An end of a Year 2025

 

 

 

Dear internet, it's a few days after that holiday of Christ and the end of a Gregorian calendar year 2025 has rolled around and the beginning of a new year 2026 here on planet earth has arrived that I am able to sign into this blog and post another blagh post in the age of big tech algorithms and social media censorship where I have found a couple of my social media pages banned, suspended or shut down in the name of community guidelines or modern day book burning as both the UK and Australia are both now under a massive censorship regime. And sometimes I wonder if I should call this blagh pro police state instead of no police state for it to last a little longer. 

And so there was a Tompkins Square Park t - shirt Holiday Sale that I attempted to vend those banned Tompkins Square Park t - shirts at in Tompkins Square Park during SantaCon, that day when thousands of Santas descend on New York City that was a week before that annual MORUS Holiday Market of Fly and Carla handmade items where I attempted to vend black lives matter jewelry at in this holy day season in New York City.

And thank you Jeff Stark, Nonsense NYC and Eden for helping to get a few people to these events. 

And that comet 3I/ATLAS alien invasion that I have been blaghing about for the past few months never happened as it passed by planet earth during it's closest approach December 19th on its way to Jupiter.

 

 

And it's been another year of more people passing away here on planet earth. So many that I found myself posting this passage on Facebook a few weeks ago:

dear facebook, i turn on facebook once a day to see that once a day someone I know of from my generation has died, or their parents have passed away. facebook has replaced myspace for online obituaries. i hate it that death is a part of life. and death has replaced birth for being the first post i see at the top of my facebook feed. this has been the worst year ever for deaths. one generation passes and another one comes but the earth abideth forever.

And if you have been on the Lower East Side or East Village it is called for real estate marketing purposes, squatter scene in the late 80's or early 90's, you may have heard of or came across John "The Communist" Potak, a squatter revolutionary and one of those 13th Street squatters who plastered his posters everywhere on light poles and beyond in that East Village neighborhood and went to countless demonstrations and marches with his class war on the poor spray painted on a sheet banners during those Tompkins Square Park police riots, homeless encampments and Squatter May Day concerts against police state repression, gentrification and war.

The if you need a home, take one, squatter community, is saddened to hear that John the Communist passed away December 16th. He was a prolific propagandist  And his banners remain. The only thing constant is change and some stories do not end as you expect.

Auld Lang Syne 2025

Banned Tompkins Square Park T - Shirts at a Show in Tompkins Square Park

 

And in the midst of waiting to see if the aliens are coming and wondering if there is going to be an alien invasion with that comet 3iatlas headed toward earth, ice invasions, an impending civil war, World War III, the rollout of a national guard police state and other headlines news of the day here on planet earth, I somehow found myself making another one of those Banned Tompkins Square park t - shirts at Tompkins Square Park Facebook event invites that read something like 

The New York City Parks Department has banned these Tompkins Square Park t - shirts because of the logo on them.

 

And I am planning to vend banned Tompkins Square Park t - shirts for $10 each at, well during, the next Shows in Tompkins Square Park concert, Monster Metal Mayhem, September 27th, 2 -6pm at Tompkins Square Park, New York City.

And it became a day of when people tell you that they have been looking for this shirt forever. Heard while vending banned Tompkins Square Park t - shirts @ Monster Metal Mayhem @ Shows in Tompkins Square Park, with music by Sea Monster and other bands.

And.....

There was also a 14th Annual LUNGS Harvest Arts Festival on this day in that city of New York and neighborhood of the Lower East Side or East Village for real estate marketing purposes. And according to their website there were over 50 events in 30 gardens! With their festival schedule reading something like.....

LUNGS CSA is in La Plaza this week, check out the produce, give Veggie a home!!, LaPlaza 6pm Opening night 6:30 Felice Rosner and FAITH NYC, 7:30 Sylvain LaRoux’s Source, Carmen’s Garden Knit/crochet and Sketch/Paint workshops noon-3pm Elizabeth St Garden 10:30 am – Free Yoga w/ Chelsea Forbes El Sol Brillante 12-4pm INSECT CREATURE CREATION LAB by BOTANICART.NYC Using natural materials provided by the garden, such as paper, glue, leaves, twigs, dried berries, seed pods, and flowers, guests will design and build their own imaginative insect creatures. Casita Garden 11am-2pm Volunteer Workday, wear your work clothes DeColores Songwriters Circle noon- 7pm El Jardin del Paraiso Pollinator workshop 10am-2pm FAMILY DAY 2:30-5:30 pm Puppeteer and Storyteller Vít Hořejš, Artistic Director, Czechoslovak-American Marionette Theatre Sayma Karim, Rocco George, Show Up Kids with Peter Michael Marino Kenkeleba Children’s Magical Garden Arts for Art presents free jazz 2-5pm Rob Brown trio, Amirtha Kidambie & Cooper Moore, Miriam Parker-Dance, Alfredo Colon Trio 11 BC Serenity Garden 2 P.M. Sylvain Leroux Qromatica Trio with Sylvain Leroux: fulaflute, flute, alto sax, Dan Kurfirst: drums and percussion, Hilliard Greene: contrabass 4 P.M. Mbira workshop with Jennifer Kyker Siempre Verde 2pm Poetry Verde Verses | OPEN MIC | Theme: Gaia 2 PM: Sign up at 2p to share 8 minutes of poetry (rain date 9/21) La Plaza Pinc Louds 4-6pm 6B Garden MAKE ART IN THE GARDEN 1-6PM Music Under the Stars with JOFF WILSON 7PM Green Oasis Music 6pm Mathieu Eveillard 7pm Kid Java Campos Garden Elizabeth St Garden 10:30 am – Free Tai Chi w/ Tai Chi Solutions 5:30 pm – LiveMusic ART around LOISAIDA 1-5pm Live painting and exhibit I wanna work, wanna paint on the fence all day Paint your masterpiece on the Garden Fences of LaPlaza and Pancho’s Garden. Ave C & 9th St. Bring your own paint and brushes, we supply the canvas La Plaza 2:30-4:30 The Renaissance Street Singers Come hear a wonderful FREE concert at Campos Community Garden! September 21, at 3 pm featuring contemporary and classic song repertory performed by: Clara Lisle, Andres Penalver, and Victoria Falcon Sam & Sadie’s Garden 6BC Botanical Garden 4pm The Beyond Flute Group 11 BC Serenity Garden 4 P.M. MICHAEL EATON JAZZ GROUP Michael Eaton – saxophones, Dan Wick – keyboard, electronics 6B Garden 2-4pm INTERNATIONAL GIRLS ENSEMBLE CHORAL PERFORMANCE 4PM Maputi with Jennifer Kyker, Nora Balaban, and Susan Rapalee: mbira and vocals; Rima Fand: violin and vocals; Sylvain Leroux: fulaflute and vocals; Nari Zechman: percussion and vocals; Stuart Zechman: hosho 

And a host of other performances and events that took place, too innumerable for me to copy and paste, at the LUNGS — Loisaida United Neighborhood Gardens event September 19-28th, 2025 in New York City.

And did you know that New York City's Lower East Side has the most community gardens of any neighborhood in America?

And what, if anything, does this blagh post have to do with a No Police State. The only thing constant is change and some stories do not end as you expect. Have a great concert, harvest arts festival day and more.

Banned Tompkins Square Park t - shirts at a Riot Reunion Show

 

The New York City Parks Department has banned these Tompkins Square Park t - shirts because of the logo on them. 

And I am planning to vend banned Tompkins Square Park t - shirts for $10 each at, well during, the annual Tompkins Square Park riot Reunion anniversary concert August 2nd and 3rd, 2 -6pm. 

And check out Andreas Troeger's Our Fucking Park: Rebellion, Noise, and Punk Rock in Tompkins Square Park book! A new photo book of beautiful raw portraits of the artists keeping the music alive—real faces, real noise, shot between 2019 and 2024 in Tompkins Square Park. 

This amazing book will be for sale at the SHADOW table at the Shows in Tompkins Square Park.

With bands day 1 and day 2 being L.O.T.I.O.N., Dollhouse, Cruciform, Pure Terror, Decept, Hated, Rebelmatic, Ricanstruction, Future Strangers, Frida Kill, Skitzopolis and Carlos the Chords.

And those are the words I found myself posting on my banned Tompkins Square Park Facebook event invite after I found out that my Tompkins Square Park t - shirts were banned, as in those photos and videos that find themselves posted above..

And Chilis on Wheels and Food Not Bombs served some really good free food on that weekend in the park.

And a host of other Concerts in Tompkins Square Park have taken place this past month in that park as well. 

And it is happening a week or so ago when you sell out of Banned Tompkins Square Park t - shirts at Tompkins Square Park at the 37th Annual Tompkins Square Riot Reunion concert at Shows in Tompkins Square Park.

And in other headline news of the day, amongst a bazillion other headlines...

All headlines seem to lead to all things Trump and America, with some of the latest headlines being something about Trump has cancelled all of the wars and the end of the world and has ushered in the golden age and the National Guard has arrived in Washington DC after President Trump's National Guard activation where they are ordered to encamp and report for duty August 11th through September 25th.  

And so now Washington DC is what a martial law and a police state looks like. Possibly coming to a city near you.

And what, if anything, does this have to do with a No Police State.

Have a great music, martial law, banned t - shirt day and more. Peace on earth and goodwill to all mankind. 

Banned Tompkins Square Park T - Shirts

 

 

 

 

And so when your Tompkins Square Park t - shirts are banned in Tompkins Square Park because someone doesn't like the logo on your Tompkins Square Park t - shirt, it was a Memorial Day weekend of vending banned Tompkins Square Park t - shirts & #blacklivesmatter, #notmypresident, #occupywallstreet #nopolicestate, #yoga #fridakhalo #music #unionsquarepark #tompkinssquarepark #washingtonsquarepark #brooklyn #theshadow #morus #ILoveNY & #sh*tjustgotreal necklaces, magnets, key chains & pins at Tompkins Square Park May 24 during Drew Stone’s NYHC show, featuring: Sonic Bomb, End of Hope, Butterbrain, NON-RESIDENTS and REBELMATIC. 

 

 

The next Shows in Tompkins Square Park is the 5th Annual WASTEXFEST June 8, with a Facebook event invite that reads like as follows:

 

Wasteland Productions and Waste Management Presents Our 5th Annual WASTEXFEST featuring Blackout Shoppers, Complete Fucker, Angry Corpses NJHC, YDI, Urban Waste, and this year’s headliner FANG. Food will once again be made by Lady Waste Rachel Jean-Abriss Gitten, with donations going to Sweetbriar Nature Center. This will be a fun year at Tompkins Square Park.

 

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It also became a Memorial Day Weekend of passing by Theater for the New City's 30th Annual Lower East Side Festival of the Arts. 

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It was also on the way to the 38th Annual Loisaida Festival, in New York's Lower East Side or Loisaida, Sunday, May 25, 2025 for: 

COMMUNITY • MUSIC • FOOD • ART • CULTURE • THEATER with Batala New York (parade performers) 

 

while watching LoisaidaFest from Museum of Reclaimed Urban Space - MORUS, next to a sculpture of  CHARAS, Memorial Day Weekend, 2025.

Have a great New York City concert, festival day and more. And what, if anything, does this have to do with a No Police State.