a little cheeze whizz to go with your rose festival week!

if jack kirby drew bobby brady he might look a little like......



an imagined street performer before the rose parade or between two floats....note the exagerrated grin the carnival duck bill cap that he won knocking down the pins with 3 baseballs......just dont tell anyone he paid 12 bucks for a 1.25 wholesale hat!

yarr that be hearty barrr b que, matey!!!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbicoa

The Taino tribe, which was one of many Arawak tribes, say that the word Barbecue comes from the their language. The words Ba, Ra, Bi, and Cu, are separate words in the Tiano language and when put together mean, “The beginning place of the sacred fire” and that “Tiano Barabicoa” means, “stick stand with four legs and many sticks of wood on top to place the cooking meat”.

buccaneers-The term "buccaneer" comes from the French word "boucanier". Boucaniers originally were French hunters who were poaching cattle and pigs on western Hispaniola. They would smoke the meat on wooden frames, "boucans", so that it could be saved for a later time. That is smmmmmmokin'!!!!!

Arawak- Survivors

Most scholars believe that of the Island populations of Ciboney, Taino and Carib, only the Carib survive today. On the mainland of South America there are some 2,450 (1980 census) Arawaks living in Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname, and French Guyana with 2,051 in Suriname. The Caribs on mainland South America number 10,225 (2000 WCD) in Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname, and French Guyana. The majority of the population of Aruba is descended in part from the Arawaks.

The term Arawak (from aru, the Lokono word for cassava flour), was used to designate the Amerindians encountered by the Spanish in the Caribbean. These include the Taíno, who occupied the Greater Antilles and the Bahamas (Lucayan) and Bimini Florida, the Nepoya and Suppoyo of Trinidad and the Igneri, who were supposed to have preceded the Caribs in the Lesser Antilles, together with related groups (including the Lokono) which lived along the eastern coast of South America as far south as what is now Brazil.

http://www.cr.nps.gov/seac/caribpre.htm

These later cultures and their people were called Arawak or Taino Indians by the Spanish when contact occurred in the early sixteenth century. This Arawak culture reached its peak shortly before European contact. The Arawak culture is noted for large village sites of 1,000 to 5,000 people controlled by chiefdoms, with heavy emphasis on the cultivation of yucca and cassava, with supplemental hunting and shellfish-gathering, and the creation of ball courts or ceremonial plazas attached to the larger settlements. Just a few hundred years prior to contact, the Arawaks had begun to be displaced from the Lesser Antilles by a new group of Orinoco River Valley migrants, the Caribs.

And this explains why Caribeean queen now we are sharing the same dream ....no more love on the run. And that bar-b-que is just ara-whack!!!! I knowa that my jokes are yucca! Not to mention my lack of sources, ouch! Didnt I say not to mention them!!!

Baron Von Unterdoodle

So, I am finally getting around to posting my circulation staff meeting doodles. This all started in grade school out my natural love for drawing and combined with either boredom frustration with the material covered annoyance with the instructors ability to deliver said material or a realization that the content of the material is impertinant irrelevant et cetera ad nauseum ad hoc puck pan faun mahna mahna ba de ba de de et al insert latin phrase here to sound well learned. A form of protest- the protest of the act of being creative whilst stuck in a practically windowless room facing one another for five thousand four hundred loud ticks of the clock on the wall which I try not to be aware of. Sure I could participate in the meeting, be a part of "the process" of "the team" contribute to the dialogue of monthly concerns brought forth to the round table to initiate positive change while retaining mutual respect and employees rights by staying within the bounds of the contract and finding the most efficient way of doing blahblahhhhbbbllllllaaaahhhhh...... yeah, for a minute there I had you didnt I? "IGNORE ME!!!!!!"

is this: a) Brice Marden study for a new painting or b) circulation staff meeting doodle- you decide!

my birthday, children of men and international childrens day

Hmmmm....what could possibly be the common thread here??? Five minutes ago I finished watching Children of Men, a fantastic yet horribly depressing film and being dissappointed in the DVDs lack of any special features worthy of my viewing time, decided to go to wikipedia and imdb to see what they had on the film based on the P.D. James novel. On my way there, I noticed that in some time zones it is May 27th, my birthday, my 41st to be exact. I was born in the afternoon- interrupting everyones lunch hour on a Friday in 1966. Dad was 51. Mom was 43. I was number 6. So anyway, in Nigeria, it is childrens day, which is part of an ICD- international childrens day celebration which mostly happens on June 1st. International yet guess which country does not participate? The United States of America. Wikipedia has 26 different countries listed in its heading "Childrens day over the world".....but no USA??? Why???

http://hrw.org/doc/?t=children

Support the Child Soldier Prevention Act of 2007
Of 10 governments worldwide implicated in the recruitment or use of children as soldiers, nine receive US military assistance.
"recruitment" of children as soldiers is happening or just recently happened in: Nepal, Congo, Sri Lanka, Burundi, Burma, Cote d'Ivoire, and Liberia, but whos to say that these are the nine that receive military assistance???
For more details go to: http://web.amnesty.org/pages/childsoldiers-background-eng

Anyway back to the film Children of Men. Alfonso Cuaron director screenwriter for y tu mama tambien and director for harry potters prisoner of azakabadan ra kahn mana mana. Interesting things in this film julian and jasper both names of main characters and are the 2 names of my son, Julian Jasper. The use of "The Court of The Crimson King" by King Crimson, and A shot which looked exactly like the cover of Pink Floyds Animals a Pig Zepplin and a Tall factory silo or whathaveya. According to Cuarón, the title of P.D. James' book (The Children of Men) is a Catholic allegory derived from a passage of scripture in the Bible.[32] (Psalm 90(89):3 of the KJV: "Thou turnest man to destruction; and sayest, Return, ye children of men." The British terrorists The Fishes and the loaves and fishes of the Bible??? hmmm....

So, yes happy birthday to me, and honour all children for they will be the future for better or for worse, possibly directly influenced by how we treat them!!! Like a co-worker once stated: treat them well for they will be the ones who will take care of you(or not) when you are old. how true!

1 a.m. 5/27/2007.

whats all this Spanish American War stuff???

Too late to know or say very much other than it involved Spain the US and the Phillapines and Cuba and Puerto Rico, amoung others.

In Cuba:

Tomás Estrada Palma was an important Cuban general in the Ten Years' War(1868-1878).
Estrada Palma was captured by Spanish troops and sent into exile. While in exile, he traveled to New York where he worked with José Martí.

Marti:
http://www.spanamwar.com/Marti.htm
http://www.fiu.edu/~fcf/marti.pensamientos.10797.html

his thoughts on freedom:
We are free, but not to be evil, not to be indifferent to human suffering, not to profit from the people, from the work created and sustained through their spirit of political association, while refusing to contribute to the political state that we profit from. We must say no once more. Man is not free to watch impassively the enslavement and dishonor of men, nor their struggles for liberty and honor.

We light the oven so that everyone may bake bread in it. If I survive, I will spend my whole life at the oven door seeing that no one is denied bread and, so as to give a lesson of charity, especially those who did not bring flour.
-José Julián Martí y Pérez (January 28, 1853- May 19, 1895)

here is an interesting rumor: Some believe that Martí and Carmen (Carmita) Miyares de Mantilla had a child in 1880 when he was separated from his wife. The child, María Mantilla, in turn had children, one of whom was the actor Cesar Romero.

After Martí's death, Estrada Palma became the new leader of the Cuban Revolutionary Party.
When the revolutionaries established a Government in arms, Estrada Palma was sent to Washington as its diplomat. With the help of an American banker, he tried offering Spain $150 million to give up the island, a plan that failed.
He was, however, successful in getting the US Congress to pass the Joint Resolution. This bill was one of the factors that led the United States to declare war on Spain, demanding that Cuba be freed from Spanish colonial rule.

first term
On December 31, 1901, Estrada Palma was elected President. His politics have been likened to those of U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt.
American troops left after the Cuban government signed a bill lowering tariffs on American products and incorporated the Platt Amendment into their constitution. Many American companies came to do business in Cuba.
On February 16, 1903, Estrada Palma signed the Cuban-American Treaty, agreeing to lease the Guantanamo Bay area to the United States, in perpetuity, for use as a naval base and coaling station.His presidency ended in 1906. (source: wikipedia.org)

the collective unconnedscious

lets briefly break apart my blog title to see if it makes any sense

Collective consciousness or collective conscience are the shared beliefs and moral attitudes which operate as a unifying force within society.[1] The terms were used by the French social theorist Émile Durkheim (1858-1917). He used the terms in his books The Division of Labour (1893), The Rules of Sociological Method (1895), Suicide (1897), and The Elementary Forms of Religious Life (1912). (source: wikipedia.org)

for Carl Jung:
The collective unconscious refers to that part of a person's unconscious which is common to all human beings. It contains archetypes, which are forms or symbols that are manifested by all people in all cultures.

Thats where the pick-up line "Whats your sign?" comes from....I knew it! Yeah, thats a groner!

now for the con part, or confidence trick:

The grade of one's "intelligence" is totally unrelated to one's grade of vulnerability to getting deceived by experienced con men. Confidence tricks exploit human weaknesses like greed, dishonesty, vanity, but also virtues like honesty, compassion, or the "naïveté" of believing in the existence of something called "good faith".

Now that I have prefaced this post, I will leave the rest alone.


In the 1,512 days of madness which have followed for the numerous hundreds of thousands of military and civilian
people in Iraq (Iraqis and non-Iraqis) And the claims that were made to justify the invasion, or "liberation" as it was phrased by many a "patriot" in the past 3 years, and nearing 2 months, all seem like bad, transparent propaganda. Bernays would be turning in his grave to hear such nonsense uttered....seriously!!!!

Of course I list all of this info on the assumption that it is all correct, up to date, etc.
Iraqi civilian dead(reproted number(31,617)
Iraqi military/police dead(6,763)
Total U.S. military dead (3,384) total coalition dead(3,657) or 2.42 a day.
50,512 U.S. non mortal casualties(wounded and medical air transport required).
121 journalists killed of all nationalities (it may not be a complete list)
398 contractors killed (it says it is a partial list)
source: http://icasualties.org/oif/default.aspx
Anyway, this is only being pointed out at this time because of the absolutely ridiculous reasons the MPAA gave a filmmaker for giving his film, a documentary told by the soldiers who serve in Iraq a NC-17 rating. Gunner Palace is the name of the film http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0424129/

It says in the trivia page that:

The word "fuck" is used 42 times, the most ever used in a PG-13 rated film

Under normal circumstances more than one use of the word "fuck" would get a film an R-rating. In this instance, the MPAA reasoned that a person old enough to be recruited by the army should be allowed to view a documentary on actual army life. However the rating also carried the notice that it was awarded on appeal to provide a better cautionary warning to parents concerned about what their children are viewing.

You cannot say the slang word referring to coitus more than once, but you can have the perversity displayed in the Abu Ghraib prison , which as far as anyone can tell, really happened, shown on the news, yet has anyone seen one U.S. soldier out of the possible 3,384 soldiers arrive home to their parents in a coffin???
You can depict the violence of shooting multiple people without showing the resulting outcome of such an act and just barely get an R rating but show some realism (blood, guts, death)connected to that act of violence and then if its a current event it will be uncensored but if its a film which shows this having an overall tone of criticism of our government, or show some female crotch hair or a penis and or a pelvic thrust or 2, and oh boy......NC-17!!!!!
What kind of absolute censorship nonsence is this?
"This film has not yet been rated" was great at uncovering the media control which 6 conglomerates and a former aid to Lyndon johnson(Valenti) had over each and every film, not to mention the added "morality" of two churches and the Pentagon. What an eye-opener this film was!!! Oh, and I just noticed that poor old Jack Valenti up and died. Oh well. Sad.
With the power and influence that the film as an artform and as an industry has on our culture it puts Valenti up there with the big boys like Edward Louis Bernays (November 22, 1891 – March 9, 1995) nephew of psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud, was considered the father of the field of public relations. Bernays was one of the first to attempt to manipulate public opinion using the psychology of the subconscious. He felt this manipulation was necessary in society, which he felt was irrational and dangerous. Bernays served as the first spin doctor under Woodrow Wilson. His book Propaganda, published in 1928( a good read too, and still available through ILL while supplies last, cause I am sure some untrusting folk would love to collect and burn all the remaining copies of- when Bernays was 37, he was more than happy to teach anyone willing to listen the building blocks of this new tool he had fashioned. Now no one is saying that history repeats itself or that it is cyclical a)Hitler, or b)Nero hadn't already blamed the burning of the a)government building or b)Rome on "terrorists" or c)some other guy in currnt events saying it was terrorists who did the World trade center twin towers on September 11, 2001, which was exactly 28 years after September 11, 1973 where Kissanger, or maybe someone just looking and sounding like Kissenger, "supposedly" carried out "someones" orders to stage a Coup, overthrowing Allendes government in Chile. What??? no one remembers this? Yeah, either do I; but thanks to libraries and intellectual freedom, now I know at least the outline of things. Or maybe that was all just a bad dream. Yes, the sun will come out tomarrow, bet your bottom dollar(which in my case, I would have to borrow)come what may, oh yeah it is May....right!

Julians first post- what I did on my 3rd birthday.

Yeah, thats me on my birthday getting drunk on ice cream with some lady I met in the bar....I call her mommy, mama for short....no really shes my main squeeze...my bread and butter......sometimes I whine alot and she rolls her eyes....I find I get my way by just giving her my cute look...freezes chicks right in their tracks!


Speaking of chicks, heres a dame thats the real cats meeow we held hands ran ate ice cream....I call her 'bellie so I can remember. she has a cool binky and a little ghostie blankie that she calls froggie....never leaves home without it.


what can I say? when in Rome... so here I am partaking in the cultural ritual that is also my birthright....iced cream....hell yeah!


dont ask me who the bleep this guy is but if he doesnt get his mits off my crayolas hes gonna know why they call me
the big hurt. what??? never heard me referred to as that, you say??? well.....okay, yeah , hes my dad, and that first grown up actually IS my mother, sheesh!!!! now my cover is blown!!! why do they embarass me like that!!!


huh....whats that?!!? sure we were going to consult you before entering the intersection....silly adults!!! uh, no, we DO NOT need directions to home, by the way, what made you think we need to get home??? huh....what did you say??? a nap?!!? change whos diaper??? well, folks, I guess thats to be expected when you are a couple of 3 year olds living in the big city, its hard for the grown ups to let go......who can blame them ???? we ARE too cute for our own good!!!!