Ned Mudd

Eminence front, it's a put on.

The Who

“If all mankind were to disappear, the world would regenerate back to the rich state of equilibrium that existed ten thousand years ago. If insects were to vanish, the environment would collapse into chaos.” E.O. Wilson

let the stars be stars let the trees be trees

they dream us

Climatasaurus Rex

“Clownsville, man. Tightness gets in the way of everything, except tightness.” Jeff Bridges

Anybody with a shred of intelligence is finally confronted with the nagging question of how human beings became colonized by gut bacteria.

"Humanity's view of the world as our property, our dominion, our stewardship, is like that of a child who imagines himself as the center of existence, with all other beings having no purpose but to serve the child." Edward Abbey

in a world gone mad
being called crazy
is an honor.

“You never change things by fighting the existing reality.
To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.”

Buckminster Fuller

"To keep the peace, legalize intelligence.” Tao Jones

“Most people are on the world, not in it…have no conscious sympathy or relationship to anything about them…undiffused, separate, and rigidly alone like marbles of polished stone, touching but separate.” John Muir

The Death of Capitalism

watching Zïzëk expound upon the death
of capitalism

when the router crashed
and turned the philosopher into frozen pixels

leaving the rest of us with something
besides Wifi philosophy.

One "en route" to Alabama.

Rule 11, please call home!

a molecule of caffeine
resembles a mandala
of courage.

"When the Pleiades and the wind in the grass are no longer a part of the human spirit, a part of very flesh and bone, man becomes a cosmic outlaw."  Henry Beston

The Weather Channel

watching a tornado dance down the street
rumbling like a locomotive
rain falling like bullets
and thinking about a hot fudge sundae
with an extra cherry on top.

While conditional commitment is likely to pass muster these days, if a project begins before the so-called “satisfactory completion” of the environmental review, why not litigate

America

Yogi Berra should’ve served on the Supreme Court;
he told us: When you come to a fork in the road, take it.

we should’ve listened.

Despite Abbey's mostly likable quirks, he had a singular distaste for autocratic assholes.

Geology

there was nothing to say so he sat with his back to the wall
and read the works of Thomas Transformer the day
losing heat the orbital drift of years caught in a web of remembrance no room to breathe old bones in stacks bleached years of carbonite a warring solitude

the sound of stars.

The Beast of Corpuscles

we have to be honest about the animal of fear
that rides our back like an ominous fog and seeds us
with parlous sabotage.

no one is immune
this thing is a family affair.