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Tuesday, January 27, 2015

Jacob Russell's Barking Dog has MOVED

The Dog is laid to rest.

Nothing NEW to see here... we've moved to

Sunday, December 28, 2014

In it for the long haul

Whew... deep breath. Every day, new cause for rage. Not gonna stop. So up to me to deal with it on a different register. No good exploding into fantasies of hard justice that lead nowhere, teach me nothing, point to no useful tactics or strategies. Have to stop reacting like this stuff comes out of nowhere--shock and surprise.
It's not. It doesn't. I could close my eyes and recite ahead of time kinda thing gonna come at me before the day is out. Only thing going to be different, be the details. What it means to be in it for the long run.
Don't get numb. Let it register, but the way you have to let stuff register when you're in an action and bad shit comes down. You take a breath. Evaluate. Think what you can do to best take care of yourself and those near by. Later... you find time with comrades, friends, with those you trust and love... with those not afraid of tears or hard words. Let it out, and give back what you get in support from others.
Then you go on. Cause it's gonna go on going on for a long time, and there's no room to quit, and no place to go to if you wanted to.
Solidarity, Love, Imagination, Resistance!

Saturday, December 27, 2014

#294 Meditation box

104x44 cm. underside of coffee table, 6-pack holder, paint blob, lampshade hoop.

Sunday, December 21, 2014

#292 Through a Glass Darkly

61x41 cm acryllic smeared on mirror. This is hard to capture in a photo. It's a bathroom cabinet mirror in it's frame (I think). Found in the trash. Smeared with thin acryllic, an image rubbed out. Still semi-transparent to the mirror. The image only shows at certain angles.

Saturday, December 20, 2014

Some Perspective on the Shooting of the NYPD Cops.

For more than five months since the murder of Mike Brown... with deaths to follow, one after another, there has been as yet, NO corrective action taken to insure accountability, of those who committed these crimes, or to prevent more of the same in the future.
Think about it.
Almost six months.
What are the cops to get from this, if not support for their self-justification, their maniacal racist thin-blue-line fantasies that cast as enemies those who they should protect-- as THEIR enemies! It's like a set up!
It was bound to happen, sooner or later (amazing that it took so long!)... that someone was going to say, enough is enough. Really not important that it was a violent jerk who shot his ex, and not someone more rationally enraged by establishment refusal to hold the killers accountable. What did they expect? What do they want to happen--that the cops, so puffed up with their ignorance and self-importance and self-serving us versus them rage, turn on a mass of demonstrators and initiate a massacre? Not like this hasn't happened in this fucking country before! If it should happen again, no one should be the least surprised. If one were to write a script with that as the outcome, could not be closer than what we've seen unfolding. This was my first thought when I heard the news. Oh shit... what's coming down after this?
The NYPD PBA rant that's been circulating... maybe that's someone's idea... to create the conditions for war. If it comes to that, I have to ask, is it time we need be ready to cross the line from "peaceful demonstrators' to armed asymmetrical resistance? Is that what they're pushing for? I don't just distrust cops--I don't fucking trust anyone in authority in this country--not anymore. It's over. It's fucking over.

Friday, December 19, 2014

No such thing as a good cop.

Why do I keep saying, there is no such thing as a good cop--when we know that not all cops do bad shit? Let me see if I can explain my reasoning, sans rhetoric, when I say: there is no such thing as a good cop.
First, there is the role. Then there is the person. The role is defined in general terms by what kinds of actions it involves. To keep this simple, I want to look at only one aspect: what is permissible within the role. The persons who step into the role are not identical with it, and certainly aren't reducible to it—as persons; but while they occupy that role—the role of ‘cop,’ their moral or ethical character—their ‘goodness’ or ‘badness,’ is. So when I say, there are no good cops, I’m speaking about a person in that role, as ‘cop.’ Not what they are outside of it, or in addition to it.
As the role, ‘cop,’ includes all those things permissible in the performance of that role, we have to take the unpleasant reality, that this includes killing unarmed men and women who have committed no crime, done no wrong according to the law. We know this to be true, because cops who kill unarmed men and women who have done no wrong according to the law, are, in fact, given permission to do this, post facto, if not in advance, in that they receive no punishment, experience no official sanction or restriction of their duties, once the PR phase and “investigation’ has been completed. If by chance, disciplinary measures are taken, their unions will correct the official command, reminding the command, and us, that killing unarmed men and women who have done no wrong according to the law, is, in fact, permissible.
There is no contesting this. These are facts, confirmed again and again in full view of everyone who refuses to avert their eyes. As long as cops, who kill unarmed men and women who have done no wrong under the law, are excused, confirming that this is, in fact, permissible for anyone occupying the role of 'cop,' it will be true, that there is no such thing as a good cop. That not all cops kill unarmed mean and women who have done no wrong according to the law, is no more relevant than pointing out that not all cops stand on corners directing traffic. What matters, is whether these actions fall (standing on a corner directing traffic, killing unarmed men and women who have done no wrong according to the law) under the class of permissible actions for the role we’re discussing, namely, being a cop, and given the history we have before us, it is clear that killing unarmed men and women who have done no wrong under the law, falls as much under the class of permissible actions as standing on corners directing traffic, or appending actual criminals.
Of course, the weak part of this lies in how we define what is good, or bad. Clearly, if you believe killing unarmed men and women who have done no wrong according to the law, is a good thing, it would not be true to say: there is no such thing as a good cop. More significant—is the problematic of the what that role (being a cop) plays in a larger context. Here there’s more room for reasonable disagreement.
I’m not going to write a book here, so I’ll condense this to the max. If you concede that one of the primary functions of the role of 'cop' (remember, that means everything included as permissible—even if individual cops are doing very different things)—is to protect by whatever means, the status quo of power, and the status quo of power happens to be hell bent on destroying human life on the planet… well (forgive this rhetorical lapse)… there is no way that role, the role: ‘cop,’ is a good thing.

There is no such thing as a good cop

Imagination Shall Make Us Free!

In a Facebook post, Nyle Fort, wrote of the difficulty of seeing past the neoliberal simulacra to find what is real. Maybe it helps to see this, not as binary opposites, but different *kinds* of real. In the way a fictional character is real, *as* a fictional character-- which nonetheless has real generative effects.
The spectacle, too, is real, but a reality whose generative effects impair both thought and perception in such a way that we cannot see past the simulacra, or imagine, while in its thrall, another kind of reality. That suggests to me, that the way to another reality--one we can inhabit in the fullness of our human being--is not like breaking through a curtain to something that lies there, already existing, on the other side, but in the very power of imagination on which the illusion depends, that our hope lies in knowing that that power is immeasurably greater than what has been drawn on by the oppressive system holding us hostage. Like in the Faerie Queene--the flames surrounding Busirane's castle, real enough to burn Scudamore--because he believes they are the wrong kind of real, a reality over which he has no power, while Britomart walks through them unscathed. It's our collective belief in the simulacra that makes it 'real' -- that is, gives it power to generate effects--in that way, challenging collective beliefs is the very essence of the work of the imagination.
We do not dance as relief from fighting oppression; we dance, because out of the dance, come the flames of passion that will burn the citadels of our oppressors. We do not sing or paint or rap or create stories to escape from one illusion to another--but TO IMAGINE THE REAL WE DESIRE, THAT WE MIGHT CREATE IT AND MAKE IT SO!

Tuesday, December 16, 2014

Art and Capitalism, one more time...

Hoping for a discussion group sometime in the not too distant future at A-Space for artists who want to explore ideas on alternative means of support-- outside gatekeeper-gallery-to-investor servitude. If you're interested in this, let me know--and I'll keep you updated on when this might happen.
True, making stuff from your own materials and exchanging it for money isn't yet capitalism. The problem is with what happens after, and the way the gallery-to-investor system works, using art as an exchange commodity to create surplus value for the investor/collectors--which also screws the artist-worker. Think of artists, with very few exceptions, as low wage workers. Any artist activist would do well to give this a shit-load of thought. It means rescuing art from being subverted and co-opted by the establishment, which is an absolutely essential step in turning our creative powers to serve the revolution.
We will never make a new world by centralized resistance. We have to turn every aspect of our lives to creating new forms of relationships, with one another, and to the work we do in making a humanly habitable world with all our fellow creatures on this planet. Making art isn't a side dish we wait to serve up after the 'real' work is done--it's how we open the faucet to ALL our creative energies. Why the elite are so committed to owning and using what we do to image forth a world that looks like the one they want us live in, the one where they own us and the labor of all.
See also Imagination Shall Make Us Free

Thursday, December 4, 2014

Saturday, November 29, 2014

Surfing the wave of history!

All over the world... Brazil, London, Spain... in Hong Kong they were doing "hands up don't shoot"... Palestine. There's always waiting for us, that crescendo of events no one could have predicted. Those who are most dependent on being in control will the be the least prepared to deal with them. Those whose lives have been given to surfing the wave of history ahead and beneath the curl, ready to risk everything, give up everything they have held true to embrace the new reality, they will inherit the earth!

Friday, November 28, 2014

Sometimes a riot is a beautiful thing!

Have seen several posts on Facebook contrasting white dudes rioting over pumpkins and sports victories, with stores and cars set fire in Ferguson. Who are the real rioters, they ask? I was thinking about this on the bus the other day... how what they share, may be more significant than how they differ.
On the one side, there's destruction as celebration--a spontaneous eruption from joy to mayhem. On the other side, attacks on property out of justifiable rage, or at least--rage with more than enough provocation to make it understandable. But isn't that all too neat? What kind of celebration is this--destruction of public property--of shared assets in the community (buses, automobiles, breaking into stores)--isn't this as much an expression of rage as the other? A rage let loose in people by the celebration? And if so, is there not something similar in their rage to what we saw in Ferguson--a release of pent up anger?  I mean--anger that explodes out of the oppression of living in this consumer culture, of being valued not as human individuals, but only for one's exchange value--as wage slaves, as consumers pressured to want and need always more than they are able to realize?
On the other side--isn't there joy as well as rage at the burning of a cop car? And breaking and smashing things, the tangible symbols of a culture where nothing has value of and in itself, but only as means of exchange?
Maybe--however little aware (at least the whites, in their Dionysian celebrations), are of what is driving them, there is on both sides a common passionate hunger to destroy the material symbols of a culture that oppresses everyone--however unequally distributed the raw violence of that oppression--that there is a shared hunger for genuine freedom, for another kind of world?
This is why I see appeals for 'calm' and 'reason,' are but a disguised way of taking the side of power, of the status quo. And the worst--those who think of themselves as radicals, scolding those who 'lose control' --that is, who refuse to accept the top-down discipline of the tacticians and strategists who claim to 'know better.'
Let there be room for joyful destruction. For both sides. May it come together in a great celebratory conflagration to make room for a new world.

Wednesday, November 26, 2014

Friday, November 21, 2014

Memorial to E. Passyunk PoemTree, 2010-2012 #287

48x22 acrylic, Poem cards, aluminum tabs, American chestnut leaves and found stuff mounted on plywood.

Saturday, November 15, 2014

Thursday, November 13, 2014

34x36 strips & chips of wood, acrylic on canvas

Wednesday, November 12, 2014

How can we recover our creativity, if we aren't ready to renounce art, have done with the isolation of aesthetics as a specialty, and absolutely reject--work to destroy by whatever means prove effective--the vile usurpation of creative effort by the gallery to investment pipelines--to resist comodification of self and work as nothing less than a life and death struggle? Is there anything more vile or than the idea of a "professional artist?"

Friday, October 31, 2014

32x40 acrylic on canvas. light through trees, Morris Park

Wednesday, October 29, 2014

31.5x14.5 Acrylic on packing box cardboard

Tuesday, October 28, 2014

#56 There's a Soldier in the Garden of the World

Cardboard, paper, roofing paper, torn US currency, acrylic mounted on rusted sheet metal

Friday, October 24, 2014

28x20 acrylic on Masonite

Paintchips on rusted metal. Found object mounted on wood, acrylic.

Wednesday, October 15, 2014

24x12 Acrylic on canvas.

#280 36x34 Acrylic on canvas. Samhain, Full Moon Fire Circle, Faerie Fall Gathering

Tuesday, October 14, 2014

Narrative Realism: recycled

This is the preface to a review of an Alice Munroe story in the New Yorker.
This is Part II of a review of Some Women, by Alice Munro
Naming the Real in Realist Fiction. Here is Part I .

Three posts on Critical Narrative analysis

No artist tolerates reality." says Nietzsche. That is true, but no artist can get along without reality. Artistic creation is a demand for unity and rejection of the world. But it rejects the world in the name of what it lacks and in the name of what it sometimes is.
Camus, The Rebel

When I first read this, I noticed an ambiguity in the English translation which I assumed would not exist in the French. As the likely pronominal antecedents (une exigence, and le monde) are of different genders, it would be clear in French that the first refers to 'artistic creation,' or rather, its 'demand,' and the next two, to 'the world.' But {this demand) rejects the world in the name of what ( the world) lacks and in the name of what (the world) sometimes is. However, I find that there is something to be said for the ambiguity and for the creative misreading it allows. If we understand 'world' and 'reality' as synonymous (as Camus apparently does here), make 'artistic creation' the subject and turn 'demand' into a verb with 'writer' as its object, we will have pregnant formulation of the problematic of realism and representation. .

Artistic creation demands of the writer
that he/she reject reality
for what it lacks
and for what it sometimes is.

To this I would add, that artistic mimesis, what we think of as 'representation,' the very possibility of artistic realism, arises out of an encounter with what reality 'lacks.' What constitutes realism--what any work of art represents ( pictorial, dramatic, literary, musical) is not 'reality,'' but its 'lack,' the artist's endeavor to complete reality, to make real what was not...to give to Airy Nothing a Local Habitation and a Name. Which means the distinction between 'realism' and whatever name you would give to its antithesis, is false. There can be no distinction, and any criticism over-determined by the assumption that there is, will fail in its encounter with the work. With this in mind, let me turn--or return to, the story I've set out to review.
In an EARLIER POST, I wrote that writing:
is a process of negotiation with the material at hand and every act, each engagement with that material translates both material and intention. ... because the author's intentions have been in a continuous process of translation along with the writing as it evolves, what existed in the beginning, and at every point to the completion of the work, is a continuum of difference that moves both forward and back.
We can't recover the process or recreate the stages as they evolved in the continuing encounter, but I believe we can identify imprints of that encounter, evidence of the reality which shaped the elements of the writing as it emerges in its final form.


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Friday, December 2, 2011

R.I.P: The Riot Before (2005-2011)

Fuck. The Riot Before have been one of my favorite new(ish) bands from Richmond. Tony from Southern Lovin sent me the amazing Fists Buried In Pockets and I drank the kool-ade in bulk, yet always seemed to miss them when they made it through town behind that record and the equally stellar follow-up Rebellion. I always figured our paths would cross eventually, but it appears that I'm going to have to wait for Brett to tour solo for that to happen.

You can't go wrong with any of The Riot Before catalog. I'd pick it up immediamente. Stay tuned here for word on future goings-on from members of a band that will be sorely missed by JS-NYC.

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Thursday, July 25, 2013

Results of new indicators and strategies

Indicators, the name itself implies it is the process of indicating the market trend. These indicators are key notes to the strategies used by different traders. Every trader is manipulating their own indicators and strategies. It is their level of skills to handle the different strategies that are applicable for their profitable trading.

As there is no center for forex, everyone who is participating has the rights to predict the market. Other than economic factors of the currency, the forex trend occurs spontaneously by the lack of market maker. The trend which is working for some traders surely doesn’t works to some other. This makes the traders to find the alternative indicators and strategies that are used by most of the traders.

We can’t expect the positive trend on initial trail of the indicators. It is the fact that the trend determines by the number of participants in the trading. There are innumerable indicators ruling the forex market. If the indicators you would be approaching have many followers, your prediction will come true. But the probability is less to attain good results during the practicing of indicators. Once you are mastered in that indicators and strategies, you will get appreciation by the forex trading.

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We give Chrysler PR main man Jason Vines a lot of credit — probably way too much — but it's because once in a while he's able to deliver from his ADD-adled mind some truly amazing attempts to break through the clutter and cacophony of noise that is automotive public relations. Whether it's fueling the fire of the "Muscle Car Wars" (coming soon to a Woodward Avenue near you!) or coming to work dressed as his favorite sexual fantasy, Vines certainly doesn't act like other auto PR bosses. The newest example is the e-mail we just received with a video revealing some sketches of the automakers Detroit Auto Show concepts for the Dodge, Chrysler and Jeep brands. The video stars Vines, Chrysler's chief product man Frank Klegon, chief design man Trevor Creed and Sandy Fraser, the real boss running the show over at Chrysler PR. The video is a mix of schlock and the usual Vines shtick, and was executed flawlessly. We mean, other than Vines confusing his phone with his computer screen — but otherwise it's adorable. So, without further ado — we've got a short clip from the video above and below we've got some sketches of the threesome of enviro-friendly designs from Chrysler — the 2008 Chrysler ecoVoyager Concept, the 2008 Dodge ZEO Concept and the 2008 Jeep Renegade Concept — and the full press release below the jump.

2008 Chrysler ecoVoyager Concept The 2008 Chrysler ecoVoyager Concept celebrates the romance of automobile travel embodied in a four-door, four-passenger distinctively American design. Designed for customers seeking elegance, simplicity and serenity, the elegant one-box design takes advantage of space normally occupied by a conventional powertrain setup. The 2008 Chrysler ecoVoyager features an advanced lithium-ion battery pack, along with a small, advanced hydrogen fuel cell that serves as a range extender. The result is a vehicle with a total range of more than 300 miles that emits no emissions from the tailpipe except water vapor.

Length: 191.2 inches (4856 mm)
Width at H-point: 75.4 inches (1915 mm)
Height: 63 inches (1600 mm)
Wheelbase: 116 inches (2946 mm)

2008 Dodge ZEO Concept
The 2008 Dodge ZEO Concept is a four-passenger, 2+2 sport wagon that embraces the bold, expressive look of the Dodge brand, exhibiting a new, youthful breed of muscle car for the 21st century. Built for driving enthusiasts, it features an electric-only propulsion system with a lithium-ion battery pack capable of at least 250 miles. Unlike other such vehicles, the 2008 Dodge ZEO Concept is a four-door, four-passenger model that delivers function as well as environmental responsibility.

Length: 172.8 inches (4390 mm)
Width at H-point: 68.6 inches (1743 mm)
Height: 50.8 inches (1290 mm)
Wheelbase: 109.9 inches (2792 mm)

2008 Jeep® Renegade Concept
The 2008 Jeep Renegade Concept is a sporty B-segment-sized two-seater ideally suited for the all-weather delights of off-roading and dune surfing. Featuring a cut-down speedster windshield, a roll bar, openings in the door lowers and a hose-out interior, it is an "eco-friendly" vehicle with minimized use of materials - designed for those who want to enjoy the earth while taking care of its future. The propulsion system combines a 40-mile lithium-ion battery pack and a small-displacement BLUETEC diesel engine. The result: fuel economy of more than 110 miles per gallon.

Length: 153 inches (3885 mm)
Width at H-point: 62.9 inches (1598 mm)
Height: 56.3 inches (1431 mm)
Wheelbase: 101.6 inches (2580 mm)

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Two Mazda-based sports convertibles were born in 1989, the Miata, and the Australian-built Capri. One of them was the answer to all of life's problems, while today's Nice Price or Crack Pipe Mercury proves, there's a big difference between nurture and nature.

Just like everywhere else, Brazil is full of people trying to make a name for themselves. People like this girl whose claim to fame is her epic belching, and like Genaro Malzoni who gave us a car named Puma. Yesterday's 1982 Puma GTI may have been rough, but its price reflected its condition and it was named a respectable 80% Nice Price winner.

Hey, who's ready for a Mazda-engined two-seat convertible with a turbo four and a five-speed stick? Did I mention that it was built in Australia, and was sold in America as a Mercury? Did I also mention that it was front-wheel drive?

The last car to carry the Mercury Capri name held so much promise before its introduction. The impetus for the car came from the early-'80s Ghia-designed Barchetta show car, which was Fiesta based and cute as a bug.

Styling duties for the production car were assigned to Giorgetto Giugiaro's Italdesign, usually known for doing solid work. In this case however, the result ended up being something that the Italian styling house would probably like to disown today.

Perhaps the biggest issue with the SA30 Capri was that it was based on the Mazda 323 econobox, with its econobox-tall firewall and front-wheel drive. This gave the car econobox proportions and econobox handling. It also was sold in the U.S. as a Mercury starting in 1991, and was marketed here against its sexy cousin, the MX5 Miata. That was sort of like pitting Velma against Daphne, or perhaps more accurately, Mary Ann against... Mrs. Howell.

This 1991 Mercury Capri is one of those cars and can be seen today as the Miata's poor relation. On the plus side, this one is an XR2 which means that it has the 132-bhp DOHC four instead of the 100-horse naturally aspirated edition. It also gets a natty spoiler on the back and probably a few other nick-knacks that the base car lacked.

In fact, the ad notes that this cherry-red Capri is heavily optioned and to its benefit one of the options that WASN'T chosen was the available 4-speed auto. Instead, this car having the fun in the sun five speed stick.

It also has only 90,000 miles and is claimed to run like a new car. Of course the ad also claims the body to be in excellent condition. Perhaps that extremely noticeable scuff on the front bumper is - like yesterday's weird Puma fender pic - a trick of the lighting.

Regardless of its history, or that compared to a Miata it doesn't come off very well, the Capri XR2 is still a pretty comfortable little convertible - far more so than the sportier Mazda. And this one only asks $1,900.

What's your take on this Mercury for that kind of money? Is this a Capri that might be worth taking the plunge at $1,900? Or, is that too much for this little orphan Aussie?

You decide!

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Welcome to Must Read, where we single out the best stories from around the automotive universe and beyond. Today we have reports from Autoweek, Petrolicious, and The Wall Street Journal.

Tackling Boston in a Saab 96Autoweek

Friend of Jalopnik Blake Z. Rong sure likes Saabs. Here, let him tell you.

Despite being the approximate speed of molasses but less deadly, a 1973 Saab 96 trundling around Boston, Massachusetts will either delight fellow drivers or raise bewildering, rubbernecking confusion. The citizenry — notorious for the cursed appellation that traditionally describes their driving style — never get angry. Trapped behind the Saab's puke-yellow flanks, they abstain from raising a hand to the horn. As the Saab pulls to a stoplight, the pedestrians in their heavy wool peacoats saunter past, mouths agape, eyes boggling at this artifact: how can two people fit in that thing? Is it going to take off under its own power? And more importantly: what is it?

The Amphicar 770 Is A Car No One Understands, Everyone LovesPetrolicious

That sums it up perfectly.

Today's story begins in Germany, continues in the US and then returns to the continent, albeit Hungary. It has four wheels and drives like a car. It also has twin screws and swims like a boat. Welcome aboard the Amphicar 770! It isn't a particularly good car, nor is it an especially good boat. Frankly, the car doesn't make much sense; it's essentially an absurd recreational vehicle. But that's why people love it.

The Quest for a Quieter RideThe Wall Street Journal

How long till we drive in total silence?

It's a paradox of today's advanced car design: The more auto makers succeed in muting sounds coming from outside, the more drivers are hearing the annoying little chirps, rattles and drones on the inside.


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Andrew Paul Woodworth

Hey there, hi there, how's about some free music?

...that's what I thought.

His name is Andrew Paul Woodworth, and he's streaming his first ever solo CD on his website. You should check it out - even if only to hear his cover of the Beastie Boys "Fight For Your Right To Party," this time done as an acoustic ballad. Come on - admit it... that's cool. It's the first time the Beasties have ever let anyone release a cover of one of their songs, and it's definitely worthy.

Frankly, I dig the entire CD... especially the sad songs, like "Innocent"

uncle said "I love you, let me tell you
what I've learned
if you want to kill the villain,
kill the hero first
villain is your voice
the hero is your thirst"

His website is HERE.

His solo CD is called "I Hate Music." You can hear it HERE.

And his myspace is HERE.

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bonnie said:

did you notice that he's going to be in town on the 11th? (i imagine that might partly be why you posted this ...)

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Me! said:

HA! I actually had no idea. I was just posting this entry because I've been a huge fan of his music for the last nine years (when he was part of the bands Elephant Ride and Virgil). I'm a believer that great music needs to be shared, so I wanted to pass along the links.

Wow - I might have to go to this show. I'd love to buy his CD rather than listen to it on the net (or, ahem, capturing the stream and saving it to disk - cough)

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Andrew Paul Woodworth
Mississippi Studios - Portland, OR
3939 N. Mississippi Ave.
7:30 pm. $10 at Door.

Thanks for the tip Bonnie!

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Andrew said:

Thank you for the kind words. I really apprecaite you taking the time to showcase my music.

Andrew Paul Woodworth

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Me! said:

Believe me Andrew, it's us who should be thanking you.

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Sarah Leech said:

I love Starting To Turn. I heard it on my new purchased mp3 player from Circuit City. But I can't find it on itunes or any other site to download to my pc or phone. Help.

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Testing the Stroop Effect with Grayscale Stimulus Presentation

2016 Midwestern Psychological Association Annual Conference

In this study we use polychromatic and grayscale words to examine the influence of hue type on word recognition in the context of the Stroop task. Hue type did not influence the size of the Stroop effect, suggesting hue and meaning information were processed by separate word streams, regardless of color or grayscale stimulus set.

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Radio talk show host, conservative commentator, Beautiful Man. James T. Harris is the Ring Master of The Conservative Circus heard on 104.1 FM  KQTH

It looks Like President Elect Donald J. Trump is selecting his cabinet based on the content of their character rather than their ethnicity, sexual preference or other stupid liberal criteria.

Friday, 02 December 2016 04:41

What Differnce At This Point Does It Make?

What difference at this point does it make? That is the question we have to ask those who want to continue to desecrate the Clintons' corpses.

They are dead already; their careers are over for all intents and purposes. Hillary all but destroyed Bill's legacy. That is a shame. Bill was the last best president the democrats had. He certainly was better than Obama.

As the clear heir to the presidency, Republicans had to keep reminding us of Hillary's what difference does it make outburst in order to burst her presidential bubble. That is fine; that is how the game is played.

The Republicans who played that game didn't win. The Republican, who judged her guilty won. Trump didn't tortuously connect the dots in some quasi-academic exercise. He simply said, "Crooked Hillary."

That was enough.

Everyone knew what was going on and they really didn't care. Trump pronounced her guilty and then moved on to what they DID and DO care about; jobs. Prosperity. Safety...

The truth of the matter is that the legacy that matters is not Hillary's, but Obama's. Remember, it was Obama that put Hillary in the position to botch Benghazi. He put our men and women in danger in order to protect himself from the dangers a disenfranchised Clinton could bring to bear.

She had no business being Secretary of State. She really didn't have enough experience to be in a cabinet position at all. It is Obama's legacy that matters. It is his legacy, if left unexamined that will continue to hurt this country.

So, if you insist on focusing on the Clintons, make it matter. Itemize all of their actions, and inactions and pledge that a Republican administration will not do the same.

A Trump administration will never:

1) Give the appearance that anyone but the American people are benefitting from this deal or that project.

2) And on and on and on.......

If you must focus on the Clintons, do it for a better future. If it is simply because you can't move on, have at it. But first ask yourself one question: Is you hate for the Clintons stronger than your love this country?

This is the latest. Many Americans are nervous about the elections but what the should be nervous about is the power of the main stream media and what they are hiding!

If this rant reflects a national sentiment, the GOP just screwed the pooch.

The latest scandal to engulf the Trump campaign revolves around lewd comments he made over a hot mic, back in 2005. The mainstream media and The GOP were quick to pounce and denounce Donald Trump (and just days before the second Presidential debate) but the backlash against them was quick and severe.

Did the GOP miscalculate?

That remains to be seen but at the time of this posting, my latest rant has over 700K views and is quickly approaching a million! I think that means I struck a nerve! (I've been doing that a lot lately!)  Four weeks from now all will be decided.

Here's the latest...

Wednesday, 21 September 2016 15:52

The Legacy Rant Goes Viral!

His legacy? President Obama is worried about his legacy?

Well, I just couldn't sit and listen to Obama fret about his legacy when it is his legacy that has left us nearly in ruin!

In my latest viral rant, I launch on the President's recent comments and tell him just what his legacy is – not what he hopes it will be.

You can check out the rant below!

What a week! A viral video, two appearances of Hannity, two interviews with the BBC and a GREAT week of radio!

In cased you missed it, the lovely Eboni Williams (FOX News contributor) and The Beautiful Man (me), sat down with Hannity to talk Trump. Can Trump convince Americans of African Descent to ditch the Democrat Party?

That's going to be a tough row to hoe!

Check out the video below.

Saturday, 20 August 2016 14:58

Dispelling media mythology worldwide!

Not many people can rise and shine so brilliantly, on such short notice, and do an interview on the world stage...

Then there is me... The Beautiful Man!

Where there is revisionist history, I will be there to set things straight! It's the BBC interview, folks!

In all seriousness, I appreciate the opportunity to share my thoughts nationally and on the world stage. What I love about radio is that you get more time to expound on your thoughts, respond to challenges, and shape your own narrative. Radio gives you time and flexibility that TV often cannot. In this interview, I got a chance to say everything that I wanted to say on Fox News highly-rated Sean Hannity show. Nothing against TV, it's just... I am a radio guy!

Now about the interview...

When you consider what years of progressive policies have done to the American family (particularly the black family), it should be easy to see that the Democrat Party is not your friend. You need look no further than the state of the black family.

Given that reality... What do Americans of African Descent (or any Americans for that matter) have to lose by ditching Democrat policies?

Listen to the BBC interview below.

I have become my father. My sons are becoming my father's son. That is the way it is supposed to be...

But we don't live in an ideal world. We live in my old neighborhood, Sherman Park. You know – the one in Milwaukee that was on fire last weekend. It was set on fire after a black cop shot a black criminal.

That is what we are told.

What we are not told is our communities have been on fire long before the first match was struck in Ferguson. Across the country, our communities have been smoldering since the first father was sent away from the home by the brain trust behind the Great Society.

The Great Society started to slowly stoke the flames by turning the working poor into the idle poor – in order to receive government assistance. A family could only receive government assistance if there was a single mother. So "welfare" actually incentivized fathers to say, "well, see ya," so mom and kids could have a better life. Goodbye daddy, your family is better off without you. At least financially. Come around every once in a while, but make sure no one knows you're here.

And they left...by the generations...dutifully.

Is it really that mysterious what has happened to entire generations of young men of African descent? No, it isn't.
What can a boy become when he has no father to emulate? Lost. What can a boy become when he has only criminals to admire? Drug dealers and scammers. What does a boy become when he can only watch a struggling single mother navigate poverty? Angry and rightly so.

Yes, it's true that there were fathers who stuck around and provided for their families – often with smaller paychecks than the government was handing out. I know, because my father was one of those hardworking fathers who refused to believe the broken promises of the not-so-great society.

I've always admired my father for the example he set for me and my sister. But his example was too often the exception to the rule.
Without fathers at home, so many of our inner-city neighborhoods began to crumble. For the many years I lived in Sherman Park, it was on the precipice. It did not crumble, but the foundations were wearing away, and there were visible cracks in a once-solid structure.

For generations before, Sherman Park was known as a true community – and in some pockets it still is – but as the number of aimless, hopeless and misguided young men increased, even the once-strong Sherman Park is having trouble standing.

I prefer for the federal government to stay out of family business. But if it has to intercede, it should do so in ways that keep families together. Instead it has served as an agent of destruction.

What would my father say if he were alive today? I look at my sons, and I thank God that I had his example to follow.

Read original article here: https://arizonadailyindependent.com/2016/08/17/fathers-sons-and-sherman-park/

He ran up to us and asked, "are you Jackson's daddy?"

I hesitantly responded, "yes son, I'm Jackson's daddy." I then looked at my wife as the excited child ran back toward the middle of the street yelling, "see, I told you Jackson had a father!"

Turning away from my wife to look at the group of little boys who were then looking at Jackson as if he were a shiny novelty item, I said, "'we have to move." To my surprise, she agreed without hesitation.

Not long after that, we moved into a neighborhood in which Jackson's parental arrangement was the norm. There were lots of fathers. Some families even had two daddies!

Now, don't get me wrong: no one has more respect for moms than I. No one has more admiration for those single moms out there who are sacrificing to make sure their kids can thrive.

But I am talking about dads. So was Orlando Patterson when he wrote in the New York Times on May 9, 2015 about all of the things that President Obama and the federal government could and must do in the wake of the Baltimore riots. After talking about the "chemical detoxification of ghetto neighborhoods" and the value of Head Start, he then concluded:

"And finally, there is one long-term fundamental change that can only come from within the black community: a reduction in the number of kids born to single, usually poor, women, which now stands at 72 percent. Its consequences are grim: greatly increased risk of prolonged poverty, child abuse, educational failure and youth delinquency and violence, especially among boys, whose main reason for joining gangs is to find a family and male roles models."

So wait a gosh darn minute! When I talk about dads, I am an Uncle Tom, I am self-loathing n-word to some. Orlando has been accused of being conservative – as if that is a crime. He is not of course a conservative or a criminal. The marginalization by hyperbolic accusation keeps too many Americans of African descent silent.

Aside from not being silenced, what do liberal Harvard Professor Orlando Patterson and the Beautiful Man (me) have in common? The color of our skin and, more importantly: common damn sense!

Common sense is not a color-based characteristic. It is in relying on our common sense that we – the left and the right – can find common ground. In a 2015 interview, Patterson pointed to a Bush administration program for strengthening inner-city black families that was a failure. "I'd rather leave it to the wisdom of the African American crowd if you like, ah, as to what solution is going to emerge," he said.

Patterson admitted, "I don't know what the solution is. In the same way that one didn't know what the Civil Rights solution was going to be until Martin Luther King and the southern Christian group and other groups developed it."

And they did – in their infinite wisdom – develop it. Are we black men incapable of doing the same? No. Will we allow those who do not want solutions... those who make money and achieve fame on the dysfunction... keep us silent?

Recently I posted a rant on Facebook that went viral. It went viral because people; both black and white, desperately want to discuss the apparent break down of our collective culture. Americans – both black and white and brown – solve problems. We don't sweep them under the rug. That is not our style.

Orlando recognized that "African Americans in the inner cities and out are among the most law abiding group of people in America. They're also the most God fearing and church going group of people in America." He goes on to say that 80 percent of African Americans "are the ones calling for police protection."

When the Dallas police were massacred by a crazed militant Black Panther, the black police chief invited youth from the inner-city to sign-up to be cops. Hmmm... isn't that is a solution from within?

The snippets of solutions are swirling around the ether almost as fast as young men are being murdered by each other on our inner-city streets. Dr. Patterson says, "Kids need a bedrock of stability of at least a couple of adults whoever they may be." Until a time when we can put our ideologies aside and meet on the common ground of common sense, daddies and the bedrock of stability they provide will a rarity.

I for one do not want my sons to be approached one day by a young child like the one who approached me those many years ago. I want for them to be standing with other parents of color in that same wonderful place; Milwaukee. I want their kids to play on those same streets that were on fire in Sherman Park last week, knowing that they are safe because daddies – lots of them – are there.

Read the Original Story: http://dailycaller.com/2016/08/19/common-sense-is-not-a-color-based-characteristic/#ixzz4HnolT3kn

I have become my father. My sons are becoming my father's son. That's the way it's supposed to be. Ideally. But we don't live in an ideal world. We live in my old neighborhood. The one that was on fire this weekend.

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Reception and Program with Artist Cole Johnson

Roger Tory Peterson

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Meet the artist & refreshments: 5:00 p.m.
Artist program: approximately 6:15 p.m.

On Friday evening, June 27, from 5:00 to 7:30 p.m., the Roger Tory Peterson institute will host a public reception and program by acclaimed wildlife artist Cole Johnson. Cole’s work is among those featured in the current exhibition at RTPI, environmental impact, which runs through July 6. The June 27 reception and program are free and open to the public; donations are appreciated. An avid outdoorsman, cole has lived in Upstate New York his entire life and resides in the catskill mountain region. He earned his Bachelor of Fine Arts at State University of New York at Buffalo in 1991. His chosen medium is graphite powder, which he uses to render incredibly lifelike drawings of his favorite subjects, which include white-tailed deer, trout, wild turkey, hunting dogs and waterfowl.
Cole is a signature member of the society of animal artists, a select group dedicated to “promoting excellence in the portrayal of creatures sharing our planet.” His works have been included in such prestigious shows as the national arts for the parks competition and the Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum’s Birds in Art Exhibition, as well as RTPI. At the June 27 reception guests can tour the exhibition while enjoying refreshments and meet Cole, RTPI staff and volunteers, all in the institute’s beautiful surroundings. The evening will be capped by a special program in which cole will discuss his unique style and demonstrate the techniques that have brought him acclaim as one of the top graphite artists in the world. For more information and to see more images:
On Saturday, June 28, from 11:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m., Cole Johnson will be on hand at the painted finch gallery, 508 east Columbus Avenue (Route 6), Corry, Pennsylvania, where visitors can meet the artist and view his works available for purchase. For more information call the gallery at 814-664-3053, Or visit their website at:
This ambitious traveling exhibition, assembled by Milwaukee-based curator David J. Wagner, PH.D., Features works by internationally-known artists in a range of styles and media. The pieces, outstanding in and of themselves, are united in their ominous message of a natural world under attack by over-consumption of natural resources, global climate change, and other human causes. “It is as if beauty has been harnessed to foretell the end,” Michael Charles Tobias and Jane Gray Morrison write in their essay accompanying “environmental impact.” For more information and to see more images, click: http://rtpi.Org/events-exhibits/current-exhibits.


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In the wake of a fresh social media attack by Donald Trump against Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly, Fox News chief Roger Ailes publicly fired back at Trump on Tuesday, saying his news network’s anchors and reporters will not be “bullied” by the Republican frontrunner in the race for President.

“Donald Trump’s surprise and unprovoked attack on Megyn Kelly during her show last night is as unacceptable as it is disturbing,” Ailes said in a written statement.

“Donald Trump rarely apologizes, although in this case, he should,” Ailes continued.

Trump had bitterly attacked Kelly after the first GOP debate in Cleveland earlier in August, charging that Kelly had been biased against him and asked questions that were unfair.

When Kelly returned from a vacation on Monday night to her 9 pm time slot on Fox News, Trump was ready.

Trump proceeded to retweet comments from Twitter supporters, including one that labeled Kelly a “bimbo.”

Ailes labeled Trump’s anti-Kelly tweets “unacceptable” and “disturbing.”

Some of those who work at Fox News also publicly pushed back against Trump as well.

Fox anchor Bret Baier also weighed in, saying Trump “has made his feelings clear. But THIS needs to stop,” Baier tweeted about the Trump attacks on Kelly.

Also weighing in, radio talk show host Sean Hannity:

As for Trump, he brushed it all off and sent out this response:

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Wednesday, January 7, 2009

Bookstore Closings

“A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking.” –Jerry Seinfeld

Independent booksellers have been struggling for years in their efforts to compete with the big box bookstores and Amazon. However, now even the big box stores are starting to close down.

David Streitfeld offered a good explanation of why this is happening. According to his December 27, 2008, article in NY, bookstores are going belly up due to the thousands of individuals who buy and sell books on the internet. Millions of books are now available for prices as low as a penny.

The good news is you can most likely find any book you want and save a lot of money. The bad news is that publishers, authors and local bookstores receive nothing from the sale.

With the economy as it is, I understand wanting to save a buck or two. As a writer, however, it sends chills up my spine. With more bookstore closings, more authors will be struggling, and more publishers going out of business.

My biggest worry is that the many wonderful hours I spend strolling up and down the aisle of bookstores, picking up books and flipping through the pages may become a thing of the past. Shopping on-line simply does not offer the same touchy-feely satisfaction.

I admit I use Amazon—frequently. I’ve also bought from individuals on-line a couple of times. But now I’m going to think twice about my buying habits because I don’t want to ever have to say, “Remember those good old days when you could actually buy a book in a store.”

Where do you buy the majority of your books and why?

Thanks for stopping by.

Tags: Amazon, NY Times, David Streitfeld, bookstores, Jerry Seinfeld,

Joan De La Haye said...

I'm one of those people who buy ebooks. I haven't set foot in an actual book shop in quite some time.

Joan De La Haye

Katie Hines said...

I buy a lot of books on line, but mostly research type books that I can't find at the local bookstore.

However, my reading for pleasure books are either bought at the grocery store or requested from our local library.

Christina E. Rodriguez said...

I live within a couple of blocks of several independent and antiquarian bookstores. Having seen much shift in these stores within the last 3 years, it is very disheartening. It's not just the loss of books that hurts, but it changes the landscape of my beloved downtown. One antiquarian bookseller went belly up and a snow board/skate board shop took over its building. It is an eyesore.

Morgan Mandel said...

We've lost two great small bookstores in my area and I miss them. The large ones are nice, but the small ones make you feel at home.

The larger ones would do better if they promoted all authors more, instead of just their favorites. IMHO.

Morgan Mandel

Heidiwriter said...

Our local indie bookstore closed about a year ago, too. I'd always thought I'd do my first signing event there when my book was published, but alas... I'm guilty of buying from amazon too. Hardback books especially are expensive. I don't know what the answer is. The industry certainly needs some type of reform in regards to returns, etc.

Heidi M Thomas
Cowgirl Dreams

Sharon said...

I must confess that I haven't bought any books for a long, long time. More and more of my buying is done online - of just about everything except groceries. Just makes much better use of my time. Most of the books I've read recently have been gifts, borrowed or from the library.

Beth Groundwater said...

For my own books, I try to visit the local bookstores, but for sending books as gifts to long-distance friends and relatives, it's really hard to beat Amazon's free shipping deal and discount pricing.

Krista said...

Independent bookstores have an opportunity to differentiate themselves by NOT competing with the big chains and online retailers for the easy-target blockbuster titles. The publishing business is changing, too, and small and independent presses are putting out more and more really good books that don't get the buzz because the marketing budget is small or they aren't eligible for the big-name awards --and we all know that there are some mediocre books getting on the bestseller lists because their publishers have clout to buy the spot on the front table at Borders.

That's just the way the business works, and the bookstores need to adapt and find their own customer base. But people outside the industry don't know how it works, and there are plenty of them wasting their money on recycled ideas, not knowing how to find what they're missing.

So with some effort (any business takes effort), a little store can make a name for itself as the miner of gems. People love to find hidden treasures, and they'll keep going back to the store, because the purchases are worth the price. And the store will sell some of the good blockbusters as a trickle down cash cow, not their central business.

Richard Wright said...

To combat bookstore closings it's helpful to differentiate between the lover of books and the lover of bookstores. If you are both - then you can save the bookstore by taking "one-day" bookstore tours, making bookstores part of vacation itineraries, etc. But, if you only want the "book" you can expect the brick and mortar bookstore to fade from the scene. For suggestions on some "destination bookstores" in New England visit

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Sunday, September 6, 2009

Ready for the Fair??

It is that time of year again, time for the Kansas State Fair in Hutch. Channel 12 has a booth and it is nice to hear from our audience during this time. Millie has become a popular face, or icon, here at KWCH and so she'll make an appearance on Monday and Friday, September 14 and 18. Come by and see her. We are handing out her own autographed pads this year and because you are checking out the blog, you get an early look at what the picture looks like. It will be exciting to see how many of them we hand out.

Our weather was quiet over the holiday weekend. There is a huge storm system passing us by to the north, however, it will send a cold front this way that should bring some rain to the area by the middle of the week. Temperatures will be in the 80s for most of this week, but there is a big low pressure system that could be forming over the region this weekend. If the models are correct, we could get some rain for the start of the fair (which some would say it always rains during the fair) and get in on MUCH cooler air by Friday night. This will be something to watch this week. Needless to say, there is still no sign of any excessive heat building back into the region anytime soon.

Anonymous said...

I appreciate your long range outlook that you often post in your blog. Have fun at the fair. Susan W.

Ty said...

We will be at the fair with friends on Monday. Caden and I will make sure to stop by and say hi to you and see Millie aswell. I'm sure he will be happy to see the "dog dog". LOL

Great weather we've been having as well....looking forward to some more of that fall like weather and evenings! Its been great to just leave the windows open and take in mother nature!

Have a great week!

Ty said...

Great picture of Millie BTW!!!! Caden can put it with his Corgi / aka "dog dog" calendar.

Lee said...

we are looking forward to meeting you and Millie. We think it is great that KWCH encourages Millie's presence. We look for her whenever you are doing the weather and all our friends who have Corgis are hooked as well. (We have dachshunds.)
Of course, it does not hurt that KWCH has always been our station for news and weather since 1956. It had different call letters then.
Do you have any idea of the time frame for you and Millie at the KWCH booth on Monday? We don't want to miss you two.

Anonymous said...

Ross, I was fun to see you and Millie at the Fair on Friday. I took a good picture of the 2 of you and wondered how I could send it to you.

Anonymous said...

I want to know how come Ross hasnt been on the weather in a long time?

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Project Hakosuka: ….almost going.

When we left things yesterday, the brakes were in good shape but the mastercyl needed rebuilding. The carbs had been sent off for refurbishing, but the setup that the car came with left something to be desired (apart from the fact that the carbs were leaking fuel!).

When floored, the carbs only went to 70% throttle, and the installation was a bit messy, with some cracked hoses and mismatched pipes. And then there is a wrongly sized fuel delivery pipe at the front of the engine that fouled the radiator hose. And it just looked messy.

But first, the throttle pedal (the most important component in the whole car!). It was not only badly adjusted, but wobbled from side to side when depressed.

The culprit is this…the section of the firewall where the accelerator pedal bracket bolts to was cracked. It’s double-skinned there, but the bolts were only tapped to the thin inner skin. This probably wasn’t an issue with the stock Hako’s Mustang-style rod linkage throttle, but mine had been converted to a more modern cable throttle, and obviously it had side loads that the stock mounting wasn’t designed for.

So I added an extra bolt in the middle, and put a spacer behind it give it more support. Feels okay, but I’m not convinced that I’ve fixed it and I think I’ll be revisiting this later.

The other good news are that the carbs are back! From this…

To this!

Carburettor Services had done a great job on the carbs, and bead blasting the castings made them like new. But the important thing was that there are all new seals inside, so the old fuel leak should be gone. The jetting of the carbs were a bit odd though: 40DCOE18s, with 32mm chokes, 145 mains, 220 correctors and 50F9 idle jets. Probably a bit too rich for a stockish 2.8L but when the car’s running I’ll get it on the dyno and see what’s what.

So on go the carbs with some new hoses…

And a new filter and more new hoses…

Then I bent the accelerator pedal to move it closer to the brake pedal for heel and toe, and also for more travel. From this (the pedal is only a couple of inches off the floor):

To this! The carb linkages also had to be adjusted too. Now that the pedal has more travel, the danger is that the carbs will reach full throttle before the pedal is all the way down to the carpet. This will bend all sorts of things inside the carbs over time. Luckily the carb linkages have so much adjustment that it was perfect after a lot of twiddling around.

I’m really quite chuffed with how it looks!

The other cool thing about the Hako are all the oldschool things in it. Like say, this interior window trim….plastic, right?

Actually it’s metal, and the leathergrain pattern is stamped into the steel. So to clean it up you polish it…and it doesn’t clip into place,it’s held in with screws!

At the moment, the car is engine-wise ready to go, but brakeless.  Tomorrow the brake mastercyl should be ready and tomorrow night I’ll get some helpers and attempt to tune the Webers.  After that, all we have to do it book ourselves in for engineer certifcation and we should be on the road!

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  1. nice job on the hako, hopefully when you do get the mastercyl in, it can be ready for the road that its so dying to see. Can’t wait to see how it runs.

  2. 31GUN said:

    In a reference to an earlier mishap, I hope you’re not using any chopsticks on this one Kev…proper tools yes?

  3. Kev said:

    This time I’m using carbon fibre chopsticks, Hooks.

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Buying Used Stuff in Japan: Meiji Flea Market

 Japan is a land of new. When buying a house or renting an apartment, proximity to train stations is a big factor in price, but also important is the age of the building. Fashion changes quickly so wardrobes always have new clothes added. There's always some new, limited flavor or menu item at convenience stores and restaurants.

Apartments are tiny here, though. All that old stuff piles up. There are a few ways to get rid of it: throw it out (my city garbage collection also picks up reusable clothes and furniture), take it to a second-hand shop (and get almost nothing for it - sometimes you have to pay them!), or sell it at a flea market.
 Not too long ago, flea markets weren't too common, but their popularity continues to grow. My favorite is the Meiji Flea Market, held about once a month near Shinjuku. Hundreds of dealers (somewhere around 600, I understand) grab parking spots in a lot and lay out their goods. Unlike many flea markets I've visited in the US, and some here in Japan, the goods here must be used, and the sellers tend to be families, households, or groups of friends. Similarly, a frequent flea market held near Yoyogi Park has a lot of used but like-new clothing from families and younger adults.
 You can find almost anything at the Meiji Flea Market, especially household goods, toys, and clothing.
 Women's clothing changes often, so several people sell last season's fashions at pretty good prices. Those heels are 200 yen a pair. It helps to know some Japanese here - especially how to ask how much because not everything has prices, and an understanding of numbers. Don't expect to try anything on of course - other than shoes and jackets, but do expect to find amazing deals. Haggling isn't too common, but if you make a large purchase you might be able to round your total or you could be given a small discount.
As I said, you can find almost anything here. I've seen bowling balls, Americana and other collectibles, books, movie programs, movies and music, tons of clothes, surf boards and wetsuits, electronics, and even an accordion, seen in the photo above.

Things to look for in the pictures above: twin cameras, Winnie the Pooh, a wig, too many scissors, brand new sunglasses, a collection of desk lamps, pressure, a spoon set, a boot and a heel, three dogs in a row, and a handheld game system.

There is a Japanese-language website which has an up-to-date list of flea markets, with upcoming dates, times, number of stalls, and organizers. Some are held quite sporadically. If you really want to bring a lot of Japanese stuff home, you have time to browse, and you're in Japan at the right time, flea markets can be a great source of souvenirs and clothes - just be sure you pay attention to Japanese size differences!

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//This article originally appeared at OnStartups, where all my writing appears exclusively.

If you know me personally, or even digitally , then you know that I am a physical fitness and athletic enthusiast. I find that there is a certain level of determination that is built up by being physically fit and sticking to a regimen. Athletics and exercise are the purest physical expression of true mental discipline that one can find. As an entrepreneur, I don’t think I would be able to do what I do without the mental preparedness a daily workout routine brings. With so many parallels between athletics and entrepreneurship, I asked myself “Who is the Steve Jobs of athletics?” This question can certainly be debated, but at the end of the day I arrived with an answer of Michael Jordan. A recent ad campaign by Nike with Michael Jordan is focused on the phrase “Be Legendary.” and the quotes that come from them are absolutely golden. In truth, some of the best entrepreneurial advice I have ever received has come from Michael Jordan and this campaign. Here are 23 insights that I’ve learned from Michael Jordan:

It’s About Knowing Where You’re Going

You have to have a clear path as to where you want to go. As a startup, things change along the way. Your execution might make you pivot or implement a different solution. At the end of the day, you need to stick to a clear vision and problem that you’re trying to solve. If you’re lucky enough to succeed, the road to where you’re going may look a lot different than it did when you first started. Take a look at Google- make the world’s information freely available. That has been the goal from day one, and despite solutions consisting of email, maps, video, operating systems, and more, that is still their goal at the end of the day. Never forget where you are going as an entrepreneur with your company.

Don’t Forget Where You Started/Came From

This holds true for you as a person as much as it holds true for the company itself. Though we do it for more than the money, money can often change people to forget their humble beginnings. Many great entrepreneurs came from absolutely nothing – just an idea that might change the world one day. Don’t ever forget that child like desire you had the first day you started. If you harness that essence, no money or fame can ever change you. Never forget your family and your close friends that were there before you started upon this journey. The best thing a company can do is keep a list/wiki of company lore that will remind them of their adventures. The long flights, the growth in employees, the launches, the failures, and more from the early days. Andres and I have been traveling the country with PadPressed. We’ve encountered some victories and many failures along the way, but we’re keeping a record of it through writing, tweets, and pictures.

Have the courage to fail

Failure is a part of anything in life, but having the courage to face it head on is what makes you stronger. We hear so much talk about “it’s okay to fail”, but I don’t think there’s enough clarification. You shouldn’t let your startup as a whole fail, that’s not something you should easily let happen. Startups are really a compilation of many small instances of victories and failures. It’s embracing those small instances of failures that will let you learn and adapt better. Think of embracing failure as the entrepreneurial equivalent of an immune system. By embracing failure, you learn what went wrong, what’s bad, and how to prevent it from happening again. You build up a resistance to that specific instance of failure.

Don’t break when broken

What goes up, must come down. Starting a company is a roller-coaster ride like none other. YCombinator actually has a graph here about this exact subject . You will feel broken inside and figure it’s time to give it all up. That might be quitting yourself, selling the company, taking a weak deal, or even calling it quits on a smaller scale. DON’T. Emotions are fleeting and cloud your judgment. For the most part, something that makes you feel broken, should not break you. The true also holds same for the opposite.

Take everything given to you and make something better

Society is all about evolution, especially in technology and software. The greatest technologies take the fundamentals of what already exists in some form, but improves them with the new pieces that have evolved. I wrote about this earlier in a piece called “Build What Was Previously Not Possible.” As an entrepreneur you will continually find new tools and innovations brought forth by other entrepreneurs. Take every single relevant thing you can find and bake it in to your product to make something better. For some that might be mobile, social, local,etc. Always ask yourself: “Am I using all the resources that are available and making something better?” We literally get nowhere with complacency, but get everywhere with advancement. Don’t change the game, evolve the game.

Work Before Glory

The best entrepreneurs are humble and don’t really care about the glory. One of the things that Dharmesh has taught me over the past few months is to keep a level head and be humble. Don’t worry about the next press article that comes out about your company. Eventually there will be too many of them that it won’t matter. It should be about the work you produce instead of the side benefit of glory. Your work will live on forever, but the glory will fade away when the next acquisition or rumor pops up. Legends are products of their work, NOT their glory.

Do what they say you can’t

The competitive nature of entrepreneurship is a fun one. Many people will tell you that it can’t be done or that it is too crazy. They will tell you that a better X can’t be built or you won’t be able to accomplish a small goal like fundraising or hiring. The people telling you this might not even be strangers, but close friends and family members. The only way to prove them wrong is to do it.

It’s not about the tech, it’s about what you do with it.

The tools and technology that is available to entrepeneurs just keeps on growing. Whether it’s social, HTML5, geolocation, node.js, cloud services, or whatever else, that’s not what this is about. Those tools by themselves are cool, but not that useful. The technology tools are like an artist’s paint brush or a baseball players bat. It’s about what you decide to create with those tools.

Be Scared Of What you won’t become.

As an entrepreneur, you probably have a very big long term vision that you want to accomplish. It can’t happen right now, but over time it eventually will. I always point out that Facebook started at one college, with one photo, no wall, and a mediocre design. Look at decisions as if they might compromise what you could become. If you take the easy route and make the wrong decision, you will not become what you should be. That should absolutely scare you. What if Zuck sold to Yahoo! many years ago? That has to be a scary thought as Facebook would not have become what it is today.

Make Others Scared Of What You Could Become

Entrepreneurs are often asked “So what if Google enters your market?” That’s a worthy question, but at the end of the day, your vision should be so mind numbingly amitious and huge, that it scares Google or someone else. Today you might be something small, but if you play your cards right, what you end up becoming is scary. The really smart entrepreneurs aren’t scared of the bigger guys as much as they are of the smaller, more nimble startups that COULD BECOME who they are now. At some point, everyone was no one.

Don’t finish where you began

Startups are all about momentum and forward moving progress. Every task, project, or new feature should be able to take you forward. It might even be okay if it took you backwards, as the journey backwards is still a journey. Spending a ton of time on something and just ending up where you began is something you should avoid as an entrepreneur.

Know what is within you, even if others can’t see it

Sadly, too many people in our industry disregard others that aren’t in the in crowd or very visible. They look at who an entrepreneur is now, but not at the true future potential of who that person will become. The same way a smart person knew that Facebook would be something big in 2004, is the same way a smart person knew that a 19 year old unknown kid from Harvard would change the world. Some people ask me why I put my phone number and other contact information out there publicly (fyi- it’s 201-305-0552). It’s simple- You never know who you might meet. They might not be somebody now, but over time they might become somebody legendary. If you can help them get there, it benefits everyone involved. By helping others, you eventually start to develop pattern recognition for finding great talent, which is a key component of being a leader.

Patience is more important than courage

We always want success now or even yesterday. It’s hard for us to realize that things won’t happen as fast as we want them to. Courage is certainly a very important trait, but more important is having the patience to see things through. When we look at the success of others, we only see the end result. Even if we see the journey along the way, it is still a small snapshot. Take in the whole picture and realize that there are no overnight successes.

Fulfill your destiny.

It takes a while to get to this point, but you eventually realize what your destiny is in life. You clearly know what you were meant to do with your life and what the end result will be. It takes a lot of trial by fire to get there, but once you do, you will become unstoppable. The real key to fulfilling your destiny is figuring out exactly what it is. Once you figure out what that specific destiny is, it’s a long journey, but the fire it generates inside, will put you on auto-pilot.

The press leads us to believe it is easier than it is

The press’ job is to write about stories that generate pageviews, since pageviews generate more advertising dollars. Failure and the grueling times don’t really get too many pageviews. Success, money, glory, and the end result of hard work certainly does get pageviews. This skews us to think that raising money, selling your company, or launching is just so easy. I’d wager a fair amount of money that you will almost never hear a story titled:”Startup X Fails To Raise $2,500,000 Dollars” unless there is some juicy gossip backstory attached to it. Get back to work and close the RSS reader.

The real work starts at the keyboard and with customers.

If you’re in a startup you’re either making something or selling something. If you haven’t made anything or sold anything, then I sincerely have no clue what you’re doing at a startup. Sure there are operational tasks that need to be handled, but all founders can bear that burden. As a whole, founders + early employees need to make sure their actions have a direct impact on something be made and/or something be sold.

Not every product or feature launch is a winner

Remember Beacon? Remember Google Buzz? Remember Yahoo! Live? Remember AppleTV V1? Well, you might, but not for good reasons. Not every feature or product launch is going to be a slam dunk. Even the giants in our industry like Apple can have products launch that don’t perform well. It’s impossible to shoot 100%, but what matters is that you take 100% of the shots that you should be taking.

Fire over flash

Pretty interface and nifty features are not the path to success. They are certainly a great advantage to have, but the product also has to have fire behind it. If you have a pretty application that provides no real “fire” aka utility to the user, then it won’t be used for long. Make sure you have fire before you have flash in your product.

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Friday, June 25, 2010

"It's Six Months 'Til Christmas...!"

Well I Almost Let the Day Get By, But Had to Let Everyone Know....It's Six Months "Til Christmas! Growing Up Each Month My Dear Sweet Mother Would Always Count Down The Months and Annoy Me and My Sister, Amy To Death. It Was a Growing Joke Each Year and Now I Miss It!
I Was Actually Outside Today In this 90 Degree Heat Working on Ornaments and Snow Covering Snowmen. Ever Know When You Think of a Childhood Memory and Get Emotional, Today Was Mine! I Started Laughing So Hard I Cried...It's June 25th, Well All I Could Hear in the Back of my head was...It's Six Months 'Til Christmas, That Is My Thought and Memory for the Day!
I Hope Each and Every One Of You Can Enjoy Such A Thought Each and Every Year that Brings Us Back To Childhood and Loving Our Mothers...Have a Great Day and Thanks for Listening to My Sappy Memory That Makes Me Smile...Especially on June 25th!
Well Funny Thing, Last Night Before Dinner I Talked to Mom on the Phone...She Brought It Up, and We Laughed and Laughed and Laughed a Few More Times. It's Always Fun to Have Those Little Things To Remember the Best of Times!
"Countdown" Begins...

1 comment:

  1. Hi, the snowman is to die for!
    You know, Christmas DOES creep up on you very fast
    (your mother and I would get along fine!).
    Best Regards,


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The Best is Yet to Come!

My 2017 Survey Results

Last week, I launched my annual reader survey. This survey is designed to help me create more relevant content for you. This blog is a relationship and the road goes both ways.

This is why I do this survey. I want to give you a voice in what I write and create. This year’s survey was not the success that I was hoping for. Maybe it was the timing and maybe people are tired of taking surveys.

Please take my 2017 Survey!

Help me create content that helps you succeed in life!

The J B Sisam Show is on hiatus this week and will return in a few weeks. To listen to past episodes you can click here! Thank you for your patience.

I want to make sure my blog is serving your needs and delivering the best of quality in content. But I can’t deliver what you need unless I learn more about you and your desires and needs. This is why I created my 2017 Reader Survey.

Would you be willing to take just a few short minutes and fill out this survey? I promise it’s painless and really simple. There are only 4 sets of questions.

By filling out this survey, you’re ultimately helping create a better experience for you. Your input is so important to me. The survey is super easy to fill out, and the results are anonymous. It shouldn’t’ take more than a couple minutes.

Thanks for your help!

Why I’m making the switch to ConvertKit from MailChimp!

Is email marketing all it's cracked up to be?

Everywhere you look on the web, people say email marketing is everything for bloggers and online marketers. This one aspect of having a blog or business is critical to its success.

It allows you to stay in touch with your audience. It gives you permission to access their email inbox. Without their permission, you’re breaking the law.

The Future of Jason Sisam’s Website.

What I've changed and what I'm changing in 2017.

When I began this adventure of blogging back in 2009, I had no idea where I wanted to go with it. I knew it would be fun, but I didn’t realize I could change people’s lives through my writing.

Last year, someone came up to me and told me they found something I had written. Now, this wasn’t something on my blog, but something I had given them in one of the bible studies I had led. Tears in her eyes, she said, “Jason, you have no idea what you wrote meant to me. I was having a rough day, and your words were just what I needed.”

My Top 10 Blog Posts of 2016

All the fan favorites in one place!

As a blogger, I love when I get to look back at what I’ve accomplished in a given year. This past year, I’ve written nearly 120 blog posts. That’s a lot of writing. In fact, it’s so much that I could have written a 75,000-word book. That’s the size of a regular 350-page novel. WOW!

Now that 2016 has come and gone and 2017 is fresh and new, I wanted to take a look back at some of the best blog posts/podcasts episodes I’ve written/recorded last year.

I pray you are enjoying a wonderful and fun Christmas holiday with your loved ones and are looking forward to a brand New Year. As I did last year, I am going to take this week off between Christmas and New Years. I will resume blogging on Monday, January 2, 2017

Why your Website is sinking like a ship.

4 reasons you should get a website facelift.

If you’re an author, speaker, business or blogger you’re website is your homebase. The reality, most websites sink without a ripple. Maybe you feel your website has run aground, and you ask, what can I do?

When I began blogging on in 2009, I had no idea what I was doing. Over the years, I’ve learned, gotten better and have dramatically changed my direction of blogging in the last 12 months. I knew I needed a shift in focus and needed a website that would win.

3 Ways to Supercharge your Morning.

Learning to Detox Every Day.

What if I told you there is a better way to kick off your day? We all wake up in the morning. We all have our rituals. If you’re like me, you’ll hit the snooze button one more time or avoid putting that to-do list together. There is a better way to feel more alive and I’ll show you how.

Do you feel like the image above? If you’re like me, I am not a morning person. Just ask my wife, Kari. In-fact I don’t like them at all. But we all have to wake up and begin our day at some point. Yet, creating a morning routine is daunting to some and near impossible to others.

How Do You Keep Your Marriage Hot?

5 Secrets that will create a Successful Marriage.

This post is dedicated to my wife, Kari. I love you and am excited to be celebrating 4 years of marriage to you–my best friend. Happy Anniversary – on June 9th – Thank you for making me the happiest man on earth.

If you’re married, remember the moment you either walked down the aisle, or like me, waited at the altar for your Bride? It’s an exhilarating feeling knowing your life is about to be forever changed. The music and fanfare, but all you care about is the person on the other side of the aisle. But what happens after it all wears off and life settles in.

This Thursday will be four years since Kari and I tied the knot. The weeks of planning and waiting, the day finally arrived. Yet, when I think back to simpler days, where I only had myself to worry about, it sounds like a good idea.

How to be Hacker Free!

7 Sure-fire ways to beef up your internet security.

Safety concerns are everywhere these days. People are wanting to steal your identity and use your credit cards by selling them to the highest bidder. It is quite frightening when you go to login to your email or bank account only to find you’ve been locked out because of a hacker. It can cause serious damage and ruin a life of happy credit scores.

I remember opening up my online portal for my bank only to find a major purchase made. I didn’t know where it came from. Had no idea of the company name in the POS box. After my wife and I did some digging, we found it was our error for a car repair we made weeks before.


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Tuesday, February 26, 2008

Introducing JavaFX: Sun's new family of Java-based products

JavaFX Mobile is a complete mobile operating and application environment built around Java and Linux. JavaFX Script is a highly productive scripting language for content developers to create rich media and content for deployment on Java technology. JavaFX Script is the core of the JavaFX family, and it's the most interesting part of the product set. (Sun thinks that developers will shorten JavaFX Script to JavaFX in conversations, as long as JavaFX Script is the core in the JavaFX product family.)
JavaFX Script is intended to simplify the creation of rich UIs for Java clients. JavaFX Script is implemented in Java, and it uses Java APIs for 2D and 3D graphics as well as UI controls. JavaFX Script supports a declarative syntax for UI definition that is somewhat similar to the ones used by Microsoft in XAML and Adobe in MXML, yet it's not XML-based. In fact, it's a real programming language -- not just a markup tool -- so you can write an entire application in JavaFX Script.

Wednesday, February 20, 2008

Automated RBAC Java Security Tool Released

McLean, Va.-based Advanced Modeling Concepts recently released a Java security tool designed to help developers add security to existing Java applications. The product adds role-based access control (RBAC) security via a tool called AfterthoughtSoft-Secure.
Organizations can use the product to inject Java authentication and authorization (JAAS) security into legacy code. It can work with any Java applications that use the JAR (Java Archive) file format. The solution is designed mostly to work with client-side applications, according to company literature.

The product identifies what needs to be secured in the runnable JAR file and creates a copy of the file with the RBAC security inserted, according to the company.
"One of the hardest parts of dealing with JAAS implementations is getting the security policy files done correctly," commented Advanced Modeling Concepts' CEO Bart Jenkins in a prepared statement. "The tool automatically generates all the necessary .java.policy and .java.login.config files for you."
Advanced Modeling Concepts has released three versions of AfterthoughtSoft-Secure: Community, Pro and Enterprise.
The free community edition covers only "text file-based RBAC." The Pro edition adds NT, Unix and Linux security. The Enterprise Edition offers LDAP and Kerberos V support. Introductory pricing through February for the Pro and Enterprise editions is $29 and $99, respectively.

Europe invests in real-time Java for multicore systems

LONDON — The Open Group is working with a consortium of European real-time technology developers, industrial manufacturers and research organizations to develop a new framework for Java-based real-time applications on modern parallel processor systems.
Supported by the European Commission, the Java Environment for Parallel Real-time Development (JEOPARD) project is investing over €3.3 million (about $ 4.9 million) an advanced framework for real-time Java running on multicore and parallel systems.
This platform-independent framework will maintain the robust reliability essential for safety and mission critical applications, while using the additional processing power available from the latest parallel platforms.
Led by The Open Group (Reading, England), the JEOPARD consortium includes four universities and research institutes: University of York (England), Vienna University of Technology (Austria), FZI (Research Center for Information Technologies at the University of Karlsruhe, Germany) and the Technical University of Cluj-Napoca (Romania); three industrial manufacturers: EADS NV (Schiphol-Rijk, Netherlands), RadioLabs (Rome, Italy) and SkySoft (Lisbon, Portugal); and two embedded systems technology suppliers: Aicas (Karlsruhe, Germany) and Sysgo (Klein-Winternheim, Germany).
The strategic objective of the JEOPARD project is to provide the tools for platform-independent development of predictable systems that make use of symmetric multiprocessing (SMP) multicore platforms. These tools will enhance software productivity and reusability by extending processor technology already established on desktop systems for the specific needs of multicore embedded systems. The project will actively contribute to standards required for the development of portable software in this domain, such as the Real-time Specification for Java (RTSJ).


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Pampering Myself

This Friday’s post – something fun, nail art!

Without work (cause my contract ended mid-September) and with MG out all the time traveling for work, I have more time for myself. Once I do the chores around the house, — cleaning the kitchen, dishes, vacuuming, and laundry — I have some time to spend on myself. Lately, I’ve been into nail art. Choo-choo welcome aboard the train, Jay… late to the game amirite?

I always thought nail art just takes too much time to create and then it chips. I still think that way, but it’s more about spending time on myself. In that sense, my mind about nail art has changed. It’s almost kinda fun!

You know how everyone has a color of choice for their wardrobe? Mine is without a doubt, navy. I’m obsessed. Honestly, the best neutral IMO (in my opinion). Of course, that translates into my nails too.

I just bought After School Boy Blazer by Essie. It’s a dark navy, almost black but not quite. Love it! Love it for the Fall/Winter season (c’mon colder weather, I’m eagerly waiting for your arrival).

With a little bit of glam, I created this look.

First step: base coat. I’m a huge fan of the Deborah Lippmann Ridge Filler Base Coat. It just makes my nails so smooth. Another advantage is that it helps my nail color stay on longer.

Secondly: your nail color of choice

Third step: I used Deborah Lippman’s Stardust for the metallic silver (which apparently is no longer being sold). Similar metallic here by Essie. I painted the tips by eyeballing how thin I wanted the line to be. Basically half the paint brush was painting my skin, but I just cleaned it up with remover later. If you have an unsteady hand, try using Hole Punch Reinforcements as a guide.

Fourth: Top coat/quick dry. I want to emphasize quick dry. Don’t you hate when you go to bed and your sheets get imprinted into your nails?!? That happens to me so often, so this quick dry is my savior. The Seche Vite Dry Fast Top Coat is the best I have come across. Get it!

You can maybe, perhaps, say that I’m kind of, sort of, obsessed with nail polish. But what girl isn’t? I wish I had every color!!!

What are some of your favorite colors for this Fall season?

Paint away,
Check out my latest nail art I created for my half-marathon. Because nails is essential to one’s outfit.