Older Folk Noise

"damn kids!"

why do we have to "turn down that gal darn music" when we're with older folk in the car, restaurants,  even our homes,  yet when many of them watch TV, it's at overwhelmingly loud  noise levels?

Seasons of GIving and THanks

still in love 

im not sure about Thanksgiving being in late NOv, after so many harvest festivals that are in most of the Northern hemisphere,  Aug (Lughnassad), Harvest Moon, etc.

however it's perfect timing with gift giving of the Solstice (Xmas): at Thanksgiving, i begin to think about the year past, who has been nice not naughty, who i should maybe give a token (gift of appreciation) to, and you have a whole month to get it and give it. so good timing.

the Solstice makes sense in biological terms: times of darkness and cold, so  time to get together with folks, joy, gift giving etc. So looking backwards, Thanksgiving in late Nov makes sense.

is that how Lincoln et al decided upon it? don't know. also not sure if there is any history in it being at that time (Pilgrims etc). have a feeling  they did it nearer to more astronomical harvest times mentioned above.

Darker Holidays, (short) Text

Halloween: half way between Equinox (equal dark and night), and Solstice (darkest)= darker days= more spirituality begin. (begin. Celtic year, Samhain, All Souls, Christmas etc)

Thanksgiving: harvest, think of who to thank, what etc ur thankful for, non naughty/nice list, gifts at holidays

please go to below pod cast

Darker Holidays

Darker Holidays

click above, podcast

Really Odd Jobs

Really Odd Jobs

this is a continuation of an old blog entry, this is a podcast

THe Only Solid or Liquid that Travels Up?

capitalist vertigo 

if im not mistaken, money is the only one that travels up. 


you pay up with it. it flows up actually in trickle down economics where the people up top get paid first and most so that  Atlas doesn't shrug, before the money theoretically, and i emphasize that word, trickles down.


 the Fed, IRS, the big bureaucracies that take  out of your pay check before you even see it yourself. the ones who get executive bonuses in spite of government bailouts, lay offs, etc. 

Podcast? Youtube?

techno

been a litte slow on the writing  because it's  a bit of a time of transition. where im proud of my writing, blogging etc , i want to move on i think to some activities i want to do, and which can earn me more pay and notoriety   i hope.


 so i've looked into podcasting (for those who don't know, like an audio blog), since everyone says i should be in voice overs, radio etc, because of my face (beat you to it?) and of course i've been talking about filming and You tube etc, and may have a method there so we'll see. 


as usual your opinions, comments etc are welcome.


 again a time to figure what i want, how to go about it, best medium etc. what's great is that so much of it can be done at home on computer etc. and the equip for the most part isnt' expensive.  if anyone's interested let me know i can give you info. 

the Curious Case of Sergey Bubka, part 1

statue of Bubka

i used to be a huge sports fan and watch many of them avidly. now i pretty much stick with the major championships (one dayers pretty much): Super bowl and boxing championships (between really top fighters, not redundant weight classes). i still consider myself a bit of a historian though in sports and still read about  many of them. 


since i was in hs or so i was interested in the Soviet sports system mainly because they would wup our asses internationally in many sports. yes i know, drugs were probably more systematic there, but that wasnt' the whole picture. they had a great system, schools, methods which i've studied.  a lot to learn actually, they were actually years ahead of us in much research, for instance the emphasis on not just speed or strength, bu tboth pf them used together in an athlete, which is the key to so much athletic achievement (witness running, jumping, throwing etc). 


anyway i like to read about their dominant athletes. one of them is maybe the most dominant of all athletes in history, Sergey bubka, the pole vaulter. no  one was close to him during his career for the most part, and though he's been retired for years and track and field records  usually fall quick, i don't think anyone's close to him now as far as the heights he's cleared , world records etc. amazing athlete: fast, strong, so great as a craftsman with the pole. 


yet as dominant as he was, he still showed weaknesses in his career...

the Real 9 9

Fellini Schmellini

another day  that's supposed to be numerologically  interesting: November should be the 9th month, (Nov), today the 9th day. again counting months from the spring (Equinox) month, March, this holds true. 


so a day to listen to the Beatles: "One after 909", 'Revolution 9', a song where if you listen careful you can literally hear Yoko breaking up the Beatles (especially if you listen backwards).. also  i once came up with a tune in a dream, "9 for 9", about a guy so obsessed with his girlfriend's past 9 fuck buds  that he became a serial killer to gun them all down like an animal. so as you can see, it's a kids song!  


also: the musical 9 (based on Fellini's great film 8 1/2, which meant that it was his film number  8 1/2). 


also considered sort of a perfect number, where it's the trinity 3 times e.g. 


other uses http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/9_(number).

Coogan's Ultimate Bluff

bluffer and bluffer

well it;s finally gone: the "Polo grounds curse', 'another NY baseball curse', is lifted. the Giants of baseball won 5 championships in NY, in the old Polo grounds. since moving to SF in the 50s: 0, until now. 


the old Polo grounds was a  classic park, with championships in football, great boxing bouts, etc. but it proved that there's nothing too big to fail in NY and even when the Giants  were one of the best teams in the world, they didn't sell much. 


not much left from the old house except the stairs on the left. I think i wrote about this and displayed it before: it's this condemned, falling apart, awful stair way up the  bluff (Manhattan's spine as i call it). you literally have to climb around to get to the top. but it clearly displays an old remnant from the Giants, and yes this is how it still looks. . and it's right near where i live. on the site of the old field are pjs (projects, housing). supposedly inside they've marked  the site of around  where home plate was. gotta check it out. 


the Giants, after some 70 years of playing in NY, went on to 'Frisco (SF, they hate when u say that),  where even with players like Mays, Maricial, Mccovey, Bonds, Kent etc: no championships. . that finally ended the other night. 


so next year, are the Cubs the only ones left? 

TOnight RIght Will Be Wrong

best health care in world right (wing)? 

terrific. let;s see what happens

• when a semi segregationist like Rand Paul (nice name) wins a national office. Strom Thurmond resurrected (he is dead right?)
• how much the media will spout endlessly about the Tea party kicking ass (which is o.k, but the coverage of Obama in 2008 was liberal biased media im sure), even though the Democrats were close to winning the Senate by 9:30 pm Eastern time
• i wonder when everyone will realize that the Tea partiers are more affluent  than the average American and it may be that they just  want lower taxes for themselves, and couldn't  care less about less government when the gays become discriminated against or when they themselves  want the Constitutional right of freedom of religion abolished for Muslims 
• again we'll "see" how much the problems now have nothing to do with Bush and everything to do with Obama. oh i left (left!) out Clinton, everything bad now is his fault too. 
• when we again ignore facts like the ones that support state supported health care in Europe being  better than our "best system in America" that ranks 35th in the World Health Organization's rankings

Souls, Ancestors, the Season etc

world's best mausoleum

this time of year  obviously there's more darkness. we're past Equinox where the Equator  lines up with the Sun, and the Southern hemisphere is getting more Sun, us less. so this brings on Halloween. it roughly  marks the half way point between Equinox and Solstice, sort of the begin. of the darkest days of year, hence belief in the supernatural, the "other world" active and  coming to Earth, but also spirituall belief in contact respect, thanks etc for ancestral spirits. this continues on to the Solstice (Xmas etc). 


as usual with original Pagan holidays, the Christians "adopted' the holiday, probably couldn't and can't stamp it out, and turned it into their "all saints, souls" or whatever. thankfully it's survived as Halloween but of course much of the commercial  superficial aspects survive, less the spiritual with US (this is one case where our "invading' friends from down south, Mexicans, can help us maybe in learning to pay more respect to passed loved ones etc.)


as many of you know, i think there should be times to celebrate, remember, give thanks etc to our passed loved ones, and this is a major time for such practice, with the dark days, spend. time  indoors, spending the holidays  unfortunately without them.  i think it  should be a time to remember them, welcome them back to our souls (or minds at least). small sacrifice, small energies, large thanks, large respect.