summer patriot, winter soldier

demi lavoto *** says she is "pansexual," "attracted to anything ...."

well, i am pretty cute for an old guy, and i most definitely qualify for "anything."   i am ready for you sweet cakes.   just haul your sweet self to milton freewater, oregon, and ask for "john jay."   anyone can tell you how to find me.   and, don't be surprised if they say, "please don't kill him, he's a good tipper.  please, go easy on him, he's old."

people in these parts watch out for each other.   laughing.

and, again, i am "anything," if i am anything.   laughing.   and, please sweet girl, don't kill me.  i am old, and broken down, and cannot take real vigorous exercise.   the ticker, doncha know.

john jay @ 03.31.2021

update.  04.02.2021.  no stimulus from the united states thus far, and no stimulus by way of a communication from demi lavoto saying that i qualify as "anything."   i am a bit disappointed, as i thought i was more than qualified to be some sweet young thing's "'anything' boy toy."   sigh.   i guess i'll just have to live with another bitter disappointment.  (and, i hate a heart check up today, just in case.   it went well, i survived.)   so, i guess the day qualifies as a "mixed bag," which isn't bad at my age.  gotta take the bad with the good, after all.  end update.

u.s.c. to upset gonzaga .....

yep, that's what i am saying.--

i am from n.e. oregon, about 2 hrs from spokane, washington by automobile.   in case you live under a rock, spokane is the home of the zags.   i like the zags.

u.s.c. is in another universe from the one i inhabit.  i hate the trojans, always have.  for years they ruled the roost on the west coast, and they were not bashful or kind about it.  i have always taken joy when they loose.   and, i had hoped my ducks would beat them this year in the ncaa's.

it was not to be.   they manhandled my ducks.   and, the ducks were good.   but, not good enough.

i think u.s.c. is talented enough to beat the zags.   and, i think they will.   the zags are ripe to be beat, and the trojans have just the right complement of very good players to do it.   so, i am picking the trojans over the zags by a score of, .... , well, around 77 to 73 points, or so.  

we'll see.   but, that's my call.

john jay @ 9.44 am, 03.29.2021

p.s.   i don't "hope" that it happens.  (see above.)   but, i think it likely, and at this juncture.

update, 03.30.2021.  the game has just started, and gonzaga is out to an early small lead.   of all the teams left in the tourney, i think u.s.c. the most likely to beat gonzaga  ....   i just think the pac-12 teams this year have a toughness they've not had for a long while, and the ability to hang in there and come back if they get off to a rocky start.   this, even against rough opposition.

but, we'll see how the scoreboard totals it all up, when the game she is over.  end update.

2nd update, 03.30.2021.  so much for analysis.   gonzaga looked pretty good, didn't they!!   laughing.  end update.

3rd update, 04.03.2021.  well, gonzaga just beat u.c.l.a. 93-90 in overtime.   that's it for the pac-12 entrants.  and, that's it for the pac-12's chance to win the tournament championship.   and, for the pac-12 to upset gonzaga's efforts to secure the championship.   if anything, the pac-12 has shown that if you play gonzaga straight up with a determined defensive effort, and great offense, you do have a chance.   we'll see how baylor does.  end update.

the pac-12 has three teams in the "elite 8" at the ncaa b-ball tournament .....

oregon state beat loyola of chicago, ucla beat houstan, and the winner of the game between oregon and u.s.c. goes into the elite 8 with the other two.   that three teams from the pac-12, and the other two fellow conference also played well, is the best pac-12 conference showing in years.   it is all the sweeter because the pac-12 teams were not highly regarded, and were seeded quite low given the quality of conference play.  (hint:  the low seeded teams are generally regarded as "fodder" to be feasted on by the higher seeded teams as they advance toward garnering the high spots in the tourney  ....   well, not this year.)

what with gonzaga's march toward destiny, the west coast has shown very well indeed this year.   it's been a fun tourney, with a host of "also rans" rising up and smiting their more highly regarded opponents.   it has been what sport is supposed to be, and that is competitive.

john jay @ 03.28.2021

gibberish ....

definition -- unintelligible or meaningless speech or writing: nonsense.

in other words, the lingua franca of the biden administration, when asked a straight forward question which might otherwise prove yet again embarrassing and/or revealing of truth (to the most inept and dishonest administration in the history of the united states.)  the sine qua non, & the only refuge, for the incompetent, for the scoundrel. 

what more can be said along these lines?  i speak truth.

john jay @ 03.27.2021

happy as a clam .... my daughter is cooking dinner ....

how can you beat that?

john jay @ 03.27.2021

p.s.  to some antique shops, wine tasting,*** and arguments.   a perfect day.

***  i don't drink much, so a couple of good burps (aided and abetted by a piece of toast) and i was good as new.

 

no, i don't understand the situation you are in .....

you'll have to explain it to me.

john jay @ 03.26.2021

a former lady spy writes about spy novels & novelists ..... okay, where is gina haspel? .....

https://crimereads.com/the-best-spy-novels-written-by-spies-according-to-a-spy/?utm_source=pocket-newtab .   written by alma katsu, march 23, 2021.

o.k., ms. smarty pants, where is gina haspel?    is she alive, is she dead, does she still work for c.i.a., and where is she, and can you prove it?

john jay @ 03.24.2021

i want my "stimulus money," and i want it now ... i want "reparations," and i'll think of something ... i want to look like tom sellack in "magnum p.i.," and i want that when i wake in the morning ... and, oh yeah, since i am 73 ...

and, oh yeah, since i am 73 years old, have 4 bypasses, 6 stents, 3 active aneurysms and a host of other ailments, i would very much like to wake in the morning.   but, i want, i want, i want, i want a whole bunch.   what in the world am i willing to do to work for any of this?   well, nothing at all.

to my mind, it is sufficient that i want.   right fucking now.

john jay @ 03.22.2021

p.s.   i am mindful of a poster i saw of willie nelson, looking scruffy and woebegone as only willie nelson is capable, with a caption above his picture saying, "i done outlived my pecker."   i'd like that back myself, ... , not willie's willy, but my very own willy, which worked well on occasion, and not so well on occasion, but always made things interesting.   oh, yeah, i want things to be interesting again.   but, mostly i want.

bored stiff w/out "the donald" ....

"the donald" was interesting, and always thought provoking.   life had "color" with "the donald."  

the little lefties just don't engender must interest, as they go about blindly wrecking all that has come before them:  they vaingloriously deny history, even as they are trapped by it.  just like isis blowing up buddhist temples and anything & anyone else "not muslim," that "denies" their vision of holiness.   all "wreckers" are idiots, seeing no worth except their own, and fundamentally "gray" and "boring" as a result.   they are as a mirage over a dry lake bed ....  pretenders toward a substance they do not possess, purposefully ignorant of all vitality preceding them.

"one note charlies."

imho.

john jay @ 03.22.2021

on the origin of the universe .... no. 4 .... a lot of science is, well, pretty much guess work .... put simply ....

https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-sun-is-stranger-than-astrophysicists-imagined?utm_source=pocket-newtab .

i am not saying science always "makes things up," but in the infancy of things quite a bit of it is simply speculation.  guess work.   and, that is putting it mildly.

scientists seem disinclined to say of something that they cannot explain, "we don't understand this.  we won't understand it, quite likely, tomorrow, either."

instead, they try to explain it, without having a clue as to how the "explanation" explains anything at all.

witness the above article.

john jay @ 03.22.2021