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0814-0951 – Last week’s path journal, The Tyranny Of Words, is now available. Today’s walk was respectable. After a few days with no foot problems, there was some mild dizziness. I did the standard 36 minutes, with heat increasing by the minute. The commentary today was Peter Asher on The Magnificent Others with Billy Corgan. PA (no middle name) was part of Peter and Gordon, onetime bf-inlaw of Paul McCartney, and an all purpose music industry actor. He had some good stories.
“PA: “It took me a while to like Bob Dylan because I thought, who is this guy who wants to sound like Woody Guthrie? Cuz I was a big Woody Guthrie fan. I first saw Dylan in that light and later it dawned on me that songs he was writing were of a different caliber. But his singing put me off for a while.”
WPC: “Uh, how does that work when your sister goes to your mom and your dad and says, “Hey, by the way, the the Beatle wants to move in.” PA: “Well, my mother actually offered him the guest room, because he was hanging around a lot. I mean, he would come to dinner” … WPC: “This is early like 63, 64. …They’re getting there, but they’re not like what they became.” PA: “It’s sort of love me do time.”
Paul McCartney was staying in a spare bedroom at the Asher house. Mrs. Asher had a music room in the basement. And she said to Paul, “If you ever needed a piano, he could use the piano in that room, which was a small upright piano.” And he did quite often. And on this particular day, John Lennon came over. … They went down to this basement room and after a couple of hours, I guess, called upstairs to see who was around, and asked if I wanted to come hear the song they had just finished.” The song was “I Want to Hold Your Hand.”
PA: “We played the World’s Fair in New York. We played the Unisphere, or whatever they called it. … We had a moat filled with water around the stage. And the police were going, “Oh, don’t worry, we got this all under control. … The minute we came on, all the screaming girls jumped in the moat and swam across to the stage and jumped out on the stage. So, it was incredibly exciting. It was like an early version of a wet t-shirt contest.”
0815-0855 – Today’s walk was without adjectival description. There was mild dizziness, which wore off completely. I walked 1.47 miles in 49:26. I went by the place where I noted an ATT wire on the sidewalk. The wire has been removed.
The entertainment was What Is There To Say About Ariana Grande? on Infamous. Ariana Grande-Butera is an entertainer I have not followed. That said, the show today kept my interest for a half hour. It turns out there have been incidents. There was the donut licking incident, and the suicide bomber at a concert. The two incidents were not connected.
0816-0913 – The walk today was ideologically successful. I did 44 minutes with mild dizziness on the first couple of laps. The show today was EP-01 Imperial Germany vs Nazi Germany on Hardcore History Addendum. Daniel L. Carlin compared the German Army of WW1 to the Wehrmacht of WW2. To DLC, the problem with Hitler’s armies was putting ideology over competence. Many people see this problem today with the military industrial complex. This episode was released October 19, 2017. It may have been intentional when DLC said “ideology trumps merit” for the Wehrmacht.
“The military dictatorship of Germany was able to isolate and quarantine the Kaiser himself, the imperial warlord of Germany. Sit in the corner, play with your maps and your ships, we have a war to conduct. Who’s gonna do that in the Second World War? Who’s gonna cordon off Hitler, and quarantine Hitler from his bad decisions being transmitted to the military? Nobody, because it’s an ideological state. The ideology plays as large a role, or a larger role in everything. Ideology by the way is absolutely key for understanding the second world war at all.”
0817-1030 The walk today was muggy. The dog days of summer are barking. It is hot, with no rain to moderate the carnage. The wind forgot to blow. This might be a problem today. I am doing laundry, and drying the clothes outside. Wind is what dries laundry. Fortunately, I can leave the clothes up as long as I like, which may be tomorrow morning.
The first show today was Madhuri Vijay Reads “Hidden Life” on The New Yorker: The Writer’s Voice. The story was set in India. A young lady is sent to live with an elderly aunt. A cousin, and an old friend of the aunt, play co-starring roles. It should be boring, but was actually fun to listen to.
The second show was Episode 319: If You Haven’t Seen Woke 1, This Episode Won’t Make Much Sense To You on Blocked and Reported. The episode was being recorded when news arrived about Jason Atta Kwei Arday’s death. His demise is assumed to be suicide. This video presents another scenario for the dreadlock toting JAKA. A man, with enormous unkempt dreadlocks, goes to a barber to have them cut off. Soon, the man screams in pain, goes home, and dies. There were black widow spiders living in the dreadlocks, which did not like having their home disturbed.
Later, during a discussion about Woke 1.0, we had this exchange between Catherine Ronan Herzog and Jesse Richard Singal. JRC: “I just think if you were very loudly proclaiming a certain belief not long ago, you should defend your original belief, or explain why you changed your mind, or basically do anything but what a lot of these folks are doing.” CRH: “It shows very little commitment to a value.” JRC: “You’re saying politicians don’t always have strong principles.” CRH: “I think I think maybe I’m saying that. Am I the first person to come up with that?” JRC: “Possibly.”
0818-0913 – The walk today was soporific. The heat is on the way, but I got done early. I did 48:00, with no foot dizziness. The entertainment was EP:58 – Netanyahu Jerks Trump’s Chain on Provoked. This was a good show. Darryl is a former DOD contractor specializing in air defense, so he knows a thing or two. One theme of the show was how screwed we are in Iran, part 420.
0819-0919 – Today was lawn cutting day. The summer is winding down, and this will not need to be done too much more. In December, the lawn will be cut, and the fallen leaves ground up. As usual with the lawn, there was no dizziness.
0820 – The walk today was tubular. I did 47:30 with no foot trouble. I cut out an exposed root. It was on the ground, waiting for someone to trip over it. The show today was EP-24 Manifesting the Muse with Rick on a Hardcore History Addendum episode released February 14, 2023. Frederick Jay “Rick” Rubin was talking to Daniel L. Carlin. FJR is a joy to listen to, with his soothing voice and insights into the human condition. There are tons of quotes, each one of which I could write a term paper about. It will be a problem to sort out the thoughts inspired by this show, and write a few hundred coherent words. Easy writing makes tough reading, and I want people to enjoy reading this.
FJR: “The record that really changed the world in many ways was I Feel Love. That was done by Giorgio Moroder, and the music was completely generated. It wasn’t played by people, although Giorgio did control the parameters of the machine that was making the sounds. It was the first big record that was all generated through a machine.”
Recorded music is a theater of change. Before 1924, recordings were made by playing into a recording horn, which cut a groove into a disc. There have been many upgrades in the technology since then. Some time in the sixties, the technology of the studio became part of the music. Today, it is tough to tell where the medium ends, and the message begins.
DLC: “Tucker Carlson is a deliberate provocateur for money and that drives me crazy. It especially drives me crazy when people consider themselves, and I’m using air quotes here, Patriots.” Tucker Carlson was fired by Fox News in April 2023, two months after this show was released.
FJR: “I was listening to the local public radio station in Hawaii. There was an old Hawaiian man, who maybe was 100 years old. He was out on a boat looking back at his Island. He said, all of the things over the last hundred years that man has built on these islands, none of them were more beautiful than what was here before.” … I have had this thought myself. The thing is, I live in an area that is in the second phase of development. Many of the buildings from the fifties and sixties are being replaced by newer structures. Some of these newer buildings are nicer than the buildings that they replaced.
FJR: “Some people have read it and said, this inspires me to want to make things. That feels really good because it’s fulfilling its promise.” DLC: “ This is your frozen in amber moment.” At this point, the buzzer went off, telling me I could quit walking if I wanted to. Pictures today are from The Library of Congress. Russell Lee took the social media picture in July 1937. “Packing filled cans into cooking basket. Sun Prairie, Wisconsin” For more information about my morning walks, see The Path Journal. ©Luther Mckinnon 2026 · selah

0807-1015 – The path journal for last week,Inter-City Beauties, is now playing at your favorite browser. Today’s walk was terrific. 39 minutes, no dizziness. The amusement was Ambient Summer, by Daniel Hawkins at Low Light Mixes. This was an ambient music mix, instead of a podcast. It is always a happy moment when I see that LLM has a new mix up. We will be back to the tyranny of words soon enough. Reading text is overrated.
0808 – The walk today was free of dizziness. I did 1.77 miles in 55:41. The entertainment was EP:57 – Cooper Escapes Wildfires! on Provoked. Darryl and Scott were saying basically the same things as before … the wars are stupid, we are running out of munitions, the defense budget is giving us little protection for a lot of money.
“The example I always give people is when we hit that Syrian airfield, after Assad supposedly gassed people during the first Trump administration. We shot like 80 something tomahawk missiles at this airfield. It was back up and running a week and a half later. They’ll blow up your building that you’re in, but they’re not things you’re going to go level a city with. We would need a thousand times more standoff munitions than we actually have to pull something like that off. That’s just not what they’re built for. It’s kind of in the name, you know, precision strike missiles, and precision munitions.”
“It’s very hard to get them to to look inward at their own behavior because … like all paranoiacs they have this built-in mechanism that the minute you criticize them then you’re part of the conspiracy.”
One of the things I do is keep my eyes open. This is a good thing when you see old ATT land line wire on a sidewalk. This wire is a safety hazard waiting to happen. I also know, from past experience, that asking ATT to fix it will be a pain in the butt. ATT repairs is another bureaucracy providing jobs for lazy people. I called to report the downed line, and was surprised at how smoothly the bot menu worked. Then I found out the office was closed for the weekend. … The repairman is scheduled to come Friday, August 14. As with all things ATT, I have received dozens of texts about this.
The second thing I saw was an amazon package in the street. I picked it up, intending to throw it away. The package had not been opened, and had the merchandise inside. I walked over to the address, a quarter mile away, and left it on the front porch.
0809-0941 There was no walk today. It was time to cut the lawn. Summer is … finally … winding down a bit, and the lawn will not need much more cutting. Hopefully, the mower and the mower pusher will be up to the task.
0810-1039 The walk today was terrific. I did 47:45, and my feet did not give me any problems. My head compensated for this by exploding, because of the podcast.
The show was Episode 318: Tick Talk on Blocked and Reported. At 11:03, Katie started talking about Henry Hay Jr, better known as Harry. HH was a key figure in 20th century Gay history. Katie started talking about HH because of the term “two spirit.” HH was one of the founders of the radical faeries, which provided some amusing quotes.
“The radical faeries, this was a group founded in the late ’70s by Harry Hay. It still exists today all over the world. I’m sure it’s more gender- inclusive than it was in the beginning. · “The first radical fairy gathering has 200 men doing workshops on “such varied subjects as massage, nutrition, local botany, healing energy, the politics of gay and spirit, English country dancing, and auto fellatio.” · “He would have these radical faerie gatherings in the woods or in the desert. They would get naked, do rituals, and wear beads and feathers. It’s all quite problematic by today’s standards. I do wonder how they’ve dealt with the Great Awakening.”
Eventually, Katie got tired of the titillating details, and moved onto “Two Spirit.” Basically, Katie thinks TS is cultural appropriation. The white man wants to justify his foolishness, and so he talks about “Native American Tradition.” I am going to remain neutral in this debate. A blog post was cited, “The Origin of ‘Two-Spirit’ & The Gay Rights Movement … The Strange Story of Harry Hay and Will Roscoe.” The article described an early faerie gathering: “The Dionysian frenzy which took hold of the participants at the first gathering would be savagely condemned today as denigrating Native culture and role-playing of the highest order. … Many would come to adopt pseudo-native monikers, like Crazy Owl and Morning Star.”
“I want to skip forward to the point where Harry Haye becomes truly problematic. I’m not talking about feather headdresses. I’m talking about Nambla. … Yes. That Nambla. So starting in the late ’70s and continuing until his death, Harry Haye was an unapologetic supporter of Nambla.”
0811-0925 – The walk today was splendid. I did 52:19, with undetectable foot dizziness. The show was The Utah Entrepreneur Trying to Remake Pine Bluff, Arkansas on Gone South. John Fenley decided to buy a warehouse in Pine Bluff AR. Things did not go as planned. At one point, Mr. Fenley bought a competing company named Murfie. Mr. Fenley might have considered Murphy’s Law at this point. … At one point somebody said “this is where the s*** hits the fan.” Immediately after that scatological landmark, there was a commercial for Chumba Casino.
0812 – The walk today went well, with 36 minutes of no dizziness. I would have enjoyed walking more, but I had a chore to do. The show was J.J.: The Undercover FBI Agent Who Took Down Len Davis and New Orleans’ Dirtiest Cops on Gone South. JJ told his story to GS host Jed Lipinski. Considering that this is an admitted undercover agent, a certain amount of skepticism is in order.
0813-0926 – The walk today was hot. Soon we will wait until mid morning so it will be warmer, but today you are sweating at 9am. The feet were behaving, which is appreciated. The canned entertainment today was Red Hot Chili Peppers’ John Frusciante and the Death of River Phoenix on Disgraceland. Whenever drugs kill a famous person, there is speculation galore. Some say that John Frusciante gave River Phoenix the drugs that killed him. This episode respectfully disagrees. … For more information about why I do these walks, see The Path Journal. Pictures today are from The Library of Congress. John Vachon took the social media picture in July 1940. “Family of migrant fruit workers. Berrien County, Michigan” ©Luther Mckinnon 2026 · selah

On Friday morning, I post the path journal. These are the notes from my morning walk. This post is a commentary on this habit. It will be listed as a page on my blog.
A couple of years ago, I noticed my feet becoming numb when I stand. Sometimes it was a nuisance, and sometimes it was debilitating. Sometimes it is just the feet. Sometimes the dysfunction spreads into my calves, and even thighs. The cause has not been determined. I began to call it dizziness, and say that my feet were dizzy.
After a while, I noticed that if I go walking in the morning, there is less dizziness. In November of 2024, I started walking in the morning. At first, it was two laps on the path. (We will discuss the path in a minute.) I kept a log of these walks, noting how long I walked, and how my feet felt.
Soon, the walk went from two laps, to three, four, five. Soon, I got tired of counting laps. I set the timer on my phone to a half hour. Eventually this expanded to 36:00, which became the standard setting. I start walking, and go until the alarm sounds. If I my feet feel good, I might do more.
Since my feet were still going bad, I did not want to get far from the house. This is why I started walking on the path. The path is a cut through leading to a school. It is .08 mile, or 245 steps. There is a 26 foot rise in elevation. The path is not paved, which can make walking a bit tricky. You do not want to fall down here. Here is the view from the west end (across from the school), and the east end.
At first, I tried to meditate, or let my thoughts wander. Soon, I began to listen to podcasts and music. I was always hearing things that got my attention. I began dictating notes on the phone, which led to writing these thoughts into the path journal. Pictures today are from The Library of Congress. These are details of a panorama shot, “Inter-city beauties, Atlantic City, 1926”
©Luther Mckinnon 2026 · selah

0731-1052 – There was no walk on the path today. I cut the lawn. This is prime time for the weeds to grow, with abundant sunshine and rain. Combine that with an aging machine, pushed by an aging cracker, and you have a chore. As usual for lawn day, there were zero problems with the feet. … The path journal for last week, An Unusually Heavy Fog, is up. I sold it thusly: Another seven days of walking back and forth on the path. Some days are more fun than others.
0801 – Today’s walk was a banger. 1.92 miles, 1:08:48, 6169 steps, 96 foot elevation gain. There was a bit of dizziness about a quarter mile away from the house. I had the frightening thought that this might be the start of debilitating dizziness. Fortunately, the dizziness quickly wore off.
The destination was an estate sale on a nearby street. I had driven by there yesterday, and noticed signs everywhere saying not to park on the north side of the street. The signs were furnished by the estate sale perpetrators. I talked to one of them. We agreed that both sides parking is trouble.
The show today was “Man-Eating Cats” on The New Yorker Fiction Podcast. An old lady lives alone with three cats. The old lady died suddenly, and was not found for a couple of weeks. The cats got hungry, and ate her remains. … The story got better. A married man meets a married woman at work. Soon, they left their spouses, and moved from Japan, to a Greek Island.
Meanwhile, I was stuck .61 mile away from the house, and seriously needed to pee. The estate sale lady firmly told me the house bathrooms were off limits. I walked to a nearby nature preserve, and found some weeds to water.
After 51 minutes, the story ran out. The second show of the day was EP:56 – Wars & Rumors of Wars on Provoked. Darryl told us about his getting food poisoning, and throwing up all over the place. The first part of the show was about COVID and the devil incarnate, Anthony Fauci. Once again, I agree with a lot of what they were saying, but find the umpteenth retelling to be a touch boring.
0802 – The walk today was fine. Overcast, threatening to rain, the air was bursting with humidity. Fortunately, the cloud cover moderated the temperature. The feet had nuisance level dizziness. The show was Big Man on Campus: The Hoops Phenom Who Tried High School Twice on Chameleon. Rashun Richardson shows up at a North Texas high school. He has no id, but claims to be a Hurricane Harvey refugee. The young man is a phenomenal basketball player, which smooths his acceptance into the community. Of course, the story is BS.
There was another animal on the path. A turtle was resting about twenty feet from the west end. On the second lap, I put a stick behind him. Two laps later, they had moved into the ivy, and did not move the rest of my walk. The rabbit was off in the weeds, doing what rabbits do.
0803 – Today’s walk was 36 minutes, with mild dizziness fading after a few laps. Today is the first day of school, which means the path will be full of schoolpeople from 0715 to 0745, and from 1415 to 1445. I will have to schedule my walks accordingly.
There were two podcasts, neither of which was especially amusing. Rachel Yoder Reads “The Promise” on The New Yorker: The Writer’s Voice was about a young girl getting used to farm life. The next show was The Finnish Baby Box on 99% Invisible. TFBB is about a box of baby care products that new parents receive from the Finnish government. The baby box is a beloved institution in Finland, and an introduction to socialism and regulation. The box does not include a bottle, because the government wants to encourage breast feeding.
0804 – The walk today went well. 49:20, 1.38 miles, no foot dizziness. The entertainment was “COVERUP!” – Charlie Kirk Investigator UNLOADS on Rigged Case | Baron Coleman • 458 on Julian Dorey Podcast. George Baron Coleman has produced tons of content about the Charlie Kirk killing. In many instances, 2+2=√-1. … I wear hoodies and t-shirts. If you catch me in a Little Bo Peep outfit, something’s gone terribly wrong.”
0805 – The walk today sucked. The dizziness began as I was walking across the street to the path. I only did 24 minutes. If I absolutely had to, I probably could have finished 36 minutes, but I didn’t see the point of trying. Hopefully, tomorrow will be better. … Yesterday I was worn out by 1730, but took a shower, got dinner, and stayed up until 0100. I got up at 0430, unable to sleep anymore. Maybe this has something to do with the foot dysfunction.
The canned entertainment today was Darryl Cooper Iran Deep Dive: How the War Will Change America Forever, Nukes, Zionism, and Islam on The Tucker Carlson Show. For all I know, Darryl was why my feet were acting up. I started listening to this while going to Stevie B’s pizza on Pleasant Hell Road, the same route I took while listening to episodes of Fear & Loathing in the New Jerusalem.
@martyrmade “Always a great time hanging out with Tucker.” @chamblee54 “Please, no hyperbole about WW2 this time.” The reply was liked by @martyrmade.
DC: “George Kennan, when talking about the Soviet Union, he said something. I won’t be as eloquent as he was … it’s the privilege of every paranoid man to eventually prove himself correct. And it’s because when you believe everybody’s out to get you, you interact with everybody as if they’re out to get you. And then eventually they get tired of it and they’re out to get you.”
DC: “When I made those comments about Churchill, as anodyne as I think they were, afterwards I did wish I hadn’t put it that way.” … This reminds me of a situation I found myself in. An “entertainer” got in trouble for saying the six letter word. The overwhelming majority of the people going into convulsions were privileged white men. After watching a youtube video of the talent in action, I decided that this person was not that important. I made the unfortunate decision to say “Just ignore her, and find something more important to whine about.” Sometimes, bluntness is not a good idea.
0806 – The walk today was something to be grateful for. After the troubles yesterday, the only thing to do is put the shoes on, and try again. Today I did 47 minutes with no foot trouble. The first show was The Archangel Made Me Do It: The French Mayor And The “Fortune Teller” Who Has His Ear on Chameleon. A village in France has a funky mayor, whose actions are directed by a psychic. This got old after a few minutes, so I shifted gears. The second show was What’s Jeff Bridges’ Secret to Creativity? on Tetragrammaton with Rick Rubin. Jeffrey Leon Bridges comes across as a warm, friendly person. I would enjoy listening to JLB read the phone book. JLB talks about thespian judo, and how his mother’s advice may have saved his life.
When JLB was a young man, his actress mom told him “Remember, have fun and don’t take it too seriously.” Many years later, JLB got cancer. When the chemotherapy took away his immune system, COVID came for a visit. “I was on deaths door, and what I found sitting at the doorstep, there is where you pull out all your tricks, man. All your spiritual, philosophic, you know, tools that you can. And the one that gave me the most succor was “Remember, have fun and don’t take it too seriously.” … Pictures today are from The Library of Congress. These are details of a panorama shot, “Inter-city beauties, Atlantic City, 1926” ©Luther Mckinnon 2026 · selah

The path journal from last week, Losing IQ Points, was published this morning. The walk today happened. 36 minutes, some dizziness, and the knowledge that the heat was coming. The show was “Star Witness: Paul Skalnik, the Jailhouse Informant Who Sent Innocent Men to Death Row” on Gone South. Paul Skalnik was a cop, conman, and jailhouse snitch. Pinellas County FL used his services a lot, sending men to death row in questionable cases. At one point, the show mentioned that Mr. Skalnik had been sent to prison for grand theft. Right after that, there was a commercial for Chumba Casino. A story about grand theft, sponsored by grand theft.
0718-0840 – The walk today was different. I walked up to the MARTA underpass on Peachtree Road, and took the long way home. It took 40:00 to do 1.31 miles, with no problems whatsoever from the feet. The first podcast was Drabblecast 510 – Storage Spaces on The Drabblecast. DC is a delight when it appears, and this was one of the good stories. A kid makes friends with a man in his building. Mr. Denison hooks hard drives up to a cut in his arm. The kid proceeds to steal a data card out of his dad’s camera. He bites down hard on the card, and sees pictures from last summer’s vacation. The next show was Manuel’s Tavern (Interview w/ Megan Maloof) on Archive Atlanta. Manuel’s tavern is an Atlanta institution, currently managed by Manuel’s granddaughter. The episode was a tad boring, with few quirky details to remember.
The walk today was hot. I did 44 minutes, with minimal foot problems. The first show was Min Jin Lee Reads “Testing” at The New Yorker: The Writer’s Voice. A young man in Korea is taking scholastic tests, with unsatisfactory results. A girl wants to be his gf. He wants to wait until after they are accepted at the schools they want. After the second test score is bad, he breaks up with her. After a couple of laps, “Testing” became unlistenable. The second story was Riverwalk on Criminal. Zac Brettler is a troubled teenager in London. He makes friends with shady mentors.
Zac’s parents “Rachelle and Matthew check Zac’s bank account. They had saved checks from his grandparents over the years, and money he’d gotten from his bar mitzvah and put it in a savings account. They’d given it all to him after he turned 18. It was about 18,000 pounds. · He had kind of blown through that money, it turns out, pretending that he was the Son of an oligarch, paying for meals, doing this and that kind of here and there to seem credibly like a rich person. And in the days before he died, Zac, in his bank account, had only 4 pounds. He was close to empty.” This is the first indication that Zac is Jewish.
0720-0818 – The walk went well. I started early, and saw the early sunlight floating through the mist in the leaves. The show was Episode 317: Literally Knitler (with Jessica the ’80s Baby) on Blocked and Reported. The guest was Jessica the 80’s Baby, who is a researcher for the show. JT8B lives in a lot of cool (and not so cool) places, out of a London base. “Do they eat dogs in Vietnam? · Uh they do, but only in the north. I was living in the south. And people in the south are quite proud of the fact that they don’t eat dogs.” The show covered wokeness in the knitting community, which is about as interesting as it sounds. The accent did not help.
Today’s walk happened. There was mild dizziness, and I quit soon after the 36 minute buzzer. The show today was Dolly Parton: How the Country Icon Nearly Became the Subject of Her Own Murder Ballad on Disgraceland. Disgraceland is about entertainers who behave badly. In Dolly’s case, they had to rely on outsiders for the dirty deeds.
Did Dolly really write “Jolene” and “I will always love you” on the same day? In an appearance on @BobbyBonesShow, the conversation went like this: “you wrote the song how long ago · in 1972 I think I wrote it at the same time I wrote Jolene. It was a good writing day.” A few years later, Dolly said to TED speaker Adam Grant, “Well I don’t really know if they were written in the same night. When we found an old tape, they were on the same cassette. That could have been a few days apart.”
0722-1059 – There was no walk on the path today. The lawn needed attention. Cutting a white trash lawn is enough exercise for one morning. My feet had no problems at all, which is normal. When the dizziness has been at its worst, the feet never have a problem with cutting the lawn.
0723-0900 – Today’s walk lasted 51:15. On the first lap, some dizziness was noticed, and my intuition told me that this might be a bad day. Fortunately, the voice in my head is often full of shit. The show was Hillbilly Heist: David Ghantt and the $17 Million Loomis Fargo Robbery on Gone South. Another bank robbery goes bad due to human stupidity. At one point, David Scott Ghantt takes two surveillance videos, but leaves a third behind.
This was followed by a break, and a commercial for Chumba Casino. Online gamers have lots of money to spend on podcast advertising. Once, there was a show about Hunter S. Thompson. HST kicked his own bucket in 2005, long before the advent of cell phone clip joints. It is fun to speculate. OTOH, online gambling is the sort of capitalist fuckery that HST despised. OTOH, those digital gangsters have lots of money, and might have been able to buy HST off. Pictures today are from The Library of Congress. Russell Lee took the social media picture in July 1942. “Rupert, Idaho. Former CCC (Civilian Conservation Corps) camp now under FSA (Farm Security Administration) management.” ©Luther Mckinnon 2026 · selah

0710-0947 – The path journal episode for last week, Da Vinci Code For Morons, was posted this morning. The walk today was pretty good. The construction equipment and leaf blowers were quiet, as was the foot dizziness. I got 36 minutes in without any problems.
The first podcast was the last 15 minutes of Why Are Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt’s Kids Dropping “Pitt” from Their Names?, from Infamous. “Brangelina” is another reminder that celebrities are not always friendly, well adjusted individuals. The second show was Wendy O. Williams: The Shocking Final Act of a Shock Rock Provocateur, from Disgraceland. Wendy Orlean Williams (her real name) was a misfit teenager. She wound up as a domanatrix in a Times Square sex show, “Captain Kink’s Theater”. WOW and CK had many groovy adventures together. Unfortunately, this story does not have a happy ending. There was no encore at this concert.
0711-1057 – The walk was good, even if I nearly melted. July in Georgia is no joke. The podcast was “Judy Collins Reflects on Six Decades of Legendary Songwriting and Performances” on Takin’ A Walk. There were some cool stories, which might be true.
“It was 1967 and I was sound asleep. I woke up to the phone at three in the morning and it was Al Kooper. I said, why are you calling me? … So he said, I’m at the club and there’s a girl here and she said that she wrote songs. Then he put her on the phone and it was Joni Mitchell, and she sang me Both Sides Now. So I mean, that’s a very convenient way to collect songs. I guess we don’t have much control over it, but there it is. And I said I’ll be right over, which I did. I came over in the morning and I took Jack Holsmand with me and I recorded that song with my producer and it was incredible.”
“I had a job at, I forget the name of the club. … It was that hot club in the village and I was the headliner in 1961. That was amazing because I’d just been doing this since 1959, so I’d only been out on the road for a total of two and a half years. And I got to the little club and I was the headliner and my opener was a thirteen year old named Arlo Guthrie. And everybody in town was there. … I thought, Oh, they’re coming to see me. They were coming to see Arlo because Arlo was thirteen. He was having his first gig at this little club … And everybody was there.”
0712-1002 – The walk today was great. The podcast was Bryan Washington Reads “Gatekeeping” from The New Yorker. Bryan Washington is a favorite at tny. Today’s tale is about a wheelchair pusher at Houston’s airport. The actor has a collection of elderly people to propel to their flights, several of whom hit on him. The actor has an Asian “buddy,” but gets nervous when people say boyfriend. The story is an hour long, and I stayed on the path, with no foot issues, for the entire show.
@NewYorker “My brother answered the phone. He told me that there’d been an accident but not to panic.” · @chamblee54 “I listened to this on my morning walk. When brother said “your bf”, you said f*** n*****. America’s two favorite forbidden words.”
0713-0846 – The walk today was nice. Mild overcast weather, with barely noticeable foot dizziness. The first podcast was Episode 316: Graham Cracker Crumbles on Blocked and Reported. If only the show was as clever as the title. Jesse and Katie were talking about a wokeness incident in California before they talked about Graham Platner. Neither subject held much interest. The show I listened to the most was Maggie Haberman on Talk Easy. Maggie Lindsy Haberman has been covering New York, and Donald Trump, since 1996.
“They originally said that the ballroom was going to be near but not touching the East Wing. · And that’s also how he approaches his relationship to his wife.”
Re: “This whole handling of the Epstein files in the summer of 2025.” “From everyone we’ve spoken to who’s deep inside Trump’s world and our reporting, that really was the moment that he started to lose altitude with his own base. He’s so used to telling his supporters, “Believe me and not that.” And it generally has worked. Uh this one didn’t. and he is testing the limits on how long you can tell people two different things related to the same issue.”
0714-0915 – The walk today happened. The first show was For The Love Of Dogs: The Scam Shelters Abusing Animals For Clicks on Chameleon. It was about animal rescue scams based in Uganda, and it was as boring as it sounds. The host said that if you were upset by animal abuse, then you should skip the next few minutes. I decided to skip the rest of the episode. The next show was Happy Mondays: How Thieves, Drug Dealers, and Would-Be Kidnappers Took Over Madchester’s Music Scene on Disgraceland. Happy Mondays were a bunch of fun loving English deplorables. They started a band. What could possibly go wrong?
0715-0931 – The walk today was spectacular. I walked for over an hour with minimal foot discomfort. The entertainment product today was #448 – “Kirk BULLET!” – Death Investigator BREAKS SILENCE on Charlie Kirk | Joseph Scott Morgan on Julian Dorey Podcast. They were mostly discussing the Charlie Kirk case. The first hour included a detailed look at what happened to Mr. Kirk when he was hit, and about the autopsy procedure.
“One of the huge problems with this case just in general, regardless of what the truth is or isn’t, but it’s a huge problem that I think needs to be raised, is the complete fuckupery of every optic that you could have if you are trying to generate public trust in investigations.”
“But one of the things that was like, oh my god, who on earth told you to press send on this tweet was nine days afterwards or 10 days afterwards, Andrew Kolvet put out a tweet regarding what the doctors told him about Charlie’s wound.” This refers to a tweet from @AndrewKolvet This refers to a tweet from Andrew Kolvet. “His bone was so healthy and the density was so impressive that he’s like the man of steel. It should have just gone through and through.” We are entering the twilight zone.
“This is not a miracle. This is physics.” · “Like an exploding microphone. No, it’s · so you’re out on the exploding microphone. Okay, here we go. · So I think I lost points off of my IQ just by saying exploding microphone.” · “I can in fact see why people would have trouble grasping the idea that he is walking stiff-legged up that stairwell with that weapon in his pants.”
0716-0934 – The walk today happened. The feet worked, the heat and humidity were obnoxious, and the construction equipment at the school made noise. I lasted appx 44 minutes. 44 was Hank Aaron’s number, and is said by some to be a magic number. The entertainment product today was the last twenty minutes of #448 – “Kirk BULLET!” – Death Investigator BREAKS SILENCE on Charlie Kirk | Joseph Scott Morgan on Julian Dorey Podcast. JSM was throwing some DNA meganumbers around, and believes Tyler James Robinson was definitely at the crime scene. There are lots of unanswered questions. One regards the trajectory of the bullet that hit Charles James Kirk. … middle name synchronicity … These calculations have been made impossible by the renovation of the crime scene.
The inevitable comments about Lance Twiggs being trans were made. (The DOB and middle name of Mr. Twiggs are not available. Considering that all we have seen is a low-fi video of the gentleman, is it fair to speculate that Mr. Twiggs is an AI creation?) We do know that Twiggs/Robinson lived in St. George UT, 266 miles from UVU in Orem UT. · Utah Gov. Spencer Cox announced “The roommate was a romantic partner, a male transitioning to female.” I questioned this at the time. I think the Governor was trying to foment prejudice against TJR. The trans thing has been neither denied nor confirmed, but is constantly mentioned in talk about TJR.
Another bit of weirdness is George Hodgson Zinn. He is at the scene of the shooting, and announces that he is the killer. This makes no sense at all. Later, GHZ consents to a search of his phone, and LEO find “Child Sex Abuse Material.” How convenient. Julian Dorey makes a comment about this. “The George Zinn guy being there and then he finally goes down. He’s been arrested over the years for so many different things, but now they find CP on his stuff and he goes to prison for that as he should by the way, obviously.” … Pictures today are from The Library of Congress. Arthur Rothstein took the social media picture in July 1942. “Hayti, Missouri. Cotton carnival. Inspecting various grades of cotton” ©Luther Mckinnon 2026 · selah