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First half of my life

2009-02-28T00:25:00.001-08:00

Jorge Lecture on Stella C in Mayan Ruins in Quirigua, Guatemala

2009-02-18T21:42:00.000-08:00

This was a full lecture I recorded at one of the last locations we stopped at during our trip to Guatemala. Learn more about Quirigua here:

Quirigua

Last Carnival, for Barnes---

2009-02-13T12:51:00.000-08:00

For Barnes:

Moon rise, moon rise, the light that was in your eyes is gone away.
Daybreak, daybreak, the thing in you that made me ache has gone to stay
We'll be riding the train without you tonight
The train that keeps on moving
It's black smoke scorching the evening sky.
A million stars shining above us like every soul living and dead
Has been gathered together by God to sing a hymn
Over the old bones.

"The Last Carnival," By Bruce Springsteen

Barnard Just Barnes, PhD, JD

2009-02-13T12:25:00.000-08:00

Barnard Just Barnes, PhD, JD
(a.k.a. “Barney,” “The Barnes,” “Barney J.,” “Barnus Jayus,” “BJB,” or simply, “B”)

19- ? – February 12, 2009, 5:27pm

A beloved elder kitty succumbed to a vicious cancer on Thursday, February 12, 2009 at 5:27pm.

Dr. Barnes (Barney) was professor emeritus at Jesus College, Oxford, where for many years he taught various humanities course, with and emphasis on comparative religion and ethics. Barney was present as a student at the Sorbonne in Paris during the events of May 1968 and his writings inspired the participants in Prague Spring that same year. He championed the cause of his fellow students while calling for a cessation of the violence. Barney’s work on nuclear nonproliferation was pivotal in bringing an end to the Cold War. The lists of visionaries, luminaries and figures of historical greatness his life has touched are too numerous to mention.

A personal crisis set the great feline off course in the early 1990s as tragedy struck and the perils of catnip addiction took his one true love’s life. His efforts to save her from herself rendered “B” bankrupt, homeless, and the victim of various crimes upon his person on the mean streets of Oceanside, California (Barnes has no recollection of how he ended up there). As Barnes began to get his life back together he decided it was time to adopt some wayward humans—two college graduates who were just beginning their life together—and serve as their wisdom-teacher and domestic companion.

He enjoyed his retirement years first in Carlsbad, CA, then in San Diego, spending time exploring, contemplating, writing, and focusing on his newly found passion: sleep research. From time to time he was called upon to intervene in world affairs. He was a proud member of Nelson Mandela’s recently formed “Global Elders,” alongside former Irish President Mary Robinson, former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan, Nobel Prize winners Desmond Tutu and President Jimmy Carter, as well as celebrities and human rights activists Sir Richard Branson and musician Peter Gabriel.

Among Barney’s most controversial commitments, however, was his cause for amnesty for his adopted feline brother Nosey B. Knowsregard (the “B” is for Badness), throughout all the latter’s numerous household atrocities, many of them befalling Barney himself as a victim. Nevertheless, Barney continued to be a loyal brother, and a tireless advocate for reform, forgiveness, reconciliation, and rehabilitation in regards to “The Nose,” although he found Nosey’s ideology and commitment to violence to be anathema.

Barney’s adopted humans are quoted as saying, “Barney taught us everything we know about love, about peace, about caring and sharing. You know that saying about not cursing the darkness, but lighting a candle instead…that was Barney. He was simply saintly. He gave us fifteen beautiful years. He gave us a good life. He will be dearly missed.”

Barnes is survived by “faddor Glen,” “mutter Michelle,” “brotter Nose,” and cousins Nova, Ash, Brownie, & Puff.

Barney’s family asks that any memorial gifts made in Barney’s honor go to the Humane Society, the World Wildlife Fund, PETA, or locally in San Diego, to the Helen Woodward Animal Center.

Hope Stone

2009-02-09T21:37:00.000-08:00

Hope Stone
By Glen Beninsky Motyl
Written 09/22/2008 and 02/09-11/2009

Pulse the wave of proof
seems to be outdated
this will to produce a truth that is unmitigated in its fury
these will be the fading daffodils of hope spooling outwards
toward a maverick sign of destitution languishing in the brisket lurch enduring
these are the times of wonderment
these are the times when things seemingly get out of control
by buttressing themselves up against the mental wounds
these are the undernourished vassals that chirp
in the pharmacy's spotted potted plant's secret labyrinth of doubt
hiding behind the generic acedamediphine capsule bottles
these are the plateaus of doubt
these are the limits of pressure on the banks
a doddering gimmick shouting blankets of populated destiny
calf-backed looter frame a, “half-way there”
but these are the wonders of the drugs they have given me to share
these are not really drugs but these are intellectual/spiritual morsels that I begin to share with you
hesitatingly, although reassured of the fix-it trodden
these avenues certainly bake for us
these certainly reach back and frame for us
these worries laugh
when a chain begins to fix them straight
tardy efforts begin the stipulation that will eventually bring us all back along
these things do take time and certainly will continue to manufacture
elements totally out of our realm of understanding
make-believe tense of certainty limits
“limits:” now there is the hurt word
limits are like lies in that they reach out to a certain point
to caricature the pain and suffering
mental mouse character-torture that makes its way in haste
yellow jacketed hypocrite simply spooling out of control
why is the novelist like the torturer?
why does the novelist turn a blind eye ultimately to the suffering of her creation?
what is it about the act of creation that renders one cruel?
these are the frames now you bounce
these imaginary characters down into a world of your own creation
begin to put them through what only can be determined
a torturous regiment of nuanced doubt
in the middle of a spiritual drought
within the fulcrum of a physical flouting
this cancer
this treatment
this slow accident unfolding before us
this stretcher of nerves
these corrupted compromised cell walls
this masher of fast growing membranes
this slow chemical suicide of everything that was the old corrupted compromised body
tissue of defiance
this evolutionary curse in the middle of a million years of progress
just one of the side effects of chaos theory
to you we leave the finger nail markers of a kidney or a liver casualty
emitting radiated shouts of shy, “whys?”
surfacing humbled
we hold this sheet
this prayer blanket
this hope stone
this finder’s romance

this is some crazy new absurdist, surrealist stuff...

2009-02-02T22:06:00.000-08:00

His Nonlinear Reality, and Welcome to It
By RANDY KENNEDY
February 1, 2009
Art
New York Times

Courtesy of the artist and Elizabeth Dee Gallery

An image from the Mr. Tracartin's upcoming project.

THE shoot the night before had lasted into the next day, ending around 9 a.m. after a scene in which the perimeter of the kidney-shaped swimming pool had been set ablaze with rubbing alcohol. So when the artist Ryan Trecartin greeted a visitor that afternoon, sleepless for more than 24 hours, he ran his hands through his hair and said, “This really isn’t me.”

He meant that he wouldn’t be much good for an interview. But he could just as well have been speaking in the voice of one of the maniacally mutable characters he plays in the videos he has been writing and directing for the last several years, characters whose hold on identity and existence itself seems so tenuous that they must keep talking to keep from disappearing. (“If I didn’t take the liberties to glue these prop knobs onto my safe space, who would you think that I’d be?” demands one, in what has become Mr. Trecartin’s signature unhinged vernacular: phrases that sound like something you might have heard before, on television or the Web, but haven’t.)

Mr. Trecartin (pronounced tra-KAR-tun) was creating these characters more or less for himself and a band of friends and collaborators from the Rhode Island School of Design when one of his works, posted on his Friendster page, was seen in 2005 by the artist Sue de Beer, who brought it to the attention of a curator at the New Museum in Manhattan. In stunningly short order, even for an art world then still moving at breakneck speed, his work was everywhere: the 2006 Whitney Biennial, the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, the Saatchi Gallery in London, the collection of the Guggenheim Museum. And his most ambitious work to date, the movie-length “I-Be Area,” which made its debut in 2007 at the Elizabeth Dee Gallery in Chelsea, was greeted with a kind of joyous critical consensus rarely seen in the art world.

Mr. Trecartin, a friendly, loquacious, boyish-looking man who grew up in a steel-mill family in rural Ohio and who counts the Disney Channel and “Dirty Dancing” among his important artistic inspirations, was only 26 years old.

So there has been a lot of anticipation about what he will come up with next. And for the last five months Mr. Trecartin, now 28, has been working long hours to meet it in a slightly ramshackle Spanish-mission-style house on the edge of the Little Haiti neighborhood here that he has rented for $2,000 a month and that serves as set, dormitory, editing suite, sculpture studio and site of a kind of continuous happening. The work that emerges — conceived now as a trilogy, two parts video and the third a performance — will take him back to the institution that helped discover him, the New Museum, where the video portions will be a key part of “Younger Than Jesus,” the museum’s first installment of a new triennial that will focus on the work of artists under 33, opening on April 8.

The raw material for Mr. Trecartin’s new work is what is happening to the world economy as financial institutions implode and the mechanisms of capitalism and credit falter. So the house he has adopted as his temporary home is fitting: it is near the city’s Design District, which has become an art-world hot spot in recent years, but in a rapidly changing middle-class neighborhood now dotted with foreclosure signs amid the crabgrass.

Even the reason he came to Miami plays well into his story line about transition. He originally arrived to make a smaller project at the request of the nonprofit Moore Space here, founded by the prominent collectors Rosa de la Cruz and Craig Robins, but they closed the space unexpectedly in October, in an example of the reordering that is beginning to unfold in the art world.

So with help from his gallery, collectors, the New Museum and several of his own beleaguered credit cards, he rented the house and began making sets and costumes with his friend and closest collaborator, Lizzie Fitch, and others. As filming began, he welcomed a steady stream of friends and regulars, along with professional actors — considerably more than he has used before, drawn partly from the child and teenage performers in Orlando, home of Walt Disney World and Universal Studios.

When a reporter arrived at the house the day after the all-night shoot, Ms. Fitch was still asleep in the pool house, and the sun-splashed backyard was strewn with what looked like the aftermath of a small riot or a ritual for a new Day-Glo religion. Bricks lay everywhere around a brightly colored prop wall. Lifelike models of tiny purse dogs were scattered in the weeds. A white metal bed frame from Ikea was submerged in the pool. (Ikea and Target are the main sources of furniture and props for the project because of their ubiquity and faux-designery corporate blandness, Mr. Trecartin said.) Above the pool was a wooden armature rigged with a pulley that had been used to lower the artist into the water the night before, a deus ex machina in canary yellow shorts.

Asked how the neighbors reacted to such doings, he said that the house on one side was boarded up and occupied by squatters whom few people had seen. The eaves and roof of the large house on the other side are covered with security cameras, like vultures. No one is quite sure what its residents do.

“There’s a lot of really weird things going on at our house,” Mr. Trecartin said. “But those guys have these huge parties and actually make more noise, so they don’t complain.”

The shoots and plots have grown substantially more complex since his days in Rhode Island and later, with many members of his group, in New Orleans, where they lived until Hurricane Katrina destroyed their house and much of Mr. Trecartin’s work.

In “A Family Finds Entertainment,” the video that brought him to public view, the fairly followable story involves a disturbed and disturbing black-toothed kid named Skippy (played by Mr. Trecartin) who borrows money from his parents, is filmed by a documentary maker, is hit by a car, is filmed by the documentary maker some more as he lies in the road, and whose soul seems to rise from his body when it hears the sounds of a rocking house party.

By “I-Be Area” Mr. Trecartin’s characters had started to serve more as vehicles for his hyperactively interconnected ideas about family, belonging, identity, gender, the Internet and the entertainment industry. But they are much more fascinating than allegorical characters generally have a right to be, with names like Pasta and Jammie, yakking endlessly, arrogantly, pleadingly, in phantasmagoric makeup and crazy clothes. The title character, I-Be, is less a person than an idea of a person waiting to hijack or be hijacked by a personality. (To make things more interesting, I-Be has a clone, and the clone has an online avatar who seems to be mounting a rebellion; the clone and the avatar are both played by Mr. Trecartin in a Southern accent that sounds something like Carroll Baker’s in “Baby Doll,” except on acid.)

In one Web interview Mr. Trecartin helpfully described a chaotic scene in a macabre wood shop near the end of the video as “a conceptual part-cyber-hybrid platform that obeys and functions within both laws of physics and virtual-nonlinear reality and potential in Web 2.0/ultra-wiki communication malfunction liberation flow, add-on and debate presentation.”

In an interview two days after the all-nighter, Mr. Trecartin, with a full night’s sleep, said the new work, as yet unfinished and untitled, was using the dire state of the economy to describe a world in a state of epic, maybe never-ending transition. It is a place where the idea of credit becomes so abstract that “credit cards start to have conceptual agendas” and where people create and use their own currencies. The Web becomes a catalyst for a “postgender world,” said Mr. Trecartin, who is gay. Transvestites would not be the usual kind but instead “astrological trannies” or “personality trannies,” choosing to exist in a state of not quite being one person.

Sitting in his office with Ms. Fitch, the walls behind him covered with circular diagrams that he said helped him keep track of characters, ideas and situations, he tried to describe parts of the numerous plots, which seem to collapse into one another like the perspectives in an Escher drawing.

“This is really hard to describe linearly,” he said at one point. At another, trying to sum up after a long, rambling disquisition, he said, “It’s all just driven by situations in a personality-based system,” causing Ms. Fitch to laugh and double over in her chair, because she has watched him go through these kinds of patient — and quite sincere — gyrations before.

Massimiliano Gioni, the director of special exhibitions for the New Museum, said he often used the term “hysterical realism” — a phrase invented by the critic James Wood to characterize the overly manic language and story lines of fiction by writers like David Foster Wallace and Don DeLillo — to describe Mr. Trecartin’s work and that of several other younger artists. But in their art, he said, the hysteria is raised to even more absurd heights, a reflection of the world they have inherited, drowning in information and images.

“It’s as if information is speaking the characters rather than the other way around,” Mr. Gioni said.

Lauren Cornell, the executive director of Rhizome (rhizome.org), the online art organization affiliated with the New Museum, said that though it was too limiting to describe Mr. Trecartin’s work as being about life lived largely on and through the Web, “he really captures how the logic of it is becoming embedded in our lives.”

The garish low-budget look and feel of his work, and its near-anarchy, are often compared to early John Waters, to Paul McCarthy, to Mike Kelley and to drag auteurs like Jack Smith and Tom Rubnitz. But when asked, Mr. Trecartin said that he could not think of a work of art, video or otherwise, that had inspired him to want to become an artist. Ms. Cornell said that in long conversations with her in 2007 he told her that when he was first compared to Mr. Waters or to Mr. Smith, he had never heard of them.

“When I was young and my baby sitters came over and turned on music videos, I was inspired by that,” Mr. Trecartin said in his office, where a desk with a large Mac monitor and 10 hard drives shares space with the rumpled mattress he often sleeps on. He said he also reads obsessively, almost completely online, and is feverishly devoted to conspiracy-theory sites and TED Talks, the brainy Web lecture series.

Ms. Fitch interrupted him disapprovingly: “Ryan, I’ve seen you look at a piece of art and be inspired by it.”

Mr. Trecartin responded: “Yeah, but what? I really want to be reminded.”

He said his goal when he begins to write — the dialogue in his works, despite seeming ad-libbed, is highly scripted — is for viewers to leave his work with a deep emotional response to a reflection of their culture, “but in a way that they really can’t put their finger on why they felt like that.”

While he is ecstatic about his success among curators and collectors, he has an online audience that is just as important to him, one that doesn’t approach his work as art per se. Speaking of an earlier work in an online interview, he once said that if it fared well only among art-world people, “then I’ll feel like a loser.”

But judging from some of the comments on his YouTube channel, he is doing well by his other audience too. “That one hour, 48 minutes was the closest I’d come to someone who could understand me,” wrote a viewer with the screen name Scandibilly after watching “I-Be Area.” “Thank you! Thank you! I understand!”

Although he was born in 1981 into the first home-computer generation, Mr. Trecartin said he thinks that people even younger, who have never known a world without the Web, are the ones who understand his work most intuitively. He told of hiring several teenage actresses for his new video. He tried to explain the ideas for their surreal characters by simplifying them, but it wasn’t working, so he just explained it the way he would have to himself. “And they were like, ‘Oh, yeah, O.K.’ ”

“People born in the ’90s are amazing,” he said excitedly. “I can’t wait until they all start to make art.”

A sample segment from full-length feature "I-BE AREA:"
I-BE AREA (I-Be2 becomes Oliver becomes Amerisha)

better version of Paul Simon's Obvious Child (original video)

2009-02-02T20:14:00.000-08:00

The obvious child
Uploaded by eXsistenZ1968

Paul Simon 1991 Tokyo 07/14 The Obvious Child

2009-01-28T21:34:00.001-08:00

eddy grant - gimme hope joanna

2009-01-28T21:23:00.000-08:00

eddy grant electric avenue

2009-01-28T21:21:00.000-08:00

bowie let's dance

2009-01-28T21:20:00.001-08:00

WORDS

2009-01-26T19:48:00.000-08:00

“Words”
Lyrics by Glen Motil
Music, arrangement, instrumentation, vocals, and recording
By Anonymous
(Apologies in advance for low quality youtube transfer from old cassette tape)

Bush Guilty of Torture/Obama Should Prosecute

2009-01-19T20:17:00.001-08:00

Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy

Bush: Eight Years in Eight Minutes

2009-01-19T15:35:00.000-08:00

Bush: Eight Years in Eight Minutes
By Keith Olbermann, MSNBC
Friday 16 January 2009

Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy

George Walker Bush.
43rd president of the United States.
first ever with a criminal record.
our third story tonight,
his presidency: eight years in eight minutes.
early in 2001 the U.S. fingered Al Qaeda
for the bombing of the USS Cole
Bush counterterrorism adviser Richard Clarke
had a plan to take down Al Qaeda.
instead by February the NSC
had already discussed invading Iraq,
and had a plan for post-Saddam Iraq.
by March 5 Bush had a map ready for Iraqi oil exploration
and a list of companies.
Al Qaeda?
Rice told Clarke not to give Bush a lot of long memos.
not a big reader.
August 6, 2001
a CIA analyst briefs Bush on vacation:
"Bin Laden determined to strike in U.S."
Bush takes no action tells the briefer - quote
all right, you've covered your ass now.
next month Clarke requests
using new predator drones to kill Bin Laden
the Pentagon and CIA
say no.
September 11th
Bush remains seated for several minutes
to avoid scaring school children
by getting up and leaving.
he then flies around the country
and promises quote a full scale investigation to find
those folks who did it
Rumsfeld says Afghanistan does not have enough targets
we've got to do Iraq.
when the CIA traps Bin Laden at Tora Bora
it asks for 800 rangers to cut off his escape
Bush outsources the job to Pakistanis
sympathetic to the Taliban
Bin Laden
gets away
in February General Tommy Franks tells a visiting Senator
Bush is moving equipment out of Afghanistan
so he can invade Iraq.
one of the men who prepped Rice for her testimony
that Bush did not ignore pre 9-11 warnings
later explains quote we cherry picked things
to make it look like the president
had been actually concerned about Al Qaeda
they didn't give a bleep about Al Qaeda
July and Britain's intel chief says Bush is
fixing intelligence and facts around the policy to take out Saddam
January 03
Bush and Blair agree to invade in March
Mr. Bush still telling us he has not decided
telling Blair they should paint an airplane in UN colors
fly it over Iraq and provoke a response
a pretext for invasion
the man who said it would take several hundred thousand troops
fired
the man who said it would cost more than a hundred billion
fired
the man who revealed Bush's yellowcake lie
smeared
his wife's covert status
exposed
the White House liars who did it
and covered it up
not fired
one convicted
Bush commutes his sentence
then in Iraq, stuff happens:
Iraq's army, disbanded
the government de-Baathified
200,000 weapons, billions of dollars just
lost
foreign mercenaries immunized from justice
political hacks run the Green Zone
religious cleansing forcing one out of six Iraqis from their homes
Abu Ghraib
the insurgency
Al Qaeda in Iraq
other stuff does not happen:
WMD
post-war planning
body armor
vehicular armor
the payoff?
oil
and billions for Halliburton, Blackwater and other companies
while Mr. Bush denies VA healthcare to 450,000 veterans
tries to raise their healthcare fees
blocks the new G.I. Bill
and increases his own power with the USA PATRIOT Act
with the Military Commissions Act
public orders exempting himself from a thousand laws
and secretly from the Presidential Records Act
The Geneva Conventions
FISA
sparking a mass rebellion at the Justice Department
secret star chambers for terrorism suspects,
overturned by Hamdan v Rumsfeld.
denying habeas corpus,
overturned by Boumediene v Bush.
200 renditionings
sleep deprivation
abuse
Rumsfeld warned in 2002 that he was torturing
that it would jeopardize convictions
out of 550 at Gitmo
hundreds ultimately go free with no charges
dozens are tortured
eight fatally
three are convicted
on U.S. soil twelve hundred immigrants rounded up
without due process
without bail
without court dates
without a single charge of terrorism
it wasn't just Mr. Bush no longer subject to the rule of law
he slashed regulations on everyone from banks to mining companies
appointed 98 lobbyists to oversee their own industries
weakening emission standards for mercury
and 650 different toxic chemicals
regulators shared drugs
and their beds
with industry reps
the Crandall Canyon mine owner told inspectors to back up
because his buddy, Republican Mitch McConnell
was sleeping with their boss
McConnell's wife is Bush Labor Secretary Elaine Chao
her agency overruled engineer concerns about Crandall Canyon
and was found negligent
after nine miners died in the collapse there
Mr. Bush's hands off
as Enron blacks out California
doubling electric bills
after months of rejecting price caps Mr. Bush bows to pressure
the blackouts end
Mr. Bush further deregulates commodity futures
midwifing the birth of unregulated oil markets
which just like Enron jack up prices to an all time high
until Congress and both presidential candidates call for regulations
and the prices fall
deregulating financial services and lax enforcement of remaining rules
created a housing bubble
creating the mortgage crisis
creating then a credit crisis
devastating industries that rely on credit
from student loans to car dealers
firms that had survived the Great Depression could not survive Bush
those that did got
seven hundred billion dollars
no strings, no transparency
no idea whether it worked
unlike the auto bailout
which cut workers' salaries.
a GOP memo called it
a chance to punish unions
but Bush failed even when his party and his patrons
did not stand to profit
investigators blamed management cost cutting communication
for missed warnings about Columbia
Bush administration convicts include
sex offenders at Homeland Security
convicted liars
every kind of thief in the calendar
and if you count things that were not prosecuted
the vice president of the United States actually
shot a man in the face
the man apologized.
Mr. Bush faked the truth
with paid propaganda in Iraq
on his education policy
tried to silence the truth about global warming
rocket fuel in our water
industry influence on energy policy
politicized the truth of science at NASA, the EPA,
the National Cancer Institute, Fish and Wildlife
and the FDA
his lies
exposed by whistleblowers from the cabinet down
"complete BS" the treasury secretary said
of Mr. Bush on his tax cuts.
Rice's mushroom cloud
Powell's mobile labs
Iraq and 9-11
Jack Abramoff
Jessica Lynch
Pat Tillman
Pat Tillman again
Pat Tillman, again.
the air at Ground Zero
most responders still suffering respiratory problems.
global warming
carbon emissions
a Clear Skies initiative lowering air quality standards
the Healthy Forests initiative increasing logging
faith based initiatives
the cost of medicare reform
fired US attorneys
politically synchronized terror alerts
the surge causing insurgents to switch sides
that abortion causes breast cancer
that his first recession began under Clinton
that he did not wiretap without warrants
that we do not torture.
that American citizen John Walker Lindh's rights
were not violated
that he refused the right to counsel
heckuva job Brownie
some survivors still in trailers
New Orleans still at just two-thirds its usual population
the lie that no one could have predicted the economic crisis
except
the economists who did
no one could have predicted 9-11 except
one ass-covering CIA analyst
or thirty
no one could have predicted the levee breach
except literally
Mr. Bill
in a PSA that aired on TV a year before Katrina
Bush actually admitted that he lied about not firing Rumsfeld
because he did not want to tell the truth.
look it up.
all of it
all of it and more leaving us with
ten trillion in debt
to pay for 31% more in discretionary spending
the Iraq War
a 1.3 trillion dollar tax cut
median income down two thousand dollars
three-quarters of all income gains under Bush
going to the richest one percent
unemployment up from 4.2 to 7.2 percent
the Dow, down from ten thousand five hundred eighty seven
to eighty two hundred seventy seven
six million now more in poverty
seven million more now without health care
buying toxic goods from China
deadly cribs
outsourcing security to Dubai
still unsecure in our ports
and at our nuclear plants
more dependent on foreign oil
out of the international criminal court
off the anti ballistic missle treaty
military readiness and standards down
with two unfinished wars
a nuclear North Korea
disengaged from the Palestinian problem
destabilizing eastern european diplomacy with
anti missile plans
and unable to keep Russia out of Georgia
2000 miles of Appalachian streams
destroyed by rubble from mountaintop mining
at his last G-8 summit,
he actually bid farewell to other world leaders
saying quote - goodbye from the world's greatest polluter
consistently undermining historic American reverence
for the institutions that empower us
education, now "academic elites"
and the law, "activist judges"
capping jury awards
and Bin Laden?
living today unmolested in a Pakistani safe haven
created by a truce endorsed and defended by George W. Bush
and among all the gifts he gave to Bin Laden
the most awful, the most damaging not just to America
but to the American ideal
was to further Bin Laden's goal
by making us act out of fear rather than fortitude
leaving us with precious little to cling to tonight
save the one thing that might yet suffice:
hope.

Music Machine Talk Talk

2008-12-22T21:01:00.000-08:00

The Fireman Nothing Too Much Just Out of Sight

2008-12-22T21:00:00.000-08:00

Pink Floyd - Astronomy Domine

2008-11-28T20:49:00.001-08:00

Pink Floyd - Lucifer Sam

2008-11-28T20:48:00.001-08:00

Pink Floyd - Matilda Mother

2008-11-28T20:47:00.000-08:00

Pink Floyd - Flaming

2008-11-28T20:46:00.001-08:00

Pink Floyd - Pow R. Toc H.

2008-11-28T20:45:00.000-08:00

Pink Floyd - Take Up Thy Stethoscope and Walk

2008-11-28T20:44:00.000-08:00

Pink Floyd - Interstellar Overdrive

2008-11-28T20:43:00.000-08:00

Pink Floyd - The Gnome

2008-11-28T20:42:00.001-08:00

Pink Floyd - Chapter 24

2008-11-28T20:41:00.000-08:00

Pink Floyd - The Scarecrow

2008-11-28T20:40:00.001-08:00

Pink Floyd - Bike

2008-11-28T20:39:00.001-08:00

not a socialist

2008-11-10T12:41:00.000-08:00

He's NOT a Socialist, but I won't hold that against him.

I love this man! It is the dawning of a new day!

"The Other Shoe?" and "Are you ready for Empress Palin?"

2008-09-24T21:30:00.001-07:00

The two great Naomi s (Klein and Wolf, of The Shock Doctrine and The End of America, respectively, two of the best books on understanding our current political situation) are correct, I’m afraid. The U.S. is Chile, 1973. It is no coincidence that Henry Kissinger just met with Sarah Palin. The engineered “financial meltdown” is “the other shoe” (the first being the “false flags” of 9/11/01) and the proposed solution to the meltdown (the trillion dollar no-oversight bail-out) is the financial version of the Patriot Act, “the final stage of the coup,” as commentator Larisa Alexandrovna has suggested. (see also, The Bailout Will Kill the Dollar September 23, 2008, By Dave Lindorff, Greg Palast: “The 2008 Election Has Already Been Stolen”and Gore Vidal speaking candidly about the stolen election to come). Will Obama join us in the streets? Or will he concede hours after the polls close on November 4^th and fade into the woodwork, ala John Kerry?

Naomi Klein: “Now Is the Time to Resist Wall Street’s Shock Doctrine”

While the collapse of this country’s financial system continues to send shock waves around the world, we speak to the bestselling author of The Shock Doctrine. Naomi Klein says the public should be wary of the Bush administration trying to use the crisis to push through more of the radical pro-corporate policies that helped cause it in the first place.

"Don't Cry for me AMERICA": Is This Our Future?

Naomi Wolf:

The Battle Plan II: Sarah "Evita" Palin, the Muse of the Coming Police State

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The Other Shoe?

Bush administration seeks 'dictatorial power unreviewable by the third branch of government, the courts' 20 Sep 2008 The Bush administration asked Congress for unchecked power to buy $700 billion in bad mortgage investments from U.S. financial companies in what would be an unprecedented government intrusion into the markets. The bill would bar courts from reviewing actions taken under its authority. "It sounds like [Treasury Secretary Henry] Paulson is asking to be a financial dictator, for a limited period of time,'' said historian John Steele Gordon, author... The Bush administration seeks "dictatorial power unreviewable by the third branch of government, the courts, to try to resolve the crisis,'' said Frank Razzano, a former assistant chief trial attorney at the Securities and Exchange Commission now at Pepper Hamilton LLP in Washington. [See: Brigade homeland tours start Oct. 1 for deployment during 'civil unrest,' 'horrific scenarios' 08 Sep 2008.]

Treasury Seeks Authority to Buy $700 Billion Assets (Update1)

By Alison Fitzgerald and John Brinsley

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=a1hr1v2FUeAg&refer=home

Brigade homeland tours start Oct. 1

3rd Infantry's 1st BCT trains for a new dwell-time mission. Helping 'people at home' may become a permanent part of the active Army

By Gina Cavallaro - Staff writer
Posted : Monday Sep 8, 2008 6:15:06 EDT

http://www.armytimes.com/news/2008/09/army_homeland_090708w/

We Have DAYS To Stop the $700 Billion Stick-Up (and Fascist Power Grab)

September 21, 2008

[1] George Washington's Blog
Sunday, Sept 21, 2008

http://georgewashington2.blogspot.com/2008/09/we-have-days-to-stop-700-billion.html

Welcome to the final stages of the coup...

Larisa Alexandrovna

Posted September 20, 2008 | 08:11 PM (EST)

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/larisa-alexandrovna/welcome-to-the-final-stag_b_127990.html

What Was Mysterious Activity Going on in the Marriott Hotel Islamabad by United States Marines

Sunday, 21 September 2008 12:18

http://www.daily.pk/politics/politicalnews/7422-what-was-mysterious-activity-going-on-in-the-marriott-hotel-islamabad-by-united-states-marines.html

“We are in the center of a time swirl now (like you see when looking at a photographic or contrived image of the galaxy from a distance—or more apropos—like water going down the drain in your bathtub) and we shall live four hundred years of history in the next four years. It is impossible for us to predict, plan for, or analyze the ride humanity is in for. But we can continue to teach love, nonviolence, and caring. We must remain calm and centered.” Asa Mind, “2012 and the Concept of Paratemporal Pantheism,” Belief, February 2008.

"The Beginning of the End of America"

2008-09-22T22:05:00.001-07:00

The death of habeas corpus

2008-09-19T17:28:00.001-07:00

The death of habeas corpus

Olbermann: ‘The president has now succeeded where no one has before’

Some of the best political books of the last 8 years

2008-08-27T21:28:00.000-07:00

gogol bordello

2008-08-20T19:53:00.000-07:00

Gogol Bordello - 60 Revolutions (on The Henry Rollins Show)

Gogol Bordello - Ultimate (on The Henry Rollins Show)

may you live in interesting times

2008-08-18T23:21:00.001-07:00

may you live in interesting times

by glen motil

stolen elections / false flag terror / loss of civil liberties

two criminal wars / torture of innocents / soul death of our humanity

got neighbors spying / illicit wire tapping / break down of civility

war-profiteering / abuse-of-power steering / ship of state helmed by mercenaries

crony appointments / deaf to signing statements/ no known legitimacy

complicit congress / lap-dog press corps/ murder of new orleans

no habeas corpus / shred posse comitatus / act as if it were meant to be

real I.D. / “papers, please!” / checkpoint plutocracy

detention camps / no flying list / this rendition of democracy

got phony Christians / on blood-drenched missions / pushing for theocracy

immigrant bashing / racist tongue lashing / homophobic hypocrisy

got prohibition/ no sex lessons/ high abstinence-only pregnancies

recruiters pimping / with lies they’re selling / school shootings by JROTC

no child’s behind left / experience oil theft / food riots on the rise / it comes as no surprise

may you live in interesting times

Jim Marrs on Coast to Coast

2008-08-16T00:04:00.000-07:00

Jim Marrs-The Rise of the 4th Reich On Coast to Coast AM P7

Flesh Failures/Let the Sunshine In-- HAIR

2008-08-15T23:58:00.000-07:00

The Flesh Failures/Let the Sunshine In – HAIR

McKenna

2008-08-15T23:44:00.000-07:00

2012 Terence McKenna - The Transcendental Object at the End of Time

Hijacking Catastrophe

2008-08-15T23:19:00.000-07:00

Hijacking Catastrophe: 9/11, Fear & the Selling of American Empire

Hijacking Catastrophe - Part 1

Hijacking Catastrophe - Part 2

Hijacking Catastrophe - Part 3

Hijacking Catastrophe - Part 4

Hijacking Catastrophe - Part 5

Hijacking Catastrophe - Part 6

Hijacking Catastrophe - Part 7

Hijacking Catastrophe - Part 8

NWO Soldier Vol 1-Vol 6

2008-08-14T22:38:00.000-07:00

Viewing these you-tube dramatic monologue skits will take about one hour of your time, but it will be time well spent. The actor is a YouTube absurdist comedian whose channel I have recently stumbled upon quite accidentally while looking for sample readings of Allen Ginsberg’s poem The Fall of America. I’m not too much into his other comedic characters, but he is unique to say the least. In these dramatic non-comedic videos he creates a near-future world where the former United States of America is under martial law. He is presenting from the “occupying soldier” point-of-view and calls himself a “New World Order Soldier.” There are some elements of right-libertarian/conservative-conspiracy such as the emphasis on the “North American Union,” but mostly elements that should send a chill down the spine of anyone who has been paying attention to the fascist shift in American politics since around at least 1998 [See Naomi Wolf’s New York Times Bestseller The End of America: Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot]. The actor, who calls himself “Montagraph,” has referred to himself as “Steve” in one or two “strait” or non-character driven pieces. He shows himself to be an extremely talented actor, on par when it comes to portraying the evil of a sociopath with the late Heath Ledger as The Joker in the critically acclaimed Dark Knight film. One also gets the sense of what it must be like to be under occupation—how it might feel to be on the receiving end of an occupier/torturer.

Part One

Part Two

Part Three

Part Four

Part Five

Part Six

We are living in SOME truly historic, remarkable times!

2008-07-29T22:27:00.000-07:00

We are living in SOME truly historic, remarkable times!

Now you understand
Just why my head's not bowed.
I don't shout or jump about
Or have to talk real loud.
When you see me passing
It ought to make you proud.
…

'Cause I'm a woman
Phenomenally.
Phenomenal woman

That's me.

from Maya Angelou’s *Phenomenal Woman*

“Imagine, if he [Obama] wins the presidency we will have not one but three black women in the White House; one tall, two somewhat shorter; none of them carrying the washing in and out of the back door.”

--Alice Walker, from the essay ,“Lest We Forget: An Open Letter to My Sisters who are Brave”

PLUS….also in 2008…

First All-Women-of-Color Presidential Ticket in US History: Green Party Nominee Cynthia McKinney and Running Mate Rosa Clemente—if McKinney gets 5% of the vote, the Green Party and their values (local democracy, free universal health care, nonviolence, feminism, and green energy economy) must be on the ballot and in every debate beginning in 2012.

Who is Glen Motil?

2007-06-15T16:45:00.000-07:00

Glen Eric Motil (pronounced “mow” as in “mow the lawn,” “till,” as in “till the soil”) ("monarch butterfly from the valley"), is a poet and essayist who lives with his partner Michelle H. and their two feline domestic companions, Barney and Nosey, in San Diego, California. He was born ten October nineteen sixty nine, year of the Rooster, Libra sun, Libra moon, Pisces rising. He is a third generation Byzantine Catholic Slavic American from the anthracite coal mining region of northeastern Pennsylvania. He is the grandson of immigrant coal miners, son of factory workers and member of the working class.

He grew up dreaming of becoming a filmmaker or an electric bass player in a famous rock band.

At age 16, he successfully won his underdog bid for the senior class presidency at his high school by campaigning in the name of the voiceless, underrepresented, and uninvolved.

At age 17, he followed a family and regional cultural tradition and joined the military as an willfully ignorant idealistic patriot and poverty conscript; he is a United States Marine Corps Persian Gulf War (Desert Holocaust) Veteran.

Glen spent the 1990s in college in San Diego County discovering his voice as an amateur writer and thespian, and working in a movie theater, various corporate bookstores, and a university library, reading voraciously and experiencing what he describes as his "political and spiritual evolution."

He is currently an adjunct English professor at Southwestern Community College in Chula Vista, California as well as a Library Assistant at the Social Sciences and Humanities Library at the University of California, San Diego, where he also obtained his MA degree in Literatures in English.

Michelle and Glen love to travel the world and since 2000 they have been to Paris, France ; Rome, Florence, Verona, and Venice, Italy; Prague, Czech Republic; Krakow, Poland (including a trip to Auschwitz Birkenau); Budapest, Hungary; Bratislava, Slovakia; Vienna, Austria; Victoria, British Columbia, Canada; Baja California, Mexico; Hong Kong, China; Ho Chi Min City (Saigon), Vietnam; Siem Reip (including Angkor), Cambodia; Bangkok, Thailand; Singapore; San Jose and all around the country of Costa Rica; Quito, Ecuador and Galapagos Islands; Within the United States, they love to visit major cities and have been to Washington, D.C.; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Rome, Syracuse, & New York City, New York; Seattle, Washington; Boston, Massachusetts; Milwaukee, Wisconsin; Clark & Watertown, South Dakota; Dallas, Texas; Denver, Colorado; Cleveland, Ohio (for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame); Jackson Hole, Wyoming and Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks; several times to Chicago, Illinois; and, of course, Los Angeles, California. San Francisco, California is like a home away from home and they visit there at least once a year. In addition to this, while Glen was in the military he also saw Istanbul, Turkey; Olongapo City, Philippines; Seoul, South Korea; and, of course, somewhere near Khafji, Saudi Arabia.

Principally opposed to nuclear weapons, war, and militarism, he is a supporter of many local, national, and international peace activist organizations. He considers himself to be a libertarian socialist, a radical pacifist and a lesbian feminist and does not affiliate or identify with any corporate-sponsored political party.

Glen stands with the spiritual insurgency against all forces racist, sexist, and homophobic; he stands in solidarity with all those who speak out and fight against the vicious, ugly, legacy of the ideology of white supremacy; he seeks to abolish “whiteness” as a power category. He advocates monetary, social, and legal reparations as well as the creation of a truth and reconciliation commission for the descendants of the indigenous North American genocide, African-American descendants of the victims of slavery and the American apartheid system, and descendants of Asian-American victims of various human rights abuses. He calls for an open border with Mexico and dual citizenship for all Mexican and United States nationals who so desire it and full workers rights and protections for all current undocumented workers.

He favors the abolition of the death penalty, the prison-industrial complex, and the prohibition laws. He calls for a disbanding of the Central Intelligence Agency and the National SecurityState, an end to American empire and reparations for all nations the United States of America has been directly or indirectly engaged in warfare with since 1945.

He advocates a nonviolent global revolution and the convening of a new constitutional convention which will place as its cornerstone the principles adopted by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, to include the rights to health care, decent and safe housing, full employment at a living wage, and free public education.

An archaic revivalist, Glen believes that there is more to consciousness than meets the “I.”

An absurdist surrealist, Glen believes in an intense, prolonged engagement with the unconscious mind, living one’s life as an artist first and foremost, and releasing one’s imagination upon existence in order to raise consciousness and radically alter and/or transform the material world.

A pantheist with Buddhist and Taoist inclinations, Glen is also a disciple of Tolstoy, Gandhi, Day, King, Lennon, Harrison, Marley, and Nhat Hanh.

Photo still from the first half of Glen's life:

Motility Enterprises

First half of my life

Jorge Lecture on Stella C in Mayan Ruins in Quirigua, Guatemala

Last Carnival, for Barnes---

Barnard Just Barnes, PhD, JD

Hope Stone

this is some crazy new absurdist, surrealist stuff...

better version of Paul Simon's *Obvious Child* (original video)

Paul Simon 1991 Tokyo 07/14 The Obvious Child

eddy grant - gimme hope joanna

eddy grant electric avenue

bowie let's dance

WORDS

Bush Guilty of Torture/Obama Should Prosecute

Bush: Eight Years in Eight Minutes

Music Machine Talk Talk

The Fireman Nothing Too Much Just Out of Sight

Pink Floyd - Astronomy Domine

Pink Floyd - Lucifer Sam

Pink Floyd - Matilda Mother

Pink Floyd - Flaming

Pink Floyd - Pow R. Toc H.

Pink Floyd - Take Up Thy Stethoscope and Walk

Pink Floyd - Interstellar Overdrive

Pink Floyd - The Gnome

Pink Floyd - Chapter 24

Pink Floyd - The Scarecrow

Pink Floyd - Bike

not a socialist

"The Other Shoe?" and "Are you ready for Empress Palin?"

Treasury Seeks Authority to Buy $700 Billion Assets (Update1)

Brigade homeland tours start Oct. 1

3rd Infantry's 1st BCT trains for a new dwell-time mission. Helping 'people at home' may become a permanent part of the active Army

By Gina Cavallaro - Staff writerPosted : Monday Sep 8, 2008 6:15:06 EDT

Welcome to the final stages of the coup...

"The Beginning of the End of America"

The death of habeas corpus

The death of habeas corpus

Olbermann: ‘The president has now succeeded where no one has before’

Some of the best political books of the last 8 years

gogol bordello

may you live in interesting times

Jim Marrs on Coast to Coast

Flesh Failures/Let the Sunshine In-- HAIR

McKenna

Hijacking Catastrophe

NWO Soldier Vol 1-Vol 6

We are living in SOME truly historic, remarkable times!

Who is Glen Motil?

better version of Paul Simon's Obvious Child (original video)

By Gina Cavallaro - Staff writer
Posted : Monday Sep 8, 2008 6:15:06 EDT