FERRERMAN- AGAIN?

One of the better interviewers you'll see on YouTube is Mark Laita of the "Soft, White Underbelly" channel. It's my understanding he is primarily a photographer whose interest has always been photographing the unseen segments of society- the street people, prostitutes, criminals and kinda freaks of life, that we generally ignore. Maybe it's all in the editing, but his success seems to be in letting his subjects talk without too much prompting from him. It's their story.  This episode was with a porn star- Addison Vodka. Well, that's what she goes by. Though I have seen my share of porn, I'm not on a first or last name basis with most of these people. So, I fired up the Pornhub to see what she what she was like in action. She does a good job for a girl with such a schpankable bottom. No doubt. But she was an enlightening interview. Twenty-five years old, super cute  and very engaging. Very pleasant. Just nice and very normal considering her path to porn...

 Charlie Kirk didn't just fall out of the pundit tree. He was at this game for quite a while. He's being eulogized now as a guy who was very good at his job, even some sort of leader. Interesting, but his job  was to be a divisive, rightwing asshole. OK, he was good at that, but why honor it? I don't get that.  Last night Yankee Stadium put his picture on the Jumbotron and asked for a moment of silence. To my knowledge they have never done this for the hundreds of innocent school children that have been murdered, and definitely not for the two Minnesota representatives recently murdered in their home. So, why Charlie Kirk? You don't have to look far to see what an asshole he was. Misogynist. Antisemitic at times. Tragically- and ironically- about the despicable gun carnage here in the US. He had a very practical, omelet-making take on guns which amounted to the Second Amendment being glorious- we are lucky to have it- and, if a few people die by guns in honor of it, so ...

Well, Charlie Kirk, eh? Word is it happened while he was saying the gun violence problem in America was street gangs. Not sure if he had covered transgenders yet, but he usually gets around to them. I'm certain street gang members didn't do this, and frankly it's a safe bet that it wasn't a trans man or woman. We don't know yet, but figure on a straight, white male. I didn't think of Charlie as an important man. I saw him as a grifter, one that was smart enough to get in on the prime grift market of rightwing extremism. That's where the money is and his *job* paid well. I enjoyed seeing clips of him getting smoked in debates by well-informed college kids. He kept plucking along though, declaring victory where there was none. He could always brush off detractors by saying they were "woke". We all know what that means! Well, no, we don't. Neither do they. Anyway, except for the ridiculous Trump hoax last year in Butler, Pa. republicans aren't...

 "Revenge" (2017) starring Matilda Lutz and Kevin Janssens is a very well done, bad movie. I watched it on Tubi TV after seeing a recommendation from a couple people on the Bluesky, none of whom I know or follow.  Now, it's only bad because of the story is one that you can drive a truck through at times without hitting any reality. I mean- the heroine gets pushed off a cliff and becomes impaled on a dead tree. That's not the end of the movie. She survives and quite well, all things considered. Well, not all  things. Come on now- you get a tree branch- near as thick as a baseball bat through your guts- and survive, well enough to get around for 24 hours without medical attention? She heals herself and we'll get to that, but no. What's wrong with falling off the cliff and just getting knocked out and then coming to and running off? It's been done a thousand times is the answer to that. This gal sets fire to the tree to get out of the predicament. Props to th...

 Read an interesting piece from the Yale Review this morning. It was a little over my head, but I'm kinda tall and I think I grasped the gist of it. That gist is this new world disorder is out of our control. There's not a fucking thing we can do about it. We can't litigate it in the courts or congress. There is no Barack Obama on earth that could save us. Kamala Harris could not stop it, so don't blame her. Jesus Christ himself- if he had all the power purported in The Bible- could not turn the tables on it in any temple on earth. Heaven, maybe. But that's not really a viable hope here. Forget I even mentioned it.  Here's the link:  The Yale Review | Rana Dasgupta: Trump Is Only a Symptom of a Deeper… I hope that worked. I'm a Luddite and it's been ages since I linked anything here. It's a rather intense read and my old ass trudged through it, and I wouldn't fault you if yours didn't. My role here is to translate what I think  I know into mo...

 It would seem to be unfathomable to consider that the American military would wage war on Americans, but of course, it has  happened before. Slavery, secession and preserving the Union were the issues then in 1861. Let's face it; it was slavery, but there was a menu of reasons for men to get involved on either side. Today however, all you have is a vindictive asshole of a president who has more grievances against Americans than Frank Costanza on Festivus. They make as much sense too. What would it take for the US military- groups of men and still some women- used to taking orders from the president, to follow orders from him to really invade US cities? An order is an order, right? We hear a lot about how it is a soldier's duty to not obey  illegal orders, but that's in the moment. Who really is a 19-year-old private to decide these things? We could also ask who a 70-year-old General is to question orders from the President of the United States. You fight wars to win and ...