Critical Mass, Transportation Alternatives and Times Up are a few of the groups that I can think of that address pedestrian and bicycle safety due to the automobile. And it seems like a problem that needs to be addressed more than ever in the crowded streets of the New York City area. In today’s times, there seems as if there are more cars and congestion on the street, as every street is a highway in this town and it seems to be an open field for pedestrian deaths as if one is disposable roadkill, being that motorists are most likely never even penalized when deaths occur in these types of situations. And I realize that one is taking their life in their own hands when they board a bicycle in this town, or even to leave home in any type of transportation vehicle, but more and more these days, the bicycle. And when I see the light turn green and say “walk”, I run, as there is no speed limit and there is an open and free for all for the automobile. And then there is the car door, an issue that was addressed on the front of yesterdays Metro. And it is the death lottery system again, to hope that that a car door does not open in your path as one is riding their back down the street, as there is hardly any space for a bicycle path on either side on the streets of New York to begin with. And I am glad to read that this issue is being address by the media and advocates to make New York a more bicycle friendly town. I hear that in other countries such as Vietnam, or Japan, or China, that bicycles and moped abound on the streets, and that cars are fewer. I would hope that their pedestrian death rates are fewer or nonexistent as a result of these practices. I think I can remember years ago when the streets were not so crowded with automobiles and I can only hope that some sort of law will be changed where one does not have to fear for ones life on the streets of New York City because of the automobile. Have a great day. 
Surfs Up
Surfs Up! What does that phrase mean. I hear someone saying that word every so often. I think it is a surfer term for when the water is surfable and one can’t wait to go to the beach to surf and swim the day away. I imagine one usually says that phrase a lot in warmer climates. Maybe that term has something do with high or low tide or something. And what about all of those other water sports, swimming, wakeboarding. Wakeboarding? What is wakeboarding. Is that surfing the wakes of the waves, and how does one do that? If you are one of those people who live in the water or who enjoy water sports or skateboarding and the like, SurfExpo.com is an extensive website with tons of information for all things surfing and more. Just about anything surfing and related to surfing that one can think of can be found on their website. Even fashion wear, fashion events, slide shows and videos can be found on their site. The Surf Expo website features a photo gallery, job board, classified ads and much, much more. And there is also an upcoming show January 10-13, 2008 in Orlando, Florida with over 2,400 booths, seminars, fashion shows, demos and silent auction. Surf Expo is a great news and community web site about surfing, skateboarding, wakeboarding, fashion, apparel, and beach culture markets and is brought to you from Surf Expo, the longest running surf trade show in the world.
Sputimatra
Hey Bloggers, this sounds like a fun event this Saturday, and I also plan to put a few pieces of artwork in this show. So if you happen to be in the New York City area and could be looking for some great art, music, good food and holistic healing, this event looks like it could be happening. Ohm Shanti. Rock n Roll.
The Art of Living invites you to Sputimatra, a celebration of live music, visual and performance art, spoken word, yoga and meditation, Saturday, December 15th at the Art of Living Center. The evening will begin at 6:30pm with yoga lead by Narciso Cruz and will feature:
Music by:
Percussionist Jim Pugliese, formerly of the Philip Glass Orchestra,will perform a traditional Mbira piece, Butterthief, Kailin Garrity
Performance Art by:
Stephanie Nelson, of the Metropolitan Opera House, will perform an original piece Transition, SteFon the Great from Groove Hoops, Deniz Dinler
Spoken Word Performances by: Elizabeth Rothschild, Christian Rodriquez, Allan Lazare
Visual Art by: Antonio Zito, Karina Perez Aragon, Karen McDermott, David Rapoport, Vincent Castiglia, Ryu Kodama, Ryan and Trevor Oakes, Hank Yaghooti
Special performances by the students of the Y.E.S. program.
DJ Lawrence Wang will spin between performances.
The Art of Living Center is located at 127 W. 25th Street, 3rd floor in Manhattan. There is a suggested donation of $5, but students are welcomed to attend for free.
The Postal Service
What’s up with that United States Postal Service Post Office? Or is it the Luftpost Postal Service, or is it the Deutsch Post Post Office, or is it just the postal service. I have heard of so many stories of packages arriving ripped and torn and inspected and interrogated and unbubblewrappedagated and customsagated and questioned and microscoped and repackaged again before they even arrive to their final destination. Are those cookies now an object to be feared? Is this a worldwide open your mail before it gets to you thing? What’s up with that. Well I guess it great that the packages arrive to their destination with that sticker that says “Hey, I’ve been opened” than not at all. And what does this have to do with a No Police State? Happy Holy Dayze.
More Gold
And here I go again writing about money, money and more money, and loans, credit and more credit because seemingly that’s mostly all there is to blog about these days, even in the midst of delinquent loans and foreclosures being at their highest rate ever. And so again, in case you happen to be one of those people with poor credit or your financial situation has you looking for loans, Best Leading Lender can help you find Bad Credit Loans, Personal Loans, a Pay Day Loan, and any other type of loan you may be looking for during this Christmas holiday time or any other time of the year. And try to remember to pay the loan back before you find yourself hiding out from the telephone, if the telephone has not been repossessed by that point.
A Ride Back In Time
Wow! Now that’s cool. Awesome. As I was going my way today, I thought I was seeing things as I was standing on the F and V subway train lines today. Some V train that looked like it was from Back To The Future pulled into the station. But it wasn’t from Back To the Future. It was some vintage train from the 1930’s that the New York City Metropolitan Transit Authority is running every Sunday this month on the V line. Is this train here for the holidays? It almost seemed surreal boarding the subway train as I had to ask the subway conductor if this train was going my way, and sure enough it was. And the conductors were handing out New York Transit Museum Calendars, and people were walking all over and through the train cars taking photographs everywhere. It was a tourist attraction ride back in time and a subway history lesson indeed to find about the history of the six train cars; that every train car was from a different year or decade. And the train conductor and signs posted throughout all other cars said something about “The r1 series car in 1930” that ran up until the 1970’s and that the MTA in now on the r142 series or something like that. Everyone on the trained almost seemed out of place with the vintage backdrop and the party like atmosphere on the travelling museum. I almost wanted to stay on the train and ride it back and forth all day, but instead I kept going my way. What a great ride back in time.
The Passport
For what reason is the number of that passport immigration law that prohibits freedom of travel amongst humanity anywhere on planet earth, and that Section 666 Social Security Act, cashless society, national I.D., the number of your name to receive any state services and everything else in between thing, 666? Is this that save no man that he may buy or sell except that he have the mark of the beast thing in the book of Revelations. Is this written in prophecy somewhere. Did George Orwell or Nostradamus predict this? Is that a coincidence or on purpose that this law has the same number of that beast thing. And who or what is the beast, and what is that mark on ones right hand or forehead. What does that mark represent or mean, if anything. And what’s up with that UPC bar code photo that I placed in this blog entry. And for what reason do all universal product codes contain this number. What the heck does that mean? Is that the number of the beast, the number of man? And what’s that New World Order, Verichip and RFID tag thing all about. Big Brother, Brave New World and technology are here and that’s a whole another blog posting. And I have heard so many green card immigration nightmare stories about green card marriages, lotteries and green card everything else in between. Of people leaving a country and not being able to return for whatever reason. And the stories of loss of life while crossing a border, whether by land or sea. And for what reason are there boarders, divisions, restrictions, barriers and territories of land in this world. And for what reason are people not free to travel anywhere in the world without the permission of someone else. Who invented this concept. Is it possible to undo this passport, visa, citizenship, where are your papers to come here law so that everyone can be free to travel anywhere in this world. For what reason does this concept exist. And who is a foreigner. Aren’t we all strangers in this land. Is another world possible. No one is free when others are oppressed. It is Sunday today, day of God, a day of rest. Or is that Saturday, the Sabbath, Sabado. And what does this have to do with a No Police State?
Massage?
A human touch massage chair. Now that sounds fun and relaxing. Especially around the holidays when everything massage could be helpful in the sometimes stress inducing shoparama consumerama holiday season. And come to think of it, I think I see more of these massage products appearing during the holiday season, almost as if on cue. And a Human Touch HT 7450 Zero Gravity Massage Chair, that sounds like the super duper massage chair of them all. So for some massage everything away massaging, this chair can make a great gift for the holidays. Human Touch is an award winning leader in massage technology and the only brand recommended by the American College of Chiropractic Orthopedists. Their zero gravity massage chair incorporates Human Touch’s unique massage technology, which includes four precise techniques that imitate those used by massage professionals. Now this sounds like a chair one can sit in all day, all the time. Human Touch Massage also has an extensive line of massage chairs and other massage products. They are all massage, all the time.
Urban Artists Collaborative
Bullet Space is having an art opening tomorrow. They are one of the eleven remaining squats that have survived the gentrification and genocide of a neighborhood and have been bought out or sold out in the Lower East Side that is now called the East Village for real estate marketing purposes maybe. And they are now homesteaders or something like that. Bullet Space is a really cool place that has had many theater, art and performance events over the years. And the only thing that seems to be constant is change. And there is a poem that I once remembered:
Long Live The Lower East Side
Long Live The Revolution of the Pseudo Anarchist Hippy Bohemian Squatter Revolutionary Lower East Side In Alphabet City where God Bless America becomes God Fuck America and red white and blue becomes red and black and where the capitalist capitalize off the capitalism of the capital.
With your gentrified glorified tenements and artists coffee lounge lounges riddled with the blood of the long lost past that had the horses running through it, the pigs running round it, and the helicopters hoovering over it. The bandshell that stood as a symbol of freedom for all long torn down, lost and forgotten. NO POLICE STATE, NO HOUSING NO PEACE, F… THE CURFEW, FREE THE LAND, free that park, that park everywhere. Freedom and utopia a thing of the past.
So now in Alphabet City I walk down your streets conformed to the conformity of the conformed and the conformist. Class War Class War on the poor run into the river and running to the river.
Flight of fight, sink or swim. Can you swim or will you die. Your skeletons of the war torn survivors walking the streets, your ghosts and their spirits scattered abroad and the ashes of your people who have come and gone in the struggle, of the struggle, from the struggle and the ashes of your people some dead some alive and some who have survived to shed their blood and skin and to tell the tale and conform to this thing called conformity.
Yeah, first it was them and then it was me. Whose gonna be left when big brother comes. Naked I have come from my mothers womb and naked shall I return thither to the dust where I come from.
Blessed be the name of the Lord.
Long Live the Lower East Side.
And if you are in this New York City neighborhood tomorrow, this event may be worth checking out.
Bullet: Urban Artists Collaborative
Construction Brigade
December 8th-January 11, 2008
Gallery Hours: Friday, Saturday, Sunday: 1pm-5pm Monday – Thursday: By appointment
Opening Reception:
Saturday December 8th, 6pm-8pm
With poetry reading by John Farris
292 East 3rd Street, New York, New York
Curated and organized by Alexandra Rojas
Artists: Steve Salvatore, Patou, Erik Von Ploennies, Regina Bartkoff, Joshua Starcher, Rolando Politi
A Continent
I turned on the computer just now to blog about Mardi Gras and what it’s meaning is, but instead I saw a Yahoo page that read, more people have lost their lives to gun violence here today in the country of America. And a friend tells me that the continent of America has the highest crime rate in the world because of the abundance of guns, and that guns are not allowed in Europe or something like that, and that Japan, with the highest population, has the lowest rate of crime, as they may not allow guns there and that in the country of America, one can buy a gun if they have a drivers licence or something. A license, a permit and permission for what reason. And what about that right to bear arms? The whole world is paying. And I am not sure what any of this means. And as I have written in what seems like every other blog posting, who invented guns? Guns are the worst invention of an industry ever. And the news stories are endless of persons losing their lives to gun violence on a daily basis as the news stories were yesterday and the news story will be tomorrow with no end in sight, for no reason at all except for the fact that guns have been invented. I could copy my blog entries over and over in my appeal to banish the gun industry and guns from every human being on the face of planet earth and to end the use of the images of guns in all forms of advertising, marketing, film, television and news media as I have written in blog posts of the past. It is a cycle that feeds on itself. Does not advertising influence society. Are the slaughters of wars debasing the value of human life? Will the beast, who or whatever it is, ever release it’s grip on mankind? Are the standards of social behavior declining? Is there a worldwide moral breakdown? Is society collapsing? Where is the world headed, is there hope? And one can turn the page of the newspaper to forget about these stories and atrocities of the world, yet they still exist.I am only one blogger, one voice. No one is free while others are oppressed. Is another world possible. Peace on earth and goodwill to all mankind. And what does this have to do with a No Police State?
No Police State Girl 