Should I stop drinking water? I mean bottled water? I have been asking myself this question for a few months now already. What are the pros and cons of buying that bottle of Deer Park and jug of Poland Spring on a regular basis? Besides going further in debt, I am not sure. Of course those plastic jugs and bottles are filling up the landfills a mile a minute, but then there are recycling programs that are now in place for that very reason. And how much waste is that preventing of plastic, a non biodegradable item? And is bottled water really any better than the tap water that comes out of the kitchen sink that is full of fluoride which actually is not good for the teeth in some sort of way I hear, rust, and who knows what other chemicals I probably can’t even pronounce. Well, can you boil the chemicals away to a better health? I believe in Europe they put ozone in the water which is much healthier. Is bottled water a status symbol also, does it mean that one is better or healthier than another because they drink bottled water? Can bottled water actually be tap water in disguise? Who knows. And the idea of paying for water, a basic necessity of life that should be free I still cannot comprehend. When did the idea of buying bottled water even start? And bottled is everywhere. Does that mean that if one could sell the air they would? Oh, air rights in real estate are already being sold. I foresee in some science fiction movie where water will be auctioned off and rationed as a valuable commodity in exchange for ones life, save the oceans and rivers. And filtered water, is that any better than tap, what is it actually filtering? Oh the choices, the choices, the choices.
Mail to Go
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland has always sounded like a great place. Isn’t London located there? London has always sounded like the place to be, or at least the place to visit. Europe and London have always been a popular tourist destination. If you happen to be in, or are located anywhere in the UK mainland area and are looking for packaging materials and other mailing supplies, maybe to send that special postcard of Big Ben or London Bridges back to your loved ones and friends, The Packing Station has all sorts of packaging materials, mailing and storage materials, tools, equipment and gifts for your packaging needs. Their website has a wide variety of mailing supplies. You can find all sorts of boxes and cartons, envelopes, CD/DVD mailers, postal tubes, bubble lined envelopes, packing paper and other products from their website. You can also find furniture covers, carrier, wine bottle and gift bags, and arts and crafts products too. The Packing Station delivers to the UK Mainland only.
The Bystander
“Attorney claims cop punched him, wife”. That is one of the many horrific headlines in today’s Metro New York Newspaper. And one of the many horrific headlines around the world that occur and are occurring on a daily basis with no end in sight. The article states a civil rights attorney and his wife were both punched in the face by a police sergeant after they tried to stop cops from beating a handcuffed teen. And so this similar situation has happened to me and so this situation may have happened to others at one point in ones life. You are a witness to an incident as a passerby and you intervene only to be oppressed yourself. And there are too many of these “Person leaves home, gets caught in crossfire and never makes it back” stories these days. What does one do when you are a witness, an innocent bystander to an incident involving the polizei, a passerby caught in the middle of crossfire of gun play of people who have guns, whether civilians or state sponsored militia? Of people who may think they are cool simply because they have a gun and get their power through the barrel of a gun. It has become the wild, wild west. Caine and Abel are everywhere and the images of guns and violence are everywhere in the media and reflected in our society and culture. The latest trend in advertising by seemingly a lot of people involved in entertainment is of a picture, poster, or photo of a person holding a gun pointed at your face. How has the standards, morals, and values of this world declined this far in these days to where it has now become cool and trendy to portray images and references to violence in all forms of media and advertisement. It seems as if from the beginning of time in cinema, film, television and movies that there has been bad boy characters with guns in their hands to tell humanity on planet earth that it is okay and almost glamorous to kill people. Does not media and violence influence our culture? Is not the media propagating and programming the world to become violent? For what reason is violence entertaining? Is not the media feeding violence to the people? Is it George Orwell’s hate hour every hour? It could be that vicious circle again where crime feeds the media which feeds the advertisers which feeds the population which feeds the media which feeds the crime which feeds the advertisers which feeds the population and so on and so on and so on. It seems to be an industry that keeps everyone in business. What would happen if nobody died tomorrow? And people are losing their lives on a daily basis with no end in sight from this sort of thought, for reason at all. I am only one blogger, one voice. I average about 30 page views a day, I think. Who could actually be paying attention to what I say and write in my appeal to banish guns from every human being on planet earth for peace on earth. Mayors To End Gun Violence, maybe? God Not Guns? The National Rifle Association? The inventor of guns and gunpowder? Who is going to try and change the world, try and create a more peaceful world. Ghandi? Martin Luther King? Jesus Christ? This grip of evil, Satan, seems to have been let loose for a thousand years roaming the earth, seeking to whom he may devour. The Babylon confusion and anomaly is everywhere. Where are we in this state of the world? Is there hope for the world, for this generation in these days, in these times? As these times can be hell on earth, and what are these days, these times? Freedom for all. Is another world possible? And what does this have to do with a No Police State? Have a great day.
50 Signs You’re A Blogaholic
In my quest to monetize this blog, I am lost in Bloggerland today trying to figure out which pay you to blog company to write for next, as some companies have blogging assignments available when others do not. And so I wrote about furniture today. And in my quest, I ran across Cool Buzz online which had the following post from Jonathan Deamer on their blog and as it turns out, tens and hundreds of other bloggers have posted the same following post. It’s hilarious! Absolutely hilarious! Today is Sunday; the Sabbath, Sabado, a day of rest. I should take a break.
50 Signs You’re A Blogaholic
Are you addicted to blogging? You know you blog too much if:
1. You have to turn back on your way to the airport because you forgot to “tell” your blog that you’re going away.
2. You sneak off during a date to check your hit stats.
3. You update Twitter about your life more than you actually live it.
4.You think LSD is something to do with RSS or XML.
5. Your family don’t call anymore, they just check your blog.
6. You have daydreams about links from Boing Boing.
7. You pray to Steve Pavlina.
8. You eat blogging. You sleep blogging. You drink coffee.
9. You think Nike should make a shirt that says “just blog it”.
10. You would buy it if they did.
11.You’re considering naming your first-born child Scoble.
12.You start conversations with the phrase “top 10 ways to…” because you think it will get you on the front page of Digg.
13.You’re listening to the travel news and get excited by the phrase “heavy traffic”.
14.You moblog your own wedding.
15.You keep a blog ideas notepad by your bed. And you go to bed early just so you can write in it.
16.You check your Adsense revenue more than your bank account.
17.You’ve got more “blog friends” than “real life” friends.
18.You turn down invitations to go out because you haven’t yet written your post for the day.
19.You introduce yourself at parties as a “new media journalist”.
20.Your breakfast of choice is toast, cornflakes and Google reader.
21.You care more about what Technorati says about your authority than what your children do.
22.You’ve got “Custom CSS for Dummies” on your Christmas list.
23.You think the 3 Rs are Reading, Writing and RSS.
24.You can’t remember what you did last week without consulting your blog.
25.Your blogroll is longer that your cell’s phonebook.
26.You think “I wonder how this’ll look on Flickr?” when posing for photos.
27.When asked to feed the dog, you think “RSS or Atom?”
28.The only time your friends hear your voice is on your podcast.
29.You include ownership of your blog in your will.
30.You know what a blog carnival is.
31.You’ve participated in one.
32.You wonder if they do vacations at the Googleplex.
33.Under the hobbies section of an online dating profile you just put “Googling myself”.
34.Your licence plate matches your domain name.
35.Your lifetime goal is achieving a Page Rank of 10.
36.People in the street recognise you from your MyBlogLog photo.
37.You have a scorn for Xanga users normal people reserve for rapists and serial killers.
38.You refuse to wear black hats because you think it will affect your SEO.
39.You got that last one.
40.You have more than three friends with numbers in their names.
41.You’ve ever used the term “blawg” in conversation.
42.Blogger.com is banned on your office network.
43.You try to offer links as a form of payment in restaurants.
44.You start getting withdrawal symptoms when you go a day without posting.
45.You met your girlfriend/boyfriend through a blog.
46.You get more “approve this comment” e-mail messages than spam.
47.People worry about you when you do not post for a day.
48.The name Kubrick means more to you than the director of A Clockwork Orange.
49.You make the wrong post to the wrong blog on the wrong day.
50.You finish reading this and go to make a post with your own additions
Bedtime
Furniture, we all need it. Well maybe we don’t, but if you dwell in a house, apartment, adobe, tent, igloo, temple, castle, shoebox or some other type of housing, chances are you have some type of furniture. And even if you live outside; couches and chairs can make a nice addition to the sidewalk or other lawn area of your choice. If you are looking for furniture for your home, you can find bedroom furniture, Home Office Furniture and Sectionals at Furniture From Home. Furniture From Home can help you with your furniture needs. You can find Bedroom, Living room, Dining Room, Home Office, Dinette Sets, a great lounge sectional, Contemporary Furniture, Sofas and other great furniture there also. They offer the best solid wood, Oak wood, Birch Hardwood, Cherry Wood and other woods available. You can shop by rooms, styles and colors such as brown, neutral, black and other colors. The photos of furniture in the rooms that are displayed on their website look so beautiful that I would want to live there myself. This may be the latest trend in online shopping over the Internet, buying furniture from home. How much easier can it get, shopping for furniture from home? You can shop online or call their toll free number for prompt and friendly service. You can request a catalogue from them and they also offer free nationwide delivery. This is a sponsored post.
The Coney Island Mermaid Parade
I subscribe to the nonsense nyc email list powered by Laughing Squid. Nonsense NYC is a weekly email list sent by Jeff Stark of events for sort of underground, alternative and above ground events in the New York City area. They always list cool music events, warehouse and loft parties, burlesque events, critical mass rides, marching band parades, rooftop films and parties, walking tours, barefoot boogies and the like. A lot of their events are in the Williamsburg and Bushwick areas of Brooklyn and throughout Manhattan. It is a helpful compilation list of events, for I could never find about about these events without the help of their list. If you are in the New York City area or would be interested in subscribing to their list you can find them at nonsense nyc. Here is one of several listings of their events for today.
Coney Island Mermaid Parade
Surf Avenue, Brooklyn
2p; $free
After all these years, through rain and redevelopment, still the glorious York summit of New York’s creatively inclined, from the half-assed to the heart-felt. Don’t miss it. Paint yourself blue, put on a sailor hat, and — they’ve probably been saying this for the last 20 years — go before its too late.
***** Also on SATURDAY *****
The 5th Annual Mermaid Parade Ball
Inside the former Childs Restaurant, a colorful terra cotta and
stucco homage to the sea. Dress outlandishly or minimally for this
great party, a full night of live music, magic, and burlesque. The
Brooklyn musicians include rock mama Jill Cunniff, whose latest
album is inspired by Coney Island, the Shapes, Mighty Fine, the
Atomic Grind Show — a musical 10-in-1 playing rock, jazz, blues, and
carnival music — and Big A Little A. Burlesque performances by Bambi
the Mermaid, Bunny Love, Jo Weldon, Little Brooklyn, Tigger and
Dottie Lux, and sideshow magician Albert Cadabra. With DJ Jess of the downtown seedy club scene and DJ Xerox.
Childs Restaurant
Boardwalk and West 21st Street, Brooklyn
6p-midnight; $10 advance, $15 door supports Coney Island USA
Mermaid Parade Ball
Cheap Eats New York
I have come to the conclusion that I can no longer afford to eat in New York City. I can no longer afford the overpriced gourmet yuppie (Young Urban Professional) food in this town, or at least in this neighborhood the East Village, and that I may have to resort to dumpster diving, where you can actually find some really good food, and/or soup kitchens in order to continue to eat. Maybe I can compile a list of restaurants who give out leftovers at the end of the day after they close. Do they exist? For there is a ton of good food being thrown out and wasted in this town everyday at unbelievable and unbearable proportions to witness. City Harvest is an organization that collects this food to give away to others, and that is a good deed indeed. Maybe I should try calling them to see if they have any good food to give away. Is the word “Gourmet” a code word for overpriced food that one cannot afford? For richer or for poorer, this Quality of Life gentrify the neighborhood campaign is doing me in. Am I paying for location, location, location for this item of food that can probably be found for less than half the price in Nowhere Ville, Nowhere Town? And every single building I walk past on the Island is food, food, food and more food to remind me that it’s time to eat again and again nonstop for as long as I am walking around on the street. Every building I past seems to be either a food market or restaurant and I want to go in and eat at every single food establishment I past as the menu and food display always looks so good and appetizing. And forget about going into those Whole Foods Health Food Markets that are popping up everywhere these days. Only the rich or at least people who are willing to pay the price for those outrageously overpriced food items shop there. I would need a full time job just to be able to afford to impulse eat in this town. I am being reduced to a rice and beans, bread and water diet here and thereafter. No more sushi, lobster, crepe suzettes, le’ ten string beans with fancy sauce de jour, tuna tartare, bagadou bagels, shi shi salads and cafe’ au laite’s for me anytime soon. A cheaper way of eating is at hand, somehow.
Summer Beach Castle Time
Summer Solstice was yesterday and according to the calendar, summer has officially begun. It’s summer beach time again. It’s summer vacation time when you may go to your favorite vacation spot. It’s that time of year to pack the picnic baskets, get the beach balls out of the closet and whatever your beach items of choice may be in gear. The ocean is waiting and the blue skies are calling. And whenever I go to the beach, I am always looking for that great beach activity to do, whether it be volleyball, listening to music, jogging up and down the beach, swimming in the ocean or just plain relaxing and lying in the sun. And sandcastles are a fun thing to make on the beach. I’ve always wanted to build myself a castle. If you love creating sandcastles, you can now Build A Sandcastle and create and send your very own virtual sandcastle e card without having to go to the beach to build it. I built My Castle E Card. You can build your own sandcastle at the Beaches website and find great featured beach and resort specials while you are at it too. Their virtual sandcastle is very fun to play around with and easy to use. You can select your castle and drag it to the beach, add beach accessories and save your castle as Wallpaper or send your castle e-card to a friend. You can also visit their sandcastle gallery. Let your imagination run wild when you build your luxurious playground. This is a sponsored post.
Your Song
Now this is interesting. I received this email in my MySpace inbox the other day. I thought it would be interesting to blah blog about. “I share your distaste for the police state, but unfortunately your song is monotonous, obvious, and boring. Preaching to the choir is bad enough, but in this case the choir is sound asleep. Sorry. Better luck next time”. And I am not exactly sure what to make of it except that maybe someone does not like the No Police State song. And I am not exactly sure what to say except have a great day anyway. And what does this have to do with a No Police State?
Make Music New York
Today, June 21, 2007 is the first annual Make Music New York! An event where there is music all day, all night, all places. Music on the sidewalks, the parks, the streets and other creative and inventive places. More than 300 cities around the world are participating and celebrating music today. Any musician can sign up to perform at this event. No Police State Girl signed up to perform her No Police State song at Green Oasis Garden as part of this event from noon to 1pm. I showed up, no one else did, except for the picnickers who were there anyway by default. And so I wander around today from block to block, neighborhood to neighborhood, particularly the The Lower East Side which is now called the East Village for real estate marketing purposes maybe, and Williamsburg just to see some of the performances. The open mic at the East River Amphitheater seems interesting, and so does the Mobile Oxygen Unit, a jazz group who are marching throughout the Williamsburg neighborhood. And there is music all day at McCarren Park, Tompkins Square Park and La Plaza Cultural. And then it got cloudy and looked like it wanted to rain. Oh no! Don’t rain on this parade! This is such a cool event. It seems like every day should be Make Music New York day. Every day should be a holiday, maybe. For a complete schedule of events visit Make Music New York. Today is summer solstice. Happy summer.
No Police State 