And so I have finally come to the realization and conclusion that in the end all there is is Google. The sitemeter tells me so, that in the end all there is is Google, or maybe an AOL or Yahoo search every once in a blue moon. But mostly, all there is is Google in the end. Everything Internet seems to all be powered by Google and now that SEO terms gives a whole new meaning to me that I never realized before when I started this blog that no matter how much I try to get visitors to this site by posting on every forum and board that I can think of, artificially inflating the number of visitors to this site on a temporary basis, that in the end when I run out of blogger steam in the blogosphere and those numbers start to disappear from trying to promote this site, that in the end, all it comes down to is Google, who seems to keep this page alive with its search engine on a consistent basis. As long as I write some sort of content for this site and do nothing else as far as promoting this blog, it is Google who is there visiting. And now I truly understand what the hype is all about regarding that SEO search engine optimization thing. And how or if that Google page rank thing relates to that SEO thing I am not sure as all that Alexa is your blog in the top one billion ranking system, link popularity and other site statistic features are still too confusing for me to comprehend. And it’s sort of funny to me how I notice that the words Google and Blogger share most of the same letters. How interesting. So if there is nothing else, it seems like in the end, There is always Google.
Gold
Gold. What can I say about Gold? A lot. That song comes to mind, “Money, money, money, money. Money”! or “There’s gold in them there hills”, or , “When was that California Gold Rush and is there still some gold left to find in the dirt?” Or, what’s that verse in the Bible? “For the love of money is the root of all evil, and while some have coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows…” And besides the fact that I always need money in this world there is a lot more I can think of to say about money. If you are looking for gold, you can purchase gold, silver and other precious metals in coin or ingot form at Monex Deposit Company. You can invest in precious metals and have gold when the stock market goes dry or if money runs out or disappears from the economy. Monex Deposit Company is a trusted name in precious metals for more than forty years.
The Good Samaritan
And now reading the latest news, there is flooding in England, half of America is on fire from wildfires, and an earthquake has happened in Japan, enough devastation to make me think the beginning of the end is near or at least global warming is in action. And is that “climate change” term a nice way of saying the world is about to end or transform in some sort of cataclysmic way? Is it now The Day After Tomorrow, the movie? Yesterday a friend taught me a new term to tell anyone who asks me how to blog; “RTFM”. Read the freaking manual. I thought that was kind of funny. And the story of the good Samaritan also crossed my mind yesterday. What’s that story about? Doesn’t it have something to do with if you see someone fallen and stranded by the side of road, do not pass him by, help him. And what is the moral of that story? Who is my brother and my sister? Better is a neighbour and a friend near than a brother afar. There is a parable to be found here somewhere. Compassion. Helping one another, helping the poor, the sick, the lame, the elderly, the home bound, and whoever else in need of help. If thine enemy be hungry, give him bread to eat; and if he be thirsty, give him water to drink. For thou shall heap coals of fire upon his head, and the Lord (whoever the Lord may be..) shall reward thee. Proverbs, if you believe.
I Need A Vacation
As I seem to be writing endlessly this past month, it’s summertime. I could use a vacation and I am not exactly sure from what and to where. I was able to experience the world on the travel channel, Globe Trekker TV today for my cyber vacation and I went on a virtual reality vacation without having to leave home and travel through the mass sea of humanity in the surrounding area of this neighborhood. I was able to turn on the television and watch the travel channel and pretend I was travelling to the places I saw on TV. I visited lots of mountains and lakes and stayed in a lot of hostels and hotels and I even visited the Danish Christiana squat in Denmark, their community is freedom and utopia although they are oppressed by the polizei policies there. I saw a lot of the coolest rituals and places today, all through someone else’s eyes. Wow, what an adventure I had today from the convenience of home, all for free. There are some good programs on TV despite the majority of television being crap. Now back to reality. Have a great day.
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And More Music Festivals
And in the midst of tragedy, life goes on. It’s summertime and music festivals abound this time of year. If you happen to be in the neighborhood, the Village Voice is having its seventh annual Siren Music Festival Saturday, July 21 from noon-9pm at Coney Island, and don’t forget Central Park Summerstage with Brazilian Girls, Cat Empire and The Himalayas this Sunday, the day after also. Saturdays Siren Festival features New York Dolls, M.I.A, We Are Scientists, The Black Lips, Noisettes, Dr. Dog, The Twilight Sad, Cursive, Voxtrot, Matt and Kim, Lavender Diamond, The Detroit Cobras, Elvis Perkins in Dearland and White Rabbits. And for some reason, I really like that We Are Scientists It’s A Hit video. Check it out. They rock.
The Lord’s Prayer
Reading the news on the Yahoo homepage and around the world today is awful, God awful, whoever God may be, on any given day these days. Amongst the many cacophony and anomaly of disasters that take place daily that are too many for me to follow, man made and natural, there lies yesterdays disaster. A Brazilian airliner crashes and all of the passengers have lost their lives and the length of their days has been shortened. The statue of Christ the Redeemer is located in Brazil, and it is beautiful. Unfortunately plane crashes happen every so often much like many other man made disasters in this world. This news makes me want to pray for the latest tragedy and the possible profit before people motive and misfortune that has become the result and it makes me wonder about how if you can use the word precious, human life is and how ones life can end without notice and that all humans are prone to accidents and are at risk of losing their lives at any given moment whether by war, plague, famine, wild beasts or disease. One can never know when their number is up or who can predict the day of ones death, who is exempt from death and who knows what to morrow will bring. Time and chance happens to us all. Humanity, much like the beasts of the fields and the birds of the air is subject to the death lottery in life. And death is a part of life. Brazil has declared a national day of mourning as a result of its worst plane disaster in history. And Lord willing, I also think of the Lords Prayer. If one believes.
Our Father, which art in Heaven,
Hallowed be thy Name.
Thy Kingdom come.
Thy will be done,
in earth as it is in Heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread.
And forgive us our trespasses,
As we forgive them that trespass against us.
And lead us not into temptation;
But deliver us from evil.
For thine is the kingdom, The power, and the glory,
For ever and ever.
Peace on earth
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Blog About Her Blog
So I finally found a friend who has a blog and I read it the other day, well not all of it but some of it. I have always wanted to find someone else to talk to as a blogger. Her blog is really cool. I can sit and read it all day. It’s mostly a story about her life and her daily routines, much like a public diary and a journal only she isn’t attempting blogs to riches as I am yet, and I can’t mention her name and she doesn’t want me to tell anyone the name of her blog which I don’t really understand because what’s the point of having a blog if you do not want anyone to read it, or maybe it’s that gossip amongst friends factor. Her blogging site is Live Journal and a live journal it is indeed. I find out more about her in her blog than I do in real life. She talks about her job as as artist model, her family, the events she goes to and lots of other stuff and her style of writing is interesting to read. She writes really long novels with each posting and I don’t know how she finds time to blog as her life seems so busy. I told her I am trying to blog to riches and she did not even know one can get paid to blog much like most people I tell the blogger story to these days but that doesn’t seem to be the case when I turn on this computer and see the blogosphere filled with tons and millions and zillions of other blogger for bucks bloggers. Here is a really cool poem that she has on her site:
The best-laid plans o’ mice an’ men
Gang aft a-gley,
An’ lea’e us nought but grief an’ pain
For promised joy.
Robert Burns (1759-1796)
Of all the words of mice and men,
the saddest are these:
It might have been,
~ some poem that I read in high school
Subway Musicians
And so I find myself blah blogging about this same topic again. Are my blog topics repeating themselves? The harassment of New York City subway musicians, with or without a permit. And so I heard the same story happened again yesterday and may happen again and again with no end in sight. Again, is the New York City Metropolitan Transit Authority becoming the New York City Metropolitan Terrorizer Association? My friends are members of the Music Under New York program. Their music rocks and will get you grooving. Their band plays their music, horns, drums, bucket drummers and shakers at the Times Square 42nd Street subway station weekly and just about every other time they show up to play, they are harassed, threatened, shut down and yesterday, physically ejected from the subway station by New York City transit cops, police policies and polizei. It’s almost as if they are on the New York City subway most wanted list for that subway station, for yesterdays reason of the day was “Terror alert” and it seems as if civil liberties are disappearing at the speed of light in the name of security, terrorism and now the latest trend, “Plots”. Again, what can one do in this situation except complain. I believe subway musicians are harassed daily more or less in the New York City subway system for noise volume, traffic congestion and various other reasons. Is there a support group for the trauma drama of subway musicians, a subway musicians union? As MUNY itself provides no support for this purpose. And so I did yet another goggle search. There is a really great resource website, City Lore that offers information about the rights of subway musicians (if you really have any), your rights and responsibilities, court decisions in your favor,(which by the way, should courts be boycotted?), that’s a whole another blog post, the transit police, transit police fact check, subway station managers, legal assistance, performing on the streets and in the parks, our views, what do you think?, confrontation sheets and other sources. Since when is art a crime and what does this have to do with a No Police State? Have a great day.
No Police State 