Quote of the Day

"Let's say you don't love your partner. You hate your partner but you act like you love your partner. Does that mean you love your partner? No. It means you're a tragic, hollow, empty shell of a piece of shit." - Owen Benjamin

I Hit 'Dat #1

I hit 'dat. I'm proud of me.

The Daily Bullshit: Purple Haze

Wanna hear some shit? Read on. There's yet another crazy new sky phenomenon. It was first reported in an isolated incident over a year ago, but in recent months it's being reported way more often and it's being seen all over the world. Usually around dusk the sky will turn purple.
 For someone like me who's watched the sky day and night for over half a century, that's nuts. If you want to see better images than this search "purple skies." It's interesting and worth a minute of your time, and it should get your attention, because I guarantee you ain't never seen it before.
 If you do an image search you'll see way more photos of daytime skies with pink and blue clouds and maybe a purplish tint to the sky, but you'll be able to see the difference. These photos are always taken around dusk so the images look darker than most of the rest. The purple color stands out dramatically since it's not a normal sky color, at least not in our lifetime.
 The thing is most people will see it and it will freak them out a little, so they'll Google it and they'll see a fancy name for it and that will be the end of the story. I'm sure they've come up with a name for it by now. They have to. So people will see a Latin name and they'll say: "Well, it has a name, so it must be normal." Okay then, but the question you really need to be asking isn't "What do you call it," but "What could be causing this, and have we ever seen it before?" The answer is nope. They can call it purplusphuckus they'llbelieveanydamnthingwesayus if they want to. That doesn't make it normal. Same goes for all the other crazy shit...upside-down rainbows, solid red rainbows, almost-white rainbows, reverse rainbows, multi-rainbows...and that's just rainbows.
 Two years ago I caught an upside-down rainbow and posted it to Farcebook. Someone said "Oh, cool!" and then, helpfully, "That's a chromaticus flippus" or whatever it's called, as if that somehow makes it normal. It doesn't matter what it's called. What matters is that it's upside-down. Oh they'll explain it alright...they'll say it's inverted ice crystals or some shit like that, which will for some reason put to rest the much bigger question of "Why are we seeing this now?" I haven't ever seen it in my lifetime, and neither have you, and neither have the good folks trying to "explain" it. What's going on?
 Well, chances are you can blame the purple skies, along with the insane weather patterns and even your mood; believe it or not, on something called Grand Solar Minimum. It's true. Google it, Dylan. What's causing that though is a mystery. Yes, again it goes in cycles, but the one we're in now, also referred to as the Maunder Minimum, could possibly be caused by something in space. That in turn could be causing these purple skies, but we don't know for sure. All we know is that this is an entirely new thing. I've said a million times I've looked at the sky day and night since about age four, and I've never seen purple skies. At least not sober.
 If you've made it through this science lesson/rant, thanks and here's the payoff. The OFFICIAL EXPLANATION for the purple skies all over the world is...drum roll, please...grow lights! That's right. Grow lights. Like they use to grow pot. That's fucking brilliant. I should've known. It would be hilarious if it weren't so troubling. The thing is they can give any ludicrous story (Fiction, that is) they want, because they know that about 98% of the people will buy it simply because it's the official explanation. It's sad really.

Here's a typical grow room, and yes, it has a purplish glow. Actually it's more of a violet color compared to the purple skies, but what's a few shades of color between friends. These lights are used only for the flowering stage, as these plants are just starting to do. The rest of the time the lights are bright white. The kicker of course is that most growers choose to leave the roof on their grow rooms, and they black out the windows. Having the roof off this time of year would freeze the plants, which is counterproductive, and it would be just like saying "Hello, all y'all helicopters flying overhead looking for grow rooms. Here I'm is. Please fly down and bust me." Give me a break. Who's buying this bullshit? Well, it's their money.
 For grow lights to turn the sky purple the rooms would have to be at least as big as several football fields, and again have the roof wide open. Growers may be high but most of them aren't stupid. People who believe the OE are though, with all due respect. But believe it they will. I can just hear it now, at least in these parts. "Damn hippies. Growin' weed and turnin' the sky purple and shit." That really isn't meant to be funny. You do have to account for the fact that most people would rather believe a comfortable lie, since actually bothering to look into something (aka finding out what the real story is) might be scary. I get it. We're human. We don't want to "go there." I hate that cheeseball phrase but it applies here.
 It's up to the individual to believe whatever they choose, but what I'd say to that is that if people aren't at least open to the possibility of some really topsy-turvy shit going on behind the scenes, then if, God forbid, something crazy happens, they'll be caught totally off guard and won't even be prepared mentally; much less provisionally or physically. I'm not trying to scare anyone. It's never been in my nature to scare people and anyone who knows me knows that. The truth can be scary, no doubt. It's the truth though, and it truly will set you free. If you ever do go looking for the real story, do yourself a favor and look beyond Snopes and Metabunk. If you believe those shill sites are legit, I have some swampland in Cahaba Heights I'll sell for a song. Hell, I'll even apply for a federal grant to get the sum'bich drained. You'll probably take the blue pill. Enjoy.
 What I can also say is that what I've learned over the last decade or so, whether it's total bullshit or not, is way beyond any Science Fiction thing I've ever read or seen, and that's beyond dispute. The truth of the matter is that I sincerely hope I'm wrong, but I don't think I am. If I had my druthers I'd be 100% ass-backwards completely wrong. If I find out I'm wrong I'll dance a jig, and that I promise. Maybe it's all just a dream. Maybe I'm totally insane. I just call it like I see it. If people want to think about nothing but puppies and rainbows and shit I totally get it and I respect and defend their right to do so. Fear is a killer though, and it's the enemy of truth.
 Speaking of fear, I have relatively little of it. I can thank God for that. I'm not saying I never get scared but I don't live in fear. Lots of people do, whether they admit it or not. All this uncertainty causes at least a background anxiety in most people. We fear the unknown, and the whole thing I've been saying in this blog is that knowledge gets rid of much of that uncertainty, and therefore fear. All this evil coming across the land like the giant shadow from the mothership in the movie Independence Day only makes me think that there has to be something better. If it's nothing more than a placebo effect, which granted it could be, then fuck it. I'll take it. Not living in fear allows me to look into some pretty frightening shit without being drastically affected. You can observe without absorbing. Knowing about all the bad stuff in the world only makes me appreciate the good stuff even more. That's a blessing. Knowing is better.
 At the end of the day most people will believe whatever's most comfortable. They'll take the path of least resistance. If you want to only fill your head with happy thoughts, then more power to you. We need the positive energy to cancel out the negative. That's a real thing and it's backed up by science (SCIENCE!). If you want to go down the rabbit hole as they say, buckle-up. It's one hell of a ride. Yes it's going to bring you down at times, but hopefully like it did me, it'll help you see that just maybe there's another way besides the way of the world. There's light at the end of the tunnel. I firmly believe this, and I wouldn't say anything about scary shit if I didn't. One term for it is the "narrow and jagged path." Feel free to look into it. Just remember...fear is the enemy of truth (and just about everything else for that matter), and love is the enemy of fear, and evil as well. Choose wisely. Have a nice day.
 Pot growers my ass.

Separated at Birth?

Simon (or Simone; I'm not sure which, and I guess no one else is either these days, if you get my drift), from the monitor aboard the ISS, and Fred, from the 60s TV show Captain Kangaroo? I'll take Fred any day of the week.