Something Old in a New Way

My brother told me a while back that he wanted me to record some of my poetry. I didn't jump right up and do it then, but the idea has been echoing around ever since. Recently I thought I might give it try. This means recording things and then finding a way to post them. After some struggle I recorded one of my things and made a video out of it, which I posted to YouTube. None of this was a easy as it ought to be, but I eventually got through it. I know, it is embarrassing for a professional tech geek to admit that he has trouble with technology, but I do.

So here is my first Audio Blog (posted as a video because I couldn't find a way to just post audio files on Blogger). Let me know what you think so I can decide if it is worth the effort to make more.

See the original post from 2005 (if you want to read the words)

Watch the Video below: Backstreet Monsters of LA


Video Link (if you don't see an embedded video above)

Remembering Wanda

From A Fish Called Wanda (1988)[Otto dangles Archie out a window]

Archie: All right, all right, I apologise.

Otto: You're really sorry.

Archie: I'm really really sorry, I apologise unreservedly.

Otto: You take it back.

Archie: I do, I offer a complete and utter retraction. The imputation was totally without basis in fact, and was in no way fair comment, and was motivated purely by malice, and I deeply regret any distress that my comments may have caused you, or your family, and I hereby undertake not to repeat any such slander at any time in the future.

Otto: OK.

Congrats Evelyn

Congratulations to Evelyn on her best month ever as a Certified Real Estate Appraiser!

You rock Ev. Even the dogs are smiling!

Even Irony is Made in China Now

'Free Tibet' flags made in China

Police in southern China have discovered a factory manufacturing Free Tibet flags, media reports say.
The factory in Guangdong had been completing overseas orders for the flag of the Tibetan government-in-exile.
Workers said they thought they were just making colourful flags and did not realise their meaning.
But then some of them saw TV images of protesters holding the emblem and they alerted the authorities, according to Hong Kong's Ming Pao newspaper.
The factory owner reportedly told police the emblems had been ordered from outside China, and he did not know that they stood for an independent Tibet.
Workers who had grown suspicious checked the meaning of the flag by going online.
Thousands of flags had already been packed for shipping.
Police believe that some may already have been sent overseas, and could appear in Hong Kong during the Olympic torch relay there this week.

-----------------------------

Credits:

From the BBC: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7370903.stm

Did they check the flags for lead content?

2 Years Ago: New Century

Feeling out of sorts?

Your usual robot efficiency

Failing you at the worst possible times?

Feeling somewhat incomplete?

Or just very, very bored?

Find yourself sailing onThe New Century

But outfitted for the Old?

What do you expect me to do about it?

What do we know?

What?

You still here?

----------------------

Credits:

Words and Collage by Jay Larsen.

Originally posted 2 years ago.

Lost or Released?

I love how this cat is named "Foundy" and that the title says "Lost Cat (yes again)",
implying that this cat has been lost before and that it was found originally.
But the look on his face says "I must escape!"
Too funny.

Coming Attractions

Sometimes we all want to know

What next?

There is some attraction

In knowing what is coming

But sometimes

Coming is the Attraction

--------------

Credits:

Words and Collage by Jay Larsen

The Big O by desire, friction and release.

Alphabetter than U Think

Learned my letters
And even at an early age
I liked the alphabet
Thought it was friendly
Maybe not to U
But always nice to me
Because every time
We got past the basic
A B C and D
And the inevitable E F and G
The alphabet always says
“HI J”
----------------------------
Credits:
Words and Collage by Jay Larsen
Alphabet by the Phoenicians and the Romans
whose Latin alphabet had 23 letters
where I and J are one and the same
Like they are in me.
C U L8R

Synthetic Tape Hiss

Synthetic tape hiss is not the same
As the authentic sound of oxide particles
Dragged across my head
No matter how many discrete channels
Digitally surround my focus point
I have but two ears
Last time I checked
That was still stereo
Evolution has put me into
An isolated system
I may be in a current state of disorder
But time’s arrow points the way
Don’t preach to me about entropy
There is enough multiplicity
Rolling around inside my head
Organic tape hiss does not prove
The existence of thermodynamics
But the friction does cause heat

--------------------------

Credits:

Words and Collage by Jay Larsen

Monkey Boy's headphones by Sir Issac Newton

The Last Supper

The last season of Battlestar Galactica has kicked off with a bang.
They are advertising the last season with a BSG version of the Last Supper by Da Vinci.
Pompous? Yes. Arrogant? Maybe. But then again, maybe not.
Galactica so far has been the best thing on television. I hope they can wrap it up with the same quality drama they have delivered so far.
I’ll take BSG over the Da Vinci Code any day. In fact I’ll take BSG over the bible any day. BSG sets us up for a big Good versus Evil fight and then proceeds to demonstrate that there are no good guys and there are no bad guys. There are just people, all of them flawed, all of them trying to do the best they can.
If you haven’t watched the show, don’t start watching now. Go get the first 3 seasons on DVD and get caught up.
If you have been watching, hang on to your fraking ass, it looks like it is going to be a rocky road to the final credits. And we might find out that WE are the final Cylon…

When Life Alters Art

From xkcd

Spelling

Syntax is not meaning
But it defines the in and out
Decoders do not make meaning
But they are the feet
The feet that bring ambition
Ambition to the thoughts
The thoughts denied the shout

Instrumentation is not melody
But it helps to pass the night
Singers do not make the words
But they are the cry
The cry that brings aching
Aching to the heart
The heart flailing in the fight

Symbology is not biology
But it calls out a snazzy tune
Characters do not make novelty
But they are the color
The color that brings attention
Attention to the ass
The ass of a virile baboon

----------------------

Credits:

Words by Jay Larsen

Painting, Carousing Characters, by Jay Larsen

Spelling ability is not an indicator of Intelligence

Eagle Envy

Lost little lambs
Keep finding their way to our door
Too much snow to be spring
But the calendar contradicts
All the kids walk that arrogant walk
But they got every right
We all want to fly
But the age of our bones
Keeps us leaning against the fence post
The horizon beckons eternal flight
But gravity does not consent
Come inside beside the fire
We have a nest an eagle would envy
And we must prepare our hearth
For the next visiting lamb
------------------
Credits:
Words by Jay Larsen
Illustration, Eagle Envy, by Jay Larsen
Fondness for your presence by Love recognizing itself in Other

3 Years Ago: I Don't Know You

Hello

I know your name

I know what you do for a living

I know your hobbies

I know about those magazines

I know where you hide them

I know about your riding mower

I know your kids are cute

I know you need a new car

I know that look in your eye

I know that shiver running down your spine

I know lots about you

Hell

What Do I Know?

Cardboard Sedition

Found this great video obout the Freeway Blogger. Watch it.

Freeway Blogger Video Link

Now that's what I call freedom of speech.

When GE or IBM put up billboards it is respected and protected commercial activity.

But when a genuine Citizen exercises his freedom of speech, he has to worry about being caught and punished.