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We are finally having a rainy, cold winter in Southern California, so I’m getting into studying up on reservoir levels, such as at Lake Cachuma near Ojai.
[Note: as a commenter pointed out, I’m confusing, Whooping Crane / Whooping Cough-style, Lake Cachuma near Solvang in Santa Barbara County with Lake Casitas.]
That’s a beautiful mountain valley town near the Ventura coast that almost burned to the ground not long ago. Ojai (which Charles Norman would point out has been the center of New Age hoo-ha in California since the 1800s) used to be great because the proximity of the cool ocean kept it green. But it pretty much stopped raining in Ventura and Santa Barbara Counties about a decade ago. Now, though, it’s raining (and snowing on 8,800 foot Mt. Pinos). And Lake Cachuma is finally above 50% full (or empty, as you prefer).
The Lompoc Record reports on the trout release yesterday in Lake Cachuma in rather privacy-infringing terms:
As with previous releases, the fish from Mt. Lassen Trout Farms Inc. in Paynes Creek are triploid trout, meaning they are sterile, which prevents them from breeding with any wild stock that might be living in the lake.
For anglers, planting triploid trout improves the fishing experience because sterile fish will put all their energy into growing, rather than expending some of it on spawning, so they are larger and fight harder when hooked.
Aquaculturists say breeding sterile trout also results in higher-quality fish with brighter coloration.
“By planting fish in the lake, Santa Barbara County Parks hopes to encourage outdoor activity when people tend to spend less time outdoors,” the County Parks spokesman said.
“Plus, during winter months, cooler water temperatures are ideal for releasing rainbow trout,” he added.
Spending time outdoors has its benefits, he noted, because exercise and physical activity produce endorphins that may improve the ability to sleep, which in turn reduces stress.
Okay …
Personally, I’m a big fan of Global Cooling, especially in warm places. For example, it’s been snowing in Maui, not just on top of the 10,000 foot high volcano, but down to 6,000 feet this week.
My least favorite dreams tend to be about giant tidal waves, while my favorite dreams are often about cold weather in warm places. For example, I can vividly recall a pleasant dream from several decades ago when I lived in Chicago about a cold winter in which glaciers formed on the north side of the Hollywood Hills and spilled out halfway across Ventura Boulevard.
In contrast, I had a terrible nightmare about when I was living on the 21st floor overlooking Lake Michigan and a giant tidal wave 180 feet tall wiped out the lower 18 floors, leaving me and my enormous Survivor Guilt okay.
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Steve is a ‘reverse snowbird’ at heart.
Whilst on the subject, surely one great advantage of living in the USA – and not being tied down to a specific employer – is that it greatly facilitated individuals taking advantage of a vast range of seasonal and regional climes as the individual sees fit.
Perhaps a summer vacation in Alaska is in order.
If you want a cooler, longer summer, I recommend Idaho.
You are a complex man Steve Sailer, my dreams center around titties. California does look beautiful, especially when green, you could clearly use another 20 million people though.
"...my dreams center around titties."
Eliza Doolittle says, "You need do little other than to move to Bristol Cities."**
* https://www.telegraph.co.uk/history/9355640/True-Cockneys-dying-out-after-Bow-Bells-muted.html
** https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=bristol%20cities
See also Critical re-examination of Judy Garland as too old for her role in The Wizard of Oz:
Emerald City Titties
Also see The vice sanctuary, "Old Town" of the movie "Sin City" loom up even more nightmare-ishly when the highway sign is updated to "Welcome To *Tidal* Basin City." (and yes, the city proper was even scarier)
I dream of all our mosquitoes heading out Californy-way.
BTW, you were very lucky that your top 3 floors were watertight, thanks to the building codes for 50-year Lake Michigan tidal waves. I envision that place in your dreams having curvy balconies like Bob Newhart’s place.
“The Advantages of Incel Trout”
“Title of the next Wes Anderson/Noah Baumbach production.”
Nothing as sweet as catching a big old trout on a lightweight flyrod. Then toss him back in for someone else to catch later.
You must have liked the Bladerunner sequel’s snowy Los Angeles.
I believe they make these trout something like the way they produce seedless watermelons.
If immigrants were sterilized would they be OK?
Global Cooling would be the disaster people think Global Warming is.
Two things, you can’t beat WNY for accessible trout and salmon fishing. Find a stream with open water and enjoy. Don’t believe me, visit the Buffalo News online and click on “Catches of the Week.” Two, Independent Health, a local health care provider, has a print ad, papers and billboards, that show a black guy in full trout stream apparel, chest waders, vest, net, floppy hat, fly rod and reel talking to a IH rep…in her office. That’s how good the fishing is.
I think Texas still has decent sized communities of rural blacks who grow up fishing, hunting and riding horses. Also fish a classic staple of the classic Southern American diet from which all soul food comes.Replies: @Buffalo Joe, @Carol, @Anonymous, @JMcG, @Mr McKenna
“which prevents them from breeding with any wild stock that might be living in the lake.”
Apparently, no one involved in that project has read or seen Jurassic Park, where a similar strategy was used to prevent unwanted reproduction (i.e., the recreated dinosaurs were exclusively female). But as the Jeff Goldblum character warned, “life finds a way”, and the story consists of relating how life did exactly that.
As fictional as that book and movies were, I am inclined to suspect that this triploid strategy will also backfire at some point. Likewise, I’m not going to guess what the ultimate chromosomal effects of cousin marriage — or the Western variation of encouraging women to wait until their late 30’s to have children — will be, but I’m not optimistic.
Interesting. I, too, have dreams of tidal waves wiping out a building I’m in. Jung? I’m not sure what it all means…
This isn’t really a thing except among a very small number of bourgie, feminist “career women” who undoubtedly shouldn’t be breeding anyway.
That’s funny, but in Texas you see a lot of black people fishing in lakes and the coast, although I have never seen any in actual waders doing fly fishing.
I think Texas still has decent sized communities of rural blacks who grow up fishing, hunting and riding horses. Also fish a classic staple of the classic Southern American diet from which all soul food comes.
Fly fishing and fly tying is a white thing.
“My least favorite dreams tend to be about giant tidal waves, while my favorite dreams are often about cold weather in warm places. ”
Uh, ok.
If it is all the same to you, I’ll stick to my Dr Who dream where I am in the Tardis with Rose, Amy, Clara, AND River Song. Or just Amy.
But if it makes you feel any better, I do have one nightmare:
I wake on a Freighter at sea, containers, barrels everywhere, and I am searching….for something….and of all things, there is Hillary. Her, me, an empty ship, and the next thing you know, I am bending her over a barrel, doing to her what she has been doing to the taxpayers all these years….. Oh, and it just doesn’t knock the cobwebs, she likes it… a lot. Next thing you know, I am back on land and she is following me everywhere, work , Church, Chess Club even. Everyone, even Chess Club, begins to know my standards are so low I did Hillary. And that is just the beginning of the nightmare.
Seriously, if all dreams are sex dreams ( I am pretty sure Freud said that) tidal waves…..that can’t be good.
“Personally, I’m a big fan of Global Cooling, especially in warm places.”
You won’t be when sustained lower temperatures start significantly reducing crop yields.
““By planting fish in the lake, Santa Barbara County Parks hopes to encourage outdoor activity when people tend to spend less time outdoors,” ”
Social engineering knows no bounds when our betters decide what’s best for us.
Incel trout is almost as novel a concept as black fly fishermen. I’ve been fly fishing since I was 13, and have traveled a bit doing it, and have only seen one black person at it that entire span of 46 years. He had no clue what he was doing, and was simply accompanying his boss on a sales excursion (they took a client fishing). I’m sure there must be a few blacks who genuinely enjoy the aesthetics of fly fishing, I’ve just never run across one.
I’m sure I’m triggering someone using the term “black.” I need to read Titania’s new book when it’s released, so I’ll be up on Current Year etiquette.
I recall reading somewhere that Thailand and Nigeria are the two biggest countries that have never had any recorded snowfalls. While Indonesia and the Congo are larger and also have tropical climates, unlike Thailand and Nigeria they have mountain peaks tall enough to receive occasional snow.
steve’s other dreams are about nigerian bodybuilders.
When is the Oroville Dam gonna bust?
Bruno Ganz kicked the bucket.
Someone else has a last name that starts with a G.
The Democrat Party ghouls are hoping she pulls a Nosferatu and lasts for as long as necessary.
Whilst on the subject, surely one great advantage of living in the USA - and not being tied down to a specific employer - is that it greatly facilitated individuals taking advantage of a vast range of seasonal and regional climes as the individual sees fit.
Perhaps a summer vacation in Alaska is in order.Replies: @stillCARealist
I think their summer only lasts about 6 weeks. Sometime in July the tourists leave and the locals start preparing for winter again.
If you want a cooler, longer summer, I recommend Idaho.
A couple of decades ago we attended a summer garden wedding reception at an older guest house and banquet facility in the San Fernando Valley. It was 115 degrees in the garden that day so it was amusing that the entry hall to this place had a photograph from the 1930’s of the garden with a blanket of snow. One toddler at the reception that day fell into the lily pond, and a lot of us were thinking the smart thing to do was to fall in as well while pulling him out.
Maybe it might snow here after all. If oceans rise as shown in Blade Runner, it may be necessary to build the orbital solar shade NASA has studied, and crank the global temperature down to quickly lower sea level again. I suspect that is what was implied was happening in the movie. But that was an alternate reality version of the future so not a prediction.
Seems to happen there (in the actual valley part) once per few decades.
San Diego's Palomar Mountains have some great snow caps now, best I can remember in years.
It isn't colder than normal down here as Steve says, but definitely wetter.
More Maga supremacists.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/02/tanzanian-refugees-arrested-for-gang-rape-of-18-year-old-idaho-woman/
These blacks are refugees from their own kind but act just like their own kind. It’s like wolves run from other wolves but are wolves themselves.
Black refugees from black thuggery are also black thugs.
Just because the stocked fish can’t breed doesn’t mean they won’t be competing with any surviving wild fish for food and habitat. Somebody should have nixed this move.
If you can read a newspaper by the light of the moon, watch for tidal waves.
However, there might not be advantages to Nigerian workout buddies!
http://www.cwbchicago.com/2019/02/2-out-smollett-at-plate-lakeview.html
The lawyer for the two white-supremacist Nigerians says:
Trout, Dating & Gene Pools
The metaphors seem weak here, but what the hell, might as well take the bait from our Steve Sailer Savior, becoming fishers of men (and women) in hopes of landing an armchair “keeper “of some Deep (and not *too* banal) Thoughts.
Unlike, salmon, trout, like humans, do not die as a result of spawning. For both members of a human pair bond, there are costs in rearing a young human up to its own reproductive age. A 2 am booty call is replaced by a baby call for food or consolation or a clean, dry diaper. A visibly pregnant female is less attractive not only to those seeking to cuckold her mate, but also to her mate. (It is not trivial that most pregnant human females have continued interest in intercourse). The effects of a previous pregnancy on a human are quite visible for variable lengths of time. Many women and men “let themselves go” following marriage, though this is limited by the prospect of infidelity.
A single male or female human will have more “energy” to put into “growing,” that is to say, staying “hot” via body building, grooming and dressing -or to put it another way, becoming a better “catch” – a “higher-quality fish with brighter coloration.” Flogging this further, a single human in prime condition can be a challenge to land.
Plenty of OTOH’s come to mind and the above can be expanded to note that while more women than men have reproductive success, men have a longer reproductive age. All things being equal, a woman in general prefers to mate with a single, unencumbered male (while reserving the option for her own later infidelity), a middle-aged male with considerable resources who has demonstrated skill, intelligence and lack of impulsivity in raising offspring to at least childhood with a spouse has some appeal. It’s difficult not to add that many women, as well as men, are attracted to a potential mate who is accompanied by friends of the same sex and that such a “band of brothers” might be one capable of defending the tribe as well as herself. Following up on the previous thread of how women might have selected for *relatively* non-violent males, one poster (not me) seemed to suggest that a band of brothers (having in common high intelligence, low impulsivity, group loyalty, etc), in general can beat a “band of murderers.” Of course, after marriage, a woman will typically try to limit the time a husband spends with his buddies. Moderation in all things; women (at least those living in a healthy society) prefer men who are not too wimpy, yet not too rape-y or murder-y.
Have as usual droned on far too long, but hope that others will chime or interestingly un-chime in along these lines.
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I don’t think I have ever had even a single nightmare about tidal waves. Different strokes I guess…
OT :
https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/430168-ginsburg-back-at-supreme-court
http://img2.thejournal.ie/article/3435386/river?version=3435408&width=1340
What are the odds the incel trout outcompete the breeders for food leading to declining levels of wild stock?
Maybe it might snow here after all. If oceans rise as shown in Blade Runner, it may be necessary to build the orbital solar shade NASA has studied, and crank the global temperature down to quickly lower sea level again. I suspect that is what was implied was happening in the movie. But that was an alternate reality version of the future so not a prediction.Replies: @Lot
“photograph from the 1930’s of the garden with a blanket of snow”
Seems to happen there (in the actual valley part) once per few decades.
San Diego’s Palomar Mountains have some great snow caps now, best I can remember in years.
It isn’t colder than normal down here as Steve says, but definitely wetter.
Whitey is fast becoming triploid, as a subspecies, in a manner of speaking. Obesity, lack of drive, no reproduction… Are they gonna hunt, skin and eat us in the future?
I like some of the drama-queen meteorological gasbaggery. I thought the US’s “polar vortex” was pretty good. Here in Britain we are enjoying a “Spanish Plume”.
Totally OT but if you tuck this away somewhere you’ll find a use for it.
http://stonetoss.com/comic/friendly-fire/
The climate forcing that was leading us into another ice age peak (technically, we’ve been in an ice age for millions of years, only we’re also in a minimum known as the Holocene) has been overwhelmed by the industrial age. This forcing is unlike any others. It has been a much more rapid increase than evolution has had to deal with for a very, very long time. Which means, the equilibrium temperature at current CO2 levels is much higher than the current temp. Factor in all the frozen water stored above sea level in Greenland and Antarctica. Melt/collapse lags ocean temps, and ocean temps lag equilibrium (theoretical) CO2 forced air temps.
Shorter version: We’re all fucked. Our grandkids are fucked in the ass.
Move to Uranus. It’s cold there.
Sounds like a black thing.
So, in hindsight, call me back when the sky falls. Thanks and have a nice day.Replies: @Mr. Rational, @James Speaks
Blog posts like these are why Sailer is truly the best.
I am not sure how they created the sterile triploid trout. But the advantages of non-breeding species usually result from sterile hybrids like the mule. Or random mutations like the Navel Orange.
One sought after game fish is the fearsome Tiger Musky, which is the sterile cross of the Northern Pike and the common Muskellunge. They are basically fresh water barracuda, whose favorite food is ducklings.
Another fun fact about the trout stocked in Lake Cachuma is that they provide the food source for a population of really huge Largemouth Bass. Once a bass gets big enough to eat the endless supply of six-inch rainbow trout they keep throwing in the lake, it can grow to truly monster size.
Due to this stocking, Southern California reservoirs such as Cachuma and Castaic produce more record size bass than the places you would normally expect, like Florida or Texas.
“The Rage [And Age] Of The Incels”?
It can not go unnoticed by those who have wasted a lot of time on the beer-reviewed “journals” of cable television “nature” channels that in a lot of mammalian species a dominant male has exclusive access to a harem of females. -Which makes for a lot of unhappy incel bachelors. Challenges for control of the harem are one-on-one and the females are content to accept the results of those contests. Human sensibilities are anthropomorphically offended when learning that when a male lion takes over a pride he kills the cubs of the previous ruler – and that the lionesses then go into heat. As posted earlier if a white male “Lone Ranger” complains of genocide being carried out by non-white males, a female “Tonto” is (if she senses that it would be prudent to change to the winning side) apt to say, “What do you mean ‘*we*,’ Kemosabe?”
The outcome of such non-human contests is to some extent eugenic, but such bands of animals haven’t evolved much in the way of intelligence and there would seem to be a limit on the size of such bands compared to us homo saps. A human who has recently given birth is in need of considerable assistance and protection. Some of that can be given by her relatives, but the aid given by the child’s father has probably been important in human evolution. It is at least plausible that small groups of incel male humans banded together to kill a dominate male who had been “hogging” all of, or more than his “fair share” of females. An evolutionary struggle between monogamy and various degrees of polygamy has likely been of considerable antiquity. In a small band of hunter-gatherers a male who is better than average at hunting might be able to “afford” say, four or so, females.
In more advanced societies with higher levels of resource inequality, some harems have been enormous. Those societies might be relatively weak with respect to fighting off invaders (why should I fight for that fat sumbitch who gots all the womens?) and for the many bachelors, unhappy, but, as has often been noted, could be successful if those incels are harnessed in wars for land, treasure and foreign booty booty. If memory serves, some tribes of Zulu forbade marriage for young males until they had washed their spears in blood and some horse nomads had a similar requirement of decapitating an enemy.
The ancient Romans seem to have had some tradition of monogamy which was arguably diminished during the “degeneracy” (to a greater or lesser degree) of various Roman emperors. I wish that I could remember where I read an assertion that in the presence of a particular conquering Germanic tribe, “even the Romans are chaste.”
“The Rage Of The Incels” by Jia Tolentino in the New Yorker (link below) might be worth a look. She struggles to understand the viewpoints of some other people (some of whom are nutjobs), but overall seems grotesquely un-self aware. Like nearly all leftists, she’s committed to genocidal war on non-totalitarian white males and frequently resorts to name-calling rather than rebut some arguments. In particular she gives little or no evidence of finding much wrong with, to logically extend the argument, a society in which say, .0001% of the men (generally exceptionally handsome and/or wealthy) have all or nearly all of the heterosexual intercourse (with the possible exception of prostitution). She is deficient with respect to the nuances (yeah, the word gags me) of cause and effect and is strong in the way of projection.
It would be fun to go through her piece piece by piece, but I’ve been hogging too much (mostly meaning that I’m lazy and want to run some errands) of what looks like a sparsely populated comment thread and would love (OK, not really, am often more chagrined by than grateful for the vasty deeps of knowledge exhibited by most of the posters here) to see others do a better job of that than could Your ‘eepishly ‘umble Servant.
There’s a risk in discussing incels that another poster or troll could write something along the lines of, “Yeah, I bet that *you* are a pathetic incel loser.” A rebuttal of, “I’m married; of *course* I’m an incel!” is tempting, but (not that it should matter), while I deeply, deeply regret not having more kids, have had five children by three women –adding like comic Jonathan Winters who said after claiming that during World War II he had shot a Japanese gardener, “Not that I’m proud of that.”
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/the-rage-of-the-incels?reload=true
“The Advantages of Incel Trout”
“Title of the next Wes Anderson/Noah Baumbach production.”Replies: @BenKenobi
Great use of the MORE button. I’d like to see more of these.
‘… For example, I can vividly recall a pleasant dream from several decades ago when I lived in Chicago about a cold winter in which glaciers formed on the north side of the Hollywood Hills and spilled out halfway across Ventura Boulevard.
In contrast, I had a terrible nightmare about when I was living on the 21st floor overlooking Lake Michigan and a giant tidal wave 180 feet tall wiped out the lower 18 floors…’
You’re lucky. My dreams go more like this:
I’m grocery shopping, and I leave the store…and I realize I forgot the cheese.
Then I wake up, and I realize it was all just a dream, and it’s okay.
I have tidal wave nightmares too! I have been having them since I almost drowned at the age of 13 in Santa Barbara. I kept getting pinned down by waves and as I was about to die, the wave set ended and I fought my way to the surface. I’ve been having giant wave dreams for many years.
When I was a kid, my parents would take us tenting in the Mammoth Lakes area. It seemed like the lakes had trout that were hungry at the time of stocking (and were promptly caught). I thought it was ridiculous to not have the fish well fed when stocking.
I think the place to fish on the West Coast is Oregon when the steelhead are running. I did that once, and on a skunk fly, caught one that weighed 10 pounds.
This post is either the most cryptic, Sailerific bit of esotericism in recent blogging history or wild free association, and I can’t make up my mind.
Perhaps he over did it.Replies: @Reg Cæsar
Incel trout is a damn interesting concept. Take away the urge to reproduce and what do you get? Excellence in species development? I associate being neutered with a total destruction of potential excellence, but . . . are trout an exception?
song, Oh, great. Trout rotting in the streams.
utu, Sure, and if you could throw them back. Perfect.
OT: The two “Lakeview” men in custody regarding the Smollett case have been released without charges.
http://www.cwbchicago.com/2019/02/2-out-smollett-at-plate-lakeview.html
I think Texas still has decent sized communities of rural blacks who grow up fishing, hunting and riding horses. Also fish a classic staple of the classic Southern American diet from which all soul food comes.Replies: @Buffalo Joe, @Carol, @Anonymous, @JMcG, @Mr McKenna
Paul, the guy in the ad is right off the cover of an Orvis catalog. Lots of city folk fish in the Niagara River which is accessible from paved areas. Some great fishing, perch, pike , walleye, small mouth.
My nightmares involve tornadoes and lost homework. My favorite good dream involved Britney Spears. Any thoughts on Matt Kuchar?
After burning out in Hollywood, Johnny Cash settled in Casitas Springs in the Ojai Valley because the horses, wooded terrain and rolling creeks reminded him of Tennessee. Not that he was ever very happy during his tenure in California.
Ojai is a pleasant little town. Just outside of Ojai, the Krotona Institute of Theosophy is a little worn these days, but the Reading Library is worth a visit if you have any interest in the 19th Century occult revival and weird old America. Note that the Reading Library tends to keep pretty esoteric hours so call ahead.
The Theosophists built the first Krotona Institute in Beachwood Canyon, Los Angeles, but hightailed it out to Ojai once the Hollywoodland development started to bring in the riffraff. You can still spot some of their mildly eccentric structures in the area. The Grand Temple of the Rosy Cross in Beachwood Canyon has been converted to the Krotona Apartments. Quentin Tarantino wrote his first script True Romance there when he was couch surfing during his early days in Hollywood.
Perhaps in honor of his time there on the couch, the Brad Pitt stoner scene from True Romance was shot in the Krotona Apartments.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDM4E0B_rzg
Interesting that the oh so English Natalie uses the dollar sign to indicate money, not the pound sterling £ or euro.
An aside: if I remember right, in The Six Million Dollar Man, Steve Austin was from Ojai originally.Replies: @Anonymous
https://youtu.be/0FOtyg7lnrE
Perhaps if Steve writes about his visions of catastrophe more he may excise any ghosts underlying them; apparently the phenomenon may be heritable, too: does Sailer fils have these kinds of dreams, too?
Who's excited about President's Day?! I hope there's a sale on Chinese plastic at the big box stores and on Japanese automobiles at the dealers, but mostly I am excited about whether Donald Trump will see his shadow or not, which of course will indicate whether unchecked immivasion continues for only fifty more years, or until the Chinese archaeologists show up in about a hundred, to sort out what happened....
http://www.cwbchicago.com/2019/02/2-out-smollett-at-plate-lakeview.htmlReplies: @Clifford Brown
The Chicago neighborhood known as “Boystown” is in the Lakeview section.
My comment was in sarcastic reference to the media's pattern of obscuring the origins of immigrants when suiting the narrative, in this case the two Nigerian brothers, who apparently live in Lakeview.
Like much of the cognescenti of Silicon Valley these days, Sailer is likely micro-dosing LSD in order to up his writing output.
Perhaps he over did it.
I think Texas still has decent sized communities of rural blacks who grow up fishing, hunting and riding horses. Also fish a classic staple of the classic Southern American diet from which all soul food comes.Replies: @Buffalo Joe, @Carol, @Anonymous, @JMcG, @Mr McKenna
The blacks I saw fishing in Dallas at White Rock Lake ran trotlines. Then doze on the bank til they caught something.
No doubt, Steve’s dreams represent some sort of racial memory. I bet every Swiss has nightmares about the sea and dreams about glaciers.
Or, it’s metaphor. Nightmares about the World’s Most Important Graph and dreams about the return of Thule.
What's your problem? Recently, my comments just hang in moderation until well after others that come after mine. This comment wasn't any stupider or more offensive than any others about your dreams.
Today, I have 3 comments of average pointlessness and stupidity on 3 posts, all just hanging there, while lots of others have been approved.
If you have some moderation policy, you should state that clearly.
Minor quibble-
I think you’re mixing up two different lakes. The fish stocking story is about Cachuma, as is the picture. But the lake you’re describing, near Ojai, is Casitas. Cachuma is almost due north (past the first mountain ridge) of Goleta, which is the western most suburb of Santa Barbara. Casitas is the lake that was completely surrounded by the same fire that surrounded Ojai last year.
The Advantages of Incel Trout – title of newly discovered and unpublished Kurt Vonnegut novel. More of from crazy yet always on point provocateur!
i thought this was gonna be about mike trout.
shows how little i know. he’s married.
but what if he was an incel. would that make him a more attractive free agent? sports wives have so much say these days in contract dealings.
OT: After lasers malfunction, brave sharks go in close.
Migrants are eaten by SHARKS during rescue operation in the Mediterranean after their boats sank, claiming 31 lives
In contrast, I had a terrible nightmare about when I was living on the 21st floor overlooking Lake Michigan and a giant tidal wave 180 feet tall wiped out the lower 18 floors...'
You're lucky. My dreams go more like this:
I'm grocery shopping, and I leave the store...and I realize I forgot the cheese.
Then I wake up, and I realize it was all just a dream, and it's okay.Replies: @jim jones, @Autochthon
I had a dream where UR closed down and I had to go out and do some work instead of reading about Zionists all day.
Tim Pool is an idiot .
I think Texas still has decent sized communities of rural blacks who grow up fishing, hunting and riding horses. Also fish a classic staple of the classic Southern American diet from which all soul food comes.Replies: @Buffalo Joe, @Carol, @Anonymous, @JMcG, @Mr McKenna
Blacks fish, but they don’t generally fly fish. I have a friend that works at one of the Big Box Outdoors places. She works in the gun department, but occasionally fills in in fishing. She said the only blacks that ever asked about waders were preachers using them for baptizing. Blacks generally fish with the less expensive kind of casting reels and rods or with the old straight poles and bobbers, nothing fancy.
Fly fishing and fly tying is a white thing.
Ojai is a pleasant little town. Just outside of Ojai, the Krotona Institute of Theosophy is a little worn these days, but the Reading Library is worth a visit if you have any interest in the 19th Century occult revival and weird old America. Note that the Reading Library tends to keep pretty esoteric hours so call ahead.
The Theosophists built the first Krotona Institute in Beachwood Canyon, Los Angeles, but hightailed it out to Ojai once the Hollywoodland development started to bring in the riffraff. You can still spot some of their mildly eccentric structures in the area. The Grand Temple of the Rosy Cross in Beachwood Canyon has been converted to the Krotona Apartments. Quentin Tarantino wrote his first script True Romance there when he was couch surfing during his early days in Hollywood.
Perhaps in honor of his time there on the couch, the Brad Pitt stoner scene from True Romance was shot in the Krotona Apartments.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gGZAIFteAgReplies: @Anonymous, @Autochthon
Maybe Little LMM should move to Ojai.
Interesting that the oh so English Natalie uses the dollar sign to indicate money, not the pound sterling £ or euro.
An aside: if I remember right, in The Six Million Dollar Man, Steve Austin was from Ojai originally.
Incel Trout. That would make for a great user name. Maybe I will adopt it.
I was born at Ravenswood and the apartment my parents lived in at that time was on the 3700 block of Greenview (less than a half mile from Wrigley Field). I attended St Andrews elementary school on Addison for 1st and 2nd grade. So I know (or at least, knew) the area pretty well.
My comment was in sarcastic reference to the media’s pattern of obscuring the origins of immigrants when suiting the narrative, in this case the two Nigerian brothers, who apparently live in Lakeview.
I’m a real 25 year old incel. Whenever a woman appears in one of my dreams she’s hostile towards me and with another man. Also, a naked woman is yet to appear in a dream of mine. It’s like my own brain is making fun of me for being an incel.
Gitche Gumee* Creepy Nightmare?**
The California Lampoc Record reports that Sir Edward Grey remarked that, “The lampreys** are going out all over Europe and we shall not see lake trout again in our life-time.”
* https://www.lakesuperior.com/the-lake/lake-superior/281almanac/
** https://www.mprnews.org/story/2017/10/31/invasive-sea-lamprey-lake-superior-rebound
Ojai is a pleasant little town. Just outside of Ojai, the Krotona Institute of Theosophy is a little worn these days, but the Reading Library is worth a visit if you have any interest in the 19th Century occult revival and weird old America. Note that the Reading Library tends to keep pretty esoteric hours so call ahead.
The Theosophists built the first Krotona Institute in Beachwood Canyon, Los Angeles, but hightailed it out to Ojai once the Hollywoodland development started to bring in the riffraff. You can still spot some of their mildly eccentric structures in the area. The Grand Temple of the Rosy Cross in Beachwood Canyon has been converted to the Krotona Apartments. Quentin Tarantino wrote his first script True Romance there when he was couch surfing during his early days in Hollywood.
Perhaps in honor of his time there on the couch, the Brad Pitt stoner scene from True Romance was shot in the Krotona Apartments.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gGZAIFteAgReplies: @Anonymous, @Autochthon
I’ve driven through the area many times and thought how pleasant it seems, but preliminary investigation confirmed my suspicion that, like most parts of Mexinchifornia not yet turned into a set from Bladerunner, it is overused (overcrowded) in public areas and overpriced in those private areas where one might otherwise actually enjoy the kind of respite that it still offered in Mr. Cash’s day. Being able to afford access to the overpriced, private areas (hey, he was in a famous teevee show!), Bojack Horseman went to Ojai to find direction from the mystical sorts there by visiting Cuddly Whiskers:
Perhaps if Steve writes about his visions of catastrophe more he may excise any ghosts underlying them; apparently the phenomenon may be heritable, too: does Sailer fils have these kinds of dreams, too?
Who’s excited about President’s Day?! I hope there’s a sale on Chinese plastic at the big box stores and on Japanese automobiles at the dealers, but mostly I am excited about whether Donald Trump will see his shadow or not, which of course will indicate whether unchecked immivasion continues for only fifty more years, or until the Chinese archaeologists show up in about a hundred, to sort out what happened….
Incel Trout are Whiskey’s favorite fish?
More Send Not For Whom The Bow Bells* Toll, They Toll For Cockney
“…my dreams center around titties.”
Eliza Doolittle says, “You need do little other than to move to Bristol Cities.”**
* https://www.telegraph.co.uk/history/9355640/True-Cockneys-dying-out-after-Bow-Bells-muted.html
** https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=bristol%20cities
See also Critical re-examination of Judy Garland as too old for her role in The Wizard of Oz:
Emerald City Titties
Also see The vice sanctuary, “Old Town” of the movie “Sin City” loom up even more nightmare-ishly when the highway sign is updated to “Welcome To *Tidal* Basin City.” (and yes, the city proper was even scarier)
‘…For anglers, planting triploid trout improves the fishing experience because sterile fish will put all their energy into growing, rather than expending some of it on spawning, so they are larger and fight harder when hooked…’
If these are grown to catchable size before being stocked, they will not fight harder when hooked. That much I’m confident of.
I remember fishing one time for trout that had been stocked at catchable size. I like to use an ultra-light rig, but I still remember holding my rod up, wondering ‘is that a fish on there?’
Now, hook a wild trout. No such uncertainty arises.
I’m not a purist; if the trout are stocked as fingerlings, they’re fine. But trout planted at ten inches or whatever? I’m genuinely not interested. Good bass food, I guess.
I think Texas still has decent sized communities of rural blacks who grow up fishing, hunting and riding horses. Also fish a classic staple of the classic Southern American diet from which all soul food comes.Replies: @Buffalo Joe, @Carol, @Anonymous, @JMcG, @Mr McKenna
I worked with a black guy who spent all his money at Cabelas and the HD dealer. He had the full fly fishing get up. He used to have a nice 9 foot 5/6 weight fly rod. On opening day of trout season, he’d load it up with monofilament and poke it out over all the little kids crowding the banks and drop power bait to the waiting trout. Apparently, size does matter.
It’s funny what triggers a brain into long-term recall. I read your post and saw the town “Ojai”, which triggered a spat of “I’ve heard of that place before”. After I went to do a task I put it aside and then all of a sudden, it came to me. Ojai is the town where Colonel Steve Austin’s (The Six Million Dollar Man) parents lived and there was a show episode oriented around that. I remembered because I loved that show as a kid.
In contrast, I had a terrible nightmare about when I was living on the 21st floor overlooking Lake Michigan and a giant tidal wave 180 feet tall wiped out the lower 18 floors...'
You're lucky. My dreams go more like this:
I'm grocery shopping, and I leave the store...and I realize I forgot the cheese.
Then I wake up, and I realize it was all just a dream, and it's okay.Replies: @jim jones, @Autochthon
Less embarrassing to’ve merely forgotten it than to’ve cut it….
Uh, ok.
If it is all the same to you, I'll stick to my Dr Who dream where I am in the Tardis with Rose, Amy, Clara, AND River Song. Or just Amy.
But if it makes you feel any better, I do have one nightmare:
I wake on a Freighter at sea, containers, barrels everywhere, and I am searching....for something....and of all things, there is Hillary. Her, me, an empty ship, and the next thing you know, I am bending her over a barrel, doing to her what she has been doing to the taxpayers all these years..... Oh, and it just doesn't knock the cobwebs, she likes it... a lot. Next thing you know, I am back on land and she is following me everywhere, work , Church, Chess Club even. Everyone, even Chess Club, begins to know my standards are so low I did Hillary. And that is just the beginning of the nightmare.
Seriously, if all dreams are sex dreams ( I am pretty sure Freud said that) tidal waves.....that can't be good.Replies: @Anon
I’ve often wondered if maybe Freud was right about a lot of his theories. At least as they apply to his fellow Jews. It obviously resonated with his clients and colleagues. To the Jewish mind, maybe it all had the ring of truth to it.
It’s obvious that psychology is very different for different groups of people. If you are a therapist with a primarily NE euro descended patient base you are going to treat a lot of anxiety and depression. If you are treating blacks you are not going to see much in the way of anxiety disorders.
A couple at my church just came back from Africa. They can’t stop talking about how happy the Africans are all the time. They sing and dance. They don’t worry about tomorrow all the time. Their take away is that we should be more like the Africans. My contention is that we CAN’T. All our ancestors with that psychology froze to death in the European winter.
Anxiety is the double edged sword gifted to us by natural selection. We lay awake at night worrying about things we can’t possibly control; the upside is this creates a society with tremendous social and financial capital.
We have anxiety and depression and the Jews have… whatever crazy stuff Freud was taking about.
Don’t mope about death and destruction, think of the gnarly Plunge for Distance opportunity—if the wave curls clean, you could make it past Naperville!
Gotta turn proverbial lemons into lemonade, folks. Steve, if your nightmare wave comes back, ride that sucka and tell us how it went.
ANY great change in climate would be a disaster. More for nature than for humans, because we can change where we choose where to plant our crops year by year while biomes shift at a rate of perhaps tens of miles per century.
“This isn’t really a thing except among a very small number of bourgie, feminist “career women”
It’s certainly more of a thing than it was, and it would be naive to pretend that trend will break any time soon:
In the US, the median age of a woman when she has her first child is [already] 30 for those with master’s degree.
This is why the mistress degree was better for everybody.
Perhaps he over did it.Replies: @Reg Cæsar
It’s just a healthy reaction to empty nest syndrome.
Thailand’s “winter” season is also its dry season, so any precipitation is unlikely. Doi Inthanon in northern Thailand occasionally has frost on the peak.
I thought it was “oh-HI”. “Hoo-ha” would be spelled Xuja.
Not to be confused with Juja:
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Perhaps Surprisingly, Indians REALLY Aren’t That Intelligent (On Average)
Lance Welton
https://vdare.com/articles/perhaps-surprisingly-indians-really-aren-t-that-intelligent-on-average
I think Texas still has decent sized communities of rural blacks who grow up fishing, hunting and riding horses. Also fish a classic staple of the classic Southern American diet from which all soul food comes.Replies: @Buffalo Joe, @Carol, @Anonymous, @JMcG, @Mr McKenna
Down south there is in fact legitimate negro fishing-lots of it. But it’s not remotely like the ‘LL Bean Negro’ fantasies of our Ruling Class minions in the ad business.
And yeah, not so much fly fishing.
Depends on where you live. In the hipper cities, (white & asian) women aren’t so much as encouraged to wait as they are encouraged (nay, expected) to do many more interesting things in their 20s and 30s until they suddenly realize time’s up.
And by that time, Marisol and Ma’kresha have had several children each.
Somehow, the national MSM is all crickets on this one again.
http://www.cwbchicago.com/2019/02/2-out-smollett-at-plate-lakeview.html
The lawyer for the two white-supremacist Nigerians says:Replies: @Mr McKenna
Walking home? All the way to Nigeria? Or are these fine young men “Americans” like everyone else in the world? In which case, pray tell why the hurried plane flight to….Nigeria?
Can they walk on water, like the ones on TV shows? Sure, I’ve heard of Magic Negroes before, but this is getting ridiculous.
Not to be confused with Juja:https://media-mpasho.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/1321450012-2758034335_n.jpg?x77747Replies: @Autochthon
I thought Xuxa was the sexy Brasilian bird with the children’s show, no?
You mean "não?", with only one question mark.
The only dreams I remember also involve running water.
Sir,
Can I subscribe to your newsletter?
Thanks, Ben. Not sure if you mean just the Carnac template/setup, but yeah [MORE] is useful for ‘time-releasing’ some punchlines. 🙂
It’s already almost three years since Fred’s been gone.
Shorter version: We're all fucked. Our grandkids are fucked in the ass.Move to Uranus. It's cold there.Sounds like a black thing.Replies: @anonymous coward
I’ve been hearing this spiel for the last 20 years. Usually the spiel comes with a warning about how we only have “5-10 years left”.
So, in hindsight, call me back when the sky falls. Thanks and have a nice day.
So, in hindsight, call me back when the sky falls. Thanks and have a nice day.Replies: @Mr. Rational, @James Speaks
You don’t get it. It’s the difference between what’s “baked in” and what we can still prevent. The vast thermal flywheel of the oceans create a decades-long delay between what we have currently and what is inevitably going to come.
Would you have the wits to recognize the decades-long process of salinization of soil from irrigation, and understand that the sky is ALREADY falling and will continue unless you put in drainage to get rid of the salt? Because that’s a pretty damn good analogy.
Or, it's metaphor. Nightmares about the World's Most Important Graph and dreams about the return of Thule.Replies: @Chrisnonymous
Steve,
What’s your problem? Recently, my comments just hang in moderation until well after others that come after mine. This comment wasn’t any stupider or more offensive than any others about your dreams.
Today, I have 3 comments of average pointlessness and stupidity on 3 posts, all just hanging there, while lots of others have been approved.
If you have some moderation policy, you should state that clearly.
Bruno Ganz kicked the bucket.
Someone else has a last name that starts with a G.
The Democrat Party ghouls are hoping she pulls a Nosferatu and lasts for as long as necessary.Replies: @Old Palo Altan
Who will be the first to post on Youtube Bruno Ganz’s Führer reacting to the news of Bruno Ganz’s death?
Shhhhhhhhhhhhh! We’re talking gutturals, not fricatives.
You mean “não?”, with only one question mark.
So, in hindsight, call me back when the sky falls. Thanks and have a nice day.Replies: @Mr. Rational, @James Speaks
I know of no climate scientist who says we have only 5-10 years left before dire results. For you to imply that is dishonest and misleading.
What climate scientists had been saying is that we have only 5-10 years left to get CO2 under control before irreversible effects start to kick in. It’s too late. We’re out of time. Irreversible effects have already started and since CO2 is higher than before the start of the industrial age, the effects which lag will only continue to worsen and there is nothing we can do about that.
In hindsight, with NOAA and other organizations tasked with protecting the population have concluded that the phenomenon of rapid intensification, where a CAT 1 hurricane 100 miles offshore becomes CAT 5 in 24 hours and wipes out Mexico Beach (Michael) are becoming more common due to ocean warming. Ocean warming lags air temps and air temps lag CO2 forcing.
There is an immense cavity under the Thwaites glacier in West Antarctica. If it goes, say goodbye to Miami. (It only takes 6″ to make Miami economically untenable.)There is evidence of undercutting the glaciers in East Antarctica. You know, the stable ones.
In hindsight, you won’t be able to take my call. You’ll either be dead b/c no food, riots, or government program to eliminate terminal morons, or you’ll be wishing you were dead after wading through 6 inches of sewage and other filth.
Have as nice day.
Been to Ojai. Beautiful place. There’s a really cool outdoor bookstore near there called “Bart’s Books”. Great place if you like to browse.
Any building is a symbol of your mind, with each room representing different aspects of your personality. A tidal wave is symbolic for new ideas, new ways of looking at things, sweeping in. If it’s scary or a relief is context dependent. The dream is a manifestation of your subconsciousness grappling with this unexpected challenge.
Given the context, maybe “band of brothers” should be “school of brothers” or “broschool”.
I think you're mixing up two different lakes. The fish stocking story is about Cachuma, as is the picture. But the lake you're describing, near Ojai, is Casitas. Cachuma is almost due north (past the first mountain ridge) of Goleta, which is the western most suburb of Santa Barbara. Casitas is the lake that was completely surrounded by the same fire that surrounded Ojai last year.Replies: @Steve Sailer
Yup, you are right, I’m mixing up the two Ca- lakes.
Ma’kresha? Smh
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDM4E0B_rzg
Interesting that the oh so English Natalie uses the dollar sign to indicate money, not the pound sterling £ or euro.
An aside: if I remember right, in The Six Million Dollar Man, Steve Austin was from Ojai originally.Replies: @Anonymous
Yes. When I watched that I thought Ojai must be a nice place to be from. I’ve never been there, but it seems like it would be really nice if it weren’t in Hitlerfornia.
Natalie has taken down all her videos again in another auto-da-fe so she’ll probably put them up again in a week or so. Other than her YT channel she has been pretty quiescent. Searching for “Natalie Hynde” on Google News pulls up stuff on her mother and her 2014 “besetting” where she superglued herself to a male compatriot to block fracking drilling in Balcombe, nothing more recent. She admitted on a YT post she did stuff like this because “she got off on it”.
Terrifying