The shittiest people in the world hate Zohran Mamdani and their second Mamdani meltdown will make the first seem only a hissy fit, Jeff types as he sits in the rental at the northern tip of Michigan's Leelanau Peninsula, steady hard rain erasing my plans to return to Camp Greilick Disc Golf Course to play a third and fourth round at what is one of the best if not the best course I've ever played, goddamn it
That's 14 from the tee box, my only bird there, twice. Plays across an old Boy Scout camp, it's not only a terrific course but a four mile walk through gorgeous dense woods filled with the loudest, most varied birdsong I've ever heard, I've never played anything like it. Holes are hard but fair with clear lines and fairways. Below is Myles Kimberly Disc Golf Course in Maple City, 12, my partner Justin teed to thirty-five feet and I hit the bird with my Alpaca at Tuesday Night Doubles two evenings ago, there were six groups of two, we finished second and won $4 each. Doubles tonight at Bear's Den in Kingsley, I played it Wednesday morning, all tunnels but a few holes, so lots of driving my teebird from the tee box
Zohran Mamdani's name did not come up at all Tuesday doubles at Myles Kimberly (though the round ended while votes were still being counted), but remember, the shittiest people in the world hate Zohran Mamdani and are already conceding the midterms to Trump because of Mamdani's "Communism," an evil and sinister mixture of FDR's New Deal and LBJ's Great Society, *imagine* how much shitlords hate and fear him. Reminder - corporate Democrats abhor Zohran Mamdani more than corporate Republicans adore him. Meanwhile, here's what the far less dangerous than Mamdani six conservative Supreme Justices ruled today
I predict no one, but especially me, will mention either Mamdami or Leo Leo's SCOTUS' rulings tonight at doubles though if I had to bet if one was it won't be Leo Leo's SCOTUS' rulings. United States of Assholes. Public service announcement, if you are ever in Leelanau County they have a stern warning for you
MONK'S BIRD BOOK
Ed Roberson
these disk golf course photos produced, in me, a desire to read something like:
ReplyDeleteIn 15th-century Scotland, the earliest golfers played on "links"—barren, sandy coastlines where the land was useless for agriculture but perfect for sport. Players simply used what nature provided: rabbits and sheep naturally mowed the grasses, wind-scooped hollows in the sand became the first bunkers, and players aimed at natural targets like a specific hole in the ground or a landmark stone. This passive relationship with nature began to shift in the late 19th century during the Industrial Revolution; the invention of the mechanical lawnmower and the expansion of railways allowed the game to move inland, where heavy soils required artificial drainage and intentional design. As the 20th century progressed, the boom in televised golf and suburban country clubs raised the aesthetic standard to an extreme. To achieve the bright green, uniform surfaces demanded by modern players, courses transitioned into highly engineered ecosystems utilizing specialized bentgrasses, subterranean irrigation, heavy fertilizers, and mechanized maintenance teams to completely overwrite the local geography.
it has been said: Because it requires virtually zero pesticides, synthetic fertilizers, or massive irrigation systems, disc golf can thrive in protected conservation areas, rugged public parks, and underutilized wilderness. It has effectively revived the original spirit of old Scottish links—proving that a great sport doesn't need a multi-million dollar maintenance budget to be deeply challenging and rewarding.
ReplyDelete112 years ago, Franz and Sophie went to Sarajevo.
ReplyDeleteSpeaking of time past, and time present, after the jeweler put the new battery in my European electric watch this afternoon I tried to pay for it by inserting the chip end of the credit card into the payment mechanism. He gently corrected me - "Just touch". We spoke of how the pace of change seems to be speeding up - the last decade felt like three, he said.
DeleteTo include the future in this imaginal triptych [and I had just come from getting a TripTik at the local AAA office/garage], I thought again of The Journeys of Trees: A Story of Forests, People, and the Future by journalist and science writer Zach St. George (published in 2020), a book in which Connie Barlow figures prominently.
1/somehow the following text came to my attention:
ReplyDeleteWhile Kristin Hersh is widely celebrated as the frontwoman and primary songwriter for the influential alternative art-punk band Throwing Muses and the power trio 50FootWave, she has quietly built a secondary, parallel career as a highly acclaimed author. Her prose writing mirrors the qualities found in her music: it is intensely visceral, fiercely independent, and structures deeply personal, stream-of-consciousness vignettes with striking candor. Her literary catalog stretches across memoirs, experimental book-and-album hybrids, and even a children's book.
2/semistochastically it was revealed to me that tanya donelly, hersh's stepsister and fellow founder of throwing muses, is the topic of a wikipedia article that states:
In 2026, Donelly and Chris Brokaw released "The Undone Is Done Again" on Fire Records, containing tracks that are adaptations of Medieval music, with lyrics in the original Latin and minimal instrumentation.
Novus Annus Adiit
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9b0xYwm9N4