Great new stunt!!
I think I'll patent it.

I was munching a few peanuts (Sabritas) and nipping at a beer out in my CAGE (Center for Advanced Gizmological Endeavors) ... the Sabritas were a mix of a small package of the lime & salt variety and a same-size package of the chile type. What I really prefer is the chile & lime but Frito-Lay, which has owned Sabritas for decades, will not sell Sabritas hardly at all in this part of the country, which proves that they are out of their skulls. Anyway the two were mixed in a peanut butter jar and I was alternately making notes in a notebook, sipping beer, and pouring a few peanuts into my palm and tossing them into my mouth. At one point I picked up the beer bottle and poured beer into my palm. If I had more presence of mind I would have sipped what didn't spill from my hand but as it was the startlement had it all on the floor. Clever, eh wot?

This whaling crap is the last straw.
Impeach Oreobama.

Roof Antenna
My Latest Invention

I don't mean an antenna that goes on the roof. The antenna IS the roof. There's a 14 KV power line down the side of the property (though you might have been taught that it's kV, not KV; my position is that the anomaly — of using a small letter k for kilo when the standard is otherwise universally that multipliers larger than 1 use capital letters and smaller than 1 use little ones — is not only stupid {as generally acknowledged} but also inappropriate and improper as continued practice) so I'm kinda goosey about putting up a normal and formal antenna. So I attached a wire to the middle of one edge of the metal roof and drove a ground rod below it, put a tuner between the 706 and the "antenna", and talked to a guy in Calgary a while ago. Cool.

Censorship or Regulation?
I'll be among the first to decry censorship,
and I think I understand the whole thing pretty well. At the same time, I'm neither Old Left, the sort who can't see past their principles, nor New Right, who don't seem to have any. I think the people who put the Constitution together got a lot of things right, and one of them is that the State has a duty to regulate commerce. And let's face it, artistic freedom so often boils down to nothing more than license to produce outrageous movies etc. for purely commercial reasons. Of course any attempt to regulate this swill will be met by fascists screaming about democracy.

I count myself among the membership of the Society for the Eradication of Television (SET); I do not have a TV in the house that is capable of picking up broadcasts of any sort. I do have an old set and use it occasionally for videos about woodworking, Buddhism, etc. Even more rarely do we put in a movie.

I have in my library The Blob and Killer Klowns from Outer Space. The Blob is an early example of art as commerce, or should I say art prostituted for commerce. Steve McQueen, 1958. It's kind of a hoot but also, well, gross ... and it does not tell a story that needed to be told.

Killer Klowns is a total hoot, a parody on The Blob (the opening scene is identical) and on monster movies in general. It is a parody that needed to be done. It's art in my book.

I was in a hotel the other night and had a suite with two TV sets. I did toob for a little while, but GAK!! what drivel!! Television can educate, enlighten, enhance, inform, and I've actually seen it done! Alas, it was rare.

OK. Back to the question. Censorship or regulation? I'm not going to say I have the answer. But I have the question and it won't go away.

Fair and Balanced
Please note that this is a trademark

It's not Butter.