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March 22 2012

Jeb Bush endorses WrongKnee. He also endorsed a check4 a gazillion dollars made payable2 the bomb Iran  fund, cleverly named Patriots Against Treason in Saudi Arabia and Yemen(PATSY). He met with Donald Trump and Ben Quayle, showing in seminar fashion the hilarious effects of new kinds of Pepper Spray on a terminal hippy with cancer, attack dogs trained 2 bite only Mexicans, armored limousines capable of going a mile on a gallon of gas, robot televangelists spouting God’s Glory on Republicans, and an elite force of writers spinning every single new story2 cast doubt on Obama.

            “A new era is upon us,” a smug Bush told a tea party rally in support of the neighborhood watch guy that gunned down an innocent black teenager. “This super duper PAC of seventy trillion dollars will bring down American public enemy number one: Barack Obama. And if that is not enough4 me2 get elected as Vice President, I will sell a couple of my Yachts. We will get this done. Lord God above, we will get this done.”

            He continued, “I will be the consummate Vice President, wreaking havoc behind the scenes, always unaccountable. Dick Cheney is my mentor, like a brother, I know the ins and outs of a Vice Presidency riddled with scandal, graft, conspiracy and cronyism. Make no mistake, I will have full control of the Military Industrial Complex, the Narco Military Police, and all major media outlets. Not just Fox, ya’ll, all of them. So I announce my super duper PAC 2day because I’m a Bush, and that will assure a mutual hatred and distrust. We stand4 the protection of our troops in the Middle East, aggression against America will not stand. We are a kinder, gentler nation with hundreds of military bases around Iran, we will bomb them looking 4 El Quada, or bomb them 4 Democracy, Bomb them2 protect our people in Israel, remember, Israel is in the Bible, and the movie Ten Commandments starring Chuck Heston.  Christians on this planet carry a bigger club, and we will kill or enslave all Muslims by 2018. That is my fervent hope and my diligent prayer to the Lord God Almighty.

            I will find my own drug2 created a global market4, just as my Grandfather Prescott Bush cornered the Opium market in the thirties, my father cornered the cocaine trade by capitalizing on Crack, my brother reaped the benefits of XTC while running daddy’s baseball team into the ground, I will bring all those elements2 the campaign. You Ben Quayle,” he turned to put an arm around Ben Quayle's shoulders, “will bring your  organized pharmaceutical crime family in line, and I will give you a piece; a hefty portion of say, Guatemala. U will be my attack dog, the pin cushion, the Sponge Bob, Mr. Potatoe head just as your father was2 my father, and our sons will be in a few years. We walk with God Ben Qualye, we are the holy way. Lord Jesus in Heaven we will get that blackie out of the “white House,” and trust me I will scrub and rinse the black dust from those hallowed halls. He has divided our Upper Class long enough, he smiles and talks well, and he did hit that three pointer, but he is a Muslim. He was not born here. He is a communist, and he insists on pushing Abortion and contraceptives, he will take your guns away, he intends2 make the military nudist, and refuses2 allow domestic drilling4 oil and gas. He is full of lies and seeks2 divide America, destroy America, kill Americans. He spoke against my brother while my brother was president, and that is treason. I have established a joint counter treason task force2 investigate him on suspicion of treason. And I expect we will be making an arrest in the coming months. Rod Blogoyavich, from Obama’s home state, has signed a deal with prosecutors laying out broad and detailed accusations of bribery and graft with Obama @ the heart of the expansive network. Stay tuned2 Fox news 4 the fair and balanced “facts.” He giggled, then checked his papers2 make sure he had read that last sentence right, then looked around and smirked like a chimpanzee. "Oh sure, he and Biden will dispute our fact finding Faith based inquiry, they will appeal and hire fancy lawyers and obstruct justice any way they can, but we will get them. Trust me on this one bitches. Okay. That’s it then. Let’s go2 work. Stop this Solar power maniac, I mean sun worship is evil. If he has his way Medicare and social security will remain solvent, the qualification age stay the same, or even go down2 62, straight forward rules will not confuse anyone, and we will all have cleaner air@ the expense of Chevron’s profits. Uh. Uh. Can’t have that. Peace and Love2 all u God’s children, I have spoken 2 god 2day, and he hates Democrats. “

    He turned2 Donald Trump. "You Donald will head the nations financial systems. Mostly because failed Republican policies proven 2 help only the upper class are sure2 bankrupt our country. And you Donald Trump, with your numerous bankruptcy claims, are the man2 see us through the trying times2 come. With your help we will buy the government when it bottoms out, privatizing government services 2 provide welfare @ a much higher price. I mean C'mon. Free?" He and Donald Trump and Ben Quayle laughed and waved the thought of Free Welfare off. "Cripples can sweep the floor of the white house without 2 much hooey hooey. Ever since daddy gave that baseball team2 W I've been on my own. I ran away. I am the Washington outsider. the disestablishmentarianism guy." He mooned the milling crowd, "Joe the crack pipe fitter. Dangling Chad. Lord God all mighty, I feel your hand on me as your chosen one in the hour of darkness, and know that your other hand is on that Blackies throat in hatred of Liberals. In your name God I endorse this check, in you and Smith and Wesson I trust."

March 21 2012

Rain begins in Earnest Arkansas. I haven’t checked the radar, but I have a feeling it’s finally here4 a while. Lightning. Vicious thunder. Strawberry will be flat out flooding. It’ll be a few days4 her2 go down. Dawn creeps slowly 2day.

            Yesterday was a tough job relieving four big red oaks of dead and damaged. Spikeless as always.. Rough and tough. Pole saws. Chain saws. Hand saws. Rebel Tree Care… The real deal…

            Bitch Mittens wins in Illinois. The establishment front runner spending twenty bucks a vote. He endorsed the Paul Ryan plan, which promises2 fix the economy by killing poor people. Easing the burden on billionaires. With evil purpose Ryan defended his lies and misdirection by juggling the heads of poor dead children, dancing on the graves of  dead working class wage earners..

            Speaking of Illinois, Rod Blagovich reported2 federal prison. Serve all your time bitch. Don’t drop the soap. Everyone will always know that there was a vast conspiracy against you simply because you were a champion 4 the poor. Even though your average bribe was six times what an average guy makes in six years. Eff u Rod Blagovyavich or however u spell your Pollack name. U give blog a bad name. U can run ur mouth 2 ur cell mates these next few years.

March 20 2012

Beautiful morning. It’s greening up around here. Redbuds in full bloom everywhere. Dogwoods coming out. The pear blossoms have scattered like snow, the peaches never really kicked in this year. I can’t say I’ve noticed black locust this year either. That’s weird cos I always notice black locust. Everyone should notice a black locust. Most people think they are early dogwoods.

            Looks like a huge rainstorm making it’s way across the Central U.S. It’s supposed 2 get here 2day, I was hoping2 get a good day of work in but that’s iffy now. I have several large oaks 2do.

            Bitch Mittens Wrongknee Jerk wins Puerto Rico! He staged a confetti and ticker tape parade. “My history with the Puerto Rican people is true and deep. My grandfather owned several Puerto Rican maids, I myself call my Puerto Rican gardener by name.” Prick Sanitarium downplayed it, smirking oddly, “he still tied his dog 2 the top of his car in 81, the man is unfit.” Whining Newt Blingrich cackled shrewdly when asked about the importance of Puerto Rico, “Puerto Ricans are a joke, the polyester suits, the slutty women. If I won a delegate from Puerto Rico I would toss it back.”

March 19 2012

March on. Do what we must. Handle things ourselves. Get her done. Spread ur wings across the sky. Take the time2 c, u control ur destiny. Sailing ships will pass u by. WHITESNAKE…

            And we march. That is what all good men must do. Ride it out. Jam. Gel. Bang the gong. Get it on. Let summer begin. I am an island. Only I know secrets of sycamores weeping, blackjacks moaning, willows braking, cane and able bodied women, rights 2 b wrong, left on their own.

            Overcast. I will hit the trails 2day. Ride. 2 my mothers. And beyond. Into the Village. It takes a village. There is a vast conspiracy. Wear the special glasses.  B the ball. Think like a dog. SALIVA. This will not stand. I will not stand down. I will stand in sand. Long minutes. At liberty I am the crane, the stork, kingfisher, heron…

            I will make a bouquet of wild flowers and toss them2 the wind: Phlox, may apple, lily. Starflower, sunflower, moonflower, dewdrop, brambles, strawberry, chickweed, yarrow, sweet everlasting, parsnip, poke, turtlehead, marigold, lady slipper, goat’s beard, dandelion, thistle, trillium,  buttercup, milkwort, honeysuckle, daisy duke, forget me not, bluebell, iris.

            U Talkin2 me?

March 17 2012

Easy ride. Hitn all the rocks. Back roadn. Last night. I missed Creekside, I hear MIKE and LALA had another near sellout. They deserve it. They have labored in love4 many years. It is their time. Now is the time. Sneeze the day.

            I may jam. Or eat pizza. I may kill young Bermuda grass. Slaughter it. Ethnic cleansing. Everywhere unrest. Gaza. Syria. Iran. All over Africa. Europe has it’s share. Many other places. In the United States we riot over Ipads. Other people riot over places 2 live and food. We riot over Ipads. Soccer moms camping on sidewalks so they can make their eleven year old stop whining. These Ipads do everything. That a one hundred dollar computer can do. But cooler. And the jury is still out on cell phones. They just don’t work. ALICE IN CHAINS knew, Down In A Hole. Maybe u can get a text out. Or accidentally send that picture of your nipples 2 a pre teen.

            Oh Strawberry River is prolly rolling. I must paddle her. Immersion. Inner Sha. I must survive. Catch fish. Eat them. Stand in sand. Limb lines. Eat that treet from the tornado. MRE’s.  Float lounging back. One time I was a little buzzed, laying back, and I’m known2 burst into song infrequently, this day it was Emotion in Motion by BILLY SQUIRE. I burst into song, but I didn’t’ know there was a short haired man and his son sitting on a four wheeler very near by as I floated. Boy they hauled ass, startled when I shouted the song.

            Goats will accompany me. And Sheep dogs lope along, tempted to leap into my boat when I squeeze by. I hope mr. Cottonmouth is not aggressive. My purple boat will be surreal2 farmers and fishers who glimpse it. I will roll along with triumph, glory in God’s creation, flowing with primal energy. Original Kai. Rage controlled. Until the rain falls. Let it flow. Let it be. Yeah. It is what is. And it is. I get it.

March 16 2012

Hard rain pre dawn. Thunder. Lightning. I am glad I am not on the river 2nite. My survival skills would be tested. But I have a dog 2 take now, one of Willow’s. Bonny is a spirit dog, with two different colored eyes. If she’ll stay in front it might work.

            Another round coming in. Need2 check the radar. Copy some maps. I’m figuring Salem2 Saffell. Salem is the county seat of Fulton county, Saffel is a tiny blip on the map in Lawrence county. South of Strawberry and Lynn, major metropolitan areas of well over a hundred population. The Strawberry hits the Black down there in a big wildlife refuge. I hope2 end other trips there also. Trips down the Spring, Eleven Point, Current, Black, and Little Black all go through Black Rock.

            Obama gave an articulate and inspiring speech on Energy yesterday. WrongKnee was all over it on facebook, “Whenever I have a problem with lack of energy I find a good multi vitamin.” Sanitarium gave a speech2 home schoolers in Montana, “you cannot speak Spanish at home because that is a school. We will check on this, and find out.” Blingrich showed off his blindingly shiny rolex, “it is time 4 Obama care 2 b destroyed. I will personally head the committee2 begin sorting options and exploratory committees2 get us out of this health care crisis that he caused. Obama is not Christian if he insists that all women use contraceptives and get abortions. That’s Muslim talk. And that is where letting women drive will lead.”

March 14 2012 

Bright day. Sunny. Sposed2 b over 80 again 2day. I would b on Strawberry River but I’ve got 2 many little errands 2 run. Things are spiraling on me. Summer is upon me and it’s not even Spring yet. This daylight savings has got me all groggy2. Only the river calls me. I will answer soon. If this next round of rain kicks the Strawberry up I will ride the waves. Strawberry skies. Strawberry fields. Strawberry Jam. MIKE played the Strawberry Jam. RAZER. I got put in jail. Those were the days. I got back just in time2 c EDGAR WINTER do Frankenstein.

            Yes Strawberry calls me. Lazy little cousin of the Spring, Nubile and curvaceous, Little Strawberry will please me. I hope 2 do Current next month, with the Rebelrivers.com bunch if I can figure out how2 contact them. Comment on their blog? Attention Rebelrivers.com, Email me. Or call me. I want2 go on your annual trip on Current River. I will keep going though when they take out. I will go all the way2 Black Rock Arkansas. Another several days from the upper Current. I want2 put n @Mauntauk or Jack’s Fork. Go all the way. Just do it. Live it. Kill it. Stick it.

            Bitch Mittens Wrongknee Jerk put on some over hauls and dug around in a cotton field in black face, “I be pickin’ a hunnert pounds 2day massa boss,” he mimicked near a share cropper cabin. Whining Newt Blingrich stood silent above a city street in Selma Alabama, “we shall overcome, Good God all mighty, we shall overcome.” Prick Sanitarium smiled in rapturous evil shooting a flare gun just above an embattled abortion clinic: “Kill the unholy,” he screamed, “death 2 all college educated evildoers.”  Ron Paul leapt up in the polls when he said, “what the hell. Bomb Iran. Bomb the Shiite out of them.”

March 10 2012

Bright morning in Highland. Blue Jays call. Last night was a warm reunion @ Willow Ford, this morning a warm reunion @ my mothers. She just lives a half mile away, her blue jays know me as the tall long haired blue jay killer in the red Rebel Pride shirt, and sound the appropriate alarm.

            I’m interested in this Arkansas deceptive trade practice law. That could be a way2 cure this sorry industry of posing chumps. Stop the bait and switch. Advertising as “master” or :”expert”, then performing non standard hack work could eventually be considered illegal here as it is in many areas. It is already considered unprofessional among legitimate arborists. Yet legitimate arborists are few, especially in the south, and strutting  chumps proliferate, preying on the elderly and younger generation alike, spawning copy cat wanna be’s, creating shaky situations that endanger life and limb. No pun intended.

            So now I must regroup. Clean out the van. I must ready4 work next week, my chipper ate a master lock. Then I hope2 hit a river many days. Then it’s off2 Mfis and Mississippi. Looks like another big round of rain coming in.

            I heard LALA did a sweet show last night in Highland.

            This community has embraced her. We win Pocahontas.

            Sarah Palin doesn’t like her portrayal on the HBO show debuting 2nite. “It makes me look like a hypocritical, quasi entitled super bitch.” She quipped on Twitter. “Duh,” facebooked Michelle Obama, “get some rhythm u white ass slut.”  Rush Limbaugh called Michelle a “prostitute,” and the Obama girls “little crack whores.” When all his advertisers bolted except4 Chevron and Cialis, he backpedaled slightly, “it figures the radical left would take my comments out of context and continue their attack on freedom of speech. The Obama’s need2 mow their lawn more, and tend a garden, do the work themselves, I mean, It’s in their DNA.”      

March 9 2012

Dusk in Hillcrest. Hell on heels. Hard run 2day. Now it is done. We started a little late in the morning2 let it dry a little. Then I was into a sprawling willow oak, Reducing, cleaning, clearing… A cypress got some, then I was up a tall loblolly pine, lopping off branches on the yard side, immediately adjacent2 each side were tall gums, I was able2 relieve them of  weighty branches and dead. We knocked a mid size maple out, then trimmed another heavily, and touched up another willow oak. They took the chips, thrilled with the job. Good customers. It’s weird, their neighbor on one side is a buddy’s ex. Across the street is a man who worked in Auto parts many years, talked on the phone2 my father every day4 years. Another neighbor is from Pocahontas Arkansas, went2 school with my niece, worked 4 my sister. I hope2 trim many trees on that West Little Rock Street for years2 come.

            Then it was over2 midtown, a gnarly hackberry removal over the roof and wire. It was dicey and loud with traffic, dogs, and jokers.

            I am ready2 get 2 my Willow. Warm warm Willow Ford. My engine will roar, my heavy foot stomp the pedal. The city and I are exactly even right now, no more, no less, no what ifs or maybes, I have soaked in it, I have touched all the bases, dug out a niche.

            I met a fellow arborist,  Bought some equipment. Improve my systems. Keep an edge. So I’ve got2 decide, head2 Mfis and uncertain reception, I only have one small job4 sure, Jonesboro canceled4 now, but I think I’ll do the sweet thing and head straight north. I am a stream, flowing, dividing, joining, routing, tongue in groove, steel studs, riveting…

LALA should b signing autographs just now. She's got a big concert in a bit. My heart will be with her. MIKE will be an eye opener4 some2. GRAY BLUES in house.

Blog forty. Blog out. Hard rain; well; rain, fairly hard, running off roof peaks, sheeting off trees, Delay of Game…I keep thinking it’s clearing then more and more pops up on radar just southwest of here. It’s like the Bushes have the ultra secret radar thingy that causes flooding pointed@ hot springs. Probably 2 listen in on horse racing discussions. Get an edge.

Looks like a rain out this morning. I may do another bike ride. By 2nite anyway. Im determined2 leave the van parked in a good spot as it is.

I have options. Plannings limited now.  Till I get a dry patch. Sounds painful. I really need2 get a bike helmet. I ride similar the old days, U have 2 push the envelope a little, crossing busy streets2 hit the side walks, hitting curbs. Up in Hillcrest u don’t have the glass like over the tracks. I almost went through the tunnel rotunda in the capital like I used2, but veered off2 hit the wheelchair ramp. I circled the memorials, not the Slain Law Enforcement monument, but others, I knew from the old days the easiest route2 my destination. I was gonna get my nipple pierced but didn’t have time. I got a good picture of a plaque and this grasshopper. I mean it is still winter. I know it’s felt like Spring most of this winter. El Nino. Christ Child.

            So I lay hidden in the van. I surf the net. I have a little hip pain, I am not comfortable unless reclined back real good. Blue Jays are a problem here. Irritating malcontents. I may shoot one with a flair gun. If you hear about a deranged Arborist shooting a coast guard approved flare gun @ a blue jay in Little Rock Arkansas u will know..

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March 7 2012

Hillcrest quiet 2nite. Sirens call often city wide though. Sometimes dozens @ once, like a pack of coyotes running the streets 2 accidents and such. There was an attempted rape or something here, right by my old apartment last night. I did a mountain bike romp around Mount Saint Mary’s, then blasted down 2 Pizza D Action, a big calzone and a few beers fueled another dark thirty romp through the capital and downtown, then slowly back up Kaavenaugh.

            2day was a huge dead red oak, I dropped it and diced it, then climbing two tall post oaks, relieving them of big dead branches. Natural die back. The trees are healthy. Good and stiff. A stiff tree is good2 find. Then it was out west Little Rock, getting into a medium oak, trimming for sunlight… Good Rebel Tree Care day…

            Now I’m chillin’. I have a tall pine 2 ascend in the morning if the weather is not inclement. Numerous smallish maples, random pruning also… Then a midtown Hackberry and it’s off2 Memphis and Mississippi. C U on Beale.

            CORROSION OF CONFORMITY plays Saturday night. I love the band, they are part of my nineties soundtrack. I may stay4 that.

March 6 2012

March on. Big beautiful day in central Arkansas. Midtown Little Rock. Big ass trees. Big reduction. Big topping of a dead one, big branches over the roof, over parking, over the street, over the big windows, chimneys, well caps… We left them some chips and firewood. Good folks, relatively new customers, as are most in Little Rock, though I’ve been2 Memfis close2 a hundred times4 tree work, My trips2 Little Rock4 tree work are not many, under ten. Rebel Tree Care is excellent anywhere.

            I may have2 hit the Oyster Bar, just like in the day. I lived in this town most of the eighties, this neighborhood much of that.

            Jason smokes in a sunlit corner of our hosts yard. Beautiful women walk dogs, this youngish knockout lead around by two big eager labs. Causing a big ruckus down the street now. She could stop a block.

March 5 2012

Welcome Little Rock2 REbelriver.com. I started south this morning, stopping in Ash Flat 2 proper prune some fruit trees 4 a prominent business and land owner. We have plenty of work here in central Arkansas. Big ass reductions, smaller stuff2.

            Back in old Hillcrest hood. Beautiful joggers in Spandex. The chicks are pretty2.

I’m still a little hoarse from hollering @ THE MIKE GRAY BAND Friday night. They rocked the house 4 me.

            Now I’m chilln. We got plenty of work. And plenty of pizza. I’ll probably go2 the laudromat. C the common folks. Hang and get clean. Look4 me on Cantrell.

March 2 2012

Winds blow hard. They say that one area of Kentucky has a ninety percent chance of a tornado. A county in Missouri very near my county of Sharp is under a watch. If I c cows flying through the air I’m gonna hit the basement. My variegated privet dances so pretty. My Bradford pear is In bloom, white flowers adorn it. It has recovered nicely from the ice storm just over three years back. We all remember those crazy times. Poor Geezer. Check out the photo of Tabby. The hyperactive rat terrier. She’l slow down a while. Little Poopoo won’t get in front of Willow’s truck anymore I’ll wager.

            Crazy winds. I’m readying4 a trip down2 Little Rock, I have good jobs lines up. Then over2 Mississsippi, I will prolly do some stuff there, then on 2 Mfis and up2 Jonesboro. This crazy train known world wide as Rebel Tree Care. The chumps are active, running there line of bull2 unsuspectings HO’s. (homeowners).

            So I guess LALA is really out of it.  She won’t be called back this year. But it has introduced her2 a whole new crowd, opened doors, she got a world tour, numerous gigs with good pay…In particular the A.L. Hutson memorial field house Friday here in Highland, a sell out there would rock Highland. I hope Beevis and Butthead aren’t sitting @ Red Mule that night. Beevis spit some hot cappuccino on Lauren one time, by the time the cops sorted it out, a window, three headlights and a finger were broken, I’m not gonna tell u whitch finger.

            So it’s time2 get road ready. Check some taillights, pack some gear. Mostly sleeping and biking gear, cos my trailer and chipper are always ready4 work. I hope the work snow balls this time, I need that big stack of checks 2 get me back. I hope2 hit Southfork4, or possibly the Norfork, moron that l8tr; a multi day trip as soon as I get back. And the wolf river is always there, mocha brown, soft and hiddn amid urban landscape and hidden enclaves of illegal Mexicans… Collierville to Mud Island would rock, with a  sojourn up the hill 2 Beale St4reet as the hot sun sets…

            So Mittens Wrongkee jerk, wins in Arizona and Michigan. Barely. It was like a must win, and he squeeked it out just as the polls predicted, by a few percentage points, and he was jubilant. A few percentage points is the difference between disgrace and king. Mitch Romulus, Bitch  Mittens. Wrongknee jerk. Reaction. Everything he says is wrong, asked about NASCAR, he’s like, "not really, I’m friends with some owners, “ he recounted his vehicles, “blah, blah, couple of caddilacs.” He couldn’t even remember how many homes he owns. He finally recovered from the Donald Trump endorsement disaster, losing quite a few primaries starting days after Donald Trump officially endorsed him. The Donald set his hair on fire and kissed Romney’s bare ass @ a trump tower party. A hazy utube video shows it.

            Prick Sanitarium derailed the hair on fire ass kissing as a shameless “stunt by Demons” “Whining” Newt Blingrich preached from an all black Church in Georgia, “Obama is wrong4 America, Yeah I’m white. Hell I’m Steve Martin white, It’s semantics", he explained condescendingly,  "race baiting has no calling in, he lisped, "This Story", and began slamming bongo drums and prancing about. He lead a procession2 a line of Limos and was gone b4 the invitation. Nancy Pelosi quipped on Facebook, “The republicans are in disarray. This is the perfect time to strip the defense bill. I’ll b damned if I’m gonna okay extra funds so soldiers can wear Kevlar boxer shorts. We’re not even pushing acceptable collateral damage right now. We could get several thousand ground troops killed with our evil meddlings and it would only ruffle the voter conscious, unless, of course, gas gets over 420 a gallon for regular. “ Eric Cantor accidentally tweeted, “go to effn hell Boner. I will swift boat ur ass, checked your basement closet lately?”

March 1 2012

March on. I started the month off right with a little job on Lake Thunderbird.  We chopped up some privet hedge,  hedge fund. Square deal. Non Japanese style.

            So I’ts Panadox again 2nite. LALA may get called back as wild card. Signs point to this; 2day, she appears on Ellen. Cant’ wait2 catch that. I hear she has numerous offers for recording contracts. There is an RCA thing going on.

February 28 2012

Cold. I just can’t seem2 shake a shiver unless @ warm Willow Ford. Warmth is nice. There. I said it. I dig warmth. Kindness still rocks2. What2 do? I’ve got2 get a vehicle road ready. The old van is being called2 duty. Again the old girl saddles up. I have2 get get the radiator replaced I could take the little truck, but that’s a little uncomfortable. I get stoved up and stiff in the truck, the van has plush captains chairs. Plus I can crash in the van comfortably. Yeah.

            So LALA is blowing up. My beautiful talented niece. Not a lot of people know this, but great singers get their talent directly from their Uncle. LALA wrote her first song @ about 2 years of age. She stood on her steps 2 the down stairs of her home, she held a hand high probably like her Aunt Donna, who really did have an affect on her singing ability, DONNA is an incredible talent, singing in church in Pocahontas Arkansas every Sunday, but LALA held her hand up, singing her own lyrics, “pretty stars. In the sky…pretty stars… In the sky… Look like diamonds… In my eye…”. She performed with grace and stage ease not often found in a two year old.

February 27 2012

And we roll. Looks like Panadox again 2moro nite @ Creekside Loft. I wondering. Will LALA get called back? Stranger things have happened. Their has been record support 4 her world wide.  Monumental.

            So I’m get n ready4 a trip2 Little Rock. Then over2 Mississippi. Then on 2 Memphis. Then on2 Jonesboro. Then back2 Hardly Smash Flat JerkyVille. Quality tree service. Rare.

            Posers and chumps proliferate here. The Bait and Switch is on. Dumb ass southerners, know it all Yankees, well meaning brothers in law, smart competitive business folks who think they are watching the dollar carefully, all get taken in bait and switch tree service. Smooth talking, incredible liars posing as qualified arborists, baited by claims of professional work, master service, expert… Switched by sub standard, non standard, dangerously ignorant methods. That’s what people want most times, and they get it. A lot. Most times Rebel Tree Care is not chosen, Malpractice is rampant. Fact.

            And this Iran thing is getting heavy. How Sanitarium is using religion2 get elected so he can bomb Iran. We installed a dictator in Iran in 1953. “Shah,” was a more digestible title. We had Nuked Japan twice eight years b4, continually scorched Southeast Asia, assassinated and overthrew democratic presidents in Central and South America. We outfitted Osama, outfitted Saddam. Provided them with billions of dollars. We gave Iran weapons. Iraq still had our weapons. We bombed Iraq for twenty years. We have Iran surrounded. They couldn’t’ get a bottle rocket out of the the bottle. Prick Sanitarium wants2 bomb them. WrongKnee will relish in pushing the button. Don’t u get it yet? We are the many headed beast of revelations. We do all this so we can plop down in our metal boxes and vroom vrooom2 get food and sex. We r busy with beer and sports, careers and raising children2 b even more spoiled than us. 2 recycle even less, mulch even less. We’re nice folks. Unless we have2 cut back or sacrifice, moderate in the slightest. Jimmy Carter once suggested we wear sweaters2 conserve energy. But right after Bush one left Iran, there was a hostage crisis, Iran holding Americans, Reagan convinced us he would never bargain with terrorists, It took till November 86 2 prove they had done so, even so, Reagan went on the air and Vehemently denied any involvement, that took one more week 4 him 2 admit, but that it wasn’t arms 4 hostages trade, then another week went by, he was forced2 admit, yes, it was and arms for hostages trade. Ronald Reagan. Grotesque puppet flapping in the wind with his neck skin flapping. Bush one with the glasses and gesture training, shaking the wimp tag almost, but didn’t really get Saddam. Jr would find a way 2 get the smelly bastard. Barbara searched in vain for O.C. and Stiggs. Ollie used Mena Arkansas 2 move crack cocaine in. Bill and the Troopers knew what was going on, but looked the other way. So did the prosecutor of Mena, he became head of the DEA. Hutchinson. 4 participating in creating the crack plague and modern weapon smuggling he got2 put millions of nonviolent pot smokers in prison, Yes. Journal Veterans and others, this Iran thing is getting very heavy indeed. Peace Now. Peace right effn now. Make Israel back off the Palestinians. Everybody effn chill. Relax, War Machine. Smoke a joint. Have sex. Hot tub confessions with Father O’leary. Job/Contraceptives. Contra Rebels/ Abortion. Flag burning/genocide. Koran on fire. Afghanistan on fire. Burn the disco albums. U wanna talk about Atrocity? America has the bigget penis on the planet, and we will rape the other smaller countries, roughly sodomize them, even our poor people get2 assault smaller foreign countries with Strategic Oil Reserves. There is no mention of Islam In the Bible. But there is mention of Christianity in the Koran maybe I think. Ours Is an aggressive faith. And it trickles down.

February 26 2012

Cool morning. Lame dog. Tabby has a dangling foot. She may be crippled or an amputee. Poor little poo poo. Real time with Willow and Skate. Wonder n how the two shows went last night, earlier@ Creekside then l8r@ Copper Feather. MIKE will fill me in l8r. LALA is off2 b on the Ellen show. Ellen Degeneres is freakin’ hot.

            Still recovering from my extreme trek. Chapped lips,  horrible hair, laziness. But already I am planning another conquest of Paradise. I must do the Buffalo, the Eleven Point, more of the Southfork and Spring. The Little Black. The Current. And that is while I am still young and pretty. The other Ozark streams, all of them, will come in succession as I get timely. The Norfork, ending @ the lake. The Piney, Mulberry, Cossatot.

February 25 2012

Bright morning. What a wonderful morning. Never have I been so warm and welcome. Willow’s fire melted and soothed. Her bed held great comfort. After a hot shower @ home and some hugs from nieces @ Creekside as they prepared 4 a dinner and show I made my way2 Willow. Everything is emotional now. Every bite@ the  Chinese restaurant savored, every sentence of conversation with my mother savored. I cried watching a documentary on Doctor Martin Luther King. I stand alone. Patient, but not nearly enough. Tall, but shortly I will become one. I stand alone on an island, one man, I am an island.

2 each his own. Farm dust2 Farm dust. Jolly ranchers and their couple of Cadillacs.

            Big show2 2nite @ Creekside and Copper Feather. Check it out. Well, Creekside is sold out, but the Feather can always take a couple more. We may have2 put Tony on the bar,

            It’s still the same world. Make up is more important than recycling. Every time we start a vehicle a Middle Eastern child dies. Americans have achieved the dream of massive stucco mansions worth a quarter of the mortgage price. We can not grow hemp fiber, we must buy nylon and chemical romances of fat cat corporate conspirators, their minion policemen zealously patrol, sniffing out smokers and Mettalica fans2 frame and hang.

            But they are dying, Their children inherit business and after years of cocaine addiction and expensive hookers find they have no real world experience, no skills or talent, only entitlement, and bankruptcy redistributes their wealth2 others undeserving and inept. So let the rich hit the top, tipping slowly2 topple and  crush the adoring masses, the poorest can not afford front row seats, they will stroll into the ashes and use poor people skills2 build shorter towers. Stronger, wider towers, grounded and insulated, worthy. Not above and trickling down, flowing with inner sha, Pooled with masses, 2gether when storming, 2gethr when frozen, 2gether @ last…

    The Repoblican contenders had a "debate" 2day. They agreed only2 bomb Iran. Except4 Ron Paul, who pointed out that we have Iran surrounded by U.S. military bases, and that they could, may, might be just a little tiny bit intimidated. Prick Sanitorium railed against big government, then stated flatly, "we will end contraception by a means of huge government intrusion into women's bedroom practices." Oddly, pregnant Lesbians would be in the "donut hole," which "whining" Newt Gingrish found hilarious, cackling shrilly while licking between his fingers. Mitt WrongKnee, two days b4 the Michigan primary, admitted his plan 4 the auto industry was to let it collapse. Personally, I would have agreed2 that one if he wasn't such a douche bag. Obama will destroy these wackos, one and all, when he faces them in debates next summer. I'll b on the river.

Still the weasels and reptiles ooze, plotting 4 selfish whim. I alone know sycamores weeping. I alone feel 4 Willow's. Blackjacks are poeple2.

February 24 2012

Creekside is jumpn 2nite. LALA did a meet and greet, quite a line of fans. Two sold out shows this weekend, two more @ copper feather. Prom season coming up2. LALA and MIKE and the boys have some sweet gigs coming up, then LALA tours the world with the American Idol band. Watch out WILBURN BROTHERS, an act from Hardy is going2 unseat u as most famous. THE WILBURN BROTHERS actually were pretty cool. They have a show from the fifties or sixties shown every day on CMT or one of those, they were hip and talented, smooth and worldly.

            Yesterday was an awesome trip from Kia Kima Kamp 2 Old Kia Kima. I stopped@ Slick Rock and rejoiced in eighty degree sunshine and roaring, leaping white water. All along the banks creeks trickled off cliffs and bubbled from under glistening sycamore roots. Raccoons and squirrels climbed, kingfishers flashed and chortled…

            Last night it got cold and windy. This morning was a chill trip down2 High Falls and Spring River. After some soul searching, I opted out. Creekside Loft offered warmth and shelter. Subway and a newspaper…

February 23 2012

Sweet cold morning on Southfork. Crows call, myriad songbirds. I caught a smallmouth bass, it’s cookn now I figured I’d better get it cooked and eaten cos it’s an inch short of legal.

            Decision time. How far2 take this? I’m ahead of schedule.

            LALA got cut. How dare American Idol cut my LALA. I’ll beat American Idol up. They did offer her a spot on a world tour.

            Speakn of Fox, Saturday nite I was flipping thru channels, watching Saturday Night Live, And I accidently flipped 2 Fox News. These uptight suits r all talking super serious about bias in Media. 4 a minute I thought I was back on Saturday Night Live, but realized I was on Fox News.

            Fox news wants something done about bias in Media. Fox News bitching about bias in Media. Fair and “Balanced Fox news.

            Soon it will b time4 bacon and bass.

             And now I’m kickn it2 old Kia Kima. What a sweet trip 2day. I hung @ Slick Rock with Danny awhile. Hawks, crows, kingfishers… I hooked another bass but it got off.

            Creeks trickling off mountains. I got under the north goff course bridges. Raccoon Springs  bubbling out of roots so many places

            That’s where the five “civilized” tribes met: Choctaw, Chickasaw, Cherokee, Creek, Seminole. Must have been a monumental occurrence. Western Sioux, of which the Osage were from, meeting with beset Eastern Tribes.

            I’m soakn it up! 2day@ Slick rock rocked. White water, sunshine, it must have been 80. Al gore was right.

February 22 2012

Good morning from Heart Arkansas. Southfork swirls hard against tiny cliffs a few feet from my camp. Crows call, a big variety of song birds. I chased ducks, mallards sometimes, many other varieties I couldn't identify, their were no flat landers 2 ask, I watch kingfishers and hawks yesterday as I moved downstream from Salem.

            Last night coyotes had several scary parties very near me. Beavers splatted loudly very near many times, owls hunted with big calls Deer are fat, sleek and plentiful, I only saw a few people.

            Now the sun is up and warm. It was a rough nite. I forgot a flashlight, and had tent problems but all is fresh and new now. I had some fried spam4 breakfast.

            Motors and horns in the distance. Time2 head downstream. Look4 me@ Saddle around noon.

Wow. Here I am@ the boy scout camp. That was quick. I don’t know what time I passed the awesome table rock@ Saddle prolly mid day. I’m naked! I saw a super nice level sand bar and couldn’t pass it up. Sand is comfortable, as opposed 2 gravel.

            Once again wildlife entertained all morning: kingfishers deer, eagles, turtles…

            Great rapids downstream of Saddle! I’m setting some limb lines, getting a fire going 4 bacon.

            Now I’m in my tye dye toga. UNO it’s on when I’m in my tye dye toga/kilt. I’m in much better spirits now, WARREN PEACE’s concert will be way better 2nite.

            I was a little scared last night. But I get it now. I’m enjoying every minute, livin’ tha life…

            LALA has 2 more sold out shows this weekend! Panadox is @ Creekside 4 Idol 2nite, MIKE is running it 4 me. I may keep going2 Willow Ford 2moro! Table Rock THE table rock shocked me when I rounded that bend. Massive H with balanced boulders fifty feet above the water.

February 18 2012

Nice morning. Breaking dawn. Maybe a bike ride now. I did one yesterday, a short hard run, payn bills. Getn around. Plus I ripped off thirty five hundred jump ropes, one more day of that and I step up2 four thousand. Gradual. I don’t wanna get a hear attack. I like the berm affect of the sidewalk slots@ KFC and other businesses in Highland. U can get a good workout in just a mile or two of quicker riding, plus there is lot’s of traffic so I want2 appear more dynamic so I push it hard and jump stuff. Sometimes the footballers will c me from the practice field, so I really push it there. I want 2 challenge them2 ride with me2 Bayou Access and canoe back, but I don’t think the coach would approve if I brought enough beer 4 the team. A floating Hooter’s would help.

There was an oil barge collision in the Mississippi a couple of days ago. Must not be an oil leak. We would hear about it wouldn't we? I mean that pipeline vote is coming up, and the powers that be wouldn't want a messy spill2 get the public up in arms about the lack of safety measures and all. Trouble is, the oil industry owns the media. If they are painted as murderers on their own television station it just wouldn't b proper. And Al Capone was just a businessman. Plus I saw the other day a report where tap water burned. The same vested fat cats probably got that off the air. You don't hear much about the earthquakes that shake areas where natural gas drilling is going on. They have2 spin these stories 2 make them Obama's fault, or Bill Clinton's, I miss Bill by the way, and if the spin doctors don't come up with anything the story goes away. And if reporters get nosy, they go away. I remember a big front page story a few years back by one of our small newspapers here, two weeks in a row it was about North Arkansas Electric Cooperative and how they used funds illegally2 sponsor expensive Repoblican fundraisers and fancy galas. Two weeks in a row the front page begged 4 answers, how could this obvious illegal use of public funds b so prominent, entrenched as it was going on many years. We never found out. The paper suddenly went out of business and we never heard about it again.

            Enough talk. Enough foreplay. It’s time2 get down and dirty bitches. Git ‘er dun yo. Pace. Al.

February 17 2012

A little chili. Overcast. As opposed2 undercast. Warming it up. Three fires. Last night was Creekside Loft, LALA on big screen. Panadox was formed in some ways2 feature LALA on big screen. I used2 show her as a baby behind the MIKE GRAY BAND, wailing from her high chair ten feet tall. I lubbee me some LALA. I took the equipment down, there is  a show 2nite, sold out, live music. LALA and Gray/Blues band.

            What’s with this Issa character? Congressman Darryl Issa. What a piece of expletive. He couldn’t get Obama2 take the rap4 his gun running scheme, now he and his cronies are having a big hearing on Women’s health, with no women represented, only clergy and quasi religious “scientists”, all2 portray Obama as non Christian. But once again they have over reached. The health policies they are challenging were fine under a republican president. The health policies were fine under republican governors. Now they are evil socialist pragmatic dogmatic social engineering, a Muslim conspiracy with only one answer: bomb Iran.

            The War Machine is restless. No bid contracts have caused a stockpile of overpriced missile parts and faulty guidance systems. Dan Quayle's buddies are going broke now that the wars are ending. Bush and Cheney promised resumption of big war once the Los Angeles Dodgers are purchased. “We will bomb Yemen n2 the stone age, or @ least the first bronze age lmfao,” quipped Boner on Twitter. “Yemen is a disgusting word.” Said WrongKnee, “after the invasion we will rename it New Rhode Island, or maybe the United Christian Emirates lol.”

            Prick Sanitorium smirked in smug satisfaction, “Birth control is evil. Bayer aspirin is a cure for bare asses. I will fight as president2 cure us of addiction2 birth control, and I will personally end abortion, force it back into the dark dungeons where it was born. I believe life is sacred, unless gas prices top five dollars, then Iranian life will no longer be sacred.”

            Sarah Palin chipped in on face book. “I’m a woman. As a woman I choose 2 b dictated2 by vested male politicians with secret racist and sexist agendas. It’s the American way.”

February 16 2012

Bloggarussa. Saul Good. I’m WARREN PEACE, and your OK. Last night was a social gathering @ Creekside Loft. Hollywood Hell week 4 American Idol. That JLO is even hotter ten feet tall. And STEVEN is bulletproof. RANDY rocks the bass! He sounds a little like me. But I sound more like GWAR. Come the Cyclops.

            Sunshine. Nice. I have a hot date 2nite. Also another round of American Idol. LALA should b featured 2nite, she was not in it last night much, but they did show her prominently a couple of times, and said her name again. LALA was there last night, she has a sold out show 2moro nite, another the following Friday is selling out rapidly. We had all kinds of food, a smorgasbord of pizza, chicken, pâté, strawberry pie, dip and chips, meatballs, tacos… Personally I am looking 4ward2 that again 2nite. The children are excited, everyone just loving this. This rocks.

            Three fires…

February 15 2012

Rain. Cold cold rain. Saturation as the snow melted off I think yesterday afternoon. It’s a blur. I’m planning a multi day canoe trip with Willow around June. We were gonna do Wakarusa but I think we decided 2do Eleven Point Instead. That’s what I’ll name it, Eleven Point Instead. The Eleven Point Instead 80K/ But this is just us. Prolly. Just Us is just fine2. I’ll take my bass. It’s trout water. I doubt we go from Thomasville, I don’t want 2 run Willow n2 branches and snags. I’ll leap from the boat b4 I will endanger a female partner much. A man, especially a drunk man yes, I will take some liberties when running a wild river, slam him into sycamore branches, Squeeze him a little under a willow stump, Honey locust even I don’t mess with @ any cost.

            I’m thinking cane bluff camp. It’s less than hour by car from my home in Highland. The pickup three days later would be not much further. Or I could go another week on the river and come out@ Imboden. Imboden or further upstream to Raven Den, Williford or Hardy, but I figure even I will have had enough river after a couple of weeks2 call it in, get a ride from there. So many options when u think upstream. Trouble is, as I get older it’s a little tougher heading upstream, but with more patience and preparation it can still be done. Still way better than anything else.          

            So heading downsteam from Cane Bluff2 Riverton with Willow will rock ball sack. I don’t think there is anything above a class one and a half rapid,  but many of those, and Eleven Point is not similar Spring in that it has consistent current, doesn’t pool up like Spring. ^There will be endless choice in camping and hiking and such. It’s all national forest. This will rock. I will keep u posted.     

            I’m also planning a multiday  down Southfork.  Ideally from Missouri. Through Salem, Heart, Saddle, SlickRock,  Basehart…I need a dog. A good swimmer, warm and happy, Geezer couldn't swim very good. He used all his thirteen lives up, Near drownings and fights with larger breed dogs. But a small dog don’t rock the boat2 much.

             I have a wet suit now, so I can brave the elements a little  better, not worry so much about turning over on a simple run. It’ll still b a bitch, but probably not life threatening. There are nice meals ready2 eat(MRE)now, in case the fishing is not good. On Eleven Point they stock trout like upper Spring, On Southfork you need a little skill or live bait. I should take a minnow trap,  but that is serious space in a loaded canoe. Using tiny blue gill on limb lines will be the way.

            Camping on private property  could b a problem if done improperly. Try2 b n an secluded place. Don’t scream obscenities and litter. Try2 leave no sign of your presence. Treat the island or beach with respect, even reverence. Listen2 the water. Listen4 a long time. Put ur cell phone away. Listen 2 ur world. I’m like “babble on world. Babble on  brother river.” Mother earth stands strong. Sister Moon is helping us.

February 14 2012

And the bomb hits. Petals n Lace a madhouse this morning, van full after van full of balloons, teddy bears, red roses, yellow roses, orange roses, variegated roses, lilies, tulips, baby’s breath, carnations…I tooled about town all morning, three loops through Highland and Ash Flat. I light everyone up around town, women with a bloom. I started off with two hundred balloons 4 the grand opening of First Community Bank. I hit numerous residences and businesses in Hardy, Highland, Cherokee Village, and Ash Flat. Now it is done. Easy money.

            LALA  is set2 sing2 a sold out show on Friday. Creekside Loft. A show the following Friday is selling rapidly. Big doings in Hardy.

            Yesterday I was shocked 2 c an escalation of tensions at the straight of Hormuz. Iran may be blockading it, We are blockading them I’ll wager. What we are doing there is suspect. I mean we patrol China every day. If China patrolled us we would bomb them. If Iran doesn’t cow down2 us that is an act of aggression. Anyway after seeing that on Yahoo yesterday, I eagerly searched 4 it again, and then looked through 2day’s Arkansas Gazette. Nothing. No mention of the whole thing, The suicide boats. The genocide boats. Kind of like East Timor, The Island near the Phillipines the CIA took out under Bush I. Some estimates say that native culture we exterminated for an air base and golf course numbered a million people. No mention of it in any mainstream press. East Timor, or maybe it was West Timor. Google it, then stay awake 4 days.

February13 2012

Snow, Fine, grainy, heavy snow. This proves there is no Global Warming. Rush Limbaugh stood proudly in a desolate South Dakota prairie, nearly covered in six foot of drifts. Glenn Beck stood @ a chalkboard, patiently explaining how snow is frozen precipitation, how it takes freezing temperature2 freeze the water that is falling from the clouds and sky. He was in Florida, showing elderly golfers in, he paused, jackets.

            Jerry Sandusky allowed2 go outside, and watch school children through a telescope.

            Looks like a piddle day. Two fires. 2moro is Petals-nLace, delivering flowers just like always since I turned sixteen. And that was a long time ago homer. Happy V.D.

February 12 2012 

Hideee Ho. Birds flock. The cats meow. I jam and cut wood. Jeremy Lin again. Okay he tears up his first four NBA starts, and last night after the home crowd chants ‘Over Rated” 2 him, he hits a three pointer with like ten seconds 2 tie it, then finishes it off with a free throw to ice the win.

            The u got Prick Sanitorium. What an enthusiastic douche4 big pollution and big war. What a quasi compassionate right wing nut. What a WASP, a country club entitled jerk wad. Wait that was WrongKnee. Sanitorium, pro war. Pro pollution, pro insider trading, pro Bin Laden, pro credit card fees and pro fraudulent lenders.

            Sanitorium. Leave me be. He is the Leper Mesiah, Satanic angel, cherubic demon. He would have his backers rolling in war bucks, He will have Pork barrels crushing the skinny masses, copper bosses will brag, Boeing goes Rick Santorum’s penis. Beoing.

            Lockheed and Halliburton will buy him several houses, Bush and Cheney will approve of his handling of things. Prick Sanitarium will kill millions, but be praise4 making Obama look pro abortion, pro depression, pro regulation, pro union, pro minimum wage, pro same sex marriage, pro gay and lesbian, pro illegal immigration. The billionaires will approve the messages, the feaux religious agnosticators shout harrumph in indignant respite from perceived challenges and it will all be 4 naught. Obama will get fifty one percent of the vote in fifty one percent of the states, Diebold will whittle some off and contest the official results, Jeb Bush will shatter a glass table with a cricket bat, and Obama will while away another four years getting ten percent of what he hoped and that will still be an improvement.

            Where will the chads dangle this year? Florida stole it in OO, Ohio stole it from Kerry after the swift boating, both proven2 b criminal conflicts of interest with Die bold voting machines. What was the conflict of interest? Diebold voting machines are owned by Republicans.

February 11 2012

Jeremy Lin. Endless sports drivel. Let me set this up 4 non sports fans. Undrafted point guard out of Harvard with Chinese descent finally gets real shot and four games l8r he’s an instant legend. His first four games as a pro he puts up serious numbers each night. Averaging about thirty points and ten assists maybe. And China is watching. He’s not on twitter in China, Asians lag far behind us in computer intelligence quotient. That’s why China men build our railroads and do our laundry. Most older southern gentlemen have a story of New York City or San Francisco, where a trip2 China town is regaled in the local coffee shop or auto parts store for generations. The French Quarter in New Orleans is similar. Memphis and Little Rock, St Louis and Oklahoma City, Kansas City and Dallas. Springfield Missouri, Fayetteville, Jackson Mississippi…There’s a river running through my veins.

            Frigid. Finally a cold spell. Cold cold north winds. Clear skies4 now. 2moro it may flirt with frozen precip. I’m headed2 the grocery store. It’ll b a carnival. I’m going2 get a chicken and cook it with my mom. Double boil the bones 4 broth. I plan2 stop@ Alco2, Drop some coin4 bird seed, shop around a little. Stroll the aisles. I've been picking up fishing stuff more, river jones upon me. although driving over the Willow ford bridge this morning just after daylight caused a shiver looking down @ that river bursting with cold flowing energy. Deep swirling fat currents, wide, varied water falls and flows, deep green hues, bluer, browner, mottled. the river in winter is little appreciated. Nature appreciation...

February 10 2012

Rainy morning. My roof don’t leak. My fire is burning. I am an island. I get it. This weekend is great music. MIKE GRAY BAND  is hitting the Williford American Legion. The Legion of Doom in the day. I plan2 catch the first sets then bounce2 Willa Ford. TONY SPINNER @ Copper Feather Friday and Saturday, RUTHY’S birthday both nights, so it’ll be loud and proud. I’m gonna try2 hit Saturday night yo. LUSCIOUS SPILLER plays 2nite at Arkansas State University Arts Center. This guy lights it up. I’ve seen him in Little Rock. I’ve partied with him. LUSCIOUS lights it up. He’s like a PRINCE type, dynamic and talented, dreds mopping side 2 side, huge white eyes as he growls and howls blues. He riffs real deal on guitar swinging 2 engage other musicians, challenging the crowd as he projects about the stage..

            Last night was Creekside Loft. Panadox. American Idol. LALA was not featured, although there was a couple of quick shots of her, particularly one showing her hugging a fellow contestant cheek2 cheek. It’s hell week 4 the contestants, they put them through the wringer in groups and change things up on them all night long and stuff. I made up a big double batch of Rotel dip4 others there 2 enjoy the big screen and company.

            Probably cut some wood 2day. Sharpen a saw. I’m getting saw mill slabs for a little extra wood2 flesh out what I save up all year. Saw mill slabs can have rocks and dirt from where the logs were skidded out of the woods, occasionally they will dull  saws. You need tools. Plus u  got to have mix gas, bar lube, eye and ear protection, gas and oil 4 your truck, air in the tires…

February 9 2012

Wow February already. This American Idol Buzz is spiraling n2 space. Numerous interview requests in the family. MIKE and Debby getting screen time, newspapers got me and mom last night. Coke and Ford r the sponsors 4 American Idol. I realized LALA’s great grandfather, my grandfather, my mother’s father Jess Rie, poor delta worker in the great depression, had won a Ford from Coke in 1953. He drank Coke the rest of his life. I am fond of Coke now, Seven UP screwed me on ad money for Blue Collar, Coke. Diet Coke. Hello Coke. Hello Ford. Henry called.

            My dad took a model T Ford2 California. And back I think. I had a mustang in high school. My brother had a dog named Henry.

            Panadox in full splendor last night. LALA impressed the judges again, again they showed her briefly just as the announcer said the words “incredible talent.” JLO pleased, STEVEN appropriately awed, and Randy couldn’t get her attention2 stop her. One contestant fell off the stage and knocked herself out, we’ll c what happened2 her 2nite.

            Two fires. Maybe snow 2nite.. Spose’d2 get cold. Down in the teens they are sayn now. Pretty cold4 this place this year. Gore was right. Traffic smog should not be breathed. Farm dust should not wash into streams. Best Management Practices. Liberal New Yorkers know better than us. So do the Zuni. The Pueblo. The natives put water and purity b4 private ownership of land and the unrestricted right2 wash anything u so choose into streams just because u r a land owner, or a business, utility, municipality, etc…U cannot do these things 2 the public water bodies, simply allowing thicker buffer zones, or any buffer zone @all 2 grow wild solves many problems. Best management Practices, guidelines 4 wise use of watersheds. I notice there is an incentive2 change marginal pasture2 wetland preserve. I don’t know the details but the concept rocks. That is good news, but they are shutting down the departments that govern such grants so it’s probably won’t go much.

            And the EPA in general is doomed. The right wing wants it gone. Deregulation. And the left wing is 2 busy trying2 destroy Christianity and put gun and business owners in jail2 win anything.

            It’s halftime America, Don’t let Obama end the wars and balance the budget, He is pro Abortion, and Clinton got that you know what. Let the Health Care crisis hit rock bottom,  the mortgage crisis fizzle as poor people die or live with someone else, rest assured that when we bomb Iran back to the copper age we will air drop millions, nay billions, of Baloney sandwiches. Peace. Out. Al.  

February 8 2012

Nice ride this cold morning. Panadox setting up4 American Idol. LALA ten feet tall. Beautiful. She is on the front page of the local paper 2day, front page of the Jonesboro Sun last week, Umpteen phone interviews, etc… MY little LALA is goin2 b a star. I will have2 learn2 share her with the rest of the planet.

Sanitorium sweeps three states last night. That's scary. That broken piece of shit is on record stating that he will bomb Iran if elected. That billionaire behind him is guaranteed2 have huge stakes in Boeing and Halliburton. METTALICA can do his theme songs: Sanitarium, Seek and Destroy, Master of Puppets, 4 whom the bell tolls, Stone Cold Crazy, Unforgiven...

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February 7 2012

Nice day in the Arkansas Ozarks. The oldest mountains in the world. How old r they? They are exactly seven million and 24 years old. How, u wonder silently, can he b so sure the Ozark Mountains  r seven million and 24 years old? Well, 24 years ago, this respected geologist came here and said, “these mountains r seven million years old.”

            N a good place. I am@ one. I mean civil war is erupting in every other country, even in this country there is  a civil war of ninety nine percenters, Established governments excuse it is as fighting terrorism, as they have been lead by the United States 2do. We r @ war within. Within each person, conflict festers 4 expression. Wall Street fostering wars of greed and aggression, Madison Avenue invests in red carpet.  I don’t blame Russia and China4 not wanting2 intervene in Syria. Maybe they sense it’s a trap by the U.S. and England2 escalate things globally.  Ironically they invest in Boeing and Lockheed just2 b on the safe side. Lockheed runs the welfare program in Michigan. And I think probably countless myriad other programs and contracts. Did u hear Carl Rove accused the President of helping his cronies in the Auto business? I think Rove is the Kettle calling the pot black. Kind of like the Emporer Wears No Clothes. Remember that one? Best I can recount, The Emperor received a royal salesman into his court, the man claimed2 have cloth only the righteous could see. The Emperor was taken aback secretly, and could c no cloth or raiment when the man  sat them on the table and left. Dismissing his court attendants, “begone you rabble, I must be alone with the righteous garments and adorn myself with them.” He came out stark naked a while later. Posturing as if modeling, he strutted out, standing @ his chariot he paraded down the  road slowly 2 display his righteous garments2 dumb struck public. Finally one small boy stood, pointed and stated the obvious, “look! The Emperor wears no clothes!”

            There may be a more detailed version, probably is, kind of like the Water Spider “myth” of the Cherokee who came here. Like maybe the Emperor gets red faced embarrassed and beheads the little boy. Or riddles the crowd with tear gas and rubber bullets. Like bloody Sunday in Northern Ireland. The citizens form2 march peacefully into the city, and riot teams on steroids form barricades and start a horrible skirmish killing fifty or one hundred Irish. I think U2 were there or something.

            Civil obedience. Do not love. Do not honor. Only Obey. Obey Ebay. Follow the markets is trending now. U no the best thing about this trend where people stare @ there phones in public? Not interacting with human race except through face book or even worse: games. Well the best thing is that when college girls do it @ night u get a real good lit up look @ their boobies.

            I better go now. Crows r trending. Cluster of Cardinals. Huge mockingbird. Rain now. In harmony. I’d like2 buy the world a coke. Piddling w/a vengeance. I want all my affairs in order, every pesky procrastination pinned down. I want2 leave an orderly livable space and useful possessions when I expire.

            Rain picking up. Nice little peppering as titmouses flit anew. Here come the pious cardinals. Cardinals in the pear tree. If a quail flew up I could say partridge in a pear tree. I cannot tell a lie, I chopped the cherry tree down, but I did not shoot the deputy. 2think that I saw it in the mulberry tree.

            The titmouses are holding their own. They like2 hold their own, tit mouses do. It’s almost open war now, male cardinals showing in force, titmouses calling, there a stray sparrow wrenches the works, , now the titmouses use that 2 take feeding ground near the feeder protected by stray clippings. Doves, chickadees, nuthatches, towhees. Huge crows feed with squirrels. I have a couple of cottontail rabbits every night. But a young hawk was hunting here yesterday, and I hear owls wee hours.

            Ever see owl shit?  Sometimes there will be like a whole dead mouse compacted perfectly into the turd. I’ve forgotten the spelling of turd, use the Wikipedia Link @rebel cove2 get it. Scrabble is different, now, slang is allowed, no challenges. I was always good@scrabble, but wanted 2 b better @ sports. Maybe it was cheerleaders. Cheerleaders are like heroin. Drunk cheerleaders by a river is right fine. Pretty dancing girls are fun. Fishin is cool.

February 6 2012

Hard ride winds down this warm afternoon. We started early this morning in Cherokee Village, heavy fog on Lake Sequoyah lifting quickly as I climbed a monster red oak with spikes. It was dead, the procedure was a removal. I lopped and topped perilously near landscaping and house, wires and street. Then we pulled her down into a side lot and diced the bitch up. Then I got2 work trimming several hickory over the house and shed, another oak over the deck with dead and damage, a sycamore and elm lake side… Quality Rebel Tree Care job. Life is sweet.

            Now I rest, I will shower, I will piddle, I may nap. Crows call, they are aggressive lately, I don’t shoot them, they show respect by booking ass when they see me. Blue Jays don’t. Blue Jays suck. Blue Jays must b kept in check around me, I will not tolerate them long. I kill blue jays. I once had a punk song called shoot the blue jays, it evolved into Problematic.

            Can’t wait4 American Idol I think Wednesday. C what my LALA does next.

Crazy warm lately. Not even freezing@ nites this January and February. Rush Limbaugh went on location in Alaska with a fur parka and huge mittens, reading a report saying that valley was colder than it had been in six years. He seemed smug, like he had proven Al Gore wrong, but had a pill stuck to his lip. Glenn Beck patiently explained with a chalkboard and ruler that it is a cyclical change period as his confused graphs overlapped and interchanged. What he failed2 mention is that this cycle of warm temps usually comes in June.

February 5 2012

Iran exercises it’s navel. The straight of Hormez will b closed soon. And we will bomb them4 Israel because they are in the Bible, and Iran is Muslim. Seven dollar a gallon gas will have nothing2 do with it. Nuclear holocaust aside, the New York Giants beat the bookies and pulled out another Super Bowl. They have a Manning. Tom Brady is good, but his hot shot receivers dropped easy passes right into their hands @ crunch time.

            Over2 Jerkyville 2moro, massive dead oak over a house. Rebel Tree Care. Skilled,.

            So I’m listening 2 endless sports drivel. They don’t like the Pro bowl, don’t like the Home Run Derby. I’m thinking I love the celebrity Rock and Jock type stuff, the funny games with actors, athletes, comedians, and musicians. Make the pro bowlers play super models and rock stars. And the home run derby, make the best defensive players rob the home runs from various outfield positions, leaping over the fence and what not. Just some thotz.

            Or they could play 500. That’s where a bunch of baseball players try2 leap and catch balls. If they get one in the air it’s 100 points. One bounce is seventy five, two bounces 50, more bounces or a grounder is 25. Errors take points off. Get the best defensive players from local high schools, or a crazy group of celebrities.

            I mean u get crazy situations, Ten year old Jonathon Taylor Thomas taking on six ten two forty Shawn Kemp. QUEEN LATIFAH with a steal and lay up. Kenny Lofton, TED NUGENT , Jay Leno, Gizzelle… Don’t 4get MARKY MARK  Gary Peyton with seventy six points in a quarter..

            MADONNA still has it. I kept hoping4 a wardrobe malfunction. I wonder if she still has hair under her arms.

February 3 2010

Rain. Cold; consistent… I am warm and active, dry and moving2 keep kickn two fires. My shop and house. Actually three cos I got Willow some dry2. I really don’t have that many irons in the fire. Well if u ask the chumps and posers, I’m a canoe guy now. I broke my leg(a knee injury sidelined me4 less than two months in 98, finger injury a few years ago) I deliver flowers now(on mothers day and valentines day) I moved 2 Memphis. I smoke pot. I live with my mom(which is a stretch, because I haven’t lived with my mom more than six months since 1981). I sleep all day(you don’t trim twenty thousand shade trees sleeping all day. I work4 UPS. That one may not be mentioned much cos it would point out that I can pass a background check, and that would not be a good subject4 much of my so called “competition.” I have no peers around here. I am a standard residential arborist. Others present a weak front and the red neck faction buys into it, baited by claims of master or expert work, baited by shiny huge bucket trucks that actually have a very limited place in residential tree care, switched by non standard hack work, long term, irreparable damage2 a tree.  I don’t damage the tree. I am Alan Williams. Rebel Tree Care… Serious business.

            Since 1989 I have been the premier arborist in this area. A certified arborist from Chicago was active in Cherokee Village and surrounding areas when I moved back from Little Rock the month LALA was born. On the coldest day of the year in 89 just after daylight I was putting a boat in @ high falls 4 a windy day of walleye fishing. I met the certified arborist @ my father’s auto parts store, he invited me2 come film a commercial with my mom’s video camera the next day. I did that, ended up helping the ground crew finish a job, and moved n2 climbing that week. I caught a three pound large mouth with my last minnow that day.

            I learned the ropes with a hard run crew of spikeless climbers and a loud mouthed sawed off foreman. After a few tumultuous months, I was made foreman of another crew in Batesville. Again, a tumultuous affair. The Hardy foreman began ripping our boss off 4 jobs, beginning a pattern of obvious, gratuitous mal practice continued many years, culminating just a few years ago with a check forging scheme perpetrated on the elderly. He spawned numerous copy cats, braggarts and posers all, most coming and going in the industry. Others kept up the old ways of stubbing and spiking, work similar utility crews, ignoring residential standards, topping, flush cutting, the whole gamut of serious wrongs and mal practice. 4 three years I did it the right way, certified method, all4 the man from Chicago, a new age “newmerollogist” now.

    I researched my field, reading and re reading a big thick book by Dr. Alex Shigo titled A New Tree Biology. His teachings gave me wisdom and belief that the certified methods I used were the way. When I cut trees or branches up I noticed there history of stress and growth evidenced by growth rings and defects whether natural or man made.

            I recruited CRAIG DUNBAR to the crew in 91 Then in 92 CRAIG and I split2 form Ozark Tree Service. After a tumultuous year we split up, mostly over a dispute on the practice of lions tailing( a lesser violation of ANSI standard).  I formed Rebel Tree Care, he changed2 Timber Wolf But CRAIG  was not safety conscious after years of Constant Coast Guard safety regs, where he became one of the highest rated rescue swimmers In the nation. Violating a cardinal rule of climbing, CRAIG  fell forty feet2 to hard ground, putting a four inch crack in his pelvis. Although still able2 bang chicks and bar fight while fronting a quality band, CRAIG  was done with tree work.

            But while My and CRAIG'S Ozark Tree Service did the lions share of work around here in 92, Posers and chumps lied2 discredit us, claiming we were uninsured, (ever since I have supplied certificate copies with my estimates)But   not a tree was spiked by us for trimming, only removals. Few stubs were left, few flush cuts made, Certified methods used. That was not the case with other tree services. Sadly that is not the case with most tree services 2day. Rarely is standard work done.

            I carried the standard in2 this century while posers and chumps came out of and into the wood work. I moved over 2 Memphis monthly, a hundred times over the years, I had crew 4 there, I would wear them out, bring them home with a pocketful of cash, call my other crew 4 a hard run back here, wear them out…I have trimmed literally tens of thousands of shade trees… Every single one, every single cut large and small, done as close2 certified standard as it gets.

            Workmen’s Compensation changes forced me2 cut back. I only work one ground man now, and this eases stress over all. Still I take pride in craft, each simple cut never taken4 granted as the others do, obviously hurrying 2 much so they can brag about money made. They nick cambium in amateurish ways, flush cut every branch on a tree, or leave needless stubs because they don’t want to haul that part of the tree. Plus it’s job security, they know that stub will die, and then u will call them back, another over priced job, another rip off…

            Back when I created this web site in 04 I found out about ANSI standards. I read the standard with excitement. It verified what I had been scratching and screaming2 accomplish all these years. Those same certified methods I dutifully followed while braggarts and chumps, posers and scoffers strutted and hacked trees, baited and switched unsuspecting, trusting or ignorant home owners. And so I tout the standard. U bet ur effn ass I tout the standard. Peace.

            Oh yeah. LALA is viral! She killed on American Idol like no other! My LALA. I lubbee me some LALA. Go LALA. LAUREN GRAY is awesome.

February 2 2012

Nice morning on Lake Thunderbird. The urban forest of Cherokee Village. The lake was perfect smooth, chipmunks and blue jays active, buzzards gliding high, and that bothers me a little when I’m about2 climb a tree. One side of a red oak was rotten @ the base, I used the other side2 b safer, topping and lopping big tops to plummet and flip to the yard. The trunk fell as planned, cleanup methodical and efficient. Trusty Rusty and Kemper did a lot,  Don and Roger2. lol. After a quick trim of another red oak it was up the steep hill2 Highland.

            I already had my Rueben and broccoli soup from Carol’s Lakeview yesterday.

            Have u seen the HBO film paradise lost? It documents the state of Arkansas courts and how prejudice permeates. The good old boy network.

            There was a magic mushroom bust in Hardy. Cool. I mean, not that they got busted. I bet the cops are trippin balls about now. Rethinking their whole existence. Or amazed at their own fore arms. One trooper that night danced naked in the blue lights in the middle of the bypass for six hours.

            Republicans want a pipeline from Canada 2 Texas. Bad. They don’t want a bunch of irritating safety checks either. Rick Perry beat an EPA inspector nearly2 death when the man suggested safety measures. This pipeline crosses above the largest aquifer Americans get their drinking water from. But not us, here in the Ozarks we use the Rubidoh aquifer. If the other one is filled with oil chances are decent our water will  not b contaminated under Missouri like it will under Montana, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, Colorado, and the Dakotas. But no one is sure.

            We can’t drink our well water anyway here because over eighty percent of them are polluted from E Coli and other stuff from unregulated Cattle Farms. Invest in water purification.

            Wal-Mart cuts out night greeters. Thousands of desolate lonely people roamed the stores in depression. Checkers were overwhelmed with idle chat and pointless meanderings.

            Still the eight ball hurtles. 2nite it’s American Idol@Creekside Loft. Look4 Little Rocks Fox 13 Friday! They filmed MIKE playing music and interviewed Debby and Lauren. It’s on. Get it on.

February 1 2012

Blog on. Glory hallelujah. The Rebel is back behind the computer. The blogosphere is whole again. Cyper space search engine not missing a cylinder. That fouled plug is out, the carburetor jetted out with high dollar cleaner. High octane.

            I trimmed a Bradford pear! Wow. But I did take care and put much thought into it. The homeowner wanted the best. And got it. I reduced and trained, planning another reduction in two years. The root zone is fertile, mulch and little disruption assures me the tree will be strong down there. Roots hold trees up. Many people are concerned about this and that over the house and near the house or what not, but don’t mulch. Mulch nurtures roots, helps them be strong. Roots hold trees up.

            Although I haven’t been working much, I have lot’s coming up this month. The break has been needed, my elbow is healing itself. My house in order, my life lined up proper. My mom is a little wild, extremely forgetful yet still bossy and spiteful at times, and that combination can be troublesome. Look4 LALA on American Idol. LAUREN GRAY. LALA is the bomb. Panadox is set2 provide giant screen visuals @ Creekside Loft 2moro night.

            EROSION in house often. Noisy. Loud and proud. Like granite in a dryer. Train coming of the track. Rumbling train. Rumblin bad boy, coming down the line.

    Mitt WRongney takes Florida. Blingrich blasted Floridians as 'morons" and threatened 2 give them2 Cuba when elected. He praised South Carolinians as "forward thinking, contemporary voters," and vowed 2 subsidize big tobacco. "South Carolinians are smart and hip, they c thru the flip flopping and shiny jewelry, the quasi intellectual social engineer." He then yanked an imaginary truck horn and shouted@ the top of his lungs Howard Dean style, "Hooot. Hooot. Comen' thru."

Blog on. Endless sports Drivel. Politics. We should call everything off. LeBron. Boner. The Super Bowl, Call it all off while we’re @ war. We go2 politically correct wars and kill people with different beliefs. We not only live literally like kings in chariots, but we insist on policing other countries2 make sure they conform. I love my America.

            Posting Rebel Word. Deep breath. I’m leaping off the cliff here. I’m proud of my fiction works. Rokkalypse is disturbing, but it is true2 vision as I must be. Free. I mean maybe it’s stupid but @ least I’m true2 anti corporate message. I’ll sell out somewhere, but I don’t feel like I have since that hair cut in 86. B4 that it was riding in cars again after they killed my dog Cookie as a child in Hardy. LoJoker is a rocking little novel. This is a good read, full length it seems off hand. Forester is certainly full length I believe. Water Spider is short as it says on the cover, “short saga of the Arkansas Cherokee.” But Water Spider could possibly be expanded over coming months and years of literally exactly what Cherokee, Osage, and other nations did here. I think Green Chipper, Blue Chipper, whatever it may end up being titled is important. It can tell the story of the Urban Foresters during work hours and off times.

            The Ruby Yacht could wind on many years as notions or experience tweak image. Mammoth will be expanded and improved if I have time someday.

            And that’s about it xcept4 this journal.

            I only have six songs as WARREN PEACE of EROSION. I have a long finger tapping cowbellish song that goes on 4ever called River Blues. I have EROSION Blues or EROSION, which is just two or three chords and an open E all top string, over and over, sometimes thumping with my thumb or using delay. Delay gives it this train coming off the track, washing machine off kilter on the spin cycle feel. With a drummer I take it down to EROSION Blues, neither have vocals. Lady Eagle Eyes is a festival anthem. Heavy on Lyric and vocal, feedback or cymbals if there is a drummer.

            Problem Attic is my punk song. It is screamo basically. Usually short, but if I found myself on stage @ a skateboard party and they dug it @all I could milk it twenty minutes prolly. Hard Feelings is a bouncy, almost rag timey romp. I need 2 brush up on the lyrics but it’s something like this: “poolside riverside Motel 6, Stolen credit card summer avenue, tight jeans Beale Street, truck stop dive. I got hard feelings  4 u bay bay." Cyclops is my classic heavy metal anthem I have done on stage numerous times to some success. It is raw power  oozing metal cool.

            Those are my six songs 4 over eight years. I have yet 2 have many fellow musician 2 play any of them 2 an end, though admittedly some times that is my fault. GERRY MOSS  has played along with most of them many times in studio and on stage, crafting guitar or drums, to several, MIKE GRAY has ripped into a couple, and pro’s @ The Stage Stop in Memphis Tennessee. I have no band mates in EROSION most times, so I may change the name of the band2 MASTURBATION.

            Big rains. Better love life. That’s weird, cos in verse and song I think rain means tears, but rain is happy time 4 me. Rain means rest. Rain means nature. Rain rocks. I used2 carry groceries in rain. It was fun.

            I’m relieved2 b done with Word a while maybe. Take a break. I’ve been saturated many hours, it’s the best way, cos if u take breaks u forget what u were thinking about something. The good books u just don’t want2 stop reading. The journal u can’t stop hitting. Is it what will happen next? Or is it what happened? Is it what is happening? Or is it a hydrogen bomb?

            This was in yesterday’s gazette if u don’t believe this but Burn Wards at regional hospitals are strapped from treating burns of Chrystal Meth makers. They don’t cook it like the old days, now it’s shake and bake, and it u shake or bake a little much blam. Horrible burns. Uninsured. I’m like Mentos and Diet Coke are burn enough 4 me.

            Speaking of burns George was in the news. No, but solar flares are kicking it lately. They say this is a big one.

            Speaking of the big one Boner tweeted after Obama’s spectacular speech last night, “SO,  wEre still gonna bomb Iran. Ha Ha ha. Standing ovation.” Romney went on live, “They are in violation of U.N. mandates, we must go2 war.” Later when asked about the U.N.’s demand that Guatonemo Bay Cuba be closed down, Romney declared defiantly, “we will bomb the U.N. b4 altering our way of life. This aggression against the United States will not stand.” Seated behind the President during the speech, Boner was seen quickly in masturbatory motion grinning 2 frat buddies.

            Hard rain now, looks like a lot coming. May be time 2 get serious about that Southfork run.

It looks like it'll be show down with inspectors, the U.N. just called 4 a sanction on Iranian Oil, Iran may shut down the straight of Hormez soon. More importantly Detroit first baseman Prince Fielder signed a 212 million dollar contract with the Milwaukee Brewers.

January 24 2012

Blog 40. High time. I haven’t been working much. Getting ready  for Little Rock and Memphis. I’ve had personal problems. Love life stuff. That may get all better 2nite. I have been deep into Rebel Word. I have over the last two weeks put finishing touches on several projects and will now post them for free here @ rebelriver.net. I have rated them like  motion pictures so u can decide what level you want 2 read @.

        I want2 start taking  a reusable grocery bag to the store. That is a simple thing we can all do2 slow pollution. The plastic bag industry are basically the same people who killed hemp canvas and promoted tobacco. These bags are choking the planet.

        We can also mulch and ride mountain bikes.

        I haven’t been keeping up with politics. I assume Romney is set2 be defeated by Obama. If not invest in Lockheed. Get out of Tehran. Don’t be hiking anywhere near Iran.

        I trimmed a Bradford pear! I have massive dead oaks 2 do.

        My daily mountain bike trips got derailed so I do many thousand rope jumps every day now. I put on an album: LYNARD SKYNARD, ALICE IN CHAINS, ZZ TOP, ROLLING STONES, NEUROSIS… Some CRAIG DUNBAR,   rest his soul he wrote some great songs. These are my latest listens, off the top of my head. I jam alot2. EROSION in house often.

        I keep two fires burning, tweaking gear and motors, banging and clanging all hours. I feed the birds, keep blue jays jumping, have lunch with my mother, we go2 the store and bumble around.

         Panadox has a gig Thursday night. We are going2 watch American Idol @ Creekside Loft. LALA will be ten feet tall! LALA rocks yo.

        All is well in journal land good veterans. Thanks 4 keeping the flame. I will try2 muster some rants and quasi pseudo stuff soon. Pace. Al.

January 12 2012

Hard wind. Snow. Rebel Tree Care had a big job scheduled 4 this morning, but the wind has deterred me. Huge dead oaks have2 be lain down just right. I’m warm and snug@ home and hope2 stay here 2day. Stoke the fires. Go 2 Willow Ford 2nite. Or Beale street. Or open Mic. LALA is in town. The gorgeous LALA is bound4 a western state 4 the last rounds. Dare I tell u the story? Not just yet. Watch Fox this month and u will know. But I did hear STEVEN TYLER  is  a good kisser.

            I rode my mountain bike in a hard rain. The full twenty miles. But I had two flats from cheap inner tubes. The stems broke. Unfixable. This is serious stuff then ur riding in inclement weather. Survival man. They should have a reality show about bicycle commuters in the city, or country, or both, uno, checking the weather, preparations, etc. True reality. I mean I’m sure we need cussing loggers, although we wouldn’t if we recycled, and alligator hunters and all, but we really need bicycle riders.

            So I may have2 get out the jump rope and stay indoors. If I do a few thousand jumps it can equal a big bike ride, and it takes less time. I’ll put on an AUDIOSLAVE album. Rock the shop.

            Winds keep coming. An indoor job would b nice 2day. I like it cold though. Rough and tough nature rules. I’ll never b a city man, although I am home in a fine bistro and crowded club, I am a solitary man, alone most times, an island of sound and fury, channeling ancient beasts and wanderers of tundra, I alone whisper2 sycamores. I alone weep4 willows, I touch trees.

January 8 2012

Quiet morning. Lazy. Staring @ J.B. PLAYER. I need2 jam. I am inspired after listening2 THE MIKE GRAY BAND four sets last night. Sweet sounds. MIKE and LEE frontstage, BAD BRAD in house. I shot pool soso. The night sky was an incredible light show, full moon framed by wings of fractured purple and pale crème. I am easily awed.

                        L8r 2day will be a hard ride2 Willow Ford. Begin week three. Try2 get another four rides in in a week. I’m saving money, I’m getting in shape, and it’s good4 my head, I have time2 think and rethink. I mean I literally save about two hundred bucks a month. That’s a payment. I help the planet conserve fossil fuels. My body clean, my mind focused. My hip and back pain go away. That’s the main thing really.

            I had a two hundred pound third grader tell me I was crazy.

            I will do this thing. I am not done yet. I hope. I like the simple life. It is so simple. It’s that simple. Ride a mountain bike. Grow Hemp. Recycle. Reuse. Reduce. Reflect. Stand like a stork and don’t eat beef. Stoop2 conquer. As the water so goes the frogs. Sycamores weeping know the secret. Blackjacks r people2.

January 7 2011

Hard ride over now. I’m not sure how many mile it is, Willow Ford’s2 Sitka, Rock Creek Road2 Turkey Pen Road, Liberty Hill Road2 Highland. About 20. I have done the run eight times now in fourteen days. I know what it takes2 get in shape. It’s tough. Check the Archives, I haven’t, but when that ice storm hit three years ago I was in better shape than the previous twenty years. I actually got out of shape spikeless climbing daylight2 dusk for two months straight. I use a ladder, it’s easier in some ways than Some single rope techniques, I use a single rope technique and a doubled rope technique. And a ladder. I occasionally one hand the chain saw,

            I saw a wild cat! It had a head like a cantaloupe. I mean, it had a tail, so it wasn’t a bobcat, but this was some sort of monster. Then I got very near a nice thick gaggle of turkey. I keep having flats, I barely make it home each time lately, I’m buying inner tubes every day, arguing with sales clerks. Not really. Mark Huscher@ Alco treats me right when a bad batch slips through.   Maybe they are designed and tested for children. I’m a man. A large man. I am six foot six and two hundred thirty or so pounds. Plus ride hard. But I ride smooth and a guaranteed no flat tube should last one ride. I’ve never had quite this much trouble B4. I mean u can’t patch these heavy “guranteed no flat” or any slime type, they are one use. But somewhere along the line in the mountain bike inner tube industry they started making shoddy valves. The valves are cracking, u can’t parch that anyway. So u have a flat, then u got no backup plan. I traveled through a game preserve huge miles on my last tube, roll up 2 the house, I’m talking on the phone sitting on the porch the bike has a blowout right in front of me. Strange days indeed mama. That’s JOHN LENNON. Indeed is an English phrase, I took it out of my book about the Cherokee, a Cherokee saying indeed was just wrong. Water Spider. Rebel Word.

    Looks like the MIKE GRAY BAND this evening. I'm ready2 veg out and rock ass. New Year's was fun, but I was busy w/Panadox happenings, never really cut loose. I do think I screamed PANTERA! super loud and extended the scream. If any one didn't know I was in the room by then sure found out.

    I went by Cherokee Village City Hall and argued with them a while, telling them once again about ANSI Standard. The guy acted like he was gonna look into it. I tried2 tell them the standard is important, and if they wanted2 make rent houses safer they should insist on ANSI standard Tree Pruning. Someday I will be gone and noone will do standard pruning. The concept will just go away. Even Board Certified Consulting Arborists don't seem2 put much stock in it on the net, saying that the standard is eighties thinking and we should move beyond that. Basically that means we can't be afraid of leaving a stub. And I'm not. But when nine out of ten still leave stubs routinely and spike climb, an area has not gotten2 the eighties yet. This area is not even in Kindergarten school on tree work. Homeowners, municipals, corporations, businesses routinely hire obvious hacks, malpractice is rampant, over and over these people exist in a relationship where money is paid 2 a man for disservice. it's like getting slapped in the face with a god damned tree branch.

     I compare it 2 this rough analogy. U pay a guy2 dig a water line one summer. He puts in the water line barely under ground a few inches. You pay him, recommend him, love him. Then, when your pipes freeze, u call him2 fix the problem, he fixes the leak, u pay him gladly. After a few freezes, he shows up knowingly2 look out4 ur welfare. You gratefully write him a check 4 getting ur water going again...   

January 4 2011

Bright sun. This promises 2 b a sweet day. I have ridden hard rock trails and gravel roads two of three days this year, 2day will make three. Vision Quest. Strawberry skies. EROSION in house last night, WARREN PEACE kickn it. I may hit Words and Afterwords 2moto night in downtown Hardy. Rebel Word is active, I’m in the process of posting novels 4 free online here @ rebel word. Rebel Tree Care==resting, at peace. Readying for another push. Rebel River Adventures, stretching on Rock Creek Bridge. Planning a multi day canoe trip on the Buffalo. With Willow. And Tabby. This will rock.

            I wonder how the big Iowa caucus went? Whether the polls voted. Those polls are important,  but somehow the Swedes are always over looked. I bet Wisconsin governor Scott Walker is applying for a job as executive assistant 2 a Kock brother right about now. He’s like a pompous nerd in a college comedy. The guy u don't like.

            I heard coyotes going nuts in broad day light yesterday. Weird. I had multiple flats, spent time roadside pumping and fixing.  I will get new tubes 2day, get breakfast, ride again. Live 2 jam another day…

January 2 2011

Crazy winds. Consistent. The essence of bluster and guster. And u thought that was a comic strip from the forties. Already this baby new year is huffing and puffing. I will ride the wind 2 day 2 Willow Ford. Work it. Get it on. But first I must start my huge metal box and squire my mother about on errands. I’ve got some tree work but not in this hurricane.

            Saturday night was classic MIKE GRAY. Awesome show. BAD BRAD crisp and sober on drums, LEE celebrating, smiling. Panadox lit the backdrop with all kinds of visuals, and there was nary a fight. We rang it in with joyful noise. It don’t get no better. New Year’s with MIKE GRAY @ the helm. The way it’s always been. They way it ought 2 be.

            LALA is headed out west again 4 rounds nine and ten of Idol. The final rounds. She is a favorite now 2 take the competition. U go girl. Nuff said I reckon. Peace.

December 31 2011

Bright cool morning in Highland. Titmouses chirping. Mr. Player hangs ready for strumming and plucking, picking and grinning. No riding 2day, and my mind and body are thanking me. I don’t want2 watch tv, overhyped happenings of the last year will be overhyped one last time b4 we never hear of them again.

            Murder mom Casey Anthony. Michelle Bachman. Ah-Nold is through acting, he is going n2 movies now.

            Some stories I hope we hear more about: News Corp.’s phone hacking.  Charlie Sheen in assless chaps.

            Locally we have the mayor of Hardy pledging 2 fill in holes in the river so people won’t drown. Dumb ass. She makes all the wrong decisions about trees2. The landlords pledge 2 pass that fifty dollar inspection fee on2 renters. Plus they will pass on any improvements needed2 pass inspection. This smacks of unethical behavior. I didn’t think they were supposed2 rent a house if it didn’t pass inspection. And all landlords use non standard tree services, stubs, spikes, flush cuts, etc. are proven2 make trees weaker. The urban forest of Cherokee Village is shaky from the so called experts and masters doing shoddy substandard hack work. Every time.

            2nite it’s rock and roll. THE MIKE GRAY BAND will be in house large and in charge. These guys so rock. Not metal really, but hard southern rock and soul. Mostly originals lately, MIKE can go all night with originals when the whim hits him. LEE can carry a full night singing at bass if need be. BAD BRAD kills on drums and the occasional lead vocal. Panadox will show giant screen visuals behind them. Copper Feather, town center Cherokee Village Arkansas, on the banks of beautiful South Fork River, nine p.m. 2 ?

December 30 2011

Quiet night. THE MIKE GRAY BAND should be kickn it right about now. I put up the video screen 4 2moro night then bounced. I’m tired. Four straight days of brutal  mountain biking has taken it’s toll. But it’s all good. Yeah I’m live n right. Sweet morning @ Willow Ford, then it  was into the wind. Big winds beat me most of the twenty or so hard miles. I’ve taken 2 singing as a I ride, my own songs in general, or maybe some AUDIOSLAVE. I plan 2 do a local open mike soon. Words and After Words is a hip little place just off Main Street Hardy. I’ll  break them in slowly, a little blues with my acoustic J.B. PLAYER. Then, when I have lubed them up, and weakened their defenses, I will introduce Mr. Alvarez and Mr. Behringer. Wake up Hardy.

            Coyotes howl and wail outside. Phycotic sounds would scare many city dwellers. I don’t think we have many wolves, but over on Eleven Point River are the tall rangy red wolves. Or maybe gray wolves. Recently a deer camera caught a mountain lion carrying a deer over near Ravenden. We have a bear season here. Not far away is actually an elk season in Arkansas. Its open season on idiots 2.

            Remember when it was treason2 criticize a President during war time? That was when Bush was in, doesn’t count 4 Obama because he is a communist born out of Africa. “Like ****in Gorillas in the Mist,” tweeted Haley Barbour watching footage of the Obamas walking across the rose garden on a foggy day.

December 28 2011

Countdown. The world ends next year this month. Experts agree, it will be over when the Mayan calendar runs out. They did know about the stars and heavens more than we know now, so there may be an asteroid or comet heading round this way.

            Hard rides. Highland 2 Willow ford yesterday was sweet, creeks singing sweet, every few hundred yards of twenty miles, twenty hard muddy Ozark Mountain miles, my heart and pulse, working consistent with strenuous pedaling, leapt with joy every time murmuring and babbling fresh creeks romped beside or under the roads. All the way, even in Willow’s front yard, they accompanied me, singing back up 2 my symphony.

            2day was a hard push back, creeks lifting me as I took many breaks creek side. Hard run over now, I’ve got fires going and getting ready 2 wash the mud off. I may repeat the feat the next 2 days. Kick off the new year in stride.

            I pack rain gear, warm gear, tools, food, water… A phone. Much of the ride is through wilderness, Wildlife management area. Other parts are pavement. Dogs that were puppies when I first started this run almost five years ago are older now, not nearly so gung ho or threatening, maybe remembering a kick from me or a fist full of gravel2 set them straight. Horses like me, calves are curious. On and on I trudge… I love it. I get in shape, save about ten bucks a trip, and breathe fresh cold air. I chill and veg heavily after, which is what I am doing now. Peace.

December 27 2011

 Sunny. Snow on the ground. Bright morning. Sometimes that’s journal code that I had a rough night. Not so. I am fresh and fit. I rode my mountain bike in the rain and sleet yesterday. Piddling takes on new meaning now. Driving rain loud on the roof I stripped my motor of encumbrance, it is shot 2 hell, this will be costly, but when it is done I will be @ full strength again, able2 back the chipper down steep slopes2 the shores of Lake Thunderbird, pull leaning trees over smoothly, and crawl out of ravines and gullies loaded down.  The old truck went2 Memphis around one hundred times since 98, maybe with a new motor he’ll make it another 100.

            So it’s a trip2 the grocery store with my mother 2day. I’m living right, in a good place.

            The rivers will be rocking 2day, but maybe not muddy. I would take off, but I want2 b ready 4 New Year’s @ Copper Feather w/ THE MIKE GRAY BAND. BACKFLASH is no more. They decided that since there were no more original members to change the name, and it is truly the MIKE GRAY BAND. LEE has moved over2 bass, MIKE is the only guitar now so he shows off more which is nice, BAD BRAD is the good looking youngster of the group, he plays drums with showmanship and knowledge, plenty of passion and enthusiasm. This three piece band is definitely one of the best bands in Arkansas.

            Panadox will show water falls, my trademark. Just simple brilliant Spring River Waterfalls, like white laser beams, jumping randomly and consistent. I love it, and I’m sure the crowd will2. I think the band will enjoy it also, because it won’t shift 2 a completely different scene or setting every few minutes, I guess that could be distracting, so the flowing water will b fluorescent, effervescing and dancing. New Year’s Eve on a Saturday night is always special. And when MIKE sings Old Anxi or whatever it is always sweet.