reducing maple, mulberry, cherry, etc… Moron tap 2moro…

        It’s crazy out there. Traffic is nuts. WE got thousands of motorcycles @ Griffin Park, just insane holiday traffic, from the five lane 412 2 gravel roads kicking up huge dust trails, everybody is hauling ass. I try2 stay out of the way.

       Look4 the Natural State Band @ Slick Rock. And assorted jams by EROSION, SIDE TRACK, ILLA, and maybe just maybe MIKE GRAY. There may b, in fact probably will be, others in the mix. DAVID LYNN JONES is family, but I think he has a gig elsewhere. He’s royalty, wrote a couple number one songs. Maybe someday we can get PHILLIP of LITTLE BIG TOWN back up here. He used2 be my brother in law. By marriage. He went2 Highland. So did Beevis and Butthead, u never know, they may show.

        Instead of jobs jobs jobs, Repos r occupied with a fourth investigation of the Benghazi attacks. “We will nail the whore on this,” Darryl Issa “Moron” stated flatly. “I don’t care if we have2 investigate it four more times, or four dozen times, we will manufacture a case on the whore. Hell, nobody even suspects that I personally orchestrated the attacks. Or that it was I, not our arrogant black president, that ran guns back and forth across the Mexican border4 huge illegal profit. I personally set the IRS up4 the Tea Party thing, destroyed the Emails, etc. Why the IRS would target a group sworn 2dismantle the IRS makes no sense. But we gonna get the whore. O yeh, we gonna get the whore, or my name is not Darryl Issa “Moron.”

        Hillary heard laughing on tape @ a rape trial in the seventies. Fox turned it n2 a twenty four hour investigation piece, parading experts2 analyze and speculate about her unfit ways then smoothly moved n2 a special report on the liberal media and fairness in media. It will air opposite Saturday Night Live 2nite, so check the channels closely2 c which is light hearted comedy and which is evil fraud.

June 20 2014

Hot again. Rebel Tree Care sweatin’. This morning was a sprawling bushy maple removal. Nuff said. I rigged and roped, swinging and dangling. The bitch was large @ the base, I hit metal somewhere n had some down time sharpening saws. But I had a guy get the wood pretty quick, and the client always likes that. I took a plunge in my cold pool, that was the bomb. Nice run. Now I got a long weekend in store, I have2 work straight through, but that’s fine, I’m paying the bills yo.

      Watch4 VICKY MCGEE @ Griffin Park this weekend. Bass man SONNY CAMPBELL will b right @ home in the thick of a biker rally. POWDER MILL played last night. They feature guitar prodigy JESSE ORR. Look4 SIDETRACK, EROSION, and another cool band @ Slick Rock4 CROWBAR’S birthday bash. CONFEDERATE RAILROAD plays2.

      Fire in New Mexico. Tornadoes in Nebraska. Civil war in Albania over pot growing. Russian journalists dead in Ukraine. Somali group kills sixty three in Kenya. Syrian car bomb kills 7. Eighty nine year old Auschwitz guard living in Philadelphia 4 decades 2 go on trial in Germany. Judge in Utah tinkers with immigration law: now Mexicans must bring @ least ten wives with them.

      Somali hospital bombed. Feds upbeat about economy. “That is just wrong,” said Boner snarkily, “we will never b upbeat about the economy with a democratic president. Especially this arrogant black one. It just isn’t done.”

      Fake cop report a hoax.

    And yet another job this hot afternoon.  A huge pecan had storm damage. I was able2 get it quickly and safely but darn it broke another sweat. I must hydrate. NO beer 2nite I must have my A game 2moro morning early. And then again Sunday morning after playing music @ Slick Rock. I might have a beer out there, but it will b an early night.

June 19 2014

Another hot1. We got ‘er dun though. Cleaning up storm damage, removing dead elm, oak, and others nameless or 4gotten. It was an early start after jamming n2 the wee hours. EROSION in house. SHAGGY. Nice chaotic night of music. Drama on stage. Drama in the crowd. NO violence this week.

     2moro it’s a sprawling maple here in Highland. And. Then. Just. Maybe. The river. I need a river day. Wash off my frustrations and be.

     This just in. New developments. Looks like I’m gonna b working all weekend on a house clearance job. They r moving a house down the road and the trees need2 b cut back. They know I’ll do it right. This just came up and it’s gotta be done quick so here I go again.

     So I got a music gig @ Slick Rock Saturday evening, CONFEDERATE RAILROAD takes the stage @ Griffin Park, they might draw a few more people than us, we’ll c. We had like nine thousand people @ Copper Feather last night, well, ten; people. Lol, actually more than that. A couple dozen @ least.

     Eric “we” Cantor about2 b unemployed. “This is scary,” he whined, “thank God 4 ObummerCare, cos they are saving me boocoo on my deductible and co pay. The so called private option is bullshit. I’m sorry I ever brainstormed ways2 confuse and fraud the middle class.” He laughed maniacally, pushing his thick glasses up his nose, “we used2 love it, me and Paul “out of my ass monkeys r flyin” Ryan used2 make some sick shit up, feed it2 Fox, all night long, geeking and tweeking on crystal meth, the preexisting thing Obama wanted was the first casualty. In committee we bogged the affordable care act down with incomprehensible gibberish and quasi clever tricks of trade, bait and switches, heinous lies and false representations. We threatened and intimidated Governors and state legislatures. We out spent the federal government more than four hundred percent. We set up shadow organizations straight out of the right wing playbook. We went grass roots, threatening enrollment workers. We worked round the clock to obstruct and misinform. Then we sabotaged the web site, Many people’s computers still don’t work. What I’m saying is, it was all4 nothing. I’m out on my ass anyway cos some tea party wing nut caught a ride on the Obama Hater band wagon that I built.”

    Brat, the guy who beat him, that we will never hear about again, cried that America is a "dismal failure. And that's with all the help my beloved Tea Party gave this arrogant neegra president."

June 18 2014

Hot.  Hard Rebel Tree Care morning. Early I was way up in a huge post oak over a nice Williford home and wires. Reducing, I select likely candidates4 removal, take off several large upper branches and a few midsection branches, a little dead, a few suckers and presto, pleased client.

     Another. Again I roped pieces down, narrowly avoiding wires and the roof. Again the client was pleased. Then it was trimming a cedar, cleaning up storm damage. Moron tap 2moro.

     Sean Hannity @ it again: “This president has wreaked havoc on America. This is a horrible failed state thanks2 him. He inherited a strong economy, and with arrogance and uppityness has signed millions of his worthless buddies up4 welfare when there r plenty of corporations making trillions in profit that could have used that money.”

     Boner was upset about the move back n2 Iraq. “I finally got the troops out of there, now he’s arrogantly ruining good faith efforts2 end the war and begin a new one with Iran.”

     Bitch McConnell joined in, “we have bent over backwards2 appease this arrogant president. Through good faith initiatives and cooperation we ended the war and got poor people insured but this racist president sabotages and delays @ every turn.”

June 17 2014

I know right? Nice Rebel Tree Care run in Cherokee Village. Early I was up a tall reaching red oak between a house and shed. The beast was declining rapidly. That1 hit on target and we began the process of cleaning up. Another red oak had a part of it’s crown torn off in a wind storm, that took some technical know how2 miss the deck and fence.

   Now it is persevere. Maintain. Stay on point.

   Donald “Duck” Trump lost his toupee’on the Chicago runway. He chased after it, stumbling, red faced and embarrassed he fired a luggage attendant.

   Bill O’reilly spouting false witness every day on his “show”. “Numbers don’t lie. It’s a fact Obama signed up more blacks4 welfare than all the presidents combined. And he inherited such a good economy from Bush.”

   Rush Limbaugh scoffed @ hot temps. “This liberal conspiracy2 make us clean up the air and water, this “heat index” these “record highs,” these r liberal phrases drilled n2 us. Big lies repeated over and over. We need2 focus on the fact that Obama is trying2 disarm U.S. citizens, that he is a socialist with a hidden communist agenda, that Hillary is the whore rising from the book of Revelation. We need2 focus on these huge lies and repeat them over and over. Global warming is a vast conspiracy.” Told that his hometown of Cape Girardo Missouri used2 be the largest body of fresh water on the planet and was now just a drainage ditch he scoffed, “that area has been a prairie4 millions of years. It’s always been dry as a bone there. There is no science2 support that the Mississippi Delta was once a wetland.”

   EROSION on tap this week.

June 16 2014

Hot morning drawing2 a close. Good run on the North Golf Course in Cherokee Village. A gum was damaged  by the recent wind storm. Also a loblolly pine was dead, another needed pruning. And4 good measure we did a nip and tuck on a couple of crepe myrtles on the driveway. Nice small job2 kick start the week. 2moro it’s a big declining red oak removal and storm damage trim on another.

       And hopefully a rehearsal. EROSION has a gig @ Slick Rock I believe, and we should be on4 a another open mic @ the Feather on Wednesday night. We r working on a new song LITTLE ELVIS wrote called Peyote Goat. It’s a raucous romp about a trip in the desert.

       I hope2 get on the river soon. Haha. No really. I never get enough. Just ask an ex girlfriend. Lovely Kristen’s birthday float is Saturday, but I may miss it4 the Slick Rock gig. Plus upper Spring will be rockin’ it I’m sure. I may make that, may not. Whatever. These days I’m playing music wherever someone will have me, it keeps me focused.

       San Antonio knocks off the Heat in Five games. Class Act. Good ambassadors4 playing the right way, unselfish, team ball. Rare. Miami was classy2. No team could beat the Spurs right now the way they r shooting. I figured Birdman would start a fight or Lebron would pout, but they kept it dignified.

       Eric “we” Cantor all over Fox in his last harrahs. “There is so much more evil2 do. I wish I could stay in Washington and do evil in God’s Holy name. We must strip health insurance from these new enrollees and make them wait4 the repo plan due in 2020.”