skunk, squirrel, mama and baby deer, nutty bluebird

Well, I think I’ll head over to the Bronx open-air drug markOH FOR CRYING OUT LOUD

More than 30 arrested in Bronx open-air drug market crackdown

there are stranger signs in the mountains than you’d expect.

old no trespassing signs.

church signs.

faded advertisements for places that closed before you were born.

but this one bothered me.

because it wasn’t warning me away.

it was warning me about myself.

BEWARE OF GLEEST

nothing else.

no explanation.

no logo.

just those three words burned into a piece of weathered wood and bolted to a post beside an old logging road.

i asked around.

nobody knew who put it there.

except an old woman at the feed store.

she frowned when i mentioned it.

said her grandfather talked about those signs.

said they used to be everywhere.

before people started disappearing.

not forever.

just for a little while.

an hour.

a day.

sometimes a week.

they’d come back confused.

sunburned.

hungry.

certain they’d only been gone a few minutes.

and every one of them said the same thing.

they’d heard whistling.

coming from somewhere ahead.

always ahead.

never behind.

she told me if i ever heard it, i should stop walking.

don’t follow.

don’t answer.

don’t whistle back.

then she looked at me strangely.

“you did hear it, didn’t you?”

i asked how she knew.

she pointed to my backpack.

hanging from one of the straps was a little strip of wood.

rough cut.

weathered.

with three familiar words scratched into it.

BEWARE OF GLEEST

i don’t remember picking it up.

but somehow

it came home with me.

#thegleest #appalachianweird #cryptidcore #folkhorror #oldgodsofappalachia #mountainmysteries #strangeplaces #hauntedwoods #bewareofgleest

RAPE CULTURE.

In 2013, Graham Platner wrote that SA victims should “take some responsibility for themselves and not get so fucked up they wind up having sex with someone they don’t mean to”.

And If I lived in Maine you’re telling me voting for that guy is the easy, no-brainer, moral, decision?

FaceBook abetted an entire genocide and people are still like “oh but how else will I talk to gam-gam and pop-pop?”

Sickening that it has to be that way for some. “I can only talk to mom on the fascist surveillance / society destroying machine”

A man who did a Nazi salute on live television and gutted a program that will result in 14 million preventable deaths by 2030 will be rewarded today with a trillion dollars for taking a company public that doesn’t make money. Congratulations humanity, we did it!

Chipmunk by day, skunk by night

From June 8

Digital marker doodle #OliveArtClub blue teakettle

Source pic

Kettle doodle

I was dressed as security or some sort or armed guard at an airport or bus terminal , I didnt know why I was there, just that I was nervous. I was pulled to the ground, and made to disarm, I had a large gun on me. Three other guards started shouting at me , asking who I was, and what I was doing there, and they were shouting so much I couldn’t answer before the next question came at me.  Another security looking person started pointing at a camouflage paint pattern on the wall, asking what color they were pointing at, and repeated this maybe four or five times, and then shouted out that I had dementia of 11%.

Today, I learned that I can rearrange the letters in my online identity of “scottobear” to  “Batroc Toes”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batroc_the_Leaper

Deer, chipmunk  and kitty action