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15JAN2026 – Country Song for the Morning – Sugarland – Very Last Country Song
Camera Girl inspired my choice of this song. I came upstairs and found her going through boxes of very old photographs of our kids when they were “her babies.” Time is a remarkable force.
Merry Christmas Eve 2025
I hope everyone has the merriest Christmas Eve they can. I’ll be out of the house on Christmas Eve and things may be a little quiet on the site but after Christmas I’ll try to provide content. Meanwhile here’s some pagan solstice music.
My Christmas Tribute to the ZMan
I think the ZMan always linked to Fairytale of New York by the Pogues every Christmas. And being a native New Yorker I have a certain nostalgia for the city from the time before it died.
And since this is the first Christmas since the ZMan died I thought I’d post something to remind me of his site.
Merry Christmas to ZMan wherever heaven for the dissident right might be.
08DEC2025 – Country Song for the Morning – Toby Keith – Beers Ago
Just a good song.
29NOV2025 – Country Song for the Morning – Aaron Lewis – Sinner
Tom’s World – 01NOV2025 – Something for the Soul
There are a large number of performances of Pachelbel’s Canon by various musicians using various instruments but this one is the peak by my estimation. When I’m in a mood to just totally reject humanity due to the insanity, violence, cruelty, stupidity and seeming lack of any redeeming quality, something like this performance will recenter me.
Tom’s World – 10OCT2025 – Beethoven – Moonlight Sonata
It’s Beethoven for me, especially Movement 1 of Moonlight Sonata. it is brilliant, minimalist, and pure beauty. I want this played at my funeral.
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Bach Oboe and Violin, mesmerizing
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And now, for something completely different—
Eine kleine Mozartmusik
In association with this morning’s movie review of “Amadeus” here is a musical chronology of some of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s keyboard compositions starting at age five!
Of course if I hadn’t been distracted from music by my passion for sitting around watching tv who knows what I myself might not have achieved.
Various Kinds of Pruning
Monday was a good day at work. Progress was made and I’ve got a much better understanding of what we’re going to be up against in the next couple of weeks. Sure, madness will break out now and then. But it’s not just this fog of ignorance. There’s the beginning of planning and a path forward.
And there’s the situation going on in the world. Charlie Kirk’s murder is disgusting and the more details that come out the worse it shows the Left’s psychotic fringe to be. These people aren’t merely insane. They have ceased to be human. The assassin was a “furry.” The fact that his “partner” was trans wasn’t enough. He also pretended to be an animal. These people are so far beyond help that simple execution might be the kindest thing we could do for them.
Hopefully Kash Patel is up to the job he needs to do. Proving conspiracy by all the other members of Robinson’s associates is the first step. Then he must widen out the investigation to locate the entire Antifa network and trace back their money to the donors and NGO’s that fund them. It would be nice if Obama gets caught up in that net. But first things first. Shut off the money and arrest the ringleaders who call the shots. Without them and the money, the small fry psychos will wander off and starve on the streets.
I’ve heard Trump is pivoting from invading Chicago with ICE and the National Guard to going to Portland, Oregon instead. Now that’s an interesting idea. Portland probably has the highest per capita number of trans weirdos, Antifa thugs and homeless drug addicts of any city in the country. It would be the perfect place to haul away tractor trailers full of degenerates and psychopaths. But I hope they’ve planned this carefully to avoid injury among law enforcement and maximize the jail time meted out to the Antifa “community.” I know they like throwing Molotov cocktails at law enforcement. Intelligence will be needed. But Portland is definitely in need of pruning.
I have a feeling I’ll be self-publishing my book. I don’t think there are many traditional publishers who are brave enough to embrace my dystopian world of armed insurrection against the deep state. It is pretty radical. I’m still trying to learn the basics of book marketing; especially advertising on Amazon and elsewhere on the web. But I have gotten the book out there in the real world now. I have a friend reading it and I’m very interested in getting his feedback. My intention is to decide one way or the other about self-publishing and then send out a bunch of copies of the manuscript to friends and associates and see what they think. It’s pretty heady stuff to even have a small audience read your words.
The weather has been summer-like for the last few days and the forecast is for another couple of weeks of the same. That should allow me to handle the winterizing chores easily and plan for next year’s spring. Probably the highlight of the garden season was the thornless raspberries. I took a chance that they were the kind that mature in one season. I cut all the canes to the ground and added a bunch of fertilizer and they grew like crazy and spread and produced tons of fruit. In fact, they’re not done yet. Next year I’ll do the same (cut down and fertilize) and I expect them to spread to almost double where they are now. We’ll have to give them away to strangers. But I’ll eat a ton of them myself. They’re delicious.
Well, that’s enough talk of pruning for Monday.

