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The Terrible Strain, an outpost watched That Kid, and run by The Admin, is a collection of writing and imagery ... for now, anyway.

This page is a front for another page hidden inside a blog that's hidden inside a site that not even a Chinese spam machine can find.

09/05/2021

HAPPY MOTHRA'S DAY!

15/04/2021

“Genius and madness have something in common: both live in a world that is different from that which exists for everyone else”
― Arthur Schopenhauer
This quote stuck with me for decades – or rather, his explanation below. In writing a piece on my Father's discovery that the magnetic North was shifting, based on his own observations and measurements with simple instruments in 1977, I remembered it. Dad was completely nuts at the time. He also was a Master Carpenter and the trigger man for an anti-tank unit, which meant he knew an awful lot about precise measurement. At the time, I thought it was brilliant but part of his craziness. Yet he was 100% correct. And it wasn't even news then. https://earthsky.org/earth/magnetic-north-rapid-drift-blobs-flux #:~:text=Magnetic%20north%20was%20drifting%20at,km%20a%20year)%20toward%20Siberia.

The location of Earth’s north magnetic pole appears to be controlled from deep within Earth by 2 competing blobs in the magnetic field. One is under Canada, and the other is under Siberia. “The Siberian blob is winning,

12/04/2021

Very peculiar reax to second Pfizer shot. Took this selfie and ... I dunno, man. I dunno. This wasn't on the list of side effects

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The Terrible Strain is part of an expression my late-brother (KIA Vietnam, 1971) employed, humorously, to explain the dire circumstances of our time in a poor, crumbling neighborhood that was in a lot of trouble, with parents who were seriously unwell and neighbors that now, to describe them, would appear to be fake news or a treatment for an independent TV show. The full expression, as I recall: “Look Frankie, we’re all under A Terrible Strain. You, me, the sister, Mom and Dad, the dog, the guinea pig, the cats, the neighbors next door, the neighbors up front, this town, this country, this world: We’re all under a Terrible Strain.” He laughed out loud, infectiously as he went on and on about everyone in the news, sports, entertainment industry, etc., were all under The Terrible Strain. It is one of my best memories of him and there are many others. The profile pic is of my Dad in high school, a 4-Letter Man in track and field, soccer, baseball and basketball. He was drafted into WWII and served on the frontlines during the Battle of the Bulge and a brutal follow-up campaign that changed him permanently and not for the good. It is a darkly comic thing, this page and if it doesn’t suit your fancy, totally understood. It is random and some times plain weird. Thanks for stopping by.