Friday, January 30, 2009

Great Picture

This is just a great picture

An Alaskan Volcano causing some havoc......to the Moose and Caribou

Michael Timothy McAlevey

Thursday, January 29, 2009

HAS EVERYONE GONE INSANE?

7 alleged members of L.A. tagging crew arrested

Taggers, gang, graffiti
Lawrence K. Ho / Los Angeles Times
The MTA (Metro Transit Assassins) graffiti on the L.A. River between the 1st st. bridge and the 4th St. bridge on Jan. 28.
Authorities say the Metro Transit Assassins created the city's largest tag -- a three-story-high, half-mile-long scrawl of its moniker along the concrete banks of the Los Angeles River.
By Richard Winton
January 29, 2009
In the macho, braggart, narcissistic world of Los Angeles tagging, no one can match the Metro Transit Assassins crew.

Authorities said the group is responsible for some of the city's most notorious acts of vandalism, most notably L.A.'s largest tag: the giant, half-mile-long "MTA" scrawl that appeared last year along the concrete banks of the Los Angeles River near downtown.

But on Wednesday, authorities said they finally had arrested the MTA crew, including "Smear," a well-known "graffiti artist" whose work has been sold in some downtown L.A. art galleries.

These are not kids from the streets.

Los Angeles County sheriff's officials said one of the suspects drives a $60,000 BMW while another wore a diamond-and-ruby-encrusted Metro logo pendant valued at $27,000.

"These individuals are responsible for tags not only in Los Angeles, but Las Vegas and San Francisco," said sheriff's Cmdr. Dan Finkelstein, chief of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority police.

Authorities have long been frustrated by MTA, which they said is responsible for thousands of tags on businesses and public spaces, as well as transit buses and trains, which has been the taggers' particular target.

THE ARTICLE GOES ON TO TALK ABOUT THE ARMY CORE OF ENGINEERS ESTIMATING THAT IT WILL COST

$3.7 MILLION DOLLARS TO REMOVE THE PAINT
BECAUSE.....quote unquote

"HAZARDOUS MATERIAL CREWS MUST CREATE AN ELABORATE DAM TO CAPTURE ALL THE RUNOFF WATER SO IT DOESN'T GET INTO THE RIVERBED."

HAS EVERYBODY GONE MAD?

#1....IT LOOKS PRETTY COOL
#2....IT'S PAINT AND IT CAN BE PAINTED OVER
#3....MAKE THE TAGGERS PAINT IT THE COLOR
IT WAS.....WHICH IS A COLOR LIKE CONCRETE
WHICH IS A COLOR LIKE......GRAY.
#4....$3.7 MILLION???????
#5....SOMEBODY SHOULD TELL BARACK THAT LOS
LOS ANGELES IS PLANNING TO SPEND $3.7
MILLION DOLLARS ON THIS PROJECT AND
THEN WONDER WHY LA DIDN'T GET ANY
OF THAT BAILOUT MONEY.

IT'S PAINT....AND IF THE TAGGERS ARE REQUIRED TO MAKE IT LOOK LIKE IT DID BEFORE, MY PERSONAL GUESS IS THAT THEY CAN DO IT FOR AROUND.......THE COST OF THE PAINT.....PROBABLY ABOUT $2500.00 FOR GRAY INDUSTRIAL PAINT.

$3.7 MILLION???????????????????????????????????

THIS MIGHT BE ONE OF THE MOST RIDICULOUS STORIES I HAVE EVER READ.

THE LEAD ARTIST ON THIS PROJECT IS
"SMEAR"
Christan Gheoghiu is his real name and apparently he has developed a following within the gallery scene.

Ok SMEAR...time to get busy.
The only thing stranger would be if the city had to pay Smear to do the repainting because of civil rights infringements.

But remember the United States Government has issued contracts for cleaning up toxic waste sites to the companies that created the toxic waste....so anything is possible in a day and age where I ask the simple question....

HAS EVERYBODY GONE BONKERS?

Michael Timothy McAlevey



Wednesday, January 28, 2009

GOD and no RELIGION PLEASE

I suppose this is long overdue but just like the library...if you pay what you owe, then you are back in good standings and everything is free.

For about 35 years I've had a fairly clear picture of WHO I direct my prayers toward.

Since the subject is extremely possession orientated...meaning everybody thinks they have a fairly clear picture of WHO they direct their prayers toward...it is important to free your mind of any thoughts about WHO you direct your prayers toward.

LET YOUR BELIEF SYSTEMS ESCAPE FOR THE MOMENT.....it's like LOVE...if you let it go and it comes back then it was suppose to happen....if it doesn't come back then you start looking other places...or other faces.

IF YOU DON'T PRAY THEN YOU ARE CLEAN AS A WHISTLE WHEN IT COMES TO THIS SUBJECT....and most likely you already have a feeling that the bulls..t is getting ready to fly.

First step is to accept that GOD has no religion.

RELIGION is mankind's way of honoring GOD....and God knows we've had an abundance of different honoring systems on our path of human development.

I WOULD LIKE TO GET RIGHT TO THE ORIGINAL POINT OF NO RETURN

THE MOMENT WHEN ONLY
A
VOID
EXISTED

RESPECTED scientists from all across the globe...claim it was about 14.5 BILLION YEARS AGO that the void suddenly contained LIGHT and MATTER and ENERGY.

THEY CLAIM THERE WAS A RATHER LARGE EXPLOSION AND THEY LIKE TO CALL IT THE BIG BANG.

Which is actually a pretty cool nickname for GOD.

TBB
THE BIG BANG


I realize GOD already has quite a few nicknames and even some of them we aren't allowed to say according to the Jewish faith....but wait a sec....I said no religion and I can't start making fun of them if I don't want to use them for reference points.

AND I REALLY DON'T WANT TO USE ANY RELIGION FOR A REFERENCE POINT IN THIS ATTEMPT TO SHOW WHO I DIRECT MY PRAYERS TOWARD.

THE BIG BANG was able to turn a VOID into a cascading expansion of light, energy and matter that not only continues to this very day but will keep expanding for billions of years before it reaches the point of no return and then starts imploding back to that one single moment when once again all that will exist will be.....the VOID.

ANOTHER COOL NICKNAME...

THE VOIDENDER

The important thing to conceptualize is....

I BELIEVE AN ENTITY CREATED THAT MOMENT WHERE DENSITY OF NOTHING WAS INTRODUCED TO DENSITY OF SOMETHING.

It's fairly easy to assume that such AN ENTITY would be very very powerful...but at the moment of creating matter, light and energy there weren't a lot of comparisons.

SORTA A SINGULAR JOB DESCRIPTION, wouldn't you say, when one creates the first ray of light, the first piece of matter and the first hint of energy.

I PERSONALLY AM IN AWE OF THAT POWER...but yet I have no fear of it.....and that either makes me the stupidest person who has ever lived on Earth or just perhaps a human being who gets it and loves it and respects it enough to say....

"YOU GET MY PRAYERS because you started IT....you BIG BANG....you VOIDENDER.....YOU...................GOD

I have no idea how the interplay works between GOD and human beings. I suspect that it has a amazing resolve but I'm just wishing and hoping because that's what I do....and generally that's what all people do if their goals are realistic.

SPIRITUAL PLANNING IS A CRAP SHOOT and who does what and who goes where is anybody's guess. I have some detailed thoughts about this subject but let's stay on point.

For all I know GOD has created a billion little gods to do the dirty work while THE VOIDENDER keeps expanding the Universe.

All the little things that THE BIG BANG could and should and would do to make a Human Beings life a bit smoother is really of no consequence to me. I believe that WE are suppose to handle that goal and that if WE learn to stop judging and hating and fighting then we might just help smooth out the agenda....and in doing so we would be showing our respect to The VOIDENDER.

I hope GOD hears my prayer of honor and love and respect but hearing is probably way beyond the realm of reality for an entity that created the first moment of light, energy and matter.

EARDRUMS WERE PROBABLY SHATTERED AT THAT MOMENT ANYWAY.

I have a theory that it's just about
FEELING
and not hearing

it's just about
KNOWING
and not seeing

it's just about
LOVE
and not regret

Of course those are just theories and as long as I breathe I will continue my curiosity in to how the interplay works between Human Beings and THE BIG BANG VOIDENDER more commonly known as

GOD



And that's the GOD I pray to and send my personally designed prayer to every time.

The FREQUENCY OF PRAYER is another entire "ARTICLE" and one that I will deal with in the near future....but for now I think I've answered a question that was asked well over a year ago.

"Who do you pray to?"

Well Sharon...there you go.
I've tried to answer in a short explanation because the long explanation takes about 14.5 Billion years and I'm not sure INTEL has enough room on their chip.

That's where my prayers are headed when they leave my mind...where they land I have no freaking clue!

DO YOU?

Michael Timothy McAlevey

Sunday, January 25, 2009

WHAT'S THE MATTER?






I love this subject
Following excerpt (Page 109) is from the National Geographic Collector's Edition book called

SPACE

THE ONCE AND FUTURE FRONTIER

Dark Matter and Dark Energy account for 96 percent of our Universe.

96 PERCENT

They....DM and DE...emit no detectable radiation and the gravity of DARK MATTER is what holds our Universe together.

FIRST...I'M JUST HAPPY THAT OUR UNIVERSE IS TOGETHER...IT MAKES EVERYTHING SO MUCH.....
NICER

During the first ten billion years of our Universe the attractive gravity of Dark Matter dominated the effects of Dark Energy. About four billion years ago, Dark Energy took over accelerating the expansion of the Universe, which is now speeding to an unknown future.

Of all the mass and energy in the Universe, Dark Energy makes up 71 percent..Dark Matter 25 percent and ordinary matter and energy....atoms, stars, planets, you and me....make up 4 percent.

ONE THING I KNOW FOR SURE...IT'S FOUR PERCENT OF PURE MALARKEY AND
CONSISTENT TWISTED BEHAVIOR....MIXED IN WITH A TON OF AWE AND LOTS OF LOVE.

Personally I 'm happy to be part of the four percent. The other stuff just seems way too intense.

BEAUTIFUL but intense...which reminds me of some women I know.


Which by the way is another subject I love....but for now go back and look at the pictures and visit ESC, Hubble and Spitzer if you want to see more.

Michael Timothy McAlevey

Saturday, January 24, 2009

General takes on various subjects

I'm a bit nervous about Lobbyist bashing and regulations restricting Lobbyists. Of course I understand that improprieties can easily exist when Lobbyist are involved in political decisions because....well...that's what Lobbyists do.

THEY TRY TO INFLUENCE DECISIONS MADE BY PEOPLE IN POWER and most likely they will try anything because most decisions result in massive amounts of money for someone.

The business of lobbying should probably be the fourth branch of our government.

Lobbying was probably one of the original aspects of designing the Constitution.

OBVIOUSLY things have gotten out of hand but I ask you one simple question....WHAT BRANCH OF OUR GOVERNMENT HASN'T GOTTEN OUT OF HAND?

I'm a bit concerned that in our present economic environment that if further aspects of doing business are eliminated and regulated to the point where they can no longer operate than it's just less business being done.

I can't imagine Washington D.C. restrictions on the firms that make money trying to influence decisions...but it appears that is exactly what will be happening.

I UNDERSTAND CAMPAIGN PROMISES AND I UNDERSTAND CORRUPTION UNCHECKED BUT ACCEPTING NO GIFTS FROM LOBBYISTS SEEMS TO BE AN EXTREME MEASURE IF GIFTS INCLUDE
BREAKFAST
LUNCH
or
DINNER

DO FREE DRINKS CONSTITUTE A GIFT?

IF FOOD AND BEVERAGES ARE REGARDED AS A GIFT THEN LOBBYISTS ARE TOTALLY SCREWED.

IS THAT THE POINT?

Both McCain and Obama promised Lobby reformation if elected, but I find it hard to imagine that form of business being eliminated without huge ramifications to an already very shaky business environment.

We elect people to handle the political business of the country. We don't elect Lobbyists...but maybe we should.

Is it possible to ONLY have decisions made on local, regional, national and global issues BY THE PEOPLE WE'VE ELECTED?

CAN WASHINGTON HANDLE THE CUT-BACK?
CAN POLITICIANS LIVE WITHOUT GIFTS?

THE GIFT BAGS HANDED OUT AT EVERY SPECIAL OCCASION PROBABLY CONTAIN MULTIPLE PRODUCT PLACEMENT ITEMS....PROMOTING SOMEBODIES LINE OF GOODS.

I'm a little concerned but then again the Lobbyists have definitely brought this upon themselves.

EVERYBODY KNOWS POLITICIANS HAVE A SHADY SIDE SO WE CAN'T BE SURPRISED WHEN THEY ACCEPT GIFTS.

THE QUESTION IS....ARE THEY NOW GOING TO GET EXTRA SNEAKY?

I have a feeling they will do whatever they can to continue receiving the golden goose from the golden goosers.

It's just going to be harder to monitor....and one last question.

WHO IS GOING TO BE DOING THE MONITORING?

I GUESS THEY WILL HAVE A COMMITTEE TO OVERSEE THE SITUATION....and since that committee will be comprised of politicians....END OF STORY.

******

Finally went to see Slumdog Millionaire because of all the buzz around town.

SERIOUSLY....BEST PICTURE OF THE YEAR?

HAS EVERYBODY SLIPPED TO A MEDIOCRE LEVEL OF BEING PLEASURED DURING A CINEMATIC EXPERIENCE?

GRAN TORINO was so much better and so much more relevant to current racial issues AND IT DIDN'T EVEN GET NOMINATED!

THAT'S JUST NUTS!

AUSTRALIA WAS THE BEST MOVIE I SAW ALL YEAR and it got nominated for Best Costume Design only. The emotional involvement registered while watching Australia was ten times more powerful than when watching Slumdog.

THE EXPERIENCE OF WATCHING A MOVIE IS AN EMOTIONAL EXPERIENCE AND THE MORE EMOTIONS ONE CAN FEEL DURING A FILM THE BETTER THE FILM IS....

UNLESS OF COURSE IT'S A COMEDY AND THEN LAUGHTER JUST TRUMPS EVERYTHING ELSE.

IF THE ONE EMOTION IS LAUGHTER THAN SO BE IT....you go you watch you laugh you leave you go have pizza you go home you go to bed watching Letterman and you laugh a little bit more.

THAT'S A VERY GOOD EVENING

IF ON THE OTHER HAND YOU GO TO A FILM THAT IS NOT A COMEDY AND YOU EXPERIENCE VAST RANGES OF EMOTIONS...THEN WHEN YOU LEAVE THE THEATER YOU GENERALLY TALK ABOUT THE RANGE OF EMOTIONS BY REMEMBERING PARTS OF THE FILM THAT ELICITED THOSE EMOTIONS.

THERE WERE PARTS OF AUSTRALIA THAT I THOUGHT ABOUT FOR DAYS and two months later I can still visualize the incredible cinematography of the film.

THE STORY LINE IS ONE FOR THE AGES and is a very unheralded part of World War II.

Also one last thing regarding the Academy and it's goofy members. Clint Eastwood gave one of his finest acting performances in Gran Torino and actually announced that he wouldn't be doing anymore work in front of the camera.

TO NOT NOMINATE HIM WAS A DIRECT SLAP AT HIS POLITICAL POINTS OF VIEW

I HONESTLY BELIEVE THAT TO BE TRUE and I think the Academy should be ashamed of itself for allowing narrow points of view to affect their decisions.

I WONDER IF HOLLYWOOD LOBBYISTS HAD ANYTHING TO DO WITH THIS SNUBBING CLINT FIASCO?

************

SMALL ARTICLE ON PAGE A10 IN TODAY'S LA TIMES

ARKANSAS
School shooter guilty of theft

A man who as a teenager fired on his middle-school classmates
has been sentenced to an extra six years in prison for using a
stolen debit card., this time to buy a $7.99 Burger King breakfast.

FIRST OFF....WHILE READING THIS PARAGRAPH MY MIND
IS THINKING FIRED ON MEANS NO ONE WAS SERIOUSLY INJURED

WRONG WRONG WRONG
The next paragraph

MITCHELL JOHNSON, 24, pleaded guilty and was sentenced for theft and financial identity fraud. It was his third sentencing since being released from prison three years ago for his role in the school shooting.

STILL READING AND STILL THINKING THAT NO ONE WAS SERIOUSLY
INJURED IN THE SCHOOL SHOOTING

SO VERY VERY WRONG
The next paragraph

Johnson was 13 when he and an 11-year old schoolmate killed four students and a teacher at Jonesboro Westside Middle School in March of 1998.
Ten other people were injured.

OK.....HE WAS SENT TO SOME TYPE OF CHILD REFORM SCHOOL AND RELEASED THREE YEARS AGO WHICH MEANS HE PROBABLY SPENT LESS THAN SIX YEARS IN CONFINEMENT FOR KILLING FIVE PEOPLE.
HE WAS RELEASED AT THE AGE OF 21.

Back to article

Johnson was sentenced in November to 12 years in prison for the January 2008 theft of the debit card. The additional six years was added because he bought the Burger King breakfast in another county. That sentencing term applies at the end of his current four-year sentence for gun and drug possession stemming from an arrest in 2007.

HAS EVERYBODY IN ARKANSAS LOST THEIR FREAKING MINDS?
I'm not kidding we need to send Bill Clinton back home and have him straighten out some issues...but he most likely won't get within 20 miles of the state line.

MITCHELL JOHNSON will spend a lot more time in jail for buying a $7.99 cent breakfast then he did for KILLING FIVE PEOPLE.

NOT TO MENTION THE STAFF...WHEREVER HE WAS INCARCERATED THE FIRST TIME...HAVING NO CLUE TO ANYTHING ABOUT ANYTHING

NO ONE COULD TELL THAT A 21 YEAR OLD WHO HAD KILLED FIVE PEOPLE EIGHT YEARS PREVIOUSLY PROBABLY WAS A WALKING TIME BOMB???????

THANK GOD FOR BURGER KING....BECAUSE WITHOUT THAT BREAKFAST HE WAS MOST LIKELY ON HIS WAY TO A MUCH UGLIER INCIDENT.

HE WAS PROBABLY JUST HYPOGLYCEMIC AND NEEDED SOME NOURISHMENT.

The entire state of Arkansas's prison review board should be suspended immediately before anyone else gets hurt....not mention the doctor's who were observing him during his short stay ....the first time.

Had Mitchell Johnson learned to love good movies (Sound of Music) when he was young none of this would have ever happened.

I bet his parents watched The Omen on a loop along with Halloween and Chain Saw Massacre

I believe his parents should be arrested
....they did something beyond goofy while he was growing up.


Get them on the phone...if they have a phone....and tell them to get packed because they are going on a little trip to LEAVENWORTH.

Stories like this make Lobbyists and The Oscars seem like fairy tales.

Anyway....watch the WINTER X GAMES on ESPN and try to enjoy your weekend

Peace

Michael Timothy McAlevey

Wednesday, January 21, 2009

BIG EVENTS AND A BIGGER BUZZ

Since Sunday the political atmosphere has been buzzing. I feel the buzz here in my apartment in Santa Monica...I can't even imagine how strong that buzz must be in Washington D.C.

THE BUZZ MIGHT BE A NATIONAL BUZZ

AND THERE'S A GOOD CHANCE IT MIGHT EVEN BE A GLOBAL BUZZ

A BUZZ is a vibratory wave length that emulates from a power source and extends unspecified distances to receptacles...depending on sensitivity and interest.

IF YOU DON'T FEEL THE BUZZ THEN YOU ARE PROBABLY ONE PISSED OFF REPUBLICAN WHO IS JUST WAITING FOR THE PRESENT ADMINISTRATION TO STUB A TOE OR BETTER YET...FALL FLAT ON IT'S FACE

Keep in mind that Democrats did not start tearing George a new ahole until he started demonstrating his inabilities to handle the heat inside the White House kitchen.

JUST BECAUSE THOSE INABILITIES KEPT GROWING AND GROWING IS REALLY NOT OUR FAULT.

THINK ABOUT THAT AS YOU FOCUS ON THE CURRENT ADMINISTRATION

ONE THING THAT IS QUITE EVIDENT WITH THE NEW ADMINISTRATION

THEY HAVE PEOPLE WHO CAN
SING
DANCE
READ
MEMORIZE and just flat out
ENTERTAIN

The party on Sunday at the Lincoln Memorial was one of the best "ENTERTAINMENT" shows I have ever seen. When it comes to buzzing...that show had bee pollen dripping down every inch of the Lincoln Memorial. I think I saw Abe tapping his toes....but of course that's what happens when you experience the BUZZ.

I've watched the show three times and I'm still not sure what my favorite moment was.

I'm a huge Mellencamp fan
I'm a huge Springsteen fan
I'm a huge James Taylor fan
I'm a huge American Bald Eagle fan

AND I'M NOT THAT BIG OF A U2 FAN BUT I THINK BONO WINS TOP HONORS
even though GARTH BROOKS was probably the most entertaining.

BONO WAS THE ONLY PERSON TO MAKE A STATEMENT....and to think an Irish band was invited to a "domestic" party makes it that much cooler. BONO is in a class of ONE and for that I salute him.

HIS GLOBAL WORK IS ONE FOR THE AGES

JOSH GROBIN might have the strongest voice I've ever heard.

Beyonce closed the show and sang America The Beautiful as well as it's ever been sung.

The biggest surprise was JON BON JOVI. He sang with BETTE LAVETTE and
they were amazing. BETTE needs to be making more appearances on a national basis.....MORE NATIONAL ANTHEMS, MORE HALFTIME SHOWS, MORE ED SULLIVAN SHOWS, MORE DAVID LETTERMAN SHOWS...ETC...ETC...ETC.

AND THEN THE BUZZ MOVED TO TUESDAY
AND
WE
GOT
STUNG

I have watched President Obama's acceptance speech twice and read it again this morning in the LA TIMES.

After the first time (the real moment) I was a bit concerned because it lacked something that I was wanting. Then I realized while watching it the second time that what I was wanting was more entertainment than substance.

He did not leave lines dangling for applause.

That threw me off at first. Then watching the second time I fully got the point of his speech.

HE BASICALLY WASN'T F..KING AROUND

HE WAS LETTING US KNOW THAT THINGS WERE GOING TO HAVE TO CHANGE FOR SUCCESS TO BE AN OPTION

HE GAVE A SPEECH TO THE WORLD NOT JUST AMERICANS....and he let everyone know that he wasn't going to be making little jokes at the expense of issues, ideals and morality.

I highly suggest that you read it and perhaps watch it one more time.

IT WAS A BRILLIANT SPEECH....and one that might not have any catch phrases to rival Kennedy and Roosevelt, but it had SUBSTANCE and it most definitely added to the BUZZ of the beginning
of
BARACK OBAMA'S
TERM IN OFFICE


AND BY THE WAY....How appropriate that President Obama is the 44th President?

44 is such a huge number in the world of African American success.

JUST ANOTHER LITTLE THING
TO
MAKE
EVERYTHING

BUZZ

BUZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZING
BIG TIME!

Michael Timothy McAlevey

Monday, January 19, 2009

REREAD AND RELAX





Please go back and reread yesterday's "article."
I made a few fundamental changes...which by the way, might be one of the best aspects of participating in this form of
the NEW MEDIA

Unless you printed my "article"
you can never quote me on any stupid thing you think I might have said.

Michael Timothy McAlevey

Sunday, January 18, 2009

Let the PARTY begin but it should have been 4 day weekend

Tuesday marks a major HISTORICAL event in the annuals of our young country.

Today marks the beginning of the celebration

Tomorrow is Martin Luther King's Birthday

BEING THAT THIS IS A ONCE IN A LIFETIME OCCURRENCE (probably) I WOULD HAVE THOUGHT SOMEONE IN THE GOVERNMENT MIGHT HAVE CONSIDERED MAKING THIS A FOUR DAY WEEKEND AND GIVING EVERYBODY TUESDAY OFF SO THEY COULD EXPERIENCE THE EVENT....LIVE

(after all....the government is the largest employer in the country)

I REALIZE TIVO AND DVR'S MAKE IT POSSIBLE FOR MANY MORE PEOPLE TO WATCH THE CEREMONIES BUT WHAT'S ANOTHER DAY OFF AT THIS POINT IN TIME?

THE ECONOMY IS SO SCREWED THAT MAYBE SHUTTING THINGS DOWN FOR AN EXTRA DAY WOULDN'T BE SUCH A BAD IDEA.

STOCK MARKET WOULDN'T TANK, OIL PRICES COULDN'T SURGE, PEOPLE WOULDN'T BE SPENDING MONEY GETTING TO WORK....ETC....ETC....ETC. Plus they would have an extra day to participate in the Circuit City blowout.
But mainly
AN ENTIRE COUNTRY WOULD HAVE BEEN HOME WATCHING AN EVENT THAT HAS TREMENDOUS RAMIFICATIONS FOR OUR FUTURE.


IT SHOULD HAVE BEEN A FOUR DAY WEEKEND

My guess is that the sick call list will reach historical proportions on Tuesday January 20 2009.

On Wednesday reality sets in and everything gets back to normal...and at this stage normal seems to be wrapped up quite tightly in a few words

HOPE
and
HERO

I understand that putting "HERO" pressure on Barack Obama is probably not a good thing but geez...that's what it feels like after eight years of George W. Bush.

We need the type of hero that encompasses a world of turmoil and doesn't create division just because it's possible.

USING THE STRENGTH THAT EXISTS IN THE RIGHT WAYS CAN BE DONE IF THE PERSON SHOWING THE WAY EXHIBITS HEROIC VISION AND BEHAVES WITH HEROIC ACTIONS.

By the way...my HERO references...have much to do with the Joesph Campbell's prototypical hero explanations.

BARACK OBAMA IS THE JOHN F. KENNEDY OF THIS GENERATION AND IT'S BEEN 40 YEARS SINCE WE'VE HAD A LEADER WHO COULD EXPLAIN THINGS WHILE AT THE SAME TIME COULD MOTIVATE US TO TAKE ACTION.

WILLIAM CLINTON COULD TELL US THINGS BUT WE ALL KNEW HE WAS
A LITTLE CHEESY....AND A BIT SNEAKY

ROBERT F. KENNEDY WAS THE LAST POLITICIAN, ON A NATIONAL LEVEL, THAT MADE ME FEEL FUNDAMENTALLY HOPEFUL FOR THE FUTURE

BIAS HISTORIANS WILL DO WHATEVER POSSIBLE TO DESTROY AN IMAGE
OR INFLATE THE IMPORTANCE.

UNBIASED HISTORIANS WILL SIMPLY TELL THE STORY AND LET YOU DECIDE

THE ACTIONS THAT ARE NOW...THAT WE GET TO OBSERVE...ARE THE METHODS FOR KNOWING TRUTH AND REALITY

GEORGE W. BUSH IS AN ANOMALY. HE WAS ABLE TO DESTROY THE HISTORICAL ATTRIBUTES OF HIS PRESIDENCY WHILE STILL IN OFFICE.

It's important for the America people to regard the President as an intelligent person...who also possesses compassion and curiosity. The President needs to be strong but in ways that display character...not just control.

I PRAY TO GOD THAT BARACK OBAMA BECOMES A PRESIDENT THAT FUTURE PRESIDENTS TRY TO EMULATE.

I FEEL ENCOURAGED AND I FEEL ENERGIZED BY HIS PRESENCE
and on top of that

he
can
talk
like
a
MF

and that's really something we've been missing since Clinton left office.

There has been A HUGE VOID in the speaking category generated from the Oval Office
and
that's
about
to
change

AND SPEAKING TO US WITH INTELLIGENCE AND HUMANISTIC TRAITS
CAN
BE
HEROIC

I THINK BARACK OBAMA IS EXACTLY WHAT THIS COUNTRY NEEDS IN THIS VERY TUMULTUOUS TIME
AND THANK GOD SO DID A MAJORITY OF THE VOTING PUBLIC

Lately I've even heard of some Republicans who are excited about Barry.
Seriously!

IT'S AN INCREDIBLE PREDICAMENT THAT THIS COUNTRY HAS PLACED ITSELF IN AND THE NEXT FOUR YEARS WILL BE EXTREMELY HARD ON MANY MANY PEOPLE

WE HAVE LET THE JUDICIAL SYSTEM PROTECT CORPORATE AMERICA AND IGNORE INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS AND LIBERTIES

WE ARE PROTECTING THE WRONG IDEALS
and it can be fixed
but
BARACK OBAMA CAN NOT DO IT ALONE

BUT HE ALONE CAN TALK US THROUGH THE PROCESS

He's the HEAD COACH and he can't throw the ball, or carry the ball, or kick the ball...but he can drop the ball as was displayed by W.

I THINK BARACK CAN BE THE HERO WE NEED
and
I don't think that's putting too much pressure on him
because
after all
that's
exactly
what
he wanted.

THE BALL IS IN YOUR COURT SIR AND
WE SHOULD HAVE HAD A FOUR DAY WEEKEND TO GET THE PARTY STARTED.


and one last thing

Be sure to call....if you need anything

(except of course money...but you've already shown your ability to succeed in that area. By the way....you should go get some of it back from the Chinese)

WE ARE HERE FOR YOU

Michael Timothy McAlevey

Friday, January 16, 2009

Don't roll that way but it's just not right

I liked listening( occasionally) to the David Lynch Weather Reports and to the Timothy Oylphant Sports Reports on Indie 103.1.

A few of my friends regard this station as their absolute favorite and since I know what it's like to love something in the entertainment media that gets canceled....Cop Rock...Joan of Arcadia...Boston Legal....Eli Stone...I thought I'd chip in with my two cents.

And then I read this piece by Chris Morris and I couldn't have said it better.

There is one redemption in this story. APPARENTLY the station will continue to broadcast ON-LINE....but maybe in Spanish and maybe geared to an entirely different end user.

I can't imagine the above mentioned cancelled TV shows presented in the NEW MEDIA with Hispanic speaking actors and plots now geared to the Hispanic community.

THAT'S JUST FLAT OUT RUDE....
but I have heard rumors that the Hispanic community is rather large in Southern California so once again CORPORATE AMERICA goes where the money might be......but there seems to already be a plethora of Hispanic radio shows.

HOPEFULLY THE NEW INDIE-ON-LINE SHOW WILL OFFER SOMETHING GEARED TO THE LOYAL LISTENERS WHO LOVED INDIE-103.1

IT'S HARD FOR ME TO IMAGINE THAT SOME RICH DUDE...can't see the need for a radio show that offers the type of programming Indie 103.1 offered....and start a new show. There seems to be quite a few signals available that are down on the bottom of the numbers list.

COME ON LOU ADLER...MAKE THIS HAPPEN AND SHOW ENTRAVISION THAT THEY DON'T HAVE THE FINAL WORD ON TASTE WITHIN THE RADIO INDUSTRY.

That's my two cents and now here's Chris Morris's take....and he knows much more about this than I do.

Ex-Indie 103.1 host Chris Morris on the end of the station
12:09 PM PT, Jan 15 2009

Local rock station Indie 103.1 is going off the air. Upon hearing the news, Pop & Hiss gave a shout-out to journalist/DJ Chris Morris, who, until a few weeks ago, hosted roots/Americana specialty show Watusi Radio on the station. He recently wrote about the cancellation of his show in City Beat, and below is his reaction to this morning's news that Indie 103.1 is going online only.
I tuned in the station just before 10 this morning to find its cast of announcers and regulars -- T.K., Mr. Shovel, Darren Revell, Party Girl Stacey, Surf Junkie Jeff, Full Metal Jackie -- saying farewell.
Then, after airing Frank Sinatra’s “My Way,” the station began cycling a prerecorded announcement, between rotating attitude-packed tracks by X, the Clash, Buzzcocks, Black Flag, and the Sex Pistols (“Anarchy in the U.K.” and Sid Vicious’ “My Way”). Indie, L.A.’s much-beloved independent rock station, was leaving the terrestrial airwaves, effective immediately, and migrating to the Internet.

Indie’s on-air adieu blamed “the way radio audiences are measured” -- i.e., last fall’s institution by Arbitron of the controversial portable people meters, or PPMs, which replaced diaries as ratings devices in the Los Angeles market and measured an even smaller percentage of the station’s tiny but loyal audience. In what amounted to a bleakly amusing mea culpa on the part of chain owner Entravision, it admitted that the station had been forced “to play the corporate radio game,” and that the retooled station of recent months -- shorn of several specialty shows (including mine) and pumped up with KROQ-style ’90s hits -- was little more than a “version of Indie 103.1 [that] we are now removing from the broadcast airwaves.”

Apparently, some new edition of Indie is set to broadcast on the Web at http://www.indie1031.com/. Its frequency will now likely be filled by the Spanish-language programming I’d anticipated last month.


All very sad, and quite predictable.

For most of its existence, Indie 103.1 advanced a style of radio in its specialty programming that hadn’t been seen in a major radio market for eons.

What was heard on the air was a reflection of the individual jocks’ tastes and passions.

The amount of liberty I enjoyed was unbelievable. It was a throwback to the free-form style I grew up with, which held sway briefly in pre-“album oriented” radio in the ’70s; the maverick early KROQ flashed the same gunslinging approach.
And, until desperation set in during the late going, the station’s regular rotation sported some provocative tracks and off-the-wall features that Indie’s crosstown rivals wouldn’t touch. (The choice of “My Way” as a farewell track recalled the era of Indie’s “Furious Frank at Five” -- a daily afternoon dose of Sinatra.) But, as station management learned the hard way, cool programming alone can’t trump 30 years of listener loyalty, marketing money and a strong signal.
So now Indie hopes to flourish on the Web -- “a place where rules do not apply and where new music thrives,” in the station’s words -- by returning to the style it had sloughed off in pursuit of terrestrial ratings that never arrived. I wish my old colleagues luck in their renewed endeavors. (We’ll be working the same turf: My own post-Indie show “Hillbilly Deluxe” debuts on Scion Radio 17, the Web station operated by Toyota’s Scion car line, in February.)

It remains to be seen what form Indie 2.0 will take, and whether its star jocks like Steve Jones -- who won’t be able to command the same kind of bucks in cyberspace -– will remain on board. But it’s apparent that in the cutthroat world of radio, going to the Internet may be the only way to go for programmers with an edge to them.
-- Chris Morris, Special to Pop & Hiss

Thursday, January 15, 2009

They should both apologize

Today on the third page of the LA TIMES( which just raised it's daily price by 50 percent with no warning) there is an article by Barbara Demice titled
CHINESE WILL MISS BUSH
Sub heading reads
Free-trade policies, Taiwan efforts and Olympics visit endear president to the nation.

IF THIS IN FACT IS TRUE AND THE CHINESE ARE ENDEARED WITH OUR PARTING FIASCOTER.....THEN I HONESTLY THINK HE SHOULD MAYBE THINK ABOUT MOVING THERE. IMAGINE HOW HE COULD LIVE ON THE MONEY EX-PRESIDENTS MAKE. OH MY GOD... HE COULD LIVE LIKE AN EMPEROR.

IN FACT THEY COULD APPOINT HIM
EMPEROR GEORGE of AMERICAN BUSINESS INTEREST.

I don't have to read the article to know the facts and figures of his endearment.

FREE-TRADE POLICIES have totally contributed to the Chinese growth and more importantly to the lost of American jobs.

I'm almost not an idiot so I know that out-sourcing is the reason we have less expensive goods in our giant retail chains.

What we needed was a President that saw the extent of this problem developing and offer incentives to domestic companies in an attempt to save some jobs.
IT'S PROBABLY TOO LATE TO REVERSE THAT TREND.
Of course if our economic woes continue on a national basis...then our Free-Trade Policy with China won't matter much and factories in China will start closing faster than they already are.
I read a week ago that one toy-making province had to close 50 percent of their factories.
I WANT TO FLAT OUT STATE THAT CHINA MAKES INFERIOR PRODUCTS
AND THEY HAVE NO METHODS OF PROTECTING THE PUBLIC EXCEPT FOR EXECUTING CEO'S.
WE HAVE SOMETHING IN COMMON WITH THEM BECAUSE WE HAVE CREATED AN INFERIOR PRODUCT FOR THE LAST EIGHT YEARS.
WE LET GEORGE DO HIS THING AND HIS THING WILL GO DOWN IN HISTORY AS A VERY VERY BAD PERFORMANCE.
CHINA NEEDS TO START BUYING THINGS FROM US INSTEAD OF JUST BUYING US
ONE THING THEY COULD START BUYING IMMEDIATELY WOULD BE OUR CARS.
I CAN'T IMAGINE CHINA WANTING TO BUY TOYOTA SO THAT LEAVES A DOOR OPEN FOR
FORD, CHEVY AND CHRYSLER
Here's a big idea.....MAKE GEORGE W. BUSH THE AUTOMOTIVE INDUSTRY CZAR with special focus on making the Chinese buy our cars.
IT WOULD BE HUGE and it might save certain areas of the country from total collapse.
Here's your passport George...here's your instructions.....now get the hell out of here and go do something to help fix the problems that you helped create.
CHINA AND GEORGE WERE MADE FOR EACH OTHER....and I know this doesn't sound fair but neither of them really gives a flying f..k about the welfare of the United States.
George was an oil man who saw RECORD PROFITS during his term...so in his mind he has that going for him.
IMAGINE THE REWARDS HE WILL REAP FROM CHEVRON ALONE.
LAURA WILL BE IN PRADA AMD DOLCE-GABBANA FOR THE REST OF HER SWEET LITTLE LIFE. SHE WON'T BE SHOPPING ANYWHERE THAT THE CHINESE SELL THEIR GOODS AND SOMEHOW THAT JUST DOESN'T SEEM RIGHT.
THE GEORGE W. BUSH PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY SHOULD LOOK LIKE A CHINESE TEMPLE IN THE SHAPE OF AN OIL DERRICK...
I only have a few more days to bash George...but it looks like I have a very long time to dis the Chinese. They appear to be fully entrenched in our society....but at least they have an ENDEARMENT for our soon to be ex-leader.
ISN'T THAT SWEET!
Michael Timothy McAlevey

Wednesday, January 14, 2009

Some New Images from GOD and the Hubble and me































Since we are just six days away from a new political....and hopefully spiritual.... direction,



I thought it would be a good idea to remind everyone just how small we really are.






Of course sometimes the size of the human ego can make the Universe seem tiny.






Michael Timothy McAlevey





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