Thursday, December 31, 2009

Flyblog O'Crillic


Flyblog O'Crillic




Deerunk over maybe aboat thirteen cups for aboat tirteen mouths of Kullendar, i guess eye was stumblynn, cristcrossin the mumblemore bayouliffeystour alongside the steppingstones pub, skippin cyclikal snare circle breath beneath noyne bubblyn brooklynn braunstone marrone-castagnu colored; chestnut arches of the Lyfstour viaduct. Peeping skylyke at starrysporia above lye town eye woz daiseyd runk, kungfuzzed� and i sed alofty brothly;
Oh wow Lady dee!
look at the stars man
check tha."







Plop. Swurlysquirly. shheeeteyez fell fallen tigerskin-water, wetsox snakeflow. Oh no. Suckling vortex pulling under, Steerbridged undercurrents got hold ov my heart now, no escaping love currents strong and sturrdy.
"Death alive!" i thought,"i'll be drowndeadderunken sunk silly for sure! kicking, Nuotare, Zwemmen, swommenguage, swimmin for me dear old flylyf. Armies twizzling; windmilling cedar branch after branch, covered in rusty salmon fleshmingo and fuzzy dark guinness hair of beaver coffeetoffee syrupuppyfur
"Where's ma ferry man? don't let me drown, don't let me droun and visit the deepdead river soul show, oh lord no i must swim upinfinite streaming
Summerhow eye manage to scramble ma'sage ashore from churning miss Leafystar hug, shocked from headcold to footsytoes, confronted with a knu rehistoric landbrushedscape, way way way before the end of the beginning of zepiwynetyme, or so it felt, and feels to my frozen clotted-memorybugs.




Loonytune bullbust above the whorizon-axis hung her; guyganormous milky southern knocker of skypot. Peeping kraftykut peephole in skybra spandroopled, backbooty blackground curtain. "Oh' laydy dubz."
To the nord, est, ovest and sud eye gandid;� bogclogga muckamuck clay pouches everyeveningwhere.



Bogboggeybhongbhangpuckpocketpouchpucaphookabolgamuckablagbagginz. Phoukin ell, I maybe stuck in bogscape for all eternity,
Oh Shyty! Skratchin me yed with blueberry popsickle pucapickled flingerpickers, i blurted out me gob; singing and lyebyes; Ode to our ladies grace!

ouch! felt lyek struckaneen poison or sumert took old of me gutter pouch and churned my inside tides aboat, tideturned moonblunder boat in ma poorly jellywhalebelly, i could feel my easter egg up-rising, reminds me early December San Franstarburg. I'm turning sickly bewildered, cramped lyme and i'm wonderinglord what to do? and whywonderinglord blu tidalforces lead me like lamb. Attention slyjacket by great full-cream dairyknocker in sky, a thunderflash turned bluack. Blueberry sauce slivers bluack bustbursted butter blewack bank's and flooded her apple breasted crates with inky thick bloodberry. Phuckin weirdmate, im tellin ya. We herd.



Moving fast n'scramble glitch spingboard diving from hervein; alien, unfamily, utterly bolgalung tin dazzle kamikazequetzalconda. Flaming madollar. Sun blazing out piercing eyes. Bananananda legbeak school bus. Buttock slick head. Very Slowly, it drew nearer, u.f.o morph burningbird; battle of the planets?, balded burningbird of fire scream TzolkienParker bopplyk be bop like bop, bop terrordragonbatadactals. Just behind this sonosovereign providence of mind Jimmy Hendrix fades into being; Mahatmamishmashmavishnukali Arckestral manuvers in the dark; raga sagas upon myndstage for a split secund; Sparking up his parafinn smuthered axe. Dreamy Hentrix Juss beginning to explain -
"If six was nine."


Swooshydown the dinosaur gracefully landead, looks me full in the face up close. Eye cd/ clearly read the mottogandha shaved upon hir crestnuts; Wee the People of the Euroknighted States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this constitution for the Euroknighted States of Amirroruncle."

Without using spokeword eye communicated dreamypalelogic spinning cyclesagas of tymetrouble to the giant chickenlookin chuckchuck. Revolutionary Kullendear. Drunken fall buzzed international buzzard severnlyf brook transnational splashbabel transformations, swimtripkicked up ashore, freestyle to bogpockland medium, slungsongs. Bewildeyedead depressed lost lonely blues, lost at last, baby lion lynn, bisexualpolar bear rap. dribble pillow lusty, oh phuk i'm pissed. The letter i mishmashed upstream.


"F'li," squarked the dinosaur. After a lungfull thought moment, "I'll fly you right out of this stinking inferno, I got wings flinn i-boypod buddy, look at ma flapperdadies."
"All right! sounds great, thanks man," i splurted. Beastrode the fliyeburdee; wondering why the firebird chose to speak egglish to me, and if a bird was able to learn human languages somehow, which would it choose primarily and why; Enosquarkian? Gooselick? Beek? Eyetalian? Portchugeese?
Up and up we flew in quicktime clock-blue air. High, hoog, alto, up and up zoomin quick as berries.
"Where we eddin, sur?" i said, as we flew over lyekingsfordbridge
herbengarden.
"Hold your lymee tongue, fli, mind your own dizziness, and don't be interfering with the commercio of others now."
" Gli affari sono affari" eye imagined
"Shush flyangelo," says the flamebird
So i bit my murmelen, and held on tight.

Sleek sealhead, kojackish with tagliente-blonde talons, still gripping an olive branch and some salmon arrows, he flew onward alla two d'war. Piercing oogles reminded me memory of the stunning seal; Amirikle. Something seems to be askyouwiffy, this strange bird and his motto. How can a bird possibly carry my weight, the Escutcheon and a scroll? No wonder it skritches lyke that lucy. Poor buzzards overloaded and overbirdened, overgrown and over woostershe:her now. "Oh my goodness" Together we flew on thincrust of air, and the firebird talked and talked and i tumbled into a dream...
In my search for a way to illuminate myselfs to the infinite flux of being, i once upon a time found an old old heresy, hidden inside a riddle within a riddle within a riddle. it is hidden, and it is hidden, and it is hidden. So, i played hide and seek for 9 years with this riddle, infusing myself into different aspects of its being, moving around the intangible pieces of its puzzle body. Grabbing at fragments which occasionally revealed themselves to me in actuality; only to find when i opened my hands that they had actually vanished, and soon after i often had the feeling that the thought and memory of it's being had vanished along with it like a soap bubble - poof. I was often left excited and bewildered at the same time, foolishly thinking i had something in my possession, which i most obviously on second and third thoughts - did not.� Thus the game of hide and beek continued day after day and time after time again i got my hops up and then let down again, chasing my own tale with my puzzled tribemind, looking for an objective thingymajig, looking for loveglue and time bondage devices; the only remaining ideologies i believed were actually capable of making it [I]real[I] and tangible in the flesh, the only method of keeping it here, keeping it reel and present. On and on the river flow, and i got pulled and swished around by the undertow, painting puzzle pieces into my flesh, drawing them on walls, translating them into different frequency vibrations, music, poetry, yoga. I tried to split the riddle in half between my ego and self, between the moon and the sun, between the microcosm and the macrocosm, even between life and death itself, and after all my suffering and heartache, careful attention, patience and suspension of disbelief; i still found myself running in logical circles each morning when i awoke with yesterdays wisdom on the tip of my tongue but with incompatible, speech pattern recognition software, uploaded into my domain. My dome, my human bio-cumpooter.� I felt lost in spacetime on many an occasion around about noon or 2 PM;� just as the stars were congressing, and i was getting hungry since having just a blueberry donut for breakfast, and some electric kool aid around 12:12 this afternoon. Some days i would keep it real way through into the evening hours without deluding myself too much, it bacame kind of psycho-sadistic for a while there, i would neglect even my notion of "I" in the confusion i felt in the early stages of divining between ego, self, super self, super-ego, supra-conscious and the stoopid unconscious. Round and round like a caged mouse glued to her wheel at full spin cycle, i spun for reality. Eye spit out spider words, consciously, or so i thought, directing them toward solid structures, biological systems i could swing between and blend myself into, but most of the time my web of words hit a seemingly solid structure which would without warning turn liquid or slippery and unstable, i found myself wondering..."can there be such a thing as an unwobbling pivot? I doubted it, and doubted again. And for all my doubting i just recall the pain. The suffering of seeing through the veil, of seeing my fellow human beings impaled upon alphabetical empires and squashed like grapes inside the imperialist sovereign empire; the super proper gandhi machine; crushing the fruit of wisdom with the sheer weight of metal currency. Choking the natural abundance of wealth with ideological hierarchies, similar to the Christian blinker which obscures the infinite flux of being with finite spells 'ABOUT" the infinite flux of non-being, or the death of manjesus and the resurrection of the super-ape being; christ. The supreme being of infinite stupidity and ignorance, this seems to be the same being as the being who the money gods worship, the abstracted spirit from the symbol, resurrected through the ideology, the conscious projector of prejudice.� With Dollar symbols and Pound signs leaving their trace every which way these suckers look, and every way they indent grace with their vulgar language and ugly categorical rhetorical dream of a mericle; a dream in which they can cash in all their stolen ideological loot for the real abundance of natures wealth. The worshipers of the money gods dream of the day that Christ turns their golden bonds into another symbolic system, more dissproportionatly riggamortis, ratio-edited so that they can steel more actual natural abundance with their pirate monopoly money; their empire enforced credit; so called wealth. They are dreamers who created a metaphor of my own spiritual quest for the elusive infinite flux of being, wherever i turn my gaze throughout the havoc and haze of this life i pull down the veil, to no avail. People do not stop and stair, they walk on into the bank of heaven, and reinforce the trixsters of the finite world in their project of world domination through flipping the poles of infinite and finite to produce a world word war of terror; the national pride and collective ego play the role of abusive farther priest to the only begotten son; the individual, the self evident infinite flux of immortal spirit, the Chrudder self, not bound to any book, doctrine of ideological symbol system by necessity, but, by choice. The sheeple need a sheperd, or so it seems to me, even though the fences and social hedgerows have been refuted and denied to exist as limits in any way shape or form since the begining of time. Since the onset of self consciousness and self realization we are.




The chains of law have been broken, why don't the people want to play anymore. "Don't be afraid of the riddler" was a mantra i repeated when i thought about the imaginary walls of authority enforced by the imaginary essence of occidental identity, and maybe, the solution to the problem of identity being the explosion and brutal destruction of further investigation, or fair, reasonable, deductive criticism by the blind hammer of monism. Certainty. non-doubt. Your either with us, or against us. Duality must be smashed and reformed into a pure sword of truth, a sword which, although sharp, and well made, can never split anything in two, because by the very nature of it's forgery, it can never create dualtea, just stir it up. Everything it cut becomes reformed and remoulded by the power of a singular God. Christianity has multiple identiteas. A sword cast from many chemicals allied with the use of magic and mystery, and a sword which has been known to have a mind of it's own, to be unpredictable, a sword which turns into a lightening bolt or a stream, this sword is now the principle of metamorphoses. Christian English rhetoric and thought described in the western tradition through metaphysics and super abstract propositional functions bear about as much resemblance to their signifiers as a pharmacists typewriter resembles the Amazonian rain forest.
These are the thoughts which sometimes came to visit me on an evening, if i ever get that far into my search for the infinite flux of being inside the finite flux of this keyboard. I have found that on my quest the spirit knowers and so called psychics are annoying and irritating to me, what you know cannot be a part of your nature i used to shout, but after the first round of saying this i realized my own infinite regress and fall into meaninglessness. Since that time i have being constantly vigilant for any knew techniques or methods for transferring my insight about my conflict with the flux, and yet avoiding the many pitfalls and come down's associated with psychological showvanism in the western mindspace. I invented myself as a superflux hero with wings and bionic powers, but at the same time, i still had to take a shit and shower. One day i turned my critical insight upon myself and discovered a hidden garden of passionate and vibrant energy fluttering between scenes, always on the move, everchanging semi recognizable but...very interesting. She was interesting, and she was a female. I must confess what happened to me myself and i when i found out i had a women inside of me all this time, and that she had never raised her head or made a murmur until this day, the day the earth stood still, summer, and "I" came to realize myself and her relationship with the other; my other brother, our mother and great great great grandmother identity; flux.
She made me mad as a poet, mad as a street cleaning vehicle, it was a miricle how i ever found my way backto back here, into a sentence with a semi logical flow, a sentence with a release date somewhere in view, rather than a prison term called life, with no end in sight, with no new beginning possible for that very same reason. She had mistaken me from the end of the beginning and backtoback through the middle part, and onward to the beginning of the end on so many occasions that i had become, a timelessness critter of the immortal Tao. Well, that's what i call myself now in this alphabetical plot to tie a knot into form with structure wrapped around your cranium. Vibrant, beautiful well watered geranium. Tao the way everyday, everywhen, everyman, everywomen, all the time and all-at-once. Moment after moment, before before and after after, the now Tao has a timetravel function in which it can construct a future universe scenario and aim to apprehend the event. With a bit of luck i hope to apprehend Christianity with the Tao before the monotheism and ignorance of the western religio-political predator eats my own mind, or bombs to smitherines anymore whom will not swallow the godma of tyrannical nations; hell bent on acting out their favorite parts of their favorite book by their favorite author. Beware the critter of one book, and be especially aware of the reader who takes the infinite literally. Beware the Supreme sovereign farther of the divine identity. He may rape you, steel all your belongings and take advantage of you with His grand title. He may sentence you to death with a poison pen or mistake you for the villain inside His own rotten heart. Beware the monotheist and the naive realist, beware the saviour spells; question authority - and on and on like a broken looping phonograph record; and we flew to my greatest astonishment, all the way up to Lady daybookreader hershelf.

"Flyni," said the burred, "im tired after flying; get off me and sit down on the moon until i rest myself awhile. Hang onto that vadjra thunderfinn sticking out the side of the moon over there, see it?"
"No way man, i'd flail 'n fall again and that would be twice and Christ, i would be smashed to smitherrunes on the hard earth below; flat as a pancake, split like humpty O'raysiris. Djed eye would be no doubt, Deada thon a doornail."
"Not at all, Flyknee," said he; "Catch hold of that hook and hang out a while. Go on get off me now."
"i wanna go ohm for phucks sake, that's all."
"Maybe flyni, Maybe." bawled the bald hawking
"Foul bloody flirebird," i said under my breath, in a sly black kuntree-eyerash dialectical cypher, for fear he'd know wot i said. Eye got off his back with my heavy heart, took a hold of the harkhookfinn, and squatted down upon the great creamy space bub contemplating telepathic jazz; flatted seventh vamps in F#.



"Good morning to you, Flyni," said the bird, wings fanned out, picturesque, spanish, spanningish blackdrop drip slilver sun mu'n sparkle; spandanangled outerstella regions. For a brief moment i grokked the whole seal; obverse and perverse; spreadeadoggled; turning in the luce affinity between transvestcentdented stars and the familiar earthstar projection below. My precious metalmoony affinitea; stars and sterlingbling. Panspermia and panning for gold, spanning the galaxy for mold so i wos told
"I am the wings of providence and karma, here's yr/ manifest drama for taking offspring from their nest, you stole my egg's remember flick, remember those eggz you egglish tea leaf?"
"Ugly Amerikaanse eland... is this the way you serve me at last?
Mansteen! You really are a bird of pray! Faith, Il tempo e denaro. Arrrgh. Zeeduivel. U-bent devil!

(My funny babble woz no use; sounded out of context and could have been delivered with more subtle nest.) he spread out his mckarmic whigs and burst out laffin, ha ha haa flying and laughing away he flew hue huw. I sungslang after him with my candy sweet lyelabye and bellard opera, chillin on one leg he would return sun. Dolore...sorrow flippinfly away with him. Go on blues be gone. I don't want you no more.

Stuck inside another pickle jar with Dutch pekelen i cryed and zang zouten tears for fear of grief, "why me? why fli? i blurted. All at once a leak sprung in the middle of the moon, out the leak came oozing liquid mirrorstuff swirling misteamilk swurly half cream. Gooing morphwards forming pickledographs in front of me oogs; forming the old dude in the moony, eye knu im by his long lookin gray chin, and his cheesy cracked dry smile.
"Good next week to you, Flyni. Wot's up with yourshelf?"
"Book all" i harped, rather calmly considering.
"What in the world brought you out here to the moon Flee?"
So, i reeled out my tongue twisted tale; i wuss a tinkle pissed dronken on maybe tirteen grail of sealsons abyss and sun finest brew tang; slipped and fell into the river Lyfstour; swam for me lyf and then became stranded on a rehistorick islandbrushscape. I continued to wind and weave breeze through my multistory with extra luminous details and spiritual outsights aboat the snailsung i singh, and the rockthrone which i had perched upon to think, and how i lost my way in the phooken boggaclog. Eye added how the slybird of prayer promissed to fly me out of it, but instead flyhjacket me up to the big boob, while telling me all about the firebird suite and how his evileagle brother was bad, and how they were planning to flyjacket the moon very soon.
"Flyni, you must not stay here." said the loony critter
"Eye don't wanna be ere man!� you hear what i juss said? i was
kidnapped and brought here against my will by this crazy bird! yo, how am i gunner get back ohm tu buggeridge man, I know i must leave but tell me moondude...how shall i go?
"That's your bizzinesst, bee off in less than no tyme!" snapped the grumpy cheeseball. "Flyem doin no arm ere sur, only holding on fo my dear lyf by this vajrafinn ookyducky, i don't wanna fall to morto and be splatted tommatoe"
"That's what you must not do, flyni."
"im not let tin go mi hold you phoukin moonatrick. I'll be djedead wunt eye."
Without a word he pulls out a massive crooked Qcumber from hiss crack house and gives two bhangs on the sharkhandle huck which wuz oldin me up, and wallop... it split twice.



"Good morning to you Flyni," the spiteful old moonguy sez, as he watches me fall, rolling, tumbling, zwerverin clappers, runk with half a vadjra tight in my grasp, falling Luce. Again. Moksha.
"Ghod alp me" i mumbled, on my decent to the unknown, again. Must i flie to stay awake?

And no sooner had these wurds left my lips unto the air that whizzum, what should fly by my earwig but a fluck of whirled geese all the way from me ohm town boggeridge, how else could they have know me? The old gander who was their general turned his noggin and cried out to me;
"Is that you flyni?

"The samesame," said eye, not a bit fluxed at what he said for flyni was by this time experienced with bewilderment, phase, verbijstering, trickery, drunkenness, hallucination and surprise. Besides, i knew him from back in the daze before tyme. It felt like we were brothers for a moment, bonded by birth placenter hoods.
"Falling falling fallen you are, Flyni," says he
"An understate-ment your honor!"
"And where on earth are you going so fast?" said the commander gander, since i just noticed his stripes, so i unfolded to him flibagins snake charm; too much woest worden honingsap, the fall, the swim to isola rehistorica, garaj mahal, stuck in the stinking muckapucka, and the flagming struisvogel thief who flew me up to the moonmiller while ronin strange axis radio stories of his vortex woman called Dianna, snapped the kalkamandollardajra with his crooked Qcumber which was keeping me up and sent me tumbledumpty down bouwvallig; sovereign sungold coin flung dropped wishingwell. New Flesh for old.

"Flyni," said he, "I'll save your sorry ass, grab onto my legs and i'll stop you falling any further."
"Sweet, dolce is your hand in a pitcher of honigsap, my gioiello," says i, and grabbed the gander by the leg and we flew off fast as gofast with the rest of a six pack or dozen wildeyed muther flockers.

We flew and flied and volair and flown and vliger and flew till we came right over the wyde oceaan blu. "Where the phook am i going now i thought, where to? The Ocean of potion, the knu whirred Wu?
"Fly to land, if you please Sir!"
"it's impossible flyni, because you see we are flocking to Slyberrya. We all gather summer fire around June 21'st each year.
"Cyberia! that's phunkin mouths away, in some foreign slice of the world, it's gonna tek us yonkers mon, i just wanna go Ohm, please take me ohm."
"Hold your flipping tongue,"
Once more pleading for my dear lyf i pray for Amirrorcle and then, sure as war, an oil tanker boat sails into sight below, carrying stolen loot from the miggle est back to Amirickle i guess.
"Can you just drop me off here on the oil tanker Gandhi mate?" i asked.
"if you must, you must. I think you have mist it though...there you go...take your own way. And don't call me gandhi again flyni. All right,"

With that he opened his claw, dropping me down to the blackpirate tinkertanker below.

Sure as day i missed the boat and came down sploshington into illicHcilli oceanpond, sinking down through the churning asparagus broth schimen, down, deep downgreen emerald, falling lucifer mossrocks, eye gave up on myself then forevergreen, when, out of the ruddy hulk warter a porpoise came swamming right close up to me, right up close enough to kiss me, and i think i might while she's skratchin her blow hole and stretching her finns out after a good nights sleep i bet, yeah, she looked me full in the face with some Hunab ku looks and never a word of English she did say, thank goodness, but, lifting up her tail, she splashed me all over again with cold salt water, the wet stuff, not the words here; until there wore a dry stitch upon my boggysoggy carcass.

I remembered the firebird and how he vivisected my mind without word with pickledgraffs, i was beginning to receive signals from the dopefinn about spacetimespace and outermindbrainplace things and holographic thoughtfacetime stuff, then i heard a distinctive angel's voice, slightly pissed in the murky distance; a voice and tone i mecognized.

"Wake up stephan you lazy phuka!"
There she was - a man eater, splashing agua all over me hip hop stunkin carcuss, my beautiful wyf had metamorphosed from mermaid into bullhound half human alarm clock. I was ringing wet.
"Get up, stand up!"
"Why do you lye under them ould walls of boggarigapooka huh? it's such a mucky stinkin baga wind. Honeysap maybe the death of you Stephan...one of these daisies you'll stay runken sleepin and never wake agen! Never in a month of sun will you learn your lesson from moonshine brewers.




Spun from an Irish fairy tale about Daniel O' Rourke, collected in County Cork by Thomas Crofton Croker (1870)


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Tuesday, December 8, 2009

COPENHAGAN BIG OIL SUMMIT

“Us clams must stick apart” –Feudal Baron Periwinkle III.



Aphrodite rose from sea foam in film. Merry Mermaid & love goddess surfinn her scallop chariot through twisted arms of godsoilmen and sludge. She has risen to meet the supermajors to balance scales and dance to the finnance seers circe song. Gulf scoop. Venus Arise! Awake. Hail Eris! Drink snail wine and toast to King scallop, loops. Sail up Botticelli’s shell birth canal, known by cockle, hat and staff, Cruz’ past oily Slick Cheney news. We roe under the sign, past energy task force positions. The Galloping Scallop clad man of greek myth. The Knights bejewelled in clam lips and kisses. Rich blue Oil spill or mother of pearl? Like blended parrots and dead plankton, mixed emulsions. Beautiful Miss. Oil Spill?



Crude awakening to the spill-age. A Collosal squid princess riding old Jakobsschelp to help a Hutch load of old scallops rise out the Seafloor Blues. Deep sea things speak! Lo! Scallops of the ocean down by the great rising Chiefs. Take Big Periwinkle into your earshell. Smell the sign, touch the symbol, has it got ridges? Dreams cast to sea to see in a Venus shell in a mother of pearl breast. Dead Plankton in the paint painted on Saints of the swamp. And the city sewers flow. Heed the clam of commerce and the cockle-shock shimmy. A shell of transfusion, what sea-shell sign symbol confusion. Emerging on a horse covered in Scallops? Yes, Prince Periwinkle gallops-up stream like Salmon. Skullops for one shelling a dollop. Sea wave-wind Mussels flex into fossils. Oh, more yet, invisible smell of oilamp from the limpet. The Penis of Mr. Big Periwinkle is swelling, a telling sign of the times. Lets Oil the Oystery of Oil, and stir with a staff, lets foil Big sharks, get shocked, struck coil! Row roe with the Tide Swell batter and salt. Swim with the titanic Sementic shift, up out the shell, again, to tell a snail tale of the planetary shaft.



Son’s of Thunder Juice, Snel, quick up to defend the word. A sea slug with untold feet, runs with you. Hoily Tools of the Big Petrol scoop and scope scheme, wallops the marine scene with unclean oil sheen. Another spellage. Ocean deep n' blue, packed full of shell-rooms, true teachers of petrochem generation X. Drill here. Rise up like foam, Alexthunder Oil the Shah Cockle and the unseen shellhand scoop, arise fortuna. Waxy Parrot Snot in the sea banks, how to dress up a death spill? Casting Shells - The wavy lines trace swellmighty calm. His Loch' Holiness the Buddhaclam Caliph of Pearl of the Santiago Shell mound gate tell us, what fate? Great clam emperor of the Mollusca lineage, Big Up your shelf. By nature the sign, 500 Million years of geometry spun, sings in holy brine water, the Duke Periwinkle Clam tissue of ivory Sheen? Look down the well. Oily DEA and ivory salt newspaper scalps litter our vessel, truth and beauty from underwater vents, meanwhile oilmen pollute the ocean-Green with sculpted Pipe lines, crime waves of DEA projects, No Oildea how sticky their handshells.



To the Great Old One's, please hear us and help a sign-sailor resist a supermajor temptress, blackmailing a redesign. Each cell on the Shell glitters and does not glisten. Clamco on our sex organs. Oil spill, pipe-line, spoil, Usury, coercion, interference with the flow. Oyster Gods of ancient oceans sculpt the wave and weave pearls for serpents teeth to sew. WWII elixir prohibition, in the name of thy snakeoil potions, Rise, Oh. Sea-meat wonders with one hundred eyes that dwell upon Old heraldic shields, Rise up like bubbles and show us your shape. If only Molluscs could grow wings? Dutch English American statistics, more scallops? Roam the ocean wide with the Sigil of Galloping shells tells a whale of a trial of a clam, with snapping hinge teeth. Big Blood and loot (bleep) swinging from the Scallops pole, I and Shelly, and our Seal: Koninklijk. A Toast to Scallops and the food of Godzilla, and the marvel of Clam propulsion.



Venus come surfing on a scallop, leading with a shell in hat and staff in hand. Scholar. Mussel Swimming down Saint James's glory-gate to stealth Oil Cow & coo. Scoop it. And the church Redlips TTOTTAL Informollusc. Sculp. Crude awakening. Cockoily and Crude Millions scalloped out of the earth's. Intimidated pilgrims raise a Church shoal. To the Botticelli Shell-mex, mix, to the - Supermajor – noGods’ and the shall he, Shall he not trotter. Heart of calcite, home of crystal. Toil to swim with the ASA Esso sponsors. Pick a Shell and drink James Juice. The sacred periwinkle proportions, now sea gold. Periwinkle Cockle and aragonite Shillyshellying, on land we're all out of gas? Gaia Scalp flaking, dry rot and sun burn, Crashing oil and Blood in similar waves, Half-mollusc, half man with a vulva Cuthulu cult riding a Periwinkle to shore, to soil on past British Patrolingmen. Deep Rejoice – Skol - of the sea leagues 93’000 species of Mollusc, calcium from sea, Saint James Juice “No thankyou.” Oh, resurrecting Periwinkle is forbidden? Greenwash be damned, HOLY Scollop of truth Swim on your way! Oh, Mollusc gas around pilgrims Hands. Scooping the word. Praise the Count of cockles who calculates the calcium content. Re-shore em’ that Oystery has Pearls. Barons to protect the crust. Don't drill, hear! The silver pink flesh remaining of ocean Sheild. What pearls lie in the sign. Schaaldrake Unreeled from the Well, winds blowing above the abyss of humanity.



A clamber of underwater James shimmer “What the devil’s covering you, old directors?” The Hat clamp too. Holy floor, must be peak oil time! Shall we use our gills to push? Praise oceans Brand waves. The fisherman on fire, Oil brigade, fire brigade. What Sustenance? Entangled oil pipline artery of earth rot? Well well well, Oil be damned! eyel. The stolen dead plankton. The dead seamen-oil-blood transfusion. The Tectonic shifts and shafts. Swallow the shilly-shally sea and go a’ rumaging. A mussel bound wisdom tongue in a Dutch pit. Venus in shell, that feminine Scallop. Beware the starfish and oystercatchers and Condi Rice. Our boat enters the earshells of Leviathon. Seers are feeding, so meditate on bivalvia underground and grow new ears. Total germs. Sea worms fight back. Please dive off the Euro board and Rejoice for James Juice. Hoily Houses Haunt Oystery sauce. The currents of Oysery in the Musselmen’s. How to Oil the machine and then stir, sir?



Scallop filtration of nature Mouth pit. Hermaphrodite Samuel of the black-gold waters. Global eyes of the oceanic gleam where Ibskal speak of sea diamonds, pearls and disturb the Calm mud. Look Deep, look well , lick the James Juice-oil, drink the poison and ride the snake to the pit of Saint DEA, to planet Exo-Clamboil. Elders send word of hope, inducing Amanita Mollusca. Sometides wash nutrients up Ripples of the great allrudy wish-ways prepear’d with proportions of Baron periwinkles dimples. Chevrollop, clamswallop, wham. Big Shh’ galaxy, in silence. And inside the noble clam chamber Mr. Mussel finds shelter from transfusions and Cockledoom on a dinner plate. Oh shil, you supermajor logo shystirs. Rumble of waves around scalloped edge - where Venus teleports - to visit ecstatic ten-thousand. And Brand new standards, drink the ocean ink of clam soup. Ingest the Hoily Ocean Extracts from the me-a-ning Well, it's all for the best. Wade through the bauxite, don’t step on our eggshares show foresight. Juice the wellwell markets, be merry, speak into these eggshawls. Schelp, I need some clammy mammy? Muscle and sperm of capitol, testoss and hydrocarbons, Thankyou, the pearls really shine. 500 Million years of Scallop evolution sculpted from chalk with tyme.



Real Crotch Oil spread and royal Roe Smoothie. The synchro-swimming around the OVA, mixing a schaal alliance. Pink into the black current. Shellfish swim for ecosystem and it’s edges. The taste and Zap, filtering compost on sea-bed, the underwater awakening, like Fungus, the Clam infiltrates the swill. Heaven and Hell, the birth of Lucifer von Periwinkle and his Kingdom Oilmen! Lo, the chatter and Swell, the Venus and the Vulva. Marian’s Well. Like a Mermaid's, always moist. Master of devices and of painted Green weeds. Grow. A Pilgrim Artefact slyjacked. Marian! Murmur and maid, with comb and mirror, homeless, Comb exchanged for a clam-pick to pluck Lyre songs. Merry tinkles of shells and deep-blues for heads. Oh yeah, to schell the proof to buy the truth. Sea Red and sigil read. Michelle, and her pink mantle. Swimming with our vows to explore the edges of the Sun. Elixir of Baron Periwinkle makes a tasty tipple. A tale maybe a virus. Vile us! With a treacherous hijacked Scallop - snapping - at your toe, out to out brand Oil. Way out. Respect the Hoily mollusc of Saint James. These Claims of holy clams clamp down on Baron Periwinkle’s clump, so Dive down and pry benearth. The Venus Mermaiden has risen from the sea to show you her she-sails.

Saturday, December 5, 2009

Lawyers, Baths, Bats, MP's and the 'Coseley Report

(Lawyers, Baths, Bats, MP's and the PM)

Oh my, this Swimming pool drama is turning into potential for a channel 4 documentary or a short story, between the bats and the chlorine spill this Coseley Baths palava may have a hollywood blockbuster in there somewhere. Here’s some bullet points of interest to me so far.

1. The local conservative headed council of Dudley insist that the roof of the baths is unsafe and requires £1000000 of funds, plus another £1000000 for general upkeep, which means that due to a shortage of cash the pool must be bulldozed, contrary to these figures, locals who thought for themselves figured out the work could be done for £666’000.
2. A colony of bats listed on the endangered species list decided to take up residence in the rafters of the swimming pool roof – as if sending a message to the wrecking crew and fans of using the bulldozer – please don’t demolish our home.
3. Three British celebrity swimmers of world status have spoken out and somewhat – joined the campaign – to save the baths. Sharon Davis, Nick Gillingham and Duncan Goodhew have pledged support, along with a host of swimmers and coaches who get to hear about this battle to keep the pool open, in the run up to the 2012 Olympic Games, UK. In 'The Coseley Report' Sharon is played by Uma Thurman, Nick Gillingham by Steven Segal and Duncan Goodhew by Ben Kingsley.
4. A 2000 strong facebook group emerged early in the campaign and has grown to indicate the tendency for people to connect and communicate, and to organize so as to become more intelligent, and have the freedom to feedback. I like to draw attention to how the campaign to keep the baths open has been generally tolerant of negative feedback and small-talk on the discussion board. Contrast this with the private campaign, behind closed doors, of the councillors and MP’s and lawyers. No website, no facebook group or any social network group, no blog, nothing other than carefully monitored and content controlled – news items – forwarded by the local newspuss.
5. Thousands of people have mobilized around the Coseley area and got involved with local democracy, and literally stood up, walked, shouted and sang with a passion about something they feel deeply enough about to act, which is a good thing, in these times of apathy toward personal democracy, and the general disconnect between people and their Government, and their birthright, as human beings, to become a part of the decision process that – manages & governs – any form of civilization, anywhere. Maybe Coseley Baths will become a landmark campaign and up-rising of empowered individuals, hyperconnected and armed with data, facts, sources and resources so as to literally, out-source the Governments sluggish, monopolized methods of – doing – civilization.
6. Early on in the campaign there was a dangerous accident at the Baths involving a Chlorine spillage/leakage that highlighted, among other things, the importance of health and safety and good management at any swimming pool, leisure complex, and any public facility that requires careful monitoring and attention. Maybe it was the Chlorine spill that attracted the bats?
7. Some sources have estimated that any court case directed against the closure of the baths, that would be taking Dudley council itself – to court – may cost as much as £25’000, to gain the help of a top brass lawyer. The potential court case draws my attention to a possible court scene drama, where all the perspectives, data and points of view can be correlated, discussed and evaluated, based upon the cinematic vision and creative screenplay writing employed to describe such a case.
8. Our protagonist and hero might be considered to be Brian Guest, the local campaigner, and no stranger to the council arena and public speaking it seems, he was recently invited to meet with Gordon Brown at Number 10, and I hope he said something like the twitter/coseleybaths bio that reads “Dudley MBC less than £120k spent on me over last 10 yrs £450k to knock me down !” In my cinematic vision I see Brian Guest played by Clint Eastwood, and the heads of Dudley Council played by Anthony Hopkins, Christopher Walkin and Al Pacino. Clint is joined by Angelina Jolie, Johnny Depp and Matt Damon who take on the corrupt council in a shocking court room drama, that takes us far away to the giant Bat Caves of Borneo, and back to Dudley to the underground vampire chambers of Stourbridge. Sex and drugs scandal, spies everywhere and secret love affairs between enemies, corruption, greed and devil worship – The Coseley Baths report - will change the way we do cinema, the way we do social activism. A documentary drama with a final twist that would put hairs on a jellyfish.

--Steve fly.
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=136918980500
http://www.expressandstar.com/2009/12/04/licence-granted-to-demolish-baths/
http://twitter.com/coseleybaths

Monday, November 30, 2009

SUN RA Interviews & Essays - HEADPRESS.

I'm very happy to be a part of this groundbreaking collection of literature concerning the brilliant SUN RA!

--Steve Fly

SUN RA
Interviews & Essays

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Composer, bandleader, pianist, poet and philosopher, Sun Ra is one of the most colourful and enduring of musical legacies, transcending time, place and cultural genres.

From the mid 1950s until his death in 1993, Sun Ra led "The Arkestra", an ensemble with an ever-changing line-up and name which sometimes numbered as many as thirty musicians living and playing together under the despotic tutelage of Sun Ra himself. Their music touched upon the entire history of jazz, from ragtime to swing, bebop to free jazz,while the band also pioneered the use of new forms, including electronic music, space music and free improvisation. But Sun Ra’s legendary status was earned as much for his eccentricities as for his unique artistic vision. Claiming to be from Saturn, he developed and propagated a mystifying sci-fi mythology which he weaved into both the music and Dadaist performances of The Arkestra (performances which inspired artists as diverse as George Clinton and MC5). His ideas are still the cause of much debate and controversy, the poetry and prose Sun Ra left behind only deepening the ambiguities around his work and ideas.

This book collects together for the first time interviews with Sun Ra, the people that knew him, and his contemporaries, alongside illuminating essays and conversational pieces regarding his prolific musical output, mystique, philosophy, fans and much more.

Contents:

  1. By way of an Introduction by Peter Dennett
  2. Sun Ra by Amiri Baraka
  3. Sun Ra Visits Planet Earth by John Sinclair
  4. It Knocks on Everybody’s Door by John Sinclair: Interview with Sun Ra, Detroit Sun, 1966
  5. Cosmic Catalyst by David Henderson: Sun Ra in New York City, Oakland & Philadelphia
  6. Word from Sun Ra by Amiri Baraka
  7. Their Space Was My Place by Ben Edmonds: Sun Ra & the MC-5 at the Grande Ballroom, Detroit, 2009
  8. Life Is Splendid by John Sinclair: Sun Ra at the Ann Arbor Blues & Jazz Festival, 1972
  9. Interview with Amiri Baraka by Lazaro Vega, Grand Rapids, Michigan, 1999
  10. I Know Everything You Need to Know About Music by John Sinclair: A Conversation with Michael Ray
  11. Arkestra in Residence by Rick Steiger: Sun Ra & His Arkestra at the Detroit Jazz Center, 1980
  12. Sun Ra Memories by John Sinclair
  13. Twenty-first Century Music by Pete Gershon: The Sun Ra Arkestra under the direction of alto saxophonist Marshall Allen
  14. The Great and Wondrous Sun Ra by John Sinclair: In Conversation with Wayne Kramer, London, June 2008
  15. My Night as a Tone Scientist by Wayne Kramer
  16. Cosmic Engineering: Jerry Dammers & the Spatial aka Orchestra / Part 1: Interview with Jerry Dammers by John Sinclair & Dylan Harding, London, 2009 / Part 2: Concert reviews by Paul Bradshaw, John Mulvey, Ian Harrison & Jack Massarik
  17. Schwartzegeist by Sadiq Bey: Live from Berlin: The Sun Ra Tribute Project
  18. Sun Ra: Myth, Magic & Music by Steve Fly Agaric 23
  19. The Mystical Estate / Part 1: Standing in the Shadow of Sun Ra by Dylan Harding / Part 2: Interview with Haf-fa Rool by David Kerekes & Caleb Selah, London, 2002
  20. Sun Ra on Film by John Sinclair & David Kerekes: The Cry of Jazz & Space is the Place
  21. Sun Ra Obituary by John Sinclair: New Orleans Times-Picayune, 1993
  22. Photos & Comics / Part 1: Sonny’s Last Song by Mat Colegate & Dan White / Part 2: Scrapbook
  23. Contributor notes
  24. About this book

EDITOR BIO: In 1969, the poet-provocateur, MC5 manager and White Panther John Sinclair found himself the victim of that decade’s draconian American drug laws, and facing a twenty-year jail sentence for the possession of two joints. The counterculture Sinclair helped create came to his rescue, however, when John Lennon, Stevie Wonder, Phil Ochs and others performed at a successful benefit gig to petition for his release. Since that epochal moment, Sinclair (whom Ben Edmonds calls the “hardest working poet in showbiz”) has travelled the globe with his beat verses and inimitable growl, performing with some of the world’s finest musicians. He interviewed Sun Ra in 1966.


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Saturday, November 21, 2009

The British War On Swimming

I was attracted to the campaign to save Coseley Baths this year, partly because I was born not far from Coseley, so I consider the Dudley Bourough and the Black Country my home. It's where many friends and family live, so I have a personal interest in the Coseley Swimming Pool closure, and more generally any NEWS concerning swimming and swimming facilities in and around that area. It feels to me like I am somehow genetically programed to take an extra interest in "what's going on" around the Dudley & Stourbridge area, maybe I have some patriotic genes that have an urgency to express themselves? Whatever the reasons, I have found myself conducting independent research into swimming and swimming facilities due to a lack of such independent research. When it comes to the political, economic and psychological information concerning swimming I have found a wall of disinformation, crooks working for private-profit, and money-power motivated individuals using a - racket - to replace older swimming facilities with new - leisure complex corporations, contracted by a new business network.

As I have mentioned before at my blog, I have personally witnessed the destruction of 3 swimming pool's - Stourbridge (87), Brierley Hill (2005) and now Coseley (2009). And spent hundreds of hours writing, reading and communicating my thoughts about swimming, swimming pools and how governments in Britain manage or miss-manage as to what the case maybe - SPORT & LEISURE?

My observations of swimming in the Dudley area have some similarities between recent cases of swimming-pool closure's up and down the country, for example:


http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/north-east-news/todays-evening-chronicle/2009/11/05/council-to-press-ahead-with-pool-closure-bid-72703-25098524/

http://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/Article.aspx/1489317?UserKey=


http://www.northern-times.co.uk/news/fullstory.php/aid/6875/Ceiling_problem_shuts_Golspie_pool__96_again.html

http://www.streathamguardian.co.uk/news/4744099.Council_closes_Streatham_swimming_pool/


One of my early memories of the corporate grip over sports in Britain was when I competed in the West Midland District championships and won a couple of events, to discover that oil giant ESSO were the major sponsor, and had their logo's on T-Shirts, Banners, medals and prizes. I guess that swimming and swimming facilities has found advantages from going into business with large corporations, banks and other sponsors, but there are downsides to such collaborations too, depending on your geopolitical standpoints, or your conceptions of international capitalist corporatism. There can be no turning back the clocks, swimming pools are being knocked down and replaced by leisure centers as the UK gears up for the 2012 Olympics. The painfully obvious contradictions we get from the corporate sponsored news and telecommunications media surrounding the games are highlighted by the plight of swimming clubs, swimmer's and their vital facilities in the UK.

The London-centric attitude and economic bias toward developing the south of England, only adds to the insult and injury to the rest of the UK (and by extension the world) regarding sports facilities. Compare the numbers of new SHOPPING MALLS, and/or corporate supermarkets to new swimming pools available to the public and capable of providing a swimming facility for clubs too?

Maggie Thatcher, John Major, Tony Blair and Gordon Brown are somewhat in the firing-line here, both Labour and Conservative, for selling out their culture, agriculture, banking, entertainment and healthcare of the subjects they were hired to help, very simply, the British Government has spearheaded the international finance capitalism or global gangsterism partly to blame for this slump in public facilities and good old fashioned markets or fair and equal trade, and the rise in TESCO like private corporations. Tony Blair and TESCO highlight the sordid relationships. Most local telecommunications media seem immune to such alternative thinking and continue the river of lies and bullshit.

--Steve Fly.

Friday, November 13, 2009

Who (is) a Jew? & Shroedinger's Jew

"Isness is an illness' --Korzybski.

Did the world just make a small step into the world next door, the world of Dr. Robert Anton Wilson? Where logic and reason are juiced and blended with science and a calm, still – rational – mind, and applied to some of the most furtive areas of the shared human experience, questions of Identity, of being and of faith. Degrees of doubt and degrees of certainty may make the world a generally more sane – shared experience – without so many medieval superstitions and irrational make-believe stories having a grip upon our collective, world around economic, educational, telecommunications and agricultural means to production, means to play with, and tools to share.

To pierce superstition and bad judgement wherever it rears an ugly head with an array of probabilistic models, different ways of looking at the data, a new multiple complex of data, an analysis – something that can be scientifically and mathematically processed. Something to which formal logic and structural comparison can be applied to, something that I feel approaches the Utopian vision of equality and justice between entities, cultures, and people around the world. Here in the hard questions about how religious discrimination affects fairness, reason and scientific logic, when in 2009 – private and/or Government institutions around the world operate upon faith-based “I Said So...” basis, usually involving one supreme ordained individual who claims the power of one supreme almighty creator GOD, and so can – judge – what is what and who is who.

Maybe I’m not too far off the mark here, in my guess that Dr. Robert Anton Wilson might have been delighted by this recent London court hearing concerning the question of ‘jewishness’ and by extension ‘Identity’ and the bright prospect of a new scientific and reason based – logic - employed by both religious and non-religious people all around the world. In the life of the mind, you can be anyone you want, maybe; if it fits with the way you live you life?

I will reproduce the article from the NEW YORK TIMES in full. But first, I'll reproduce one of Dr. Wilson’s 'thought's of the Month', that struck me as linking logic – with this NY Times article. I wonder if any of the Lawyers at the trial had read this article? I hope, Bob loved lawyers. And he loved rats equally.

I think Dr. Wilson and maybelogic help define this moment of sanity and clarity, I hope all the religious dogma around the world can be defeated by science based research, probabilistic thinking and optimistic cooperative structures, open-source networks and information sharing. But without throwing out quasi-religious phenomena such as Magick, Shamanism, Spiritual exercise, Synchronicity. I hope that when such dogmas and the dangerous confusion of different semantical maps get revised and updated according to the latest data, the other phenomena will better observed.

To be revised...

--steve fly


Schroedinger's Jew. (Thought of the month)

Bloomsday 2001 e.v.
16 Juno 80 p.s.U.

97 years ago today Leopold Bloom, a fictitious man, wandered the streets of Dublin, a real city; and Joyce scholars still argue about his odd odyssey. I would like to add to the confusion with a note about Bloom's "Jewishness."

"Is" Leopold Bloom a Jew?

Not according to Orthodox Rabbinical law, which defines a Jew as the child of a Jewish mother. Bloom as the child of a Protestant mother "is not" a Jew.

According to Nazi law, however, a Jew "is" a person with a known Jewish ancestor. Bloom as the son of Rudolph Bloom [born Rudolph Virag], "is" a Jew.

See how easily a person can "be" and "not be" a Jew at the same time?

On the third hand, most humanists define a Jew as one who believes in and practices the Judaic religion. By this definition, Bloom who neither believes in nor practices any religion "is not" a Jew. But Marilyn Monroe, who practiced and probably tried to believe in Judaism while married to Arthur Miller, "was" a Jew by that definition-- for those few years, if not before or after.

Extensionally or phenomenologically, a Jew "is" somebody considered Jewish by all or most of the people he meets. By this standard the multi-ordinal Bloom "is" a Jew again.

Once more: in terms of pure existentialism a Jew "is" somebody who chooses to consider themselves Jewish. Bloom obviously doesn't consider himself Jewish but Irish, most of the time. Only when under verbal assault by the anti-semitic Citizen in Barney Kiernan's pub does Bloom define himself as Jewish ["And Jesus was a Jew too. Your god. He was a Jew like me."] Here he obviously has in mind the "known Jewish ancestor" rule, because he adds "And so was his father," to which the Citizen replies, as a correct Catholic, "He had no father," and Bloom, unfamiliar with that theology -- logic played with deuces, eights and one-eyed jacks wild -- can only pragmatically reply, "Well, his uncle then."

But recalling the incident later, Bloom says "And he called me a Jew, which as a matter of fact I'm not." Here he returns to his customary "believer in Judaic religion" definition.

I suppose Joyce made Bloom such a tangled genetic and cultural mixture to expose the absurdities of anti-semitism; but I also suspect that he wanted to undermine that neurolinguistic habit which postmodernists call "essentialism" and which Korzybski claimed invades our brains and causes hallucinations or delusions every time we use the word "is." - DR. Robert Anton Wilson. June 16th 2001. http://www.rawilson.com/thoughts.html


Who Is a Jew? Court Ruling in Britain Raises Question

LONDON — The questions before the judges in Courtroom No. 1 of Britain’s Supreme Court were as ancient and as complex as Judaism itself.
Who is a Jew? And who gets to decide?

On the surface, the court was considering a straightforward challenge to the admissions policy of a Jewish high school in London. But the case, in which arguments concluded Oct. 30, has potential repercussions for thousands of other parochial schools across Britain. And in addressing issues at the heart of Jewish identity, it has exposed bitter divisions in Britain’s community of 300,000 or so Jews, pitting members of various Jewish denominations against one another.

“This is potentially the biggest case in the British Jewish community’s modern history,” said Stephen Pollard, editor of the Jewish Chronicle newspaper here. “It speaks directly to the right of the state to intervene in how a religion operates.”
The case began when a 12-year-old boy, an observant Jew whose father is Jewish and whose mother is a Jewish convert, applied to the school, JFS. Founded in 1732 as the Jews’ Free School, it is a centerpiece of North London’s Jewish community. It has around 1,900 students, but it gets far more applicants than it accepts.

Britain has nearly 7,000 publicly financed religious schools, representing Judaism as well as the Church of England, Catholicism and Islam, among others. Under a 2006 law, the schools can in busy years give preference to applicants within their own faiths, using criteria laid down by a designated religious authority.

By many standards, the JFS applicant, identified in court papers as “M,” is Jewish. But not in the eyes of the school, which defines Judaism under the Orthodox definition set out by Jonathan Sacks, chief rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the Commonwealth. Because M’s mother converted in a progressive, not an Orthodox, synagogue, the school said, she was not a Jew — nor was her son. It turned down his application.

That would have been the end of it. But M’s family sued, saying that the school had discriminated against him. They lost, but the ruling was overturned by the Court of Appeal this summer.

In an explosive decision, the court concluded that basing school admissions on a classic test of Judaism — whether one’s mother is Jewish — was by definition discriminatory. Whether the rationale was “benign or malignant, theological or supremacist,” the court wrote, “makes it no less and no more unlawful.”

The case rested on whether the school’s test of Jewishness was based on religion, which would be legal, or on race or ethnicity, which would not. The court ruled that it was an ethnic test because it concerned the status of M’s mother rather than whether M considered himself Jewish and practiced Judaism.

“The requirement that if a pupil is to qualify for admission his mother must be Jewish, whether by descent or conversion, is a test of ethnicity which contravenes the Race Relations Act,” the court said. It added that while it was fair that Jewish schools should give preference to Jewish children, the admissions criteria must depend not on family ties, but “on faith, however defined.”

The same reasoning would apply to a Christian school that “refused to admit a child on the ground that, albeit practicing Christians, the child’s family were of Jewish origin,” the court said.

The school appealed to the Supreme Court, which is likely to rule sometime before the end of the year. The case’s importance was driven home by the sheer number of lawyers in the courtroom last week, representing not just M’s family and the school, but also the British government, the Equalities and Human Rights Commission, the United Synagogue, the British Humanist Association and the Board of Deputies of British Jews.

Meanwhile, the Court of Appeal ruling threw the school into a panicked scramble to put together a new admissions policy. It introduced a “religious practice test,” in which prospective students amass points for things like going to synagogue and doing charitable work.

That has led to all sorts of awkward practical issues, said Jon Benjamin, chief executive of the Board of Deputies of British Jews, because Orthodox Judaism forbids writing or using a computer on the Sabbath. That means that children who go to synagogue can’t “sign in,” but have to use methods like dropping prewritten postcards into boxes.

It is unclear what effect the ruling, if it is upheld, will have on other religious schools. Some Catholic schools, accustomed to using baptism as a baseline admissions criterion, are worried that they will have to adopt similar practice tests.
The case has stirred up long-simmering resentments among the leaders of different Jewish denominations, who, for starters, disagree vehemently on the definition of Jewishness. They also disagree on the issue of whether an Orthodox leader is entitled to speak for the entire community.

“Whatever happens in this case, there must be some resolution sorted out between different denominations,” Mr. Benjamin said in an interview. “That the community has failed to grasp this has had the very unfortunate result of having a judgment foisted on it by a civil court.”

Orthodox Jews, of course, sympathize with the school, saying that observance is no test of Jewishness, and that all that matters is whether one’s mother is Jewish. So little does observance matter, in fact, that “having a ham sandwich on the afternoon of Yom Kippur doesn’t make you less Jewish,” Rabbi Yitzchak Schochet, chairman of the Rabbinical Council of the United Synagogue, said recently. Lauren Lesin-Davis, chairman of the board of governors at King David, a Jewish school in Liverpool, told the BBC that the ruling violated more than 5,000 years of Jewish tradition.

“You cannot come in and start telling people how their whole lives should change, that the whole essence of their life and their religion is completely wrong,” she said.

But others are in complete sympathy with M.
“How dare they question our beliefs and our Jewishness?” David Lightman, an observant Jewish father whose daughter was also denied a place at the school because it did not recognize her mother’s conversion, told reporters recently. “I find it offensive and very upsetting.”

Rabbi Danny Rich, chief executive of Liberal Judaism here, said the lower court’s ruling, if upheld, would help make Judaism more inclusive.
“JFS is a state-funded school where my grandfather taught, and it’s selecting applicants on the basis of religious politics,” he said in an interview. “The Orthodox definition of Jewish excludes 40 percent of the Jewish community in this country.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/08/world/europe/08britain.html

Sunday, November 8, 2009

COSELEY CAMPAIGNER SENT TO GORDON BROWN FOR BRIEFING.

Um, I wonder how Brian got on? I wonder if the .gov/ tried to buy him, or bribe him? Maybe he'll become a new authority on how to save swimming pools from closure in Great Britain. Great sweetner Ian, thats more like it. Yes. But the crimes continue surrounding the closure of Coseley Baths. Burning lies and crooked bus...iness dealings, as usual. Now the Lawyers are getting paid again, what a racket: Ombudsman, Council-women, Lawyers and Journalists must love all the attension from Coseley baths palava. Open or closed, either way, they win, just part of the job. The difference between a Lawyer and rat, is you can't get a rat to do some things.... Where is the INDEPENDENT STUDY INTO THE ROOF costs, proposed about 6 months ago? why has so little of the information been SHARED witht the public? Why am I wasting my time with this classic example of faith-based government, in action?

--Fly Acrillic.

Google "coseley swimming baths" to find more articles. Again I simply compare the action of swimming, with the pseudo-actions of politics.

"Coseley Baths campaigner to meet Gordon Brown PM E-mail
Written by Assistant Editor
Thursday, 22 October 2009 08:17

The leader of the campaign to save condemned Coseley Baths will pitch to the Prime Minister this evening as residents continue their battle to save the pool.

Brian Guest is meeting Gordon Brown at a reception in Downing Street from 6pm. The summit has been arranged by Dudley North MP and Government minister Ian Austin who has commended Mr Guest for his “superb” leadership. Mr Guest said he was honoured to be asked but pledged to fight Coseley’s corner at the meeting.

“It is a privilege to be asked to meet the Prime Minister and will give me a chance to put Coseley on the map,” the 65-year-old, of Elmwood Rise, Sedgley, said.

“It’s not even just about the baths, there is the issue of the youth centre which should not have closed before the new one was ready to open.

“And we are just worried about what might be coming next.”

Mr Austin said: “Brian organised the campaign to Save Coseley Baths and did a fantastic job.

“The petition the group launched was signed by thousands of local people and the commitment and determination with which he led the campaign was superb.”

The pool in Pear Tree Lane closed at the end of August despite the efforts of Mr Guest and hundreds of campaigners.

Dudley Council says the building needs £1 million worth of repairs to make the roof safe and a further £1m to bring the baths up to scratch.

Campaigners are still hopeful of beating the bulldozer, and Mr Guest is exploring the possibility of launching legal action to prevent demolition.

Chairman of the Beacon Hill Tenants and Residents Association Peter Hartshorne and Emma Sealey, from the Dudley Christian Fellowship, have also been invited to Downing Street by Mr Austin.

“I am delighted that I will get to introduce Emma, Peter and Brian to the Prime Minister and give them the opportunity to discuss with him the issues they feel are affecting local people,” Mr Austin said.

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Thursday, October 29, 2009

SHANNANIGUMS WAVE. BOOKS ARRIVED TODAY.

I snapped a few pics of em' - luverly cover artwork taken from CHU's great wall of walsall titled "Hole In the Wall".






Tuesday, October 6, 2009

Tesco BANK

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How will Tesco Bank shape up?
Alan O'Sullivan, This is Money
6 October 2009
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The newly renamed Tesco Bank has a long way to go before it replaces some of the nation's biggest banks, but it has the potential to become one of the most successful banking brands in the country.

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In a symbolic move that outlines its ambition, the supermarket announced today that it was renaming Tesco Personal Finance as Tesco Bank.

It revealed that it has attracted 300,000 customers to its banking arm over the past year, giving a total of 6m.

But as the banking industry may have to start charging for current accounts in the near future due to the current legal battle over bank charges, it may be able to grow this customer base much faster than its rivals by offering free accounts if customers spend a certain amount in its stores.

So how does Tesco Bank shape up and will it become a major force?

Savings rates

The bank has a good reputation for customer service and its savings products regularly appear at the best top of the best-buy tables. These accounts are often not as consistent as those offered by building societies, but are on par with those offered by the big banks.

For example, Tesco Bank's internet account is one of the highest paying on the market at present at 3%, although this includes a 1.75% bonus, meaning the rate will fall to 1.25% after 12 months.

The account saw a rush of customers at the start of the year, although This is Money readers complained about an overly complex and convoluted internet banking process.

Customer base

In terms of customers, Tesco still has a long way to go before it begins to rival the big High Street banking names: Lloyds Banking Group has a monumental number of customers at 30m, followed by RBS's 28m, Santander's 25m, Barclays 22m and HSBC's 16.1m.

As stated previously Tesco Bank attracted 300,000 new customers this year to reach a total of 6m. That means Tesco Bank grew its customer base by just over 5% in the last year, which means it is keeping up with some of its rivals, but not vastly out-performing them yet.

In comparison, Lloyds Banking Group recently announced it opened 1m new current accounts and 2.3m savings accounts in the first six months of this year, out of a total of 22m current accounts and 21m savings accounts, growth rates of 4.5% and 11% respectively.

Brand presence

Tesco Bank's brand is its strong point. It is as big a presence across the country as any of the major High Street banking names. It has a 2,300 strong supermarket network to fall back on with 3,000 cash machines, which rivals Barclay's 1,720 branches and 3,414 cash machines.

If Tesco was to buy up the branch network and business of Northern Rock, as has been rumoured in the media, this would considerably add to its presence. In terms of credit cards, it is already a major brand as the seventh largest credit card issuer in the country.

Despite its critics when it comes to its supermarkets and the state of the High Street, Tesco has an ace up its sleeve when it comes to banking. The supermarket has a reputation for reliability untainted by the financial crisis, which has hammered banks' respectability in the eyes of the public.
http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/savings-and-banking/article.html?in_article_id=491541&in_page_id=7&position=moretopstories

EQUAL DAY EQUAL NIGHT 2009

Fly Agaric Studio > Bohemian National Home –
Friday, September 18, 2009 @ 1:00-2:00 am [20-0982]
Amsterdam, NL. > Detroit, US.


This episode is a birthday salute to John Coltrane and a bow to the Vernal Equinox with music by John Coltrane selected by Steve “Fly” Agaric 23 at his Oosterpark studio in Amsterdam and programmed by John Sinclair at the Bohemian National Home in Detroit. As Fly says, “Happy Vernal Equinox, or around about, please enjoy this good energy mix in celebration of the music and birth of John Coltrane. Thanks, John!”

Playlist #282

[01] John Sinclair & His Blues Scholars: Welcome
[02] John Coltrane: Equinox
[03]. John Coltrane: Blues Minor
[04] John Coltrane: Crescent
[05] John Coltrane: All or Nothing at All
[06] Miles Davis: ‘Round About Midnight
[07] John Coltrane: The Drum Thing
[08] John Coltrane: Spiritual

A JOINT PRODUCTION
Hosted by John Sinclair for Radio Free Amsterdam
Music selected in Amsterdam by Steve “Fly” Agaric 23
Produced, recorded, edited & assembled by John Sinclair in Detroit
Posted by Larry Hayden
Executive Producer: Larry Hayden

© 2009 John Sinclair. All Rights Reserved.



http://www.radiofreeamsterdam.com/john-sinclair-radio-show-282/

Tuesday, September 15, 2009

DUDLEY ROTTEN BOROUGH COUNCIL

The bourough seems to be healthy, the people awake and thinking, it's the council and the business enterprise that are rotten, making deals with huge corporations, selling off land and property to the highest bidder, without the slightest idea of what culture, community and health mean, in 2009. Dudley is a beautiful bourough, the people from Dudley are down to earth folk, mostly working class folk governed and bullied by a conservative, old World War II government, still today, we are governed by dinosaurs. Out of touch with the revolution, connectivity, change and scientific research opposed to faith-based thinking and faith-based policy.

"Dudley is slammed as a 'rotten borough'

12:00pm Wednesday 9th September 2009

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A FURIOUS baths campaigner slammed Dudley as a ‘rotten borough’ with a Scrooge council - fast on its way to becoming the most unpopular in history at meeting this week.

Angry Brian Guest, who has campaigned passionately to try and save Coseley Baths from the axe, unleashed a no holds-barred attack on Dudley Council when he got his chance to speak at Monday’s meeting of the select commitee on regeneration, culture and adult education.

Referring to a letter about the Conservative controlled council’s handling of the baths saga which features in the current edition of Private Eye magazine - he said: “Dudley is now classed nationally as a ‘rotten borough’.

“It shows this council is the most unpopular in Dudley’s history.”

He also hit out at the council for having the “audacity” to approve a 25 per cent pay rise for councillors shortly after offering “Dickensian” late night and early morning swimming times to young members of Brierley Hill Swimming Club - which has since been forced to close; and for hiking the prices of meals on wheels for the elderly by more than 50 per cent last year.

He continued: “I think everyone in Dudley would be ashamed if this is the best this administration can do.

“Everybody in Dudley is angry with this council, which is now known nationally as a council with no heart.

“This is a Scrooge council - but when the ghosts of Christmas past, present and future appeared to Scrooge he did put things right - proving he had a heart. But we know this council does not have a heart.”

Leader of Dudley Council - Councillor Anne Millward - said afterwards: “If we’re so rotten - why are we a four star authority?

“We have got to do things we don’t really want to do because the of recession and financial situation we find ourselves in.”

What do you think? Is Dudley a rotten borough? - http://www.stourbridgenews.co.uk/news/4588476.Dudley_is_slammed_as_a__rotten_borough_/


"£300,000 losses at baths says leader

A Black Country baths was losing more than £300,000 a year before closing last month, it was revealed today.

Dudley Council leader Councillor Anne Millward said it was costing them hundreds of thousands of pounds to keep the pool open.

She said the council was snubbed by private leisure centre owners who said the Pear Tree Lane pool was “unviable”. The baths closed at the end of August. The council says the baths need £1 million of urgent repairs to make the roof safe and a further £1m of works to bring the building up to scratch.

Councillor Millward today said the council did not have the resources to keep the baths open – but reiterated that bids from any interested parties would be considered.

“If there is someone who has got the millions to bring it up to scratch and can then take a hit of more than £300,000 a year running the baths, I have said it before – we will speak to them,” she said. “But Coseley was making losses of a third of a million each year.

“We have spoken to private providers, we did that before the decision was taken to close the pool. They just did not see Coseley as a viable enterprise.”

Save Coseley Baths campaign spokesman Brian Guest said that it came as “no surprise” the baths were making a loss because the council had not shown the necessary commitment to the pool.

“I’m not surprised it was making that sort of loss because they reduced the staff and reduced the hours to such an extent it was not going to make money,” he said.

“Everyone knows swimming pools don’t make a profit and have to be subsidised but it is a service which should be kept for the community.”

Campaign leaders are taking legal advice about the possibility of mounting a courtroom bid to prevent demolition. Mr Guest is due to hear from barristers in London early next week. - http://www.expressandstar.com/2009/09/12/300000-losses-at-baths-says-leader/

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Tuesday, September 1, 2009

Swimming baths shut for last time. BBC finally shows up to tell us the BAD news!

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Swimming baths shut for last time

Protestors outside Coseley Swimming Pool
The protesters vowed to keep lobbying the council until the pool was reopened
Protesters gathered outside one of the Black Country's last public swimming baths as it shut for the last time.
Dudley Council said essential repairs to Coseley Swimming Pool would be too costly and it could not afford for them to go ahead.
Recent safety checks showed repairs to the building, which first opened in 1963, would cost in excess of £2m.
In April, more than 30 people, including children, had to be taken to hospital after a chlorine leak there.
Across the rest of the Black Country, pools still remain in Dudley, Stourbridge and Halesowen.
However, protestors said many of those were too far away for older swimmers to get to.
Parents, children and swimming clubs vowed to keep petitioning the council to get the pool reopened.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/west_midlands/8230207.stm

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It’s not over yet say baths campaigners

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Defiant campaigners desperate to save condemned Coseley Baths from the bulldozer have declared: “It’s not over yet.” More than 200 people attended a public meeting last night.

They discussed their next step in their battle against Dudley Council’s decision to close the leisure centre on Monday. It was standing room only as supporters of all ages, some wearing Save Coseley Baths T-shirts, vowed to continue their fight. Spokesman for the Save Coseley Baths group Brian Guest said: “We have been overwhelmed by the support tonight.

“It just shows the strength of feeling, not just in Coseley, but elsewhere in the borough.

“It is not over yet. We are going to fight for as long as it takes.

“We do not want to lose these baths.

“Dudley Council is not doing what it is supposed to which is looking after the health and well-being of children and adults in the borough.”

Dudley North MP Ian Austin, who is backing the campaign to save the baths, said: “The support for this campaign shows the determination and desire to keep these baths open.

“I have swum in these baths myself and I know how important it is to teach young people how to swim.

“During the recession it is clear to me that if they demolish the baths and sell the site, they not going to get the money for the site that they would get in the future,” he added.

“It wouldn’t cost much to keep the baths open.

“There is funding available from the Government for the management and maintenance of public swimming pools.”

Dudley Council says that the baths need £1 million of urgent repairs to make the roof safe, as well as a further £1 million spent to bring the building up to scratch.

Decommissioning works will run from September 1 to 11, when the building will be handed over to Dudley Council’s corporate property department.

Electricity and water will then be cut off ahead of demolition, with leisure chief Councillor David Stanley keen for bulldozers to reduce the building to rubble as soon as possible after closure.

The authority has yet to secure funds for the six-figure demolition bill, and the money may have to come from the public purse, chiefs have admitted.

http://www.expressandstar.com/2009/08/29/its-not-over-yet-say-baths-campaigners/