For UNIX dweebs...

like me. This is a wonderful take on the War on Terroir. So glad that we are finally going to take the French wine growing regions from the frogs...mmm? Hold on....oh, hmmm. Uhm nevermind. This is the War on *Terror*. So I guess Wes Craven is gonna get it now.

$ cd /middle_east
$ ls
Afghanistan Iraq Libya Saudi_Arabia UAE
Algeria Israel Morrocco Sudan Yemen
Bahrain Jordan Oman Syria
Egypt Kuwait Palestine Tunisia
Iran Lebanon Qatar Turkey

$ cd Afghanistan
$ ls
bin Taliban
$ rm Taliban
rm: Taliban is a directory
$ cd Taliban
$ ls
soldiers
$ rm soldiers
$ cd ..
$ rmdir Taliban
rmdir: directory "Taliban": Directory not empty
$ cd Taliban
$ ls -a
. .. .insurgents
$ chown -R USA .*
chown: .insurgents: Not owner
$ cd ..
$ su
Password: *******
# mv Taliban /tmp
# exit
$ ls
bin
$ cd bin
$ ls
laden
$ cd ..
$ rm -r bin/laden
bin/laden: No such file or directory
$ find / -name laden
$
$ su
Password: *******
# mv bin /tmp
# exit
$ pwd
/middle_east/Afghanistan
$ cd ..
$ cd Iraq
$ ln -s /Bad_Guys/Al_Qaeda .
ln: cannot create ./Al_Qaeda: Permission denied
$ ls
saddam
$ ls
saddam
$ ls
saddam
$ ls -a
. .. saddam
$ find / -name [Ww][Mm][Dd]
/korea/north/wMd
$ wall Propaganda.txt
Broadcast Message from USA (pts/1) on USS_Abraham_Lincoln Th May 1st
Mission Accomplished!
$ rm saddam
saddam: No such file or directory
$ find / -name saddam
/var/opt/dictators/spiderhole/saddam
$ wall NewsWorthy.txt
Broadcast Message from USA (pts/1) on Time.Magazine Sat Dec 13
We Got Him!
$ mv /var/opt/dictators/spiderhole/saddam /opt/jail
$ cd /opt/USA
$ cp -Rp Democracy /middle_east/Iraq
$ cd /middle_east/Iraq/Democracy
$ ./install
Install Error: Install failed. See install_log for details.
$ more install_log
Install failed!
Prerequisite packages missing
Please read the install guide to properly plan your installation.
$

Courtesy of http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/ThinGuy?entry=the_war_on_terror_as

And if you don't know UNIX, trust me it's funny as hell.

check it out...

Quickly, your last preeznitdential election was stolen and your fucking news media don't want to talk about it. Y'all. Check out the August issue of Harper's and listen to this:

http://www.harpers.org/art/mp3/OhioVoteForum-2005-07-21.mp3

Also, I am probably going to move to London soon, fyi.

When I first...

started going out with S., I drove a Honda Saber V65(something like 1098cc, 65ci, V4, water cooled). I had it for probably the first year we were going out before we moved in together. One day, much later in the relationship(it lasted for 7 years) we were walking somewhere in Austin and a motorcycle passsed us. I noticed out of the corner of my eye that it was a SaberV65. She said, "That sounded a lot like the motorcycle you used to have". Some comforting nostalgic feeling knowing that she knew that sound and listened for it among all others at some point in time. Apropos of the Lone Justice song that I just heard, with chorus of, "I know the sound of your wheels...".

Uh Huh...

Apropos of the last post, I tried again today calling one of my ex-friends and when he picked up the phone, got so far as, "Hey, this is..." before he hung up on me. Twice. Left a message the third time saying, "Yeah, that's classic. Don't want to talk about the fucked up mess that you *wanted to happen*. You are, for the last time, too fucking stupid to be allowed to vote." Or some such.

I Blinked First.

Here's something I posted on the Well and I thought would interest those who thought I was being hard on Dad with my email of late May:

"

politics 2362: moral relativism and other political bogeymen
#6 of 6: Tell your piteous heart there's no harm done. (krome) Sun 10 Jul 2005 (07:45 PM)

Well, this shiny, new topic seems just the place for the following.  I
blinked.  Since the election I have cut off contact with the 3 or 4
people I know who voted for Bush and/or support the war in Iraq,
including my father.  Today I was feeling rambunctious and decided to
call these people up and see how their war was going.  Dad was the only
one home.  Dad has no idea what the Downing St. Memo is.  None.  Dad
has no idea that Judy Miller was hawking this war on the pages of the
Times, though he did say that he had read a book by Howard Stern that
said that the Times was a left leaning anti-Bush organ.  When told that
Howard Stern has had strippers on his radio program, Dad was shocked.
Dad, despite being reminded 2 or 3 times that both Bush and Cheney
have stated that there is not a shread of evidence linking Iraq with
9/11, repeatedly equated the war in Iraq with a response to 9/11.

Dad lives in Conroe, TX(suburb north of Houston) annd doesn't know
much of anything, but he is very sure that if Kerry went against Bush
today, he would vote the same way.  Why?  Because Kerry lied.  What did
Kerry lie about?  Kerry told the people of Ohio that he would get
their jobs back and that, according to 'economist' Dad(he does have a
BS in math and an MBA, but this is the first time I have heard him call
himself an economist) is a lie unforgivable.  Even when pressed to
admit that 'lying' about getting someone a job is not as bad as lying
about things that get 1800 young, American men and women killed, he was
still going to vote for Bush in a heartbeat, because "all politicians
lie".

The most surreal moments were when Dad, first, asked if people didn't
lie to go to war in the Middle Ages and, later asked what King Arthur's
true motives might have been.  When reminded(?) that (1) we aren't
living in the Middle Ages and (2) King Arthur is a fairy tale, Dad had
nothing to say.

I'm sure some of the more grounded souls around here get tired of me
and others talking about Mythos vs. Logos but I'm afraid that's exactly
where we are.  At least with respect to one 64 year old,
ex-photographic agency executive, semi-retired resident of Conroe, TX
who, as far as I know, has only left this country thrice(honeymoon in
'64 in Mexico, going to visit Mom during the seperation(with all 4
kids) that ended in divorce in Paris in '77 and Canada circa 2000) in
his life and doesn't regret that.

We are in deep, deep trouble."

How it's going.

Someone on the Well asked me how the opening to my show at Vesuvio last night went and this is what I had to say:

"

It was fun.  I mean, I'm a pseudo regular there so I get a friend who
used to bartend there to make up really nice foodstuffs and that always
gets people in the door.  And since I am somewhat known(I didn't say
'liked') in the neighborhood, lots of regulars show up and you get the
happy hour crowd, etc.  I passed out flyers, per usual, to all the
downtown galleries who have seen me doing the same 3 times this year,
so maybe they are getting used to the fact that I exist and produce.
But it was 1st Thursday so they had their own gigs(what a great excuse
for not having gallery people, eh?).

Everyone had good things to say and the one or two other artists who
showed up asked intelligent questions and made sensible comments
leading me to believe that they were interested.  The woman who did the
food told me at one point, "If you were in New York everyone would be
saying that you were fabulous."  And I told her that, indeed, if after
I have 12 paintings(plus my photos) I still can't get a gallery show in
SF I will be heading for NY or London(I'm a UK citizen as well as US).
That's the first time I have ever, even privately, put a deadline on
my stay here(9 years in August).  When I moved here, I told myself that
I would stay 10-15 years and then go elsewhere, so this new deadline
jibes with the earlier one.

All in all a good show.  Even got some people who really don't know
nor care about art saying they liked the pieces, which is the point.
Painting loud enough to get the blind interested. "

Which is to say that I am back to doing what I was doing-and loved doing- when
I was 15-22 then gave up for 20 years or so.  Just so you know the plan.