Quetzalcoatl/Michael Phelps Ain't Alone/Flying Spaghetti Monster

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Quetzalcoatl by Ed Coletti
(watercolor and archival ink - February 2009)

Reading to the River

by Ed Coletti

You used to read your poems to the river.

You’d written her name as Flower

but pronounced it Flō-er

as though her naming assertively moved her.

Not the diminutive Flo of a woman named Florence

nor il Fiume Arno running through Firenze

font of so much art, home of Dante

who I like to think often spent

his moments reading to the river.

And you did so frequently beginning,

“My dear Flo always flowing,

reminding me, as Al Young writes,

that all of time is fake at least

where the river flowing is concerned,

and Amy urged we pound the piano

like it’s our last song or our first.

“Fleeting river fleeing me

No one stops the river

ever leaving — only leaping into

being river

or more simply

reading to the river

ever merges lover into loving

words into water

moving.”

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Michael Phelps In Amazing Company

by Keith Thompson, reporter and author at Huffington Post 2-5-09

Packaged goods giant Kellogg announced today that it would not renew its sponsorship contract with Olympic swimmer Michael Phelps as consequence of his being photographed smoking marijuana. It's a strong statement by the company, particularly in historical context: According to an October 2002 Time/CNN poll, 47% of Americans have smoked marijuana. And users and advocates of the plant reportedly* have included the following, several of whom are admired by Kellogg's customers:

Louisa May Alcott
Jennifer Aniston
Bing Crosby
Laura Bush
The Beatles
Mayor Michael Bloomberg
William F. Buckley, Jr.
Johnny Carson
President Bill Clinton
Johnny Depp
Harrison Ford
Bill Gates
President Andrew Jackson
President Thomas Jefferson**
Steve Jobs
President John Kennedy
Stephen King
Ann Landers
President James Madison
Madonna
John Stuart Mill
President James Monroe
Mozart
Friedrich Nietzsche
Peggy Noonan
President Barack Obama
Sarah Palin
Governor George Pataki
Pablo Picasso
President Franklin Pierce
Brad Pitt
Oliver Sacks
Arnold Schwarzenegger
William Shakespeare
Barbra Streisand
George Soros
President Zachary Taylor
Queen Victoria
President George Washington
John Wayne

...and, according to an anonymous source, at least one other star athlete.

*sources/citations in hyperlinks; **As the links note, there is debate as to the precise nature of the early presidents' usage

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Flying Spaghetti Monster

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Flying Spaghetti Monster (FSM) is an invented deity designed as a satirical protest to the decision by the Kansas State Board of Education to require the teaching of intelligent design as an alternative to biological evolution. The FSM is the deity of the parody religion^[1][2] The Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster,[3]

founded in 2005 by BobbyHenderson. Since the intelligent design movement used ambiguous references to an unspecified 'Intelligent Designer' to avoid court rulings prohibiting the teaching of creationism as a science, this presumably left open the possibility that any imaginable thing could fill that role.

In an open letter sent to the education board, Henderson parodies the concept of intelligent design by professing belief in a supernatural creator, which closely resembles spaghetti and meatballs.^[4] He furthermore calls for the "Pastafarian" theory of creation to be taught in science classrooms.^[5]

Due to its recent popularity and media exposure, the Flying Spaghetti Monster is often used by atheists, agnostics (known by Pastafarians as "spagnostics"), and others as a modern version of Russell's teapot^[6] and the Invisible Pink Unicorn.

Origins

The first public exposure of the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster (CoFSM) can be dated to January 2005, when Bobby Henderson, describing himself as a concerned citizen, sent an open letter regarding the FSM to the Kansas State Board of Education. The letter was sent prior to the Kansas evolution hearings as an argument against the teaching of intelligent design in biology classes. Intelligent design was thought of as a way to teach creationism in the public school system without mentioning the word "God". Henderson stated that both his theory and intelligent design had equal validity; saying

"I think we can all look forward to the time when these three theories are given equal time in our science classrooms across the country, and eventually the world; One third time for Intelligent Design, one third time for Flying Spaghetti Monsterism, and one third time for logical conjecture based on overwhelming observable evidence."^[4]

Henderson explained, "I don't have a problem with religion. What I have a problem with is religion posing as science. If there is a god and he's intelligent, then I would guess he has a sense of humor."^[7]

The Board only responded after Henderson posted the letter on his website, gaining significant public interest.^[8] Henderson subsequently published the responses^[9] he received from Board members.

The central belief is that there is an invisible and undetectable Flying Spaghetti Monster, who created the entire universe "after drinking heavily."^[14] The Monster's intoxication was supposedly the cause for a flawed Earth. All "evidence" for evolution was planted by the Flying Spaghetti Monster, in an effort to test Pastafarians' faith — a form of the Omphalos hypothesis. When scientific measurements, such as radiocarbon dating, are made, the Flying Spaghetti Monster "is there changing the results with His Noodly Appendage."^[4]

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2 By Centa/Pathfinders/Put These Others on the Hook/ Cool Place in Brooklyn/

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Centa Theresa's "Bronze Flower" (pastels, oils on paper, 16" x 24") & her "Domestic Flight" (pastel, chine colle -sold-)

http://www.centatheresa.com/
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Two Pathfinders and Another Bunch to Not Be Let Off the Hook!




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C00L Spot in Brooklyn



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Art & PhotoEdition (Spitzer, Slomanson, Coletti, Swaney, et al) Plus "Asher & Gracie"

(P1) Political - Nada -still basking in positive vibes from the inauguration!



Ray Swaney Painting I've titled "Bird Exhaling Creative Fire"


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Oh Happy Inaugural Day!
&
the Utter Contentment of Asher & Gracie



photo by Eric Slomanson
slomophotos.com












photo by Jennafer Carlin Rossett

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Painting by Jim Spitzer
















Painting (acrylic) by Ray Swaney - titled "Like Kandinsky" although I told Ray I'd title it "Psychedelic Tick On Wheels."





















Final painting is "Enchanted Hillside" (watercolor) by Ed Coletti


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Financial Wisdom/Painting/SoCoCo at the Toad/Tina Rosa/Nothing Political

(Ed Coletti - Chance Encounters - w/color & ink)

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None - nothing political for the first time! Instead, let's all just enjoy inauguration day and all it signifies and offers this time around!

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Financial Wisdom From Irv Rothenberg

My friend and neighbor Irv Rothenberg is a nationally prominent financial advisor. Go to the following link and take a look at his ideas on the current crises placed into context.

Here's the link to
Irv's Article in North Bay Biz

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Resumption of the SoCoCo Reading Series in Santa Rosa at the new Toad in the Hole venue. (readers left to right - Margo van Veen, David Madgalene, Gwynn O'Gara, Ed Coletti, Lu Garcia, and Mark Eckert)










And then, it happened to us.
We, who had always been young,
grew old.
Hair thinned,
kidneys shrunk,
teeth fell.
Strength was within.

- Tina Rosa

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Kisses/Art by Jonathan Allen/ Broker/

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Holiday Kisses

Ed bussing son John, daugher Elisabetta, and daughter Kathleen in NYC, Ithaca, and Santa Rosa respectively.

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2 Paintings by Jonathan Allen (NYC)





































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And don't forget the following,

Spitzer/Coletti/Aphorisms/Humor

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How Still We See Thee Lie

In the spirit of the season, I've dubbed this Jim Spitzer painting Bethlehem's Imaginary Harbor. May we all internalize Peace especially at this time of year.

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8 Coletti Aphorisms

1. It is never necessary to understand everything in either life or a poem.

2. Medicine does business poorly, and business does medicine poorly.

3. Seek or ask for answers from yourself, for what we call "god" and the deep-within-me are all but indistinguishable.

4. What other people think about me is none of my business.

5. The time is not always to write or to capture. The time also is to absorb and to be.

6. Profundity is easy. Description is impossible.

7. While there may be such a thing as "unhappiness," there is no such thing as "unjoyfulness," While there is such a thing as "undoing," there is no such thing as "unbeing."

8. Not everything is something.

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SoCoCo At the Toad/Bill Edelen Column/Oz

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SoCoCo Resumes as "SoCoCo At the Toad" Sunday, January 11th at 2PM

<(Click on SoCoCo image to enlarge)

Very good news! After learning that Sonoma Coffee Company had closed, I began scouting for new venues for the popular SoCoCo Readings. I found several, but my first choice was the wonderful English pub in Railroad Square called Toad In the Hole. Paul Stokeld at Toad In the Hole is excited about our using the Toad for SoCoCo. I'm going to call it "SoCoCo At the Toad." Because they cannot infringe on their nighttime dinner crowd, we're going to move it to Sunday afternoons at 2 PM and advertise, "Come and either have late lunch during or early dinner after, or both. Great pub food and drink!" See menu and other info at

www.thetoadpub.com

Come early and have lunch. Or come later for snack, a beer, or soft drinks. Stay afterwards for early dinner. We won't have to seek out a location to which to repair after the reading!

Richard Denner's Berkeley "mentor Lu Garcia will be reading along with Gwynn O'Gara, Ed Coletti, Mark Eckert, David Madgalene, and Centa Theresa.
The pub is at 116 5th Street between Wilson Avenue and Davis Street in the Old Railroad Square area of Santa Rosa.

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Joy-filled column by a great and valuable friend, Bill Edelen who I believe to be young-in-his-eighties!


MY FAVORITE THINGS


William Edelen
November 23, 2008

One of my all time favorite songs is from "The Sound of Music". It is "My Favorite Things". I never listen to that without feeling joyful. It always brings forth a smile. As I write these words at the beginning of the month for Thanksgiving I let my calendar of the soul take over and my head and heart are filled with gratitude for so many of my favorite things...that make life so good and the days so sparkling.

# Great hugs from those you love...and who love you. (this also lowers cholesterol we are told. It beats Oak Bran).

# The wild flowers of a rainy Spring...and the grasses of a showery summer. The solitude and silence of the winter months when the mountains are covered with snow...and our Mother Earth sleeps a while.

# Choosing a great book for morning reading with the winter rain falling outside my study window...and a hush covers the earth.

# Sitting mesmerized at night in our living room before a wood burning fire that draws me like in the days of the Cro Magnon caves when the fire kept us secure and safe...I have never understood how anyone can have an artificial fire with fake logs.

# A freshly opened bag of Peets coffee in the morning to start the day on a high and noble plane.

# Or a freshly opened bag of pipe tobacco to follow the coffee and fill my study with aromas that are simply beyond description.

# The Bougainvilleas outside our home...in full and spectacular bloom.

# The Desert rains when the fragrant odors...the rich aromas of an earth moist and alive. The rolling sounds of thunder waking the earth from its restful slumber, as they say in the Taos Pueblo.

# Dazzling rainbows receiving a standing ovation from the little red flames on the tips of the ocotillos.

# The Candle of the Lord, the eloquent creamy white blossoms shooting up high on their great spike of the Yucca.

# Turning the stereo up and flooding my study, or the house, with Bach or Brubeck....or Count Basie...or Kiri Te Kanawa....or Barry Manilow with the "big bands".

# Being a member of the loving...caring...extended family of my Sunday Symposium...a family that extends into dozens of other states when the winter people are here. for their 4 months in the sun.

# Freshly baked bread.

# A world class, medium rare, hamburger...smothered with onions...tomatoes...pickles...mustard...and "pardon me...but would you have any Grey Poupon?" My love for Julia Childs who also said this was her favorite meal.

# Returning home and being greeted with pure...non-judgmental...love and tails wagging like pom-poms from dancing dogs...who are always dancing with the joy of the cosmic dancer, Shiva.

# The Mourning Doves and Quail that fill my backyard for breakfast.

# Turning back again and again , day after day, month after month and year after year to enrich my spirit with the brilliance of Thomas Jefferson....Robert Ingersoll...Carl Jung...Learned Hand...Bertrand Russell...Joseph Campbell...Frank Waters...Octavio Paz...Voltaire...Erasmus...and all the giants of human thought and the free mind that fill the four walls of my study with this inexhaustible legacy...knowing that it is our nourishing mother and our lasting life.

# The joy of the dawn hours of first light for quiet thought and meditation, remembering that it was Erasmus who reminded us that "The dawn is always a friend to the muses."

# Experiencing the Mystery that moves and flows within relationships and events and destinies...and "shoes and ships and sealing wax...and cabbages and Kings..." or in the words of Wordsworth..."In the blush of every dawn...in the evening breeze...in the leafs low murmur...in the swell of the ocean and seas...the rising and ebbing of tide...the mote of the sunbeam...rest here, I whisper to the atom...I call to the orb...roll on...the link...the chain of existence..."Artist of the solar spaces...and of human faces...though all human races claim Thee...thought and language fail to name Thee...mortal lips are dumb before Thee...Silence...only silence...can stand in awe before Thee..."

To leave the Mystery alone and un-named is not to lose...for silence names as well as sound...and it is enough...

It is this Mystery that fills my days and nights with joy and reminds me that all of my "favorite things" are a revelation of that same Mystery.

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Cogratulations/Bird//We/Prop 8/

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Rare Bird (water color by Ed Coletti)




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Congratulations America!

There is a saying widely attributed to Winston Churchill that "Americans can always be counted on to do the right thing...after they have exhausted all other possibilities." We arrived at a moment when change was the most conservative option. The 47-year-old president-elect came to represent the belief that Americans had to embrace change

- Ellen Goodman

On Proposition 8

In response to the above political cartoon which depicts the ratification of equality for all as of November 4, 2008, Katherine Hastings reminds us of the despicable passing of Proposition 8 which amended the State Constitution so that gays and lesbians no longer have the right to marry -- a right the California Supreme Court put into law earlier this year. As a reminder to those who voted Yes on this proposition, she shares the following poem by Walt Whitman:

Thought:
Of Equality --

as if harm'd me, giving others the same

chances and rights as myself -- as if it were not

indispensable to my own rights that others possess the same.



-- Walt Whitman

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First Person Plural

(On Barrack Obama’s Election)

We join hands
We rejoice
We can
We did
We build
We people
We nations
We friends
We who disagree
We voices
We sacrifice
We love
We make music
We write poems
We read the constitution
We open minds
We raise hearts
We commune
We forget
We forgive
We hope
We expect
We realize
We won’t always
We thank
We praise
We help
We feast
We celebrate
We cry
We lift
We soothe
We unite
We become
We melt
We blend
We elevate
We fly
We become us
We

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Dresden/ Swaney/Pronouncing Iraq/What It's All About

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Art Work by Ray Swaney (Santa Rosa, CA)

While listening to Sarah Palin constantly mispronounce words like "nuclear" and "Iraq" during her debate with Joe Biden, I was reminded of my 2006 poem

Pronouncing “Iraq”

Ear Rack or Ear Rock?
What implications?
(dismiss all Eye Rackers
for just who they are)

Ear Ack
Ear Ock
each tick
each tock

air attack
must whack
political hack
wolf pack
kick back
data track
pitch black
media claque
all those youngsters
ripped by flak
yack yack
spore sac

voting flock
cuckoo clock
where’s John Locke
in dry dock
mental block
preening cock
full of schlock
writ in chalk
for mock and hock
loss of freedom block on block
despairing race against the clock.

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Just Thinking Got up on a cool morning. Leaned out a window. No cloud, no wind. Air that flowers held for awhile. Some dove somewhere. Been on probation most of my life. And the rest of my life been condemned. So these moments count for a lot--peace, you know. Let the bucket of memory down into the well, bring it up. Cool, cool minutes. No one stirring, no plans. Just being there. This is what the whole thing is about.

- William Stafford

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Spitzer & Rothenberg Painting/ Anticipating Morons/Philosophy Cartoon /

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Michael Rothenberg & Jim Spitzer Co-Produce Masterwork

and they are looking for a wall on which to hang it! Any ideas?






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Caption reads "I keep thinking we should include something in the Constitution in case the people elect a fucking moron."

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Big Alaska Rally/Playing With Our Money/HL Mencken/Lew Welch

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Photos From Big Anchorage Rally (self-explanatory)

If McCain Had His Way, That'd Be Our Social Security Money Wall Street is Losing

- Headline from Huffington Post 9-08

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You hear that implosion reverberating through financial markets? It's the sound of decades of conservative ideology collapsing.

- Jared Bernstein

Note: Sorry to those who come to the Palin Church You Tube in a posting below. It was removed somewhere at the source, not by me!!

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I Saw Myself

I saw myself
a ring of bone
in the clear stream
of all of it

and vowed
always to be open to it
that all of it
might flow through

and then heard
"ring of bone" where
ring is what a

bell does

- Lew Welch

(P3) Philosophical

Moral certainty is always a sign of cultural inferiority. The more uncivilized the man, the surer he is that he knows precisely what is right and what is wrong. All human progress, even in morals, has been the work of men who have doubted the current moral values, not of men who have whooped them up and tried to enforce them. The truly civilized man (or Ed adds woman) is always skeptical and tolerant (as Ed is with H. L. Mencken's archaic use of the word man in this otherwise bright piece).

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Green Cheese/Drill, Baby, Drill/Jim Spitzer Art/Don Wentworth Poem

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Green Cheese

If John McCain and Sarah Palin were to say the moon was made of green cheese, we can be certain that Barack Obama and Joe Biden would pounce on it, and point out it's actually made of rock. And you just know the headline in the paper the next day would read: "CANDIDATES CLASH ON LUNAR LANDSCAPE."

--Paul Begala

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What Planet Do These People Live On?

These are selected remarks by Thomas Friedman on the Sept. 8, 2008 Fresh Air with Terry Gross:

When I heard Rudi Guiliani lead that crowd (at the Repub convention) in chanting “Drill Baby Drill,” I thought, what planet are these people inhabiting? It’s as if on the eve of the advent of computer technology, the Republicans were out there saying “Let’s stick with the IBM Selectric Typewriter.” Type baby type. Type. Type. Type.

If the Petro-dictators–the leaders of the world’s most repressive, anti-modern, anti-woman regimes like Saudi Arabia, which we’re supporting by our addiction to oil, either foreign OR domestic–were up in the bleachers at that convention, they would have been giving each other high fives! They WANT us to remain focused on fossil fuels.

We ought to be promoting fuels from Heaven (wind, solar, etc) rather than fuels from hell (fossil based)

John McCain, whom I used to respect, has been ‘bloody dishonest.’ He’s making people stupid, and it’s frankly disgusting.

John McCain’s support for lifting the federal gas tax for a summer giveaway was absurd and misleading.

We ought to have 100000 innovators working in 100000 garages.

The current tax and production credits for wind and solar energy expire on December 31. A bill to extend them has been brought up in Congress eight times and John McCain didn’t show up to vote eight times. Obama showed up three times and voted to extend. So now, at this crucial time, the solar and wind innovators in this country are at a dead stop, frozen. Nobody is starting new projects. This makes no sense at all.

President Bush claimed we have an addiction to oil, but do you think he invited all these senators, Republican’s and Democrats, to Camp David and said, “Let’s work it out.” Do you think he lifted one little finger, one pinky to help?

Remember when Ronald Reagan pulled Jimmy Carter’s solar panels off the White House?

When Reagan canceled Carter’s tax credits for wind, Denmark bought the top American wind company and now has the largest wind company in the world.

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(P2) Poetical

Against Ted Hughes
by Don Wentworth

Leaves will reattach themselves
to trees before being a poet
will ever be more
important than
being.

(P3) Philosophical Ted Hughes
by Don Wentwort
Jim Spitzer Poster Detail

Palin's Nutbag Church Video/Bumper Snicker/James Tracy

(P1) Philosophical

Sarah Palin's Nutbag Church

If you've entertained any doubt about Sarah Palin's nutty and dangerous political/religious views, just watch her numerous times in these scenes from Wasilla Assembly of God Church. Also bear in mind that her pastor in Juneau, where she also attends, is said to be a member of "Joel's Army" which wants Armageddon to happen now! If McCain wins, Sarah is only a heartbeat away from the nuclear button!






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(P3) Poetical

A Million Revolutions

by James Tracy

walking in circles, I picket myself
do not patronize! self unfair to self and others

boycotting myself like a field strawberry
i will not buy my own bullshit anymore

leading a sit-down strike in my own room
until better living conditions are achieved

washing my molotov mouth out with soap
for kinder, gentler dialogue

stepping outside and smiling
the earth moves a million revolutions per minute