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January 20, 2025
Today begins whatever the next four years brings. It feels like falling off a cliff and not being able to see the bottom. It's a crazy fucking country.
Living in America - James Brown (1985)
January 18, 2025
The potential snow threat in Georgia for Tuesday will be a non-event here with possibly flurries. The best chances for snow will be Macon southward. I'm glad it will be nothing of note this far north.
I don't know what the U.S. will become in two days, but my expectations will be low and that it will become more dangerous and ugly.
Edge of America - Duran Duran
January 14, 2025
After four inches of snow on Friday and having the snow linger on the ground until Monday, we have the full moon tonight known as the Wolf Moon.
Loafing last night, I heard Hayfever by The Trashcan Sinatras and now I'm listening to the entire album, I've Seen Everything from 1993. It is good stuff that I missed out on when I was twenty from one of those bands who I often heard about, but never paid attention to before.
January 09, 2025
Daybreak Thursday looking southwest from the second floor of the house. It was 19 degrees this morning and there was a herd of six deer on the front lawn. The deer foraged and walked in the direction of the river as they readied for the winter storm coming on Friday. The snowfall should be heavy in the morning before mixing with sleet. It will be a significant storm and that is exciting.
Rush - Tom Sawyer
January 08, 2025
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| Brasstown Bald. |
The late afternoon view from a camera atop Georgia's highest peak at 4,784 feet shows snow and ice in place before Friday's storm. Further south, here at home, at 1,000 feet we made it above freezing for four entire hours today for a high 37. The ground is frozen as hard as concrete. A pair of large doe deer ate berries in the front yard early this morning when it was 23 degrees. I'm expecting in the neighborhood of three to four inches of snow with potentially some sleet for Friday.
The Chameleons - View from a Hill
January 07, 2025
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| Louisville |
My former home of Louisville saw nine to ten inches of snow over the weekend. I was envious. This coming Friday it appears that it will snow here in Georgia. It won't likely be eight or ten inches and it will be only the second time it has snowed since purchasing this house in almost three and a half years. I look forward to it.
Slint - Washer
January 05, 2025
Hotel Costes 4 - London In The Rain
January 02, 2025
Facebook plans to unleash more AI and bots on the service. Of course this news is buried during the holidays and at the same time as the new overreaching terms of service go into effect. It is overrun with AI garbage now and flooding it with even more sounds perfect. I hope people have had enough and finally let it dry up and fly away. (Rollingstone article)
December 30, 2024
The Posies - Dream All Day
December 27, 2024
The U.S. is long overdue for a cultural reset reminiscent of the fall of 1991. I hope it comes soon. I don't know if it can happen again with everyone siloed into their own bubbles detached from a common reality.
Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit
December 25, 2024
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| Truman Capote & Andy Warhol. Photo by Brigid Berlin. |
Merry Christmas
Someday at Christmas - Remy Zero
December 19, 2024
The Landslide podcast should be mandatory listening for every U.S. citizen. It provides a detailed lesson in the history of Presidential politics from the 1970s onward. You cannot understand where we are now without knowing how we got here and it's more complex than I would've thought. It's a complete shame how so many distrust government now and that was not always the case, as recently as the seventies.
December 10, 2024
A beautiful day of rain, the heaviest we've had since September and it is much needed. I had to pull out an umbrella. The leaves have been stubborn this year. I can't remember leaves still on the trees and falling in December but they are.
Winter - Vivaldi
December 07, 2024
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| Photo by me, December 2024. |
It was a long and cold walk in the woods today. This must be the year of funerals. I learned another relative died at an early age. The first of this generation passes and we become one fewer.
December 04, 2024
21 degrees this morning.
The Oxford word of the year is brain rot. Indeed.
The Painted Protest: How Politics Destroyed Contemporary Art from Harpers Magazine.
99X continues to slide in the ratings. Not surprising given the stale music and hosts. The best radio station in Atlanta doesn't even show in the ratings and it's The Other Side of the River on 97.1 HD sub-channel 2. It doesn't have commercials and they are always pulling something out of left field. They reminded me a couple of weeks ago that Dinosaur Jr existed and how good Feel The Pain was in 1994 followed that with the Lemonheads' 1996 song If I Could Talk, I'd Tell You and the Plimsouls' A Million Miles Away from 1983. Now that's good radio programming for a geek like me.
December 01, 2024
Two mornings in a row in the mid twenties here have hopefully brought the growing season to an end with heavy frosts. This is the latest first freeze I can remember in my fifty-one years.
Louisville had its first accumulating snow of the season yesterday and last night. It was enough to cover the ground with an inch and maybe two in some spots. Snow there makes me miss that place. Old Louisville is more beautiful in the snow.
November 26, 2024
The only social media account I have, Facebook, is now a placeholder. I deleted everything on it and won't be accepting friend requests or messages through it. I won't be using it anymore. The new terms of service are too much of an overreach on their part that I can't use it.
I did not have a Twitter account, but I am aware of the exodus to Bluesky. I scrolled through a few accounts there and all people do on it is talk about Twitter. All of it is very silly.
I'm done with social media and everything now goes through my website that I control and own.
November 23, 2024
It was a great day for walking in the hills at dusk today with temperatures in the mid 50s and a lone, bright tree stands among the naked. People forget it is okay and sometimes best to be the lone, different tree among the crowd.
The new Facebook terms of service regarding licensing and derivative works may finally be the impetus to get me off the service forever. It is a legal minefield with intellectual property which could conflict with my agreements elsewhere. As if the data spying and various other reasons were not enough to accomplish it. Those two years when I had no account were good years.
November 21, 2024
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| Louisville, Ky. Image courtesy WAVE 3. |
At home, I got the Christmas tree up and the lights on it. It's cold and feels like winter and I'm glad. I've already listened to Christmas music.
November 15, 2024
After a hiatus, The Southern Extension podcast returns to production with new episodes coming in the near future. Earlier episodes are currently offline, but will be returning too.
Elton John - I'm Still Standing
November 14, 2024
November 12, 2024
Fannin County should be ashamed of themselves for this. I would hate to be a kid today even in the rural areas between the nosy do-gooders and bored sheriffs. The boy should've told the creepy woman who stopped her car to mind her own damn business.
November 7, 2024
The Edge of America - Duran Duran
November 3, 2024
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| Sunday in the city. |
Most people might consider this weather ugly, but I love it. It's a nice break from the endless days of sunny and dry weather we've had for a month.
November 2, 2024
October 30, 2024
An early trick-or-treater arrived today.
October 27, 2024
On a hiking and apple trip in the Georgia mountains today.
October 24, 2024
Writer Gary Indiana has died.
October 23, 2024
Binged Baby Reindeer last night. Disturbing.
October 19, 2024
Loafing in Watkinsville, Greensboro and Madison.
September 24, 2024
Arrived at the hotel yesterday in North Redington Beach, Florida in the St. Petersburg area of the Gulf Coast. Hurricane Helene is coming this way and mandatory evacuations are underway. The hotel is closing this morning and we are evacuating to Orlando. Goodbye to the beach.
August 26, 2024
Yesterday I walked on the Eastern Regional Greenway trail that is newly opened in my area. Got started a little late in the evening and walked too many miles before sunset resulting in walking back in the dark by phone flashlight. The days are getting shorter.
August 17, 2024
There have been few storms this summer. The one last night was intense enough to take out the electricity for several hours. Nothing like a quiet night in the house without the electrical hum in the background with candlelight.
August 11, 2024
Doing my best to ruin the scenery on an evening walk.
August 2, 2024
On the way to Greenville, South Carolina today.
July 29, 2024
On the road in Tennessee for the past couple of days.
May 11, 2024
Today at my nephew's wedding way out in the country somewhere in northern Alabama. It was held at some famous country singer's estate. I know nothing about current country music and I did not recognize the name.
April 13, 2024
In Lindale and Rome, Georgia in the northwest corner of the state today to shoot photos for someone. I love old abandoned places.
March 13, 2024
Visited the Georgia Botanical Gardens in Athens yesterday for some inspiration. The tulips were putting on a show.
February 24, 2024
This morning I found out someone close to me during my childhood died yesterday. I received the shocking news via text message and there is something very wrong with that. News of a death should never be delivered in such a manner. Ugly scenery today of the Etowah River in Canton, Georgia.
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