Meanwhile, though apparently reluctant to release the name of the artist [I’m pretty sure it wasn’t Amy Sherald] we have a new heroic [or deeply troubled] image of OLD in the White House, looking about as confident as a turd in a toilet bowl with many eager hands* hovering
over the lever. Ah, Amer-ick-ah! Well the MAGAts will love it; they can’t not though after Stephen sent me information about the perp, a Christian Worship Speed Painter**called Vanessa Horabuena– who prayed to the Lord to become one and was granted her wish*** – whose writings, if one drills [,baby, drill!] down, seem the scariest thing of all, representative as they are of the belief systems of blindly faithful legions who will happily drag everyone along with them into the abyss, as is quite obvious these happy days…if 21 1/4 centuries later Our Lying Despot and his Creepy Cruelties are the best his (or His) most perfervid followers can come up with it kind of calls into question what sort of first millennium message that Jesus dude was proliferating the first place, don’t it?
In other news our Bryan arrived for lunch on Monday,
Tuesday we all went up the Dry Creek
as far as the creek’s wet crossing,
checking out traces of Monday night’s rains on the way down before the tamales while the
afternoon brought more rain and Out West
BM seemed to be enjoying similar weather
albeit with more debilitating results as the playa continued to say NO…
Wednesday though, BLM said “go”, and went; heading across the Great Divide, up the western
slope to Vernal for the night on his way to Park City, then Fallon and on to San Francisco where
we’ll see him around Hallowe’en. As for us, we walked down the meadow to check the fence
and see what the tremendous electrical storm that came through at bedtime had done…a lot.
Out west they seemed to be having a bit of a break…maybe.
Anyway, lots of work for the grader crew after Labor Day. Leave No Trace, ‘n’ all…
*As should be obvious OLD isn’t exactly a detail guy so all these diabolically detailed ‘executive orders’ have to be originating from someplace else, and it most likely ain’t the cadre of ignoramuses he has lined up behind him for those endless photo ops. Likely suspects include a couple of notable self starters like ICEhole Stephen Miller, Project 2025 author Russell Vought and much more publicly [and idiotically, not that makes him any less damaging, that RF Kennedy.
**I’d never heard of “Speed Painting” but became immediately fascinated and as it seems to be the art world’s answer to WWE it would of course loom huge in the MAGAverse.
**Apparently – impressively! – this Lord will grant one the Gift of Speed Painting but is a little less accommodating when it comes to stopping mass shootings. Maybe the Perfervid Ones should turn some of their efforts more towards gun control…