Kattte Blog Comments (78)

RE: Predictions or premonitions

RE: Never

DIVE! DIVE !

RE: In memoria

@ cachuchi... I love the ironies of history, especially wars. Shame I can't write you as alas, I have failed your criteria. I love libraries and books. Ho for a time machine yo return to the ancient library in Alexandria or the one at the Alhambra when the Moors ruled there and supplied us semi civilized Europeans most of our books for our fledging monks to copy...
Here is one very bizarre irony: Visit the small Mexican town of Santa Rosalia in Baha. It can be a very disorienting experience as the town's main church is one designed by Gustave Eiffel, of the tower fame). There is also a French bakery that specializes in baguettes, and then the grand, sweeping porches and balconies of French Colonial architecture, same as in Hanoi, Vietnam.
Eiffel designed several other buildings in various parts of Latin America, but Santa Rosalia is unique in Mexico. a small town of about 15 thousand in Baha; fishing villages and desert flora are the norm.
20 years after the French occupation, the Compagnie du Boleo, a Rothschild venture came there for copper. It stayed until the 1950s again bringing French culture with them. Stores sold French designed furnishings and clothes, and restaurants served coq au vin. Timber was imported and homes built in the French style.
Eiffel's cast iron church, whose barrel vault shape resembles a French train station, originally built in 1887 for an exposition in Europe.
Veracruz...one of the cities where French and Spanish families settles after their wars, as well as the old capital of the Conquistadores, in Merida...such a beautiful place.

Vibes Within The Forest Gloom

I checked these sites out...nothing is up for sale...would you know how to find any old abandoned houses/ estates up for sale that are not under care of any heritage society as they usually do not sell them. Here in BC many are sold with the sole proviso that one does not change them architecturally and you must submit any planned major repairs/ renovations...and as often as not, the so called heritage groups let them fall into disrepair...too stingy to make repairs always saying 'too much trouble'....

Vibes Within The Forest Gloom

Famine houses!? Now that is a category I have never heard of....thank you dear lady!!

Vibes Within The Forest Gloom

Hallo Molly!
So I've heard! I would not mind living in Ireland at all...got any photos of some of them??? Or an address of a registry of abandoned homes...Seriously...if you do drop me email...My brother found his dream castle in Scotland like that...

RE: Cannabis legalization

A great documentary film to see and think about on the entire question (s) of legalized pot is "Escape To Canada" .
The director, Albert Nuremberg explores our past and current legal cases and a pending one. It will decide the entire matter if not upstaged by our Parliament that will legalize it across Canada much to the consternation of the current ,so called "war on drugs" in the US. which may occur most any time, as it already is 'legal' by de facto circumstances. Watch the film and enjoy it; your mind will thank you for it...

A Kaleidoscope of Societal Malfunctions part 2

Redex•11 hrs ago•Northumberland, England UK
You truly forgot to add the undercover work that goes on to bring happiness in communities. no-one can solve the whole world problems but can only try in our own knowlkedge, sphere to make changes.

As humans we owe it to ourselves to make ourselves happy, if you wait for life itself to do it, make us happy that is grin we will die without a smile ever touching out lips laugh laugh lips


Hallo Redex!
I thought about it; all those volunteers from all the hospitals around the world, all these from the various orders of the Church who go into those infernos to try and bring the latest victims of 'liberation' any aid and comfort they can but in todays world they die along with the targeted peoples around the world...their organizations never go after those that plan it or carry it out. It simply is a waste of their spirits to allow them a basically pointless death as so many aid workers, nurses, doctors etc. perish trying to do their humane obligations. They also are worth saving by holding those responsible who create those conditions in the first place. They need to stop avoiding confrontations with those directing those events in the first place. It is groups together that can have a direct effect , not an individual. If terror is world wide some group directs it; plans it and yet they remain anonymous as the press is so tightly controlled at all levels and the slaughters continue ; some not reported for years or never ...bulldozers are brought in to erase all traces...'all spic 'n' span; all is fine, really...would we lie to you...'one old 'codeword' years ago was to bring in 'landscapers' or 'agrarian engineers' ....such lovely, neutral terms

A Kaleidoscopic View of Societal Malfunctions...Part 1

People are imperfect therefor their societies are usually imperfect as their particular/ peculiar society is but a reflection of all their 'imperfections' especially if those imperfections consist of deviant tendencies...

A Kaleidoscopic View of Societal Malfunctions...Part 1

Societies are made up of people and seemingly, most are in a state of malfunction

RE: Sad

You might want to start with Senator Joseph R. McCarthy in the 1950's...

For The Love Of Morons...Oxymorons!

party time!

Dethroning Television as King of Our Homes

Thank you all for your comments and insights...I shall write more on this 'dethroned god' as I can now reflect on all of it's pernicious aspects without all its noise and mind pollution. Being 'liberated' feels great

TV Withdrawal Thoughts...

Hallo Molly!
LOL! Brain dead to me is watching anything as whatever you watch is interrupted by ad segments every 7 minutes with up to 9 ads...by the time they're over, you have ni idea what you were watching anyway...
If a nice day, I'll play with my cats on the patio or I'll do some art work ; I do not miss the news; it's like being in a public toilet at best and there is radio; both news and music...good enough

Thoughts In an Art Gallery...

mollybaby Cork City, Cork Ireland
Escher is another artist I really appreciate . I just love the intricate, mathematical, work he does.

Maybe it is because I hate maths that I appreciate it so much laugh


Sometimes...but rarely I do see an "abstract' that I like; some are indeed mathematically precise, but take that out and it looses that perspective diminishing the entire work. Over the years I've tried a few and surprisingly I actually sold them; one becoming almost generic in doing many versions but primarily with different colours or simply rearranged positioning. Almost as fun as using wallpaper rollers and making endless scenes by simply rolling the canvas out and then cutting it into sections for framing...it worked...

Thoughts In an Art Gallery...

nonsmoker ....you're a perfect example of why some people turn off any commentary...

Thoughts In an Art Gallery...

bloodyawfull 19 hrs ago village, Croatia
I could hardly imagine myself staring in black square
Same here...it's the same as starring into the black screen of TV...makes you want to find the 'on' button and see my favourite colour: Technicolour!

Thoughts In an Art Gallery...

Grumpywriter 13 hrs ago Tbilisi, Georgia
I can appreciate some Picasso and love Dali.

But a Malevich 'black square'???? WTH is all that about?


I do like a nice Constable, Monet and a selection of Gogh!


Good for you! I do also...staring into an endless black screen, painting, whatever reminds me of nothingness; a void; lifelessness. I'll take Dali any day over another...on all emotional levels; always have since a child, even Picasso as those 2 used to laugh together going to the bank with moneys from their paintings...His versions of 'abstractions' was to me an on going comedy and so remains still. They are my 2 absolute favourites...humour; colour, then all the other emotions...Art, indeed is Life.

A World of More Than Just Words...

Fieryred... Hello! Thank you. "Libricide"...Having worked in libraries I'm only too aware of the systematic destruction of books by every library . Have you read "Double Fold"; 'Libraries and the Assault on Paper' by Nicholson Baker, 2001 published by Random House....Millions upon millions of books destroyed by both public libraries and universities around North America since the 1950's and why they are doing this. If you haven't seen or heard of or read this, hope you have a strong stomach.

A World of More Than Just Words...

Elegsabiff, You're right, modern/ new books seem either too gaudy or like most people: so sense style and everything clashes...

A World of More Than Just Words...

Hallo Molly!
Thank you sweet lady,

RE: Valuable Words From Eisenhower...

EXCELLENT!!

RE: Your history books lie

Then there is a rather rare book, , actually 2 but only somewhat related, by author William R. Corliss, " "Ancient Man: A Handbook of Puzzling Artifacts,1978, 786 pages along with "A Handbook of Unusual Natural Phenomena, 1977, 542 pages. Both together can read like something out of either The X Files or the much better "Fringe" series most of which the basic facts are grounded upon real and actual science. The information in both remain enigmas. Have fun reading all of them....

RE: Your history books lie

Try finding a copy of "Forbidden Archiology" by Michael A. Cremo and Richard L. Thompson, ; "The Hidden History of the Human Race"; 1993. Human remains embedded with dinosaur remains...914 pages; try finding "The Secret History of Ancient Egypt" by Herbie Brennan, 2000; "Electricity, Sonics, and the disappearance of an advanced civilization..." has many pages of clear colour photographs of carvings of modern types of submarines, jets, helicopters, etc. that establishment type scientists in all Earth Sciences, especially in the US, refuse to even speak of and despite all the clear photos of the ancient temples with the carvings, even deny their existence! Is it any wonder that most people are fed up with both the mainstream media and experts as the ultimate real fakes...They still operate on the o ld broken record of "deny everything; admit to nothing..." Hell, your history books still declare Columbus as discovering 'America'...

RE: Banned At U.S. Border

Not surprised as the son of Mohamed Ali was detained and questioned in Florida about 2 weeks ago, even as to his choice of his name... There may be yet a backlash from the many Black Muslim communities....

Bizarre,Weird and Wonderful Books...

Loulou; the really strange thing is that virtually all of them can be found on the net...somewhere; some perhaps on the proverbial 'dark web'...

Hallo Rough
Saucy side? Well, I do love hot, especially on Indian and South American dishes, not necessarily implying a double entendre... I do love quips, or was that whips....too old, to remember the differences

Bizarre,Weird and Wonderful Books...

Molly: I can just imagine a day of no inhibitions or prohibitions ; curious that liquor has never been banned, I guess the idiot Board of Prohibitors decided to leave one vice for the people to indulge in.
In reading over that list it makes me wonder if any books on Re-incarnation were banned as so many are on other matters of religious doctrine...just rather curious as I see no listings for that and re-incarnation is against current doctrine...a strange anomaly

Bizarre,Weird and Wonderful Books...

Hallo Loulou!!
Having so many weird books always keeps me in a good mood; all I do is simply read either the title or the author, such as Virgil L. Bedsole; (co author of the celebrated "A History Of Western Civilization",1936 which is a rather definitive work that many people have but without appreciating this man's rather strange name...Bedsole... One day I'll try a genealogy book to find the origin of that name

RE: Cat's Don't Like Baths

If you want cats that love to bath or swim, get some Turkish Angora cats...they love water ...Many years ago I had 2 that played in the bath and swimming pool

RE: Live discovered on Mars

With the North Koreans discovering all the aquatic life on Mars, Hollywood has enough material for another comedy movie, as Seth Rogan's "The Interview" back in 2014. Makes me wonder if they have the nerve to go for it...and repeat all the hacking done to their websites the North Koreans had done as they have declared it is against their laws to make fun of their Fearless Leader KimJong Un...Hell, why miss the chance for a potentially comedy in these politically virulent times; we need comedy! (the ultimate comedy would be having the current neolithic president appoint him to the US Senate...)