Here's Something to Care About: Bad, Bad Mestizo Girls

October 10, 2024

   I think you would agree, we are living in a very weird time. First off, it's the era of choose your own news. And, is it my imagination, or is every single institution in our culture cracking or under attack?

A Historic Warning

   Those who don't study history are doomed to repeat it. Yet those of us who do study history are doomed to stand by helplessly while everyone else repeats it!

Daily Whip Out: "Old Discouraged Vaquero"

   If you love history, we are in this together. Why?

"Every self-conscious group of any size fabricates myths about its past; about its origins, its mission, its righteousness, its benevolence, its general superiority."

—C. Vann Woodward

   Remember, if you help someone when they are in trouble they will remember you when they're in trouble again.

   Meanwhile, I wanted to do a movie poster idea on a fleeing vaquero riding through the divide while a leering La Sterna, hovers over him with disdain. Instead, I got this. . .

Daily Whip Out: "Cleavage Rider"

Alcohol doesn't solve any problems, but then again, neither does milk.

"Words are sacred.  They deserve respect. If you get the right ones, in the right order, you can nudge the world a little."

—Tom Stoppard

"Leisure without study is death—a tomb for the living person."

—Seneca

"Everyone can feel the nothingness, the void, just beneath the surface of everyday routines and securities."

—John Zerzan

Daily Scratchboard Whip Out:

"Bad, Bad Mestizo Girl"

"Those who are the hardest to love need it the most."

—Socrates