October 28, 2025

Stargazy Mouth Music: A Song for the New Famine

Stargazy Mouth Music: A Song for the New Famine

This piece falls on the hinge between Halloween and Advent—when ghosts still walk, and hunger waits for the promised feast. The veil thins, the cupboards echo, and the songs we sing are half prayer, half warning.

A modern echo of the Cornish legend of Tom Bawcock, who once braved a winter storm and brought back enough fish to feed his starving village. The proof was baked into a single pie—seven kinds of fish, their heads rising through the crust like small miracles.

Today, the seas are calm, but the hunger returns—the nets are full, but many go unfed. SNAP cuts, rising costs, and quiet cruelty have brought waves of misery crashing on the beach.

They said no drums. So we sang with our mouths.
This film remembers an earlier feast of survival in another age of famine.

"The fish are singing through holes in the sky."


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October 4, 2025

Sauerkraut Soup

Other videos (60 second shorts) in the Firefly series.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100220623303

The reason they wear jarheads is because I could not generate images of them with their faces exposed.

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Sauerkraut Soup

[Verse 1]
Rolling through the forest grey,
Tracks all squeal and maps decay.
What fuels the fight and warms the troop?
You guessed it—sauerkraut soup!

[Verse 2]
No schnitzel here, no sausage plate,
Just vinegared fog and a steel-clad fate.
The only thing we dare to scoop—
One more bowl of sauerkraut soup.

[Chorus]
Boom! goes the turret, bang! goes the roof,
But the lads are spoonin’ cabbage proof.
Command says “drive!”—but we regroup,
To slurp the lore of sauerkraut soup.

[Verse 3]
Dieter dreams of Paris lights,
Hans just wants his pants to fit right.
But glory’s drowned in fermented goop—
Stuck in time with sauerkraut soup.

[Bridge]
Tell the Fuhrer, tell the cooks,
We’ve traded guns for sour looks.
No medals pinned, no goose-step troop—
Just ghosts who fart in sauerkraut soup.

[Chorus, Louder & Worse]
Boom! goes the turret, bang! goes the roof,
Another lad down in cabbage truth.
History fades, but we recoup—
Forever chained to sauerkraut soup.

Ja , mein Freund—it’s always soup.

September 27, 2025

A little ghost story for Banned Book Week

I present my newest video A ROSE FOR EMILY for BANNED BOOK WEEK (Oct 5-11) early because a week is too short a time for such a long list. It is also a good old fashioned Halloween ghost story -- about a woman who wanted to burn her poetry after she was gone and a man who was hellbent on digging up her corpse and mocking her for eternity. Not sure if there is any lesson here or just more peeling wallpaper. Copyright Law does allow me to steal Faulkner's title for my video like he stole Miss Emily's corpse for his story. Fair is fair.


"Hope is the thing with feathers."
—Emily Dickinson

"I’d rob my own grandmother for a good story."
—William Faulkner

A Rose for Emily D.
The first time Faulkner read Miss Emily's lines
He traced her breath between the rhymes
A twirl in the meadow, so light, so bold
Like a ghost in cotton, fearless and cold
Arms raised high, she surrendered to the sky
He felt the pull, he couldn’t deny

He pondered the daring in her gentle command
The swirl of bees in her porcelain hand
No clocks ticking, no buzz in the trees
Just her secret scrawl on mothy leaves
Sealed in boxes, brittle with time
Labeled in ink: *Burn what you find*

[Chorus] With scarlet ribbons he bound each word
Lashed to a poem that he once heard
He spread out lime like a sacred vow
Around her house, beneath each bough
Night after night until the morning sun
Ghosted all that she had done

He blinked at the grave, her roses gray
Petals falling where shadows lay
The coach rolled on, wheels dull and low
And still he couldn’t let her go
No fire rose from the poet’s chest
Just boxes nested where silence rests
Ribbons red, the heart’s cold bed
Lime laid thick where her footsteps bled

[Chorus] With scarlet ribbons he bound each word
Lashed to a poem that he once heard
He spread out lime like a sacred vow
Around her house, beneath each bough
Night after night until the morning sun
Ghosted all that she had done

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September 10, 2025

1000 CRANES

1000 CRANES

The Firefly Jar Series:
Old Sleepwalkers.

Fireflies blink old secrets in jars sealed tight. The jars represent fragments of memory.

I grew frustrated with AI responses to my image generation requests: “Sorry, that goes against the community standards.” Eventually, I typed in frustration: “Should I just put jars over everyone’s heads with fireflies glowing inside to contain what cannot be said?”

Suddenly, my fireflies flickered to life. Flashes of memory. I generated image after image each more startling than the rest. Each image required finding an AI that could generate an animation without balking at the prompts.

I have more clips to upload and more ideas floating around. I hope you will go see these short clips. LIKE and SUBSCRIBE to see more of my work. I have been on YOUTUBE for almost 20 years, have 497 subs and have never been monetized, so I am free to post what I like because I am not on some grind to pump out content for money.

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January 21, 2025

When revisionists change history -- J6 Insurrectionists and Treasonauguration

“I feel the need to make a record that exists when the revisionists attempt to change history.” That was my first post of 41 made between January and August of 2021.

I maintained this list of links to every article I could find about events surrounding J6, including the investigation and subsequent arrests of insurrectionists. I did so for no other reason than to make sure a chronological record was kept in real time because I suspected links would die and memories would dull.

Today, I add the last link to this sad chapter of American history. From NYT January 20, 2025. (A free gifted article).

Trump Grants Sweeping Clemency to All Jan. 6 Rioters
The extraordinary pardons and commutations extended to those who committed both violent and nonviolent crimes on Jan. 6, including assaulting police officers and seditious conspiracy.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/20/us/politics/trump-pardons-jan-6.html?unlocked_article_code=1.q04.yDzp.OPZtQAuVTksk&smid=bs-share

140 law enforcement were injured that day defending the Congress and our Capitol. It is a stain on the MAGA Movement and the Trump administration that every one of them will carry to their graves.

Insurrection Day: Citizen-Journalism Edition
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100214874966

Insurrection Day: Citizen-Journalism Edition Pt.2
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100214891592

Insurrection Day: Citizen-Journalism Edition Pt.3
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100214902416

Insurrection Day: Citizen-Journalism Edition Pt.4
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100214912205

Insurrection Day: Citizen-Journalism Edition Pt.5
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100214923437

Insurrection Day: Citizen-Journalism Edition Pt.6
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100214932351

Insurrection Day: Citizen-Journalism Edition Pt.7
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100214939958

Insurrection Day: Citizen-Journalism Edition Pt.8
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100214947166

Insurrection Day: Citizen-Journalism Edition Pt.9
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100214952779

Insurrection Day: Citizen-Journalism Edition Pt.10
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100214960408
Insurrection Day: Citizen-Journalism Edition Pt.11
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100214981019

Insurrection Day: Citizen-Journalism Edition Pt. 12
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100214993285

Insurrection Day: Follow-up Links Pt.13
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100215040808

Insurrection Day: Follow-up Links Pt.14
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100215042993

Insurrection Day: Follow-up Links Pt.15
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100215051159

Insurrection Day: Follow-up links Pt.16
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100215069318

Impeachment Day 1:
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100215082089

Impeachment Day Two:
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100215086998

Impeachment Day Three
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100215091279

Impeachment Day Four
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100215097988
Impeachment Day Five
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100215105654

Crime Beat: Insurrection Day's Most Wanted -- Pt. 22
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100215119936

Crime Beat: Insurrection Day's Most Wanted -- Pt. 23
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100215139882

Crime Beat: Insurrection Day's Most Wanted -- Pt. 24
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100215153130

Crime Beat: Insurrection Day's Most Wanted -- Pt. 25
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100215177879

Crime Beat: Insurrection Day's Most Wanted -- Pt. 26
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100215195188

Crime Beat: Insurrection Day's Most Wanted -- Pt. 27
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100215220570

Crime Beat: Insurrection Day's Most Wanted -- Pt. 28
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100215245267

Crime Beat: Insurrection Day's Most Wanted -- Pt. 29
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100215280572

Crime Beat: Insurrection Day's Most Wanted -- Pt. 30
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100215318693
Crime Beat: Insurrection Day's Most Wanted -- Pt. 31
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100215362179

Crime and Punishment: Insurrection Day's Most Wanted, Pt. 32
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100215409425

Crime and Punishment: Insurrection Day's Most Wanted, Pt. 33
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100215452846

Crime and Punishment: Insurrection Day's Most Wanted, Pt. 34
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100215519610

Crime and Punishment: Insurrection Day's Most Wanted, Pt. 35
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100215547379

Crime and Punishment: Insurrection Day's Most Wanted, Pt. 36
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100215621595

Crime and Punishment: Insurrection Day's Most Wanted, Pt. 37
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100215663193

Crime and Punishment: Insurrection Day's Most Wanted, Pt. 38
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100215685894

Crime and Punishment: Insurrection Day's Most Wanted, Pt. 39
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100215711216

Crime and Punishment: Insurrection Day's Most Wanted, Pt. 40:
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100215737016

Sedition Hunters: Insurrection Day's Most Wanted, Pt. 41
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100215788335

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