Wednesday, December 29, 2010
Photography
Another Day Another Blogpost
And on this day finds itself another one of those Sundays, (Okay, it's actually Wednesday according to that clock on this computer).... that has rolled around this week, that say of the sun, day of rest day. Or is that Saturday, the Sabbath? And yet I find myself blogging away on this blog for some reason or another. And this blog wants to confuse me sometimes in what to post on it in my attempt to maintain more than one blog in going back and forth between the two in trying to figure out what to post on either. And so this following post if from one of those news articles I sent to myself in an email that finds itself sitting in my email inbox. And for some reason this RFID tag reminds me of that globalism, passport, national I.D., 666 save no man that he may buy or sell mark of the beast. end of the world. GPS tracking device, technology thing. And what does this have to do with a No Police State?
An RFID Tag in Your Driver's License?
CNet News reports that New York state has begun offering enhanced driver's licenses embedded with radio frequency identification (RFID) chips, which can be read from a distance by a receiver device.
The new RFID driver's license, which will cost an additional $30 over the standard $50 licensing fee, will provide identification that can be used at the border in lieu of a U.S. passport, which these days is also RFID-equipped.
CNet says U.S. border officials will be able to scan the RFID-equipped license authorities to identify U.S. citizens entering the country from Canada, Mexico or the Caribbean. Intercontinental travelers will still need to produce a passport to enter the country.
In issuing the new licenses, New York becomes only the second state, following Washington, to offer RFID-equipped identification that can be used at U.S. border crossings. Such identification is part of the federal government’s Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative, which was mandated by Congress in 2004 after being recommended by the 9/11 Commission. The initiative is intended to control movement across the U.S. border by verifying the citizenship and identity of everyone entering the United States by land, sea or air from Canada, Mexico and the Caribbean.
RFID tags are viewed with concern by privacy advocates and civil libertarians, who fear that they could be used for government surveillance as well as identity verification. Some also warn that RFID-enhanced documents are vulnerable to RFID hackers, who can intercept the signals and clone the chips for their own illicit use.
In response to these worries, the state of New York is mailing each one with a protective storage sleeve that prevents transmission, commented DMV spokesman Ken Brown, in a recent article in Newsday. Brown added that the only personal information contained in the tag is a number that would be meaningless except to Homeland Security agents.
Manufacturers are also now marketing specially designed RFID-blocking wallets to protect users from identity theft.
The Furniture
Sunday, December 26, 2010
1.1.11
Friday, December 31 at 8:00pm - Saturday, January 1, 2011 at 4:00am | |||||||||||||||||
Chapel of Sacred Mirrors (CoSM), 46 Deer Hill Road, Wappingers Falls, NY DJ's Ohia, Primate, Cloud, Ebu Shabbaz, Indo Visual, Satchi Om Bellydancing, Elizabeth Muise & Sarah Jezebel Wood Fire, Phantomime Live Painting. Alex and Allyson Grey www.cosm.org and another party...
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Sunday, December 19, 2010
10 Reasons You Should Never Get a Job
10 Reasons You Should Never Get a Job
Just for fun I recently asked Erin, “Now that the kids are in summer school, don’t you think it’s about time you went out and got yourself a job? I hate seeing you wallow in unemployment for so long.”
She smiled and said, “Wow. I have been unemployed a really long time. That’s weird… I like it!”
Neither of us have had jobs since the ’90s (my only job was in 1992), so we’ve been self-employed for quite a while. In our household it’s a running joke for one of us to say to the other, “Maybe you should get a job, derelict!”
It’s like the scene in The Three Stooges where Moe tells Curly to get a job, and Curly backs away, saying, “No, please… not that! Anything but that!”
It’s funny that when people reach a certain age, such as after graduating college, they assume it’s time to go out and get a job. But like many things the masses do, just because everyone does it doesn’t mean it’s a good idea. In fact, if you’re reasonably intelligent, getting a job is one of the worst things you can do to support yourself. There are far better ways to make a living than selling yourself into indentured servitude.
Here are some reasons you should do everything in your power to avoid getting a job:
1. Income for dummies.
Getting a job and trading your time for money may seem like a good idea. There’s only one problem with it. It’s stupid! It’s the stupidest way you can possibly generate income! This is truly income for dummies.
Why is getting a job so dumb? Because you only get paid when you’re working. Don’t you see a problem with that, or have you been so thoroughly brainwashed into thinking it’s reasonable and intelligent to only earn income when you’re working? Have you never considered that it might be better to be paid even when you’re not working? Who taught you that you could only earn income while working? Some other brainwashed employee perhaps?
Don’t you think your life would be much easier if you got paid while you were eating, sleeping, and playing with the kids too? Why not get paid 24/7? Get paid whether you work or not. Don’t your plants grow even when you aren’t tending to them? Why not your bank account?
Who cares how many hours you work? Only a handful of people on this entire planet care how much time you spend at the office. Most of us won’t even notice whether you work 6 hours a week or 60. But if you have something of value to provide that matters to us, a number of us will be happy to pull out our wallets and pay you for it. We don’t care about your time — we only care enough to pay for the value we receive. Do you really care how long it took me to write this article? Would you pay me twice as much if it took me 6 hours vs. only 3?
Non-dummies often start out on the traditional income for dummies path. So don’t feel bad if you’re just now realizing you’ve been suckered. Non-dummies eventually realize that trading time for money is indeed extremely dumb and that there must be a better way. And of course there is a better way. The key is to de-couple your value from your time.
Smart people build systems that generate income 24/7, especially passive income. This can include starting a business, building a web site, becoming an investor, or generating royalty income from creative work. The system delivers the ongoing value to people and generates income from it, and once it’s in motion, it runs continuously whether you tend to it or not. From that moment on, the bulk of your time can be invested in increasing your income (by refining your system or spawning new ones) instead of merely maintaining your income.
This web site is an example of such a system. At the time of this writing, it generates about $9000 a month in income for me (update: $40,000 a month as of 10/31/06), and it isn’t my only income stream either. I write each article just once (fixed time investment), and people can extract value from them year after year. The web server delivers the value, and other systems (most of which I didn’t even build and don’t even understand) collect income and deposit it automatically into my bank account. It’s not perfectly passive, but I love writing and would do it for free anyway. But of course it cost me a lot of money to launch this business, right? Um, yeah, $9 is an awful lot these days (to register the domain name). Everything after that was profit.
Sure it takes some upfront time and effort to design and implement your own income-generating systems. But you don’t have to reinvent the wheel — feel free to use existing systems like ad networks and affiliate programs. Once you get going, you won’t have to work so many hours to support yourself. Wouldn’t it be nice to be out having dinner with your spouse, knowing that while you’re eating, you’re earning money? If you want to keep working long hours because you enjoy it, go right ahead. If you want to sit around doing nothing, feel free. As long as your system continues delivering value to others, you’ll keep getting paid whether you’re working or not.
Your local bookstore is filled with books containing workable systems others have already designed, tested, and debugged. Nobody is born knowing how to start a business or generate investment income, but you can easily learn it. How long it takes you to figure it out is irrelevant because the time is going to pass anyway. You might as well emerge at some future point as the owner of income-generating systems as opposed to a lifelong wage slave. This isn’t all or nothing. If your system only generates a few hundred dollars a month, that’s a significant step in the right direction.
2. Limited experience.
You might think it’s important to get a job to gain experience. But that’s like saying you should play golf to get experience playing golf. You gain experience from living, regardless of whether you have a job or not. A job only gives you experience at that job, but you gain ”experience” doing just about anything, so that’s no real benefit at all. Sit around doing nothing for a couple years, and you can call yourself an experienced meditator, philosopher, or politician.
The problem with getting experience from a job is that you usually just repeat the same limited experience over and over. You learn a lot in the beginning and then stagnate. This forces you to miss other experiences that would be much more valuable. And if your limited skill set ever becomes obsolete, then your experience won’t be worth squat. In fact, ask yourself what the experience you’re gaining right now will be worth in 20-30 years. Will your job even exist then?
Consider this. Which experience would you rather gain? The knowledge of how to do a specific job really well — one that you can only monetize by trading your time for money – or the knowledge of how to enjoy financial abundance for the rest of your life without ever needing a job again? Now I don’t know about you, but I’d rather have the latter experience. That seems a lot more useful in the real world, wouldn’t you say?
3. Lifelong domestication.
Getting a job is like enrolling in a human domestication program. You learn how to be a good pet.
Look around you. Really look. What do you see? Are these the surroundings of a free human being? Or are you living in a cage for unconscious animals? Have you fallen in love with the color beige?
How’s your obedience training coming along? Does your master reward your good behavior? Do you get disciplined if you fail to obey your master’s commands?
Is there any spark of free will left inside you? Or has your conditioning made you a pet for life?
Humans are not meant to be raised in cages. You poor thing…
4. Too many mouths to feed.
Employee income is the most heavily taxed there is. In the USA you can expect that about half your salary will go to taxes. The tax system is designed to disguise how much you’re really giving up because some of those taxes are paid by your employer, and some are deducted from your paycheck. But you can bet that from your employer’s perspective, all of those taxes are considered part of your pay, as well as any other compensation you receive such as benefits. Even the rent for the office space you consume is considered, so you must generate that much more value to cover it. You might feel supported by your corporate environment, but keep in mind that you’re the one paying for it.
Another chunk of your income goes to owners and investors. That’s a lot of mouths to feed.
It isn’t hard to understand why employees pay the most in taxes relative to their income. After all, who has more control over the tax system? Business owners and investors or employees?
You only get paid a fraction of the real value you generate. Your real salary may be more than triple what you’re paid, but most of that money you’ll never see. It goes straight into other people’s pockets.
What a generous person you are!
5. Way too risky.
Many employees believe getting a job is the safest and most secure way to support themselves.
Morons.
Social conditioning is amazing. It’s so good it can even make people believe the exact opposite of the truth.
Does putting yourself in a position where someone else can turn off all your income just by saying two words (“You’re fired”) sound like a safe and secure situation to you? Does having only one income stream honestly sound more secure than having 10?
The idea that a job is the most secure way to generate income is just silly. You can’t have security if you don’t have control, and employees have the least control of anyone. If you’re an employee, then your real job title should be professional gambler.
6. Having an evil bovine master.
When you run into an idiot in the entrepreneurial world, you can turn around and head the other way. When you run into an idiot in the corporate world, you have to turn around and say, “Sorry, boss.”
Did you know that the word boss comes from the Dutch word baas, which historically means master? Another meaning of the word boss is “a cow or bovine.” And in many video games, the boss is the evil dude that you have to kill at the end of a level.
So if your boss is really your evil bovine master, then what does that make you? Nothing but a turd in the herd.
Who’s your daddy?
7. Begging for money.
When you want to increase your income, do you have to sit up and beg your master for more money? Does it feel good to be thrown some extra Scooby Snacks now and then?
Or are you free to decide how much you get paid without needing anyone’s permission but your own?
If you have a business and one customer says “no” to you, you simply say “next.”
8. An inbred social life.
Many people treat their jobs as their primary social outlet. They hang out with the same people working in the same field. Such incestuous relations are social dead ends. An exciting day includes deep conversations about the company’s switch from Sparkletts to Arrowhead, the delay of Microsoft’s latest operating system, and the unexpected delivery of more Bic pens. Consider what it would be like to go outside and talk to strangers. Ooooh… scary! Better stay inside where it’s safe.
If one of your co-slaves gets sold to another master, do you lose a friend? If you work in a male-dominated field, does that mean you never get to talk to women above the rank of receptionist? Why not decide for yourself whom to socialize with instead of letting your master decide for you? Believe it or not, there are locations on this planet where free people congregate. Just be wary of those jobless folk — they’re a crazy bunch!
9. Loss of freedom.
It takes a lot of effort to tame a human being into an employee. The first thing you have to do is break the human’s independent will. A good way to do this is to give them a weighty policy manual filled with nonsensical rules and regulations. This leads the new employee to become more obedient, fearing that s/he could be disciplined at any minute for something incomprehensible. Thus, the employee will likely conclude it’s safest to simply obey the master’s commands without question. Stir in some office politics for good measure, and we’ve got a freshly minted mind slave.
As part of their obedience training, employees must be taught how to dress, talk, move, and so on. We can’t very well have employees thinking for themselves, now can we? That would ruin everything.
God forbid you should put a plant on your desk when it’s against the company policy. Oh no, it’s the end of the world! Cindy has a plant on her desk! Summon the enforcers! Send Cindy back for another round of sterility training!
Free human beings think such rules and regulations are silly of course. The only policy they need is: “Be smart. Be nice. Do what you love. Have fun.”
10. Becoming a coward.
Have you noticed that employed people have an almost endless capacity to whine about problems at their companies? But they don’t really want solutions – they just want to vent and make excuses why it’s all someone else’s fault. It’s as if getting a job somehow drains all the free will out of people and turns them into spineless cowards. If you can’t call your boss a jerk now and then without fear of getting fired, you’re no longer free. You’ve become your master’s property.
When you work around cowards all day long, don’t you think it’s going to rub off on you? Of course it will. It’s only a matter of time before you sacrifice the noblest parts of your humanity on the altar of fear: first courage… then honesty… then honor and integrity… and finally your independent will. You sold your humanity for nothing but an illusion. And now your greatest fear is discovering the truth of what you’ve become.
I don’t care how badly you’ve been beaten down. It is never too late to regain your courage. Never!
Tuesday, December 14, 2010
Scrubs
A Black Friday Video
Monday, December 13, 2010
CNN
Wolf Blitzer Presents The World
Guest post of the week by Deangelo Spencer
The most famous star of CNN is Wolf Blitzer. His show can be caught on Directtv everyday at 4:00 eastern daylight time. Wolf Blitzer is one of my favorite television personalities because he is always on and always ready to tell us what is happening without critiquing the news stories that his journalists cover and actually entertain us with.
If the news can be entertaining, Wolf Blitzer covers it. He has a dead pan expression that added to his white closely cropped beard make him a personality of his own. His news coverage is all acting complete with moving from center stage to stage left and staring straight into the camera. Interacting with invited reporters, Wolf Blitzer acts the part of the inquisitor and always thanks his guest reporters.
Wolf Blitzer's style, mannerisms, and voice have made a popular cable news personality and CNN would probably not know what to do without him. He is not your typical news anchor since he is a cable news personality. His voice and mannerisms give way to his attitudes on life in general
Sunday, December 12, 2010
What Is Art
And on this day finds itself another one of those Sundays that has rolled around. That day of the sun. The day of God. The day of rest. The sabbath. Or is that Saturday. And yet I find myself blogging away on this blog for some reason. And it seems as if I find myself blaghing about events and anything else that comes to mind on this blog every so often. And then there is sometimes that blah bloggers block that I find myself encountering every so often on this blog as well when it comes to what to blog about on this blog for the sake of maintaining content on this blog whenever possible. And sometimes in that quest to attempt to blog myself all the way to the bank in that attempt to get rich internet quick, that website page ranking thing seems as if it wants to send me in search of a tenth full time job. And so this post on this day happens to be about the phrase what is art. As in who is to say what that word art means. Does Wikipedia, that internet bible dictionary have an entry for that word. An object to behold or something. And what is the value of an object of art that can find itself being sold for almost free on the sidewalk instead of being sold for a whole lot of money on a museum wall somewhere, that same piece of artwork. And how can one judge art. Who is to say if that piece of artwork is good or bad. That whole concept of art and its value and price to be bought and sold as. What is art? Have a great art and more day.
Friday, December 10, 2010
Clean This Thing
Wednesday, December 8, 2010
WikiLeaks
Time | Thursday, December 9 · 5:30pm - 8:30pm |
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Thursday, December 2, 2010
2012
The sacred Aztec calendar is properly called the Eagle Bowl. It represents the solar deity Tonatiuh. The amazingly accurate calendar has been in use in various forms for more than 2,000 years. A Zapotec prophecy, based on the Eagle Bowl, states:“After Thirteen Heavens of Decreasing Choice, and Nine Hells of Increasing Doom, the Tree of Life shall blossom with a fruit never before known in the creation, and that fruit shall be th...e New Spirit of Men.”The 13 Heavens and 9 Hells were each 52 years long (1,144 years total). Each of the 9 Hells were to be worse than the last. On the final day of the last Hell (August 17, 1987), Tezcatlipoca, god of death, would remove his mask of jade to reveal himself as Quetzelcoatl, god of peace.In the mythology of the Aztecs, the first age of mankind ended with the animals devouring humans. The second age was finished by wind, the third by fire, and the fourth by water. The present fifth epoch is called Nahui-Olin (Sun of Earthquake), which began in 3113 BC and will end on December 24, 2011. It will be the last destruction of human existence on Earth. The date coincides closely with that determined by the brothers McKenna in The Invisible Landscape as “the end of history” indicated by their computer analysis of the ancient Chinese oracle-calendar, the I Ching.The Mayan calendar is divided into Seven Ages of Man. The fourth epoch ended in August 1987. The Mayan calendar comes to an end on Sunday, December 23, 2012. Only a few people will survive the catastrophe that ensues. In the fifth age, humanity will realize its spiritual destiny. In the sixth age, we will realize God within ourselves, and in the seventh age we will become so spiritual that we will be telepathic.
Have a great 2012 and more day. If you believe
Monday, November 29, 2010
Travel
Saturday, November 27, 2010
Market This Product
Tuesday, November 23, 2010
A 2011 NYC Winter Jazzfest
And even when it seems as if the world could be going to hell in a hand basket, and the headlines of the day read something like TSA chief: Resisting scanners just means delays, 'SNL' takes on TSA: Parody over protest, as in those Transportation Security Administration body scanner things suck at those airports to be found on planet earth for the Thanksgiving day holiday travel and beyond. I still find myself blah blogging away on this blagh for some reason. And that 2011 New York Winter Jazzfest is happening in that city of New York again this year, I mean next year. And I know that 7th annual Winter Jazz Festival is happening again next year because some friends who are playing there says so. And I find myself blogging about music events and more on this blog every so often because hey, it's less writing sometimes, I think. And according to that facebook event invite that I came across in my facebookaholicness, that festival is taking place at five West Village venues of Le Poisson Rouge, Sullivan Hall, Kenny's Castaways, Zinc Bar and the Bitter End, Friday, January 7th & Saturday, January 8th with sixty and more groups showcasing music all night. And some of this years, I mean next years showcasing artists in that jazz and experimental music festival include the Aaron Goldberg Trio,Anat Cohen Quartet with Jason Lindner,Asphalt Orchestra,Carmen Souza,Charles Gayle Trio,Charlie Hunter,Chico Hamilton,Chris Lightcap’s,Chris Speed’s YeahNO,The Curtis Brothers,Don Byron's New Gospel Quintet,Donny McCaslin Trio with Uri Caine,Eric Legnini featuring Krystle Warren,Igmar Thomas and The Cypher,Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey,James Carney Group,Marcus Strickland Quartet,Matana Roberts,Nels Cline's Stained Radiance,Nguyen Le,Proverb Trio featuring Dafnis Prieto,Kokayi and Jason Lindner,RedCred featuring John Medeski,Ben Perowsky and Chris Speed,The Respect Sextet,The Robert Glasper Experiment,Sofia Rei Koutsovitis,Steve Coleman and Five Elements,Talibam!,Tia Fuller,Tineke Postma,Underground Horns,Vernon Reid's Artificial Afrika,VISIONFUGITIVE: JD Allen plus Butch Morris,Water Surgeons and a whole lot more. And this festival winter jazz festival rocks. Have a great music and more day.
Monday, November 22, 2010
Advertise This Company
Thursday, November 18, 2010
The UFO's
And this is one of those posts that was written on my other blog some time a while ago....
And so here's another one of those post a YouTube video a day on that website thing again, because hey, I think it's less writing sometimes. And this one happens to be about those ufo's that have been in the news a lot lately after those ufo sightings in New York City, China, San Francisco and Texas. And so have those ufo sightings been around since the beginning of time, maybe? And I have been following that ufo news as sort of somewhere in between creepy and scary, the thought of we may not be alone as human being dwellers here on planet earth. And I am still wondering about those "balloon" and "planes" theories that arises as explanations for those sightings. Have a great ufo and more day.
Tuesday, November 16, 2010
The Clock
Monday, November 15, 2010
Insure This Life
Wednesday, November 10, 2010
Shutters
Tuesday, November 9, 2010
Blaghers Thoughts
Thursday, November 4, 2010
A Host Of Events
And this seems to be another one of those days where I just want to post that Ode To Blogging post in my attempt to get rich internet quick blogaholicness, to where that Google page rank update wants to send me in search of a fifth full time job. And yet this post happens to be about a Nublu Jazz Festival and a Hoboken Artists Studio Tour. And again, as blogger usual, I know that Nublu Jazz Festival and that Hoboken Artists Studio tour are happening because those emails I receive, facebook event invites and friends who are playing at one of these events, says so. And what else is there to say about that all music and all art seemingly collective of a bar and club Nublu that is to be found in that yet trendy of a neighborhood of the Lower East Side now called the East Village for real estate marketing purposes maybe, that is to be found in that city of New York, except that Nublu Rocks. And what else is there to say about that 30th Annual Hoboken Artists Studio Tour to be found in another one of those trendy of a neighborhoods in that city of Hoboken that is to be found in that state of New Jersey that has not been said thirty times already, I am not sure, except that this Hoboken Artists Studio Tour rocks. And that announcement for that Hoboken Artists Studio Tour reads as follows:
Hoboken Artists Studio Tour
Saturday and Sunday, Movember 6th and 7th, noon to 6pm
A Free City-Wide Self-Guided Walking Tour of Artists’ Studios, Galleries & Community Group Exhibitions
Featuring the work of over 150 artists in over 40 locations
An 8 page Tour Guide with map will be available as an insert in the Hoboken Reporter the week before the tour or can be picked up at City Hall on the day of the tour.
City Hall is located at 94 Washington Street, between First & Newark Streets
Just 3 blocks from all public transportation including PATH, NJ trains & buses, NY Waterway Ferries and Hudson Bergen Lightrail.
And according to that eight page tour guide to be found in that Hudson Reporter, some of those participating artists and performers in this years event include:
Tim Daly, one of the original 13 who helped found this artist studio tour, Adam Saynuk, Frank Hanavan, Roslyn Rose, Kenneh Mueller, Virginia Rolston Parrott, Doug Auld, Chapeau Design, Paterson Arts Council, Lib Art Gallery, Monroe Arts Center, the Friary, Neumann Leather building and many many more.
And then some of those artists, performers and musicians in this years Nublu Jazz Festival November 5th-20th, 2010 include:
Alphabet Soup, Endangered Blood, Lew Soloff, The Fringe, Yeyi, DJ Spun,Brennan Green, Bato The Yugo, Paul Motian, Matt Pavolka, Ilhan Ersahin (Isn't he the owner and/or founder of Nublu?), Nublu Orchestra conducted by Butch Morris, DJ Vladi,Juini Booth, DJ Hardedge, Marianniwith, Jeff Ballard, Ze Luis and Band, DJ Greg Caz, Revive Music Group, DJ Ouga, Sun Ra Arkestra, DJ MKL, Clark Gayton's Situation, Wazzabi featuring Aaron Johnston, Redux, Underground Horns, Kenny Wollesen Father Figures, Dub N Such,Seamus Blake Quartet, Dodo, Didi Gutman, Anton, Forro In The Dark, Beco Dranoff, DJ Turmix, The Last Army Collective, Alex, Love Trio, Jonathon Haffner Band, Modest P and a whole lot more.
And what else again is there to be said about these events except that these festivals and tours rock. Have a great music, art and more day.
Saturday, October 30, 2010
A Gun Knife Show
Friday, October 29, 2010
The Furniture
Host This Website
Tuesday, October 26, 2010
Showcase This Jewelry
Saturday, October 23, 2010
An NYC Village Halloween Parade
Oh boy, it's that time of year again that has found itself around again according to that Gregorian calendar on the wall. The end of summer and the beginning of the holy holiday season. And with that holy holiday season finds itself Halloween, All Saints Day, All Hallows Eve, The Day of the Dead,when the dead rise, a great excuse to dress however one wants and not care about it, or whatever one would want to call that scary, spooky, astrological, mystical, occult, witchcraft of a day. If only every day could be Halloween, maybe. And so with that holiday holidaying day seems to come a slew of Halloween events and parties and beyond to go along with it. And I have found myself blah blaghing about that holiday on this blog before in times past. And so some of those events to be found in that city of New York in this year of 2010 A.D. are as follows:
And so that NYC Village Halloween Parade is happening again this year. That seemingly end all to be all of parades to be found in that city of New York with seemingly a bazillion puppets, marching bands, dancers, performers and more. And all, or at least a lot of people, dressed up in those costumes Halloween style. And according to that Village Halloween Parade website, some of this years bands and performers include
Approaching Storm Marching Band, Aztec Marching Band, Baritone Army, Big Nazo, Bizango, Bloco Quimbombo, Caporales de San Simon, Central Park Dance Skaters Association,Chinatown Community Young Lions, Chinelos, Columbia University Marching Band, Dja Ra Ra, EnJ Productions, Escola de Samba BOOM, Extraordinary Rendition Band, Geday Brigade, Giglio Band, Golden Knights Drill Team, Gowanus Wildcats Drill Team, Higher Levin Steel Orchestra,Hungry March Band , Kalunga/Rasin San Bout , Lakou Band, Lubolos Macu, Madagascar Institute, Manhattan Samba, Maracatu New York, Mommy? (+ Klaus Nomi Army),New York Music in Motion Drum and Dance Corps, On the Lam Band, Princeton University Marching Band, Puppeteer’s Cooperative, PURE NYC, Radoes Steel Orchestra, Red Hook Ramblers, Samba New York!, Sugartone Brass Band, The Drunkard’s Wife, Top Hat Marching Orchestra, Tropical Pan Vibe – J’Ouvert, Underground Horns, Xtreme Kre8tionz ColorGuard & DrumLine, Zobop Rara and more.
And then there is also the Theater for the New City Village Halloween Costume Ball. And hey, didn't that theater start or help found that NYC Village Halloween Parade years and decades ago somehow, I thought I heard someone say?
And then according to those emails, there's also The Danger List, Your Halloween Weekend with:
You are invited to:
Within the Land of Ash : Saturday, October 30th
Details: WithinTheLandofAsh.com and
The Horror Show
Details: horror.
And this blah blaghers list is not even including those Jeff Stark nonsensenyc weekly events lists, or those millions of facebook event invites one can receive each day, or those Time Out New York Magazine events one can read.
And the halloween party event list is endless, maybe. And these Halloween events rock. Have a great Halloween day, night and more day.
Tuesday, October 19, 2010
Insurance
Thursday, October 14, 2010
A Fast Food Meal
Okay and so here I go with these YouTube video postings again. And I have been finding myself posting these youtube videos every so often when I get into that post a YouTube video on this blog mode because I guess, hey, it's less writing sometimes in my blogaholic attempt to maintain content for this blog whenever possible. And so that above video titled Six months of the everlasting Happy Meal is from another one of those facebook posts on someones facebook page that I came across that was titled McDonald's Happy Meal resists decomposition for six months, a photo of a McDonald's hamburger and french fries that has something to do with that on day 180, the Davies Happy Meal Project still looked the same as when that person bought that meal from McDonald's, as in that food had not decomposed, molded or changed its appearance in anyway when left on that table for six months. The only change that was noticed was that the food became hard as a rock. Now that's interesting and it sounds sort of scary to me. Is that just plastic food or something? And so this has me wanting to do that experiment also and go to all of those fast food restaurants to be found here on planet earth and buy all of the Big Mac's and Whoppers of the world and let them sit around for days and months and see what happens, if anything. Will they even attract insects? Have a great mystery meal day.