Desperado target practice . . .

Saturday, July 18, 2026. It's the Satyr's day . . . slight summer rain chances were in the Green Country forecasts for the morning, giving way to a partly cloudy warm afternoon. The usual summer Southerlies and low 90's are predicted for TulseyTown, along with a heat index of 100º.

Aiming for vindication, he shot himself ten times in both feet. – Miles Taylor, Defiance, 7.17.26

The mailbox this morning was packed with creatives' birthday reminders.

The first Black president of South Africa, Nelson Mandela was born in 1918, Mvezo, South Africa; astronaut, and U. S. Senator John Glenn was born in 1921, Cambridge, Ohio; the Canadian scholar, university president, and U.S. senator from California, S.I. Hayakawa was born in 1906, Vancouver, B.C.; Canadian author Margaret Laurence born in1926, Neepawa, Manitoba, Canada; playwright, screenwriter, and actor Clifford Odets was born in 1906, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

And, author Elizabeth Gilbert is 57 today.

It's also the birthdate of the creator of “gonzo” journalism,” Hunter S. Thompson, born in 1937 Louisville, Kentucky.

“What Leary took down with him was the central illusion … the essential old-mystic fallacy of the Acid Culture: the desperate assumption that somebody... or at least some force - is tending the light at the end of the tunnel.” ― Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream, Vintage/Random House. 1971. Original serial publication: Rolling Stone magazine, November 1971.