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Dave Hurley and Ailbhe Jordan winners of the One to Watch awards during tha iapi Rant Night in The Sgar Club last Night
This is from the wall surrounding a building on West 57 St. and Ninth Ave. that has been abandoned and condemned for as long as I can remember. Whoever put this up is extremely industrious, however I don't know whether it makes sense to anyone other than its creator(s).
don't expect anything of me. that way you don't get dissapointed.
.. trying those look that Rosie Hardy, Kane perfected.. replacing backgrounds into real scene (ground and sky)..
For the most part, the litter pickup thing I've been doing is like second nature. Walking is the main event, grabbing litter while on the move is secondary, semi-automatic. But -- occasionally, the act of picking up items of trash gets me started thinking, and pondering some of the same old questions, yet again.
Here's a soda can, there's a cigarette pack. Everywhere it's cigarette butts. For each piece of litter, I know there's a person, a name a face. He or she has done the deed and left the scene, becoming anonymous. But still, even without the name or face as reference points, I can't help but wonder about the individual behind the deed. How did this twisted behavior pattern get started, one which sees it as OK -- maybe even "cool" -- to throw out trash whereever one happens to be at the moment? Is it an act of thumbing one's nose at the rest of society and specifically at society's facade of propriety and gentility? Or is it more a matter of convenience and laziness -- not wanting to trouble oneself by keeping up with bits and pieces of trash till they can be properly disposed of?
Questions. But as in the past, I never seem to come up with adequate answers. I walk on and drop back into the robotic mode of litter picking.
"It is certain, I think, that the best government is the one that governs least. But there is a much-neglected corollary: the best citizen is the one who least needs governing. The answer to big government is not private freedom, but private responsibility."
-- Wendell Berry, "The Loss of the Future" (In The Long-Legged house)
Have you seen more of the work of this street artist? I'm trying to make a collection of his writings. I've found 5 of his "stream of consciousness" writing by now. (Rotterdam)
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Wednesday 7-5-2008
A group of dirty rabid gay's, that = the police of Aalsmeer.w.w.w.nl.
and then they say "hey go out of the way"
and then I say Wiiliam 3d the third,
what 're you talking about.
Edwin, maybe I've gone to the d(D)oemkade-
A13-A15-highway-Airport Zestienhoven
Indian village direction of Delft
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It's that twin again on TV
What did you want to eat?, only if you saw the programme would you understand.
Would someone dig out the E1 archive.
Ok...there's a reason I posted this one, and it's a longish story, so please bear with. While canoeing down Econfina Creek my girlfriend and I ran across two guys and two little kids (probably 3-5 yrs old) in another canoe. At one point we saw two turtles perched on a cypress "knee" and stopped to take pictures. Around then that other canoe caught up to us, and the kids were really excited about what we were looking at, but when we told him it was a turtle his dad said "son, when you've seen one, you've seen them all." This is the problem with many parts of America! This may be one reason falling behind in math and science to other countries: many parents fail to encourage, and in fact actually discourage, exploration of the natural world by their children, whether it's to keep them safe or because they don't want to deal with answering annoying questions about how the world works. SO, ANYHOO, at the end of the canoe route, after we had all taken our canoes out, we were standing around and one of those little kids was chewing on that lolipop. A couple minutes later he wadded the thing up, threw it at a bush and said "stupid candy!" It was all I could do to keep from gasping and staring at the kid. I think it's a very bad sign when children that young have no respect for their environment and the parents make no effort to curb such irresponsible behavior. Sigh...thanks to those who sat through my rant...
don't you just hate updates sometimes?! for example when you ALWAYS had a little tick where it says "warning when several tabs are closed?" ... somehow the update ignored it and I am a serious hundred-taba-open-all-the-time person ...
means - ALL flickr tabs had been closed ... all pics I was just commenting on and mails I was just writing ... so sorry in advance if I forgot to answer somewhere ... -.-
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An award-winning podcaster is swapping the studio for the stage in his debut one-man show at the Greater Manchester Fringe.
Stand-up poet Daniel J. McLaughlin - a podcast producer for Reach, the UK's biggest publisher - will debut 'Rant in Iambic Pentameter' at the summer theatrical festival in July.
The show, which is part-poetry, part-comedy, part-philosophy, and fully profanity laced, pokes fun at parts of McLaughlin's life, including his diagnosis as a manic depressive.
"Well, it's cheaper than paying for private counselling, and probably quicker than the NHS waiting list. As the old saying goes: a genius is a madman with an audience. I just need an audience, otherwise I am your run-of-the-mill madman," the 28-year-old comedian said.
"But don't worry, it's not a bleak 60-minute show where I whine, "Woo is me." There is far too much of that self-pitying nonsense in the poetry scene. I am here to entertain, first and foremost.
"And even in the bleakest moments, mental illness can be bloody funny. My time spent on a mental health ward contained some of the most hilarious moments in my life - I'll write about it someday."
Salford-born McLaughlin, who was raised in Oswaldtwistle, Lancashire for the first 18 years of his life, combines his rants with rhymes, discussing God, Grindr, geese, gay life, and "the bloody government".
His sexuality plays a big part in 'Rant in Iambic Pentameter'. The self-titled "part-time poof" jokes about his bisexuality, experiences of homophobia and hate crime, and lack of success on the dating apps.
"I appeared on the One Show at the start of the year, discussing my attack on Canal Street by a drunken homophobe. It was an important bit of film, but at the same time, it was a bit too worthy for my liking.
"I don't want to be preachy. I don't have a megaphone, or a placard, or a soapbox - I have a microphone and far too many swear words."
Tickets manchester.ssboxoffice.com/events/daniel-j-mclaughlin-ran...
It’s no secret, you don’t get any younger when you wake up. The best thing is to wake up accept you’re old and find a nice retirement home.
Every time I sign up for a website and it asks my my age I have to scroll down the drop down menu like I’m spinning the big wheel on...
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I am insulted by the girl that commented on my last photo..that i had to delete because apparently she got the wrong idea from it. IT WAS A JOKE. and I'm sorry if you got the wrong idea..but i am in no way and never will be a teenie. I have loved these boys since 2007 and I would NEVER do something to upset them. me and my friend thought it was funny and thought we could make a picture, i have noticed how bad that it was to do that and I am sorry. oh and on my name and how you think i called myself that because you think I think i'm going to "marry them". I needed a username. I like the jonas brothers. it was sort of an obvious choice, but I do NOT think I will marry them. I thought the video was funny. yes I was out of line for making that picture. and i am sorry. but attacking me because of it does not make you the better person.
sorry for my rant. but i do not like it when people attack me without knowing exactly who they are talking to.
Have you seen more of the work of this street artist? I'm trying to make a collection of his writings. I've found 5 of his "stream of consciousness" writing by now. (Rotterdam)
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Wednesday 7-5-2008
A group of dirty rabid gay's, that = the police of Aalsmeer.w.w.w.nl.
and then they say "hey go out of the way"
and then I say Wiiliam 3d the third,
what 're you talking about.
Edwin, maybe I've gone to the d(D)oemkade-
A13-A15-highway-Airport Zestienhoven
Indian village direction of Delft
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See also:
www.flickr.com/photos/uair01/2689137511/in/set-7215760629...