Seinfeld, Assange, Bull, Dent

 

'sup?

Watching Bull (16 yo shoots cops with his crazy dad on the off the grid cabin episode) and Seinfeld on commercials (keys go missing, Jerry wants his keys back from Costanza. Kramer describes the evil ogre getting the keys back from the handsome prince).

Assange is stopping over near Guam for a hearing with an American federal judge. People seem to think that the fix is in and Assange is headed home however it's really up to that judge in the Mariana islands I would think.

Dent, a boy in many of my early elementary school classes,  [you know Seinfeld, that place with the 72 virgins you hate? (elementary school/sometimes Seinfeld hates the truth, no harm no foul)]. This Dent's father was an Englishman from England as I recall, with a healthy sense of humour. However looking back, I suppose he was possibly cruel to his son as this Dent boy was always was one of those boys with a surly, angry, adult kind of disposition. He certainly seemed like a criminal, worse than his father although maybe that was his stepfather and he was abusing him, I don't know. This Dent never seemed like a boy that would cry. Just surly and angry and kind of disgusted. Would have been interesting to see his home life however I never saw any of it, just his father or stepfather's funny and witty placard about salespeople not being welcome. And a vague recollection of meeting this man once, which left me with a better impression of him than the son. But still I was happy enough to have this Dent as a friend, notwithstanding his sour and surly disposition. 

Hey I'll tell you, there's absolutely nothing in this way I was raised, or my soul, or my education and self education and thorough journeying, and what have you, as an adult, that has helped me now, as a more or less professional gardener, in understanding plant names.

Some plant names are from my pre gardening days like Fir, Gum, Rose. However I do not recognise many trees apart from Gum and Norfolk Pine. The latter is a beautiful tree abundant near the coastlines in Australia, a thoroughly splendid tree. Probably a European import. I do find the topic of Arbor ok general interesting vaguely. I know from my in depth study of Chuck Schultz Peanuts that America has such a thing as Arbor (tree) Day, although I do not know much about how they celebrate it. I think Van Damme kicks a bamboo or coconut tree down with kickboxing and there's a White Fir resort in Bulgaria however I'm not sure what a Fir tree looks like and Van Damme was French.

I must say, when it comes to intellectually understanding botanical nomenclature I'm rather like the spiderwebs spun by LSD affected spiders. Let's see how that looks:

https://youtu.be/UWB1PxwmkvM?si=a_SwYjK-u5NAXReD

Apparently spider's like to make they [sic] web between two and five am and will not change this regardless of the drugs they're on.

I am absolutely struggling to learn plant names as a gardener and it seemed much more effective adding core vocabulary in Bulgarian and French. Two languages I know are sharing precise neural circuitry in my brain (because sometimes I'd try to speak Bulgarian and struggle to remember a word and then the French one kept coming, not the english or spanish). Also, in Bulgaria, I did a lot of teaching (English) with my left hand (writing) on the whiteboard and crammed so much learning into two years there, plus my other experiences travelling and all my taxi driving learning through careful questioning of my customers, when they were amenable (most of the time), perhaps my brain is overloaded.