Saturday, May 06, 2006

Spring has rory workin' hard, marveling at nature, and for a variety of reasons playin' a little hookey from bloggin'

Hey rory, where 'n' the hell have you been. Well, here's one place. At work:



HFS rory, in the meantime, the wild columbine has frickin' bloomed in the hills:



rory luvz the way a little plant can take hold in a tablespoonful of dirt on a rock (rory remindz you to click these pix up for enjoyment):



I wish I could say I got lost in here for a week:



but I didn't.

I did pause to visit with this guy for a minute or two. Leaving aside the cultural fear and loathing for a moment, isn't he a lovely painting (you gotta click this one up):



and to frickin' think in the meantime, rory missed w's national day of prayer. May 4th was the first fuckwad's day of prayer. rory was wonderin' what the fuck w and his cronies would pray for. it should be forgiveness for being tools of mass destruction. but that sure as shit wasn't gonna happen. so rory checkz the white house site and sees that w said this among other things:

"In the stillness and peace of prayer we surrender our will to God's will, and we learn to serve His eternal purposes. By opening ourselves to God's priorities, our hearts are stirred and we are inspired to action -- to feed the hungry, to reach out to the poor, to bring aid to a widow or to an orphan or to the less fortunate."

the frickin' rhetorical cesspool overfloweth. what a bunch of pious bullcrap unsubstantiated by action. rory can't believe this shit. so rory checkz in with flyonthewall and finds out that w's little prayer meeting was defined by a quiet yet audible fart the boys back at Delta house called the "poison dart" that escaped with near lethal effect from w's intestinal blowgun (click up to size):



But then rory looked more frickin' carefully at what w said. see, he said "a" widow "OR" "an" orphan. That's an either or thing and in the singular. gonna help maybe one widow, or, if not the one widow, then maybe one orphan. And the frickin' poor, well, he didn't say he was gonna do anything but "reach out" to them. Reaching out doesn't do jack shit and takes no effort, just an extension of the arm. Feeding the hungry. Shit, he does that every day when he stuffs food into the first piehole. course he did say he might reach out to the "less fortunate" which in his world would be covered by tax breaks to those only clearing half a million per year. so, it turns out that rory was wrong for thinkin' w was lyin' out his ass when he gave his prayer speech. just had to look a little closer at the floating rhetorical turds to see 'em for what they were.

22 Comments:

Blogger Yukkione said...

Is that a timber rattler? I've seen some beautiful ones. He're in Fla we get all kinds.

10:34 PM  
Blogger sumo said...

Snakes are bad...and what was the purpose of the tube or whatever it was?

12:22 AM  
Blogger Unknown said...

i have always loved columbines. beautiful!

we have a reservoir in town where there are so many lovely flowers and trees. when i was high school (oh, those very many year ago) it is where i used to go to walk and just get away. i'd go for hours and hours. my hound from hell would come as well. she saw horses there for the first time and i remember her running away and me having to look for her forever (i did find her). it is now full of joggers BUT they still don't know where MY spots are. they're all off the path so to speak.

oh and i saw a wicked cool bunch of copperheads there too!

mr shock, WELCOME BACK!

even though i don't think snakes are bad i too wish to know what the heck the tube thingy was (and how the heck you got 'em in there?????

2:49 AM  
Blogger Rory Shock said...

loc: yes, yes, and yes
sumo I luvya, but I gotta preach a little, can't heppit: ... bad people are bad ... snakes are good ... they don't murder, bomb, use backpack blowers to move one leaf, beat their wives, devastate ecosystems, or declare national days of prayer while laying waste to foreign countries ... they just eat a few small animals and hang out as a vestige of "the balance of nature" ... oh yes the venomous ones can hurt us, but the profile of the annual u.s. snake bite victim is a young, white, drunken, southern redneck who is fucking around with a diamond back ...
rose and sumo: the tube is to facilitate handling ... the snake will enter it voluntarily and it protects the handler from a bite while certain scientific data is collected ... it also protects the snake ... once the data is collected, the snake is released unharmed, which is what is about to happen in the pic ...

WARNING
do not "try this at home" and do not attempt to handle any wild species without the proper permits from the proper conservation authorities ...

4:45 AM  
Blogger Peacechick Mary said...

Snake in a tube? Probably going to sell that at the local diner. Just squeeze the tube and take a bite. Glad you're back and as for prayer day, a day in the wild is like a day of prayer to me.

4:48 AM  
Blogger Rory Shock said...

peacechick ... amen to the day in the wild comment

5:03 AM  
Blogger gugon said...

Welcome back rory. Beautiful pictures! I don't blame you for taking a short hiatus to immerse yourself in that.

The snake is awesome! I love snakes.

As for W's prayer - you're right, is actually IS telling the truth. Weird. Even the term "less fortunate" - that could mean anything: those less fortunate than the homeless.

Aacchhkkt. At least the "poison dart" is effective.

7:11 AM  
Blogger Guerrillas in the Midst said...

Post-hiatus Rory comes back a'swingin'. Good show. Impressive photos all. I think all the snakes here live in holes in the ground a pop up like the "thought-swatters" in Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy (movie). And I think the statistical weight from all of the "young, white, drunken, southern rednecks" is getting pulled by the folks around here. Ugh.

Flyonthewall must have lungs o' steel having survived the acidic gas of the First Tooter. I hope you pay him in horse apples for the dirty work he ends up doing.

Cheers brother!

8:35 AM  
Blogger Haddock said...

Before I enlarged the photo it looked like you were trying to put the tube down the snakes throat! :)

Beautiful pictures.

12:24 PM  
Blogger Jeremy said...

Dude - where are the sativa pics man?!

7:31 PM  
Blogger JBlue said...

I think you have a gift for reading between the lines.

A spider AND a snake in one picture? That is too much for the likes of me!

7:56 PM  
Blogger Mark Prime (tpm/Confession Zero) said...

W. reaching out to the less fortunate is like saying Bush can locate Iran on a map.

11:32 PM  
Blogger Unknown said...

damn, i didn't even notice the spider!

2:04 AM  
Blogger pissed off patricia said...

What a great pic. The snake and the spider in the same shot. I'm not fearful of snakes, I respect them and leave them the hell alone.

When we came home last Saturday from shopping our black racer was right in front of our garage door. We thought when we hit the remote to open the door it was going to scare him and make him move into the grass. Instead of going to the grass he went into the garage. We stopped the car, got out and spooked him back outside again using the broom. Bet we are the only ones who now have a garage guard snake.

7:07 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

rory, it was great seeing you being so kind & respectful to that beautiful snake. It seems when humans aren't being irrationally afraid of them, they are busy exploiting them as fertility aids in wierd religious rites. Poor legless reptiles can't get a break! I'll put my money on the snake in the long run, though, to outlast our own short but destructive stay on the planet.

And I hope flyonthewall leaves many contaminated flyspecks behind whenever you send him/her into those nefarious cesspools of corruption before flying back to report. D.K.

2:06 PM  
Blogger Tina said...

It wasn't the snake in the pix that skeered me... it was that arachnid..... YIKES! My big sis and her family own a tarantula and 3 snakes (Egg Eating snake, Ball Python, Red Tailed Boa) and when they go on vacation, I have to check in on them. The Egg Eater is my fav (very mild tempered and NO teeth!) but I will NOT go near the tarantula. I can't even really go near the glass cage..... can't. breath. must. scream.
But I bet the poor rabbi next to Bush wanted to scream. Either that or take his yamulke and fan the air while cursing him in Yiddish.

2:45 PM  
Blogger The (liberal)Girl Next Door said...

I've been trying to get some flowers to grow in the spaces between my rocks, I should give the columbines a try. I love the snake pic. I grew up in Northern California where snakes were all around, I don't think I've seen a single one since moving to Seattle (that's the problem with the city, not enough snakes that don't wear suits).

6:04 PM  
Blogger enigma4ever said...

I loved the photos- and the snakes are beautiful...
amazing colors and detail...( dumb question: does the snake like climbing in that tube?). See I wanted to see a dose of Maine Spring ( okay early spring)...so now I feel so spoiled...

Now about reaching out- yeah I would love to reach out and bitchslap the fucking lot of them...

And about the 'DO NOT TRY THIS AT HOME WARNING"-hmm, well hopefully here in my loft apartment there aren't any snakes...geez that would be interesting...

8:57 PM  
Blogger Kathleen Callon said...

So love this. I'm you right now.

9:26 PM  
Blogger Rory Shock said...

enigma ... well, the snake seems to feel comfortable going into the tube ... like it's going into a refuge ... guess evolution didn't give the snake much of an idea about plexiglass ... or something ... yeah I guess the warning might have been largely unnecessary ... and by all means bitch slap'em

liberal girl: love your comment ... columbine might be the flower you're lookin' for

forrest thanks ... I like you're ideas about what w was prayin' for

tina and spider commenters ... I wasn't even aware of the spider until I got back and looked at the picture ... so focussed on the copperhead ...

anonymous ... awesome comment ... you should put up a blog

pop ... great racer story ... did you ever read desert solitaire? reminds me of a story abbey told when he got to his trailer out in the boonies

poetryman: I wonder if he actually could locate it on a map ... hfs

gugon thanks

guerillas ... first tooter indeed ... thanks for your commentary ... so you are surrounded by rednecks?

thanks haddock

jeremy ... takin' the fifth on that

actually, thanks everybody ... you make the heart of rory soar

holy frickin' shit ... it's like almost one and I hafta get up early and work, I think ... and I haven't even gotten to your places out there yet ... I will tomorrow ... no post tomorrow ... just visiting others ... thanks for coming here ... I love you all

9:49 PM  
Blogger sumo said...

Snakes are bad for me...I am afraid of them...I know they are not all poisonous...but it's the slither thing that makes my skin crawl...my mother is responsible for this btw. I'm not afraid of anything else...unless I found out that Mr. Sumo was a Republican...and then my hair would turn white. I would not ever just kill a snake because of fear...I'd be too busy running away from it.

11:28 PM  
Blogger Unknown said...

That snake is gorgeous. I'd have to play, too. I love snakes, dangerous or no.

Why won't shrub stop farting on folks? He is one stinky dude!

3:04 PM  

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