Life and death are things you just do when you're bored

I dreamed paintings last night. 
First it was bananas in an Andy Warhol kind of a way. Then came the color field-esque canvases. They were reminiscent of Frankenthaler with a minimalist touch of Miró thrown in just for fun and sparkles. 

The dreams are giving me doable ideas. Nice.

I also had a little nightmare of sorts  featuring John Wayne. What. The. Fuck. I think Phil Stern’s pic of Wayne in short shorts appearing in my Threads feed before I went to Beddy Bye Land might be the culprit.

In any case, Katherine Hepburn was also in this vignette and she was tearing him three new assholes for some reason.

Probably because he was a draft dodging, big-(faux) dick-swinging, opportunistic white supremacist. He would fit in snuggly with Fuckface von WHY-Isn’t-He-Dead-Yet and crew. If he were alive today, he’d be suing Elon Musk's KGB connected Edward Coristine for using Wayne's rightful nickname – Bog Balls (oh... oh, sorry. I meant to type Big Balls). 

Of Natives Wayne’s said:

“I don’t feel we did wrong in taking this great country away from them. It was just a matter of survival. There were great numbers of people who needed new land, and the Indians were selfishly trying to keep it for themselves.”

Of Black people Wayne’s said:

“I believe in white supremacy until the blacks are educated to a point of responsibility. I don’t believe in giving authority and positions of leadership and judgment to irresponsible people.”

Whatever dream Hepburn’s reasons were, Wayne totally had it coming. He was nothing but a tiny brained cardboard puppet. 
~~~
Actor Graham Greene has died. He was only 73 – too damn young.

He was one of the first Native actors to break the bullshit stereotypical way Native’s are presented/portrayed.

“When I first started out in the business, it was a very strange thing where they’d hand you the script where you had to speak the way they thought native people spoke. And in order to get my foot in the door a little further, I did it. I went along with it for a while … You gotta look stoic. Don’t smile … you gotta grunt a lot.

“I don’t know anybody who behaves like that. Native people have an incredible sense of humour.

“And that’s what I said to Kevin [Costner]. I said, you know, the people in this film [Dances with Wolves], in this village, they have an incredible family, incredible relationship and fun has always been part of that. Fun is 50% of how they live and enjoy things. Family is family, no matter what.” (source) 

Christ almighty. I have a big sad. Now I wanna watch Reservation Dogs and rewatch Thunderheart.
~~~
I smell a ripped from the headlines best selling murder mystery in the works:

A murder investigation has been launched at the Burning Man festival in the US state of Nevada after a man was found "lying in a pool of blood" on Saturday night, police say.
   ~~~
The body was discovered as the Man - a towering structure which lends the festival its name - was beginning to burn. The victim's identity is not known. (source) 

Another publication colorfully stated that the dead man’s body was found “while the festival’s large wooden effigy of a man at the centre of the festival was engulfed in flames.” Clearly the column’s author is already crafting a first draft on that best seller.

Happy Not-Yet-Fall-But-It-Feels-Like-It-Cause-Kids-Are-Back-In-School-And-It’s-Dark-When-I-Wake-Up-Now-And-Shit!

Song for today: Fear Is A Man's Best Friend – John Cale