2026 Miscellany #1

 

Eileen Dorsey has painted a few brick walls in Old Brooklyn Cleveland.  This was on Broadview.

This is to the right of the entrance. Some masking tape still attached when photographed in December.

part of a very long mural on St. Clair & E.75ᵗʰ Cleveland by Raffg Studio Team:  Garrick, Tom, Steve

One of the most corrupt companies in America is this particular electric virtual monopoly we have in this part of Ohio. They have owned the state government, and have fought off their indictments and sentences over illegal activities with political intervention. They are corrupt, dishonest, disingenuous, in short—quite evil. The Public Utilities Commission grants nearly their every demand. They try to fool their customers with heavy handed, or light propaganda. In this attempt, they give me a "tip" to save on their charges to me:  drink coffee in a thermos. I drank coffee in a thermos on the job for years, including their Ohio Edison plant in Vermilion on Lake Erie at 15°F. What they want me to sit on a bucket in the garage and drink it now. I am pretty sure their management teams will be asking for ice water in Hell.

road closed 

Theophany is another term for Epiphany & Baptism of Jesus in the Jordan, which is to-day, which is also Three Kings. St. Vladimir Ukrainian Orthodox, Parma O.

I think the ice cross was constructed Monday, also for Theophany.

Parma saloon dropped a pierog (right) for New Year's.

Fixation

The unfortunate word of the day/year is — Fixation. I read an essay the other day in the plejn djilar. The writer mentioned Orange Caligula. He was right, it goes a long way to explain him, his voters, and his wretched party. His party has always banked on, and encouraged fixations. The journalistic patois speaks of wedge issues, and one issue voters. Corral them on that one thing, and they are yours on everything. That explains the gun nuts, and the abortion nuts. Of course the biggest one is race. Biology tells us race does not exist, but socially it does, and it therefore can be used politically.  

Fixations can be mental, and psychological problems. Racism is a form of insanity. Trumple-thin-skin is cruel, evil, demented, insane, and unshakably fixated on many, many things, and he is stupid. And on this America is governed.

[this was written before the attack and invasion on, and occupation of Venezuela]
[i planned this as a longer essay]