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Gary Keenan @gerardpkeenan.bsky.social · 7d

I live in Cauca, Colombia, in a village of 1800 in the Colombian Andes. It's the only place I've ever felt at home.

Gary Keenan @gerardpkeenan.bsky.social · 7d

I saw him play 6 times in small clubs and one blues festival before he died. He had the greatest blues band I've ever heard, Bob Margolin and Luther Johnson on guitars, Pinetop Perkins on piano, Calvin Jones on bass, Willie Smith on drums, Paul Oscher on harmonica. His blues transformed my life.

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Gary Keenan @gerardpkeenan.bsky.social · 7d

The old Reichs Chancellery was also the site of Hitler's suicide in his bunker once his destruction of Germany was complete. Gaze upon your future, Amerika, if you do not destroy fascism first.

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Gary Keenan @gerardpkeenan.bsky.social · 7d

She is popular among those who also support Bukele in El Salvador and Milei in Argentina and Trump in the US. Normal people, not so much.

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Gary Keenan @gerardpkeenan.bsky.social · 7d

Some of our smaller birds: a Short-Crested Flycatcher, a Yellow Warbler, a Slate-Throated Redstart, and a Yellow-Throated Tyrannulet, all about 4.5 inches. Cauca is entering the rainy season, which affects bird ranges and behaviors. We should have some northern migrants arriving soon.

Gary Keenan @gerardpkeenan.bsky.social · 8d

It is illegal for any department of the US government to spend money not appropriated by Congress, so this "donation" is a impeachable offense if accepted and spent. We already have private military forces, such as those owned by Eric Prince, but this donation crosses a serious line into fascism.

Gary Keenan @gerardpkeenan.bsky.social · 8d

Two young Smooth-Billed Ani, a type of cuckoo. The male is on the left, female on the right, part of a large extended family group of ten birds. A pudgy Yellow-Faced Grassquit, a type of tanager. A Yellow-Backed Oriole in my patio mandarin tree.

Gary Keenan @gerardpkeenan.bsky.social · 8d

Yes, please.

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Gary Keenan @gerardpkeenan.bsky.social · 8d

The Democrats who keep losing will not save democracy. They obey the dictates of imperial capitalism which brought on our ruin.

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Gary Keenan @gerardpkeenan.bsky.social · 11d

A Bay-Headed Tanager, a Mountain Cacique, an Andean Mot-Mot, and a Squirrel Cuckoo.

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Gary Keenan @gerardpkeenan.bsky.social · Oct 3

An Andean Mot-mot (15 inches), a Squirrel Cuckoo (18 inches), and a Rufous-Tailed Hummingbird (3.5 inches)

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Gary Keenan @gerardpkeenan.bsky.social · Sep 3

We? Obama chose to do nothing about it and said we should just "move on." It was his cowardice and collusion with incipient fascism. I had nothing to do with his choice. Nor did you. We are not part of a democracy. We are the useful idiots in a fascist oligarchy.

Gary Keenan @gerardpkeenan.bsky.social · Aug 28

Sunset in the Andes, Cauca, Colombia.

Gary Keenan @gerardpkeenan.bsky.social · Aug 26

A Bare-faced Ibis, a Bay-headed Tanager, and a Scrub Tanager

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Gary Keenan @gerardpkeenan.bsky.social · Aug 26

A Tropical Parula, an unknown species, and a Smooth-billed Ani, a type of cuckoo.

Gary Keenan @gerardpkeenan.bsky.social · Aug 8

A pair of Andean Mot-mots in a neighbor's yard. They are the mascot of Tunia, where I live, and a popular feature of murals and sculptures in Cauca.

Gary Keenan @gerardpkeenan.bsky.social · Aug 4

When you live at 5,000 feet, you have a more intimate experience of clouds and sky.

Gary Keenan @gerardpkeenan.bsky.social · Aug 4

It's called "pick and flop"--a classic move.

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Gary Keenan @gerardpkeenan.bsky.social · Aug 4

He's a fraud and a coward who will wreck democracy for his donors and his ambitions.

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Gary Keenan @gerardpkeenan.bsky.social · Aug 4

A Greater Kiskadee and a Yellow-chinned Spinetail this morning in Tunia, Cauca, my hometown in Colombia.

Gary Keenan @gerardpkeenan.bsky.social · Aug 1

Red Ogre Review for 8/2025 is out, including my original music Don Ciro 1D from the play Los Desaparecidos by Phanor Teran Cabrera. Check it out here: ogre.red/issues/2025-...

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Music by Gary Keenan

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Gary Keenan @gerardpkeenan.bsky.social · Jul 21

The Yellow-headed Caracara is a type of falcon, 20-24 inches in length. It feeds on easily caught prey and scavenges. It prefers high, clear perches and calls loudly to establish its presence. Colombia is the best place on earth for birdwatching.

Gary Keenan @gerardpkeenan.bsky.social · Jul 21

The Green Jay is a social and vocal bird usually seen in groups moving through fruit tree groves. Here's one in our patio guayaba tree at breakfast time in Tunia, Cauca, our village of 1800 in the Colombian Andes.

Gary Keenan @gerardpkeenan.bsky.social · Jul 14

Neighbors include cows, hummingbirds, woodpeckers and hawks.

Gary Keenan @gerardpkeenan.bsky.social · Jul 14

A good day for butterflies in Tunia.