"Warhol always carried a small recorder with him — he preserved a cassette version of every breath he drew — and as soon as anyone said anything he would record them. He let things happen around him and then commented on or utilised those events and images for his works of art. He considered his life to be a manifestation of that. So, somewhere in the Warhol archives in Pittsburgh there are probably cassettes from Andy's visits to the sessions.”
Get To Know Me
A Lively Guide For The Discovery of Me
Friday, November 29, 2013
Obsessive Compulsive Files...
Thursday, November 28, 2013
Missed the Food Bank this week(?!?) and so it's Imagination "Traditional" Thanksgiving. Peas and corn, mixed with olive oil - a tad of otherwise yuck red wine - green onions from the p-patch plot of a Filipino 80-year old who died last week, pre-frozen potatos and a box of Fischer Scones.
Doyle licked his lips, so perhaps it's OK. But still, I want a toikey! As for Morrissey, if he jumped off a cliff would I do it to? No, but there is no turkey here in 2013. Perhaps he has turned the hand of fate.
Thankskilling
26 November 2013
Please ignore the abysmal example set by President Obama who, in the name of Thanksgiving, supports torture as 45 million birds are horrifically abused; dragged through electrified stun baths, and then have their throats slit. And President Obama laughs. Haha, so funny!
As Ingrid Newkirk from PETA points out, turkey 'meat' is one of "our nation's top killers", causing heart-attacks and strokes in humans due to saturated animal fats and cholesterol. And President Obama laughs.
Further, the meat industry is responsible for 51% of human-caused greenhouse-gas emission, therefore the embarrassingly stupid White House 'turkey pardon' is open support for a viciously cruel and environmentally irresponsible industry.
And President Obama laughs.
MORRISSEY
26 November 2013
Thursday, July 4, 2013
Government Spying On a Global Scale - Why is This a Surprise? (Also known as, The Self-Powering Metallic Turkey Buzzard.)
"Honey, let's stay inside today. That thing is back on the telephone pole."
When a well-regarded British newspaper—the UK Guardian —has a large headline saying “NSA Prism program taps in to user data of Apple, Google and others,” I would be outraged if I was at all surprised.
I am not surprised, however. Instead I am surprised—at other people’s surprise. Did the US Congress not have votes on this issue—specifically last year? The unpatriotic, unconstitutional, yes, despicable Patriot Act of 2001 was renewed with bipartisan support, and I never once heard, not once anywhere, that post-George W Bush, any wiretapping/phone/internet surveillance was scrapped. No media outlet ever mentioned it, so surely such surveillance continued. We now find out that it has.
Discouraging if you bat for the (D) team. When “our” political side does it, it is no more acceptable than when the “other” side does it. It’s bad policy, and the Boston Marathon bombing shows that—with all of the surveillance and wiretaps—the government still couldn’t prevent the attack. Yet no government - except for gallant Scandinavians and ever-plucky New Zealanders—would willingly end the use of such a powerful new tool.* And they won't listen to you and me anyway. (...Wait—I suppose actually they will be listening...) . Obama continues these policies—and too many other shadows of George Bush's bad-to-ghastly ideas. I don’t feel spying is something Obama could personally justify, and I would love to be a fly on the wall and hear him explain this to progressive supporters, but I’ll just settle for electronic surveillance, perhaps. I don’t need a court order very much, and if he’s innocent, he should have nothing to hide.
(I kid.)
This is no joke, though. The National Security Agency is building the country’s largest data--collecting building - ever - in Bluffdale, Utah. It’s very near some of the more beautiful mountains (the Wasatch) in that scenic state - our weary spies will enjoy taking that weekend off—unless it’s a working-vacation, requiring them to monitor your vacation plans as they conduct their own. This place will be the Disneyland of spying.
Last decades' paranoids have turned into this year's prophets. Now we truly know that it really is true—even your computer is watching you! According to this article: “Some of the world's largest internet brands are claimed to be part of the information-sharing program since its introduction in 2007. Microsoft—which is currently running an advertising campaign with the slogan "Your privacy is our priority"—was the first, with collection beginning in December 2007. It was followed by Yahoo in 2008; Google, Facebook and PalTalk in 2009; YouTube in 2010; Skype and AOL in 2011; and finally Apple, which joined the program in 2012. The program is continuing to expand, with other providers due to come online.”
Microsoft was the first company to agree to this top-secret (and criminal) NSA espionage?
Booh! For Shame 2.0, Bill!
As for the rest of us, the new generations are savvy with technology, but it’s sad that there may be one sinister person from a larger yet faceless group—on the other end of the fiber-optic line, serving as a solitary audience for each and every one of us. It was not always like this. Whether it is computer and TV screens that can watch you—yep, they do exist—Playstation spies that can tell you really suck as a gamer, or software that can tell what you’re typing by listening to the acoustic difference of each finger on a different key, computers are a great window into our lives and interests. I hope people like what they see. I feel very sorry in a lot of ways for younger people today—when I'm not busy feeling sorry for myself. I have to live with all of this too... Budget-busting smartphones won't make me feel less creeped out by recent history.
I haven’t even mentioned the killer robots—drones—that are rapidly coming down the pike, replacing most human soldiers. They'll look less like the in-sourced nightmare fodder to the left...
and more like the bug-sized terror below.
Terminators indeed, they can be constructed as large as the creators wish, or as small as a large bug.
Personally, I'm betting money on Skynet.
Bad Cop, Example #3456 |
*since I wrote this piece, Scandinavia has revealed a strong lack of gallantry previously missed by me. The whole disturbing Snowden affair suggests that many of these frosty countries are also in the bag for President Obama's renegade Terror Fighters, or as (they) might say in Norway, "Jagerfly av terror."
"My, they do grow..." |
Monday, September 3, 2012
Labor Day Blues Overcome by Pasta, plus Lynda travails
Staycation on your Labor Day weekend? Not what I dream for in this sparkling sunshine. Still I tried to do my best. On the top photo you will see some ingredients. Navy beans, tuna and olive oil mixed with parsley, celery, salt & pepper, herbs de province, a big red onion. Throw in a tad of balsamic vinegar if it's a ll a bit too subtle. Although I consider myself quite good at Italian cooking, I never actually remember the name of each dish, let alone the Italian name for them. I do know it's tasty, though. And the finished product can be seen below. Next on my agenda - getting better at food photography.
Friday, August 17, 2012
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