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Saturday, December 30
saddam
It’s hard to rejoice over a public execution
But I’m glad the victims of Saddam and those who died taking him out of power have had the chance to feel some justice
I always thought it was one of the greatest travesties of world war 2 that the victims of Hitler never got to see him executed.
The coward took his own life…or so they say. That’s how I always thought of Hitler anyway, as a coward hiding behind his power and army. Once stripped of those things, he was a just a little evil man with a big fucking mouth.
I had some hope that the death of saddam might bring
A calm to the land but with the Shiites celebrating and the Sunnis screaming for revenge it doesn’t look likely.
With all the enemies the Moslem jihadist's have announced these last few years it’s hard for me to understand the hatred dealt out amongst their own.
can anyone explain this to me..
Saddam’s execution comes on the tail end of the year’s bloodiest month with 108 U.S. troops dead and with new year’s upon us, the timing of it seemed sadly poetic.
As to Saddam, I’m glad he was executed. The idea of him spending his life in prison, was a kindness far to great to bestow on a mass murderer who would never have considered for a second being so kind to those he killed.
As to his pretense in his end of being some sort of religions martyr, that’s quite a laugh. Saddam was not a religious man. He was hedonist a dictator, he only cared about religion for how it served him, not the other way around. Even if there was such a thing as martyrs going to heaven, he wouldn’t be going there and anyone who thinks he is, need’s to go back to Islam school and start over.
Listen this is a down post for my last of the year
So let me just say this
For new years let’s all pray together in however we pray and if we don’t pray, let’s just ask our higher power or the power within us or nature or our mother, or our heart to help this world.
We need kindness
We need peace
We need a soothing wave of goodness
And we need it now
I wish you all a loving new year
Thursday, December 28
2007 wishes
my wish for 2007
well not to sound like a beauty pageant contestant
but i do wish for world peace
i wish that moderate moslems would rise up and denounce murderous jihad-ists
demanding they not kill in the name of islam
i wish for hammas and hezbollah to be usurped by democratic peave loving palestinians who can really sit down with israel and work out something everyone can live and thrive with so that at long last there can be peace for the places that so many millions feel is holy
i wish that in america,
we can have leadership from smart, brave, strong, humanitarians with strong fists who are willing to be bi-partisan all in the name of peace and democracy and human rights and liberty and who don't strip away the human rights of americans and non americans in the name of fighting terror but who fight terror all the same.., leadership who will have the patience and the savy to rope world support in not alienate and push it away...leadership who will make americans feel united not like red and blue states..
i wish that the new generation coming of age of 2007 will face the world with pride and optimism and courage but mostly with kind-ness...we need a new breath of goodness blown into the mix
i wish that people around this world would cherish and adore and believe
in whatever religion they wanted to or none if that is what they wanted
but no one would force their religion on anyone else
i wish that america could appreciate kirstie alley as sexy when she was fat
not only now that she is skinny again
i thought she was hot as hell when she was a big mama
ok well maybe the kirstie alley (is that how you spell her name?) thing was not as important as the rest but i had to throw it in there anyway
i know im wishing for a lot
but hey ya never know
Saturday, December 23
holiday blues
ok
ill admit it
i get the blues during the holidays
growing up we had chanukah but we lived in environments that were 90 to 95% christian so i always felt left out on christmas and well our family didn't celebrate new years much
and i wanted to
now
well i celebrate first night of chanukah not all 8 because honey thats too much of a commitment and I try to light candles on last night as well.. then i go to friends for christmas eve
usually walk around feeling weird and out of sorts of christmas day
and have always tried to be with the one i love on new years
and if, like now, she is no more... the one..
and the one.. of my future life has yet to appear
then i feel its all the more critical to surround myself with as much love as i can
on new years
i do put a heightened weight on holidays
and some of the biggest
feelings of loss i have felt in my lifetime were
over disappointment from these holidays
certainly being alone
as i have for some
or being alone in a crowd
as i have for others
or working
as i did many a year
is to big a burden for this sentimental soul
my close buddy mihala
says his rule is to never expect a thing from holidays
ignore them entirely and then never be disapointed
but i have this post card in my head
of the pretty home
filled with love
filled with laughter
filled with family (or adopted family)
and i need all that
and so i create my own
lovely home
and open up my heart and my spirit to share love and laughter
with my friends and adopted family
and i go to the lovely
warm
love filled homes of adopted family and close friends
and spread and share the warmth
i woud like to be less sentimental
far less sensitive about the holidays
and i may very well work on this
i certainly would like to not get the blues
but until then and regardless
creating
and sharing
and spreading as much love as i can
seems like the way to go
go away blues
happy holidays
i plan to do on christmas what i did
some years ago
buy some ziplocs
pour my huge bucket of change that i collect all year into as many bags as i can carry
and pass them out to the homeless
i will drag jaded mihala with me he doesnt know yet
its a great way to spend the day
Tuesday, December 19
crime against the victims
having just finished watching the HBO tsunami aftermath series
i was not at all prepared for this times link
JR sent in his comments to my previous post
evidently some of the
precious money sent to help reconstruct the war torn tsunami areas
is being used to inforce moslem fundamentalism specifically against women
read the post
and be as horrified as i was
thanks for the link JR
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2089-2508262,00.html
and you thought i never listened to you
Sunday, December 17
sleeper cell
well i sat back and watched the entire season of sleeper cell
in one night on showtime on demand last night
sheeesh
talk about an all nighter
that show is incredibly well written
and what i like most about it
is that rather then just having the terrorists
as dark enemies
it humanizes them
and shows us a rich variety of people who have
come together to become martyrs and why
the closested gay moslem with enormous rage
is one of the most interesting and complex characters
the disturbed man who watched his entire moslem family killed
in sarajevo is another great torn character
and the main character darwin; an African american
who loses his relationship with his father for joining the white man FBI
and must fight against his moslem brothers who choose Jihad over peace
and ulitmately drags his innocent white non moslem civilian still married girlfriend into the mix therebye violating rules from his father, his faith and his profession
to follow his heart, well dang!
darwin is just agony and bravery in motion
plus he's cute that helps too
it was scary
rich
and brilliant
know thy enemy
yes
its better to get into the mind of the terrorist; the sleeper cell
then to denounce them all as radical arabs
you can not fight what you dont know
personally i think
putting the focus into education of them and us
is this way to go
feed them, clothe them
and educate them
show them the world
not their little snippet
when you dont have food
when you are sick
and starving
and have no self esteem left to nourish your soul or your family with
fundamentlists have already won the battle yet to be fought
i can only thank the higher power
that the moslems fundamentalists have not focused on africa
where AIDS is destroying nation after nation
surely there would be many a recruit happy to jump on board
in exchange for helping their family
perhaps AIDS is too evil a disease for the god-fearing terrorist
i don't know
George Bush did not have the answer to terrorism
he only offered more fuel
i can only hope and pray
that our next world leader is wiser
and is more willing to learn
then teach
Thursday, December 14
mary cheney chat
sometimes i feel conflicted
and then i think
this ain't nothing
how is mary cheney feeling today?
okay that's a lie
i really don't sit around wondering how mary cheney feels
but honey right about now
its certainly worth wondering about
when i heard the announcement that
dastardly
Dick Cheney had just become a grandpa
to cheney's - out of wedlock
lesbian loving daughter..
i was like okay
how's this gonna fly in the right wing, gay rights denying world of dick-less
cheney and the baby bush?
as to cheney
shit
it's gotta be hard for her
she can't speak out for gay rights
she can't speak out for her personal rights
without stamping on dad's toes
and apparently is not willing to do that
at
all
but isn't she by having a 15 year relationship she calls a marriage
and by bringing a child into that lesbian relationship
a symbol
like it or not
the girl is living in a true lesbian marriage and now co-parenting
while her dad actively campaigns to stop gay marriage
sheeesh
its enough to get gas over
personaly i think its a good thing shes hooked up
because poor mary would never make it in and out of a lesbian bar
without being harrassed by her peers
"come on mary..talk to your dad for all of us will ya! we'll be the next ten rounds!" "hell we'll buy the next 10,000 rounds! just ask him to let you marry!"
Wednesday, December 13
holiday season love
ah the holiday season
a chance to be shoved into the towel section
at Bed Bath and Beyond
face first
by shoppers trying to reach over you
the sudden terror of realizing you have not purchased one &#^#*#((@)@ gift for anyone you know except the person who was not expecting anything
the pang of oh my god, i need to cram more love into my holiday season
or i will be a terrible loser lost in the nothing-ness of no-where!!!!!!!!!!!!!
hmm i was projecting there
ok
i go back to earlier post
breathe
life
love
breathe
goodness
warmth
breathe
touch me again you skinny face-lift bitch from long island
and ill shove this toilet roll dispenser right up your uptight little......
Sunday, December 10
Incredible Edible show on tv
HERE YE!
HERE YE!
this tuesday
dec 12th 8pm
the art show i curated and am in too
in the gallery i built
with artists i am huge fans of
is being featured on tv here in nyc cable
and all over on the web
check it out!!
SEE THE GREAT CLOSING NIGHT BASH OF THE ARTIST'S ROOM'S
INCREDIBLE EDIBLE
WITH POET-ESS ADEENA KARASICK
ON EAST VILLAGE LIVE
TUESDAY DECEMBER 12TH
8:00 PM
CHANNEL 34
What:
*East Village Live* - The Arts Review Program ( Prime Time )
Where :
*Manhattan Cable TV Channels: * 34* at 8:00 PM (Time Warner) *& 83* (RCN) at 8:00 PM
Broadcast on the *Internet@ < http://www.mnn.org/>* also at 8:00 PM
When:**Tuesday, December 12,, 2006* @ *8:00 PM*
On this week's program we're proud to feature:
1) The Children's Theatre Workshop of New York, Benefit @ Peer Gallery
2) The Incredible Edible, Food and Art @ The Artist's Room ( The Raging Skillet )
3) 60-70's Rock Artist Photo's of Henry Deiltz @ The Soho Grand
Saturday, December 9
holiday breath
breathe
slow in
hold it
feel the peace serenity life can bring
blow out
push
push
push out the anger, resentment, fear, anxiety
now again
think about all the beauty there is around you
not miles away
but right there in front of you
right now
stop
look around you
thre is beauty
i see against the ugly project off avenue C
the sun is shining magnificantly
i can't wait to step out into the freezing cold, find that perfect path of power house sunshine and walk right into it
i see my beloved cat lu lu enjoying her breakfast with gusto
she'll be 18 soon and i know i've given this throw-away kitty a great life
and she's given me almost 18 years of love, bitchy love, but love all the same
breathe
in
think of all the good things you have done
breathe out
think of all the wondrous things you have yet to do
go out
into this new day
and make it your own
happy holidays
Saturday, December 2
AIDS in 2006
AIDS
did not go away with the invention of the cocktail
it just moved aside
it became the disease that americans gay and straight suffer from
but live with
not the disease that was genociding gay men
but of course Americans still die of AIDS
and many of them call the life they live with pills, terrible side effects, countless ill-nesses and endless affliction, not much of a life..
but our meds do now...provide a way to live with AIDS unlike the 80's
in
america
in Africa
AIDS is quickly destroying an entire generation of parents
and creating an entire generation of HIV positive orphans
to the millions with no access to health care
all the scientific research in the world means little... means nothing
means worse then nothing if it offers a hope they can not grasp
while billions of dollars have been spent and are still being spent in Iraq
it was considered a world wide victory when 3 million, not billion
went to supply anti viral medicine to africa
the same money spent in Iraq could save
millions of lives
think about that
millions of lives
not thousands
not hundreds
i would like to see this world pledge
that for every dollar spent in causing terror
and on stopping terror
even 25 cents of that dollar be spent on fighting AIDS and the spread of AIDS
world wide
i do believe we would then have a cure
i do believe we would then have an end to the largest mass murder
in this world
for every dollar
25 cents
that's all i ask
today
as you read now
google the nearest world wide AIDS relief charity and send them something
doesnt matter if its a dollar
send them what you can
and spread the word
next time you vote
ask
those running for office
what are you doing about AIDS?
next time you pray
ask your clergy if they support condoms in an effort to stop the spread of AIDS
i buried two of my best friends to AIDS
i miss them today
beauitiful adam
adorable alex
i have a great and beloved and wondrous person in my life today
who i can't imagine a life without
who fights this disease every day
and rarely complains
but i watch
i watch
i watch as he struggles
the endless battle
in my own priviledged
american world
with proper health care
AIDS has left gallons of blood
thousands of tears
how must it feel
to be in africa
at the age of 8
to be the man of your house
fighting to feed your younger siblings
having buried your parents
wondering when your turn come next
fight
back
fight
AIDS
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