Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens

 

Traverse Bay

rong beach!

the fourth of july!

  

periodicos de ayer

seed

ever been short changed? seeds and seeded... to be seeded or not to be seeded. is there actually a fine line or is it jive? when it comes to those damn delicous olives, seeded is needed. in fact leave my fucking seeds in my food, please. hey, i paid for it! i want mu muddafuckin seed baby!

and its tastier too. ever eat a seeded olive? thats like stealing from something paid for that belongs to me entirely. sell me tampered food?! what are-you??? crazy!!! would you buy an open banana? "but sure you should know that human beings dont come into contact with them..." right and your machines are cleaner?

Barnegat Lighthouse

Waves on Highlands

The Mission Inn, Cape May, NJ

Porpoises Across the Street Relatively Bright and Early

Work..., Hard at Work!

A 3yr Old's Masterpiece

The Art of Joe Rimini

I'm about 15 days late for this Joe Rimini Ebay Auction.

Rimini is "a well-known seascape and landscape artist from Rockport, Mass...", and THE only Artist of any importance to me and my family. Little else is known of him by me except the sudden research I did today out of sudden curiousity. Why is he of any importance to us at all? History... my Granny Lammers picked up these two works on a trip she and my Grandpa made a while ago to Cape Cod.

In fact the only significance I was taught to treat these works by Dad was with little relevant artistic significance other than the value that these works existed in the hands of his parents. Which plenty, but there is more.

At a 2003, North Shore Arts Association Workshop, Artist B.L. Schlemm, qouted some instruction she learnt from Rimini,

"The painting is tied together by being aware of what is next to what - color reflects and bounces in to whatever is next to it. Joe Rimini told me to put a touch of yellow into gray to bring it alive. A touch of lemon yellow wakes gray up."

Among Emile Gruppé, Ken Gore, Artist Bruce Turner lists Rimini among his freinds whom he often relates stories about.

A collector paid $143.75 for a 20 inches x 24 inches winter landscape in oil on canvas by Joe Rimini. It was one of half a dozen Rimini paintings in the sale. The local man bought four in all, adding them to the 386 he said he already had at home by the same artist.

(And one of many auctioned at Blackwood's)

Here's another work I found referred to as by Rimini called "Untitled Townscape, it sold at auction on February 20 this year for $541.50, and refers to Rimini as a Teacher by profession.

Despite that though, Rimini is a name that has closeted more significance to me than that. Particularly because he is the only artist I was literally raised closely with. Thus I marveled out them out of this respect. Which in all symbolic and sentimental relevance carries enormous value. Also, these works have not only commanded that respect alone but they are also very beautiful. And in the frame of my father's conscience my grandmother respected them enough to display them in the presence of her own home at her own will of encouragment. From the moment she purchased them for a far less than the value they are today, to the day she left the great home her husband built with his hands, lived together and he died in. Now they hang in my Television room somewhat shamefully despite their historical value in favor of less taste. They deserve greater honor in better places hung.

Lee's Brilliance

Sea Bright/Atlantic Highlands

The Mission Inn in Cape May, NJ

Cape May Lighthouse

Holmdel Park Friday

Girlggerience

[BlackBerry Wireless...]
For a few weeks I have been following the antics of the 100 REASONS WHY I HATE MY HUSBAND! blog. Since the author, "Christine" posted me a comment to my brother's letter on the disappearance of free press. I read now to "give thanks" for who I'm not, and when in doubt "learn" what traps not to set myself up in or avoid, as an ex-husband and a boyfriend. God knows I have no shortage of issues. Watching hers unfold in the embodiment of J (husband), and her antics sorting out his behavior its resulting-insight are well written and refreshing to those of us who can muster up their own senses which relate.

Mounting heaps of praise is something I always feel awkward doing, so see for yourself. Anyone who rants this much is flat out hysterical. What's she gonna do once she hits 100? Without doubt Christine deserves a Blogette Award.

Bass-03-LG

Along the way as I was flipping through some of the comments, I found myslef trying to figure out who her demo is: feminists, single women, housewives, men or all of the above. Behold Undies and this extremely sexy pinups, just really got me kind of going, you know... So I had to post.

Is it a wierd thing, when illustrations do this to a guy? I think I need a session therapy style. I could never figue out that Lara Croft thing. Never juiced me up or anything, I've always looked disdainfully upon the thrill guys got from pure illustrations. Yet here I am drooling over these pinups; they're NOT EVEN digital! Paging Dr. Hammer...

When I say going, I don't mean: HORNY. But "wow, can an illustration have that effect", you know, subtler. I won't get any more carried away trying to elaborate what I can't. Doing the extra: "Don't-be-misled-"work never works for me.

Yep, and that didn't work.

The Corner Garden of Kinderkamack & Lawrence

Defining Noses

Seclusion's Corner

Stake & Suckles

Rock On Edge

My New Drudge

I've been a loyal reader of the Drudgereport for several years.

Me, like the rest, I learnt about Drudge at the onset of the Netanyahu threat "to set Washington on fire", the day the Clinton Intern-Gate scandal broke, and since then I have essentially stayed tune waiting for the next story to refresh on the splash of the next Drudge-Alert. But Drudge has gotten to be stale, tired, boring and too damn bias with right-wing agendi to me. A far cry from reporting. Honestly, the only reason why it had my attention is because I felt Drudge had a hand from the Israelis in getting the inside feed, then over the past year I have failed to find a worthy alternative.

Gawkermedia, though brings to us Sploid. And since my discovery of it (Sploid -that is), it pervades my web-conscience. Sploid now routinely masters my clicking habits until I reach it for the freshest news-worthy content available on the Interweb.

Even the name rouses a host of senses. What does it mean? Is it conjugated from the verb exploit? Similiar to "asplode", conjugated from the verb explode, made popular by Strongbad.

For a fresher source of the follies that shape our world, daily; Say: SO LONG Drudge, a splash of Sploid is much more refreshing.

Dubya Thumping Social Security in NY

"See, in my line of work you got to keep repeating things over and over and over again for the truth to sink in, to kind of catapult the propaganda. (Applause.)"

[Whitehouse.gov]

Cheft's Coy-mpany

Star Wars Man

[BlackBerry Wireless...] Whatever happened to Star Wars kid?

Remember the chubby, bugger, one little? That is he who could not enough get out of a makeshift high school studio. Perfecting those acute, self-invented, padawan, jedi-in-training skills taught he, us. Flinging his heftiness in every way unimaginable for such size. It was then we discovered basis for everything G-force relative. Well not really.

What was that..., four-years ago? Actually, I'm not sure if that was after Episode 1 or Episode 2. Anyhow, at the emergence of Episode 3 a new creature from the imagination of Star Wars has reared its head.

Could this be Star Wars kid now a man?

What I Really, Really Want

There are teases and then there are teases, and the only reason why this is even remotely interesting is because my girlfriend sorta freaked out (I mean ever-so mildly -no offense baby:) when I read this to her Monday morning: Spice Girls to comeback

She was "OMG! Sure that this would never happen..." Umm... and now I don't know if I want to know why she said that.

Ha ha! Gulp... don't be mad you're anonymous.

In Theory: Does this Put Dick in the Emperor's Seat?

Lucas jabs at Bush

Seems like all of the headlines about Star Wars taking on US Imperialism, is based on Anakin's line in Sith: "You are either with me — or you are my enemy." Sound familiar? Although he didn't mention Bush by name, Lucas took what sounded like a dig while explaining the transformation of the once-good Anakin Skywalker to the very bad Darth Vader.

"Most bad people think they're good people."

I hardly agree with the notion that Lucas is talking about Bush alone when explain his sentiments about Star Wars, because he is quite obviously speaking about 'a people', and really when it comes to democracies like ours, Bush isn't alone. And the transformation of good to bad is what is charectized by him as:

"How does a democracy turn itself into a dictatorship?"

So in place of mischief our founding fathers designed a system of checks and balances. Our country, bears absolute responsibilty for appointing all of its legislative and executive officials. We are guilty for sacrificing our land at the hands of people who willingly have no conscience.

Wouldn't it be nice to be shuttled around the world by lobbyists and paid to vote as these lobbyists would like and then at the end of the day vote ourselves a payraise? In our tax-subsidized homes in Georgetown and Westchester County, NY. No offense President Clinton. Instead our ambitions wreak of the self loating cattle eager to be the next contestant on "Millionaire".

Americans want it all, and we're gonna get it. Dear Santa, I want status for christmas. I want more debt. In other words, for anyone whose read Holidays on Ice, by David Sedaris, recall what the adults want for christmas before not wanting to break Santa's Lap? I want a Gold Card or a BMW for christmas. I digress.

What's even more unfortunate is that we're in this together. As an American, as much as I'd like to rid myself of the troubles created by other people, but unfortunately Bush bares as much blame for Imperialism as the rest of us do. The President doesn't just do anything. Our form of government is supposed to subject the executive branches to a set of obstacles preventing him from absolute power. Not everyone in the House is neither red nor blue, but they're both. Our democratic trade-line has been: the will of the people, to the barebones of our divisions of government.

Before any President wins the White House-Sweepstakes, remember: he doesn't receive all of the vote, just the majority, enter the Electoral College, enabling the less popoluated places with a voice. Furthermore our elected legislative branches are also obliged to the same but we've taken their opposition of executive orders for granted and have become cattle at the expense of the corporation. Making Washington gridlock is a blessed thing of the past! No one in any relationship is entitled to absolute power.

So isn't our confidence in our electorate properly represented? Or has the system been defeated? If so, then didn't we do it to ourselves? If yes, then Bush is only one person at the head of the problem we created. There should be no crying when there is absolutely no opposition to the Homeland Security Act, the War in places like Iraq, or the willful disappearanceof people like Bin Laden (The Senate ignored us because we ignored them hence we all ignored Bin Laden's sorry ass in favor of Saddam).

(BTW: Did the Tax Payers pay for that sock in his junk? Damn! Or did Congress chip in for it? Same thing)

Consider this: Cheney is the '08 darkhorse.

And that is how what's done has been done we've allowed it in the name of "freedom".

Correcting ourselves tomorrow will require pain and suffering. We won't wake up in the morning with a clean slate. Like each one of us, individually; we too, together, have baggage to bare responsiblity for, albeit, this land is split into infinite confusion. Putting some career politician putz like John Kerry in charge to change things won't do it, our corrections are going to require for some exteme changes, and the sooner the better. In life we get chances, but there are zero lifelines to pick.

0n5-L06!

O' Draconian Devil!

Why do you have to
cram this down our
necks already?

Chappelle Shoes

Dave Chappelle shows up in a red t-shirt, blue jeans and shiny white sneakers. He lopes around in his usual style, pacing a lot, but does not seem like a man struggling to speak or to order his thoughts at all. He's lucid and thoughtful and a couple of times asks me to give him some time to think about answers. He concedes that he is dealing with a lot of issues and mentions that he had consulted a psychiatrist about a week ago for a forty minute session. He is also quite fastidious about keeping his new sneakers clean and stops at least twice to wipe smudges off their toes. (TIME...)

Smudges: I recently got a smudge on my brand new trainers, on the stripes, in fact. When I began to fret, a little birdie said to me, "It's only one, once they all have smudges it'll be unform."

Popemobile

How seriously pimped out is this ride for the man who is head of a group of "celibate" men. It's Heaven's Gate meets Dolomite in a twisted episode of SNL's the Robert Smigel's "Ambiguously Gay Duo".

What We Pay For!

Michael W. Lammers II,

"We get what we pay for… What am I getting at here? We have all heard this phrase before and we all understand what it means, right? But…, do we really understand what this phrase means and all that it really implies especially where a "free" press is concerned?

I'm going to make an uncomfortable assertion one that some of us would rather sweep under the carpet.

Many of us don't!

We want a "free press" and someone has to pay for it. All too frequently we see the results of our "free press".

News stories that could have a negative effect on a Newspaper's or Periodical's advertisers get "edited" or placed in a column buried on page F 109 or somewhere between that quaint story about Mrs. Smith's prize winning petunias or the winner of a "local" spelling bee whose parents make large contributions to Bob Jones University while the 5 car pileup on the freeway gets the largest headline on the front page.

Why is it however that news about the funding for a "special education" program or a "bill" requiring affordable and accessible housing for some folks who are less fortunate gets buried where readers who are strapped for time have to spend precious time to find it?

Why are the "Best" writers and reporters used for the "sensational" front page story which in one way or another is a repetition of countless previous stories like it and why are the worst writers and reporters used for local political reporting?

Who pays for our "free" press and how does the placement of their advertisements affect the placement of meaningful and meaningless news stories and how does this affect the reader's lives and their political choices?

Mmmm… Remember, that great two page story about that expensive new luxury car that starts on the front page of section D in the Sunday paper?

That's a great advertisement, isn't it?

Oh my, wait a second, what happened to that story about rising gas prices, or the one about drilling for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge?

What about the one that would tell us about hazardous air pollution levels that travel toward us from large distant cities? Anyone remember Kyoto?

That's interesting, a proposal to relax environmental restrictions on Oil companies is buried too, but the proposal to reduce gasoline taxes and thus lower the price of gasoline is right there on the bottom of the front page.

Yes, there is a "Santa Claus" and he or she will format the news to maximize the advertiser's profitability. Now there's a faint glimpse of the obvious."

/As ABCNews goes mum on Iraq?
//A Media-Opoly

Whole Foods

Doesn't It Bother Anybody?

If a picture tells a thousand words, how long will it be before people get disturbed by this and start equating Whole Foods with Starbucks? I'm wagering short.

Note: Write more about the embracing of big business by the anti-establlishment. Or the establishing of the anti-establishment. Or the anti-establishing of the anti-establishment. Whicheverrrr!

Sign: Frozen in Time

BALTIMORE -- Imagine being frozen in time as a baby forever. It sounds impossible, but it describes Brooke Greenberg.

The Baltimore-area girl may look like a baby, but she's nearly a teenager. In most respects, Brooke looks and acts like your average 6-month-old baby -- she weighs 13 pounds and she is 27 inches long.

But Brooke is actually 12 years old, reported WBAL-TV in Baltimore.

Birds of a Feather

Michael Jackson, the scum of the earth butters you up. Can anyone imagine being Michael Jackson at the height of being Michael Jackson? That's rhetorical, OK, don't answer that! Things are good, you're the king of pop! The album that did it all: Thriller, a Quincy Jones masterpiece. You're loved by everyone then Bad comes out and popularity begins to wane. Dangerous is next and you're sinking sharp. The only fanatics that remain are the bottom of the heap, yet you're there too, even more bizarre. Your life is a zoo. Which has beckoned me to ask more than once, was it Vincent Price that did this to you?

Some day you will be remembered as the incredibly changing man, from black to white. We'll all be stumped by this in history, it could take mythic interpretations. Was it cosmetic or natural. So how weird is it when along comes Martin Bashir, a "credible" British journalist for the BBC comes along and promises a to exhonerate you then puts the move on you, "YOU'RE 'LOOKING SO SEXY"! What the fuck! Talk about uncomfortable!

Martin Bashir to MJ: "Women are going to be taking their pants off and throwing them at the screen".

From time to time you gotta feel bad for that terribly confused little boy-man who thinks he is Peter Pan.