But when it comes to slaughter You will do your work on water, An’ you’ll lick the bloomin’ boots of ’im that’s got it. -- Rudyard Kipling, from Gunga Din Not been doing much in the way of slaughter but

A certain Australian reminded me about Three Tune Tuesday and it seemed like as good an excuse for a blog as any. I'm sure there's rules for that but with it being half an hour into Wednesday already I

Been gallivanting around in Red River Gorge again. For those of you just joining us that's the Red River Gorge in Kentucky. Pretty sure there's a Red River in just about every state in this country. On

Here a shooting, there a shooting, everywhere a mass shooting! Could we please just put the mass shootings on lockdown? An apparent neo-Nazi incel opened up with an AR in an outlet mall in Texas, killing

Well it appears we've managed to make it through yet another Kentucky Derby, with a couple dead horses and the usual drunken debauchery being the worst that happened. Thought about heading down there to

we've come unstuck adrift from our moorings ship to shore, it ain't working anymore there's gunfire in the halls bullets coming through the walls welcome to the free-fire zone that we all call home more

Greetings and welcome to another episode of Nightmare Fuel! For those of you just tuning in, this is your irregularly scheduled dose of MidJourney mischief. Recently overheard the phrase 'alien miracle

Everything is not enough And nothin' is too much to bear Where you been is good and gone All you keep's the getting there -- Townes Van Zandt It's late and I've been drinking coffee and listening to Townes

I have returned from the land of little signal! Been meaning to spend some time in Red River Gorge and finally got down there for a bit of a look-see. They're talking about building a fancy resort down

Holy hell it's shooty out there y'all. Has us another mass shooting here in Louisville last night, somebody fired into a crowded park, killing two and wounding four more. Brings our total for the week

I'm tired. Tired of gunfire breaking out in everyday places. Tired of makeshift memorials and community vigils. Tired of hollow words and empty gestures. I'm tired of trying to calculate the likelihood

Just got home from the scene of the United States' latest mass shooting. Now there's a sentence you never want to be able to write. This morning, a soon to be former employee walked into Old National Bank

Louisville's a river town. Doesn't amount to a hill of beans these days but the city owes it's existence to the Ohio River. Back when riding the river was the best way to travel, the only obstacle to that

The Kentucky General Assembly recently passed SB 150, one of the most extreme anti-trans bills in the nation. The governor quickly vetoed the bill but with a Republican supermajority in the General Assembly

One of these days I'll learn that a good night's sleep and coffee after sunset are never found in the same day. Not today though. It's not one of those lessons that I particularly want to learn, I like

There's nothing like being in the desert to make you appreciate water. You don't really begin to appreciate it properly until it's gone though. On a hike that can be a potentially lethal faux pas. From

Pretty sure Louisville is the largest small town in the country. We're supposedly (according to Wikipedia) the 28th largest city in the US but you still can't set foot in a bar without running into at

"If you think of those who will die you will never move." Just finished reading A Stranger in Your Own Land by Ghaith Abdul-Ahad and holy hell was it a hell of a ride. I'd call it good but it's

Don't let the title fool you, the marble Mos Eisley on the Potomac isn't a bad place, at least for a #WednesdayWalk. If you can ignore the politichickens, the apparatchiks, and swampy weather it's not

Don't know about y'all but I'm completely out of sync with the time-space continuum right now. Goddamn time thieves struck again it's knocked everything all out of whack, always makes for the worst Monday