Evil is goin’ on…

When I was a youngster, I have memories of when we lived in an apartment on the South Side of Tower Grove Park. Then we moved to Cahokia Illinois, into a duplex almost like a home. There I piled up my toys and escaped from the playpen. They captured me down at the corner, trying to figure out how to cross the street. Then we moved back into the heart of St. Louis on Pershing Avenue. We had streetcars running in both directions in the middle of the street.

https://youtu.be/FRyPHWw-Azo?list=RDFRyPHWw-Azo
Memphis Slim – The “Mother Earth” song by Memphis Slim features Alex Atkins on alto sax, John Calvin and Ernest Cotton on tenor sax, Matt “Guitar” Murphy on guitar, Sam Chatmon on bass, and Billy Stepney on drums. The song was first released in 1959 on the album Memphis Slim at the Gate of Horn and later reissued as Mother Earth. Memphis Slim: Piano, vocals Alex Atkins: Alto saxophone John Calvin: Tenor saxophone Ernest Cotton: Tenor saxophone Matt “Guitar” Murphy: Guitar Sam Chatmon: Bass Billy Stepney: Drums

Our place was the entire third floor of the brownstone. I could look out the bay window and watch the streetcars with blue sparks falling while they went down the road. I would scat down the alleyways, lookin’ for adventure and walk several blocks to Hamilton Avenue Elementary School for Pre-School and then Kindergarten. If I walked West on Pershing, past the Deli and newspaper shop, I could turn left on DeBaliviere Ave and walk through the Jefferson Memorial into Forest Park. The vast forested park had a river running under it and artificial rivers running through it. When I kept walking I got to the Jewel Box, a small arboretum I loved. Sometimes I would sneak onto the streetcars, since I was only knee high, the conductors usually missed me. And I would ride downtown to see the glorious Mississipi River. It sure was fine.

https://youtu.be/3fv-zcVmxyM Streetcar Blues · Sleepy John Estes
Times Ain’t Like They Used To Be: Early American Rural Music, Vol. 3
℗ 2005 Yazoo Released on: 2005-06-20 Writer: Charley Patton

In the summer of 57 we moved out to the suburbs into a house with cornfields and a farmhouse across the street by Coldwater creek and a short walk down Mullanphy took me to the Missouri river, where I learned how to almost drown. It was glorious living just above and West of where the rivers meet before heading South and draining into the gulf of Mexico. This was my home for a number of years, back when Monarch butterflies emerged from fields ripe with hundreds of milkweed pods and snapping turtles guarded the Missouri river.

https://youtu.be/6VAbrnjdtYw?list=RD6VAbrnjdtYw
Doc Watson-Deep River Blues

But parts of my childhood took place near the damn on Cedar river in Cedar Falls, Iowa where Nana taught me to fish. Also up in Minnesota on Aunt Zelma and Uncle Roger’s farm, where the windmill turned, pumping water from the well into the horse tank. Roger crop-dusted the corn with a small plane and they had horses, pigs, chickens and a few other critters.

https://youtu.be/jJyktoBjhsY
Red River Blues

During these harder times than now, the United States of America was recovering and moving forward from World War Two. My dad was a divinity student, a teenager living in Iowa. But feral Fascism was growing in Europe. Jim Flanagan rejected his parent’s Catholic roots, became a Quaker then a Friend and was completing graduate school. While he considered himself to be a pacifist, Jim was concerned about rising Fascism. So he joined the Army and served as a radio operator, facilitating communications between the Army, Navy and Air Force.

https://youtu.be/vbRFcTMewx8?list=RDvbRFcTMewx8
LIGHTNIN’ HOPKINS – WAR NEWS BLUES

https://revolutionresource.org/2016/04/10/about/

Atheists, Anarchists, Arachnids or Anchovies…

https://youtu.be/M8hCf3VvFOk
Spider Taxi to the Dark-side of theisms and oily fish…

“Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.”
―Voltaire

https://thepeaceresource.com/2015/05/25/peace/

Socialism is an odd notion… about humanity…

The 1950’s were supposed to be about securing peace, healing, reconstruction and reconcilation. But today in the 2020’s, America is exporting 56 unprovoked but expanding wars costing trillions, killing millions, bankrupting the USA and crippling Mother Earth.

We are in a heap of trouble after these past 74 years,.

https://youtu.be/bsNVzwuJeVk
Which Side Are You On?

Marx was no magician, Spinoza not a wizard and capitalism is a lot of specious and strained economic theories, neither an entity nor a bogeyman. Marx, an economist, was interested in isms, but in today’s demonstrably more complex and interconnected universe… isms isn’t the point.

https://youtu.be/QF6CMQoYSsQ Howlin’ Wolf – Evil Is Going On

Don John Trump, a depraved blithering idiot, racist, rapist, misogynist and war criminal is in charge of exporting terror munitions and 56 unprovoked but expanding wars costing trillions, killing millions, bankrupting the nation and crippling the planet. Donald is amoral, ignores the constitution, betrays the bill of rights and abrogates the rule of law. Congress is too cowardly to remove him.

Americans have the most expensive and least effective health care among the ten most developed nations. The USA is dead last. American schools have been failing and illiteracy is rising. Yet Trump is attacking 56 nations who did not attack America, along with several American cities. This corporate neo-Fascism about extraction, exploitation and extortion is not OK. We are under attack, and it’s past time to stand up and fight back. The enemy sits in the Oval Office paving the rose garden and demolishing the East Wing.

https://youtu.be/XW–IGAfeas Tupac

– Keep Ya Head Up

https://revolutionresource.org/2022/09/10/what-isms-isnt/

Isms have become archaic myths examined in political science 101 but these ideas beg real questions: ignoble distractions from peace, justice, equity, freedom and human dignity…

Money for nothing…

https://thepeaceresource.com/2022/12/08/money-for-nothing-2/

“The relationship between words and meaning is tenuous at best.
But we must deal with quantum reality and simple facts of life.”

https://youtu.be/iVpXrbZ4bnU
The time is now.

“The question is not if we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists we will be. The nation and the world are in dire need of creative extremists.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

At Night I Hear Victims Shouting

Sometimes, in the middle of the night, I hear people screaming.
Some people think money changes everything…

https://youtu.be/pp4suZ4jNXg?list=RDpp4suZ4jNXg
Cyndi Lauper – Money Changes Everything

Others think money matters…

https://youtu.be/cS06eprlj2I
Randy Newman – It’s Money That Matters

They are both dead wrong…

https://youtu.be/_zOjRlVpAOQ?list=RD_zOjRlVpAOQ
Dire Straits – Money For Nothing

https://thepeaceresource.com/2021/05/04/money-blues/

Money cannot buy important things…

https://youtu.be/vzJdYOGN04s?list=RDvzJdYOGN04s
Money, Money, Money (1976)

Many find money fascinating, disturbing or flat dangerous and
Linguistics linger.

https://youtu.be/ZVtyHz4Gu7g?list=RDZVtyHz4Gu7g
Money (That’s What I Want) – Jerry Lee Lewis (Live At The Star Club)

Beyond the New Physics and Ongoing Corporate Transgressions…

https://youtu.be/9Jv4yzTaiL4?list=RD9Jv4yzTaiL4
Howlin’ Wolf- Down In The Bottom

https://youtu.be/X3KnCL0S_Ws?list=RDX3KnCL0S_Ws
“Lie To Me” by Tom Waits from the album ‘Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers and Bastards,’ 2006 Directed by Danny Clinch

The war parties are a dead end. 

https://youtu.be/QF6CMQoYSsQ?list=RDQF6CMQoYSsQ

Howlin’ Wolf – Evil Is Going On