As woodworkers, I laughed my head off at your comparison between the Amerikkkan regime and “particle board”. Indeed this regime is built on shabby substandard materials. We have never and would never use particle board for even a birdhouse!
In contrast, Russia and China are built of oak and hickory. Able to last 100’s of years without rotting.
Absolutely! At a distance the brightly-painted, sparkly "America The Great" plantation manor house looks shiny and impressive, but the particle board is breaking down, getting squishy from the blood of innocents and rotted out from the oily butts of corrupt politicians and the gaseous farting of the corporate ghouls who buy them. Truly, an oily, gaseous, rotted out and collapsing House of Horrors.
I'm finishing up Matt Kennard's "The Racket", in which he explores how the tools and terror techniques of our colonialism are now coming home in the final phase of conquest. Will the people put down their phones and stand up?...
Loved your description, Mark: what a way with words you have!
I will explore the book you’re reading as well.
PS
We haven’t one thing made of “manufactured wood” in our household. 99% of our furnishings are pre-1900 primitive antiques. Our floors are wide-board pine. (Yes, we installed them; we and our family built this house from the ground up.)
We are doing a total renovation of a half-bath. The new vanity is solid pine which I designed based on an antique I saw in a magazine. We wouldn’t have dreamed of a store-bought particle board vanity!
Our house has all kinds of quirky little features designed by me. Come visit us Mark, you’d love our house and what the human hand and imagination can do! We’d be honored to have you!
I love old furniture and old home. We have many beautiful Victorian homes in my town beautiful turned wood and stained glass. I've got a nice woodworking shop but haven't gotten into it much lately. Thanks for the invite, if I do any traveling in Michigan I'll let you know.
Thanks, Mark. Petro is of Italian ancestry. He mentions Sacco and Vanzetti due to their ancestry, but I believe the point he’s trying to highlight is their shared advocacy for worker rights.
As for Miller, he’s referencing Henry Miller, author of the formerly banned book Tropic of Cancer.
The last meme of the billionaires and the one minimum wage worker makes me think of the Sesame Street song: "One of these things is not like the other... One of these things just doesn't belong... Can you guess which thing is not like the others before I finish my song?"
Trump pleasing his billionaire buddies by cutting every government program that is of any use to the general public is what is going to get us all killed. Workers unite! Our lives are at stake!
Hi Mark
As woodworkers, I laughed my head off at your comparison between the Amerikkkan regime and “particle board”. Indeed this regime is built on shabby substandard materials. We have never and would never use particle board for even a birdhouse!
In contrast, Russia and China are built of oak and hickory. Able to last 100’s of years without rotting.
Absolutely! At a distance the brightly-painted, sparkly "America The Great" plantation manor house looks shiny and impressive, but the particle board is breaking down, getting squishy from the blood of innocents and rotted out from the oily butts of corrupt politicians and the gaseous farting of the corporate ghouls who buy them. Truly, an oily, gaseous, rotted out and collapsing House of Horrors.
I'm finishing up Matt Kennard's "The Racket", in which he explores how the tools and terror techniques of our colonialism are now coming home in the final phase of conquest. Will the people put down their phones and stand up?...
Loved your description, Mark: what a way with words you have!
I will explore the book you’re reading as well.
PS
We haven’t one thing made of “manufactured wood” in our household. 99% of our furnishings are pre-1900 primitive antiques. Our floors are wide-board pine. (Yes, we installed them; we and our family built this house from the ground up.)
We are doing a total renovation of a half-bath. The new vanity is solid pine which I designed based on an antique I saw in a magazine. We wouldn’t have dreamed of a store-bought particle board vanity!
Our house has all kinds of quirky little features designed by me. Come visit us Mark, you’d love our house and what the human hand and imagination can do! We’d be honored to have you!
I love old furniture and old home. We have many beautiful Victorian homes in my town beautiful turned wood and stained glass. I've got a nice woodworking shop but haven't gotten into it much lately. Thanks for the invite, if I do any traveling in Michigan I'll let you know.
Yes PLEASE DO!
You’re busy writing your inspiring words, but try to make time at least for a birdhouse and you’ll be rewarded this summer 🙂
You're absolutely correct!
Wray a great article, very informative. Love gustavs words
Yes he showed great courage. I wish I had a better translation.
Thanks, Mark. Petro is of Italian ancestry. He mentions Sacco and Vanzetti due to their ancestry, but I believe the point he’s trying to highlight is their shared advocacy for worker rights.
As for Miller, he’s referencing Henry Miller, author of the formerly banned book Tropic of Cancer.
Too bad you don’t speak Spanish, there’s a great YouTube Channel that deals with Latin American and Spanish politics. La Base Comanche https://youtu.be/la_wY4DaE3A?si=-kb-PG5M5SwuvdGZ .
Thanks for the info and link.
The last meme of the billionaires and the one minimum wage worker makes me think of the Sesame Street song: "One of these things is not like the other... One of these things just doesn't belong... Can you guess which thing is not like the others before I finish my song?"
Trump pleasing his billionaire buddies by cutting every government program that is of any use to the general public is what is going to get us all killed. Workers unite! Our lives are at stake!
The "Miller [?]" in Petro's letter is probably Joel Miller aka Joel Bentarz. See today's https://joelbentarz.substack.com/p/hip-hyp-hypocrisy