Ending and beginning and taking off on 1/1/11

And one more time another year lifts off and leaves us remembering.

The process of remembering needs to be broken down into segments.

I want to say right now that I know there's a large section of the population who don't have time to remember what happened in 2010 because they are making 2011 a new happening.

I'd like to think I fall into that category but here I am wasting time bringing up the past just to write my year end article......I'm such a whore.

Anyway...back to the jazz at hand.

The segments of remembrance are personal, family, politics, entertainment, science and sports.

I'll focus on personal and family and a little bit on entertainment. Politics takes up enough time on a daily basis. Science is elusive and sports are just live entertainment. (True Reality TV)

Births, deaths and weddings are usually the strongest memories when it comes to personal and family.

Celebrity deaths is a separate division because, other than what they have done with their lives, that can be recorded, we generally don't know them.....but we become sad when they go.

I admit to shedding no tears when celebrities change levels. I did cry three times while watching Temple Grandin the other night on HBO..... so I think I'm emotionally ok.

The celebrities that I responded to with a sense of sadness, at their passing, were J.D.Salinger, Dennis Hopper, John Wooden, Merlin Olson, Bud Greenspan and Paul Conrad.

FAMILY MEMORIES

In my immediate blood related family we had no level changes......which makes 2010 a very good year for the McAlevey's from Southern California.

We had a wonderful wedding in Seattle and welcomed a new gentleman into our lives. Hopefully my niece will hurry up and make my brother and my sister-in-law.....GRANDPARENTS.

Vanessa and Nick will make wonderful parents and the world can always use more of those.

That Greek wedding will always make 2010 a very special year.

The fact that my brother and I were able to play golf every Tuesday with our father makes 2010 a great memory.

PERSONAL MEMORIES

2010 will be a year that I remember as very productive with my own creativity. My artwork went into another stage of it's life and I'm extremely excited to see how it progresses. I'm feeling much better about the acceptance level within the art community but then again I've always been optimistic regarding my work. I have people who truly believe in what I do. The next step is to increase the number of people and within that increase....perhaps include a museum or two or three or.........

My Neo-Illumination project is now 10 years old and I realize that it has a life of it's own. I wish it would grow up a little bit and start playing with other kids. But it's hard raising a project. It's growing and I'm feeding and watering it on a regular basis. Look for some new presentations during the coming year. Small cards, etc.

I continue to make copies of my scripts and pass them around town. I'm doing rewrites on two of them and that's odd because I thought they were totally finished.

The truth is.....rewrites always improve anything....except maybe Beatles songs.

I just finished my ELF Project 2010 and that will have a public presentation sometime during 2011.

My favorite movies of the year were GET LOW, CITY ISLAND, INSIDE JOB, EXIT FROM THE GIFT SHOP, THE SOCIAL NETWORK and Burlesque (only musical of year)

Christian Bale gave the best performance in The Fighter. It was short but Barry Pepper in True Grit was also impressive. (I haven't seen Colin Firth in The King's Speech)

AC/DC ranked second in most money generated by a tour....177 mil. ROCK ON!

I'm very excited about 2011. I've set the wheels in motion and with perseverance and focused dedication to my art and my true nature....I will achieve some major life goals.

I'm also hoping that the NCAA restores normalcy to the USC campus and to the millions of her supporters by lifting the second year of the bowl suspension. Fight on!

Welcome 2011 and goodbye 2010

Michael Timothy McAlevey

Some 2010 Artwork

Merry Christmas minus one

Remembering and forgetting can be tricky roads to travel.

Obviously there are reasons that we try to forget certain things that have happened in our lives and often times the trying to forget....actually works.....for awhile.

It's easier for some than it is for others.

The young have a built in excuse because memories from childhood have a way of fogging over reality.....and it's a fog that hopefully allows for happy and prosperous adult lives of their own.

It wouldn't be fair if children remembered tragedy the same way as adults. Unfortunately we look around society and see that tragic events in youth do linger and adult bad guys are created. That is usually tied to a lack of love within the immediate social circle of that individual bad guy.

WIthin our immediate social circle we have no bad guys. We have loving people who care about what happens to each other even though sometimes we wonder what they were thinking when they did this or that.

Everybody that I know has a life and forgetting certain tragic things is a buffer for being able to build a future of purpose and...........hopefully........harmony.

But then there's the few of us who can't forget no matter how hard we might try.

And then there's the fewer of us who don't want to forget because we have no choice.

Fortunately within our immediate social circle there are only a couple of people who fall into that category in reference to the loss of Sean Maximilian McAlevey's physical reality.

Of that very few.....I am one.

And it's my duty and responsibility as Sean's father to make sure that there is something or somewhere that his name will always be visible.

For 16 years I've been derelict in my responsibility. I have seen golf tournaments, scholarships, restaurants, university buildings and stars named after lost children but I've never been able to reconcile exactly what to do.

Last week I went out to do my Christmas shopping and because of what I've been undertaking in the last few years regarding my artwork....I had very little to work with regarding the almighty ingredient known as......COIN.

I was perplexed and decided to go down to Palisades Park and make a list of what each and every person I knew might like from the 79 cent store.

I sat down on one of the benches and realized that right underneath me was the answer to both Christmas and Sean. The odd part is I probably first had this idea about six years ago and just figured I would do it later when I had the money.

I decided at that moment to take the limited funds I had for Christmas and start a personal account that would allow me to purchase a bench and a plaque with Sean's name and to list

all the people that that were his immediate earth team, Kerry, Lily, Laura, Grace, Steve, Kelly, Jack, Robert, Katie, Dixie and David along with his deceased Great Grandparents Frank and Noma..........as the donors. Of course I will also include my brother Jerry and Grandpa Bill and my mom just because it's the proper thing to do.

Sean was a Santa Monica kid and having a bench overlooking the Santa Monica Bay with his name underneath is just about the best way I can think of saying.....

Merry Christmas

Christmas story that lasts 365 days a year

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RoY2gyyIYL4

This type of course should be built in every state......California could use 10

INFORMATION and MISINFORMATION and NO INFORMATION

Thomas Jefferson said "Information is the currency of democracy"

Obviously that statement could be an entire class at any major university around the world.

Julian Assange is currently in prison because he either believes that statement or just likes to make waves.

My question for Mr. Assange is...."if you had information regarding a secret terrorist mission or information about a public act of terror that was previously committed......would you reveal the information to the public and to the authorities?"

I'm pretty sure it's suppose to works both ways.

Right now the citizens of the United States of America don't really seem to care about information that can ruin their day. Unlike the Viet-Nam era when EVERYTHING seemed to be revealed EVERYDAY, we get very little information (especially visual) regarding situations in Afghanistan and Iraq.

A Neo-Illumination comes to mind....."Happiness might be based on much truth one can ignore."

Journalists have a job to do.......and that job is to collect information. The employers of journalist have a job to do......and that job is to present the gathered information to the public.

It seems that Julian Assange is doing the work that should be done.

Those who don't agree probably have reasons why they disagree and that's the basis of a debate.

Which side of the debate are you on? If you don't know who Julian Assange is.....then you definitely subscribe to the above Neo-Illumination....and to you I say.....Happy Holidays and get back to your shopping.

I say........How can a judge deny Julian Assange bail? Release the man and let the debate begin.

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Robert Reich's new book is called "Aftershock" and contains some rather important information and statistics that ought to be remembered.

He also writes a Blog

http://robertreich.org/ which is interesting for any previous Secretary of Labor...especially one who served under Bill Clinton.....which just happens to be the most successful adminstration regarding economic factors....since the Dwight Eisenhower years.

I heard him talking yesterday on NPR about capital accumulation and growth.

The wealthy vs the non-wealthy is seriously out of whack and the parallels between 1928 and 2007 are indeed scary.

I highly suggest you buy his new book and read his blog on a regular basis.

Again...it's one of those information issues and trying to fully understand the economics of our current time period is a detailed and laborious adventure.

If one treats information as a class then one can leave the class behind on a regular basis and go about the normal chores of trying to be a happy and productive citizen.

This class on information gathering is officially over and out.

Michael Timothy McAlevey

Charlie is texting

The other day I read a story about cell phones within the California penal system. At the end of the article it claimed that Charles Manson had one and had been communicating by text with people on the outside.

SERIOUSLY

Charlie

"Omg.....I need someone whacked"

Dickhead weird guy #1

"Just send address big C...I'm there."

Charlie

"Lol"

If I find that Charlie has a Facebook page and a Twitter account I think I'm going to puke.

Don't they do periodical checks of the cells? I realize there's a shortage of guards but they all make over 100 grand so they should stay extremely busy while on duty....wouldn't you think?

Cell phones for inmates is simply unacceptable. If the ACLU defends prisoners right to own cell phones I'm ending my subscription to the ACLU Daily.

I support the basic principles of the ACLU but lately they seem to tilting on the edge of irrational behavior. I suppose the problem is that once you decide to support the individual rights of human beings....you've got to take it to the limit.

Does the ACLU have branches in France....FCLU or Britain.....BCLU?

Or China.....ok that's pretty funny. Imagine a branch of the ACLU in China.....CCLU

China having a Civil Liberties Union is about as ridiculous as Charles Manson having a cell phone.

But apparently ridiculous is not impossible

....and just imagine Charlie with a new iPhone.....or iPad.

It should be the first thing Jerry does as Gov. Make sure all cell phones are confiscated within the California Penal system.

Please!

Michael Timothy McAlevey

Imagine

30 years since John Lennon changed levels. My mom moved on in 1980 and it seems like a hundred years ago. Because of John's musical ability it sometimes feels like he's still here. I guess that explains why recognized talent means something. People who are talented but undiscovered......just simply move on....perhaps leaving warm memories for immediate family and friends. Sometimes family and friends just say good riddance.

John Lennon will forever exist as long as human beings enjoy music.

This might be the entire reason for attempting to create things.

THINGS come under a lot of different disguises. And from what I've noticed those things don't always have to be pleasing.

Things are not always what they appear to be.

Things are far from over.

Things have a way of working out.

Things

Imagine there's no things

it's not easy if you try

no things below us

above us only sky

Imagine all the nobodies

living for something

Imagine there's no things

it isn't hard to do

no things to kill or die for

and no other things to do

Imagine all the people

living life in thingamabobs

You may say that I'm a thing
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday you'll join more things
And things will be as one

Imagine no things
I wonder if you can
No need for little things or big things
A thingamajig of man
Imagine all the nothings
Sharing all the somethings

You may say that I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday you'll join us
And the world will live as one

THING

Thanks John.......and thanks mom.

Michael Timothy McAlevey

Just one more reminder of two amazing entities

A new calculation by the worker bees stationed at the Keck Observatory in Hawaii puts the total number of stars in the Universe at.....

300 SEXTILLION

300 sextillion is 100 billion squared....multiplied by 30

The guy that did the final count is 11 years old and is dating 10 year Jackie Evancho from America's got talent.

I'm not actually sure which of these stories is more amazing. Have you heard that chick sing?

YouTube - JACKIE EVANCHO Opera Singer Americas got ...

300 sextillion? Who got to add SEX to the numbers game? Would that honor have been bestowed on Archimedes?

The two gentleman involved in the new numbers are PIETER VAN DOKKUM from Yale and

CHARLIE CONROY from Harvard.

Note that his name is Charlie.....not Charles and not Chuck.

My gut feeling and the gut feeling of Dr. Francis Conlan from Santa Clara feel that the numbers are still rather low.

My opinion is based on the fact that The Creator is always creating new stars in order to offset the Black Holes excessive appetite of matter and light.

Dr. Conlan's ( Butch) opinion is based on the fact that he's a smart guy.

We have entirely different methods of reaching conclusions but always find enough humor

in all things.

One must find humor or one will not enjoy the irony of our human experience.

Math and Art make the world bearable.........................love makes it keep expanding

That's what Dr. Conlan and I should call each other.

Hey Math

Hey Art

What's up?

Today what's up is the simple fact that there is a sh.tload more stars then there were yesterday.

and

there's a ten year girl named Jackie who sings like a angel.

It's a good day.

Michael Timothy McAlevey

Screwed by our financial heroes and teachers

The documentary film INSIDE JOB by Charles Ferguson does more to open eyes, regarding the 2008 financial melt down, than any report that could be formulated by government commissions. First off, no one reads any report that a commission writes but people will go to see a film...even when it only plays at the local art house theater.

The magic word that jumps out while trying to understand the current massive monetary chaotic situation is DE-REGULATION.

It started under Ronnie and has continued right up to Barack.

The fact that many of the people involved in allowing all the bullshit to take place are ACADEMIC leaders is really a sad state of affairs.

Harvard is well represented as are numerous other well respected colleges.

The fact that no one has been indicted and no one has been forced to return any money makes this the biggest rip-off in history. At least in the Saving and Loan fiasco people got arrested and fines were levied.

It's a film that should be required viewing for all High School seniors.

How to control personal greed has always been and will always be the main issue when discussing how a Free Enterprise System ( Capitalism) could and should operate.

It can be tweaked but every time anybody tries to put regulations in place the dreaded word SOCIALISM emerges and then the ultimate evil word follows...COMMUNISM.

DE-REGULATION is the backbone of conservative financial opinion and from my viewpoint every De-regulated economist has his or her head completely up his or her ass.

Allowing the Derivative Markets to go completely unchecked was the stupidest thing anyone could have done.....and it appears that some of the smartest minds in the country were involved in the charade.......AND THEY STILL THINK IT WAS OK.

And the fact that many of them made millions of dollars and they still have not been arrested

is

ludicrous.

GO SEE THE FILM

Michael Timothy McAlevey

Comedy even if it's not that funny

I've written four complete feature film scripts and am 3/4 through a fifth one. I call them feature film scripts because that is their ultimate incarnation if everything could exist as it should..... in my perfect world.

In your perfect world I probably don't even exist....so my scripts are basically invisible.

In my perfect world I've already won numerous awards and am quite well respected among my peers.

What is missing in my perfect world is a comedy script.

I've decided to write a seriously screwed up loving romantic comedy.

See...already I'm being funny.

This should take awhile because I usually have to be in love and then lose that love in order to create my films.

I'll be taking a different approach to this script.

Wish me luck.

Michael Timothy McAlevey

Big musical statement

Burlesque is the newest addition to the musical movie genre

and I'm here to tell you that it is

GREAT entertainment.

If you like musicals it is absolutely a must see.

Christina Aguilera could get nominated for her part. Whether the nomination comes from The Golden Globes, SAG or The Academy doesn't really matter.

She stuck the role and I walked out of the theater with the immediate thought of going back in and watching it again.

When a member of the studio audience applauds after a song, in the middle of the film, you realize that this is a special performance. (No it wasn't me)

Every number is well performed and after the dust settles on the closed stage door Cher might have had the best song.

But make no mistake the star of this movie is Ms. Aguilera.

Steve Antin, the director, also deserves special kudos. The sets and the lighting were perfect for the venue and he obviously went out of his way to enhance the star qualities of his performers.

Everybody I know....knows that I love musicals and Burlesque just moved into my top five musicals of all time.

I'll have to see it again because there's always the chance that I was simply starving for a new musical and that yearning might have given me a false positive on the emotional vortex within my mental tune chambers.

Maybe I'll even do it today. After all, USC doesn't play until 5.

Go Trojans

Michael Timothy McAlevey

A real Thanksgiving moment

From Associated Press

– 2 hrs 3 mins ago

WELLINGTON, New Zealand – Three teens who have been missing in the South Pacific for 50 days — and were already eulogized in a memorial service — have been found alive by a New Zealand fishing boat.

The boys — two 15-year-olds and a 14-year-old — disappeared while attempting to row between two islands in the New Zealand territory of Tokelau in early October and were given up for dead after an extensive search involving New Zealand's air force.

Their craft had drifted 800 miles (1,300 kilometers) to a desolate part of the Pacific northeast of Fiji, when the crew of a tuna boat saw them frantically waving for help on Wednesday afternoon.

"All they could say was `thank you very much for stopping,'" Tai Fredricsen, first mate of the San Nikuna, said.

"In a physical sense, they look very physically depleted, but mentally ... very high," told New Zealand's National Radio on Thursday.

The boys, Samuel Pelesa and Filo Filo, both 15, and Edward Nasau, 14, will be taken to a hospital in the Fiji capital of Suva on Friday.

The rescue came not a moment too soon: Fredricsen said they had begun to drink sea water because it hadn't rained in the past few nights.

He said that the boys survived by catching fish and eating a seagull that had landed on their boat.

Fredricsen said the boys were dehydrated, sunburned and very thin, but otherwise seemed OK. The tunaboat's crew gave them small portions of fruit and fluids.

He said the boat's crew didn't normally travel through that part of the region, but was using the isolated sea route to shorten its return to New Zealand.

The boys come from the atoll of Atafu, one of three that comprises the tiny Tokelau island group where 1,500 people live.

Sometimes things work out......and the fact that New Zealand has no Thanksgiving does not diminish the thrill we get from learning about these three boys.

Sam, Filo and Eddie......

Not too many people get to hear a report about their memorial service.

Happy Thanksgiving

Michael Timothy McAlevey

November 22 still stings

So he wasn't Abe Lincoln but he was our youthful knight in shinning armor and this date will always seem sad. Personal tragedies trump global moments so everything gets inserted in a certain perspective box when remembering sad moments.

I've been to Dallas many times on business but that city will always remain a strange place because of what happened on Nov 22 1963. A stigmatism rests on the 6th floor of a building that overlooks a grassy knoll.

The simple fact that the total truth has never been revealed makes the assassination of John Fitzgerald Kennedy one of the lowest points in American history if not the lowest.

With Lincoln we learned everything there was to know about who and how and why.

With JFK we have learned absolutely nothing. The back story on Lee Harvey Oswald is enough to make anyone question the facts.

There will come a time when we learn the truth but most likely it won't be in my lifetime.

It might not even be in your lifetime.

But your children's children will learn what happened and by then no one will even care.

Looking at today's newspaper and reading the news on Yahoo and Google it appears that no one cares....and it's only been 47 years.

Michael Timothy MCAlevey

Leajewel and other such babes are ousted by Disney

Excerpt from today's LA TIMES

Once upon a time, there was a studio in Burbank that spun classic fairy tales into silver-screen gold.

But now the curtain is falling on "princess movies," which have been a part of Disney Animation's heritage since the 1937 debut of its first feature film, "Snow White." The studio's Wednesday release of "Tangled," a contemporary retelling of the Rapunzel story, will be the last fairy tale produced by Disney's animation group for the foreseeable future.

As I print more copies of Leajewel and pass them around to various industry and non-industry people I am now faced with the Disney opinionated reality that nobody wants fairy tales anymore.

I think I'll call bellsh.t and tell Disney that fairy tales were not invented by Disney and fairy tales will not be ended by Disney.

A magical story is a magical story and as long as there are children on this planet there will always be a need to expand their imaginations with tales of a beautiful princess, a handsome prince, a mis-guided witch and various odd characters that help restore calm after a storm of evil has swept through the countryside.

Bite me Disney.

This would never have happened on Walt's watch.

Leajewel thinks I should relax and let things fall where they may.

Done.

Michael Timothy McAlevey

So what's the antimatter.....dude?

From Wikipedia

In particle physics, antimatter is the extension of the concept of the antiparticle to matter, where antimatter is composed of antiparticles in the same way that normal matter is composed of particles. For example, a positron (the antiparticle of the electron) and an antiproton can form an antihydrogenatom in the same way that an electron and a proton form a normal matter hydrogen atom. Furthermore, mixing matter and antimatter can lead to the annihilation of both in the same way that mixing antiparticles and particles does, thus giving rise to high-energy photons (gamma rays) or other particle–antiparticle pairs.

There is considerable speculation as to why the observable universe is apparently almost entirely matter, whether there exist other places that are almost entirely antimatter instead, and what might be possible if antimatter could be harnessed. At this time, the apparent asymmetry of matter and antimatter in the visible universe is one of the greatest unsolved problems in physics. The process by which this asymmetry between particles and antiparticles developed is called baryogenesis.

At CERN they claim to have trapped 38 antithydrogen atoms.....for two-tenths of a second.

The Big Bang boys and girls say that equal amounts of matter and anti-mater were created at THE MOMENT but that anti-matter doesn't seem to be found in nature.

I just don't think they are looking in the right cupboard.

Anti-matter is absolutely everywhere in between everything that is anything.

Pretty simply don't you think?

Particle Physics is such a hoot....and Quantum Physics, when breed with Particle Physics gets the cuttest little baby physics.

I'm sure they will be naming the new baby physics pretty soon.

Maybe Roger or Bill or Frank or Sue or Nancy might be a good name for something so simple.

Physics that actually explains how and why the Universe exist.

Maybe just call it.........i physics so it could just be one more thing that Apple owns.

I'm going out to the promenade today to see if I can come face to face with some antimatter....

or find a face that matters

To be quite honest....when I see the kind of face that lights up my meter it makes the Universe seem understandable and harmonious......and it doesn't happen very often but it does happen and that's all

that

antimatters.

And by the way....Emma Watson is the new Grace Kelly

Michael Timothy McAlevey

Maybe Republicans will take note

I'm not sure why Global Warming has become a partisan issue but the lines seem clearly divided.

If you think Global Warming is a true threat to the human experience.... than you are probably a democrat.

If you think Global Warming is a political device created by Al Gore to promote his movie..... than you are probably a Republican.

On Tuesday a group of 259 international asset managers, who are responsible for more than $15 TRILLION, called for all nations to combat climate change OR be confronted with economic problems that might be worst than the global recession of the last two years.

Their message was aimed at all the countries who will meet in two weeks at a United Nations conference to discuss climate change.

I think their message was also aimed at Republicans who now control the House and who have stated that Global Warming needs to be investigated along with Obama's policies regarding the problem.

Republicans do not seem to believe there is a problem.

Republicans therefore might be the problem.

Maybe they will pay attention to investors whose holdings account for one quarter of global capitalization.

Here's hoping.

Michael Timothy McAlevey

Enlightened Enterprise

I'm always complaining about Corporruptions and how they repeatedly create more problems then they solve. I understand job creation but there must be some "soul awareness" involved or the process becomes counterproductive to the next stage of human evolution.

A friend of mine has written a book that demonstrates how corporations (enterprises) can improve their "soul" business and participate, with integrity, in the next stage.

Being conscientious and moving toward enlightenment does not appear to be a normal goal for large organizations but THE ENLIGHTENED ENTERPRISE shows that it's not only possible but that it might be mandatory if success is to be sustained.

Christian B. Ellis has a message to deliver and Corporate America should lead an international wake up call in showing how business can work properly and benefit all aspects of success other than just the bottom line.

Evolutionary changes are taking place and awareness of our soul experience should include business endeavors as well as personal grail searches.

Chris shows how that can happen and it's time for corporations to heed the call.

The book will be in stores this coming February. Chris will be doing a book signing at Diesel Bookstore in Malibu on December 12 at 1 PM.

http://www.theenlightenedenterprise.com/

Michael Timothy McAlevey