And this day seems to be another one of those Sundays of the week that has made it’s way around in that cycle of seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, years and life. That sabbath day of rest, day of God, or is that Saturday? And yet on this day I find myself blah blogging away again to this blog as if it could be some sort of magic crystal ball or something in the age of that internet web 2.0 social media user generated content world that one now finds themselves living in, in these days and times. “You must be the change you want to see in the world. -Gandhi”. That is a phrase I just came across in my cyber webosphere travels on this day. And it is a phrase that caught my eye for some reason or another. And I am wondering about those New York City Metropolitan Transit Authority vintage trains that are back for the holidays. Those trains appeared on the tracks sometime last year I think, and they seem to be a ride back in time. And then there’s those vintage buses that are supposed to be on the road also for the holidays, so the newspaper articles say. And I find myself on the lookout for them, to see some sort of ride back in time. Have a Great Sunday day.
The Student
Hey bloggers, and this posting happens to be about private student loans. You know those loans one may find themselves looking for in order to attend some school of some sort. Well, if you happen to be looking for one of those loans, you can find a private student loan program at PrivateStudentLoans.com. They are a service of the student loan network. With Private Student Loans, you can borrow the difference between what your other loans do not cover to finance that education you are looking for. Private Student Loans also has private student loan news that you can read about when it comes to student loans and more. And their website is also interesting in that one can read private student loans conversations as well. At Private Student Loan, finding a student loan program has never been easier.
First Thursday
And being that I find myself on that topics of events again as in the previous post, here is another one of those events in New York City posts again. And somehow I found myself coming across one of those art event advertisement announcement flyers the other day,as I guess these type of flyers abound just about everywhere in this that town. And this flyer was for 1st Thursday, Dumbo Gallery Walk, 5:30-8:30 every first Thursday of the month. And this event seems like one of those Dumbo neighborhood in Brooklyn kind of events. And there are monthly special features such as artist talks, book signings, printmaking demonstrations and live music. And some of the participating galleries are Aswoon Gallery, Gallery QB, Melville House, VII Dumbo, Pochron Studios, Powerhouse Arena, Smack Mellon, Dumbo Arts Center, Rabbithole Studio, 5 plus 5, Brooklyn Arts Council, Byrd Hoffman Watermill Fdn., Farmani Gallery, Gloria Kennedy Gallery, Henry Gregg Gallery, Klompching Gallery, Nelson Hancock Gallery, Robert Wilson/RW Work, Safe T Gallery, Tivoli, Umbrage Gallery, Wessel plus O’Connor Fine Art, Spring and more. And this event art rocks.
Have a great gallery walk day.
Poetry Electric
Hey bloggers, and Jeffrey is having another one of those poetry events in that City of New York. I know because that postcard flyer that he gave me says so. An those poetry events that he does are always interesting. And it looks as if some of the previous poetry events may have passed, though there is another one coming up just next week. And so I thought to blah blog this event as it looks on this card because hey, it’s less writing sometimes:
La Mama presents every 3rd Monday of the month
Poetry Electric
Poetry Electric fuses music, movement, sound, and dance with the spoken word and word performance. Poetry Electric will be performed at the Club La Mama.
October 20, 2008 8m
featuring Iris
a solo performance by Jen Yip. A candid look at the short life of Iris Chang.
featuring Recess
one girls struggle between getting an education and getting schooled. written and performed by Una Aya Osato
November 17, 2008 8pm
featuring: Women’s Poetry Happening V
Hosted by Ilka Scobie. A solo performance gathering of dynamic, thought provoking female poets featuring Jane LeCroy, Annie Lesser, Tavi Fields, Lee Ann Brown, Velez Moore, Erika Jo Brown, Sasha Painter, and other guests.
December 15, 2008 8pm (the date that has not actually passed yet…)
featuring Shooting from the lip
Hosted by Jeffrey Cyphers Wright, poets spew hot lead on the oral tradition of hynotrance wordfire at the Skip Beat Cafe with Wanda Phipps, Bakar Wison, Vincent Katz, Basil King, Valery Oisteanu, Kristen Prevallet,Cody Franchetti, Akilah Oliver, and Ilka Scobie.
Have a great poetry day
Planet Earth
And there must be some sort of sky show going on this evening. I know because Yahoo, CNN , Google and National Geographic says so. As their headlines read something like “Watch planets shine tonight”, “Venus, Jupiter will shine on Monday night” “Smiling sky”, and “Frowning sky”. And the articles say that this Venus Jupiter thing has something to do with the crescent moon forming a tight triangle with Venus and Jupiter to look like a smiley face, or a frowny face. Whichever way you look at it. And the articles also say something else about it being a Venus, Jupiter conjunction show that will last for one night only. Whatever that may mean. And being that some articles are relating this planet conjunction to the star of bethlehem not seen last since 2 B.C in bible days, it has me wondering if Jesus is about to return to planet earth, if the anti christ is on his way, if some war, yet another war, is about to happen, or if some plague is about to have an outbreak or something, in my religious fanaticism thoughts. And I always find myself looking for signs in the sky, astrology, the planetary alignments, the stars and the moons for some reason. As sometimes those planets and stars seem as if they cold be a destiny and fate that controls the world, maybe. As isn’t that horoscope from those moons and stars ones personality traits. And speaking about, or writing about stars, moons and the skies, what’s up with that weather in that city of New York lately. Is it me, or does it feel like summer in the middle of winter. And I see people walking around town with no coats on, in November and now December. And so I went to go looking for some of those Global Warming articles, and sure enough places like Montana, any maybe somewhere else I am not sure of, are seeing summer in the middle of winter, to where the trees are still green, the grass is still green, little tiny insects and bugs, maybe mosquitoes are still flying around. Flowers are budding. All in the month of November and now December. Is this one of those record breaking weather patterns or something. And this all has me to wondering. So which season is it this month, summer, spring, fall or winter? Is this all a part of that climate change thing. Are greenhouse gases going out of control. Is it that 12/21/2012 on track thing or something. Are the polar bears floating on ice yet. The clock is ticking, whatever clock that may be. Mother nature seems unseasonably warm these days and times. Help save planet mother earth. Peace on earth and goodwill to all mankind.
A Sale For Shopping
Attention holidays shoppers, if you happen to be one of them. Have you noticed that today is black friday, that shopping holiday that’s been advertised for quite some time now in anticipation of the holiday shopping season. Well that day is here today. And I know because all of those long lines around the block at what seems like every shopping outlet says so. And what better time of year to get that great gift of communications and the digital age of technology. Now you can order Charter’s Ultimate Bundle online or any of their services sold separately, you get a $250 gift card to go along with that cable TV, high speed internet and telephone service. Now that’s an interesting online holiday deal. With their ultimate service bundle, you can get digital cable with lots of different movie channels to keep you movie watching, unlimited calling for the telephone, and also a chance to win an X-Box 360 game console. This can be a great deal online for bundled services at great prices. And that free $250.00 gift card seems like it can be the shopping deal of the year. At Charter Communications, you can also customize the bundle that’s right for you. With Charter Communications, shopping for the ultimate television, telephone and internet service bundle has never been easier.
Trials And Tribulations
And this day seems to be some day that is called black Friday in that country of America. Some name that seems to be made up for the purpose of consumerism, consumerism, and overconsumerism And what about sustainability in consumerism. And this day is also that buy nothing day, as in buy nothing in ones consumerism. And I find myself here looking at and reading articles that are sitting in my email inbox with titles that read Five hostages killed in Jewish center, chaos at hotel, Mumbai gunmen besiege hotels, Wife shot and killed at New Jersey church, Man killed at Scientology building had church ties. And these are articles from the past week. And the one factor they all seem to have in common is gun violence. And this is a story that seems to be never ending from yesterday, today and tomorrow. Yet another person has lost his life to gun violence. Guns are the worst invention of a death industry ever. And it is an industry of war, a vicious cycle that seems to feed upon itself. If only guns and firearms could be banished from every person on the face of planet earth, and from every form of media, marketing, video games, toys an advertising. And with those presidential elections that have taken place in that country of America, is gun violence an issue that will ever be addressed, or will it simply be a continuation of the current rhetoric of the state, “The war on terrorism”. And the state of what. And who are the terrorists? And sometimes I wonder if these are all signs of the beginning of the end of the world when civil liberty concerns are a concern, society and its morals and values collapses and global terrorism exists. And I start to wonder if the world is seemingly spinning out of control and if this is all 2012 and Kali Yuga descending on track. Where is the world headed. Is there hope for the world. And for some reason that verse comes to mind again from that Bible book, “For the love of money is the root of all evil, and while some have coveted after, they have erred from the faith and have pierced themselves through with many sorrows”. Does power and authority breed corruption. And I am only one blogger. One voice in an internet world of web 2.0. No one is free when others are oppressed. Peace on earth and goodwill to all mankind. And what does this have to do with a No Police State?
Black Friday
And that day on the morrow must be Thanksgiving. I know because the supermarket lines that are out the door an the restaurant menus that are posted on their doors says so. And remember the Indians, who were seemingly betrayed for a bag of beads, as this country of America may have been founded on violence. And what the heck is a Black Friday, as that day must be the next day son after that holiday of Thanksgiving. And I know Black Friday must be this Friday because the cell phone conversations on the streets with subjects like “Friday is payday”. They got Black Friday this Friday”. And the tons of advertising headlines that read “Sample Sales, Woodbury Common Premium Outlet Black Friday Sale: Nov 28, IKEA’s Black Friday Sale: Nov 28, H & M’s 24 Hours Of Black Friday Savings: Nov 28, Black Friday Wine Special At Burke In The Box At Bloomingdale’s, Housing Works Thrift Shops Wine Saturday Event?, what’s a White Saturday?, Best & Co’s Black Friday Sale, Muji’s New Chelsea Store Giveaway, and the Black Friday advertising sale headlines seem to be endless. And this buy as much as you can spendaholicness could be interesting with that impending recession depression going on. And I must have blah blogged about this Thanksgiving Day holiday before on this blog, as this blog seems as if it wants to repeat itself another year that I have been blaghing about blogatopics. And then there’s that make up another name to go shopping and spend money holiday called “Cyber Monday”. What the heck is that all about? And that could be a whole another blog posting. Oh, and there’s also Buy Nothing Day this week also, as in buy nothing in ones consumerism. Have a great remember the Indians day and eat more tofurky.
Cointelpro
Today is a new day and change has come. And with that change comes programming about the civil rights movement and Cointelpro. What’s a cointelpro. A coin that tells a pro? Does that internet bible dictionary Wikipedia have an entry for this? Ooh, and Wikipedia just said it’s called the Counter Intelligence Program. As in to counter intelligent people or something? Is that a big brother is watching you are on candid camera word or something. I came across that word while watching a program on television the other day. And according to that program, Cointelpro was something that was used by Presidents of that country of America to spy on, sabotage and terrorize of some sort its citizens from days long ago. And it talked about the FBI, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, or is that the Federal Bureau of Infiltration and Inciting. And for what reason does that confederate flag contain the letters federal? And is that program and the people who use it still around to this day in different forms with different names? And what is the difference between right and wrong, rich and poor, black and white. No one is free when others are oppressed. And what, if anything, does this have to do with a No Police State?
Opticals
Hey Bloggers, and this post happens to be about opticals, opticals and more opticals, and eyeglasses, glasses and more eyeglasses. And you know those eyeglasses, as I have seen them around just abut everywhere as lots of people use them to help with their vision. And with those eyeglasses that one wears comes the task of finding out whee to find those eyeglasses. And gone are the days of running around to lots of different stores trying on those different eyeglasses to figure out which one is right for you. Or maybe those days are still here. And if you are looking for and easy way to find them without every having to leave home, or at least without ever having to leave a computer, some new frames have arrived at Zenni Optical. You know Zenni Optical don’t you. You may have seen them on Fox News TV, or heard them on the radio. And The Clark Howard Show even recommended them. ZenniOptical.com sells Stylish Prescription Glasses Online from $8, and they have a big selection of frames to choose from. You can find single vision lenses, bi focal eyeglasses, progressive eyeglasses, anti scratch coating, uv protection, sunglass color tinting and more at their website. And those holiday frames, Partial Rim Stainless Steel Frame with Designer Temples, they look festive for the holiday season and year round with that lacy temple design. With Zenni Optical’s great low prices, finding your favorite glasses has never been easier.
No Police State 