Good Riddance

 Good riddance to another July 4th. Two new Covid variants have been in the news. Spreading rapidly among the vaccinated and unvaccinated and even the previously infected and apparently incorporating the worst of Omicron's characteristics. Well, the stuff is not going away, and there never will be "herd immunity". 

It was a bloody and violent Fourth of July. Here, there, and everywhere. It was a Fourth of July to make any gun nut salivate and drool. Gun nuts love their guns because they get off on gun violence. It's that simple. They like it. It's what they live for. It turns them on. 

So, July 4th

 I'm not doing any of the festivities but I photographed preparations in McKenzie Park.

I just have no interest in stuff like this-- the crowds! The heat! And what, really, is entertaining about any of it, such that the entertainment value offsets the hassle and inconvenience and other annoyances?

The whole thing starts with a parade and parades are BORING.

Surely, there are better ways to be bored.

And then you've got all those PEOPLE! No thanks. I've added to links at the bottom of the blog, two of them go to performances by Julee Cruise, and one links to some Orchestral performances of music from Twin Peaks. 

July

 What will July bring, apart from summer heat? I wonder about this year's hurricane season. 

I got nostalgic for Twin Peaks last evening. Julee Cruise is dead. She was 65. And I think it was suicide. Rest in peace! Who can forget "Falling"? David Lynch is a genius. At least he is still around.