Looks like it will be a bit of impossible to edit the fucking," Reader/Trucker/Film Hound". I want to put LIVE FROM THE HAPPY CAT CAFE after the Vonnegut poem. Way too much to ask. Fuck it. Another scorcher, with mucho humidty, almost need the AC. Of course, next week when I would like to take the Magna to Champaign for the Overlooked Film Festival, it will be raining and 60's. Got bounced off the IM chat this evening and took the time to download the picture that will be on the gravestone. This is the same shot that he had sent me several weeks ago. Much ado about NOTHING. I attempted to engage him in a discussion of The Rapture, and if you come back as a "body"---when??? The cute four-year old? The twenty something newlywed? Or the old and gray, soon to die, version? Gee, he did not take the bait. However, I did tell him that what I remember of My Mother is when she was the age that I am now--give or take. He, of course, prefers the pre-cancerous, mid 80's "look". I guess, if you are going to put a picture on a tombstone, you would want the last image that you could remember. But, many would not--What he wants to do, is what he wants to do. And, he refuses to establish a site where all the photos can be seen because, WHO WOULD BE LOOKING AT THEM?? It's all password protected, and who in the hell would want to look at snap shots of an elderly woman. All the fossils seem to over-worry about who will read this? Or who can see this? The unfortunate truth is that they ain't got nothing that would interest anybody, so why keep it so close to the vest?

Hey, another record breaking hot day. I wonder what August will be like. Took the busted bundle of conduit to Peoria on a flatbed with no trouble. Two chains, two straps--no waiting! Made the IM tonight, and it wasn't all that bad. Sent the feelers out for a visit in Phoenix, and, for now, looks like sometime in the fall. I am afraid that Oregon reigns supreme, but that's ok. I can still make everyone happy, and I am curious about his life in Sun City. He has over 150 photos of the memorial garden gravsite--I guess, this is to be expected. And the place is open 24--7. Good idea, if you feel the need, why not at 3am? Ain't no ghosts about; Stan Rice says that "Angels are ghosts in drag". Funny guy....

A nice warm day, but an unsatisfying IM with Sun City. I can understand what he is going through, to some extent, but I know for sure, that I wouldn't handle it IN ANYWAY like he does. Pictures on tombstones....Do you use the bright, snappy 45yr old, or the nice 80 yr old that she became? I suppose, I know, that this provides him with a kind of stability, and what it really makes me wonder, is how I would handle something like it. In everything that I have ever gone through with him, HIs Way was Not My Way. Always....No exceptions. Anyhow and anyway, the cd "Girl Named Dusty" came in the mail today, and she is the greatest, whitest, blue-eyed soul singer Britian has ever produced. Sniffing around trying to find info on S.E. Rogie from Seirra Leone--nice Palm Wine stuff. Didn't watch a film last night---surfing the Blogs...Whatta guy!!

A glorious, warm day. Even got a little sun on the patio while reading "Hitler's Pope"-picked this up from the library yesterday. Also bought a book about forensic pathology called, "Dead Reckoning" that was pretty good. Devoted 45" to each side; Front-"Dead";Back-"Hitler's". And before that, watched, "Time Bandits"-I had forgotten how wonderful this film was. This is truly a film for all ages. The reason I picked it up was in "The Queen of The Damned", Armand tells Daniel that when the dwarves sing "Me And My Shadow" to Napoleon, this is something that would make a vampire laugh...And a truck driver too. Tonight, it's "Mixing Nia" a Sundance entry about the racial problems.