Why Facebook?/Dalai Lama/Lilliputians/

(P1) Philosophical

Help! Tell Me Why I Need Facebook!

There was a brief period in time when I belonged to the Facebook phenomenon. There were a few areas of value to me. I could look at photos posted by family and friends. I even found a few high school and college friends. Beyond that, Facebook, to me at least felt like one big redundant nuisance. Now, I'm told regularly that I need Facebook, that I'm out of touch. But I just don't understand. Why do I need Facebook when email is so very efficient? I realize that, to some extent, this is a generational thing. That many folks younger than 30 were practically "born" to My Space and Facebook and seldom check their email. Why? What's so wrong with email? What's so difficult about email? Why do I need to resume something which was fraught with so many cutesy little applications, privacy-denying walls, pokes and prods, iconic "gifts" and a mass of other confusing routes for sending websites, links, photos, and anything else I can send by email. What of privacy? What about the apparently facistic founder of FB who will keep anything you've given him and keep it forever, in spite of your telling him you want out?

I found these comforting passages from a student at St. Ambrose University in Iowa named Arielle Wilson ( in The Buzz)

...When I break the news to people that I do not have a Facebook account, many appear dumbfounded. 'How can you not have Facebook?" they ask with confused looks on their faces. Until I hear a convincing argument as to why I should have Facebook, I plan to remain one of the two people on the planet (Ed: "three") without it. I would rather not damage my future career because of things that could be found on a Facebook account...Since I am stuck in the dark ages, I usually rely on e-mail...The biggest thing that worries me about Facebook is a lack of privacy...I don't want to sound anti-Facebook. It is a great way to stay in touch with high school classmates and friends that are far away. For the people that use it correctly, Facebook is a great resource to meet new people and join new and unusual groups. But after hearing stories of how Facebook accounts can be hacked by thieves and lead to identity theft, I think I will stick to e-mail.

I'll simply add my "Amen," and ask you for your comments. Do I need Facebook? Why? And I'm open-minded, so, if you convince me, I will rejoin, but for now it will be a hard sell.

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(P2) Political

Dalai Lama Sightings

The Dalai Lama, in a ringing denunciation, declared April 24th that the ailing global economy is the result of "too much greed, and lies and hypocrisy."

"These are some of the factors behind the global crisis," he said at a news conference at UC Santa Barbara. "Those people who feel that money is the most important thing in life, when economic crisis hits, learn that it is only one way to be happy. There is also family, friends and peace of mind."

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"Therefore, this crisis is good," he added with a laugh, "because it reminds people who only want to see money grow and grow that there are limitations."

I also heard the Dalai Lama at a visit to a soup kitchen where he said wonderfully, "You know, I'm homeless too!"

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(P2) Poetical

Two From the Lilliput Review

Broken On The Wing

A bluebird flies one cage
to claim another

I punch out then
feather home to drink

it's a migratory curse
hollowed in the bones

to bend your neck & peck
before you sing.

-Bart Solarcyzk-

another friend has slipped
into the long and crowded
history of us -
the fish market's
thousands of open eyes

- George Swede -

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Fishy/Dancing/Bill Edelen

(P1) Poetical

"Neither Fish Nor..." (Watercolor & Acrylic by Ed Coletti - 4-1-09)

(P2) Political

Dancing With the Stars

Nothing earth-shaking here. I just couldn't resist! Sarah and Barack!

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(P3)Philosophical (below)

William Edelen is a long-time friend. He's a minister, WWII Marine pilot, friend of the earth, and the most sensible person I know. He married Joyce and me.

VIRUSES OF THE MIND

by William Edelen
April 26, 2009

A child comes into the world, born an atheist as all babies are, and then is quickly indoctrinated with the religious virus of his or her parents and culture. A child through enculturation absorbs the culture of his, or her people. Enculturation is the process by which an individual learns the patterns of the family;

Children, through innocence, believe everything the parents tell them. They believe in the "tooth fairy"..."Santa Claus"..."The Easter bunny"..."witches changing princes into frogs"..."a man being born of a virgin"..."a man who could rise up from the dead"..."walk on water" and so forth. Children, being gullible, are easy prey for mental infections. It is easy for a child's consciousness to be exploited by a mind virus that is identical in nature to a computer virus or a biological virus.

The helpless young are easy victims of an insidious propaganda regardless of how ignorant or bigoted.

RELIGION IS A CULTURAL ACCIDENT. Children believe what their parents tell them and so follow the religious belief of their parents, or culture. The diety of ones worship is a product of ones culture. Catholic nuns do not have visions of the Buddha...nor do Buddhist nuns have visions of Christ.

Religions come with built in guilt mechanisms if the host starts to question. It is like a computer's warning statements if you try to delete a file needed for its operating system. Fear will usually remain even if guilt is overcome. A woman in my Congregational church in Tacoma, WA had grown up as a Roman Catholic and left to become a Congregationalist. She told me that she often awakened in the night in a cold sweat afraid she was going to be punished for that after death.

(Press here to read the full essay)


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Shanty Towns/Pennies/Vartnaw/Kay Ryan

P1 Political

Only One Paycheck Away

These photos of tent cities or shanty towns in Sacramento and elsewhere in America appeared March 11th in the British publication Mail Online. It wasn't only the pathetic reality of what our economy has come to during the past years of deregulation, but rather that America is now being studied by other countries in this way. It's like when we Americans see photos of camps in Darfur. Notice that the black and white shanty photo was taken during the Great Depression. As I watch and listen to Sacramento's mayor Kevin Johnson discuss the plight of so many of his constituents, I call to mind the old saw that goes something like, "The great bulk of Americans are only one paycheck away from homelessness." These people in the camps are car salesmen and construction workers. Unemployment rises daily.

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P2 Philosophical

Nothing Of Value

Throw away a jar of pennies,
This is very good advice.
Then nickels, dimes and quarters
Worth little more than lice.
In the soul’s progression
Such ridiculous device
As a coin, a dollar or a million,
Clocks and clothes and mice,
Nothing lasts forever,
And ever’s worth the price.

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P3 Poetic

Vowel Poem X

a note at night
ignore the gnats! the bats!
watch the net of beauty
from your boat
fireworks!
I bet you can't beat it
not with a bit of cheese
some nuts
(but don't eat the bait?)
it's neat to nit-pick
which of these stars stir you?
& about the darkness
how it stares from behind


© 2008 Bill Vartnaw




Vowel Poem XIII


tick tock
the white cat at the window
takes a toke of air
it's kite season

tick tock
I took the kite kit & cut
it's low tech
yet I still can't duplicate
the parakeet
I have tacked on the wall

tick tock
I stroke the cat's coat for solace
a cute tyke somewhere
sits on a cot w/ a teak toy
it will tuck between its blankets


© 2008 Bill Vartnaw


U.S. Poet Laureate Kay Ryan is scheduled to read at the free MARIN POETRY FESTIVAL, Sunday, April 26 in Dunphy Park located off Bridgeway at Napa Street in Sausalito, Calif.

This year's festival starts at 1 p.m. and features.four hours of music, spoken word and sunshine.

Other invited poets include Jack Hirschman, Aggie Falk, Sharon Doubiago, Clive Matson and the street corner stylings of poetry al fresco, & music by Avtocja, Owen Wilson as well as open readings.

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/The Monster's Prayer/Meg Whitman/Don Wentworth/

(P1) Philosophical

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...And, according to the Pastafarian belief system, pirates are “absolute divine beings” and the original Pastafarians. (Wikipedia)

artwork by Vincent

The Monster’s Prayer
by Ed Coletti

Our Flying Spaghetti Monster
who lives in a huge uncovered pot,
“Pirate” be thy name.
Thy ship will come,
“Aargh!” will be rung
in Somalia where it is heading.
Give us right now a bit of your sauce
for enduring our idiocies
as we endure yours.
And don’t let us eat too many meatballs
by tempting with fragrance of basil and garlic
but save us from buccaneers just like yourself
before we finally walk the long plank.
For thine are the pirate ships,
and the loot or the booty
now or forever — whatever.
Amen.

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(P3) Political

25 Random Things About Me: Meg Whitman

by Chris Kelly at Huffington Post

1) I'm running for governor of California.

2) I have a billion dollars.

3) I'm 58 years old. I've been a proud member of the Republican Party for two years.

4) My campaign website is called Megwhitman.com. Its background is the color of money.

5) I have an MBA from Harvard, just like George W. Bush. What could go wrong?

6) I'm running for governor because I strongly believe that California should be friendlier to business and, uh, I guess that's about it.

7) Did I mention the billion dollars?

8) People say I use too much business jargon when I frame strategy fundamentals trend paradigm.

9) I have two beautiful sons and their names are Prioritize and Skill Set.

10) Last week, the LA Times asked me my position on school vouchers and my answer was "I don't know how to answer that question."

11) Last week, the LA Times asked me if schools should report the children of illegal immigrants. My answer was "I want to think about that a little bit."

12) Last week, the San Francisco Chronicle asked me my position on offshore drilling and my answer was "That is an issue I would like to study further."

13) Wait, someone just handed me a card. I do have a position on an issue besides statewide business-friendliness. I also want to cut taxes and spend more money on education.

14) Which won't be easy, since 55% of the state general fund budget is spent on education.

15) I've just been handed another card.

16) "This is an issue I would like to study further."

17) I believe gay and lesbian couples should be allowed to adopt children.

18) I supported Proposition 8 because I don't believe gay and lesbian couples should be allowed to marry.

19) And I think their bastard children deserve a wonderful education that I'll pay for by cutting taxes.

20) On second thought, this is an issue that I would like to study further.

21) When the San Francisco Chronicle asked me about my plans to reduce the size of government I said, "I can't be that specific on it."

22) I believe we "have a moral responsibility to be good stewards of the environment" but I don't believe we should be raising emissions standards on automobiles or "doing things that damage the car companies."

23) The American Lung Association rates Los Angeles the worst city in America for year-round particle pollution. 3rd worst is Bakersfield. 5th worst is Visalia. 8th is Fresno. 9th is Hanford.

24) A few years ago, when I was running eBay, I was asked about our expansion into China:

Q: Can you give us your thoughts on doing business in China given the civil rights issues there?

A: We do not have the issue that many of the portals have doing business in China because in China, we are not serving news, we're not serving really anything that has to do with commentary.

My position on civil rights in China isn't even "I'd like to study it further." It's "Who gives a shit."

25) California's unemployment rate is 9.3%. There's gotta be someone else who wants this job.

from Chris Kelly at Huffington Post 2-16-09

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(P3) Poetical

Something in the slight spring
of the branch
as the bird
alights —

Donald Wentworth

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

(P1) Poetical

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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(P2) Political

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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(P3) Philosophical

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/

(P1) Poetical

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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(P2) Political

Two Pathfinders and Another Bunch to Not Be Let Off the Hook!




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(P3) Philosophical

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"


(P2) Philosophical





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)

(P1) Political

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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(P2) Philosophical

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/

(P1) Philosophical





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

(P1) Poetical

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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(P2) Philosphical

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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(P3) Political