Zoo Crew II (at K.S.U.)

02/10/2026

Hey, Tommy, Mikey - have you moved to Alliance? - house at 160 Bonnieview on Zillow (I am at 824 Bonnieview)!

01/24/2026

Nothing Much Dept.: 2 cups Maxwell House 'down the gullett' and asked a few more folks to follow 'dis!

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12/28/2025

The first picture on ZC2 was the Maxwell House factory - a grainy b&w one. Today I am reading their Wiki page and this picture is shown along with this: Kraft Foods sold the Houston plant to Maximus Coffee Group LP in late 2006.[33] In March 2007, the neon coffee cup sign that glowed over the city's east end was removed from the side of the 16-story coffee roaster building and the plant closed in 2018.[34] The San Leandro plant closed in 2016 and was slated to become the site of a business park.[35]

11/09/2025

Trip recently to Kent, Ohio and the K.S.U. Campus - the new School of Business Administration (former site of Taylor Hall).

08/27/2024

on a scale of 1 to 10 dept.:

this is a personal 1.5, but it continues to return - largely because of the 'madison-avenue -junkies' who relish making me look bad (my parents' did a hell-of-a-good job doing that enough thank you!)!
I was always one of the smart-er kids in any classroom growing up. A 'C' was NOT just average and okay (most sugar-happy sleep-inners wearing their Jiffies nightly were placated with mommy or daddy blessing them with that one). Funny because it is those 'C' students who make the most demands on time once 'adults'! Anyway - I made a huge mistake as a college freshman (no, not burying my face in Chris's beautiful blondhaired butt once alone (I have a vibrant memory at times) - but) - deciding to transfer to another school as a sophomore! The new school had 'better numbers' - was 'generally considered' as being one of the 'best' schools in our state of Ohio. I can empirically state THAT is an overblown assumption not supported by any reality existing on this planet or its moon! The housing was artificially restricted - making basement barracks style overflow necessary (cajoled off as 'character-building') - meaning entire wings of 'freshman' dorms were available but not for non-freshmen! The selection of classes were few - and as I was both an undergraduate twelve quarter bachelor, and a semester hour graduate it occurred just once that I was closed out of EVERY course selection requested - 0 hours (knowing that to retain dormitory status then was necessary to carry at least twelve quarter hours it became necessary to take 'something'!) Two hour psychology course helped - I learned of 'Konrad Lorentz's 'Flush Toilet Model' of aggression' and dominance in a troop of baboons as well as the differences between male and female or***ms - then depicted as lines on a chart without visuals. The highly respected emeritus economics professor and author was tasked with teaching to 400 students a principles class in an auditorium wherein a pseudo-radical Jewish student carried long pseudo-arguments on with the prof to the delight of the 'audience' - (the tests were multiple choice and in several if not all fraternity test files - so obtain a prior test - memorize the question and answer - learn nothing - pass the course - praise Allah - and keep your mouth shut it's not cheating!) (the text he wrote was used at the 'other school' wherein the prof acknowledged the text but tested from his classroom material - and a class wherein I received the highest grade in the class of fifty) The accounting department - to teach accounting - you know the staple of any solid fraternity - hired 'profs' who taught accounting how one of the school's own emeriti thought it should be taught by using his textbook - a weird concoction of plusses and minuses that somehow were to lead to financial statements and a periodic ending (written mid-last century I knew there was 'something' special about that bunk so I preserved it with a clear plastic book cover). It was not until several years later when re-taking accounting (and aceing it) using another and excellent textbook I was informed by 'those who taught' nobody used that textbook except that school because it was so poor. Well, that being said the course was set to be two grades - a mid-term and a final (I know the mid-term was set to be near the withdrawal deadline and I think it was just before) but this was changed after the unexpectedly good grade achieved on the mid-term made success virtual was made pub-lic the 'prof' announced he was changing the rules - the only grade would be the final - and of course this was after the withdrawal deadline - (the final was an obscure bit of fiction covering little else discussed or homeworked - but the crew in the front row seemed to have 'all' the answers - (it 'was' rumored the 'prof' was a graduate and frat boy back in the day). Then of course the social life - I found getting and keeping a girlfriend very much more easy to accomplish at that school - I had a few. Reasons for this obviously was because those stupid bi***es were ignorant of the truth as it was to be told! I also had a part-time job - one that integrated me with the 'business district' of the small rented berg the school situated in. There also was the 'RUSH' - that annual event wherein students are supposed to beg to be included into the fraternity/sorority system. It was in that system (and it should be mentioned I was not there long enough to go 'active') I learned of the real reason this antebellum concoction of racist ideology prefacbricated to support forty year old alcoholics and pedophiles with their weekender activities exists. (The closed door made it possible to deal pounds of ma*****na - in fact while this school has a lilly-white 'fine Jewish girl' reputation as the place to send your virgin to its reality held that more dope was pushed than at those schools with the 'radical element' present - done and done) That being said simply returning to the old school and continuing on resolved all issues EXCEPT for the seeming belief of 'what' occurred 'there' was absolute and undeniable truth which cannot ever be refuted - even with tons of evidence to the contrary. Friends (loosely applied - you might know and like those jokers) there is no vindication in futility. Your wife gave her bu****le to a total stranger after leaving you three children - divorce and move on AND leave well enough alone (and inform the bimbo sending you pink sheet reminders 'about' they are dwarfed by reality!) And if this totally leaves you wondering - what good can you include by questioning anything about what I have just related - just move on and keep it to yourself!

08/21/2024

It amazes me how accepting we are to the bright backlit images pulsed into our eyes coming from the video screen - monitor, television, flatscreen, etc.
'There is a housing shortage!' - this is the 'reason' given for homelessness by every government confronted with people who for a multitude of reasons would rather sleep on a concrete slab under the l.e.d. lit night instead of on a mattress in a safe secure home.
We are 'led' to think it is because we have not invested in habitation for these unfortunates.
Think back to how 'we' came into the configuration we herein exist. Trees were felled, ravines filled, rivers rerouted, rocks removed and the topsoil tilled so to provide the basic foodstuffs that were the foundation upon which a higher society was built. All of this several millennia beyond the time of 'great ice'!
Once there was a stable supply of both food for consumption and food for feed industries began - cottage at first, then assembled to the extent they replaced much of the need for imports. Eventually products of similar or superior kind could be exported. All because there was land to grow food.
Housing became standardized. At some point private ownership of single-family residences became prevalent, replacing multi-family dwellings. Still housing was concentrated to be near to the markets and exchange areas of any community - to be nearer the food!
Those providing the food - the farmers had on their land the means of production - of food! Does not matter if plant-based or animal-based the product they marketed was food.
Then somehow a generation polluted by television began in whole to believe what their brains had absorbed via the electronic media, and suddenly it was 'so simple' to become Kirt Russell, Fred MacMurray, Bill Cosby, Peter Fonda, or Brittney Spears - just 'do what they do as they do it'.
Of course reality sucks by comparison. It is blemished, purpleish, fat, and uneven - never perfect in movement or in ex*****on - a Kennedy assassination in the proper sequence! But, THAT false reality is what is believed so! ...
Soon farms were looked upon as not maximizing returns on investment. Developers - the natural enemy of farms - began peppering the farm industry with managed conversion rates (not dissimilar to what China does with the exchange rates against 'real' currency providers) and as if by design farms began to become 'housing units'. Located miles in many cases from the market and exchange districts new homes built provided safety and security for a SELECT community of souls - spoiled and self-righteous people above the riff-raff of 'the rest of the story'. Perrfectly OKAY because some tailored oxen on TV carried the message to our brains!
Sometime during the first decade of this century (we now are in the third) land under cultivation in the state of Ohio dropped below that in the state of Indiana - FOR THE FIRSTTIME IN HISTORY! The decline in arable lands in Ohio has continued. The homeless are here in numbers - just not to the extent found in places like California, Florida, or New York. Immigration pollutes the mass adding scores of new inhabitants seeking shelter. The problem further is exacerbated by an increase in the supply of illegal substances - some so powerful more legal citizens have died of them on American soil than were expended at war in other countries!
Well, what is 'a' solution. When I see a young family sporting three garages, six vehicles, and seven acres neatly cropped by a ten thousand dollar lawn mower sitting alone on what used to be a corn field I do not praise Allah the school teachers are going to get a raise! I think how long before both the food and money run out - and who will end up torching the barn for the insurance!

08/18/2024

'IF' the 'B-I-B-L-E' were written today:

-it would be 'produced' by Steven Spielberg.
-it would be filmed and edited at Disney.
-it would take place in Arizona, and Yemen.
-the 'Last Supper' would be at a buffet located near an interstate.
- and - feel 'free' to add a few characteristics (or characters) from the modern Bible! post in comments - oh - and PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE,PLEASE,PLEASE share! (example: explain that Lot was commanded in Morton, Illinois.)😵‍💫

08/14/2024

I did not create this joke (do not remember where I heard it first) - my version:
A man has a barbershop in Philadelphia - one chair and right on the street.
One day a man come into his shop for a haircut. During the cut the barber learns the man is a Minister. When the haircut is finished the man goes to pay. "No, Reverend, you are a man of the Word - and I don't charge." The Minister thanks him and leaves.
The next morning the barber finds a Bible on the stoop of his shop.
That day a man comes in for a haircut. During the cut the barber learns the man is a Priest. When the haircut is finished the man goes to pay. "No, Father, you are a man of the Cloth - and I don't charge." The Priest thanks him and leaves.
The next morning the barber finds a Rosary hanging on the doorknob of his shop.
That day a man comes in for a haircut. During the cut the barber learns the man is a Rabbi. When the haircut is finished the man goes to pay. "No, Rabbi, you are a man of God - and I don't charge." The Rabbi thanks him and leaves.
The next morning there are twelve Rabbis at the barbershop door!

07/25/2024

'cor-por-a-tion'

P.F.T.M. : platitudes for the multitudes

06/28/2024

Wheezy vs. Greazy - hmmmm

06/18/2024

To pave or not to pave, to reroof or what?, to add a firepit or go to a park instead ... on and on. HOMEOWNERSHIP is 1. freedom, and 2. nothing but an expense! There always seems to be 'something' going off the rails - even though 'you' have a perfect life! Remember - fix your house up and the taxes WILL also go up! This sounds like gloom or doom what a choice!
Noone reasonably wants their home to appear to be a slummy place. Recalling when Alliance, Ohio was a manufacturing community - without manufacturing - no town (that actually almost came to be - when the only thing that preventing it was manufacturing!) Today we have 'more options' right? Fastfood, megagroceries, national gyms, and smokestackless manufacturing. We also have 'the service economy' of hospitals and healthcare, and education. The complete loss of the root manufacturing base of this town has not resulted in a great deal of decline - but it has resulted in zero growth!
So, we live in a fiscally unrefined economy - spending does not match revenue and happens even when there IS NO revenue - as if a high stakes game of chance was in play and the player had 'the blood' and just could not pull away! Remember, there ALWAYS is someone with resources but are they here?
So, what is happening? Today the great wave of Reagan-era growth is the takeover of mom and pop trailer parks (KNA Mobile Home Communities) by Equity companies. These vehicles are permitted to buy 'anything' when the 'only' connection to the purchase is an asset - be that revenue generation or land! Revenue generation is one way to get rich - this is 'typically' Warren Buffett (Mr. Tentpants). he purchases cash-rich companies, then uses their cash to buy other cash-rich companies. Nice racket! Of course when you strip cash from a successful operating business changes must be made - and that most often results in 'lost jobs'!
The 'new and different' way is to buy land. Hey, wait a minute - that very thing happened in fastfood! Mom and pop hamburger stands slowly were driven out by an organized corporation. Once the field was leveled the corporations went after 'regular' land and expanded exponentially. And they therefore made a lot of money! What do these corporations spend the money on? Well, things like advertising, facility upgrades, and executive salaries. Note - Dave Thomas was THE EXCEPTION! At least he did spend hours of his day behind a counter at one time. Most of the highly paid fastfood executives are good at one thing, and that is why they are where they are - F*c*ing anything or anyone they meet! Director boards love being whipped and spit on, so they pay these psycho's more each year (at least THEY don't have to be the one on the plastic sheets).
Okay, Mobile Home Parks have become 'prime real estate' for these 'equity' organizations. They are buying land not residents! Think, when mom and pop owned the dogpatch they 'broke even' once the number of residents went over a certain number. The equity corporations do not worry about residents - they want only money! The old story of the shipwrecked sailor on a desert isle in the Pacific with NOTHING except a trunk full of $500 bills! He can't eat money, can't sleep in the money, can't spend any of the money! Because, it is money - only!
So what is occurring is once bought the rent is being jacked-up - as much as 50% or more in some places. Longtime 'below-average' residents unable to pay, are ejected! The promise is there for new higher income residents who no longer can afford the 'regular' housing market (wait - that is jumping ahead!!!) But, that is exactly what is 'going on!'
Look at 'how' poverty was handled in the past. The government moved in - whether it be local, regional, or national. America, Ron Reagan's unending supply of Marine grunts, Clinton's vast landscape of former manufacturing workers, Bush's patriotic hoarde of warriors living with half a body, or Trump's Great Americans - at one time had publically funded poor houses. County Homes!. Oh well, so we have security problems today - even judges of a certain gender got a reprieve just because it is 'nobody's business' what's in their purses. We have so much more 'stuff' today that to live in a set-space like a poor home would not be doable.
But, realistically, why are U.S. Senators debating the plight of Trailer Park residents' futures?
Because we see it happening, it has happened before, and we are now uncomfortable. See, a lowly Angus steer will disappear and become a McDonald's Whopper because of the corporation, but what is to happen to the low-paid, poor resident of the Mobile Home Park now evicted due to a rent increase brought by an equity company?

06/12/2024

Admitted to the Union: August 21, 1959; 64 years ago (50th): HAWAII

The paradise now is America. There are per capita (per person) more homeless in Hawaii than anywhere! California as crazy-bad as it is does not have the rate of homeless Hawaii does! The one thing seems different is about 50% homeless are 'older' and simply cannot afford housing or rent! An American problem WE HAVE CREATED. The 'textbook' easy life promoted by boneheads like Reagan (honestly we all subscribe to more is better) when he actually began the billionaire race to nowhere (no Dan Gilberts or LeBron James' back then, guys like John Galbraith made theirs in real estate, and there weren't many). M**h, Fentanyl, mental illness and lack of employment contribute to the slum/ghetto pride we celebrate with days-off from work as official holidays. Why not get a head - stop sending our future to the toilet, and act like what we think we deserve! A few va**na waxing places, super-chopper garages, golfball landing strips, teeth whitening centers, face tightening salons, and custom home remodeling businesses might have to close - but then - whose gonna tell the C.E.O. fraternity/sorority it ain't THEIR right - not the Supreme Court! After all, this is America. In 64 years we have turned a truly Pacific enclave into a typical United States sh****le! I am not even mentioning the number of exotic bird species extinct since! GET A CLUE! Congress won't do a thing!