8/8?

solar time

as i mentioned before im into  numerology a bit, like with  Fri the 13 and 26th, Sunday oneday etc.

but many try to do it on days like this, so called 8/8, August 8. but you have to realize  that the calendar month names don't line up numerically: September (Sept) is supposed to be the 7th month, October the 8th etc. ..

Spring, e.g. the Equinox, is in March, and that's where i think a lot of calendars started. as ours is supposed to: if you count, the 7th month from March is Sept,  etc. as a Pagan i agree with that.

starting the calendar year Jan 1st, Jesus' circumcision (which it almost certainly wasn't just as his birth is most certainly not Dec 25), was decided by some monk in the mid ages or something. the new year then, for some reason.

so Aug 8 doesn't line up, but Oct 8 would. 8 8. more about that later probably.

US Diplomacy: Straightening Up, Flying Correct?

from Hiroshima Peace Park

at least after Bush and his right wing: illegal war, unilateralism, ignorance of international treaties, ignoring our own Constitution when dealing with foreigners, staying clear of international treaties. you know: dark ages of American internationalism. and im not 100 percent pro Obama, but as soon as he was inaugurated, improvements on the diplomatic front.

• today was the 65th anniversary of a day that really should live in infamy: Hiroshima's bombing. finally, finally, America sent a representative, an ambassador i think. 
• Obama's administration has been much more open to countries like Cuba,  Russia, and tougher on some nations that have it coming like Israel.   not just conversing with oil producers. i still have in my head Bush literally holding hands and going along with some big shot  from Saudi Arabia i think.  one of Earth's worst regimes.
• more open to European methods like  health care
• more open to limiting nukes. .
• the above while having to clean up after Bush's awful wars, cowboy diplomacy, isolationism, chauvinism, hypocrisy

as i said there's much im not happy about: Guantanamo, American hypocrisy with nukes, American build up of troops in Afghanistan (after winning the Nobel peace prize). but again, progress after one of the worst administrations in our history

Remembering the Passing of a Former Friend

who died on this day, not long before I left L.A.. she lived next to me  for a couple of years. nice, smart, good sense of humor, not very old. but unfortunately unhealthy, overweight, seemingly isolated. didn't get exercise, drove everywhere, may have smoked, didn't clean much.

in truth i really didn't know much about her. i thought i overheard her once, talking to some one on the phone, saying that she wasn't happy, didn't know what to do. of course hotlines (if that's what it was) are often a desperate resort. this is one of those times you look back: you wish you could have done more.

and that includes her end: she fell sick, was even more immobile. i think a friend was coming over to help. i remember one time though that she didn't seem to have water on a very hot summer L.A. day so i got her some. then  i went to the desert, to my job, soon after. i came back and she was deceased. i wondered what happened, if she gave up, didn't take care etc.

as usual i try to learn from passings of others. and wish there was more, to do, for her etc. hope for better in future.

America the Backward

closed prison

do we realize how much,  in this "greatest god given nation in the history of this earth" or whatever the asshole Sean Hannity says?

• most of the industrialized world (Europe, Canada, etc): free health care, higher quality of life, more peace, cheaper higher education, higher life expectancy, lower infant mortality, more time off from jobs. America: at times violent opposition to health care, huge differences between poor, rich, middle, biggest military industrial complex in history, exorbitant prices for college, higher crime rates, struggling middle class.
• again most of the industrialized world: more gay rights for marriage and military service. that includes much of S America. gays can also openly serve in places like Catholic Ireland, Italy and Spain,  Russia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual_orientation_and_military_service
• America often builds up the reputation of the rich, putting people like Trump, Paris Hilton, asshole athletes, "successful" criminals like Charlie sheen, up on a pedestal, saying that they deserve their money, their success, they've worked hard etc. the poor are often seen as lazy, stupid, uneducated, McDonald eating, smoking, welfare sponging. in Europe etc the percentage of people that think that the poor's lot is their own fault is much lower. hence more of a safety net, more views that more problems are social diseases like drugs.
• side note: New York City has had drops in crime since the early 90s like most other American cities, but the prison rate is also dropping. not true for other cities and the nation which builds prisons more than any other nation. e.g in Brooklyn near borough hall there's a closed jail. again if lower level, less violent criminals are not locked up as much, where their problems can be seen as social problems, and they are given more access to rehab, crime rates and [prison populations can go down. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/11/nyregion/11jails.html?scp=1&sq=New%20york%20prison%20population&st=cse

What Would You Like to See on Film?

i am a camera? 

if i haven't said it enough,  i'd like to thank the readers of this blog (kind of don't like when sites  call them "followers," like it's a cult or something).  i very much appreciate it. i like  writing the posts, and i appreciate you all, you're one of the entities that keep me going even when i don't feel motivated, which improves me, my writing, YOUR LIVES,  THE WORLD , , FOREVER! haha. 


anyway it's relatively easy to write and blog, but i think it's time to film. im just too pretty to be kept at a computer haha,  so i'll be doing a naked webcam show (kidding). but i want to film some of my material, posts etc so feel free to let me know what you think is filmable, what you'd like to see filmed, posted on YouTube etc. and yes i'll try to post it here.  feel free to air you opinions. i'll be filming pretty soon probably. thanks. also if you want to get involved in the filming let me know, but i'm not promising, it takes a lot of effort to film and the smaller the shoot the easier. probably do it up in W Chester: more room, facilities etc. 

Oneday Sunday Funday: Numerology

i don't know how much relevance is really in it but im into numerology a little, think it's interesting at least. 


i wonder if we should have special activities  for days of the week that line up with their numbers. . e.g. the first, one day: Sunday or Mon. the 2nd, twos day--Tuesday. 3rd day, Thursday. you can also maybe go with 11th, 22nd, etc.


  should we be pathologically  obsessed with that number on  that day like 2 Face in Batman? or like  someone with ocd (not my type) that does everything once,  twice etc? for the hell of it? should we play a bunch of lottery numbers with those numbers  in them?   we already have special days like Friday the 13th.


of course all these days have real meanings that are different: , Monday means  moon day: should we check out the moon those days? on Thursday, Thor's day , should we work with hammers? 


i didn't make this method up really:  in the show Friends, Joey remembers the days of the week similarly: Monday one day, Tuesday 2s day etc. 

Why I Prefer to Eat at Home, Alone, part 1

one of few times, wish i was in army

it's really an activity that i very much prefer to do alone. i don't understand the social aspect: you're eating. your mouth is occupied. why the hell should i talk? much less entertain as some want me to do? and going on a rendezvous (my fancy name for the queer word "date"): forget it! i don't want her seeing me not know how to eat French (food that is, haha). 


 it's actually one of the very few times that i don't even  enjoy reading: that shows you how much i want to chill out when i eat. 


but believe it or not i love to eat at restuarants (alone): love sitting, relaxing, the possbilit of a good big meal etc. but it realy is a crappy deal: meal mark ups are so big, so many meals i've had i felt that  i could  buy the materials  in the stoer for much cehaper, , work on them  a little and it would  be compaarable. and im no sharp cook.  plus the burden's on you to tip or you look cheap and the waiter earns minimum wage or less, which really isn't your fault but it's dumped  on you. 


also health-wise: who  knows how many calories/fat/salt etc are iny the food. even NYC doesn't require them to publish it on the menus. plus i usually overstuff myself,  and then  need to sh--t where i eat at times (shout, haha). 


again at home: private, your own time, could be much healthier and cheaper, you can do whatever the hell you want, with who you want.