The Noxsoma Chronicles [0086]
12-15-2025 … Day 23666 (Good Moonday Lunatics)
Rip Van Winkle
Your humble vagabond worked 18 years on the graveyard shift. Stopped watching TV in 2006, just in time for YouTube to get going and for digital SLR video-capable cameras to appear. Then three years around the globe and then three more years of Psyop-19. A whole generation grew up during that time and their therapists, psychologists and sociologists changed the language. Not even to mention the way the tech changed. Between ‘06 and ‘16 TV tech changed to the point that I didn’t even know how to “operate” a television.
Yes – in the “before times” a TV wasn’t something you “operated.” You “switched” or “turned” it on, sank into your comfy chair, the one with your body’s imprint carved into it, and just let it do-whadit-do. Usually put you to sleep.
Humans talk so wimpy now. Like seaweed. Limp. Damp. Like … “liminal” … that’s a popular word. It’s not exactly rigid, but it’s not completely flaccid. It’s “gentle,” meaningless. Devoid of funk!! Boring. Dull. Overcast with a 50 50 chance of being interesting.
And it’s all the same. Like they are painting all the buildings around here, that used to be bright and cheery and tropically colorful – “Off White.”
Not white. Not even gray. Not eggshell white and certainly not salmon. Just off white. There was a lovely house in the affluent area that I thought was just a little more than “cute.” Mostly because it was colorful. Like many of those cribs over that way it hit the market. One point five mil, but it went for less. First thing the new owners did was paint it white. Or maybe “Off White.”
This – all of this is a sign of decline. It’s not robust. The language is not robust or direct. Everybody talks like they are asking a question. If you speak in exclamation points you might hurt someone’s feelings or cross boundaries or something.
Rip Van Winkle was a lazy young man who fell asleep under a tree for twenty years. When he woke up, the whole town had changed. But he was an old man by then, and wasn’t expected to do much back-breaking work. Good thing too. Because everything had changed.
Your boy is not shocked at these changes. I could see it coming. As always – or as usual – there will be a piece in the show about this. We are not going to try and turn back the hands of time. There are no good old days. We are not going to stand in the way of “progress.” Millennials and Zoomers – here’s your crack at operating the system. Gen-X is not likely to block. “I just wanna get high and watch.” First you will have to pry those Boomers out of their entrenched seats. Silent and Boomers are the first [dare We declare] generations to make politics a criminal enterprise – um, er … I mean a career.
Maybe when Gen-X starts hitting their 80s they will feel as if they know enough to run shit.
Stay savvy. Stay sovereign.
Is There a Hero?
We post links to our show on X in the morning and while we are there we do a little scrolling. As We are putting together the clips we are seeing a number of thinks come to Mind.
Shooters. Father & Son. Bondi Beach … I’ve been there. I recognize that bridge. Here’s how the news week begins. Pakistani, that means Muslim. Hanukkah, that means Jewish. Dayum. I have been on that bridge … or one like it. The weapons were illegal. How about the shooters? Scroll. Scroll.
Mind asks, “Is there a hero?”
Scroll down. Very next story. The hero arrives. Not very convincingly grabs the shooter, takes the weapon. Fires at the “terrorist.” Clip ends. It's cut off. Faux Magazine cover appears on social media.
The producers will show you what they want you to see. We have seen this show before. Many times.
What do We know? Nothing. This doesn’t have the ring of truth, rather the stench of the double-f-word.
Oz is still in play. Pakistan and-or Pakistanis – still viable villains.
Ten days until Christmas. The West is losing their shit.
“She lost her youth and she lost her Tony, Now she's lost her mind.” Manilow
That’s how the day started even before our first cuppa tea.
The Fall of the West
When David defeated Goliath on the battlefield the stone was just the first blow.
In the role of the Philistines, we have the collective western empire. Playing the Army, we have the EU-NATO. The role of Goliath will be played by Ukraine. The EU’s “champion.” David will be portrayed by Russia.
Russia had to finally stand its ground after the EU-NATO came a little too close for comfort. There are many versions of the narrative – that’s just the way it is these days. But the point of this theatrical treatment is that Goliath has been downed by a well placed strategically hurled stone. Goliath is down. David has yet to remove the Giant’s sword and remove his head. The Philistines are telling the army to tell Goliath to get up and fight, but Goliath cannot get up. Not for more money. Not for more loans. Not for more credit. Not for membership in the exclusive club. Not for more territory. Not for more hugs and photo-ops. Goliath – appears to be --- down for the count.
David – [Russia] – appears to be hesitating. The army is still there. They could rush him. Meaning – the EU-NATO still seems – or so they say – to have some leverage over Russia. We don’t know.
Goliath however, will be decapitated. Meaning, the Ukrainian government will fall [the regime change that the Western Empire so adores, except when it changes back from what they changed it to] – and the parts of that country that Russia “freed” will no longer be a part of Ukraine. And what’s left of Ukraine will be neutral.
Maybe in our play, David is considering whether to take the Giant’s head – or his balls. Only time will tell.
Jaw dropped to learn that Rob Reiner, son of comedian Carl Reiner had died. But not just died. Was done in. Reportedly by his son. That’s a tragic way to go. No commentary. Just R.I.P.
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Let’s do the numbers.
Today’s Score (12-15-2025)
BC … 39
Rum… 18
Ody….. 0
This Month So Far (12-15-25)
BC …… 1330
Rum …...318
Ody……. 78
Month to Date … 1726
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