Visited The Delta King at Sacramento's River Front

I Went To Clear Lake For a Few Minutes

The pictures are proof.

The Influence of Salvador Dali on "Breaking Bad" and "Better Call Saul"

Please join me today, Thursday, June 24th, for a livestream YouTube presentation entitled "The Influence of Salvador Dali on 'Breaking Bad' and 'Better Call Saul.'" I will be on chat. The talk is sponsored by The Dali Museum in St. Petersburg, FL. 

 The talk will be presented at 6 p.m. Eastern time, which works out to 11 p.m. in London; 5 p.m. Central; 4 p.m. Mountain (in the ABQ); 3 p.m. Pacific. Here is a link to museum's page: 

 Or you can go directly to YouTube. 

 Afterwards, I anticipate the talk will join the other captivating presentations on the Museum's YouTube page. There are so many interesting videos there. You can actually learn about art!

A Cat Stalks Jasper

I kept Jasper away from the skunk under the parked car. Just as well. 

Jasper remembers things, but doesn't pay close attention. Jasper barks at trees where squirrels once were a week ago, but where they are no longer to be found. If I let him chase a squirrel, he misses it when the squirrel dodges into brush, preferring to bark wildly at phantoms instead. 

The other night, a cat was stalking Jasper from the gutter. I pointed at the cat, and said "Look!" Alerted, Jasper scanned the trees for squirrels. "No, Jasper, look!" I repeated. Jasper kept looking at treetops. Spinning in circles, Jasper eventually startled the cat, but it wasn't through any skill on his part.

Elaine Mystifies Nextdoor

I notice Elaine Borelli, who was once a coworker at Sierra Research about 20 years ago, posted a photo of a mysterious object she found near Sac State on Nextdoor. Much discussion ensued.

The Neighborhood Century Plant is Dropping Florets Now

Mia Piazza's High School Graduation Party

I forgot how these things go! People without masks, and everything!  Out in the wilds of Woodland.

After conquering the FFA during her high school years, Mia is off to Cal State Fullerton.

Southwestern Monsoon Stuttering To Life Over Next Week

 It'll be a little early this year, but more than welcome.  I just hope it's strong and sustained!

Lorde - Solar Power

 

 When I saw this video, I thought it looked familiar. Apparently it's Cactus Bay on Waiheke Island, in New Zealand. I visited Oneroa Bay on Waiheke Island back in 2008. So, quite close!

Wet Leg - Chaise Longue

 

 As Covid-19 becomes passé, and the Roaring Twenties start in earnest, I have great expectations for pop music ("I couldn't stop shaking.")

Invisible Drought Assistance

I found this optimism to be a bit unexpected, but I'll take it:

Far below the Sacramento metro area are two large groundwater aquifers. These are able to hold 1.8 million acre-feet of water — nearly twice the amount of water as Folsom Reservoir — in the soil and rock crevices 2,000 feet below the surface. Unlike other parts of California, our groundwater aquifer is stable, sustainable and ready to serve as our drought buffer.

This wasn’t always the case. More than two decades ago, groundwater levels were declining dramatically, threatening the long-term viability of some groundwater-dependent communities. The American River was also overtaxed. So, in 2000, leaders across the region came together in the historic Water Forum Agreement to balance the needs of our communities and the environment by jointly managing surface water and groundwater.

Today, thanks to that effort, the Sacramento region’s groundwater aquifers are no longer declining, and mechanisms are in place to ensure they recharge on a regular basis. They are so stable, in fact, that we are able to use them as a Water Bank, storing water during wet years for use during dry years. 

We’ve achieved a lot of groundwater recharge naturally, simply by reducing reliance on the river. The less we pump out, the more water is available to seep into the aquifer. This means a significant portion of the Water Bank can be filled up without expensive new infrastructure.

Water Quality In Local Rivers is Deteriorating

Swimming in local rivers might be a bad idea. The legacy of extreme drought. It's just like 2015 all over again!

On June 8, a round of testing indicated that several locations along the Sacramento River were substantially above safe levels of the "bacteria objective" that the state goes by. 

Discovery Park had the highest levels of E. coli at that time, testing well above 900 MPN/100 ml.

Recent Forest Fire Perimeters

This is a very useful interactive map (at the link), showing how forest fire perimeters have been rapidly-expanding over the last 30 years. 2020, in particular, was a horrible year. Here is another useful map. 

Yet, I'm optimistic about the future. Some places have been burned over several times, especially in the Coast Range north of San Francisco. The mass of overgrown vegetation that's built up over the last century is being taken care of in the only way it ever could - by burning! It will be harder to sustain large fires in these areas in the immediate future. 

 Lots of areas in the Sierra ripe for fire, though. Maybe that's the area for big fires this decade.

"Petite Mort" Pas de Deux - Jiří Kylián

 

I remember having Cable TV in the early 1990s - maybe 1992. Late at night on an obscure channel, they had classic culture shorts, often featuring works by the Czech choreographer Jiří Kylián. 

It was my instant opinion then that Jiří Kylián must be the world's best living ballet choreographer. 

I still don't know much about the ballet choreographers of the world, so I'm sticking to my initial impression. Everything Kylián touches is magic!

Marc Shark At The Zoo - 4

Sacramento Gay Men's Chorus Meets Again

I know some of the folks here: (see video at link)

Potential Tropical Cyclone Three Moves Into the Gulf Coast

Wet:

Although the disturbance has wind speeds of tropical storm intensity, it has not been named a tropical storm yet since its center is ill defined and broad as evident in the Air Force Hurricane Hunter data and surface observations. Regardless of its status, heavy rains and tropical-storm-force winds are spreading across portions of the northern Gulf coast, and these conditions will spread inland through tonight.

Walt in SC Had a Stressful Day

All this crap was on his street:

Aiken County Sheriff Office Deputies responding to the scene of a shooting incident ended up in a standoff with a man in his home.

Aiken County Deputies responded to the home on the 1100 block of Ridgemont Drive Friday morning following a report of a shooting incident at that location.

Upon arrival, the subject, now identified as Brian Keith Salter, had barricaded himself inside the home.

After several hours, the stand-off ended around 5:30 p.m. without any injuries.

Salter reportedly surrendered without incident after deputies made visual contact with him.

He has been taken to the Aiken County Detention Center to be booked on discharging a firearm into a dwelling and aggravated breach of the peace

No word on what’s caused the incident.

Sacramento Zoo - June 17, 2021

View of Highway 99 From 5th Avenue

Here is a view of Highway 99 from the 5th Avenue overcrossing. Since the highway was closed for several days for the replacement of the 21st Avenue bridge, I was surprised to see northbound traffic, but I guess there was no reason not to have it - the northbound cars were driving away from 21st Avenue. I was kind of looking forward to taking the bike onto a big, empty freeway, just for fun.

Duly Warned

Ominous "Breaking Bad" Echoes in My Neighborhood

 

Taking Flight at the Sacramento Zoo

 

Return of the Possum

Could it be? Yes it is! Tonight, on our nightly walk, Jasper and I saw a possum! 

Back in 2005, possums were common in this neighborhood, but they vanished around 2010, and were replaced by raccoons. Now raccoons seem scarce. 

It’s that big pendulum at work again!

Albuquerque Marks 50th Anniversary of Uprising

I never expected to see a bit of Albuquerque history on Axios, but here it is! After the unrest of the Sixties, people had a pretty good sense of their rights. They wouldn't take crap from the police.

Activists in Albuquerque this week commemorated the 50th anniversary of one of the first modern Mexican American rebellions against police over discrimination and harassment.

Why it matters: The "Albuquerque uprising" is part of the forgotten history of protests against police mistreatment of Latinos in the 1960s and 1970s. Since the murder of George Floyd, Latino advocates have tried to draw attention to that history and the often-overlooked police violence against Hispanics today.

At My Cousin's Suggestion, Started Watching Tik Tok

Learned one useful thing - how to prevent an ostrich attack:

"In The Heights"

Rachel and I went to the theater. Have you ever heard of those? You can see movies there!

   

 Interesting article on Director John Chu:

Though Chu is a film director, it may be more appropriate to think of the 41-year-old as a magician whose favorite trick is injecting wonder into stories, even those grounded in reality. His movies are maximalist feats of controlled chaos committed to celluloid: Dance-offs are staged in the pouring rain, weddings take place in indoor jungles, and a neighborhood gossip session turns into a Busby Berkeley–style number at the local pool. With his most recent film, the 2018 hit Crazy Rich Asians, Chu showed that he could, through the same sleight of hand, revive a stale genre while providing a launchpad for Asian movie stars and mainstream Asian stories. The movie became the highest-grossing romantic comedy in a decade, while its cast—the first all-Asian ensemble in a studio film in 25 years—went on to score a slew of magazine covers and prestigious leading roles. 

Not to give away the secret, but Chu’s guiding principle is a simple one: Music, movement, and marvel can translate ideas in ways dialogue cannot. “Words are not sufficient,” he told me over Zoom recently. “For me, three notes can say what a paragraph could never say. One picture can say what a whole [essay] can’t say.”

 

I really liked the musical number "96,000."

   

 And "Paciencia y Fe"

 

Dance Tonight (Jerry Ropero Classic House Remix) - The Terri Green Project

So, we are supposedly in a new Golden Age of Disco, but it doesn't feel quite right yet - discos aren't open, the new tunes aren't quite right, the vibe is off, etc. So, what we need now is a self-consciously nostalgic new tune as a reference point. Like this tune!

 

I've Been Looking at Real Estate

Thinking I should leave this two-level house before I get, like, old. So, been looking, in Carmichael. I can sell my house for a killing, but I get killed on the opposite end too. First, I'm looking at my house's weaknesses. A fellow will come next Friday to give the foundation an inspection.

All Lives Matter/Black Lives Matter

The Mystifying New Mexico GOP Party

Strikes me as a mystifying decision: to hold a major party event in Amarillo rather than someplace in New Mexico. I know they have good hotels in Amarillo, and all, but still…. If they wanted to cater to the oil crowd, why not host the event in Midland, and save everyone some travel expenses?:

Two weeks before the GOP had its first chance to pick up a seat in Congress since Joe Biden became president, the Republican Party of New Mexico hosted a three-day event dubbed “Operation Freedom.” State Sen. Mark Moores, who was running for the open seat, addressed a crowd of a few hundred party leaders, activists and donors in a hotel conference center. Afterwards, he left the hotel and drove nearly 300 miles back to Albuquerque, where he was actually competing for votes.

New Mexico Republicans had opted to hold their marquee event in Amarillo, Texas. 

When the votes came in, Moores had lost to Democratic State Rep. Melanie Stansbury by 24 percentage points—even more than the margin by which Joe Biden had won the district. Nationally, it was seen as a referendum on Biden’s first months in office. But in New Mexico, the story is longer and more complex. For some frustrated New Mexico Republicans, the Amarillo episode and Moores’ loss last Tuesday highlight deeper problems with the state party’s leadership and direction over the last few years....

Seven Year Old Sings "Highway To Hell"

Cute!:

The children are definitely alright, and will be alright for a long time if seven-year-old Jesús del Río is any indication. He performed AC/DC's "Highway to Hell" and much like the judges, I could not believe what I was hearing. 

As much as the reactions were fun to watch, del Río channeling his inner Bon Scott and nailing the vocals was the true sight to see. del Río will be making it to the next round, and we can't way to see him become an even more powerful singer. 

Virgin Galactic's Launch in New Mexico

Captivated as much by the background as by the spaceship. There is the Rio Grande River Valley, and the malpais near Carrizozo. It's a clear day. You can see EVERYTHING!

 

Patti Smith: "Land: Horses / Land of a Thousand Dances / La Mer (de)"

I lived through the Seventies. I can't believe I completely ignored Patti Smith. She's great! At the time, I thought she was a punk rocker, and I wasn't interested in that. Listening today, she sounds like a Sixties wild child, a fresh avatar of the Beats, and a reminder of just how creative those decades were!

 

Burglar Reconnaissance

It's summer, and it looks like the usual suspects are getting restless. I was talking on the phone this morning and my dog Jasper came into the house barking, and unusually upset. It did not click immediately that something was wrong. It took me about an hour to discover that someone had intruded into the garage. 

No items appear to have been stolen, but I was surprised at the brazenness of the entry, since I was at home. Some items, like an axe, were moved around. I did not observe suspects.  I reported the incident to the cops, and posted on Next Door Curtis Park and Facebook.

Back at Jamaican Dancehall Again!

Century Plant Wows The Neighborhood!

The neighborhood paper covered the amazing century plant blooming three doors from my house:

Craig Reynolds of California Agave Ventures, a Yolo County agave grower, identified the plant as an agave americana, commonly called a century plant.

“They grow slowly for many years, then bloom only once in their lives, emitting a long central stem, the quiote,” Reynolds said. If pollinated, the flowers eventually form seeds – “then the stalk and entire plant die.”

The seeds fall to the ground; some may produce new plants. Not all agaves are monocarpic, a type of plant that flowers just once, then dies. The chemical change the agave americana goes through to produce the giant stalk, fruit and seeds takes all of the plant’s energy. The mother literally gives her life for her future babies. She can also produce pups and future plants through underground horizontal stems called rhizomes, which the agave already has accomplished.

Most agave americanas live 10 to 30 years despite their “century plant” name, although an extremely well cared for agave americana in a university greenhouse in Michigan was 80 years old when it bloomed in 2014. The stalk grew so high that it burst through the greenhouse ceiling. 

Neighbors estimate the Second Avenue agave is about 30 years old.

Joshua Trees Are in Trouble

Too hot; too dry:

When we visited, dry limbs drooped.

Some barrel-shaped, dead leaf clusters dangled while others had fallen onto ground as dry as death. In decades past, those clusters dropped seeds that sprouted after rains.

“There’s no recruitment” now, Cornett said, scanning an area without a single sprout.

A drier climate means more vulnerability to fires caused by lightning or vandalism.

There’s no more devastating example than last year’s Dome fire at the Mojave National Preserve, an hour or so to the north. The fire, ignited by lightning, incinerated more than 1 million Joshua trees.

At the Queen Valley site, Cornett examined the stems of the four surviving trees and discovered yet another assault on their health.

“This is the first time I’ve seen signs of rodents attacking stems on this site,” he said, pointing out some gnawed branches. As with the ocotillo, the problem seemed to be that the plants usually found around the trees were dead or dying, leaving virtually no moisture for rodents.

They appeared to have dug their teeth into Joshua trees in a last-ditch effort to survive.

At the base of one tree, whose age Cornett put at about well over 100, he noticed another threat: A patch of bark had been scraped away.

Cornett crouched, inspected, harrumphed. It looked like the work of a jack rabbit, he said, which must have been trying to get at the moisture in the stem. 

“To chew through bark like that,” he said, “that is one desperate jack rabbit.”

Patti Smith - "Rock and Roll Ni**er"

I never paid any attention to Patti Smith before. Never had any interest in punk music.  Nevertheless, I had some easy-listening music on (the soundtrack to "Natural Born Killers"), and heard this song. It's great! According to the Wikipedia article on Patti Smith, rocker Courtney Love says it's the best rock-and-roll song of all time. And she should know, right? 

   

 Patti Smith still tours too! From 2015, when she would have been age 69.

 

I Just Like "That's Not My Name"

Final Report on the 2020-21 Rainy Season

My last report on the 2020-21 rainy season. 

California and the Southwest are firmly locked in extreme drought. The situation is just as bad as the 2012-2016 drought, and maybe even worse. 

The 2020-21 rainy season is the fifth driest of the 144 seasons on record in Sacramento (only the 1912-13, 1923-24, 1975-76, and 1976-77 rainy seasons were drier). 

Having two failed rainy seasons in a row is brutal. It doesn't rain in most parts of California in the summer. Fire season prospects look bleak. Violence too appears all but guaranteed this summer in the Klamath Basin. 

Looking forward to rains again come November.

Demise of a Palm Tree

Demise of a palm tree, two doors down. It’s been there, like, forever, and it will be weird to have it gone. 

 Reason for early termination: “uncorrectable structural defects.”

My Upcoming Talk on Salvador Dalí!

I'm excited about a talk I'm going to give under the auspices of the Dalí Museum in St. Petersburg, FL. My talk is entitled "The Influence of Salvador Dalí in 'Breaking Bad' and 'Better Call Saul'." The talk will be streamed on the museum's YouTube channel on Thursday, June 24 at 6 p.m. EDT (4 p.m. MDT, 3 p.m. PDT). 

I gave the original version of this talk to the 42nd Annual Southwest Popular/American Culture Association Conference (usually hosted in Albuquerque, but held virtually this year on February 22). On a lark, I shared a YouTube link of the talk to the Dalí Museum, and they liked it, in part because it dovetailed nicely with other presentations given at the museum regarding Dalí's impact on popular culture. The talk will be adjusted to emphasize art works held in the collection at the Dalí Museum. 

According to Wikipedia: "With the exception of the Dalí Theater-Museum created by Dalí himself in his hometown of Figueres in Spain, the St. Petersburg Dalí Museum has the world's largest collections of Dalí's works."

Lunar Eclipse, May 26th

Approaching 4 a.m.: approaching totality on the lunar eclipse. 

Man, they’ve got to start scheduling these things at better hours.

How Giraffes Handle High Blood Pressure

Very well, it seems:

To most people, giraffes are merely adorable, long-necked animals that rank near the top of a zoo visit or a photo-safari bucket list. But to a cardiovascular physiologist, there’s even more to love. Giraffes, it turns out, have solved a problem that kills hundreds of thousands of people every year: high blood pressure. Their solutions, only partly understood by scientists so far, involve pressurized organs, altered heart rhythms, blood storage, and the biological equivalent of support stockings. 

Giraffes have sky-high blood pressure because of their sky-high heads, which, in adults, rise about six meters above the ground—a long, long way for a heart to pump blood against gravity. To have a blood pressure of 110/70 at the brain—about normal for a large mammal—giraffes need a blood pressure at the heart of about 220/180. It doesn’t faze the giraffes, but a pressure like that would cause all sorts of problems for people, whether heart failure, kidney failure, or swollen ankles and legs.

"Out of the Woods" - The Vaccine Monologues

A monologue, written by Rachel and performed by noted television actress (e.g., "Blacklist"), Annie Henk.

 

Will We Survive?

Earlier today, I was listening to DJ Rafft, on local high-school-operated KYDS radio, introduce that favorite 1977 Saturday-Night-Fever hit “Staying Alive,” and thinking MY GENERATION’s Disco music is safe in the hands of Gen Z. Then she bulldozed over the artist name: Beeze Geese, instead of Bee Gees. “I Will Survive” Gloria Gaynor became Gloria Gaynyor. I wondered, does she even know, or care? She was choosing good tunes, but these pesky artist names seemed to be unimportant abstractions rather than critical knowledge. A baton has been dropped in the relay race of knowledge transfer between generations. Will we survive? (I agree with my Facebook friend Bob Reece, who comments:

Because of my experiences working in radio, I can assure you that this young DJ loves the music, enjoys playing it for her audience - no matter how small it might be - but she's not in an environment where she's heard the proper pronunciation of the names. There's nothing more embarrassing for a DJ when she has mispronounced a name on air, and then a listener calls to say, "it's actually pronounced....")

Just Get Out!

I agree with Joe Scarborough’s rant:

"This is not about Joe Biden, this stopped being about Joe Biden a long time ago," he continued. "This is about you, this is about you playing in to what every one of our enemies wants you to play into, that American democracy is not worth being trusted, that American democracy is no different than Russia. If you believe that, I will say to you what many of you said in the 1960s: America, love it or leave it! If you don't have respect in American democracy anymore, if you don't respect Madisonian checks and balances, if your guy doesn't win, if that's the new rules of engagement for this great republic, then just leave our country, because you're unworthy of it, and there are millions of immigrants who will come here and raise their right hand and buy into the creed and believe that we are exceptional, that believe American democracy is the greatest government on the face of the earth, and they will do it proudly! They will salute the flag proudly, and most importantly, they will fight for what that flag represents, while you shame yourself, while you disgrace yourself, while you disgrace our country in the eyes of the world. Yes, this is all on you."

Behold, Marc!

I went to the optometrist today (May 20).

Back when I was a kid, in the 1960s, there was a big difference in cost between Texas and New Mexico for eyewear (due to differences in licensing and regulation). So, it was often cost effective for Albuquerque families to travel all the way to El Paso for eyewear.

I was flummoxed by my first El Paso eye exam. Was I supposed to wear this big “device” on my face? I thought I was going to get glasses. What happens during recess? My friends will make fun of me. This can’t work! 

Apparently today, my retinas are stable (following surgery in 1994 for retinal detachment), but I seem to be developing a cataract in my left eye. Maybe surgery for that in a few years! 

My visit to El Paso resembled poor 2-D Eck’s visit to a 3-D world:

 

Black Fungus

Another reason why it's good not to get Covid-19:

A rare disease in normal times, authorities say thousands have developed Mucormycosis -- or black fungus -- across India as it battles a Covid-19 wave that has killed more than 100,000 people in the past month.

Some doctors say the high use of steroids to combat the coronavirus has caused the black fungus explosion.

The disease kills more than 50 percent of sufferers within days. In some cases, eyes and upper jaws are removed by surgeons to stop the spread of the infection.

"Bad Vibes" - K. Flay

Inaugurating Post-Vaccine Life With a New Refrigerator

Studded Chairs, "Breaking Bad," and "Better Call Saul"

There is so many strange and interesting things that happen in the backgrounds of both "Breaking Bad" and "Better Call Saul." The shows are truly dynamic. 

For example, characters sometimes tell stories while sitting in studded armchairs or couches in both TV shows. 

When the chair studs make a single loop at the end of each arm, and when the stories being told are about the past and its regrets, the creative teams of the shows make sure we see only one arm. Views of the other arm are blocked. "Breaking Bad" makes sure we only see the right arm (as seen from the point of view of the person sitting in the chair). In contrast, "Better Call Saul" makes sure we see only the left arm. 

Here are four examples.

Walter White tells Jesse about selling out his creation, his stake in Gray Matter Technologies, for only $5,000 ('Buyout').

 

Embattled Hank Schrader tells Walt about simpler days, when he was tagging trees for removal ('Gliding Over All').  Note the blocked view.

 

Chuck McGill tells Kim about Jimmy's role in undermining their dad's store ('Rebecca').

 

Jimmy McGill tells Kim about the alcohol and anger management problems of the cop who arrested Huell ('Something Stupid').

What is going on here? Visual messages are sent to the audiences of both of these shows by means of shapes. A single loop of studs, leaning over to the side at the end of a chair arm, forms the outline of a head bowed in prayer. So, prayerful furniture is used as a silent comment on the storyline of pain and regret. Only one arm is shown, in order to avoid the strange look of two heads bowed in prayer away from one another. 

Now, whose bowed, prayerful heads are these? I have ideas about that, but that's for another day.

Sacramento Proud For Saweetie!

Saweetie's career is really beginning to soar! Wow! She went to high school in Elk Grove, and has lots of local contacts:

Before delivering her first album, Saweetie gave fans a taste of what's to come with her Pretty Summer Playlist: Season 1 EP, which dropped April 16. The seven-song appetizer also serves as Saweetie's way of putting people onto up-and-coming rappers, including Atlanta-based MC and fellow Warner Records signee Loui featured on "Talkin Bout," a nostalgia-inducing party starter that samples Cali Swag District’s "Teach Me How to Dougie" and Kstylis' "Booty Me Down." Saweetie promises Pretty B*tch Music will be out in the summer before her 28th birthday, on July 2, during cancer season ("What's your sign? [What it is?], I'm a cancer [That's right]," she raps on "Talkin Bout"). 

"I'm just really excited. I feel like there's just so much growth. I've been putting in a lot of work in quarantine. So, honestly, I feel like everybody else -- I can't wait to get outside," she muses.

I find Saweetie's bougie sound to be seriously disturbing. Mesmerizing, but really hard on the guys.

Mammals Can Breathe Through Anus in Emergencies

How the heck?:

A team of Japanese scientists has shown it is possible for mammals to absorb oxygen via the anus.

Intrigued by how certain sea creatures breathe through their intestines in emergencies, researchers at Tokyo Medical and Dental University were able to prove the same was true under experimental circumstances for mice, rats and pigs, publishing their findings in the journal Med on Friday.

..."The rectum has a mesh of fine blood vessels just beneath the surface of its lining, which means that drugs administered through the anus are readily absorbed into the bloodstream," lead author Ryo Okabe said.

This made the team wonder whether oxygen could be delivered into the bloodstream in the same way.

To answer the question, they decided to carry out experiments on oxygen-deprived mice, pigs and rats using two methods: delivering the oxygen into the rectum in gas form, and infusing an oxygen-rich enema via the same route.

The researchers prepared the lining of the rectum by rubbing it to cause inflammation and increase blood flow, which improved the effectiveness of oxygen delivery.

However, since such a preparation would likely be unacceptable for humans, they also tried using oxygenated perfluorodecalin, a liquid that has already been shown to be safe and is in selective clinical use. 

Delivery of oxygen both as gas and in liquid form increased oxygenation, normalized the animals' behavior and prolonged their survival.

Tonight's Earworm - Junior's Farm - Paul McCartney & Wings

Paul McCartney is so good!

 

Best Hiking Buds, Forever!

Marc Valdez and Ira Gershin - best hiking buds, with Pine Creek in the background, at Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area, just outside Las Vegas, Nevada!

The Gondolas at the Venetian Casino in Las Vegas

While in Las Vegas, we dropped in for a few minutes to the Venetian Casino, to look at the gondolas.