it's very windy today

Everything is rattling and whistling and blowing. I really, really do not like the wind. It's still full out summer but the wind is blowing in gusts up over 70 miles an hour. Yesterday the wind only gusted. I mean there was no wind except a few times some very strong gusts came out of nowhere. The day before was dead calm and gorgeous all day and all night. People were walking around in their bathing suits and shorts and tank tops.

Everyone's arguing over the climate gig. Everyone in the Bay Area is fed this stuff about El Niño for when it rains too much and La Niña for the draughts in between. I was born here. We didn't have these weird weather patterns until after the late seventies, and they get worse and worse and worse with the passing of each year.

Saturday was just an unbelievably beautiful day. No smog. 78 degrees. Perfectly clear. Sparkling. The horror of it was it was 17 January. Otherwise it was the kind of day that lifts everyone's hearts, and it lifted mine. Trying to discuss the horror of this wonderfulness where it absolutely doesn't belong, some old guys still insist that everything we do is "of nature", "of planet earth" and so natural, and if nature decides to do mass extinctions, it will, it has, it does, and we are assholes for fretting about it, as if there's something we can do or not do to affect it even minutely. Others just keep grabbing resources harder and faster. Only some of us really want to work on cleaning up our acts and seeing if we can slow or reverse the course of the buildup to the next ice age, whatever causes it, before the mass extinctions set in for real.

I want to try to rest from my fury over the murderating fucks of the world for a little while. There are thousands and thousands of opinion pieces on the pig-hearted extermination of Palestinians available online. Click the Palestine Blogs link in my sidebar: they come out with stultifying regularity. I don't know if there are even any particulars we haven't found out about yet that can make it worse than it has been... an even younger baby mutilated worse? a saint nailed to a battering ram and squished on the apartheid wall? I don't know. I just know the government of Israel, the backers of the government of Israel, here forward to be called "Usraelis" by me, wherever they are found, seem to me to be pernicious weeds and I wish someone would tend this neglected garden.

I wish millions of someones would do the damn work to make it clean physically and spiritually again. All that mumbo jumbo they clang bells over every Sunday, all that ripped-off mythology about snakes offering apples and banishment from Eden. Earth is Eden. We weren't banished. We are banishing Eden.

Why do you persist in thinking someone ELSE is going to fix this?

If you never watched Zeitgeist or Zeitgeist: Addendum [2 hours each], you should definitely do so. Soak up the parts where he shows that Christianity, and just about all of all other religions too, are just restatements of ancient mnemonics for following the cycles of the earth and heavens and lots of mundane rules to follow to keep decency and order, helping ancient peoples do their planting and order their actions to fit the weather patterns, to keep track, to keep their places, to stay alive. Religion isn't worth anything for any of those things any more, and it would be far better if it were.

The humidity here at the beach within eyeshot of San Francisco is almost as bone dry as the Sahara right now. Has been for a few days. This never happens. This is how the northwest coast of South America turned into desert. This state of affairs, all the off season conflagrations in California, this stupidly low humidity smack dab on top of the ocean, keeps up, we are desertifying our world, just as humans desertified the Gobi and the Sahara, only with the help of the internal combustion engine... oh, oh, and cow farts and sun flares....

My friend Billy insists that Nostradamus predicted that after the year 2000, maybe 2012 if the Mayans were more accurate, Atlantis would reëmerge... which says to me that the poles are moving again and Atlantis is under the ice cap of the South Pole. If Nostradamas was really just extrapolating from the trends he saw all around him, from the state of all the astronomy stories at his time and the way people treated them, then maybe that is the kernel of this prediction, if it even was a prediction, if there actually is a lick of sense to that complete jumble of indecipherable blather as so many insist there is.

If everything people made out of all the attempts to keep them oriented to space and time and cycles and decent behavior has gone the way people like Nostradamus felt it would, the Middle East will go up in the flames of manmade hell, and no amount of my agonizing will prevent it. The heedlessness out there is enough to turn everyone's bones to powder.

Do watch those Zeitgeist videos... especially the second one, if you're just too pressed to cut out an entire four hours. It doesn't have to be this way. We can indeed turn our attention to weapons of mass creation instead of this ceaseless greed, hate and the delusion of me, me, me, me, me, me, me first. You are a fucking figment of an imagination poisoned by sick conditioning. ALL you have to do is drop it. WHAT is important enough to you to drop it?

Is there anything in the world, anything in your poisoned liberal and conservative and independent hearts that would make you forget about your own fucking lives to REALLY get down to the business of making this world, everything we touch, into something better? Something that is not heinous suffering, punctuated with little spikes of fun, from start to finish? WE MADE THIS WORLD! It only takes changing our minds. Why do you continue to submit to the hypnosis that raised you, and why do you keep letting them heap more of it on you even when you know for sure it's a pack of lies?

What the fuck is wrong with you?

What the fuck is wrong with you?

This is my tribute to my beloved Martin on his day.

So let me be clear: WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU?

[Update: 1pm, Pacific Time, the wind has dropped, the temperature has gone up from 72 to 78, and the humidity is down to 10%... just in a few little hours.... I'm trying to remember if ever in my life, let alone during winter, I've seen the humidity on the coast drop below 50%.... I must have, but I think records are being shattered every minute of this week for wind, for heat, for dry air....]