The Dread Poet Michael

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Had a fairly interesting life, did some stuff, went some cool places, made some things, and now I'm old. Funny how that works... TheDreadPoetMichael.com Original stuff © Slava Ukraini!

Sunset at St Marks with the line of old pilings and perched seabirds
Horseshoe crabs spawning in the surf
The Mystery Mounds Project Near Tallahassee, Florida, a site of historical and archaeological significance sleeps, unappreciated and almost unknown. The goal of The Mystery Mounds Project is to bring it into greater public awareness, with an eye to returning a greater level of respect and care to this deserving site. Thus I'm distributing - at no cost - small effigies of the main mound at the site, embossed on the back with a code which, searched for on the Internet, will return a trove of information. Mystery Mounds are made from plant-derived PLA plastic and are biodegradable. I would like to put these in the hands of educators or others who wish to distribute Mystery Mounds at no cost - for instance as the core of a lesson plan. You can reach me at Bluesky. or MysteryMounds (at) faroutpost.com. -- -- This effort is currently being funded and implemented by an individual. I have excess PLA filament from a project involving the main mound at Letchworth and hit on the idea of printing the "mystery mounds" as a way to make good use of it. I have enough for several hundred mounds on hand. This isn't about me; I intend to stay in the background and supply them to people who can make good use of them. Just think of it as "recycling".
Police attacking a civil rights protestor with German Shepherd dogs Birmingham, Alabama, 1960s
The infamously burned out Bill D Cat
Water has carved out what looks like a pair of scowling owl eyes in a piece of limestone
Flower photo with background replaced with transparency
Extreme closeup of a rainbow silhouetting bare trees and looking distinctly ominous
Extremely vivid sunset over water
The Monty Python foot treading on the Gadsden flag
An old log sticking up at an angle looks like a strange and dangerous creature
Cartoon of NASA rover singing parody of "Greenback Dollar" with the Warner Brothers singing/dancing frog
An eight-pointed abstract design representing the Sun, the horizon, the Cardinal Directions, and the four Solstice points
Apologies - I don't have this in text form
Gull perched atop a streetlight
An image generated to validate and visualize some raw data also looks like a grand staircase in an underground palace
A negative image of a topo map of a mound
A display of raw data color coded and in a form that brings out hidden information
A Native American warrior holding a shield and wielding a tomahawk
A graphic showing the obliquities (axial tilts) of the planets
Cartoon character Pogo saying "We have met the enemy and he is us"
A reproduction of the skeleton of a mastodon recovered from the Aucilla River in North Florida
A reproduction of the skeleton of a mastodon recovered from the Aucilla River in North Florida
At the lighthouse at St Marks Wildlife Refuge, 1970
The WakullaVolcano,Com home page
The GOP party symbol with three parasites (Ted Cruz, Michele Bachmann, and Rand Paul) feeding on its back, visiting a doctor, who tells it to watch out who it hangs out with
A fake movie poster for a fake movie "Escape From Texas" with stereotypical women prisoners making a jailbreak. It says "They've been denied health care and forced to have children: NOW... THEY'RE BUSTIN' OUT!!!
A mashup "cartoon" of a pistol turned into a drone shooting down another drone that looks like a cuddly reindeer. It's staged as an NRA ad with Wayne Pierre (why is he not in prison?) promoting it
A slender Mexican Virgin Mary with her arms raised in a circle over her head, seen from behind (it's a blue plastic water-mister with a fan)
Two articles juxtaposed One is "World's premier cancer institute faces crippling cuts and chaos" The other is "AMAZON PRIME DAY... Prime Day is finally here. These are the best deals that are actually worth your money"
A photo of a small black dog looking at the camera with a doggie smile
Four red blossoms which appear to be some variety of honeysuckle
Duck weed covered water at the edge of Lake Miccosukee, looking like solid ground
Political scientist Yevgenia Albats found such attitudes deplorable: "Throughout the country, without investigation or trial, the Chekists [of an earlier generation] raged. They tortured old men and raped schoolgirls and killed parents before the eyes of their children. They impaled people, beat them with an iron glove, put wet leather 'crowns' on their heads, buried them alive, locked them in cells where the floor was covered with corpses. Amazing, isn't it that today's agents do not blanch to call themselves Chekists, and proudly claim Dzerzhinsky's legacy?"[25]
The "DONT TREAD ON ME" Gadsden flag with the Monty Python foot stomping on it
Cartoon character Pogo saying "We have met the enemy and he is us"
A civil rights protestor on a street in Birmingham AL in the 1960s being attacked by police with dogs
Closeup of two vultures in a tree
Extreme closeup of a Japanese Magnolia flower's red heart
Image of a Doge of Venice
Closeup of a cluster of bright orange milkweed flowers
A photo of a frayed knot