Ice Storm

If you watch the news by now you've heard of the record breaking killer ice storm that's been taking down thousands of power lines, cutting off heating supplies and freezing assholes shut since Tuesday. I'm currently trapped in Elizabeth, Indiana(population: around 200) twenty-or-so miles southwest of Louisville, Kentucky. In other words, ground zero. Make that,  fourteen below ground zero. All roads are closed. No way in or out. More than a half million are without electricity in Kentucky alone. The Slugger factory is closed, so the tour is out which is what really makes the whole thing heartbreaking. So far, over 1.3 million from Ohio to Arkansas are powerless, and the death count is around 24 and rising. The White Witch has made Narnia winter always, Christmas never. I won't start worrying until the hot cocoa surplus runs dry and the North Face fails me. 

I took these last night.

Minnesota

Minneapolis from above.

John C. Calhoun

Hard Times

Drinking the KoolAid

Perfectly normal. Perfectly healthy. 

Welcome the Idiocracy.

The only thing worse for the freedom and personal liberty of American citizens than a Republican, is a Democrat. Add in the fact that this one is Halfrican American and the current generation is so hypnotarded by the empty promises of multicultural salvation and we've got a real doozy. Brace yourself for more bullshit this time you wouldn't dream of questioning, lest ye be labeled evil racist. The First Couple of Cool(ain't that some jive) can't save anyone from rising prices in fuel, food and water. Rising unemployment and violent crime or rising population and disease. HOPE that I'm wrong. 

I've seen plenty of cult-like brand loyalty to Barrak Hussain Obongo, but this one is pure fucking gold.

"He did not care anymore...

...life and death, the same."

Gabriele d'Annunzio

They don't make them like they used to. 

bird of prey.

Had a cup at Chuck's when Cisco-the-40-year-old-parrot showed up and tried to shit in my hot chocolate.

Cisco helped The Pile overcome his fear of birds. 

James Howard Kunstler

James Kunstler just released his forecast for 2009.

 

row your boat.

Rowing a canoe sounded good so I set out about two miles up the Colorado River in the freezing cold. On my way back I hit some rain clouds that sat so low they touched the water. At sunset, everything turns purple. 

I went deaf in my left ear for about 3 days from having too much fun with the .357 Magnum. If you're not into opiates and booze, going deaf can be just as relaxing. 

Yule!

Bringing It Back. Cleveland 1995.

It's seems appropriate...

These Huggies and whatever cash you got.

Blood Axis

Southern Comfort

Pentti Linkola

"What to do, when a ship carrying a hundred passengers suddenly capsizes and there is only one lifeboat? When the lifeboat is full, those who hate life will try to load it with more people and sink the lot. Those who love and respect life will take the ship's axe and sever the extra hands that cling to the sides."

SS Dominator Shipwreck

It's been at least 5 years since I've been back to Lunada Bay where the Dominator wrecked back on March 13, 1961. Some say that it's haunted and that the whole area has caused multiple disappearances of divers and hikers. I snapped a photo of one of the ship's ghosts and it looked alot like Pile.

Here is some info and olde tyme photos taken right before the wreck.

Bad Boy Bubby

Chiun & Remo

Naughty and Nice.

In a couple weeks I'll be receiving my concealed weapons permit and with Christmas fast approaching, feel free to show me how much you care by tossing a sweet slice of kraut love under my tree in the form of a Heckler & Koch USP Compact .45 Auto.

Ty Cobb

Great quotes from The Georgia Peach:

"A ball bat is a wondrous weapon."

"Baseball is a red-blooded sport for red-blooded men. It's no pink tea, and mollycoddles had better stay out. It's a struggle for supremacy, a survival of the fittest."

"I had to fight all my life to survive. They were all against me, but I beat the bastards and left them in the ditch."

"I have observed that baseball is not unlike a war, and when you come right down to it, we batters are the heavy artillery."

"I never could stand losing. Second place didn't interest me. I had a fire in my belly."

"The base paths belonged to me, the runner. The rules gave me the right. I always went into a bag full speed, feet first. I had sharp spikes on my shoes. If the baseman stood where he had no business to be and got hurt, that was his fault."

"The great American game should be an unrelenting war of nerves."

"When I began playing the game, baseball was about as gentlemanly as a kick in the crotch."

"To get along with me, don't increase my tension."

Watch this movie Pile.