And so another one of those weeks has rolled around here on planet earth to where I find myself receiving another one of those weekly email Nonsensenyc Lists that I have found myself subscribing to with that discriminating resource for independent art, weird events, strange happenings, unique parties, and senseless culture to be found in New York City, this really cool list of just about underground everything when it comes to parties and events. And as far as I blogger know, Jeff Stark had this really cool before we were ghosts illegal party in an abandoned subway station deep under NYC a few weeks ago on that Make Music New York day of a year. And with the exception of the New York City Metropolitan Transit Authority wondering why are you going your way in that subway tunnel, it became a question of why was I not invited to this really cool subway party. And so a few weeks later another one of those Jeff Stark nonsensenyc.com lists has arrived in that email inbox again that reads something like as follows. And I decided to post this list on this blagh again because hey, it’s less writing sometimes I think, in an attempt to maintain content for this blog and my other blog whenever blaghers block possible. Have a great Jeff Stark party list day.

The only thing constant is change and some stories do not end as you expect. You take a deep breath, you jump and you hope that there is water in the bottom of the pool when you land. And a host of other blaghing thoughts and philosophies on this blogging day. And so as that Google page rank update still wants to send me in search of a fifth full time job when that internet get rich quick thing does not get rich quick, I find myself going through this blog in search of another one of those recycle this blog posts to post on this blog in an attempt to maintain content for this blog and my other blog whenever blaghers block possible. And in other blogging thoughts, boy is there weird wacky extreme weather on planet earth these days and times. And that’s a whole another climate change global warming blog post….

Kids

Hey Bloggers, or at least whoever may be reading this blog post. And I am not exactly sure how I came across this one in my internet travels in internetland, though it seems to be from that publication WIRED, and I sure seem to find it sitting in my email inbox as if it could be waiting for me to post it on this blog or something. And the following is one of those postings I find myself posting that I thought was interesting to repost, and besides, hey it’s less writing sometimes… Have a great 100 things your kids may never know about day.

Audio-Visual Entertainment

1. Inserting a VHS tape into a VCR to watch a movie or to record something.
2. Super-8 movies and cine film of all kinds.
3. Playing music on an audio tape using a personal stereo. See what happens when you give a Walkman to todays teenager.
4. The number of TV channels being a single digit. I remember it being a massive event when Britain got its fourth channel.
5. Standard-definition, CRT TVs filling up half your living room.
6. Rotary dial televisions with no remote control. You know, the ones where the kids were the remote control.
7. High-speed dubbing.
8. 8-track cartridges.
9. Vinyl records. Even today’s DJs are going laptop or CD.
10. Betamax tapes.
11. MiniDisc.
12. Laserdisc: the LP of DVD.
13. Scanning the radio dial and hearing static between stations. (Digital tuners + HD radio bork this concept.)
14. Shortwave radio.
15. 3-D movies meaning red-and-green glasses.
16. Watching TV when the networks say you should. Tivo and Sky+ are slowing killing this one.
17. That there was a time before ‘reality TV.’

Computers and Videogaming
18. Wires. OK, so they’re not gone yet, but it won’t be long
19. The scream of a modem connecting.
20. The buzz of a dot-matrix printer
21. 5- and 3-inch floppies, Zip Discs and countless other forms of data storage.
22. Using jumpers to set IRQs.
23. DOS.
24. Terminals accessing the mainframe.
25. Screens being just green (or orange) on black.
26. Tweaking the volume setting on your tape deck to get a computer game to load, and waiting ages for it to actually do it.
27. Daisy chaining your SCSI devices and making sure they’ve all got a different ID.
28. Counting in kilobytes.
29. Wondering if you can afford to buy a RAM upgrade.
30. Blowing the dust out of a NES cartridge in the hopes that it’ll load this time.
31. Turning a PlayStation on its end to try and get a game to load.
32. Joysticks.
33. Having to delete something to make room on your hard drive.
34. Booting your computer off of a floppy disk.
35. Recording a song in a studio.

The Internet
36. NCSA Mosaic.
37. Finding out information from an encyclopedia.
38. Using a road atlas to get from A to B.
39. Doing bank business only when the bank is open.
40. Shopping only during the day, Monday to Saturday.
41. Phone books and Yellow Pages.
42. Newspapers and magazines made from dead trees.
43. Actually being able to get a domain name consisting of real words.
44. Filling out an order form by hand, putting it in an envelope and posting it.
45. Not knowing exactly what all of your friends are doing and thinking at every moment.
46. Carrying on a correspondence with real letters, especially the handwritten kind.
47. Archie searches.
48. Gopher searches.
49. Concatenating and UUDecoding binaries from Usenet.
50. Privacy.
51. The fact that words generally don’t have num8er5 in them.
52. Correct spelling of phrases, rather than TLAs.
53. Waiting several minutes (or even hours!) to download something.
54. The time before botnets/security vulnerabilities due to always-on and always-connected PCs
55. The time before PC networks.
56. When Spam was just a meat product — or even a Monty Python sketch.

Gadgets
57. Typewriters.
58. Putting film in your camera: 35mm may have some life still, but what about APS or disk?
59. Sending that film away to be processed.
60. Having physical prints of photographs come back to you.
61. CB radios.
62. Getting lost. With GPS coming to more and more phones, your location is only a click away.
63. Rotary-dial telephones.
64. Answering machines.
65. Using a stick to point at information on a wallchart
66. Pay phones.
67. Phones with actual bells in them.
68. Fax machines.
69. Vacuum cleaners with bags in them.

Everything Else
70. Taking turns picking a radio station, or selecting a tape, for everyone to listen to during a long drive.
71. Remembering someone’s phone number.
72. Not knowing who was calling you on the phone.
73. Actually going down to a Blockbuster store to rent a movie.
74. Toys actually being suitable for the under-3s.
75. LEGO just being square blocks of various sizes, with the odd wheel, window or door.
76. Waiting for the television-network premiere to watch a movie after its run at the theater.
77. Relying on the 5-minute sport segment on the nightly news for baseball highlights.
78. Neat handwriting.
79. The days before the nanny state.
80. Starbuck being a man.
81. Han shoots first.
82. “Obi-Wan never told you what happened to your father.” But they’ve already seen episode III, so it’s no big surprise.
83. Kentucky Fried Chicken, as opposed to KFC.
84. Trig tables and log tables.
85. “Don’t know what a slide rule is for …”
86. Finding books in a card catalog at the library.
87. Swimming pools with diving boards.
88. Hershey bars in silver wrappers.
89. Sliding the paper outer wrapper off a Kit-Kat, placing it on the palm of your hand and clapping to make it bang loudly. Then sliding your finger down the silver foil of break off the first finger
90. A Marathon bar (what a Snickers used to be called in Britain).
91. Having to manually unlock a car door.
92. Writing a check.
93. Looking out the window during a long drive.
94. Roller skates, as opposed to blades.
95. Cash.
96. Libraries as a place to get books rather than a place to use the internet.
97. Spending your entire allowance at the arcade in the mall.
98. Omni Magazine
99. A physical dictionary — either for spelling or definitions.
100. When a ‘geek’ and a ‘nerd’ were one and the same.

My thanks go out to all of my fellow GeekDads for their contributions to this list.

And as I type this blog entry, on this day finds itself a sad day in America that has entered North America into the dark ages with that Trayvon Martin verdict in the headline news.  And in case you have been hiding out under a rock or have been stuck in the stone ages, this story could also seemingly have something to do with an Occupy the NRA page. And if you happen to be in that city of New York, there is a #HoodiesUp for Trayvon. Sunday 6pm ALL OUT NYC event going on at Union Square that reads:

Sunday, July 14, 2013  6:00pm in EDT

Union Square

It has been decided: black life isn’t worth shit.

Come together in force across the country tomorrow at 6pm.

Let’s not ask for justice

The clergy won’t save us

The politicians damn sure won’t save us

ONLY WE CAN SAVE OURSELVES

Take Court to the streets. 6pm Sunday 7/14.

http://trayvonoc.wordpress.com/
*Check site for an updated list of events happening around the country.

And in other blaghing thoughts on this day, there is also an Occupy Music Art Show going on in that city of New York around the same time as that Union Square event, Sunday July 14th. And I know this Occupy Music Art Show is going on July 14th at 7pm in New York City because that Occupy Music photo that finds itself posted above and all of that artwork that finds itself scattered on my floor for this event says so. And ditto, that last photo that finds itself posted above, well that photo was added to this blog post a few days after that Occupy Music Art Show. And with this Travyon Martin verdict news on this day it seems as if it wants to turn this Occupy Music Art Show into an Occupy Music day of mourning. And what, if anything, does this have to do with a No Police State. Occupy Wall Street Worldwide.

And so it’s that patriotic flag waving and barbecueing time of 4th of July year again in that country of North America here on planet earth to where I find myself blogging about something in an attempt to maintain content for this blog and my other blog whenever blaghers block possible. And so I find myself posting this Restore The Fourth NYC – March to the Birthplace of the Bill of Rights facebook event invite that seems to have something to do with an rt.com #restorethe4th Anti-NSA protest LIVE UPDATES article and an anti-NSA surveillance nationwide protest and online campaign that is launching on Thursday, and a lot of “Snowden is a hero” and “first they came for the whistle blowers” signs to be found at this march. And that facebook event invite reads something like as follows. And what, if anything, does this have to do with a No Police State: 

Thursday, July 4, 2013     12:00pm in EDT

March with us to Federal Hall, where the 1st Congress passed the Bill of Rights in 1789.

We refuse to trade our liberties for a false sense of security.

End the 4th Amendment violations:

Demand an end to unconstitutional NSA spying!
Abolish surveillance that targets Americans based on their race, religion, or political beliefs!
Stop Stop & Frisk!

Union Square Park
New York, New York

During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act. – George Orwell. 2012, 2013=1984. Occupy Wall Street Worldwide.

Hey again bloggers or whoever could be reading this blagh. And on this day finds itself as Occupy Wall Street day 600 and something I think. And Occupy Wall Street and those Global Revolution of a movements Occupy Together are still moving fast. And in that latest event of events that I find myself posting on this blog every so often, Tompkins Square Park, that somewhat revolution of a park that finds itself in that neighborhood of the Lower East Side now called the East Village for real estate marketing purposes maybe, is having a Tompkins Square Park Riot: 25th Anniversary Shows: July 28, Aug. 3 + Aug. 4 show in that city of New York. And I know this show is going on in that park because I plan to sing my No Police State song at this event. Ditto…. and that photo and video from that park that find themselves posted on this blog, well they were posted on this blog after I sang that No Police State song on that riot anniversary of a day. And so that facebook event invite reads like as follows. Long Live The Bandshell. Long Live The Lower East Side. Squat the world worldwide. 

A dwindling number of those in the area remember this night in August of 1988, when Community Board 3 and the NYPD’s 9th Precinct swept through Tompkins Square Park, randomly assaulting and arresting park residents and passersby in an attemt to enforce a curfew on what had, over the years, become home to hundreds of individuals. Cops stormed the crowd on foot and on horseback, and police helicopters streaked across the sky. This show of force was not taken lightly, and fighting went on for hours on end. The more politically outspoken of those present decried what they claimed was a far reaching plan to bulldoze low income residents and artists out of the community, to be replaced by overprivileged, affluent individuals with no respect for the history and cultural richness of the area. Fast forward 25 years later, and what do you get? A luxury spa, directly across the street from Tompkins Square Park! And they called us delusional….

COME ON DOWN to Tompkins Square Park on Sunday, July 28, Saturday, August 3 and Sunday, August 4, 2013, to shake hands with the Ghosts of the Fallen, and with those of us who are STILL FUCKING *HERE*.

ALL THREE EVENTS START AT 2:00pm SHARP (with some accoustic performers before 2:00.)

AFTER THE SHOWS IN THE PARK, we will be hosting the following events at 7:00pm:

JULY 28:
• Bands (to be announced) at The Pyrmaid Club, 101 Avenue A)
• Films to be shown at MORUS (the Museum Of Reclaimed Urban Space), located inside C-Squat at 155 Avenue C

AUGUST 3:
• Films to be shown at MORUS (the Museum Of Reclaimed Urban Space), located inside C-Squat at 155 Avenue C

AUGUST 4:
• Bands (to be announced) at The Pyrmaid Club, 101 Avenue A)
• Special panel discussion on the 25th anniversary of the 1988 Tompkins Square Police Riot hosted by Norman Siegel and Frank Morales, at Theater 80, located at First Avenue + St. Marx Place

Brought to you by The Sh@dow Underground Newspaper, Chris Flash, Iconicide,Uncle Don Yippie and Those Fucking Anarchists!

+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

BANDS PERFORMING JULY 28:
1. Fever Dream (Featuring Joe Merolla of Rage Against The Machine)
2. Team Spider
3. Sexual Suicide
4. Ruckus Interruptus
5. Roger Manning
6. Transgendered Jesus
7. Sewage

BANDS PERFORMING AUGUST 3:
1. Porno Dracula
2. Coffin Daggers (Featuring Victor of Nausea)
3. David Peel
4. ISM
5. Bambi Killers
6. Hammerbrain

BANDS PERFORMING AUGUST 4:
1. Iconicide
2. Urban Waste
3. Nihilistics
4. Sic F*cks
5. Reagan Youth
6. Antidote

SPECIAL GUEST SPEAKERS + PERFORMERS INCLUDE:
• Attorney Norman Siegel (New York City’s TRUE “Public Advocate”)
• Movement attorney Ron Kuby
• Movement attorney Stanley Cohen
• Radical priest Father Pat Maloney
• Penny Arcade
• Jennifer Blowdryer
• Investigative journalist/activist Paul DeRienzo
• Investigative journalist/activist Frank Morales
• Zero Boy
• Aron Kay (the “Pie Man”)
• No Police State Girl
• David Huberman
• The “No 7-11 Coalition”
• Members of OCCUPY

And being that that Google page rank update has long sent me in search of a fifth full time job, I find myself blaghing about headline news, news and more news. And it seems as if when one reads the headline news that one would sometimes think that the world is going to hell in a hand basket. Not only is there Occupy Turkey and Occupy Gezi, there is now Occupy Brazil, where the biggest protests in 20 years sweep Brazil. And even Occupy Bulgaria. A nation of unrest, so much that I am starting to wonder if that 2012 a time for change Mayan calendar thing is a year off track. And those photos that find themselves posted above, one of them with The Standing Man in Turkey, well they speak for themselves. Keep on standing at Taksim Square. And what else is there that I can say about these protests and world revolutions that has not already been said in headline news and current events time. And what do Bosnia, Bulgaria, and Brazil have in common? And it is a Global Revolution LIVE. Occupy Wall Street Worldwide. And what does this have to do with a No Police State.

And on this day finds itself as Occupy Wall Street Day 600 and something, and Occupy Wall Street and those global revolutions of a movements Occupy Together are still moving fast. And now there is Occupy Gezi and Occupy Istanbul, a Turkey Revolution, as in that Turkey protests with those anonymous masks in Taksim square above. And there is an awakening. And with a bunch of headlines in the news these days that read something like Occupy the NSA, Inside the NSA’s secret Utah data center, NSA Reportedly Mines Servers Of Internet Firms For Data, Leaked secret court order forces Verizon to hand over call records to NSA, Anonymous Just Leaked A Trove Of NSA Documents that has something to do with a George Orwell 1984 Prism Project, and a host of other scary sounding articles with titles about the National Security Agency spying on every one and everything, I thought to blagh this The Internet is a surveillance state CNN article and copy and paste it in all it’s entirety because hey, it’s less writing sometimes, I think. 2011, 2012, 2013=1984. And what does this have to do with a No Police State.

The Internet is a surveillance state

By Bruce Schneier, Special to CNN

updated 2:04 PM EDT, Sat March 16, 2013

STORY HIGHLIGHTS

• Bruce Schneier: Whether we like it or not, we’re being tracked all the time on the Internet
• Schneier: Our surveillance state is efficient beyond the wildest dreams of George Orwell
• He says governments and corporations are working together to keep things that way
• Schneier: Slap-on-the-wrist fines notwithstanding, no one is agitating for better privacy laws

Editor’s note: Bruce Schneier is a security technologist and author of “Liars and Outliers: Enabling the Trust Society Needs to Survive.”

(CNN) — I’m going to start with three data points.

One: Some of the Chinese military hackers who were implicated in a broad set of attacks against the U.S. government and corporations were identified because they accessed Facebook from the same network infrastructure they used to carry out their attacks.

Two: Hector Monsegur, one of the leaders of the LulzSac hacker movement, was identified and arrested last year by the FBI. Although he practiced good computer security and used an anonymous relay service to protect his identity, he slipped up.

Bruce Schneier

And three: Paula Broadwell,who had an affair with CIA director David Petraeus, similarly took extensive precautions to hide her identity. She never logged in to her anonymous e-mail service from her home network. Instead, she used hotel and other public networks when she e-mailed him. The FBI correlated hotel registration data from several different hotels — and hers was the common name.

The Internet is a surveillance state. Whether we admit it to ourselves or not, and whether we like it or not, we’re being tracked all the time. Google tracks us, both on its pages and on other pages it has access to. Facebook does the same; it even tracks non-Facebook users. Apple tracks us on our iPhones and iPads. One reporter used a tool called Collusion to track who was tracking him; 105 companies tracked his Internet use during one 36-hour period.

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Increasingly, what we do on the Internet is being combined with other data about us. Unmasking Broadwell’s identity involved correlating her Internet activity with her hotel stays. Everything we do now involves computers, and computers produce data as a natural by-product. Everything is now being saved and correlated, and many big-data companies make money by building up intimate profiles of our lives from a variety of sources.

News: Cyberthreats getting worse, House intelligence officials warn

Facebook, for example, correlates your online behavior with your purchasing habits offline. And there’s more. There’s location data from your cell phone, there’s a record of your movements from closed-circuit TVs.

This is ubiquitous surveillance: All of us being watched, all the time, and that data being stored forever. This is what a surveillance state looks like, and it’s efficient beyond the wildest dreams of George Orwell.

Sure, we can take measures to prevent this. We can limit what we search on Google from our iPhones, and instead use computer web browsers that allow us to delete cookies. We can use an alias on Facebook. We can turn our cell phones off and spend cash. But increasingly, none of it matters.

There are simply too many ways to be tracked. The Internet, e-mail, cell phones, web browsers, social networking sites, search engines: these have become necessities, and it’s fanciful to expect people to simply refuse to use them just because they don’t like the spying, especially since the full extent of such spying is deliberately hidden from us and there are few alternatives being marketed by companies that don’t spy.

This isn’t something the free market can fix. We consumers have no choice in the matter. All the major companies that provide us with Internet services are interested in tracking us. Visit a website and it will almost certainly know who you are; there are lots of ways to be tracked without cookies. Cellphone companies routinely undo the web’s privacy protection. One experiment at Carnegie Mellon took real-time videos of students on campus and was able to identify one-third of them by comparing their photos with publicly available tagged Facebook photos.

Maintaining privacy on the Internet is nearly impossible. If you forget even once to enable your protections, or click on the wrong link, or type the wrong thing, and you’ve permanently attached your name to whatever anonymous service you’re using. Monsegur slipped up once, and the FBI got him. If the director of the CIA can’t maintain his privacy on the Internet, we’ve got no hope.

In today’s world, governments and corporations are working together to keep things that way. Governments are happy to use the data corporations collect — occasionally demanding that they collect more and save it longer — to spy on us. And corporations are happy to buy data from governments. Together the powerful spy on the powerless, and they’re not going to give up their positions of power, despite what the people want.

Fixing this requires strong government will, but they’re just as punch-drunk on data as the corporations. Slap-on-the-wrist fines notwithstanding, no one is agitating for better privacy laws.

So, we’re done. Welcome to a world where Google knows exactly what sort of porn you all like, and more about your interests than your spouse does. Welcome to a world where your cell phone company knows exactly where you are all the time. Welcome to the end of private conversations, because increasingly your conversations are conducted by e-mail, text, or social networking sites.

And welcome to a world where all of this, and everything else that you do or is done on a computer, is saved, correlated, studied, passed around from company to company without your knowledge or consent; and where the government accesses it at will without a warrant.

Welcome to an Internet without privacy, and we’ve ended up here with hardly a fight.

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Yeah I know that end of the world date 12.21.2012 has come and gone and we’re still here. It’s just that I like that photo of Kali Yuga that finds itself posted above from one of those blog posts that was posted on this blog some time a while ago. And with those current event headline news of the day that read something like Thousands take to streets in Turkey, clash with police, Tornado touches down near Oklahoma City, Mayhem in the city: 25 people shot in 48 hours, Thousands evacuated as deadly floods swamp Europe, and each headline seemingly more horrific than the next in the ten second attention span information overload generation to where one would think that planet earth is going to hell in a hand basket, I somehow find myself posting that Kali Yuga age of sin and device post again.

Kali Yuga

And I am not exactly sure what this blog posting is all about, but I think it has something to do with the beginning of the end of the world and my religious fanaticism. And I somehow came across a copy of this DVD titled “2012 The Odyssey”. And an odyssey indeed it is to watch this tape for me. And the cover jacket of this tapes describes it as “The Mayan Calendar is ending December 21st 2012. What will happen to us between now and then? Are there other prophecies that also predict the closing of this world age and the start of a new beginning.
Join author Sharron Rose on an adventure into the future. In this exciting and thought provoking feature documentary she travels across the entire United Stated speaking to many experts on this fast approaching prophecy.
Featured noted experts Jose Arguelles, Gregg Braden, John Major Jenkins, Rick Levine, Geoff Stray, Moira Timms, Alberto Villoldo, Jay Weidner, the Incan Elders and more, this film shows us that the coming world is ours to reshape and to remake in any way that we deem possible.
Sharron Rose also travels to the Georgia Guidestones, Washington D.C., the Denver Airport and many other places to discover that there are numerous groups and people who understand that this present age is ending and a new world is now just beginning.
Discover the secrets of the Mayans, the Incans, the Alchemists, the Christians, the Masons and others of our ancient ancestors concerning the end of time and the promise of our destiny as human beings. Written and Directed by Sharron Rose”. And this tape gets me to thinking in my religious fanaticism. And I would like to watch this tape again and attempt to blah blog about it again. And from what I remember, it said something about 26,000 years and 4 ages are complete for something in time and life. And is not 26 the number of God. And there was, was it the 16th, 17th,and 18th card that of the tarot deck that depicts judgement day of the sun, moon and stars or something like that. And humanity is living in the age where the father and son will meet in the sky and Jesus may return or something like that where the galactic alignment of the sun will meet the middle of the milky way on December 21, 2012, and this only occurs once every 26,000 years. And then there is that iron age, golden age and Kali Yuga thing, something about that Kali Yuga, a Hindu Krishna prophecy, the age of Kali, the age of vice, and it is the apocalypse demon, the age and time of the devil, the age humanity is now living in and is the present Vedic knowledge, the Dark Age and is one of the four ages, and that this age is an age of spiritual darkness, ignorance, violence, hypocrisy, sin, materialism, strife, discord, quarrel, contention, short lifespans and humanity deteriorates, human morality deteriorates and people are gone the furthest astray from God. And Kali Yuga is 1200 years of something. And for what reason does Vedic sound like that Ayurvedic yoga center here in New York and ayurvedic medicine. And for what reason does all of these stone, iron, golden and other ages remind me of that Daniel the Prophet guy and Nebuchadnezzar’s dream and vision in the bible that marked the beginning of the end of something. And this wisdom is all too much for me to understand or comprehend as it seems as if it can all be the secret knowledge of the unknown. And 12.21.2012, it is yoga and cycles. Lo, and behold. Here is one of many secrets that the yoga guy, “Spiritual God” says in the text below him in the drawing above, he depicts the progression of humanity. A-L=12, halfway through the alphabet, O-Z=12, halfway through the alphabet. ALOZ, ALLAH. 12.21.2012, 0102. OLOZ, AL-OZ, ALOZ, ALLAH. M and N the middle of the alphabet = the Millennium, the head of Christ, Grist, the Holy Grail, The Holy Ghost, a thousand years shall Satan be let loose? And there is much more to be written in the text below the yoga guy above (Yahweh,Jehovah,JHVH,YHVH,YHWH, YOGA), part of the trinity. Have a great spiritual day.

And so here goes yet another one of those recycle this blog posts again in an attempt to maintain content for this blog and my other blog whenever Memorial Day blaghers block possible.

Honoring The Fallen?

And Memorial Day is almost near in a couple of days or so according to that Gregorian calendar on the wall and all of those street festivals that are to be found everywhere in the streets today. And so I thought to blah blog about this patriotic flag waving holiday. And this also leads me to realize that I have been blaghing on this blog for over a year now and that these holidays seem to be a recurring event and same day, different year when that same ole Gregorian calendar date roles around. And then I thought, hey, I can just post the same blog entry from a year ago that I posted on this blog a year ago because it almost seems like it’s the same day, different year. And besides, it’s less writing sometimes. So the following is a passage that I posted on this blog a year ago:

And today is Memorial Day in America. A celebration of the war day. Another one of those patriotic holidays. The flag wavers are out in force and yellow ribbons, badges of honor, medals, parades, marches, prayers, patriotic songs, tributes and ceremonies are being broadcast everywhere. The headlines read “Honor the dead soldiers, honor the fallen soldiers and comrades”. Today is the ultimate patriotic fanatic holiday. My question of the day; for what reason is it an honor to volunteer to be fodder for the canon. For what reason is it an honor to die for nothing, to fight for reasons that do not exist, to fight against the flesh for powers that be that one cannot even see. For what reason is it an honor to be so poor that one will volunteer their life in exchange for money after one leaves the service, if one leaves the service. For what reason is it an honor for persons to be brainwashed with propaganda, theirs or mine. For what reason is it an honor to become a violent person and pick up a gun and kill another person for no reason at all. For what reason is it an honor to be a veteran who now make up the majority of the homeless population these days, and a majority of them are disabled now as a result. For what reason is it an honor to attend one of those military sponsored funerals and cry over the image of a flag that propagates violence, the same flag that caused ones death. For what reason is it an honor to fall and die for nothing. For what reason is it an honor to promote this ideology. What is heroic about all of this? And why does the word “Patriot” have the word “Riot” in it? And why does the word “Military” militant militia have the word “Mal” in it? “Parens Patriarch, Father of our country”, that phrase seems to be the basis of endless deaths of the world. I saw Michael Moore’s Fahrenheit 9/11 documentary. It is nineteen eighty four and Orwellianism is everywhere at its best today. The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous.  Is it written somewhere that this must all come to pass? Happy beach bar b queing Memorial day. Peace on earth and goodwill to all mankine. And what does this have to do with a No Police State?

And the memory of you is forgotten. Hey again bloggers or whoever could be reading this blagh. And on this day finds itself as Occupy Wall Street Day actually I’m not sure what Occupy Wall Street Day it finds itself as because Adbusters seems to have changed their homepage design, though I think it’s around Occupy Wall Street Day 600 something. And Occupy Wall Street and those global revolutions of a movements Occupy Together are still moving fast, or something like that. And MORUS, the Museum of Reclaimed Urban Space is having a 2013 • 18 since 13: Marking the Eighteenth Anniversary of the Thirteenth Street Eviction event at C Squat, or is it See Squat?, Friday, May 31, 2013 7:00pm until 9:00pm in that neighborhood of the Lower East Side in New York City now called the East Village for real estate marketing purposes maybe. And I know that MORUS is having a remember 13th Street Squats event because that Facebook event invite that Times Up invited me to says so. And if I must blogger say, I remember that 13th street squat eviction clearly, very clearly, as that photo that finds itself posted above says so. And that Facebook event invite reads something like as follows. Occupy Wall Street Worldwide. Squat the world.

On May 30, 1995, the NYPD rolled an armored tank down East 13th Street, employing militaristic force to evict squatters from two buildings. Almost 18 years later to the day, authors, artists, and activists will unite to remember the resistance and celebrate what remains.

Join us for Lower East Side squat stories, slideshows, and readings by Cari Luna, Frank Morales, Fly, and Peter Spagnuolo followed by a short acoustic set by Banji (bandless).

The event will be held at the Museum of Reclaimed Urban Space (MoRUS), 155 Avenue C between 9th and 10th Streets on Friday, May 31, beginning at 7:00 PM.

There is a $5.00 – $10.00 sliding scale suggested donation. No one will be turned away for lack of funds.

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Cari Luna received an MFA in fiction from Brooklyn College. Her debut novel, The Revolution of Every Day, will be published by Tin House Books in October 2013. Her short fiction has appeared in failbetter, Avery Anthology, PANK, and Novembre Magazine. New York-born, she now lives in Portland, OR.

Frank Morales, born and raised in the Jacob Riis Projects on the Lower East Side, is a squatter priest and housing rights activist. Author of Police State America (Arm the Spirit, 2002), he is currently adjunct professor at Parsons/The New School in New York City.

Fly has been a squatter on the Lower East Side since the 1980s. She has self-published numerous comics and zines since the mid-1980s and her collection entitled CHRON!IC!RIOTS!PA!SM! was published in 1998 by Autonomedia (Brooklyn). PEOPs, a collection of 196 portraits and stories, was published in June of 2003 by Soft Skull Press. Fly continues to work on the ever-expanding PEOPs Project and is working on a book – Unreal Estate; A Late Twentieth Century History of Squatting in the Lower East Side. Her band Zero Content (est.1994) is currently recording a new album. She has just released PEOPs #8 magaZine. To learn more about Fly visit www.peops.org

Peter Spagnuolo is a poet and ex-squatter, living in Brooklyn. He is a past recipient of poetry fellowships from the states of California and Pennsylvania and is the author of The Squatter’s Midden (2001), Ten by Fourteen (2005), Egg and Dart (2010) and the forthcoming Time’s Wiggy Chariot (2013). He co-founded the micro-power FM station Steal This Radio; the Lower East Side Squatter-Homesteader Archive Project at the NYU Bobst Library-Tamiment Collection; and the artist-book letterpress collective, BOOKLYN. He works as an exculpatory narratologist in NYC’s criminal defense industry.