By jake cosmos aller
Oregon Reflections
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On Travel next Three Months taking a break
These are my reflections on Oregon. I have been to Oregon many times over the years. My father was a college professor at SF State, and we spent our summers at the family cabin near Mt. Ranier and winters too. I quit going to the cabin with my family when I was in college. We kept the cabin in the family until my mother sold it after my father passed away in 1985. Uncle-in-law managed the family's fruit farm near Yakima until he died in the early nineties.
On the way to and from Yakima, we frequently stayed in Medford. Later in 1990, I bought a property in Medford, two duplexes, and a house. We still have the duplexes which we renovated in 2017, We sold the house at the market peak in 2007 My brother was going to move to Oregon and manage our properties for us but his plans fell through so we were stuck with the properties which provided good income once we paid off the mortgages back in 1996 or so.
The plan was to spend our summers in Oregon with side trips to Northern California, Portland, Seattle, and Las Vegas.
COVID put a stop to that and we finally got back after three years. We are back on our summer plan. Unfortunately, our tenant trashed our furnished apartment, so we had to change our original five-week road trip to two weeks ?" Oregon Coast, Portland, Seattle, Yakima, and Bend including a side trip to Crater Lake, and then a trip down Highway one to the Bay Area and stay in the Bay Area for about a week ?" with an optional trip to Las Vegas, Arizona, and Utah provided the heat is less than 105 every day. Right now, with temperatures over 120, it is simply too dangerous to drive.
Ashland
Ashland is a nice college town and the home of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, one of the oldest Shakespeare festivals in the Western United States. We usually try to take in a show when we are in the area. The University has an award-winning English literature department due to its long-standing connection to the festival. There are lots of trendy restaurants and bars in the city. During the winter it is a base for people going to Mt. Ashland for skiing.
Ashland is a city in Jackson County, Oregon, United States. It lies along Interstate 5 approximately 16 miles (26 km) north of the California border and near the south end of the Rogue Valley. The city's population was 21,360 at the 2020 census.
The city is the home of Southern Oregon University (SOU) and the Oregon Shakespeare Festival (OSF). These are important to Ashland's economy, which also depends on restaurants, galleries, and retail stores that cater to tourists. Lithia Park along Ashland Creek, historic buildings, and a paved intercity bike trail provide additional visitor attractions.
Ashland, originally called "Ashland Mills", was named after Ashland County, Ohio, the original home of founder Abel Helman, and secondarily for Ashland, Kentucky, where other founders had family connections. Ashland has a council-manager government assisted by citizen committees. Historically, its liberal politics have differed, often sharply, from much of the rest of southwest Oregon.
Oregon Shakespeare Festival 75th anniversary banner
The Oregon Shakespeare Festival has grown from a summer outdoor series in the 1930s to a season that stretches from February to October, incorporating Shakespearean and non-Shakespearean plays at three theaters.[42] The OSF has become the largest regional repertory theater in the United States.[14]
The Oregon Cabaret Theater features musicals and comedies throughout the year.[43] Opened in 1986, the dinner theater occupies a former First Baptist Church built in Mission Revival style.[44] The Ashland Independent Film Festival, which shows international and domestic films of almost every genre, takes place each April in the Varsity Theatre downtown. About 90 films are shown during the five days of the festival.[45] In 2009, Ashland was the setting for the film adaptation of Gaman's Coraline.[46]
The Oregon Center for the Arts at Southern Oregon University focuses on academic programs including creative arts (art, emerging media, and creative writing), music, and theater. Affiliated with the center is the Schneider Museum of Art, which has rotation exhibitions of works featuring professional contemporary artists. Also affiliated with the center are chamber music concerts, a Shakespeare institute, a piano series, and other art-related events.[47]
The annual Ashland New Plays Festival (ANPF) is a nonprofit organization that encourages playwrights to develop new work through public readings. Each year, the ANPF holds an international competition that winnows hundreds of submissions to four plays that are read to live audiences by professional actors during a five-day festival in October
(Wikipedia entry)
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Ashland Co-Op
Ashland Co-Op is a great natural foods store in Ashland. They used to pre-covid have a great make-your-own sandwich bar. My favorite was their loaded BLT.
Sam Adams, favorite sandwich
Was the make it your own sandwich
Served at the Ashland, Oregon, Co-Op
A modified BLT sandwich on Gluten free bread
Cheese, roast beef or pastrami, bacon
Sprouts, lettuce, tomatoes, dill pickles, peppers
Mayo, mustard, ketchup
Just heaven in every delicious bite
Lithia Park
Lithia Park in Ashland is a great park that follows Lithia Creek. It was designed by the NCY and Golden Gate Park designer Olmstead.
Lithia Springs
Lithia Springs is a small hot springs resort just north of Ashland. It has been operating as a spa since the 1880's.
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One Night in Lithia Springs
One night in Lithia Springs
We soaked away our painful life
And fell in Love again
Eight love senryu based on my true love story for details see my web page https://theworldaccordingtocosmos.com © Feb 2019,
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Astoria
Astoria is a town at the mouth of the Colombia River about an hour from Portland. I went Salmon Fishing there with my dad when I was 16. It has a nice Lewis and Clark museum as this was the farthest extent of their legendary trip in the 1810s.
Astoria is a port city and the seat of Clatsop County, Oregon, United States. Founded in 1811, Astoria is the oldest city in the state and was the first permanent American settlement west of the Rocky Mountains.[6] The county is the northwest corner of Oregon, and Astoria is located on the south shore of the Columbia River, where the river flows into the Pacific Ocean. The city is named for John Jacob Astor, an investor and entrepreneur from New York City, whose American Fur Company founded Fort Astoria at the site and established a monopoly in the fur trade in the early 19th century. Astoria was incorporated by the Oregon Legislative Assembly on October 20, 1856.[1]
The city is served by the deepwater Port of Astoria. Transportation includes the Astoria Regional Airport. U.S. Route 30 and U.S. Route 101 are the main highways, and the 4.1-mile (6.6 km) Astoria?"Megler Bridge connects to neighboring Washington across the river. The population was 10,181 at the 2020 census.[7]
Bend
Bend is a hip town about an hour southeast of Portland on the edge of the Oregon high mountain desert, it is the mecca of artisanal spirits, beer, and Kombucha.
There is a good museum called the Oregon High Desert Museum which is worth a visit. There is also an Oregon Cascade scenic bypass, a 66-mile drive through the Cascades that I am looking forward to driving.
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Bend, Oregon - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bend,_Oregon
Bend is a city in and the county seat of Deschutes County, Oregon, United States. It is the principal city of the Bend Metropolitan Statistical Area. Bend is Central Oregon's largest city, with a population of 99,178 at the time of the 2020 U.S. Census, up from 76,693 at the time of the 2010 U.S. Census, and 52,029 at the ... See more
THE 15 BEST Things to Do in Bend - 2023 (with Photos) - Tripadvisor
Brandon Beach
Bradon Beach is a nice beach town on the Oregon Coast. We have stayed there several times.
Coos Bay
Coos Bay is a nice town on the Oregon Coast. We stayed at the Mills Casino which is an old mill that has been turned into an Indian-run Casino.
Coos Bay, Oregon
is article is about the city. For the body of water, see Coos Bay. For other uses, see Coos Bay (disambiguation).
Coos Bay, Oregon
Here the Coos River enters Coos Bay on the Pacific Ocean. The city borders the city of North Bend, and together they are often referred to as one entity called either Coos Bay-North Bend or Oregon's Bay Area.[7] Coos Bay's population as of the 2020 census was 15,985 residents, making it the most populous city on the Oregon Coast. Oregon's Bay Area is estimated to be home to 32,308 (Coos Bay Census County Division).[8]
Crater Lake National Park
i have been to Crater Lake at least ten times in my life. It is always impressive. We tried to go to Crater Lake, but our car had other ideas. Fortunately, a good Samaritan came along and helped out. We went the next day. And a good day touring the park. We stopped off at the Oregon Natural Bridge just before entering the park. That was very impressive.
Crater Lake National Park (U.S. National Park Service) (nps.gov)
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Good Samaritan Rescued Us Fan story.
I am grateful for today.
A good Samaritan
Rescued us at Crater Lake
When our car died
Naani Poem
Write a Naani poem. A Naani consists of 4 lines, and the total lines consist of 20 to 25 syllables.
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Klamath Falls, Oregon
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Klamath Falls (/?klæm?θ/KLAM-?th) is a city in, and the county seat of, Klamath County, Oregon, United States. The city was originally called Linkville when George Nurse founded the town in 1867. It was named after the Link River, on whose falls the city was sited. The name was changed to Klamath Falls in 1893.[5] The population was 21,813 at the 2020 census. The city is on the southeastern shore of the Upper Klamath Lake located about 246 miles (396 km) northwest of Reno, Nevada, and approximately 17 miles (27 km) north of the California?"Oregon border.
Logging was Klamath Falls's first major industry.
We drove back through Klamath Falls, which is a dying city, not that prosperous looking. There is an airbase there as well as the Oregon Institute of Technology but overall, the city seems to be depressed economically speaking. There are two dams on the Klamath river which are scheduled to be removed and the whole river re-wildered next year or so. There is a small downtown business district that has seen better days.
Central Point
Central Point is a small community north of Medford near the airport and COSTCO. There is an industrial zone on the west side of the city that abuts the west Medford industrial zone. I went there frequently when we were doing the epic remodeling of our four Medford units in 2016; We go there almost every day to go to COSTCO but have not explored the rest of the city.
Central Point, Oregon - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Point,_Oregon
Table Rock Mountain
Table rock mountains are two Messa mountains north of Medford that are great places to hike. But during the summer it is best to go in the morning as it often gets about 100 degrees in the late afternoon.
Upper and Lower Table Rock - Wikipedia
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Upper Table Rock and Lower Table Rock are two prominent volcanic plateaus located just north of the Rogue River in Jackson County, Oregon, U.S. Created by an andesitic lava flow approximately seven million years ago and shaped by erosion, they now stand about 800 feet (240 m) above the surrounding Rogue ... See more
Geology and climate
Starting approximately 40 million years ago in the middle Eocene, a braided river system called the "Ancestral Rogue River" flowed through the... See more
Agate Desert Park
Another great little park north of Medford, famous for natural agates.
Agate Desert
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300 W Antelope Rd, White City, OR 97503 · ~6.3 mi
Eagle Point
Eagle Point is a small-town northeast of Medford. It is on the Rogue River and is a popular staging area for river rafting trips. There are several award-winning golf courses there.
It is also settling for some reason for most of my horror stories where I construct an eldritch Lovecraftian haunted mansion that Sam Adams of the Cosmos Institute inherits.
Eagle Point, OR - Official Website " Official Website (cityofeaglepoint.org)
Eugene
Eugene in the University of Oregon campus town. It reminds me of Berkeley and Boulder -both college towns. It has a good co-op that had great sandwiches back in the day.
University of Oregon (uoregon.edu)
Grants Pass
Grants Pass is a nice little town on the Rogue River. It is a popular place for winery tours. It is also the main staging area for raft trips.
Grants Pass, Oregon - Wikipedia
Roseburg
Roseburg is another little town on the rouge river. There are lots of wineries nearby. But what it is known for is Oregon's wildlife safari which is worth a visit.
It is also the northernmost extension of the Northern California climate zone and the southernmost extension of the Pacific Northwest climate zone. Once you go north you enter into the Pacific Northwest climate zone.
Roseburg, Oregon - Wikipedia
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Roseburg is a city in the U.S. state of Oregon. It is in the Umpqua River Valley in southern Oregon and is the county seat and most populous city of Douglas County. Founded in 1851, the population was 23,683 at the 2020 census, making it the principal city of the Roseburg, Oregon Micropolitan Statistical ... See more
Wildlife Safari
Jacksonville
Jacksonville
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Jacksonville is a historical 19th-century Gold Rush town. A lot of people don't know that Oregon had a gold rush and silver rush as well ?" just not as well known. And there are working wines to this day. The town reminds me of Old Town Alexandria and old towns across the country, including downtown Medford, Bend, and Old Town Sacramento.
It is a popular retirement community. Ten miles to Medford, and Ashland.
Lots of nice restaurants and classic bed and breakfast country inns, and easy access to wineries.
Welcome to Jacksonville, Oregon a National Historic Landmark (jacksonvilleoregon.org)
Britt Music & Arts Festival
Facebook (2,000) · Festival
350 S 1st St, Jacksonville, OR 97530 · ~5.7 mi
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The Brit festival has an amazing lineup for a minor out-of-the-way music festival. They attract a lot of acts who add on a night at the Brit Festival which is becoming a big thing to their Portland, Eugene of Sacramento bookings.
We just missed Diana Ross
We saw Big Toad and the Monsters and Blues Travelers. Both were pretty good. Big Todd was a bit more mainstream rock, blues travelers remind me of The Grateful Dead, Phish, and Rush, with similar style and fanatical fan base. The lead singer is a great blues harmonica player.
Phoenix
Phonex Oregon is a suburb of Medford just south of the city. It has Home Depot and a few other big box stores and a few wineries and truck stop and RV parks. It was heavily damaged in the 2020 fire.
Phoenix, Oregon
Phoenix is a city in Jackson County, Oregon, United States. The population was 4,538 at the 2010 census. Phoenix is a part of the Medford Metropolitan Statistical Area, in the Rogue Valley, and is 3 miles (5 km) southeast of Medford on Interstate 5.
History
The area was settled in about 1850 by brothers Hiram and Samuel Colver. Samuel Colver laid out the town in 1854. Early residents included Milton Lindley, who operated a sawmill that provided timbers in 1855 for a blockhouse as well as a flouring mill owned by Sylvester M. Wait. For a time, the settlement was known locally as Gasburg after a talkative employee in the kitchen serving the mill hands. Wait, who was an agent for the Phoenix Insurance Company of Hartford, Connecticut, assigned the official name, Phoenix, to the community and, in 1857, to its post office. Waitsburg, Washington, was later named after Wait.[6]
2020 fire
On September 8, 2020, much of Phoenix, along with neighboring Talent and parts of Medford and Ashland, were destroyed by the Almeda Drive Fire.[7][8][9][10] On September 11, 2020, authorities said they were preparing for a mass fatality incident.[11] On September 11, it was reported that 600 homes and 100 commercial buildings have been destroyed by the Almeda Drive Fire,[12] but on September 18, that number was updated to 2,800.[13] Officials stated that the Almeda Drive Fire was human-caused.[12] On September 11, a man was arrested for arson, for allegedly starting a fire that destroyed multiple homes in Phoenix and merged with the Almeda Drive Fire.[14] A separate criminal investigation into the origin point of the Almeda Drive Fire in Ashland is ongoing.[14]
Portland
The biggest city in Oregon and a very hip and trendy town. Center of Oregon's Asian, African-American, Hispanic, and LGBTQ communities. Because Oregon does not have a sale tax and Washington does not have an income tax, many savvy retirees live in Vancouver, Washington just across the river from Portland, and do the bulk of their shopping there. Portland is one of the few cities that still has a vibrant shopping center near downtown. It also has the world's largest bookstore ?" which I will visit on my next trip, several innovative universities including Lewis and Clark and Reed, as well as Portland State and Oregon's sole medical university the Oregon State Medical University which has dental, both oriental medicine, western medicine, Physical therapy and nursing schools. 80 percent of the State lives within the metro area, which has the only real mass transit in Oregon. It also has one of the best urban park systems in the world, great local beer and Kombucha breweries and hundreds of nearby wineries, and of course lots of cannabis shops everywhere. It is about an hour's drive to Bend and an hour's drive to the coast, and four to five hours to Medford.
Portland (/?prattling/PORT-land) is a port city in the Pacific Northwest and the most populous city in the U.S. state of Oregon. Situated in the northwestern area of the state at the confluence of the Willamette and Columbia rivers, Portland is the county seat of Multnomah County, the most populous county in Oregon. As of 2020, Portland had a population of 652,503,[9] making it the 26th-most populated city in the United States, the sixth-most populous on the West Coast, and the second-most populous in the Pacific Northwest, after Seattle.[10] Approximately 2.5 million people live in the Portland?"Vancouver?"Hillsboro, OR?"WA metropolitan statistical area, making it the 25th most populous in the United States. About half of Oregon's population resides within the Portland metropolitan area.[a]
Named after Portland, Maine,[11] which is itself named after the English Isle of Portland, the Oregon settlement began to be populated in the 1840s, near the end of the Oregon Trail. Its water access provided convenient transportation of goods, and the timber industry was a major force in the city's early economy. At the turn of the 20th century, the city had a reputation as one of the most dangerous port cities in the world, a hub for organized crime and racketeering. After the city's economy experienced an industrial boom during World War II, its hard-edged reputation began to dissipate. Beginning in the 1960s,[12] Portland became noted for its growing liberal and progressive political values, earning it a reputation as a bastion of counterculture.[13]
The city operates with a commission-based government, guided by a mayor and four commissioners, as well as Metro, the only directly elected metropolitan planning organization in the United States.[14][15] Its climate is marked by warm, dry summers and cool, rainy winters. This climate is ideal for growing roses, and Portland has been called the "City of Roses" for over a century.[16]
Talent, Oregon
Talent is a city in Jackson County, Oregon, United States. The population was 6,282 at the 2020 census.
History[edit]
1883. P. Talent, an East Tennessee native who settled in Oregon in the 1870s, platted the city in the 1880s. He wanted to name it Wagner but was overruled by postal officials, who preferred Talent, dropping one of the L's. The post office opened at this location in 1883. Earlier names for the settlement were Eden District and Wagner Creek.[5]
2020 fire[edit]
On September 8, 2020, roughly a third of Talent, along with neighboring Phoenix and parts of Medford and Ashland, were destroyed by the Almeda Drive Fire.[6][7][8][9] On September 11, 2020, authorities said they were preparing for a mass fatality incident.[10] As of September 11, 600 homes and 100 commercial buildings have been destroyed by the Almeda Drive Fire,[11] but on September 18, that number was updated to 2,800.[12] Officials stated that the Almeda Drive Fire was human-caused.[11] On September 11, a man was arrested for arson, for allegedly starting a fire that destroyed multiple homes in Phoenix and merged with the Almeda Drive Fire.[13] A separate criminal investigation into the origin point of the Almeda Drive Fire in Ashland is ongoing.[13]
White City
White City is a small but upcoming city. It is based on a World War 11 Army camp that closed down in the 50s. There is a big regional Veterans hospital center and because of that has drawn a lot of military retirees to the valley.
There is a rumor that the city was called White City and was supposed to be a whites-only city. It was the center of KKK activity between 1880 and 1940. In any event it has the largest minority population in the Rogue Valley due to the relatively inexpensive rents.
Thankfully the KKK movement died out in Oregon.
White City is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Jackson County, Oregon, United States. The population was 7,975 at the 2010 census,[5] up from 5,466 at the 2000 census. White City is about 9 miles (14 km) north of the center of Medford[6] and 4 miles (6 km) south of Eagle Point.[7]
Oregon Demographics
Oregon is mostly white about 80 percent but there are a lot of Hispanics and Asians in Portland a thriving African American community of 80 percent lives in the Portland Willamette Valley down to Eugune and Salem the State Capitol.
Indian Casinos
There are numerous Indian casinos in Washington, Oregon, and Northern California, and over the years I have lost money in many of them. This summer we will visit at least two. An Indian Casino is planned for Medford, opening perhaps in 2025. The nearest casinos to Medford are about an hour or two northwest and southwest of the city along the coast.
Indian History
The Indian tribes of Oregon and California were almost wiped out in the Indian wars of the 19th century. Most of the tribes were forced to move to Idaho or Oklahoma. The remaining tribes struggled with getting Federal and State recognition, benefits, etc. Almost all of them have been recognized by now. Many of the tribes are teaching their language and culture and tribal communities have come back from near death. Many of them have become wealthy due to casinos and the decisions by most tribes of giving every tribal member a monthly stipend and full scholarships for college and tech institutions. Many tribal members live off their stipends, which depending upon the tribe can be quite generous as they usually tax the casinos about 10 percent of their income stream, returning it all to the benefit of the tribes, and investing a lot of it as well...
Native American peoples of Oregon - Wikipedia
Southern Oregon Wine Country
Complete Guide to Southern Oregon Wineries - Wine with Paige
Southern Oregon has emerged as a major winery region with over 125 between Roseburg and Ashland. Most are in the Applegate Valley west of 1-5 and west of Jacksonville and Medford. Some are nearer Roseburg-Grants Pass. There are a number in a town near Ashland, Jacksonville, Medford, Phoenix, and Talent. Southern Oregon is also a craft beer town and an kombucha town. and there are lots of farmers markets and organic groceries in town including several 24/7 groceries. There are cannabis shops everywhere now.
Roxy Ann Winery
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roxyann.com
3283 Hillcrest Rd, Medford, OR 97504 · ~2.3 mi
(541) 776-2315
Paschal Winery and Vineyard
www.paschalwinery.com
1122 Suncrest Rd, Talent, OR 97540 · ~7.3 mi
(541) 535-7957
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Owned by friends of our friends. They have a good menu as well as wine tasting and they often have live music. Three swans live on the lake. And a goose who was raised with the swans and thinks he is a swan. The winery also has cottages for rent.
Oregon Poems
Wagontire Oregon
1973
In 1973, I went on a road trip
With my father
We left Berkeley to go to Yakima
Where my father had a summer cabin
He was a college professor
And had July
and August off
And we spent the summers
Every summer from 1968 to 1978
Our whole dysfunctional family
Our annual road trip
to hell and back
As we did not get along at all
We decided to drive
through Eastern Oregon
Just my father and me
Just for the hell of it
The rest of the family
was already there
in Washington
waiting for us
My father and I shared a travel lust
One of the few things we shared
This was one of our best trips
We got along
Which was unusual
Normally our relationship
Was fraught
As we were so different
We left Klamath Falls
A real nothing burg
in those days
And headed east along Highway 395
As we entered the desert
of eastern Oregon
We entered a different world
High mountain desert
Almost
no one on the road
nothing on the radio
but country music
and talk radio
from KGO in SF
my father and I bonded
Learned a lot about his past
What he liked
And did not like
He hated country music
But loved news radio
And we talked about politics
And life in general
Just a father and son
Enjoying a rare
Father-son
Bonding moment
We usually did not
get each other
I inherited too much
Of my Mother's
wild Irish personality
To suit his dour Norwegian
Germanic personality
Then we saw the sign
Wagontire Oregon
100 miles ahead
Burma shave
We counted down the signs
Miles after miles
As we drove
into the gathering dusk
along with the wagon tire
countdown
were other signs
last gas for x miles
and the Burma Shave
roadside signs
with their classic
cowboy poetry
slogans
which in 1975
were already
becoming
a thing of the past
had not seen those
since this road trip
but on this road
they still had them
every mile
Burma Shave signs
We speculated
that Wagontire
Must be a giant truck stop
In the middle of nowhere
And we drove on
Counting down the signs
Listening to dreadful country music
And endless political news
Wagontire 100 miles ahead
And we drove on
Counting down the signs
Listening to dreadful country music
And endless political news
Wagontire 100 miles ahead
............................................
Burma Shave
Wagontire 1 Mile ahead
Last Chance Gas, Food, lodging next gas 200 miles
Welcome to Wagontire, Oregon
Population 2 ½ humans 10 dogs, 50,000 sheep
We pulled into the town
Nothing there
but a gas station
Motel and caf©
We decided to stop
Last gas for 200 miles
According
to the highway signs
In the morning
We chatted with the owner
He was the sheriff,
the fire chief
The owner
of the motel,
gas station
The only business in town
And the only place open
For two hundred miles
Until the next town
John Day I believe
I asked the Sherriff
Say, who is the ½ human?
My idiot son!
And we left.
200 miles later
We finally
left Eastern Oregon
2016
In 2016 my wife
and I drove
through Eastern Oregon
As part of our epic
cross-country trip
first time for her
in Eastern Oregon
Idaho, Montana
Wyoming and many other states
last time I had visited
was during my epic road trip
with my father
summer of 1973
10,000 miles
31 states
in three months
to celebrate my retirement
from the US Foreign Service
On the way from Medford
to Yellowstone
We drove along Highway 395
The signs for Wagontire were gone
And we drove through the town
The motel was abandoned
Nothing there at all
And that sign
was gone too
and the Burma shave signs
long ago
faded into lost
Americana
On the radio
Nothing but country
Right-wing talk shows
And Christian radio
I said I suppose the idiot son
Never took over the business
And we speculated about Wagontire
And all other nothing burgs
We drove through
that summer
Heart of Trump's America
True fly-over country
Travels with my Father
Prose Poem Version
I grew up in Berkeley, California in the 60s and 70s, graduating from high school in 1974. My father was a local politician, college professor, and economist who served in DC under President Kennedy and Johnson. He and I did not get along that much, he was a distant aloof person hard to get to know, although I admired him and agreed with him on political issues for the most part. He was a moderate democrat which in Berkeley made him a conservative a curse word in the hyper-partisan Berkeley political scene.
One thing we did share was the love of travel and road trips. My father had inherited a summer cabin near Yakima, Washington, and from an early age to when I was 20, I spent most summers in the cabin with my father, my mother, my brothers, and my sister and visiting my uncle and his family. We were a dysfunctional family, always bickering and did not get along at all. Our road trips were fun actually despite our dysfunctional family dynamics.
We made several memorable trips over the years. We drove across the country twice from DC to California both times taking the northern route and stopping off in Yakima before returning to California. Along the way stopping off at Yellowstone, Grand Teton, etc. On one trip we went through Canada stopping off in Montr©al, Toronto, Calgary, the Canadian Rockies, and Vancouver. We were 90 miles from the Alaskan border and my father decided we were not going to go to Alaska although we all begged him to do so. It took me almost 50 years before I finally got to Alaska, on a cruise, and I thought Meh was overrated and not for me. But still, I would have liked to have seen it when I was 11 years old.
One summer we drove just my father and me to Yakima and we drove through eastern Oregon just for the hell of it. We drove down a lonely country highway dubbed the loneliness highway in America that started in Nevada and goes through eastern Oregon and Eastern Washington the Nevada and Oregon sections are among the least densely populated areas in the United States. We started noticing signs for Wagon Tire, Oregon, with signs like 99 miles to Wagon Tire's last services for 200 miles. 99 98 97 every milepost had two signs to Wagon tire and a Burma Shave sign. Burma Shave signs were a feature of the American West from 1920 to 1974 when the interstate highway system ended most roadside billboard advertisements, and the Burma Shave company ceased as an independent company the Burma Shave billboards were cowboy poetry at its best three to five short tanka like advertisements like
Drivers,
You must remember this
Driving fast
Kills you fast
Burma Shave
When we got there, we found a run-down motel/gas station, cafe, and general store.
We spent the night; we were the only customers as it was mid-week. We had noticed a sign-out front
"Welcome to Wagon tire
Population
30,000 sheep
20, 000 cows
10,000 pigs
5,000 chickens
Thousands of bears, coyotes,
deer, elk, and antelope
two and one-half people
We asked the owner who had identified himself as the owner, fire chief, sheriff, and landlord what the sign, two and one-half people meant. He said,
"Oh me, my wife, and my idiot son, that's the half person."
In 2016 when I drove across the country with my wife to celebrate retiring from the foreign service we drove through Wagontire, which entire was now a ghost town with signs for sale. I wonder if anyone bought the store? And whether anyone lives there anymore. In any event, the idiot son never carried out the family business.
Travels with My Father Free verse
I grew up in Berkeley California
My father was a local politician,
college professor,
we did not get along that much
he was a distant aloof person
hard to get to know,
although I admired him
and agreed with him
on political issues
One thing we did share
was the love of travel
and road trips.
My father had a summer cabin
near Yakima, Washington,
and from an early age to
when I was 20
I spent most summers
in the cabin with my father,
my mother, my brothers,
and my sister
and visiting my uncle and his family.
We were a dysfunctional family,
always bickering
and did not get along at all.
Our road trips were fun actually
despite our dysfunctional
family dynamics.
One summer
My father and I drove
through eastern Oregon
just for the hell of it.
We drove down
Highway 395
dubbed the loneliness highway
in America
the Nevada and Oregon sections
are among the least densely populated
areas in the United States.
Outside of Klamath Falls
As we entered Oregon
High desert outback
We started noticing signs
for Wagon Tire, Oregon,
with signs like
99 miles to the Wagon tire
last services for 200 miles.
99
98
97
every milepost
had two signs a sign to Wagon tire
and a Burma Shave sign.
Burma Shave signs
were a feature of the American West
from 1920 to 1974
when the interstate highway system
ended most roadside billboard advertisements,
and the Burma Shave company
ceased as an independent company
the Burma Shave billboards
were cowboy poetry
at its best
three to five short
tanka like advertisements like
"Drivers,
You must remember this
Driving fast
Kills you fast
Burma Shave"
When we got there
we found a run-down motel/gas station,
cafe, and general store.
We spent the night.
we were the only customers
as it was mid-week.
We had noticed a sign-out front
"Welcome to Wagon tire
Population
30,000 sheep
20, 000 cows
10,000 pigs
5,000 chickens
Thousands of bears, coyotes,
deer, elk, and antelope
2 and one-half people
We asked the owner
who had identified himself?
as the owner, fire chief,
sheriff, and landlord
what is the sign,
two and one-half people meant.
He said,
"Oh me, my wife,
and my idiot son, that's the half person."
In 2016
when I drove across the country
with my wife
to celebrate retiring
from the foreign service
we drove through Wagontire,
which was now a ghost town
with signs for sale.
I wonder
if anyone bought the store?
And whether anyone lives there anymore.
In any event, the idiot son
never carried out the family business.
Note: according to Wikipedia there are still a few people living in Wagon Tire. When we drove through in 2016 it sure looked like a Ghost town.
Wagontire, Oregon - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wagontire,_Oregon
Wagontire is an unincorporated community in Harney County, Oregon, United States, along U.S. Route 395.
The community was named after the nearby Wagon Tire Mountain. From 1986 to at least 1997, Wagon Tire was home to just two people: William and Olgie Warner. The Warners' property included a gas station, cafe, motel, general store, and r...
Wikipedia · Text under CC-BY-SA license
BING AI seems to think that Wagontire might be a Ghost town but as far as I know, it is not yet listed on the state list of ghost towns.
Oregon has a rich history of frontier towns, many of which have become ghost towns. According to several historians, the state contains over 200 ghost towns1. Some well-known ghost towns in Oregon include Shanika, Golden, and Sumpter2. These towns were once thriving communities, filled with people who followed their dreams to Oregon. Now they remain as a window to another time, full of places to ponder and history to discover2. Is there a specific ghost town you would like to know more about?
According to my sources, there was a business called Wagontire Cafe and RV located at 53358 Highway 395 South in Riley, OR that offered services for RV and Camper Repair1. However, I couldn't find any recent information about whether this business is still open or if there are any other businesses currently operating in Wagontire. Is there anything else you would like to know?
Burma Shave
https://www.bing.com/search?FORM=NWLS01&PC=ATNW&q=burma+shave+road+signs
Burma-Shave was an American brand of brushless shaving cream, famous for its advertising gimmick of posting humorous rhyming poems on small sequential highway roadside signs.
Burma-Shave was introduced in 1925 by the Burma-Vita company in Minneapolis owned by Clinton Odell. The company's original product was a liniment made of ingredients described as having come "from the Malay Peninsula and Burma" (hence its name).[1] Sales were sparse, and the company sought to expand sales by introducing a product with wider appeal. the Burma Shave signs were written in cowboy poetry style three lines with Burma Shave as the fourth tag lines.
The signs were everywhere as the automobile era commenced. The last signs disappeared with the opening on the interstate highway system which banned outdoor billboards.
Seattle UW Blues
I have a long history
with the city of Seattle
dating back to my grandparents
who met there at UW
and my father who attended UW
and became a student leader
fighting to integrate the University
I first visited the city
when I was a young man
when we spend the summer
in Yakima
where we had a family home
decades later I visited the city
before I went to the Peace Corps
Before I went to the Peace Corps
then my wife and I lived there
for four years
while we were attending graduate school
at the University
and we fell under its seductive spell
living and Breathing Seattle
falling in love again
with the city
we left the city
and traveled the world
came back twice
once to take and pass the foreign service
oral exam
and once decades later
to take a cruise to Alaska
and found that the city
had changed in many ways
but the old Seattle remained
and I wanted to come back
and now my nephew lives there
adding another element to our family's
ongoing Seattle family history
why I had been there before
I cannot say, but this much I do know
Seattle remains a part of me
and I a part of its history
Because of You, I'm In A Seattle Kind Of Mood
Because of you, I'm in a Seattle kind of mood
When I look out my window
And see the rain drops gently falling all around
And I feel that special Seattle kind of chill
In my bones
I think of you with a Seattle kind of mood
In the morning
Wherever I am in this crazy world if I see raindrops
Gently falling all around
Blue mood dissolves in the rain's gentle mist
And I cry out with all my heart
Because of you
I am in a Seattle kind of mood
As I walk down the street
In distant foreign lands
Whether I am in Bangkok, Taipei, Tokyo, or Seoul
New York, Moscow, Rome, or San Francisco
Whether I am in India, China, Thailand, or Europe
Whenever I feel the rain's gentle embrace
I get into that Seattle kind of mood
Seattle, a Seattle kind of mood
Fresh Salmon sizzling over a hickory smoke fire
Ivar's clam chowder
And Red Hook Ale Pike Place market
Bums in Pioneer Square
And angry hippies preaching in Red Square
Yuppies drinking downtown
Geeks in Redmond
Making the world safe
For the Microsoft King
And the Mariners lose again
While the Huskies dream of Rose Bowls to come
And everywhere rain falls down
oh yeah
A Seatt1e kind of mood
Because of you
I get into that Seattle kind of mood
In the morning
As I fight the horrendous traffic
And breathe in deadly, killer air
I cough, cough, and remember
The green, green air of Seattle
And because of you,
I get into that Seattle kind of mood
Seattle, Seattle, kind of mood
The Huskies are number one in my heart
While the Mariners are always last in the nation
But what the hell
I'm in a Seattle kind of mood
I sit in the International District
Eating Dim Sum and drinking Ballad bitter
Watching the crowds dodge the ever-present raindrops
Seattle Kind of mood
As I wake up each day in crazy foreign lands
I hear the falling raindrops calling me home
Oh why did you leave me they cry out
In a Seattle sort of voice
Whispering in the gently falling rain
Seattle, Seattle kind of mood
And so my Dear
Wherever I roam in this wide planet of ours
From here to entreaty
And beyond
To the red plains of Mars
Whenever I hear the gentle patter of raindrops
I'll get into that Seattle kind of mood
And dream of spending eternity with you
Watching the Seattle rain
Gently falling on our bumbershoots
As we walk down the beach hand in hand
Digging the gooey ducks while drinking Rainier Ale
All because of you
I'll always be in the Seattle kind of mood
Medford Beckons
Once boring, humble Medford Oregon
and I have a long history
dating back to my childhood
when we would drive through there
often spending the night
back and forth to Yakima
from our family home in Berkeley
with my father during our summer vacations
Medford back in the day
was a sleepy little town
but the biggest town around
Ashland was more famous
but Medford grew on me
decades later my wife
Decades later my wife
and I drove through there
as we yo-yo up and down
the coast going from Seattle
where we were graduate students
and Berkeley to visit my family
we bought five pieces of property
in Medford in 1990
and were absentee landlords
for almost thirty years
coming back every few years
finally coming back in 2016
renovating the property
and now we are spending
our summers there
and preparing to become
Oregonian residents
Medford humble boring Medford
has become a trendy place
we have become part of Medford
and Medford is part of our hearts and soul
I am now an Oregonian
complete with a beard, no ties, and Western shirts
and my love affair with this humble city
will continue to grow
as my life winds down
in Medford city of my soul
Yakima Dessert Blues
Yakima, Washington
The ancestral home of my father's family since 1920
Kept alive in my family's history
Went back and forth like a Yo-Yo between Yakima
and the Bay area, mostly when I was a young man
In 2019, I visited the ghosts at my father's grave
I did not realize how much Yakima had not changed
Ever since I was a child I thought that Yakima
Simply was too much of a desert outpost
Even then I knew why my father had led the town
Rarely did I think that my father would want to return
That he did over and over until the day he died
But for me, the Yakima of my childhood no longer remained
The lesson learned from all of this is Yakima remains in my heart
Until the day I die, I know that my family's history in Yakima
Even now Yakima the desert town of my father will not be
Remains a foreign outpost and is not anymore for me
The Lighthouse of Whispers
35
Sam Adams,
a paranormal researcher
For the Cosmos Institute in Berkeley
Received reports
Of a mysterious event
In Brandon, Oregon
Along the coast
A mysterious lighthouse
Appeared one night
Flashing red lights
Several locals went inside
To investigate
And came out different
Sam and his team
Arrived and talked
To everyone in town
But no one wanted
To say what
Was going on
They went to the lighthouse
And found inside a gateway
With a sign
"Gateway to other worlds
Enter at your own risk
For madmen only."
Saying,
"what the hey"
They entered the gateway
| Author Notes | spending the summer in Southern Oregon's Rouge Valley |
By jake cosmos aller
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Visit to Bend, Oregon
0regon Reflections
The other day I returned to Bend, Oregon. I last visited there in 2019 and enjoyed both visits. Growing up in Berkeley, I spent my summer with my family in Yakima staying at the family's cabin in the national forest near Mt. Ranier. My father was a college professor and had July and August off, so we went to the cabin during the summers. We frequently drove through Bend as it was on the route from Yakima to the Bay Area. We usually stayed in Medford or Weed, but sometimes we stopped in Bend or the small town of Chemult.
Bend in those days was a backwater little town, a little bigger than the town of CHemul or Klamath Falls. It was a boring agricultural town.
Over the years it has become a trendy, hip town filled with the best beer in the country, great wine as well, and decent food as it is a foodie's delight. Bend is a hip town about an hour southeast of Portland on the edge of the Oregon high mountain desert, it is the mecca of artisanal spirits, beer, and Kombucha. There is a good museum called the Oregon High Desert Museum which is worth a visit. There is also an Oregon Cascade scenic bypass, a 66-mile drive through the Cascades that I am looking forward to driving on my next trip
The city is the second fastest-growing city in Oregon if not the country. It is increasingly diverse, no longer a backwater. There is a new State college there as well. Mostly tourism based now, but there are some hi-tech companies set up there.
The city is lined with beautiful parks along the Deschutes River which runs through the city. The city is the second most fit city in the country and we saw lots of people, walking, biking, boating, or hitting the gym.
We walked about Drake Park and Juniper Park before trying the beer at Bend Brewing Company downtown. We drove around town after touring downtown and having some great Gelato. We stopped off at the last Blockbuster left in the country, stopped off at Humms's Kombucha, and then had a beer sampler at Long Barrel Beer one of the bigger brew pubs in town.
Bend parks
Bend Oregon parks - Search (bing.com)
We drove by several of the many parks in Bend, stopping off at Jupiter Park and Drake's park. the city is building a long trail along the Deschutes River which flows through town.
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last Blockbuster
The last blockbuster video store in the world is located in Bend, Oregon. Blockbusters used to be everywhere. Then they weren't with the advent of Netflix and streaming services. But, somehow they manage to thrive in trendy little Bend Oregon. Seeing a blockbuster brought back memories. We used to go every Friday night to get movies for the weekend picking three to five to watch every weekend.
Is Is the Last 'Blockbuster' Still Open? The Truth About Netflix Show Location (newsweek.com)the Last 'Blockbuster' Still Open? The Truth About Netflix Show Location (newsweek.com)
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Bend Brewing Company
Conveniently located downtown along the mirror pound park near Drakes Park. It has lots of places to sit outside and enjoy the weather. The beer is great.
Bend Brewing Company
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1019 NW Brooks St, Bend, OR 97703-2018
(541) 383-1599
Grilled Steelhead Special
House Salad
Fried Chicken Sandwich
Kale Caesar
Crispy Fish Tacos
bendbrewingco.com
https://www.bendbrewingco.com
Bend Brewing Company
Welcome to Bend Brewing Co. We were established in 1995, and are the second oldest brew pub in Bend, Oregon. We have a rich history of award-winning craft beer brewed at our ten Barrel Brewery locarions.
East Bend, OR ¢?" 10 Barrel Brewing Co.
We had dinner at Ten Barrel Brewery brewpub. We tried the beer sampler -ten of their beers, and a Cubano sandwich and nachos.
10 Barrel Brewing Pub Menu - Bing images
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Humm's Kombucha
1.
hummkombucha.com
https://hummkombucha.com/original
Original - Humm Kombucha
humm original. We didn't invent kombucha, we perfected it. We've always had one primary goal: to make people feel good. And as more and more people are drinking kombucha ...
We stopped by their tasting room and tried a number of samples. we drove by the factory as well.
my Brother-in-law and his wife have a Kombucha business in Korea. So they were quite interested in seeing how it is made.
Bend, Oregon - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bend,_Oregon
Bend is a city in and the county seat of Deschutes County, Oregon, United States. It is the principal city of the Bend Metropolitan Statistical Area. Bend is Central Oregon's largest city, with a population of 99,178 at the time of the 2020 U.S. Census, up from 76,693 at the time of the 2010 U.S. Census, and 52,029 at the ... See more
THE 15 BEST Things to Do in Bend - 2023 (with Photos) - Tripadvisor
High Desert Museum
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On the way to Bend, we stopped off at the High Desert Museum which is worth a visit. The highlights of the museum are the outdoor walks that go through the high desert forest with a great otter exhibit and a bird of prey exhibit with eagles, and other birds of prey. There are lots of chipmunks running around as well. The otters were very cute as otters tend to be.
The museum had a decent Native American exhibit as well as an outdoor recreation of a settler's camp circa 1890 or so.
High Desert Museum
59800 S Highway 97, Bend, OR 97702
(541) 382-4754
Closed ?· Opens 9 AM
from internet:
The High Desert Museum is located near Bend, Oregon, United States. Opened in 1982, it brings
regional wildlife, culture, art, and natural resources together to promote an understanding of the natural and cultural heritage of North America's high desert country. The museum uses indoor and outdoor exhibits, wildlife in natural-like habitats, and living history demonstrations to help people discover and appreciate the high desert environment. The museum is accredited by the American Association of Museums.
Facilities :
The High Desert Museum sits on 135 acres (0.55 km square) of pine-covered forest land in Central Oregon. South of Bend on U.S. Route 97, the museum includes various indoor and outdoor exhibits, a library, a desertarium, and a cafe. Portland's GHA Architects designed the original museum building. That structure contains walls built from volcanic rocks and slate flooring. The outdoor exhibits and various buildings are connected by a half-mile-long paved path.
Collections :
The museum has more than 18,500 artifacts in its collections. Artwork includes works from Edward Curtis, Edward Borein, Charles Marion Russell, Philip Hyde (photographer), and Alfred Jacob Miller among others. Historical artifacts include those of Native American origin and post-Euro-American settlement of the region. Many of the Native American items are from the Doris Swayze Bounds Collection of American Indian Art and Artifacts, and the Doris Bounds Swayze collection.
highdesertmuseum.org
https://highdesertmuseum.org/visit-bend-ore...
High Desert Museum Visit Bend Oregon
This unique museum reveals the West's High Desert region through artful exhibits, alluring animals, engaging programs and meaningful history. Whether you're a local or planning to visit Bend, Oregon, discover why ...
Chemult
One of the towns we drove through is the town of Celmult, Oregon. It is a town now, I recalled it being bigger when we drove through back in the 70s. We often spend the night there. It is the snowiest town in Oregon if not in the United States. Now there is not much there.
(Wikipedia article)
Chemult /??????mo??lt/ is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Klamath County, Oregon, United States, on U.S. Route 97 near the drainage divide between the Klamath and Columbia Rivers. Chemult has a population of about 300 people.[3] Chemult's elevation is 4,764 feet (1,452 m).
The locale was originally established in 1924 as a station on the Southern Pacific Cascade Line named "Knott" during construction.[4] The station's name was changed to Chemult when the line opened in 1926 and a post office was established the same year.[4] The name Chemult comes from a Klamath chief who was one of the 26 who signed the Klamath Lake Treaty of October 14, 1864.[4][5]
Amtrak's Coast Starlight stops in Chemult daily at the Chemult Amtrak station, and Pacific Crest Bus Lines stops daily at the station on its route from Klamath Falls to Bend. There is also a Winema National Forest ranger station within the community.
The area around Chemult is commonly used for hiking, snowmobiling, cross-country skiing, dog sled racing, fishing, and hunting. Chemult also offers the annual Sled Dog Races where mushers come to race their sled dogs and compete for cash prizes.
Chemult is Trump country as many smaller towns in Oregon are. Oregon is a blue state with much of the population in the Portland -Eugune corridor. Central Oregon, (with the exception of Bend) eastern Oregon and Southern Oregon (with the exception of Ashland) are ruby red, politically speaking. But in general, people in Oregon are not as partisan as people in many other states tend to be. They are a pretty tolerant and friendly lot.
Rogue Gorge and Natural Bridge
(from internet article)
On the way to Bend we stopped off at the Rogue River gorge = a long waterfall near Crater Lake that is worth a visit, the other day we visited the natural bridge nearby which is also spectacular.
Nature's own magic act
Everyone loves a good magic trick, and nature seems to have figured out a way to create one- without the smoke and mirrors. Natural Bridge, a point along the upper reaches of the Rogue River, is where the magic happens. At this point, the Rogue River disappears underground into a 250-foot lava tube, with a small amount of water escaping from the tube, forming a pool under the bridge. All the water, slowly but surely, reappears at the surface further down the river.
There are many ways to hike this stretch of the Rogue River. Natural Bridge itself can be reached via the Upper Rogue River trail. The easy hiking 2.4-mile loop option includes views of Natural Bridge and is accessible for all ages. For this route, start at the Natural Bridge viewing area. Stay on the near side of the river and start hiking upstream. Hike upstream until you reach Woodruff Bridge. Cross the bridge here and head downstream back to another foot bridge right near your starting point. The loop can be done in either direction with no substantial advantages either way. The trail itself has amazing river views, views of Natural Bridge, and ancient old-growth forests.
There are different campsites in the area, all of which have easy access to Natural Bridge, and the many surrounding recreation areas. This area is 10-15 minutes away from Crater Lake National Park and is a great place to stay to enjoy the park. Longer hiking options continue upstream to the Rogue Gorge along the river. You can also do a very short hike to the Rogue Gorge viewpoint just off the highway, this option is more of a leg stretch than a "hike" but has amazing views of the gushing river. More details and directions on different hiking routes here.
While this natural wonder is as impressive as the lush forests around it, it is not protected. If you want to help protect one of nature's own magic acts, be sure to sign the petition and support the Crater Lake Wilderness region for generations to come.
| Author Notes | Just got back from a visit to Bend, Oregon the craft brewing mecca of the Pacific Northwest. On my way to do a white-water excursion along the Rogue River in Grants pass and will blog about that tomorrow On Friday we will leave to see the Redwoods enroute to SF for a week or so. Love the Northwest. |
By jake cosmos aller
On Playing Mozart Sonatas
As some of you might know, I have resumed playing the piano daily. I bought a Roland Electric piano a year ago. I will work my way through the following books culminating in about a year by conquering Mozart and Beethoven's Sonatas.
I recently played my first Mozart Sonata and well I did not do badly. I will return to it next year after finishing the following piano books.
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Playing the following music books
BOLD = finished
Bela Microcosmos
Erie Satie Gymnopedies.
Clementi piano sonatinas
Piano Classics Korean music book
Jazz piano album George Winston
Jazz Piano Album Korean
Piano classics Korean
60 progressive piano pieces
Schuman Album one
60 progressive piano pieces
Schuman Album one
Bach Little Notebook
Bach's two and three-part inventions
Easy classics
Korean Piano Books 1
Korean Piano Book 2
Blues Standards
100 Greatest Artists
Another Korean classic book
Ellington standards
Bach WTC
sonata album
Hayden
Mozart some duplicates
Beethoven ?" some duplicates
Mozart Sonatas
Beethoven Sonatas
I have played the following pieces since I resumed playing.
1. Richard Lederman Wild Mountain Flower
2. Richard Lederman A Comme Amour
3. Paul Maurer Isadora
4. Saint Preux Concerto Pour Une Voix
5. Eubie Blake Memories Of You
6. Harry Woods BSide By Side
7. John Schachter Broken Promises
8. Jan Van Wetter La Playa Jan Van Wetter
9. Enrico Macias L' Amor Cesta Por Ríen
10. Alamo Sans Tôi Mamie
11. Manuel M Pance Estrella
12. Franz Lehar Lippens Schengen
13. H Gaze Song Of The Pearl Fishermen
14. Henry Mancini Fly Me to the Moon
15. Charlie Chaplin This Is My Song,
16. Charles E. King Hawaiian Wedding Song
17. Francis Lai Theme From Love Story
18. John Lennon Love
19. Parles Moi Damor John Lenoir
20. Love Is Blue Andre Popp
21. To Love Again N Washington
22. Lebensraum Franz Liszt
23. Hymn Lamour M Mannat
24. Love Me All Your Heart, Carlos Miguel
25. El Bimbo Claude Morgan
26. Home Sweet Home John Payne
27. September Song Kurt Weil
28. Hey Jude John Lenon
29. I Really Do Not Want to Know Don Robertson
30. Yesterday, John Lennon
31. Johnny Guitar Victor Yeong
32. The Music Played by Udo Jurgens
33. Janear 15
34. La Novia Jay Prieto
35. El Condor Pasa da Robles
36. Eternally Charles Chaplin
37. Minuet Henry Purcell
38. Air Henry Purcell
39. Trumpet Tune Henry Purcell
40. A Farewell Henry Purcell
41. Bourree Philips Telemann
42. Minuet Teleman
43. Saraband Angelillo Corelli
44. Musette Johann Sebastian Bach
45. Minuet Anna Magdalena Bach
46. Minuet Anna Magdalena Bach
47. Polonaise Anna Magdalena Bach
48. Musette Anna Magdalena Bach
49. March Anna Magdalena Bach
50. Minuet Anna Magdalena Bach
51. Gavotte George Frederick Handel
52. Little Prelude in F Jes Bach
53. Minuet Leopold Mozart
54. Burlesque Leopold Mozart
55. Minuet Mozart
56. Little Prelude in C Jes Bach
57. Allegro Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
58. La Caroline Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
59. Little Scherzo Carl Philipp Emmanuel Bach
60. Allegro Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
61. Andante Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
62. Presto Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
63. Minuet Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
64. Gavotte In Rondo Form Jean Francis Dandrew
65. Rondino Jean Philippe Rameau
66. Andantino Joesph Haydn
67. Scherzo Joseph Haydn
68. Rondo Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
69. Bagatelle Beethoven
70. Ecossaise In G Beethoven
71. Seven German Dances Haydn
72. Coda Haydn
73. Ecossaise Carl Maria von Weber
74. Sonatina Jacob Schmitt
75. Bagatelle Johan Nepomuk Hummel
76. Gavotte Daniel Gottlob Turk
77. A Regal Dance Daniel Gottlob Turk
78. Serenade Daniel Gottlob Turk
79. Miniature Rondo Daniel Gottlob Turk
80. Evening Song Daniel Gottlob Turk
81. The Hunters Daniel Gottlob Turk
82. Carefree Daniel Gottlob Turk
83. Adagio Mozart
84. Lullaby Johan Philip Kirnberger
85. Sonatina Anton Andre
86. Sonatina Jakob Schweig
87. Three Country Dances Beethoven
88. Waltz Franz Schubert
89. Russian Folk Song Ludwig Beethoven
90. German Dances Ludwig Beethoven
91. Four Landlers Franz Schubert
92. Allegro Minuet One Franz Schubert
93. Andantino Waltz in C Op 19 Franz Schubert
94. Two Australian Fold Themes Carl Czerny
95. Peasant Song Felix Mendelssohn
96. On Tiptoes Henri Bertini
97. Dance Intermezzo Henri Bertini
98. The Clock Theodore Kulak
99. Cradle Song Theodore Kulak
100. Melody Robert Schuman
101. The Wild Horseman Robert Schuman
102. Bagatelle Robert Schuman
103. Soldier's March Robert Schuman
104. Hunting Song Robert Schuman
105. The Reaper's Song Robert Schuman
106. Arabesque Frederick Burmuller
107. Pastorale Frederick Burgsm¼ller G Major
108. An Old Romance A Minor
109. Little Suite Cornelius Gunter Minor
110. March Cornelius Gunter C Major
111. Scherzo F Cornelius Gunter F Major
112. Song Of the Hussars Louis Kohler C Major
113. Village Waltz Louis Kohler G Major
114. Chromatic Polka Louis Kohler G Major
115. Short Cannon Konrad M Kunz F Major
116. Short Cannon Konrad M Kunz E Major
117. Short Cannon Konrad M Kunz G Major
118. Short Cannon Konrad M Kunz B Flat Major
119. Morning Prayer PeterTchakowsky
120. Old French Song Peter Schakowsky
121. German Song Peter Schakowsky
122. Italian Song Peter Schakowsky
123. Reverie Peter Schakowsky
124. The Sick Doll Peter Schakowsky
125. Song From the Ceruse Cezar Frank D Minor
126. Pauper's Complaint Cezar Frank 6
127. Once Upon a Time Robert Volkmann G
128. The Enchanted Garden Robert Volkmann A Minor
129. Dance With Me Robert Volkmann F
130. Over Hill and Dale Robert Volkmann C
131. Playing Soldiers Vladimir Rebikoff C
132. Evening In the Meadow Vladimir Rebikoff D Minor
133. Oriental Dance Vladimir Rebikoff D Minor
134. Tender Moments Alexander Rachmaninoff F
135. Promenade Alexander Rachmaninoff A Minor
136. Fugue In a Classic Style Nicolas Makowski G
137. Three Easy Pieces on Five Notes Igor Stravinsky
138. Tarantella Serge Prokofieff F
139. Humming Dmitri Kabalevsky D Minor
140. First Dance Dmitri Kabalevsky F
141. Little Marco Dimitri Kabalevsky C
142. Chit Chat Dmitri Kabalevsky C
143. Waltz Dmitri Kabalevsky D Minor
144. Tomatina Dmitri Kabalevsky a Menor
145. Prelude Dmitri Kabalevsky G Minor
146. Ride Dmitri Kabalevsky
147. Fairy Tale Dmitri Kabalevsky E Flat
148. Scherzo Dmitri Kabalevsky G Menor
149. Constante H©ctor Villa Lobos C
150. Circle Dance H©ctor Villa Lobos D Minor
151. Melody Aram Khachaturian C Minor
152. Bella Bartok Pieces
153. Six Miniatures Bela Bartok Bela Bartok C
154. Six Miniatures Bela Bartok A Minor
155. Six Miniatures Bela Bartok C
156. Six Miniatures Bela Bartok Bela Bartok F
157. Six Miniatures Bela Bartok C
158. Six Miniatures Bela Bartok Bela Bartok C
159. Microcosmos Bela Bartok Pieces Vol One
160. Six Unison Melodies
161. Dotted Notes
162. Repetition
163. Syncopation
164. With Alternate Hands
165. Parallel Motion
166. Reflection
167. Change Of Position
168. Question and Answers
169. Village Song
170. Parallel Motion and Change of Position.
171. Contrary Motion Capture
172. Four Unison Melodies
173. Imitation And Counterpoint
174. Imitation And Inversion
175. Pastorale
176. Imitation And Inversion
177. Repetition
178. Syncopation
179. Canon At the Octave
180. Imitation Reflected.
181. Canon At The Lowest Fifth
182. Little Dance in Canon Form
183. In Dorian Mode
184. Slow Dance
185. In Phrygian Mode
186. Chorale
187. Free Canon
188. Appendix
189. Disco For Elise Beethoven
190. In May Franz Behr C
191. The Clock Ada Richer G
192. Woodland Walz Franz Gwyn C
193. Copycat Audell Thompson C
194. The Snake Charmer William Gunn A Minor
195. Minuet JS Bach
196. Soldier's March Robert Schumann
197. Minuet 1 Mozart
198. Parade Of the Midget Elizabeth L. Hopson
199. Beethoven Sonatina No 1 C
200. Indian Drum Kathrin K Davis E Minor
201. The Merry Farmer Robert Schumann F
202. Waltz M Louis Wright Louis Wright B Flat
203. Dreamland Katherine Allan Lively D Minor
204. The Wild Horseman Robert Schumann C
205. The Swimming Pool Myrla Adler F
206. L' Avalanche Stephen Heller A Minor
207. Around The Hills Mabel Lewis Caine Lewis Cave F
208. Prelude 1 C Wes Bach C
209. Spooks Maxwell Eksteen A Minor
210. Spinning Song Albert Glimmerier F
211. A Melody After Mendelssohn Louis Wright
212. Beethoven's Sonatina One F
213. Veil Lance Louis Wright F Minor
214. Under The Rose Arbor Theodora Dutton F
215. Blue Danube Waltz Johann Strauss C
216. Elfin Dance Edvard Grieg Edvard Grieg E Minor
217. Menuetto Iosco Joseph Haydn C
218. In The Gypsy Camp Franz Behr, A Minor
219. Pipes Of Pan B Flat
220. Toccata Pietro Domenico Paradies A Meno
221. Fur Elise C Edited the Version.
222. Serenade Franz Schubert D Minor
223. Rustic Dance C.R. Howard G Minor
224. From A Birch Canoe Richard Bender E Flat
225. Tarantella Paul Beaumont A Minor
226. Two Butterflies Myra Adler C
227. Loose Blatter Flying Leaves Car Killing D
228. Chopin Prelude No. 6
229. Chopin Prelude No. 7
230. Venetian Boat Song Nu 2 Mendelssohn
231. None But the Lonely Heart Tchaikovsky A Minor
232. Christmas Tchaikovsky A Flat
233. Le Tambourine Jean Philippe Rameau D Minor
234. Berceuse Lullaby a Links B Flat Minor.
235. Cradle Song Weigelia Brahms a Flat
236. Waltz Brahms A Flat
237. Simple Aveu /Simple Confession Francis Theme D Major
238. Gps Rondo Haydn G
239. Pizzicatos Leo Delius a Flat
240. Bridal Chorus Lohengrin Wagner B Flat
241. Barcarolle Offenbach F
242. Au Matin Benjamin Godard E Flat
243. Dark Eyes Russian Folk Song Richard Benda D Minor
244. Fur Elise a Minor Beethoven
245. Wagner Bratcher A Minor
246. The Maiden's Prayer T Barczewski
247. Humoresque A Dvorak
248. Petit Chien Chopan
249. Turkish March Beethoven
250. Cuckoo Waltz Je Johansson
251. Blumen Lied G Lange
252. The Battle of Waterloo G Anderson
253. Chausson de l-Adieu E Major -Very Challenging Piece
254. Csikos Post H Necked E Minor
255. Marche Military F Schubert
256. Hochzeitsmarsch Mendelssohn
257. Crisco Post H Nike
258. Alpeenabendroite T Oresten Challenging.
259. Woodland Echoes Ap Wyman Challenging
260. Traumerei Richard Schuman Easier
261. Die Schmid Im Walden Th Michelle
262. Silvery Waves Ap Wykes
263. Waves Of The Danube J Ivanovic
264. Brahms Hungarian Dance Number 5
265. Invitation To The Dance Cm Weber
266. Dance Of The Clocks A Porcellio Challenging
267. Piano Concerto Theme Gregg Is Not as Complicated as I Thought.
268. Bagatelle Beethoven - Nailed It.
269. Norwegian Dance E Grieg
270. Solberg's Song E Grieg
271. Mazurka Chopin
272. Nocturne Chopin
273. La Cinquinaine G Marie A
274. Borowski G Celeste
275. Placer D'amour Marital Tedesco
276. Gavotte Bach G
277. Sigmund's Love Song G Wagner
278. Polka Tchaikovsky
279. Clementi Six Sonatinas
280. Clementi Six Sonatinas
281. Clementi Six Sonatinas
282. Clementi Six Sonatinas
283. Clementi Six Sonatinas
284. Clementi Sonatinas
285. Clementi Six Sonatinas
286. Schumann Kinderszenen G Major
287. A Curious Story D Major
288. Catch Me, D Major.
289. Entreating Child D Major
290. Perfect Happiness D Major
291. An Important Event A Major
292. Dreaming F Major
293. By The Fireplace
294. Knight Of the Rocking Chair
295. Too Serious
296. Frightening
297. The Child Falling Asleep.
298. The Poet Speaks.
299. Melody
300. Humming Song
301. Ein Choral
302. A Little Piece
303. The Poor Orphan Child
304. Merry Peasant Returning to His Work.
305. Sicilian
306. Old Bogie
307. May Month of May
308. A Little Study G
309. Spring Song E
310. First Sorrow G
311. The Little Morning Wanderer A
312. The Reaper's Song C
313. Little Romance C
314. Rustic Song A
315. Ronde A
316. The Horseman F
317. Harvest Song A Min
318. Reminiscences Of the Theater A Min
319. Canon A Min
320. Remembrance A Min
321. The Stranger D Minor.
322. War Song D Minor
323. Sherardize
324. Gathering Of the Grapes
325. Thema
326. Mignon
327. Italian Mariner's Song Lied Italian Mariana
328. Sailor's Song
329. Wintertime One
330. Wintertime Two
331. A Little Fugue
332. Fingered Choral
333. New Year's Eve
334. Northern Song
335. Sonata For the Young G
336. Theme And Variation G
337. Doll's Cradle C
338. Rondoletto D Minor
339. Friendly Landscape
340. The Wayside Inn
341. Prophetic Bird
342. Hunting Song
343. The Departure
344. Summer Song
345. Little Cracle Song
346. Papillons 1 To 3
347. Robert Schumann Humming Song
348. Jean Sibelius A Hymn from Finland
349. Michale Glinka The Lark
350. Jes Bach March
351. Francis Couperin Rigaudon
352. Francis Couperin The King's Crest of Viols
353. Jes Bach Be Thou with Me
354. Bela Bartok Teasing
355. Gluck Gavotte
356. Schumann First Sorrow
357. Edward Poldini Waltz of The Mice
358. Bela Bartok Ritual Dance
359. Vladmirrebikoff The Wandering Musicians
360. Robert Schumann Cradle Song
361. Edwardo Poldini Waltz Serenade
362. Vladmirrebikoff Legende
363. Karganoff Petite Valse
364. Chopin Prelude E Menor
365. Gf Han Del Sarabanda
366. Beethoven's Three German Dances
367. Wa Mozart Menuetto
368. Jean Philip Rameau Little Rondo
369. Phillip Emmanuel Bach Piece Right or Left Hand Alone
370. Joseph Hayden Scherzo
371. Leopold Mozart Minuet
372. George Phillip Telemann Prelude
373. Jes Bach Prelude C Major
374. Robert Schumann Little Study
375. Robert Schuman Song of The Reaper
376. Frederick Burgmueller Pastorale
377. Joseph Hayden Allegretto
378. Jes Bach Prelude F Major A
379. Edmund Grubber the Caissons Go Rolling Along
380. Arkansas Traveler
381. Red River Valley
382. Coming Through the Rye
383. Henry Ghys Amaryllis
384. Beethoven, I Love the Ich Liebe Dich
385. Ethelbert Nevin The Rosary
386. Gf Handel Minuet
387. Joseph Haydn Minuet and Trio
388. Beethoven's Allegretto from the 7th Symphony
389. Joesph Haydn Andantino
390. Joseph Haydn Minuet
391. Erie Satie Gumnopedie No 2
392. Aram Khahaturian Oriental Dance
393. Sergei Prokofieff Rainbows in The Rain
394. Harry Warren September in The Rain
395. Gus Edwards In My Merry Oldsmobile
396. Billy Rose Barney Google
397. Louis Silver April Shadows
398. Harry Arlen, I Love a Parade
399. Max Steiner Raras Teme
400. Ag Villodo El Choclo
401. Joseph Haydn Hymn to Saint Anthony
402. Luigi Boccherini Minuet
403. Charles Gounod Ballet from Faust
404. Charles Gounod Funeral March of a Marriott
405. Anthony Dvorak Indian legend
406. Rimsky Korsakoff Scheherazade
407. Felix Mendelson Nocturne from Midsummer Night's Dream
408. Peter Tchaikovsky Romeo and Juliet
409. JS Bach Gavotte
410. Mozart Piano Sonata in C Major
411. Bedrich Smetana Polka and Friant
412. Franz Schubert Waltz
413. Felix Mendelson Consolation
414. Rimsky Korsakoff the flight of the Bumblebee
415. Breich Smetana Prelude album #6
416. Eduard Poldini Poupe Vasanta
417. Edward McDowell a Moon Idyl C
418. Anatole Liadoff the Music Box A major
419. CH Gluck Air from Orfeo e Euridice
420. Vladimir Rebikoff In the Mill
421. Frederick Chopin Mazurka B Flat Major
422. Peter Tschaikowsky Song of the Lark
423. Caesar Cui Petite Valse
424. JS Bach Gavotte from 5th French Suite
425. JS Bach ?" Polonaise from the French Suite
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This time around I have started analyzing the music before I play it noting the music areas to pay attention to including key, key changes, registry changes, very high and very low notes which are hard for me to read, and repetition patterns. I found that this simple step has paid off in helping me play a lot better and I feel my skills are returning to where they were when I last played about seven years ago. I am sure I will achieve my lifelong goal of reaching semi-professional level playing within a few years. I highly recommend this tip, playing each hand separately first when doing complicated counterpoint like in Bach, and listening, when possible, to the music you are going to play on YouTube while reading the score, to anyone returning to playing music. Alzheimer's Prevention I heard a long time ago that playing music, learning languages, and doing mental games like crossword puzzles every day is the best thing you can do to ward off the dreaded Dementia or Alzheimer??s. Since my mother died of Alzheimer??s I am at increased risk. I have been doing all three for almost a year now, playing the piano, studying Korean via Duolingo and watching K Dramas, doing daily writing prompts, writing three to five poems or short stories per day every day, and writing down my dreams and journal entries writing three to four hours every day, and weekly blog postings, instead of crossword puzzles. You Can Do It I am posting this as an encouragement to others reaching retirement who have always wanted to resume playing an instrument to just go for it. You can do it and the rewards will be immeasurable. |
By jake cosmos aller
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I wrote this on Friday the 13th but it took a few days before I was able to post it. There are many superstitions in the world. Among them, is fear of the numbers four, six, and 13, particularly Friday the 13th. Here are my poetic reflections followed by a list of suggested readings on this topic., generated by our friendly AI Bing, and a few personal memories as well.. Enjoy and would love to hear back from my readers on this or any other topic.
There are many superstitious
In the world.
In the West -
The number 13
Is considered particularly unlucky,
On Friday for some reason.
There are words for it.
Triskaidekaphobia.
Paraskevidekatriaphobia.
Frigga triskaidekaphobia.
I don’t have the fear.
But many do
So why is Friday the 13th so unlucky?
The hearsay is.
That is because of Judas.
The Betrayer of Jesus
Was the 13th dinner guest
On the Last Supper.
The word for fear of Friday the 13th is either paraskevidekatriaphobia or friggatriskaidekaphobia12. These terms are derived from Greek and Norse words for Friday and thirteen, as well as the word phobia, which means fear12.
People fear Friday the 13th because of various superstitions and folklore that associate the number 13 and the day of Friday with bad luck, misfortune, or death. Some possible reasons why people fear Friday the 13th is:
In Norse mythology, there was a dinner party for 12 gods in Valhalla, but Loki, the trickster god, crashed the party and became the 13th guest. This resulted in chaos and the death of one of the gods3.
The number 13
In Christianity, Judas, the disciple who betrayed Jesus, was the 13th person to sit at the Last Supper. Jesus was crucified on a Friday, which is also known as Good Friday3.
Some historical events that happened on Friday the 13th are considered unlucky or tragic, such as the bombing of Buckingham Palace in 1940, the murder of Kitty Genovese in 1964, the Andes flight disaster in 1972, and the declaration of COVID-19 as a national emergency in 202045.
However, there is no scientific evidence that Friday the 13th is unluckier than any other day or date. It is mostly a cultural phenomenon that has been influenced by media, literature, and folklore over time. Some people may even consider Friday the 13th as a lucky day or a day to celebrate3.
A counterpart
To the fear of 13th
In the west
Is the fear of the number four
Throughout East Asia
And the East Asia diaspora worldwide
Called Tetraphobia
This has to do with the fact.
The word “death” and “four”
Are homophones in Chinese?
This originates from Classical Chinese,
in which the pronunciation
of the word for "four" (å??, is in Mandarin)
is very similar.
to that of the word for "death" (æ», is in Mandarin),
and remains so in the other countries' Sino-Xenic vocabulary.
(Korean sa for both.
Japanese she for both.
Vietnamese tá»± "four" vs. tá»± "death").
So, throughout Asia
And Asian communities
There are no fourth floors.
Sometimes they use the English word.
Or simply the letter F
And in SF, NYC and LA
444 buildings
Are not to be found.
this (fear of the number 4 sic) originates from Classical Chinese, in which the pronunciation of the word for "four" (å??, is in Mandarin) is very similar to that of the word for "death" (æ», is in Mandarin), and remains so in the other countries' Sino-Xenic vocabulary (Korean sa for both; Japanese she for both; Vietnamese tá»± "four" vs. tá»± "death").
The word “death” and “four”
The number 4 is considered unlucky in some Asian cultures, such as China, Japan, Korea, and Vietnam because it sounds similar or identical to the word for death in those languages. This is called tetraphobia, which means fear of the number 412
Some examples of how this fear affects people’s behavior are:
Some people avoid phone numbers, addresses, license plates, and product names that contain the number 412
However, not all Asian cultures have the same attitude towards the number 4. For example, in Vietnam, the number 4 does not sound like death because of the different tones and pronunciations. Also, some people may consider the number 4 as an auspicious number, depending on their personal beliefs or experiences23
in 1985, I spent the summer studying in Korea through a grant from the Korea Research Foundation. I was given a room in the International House and complained that they gave me room 444 and that was a bad luck number. The building owners did not consider 444 to be an unlucky number for foreigners, so they did not move me.
666[/caption]In some cultures
The number 6
Is considered bad luck.
The number of the beast
666
in revelations
Many buildings are not numbered
666
among the most notorious 666 buildings
are 666 Sixth Avenue
in NYC
and 666 5th Avenue
Also in NYC
The number 6 is not universally considered unlucky. In fact, in some cultures, such as Chinese, Japanese, and Korean, the number 6 is considered a good number, because it sounds like the word for "smooth" or "well"12 The number 6 is also associated with harmony, balance, and love in numerology34
However, in some Western cultures, the number 6 may be seen as unlucky or evil, especially when it is repeated three times, as in 666. This is because 666 is known as the "number of the beast" in the Book of Revelation in the Bible, and it is often associated with Satan or the Antichrist1 Some people may avoid using the number 6 or 666 in their names, phone numbers, addresses, or product labels because they fear it may bring bad luck or misfortune1
Therefore, the perception of the number 6 as unlucky depends on the cultural and religious context of the person who uses it. There is no definitive answer to why the number 6 is considered unlucky by some people and lucky by others. It is mostly a matter of personal belief and interpretation.
666 6th avenue[/caption]The story is that.
666 6th avenues
Was renamed.
other some number
On Lexington Avenue
because ever since it open
there were so many mysterious
fires, and crimes
committed in the building
The building has a distinctive facade
with the number 666 on it.
there was a fatal fire
in 1912
and in 2015
a murder-suicide
they finally renamed it
and it is re-opening
soon.
666 6th Avenue
There is some controversy surrounding the building at 666 6th Avenue in New York City, which is not to be confused with the more famous 666 Fifth Avenue that was owned by the Kushner family. According to the web search results, here are some of the reasons why 666 6th Avenue is controversial:
The building was the site of a fatal fire in 1912, which killed six people and injured several others. The fire was caused by an explosion of gasoline stored in the basement1
The building was also the site of a murder-suicide in 2015 when a man shot his wife and then himself in their apartment on the fifth floor. The motive for the killing was unclear, but some speculated that it was related to financial troubles or domestic violence
666 5th[/caption]Jared Kushner bought
666 5th Avenue
and paid way more
than he should have
1.8 billion Dollars
It had so many problems.
he lost almost a billion dollars
but was finally able to recoup
some of his losses
through the provision
of “dark” money from shadowy investors
just before he went
to work in the White House.
From Bing AI Chat
666 Fifth Avenue is a skyscraper in New York City that has a long and controversial history. Here are some of the main events that shaped its story:
The building was originally designed by Carson & Lundin and built by Tishman Realty and Construction from 1955 to 1957. It had a distinctive facade with a large 666 address on it, which some people may associate with the biblical “number of the beast” or Satanism1
The building was the site of a fatal fire in 1912, which killed six people and injured several others. The fire was caused by an explosion of gasoline stored in the basement2
In 2007, Kushner Companies, led by Jared Kushner, bought the building for $1.8 billion, which was the most expensive real estate deal in New York City’s history at the time. The purchase was ill-timed, as the 2008 economic collapse dealt a blow to the real estate industry and the building’s value3
Kushner Companies struggled with financing and debt for the building and sold off parts of it to other investors, such as Vornado Realty Trust. Kushner also searched for foreign partners to help redevelop the building into a luxury tower designed by Zaha Hadid, but faced conflicts of interest and media scrutiny due to his role as a senior adviser to President Trump342
In 2018, Brookfield Properties leased the whole building for 99 years and hired Kohn Pedersen Fox to renovate it extensively. As part of the renovation, the building was renumbered to 660 Fifth Avenue145
666 5th Avenue
Learn more:
1. en.wikipedia.org2. thedailybeast.com3. cbsnews.com4. money.cnn.com5. post.com6. sixsixtyfifthave.com+3 more
The history of 666 Fifth Avenue is a story of ambition, controversy, and debt. Here are some of the main events that shaped its story:
The building was originally designed by Carson & Lundin and built for its developer Tishman Realty and Construction from 1955 to 1957. It had a distinctive facade with a large 666 address on it, which some people may associate with the biblical “number of the beast” or Satanism1
In 2007, Kushner Companies, led by Jared Kushner, bought the building for $1.8 billion, which was the most expensive real estate deal in New York City’s history at the time. The purchase was ill-timed, as the 2008 economic collapse dealt a blow to the
666 Fifth Avenue is a skyscraper in New York City that has been the subject of controversy due to its connection to Jared Kushner, the son-in-law and former senior adviser of former President Donald Trump. Kushner bought the building in 2007 for $1.8 billion, which was the most expensive real estate deal in the city’s history at the time1. However, the purchase turned out to be a bad investment, as the building suffered from low occupancy, high debt, and outdated design. Kushner tried to find investors to help him redevelop the property into a luxury tower designed by the late architect Zaha Hadid, but his efforts were unsuccessful and raised questions about potential conflicts of interest with his role in the White House2.
One of the most controversial aspects of the deal was Kushner’s alleged involvement with Qatar, a Middle Eastern country that has been at odds with Saudi Arabia, a key ally of the Trump administration. In 2017, Kushner reportedly met with a Qatari official who offered to invest in 666 Fifth Avenue, but Kushner turned him down. Shortly after, Trump backed a Saudi-led blockade of Qatar, which some critics suspected was influenced by Kushner’s personal interests2. In 2018, however, Kushner’s family business received a bailout from Brookfield Asset Management, a Canadian company that had a major investment from Qatar’s sovereign wealth fund. Brookfield agreed to lease the entire building for 99 years and pay $1.1 billion in upfront rent, effectively saving the Kushners from defaulting on their loan1. Brookfield denied any involvement of Qatar in the deal, but some lawmakers and watchdog groups called for an investigation into whether Kushner’s actions on US policy in the Persian Gulf region were influenced by his family’s financial troubles2.
The saga of 666 Fifth Avenue illustrates how Kushner’s business dealings and political influence have been intertwined and scrutinized throughout his tenure in the White House. The building has also been seen as a symbol of Kushner’s ambition and hubris, as well as his failure to deliver on his grand vision. As one critic put it, “The prospect that he may have been jockeying for Chinese or Russian financiers to bail out him and his family from a potentially disastrous investment at 666 Fifth Avenue presents complex but obvious conflicts of interest as well as the prospect of injudicious or self-serving White House policymaking” 1.
in one of my short stories, “Escape from Hell” I write about secret entrances to Hell scattered around the world. Hell is in another dimension and one can only go to Hell or escape from Hell through gateways known only to a few. the Lovecraftian occult classic book, The Necromicron is a real book that provides clues to some of the ancient gateways to Hell and other dimensions.
The founder of the Church of Satan claimed he had a map accurate of 1930 that showed entrances. Most gateways were located in rough neighborhoods the so-called Hell hole neighborhoods found in every big city. SF Tenderloin is one such location and NYC Chelsea is another. Later a secret VIP gateway was built between 666 6th and 666 5th Avenue, the other end opened up on 666 Hell Central Plaza where Satan Inc is located. Satan Inc. manages Satanic investments in our world. Demon functionaries are allowed R and R on full moon nights and that is while there is always a spike in weird violent crimes around the world as demons run wild in these Hell hole hoods, they have to be back by dawn.
List of phobias
Some common phobias are:
Agoraphobia: an intense fear of places that are difficult to escape, sometimes involving a fear of crowded or open spaces13
These phobias can cause symptoms such as nausea, trembling, rapid heartbeat, feelings of unreality, and being preoccupied with the fear object. They can also interfere with a person’s daily life and well-being. Phobias are treatable conditions that can be minimized or eliminated with cognitive and behavioral therapy techniques and medication. If you or someone you know suffers from a phobia, you may want to seek professional help.
Note: I cured my Cynophobia: an intense fear of dogs by having two dogs in my life.
in 1974, I broke a mirror, My mom who was a woman well-versed in superstitions and occult lore, said I would have seven years of bad luck. I met my wife eight years later. Go figure,
This superstition is based on the idea that bad things tend to happen in groups of three, and after the third one, you can expect some relief. Some people believe that this superstition comes from the Christian belief in the Holy Trinity: the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit12.
in Korean and East Asia, fortune tellers say that bad luck comes in a wave of bad luck for three years in a row, known as "Samjae". I experienced this in 1995- to 1997 when I almost lost my life due to breaking my heel while jogging and developing a multiple resistance staph infection and spend eight months in the hospital and had 14 operations, later i spend a few weeks in the ICU as my internal flora went wild due to excessive antibodies, and also developed a frozen shoulder syndrome for the same reason.
for more details on my health nightmares, see
Superstitions are beliefs that certain actions or events can influence the outcome of something else, usually positively or negatively. There are many common superstitions around the world, and some of them may vary depending on the culture or religion of the people who believe in them. Here are some examples of common superstitions and their possible origins:
Knocking on wood: This superstition is based on the idea that wood has magical properties that can protect you from bad luck or evil spirits. Some people believe that this superstition comes from ancient pagan rituals of tapping on trees to ask for the favor of the spirits that lived in them12.
Wishing on a star: This superstition is based on the idea that stars are powerful celestial beings that can grant your wishes if you look at them and say them out loud. Some people believe that this superstition comes from ancient Greek mythology, where stars were associated with gods and goddesses12.
Breaking a mirror: This superstition is based on the idea that mirrors reflect your soul, and breaking one means breaking your soul and bringing bad luck for seven years. Some people believe that this superstition comes from ancient Roman times when mirrors were expensive and rare, and breaking one was considered a serious offense12.
Four-leaf clover: This superstition is based on the idea that four-leaf clovers are rare and lucky, and finding one can bring you good fortune. Some people believe that this superstition comes from ancient Celtic culture, where four-leaf clovers were seen as symbols of the four elements: earth, air, fire, and water12.
Bad news comes in threes: This superstition is based on the idea that bad things tend to happen in groups of three, and after the third one, you can expect some relief. Some people believe that this superstition comes from the Christian belief in the Holy Trinity: the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit12.
Don’t open an umbrella inside: This superstition is based on the idea that opening an umbrella inside can bring bad luck or anger to the spirits of the house. Some people believe that this superstition comes from ancient Egyptian times, where umbrellas were used to shield the pharaohs from the sun, and opening one inside was considered disrespectful12.
Lucky penny: This superstition is based on the idea that finding a penny on the ground can bring you good luck, especially if it is a heads-up. Some people believe that this superstition comes from ancient times, where coins were made of precious metals and had value12.
Beginner’s luck: This superstition is based on the idea that beginners or novices tend to have more luck than experts or professionals when they try something new. Some people believe that this superstition comes from the notion that beginners are more relaxed and confident than experts, who may be more stressed or anxious32.
These are just some of the common superstitions that people believe in. There are many more superstitions out there, and some of them may be very personal or specific to certain situations. Superstitions can sometimes help people cope with uncertainty or fear, but they can also limit their choices or actions. Superstitions are not based on facts or evidence, but rather on beliefs and traditions. Therefore, it is important to be aware of them, but not to let them control your life.
I hope you enjoyed my poetic musings on common superstitions and additional reading provided by Bing.
| Author Notes | Some reflections on common superstitions written on Friday the 13th. |
By jake cosmos aller
Birthday reflections
Thanks to all who have been sending me birthday greetings. I deeply appreciate all of you, all around the world who have blessed my life with your friendship over the years. I will respond individually as well but just wanted to do this shout-out to my friends! On my birthday, I am always in a reflective mood and do my Nir's early and revise them again on January 1. One thing I want to do starting now and next year is to blog weekly and add FB reels and YouTube video blogging as well as my podcasting and my daily writing as I still have a lot to say and think about and it is not too late for me to say what I want to say. Another thing I want to do is take a lot of mini-trips, day trips, and other trips while I still can and I want to spend about four months in the States next summer. And hope to see many of you via Zoom meetups or in person during the next year. Keep in touch.
Jake
Following are some of my birthday poems, a few birthday tribute poems from friends, Bing's Ai astrological charts (Chinese, Vedic, and Western systems) for my birthday ¢?" October 30, 1955 ¢?" and a list of things that happened that date.
Ps here is a birthday tribute from my fan story friend.
A diplomatic birthday
By Fan Story Poet Friend Debbie Pink Marquette
Was born in California and graduated in DC.
His grad college was Washington University.
He's traveled to all fifty states and then fifty countries.
That's when he would decide to spend more time across the seas.
He met her and then six weeks later, she became his wife.
Been married for forty years, and she is the best part of his life.
He has some siblings but the ones who are dear to his heart.
His wife's brother and family have been close from the start.
He served as a foreign diplomat for twenty-seven years.
Retired from the State Department, then goodbye to peers.
His life has been impressive; what he's seen, achieved, and done.
Blog. Http://theworldaccordingtocosmos.com/
Other interesting facts about Jake Cosmos Aller:
Retired us diplomat (State Department) living in South Korea. Served 27 years in 10 countries. Traveled to 55 countries, all 50 states. Grew up in berkeley, California. Married, no children. A published poet and short story writer. Finished six novels, in search of a publisher. Former Peace Corps volunteer, Korea. Speaks Korean, Spanish, and Thai
A few more birthday-themed poems:
Closing time
On hearing the news
Of a friend's passing,
I was overwhelmed.
With grief and sadness.
And I realized that my time.
On this mortal plane
Is also coming.
To the end game.
Closing time
The final act of this cosmic play.
The grim reaper
Has my number.
Someday
He will come for me.
And the love of my life,
My lovely wife.
And my family,
Friends, and enemies,
Far-flung throughout
The whole world.
In the long run,
We can't escape.
Our grim fate,
We end up in the same place.
When the Grim Reaper
Knocks at our door,
Are we ready for that?
Perhaps not.
But each day
We have left.
On another day,
We can celebrate.
That we are alive,
Having survived another year,
And cheated death's grim embrace.
Every day staying is a blessing.
We are but one step closer to the grave.
The end will come.
When your time
Comes to an end,
But not today.
So, rejoice, my friends.
Live your remaining moments.
Filled with friendship,
Love, laughter, and joy.
Bing AI's birthday poem for Jake Cosmos Aller
I asked Bing Ai Chat to write a beatnik-style poem as a birthday tribute to Jake Cosmos Aller.
Here is a beatnik-style birthday tribute poem about Jake Cosmos Aller, inspired by the web search results:
Happy birthday, Jake Cosmos Aller!
You are a poet, a traveler, and a scholar.
You have seen the world with your own eyes.
You have lived and loved in many skies.
You are a beatnik, a rebel, a seeker.
You are not afraid to be different or unique.
You march to the beat of your drum.
You are one of a kind; you are second to none!
So, here's to you on your special day!
May it be filled with love and joy all the way!
May you continue to inspire us with your words!
May you continue to be one of life's great adventurers!
and my friend asked Google Bard to weigh in:
Jake Cosmos Aller, friend so dear, your spirit bright, your mind so clear.
A poet, novelist, and diplomat, your wisdom vast, your heart so great
. From berkeley to the world you've roamed,
in search of truth, in search of a home.
Your words inspire, your thoughts provoke,
your friendship's gift, a precious token.
In foreign lands, you served with pride, a bridge between cultures, side by side. Your insights are deep, your empathy true, a friend to all, forever true.
Now retired, your pen still flows, and your creativity still glows.
Your poems sing, your stories dance, your spirit soars, a cosmic trance.
Jake Cosmos Aller, friend so dear, your friendship's gift, I hold so nearby.
May your journey be filled with light, and may your stars shine bright forever.
Another Bard Poem ¢?" This one is a limerick.
"There once was a poet named Jake,
Whose poems were fake and quite flaccid.
His verses are so lame,
Were barely acclaimed,
And his readers would often say "Yuck!""
Blues for 61 birthdays
I woke up feeling blue,
Feeling sad and alone,
Feeling the weight of 61 years on this earth.
Been there. Done that. Seen that.
Bored with the routine.
Wanting so much more,
Yet oddly satisfied with all that I have done.
Regrets I have a few,
Memories of a lifetime.
Fear and anxiety fill my mind,
Until the end of time.
And I know that my time
on this earth is ending.
But I am not ready.
I need more time
to make things right.
Birthday on Moon
To celebrate his 80th birthday,
Sam Adams and his wife decided to go to the Moon.
They would stay a week at the Hilton.
Space hotel on the edge of the Moon.
And have dinner at the famous Luna Grill.
They ate Moon-raised chicken.
And had a delicious fruit cocktail for dinner,
Noting it was fruit cocktail day.
They went to the casino.
Which often featured odd games to bet on.
Today was the first observation.
Of the international frog jumping contest
To be held on the Moon.
They won the contest.
Their champion frog "Everything's Jake."
Jumped 50 feet in the low-gravity lunar environment.
October Rain
The falling rain
Of late October
Fills me with essential dread
As I rush about
And end up here
Wherever here is
The rain outside
Seems like the tears of god
As I sit
Crying over my beer
Thinking of lost love
And failed dreams
Wondering
What went wrong?
And what I can set right
And the rain falls
And the night darkens
The rain is falling
All over this man's world
And the rain falls
And I sit
Drinking my lonesome drink
Lost in dreams
Dreaming of what
Could never be
Thinking dark thoughts
And so I sit
And dream the night away
Meeting Dream Girl
When Sam Adams was 22 years old, he was in South Korea doing his Peace Corps duty, working in a public health center in Gapyeong, South Korea - two hours northeast of seoul, deep in the rural countryside. He had gone there in the furtherance of a dream that had haunted him for almost six years.
He first had the dream on his birthday on October 22, 1974, in a high school class at 2:22 p.m. He fell asleep and saw the most beautiful woman in the world talking to him. He knew that he would marry her. For almost six years, he had that dream almost weekly. He knew she was waiting for him in Korea.
On his 22nd birthday, he had just gone to his Peace Corps town, Gapyeong. He went out to dinner with his co-workers attending a birthday party for the town's headman. They served him dog meat.
The next morning in his dream, his future wife appeared, laughed about the dog meat incident, and told him that they would meet in three years on his birthday in the town of Eijongbu where he would be teaching.
He continued to see her in his dreams, and then as she promised she walked off a bus and into life on October 22, 1982, at 2:22 p.m.
Based on a true story. The dates and times were changed to fit the 22-number theme.
Further note I legally got married on October 29, 1982, because it was my legal birthday.
22nd wedding anniversary
On October 22, 2002, Sam Adams was celebrating his 22nd wedding anniversary for they had gotten married on October 22, 1980.
He had met and wed the lady of his dreams whom he had dreamt about for almost eight years. They met and six weeks later they married in South Korea on his legal birthday.
Twenty-two years later they were still married but due to their jobs were unfortunately living separately in different cities. Celebrating together was difficult in the pre-zoom pre-skype era. An old-fashioned old-school phone call sufficed.
Astrological Charts for October 30, 1955
summary:
Chart Data for Jake Cosmos Aller
30 October 1955 at 03:00 (3:00 am) (time zone = UTC -8)
Universal Time: 11:00
Oakland, California, United States
37?°N48' 122?°W16'
Tropical Zodiac
Placidus Houses
Planets and Points in The Signs
Sun, Venus, Saturn, in Scorpio
Moon in Aries
Rising sign in Virgo
Mercury, Mars in Libra
Jupiter, Neptune, Uranus, and Pluto in Leo
Chiron in Aquarius
Sun in Scorpio 6?° 14' 48"
The Sun represents your Life Force.
You are here to transform yourself and others. An earthquake shakes the foundations of the city's buildings.
Ascendant in Virgo 22?° 26' 09 Libra or Sagittarius depending on sites ¢?" all the other calculations are the same.
According to the web search results, the rising sign or ascendant is the sign of the zodiac that rises on the eastern horizon at the time of a person's birth. The rising sign changes approximately every two hours, so an exact birth time is required to calculate it. Different sources may use different methods or systems to calculate the rising sign, which may result in different outcomes. However, based on the most commonly used system of Placidus house division, the rising sign for someone born on October 30, 1955, at 4 a.m. in Oakland, California is Virgo123. Virgo-rising people are analytical, meticulous, and service-oriented. They tend to be modest, practical, and reliable. They may also be perfectionists, critical, and nervous. You can learn more about Virgo Rising and its meaning in your birth chart by reading this article.
The Ascendant represents how others Encounter you and how you project yourself.
People see you as a problem-solver. A carpenter restores a historical home to its original glory.
Moon in Aries 25?° 28' 19"
The Moon represents how you Give and Receive Love.
You need independence to feel happy. You need comfortable rhythms to feel happy.
Mercury in Libra 17?° 51' 43"
Mercury represents how you Communicate and Interpret.
You know how to negotiate. A store limits one necessary item to one per customer.
Venus in Scorpio 21?° 44' 17"
Venus represents how you Relate.
You connect with the hidden parts of others. Two strangers get coffee after the funeral of a mutual acquaintance.
Mars in Libra 10?° 53' 42"
Mars represents your Drive.
You assert judgment and make decisions. A divorce goes to court.
Jupiter in Leo 27?° 57' 01"
Jupiter represents your Sense of Adventure.
You play the lead in life well. A young actress wins the audition to play the lead, knowing she will be a star.
Saturn in Scorpio 21?° 43' 55"
Saturn represents your Behavior.
You want the highest clearance. The CIA director orders an operation to destroy a terrorist cell.
Uranus in Leo 2?° 17' 59"
Uranus represents how your generation Breaks Away from the previous generation.
Your generation shocks through entertainment. An independent film hits mainstream theaters.
Neptune in Libra 28?° 17' 12"
Neptune represents how your generation finds Purpose.
Your generation promotes fairness in spirituality. The daughter of a wealthy businessman accepts the consequences of her poor choices.
Pluto in Leo 28?° 21' 51"
Pluto represents how your generation uses Power.
Your generation transforms the world through entertainment. A young woman finds reruns of "I Love Lucy" on her streaming service.
Chiron in Aquarius 0?° 21' 31"
Chiron represents the Wound You Need to Heal.
You need to heal wounds and worries regarding your community. A family successfully immigrates to a new country.
North Node in Sagittarius 17?° 59' 38" Rx
The North Node represents what you Need to Attain in this lifetime.
You are here to learn to be an authority. A doctoral student teaches his first freshman class on Monday at 8 a.m.
Part of Fortune in Aries 3?° 12' 37"
The Part of Fortune represents your Natural Good Luck.
You are naturally lucky when you do it your way. A skateboarder weaves in and out of city traffic.
Midheaven in Gemini 21?° 28' 35"
The Midheaven represents how to Succeed in the World.
You attain prosperity intellectually. A bi-lingual young man has his pick of many jobs.
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Effect of Planets and Houses
Planet Effect House Position
Sun Courage, loyalty, nobleness, and generosity 2nd house
Moon Fertility, femininity, imagination 7th house
Mercury Intellectual capacity, thought process, comprehension, and learning abilities 1st house
Venus Love, beauty, well-being, and gentleness 2nd house
Mars Virility, action, violence, courage, and boldness 1st house
Jupiter Abundance, warmth, good luck, and self-confidence 11th house
Saturn Toughness, austerity, discipline, and limitation 2nd house
Uranus Eccentricity, marginality, inventiveness, independence, and dementia. 10th house
Neptune Gentle, dreamy, mystical 1st house
Pluto Occultism and all hidden sciences, mystery, death, the hereafter, deep self-questionings, as well as power such as that of the atom 11th house
Ascendant Personality, appearance, health 1st house
Natal chart Reading
Rising Sign: Libra (4?°¢??41¢?²)
People who have Libra Rising love to maintain balance and harmony. They are usually sensitive to the world around them and disharmony disturbs their peace of mind. They are courteous, pleasant, nice agreeable, gentle, and soft. They can be softly persuasive as well. They love good things in life, making friends, and doing everything possible to avoid confrontation. They are fond of art, music, and literature. On the other hand, imbalance and discord disturb them deep within and they can be rude, shy, and indecisive. Physically, they are charming and have wonderful skin and nicely shaped facial features. The body is well-formed and it behaves gracefully and properly. They love personal luxuries, physical comfort, and things that please the senses. Lack of energy and ailments caused by rich foods like sweets cause them trouble. The mode is Cardinal so Libras are inventive and assertive and have initiative as well. The element of air brings them mental clarity, detachment and verbal skill and positive polarity makes them extroverted and expressive.
Midheaven Sign: Sagittarius
Intellectual pursuits and study appeal to you, but you need to be challenged on the work front because routine makes you bored. You are ambitious, but not money-motivated. You say goodbye to the easy ways and take up difficult tasks boldly. You consciously or subconsciously seek a forum to showcase your intellectual and artistic talents. However, you may not seek the spotlight, but the work you do brings recognition and fame. Also, you become famous for something you have done outside your profession. Career options are travel, education, religion, politics, psychiatry, theology, and writing.
Sun in Scorpio (6?°¢??17¢?²)
Intensity, passion, and secretiveness well sum up your character. You usually start things slowly, but once you have picked up momentum you are unstoppable. You are driven and controlled by hidden emotions deep within. You are sensitive, skeptical, and emotional, but work your heart out. You are intuitive and your perceptions are usually accurate. You want everything to be done your way and this makes you a tyrant at home. You tend to foist your views on your friends and family.
Moon in Aries (26?°¢??4¢?²)
You react more emotionally. You make decisions quickly and act immediately without thinking much. The mind is very active, but you feel with your ego. Your responses are quick and short. You move on to new arguments or topics quickly without even giving your opponents enough time to present their views. You are short-tempered. However, you are competent and love to challenge your opponent. You are happy and optimistic, but impatient. You live for the moment and forget everything in no time.
Mercury in Libra (17?°¢??54¢?²)
You have an active mind that weighs the pros and cons, even though you take your time to make decisions. You are a balanced thinker and communicator. Eloquent, gentle, and diplomatic, you think intelligently and objectively. You are friendly, broad-minded, and judicious and you have an easy-going, warm, and charming nature. Attracted to lofty ideals and refinement in life, you are good at writing well and merging ideas. You dislike conflicts and hate debating.
Venus in Scorpio (21?°¢??47¢?²)
Your love is intense, deep, and sensual. In a relationship, you are straightforward, determined, and direct. You express excess feelings. You are a sexy person and being deeply involved, you are intensely romantic. You love or hate your partner with intense passion. Break-ups are hard to cope with. The physical or sexual aspect of the relationship is more important to you. You can be possessive in love.
Mars in Libra (10?°¢??55¢?²)
Your physical energy is controlled to a great extent and you remain charming, generous, and cooperative. You are not pushy, but you can be assertive if injustice is served. You tend to fight against anything unfair and unjust. You have an objective and impassioned approach and therefore you can be a good judge or diplomat. Also, you are good at conflict management.
Jupiter in Leo (27?°¢??57¢?²)
Optimism, confidence, and generosity are the three qualities that keep you going. You have lots of physical energy and you tend to show off. It means you embrace life in all its glory. Besides, you expect people to appreciate and admire you for your generous acts. You are a born extrovert and holidays, romance, and celebrations renew your spirit. But you tend to play cards or gamble.
Saturn in Scorpio (21?°¢??44¢?²)
You have great emotional intensity and strength, but you may try to deny your passions. You carry out your responsibilities with an intensity of purpose. Anyhow, you possess more tolerance and understanding than usual. You are secretive and unforgiving and you cannot tolerate unfair treatment. You are resourceful, but you can be vindictive or withdrawn. Though you have a strong desire for success, you are subtle and calculating.
Uranus in Leo (2?°¢??18¢?²)
You can be high-spirited and strong-willed, but you can be impatient and rebellious. Changes that involve high ideals and goals fascinate you. Though you are a born leader, you have to watch out for egotism and find ways to control your temper. You like to be unique, outspoken, and dramatic. Anyway, you have to be cautious about being overconfident and taking risks.
Neptune in Libra (28?°¢??17¢?²)
You use your beauty and harmony to express your spiritual leanings. A wonderful relationship on the spiritual plane is on the cards. You dream about fashion, music, and peace. You also have your ideas about justice, freedom, and equality. However, you have to watch out for misplaced idealism and need to be more practical.
Pluto in Leo (28?°¢??21¢?²)
Flamboyant and expressive, you tend to have heightened powers of leadership. You grab power and defy leadership if you are not the leader. You like romance, entertainment, and pleasures of all kinds. Besides, you try to attract attention extravagantly. (1937-1958)
Ascendant in Libra (4?°¢??41¢?²)
People who have Libra Rising love to maintain balance and harmony. They are usually sensitive to the world around them and disharmony disturbs their peace of mind. They are courteous, pleasant, nice agreeable, gentle, and soft. They can be softly persuasive as well. They love good things in life, making friends, and doing everything possible to avoid confrontation. They are fond of art, music, and literature. On the other hand, imbalance and discord disturb them deep within and they can be rude, shy, and indecisive. Physically, they are charming and have wonderful skin and nicely shaped facial features. The body is well-formed and it behaves gracefully and properly. They love personal luxuries, physical comfort, and things that please their senses. Lack of energy and ailments caused by rich foods like sweets cause them trouble. The mode is Cardinal so Libras are inventive and assertive and have initiative as well. The element of air brings them mental clarity, detachment and verbal skill and positive polarity makes them extroverted and expressive.
Influence of Weekday: Sunday - Sun
Sunday radiates positivity, generosity, and love of life. You are creative, gregarious, bold, and noble, but you can be ego-centric, boastful, and excessively proud. You are capable of initiating new activities. Since you are kind and generous, you help people in distress. You remain focused and love to face obstacles and overcome them.
Drawn from Bing ai and other sources.
Bing answers
Can you generate an astrological chart (Chinese, Western, and Vedic tradition) for someone born on October 30, 1955, in Oakland, California at 4 a.m.?
Chinese
The person's Chinese astrology chart is as follows:
Year month-day hour
Wood goat metal dog earth snake wood rabbit
The person's Chinese astrology information is based on the four pillars of destiny, which are the year, month, day, and hour of birth. Each pillar consists of two components: a heavenly stem and an earthly branch. The heavenly stems are the ten basic symbols that represent the five elements (wood, fire, earth, metal, and water) in their yin and yang forms. The earthly branches are the twelve animal signs that correspond to the twelve months of the lunar calendar.
The person's heavenly stems are:
Year month-date hour
Yang wood yang metal yang earth yin wood
The person's earthly branches are:
Year Month-Date hour
Goat dog snake rabbit
The person's lucky numbers are 3, 4, 9, 12, 15, 21, 30, 34, 39, 45, 48, 51, 57, 63, 66, 69, 75, 84, 87, and 93.
The person's lucky colors are green, blue, purple, red, pink, and white.
The person's lucky flowers are carnation, primrose, Alice flower, lily of the valley, and orchid.
The person's compatible zodiac signs are rabbit, horse, pig, and dragon.
The person's incompatible zodiac signs are ox, tiger, snake, and dog.
Western astrology:
According to Western astrology, you are a Scorpio, the eighth sign of the zodiac. Your ruling planet is Pluto, and your element is water. Your birth chart is shown below, along with the list of planets and their positions in the signs and houses.
Birth chart
+------------------+------------------+------------------+
" " " "
" " " "
" " " "
" " " "
" 12th " sac " 1st "
" house " Scorpio " house "
" " " "
" " " "
" Neptune " Jupiter " Moon "
+------------------+------------------+------------------+
" " " "
" Uranus " Saturn " mercury "
" Pluto " " Venus "
" 11th " 10th " 9th "
" house " house " house "
" " sun " Moon "
" " " "
+------------------+------------------+------------------+
" +----rahe----+ +----keta----+ +
" Chiron + + + + +
" 8th + + + + +
" house + +-----+ +-----+
" north node + + + + +
" 7th + +-----+ +-----+
" house + + + + +
" south node + + + + +
" 6th + +-----+
" house +-desc +-asc +-desc +-acs +
+------------------+ taurus +-Libra+-Aries------+Pisces+
Vedic List
Planet list
+----------+------------+------------+
" planet " sign " house "
+----------+------------+------------+
" sun " Libra " 10th "
" Moon " Scorpio " 1st "
" mercury " Scorpio " 9th "
" Venus " Virgo " 9th "
" Moon " Libra " 9th "
" Jupiter " Scorpio " 1st "
" Saturn " Sagittarius" 10th "
" Uranus " Leo " 11th "
" Neptune " Libra " 12th "
" Pluto " Leo " 11th "
+----------+------------+------------+
Some of the personality traits of a Scorpio are:
Intense, passionate, and loyal.
Mysterious, secretive, and complex.
Resourceful, determined, and ambitious.
Transformative, regenerative, and healing.
Jealous, obsessive, and manipulative.
Some of the challenges and opportunities for a Scorpio are:
To learn to trust others and let go of control.
To channel their emotions and desires into positive outlets.
To face their fears and embrace their shadows.
To use their power and influence for good.
To seek higher wisdom and spiritual growth.
Vedic Astrology
Vedic astrology: according to Vedic astrology, you are a Libra (Tula), the seventh sign of the zodiac. Your ruling planet is Venus, and your element is air. Your birth chart is shown below, along with the list of planets and their positions in the signs and nakshatras.
Birth chart
+------------------+------------------+------------------+
"Moon +-rahe----+ +-keta----+ +
+------------------+ +-Moon--+-Jupiter-+-Saturn-+
"Moon +-sun----+-mercury+-Venus----+-Chiron-+
+------------------+ +-asc----+-desc-----+-Uranus-+
"Moon +-Neptune-+-Pluto--+-Neptune-+-Pluto +
"Moon +-Libra---+-Scorpio+-Laurus---+-Aries +
"Moon +-swat
" house +-desc +-ask +-desc +-acs +
+------------------+ taurus +-Libra+-Aries------+Pisces+
Planet list
+----------+------------+------------+
" planet " sign " house "
+----------+------------+------------+
" sun " Libra " 10th "
" Moon " Scorpio " 1st "
" mercury " Scorpio " 9th "
" Venus " Virgo " 9th "
" Moon " Libra " 9th "
" Jupiter " Scorpio " 1st "
" Saturn " Sagittarius" 10th "
" Uranus " Leo " 11th "
" Neptune " Libra " 12th "
" Pluto " Leo " 11th "
+----------+------------+------------+
Some of the personality traits of a Scorpio are:
Intense, passionate, and loyal
Mysterious, secretive, and complex
Resourceful, determined, and ambitious
Transformative, regenerative, and healing
Jealous, obsessive, and manipulative
Some of the challenges and opportunities for a Scorpio are:
To learn to trust others and let go of control.
To channel their emotions and desires into positive outlets
To face their fears and embrace their shadows.
To use their power and influence for good
To seek higher wisdom and spiritual growth
Scorpio
Jake Cosmos Aller
Born: October 30, 1955
4:00 am Oakland, CA, USA
sun sin: Scorpio
Sun 6?° Scorpio 27' Scorpio horoscope
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Moon sign: Aries
Moon 28?° Aries 32' Aries horoscope
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rising sign: Scorpio
Ascendant 25?° Scorpio 01' Scorpio horoscope
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How's your timing?
The moving Moon and planets can influence your ability to relate to certain people at specific times.
Your sun sign: Scorpio sun 6?° Scorpio 27'
Element:
Water
Key planet:
Pluto
The scorpion is one intense little creature, with enough poison in its tail to disable or kill a much larger opponent. However, the problem with this kind of built-in biological weaponry is that it must be mastered to be used most effectively. You Scorpios can use your "stinger" for self-defense, using your powerful emotional awareness to make your opponent harmless. But there is a sexual part of poisonous tail also, and until you learn to control those strong urges, you may find yourself in uncomfortable situations.
Motto: "What is hidden is more interesting than what is obvious."
Greatest strength: your passion for your feelings.
Possible weakness: the need for secrecy can be isolating.
Your Moon sign: Aries Moon 28?° Aries 32'
Emotions rise hot and fast but can fall just as quickly because you live so much in the present. The intensity of the moment can carry you to great heights or depths, but you're not likely to stay in either extreme for very long. When you're done, you're done. As a fire sign, Aries isn't a particularly reflective place for them.
Your Chinese sign: the goat
The goat ... the gentle goat
Mantra: living is my form of art.
The goat is the most easygoing of all the signs ... sensitive to other people's needs, kindhearted, flexible, and social. Goats love life, and all forms of art will help them express their active energy and joie de vivre. When stressed, they can be moody and appear weak, but will stubbornly resist the opinions of others if they disagree. They are devoted to their loved ones, outgoing, and quite outspoken about the world they live in.
Other birth statistics
30 October 1955
Your date of conception was on or about 6 February 1955 which was a Sunday.
You were born on a Sunday.
Under the astrological sign Scorpio.
Your life path number is 6.
Your fortune cookie reads:
Your many hidden talents will become obvious to those around you.
Life path compatibility:
You are most compatible with those with the life path numbers 3, 6 & 9.
You should get along well with those with the life path numbers 2, 4, 8, 11 & 22.
You are least compatible with those with the life path numbers 1, 5 & 7.
The Julian calendar date of your birth is 2435410.5.
The golden number for 1955 is 18.
The exact number for 1955 is 6.
The year 1955 was not a leap year.
Your birthday falls into the Chinese year beginning 1/24/1955 and ending 2/11/1956.
You were born in the Chinese year of the goat.
Your native american zodiac sign is snake; your plant is thistle.
You were born in the Egyptian month of toby, the first month of the season of port (emergence - fertile soil).
Your date of birth on the Hebrew calendar is 14 Heshan 5716.
Or if you were born after sundown then the date is 15 Heshan 5716.
The Mayan calendar long count date of your birthday is 12.17.2.0.6 which is.
12 baktun 17 katun 2 tun 0 uinal 6 kin
The hijra (Islamic calendar) date of your birth is Sunday, 13 Rabi'u'l-Avval 1375 (1375-3-13).
The date of easter on your the date of easter on your birth year was Sunday, 10 April 1955.
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The date of orthodox easter in your birth year was Sunday, 17 April 1955.
The date of Ash Wednesday (the first day of Lent) in your birth year was Wednesday, 23 February 1955.
The date of Whitsun (Pentecost Sunday) in the year of your birth was Sunday, 29 May 1955.
The date of Whitsuntide in the year of your birth was Sunday, 5 June 1955.
The date of Rosh Hashanah in the year of your birth was Saturday, 17 September 1955.
The date of Passover in the year of your birth was Thursday, 7 April 1955.
The date of Mardi Gras on your birth year was Tuesday, 22 February 1955.
Celebrities who share your birthday:
Gavin Rossdale (1967) Diego Armando Maradona (1960) Harry Hamlin (1951)
Henry Winkler (1945) Grace Slick (1939) Claude Lelouch (1937)
Robert Caro (1935) Louis Malle (1932) Ruth Gordon (1896)
Charles atlas (1893) Ezra asalto (1885) Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821)
John Adams (1735)
Your age is the equivalent of a dog that is 7.62309197651663 years old. (you old hound dog, you!)
Your lucky day is Tuesday.
Your lucky numbers are 9 & 11.
Your ruling planet(s) are the Moon and Pluto.
Your lucky dates are the 1st, 10th, 19th, and 28th.
Your opposition sign is Taurus.
Your opposition number(s) is 6.
Events that happened on my birthday, include
Here is a list of things that happened on October 30, 1955, including the top song, the top movie, the top TV show, and the major events of that month in the US:
¢?¢ The top song on that day was "The Man From Laramie" by Jimmy Young, according to the web search results1.
¢?¢ The top movie on that day was "Guys and Dolls", directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz and starring Marlon Brando and Frank Sinatra, which premiered in New York City on November 3, 195523.
¢?¢ The top TV show on that day was "The $64,000 Question", a quiz show hosted by Hal March that aired on CBS and was the most popular program of the 1955¢?"56 season45.
¢?¢ Some of the major events of October 1955 were:
o Chile's Finance minister Abraham Perez resigned as a result of disagreements with President Carlos Ib?¡?±ez del Campo on October 16.
o Xinjiang became an autonomous region of the People's Republic of China on October 26.
o The ENIAC computer was deactivated at Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland, USA, having been in continuous operation since 1947, on October 26.
o "Alfred Hitchcock Presents" premiered on CBS television in the US on October 26.
o Norodom Sihanouk, former King of Cambodia, took office as the country's Prime Minister on October 36.
o The Brooklyn Dodgers won their first World Series at last, beating the New York Yankees 2-0 in Game 7 on October 47. The Series MVP was pitcher Johnny Podres of Brooklyn8.
o Beat poet Allen Ginsberg read his poem "Howl" for the first time at a poetry reading in San Francisco on October 72.
o The Citroen DS saloon car was launched at the Paris Motor Show on October 66.
o The aircraft carrier USS Saratoga was launched at Brooklyn on October 82.
o The Rodgers and Hammerstein musical film "Oklahoma!", the first feature photographed in the Todd-AO 70 mm widescreen process, was released in the USA on October 119.
o American actor James Dean died in an automobile collision near Cholame, California, at age 24, on September 30. On October 27, the film "Rebel Without a Cause", in which he starred, was released9.
that's the way the world was on my Birthday, October 30, 1955.
| Author Notes | i tend to get philosophical on my birthday. here are some birthday poems, horoscopes and what happened on my birthday. |
By jake cosmos aller
Cosmos Fitness Regime ?"
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As some of you might know, I have been following a fitness regime for many years. I offer these tips to you because I believe anyone can improve their health through daily exercise, and a better diet.
Here are some of my tips for physical fitness and suggestions. It must be working. I am usually about 187 pounds and don't take any prescription drugs, my cholesterol levels are good as are my blood sugar levels although they are a bit higher than I want them to be. I suffer from Fibromyalgia, arthritis, and hammer toes. I also exercise daily, riding on my exercise bike while looking at my emails, and FB feeds, studying Korean, and going for a three-mile walk at least four times a month. Lately, I bought a pull-up bar and installed it on the doorway and I do it periodically throughout the day, squats, and swings, working my way up to doing pull-ups. I write in my journal every morning, and I also go for a walk every day and play the piano daily. I eat a lot of homemade food including Kefir, and Kombucha. and I am gluten-free.
here are my diet recommendations, my physical exercise regime, my daily writing regime, and my piano-playing regime.
I hope it inspires you to take charge of your physical and mental fitness.
Diet
I start my day by drinking coffee and watching the news while writing in my journals.
Coffee
The first two cups are fully loaded ?" coffee, decafe, with yoga detox tea, cinnamon, nutmeg, and milk.
Sometimes I add in protein plant superfoods from Costco containing the following:
Organic Protein Blend: Pea Protein, Brown Rice Protein, Chia Seed, Hemp Protein1.
Organic Creamer Base: Acacia Gum, High Oleic Sunflower Oil, Inulin, Rice Dextrin's, Rice Bran Extract, Rosemary Extract1.
Organic Superfoods Blend: Organic Greens and Grasses Blend (Wheat Grass, Barley Grass, Oat Grass, Alfalfa Grass, Kale, Spinach), Organic Berry Blend (Acai, Apple, Banana, Blueberry, Cranberry, Raspberry, Sweet Potato, Cherry, Pomegranate, Strawberry), Organic Veggie Blend (Beet, Broccoli, Carrot, Tomato, Parsley, Cauliflower, Cabbage, Kale), Organic Sprout Blend (Amaranth Sprout, Quinoa Sprout, Millet Sprout, Buckwheat Sprout, Garbanzo Bean Sprout, Lentil Sprout, Adzuki Sprout, Flax Sprout, Sunflower Sprout, Pumpkin Sprout, Chia Sprout, Sesame Sprout), Organic Ancient Grains Blend (Amaranth, Quinoa, Buckwheat, Millet, Chia), Organic Fiber Blend (Oat Fiber, Rice Bran, Acacia Fiber), Organic Cinnamon, Organic Erythritol, Organic Natural Flavors, Organic Stevia, Organic Food Based B Vitamin Blend (Organic Guava, Organic Holy Basil, Organic Lemon Extract), Organic Monk Fruit Extract, Probiotics (Bacillus coagulants) 1
I usually start my day with a homemade smoothie.
smoothie
Smoothie Blues
Smoothie Love
Smoothie Madness
blueberry smoothie
my daily breakfast
includes blueberries
in my smoothie
apple cider vinegar
blueberry, strawberry, oranges
banana, pineapple,
cinnamon
coconut oil
home made kefir
kale
kombucha.
ginseng
ginger
honey
maca root
spinach
wheatgrass
stevia
50 superfoods plant protein powder
Organic Protein Blend: Pea Protein, Brown Rice Protein, Chia Seed, Hemp Protein1.
Organic Creamer Base: Acacia Gum, High Oleic Sunflower Oil, Inulin, Rice Dextrin's, Rice Bran Extract, Rosemary Extract1.
Organic Superfoods Blend: Organic Greens and Grasses Blend (Wheat Grass, Barley Grass, Oat Grass, Alfalfa Grass, Kale, Spinach), Organic Berry Blend (Acai, Apple, Banana, Blueberry, Cranberry, Raspberry, Sweet Potato, Cherry, Pomegranate, Strawberry), Organic Veggie Blend (Beet, Broccoli, Carrot, Tomato, Parsley, Cauliflower, Cabbage, Kale), Organic Sprout Blend (Amaranth Sprout, Quinoa Sprout, Millet Sprout, Buckwheat Sprout, Garbanzo Bean Sprout, Lentil Sprout, Adzuki Sprout, Flax Sprout, Sunflower Sprout, Pumpkin Sprout, Chia Sprout, Sesame Sprout), Organic Ancient Grains Blend (Amaranth, Quinoa, Buckwheat, Millet, Chia), Organic Fiber Blend (Oat Fiber, Rice Bran, Acacia Fiber), Organic Cinnamon, Organic Erythritol, Organic Natural Flavors, Organic Stevia, Organic Food Based B Vitamin Blend (Organic Guava, Organic Holy Basil, Organic Lemon Extract), Organic Monk Fruit Extract, Probiotics (Bacillus coagulants) 1
all blended to perfection
that is my daily breakfast
fit for a champion.
Salt Of Life
Every day
I eat a little
Himalayan Pink Salt
In my food.
That and real salt
From Salt Lake City
Will enable me.
To live to be
A ripe old man.
So, my advice to you all
Add real salt to your food,
And watch your weight go down,
And your life extension begins.
Kefir
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Growing Kombucha and Kefir in Korea
When we moved to Yeongjong island, near the Incheon Airport, we found that we would be deprived of two of our three favorite miracle foods, Kombucha and Kefir. But we were pleasantly surprised to find we could order our third favorite health food item, wheat grass for home delivery. Have not seen it in the stores but have seen it in some smoothie places as well as home delivery. best to mix it in a smoothie. Wheatgrass juice does not taste that great!
Growing Kombucha and Kefir in Korea
Kombucha
Living in Oregon was great. Kombucha is everywhere. Costco carries Kombucha everywhere except in Korea. The best brand we found was Gingerade. But I liked sampling the kombucha everywhere, several bars brew it on-site and you can fill up a growler and take it home.
What is Kombucha, you ask? It is fermented tea, filled with powerful probiotics and it is so good for your health. It does contain 1 percent alcohol so that should not get you into trouble with the new draconian drunk driving laws here in Korea!
Since neither the Commissary nor Costco nor anyone else carried it, or even knew what it was, we decided that we had to brew it ourselves. The starter kit we brought with us had gone bad. So, we bought kombucha from Amazon and used that and the leftover starter kit to get started.
We used green tea as the base. Straight black tea and jasmine tea will work but not Earl Grey due to the bergamot oil in the tea.
We brewed up several gallons of tea, added sugar, the starter kit, and the cans of kombucha. Then we put it in a sprouted warmer kit ordered from Amazon and wrapped another gallon in an electric blanket. You have to keep the kombucha at about 80 degrees F (26.67 Celsius).
Then we waited for six weeks. Finally ready to go today and we bottled it and started our next batch!
Here's what it looks like with the scuzzy taken out of the kombucha.
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Kefir
Making Kefir was easy, we've been making it for years. We had started kits we bought in Oregon before we left. Just got some organic milk and we were in business. If you have to use Korean milk, make sure it is full-fat milk, 2 percent makes watery kefir. There are recipes for using almond milk, coconut milk, and rice milk but we have not used them because we heard it would be pretty watery. Might want to try Goat milk sometime though. The Commissary's organic full-fat Milk is perfect. You can also buy Kefir at the Commissary just to see if you like it but their Kefir has extra sugar in it and I am not sure it would be a good starter mix. Best to order the starter kits from Amazon (they will be delivered to a local address) and you should not have any problems. But with both be sure you sanitize your containers with hot boiling water before making either kombucha or kefir. Need to keep stray random non-cultured bacteria out of the mix.
See below for articles on the health benefits of Kombucha and Kefir, articles on how to make it, and where to buy it locally.
As a personal testimony a few years ago, I noticed that I did not have hay fever in the Spring. I used to have to make a trip to the urgent care/ER because I got so inflamed that I could not even open my eyes and I was sneezing so bad. The medicine they gave me worked a bit but I mostly just suffered. Then I started eating kefir for breakfast and drinking Kombucha and my hay fever disappeared.!
External Links
Health benefits of Kefir
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Health benefits of Kombucha
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How to make kombucha at home
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How to Make Kefir
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Where to Buy Kombucha in Seoul
where to buy kombucha in Seoul
Note:
Kombucha is now widely available in Korea. My brother-in-law even has a side hustle making Mama Kombucha. You buy it in stores and some coffee shops.
Bing AI provided some places where you can find Kombucha and Kefir in Korea. The commissaries carry it, a few larger grocery chains now carry both.
Kombucha is a fermented, lightly effervescent, sweetened black tea drink that is popular for its health benefits1. In Korea, you can find kombucha in various forms, such as:
CORE BIO is a company that produces organic kombucha with different flavors, such as lemon, ginger, and berry. You can order their products online from their website2 or find them in some health food stores.
TEAZEN is another company that offers kombucha in powder stick form, which you can mix with water or juice. They claim to be the world's first to introduce this convenient way of consuming kombucha. You can also order their products online from their website3 or find them in some supermarkets and convenience stores.
Homebrewing is an option if you want to make your kombucha at home. You will need a SCOBY (symbiotic culture of bacteria and yeast), tea, sugar, and a glass jar. You can buy a SCOBY online or get one from a friend who already brews kombucha. Some online tutorials and recipes can guide you through the process of making your kombucha.
Kefir is a fermented milk drink that contains probiotics, which are beneficial for your gut health1. In Korea, you can find kefir in different ways, such as:
Buying ready-made kefir drinks from some supermarkets, convenience stores, or online shops. Some brands that offer kefir drinks are CORE BIO, TEAZEN, and Lifeway. They have various flavors and types of kefir, such as organic, low-fat, or powder stick234.
Make your kefir at home with kefir grains and milk. Kefir grains are a mixture of bacteria and yeast that ferment milk and produce kefir. You can buy kefir grains online or get them from someone who already makes kefir. You will also need a glass jar, a cloth, and a rubber band to cover the jar. Many online guides and videos can show you how to make kefir at home1.
Visiting a kefir cafe where you can enjoy fresh kefir drinks and other products made with kefir, such as smoothies, ice cream, or cheese. Some examples of kefir cafes in Korea are Kefir Lab in Seoul, Kefir House in Busan, and Kefir Story in Daegu.
I hope this helps you find kefir in Korea. Cheers!
Kombucha
Ode to Kombucha
We have finally mastered the art of brewing home Kombucha and are enjoying a glass of this miracle drink every morning along with our homemade kefir and our power smoothies. If I keep this up, I will live to be a hundred years old. Only 45 more years to go....
Ode to Kombucha
Kombucha
Only drink it in the morning
Morning Delight
By the dawning sun
Up at the morning dawn
Can't wait for my morning cup
Have to have my kombucha
At least once a day.
Ode to Kefir
Kefir
Everyday
Food of the gods
In every way
Radiant health will follow.
THE SIMPLE GUIDE TO KICKASS KOMBUCHA
It's a big day everyone! The day your intestinal microbiota has been begging you for. The day you say goodbye to expensive store-bought kombucha. The day you become a brewmaster I impart to you the secrets of homemade kombucha!
The goal of this guide is to be your one-stop shop for homemade kombucha brewage, from SCOBY-less to fermented perfection. No hopping around the interwebs. No fuss. No confusion. Because making homemade kombucha is so simple (albeit a bit slow), and I hope after reading this you'll give it a whirl! Let's hope right to it.
HOW TO MAKE HOMEMADE KOMBUCHA: OVERVIEW
This post will go into detail about each step in the process of making kombucha. For succinct instructions, scroll to the bottom where a recipe card lays out the basics of making homemade kombucha. The general order of things goes something like this (you can jump around this tutorial by clicking the links below):
Make SCOBY (1 to 4 weeks) ?" to make the "mother."
First Fermentation (6 to 10 days) ?" to make the actual kombucha.
Second Fermentation (3 to 10 days) ?" to carbonate the kombucha.
You can also click to jump to a few useful resources:
Supplies needed ?" My top tools for brewing 'Buch.
Kombucha FAQ ?" Be sure to check out the comments section as well for answers to many questions.
Get the printable guide ?" Everything from this post, in printable PDF form.
HOW TO MAKE KOMBUCHA VIDEO
How to Make Homemade Kombucha
Before we start, here are some general notes that are consistent throughout the whole homemade kombucha process.
No metal or plastic containers. Metal can react with the acidic kombucha and hurt your SCOBY, while plastic can house nasty bacteria that you don't want sneaking in.
Cleaning is key. A recurring theme in kombucha brewing is that EVERYTHING must be CLEAN! We're creating the perfect environment for good bacterial growth, but if a bad bacteria slip in, it could ruin your batch (and make you pretty sick).
Temperature plays a role. Fermentation goes a bit quicker in warmer temperatures, and a bit slower in colder weather.
No mold zone. If you see any mold growing on your SCOBY or in the tea (which I understand can be difficult to discern from the hideous SCOBY, but will generally be green, white, or black), then toss your whole batch.
Milk kefir is not only easy to make, but it is a delicious, probiotic-rich, versatile beverage your whole family can enjoy. Whether you are just exploring how to make milk kefir at home or have cultured dairy before, this video and instructions are here to help make culturing milk kefir at home easy.
BEFORE YOU BEGIN
These instructions utilize the traditional starter culture known as milk kefir grains, rehydrated and ready-to-make milk kefir. If you wish to make milk kefir with a powdered Kefir Starter Culture, consult our article on How to Make Kefir with Direct-set Starter Culture.
If you have purchased our dehydrated milk kefir grains, please follow the instructions included with your milk kefir grains or watch our how-to video on How to Activate Milk Kefir Grains to get started.
If you wish to use raw milk to make milk kefir, be sure to activate your milk kefir grains using pasteurized milk first. You can then slowly transition them to raw milk.
WHAT YOU'LL NEED TO MAKE MILK KEFIR
To get started, first, gather your supplies and choose a variety of milk to use.
Supplies for Making Milk Kefir
You'll need the following supplies to make milk kefir, most of which can be found in the Milk Kefir Starter Kit. For more information on what supplies work best (and what to avoid) read our tutorial: Choosing the Best Equipment for Making Milk Kefir.
A glass jars.
A non-metal stirring utensil.
A breathable cover for the jar such as a tight-weave towel, butter muslin, paper towel, or paper coffee filter
A band to secure the cover to the jar like a rubber band or canning jar ring.
A fine mesh plastic strainer for removing the kefir grains from the finished kefir
Ingredients for Making Milk Kefir
Consult our article on choosing milk for making kefir to help you decide which milk is best for you!
1-2 teaspoons active Milk Kefir Grains
Cow or goat milk
INSTRUCTIONS FOR MAKING MILK KEFIR
Transfer the active kefir grains into up to 4 cups of fresh milk.
Cover with a coffee filter or butter muslin secured by a rubber band or jar ring.
Place in a warm spot, 68°-85°F, to culture.
Culture until milk is slightly thickened and the aroma is pleasant. This generally takes 24 hours but can take less time in warmer temperatures, so keep an eye on your grains.
After the milk changes texture and culturing is complete, separate the kefir grains from the finished kefir.
Place the kefir grains in a new batch of milk.
Store the finished kefir in the refrigerator.
REMOVING GRAINS FROM FINISHED MILK KEFIR
Use Your (Clean!) Fingers
As your milk kefir grains grow in size, you may choose to remove the kefir grains by hand. Make sure your hands are very clean and well rinsed, but do not use anti-bacterial soap to avoid contaminating the culture.
Use a Plastic Mesh Strainer
Sometimes milk kefir can be a bit thick. If necessary, you can use a silicone spatula or plastic spoon (in a swirling motion) to help work the kefir through the strainer. Stainless steel can be used if necessary; just be sure it's stainless steel and not a reactive metal.
Pour Kefir into A Shallow Bowl
This will make the grains easier to see. Using a plastic or wooden spoon, scoop the grains out. Once the grains have been removed, pour the finished kefir into a container.
OVER-THICKENED KEFIR
While kefir sometimes turns out to be thin, it is also possible for kefir to over-thicken or turn into curds and whey. If this happens, you may need to strain your kefir grains with extra care. You can find tips in our Straining Over-Thickened Kefir tutorial.
WHAT'S NEXT?
Following the above process, you can make milk kefir at home regularly. If after making milk kefir for a while you decide you don't need 4 cups every day, it is possible to make smaller batches. Just choose a method in our tutorial How to Slow Down Making Milk Kefir + Make Smaller Batches.
Resting Your Milk Kefir Grains
If you ever reach a point where you need to take a break from making milk kefir, there are a few ways you can put your kefir grains on pause. This includes refrigerating them for shorter breaks and drying them for longer breaks.
In either case, your grains must be activated and cultured kefir regularly for 3 to 4 weeks before you attempt either of these resting methods.
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I also avoid Carbs at night, and I am gluten-free since my wife has celiac disease. and I limit my hamburger consumption to no more than once a month.
physical fitness regime
most days I go for a three to five-mile walk, bike five K on my exercise bike, do three sets of pull-ups/swings, and do yoga and weightlifting. About two hours total per day. While in the park I do some pull-downs, twisting wheels, and cross-training as well.
I may sign up for a gym and join a Pilates or yoga club.
I also do ceregem massage bed, weekly massage therapy, acupuncture, and moxibustion at home.
I keep track of my fitness in my daily journal noting what I did the day before, including what I ate using the following format: (November 2 entry)
Health
Weight: 188
BM:
Symptoms: moderate pain levels
Doctor Visit: scheduled November 7th for follow-up re chronic leg pain
Results: TBC
Follow-Up Due: March 2024
Med News Items:
Diet:
Breakfast: smoothie
Lunch rice, soup, fish Korean side dishes
` Dinner GF Pizza
snacks:
Dessert:
Drinks: Alcohol nó Alcohol Day
blend decaf, kombucha, coffee, fake coffee, fruit juices, etc
Exercise
Actual:
bike seven k
pull up three times consisting of 3 sets of squats, and two sets of swinging.
New strategy
15 three sets of 50 reps per weight
15 minutes of Yoga
5 sets of 50-step reps
5k on the bike
3 miles walk.
Grip periodically 100 reps
Standing desk for two hours
pull up 5.
pull down 200.
wheel 200
Ceregem:
foot massage unit:
neck shoulder massage unit:
Moxibustion
Ceregeem pulls up.
while walking exercise in the park
twisting 200
cross training
pull-downs
Acupuncture weekly
Massage weekly
Ceregem treatment
I first bought a cergem acupressure massage bed in 1996 and use it almost every day. the bed uses infrared heat and jade technology to provide acupressure therapy as the jade crystals move up and down your spine providing long-lasting pain relief leading to deeper sleep. I usually use it while reading before going to bed.
from Bing AI review
Ceregem massage bed is a therapeutic bed that uses a combination of massage, heat, and acupressure to provide relaxation and relief from pain. The bed is designed to provide a full-body massage that targets pressure points and helps to improve blood circulation. Here are some of the benefits of using a Ceregem massage bed:
1. Relaxation: The massage bed provides a relaxing experience that can help to reduce stress and anxiety.
2. Pain relief: The bed's massage and heat functions can help to relieve pain and soreness in the muscles and joints.
3. Improved circulation: The massage bed's acupressure function can help to improve blood circulation, which can help to reduce inflammation and promote healing.
4. Better sleep: The bed's massage function can help to promote relaxation and improve sleep quality.
5. Detoxification: The bed's heat function can help to promote sweating, which can help to eliminate toxins from the body.
Please note that while the Ceregem massage bed has many potential benefits, it is important to consult with a healthcare professional before using it, especially if you have any underlying medical conditions.
Moxibustion Treatment
I have been moxibution treatment for about a year now. we have a home kit which we do in conjunction with using the ceregem massage therapy bed. About two to three treatments per week are ideal. We also occasionally go to a clinic for treatment.
Moxibustion involves burning wormwood and applying it to your skin. It is an ancient Chinese-Korean medical treatment. for more info read the following from the Bing AI chat on moxibution.
Moxibustion is a traditional Chinese medicine therapy that involves burning dried mugwort on or near the skin's surface to stimulate acupuncture points. It is believed to have several health benefits, including:
1. Pain relief: Moxibustion can help to relieve pain and soreness in the muscles and joints.
2. Improved digestion: Moxibustion can help to improve digestion and alleviate digestive issues such as constipation and diarrhea.
3. Reduced inflammation: Moxibustion can help to reduce inflammation in the body, which can help to alleviate symptoms of conditions such as arthritis and asthma.
4. Improved blood circulation: Moxibustion can help to improve blood circulation, which can help to promote healing and reduce inflammation.
5. Stress relief: Moxibustion can help to promote relaxation and reduce stress and anxiety.
Please note that while moxibustion has many potential benefits, it is important to consult with a healthcare professional before using it, especially if you have any underlying medical conditions.
mental fitness regime
Alzheimer's Prevention
I heard a long time ago that playing music, learning languages, and doing mental games like crossword puzzles every day is the best thing you can do to ward off the dreaded Dementia or Alzheimer's. Since my mother died of Alzheimer's I am at increased risk. I have been doing all three for almost a year now, playing the piano, studying Korean via Duolingo and watching K Dramas, doing daily writing prompts, writing three to five poems or short stories per day every day, and writing down my dreams and journal entries writing three to four hours every day, and weekly blog postings, instead of crossword puzzles.
daily writing in my journals
I have been writing a daily journal since my 40s. I write down my dreams, my anxieties, my daydreams, and fantasies, and draft poetry and stories first.
then I write my journal including what I did the day before, major news items, things to note, goals for the day, what I ate the day before, and my daily exercise/health statistics.
I save my creative work at least once a week, including putting down my work on my creative writing spreadsheet to keep track of everything. I write anywhere from one to ten pieces every day.
I also keep track of books read, movie/TV shows seen and music played to and listened to.
I am currently reading the classics =Finishing Plato's The Republic.
daily piano playing
I have been playing the piano almost daily now for a year. Usually between 5 and 6:30 pm. Due to noise restrictions can't play after 7 p.m. as I live in a high-rise apartment building.
This time around I have started analyzing the music before I play it noting the music areas to pay attention to including key, key changes, registry changes, very high and very low notes which are hard for me to read, and repetition patterns. I found that this simple step has paid off in helping me play a lot better and I feel my skills are returning to where they were when I last played about seven years ago. I am sure I will achieve my lifelong goal of reaching semi-professional level playing within a few years.
I highly recommend this tip, playing each hand separately first when doing complicated counterpoint like in Bach, and listening, when possible, to the music you are going to play on YouTube while reading the score, to anyone returning to playing music.
I recently played my first Mozart Sonata and well I did not do badly. I will return to it next year after finishing other piano books.
For more details see my "Playing Mozart Sonatas."
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Daily writing prompts
Every day I write something following prompts from Pensively 101, Writer's Cramp, and Fan Story.
here's what I wrote on November 2, 2023
Wednesday, November 1, 2023
Pensively
three- word challenge
our three words today are:
serenity
tranquility
silence
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Pensively
three- word challenge
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pensively
Tuesday's Thoughts! " Nuggets of Gold (wordpress.com)
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Pensively
The image below is from Artur Tumasjan on Unsplashed.
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Time To Go Joe Lewis
Time To Go Grim Reaper
Time To Go Express It Eight
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Joe Lewis was an old man.
sitting in his lonely room on his bed
up at 0 dark hundred, thinking about his life.
and the end game is coming soon.
There was a knock on the door.
it was the Grim Reaper, saying,
Joe Lewis, come with me,
it is time to go."
TOPIC
bed in a lonely room
No Forgiveness Hamas
No Forgiveness Terrorism
No Forgiveness
No Forgiveness Express in Eight
No Forgiveness writing com.
Issac was visiting Israel,
Went to a music concert.
There was a fierce fight,
When Hamas terrorists stormed the concert.
Killing his wife in front of him.
He managed to escape, vowing there would.
Be no forgiveness for the monsters,
That had murdered his wife.
Fierce
escape
forgiveness
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Animal World Cosmos Institute
Animal World Berkeley
Animal World Sam Adams
Animal World Animals
Animal World Writer's Cramp
Animal World Dash
Animal World Writing Com
258 words
One day, about five months ago, I received a mysterious package, containing a pair of sunglasses and a cryptic note that read,
"Put these glasses on and see the world as it is. For Mad Men only."
The incident reminded me of the movie, "They" in which a man puts on mysterious sunglasses that reveal that many people are, in fact, aliens from another planet.
Curious, I put on the glasses and noticed that everybody around me had been transformed into hideous creatures, straight from his worst nightmares. Everyone transformed into aliens, animals, demons, goblins, ghosts, monsters, wraiths, and zombies.
The soldiers at the base APO had become giant rats in uniforms. The local staff had become wild animals.
I turned on the TV and saw all the politicians on TV were now screaming monkeys screeching at each other the former president was an orangutang, the current president was a giant Kamona dragon, and the pundits were all mockingbirds screaming and screeching, mocking the politicians.
The taxi drivers were all wolves. The passengers on the buses and subways were bleating sheep.
His wife was now a tiger, and he looked in the mirror and found that he had been turned into a giant bear. He talked to his best friend during their weekly Zoom session and they were all bears too.
Finally, he had enough. He took the masses off and everybody reverted to their normal shapes and forms. Disgusted he threw the glasses into the trash saying,
"I have had enough of this false reality."
NEW PROMPT:
Write a story or poem in which your current world becomes an animal analogy.
Think Animal Farm but to the scale of events in your personal life. Who would you turn into pigs? Who would become cows? What about the chickens? Maybe an ostrich or two?
NEW Prompt DUE in 16 hours 33 minutes
(11:59 am on Thursday, November 2)
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The Taking of Train 967 bound for the Pentagon. terrorism
The Taking of Train 967 Bound for the Pentagon Writer's Cramp
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"Listen up. I will only say this once. We have taken control of this train. You will do what we say or we will send you straight to hell. "
That is how I announced the first subway jacking in US history. We high-jacked a subway train in Suburban Virginia bound for the Pentagon on a Monday morning boarding the train at Van Dorn station, by high-jacking the computer control systems that control the movement of the train. The train flew through the stations and we ended it 15 minutes later.
My associates went through the train taking people's phones, bags, and wallets. We were armed with the latest high-tech weapons and gear we had bought at a gun show where no one questioned us or did a background check as we all looked like ordinary working-class white people.
It went down so quickly but unfortunately, we had to shoot a few people to make sure that everyone knew who was in charge.
I went on the air and addressed the world.
"We are the voices of the forgotten people, the little people, the left behind. We are taking this train in the name of the people. We will take what we need to finance the revolution and then leave you your phones and personal items for you to sort out once we reach the end of the line. Cooperate and you will live, resist, and join your friends in hell. Any questions?''
It was all over in ten minutes, as we had picked a train near the beginning of its daily run and it was crowded as hell. When we got to the Roslyn station, we threw out smoke bangs flash and disappeared into the crowd.
Then we went to my bar and watched the TV coverage of the hijacking. And sat in the back room and plotted our next target -while we went through the haul ?" over two million dollars in money, watches, and the like.
And we laughed. It had been so easy to do, that we wondered why no one tried it before.
October 6, 1866, saw the first train robbery in the U.S. when the Reno Gang stole $16,000 ... A crime that likely inspired copycat robberies over the next few decades.
For tomorrow, write a story or poem whose setting is on a train during a train robbery. It can be any sort of train (historical, fantasy, supernatural, etc.) And the POV character can be a passenger, a train official, or one of the robbers.
However, to make the assignment useful practice that might push you a little out of your normal comfort zone, the tale must be told in first-person POV (so the POV character/narrator is "I") and in the present tense.
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express it eight.
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The Pumpkin's Evil Plot Halloween
The Pumpkin's Evil Plot Pumpkin
The Pumpkin's Evil Plot Express It Eight
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A lonely farmer threw together,
His prized pumpkins are on a roadside cart.
The farmer getting ready to sell his award-winning
Giant pumpkins the day before Halloween.
The deranged, insane pumpkins,
Vowing revenge on the human race,
Attacked the hapless lonely farmer,
Yelling "Death to all Humans."
writer's cramp
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Weekly Challenge
The prompt word for the week is:
PUMPKIN
Your poem...
must include the prompt word, pumpkin
must be at least 12 lines long
does not have to be about Halloween, in case you were wondering.
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other writing com
Three Thanksgiving Poems
Thanksgiving Puny Situation Writing com.
Many years ago
I had a traditional Thanksgiving
With friends in Korea
My fellow teacher said
He knew how to cook a turkey
My wife who was in the army
Got the turkey and we invited friends
Turns out he lied, he had no clue
We cooked the bird with the giblets
Inside the stuffing
Took it out and told our Korean guests
That was "American Stamina" food
Turned out and found that the giblets
Were all gone
That was a puny situation
And a memorable Thanksgiving dinner
What kind of pitch shall we make today? Are you having a ball going to bat with your New Year's writing resolution? Or haven't you left first base, yet? What's the score? On to the contest. I'm game if you're game.
Write a story or poem featuring a puny situation.
Make one of the genres of Comedy.
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A Thanksgiving Poem
My favorite holiday
As a child
Was always Thanksgiving.
My mother
Being from the South
Knew how to do Thanksgiving right.
She made the best turkey.
This side of paradise
Just perfect
A big oven-roasted bird
Complete with stuffing
Made with breadcrumbs.
Oysters, carrots, onions, garlic
Mushrooms And secret spices
Cooked in the bird of course.
Cranberry sauce
Gravy
wild rice
white rice
Mashed potatoes
Sweet potatoes with marshmallows
Salad
Stuffing of course
Yams
And pumpkin pie
With ice cream
For dessert
Turkey's Revolt ?" A Thanksgiving Dinner Nightmare
On Thanksgiving Day
The feast started late.
The turkey was having a problem.
He refused to go quietly.
Into the oven
The turkey stood up.
Screaming
What is wrong with you people?
You are going to burn me alive?
What have I done to you?
Why can't you just pardon me?
Like the President did
I mean, I am cuter than Peter Butter
And Jelly anyway
The turkey grabbed a knife.
And killed the guests.
Running out into the dark
Joining all the other
Suddenly awoke turkeys.
All screaming
"I am mad as hell.
and not going to take it anymore.
Death to all humans."
That was the day.
that went down.
As the Thanksgiving
Turkey revolt.
We Knew We Were Soul Mates 5-7-5
when I first met you
sparks flowed from heart to heart.
We knew we were soul mates.
You Rescued Me
when I first met you
I was lost, you rescued me.
with the power of love
5-7-5 Poetry Lost
missed save for publication love poem.
Write a 5-7-5 poem on the topic of lost
7 Spots Left Open To All
Deadline in 10 hours
Write a 5-7-5 poem on the topic of loss.
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ABC Poetry Contest
For this contest, you are challenged to write an ABC poem. ABC poetry has five lines and often is used to express feelings. See the announcement for an example. Cash Prize.
MAGA Madness ABC Poem ABC
MAGA Madness ABC Poem MAGA
MAGA Madness ABC Poem Trump
MAGA Madness ABC Poem Fan Story
missed deadline hold for publication.
MAGA Madness
No longer a fringe right-wing group
On the way to take over the land
Politicians cower in fear.
Is Fascism coming to the United States?
this contest you are challenged to write an ABC poem.
Write a one-stanza, five-line poem.
The first letter of each of the first four lines follows the order of the alphabet while the last line can be any letter whatsoever. For example, a poet might choose to use the following letter combination: D-E-F-G-A.
The lines may be of any syllable length. Also, line length may vary from line to line.
The poem may be about any subject or topic.
Rhyming and meter are optional.
Example
As sunrise leaves me speechless, winter morn
breathes blossoms, etched in gold, on the window pane.
Creation iced in splendor, spring is born,
despite the calendar, I entertain...
a frosted filigree of daffodils.
"Frosted Fantasy" by Irish Rain
More information at Poetry Dances.
Write about anything using this format. An ABC poem usually only has one stanza. But we are keeping the format open. You can submit a traditional ABC poem or you can include additional stanzas. If you include additional stanzas, they must follow the ABC format but not necessarily the same starting letters.
The winner takes away a $100 cash prize. Second place will win twenty-five member dollars. Third place ten member dollars.
Deadline: in 3 hours
BING AI Chat Bot provides some additional background information on the MAGA movement for those of you who don't follow US politics that closely. The MAGA movement does have parallels in other countries.
Q: can you tell me about the MAGA movement in the U.S.? Where did it come from? what are their goals and what are the links to other right-wing movements both in the U.S. and worldwide?
A: The MAGA movement is a nativist political movement that emerged in the United States during the 2016 presidential campaign of its putative leader, Donald Trump1. Its name is derived from Trump's 2016 campaign slogan "Make America Great Again," which became a rallying cry for many Trump supporters during his presidency and beyond2.
The movement is characterized by its populist, nationalist, and anti-establishment sentiments, as well as its strong loyalty to Trump and his agenda. Some of the core beliefs of the MAGA movement include:
America is in decline and needs to be restored to its former greatness.
Immigration and globalization are threats to American sovereignty and identity.
The political, media, and cultural elites are corrupt and out of touch with the common people.
Trump is the only leader who can defend and represent the interests of the American people.
The 2020 presidential election was rigged and stolen from Trump by a deep state conspiracy3
The MAGA movement has links to other right-wing movements both in the U.S. and worldwide, such as:
The Tea Party movement emerged in 2009 as a conservative backlash against the Obama administration and its policies.
The alt-right movement, which is a loosely defined group of white nationalists, white supremacists, neo-Nazis, and other extremists who promote racism, antisemitism, and xenophobia online and offline.
The QAnon movement is a conspiracy theory that claims that Trump is secretly fighting a cabal of satanic pedophiles who control the world.
The Proud Boys movement is a far-right neo-fascist organization that engages in political violence and street brawls with left-wing activists.
The Patriot Movement is a collection of anti-government militias and paramilitary groups that oppose federal authority and prepare for a civil war.
The Brexit movement, which is a campaign that led to the United Kingdom's withdrawal from the European Union in 2016
The Yellow Vest movement is a populist protest movement that started in France in 2018 against rising fuel prices and living costs.
The Bolsonaro movement, which is a political movement that supports the right-wing populist president of Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro4??
Fan story
Zombie Apocalypse
The zombies screaming,
Zombie apocalypse now.
"Death To All Humans."
5-7-5 Horror
Write a 5-7-5 poem on the topic of horror
Friday the 13th chapter four for blog entry on Fan Story
Closing Time
On hearing the news
Of a friend's passing,
I was overwhelmed.
With grief and sadness.
And I realized that my time.
On this mortal plane
Is also coming.
To the end game.
Closing time
the final act of this cosmic play.
The grim reaper
Has my number.
Some day
He will come for me.
And the love of my life
My lovely wife.
And my family
friends, and enemies
far-flung throughout
the whole world.
In the long run
We can't escape.
our grim fate,
We end up in the same place.
When the Grim Reaper
Knocks at our door.
Are we ready for that?
Perhaps not.
But each day
We have left.
In another day
We can celebrate.
That we are alive
having survived another year
And cheated death's grim embrace.
every day remaining is a blessing.
We are but one step closer to the grave.
the end will come.
when your time
comes to an end.
but not today.
So, rejoice, my friends.
Live your remaining moments.
Filled with friendship,
Love, laughter, and joy.
the end
| Author Notes | I have been following a fitness regime for years. here are some of my tips. Hope you find them useful |
By jake cosmos aller
COSTCO blog
Overview
Explore
COSTCO is an American multinational corporation that operates a chain of membership-only big-box retail stores, also known as warehouse clubs or wholesale clubs. COSTCO sells a wide range of products, from groceries and electronics to furniture and clothing, at discounted prices. COSTCO also offers services such as gas stations, pharmacies, optical centers, travel packages, and more. COSTCO is known for its Kirkland Signature brand, which is its private label of products that are often of high quality and low cost. COSTCO is also famous for its rotisserie chicken, hot dogs, and pizza, which are sold at its food courts.
COSTCO's history dates back to 1976, when Sol Price, a pioneer in warehouse club retailing, opened the first Price Club in San Diego, California. Price Club was the world's first membership warehouse club, a place where efficient buying and operating practices gave members access to unmatched savings. Price Club targeted small business owners, who could buy items in bulk for their use or resale. Price Club expanded rapidly, opening stores across the US and Canada.
In 1983, James Sinegal and Jeffrey Brotman, two former Price Club executives, opened the first COSTCO in Seattle, Washington. COSTCO followed a similar business model as Price Club but also catered to individual consumers as well as businesses. COSTCO also differentiated itself by offering a wider selection of products, including fresh produce, meat, seafood, bakery, and deli items. COSTCO also introduced its Kirkland Signature brand in 1992, which soon became a hallmark of its quality and value proposition. COSTCO grew quickly, opening stores in various states and countries.
In 1993, Price Club and COSTCO merged to form Price/COSTCO, a company that combined the strengths and expertise of both warehouse clubs. The merger created the largest membership warehouse club chain in the world, with over 200 locations and 22 million members. In 1997, the company changed its name to COSTCO Companies, Inc., and in 1999, it adopted its current name, COSTCO Wholesale Corporation.
Today, COSTCO is the third largest retailer in the world and the largest retailer of choice and prime beef, organic foods, rotisserie chicken, and wine. COSTCO has over 860 warehouses worldwide, serving more than 127 million members in 14 countries. COSTCO's mission is to continually provide its members with quality goods and services at the lowest possible prices. COSTCO's vision is to be the most respected and successful warehouse club in the world.
If you want to learn more about COSTCO, you can visit its official website1 or read some of the articles below:
COSTCO " History & Facts " Britannica
COSTCO - Wikipedia
About Us " COSTCO
COSTCO Wholesale History: Founding, Timeline, and Milestones - Zippier
COSTCO History and Founding: How the Wholesale Club Redefined Retail - Business Insider
COSTCO Poems
Shopping At COSTCO Always an Adventure
Lost Shopping Cart in Songdo
Lost Shoe in Medford
Close Encounter with Potential Killer On Richmond Highway
Ode To the COSTCO Workers Around The World
Ode To COSTCO Old Poem
COSTCO People Watching
COSTCO Blues
I Love COSTCO
COSTCO People Watching
I love my COSTCO.
I love going there to shop.
But most importantly
I love people-watching.
Looking at people as they walk by
Wondering what their stories are.
And covertly checking
Out the beautiful girls
As they walk on by.
And when they smile at me
It makes my day.
Yes, I love my COSTCO.
And COSTCO loves me back.
Extracting my money
From my wallet.
I go in for one simple thing
And walk out
Having spent 500 dollars.
Yes COSTCO has my number
And loves me too
Long live COSTCO
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Shopping At COSTCO Always An Adventure
I have been a COSTCO member
Since 2000 or so
And have shopped all over
Springfield Virginia
Was my home COSTCO,
Until we moved to Medford, Oregon.
Also shopped at the DC COSTCO,
The Richmond Highway COSTCO
COSTCO in richmond, California
Or Fairfield California
When we are in the Bay Area.
COSTCO in LA
COSTCO in Ilsan, Korea
Is now our home base.
Wherever we went
We always felt
Welcomed, safe
And the staff
Were always friendly
And helpful.
But shopping at COSTCO
Always is an adventure
Here then are our
COSTCO misadventures
Lost Shopping Cart In Songdo
Shopping at COSTCO
In Songdo Korea
In the COVID era,
We encountered
A strange phenomenon
We thought that someone
Had stolen our shopping cart.
We alerted the COSTCO staff
And they found
Our lost shopping cart.
The COSTCO staff
Were helpful as always.
And we left, shaken up
But finally satisfied.
Lost Shoe In Medford
In Medford, Oregon
We shopped at COSTCO
Bought thousands of dollars
In-home improvement products
As we renovated our rental properties.
Also of course food and clothing
And sundry items
Always walking out
After spending hundreds of dollars.
COSTCO knows
How to extract money
From their grateful customers.
But one day
We had a strange thing happen
While trying on shoes
Somehow, I lost my shoes.
Someone had stolen
My shoes
Or so it seemed.
We searched high
And low
But never found
Our shoes.
The manager was apologetic
But there was little to be done
Just another misadventure
In COSTCO land.
Close Encounter With Potential Killer On Richmond Highway
In all my years
Of shopping at COSTCO
Only once did I feel
Threatened or unsafe.
It happened so suddenly
My wife was
Accosted by someone
Claiming we had cut in line.
She was holding my spot
As I brought the cart over.
An angry black woman
Got real personal
In her face
Using abusive language.
And making a huge scene
My wife told her
To buzz off.
This all occurred
While I was in the restroom
Came back to find the woman
Cursing at Angela.
Then we left
She was waiting for us
At the exit.
We felt uncomfortable
Went to the manager
Who escorted us
To our car.
We felt that woman
Who was high
Probably on speed
Or crack cocaine.
Might have gone
To get a gun
To blow us away.
But fortunately
She left
And we left.
Shaken by the close
Encounter with a random act
Of senseless violence.
Ode To The COSTCO Workers Around The World
Before COVID shutdowns
I always liked going to COSTCO.
Liked the sampling
The bustle,
Checking out new products.
Checking out the other customers
The staff were always friendly
Helpful and courteous.
But with the COVID shutdowns
COSTCO has become
Even more of a lifesaver
For many people
Around the world.
And we all feel
That COSTCO has our backs
As we navigate the new normal.
COSTCO was one of the first corporations
To mandate mask use throughout their stores
Before it was required.
They had senior hours
To protect the most vulnerable.
COSTCO workers
Are my heroes
In these dark times
We are living in.
Ode to COSTCO
I love my COSTCO
I love going there to shop.
But most importantly
I love people-watching.
Looking at people as they walk by
Wondering what their stories are.
And covertly checking
Out the beautiful girls
As they walk on by.
And when they,
Smile at me
It makes my day
Yes I love my COSTCO
And COSTCO
Loves me back.
Extracting my money
From my wallet.
I go in for one simple thing
And walk out
Having spent 500 dollars.
Yes COSTCO has my number
And loves me too.
COSTCO Blues:
This poem is about the narrator's frustration with the long lines and crowds at COSTCO, and how he wishes he could escape to a more peaceful place.
I hate going to COSTCO.
The lines are always too long.
The people are always rude.
The carts are always full.
The prices are always high.
The products are always cheap.
The samples are always gone.
The parking lot is always full,
I wish I could go somewhere else.
Somewhere quiet and serene.
Somewhere with no lines,
And no crowds.
Somewhere with no carts
And no samples.
Somewhere
With no prices.
And no products.
Somewhere like heaven
But I can't.
Because
I need to buy toilet paper.
And rotisserie chicken
And Kirkland Signature vodka
And a giant teddy bear.
And a 65-inch TV.
And a lifetime
Supply of batteries.
And a coffin,
For when
I die of COSTCO blues.
COSTCO Love:
This poem is about the narrator's love for COSTCO, and how he finds everything he needs and wants there, including his soulmate.
I love going to COSTCO.
The lines are always worth the wait.
The people are always friendly.
The carts are always full of goodies.
The prices are always low.
The products are always high-quality.
The samples are always delicious.
The parking lot is always spacious.
I don't want to go anywhere else.
COSTCO is my paradise.
COSTCO is my home.
COSTCO is my everything.
I find everything I need.
And want at COSTCO.
Food and drinks
And clothes and books.
Gadgets and toys,
And tools and furniture.
Jewelry and flowers,
And art and travel.
And most importantly,
Love.
I met my soulmate at COSTCO.
We were both reaching
For the last rotisserie chicken.
We locked eyes and smiled.
We decided
To share the chicken
And our lives.
We got married at COSTCO,
In front of the giant teddy bear.
We exchanged rings
From the jewelry section.
We cut a cake from the bakery.
We toasted with
Kirkland Signature champagne.
We danced to the music
From the electronics department.
We spent our honeymoon
At COSTCO in Spain.
In a tent
From the camping section.
We made love on a mattress
From the bedding section.
We cuddled under a blanket
From the home section/
We dreamed of our future
At COSTCO.
Raising our kids,
And growing old together.
Shopping,
And saving
And living and loving
At COSTCO.
My COSTCO love
Long live COSTCO
Lost bag
I am at a crowded cafeteria and a college campus I am an underground agent for the government and we are tracking the movements of a potential terrorist who has threatened to kill Palestinians and or Jewish kids at this college,
I put down my bag on on a counter and we went to track down the terrorists when we finished arresting them, avoiding a huge incident when we finished arresting the terrorists. I go back and find that my bag is completely gone.
I don't know what to do. I lost my laptop and my phone and some money in it, and a library book.
I was devastated as I had lost my bag. I also realized I was stupid for leaving the bag unattended so I called my wife who was out of town. And she agreed I could go to COSTCO to replace the phone and the computer.
I arranged to do that but I missed my computer and missed my phone and I am upset at how stupid and careless I had been.
COSTCO Goes Green
COSTCO announces a bold new strategy to combat climate change. They will put in every COSTCO warehouse and office building around the world solar panels and mini wind turbines to generate enough power to run their warehouses off the grid and to sell the power back to the local utilities if there is any excess power.
They also in some areas agreed to install geothermal water heating and solar water heating everywhere.
They also agree to fund local bus service so people can get to and from COSTCO from the nearest metro subway systems and they challenge Walmart, Sam's, Target, and other large big box stores worldwide to follow suit. Most of them agreed to do so and join COSTO in forming the Green Business Alliance which will bring together the Corporate sector to jointly work on climate and renewable energy initiatives with governments and the academic sector, vowing to hold a COSTCO Foundation Green Energy annual summit bringing together business, academic and Government leaders to make concrete progress.
COSTCO said that saving the planet is the most important thing that they could do and that they would be fully supportive of a new Green Deal. They also will sell COSTCO renewable energy supplies and they will set up a renewable energy research corporation to help companies and individuals install renewable energy systems.
The progressive left hails COSTCO and conservatives denounce COSTCO for going "woke". The public slides with COSTCO's reputation and sales go way up.
Letter
Dear COSTCO
I have been a member since 1998. I have long admired your corporation for being a great corporation with progressive values. You are a leader in so many areas not to mention that you are a great company to work for, sell great products at a great price, and have the best customer service in the world.
You do so many things you do right and I want to thank you for that, for all the good that you do every day. I would like to suggest that you do much more to combat climate change and become a leader in combating climate change, which as you are no doubt aware is an existential crisis. Climate change and the need to shift to a new Green Deal are imperative if we want to save the entire planet.
There are many things that corporations could do and it's time for COSTCO to step up to do their part. At a minimum, I would recommend that you commit to putting in every single COSTCO warehouse worldwide solar panels on the rooftops and in shading over the car lots, and mini wind turbines so that each COSTCO will be carbon neutral and self-sufficient in terms of energy. This should also include setting up water harvesting systems so that all the water will be self-generated and solar water heaters as well. Excess power could be sold back to the local utilities at cost. I would also greatly expand electric vehicle charging stations.
COSTCO is unfortunately not that accessible to people without public transit. This is something that COSTCO should address. At a minimum, they should set up a free shuttle bus system going employees, visitors, and members taking people from the nearest metro subway stop to COSTCO and this should run during COSTCO business hours starting about 1/2 an hour before the opening of business ending a half an hour after the close of business. It should be free to the public and should run every half hour. This would be a very simple and cost-effective way to make sure that people can easily access COSTCO corporation shops and COSTCO should also consider contributing money to the local public transit companies to expand bus service in the COSTCO neighborhoods that they serve.
I would suggest you call upon your colleagues in the big box industries around the world to do the same, committing to addressing climate change, transit accessibility, and water conservation policies in every store worldwide. If COSTCO steps up and takes the lead, Walmart, Target and the other big market companies will feel they need to do the same. This commitment will make a tremendous difference around the world and it would not cost her much to do so in fact it would save money on energy for all your COSTCO operations worldwide
I'm asking you to commit to making every single COSTCO a green energy building do it for the sake of the planet thank you.
I have blogged about my positive experiences with COSTCO here and feel free to publish any of my COSTCO poems on your website and your magazines. Thanks again for doing everything you do.
Long Live COSTCO.
COSTCO Sets Up Bus Service
COSTCO is unfortunately not that accessible to people without public transit. This is something that COSTCO should address. At a minimum, they should set up a free shuttle bus system going employees, visitors, and members taking people from the nearest metro subway stop to COSTCO and this should run during COSTCO business hours starting about 1/2 an hour before the opening of business ending a half an hour after the close of business. It should be free to the public and should run every half hour. This would be a very simple and cost-effective way to make sure that people can easily access COSTCO corporation shops and COSTCO should also consider contributing money to the local bus service companies to expand bus service in the COSTCO neighborhoods that they serve.
The End
| Author Notes | i have been shopping at COSTCO since 1997. |
By jake cosmos aller
Reflections on Returning to California
I finally made it back to California after a three-year absence. Overall, not too bad. Expensive as hell, crowded, too many homeless people, too many druggies, too much crime. But it is not the dystopian hell hole portrayed on FOX News and the right-wing media.
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I was traveling with my wife, her brother, his wife, and their 12-year-old Korean niece. First time for my sister-in-law and niece to visit the Bay Area. We stayed at Travis AFB near Fairfield because the hotel costs were so high in the Bay Area.
Berkeley
Berkeley 1975 Street Scenes
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Berkeley Time Travels
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674 Santa Rosa My Childhood Home
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Free Roaming in Berkeley as a Child
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As you may know, I grew up almost 55 years ago in the Thousand Oaks Neighborhood of Berkeley. Solano Avenue was the local commercial street lined with restaurants and called Berkeley's Chinatown because of all the Asian restaurants and Asian residents living there. It was also along with the hills, the "white republican sector" of town. Now there are almost no Republicans living in the city.
Berkeley has a lot of nice new housing, mostly high-rise apartments all over the place, who knows one of them could be mine in a few years. Solano Avenue had a lot of new restaurants to check out and lots of my favorite old ones are there.
Sad to see some of the Movie places closed, I think that there are only two movies left in Berkeley except for a Bollywood Indian movie theater in little Bombay.
For those of you who don't know, Berkeley is so much more than Cal. There are ten official neighborhoods according to the Berkeley tourism office. Demographically the city has about 130k permanent residents, with an additional 30k when school is in session.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Berkeley (/??b????rkli/ BURK-lee) is a city on the eastern shore of San Francisco Bay in northern Alameda County, California, United States. It is named after the 18th-century Anglo-Irish bishop and philosopher George Berkeley. It borders the cities of Oakland and Emeryville to the south the city of Albany and the unincorporated community of Kensington to the north. Its eastern border with Contra Costa County generally follows the ridge of the Berkeley Hills. The 2020 census recorded a population of 124,321.
Berkeley is home to the oldest campus in the University of California, the University of California, Berkeley, and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, which is managed and operated by the university. It also has the Graduate Theological Union, one of the largest religious studies institutions in the world. Berkeley is considered one of the most socially progressive cities in the United States.
The 2020 United States Census[90] reported that Berkeley had a population of 124,321. The population density was 11,874 people per square mile of land area (4,584/km2). The racial makeup of Berkeley was 62,450 (50.2%) White, 9,495 (7.6%) Black or African American, 24,701 (19.9%) Asian, 253 (0.2%) Pacific Islander, 226 (0.2%) from Native American, 1,109 (0.9%) from other races, and 9,069 (7.2%) multiracial (two or more races). There were 17,018 (13.7%) of Hispanic or Latino ancestry, of any race.
The neighborhoods are.
The Hills
The hills are mostly white and wealthy. Many people commute to SF or are affiliated with the University. At the top of the hills is Grizzly Peak BLD which features the best views of the entire East Bay. Behind the hills lie Tilden Park, Wildlife Canyon, and Inspiration Point. Favorite haunts of my growing up.
Tilden Regional Park is a regional park in the East Bay of California. It is between the Berkeley Hills and San Pablo Ridge.
Thousand Oaks/Solano
Thousand Oaks neighborhood, where I grew up, lies at the bottom of the hills, and is centered on Solano Avenue which is lined with restaurants and shops. It blends into Albany which was a white working-class enclave back in the day. It was known as Berkeley's Chinatown due to the numerous Asian restaurants in the area, which are still there. I went to Thousand Oaks Elementary where Kamala Harris went a few years after I went there. The movie theater unfortunately closed.
North Berkeley
Has several sub-neighborhoods and has a BART station. It is also the location of King Middle School where I went as a teenager. There are several small restaurants and businesses throughout the neighborhood. Along Shattuck, the main street is Berkeley's Gourmet Ghetto and the home of the original Peets Coffee ¢?" the best coffee shop in Berkeley and where the premium coffee revolution started in the late 50s.
Downtown
Downtown has been transformed with lots of high-rise apartments and a thriving Arts District. Sadly, the five movie theaters have all closed, leaving the Pacific Film Institute the only theater in town. There are a lot of restaurants and coffee shops downtown as well as office buildings. There are several rooftop terrace restaurants. We had dinner in the Study Room on top of the new Marriot. Great views, and decent though expensive food. We dropped $350 for seven people. Berkeley High School is located downtown as is the main public library. Downtown is a booming area filled with apartments, resturants and several live theathers including Berkeley Rep. It is also the site of the Berkeley Film Archives, the last movie theather in Berkeley, and the Berkeley Art Museum.
berkeley friends
Campus
the University Campus domiantes the city as is to be expected. there are three student districts near the campus known as Northside, Southside and College Avenue. Each features resturants, shopping and housing for student, faculty and staff. The northside is also called seminary hill because of all the religious seminaries there - Buddhist, Christian and now a Muslim seminary as well.
.The campus is huge and spreads out from downtown to the hills but most of the campus is the center of the campus a short block away from Telegraph on the South and Hearst on the North. Despite the banning of affirmative action, CAL has done a good job ¢?" lots of Asian students, international studies, some Hispanic and some blacks, and less than 50 percent white.
Lots of activities on Campus, music, and free lectures open to the public. About half the students live on or near Campus but housing students faculty and staff is a huge problem for the University community. Just west of the Campus is the new home of the Berkeley Art Museum and The Pacific Film Institute which screens classic, art, and international movies every night
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Telegraph Avenue runs south from the Campus and into Oakland. It is lined with services for students, and lots of restaurants. Lots of apartments nearby. Used to have a lot of independent bookstores, but a few are still there.
Dwight Street and Telegraph seems stuck in 1969. People's Park is being torn down to be turned into more student housing although they are going to keep a small park there. Right now, it is a homeless encampment and has been an eyesore for years.
South Berkeley
South Berkeley lies between Telegraph, Shattuck, and Sacramento along Ashby Avenue where there is BART station. It also has lots of restaurants and places to go. Back in the day, it was also the unofficial heart of Black Berkeley as Berkeley was 40 percent black, now it is about 6 percent black due to the high cost of real estate in Berkeley where the medium price of a house is over a million and the average rent is over $2,500 per month.
College Avenue Elmwood Rockridge
College Aveue is just west of Telegraph and is lined with residential housing, including the fraternities and sororities. It also has the International House which is a dormitory for foreign students. Elwood is a residential shopping district as is Claremont and Rockrige which is just across the border in Oakland and borders on Piedmont, a traditional wealthy enclave independent of Oakland.
Elmwood is on College Avenue and is similar to Solano Avenue but a bit smaller. Nearby is the Claremont Hotel and neighborhood one of the wealthiest enclaves in Berkeley.
Gilman Street
Gilman is in northwest Berkeley and was a working-class enclave -still is to a certain extent. Nice neighborhood eateries, and live music spaces
Albany
Albany is a suburban neighborhood just west of Berkeley between El Cerito and Gilman district centered on Solano and San Pablo Avenues. It use to be mostly white working class, but is not close to 50 Asian American.
Lorin and North Oakland including Korean Town
To the west of South Berkeley is the Lorin neighborhood which is an up-and-coming neighborhood. To the south is North Oakland including the second-largest Korean town on the West Coast after LA.
This was the traditional heart of Black Berkeley. There are still a lot of blacks living in Berkeley but due to the high rent and housing costs, the city is only seven percent black, when I was a young lad, it was 40 percent black and Oakland was 60 percent black.
West Berkely/Marina
West Berkeley has been gentrified beyond recognition. Back in the day, it was 90 percent black. I spent my first few years there as that was the only neighborhood a junior Cal professor could afford. It is no longer mostly black and is a hipster neighborhood. Lots of brew pubs in the area. Lots of students live here too.
The marina is on the bay. The bay trail runs through the neighborhood. There are restaurants on the bay and the dock of the Bay which is the site of the famous song.
SItting on the Dock of the Bay
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Sittin' in the morning sun
I'll be sittin' when the evening comes
Watching the ships roll in
Then I watch 'em roll away again, yeah
I'm sittin' on the dock of the bay
Watchin' the tide roll away, ooh
I'm just sittin' on the dock of the bay
Wastin' time
I left my home in Georgia
Headed for the Frisco Bay
'Cause I've had nothing to live for
And look like nothing's gonna come my way
So, I'm just gon' sit on the dock of the bay
Watchin' the tide roll away, ooh
I'm sittin' on the dock of a bay
Wastin' time
Looks like nothing's gonna change
Everything still remains the same
I can't do what ten people tell me to do
So I guess I'll remain the same, listen
Sittin' here resting my bones
And this loneliness won't leave me alone
2,000 miles I roam
Just to make this dock my home, now
I'm just gon' sit at the dock of a bay
Watchin' the tide roll away, ooh
Sittin' on the dock of the bay
Wastin' time
Nearby are Albany, El Cerrito, Oakland, Richmond, and Emeryville. I heard good things about Alameda but did not have time to visit.
Berkeley poems
How Berkeley Can You Be?
Berkeley is what it is,
and sometimes
Berkeley is what it ain't.
tell me.
How Berkeley can you be?
How Berkeley do you wanna be?
Tell me
tell me.
if you think you know
How Berkeley can you be?
How Berkeley do you wanna be?
How Berkeley can you be?
Berkeley is everything.
Berkeley is the center.
of the universe
How Berkeley can you be?
How Berkeley do you wanna be?
and Berkeley
in Berkeley.
and you are Berkeley.
How Berkeley can you be?
How Berkeley do you wanna be?
You have a Berkeley thing going on.
You have Berkeley in your soul.
Berkeley has taken over your soul,
How Berkeley can you be?
How Berkeley do you wanna be?
And you are Berkeley.
Born and raised.
Berkeley until you die, dude.
Berkeley until you die, dude.
How Berkeley can you be?
How Berkeley do you wanna be?
Berkeley is more than just the students.
Berkeley is more than that.
As you know
How Berkeley can you be?
How Berkeley do you wanna be?
Berkeley is more than just weed and beer.
Which is all you need?
How Berkeley can you be?
How Berkeley do you wanna be?
Berkeley is more.
That is the best food.
In the universe
How Berkeley can you be?
How Berkeley do you wanna be?
Berkeley is more than the best coffee.
In the world
Peet's coffee of course
Nothing else will do.
If you are true, Berkeley.
How Berkeley can you be?
How Berkeley do you wanna be?
Berkeley is more.
That Cal Football
Which rules?
How Berkeley can you be?
How Berkeley do you wanna be?
How Berkeley can you be?
How Berkeley do you wanna be?
Berkeley is Asian
Berkeley is Gay
How Berkeley can you be?
How Berkeley do you wanna be?
Berkeley is white.
Berkeley is black.
How Berkeley can you be?
How Berkeley do you wanna be?
Berkeley is brown.
Berkeley is Jewish
How Berkeley can you be?
How Berkeley do you wanna be?
Berkeley is free-thinking.
Berkeley hate
How Berkeley can you be?
How Berkeley do you wanna be?
How Berkeley can you be?
How Berkeley do you wanna be?
Berkeley is free to love.
Berkeley is rock and roll.
Until you die
How Berkeley can you be?
How Berkeley do you wanna be?
Berkeley if Funk
Berkeley is Hip Hop
Berkeley is hipness itself.
How Berkeley can you be?
How Berkeley do you wanna be?
Berkeley is all of that.
And so much more.
How Berkeley can you be?
How Berkeley do you wanna be?
let your inner Berkeley out.
feel the Berkeley Freak come out.
how Berkeley can you be.
How Berkeley do you wanna be?
Join the Berzerkly Vibe
Feel the Berkeley in your soul.
How Berkeley can you be?
Can you be in Berkeley,
Until you die?
How Berkeley can you be,
How Berkeley do you wanna be?
Long live Berkeley
The best city
In the universe.
How Berkeley can you be?
How Berkeley do you wanna be?
And it is your city.
Your responsibility
To be as Berkeley
As you wanna be.
Until the day you die.
How Berkeley can you be?
How Berkeley do you wanna be?
Hark, I Hear the Spirits of Berkeley Calling Me Home. Berkeley
Long Version
Hark,
I hear the spirits.
Of Berkeley
Call me home.
The more I roam in this world.
The more I am drawn.
Back to the land
From whence I came.
Berkeley, California
Is what it is?
And sometimes
It is what it ain't.
Berkely is a "how Berkeley, can you be vibe" town,
Home to CAL with 40,000 students who flood into the city nine months of the year, University professors, staff, and students,
Yet Berkeley is so much more the ultimate college town.
It is delicious food is everywhere around the corner sort of town, An artisanal craft beer, and spirits, coffee, herbal tea, Kombucha, and wine-drinking city, where coca-cola is seldom served, gourmet ghetto, inventor of the new American cuisine revolution, home of Chez Panisse, the French Laundry, and so many other restaurants, a place where you can find every cuisine of the world at a most affordable price, a town where there are more restaurants per capita than anywhere else, where if you wanted to eat dinner at a different restaurant every day it would take you years to do so, with new places opening and closing every day.
an anti-big box store vibe, yet with a lively small business sector, more restaurants and coffee shops per capita than almost anywhere else, lots of upscale groceries, used have a large Co-op (my father was the President), and ethnic foods markets, organic food markets, Berkeley Bowl market, farmers markets, plus usual corporate chain food stores.
MOES book rules, where Howl was written, where the Beatnik writers and culture types used to hang out, and their spiritual descendants still do.
Philip K Dicks hometown, (Philip K dick dated my mom before she met my father, end personal disclosures) Thornton Wilder and so many other great writers back in the day and here and now, Jack Kerouac and Alan Ginsberg lived and loved there,
Craft beer paradise, the hometown of Peets coffee, still the best damn coffee even though they have gone corporate, the coffee revolution of the late 50s and 60's started here in the Coffee mecca of the United States, where Caf?© Med proudly proclaimed to one and all.
'We Don't Serve Establishment Coffee,
They invented the American version of the Latte" It seems there are more coffee shops in Berkeley per capita than almost anywhere else in the country,
Berkeley is also the home of vibrant tea, smoothies, artisanal spirits, craft beer, and wine culture with urban wineries and brew pubs everywhere.
a gluten-friendly city with the best GF pizza in the world the Berkeley Cheese Collective, a foodies delight,
a diverse although less day by day as it is now a very expensive city,
a very ethnic town, used to have the largest Finnish community in the U.S, lots of Russians and Eastern Europeans back in the day, a city with people, from all over the known world, where 250 different languages are spoken at home, an African-American town, used to be a very black town, 40 percent back in the 70's now perhaps twenty percent, a middle-class suburb of Oakland back in the day, but with a black lower class, working class, who are still hanging on somehow, but still a lot of my African Americans brothers and sisters hanging on despite the high rents and housing costs, many properties rich but cash poor, joined by so many African immigrants and Caribbean African immigrants as well, an Asian American city, home of a vibrant Chinese-American community, Korean-American, Hispanic City, Ohlone Tribal city, Native Americans from all different tribes still around the city, Japanese-American, Indian-American city, an Iranian diaspora, and now Afghani diaspora as well,
French people, European people, Jewish people, but no Jewish space Lazers yet, Indian American little Mumbai community where you can get the latest Bollywood movies, food, and Indian political gossip,
an artistic city, a creative city, a Great art Museum at CAL, home of the Pacific Film Archives a real treasure for movie lovers, with more movie theaters per capita than anywhere else,
, same for bookstores, music stores,
Rock n Roll fantasy world,
A Motown-friendly city,
A funk lovers paradise
A Blues lover mecca
And there are even country fans.
a musical city -hometown to the Earthquake, Green Day, Jimmi Hendrix's last high school, Smoke and Fog,
New flash for Tju Dave ¢?" hey dude, I loved your song, you ain't Berkeley enough" just want to say I represent that remark, but I represent Berkeley worldwide dude and I am still as Berkeley as I wanna be, anywhere in the world, dude, end news flash.
the Psychotic Pineapple, Rubinoos, and so many others.
Tower of Power "East Bay Grease sort of town,
A Berkeley High School rocks place, (personal disclosures I was the BHS student body president in 1973-1974),
the home of the song, "Sitting by the Dock of the Bay,"
An anti-establishment sort of city yet filled with students studying to be part of that despised establishment, all vowing to change the world but the world always changes them into yet more high-price corporate drones.
with zany wacked-out politics, a city at times lost in 1969, or lost in the future, A city where being called a "conservative "is considered a vile insult,
a very progressive city, probably the most progressive city in the country, which in my opinion is a good thing, not something to be ashamed of,
a PC is a cool city that invented PC before it became a curse word of sorts, a city where there are real live Marxists, communists, and socialists but no one takes them seriously, and there are a few proto-fascist political science professors as well,
the spiritual home of the beatniks, the hippies, the yippies, and sadly the weathermen
the city that gave us "the Symbionese Liberation Army," kidnapper of Patty Hearst,
(personal disclosure: the SLA briefly terrorized the Bay Area, and my family during the 70s calling my father "a fascist insect that preys on the life of the people, his offense = demanding that students and staff at the Peralta College be required to wear ID's to combat a rise in violent crime on the campuses, my father not having a sense of humor did not like my joke when one morning I said,
"Good morning fascist Insect how are you today?" My mother loved it and spoke.
"Yeah, he is a fascist insect but he is our fascist insect" and laughed. My father merely glared at the two of us. End Personal disclosure)
a Political city up the Yazoo town, a one-party town but with two rival political factions, republicans and there are some of them in town, feel like they are an endangered species, (another personal disclosure, my Dad was Curtis Cosmos Aller, the President of the Berkeley Co-op from 1968 to 1985 when he died, the President of the Peralta board of Colleges, who ran for Congress in 1974 in the Democratic primary against the legendary Ron Dellums, end personal disclosure) very few Q nuts but I am sure there are some, just as there are no doubt people who believe in the lizard shapeshifter conspiracy,
(Personal note: I am a human being but once I took an online quiz to determine whether I could be part alien and the quiz said I was an alien, go figure)
A very anti-Q town, pro-science, rational type of town, filled with humanists and secular humanist types,
A hate bigotry town. Where Ann Coulter and her fellow right-wing followers are not welcome,
a town that proudly voted against Trump ¢?" 90 percent in 2016 and 2020) proud center of the "resistance" home of Antifa, BLM rules, the birthplace of the black panthers who met at the first African American high school history class in the US in the early 60s, at BHS of course, and home of the Gray Panthers, a city whose representative in Congress. Representative Barbara Lee, was the only representative to vote against the Iraq war in 2003, noting that Iraq had nothing to do with 9-11, to the rest of the country she was a dangerous left-wing radical, to the Bay Area, and me, a real American Patriotic hero.
a very marijuana-friendly city where the joke has always been pulling out a joint and it cool, pulling out a cigarette and everyone wants to send you to jail, smoking cigarettes being so uncool nowadays,
at times, a very joyful city but not enough joy due to the political disputes and anger as people in Berkeley are very into political discussions and are news junkies,
A very frank town where everyone has an opinion and is not afraid to speak up,
bike friendly, environmentally friendly city, a recycling mecca, renewable energy, friendly, where the university engineers are working to solve the world.
s energy problems and coming up with solutions to the climate change crisis, solar panels everywhere, transit-friendly, zip car friendly, uber/lift friendly, BART friendly, walkable sort of town.
at times hot city, living with the constant fear of the mega drought, fires and the big one, atmospheric rivers, polar vortexes, and another global warming phenomenon as climate change becomes nightmarishly real, but most days the same, foggy cool mornings, nice pleasant in the 70s afternoons, then more fog dipping into high 40s by midnight, used to be no rain between April and October just the cool morning fog, but nowadays with climate change, we get rain even in the summer, and they joke there are two seasons now in California the rainy season October to March and fire season April to October, all due to the non-existent climate change hoax,
To the rest of the world, a very "Berserkly place"
a Buddhist-friendly city, including a Buddhist Zen Center, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean Buddhist temples a Buddhist Seminary, A Tai-Chi mecca, A centric, very zen attitude sort of town,
a liberal Christian city where fundamentalists are not welcomed, where atheists, free thinkers, liberal Muslims, liberal Hindus, new age types, and Wiccans are welcomed, home of several liberal Christian seminaries, a Buddhist seminary, and now a Muslim seminary all located on Seminary Hill)
A city where making fun of the street preachers is a fun game for the militant atheists of the city (personal disclosures that were me back in the day, I loved to heckle Holly Hubert joined at times by my old friend Julia Vinograd, the bubble lady who used to blow bubbles at Holly Herbert as he ranted about how we would all go to hell for our heathen ways, Holly Hubert is long gone by now as that was almost 45 years ago)
a crazy city. a cool city, and at times a cold city,
filled with the scent of good craziness, and sometimes very bad craziness as sometimes on a bad night things can go bad if you are in the wrong place, at the wrong time, with the wrong people, or are the victim of a drug deal gone bad when the guns come out to play to settle disputes, or knives are drawn and people get very crazy or are just unlucky to be caught up in the crossfire, or on a bad trip on bad drugs, just too many damn drugs and too many people whose minds were fried by the same damn drugs, in short Berkeley does have a dark side to it,
a city of big dreamers, a fast-paced city,
but for the most part, it is a friendly town, but not too friendly, A freaky place filled with freakazoids, A funky vibe, a funny town all around,
and you can have fun there as well as get lucky and meet the woman or man of your dreams, as there are lots of young single men and women looking for Mr. Good, or Ms. Good as the case may be,
An Oakland A, and SF giants town, forty-niners (although some hate them for moving to San Jose, the Northern California clone of LA. And Golden States warriors but everyone now hates the Las Vegas Raiders, as much every person born in Berkeley must hate LA, sort of part of Berkeley and the Northern Californian DNA to be hating on LA, the LA Dodgers, and now the Las Vegas Raiders.,
A live and let live z tude, A loony tunes place, A happy go lucky sort of vibe city,
"Hella Berkeley "city, A historical city, A Hippie town back in the day, A hip hop center, A hip city where everyone knows what hip is but can say what it is, what is hip, yal? Do you know? Hipness, like Berkeley, is what it is and sometimes is what is not,
too many homeless people living on the streets city, panhandling, and becoming a nuisance, getting into everyone's face, destroying everyone's mellow, lonely at times city where many people have thousands of virtual friends but few real friends.
very LGBTQ-friendly, a feminist city, a very pro-choice town,
An only in Berkeley kind of vibe,
a city where people still read a lot, where newspapers have not died but are mostly read online,
home of a rich alternative press history, although sadly most have gone by the wayside, I remember the Berkeley Barb, the Berkeley Gazette, the SF Chronicle, the Bay Guardian, the East Bay Express, the Berkeley Voice, the great underground comics like Fritz the Cat, reading online Berkeley news outlets just not the same thing at all. And BHS used to have a daily newspaper, now a weekly paper although the CAL daily is still mostly read online.
A very sad town, a special city, A city that would welcome space aliens who might already be there, an OMG place,
a rainy blues sort of day place.,
Robots are a cool city where new robots are being developed every day, a city where people are building the singularity not fearing it,
A Mask Up follows the science town badly hit by the COVID pandemic, particularly the small business that took it on the chin,
the birth of NaNoWriMo, the November Write a Novel in a Month contest, (personal disclosure -I completed three of these)
A poet-friendly place where people get poetry,
rents are insane, housing prices too, the only people who can afford to buy are people with boatloads of money, and somehow there are lots of those types hanging out, and lots of people who don't have money who somehow manage to get by, who can afford to live here? It takes serious piles of moolah, big piles of money, lots of cash, dollars up the yazoo, trust baby parents, or selling your soul to a start-up from hell, to be able to pay the rent or lots of roommates, yet people still flock to the city, how they can afford it is still a mystery to me.
a stand-up guy sort of city,
student-friendly, kind of a suburb of Oakland and SF, yet doing its own very Berkeley thing,
home of great city parks,
San Pablo Park (home
of the annual BHS alumnus picnic)
Indian Rock Peoples Park
Inspiration point,
Ho Chi Min Park in the 70s
the Rose Garden
Strawberry canyon,
Tilden Park,
Wildcat canyon
part of the Bay Area Ridge Trails and Bay Area Bay Trails which are almost complete, doing a thru-hike of both, the Appalachian, the cross-continental, and the PC trails are among my bucket list dreams,
too cool for school,
sometimes a traffic hell place, BART trains too crowded, pickpockets and other unsavory criminal types hanging out by the BART train stations, along with high school students, druggies,
a "west Coast Rap kingdom, wine drinkers paradise, the former home of the weathermen and other leftist domestic terrorists) a wonderful world for the young at heart, a unique city, a pro-vac place, vibrant, vegetarian, and vegan friendly, yet still offering enough meat options for the carnivores, and still the ultimate university town but as you can see by now, so much more than that, yoga is God kind of town where yoga is mandatory, Yuppie place, a zany city, a zestful town, and lately a zoom work by home town, Berkeley is all of that and so more in short. Berkely is a kind sort of place, unique in all the universe and it is my homeland,
But still, I am drawn.
And want to return.
Before my time is done,
As it remains
My spiritual homeland.
Berkeley Time Travels
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I grew up in Berkeley, California
In the turbulent fabled late '60s
And in Berkeley in those days
Time seems to stand at a standstill.
On the corner of Dwight and Telegraph
Across from People's Park
It seems to be always May 1969
With the man
Down the street
Oppressing the hippies
On the street
As they smoked their weed
Dodging the bored cops
Who looked the other way?
If they did not partake
And then I went to college
In the valley
As I drove into Stockton
I felt I was traveling again.
In time
Back to the fabled '50s
Stockton was also.
Stuck in a time warp of sorts.
And as I left the Bay area.
And traveled the world.
I would come back.
To that corner
And just be there.
Stuck in May 1969
Again
Marveling at the changes
That had and had not occurred.
To the corner of the land
Forever stuck in time
And space
San Francisco
We toured much of San Franciso and saw the Giants Lose at Oracle Park.
The neighborhoods are still vibrant but everything is too expensive.
We drove through South Beach, Mission District, Filmore, Haight-Ashbury, Castro District, Noe Valley, Presidio, Richmond, Sunset, North Beach, and Chinatown and walked through Union Square. Ran out of time to fully explore the city.
South Beach is a newly developed neighborhood west of downtown near Ball Park and the vibrant
Dogpatch neighborhood which was recently been officially rated the 17th coolest neighborhood in the world. An ethnically diverse community with and bohemian hipster feeling.
The Mission district is south of the ballpark and is the heart of San Francisco's Hispanic district. Still mostly Hispanic but gentrifying.
The Filmore used to be the heart and soul of Black San Franciso. It has been heavily gentrified as has the adjacent Western addition but recently there has been a revival of the jazz scene in the area. We walked through the famous counter-cultural neighborhood of Haight-Ashbury. It still has the 67 vibe and like Telegraph in Berkeley, it seems stuck in a time warp.
We drove through the Presidio which is now an urban national park based on the old Presidio military base which closed in the early 90s. I remember shopping at the commissary back in the day. Cristy Field is a nice, restored beach.
We toured Fisherman's Wharf and Piere 39. A bit of a tourist trap but still worth a visit, bought chocolate at Ghirardelli Square.
We also drove through Russian Hill and Nob Hill neighborhoods which are among the wealthiest in the city and saw the famous Lombard Street but did not drive down it.
We walked through Chinatown and North Beach. Chinatown has seen better days as has North Beach. Still work visiting and walking about.
Union Square was strangely deserted as many people felt that it was just too dangerous a place ¢?" there were homeless people everywhere in the city and there was a fear of crime. Everything is just so damn expensive.
We drove through the CIVIC center which was impressive from an architecture point of view. Did not see homeless people shooting up and defecating there despite the hysteria of Fox News.
We drove through the edges of the tenderloin. I think that the Tenderloin, the highest crime area in the city, is ripe for gentrification given its central location. We did see a lot of homeless people hanging about, but again no people shooting up or defecating on the street.
The sunset area is nice. We had a great Mexican dinner at Cecilia's by the Beach which was not too bad. Ocean Blvd was great. The beach was great but a bit cold.
SF Time Travels
Visitng SF After Being Gone for Three Years
In the summer of 2023,
I found myself.
Back in San Franciso
My homeland.
Last visited pre-covid
2018
Touring the city
With my Korean -in Laws
We stopped in Haigh Ashbury
Took photos.
Wearing flowers
In our hair
Our video
Of our San Franciso adventures
Particularly our hiking
The seven hills
And having croissants
And coffee in North Beach
Became a surprise TikTok hit.
Note: grew up in Berkeley, visiting every other year since I left in 1979 Found San Franciso is still a fascinating city to visit, is not the dystopian nightmare that Fox News portrays, but too expensive, with too many homeless and too much street crime.
Use in your story or poem the following - bold these words for tomorrow's judge:
flowers
San Francisco
seven bridges
croissant
TikTok hit
Only in SF
One day
while driving down Geary
in famous SF
I saw a sight
that would haunt
my nights for many years
I saw a young white punk
a white punk on drugs
walking down the street
with a purple mohawk
dressed in leather
and torn jeans
and a don't F with me
attitude
zdude to the max
just another random
SF freakazoid
getting his nightly
freak on
He was walking a dog
a snarling doberman
who also had ztude
on top of the dog
was a cosmic cat
looking about
and on top of the cat
riding him
as if he was the boss
of this motley crew
was a white lab rat
just looking about
as if to say
WTF you looking at dude
I wanted to take a picture
but the moment was gone
later I learned
it was on Instagram
but I never saw the photo
the moment lingered
in my mind
a metaphor perhaps
of how we can all
live together
and love one another
For more info see the following
San Francisco Travel
https://www.sftravel.com
San Francisco Travel " Official Visitor Information
San Francisco Bucket List: 60 Best Things to Do in the Fun ...
bucketlistjourney.net
27 Top Tourist Attractions in San Francisco (with Map) - ...
touropia.com
U.S. News Travel
https://travel.usnews.com/San_Francisco_CA/Things_To_Do
34 Top-Rated Things to Do in San Francisco " U.S. News Travel
15 Beautiful Places to Visit In San Francisco - ...
traveltriangle.com
Tripadvisor
https://www.tripadvisor.com/Tourism-g60713-San...
Best Places to Visit in San Francisco, CA (2023)¢?¢
Best Things to Do In San Francisco
https://www.getyourguide.com/activities
San Francisco - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco
List of neighborhoods in San Francisco
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of.
Stanford/Silicon Valley
after our tour of SF and Berkeley, we drove down to Standford and SIlicon Valley. We walked across the Campus and drove aroud Menlo Park saw the Google main Campus. Ran out of time to further explore San Jose and Santa Clara country which is the heart of Silicon Valley. Silcion Valley started near Standford as many of the engineers that started all the tech firms were Standford Computer science engineers including the founders of Google, Apple and HP. And Thomas Edison lived in Menlo Park where he came up with many of his revolutionary inventions in his labs located there.
Travis AFB/Fairfield/Vacaville
well and 45 minutes to Sacramento as well. The housing is affordable by Northern California style, and it is considered the edge of the San Franciso area. It is a typical Air Force Base with a commissary, PX, hospitals, and all the conveniences and it is a lot cheaper staying there than staying in the central Bay Area. and is where most MAC flights to and from the Pacific take off.
This time around I was staying with my Korean In-laws, and we decided to check out the neighboring cities while we were there. We found that the base had a very nice military aviation museum so it's worth a visit, but non-military-affiliated people may have a hard time getting on base to see the museum. One of the most interesting artifacts is a replica of the infamous Fat Boy the destroyed Hiroshima. Fat Boy bomber took off from Travis I believe.
The nearby towns of Dixon, Fairfield, and Vacaville are all worth a visit, as are the Delta towns nearby.
Factoid
California is the rice basket of the U.S., growing most of the U.S. rice in the vast San Joaquin-Sacramento River delta communities which are just southeast of Travis. And they are also the biggest sake producers in the world exporting raw Sakae back to Japan!
These little towns are worth a future visit.
They have lots of outlet malls nearby, the biggest shopping malls in the Northern California region., Vacaville has the Jelly Bean museum which was worth a visit as well as hosting a nice wine and vine festival when we were there.
There are wineries nearby and there are regional parks nearby with lots of hiking opportunities. Most of the year it's not too hot except for the afternoons when they can get into the hundreds occasionally. It is not a bad place to be based for a visit to the San Francisco Bay area, especially if you can stay on base.
Dixon
My niece lives in Dixon which is about half an hour from Sacramento, and Travis and 45 minutes to the central Bay Area. While I did not get to see much of the city, it seemed to be a nice community with a cute downtown. Reminds me of Medford, Oregon where we were spending the summer.
for more info see the following Bing AI Chat info
Here are some of the top things to do near Travis Air Force Base:
¢?¢ Travis Air Force Base Heritage Center: A museum that highlights the history of Travis Air Force Base and the United States Air Force. It has a collection of aircraft, engines, and other artifacts that are sure to fascinate aviation enthusiasts 1.
¢?¢ Jelly Belly Factory Tour: A fun and interactive tour of the Jelly Belly candy factory in Fairfield. You can learn about the history of the company, see how the candy is made, and even sample some of the flavors 1.
Note: worth a visit. loved it,
¢?¢ Western Railway Museum: A museum that displays historic electric railway cars and other artifacts from the early 20th century. You can take a ride on one of the restored streetcars and learn about the history of electric transportation 1.
¢?¢ Lagoon Valley/Pena Adobe Regional Park: A beautiful park with hiking trails, picnic areas, and a lake. You can enjoy a leisurely hike, have a picnic, or go fishing 1.
¢?¢ Brenden Vacaville 16: A movie theater that shows the latest Hollywood releases. It has comfortable seating, a large screen, and excellent sound quality 1.
¢?¢ Wooden Valley Winery: A winery that produces a variety of wines, including Cabernet Sauvignon, Chardonnay, and Merlot. You can take a tour of the winery, taste some of the wines, and enjoy the
beautiful scenery 1.
¢?¢ Suisun City Marina and Boat Ramp: A marina that offers boat rentals, fishing charters, and other water
activities. You can rent a boat and explore the Delta, go fishing, or just enjoy the scenic views 1.
¢?¢ Vezer Family Vineyard: A family-owned winery that produces award-winning wines. You can take a tour of the vineyard, taste some of the wines, and enjoy the beautiful surroundings 2.
¢?¢ Rockville Hills Regional Park: A park with hiking trails, picnic areas, and scenic views. You can enjoy a leisurely hike, have a picnic, or just relax and take in the scenery 3.
¢?¢ Scandia Family Center: An amusement park with mini-golf, batting cages, bumper boats, and other attractions. It's a great place to spend a fun-filled day with family and friends 2.
¢?¢ Sonoma Harvest Olive Oil & Winery: A winery that produces high-quality olive oil and wine. You can take a tour of the winery, taste some of the products, and learn about the production a
| Author Notes | Reflections on returning home after a three-year absence. Everything was so expensive, homeless people were everywhere, and the fear of crime was on everyone's mind, but it was not the dystopian Hell Hole the right-wing media proclaims it to be. It felt that it was still my spiritual homeland and I hope to return someday to live there. |
By jake cosmos aller
Mozart Blues
and Other Poems
2016 to 2023
by Jake Cosmos Aller
https://wp.me/p7NAzO-2I4
I am again participating in the Poetry Super Highway Free E-Book Exchange. My book, "Mozart Blues" will be available for downloading from the PSH web page on December 1 for 24 hours (from Midnight PST time). Please consider downloading my book and others on December 1, 2023.
Acknowledgment
These poems have been published in the following journals and elsewhere and were written between 2016 and 2023. They were published in.
Down in the Dirt, Spillwords Poems, Ink Pantry, Synchronized Chaos, Former People Poems as well as on my website, The World according to Cosmos (https:/theworldaccordingtocomos.com) and All Poetry, Fan Story and Writing.com
This chapbook is part of the Poetry Superhighway's Annual Poetry E-Book Free for All event.
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Throughout November we will collect e-books from poets and writers interested in participating.
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PS I can also send you my chapbook upon request as well.
Index
(the links may not work you can google the journals to find these pieces online) or ask Bing AI or Google Bard to do a search, it is amazing what these AI programs are capable of.
Spillwords Poems available on line
Spillwords - A Place for Readers and Writers, where Words Matter
MOZART BLUES
REFLECTIONS ON MY BEER
STRANGERS SLEEPING ON THE STREETS
EVE EATS THE APPLE
JUST ENOUGH FOR COFFEE
DORA THE INTERGALACTIC EXPLORER
IN SEARCH OF AMERICA ¢?" HITCHHIKING TALES
BUS RIDES IN AMERICA'S UNDERBELLY
Down in the Dirt Poems available on line
Writers from Scars Publications
Charles Bukowski Road Not Chosen
If you've been around
Madmen with Guns Madness
My Name Is Nobody
Snarling Cup of Coffee
ink Pantry available on line
Ink Pantry " Curators of Fine Words
Life Among the Shadows
What Is Love, Tell Me If You Know
The Market Rules Us All:
Green Trees Don't Make It:
The Communists Are Out to Get You!
Synchronized Chaos available on line
SYNCHRONIZED CHAOS " Interdisciplinary journal of art, music, culture, science & literature. (synchchaos.com)
God's Confession
Ode to Coffee
The Old Man in The Mirror Must Die Old Age
Falling Rain
Long Live the Great and Powerful One
Just an Unhinged Lunatic Howling at The Moon
Former People Poems available on line
Lone Foreigner Hiking the Seoul City Walls ¢?" Bangs, Whimpers, Arts, Culture, and Commentary (wordpress.com)
New Year's Visit to The Oregon Coast
Indian Casinos
Casino Thoughts
| Author Notes | hope you can participate it is a lot of fun to enter and to download the other poems lots of things to add to my reading list for next year. the time listed is 24 hour for midnight PST LA on December 1 to Midnight December 2. if you miss the deadline I can send you my chapbook which I will put on my blog next week. |
By jake cosmos aller
Cosmos's Reading List 2023
https://wp.me/p7NAzO-2IR
this is my annual list of books read ?" this time I am keeping track of poems and short stories as well. would appreciate comments! but keep it civil.
I have also written a few reviews which I will post in due course.
Cosmos Reading List 2023
Cosmos Reading List 2022
Final UpdatesReading the Classics Updated
Reading the Classics Updated Lists
Reading G Keith Chesterton
Cosmos Reading List 2021
Final UpdateCosmos's Reading List 2021
Reading TS Elliot
Goals: 600 Books/stories and poems
Read Classics
One Thriller Per Month
One history/politics book per month
Read A Lot More Poetry
Read At Least One Book A Year in Spanish
Read At Least One Book A Year in Korean done
Kim Sowol's Poem Unforgettable Love
Kim Sowol A Lamp Burns Low Collection Add 127 To Total Poems Kim
I will this year try to finish reading classic books. I have a collection from Kindle of 50 books to read before you die, in three volumes ?" 15O books in total See the list below. I have read many of them already which I have noted. As I read them, I will add them to the chronological listing below, also have the Harvard classic. Had a hard copy set but donated it, I have to read it on Kindle alas.
Total Numerical listing
total read (including past things read)
Ben Bova The Star Crossed
Ben Bova Crisis Of The Month
Ben Bova The Great Moon Hoax
Ben Bova The Supersonic Zeppelin
Ben Bova Vince's Dragon
Ben Bova The Angel's Gift
Ben Bova A Slight Miscalculation
Ben Bova Cyberbooks
The King Of Bread Luis Alberto Ubba
Goodbye To The Road Not Taken At Homes
The Double Life Of The Cockroaches Wife Edwidge Danticat
Cane And Roses A Manifesto Edwidge Danticat
Persephone's Rides At The End Of Days Carmen Maria Mcleod
Unicorn Me Elizabeth Crane
Lessons With Father Jai Chakrabrabiti
Iphone S E Weiche Wang
The Hole Patrick Cottrell
Noseless Jack Nawal Serpel
Infidelity Jack Jemc
Death By Printer Mira Jacob
Options Leslie Nikia Amara
Sleepless Michael Cunningham
A Survey Of Recent American Happenings Told With The Six Commercials For The Tennyson Clear Jet Premium Touchless Bidet Omar El Akkad
Unselfie Amy Bender
Home Elizabeth Strout
Love Interests Jess Walter
Escape Pod W41 Jay Robert Lennon
Conquistador On Fairchild
Susan Perabo The Project
Period Piece Mellie Mellon
Books You Read Joe Minnow
A Woman Driving Alone Marie-Helen Bertino
Been Laurie Dandelions
Patrick Dacey All That Gone Is All That's Left
Jenny Allen Scaffolding Man
Richard Rivers Solomon A Brief
Amal Ruth Rivers Soloman
Note In The Translation Of Winter Women
Nightlife Lisa Cole
Cerati After Cerati Juan Martinez
The Prom Terrorist Rabi Almandine
Bedtime Story Victor Lavalle
Such Small Islands Lauren Groff
Almost Everything Etgar Keret
Where The Candles Are Kept David Eggers
James Rollin's The Last Odyssey Review Done
Harlan Coben Fool Me Once Review Due.
Joel Rosenberg The Twelfth Iman Review Is Due.
Introduction: Ann And Jeff Vandermeer
The Lens Of Time: Science Fiction As A Way Of Seeing
G. Wells: "The Star" (1897)
Left Hand Of Dog Clark
The King Of Bread Luis Alberto Ubba
Goodbye To The Road Not Taken At Homes
The Double Life Of The Cockroaches Wife Edwidge Danticat
Cane And Roses A Manifesto Edwidge Danticat
Persephone's Rides At The End Of Days Carmen Maria Mcleod
Unicorn Me Elizabeth Crane
Lessons With Father Jai Chakrabrabiti
Iphone S E Weiche Wang
The Hole Patrick Cottrell
Noseless Jack Nawal Serpel
Infidelity Jack Jemc
Death By Printer Mira Jacob
Options Leslie Nikia Amara
Sleepless Michael Cunningham
A Survey Of Recent American Happenings Told With The Six Commercials For The Tennyson Clear Jet Premium Touchless Bidet Omar El Akkad
Unselfie Amy Bender
Home Elizabeth Strout
Love Interests Jess Walter
Escape Pod W41 Jay Robert Lennon
Conquistador On Fairchild
Susan Perabo The Project
Period Piece Mellie Mellon
Books You Read Joe Minnow
James Rollin's The Last Odyssey Review Done
Harlan Coben Fool Me Once Review Due.
Joel Rosenberg The Twelfth Iman Review Is Due.
Introduction: Ann And Jeff Vandermeer
The Lens Of Time: Science Fiction As A Way Of Seeing
G. Wells: "The Star" (1897)
Robert Burns Auld Lang Syne
Ella Wheeler Wilcox The Year
Helen Hunt Jackson New Year's Morning
Marie Summers Enlightened
Marie Summers My God, My God
Walt Wojtanik ?"Flourishing Florist
David Schnieder Footprints In Time
David Schnieder Soldiers
David Schnieder Together Forever
David Schnieder The Almighty Thresher
Sally Ann Roberts, It All Started With A Packet Of Seeds
Marie Summers Celestial Dreams
Example #3: Chelle Wood Dance In The Rain
Example #4: Dendrobia Osprey
Example #5: Maria Summers Seasonal Whispers
Dah Helmer Astral Darkness
Alexander Pope's "An Essay On Criticism,"
Archibald Macleish "Ars Poetica" (1926)
Joy Priest In Virginia Quarterly Review
Pamela Hart's "Some Thoughts On Metaphor"
In The Night Heron Barks
Jos© Olivarez In Poetry Magazine "Ars Poetica"
Paul Guest "Late-Stage Capitalism Blues"
In The Adroit Journal
Dean Young In Poem-A-Day
"Small Craft Talk Warning"
Robert Frost After Apple-Picking
Spike Milligan Jumbo Jet
Spike Milligan Granny
Spike Milligan On The Ning Nang Nong
Spike Milligan Abc
Riddle Of Birth Koyel Is Writing Again.
The Dark House Edwin Arlington Robinson
The Garden Edwin Arlington Robinson
Philip Larkin At Grass
Jim Bartlet's An Irregular Ode To A Sometimes Morris Dancer
William Wordsworth An Excerpt From 'Ode: Intimations Of Immortality From Recollections Of Early Childhood
Oranges By Gary Soto
Robert Frost The Road Not Taken"
Robert Hayden A Plague Of Starlings"
Angels Erin Holbrook
Turquoise Thoughts Deborah P Kolodji
Cherry Blossoms Marie Summers
Joshua Tree Deborah P Kolodji
Long Shadows Marie Summers
Resurrección Andra De Costa
Holiday Travel Judi Van Gorder
Memorial Judi Van Gorder
Reading Phil Wood
Fight Flight
Judi Van Gorder
Happy Mordee 2 Writing Com
Headline Chain Of Cripsy Cinquain Judi Van Gorder
A Child Headline Chain Of Cripsy Cinquain Judi Van Gorder
Somehow Headline Chain Of Cripsy Cinquain Judi Van Gorder
Hopeful Headline Chain Of Cripsy Cinquain Judi Van Gorder
See The Tulips Blooming Victor Hugo
Hear The Violins Play In The Moonlight Thomas Corneille
Broken Headline Chain Of Cripsy Cinquain Judi Van Gorder
Patriarch Judi Judi Van Gorder
Parten Judi Van Gorder
Behave, Judi Van Gorder,
Glue Judi Van Gorder
Didactic Cinquain By Marti
See The Tulips Blooming Victor Hugo
Hear The Violins Play In The Moonlight Thomas Corneille
Judi Van Gorder's Twelfth Night Sonnet
Judi Van Gorder Pauline
John Keats(1795-1821) "Bright Star!
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) Xviii. To His Love
Robert Burns's A Sonnet Upon Sonnets
Rupert Brooke's "Sonnet Reversed"
Amy Levy The Old Poet
Amy Levy London In July
Amy Levy At A Dinner Party
Amy Levy A Wall Flower
Barbara Hartman Bottoms Up!
Ts Elliot A Dog Is A Dog
Elizabeth Bishop The Fish
Huldah Fetzer The Killed Deer
161. Dc Martinson Dizain For The Evolutionary Socialist Dream Of Edouard Bernstein
162. Judi Van Groder No Surrender
163. The Hot Oil Sizzles Waywa
164. Shadows Waywa
165. Like As A Ship" By Edmund Spencer
166. Lewis Carroll Boat Beneath A Sunny Sky
167. Lewis Carrol All In The Golden Afternoon
168. Lewis Carroll Jabberwocky By Lewis Carroll
169. Five O'clock Judy Van Gelder
170. Balm Pat Nelson
171. Foamy Water Pat Nelson
172. Salty Air Pat Nelson
173. Sandy Beach Pat Nelson
174. It Worked Shelley A Cephas
175. Angel Light (Rhyming) Shelley A. Cephas
176. His Pristine Robes (Non-Rhyming) Shelley A Cephas
177. Kim Sowol's Poem Unforgettable Love
178. Kim Sowol A Lamp Burns Low Collection Add 127 To Total Poems Kim
179. Birth Of A Triangle Alex Goldenberg
180. My Body Andrea Forbing-Maglione
181. Broken Car Sally Ann Roberts
182. Coffee Sally Ann Roberts
183. A Simple Tree Julie Wright
184. Rockets' Red Glare Johnathan Sluder
185. Luna Marie Summers
186. The Makers Howard Nemerov
187. Insomnia Howard Nemerov
188. Walking The Dog Howard Nemerov
189. John Keats's The Poetry Of Earth Is Never Dead
190. Mary Oliver's The Uses Of Sorrow
191. Wendell Berry's The Peace Of Wild Thing
192. Dylan Thomas Light Breaks Where No Sun Shines
193. Dylan Thomas, I Have Longed To Move Away
194. Dylan Thomas Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night
195. Howard Nemerov The Maker
196. Woodworth Reese Lise Y Lizette
197. Lizette Woodworth Reese That Day You Came
198. Lizette Woodworth Reese
Oh, Gray And Tender Is The Rai
199. Amy Clampit The Kingfisher
Amy Clampit Dancers Exercising
200. Amy Clampit The Fog.
201. Amy Clampit A Catalpa Tree On West Twelfth Street
202. Edwin Robinson The House On The Hill'
203. Edwin Arlington Robinson
204. John Keats Ode To Autumn
205. Mahe "Where I'm From (Warendorf Edition)"
206. Write Rick Anti-Hero
207. Amy Jo Summer "Am I Awake Yet?"
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208. Viola Berg Joy Bell
209. R Ryan, E Aharonian N Ryan Anywhere Is
210. Mary Oliver Wild Geese
211. The Harvest's Moon Emissary.
Judi Van Gorder
212. Judy Van Gorder Friday
213. Leny Rovers Scars
214. Bullfight Leny Rovers
215. Jem Farmer Release This Pain
216. Peg Nelson Rose Leaf's
217. Kathy Anderson Robin And Grackle
218. Kathy Anderson
219. Kathy Anderson Snow Queen
220. Do Not Run Terry Clitheroe
221. Terry Clitheroe Global Warming
222. Terry Clitheroe Had We But World And Time
223. Terry Clitheroe
224. Hot Summers Night
225. Terry Clitheroe In My Bar
226. Terry Clitheroe Just For A While
227. Terry Clitheroe Late Summer
228. Terry Clitheroe Memories
229. Terry Clitheroe Para Arender Amar
230. Terry Clitheroe Reborn To Nature
231. Terry Clitheroe Silent Tears
232. Terry Clitheroe Tres Professors (Three Teachers)
233. Terry Clitheroe Understand
234. Divena Collins Winter Of The Heart
235. Divena Collins Able Male Needed
236. Divena Collins Take Me Now!! (To The Shops For Food)
237. Divena Collins Dreams Of Love
238. Divena Collins, I Remember
239. Divena Collins Natures Serenity
240. Divena Collins Of Spring
241. Divena Collins Only Love
242. Divena Collins Over Heated
243. Divena Collins Paradise Lost
244. Divena Collins Reborn To Nature
245. Divena Collins's Rocking Horse And Tiddy Winks
246. Divena Collins There Shall Be Light
247. Divena Collins Where Angels Tread
248. Maggie Cusick Marble Vase
249. Lorraine Dafney Lady In Black
250. Jem Farmer Discarded Debris
251. Jem Farmer No Mistook
252. Ivor Hogg Decorum
253. Ivor Hogg More Or Less
254. Ivor Hogg Scar Tissue
255. Ivor Hogg Sneak Attack
256. Neil 54 Affections With Family
257. Peggy Nelson Baby
258. Peggy Nelson Hell On Earth
259. Peggy Nelson Lost In The Blues
260. Starving Peggy Nelson
261. Peggy Nelson
262. Peggy Nelson Westerly Waves
263. Ryter Reticle Experience Found
264. Ryter Reticle Fireside Memories
265. Ryter Reticle Hearts Winter
266. Ryter Reticle Naked
267. Ryter Reticle Nocturne
268. Ryter Reticle Paparazzi
269. Ryter Reticle Remembering
270. Ryter Reticle Truant
271. Ryter Reticle Unjust Thoughts
272. Ryter Reticle Victim Of Deceit
273. Ryter Reticle Yan Yean Dreaming
274. Ryter Reticle You Raise Me Up
275. Leny Rovers Allegro Assai
276. Leny Rovers Andante
277. Leny Rovers Rondo
278. Peggy And Readjust Thoughts
279. Occhi Desiderata I Have Looked On Thee With Longing Eyes
280. Katharine Tynan The End Of The Day
281. Katharine Tynan The Wind That Shakes The Barley
282. Katharine Tynan Immortality
283. Lady & Loui Two Silver Rings
284. Mountainwriter49 Forever In My Heart
285. I Sally Ann Roberts T All Started With A Packet Of Seeds
286. Example #2: Marie Summers Celestial Dreams
287. Example #3: Chelle Wood Dance In The Rain
288. Example #4: Dendrobia Ospreyexample
289. #5: Marie Summers
Seasonal Whispers
290. Kathy Anderson This Bitter Earth
291. Lawrencealot Taxies
292. Will Alexander The Polish Mathematics
293. Michael Ania Covering Standups.
294. Ray Armitage Fortune
295. Whr Then We Get The Dialectic Fairly Well.
296. Martin Bell is a Definite Player
297. Charles Bernstein People
298. Mark Bibbins From 13 Balloons
299. Lee Ann Brown As An American
300. Kamryn Alexa Castro Yes
301. Mariane Chan The Shape Of Biddle City
302. Victoria Chang World's End
303. Maxine Chernoff The Songbird Academy
304. Kwame Dawes Photo Shoot
305. Alex Demetrio The Years
306. Stuart Disc Hell After The Exhibition
307. Timothy Daniel Instagram
308. Boris Dayak Days At The Races
309. Joana Fuhrman 330 College Avenue
310. Amy Gerstle Night Herons
311. Peter Gizzi Revisionary
312. Herbert Gold's Other News
313. Terrene Hayes Strange As The Rule Of Grammar
314. Robert Herston All Right
315. Paul Hoover Abominations, Afternoon
316. Shirley Jackson's Best Original Enigma
317. Patrica Spears Jones The Devil's Wife Explains 45.
318. Ilay Kaminsky, I Ask That I Not Die.
319. Vincent Katz's A Marvelous Sky
320. John Keen Straight No Chaser
321. Miho Kinas' Three Shrimp Boats
322. Wayne Kepstrum Misran Master Craftsman
323. Yusef Komunyakaa From The Autobiography
324. Michale Lay I Meant To
325. Dorothea Lasky Green Moon John Yao Zone
326. Bernadette Ayer Pi Day
327. Maureen Mc Lane Moonrise
328. Yusef Michael Tablet 6
329. Stephen Paul Miller Dating Buddha
330. Susan Mitchell Chaplin In Palma
331. Backus More Extraordinary Life
332. Diesel To Social In Several Invoices
333. Elliot Mullen As I Wander Lonely In The Cloud Kathy And Also The Facts.
334. Eugene Austin Husky From The Fainting
335. Feeling Sonnets You Go Out Tomorrow.
336. Sunday Game
337. Marine Owen In Space Surface Tensional Force
338. John Phillips's Film Theory
339. Catholic Bullet Round Front Shirt
340. Caroline Marie Rodgers Phone Number Two My Kind Of Feminism
341. Jerome Sarah's Something I'm Not Hot Takes In Spiderman Her Dark Drama.
342. Turkey Tim Civils All The Time
343. Diana's Success Little Few State
344. David Shapiro Lost All Of Jesus.
345. Mitch Siskin Only Tough Woes
346. Amanda Smeltz Green Goddess Girls In Blacks
347. Cole Swensen's Various Gloves Out
348. Arthur Sze Wildlife Season OK
349. Diane Thiel Listening In Deep Space
350. Rodrigo Toscano Full House
351. Tony Trigilio The Steeplejack
352. David Trinidad The Poems Attributed To Him May Be By Different Poets.
353. Anne Waldman's Three Poems Form 13 Moon Kora
354. Sarah Anne Wallen, I Can See Mars.
355. Elizbeth Winch And What My Species Did
356. Terrence Winch Gear Sizzle
357. Jeff Cyphers Wright Sweepstakes
358. John Yau Song For Mie Yum
359. Geoffrey Young Parrel Bars
360. Jeffrey Young Parallel Bars
361. Matthews'szaprudar The Empty Grave Of Zza Zaza Gabor
362. Margaret R Smith's The Unexpected Snow
363. Jan Turner Earthquake
364. Gabriella 2 Why?
365. Heather Wilkes Grapes
366. Hart Crane Fear
367. Hart Crane Brooklyn Bridge
Jim T Henrikson Poetic Justice
368. Jim T. Henrikson's Poetry Lost In Mind
369. Franklin, Woolman, Penn
370. Plato, Epictetus,
371. Marcus, Aurelius Meditations
372. Aeneid Virgil (14)
373. Cervantes Don Quixote Part 1:
374. Bunyan Pilgrim's Progress
375. Dante The Divine Comedy
376. Homer The Odyssey
377. American Historical Documents
378. Sacred Writings 1
379. Sacred Writings 2
380. Austen, Jane: Pride And Prejudice
381. Austen, Jane: Emma
382. Brontë, Charlotte: Jane Eyre
383. Brontë, Emily: Wuthering Heights
384. Burroughs, Edgar Rice: Tarzan Of The Apes
385. Carroll, Lewis: Alice's Adventures In Wonderland
386. Cervantes, Miguel De: Don Quixote
387. Collins, Wilkie: The Moonstone
388. Conrad, Joseph: Heart Of Darkness
389. Conrad, Joseph: Nostromo
390. Cooper, James Fenimore: The Last Of The Mohicans
391. Crane, Stephen: The Red Badge Of Courage
392. Defoe, Daniel: Robinson Crusoe
393. Defoe, Daniel: Moll Flanders
394. Dickens, Charles: Bleak House
395. Dickens, Charles: Great Expectations
396. Dostoyevsky, Fyodor: Crime And Punishment
397. Dostoyevsky, Fyodor: The Idiot
398. Doyle, Arthur Conan: The Hound Of The Baskervilles
399. Dumas, Alexandre: The Three Musketeers
400. Dumas, Alexandre: The Count Of Monte Cristo
401. Eliot, George: Middlemarch
402. Forster, E. M.: A Room With A View
403. Gaskell, Elizabeth: North And South
404. Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von: The Sorrows Of Young Werther
405. Haggard, H. Rider: King Solomon's Mines
406. Hardy, Thomas: Tess Of The D'urbervilles
407. Hawthorne, Nathaniel: The Scarlet Letter
408. Homer: The Odyssey
409. Hugo, Victor: The Hunchback Of Notre Dame
410. Hugo, Victor: Les Mis©rables
411. Jane Austen Sense And Sensibility
412. Lewis Carroll Alice's Adventures In Wonderland
413. Gilbert Keith Chesterton The Man Who Knew Too Much
414. Daniel Defoe Robinson Crusoe
415. The Margaret Deland Iron Woman
416. Charles Dickens David Copperfield
417. Charles Dickens Oliver Twist
418. Charles Dicken A Tale Of Two Cities
419. Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky The Double [
420. Arthur Conan Doyle The Memoirs Of Sherlock Holmes-
421. Francis Scott Fitzgerald's The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button
422. E. M. Forster- A Room With A View
423. Dream Psychology [Sigmund Freud]
424. Tess Of The D'urbervilles [Thomas Hardy
425. Siddhartha [Hermann Hesse
426. Dubliners [James Joyce
427. The Fall Of The House Of Usher [Edgar Allan Poe]
428. The Sea Wolf [Jack London]
429. The Call Of Cthulhu [Howard Phillips Lovecraft]
430. Beyond Good And Evil [Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche]
431. The Murders In The Rue Morgue [Edgar Allan Poe]
432. The Black Cat [Edgar Allan Poe
433. The Raven [Edgar Allan Poe]
434. Romeo And Juliet [William Shakespeare
435. Treasure Island [Robert Louis Stevenson]
436. The Elements Of Style [William Strunk Jr.
437. What's Bred In The Bone [Grant Allen]
438. The Golden Ass [Lucius Apuleius]
Meditations [Marcus Aurelius]
439. Northanger Abbey [Jane Austen]
440. Lady Susan [Jane Austen]
441. The Wonderful Wizard Of Oz [Lyman Frank Baum]
442. The Art Of Public Speaking [Dale Breckenridge Carnegie]
443. The Blazing World [Margaret Cavendish]
444. The Wisdom Of Father Brown [Gilbert Keith Chesterton]
Heretics [Gilbert Keith Chesterton]
445. The Donnington Affair [Gilbert Keith Chesterton]
446. The Innocence Of Father Brown [Gilbert Keith Chesterton]
447. Fanny Hill: Memoirs Of A Woman Of Pleasure [John Cleland]
The Moonstone [Wilkie Collins]
448. Lord Jim [Joseph Conrad]
449. The Further Adventures Of Robinson Crusoe [Daniel Defoe]
450. The Pickwick Papers [Charles Dickens]
451. A Christmas Carol [Charles Dickens]
452. Notes From The Underground [Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky]
453. The Gambler Par Fyodor [Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky]
454. The Lost World [Arthur Conan Doyle]
455. The Hound Of The Baskervilles [Arthur Conan Doyle]
456. The Sign Of The Four [Arthur Conan Doyle]
457. The Man In The Iron Mask [Alexandre Dumas]
458. The Three Musketeers [Alexandre Dumas]
459. This Side Of Paradise [Francis Scott Fitzgerald]
460. Curious, If True: Strange Tales [Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell]
461. King Solomon's Mines [Henry Rider Haggard]
462. The Hunchback Of Notre Dame [Victor Hugo]
463. Kim [Rudyard Kipling]
464. Captain Courageous [Rudyard Kipling]
465. The Jungle Book [Rudyard Kipling]
466. Lady Chatterley's Lover [David Herbert Lawrence]
467. The Son Of The Wolf [Jack London]
468. The Einstein Theory Of Relativity [Hendrik Antoon Lorentz
469. The Dunwich Horror [Howard Phillips Lovecraft
470. At The Mountains Of Madness [Howard Phillips Lovecraft]
471. The Prince [Niccolò Machiavelli]
472. The Story Girl [Lucy Maud Montgomery]
473. The Antichrist [Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche]
474. The Republic [Plato]
475. The Last Man [Mary Shelley]
476. Life On The Mississippi [Mark Twain
477. The Kama Sutra [Vatsyayana]
478. In The Year 2889 [Jules Verne]
479. Around The World In Eighty Days [Jules Verne]
480. Sweat Destiny Jan Turner
481. Andreia Dietrich And Jan Turner Seaside Lament
482. Margaret R Smith's The Melody Of Trees
483. David Schnider Home Fires
484. +125 Kim Sewol Poems
485. David Schnider Winter Acrostic
486. David Schnider Lurking Raven Sonnet
487. David Schnider Highway Of Life Abc Poem
488. Kathleen Jessie Raine From The North
489. Evan Boland Nocturne
490. C Lucas Nocturne
491. Floria Kelderhouse My Bouquet
492. James Dean Chase Beyond Mere Mind
493. Judi Van Garder Lake's Quest
494. Kyrielle Grandparenty Place Jeane Cassler Cinquain
495. Edward Macdonald A Moon Idyl
496. Robert Frost's" The Road Not Taken
497. Robert Hayden ~" A Plague Of Starlings
498. Christina R. Jussaume Praising The Creator
499. James Hanely Zing Went The Strings Of My Heart Lyrics
500. Frank Zappa The Torture Never Stops
501. Frank Zapp More Trouble Every Day
502. Frank Zappa Jewish Princess
503. Thomas Gray's "The Progress Of Poesy: A Pindaric Ode"
504. Andrew Marvell's "Horatian Ode Upon Cromwell's Return From Ireland."
505. John Keats To Autumn
506. William Wordsworth Ode: Intimations Of Immortality From Reflections Of Early Childhood
507. Thomas Gray's 'The Progress Of Poesy.'Alexander Pope Ode On Solitude By Alexander Pope
508. John Keats Ode To A Nightingale By John Keats Emily Bronte 'The Lady To Her Guitar'
509. 'Samuel Taylor Coleridge Dejection: An Ode'
510. John Keats 'Ode On A Grecian Urn'
511. Pablo Neruda Ode To A Thread
512. Tim Turnbull'Ode On A Grayson Perry Urn'
513. Percy Bysshe Shelley 'Ode To The West Wind'
514. Shelley A. Cephas Angel Delight
515. Shelley A. Cephas In Harmony
516. Shelley A. Cephas, He Is My Strength
517. The 160
518. Bianca Example Y Bianca
519. Judi Va Gorder Wings
520. The Argonelles Rainbow Communications
521. Judi Van Gorder The Chase Is On
522. Judi Van Gorder
523. Judi Van Gorderfall Tv
524. Judi Van Gorder Today's Molly Adventure
525. Garden Lace
526. Judi Van Gorner Winter Garden
527. Kwoa Let Love In
528. Lanoe Lisa Noe Gone
529. Judi Gorner Summer Travel Octet
530. Judi Van Gorder Gunman Kills 11
531. Judi Van Gorder Fire Season
532. Judi Van Gorder Under Elixirronka I
533. Twila Colville Joe's Words
534. Judi Gorder Shutdown
535. Sidewalk Poem A La Gervic
536. Judi Van Gorder The Sierras And The Pacific
537. Judi Van Gorder The Sol
538. Judi Van Gorder Presiident George H.W. Bush
539. Judi Van Gorder Hollow
540. The Skinny Tony Medina Truth Thomas
541. Judi Van Gorder Judi Van Gorder
542. Poet's Magic Solage
543. Judi Van Gorder, It's So Cold
544. Judi Van Gorder You Make Me Smile
545. Judi Van Gorder Challenges Soar
546. Gypsy Rose Thanksgiving
547. Lewis Wallace Ben Hur
548. Emily Romano Sky Flowers
549. Judi Van Gorder Sweetbriar
550. DR Schneider The Camp
551. Jason Wilkins Beauty
552. Jason Wilkins Satin
553. Aubrey Steedman Childhood
554. HG Wells the Star
555. Rokyea Skehhawalt Hassain Sultana's Dream
556. Karl Hans Stroble The Triumph of Mechanics
557. R Schneider~"Camp 39"
558. Robert Frost~" Going For Water"
559. Sir Thomas Wyatt Sometimes I fled the fires
560. Sir Thomas Wyatt In court to serve, The courtiers' life
561. Judi Van Gordon Silenced
562. Author unknown Greensleeves
563. Waide Riddle Groove
564. Waide Riddle Summer in Santa Monica
565. Waide Riddle The Tom Hardy Party
566. Waide Riddle Kiss Me Chris Pine
567. Waide Riddle Dance to the Beat of the Beach Boys
568. Waide Riddle The Power of Summer
569. Waide Riddle LA Blue
570. Waide Riddle Take Me Home to Venice Beach
571. Waide Riddle An Ode to a Summer Song
572. Waide Riddle Chocolate Man
573. Shel Silverstein Frozen Dream
574. Daniel Stuart Moon Gazers
575. Amy Lowell A Winter Ride
576. Nara Temple 20th Century Busso Fan Story
577. Law Rencealot Tanaga
578. Lawr RenCealot Christmas Spirit Joybell
579. Edgard Allen Poe From The Raven
580. David Scneder Write Stuff What I Do
581. David Schnder Footprints In Time
582. Coleridge The Rime Of The Ancient Mariner
583. Louis Mac Niece From 'The Sunlight On The Garden'
584. Edgar Allan Poe Lenore
585. Thomas Hood 'The Double Knock'
586. Van Gorder St. Pat, a Rondeau
587. Elliot Napier All Men Are Free
588. David Schneider The Three Musketeers
589. Marie Summers Winds of Chickamauga
590. Pam A Murray As I Was Warmed in the Spring Time Air
591. Gypsy Blue Rose Gold Dust In Your Eye
592. Gypsy Blue Rose Dragon Fly One-Line Haiku
593. HG Wells Crystal Egg Tales out of Time and Space
594. HG Cave Man Tales Ugh and Eucenda
595. HG WellsCave Man Tales The First Horseman
596. HG Wells Cave Man Tales UYA the Lion
597. Walt Whitman Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking
598. Walt Whitman When Lilacs Last in the Door-yard Bloom'd
599. Walt Whitman O Captain O Captain
600. Walt Whitman Song of Myself V
601. Wells Crystal Egg Tales Out Of Time And Space
602. HG Wells The Star
603. HG A story of the Stone Age UghLomi and Uya
604. HG A Story of the Stone Age the Cave Bear HG A Story of the Stone Age First Horseman
605. HG Wells Story of the Stone Age The Lion
606. HG Wells Story of the Stone Age The Fight in the Lion's Thicket
607. HG Wells A Story of Things to Come A cure for love
608. HG Wells A Story of Things to Come The Vacant Country
609. HG Wells A Story of Things to Come The Ways of The City
610. HG Wells A Story of Things to Come Underneath
611. HG Wells A Story of Things to Come Bindon Intervenes
612. HG Wells The Man Who Could Work Miracles
613. Virgina Woolf Jacob Room Judi Van Gorder Comfort Food By Judi Van Gorder
614. Joseph Spence, Sr. Eggs Of Easter
615. Joseph Spence, Sr.Scrumptious Scallops
616. Joseph Spence, Sr.Tasty Dessert
617. Joseph Spence, Sr. Barbequed Prime Steak
618. Linda Varsel Smith Sweedish Meatballs Linda Varsel Smith Lamb for Easter
749 total including Kim Seowal Poems, and 250 of the classics read before) say 450 new items this year, mostly poems and shorter pieces, perhaps 50 books.
Reading the classics
Harvard Classics
The volumes are:
Bolded read
(1) Franklin, Woolman, Penn
(2) Plato, Epictetus,
Marcus, Aurelius Meditations
(3) Bacon, Milton's Prose, Thomas Browne
(4) Complete Poems in English: Milton
(5) Essays and English Traits: Emerson (
6) Poems and Songs: Burns (7)
Confessions of St. Augustine. Imitation of Christ
(8) Nine Greek Dramas (9) Letters and Treatises of Cicero and Pliny
(10) Wealth of Nations: Adam Smith
(11) Origin of Species: Darwin
(12) Plutarch's Lives (13)
Aeneid Virgil (14)
Don Quixote Part 1: Cervantes
(15) Pilgrim's Progress. Donne
Herbert. Bunyan, Walton
(16) The Thousand and One Night
(17) Folk-Lore and Fable. Aesop, Grimm, Andersen
(18) Modern English Drama
(19) Faust, Egmont Etc. Doctor Faustus, Goethe, Marlowe
(20) The Divine Comedy: Dante
(21) I Promessi Sposi, Manzoni
(22) The Odyssey: Homer
(23) Two Years Before the Mast. Dana
(24) On the Sublime French Revolution Etc. Burke
(25) Autobiography Etc. Essays and Addresses: J.S. Mill, T. Carlyle
(26) Continental Drama
(27) English Essays: Sidney to Macaulay
(28) Essays. English and American
(29) Voyage of the Beagle: Darwin (
30) Faraday, Helmholtz, Kelvin, Newcomb, Geikie
(31) Autobiography: Benvenuto, Cellini
(32) Literary and Philosophical Essays: Montaigne, Sainte Beuve, Renan, Lessing, Schiller, Kant, Mazzini
(33) Voyages and Travels
(34) Descartes, Voltaire, Rousseau, Hobbes
(35) Chronicle and Romance: Froissart, Malory, Holinshed (36)
Machiavelli, More, Luther
(37) Locke, Berkeley, Hume
(38) Harvey, Jenner, Lister, Pasteur
(39) Famous Prefaces
(40) English Poetry 1: Chaucer to Gray
(41) English Poetry 2: Collins to Fitzgerald
(42) English Poetry 3: Tennyson to Whitman
(43) American Historical Documents
(44) Sacred Writings 1
(45) Sacred Writings 2
(46) Elizabethan Drama 1
(47) Elizabethan Drama 2
(48) Thoughts and Minor Works: Pascal
(49) Epic and Saga (
50) Introduction, Readers Guide,
Federalist Papers
50 Masterpieces You Have to Read Before You Die
Started reading the first one of Volume 3
Bolded indicates I have read it.
Vol 1
Alcott, Louisa May: Little Women
Austen, Jane: Pride and Prejudice
Austen, Jane: Emma
Balzac, Honor© de: Father Goriot
Barbusse, Henri: The Inferno
Brontë, Anne: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
Brontë, Charlotte: Jane Eyre
Brontë, Emily: Wuthering Heights
Burroughs, Edgar Rice: Tarzan of the Apes
Butler, Samuel: The Way of All Flesh
Carroll, Lewis: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Cather, Willa: My ?ntonia
Cervantes, Miguel de: Don Quixote
Chopin, Kate: The Awakening
Cleland, John: Fanny Hill
Collins, Wilkie: The Moonstone
Conrad, Joseph: Heart of Darkness
Conrad, Joseph: Nostromo
Cooper, James Fenimore: The Last of the Mohicans
Crane, Stephen: The Red Badge of Courage
Cummings, E. E.: The Enormous Room
Defoe, Daniel: Robinson Crusoe
Defoe, Daniel: Moll Flanders
Dickens, Charles: Bleak House
Dickens, Charles: Great Expectations
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor: Crime and Punishment
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor: The Idiot
Doyle, Arthur Conan: The Hound of the Baskervilles
Dreiser, Theodore: Sister Carrie
Dumas, Alexandre: The Three Musketeers
Dumas, Alexandre: The Count of Monte Cristo
Eliot, George: Middlemarch
Fielding, Henry: Tom Jones
Flaubert, Gustave: Madame Bovary
Flaubert, Gustave: Sentimental Education
Ford, Ford Madox: The Good Soldier
Forster, E. M.: A Room With a View
Forster, E. M.: Howards End
Gaskell, Elizabeth: North and South
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von: The Sorrows of Young Werther
Gogol, Nikolai: Dead Souls
Gorky, Maxim: The Mother
Haggard, H. Rider: King Solomon's Mines
Hardy, Thomas: Tess of the D'Urbervilles
Hawthorne, Nathaniel: The Scarlet Letter
Homer: The Odyssey
Hugo, Victor: The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Hugo, Victor: Les Mis©rables
Huxley, Aldous: Crome Yellow
James, Henry: The Portrait of a Lady
Volume 2
- Little Women [Louisa May Alcott]
- Sense and Sensibility [Jane Austen]
- Peter Pan (Peter and Wendy) [J.M. Barrie]
- Cabin Fever [ B. M. Bower]
- The Secret Garden [Frances Hodgson Burnett]
- A Little Princess [Frances Hodgson Burnett]
- Alice's Adventures in Wonderland [Lewis Carroll]
- The King in Yellow [Robert William Chambers]
- The Man Who Knew Too Much [Gilbert Keith Chesterton]
- The Woman in White [Wilkie Collins]
- The Most Dangerous Game [Richard Connell]
- On the Origin of Species, 6th Edition [Charles Darwin]
- Robinson Crusoe [Daniel Defoe]
- The Iron Woman [Margaret Deland]
- David Copperfield [Charles Dickens]
- Oliver Twist [Charles Dickens]
- A Tale of Two Cities [Charles Dickens]
- The Double [Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky]
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes [Arthur Conan Doyle]
- The Curious Case of Benjamin Button [Francis Scott Fitzgerald]
- A Room with a View [E. M. Forster]
- Dream Psychology [Sigmund Freud]
- Tess of the d'Urbervilles [Thomas Hardy]
- Siddhartha [Hermann Hesse]
- Dubliners [James Joyce]
- The Fall of the House of Usher [Edgar Allan Poe]
- The Arabian Nights [Andrew Lang]
- The Sea Wolf [Jack London]
- The Call of Cthulhu [Howard Phillips Lovecraft]
- Anne of Green Gables [Lucy Maud Montgomery]
- Beyond Good and Evil [Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche]
- The Murders in the Rue Morgue [Edgar Allan Poe]
- The Black Cat [Edgar Allan Poe]
- The Raven [Edgar Allan Poe]
- Swann's Way [Marcel Proust]
- Romeo and Juliet [William Shakespeare]
- Treasure Island [Robert Louis Stevenson]
- The Elements of Style [William Strunk Jr.
Vol 3
This book contains the following works arranged alphabetically by authors' last names.
Started with volume 3 then will go back and do volumes one, two, and the Harvard classics. The goal is to finish all of these by the end of next year. I almost finished Volume One. Will do some of the WC reading books as well.
- What's Bred in the Bone [Grant Allen]
- The Golden Ass [Lucius Apuleius]
- Meditations [Marcus Aurelius]
- Northanger Abbey [Jane Austen]
- Lady Susan [Jane Austen]
- The Wonderful Wizard of Oz [Lyman Frank Baum]
- The Art of Public Speaking [Dale Breckenridge Carnegie]
- The Blazing World [Margaret Cavendish]
- The Wisdom of Father Brown [Gilbert Keith Chesterton]
- Heretics [Gilbert Keith Chesterton]
- The Donnington Affair [Gilbert Keith Chesterton]
- The Innocence of Father Brown [Gilbert Keith Chesterton]
- Fanny Hill: Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure [John Cleland]
- The Moonstone [Wilkie Collins]
- Lord Jim [Joseph Conrad]
- The Further Adventures of Robinson Crusoe [Daniel Defoe]
- The Pickwick Papers [Charles Dickens]
- A Christmas Carol [Charles Dickens]
- Notes From The Underground [Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky]
- The Gambler par Fyodor [Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky]
- The Lost World [Arthur Conan Doyle]
- The Hound of the Baskervilles [Arthur Conan Doyle]
- The Sign of the Four [Arthur Conan Doyle]
- The Man in the Iron Mask [Alexandre Dumas]
- The Three Musketeers [Alexandre Dumas]
- This Side of Paradise [Francis Scott Fitzgerald]
- Curious, If True: Strange Tales [Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell]
- King Solomon's Mines [Henry Rider Haggard]
- The Hunchback of Notre Dame [Victor Hugo]
- Kim [Rudyard Kipling]
- Captain Courageous [Rudyard Kipling]
- The Jungle Book [Rudyard Kipling]
- Lady Chatterley's Lover [David Herbert Lawrence]
- The Son of the Wolf [Jack London]
- The Einstein Theory of Relativity [Hendrik Antoon Lorentz]
- The Dunwich Horror [Howard Phillips Lovecraft]
- At the Mountains of Madness [Howard Phillips Lovecraft]
- The Prince [Niccolò Machiavelli]
- The Story Girl [Lucy Maud Montgomery]
- The Antichrist [Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche]
- The Republic [Plato]
- The Last Man [Mary Shelley]
- Life On The Mississippi [Mark Twain]
- The Kama Sutra [Vatsyayana]
- In the Year 2889 [Jules Verne]
- Around the World in Eighty Days [Jules Verne]
- Four Just Men [Edgar Wallace]
- Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ [Lewis Wallace]
Tales out of Time and Space HG Wells
- Jacob's Room [Virginia Woolf]
the end
Cosmos's Reading List 2023
https://wp.me/p7NAzO-2IR
this is my annual list of books read ?" this time I am keeping track of poems and short stories as well. would appreciate comments! but keep it civil.
I have also written a few reviews which I will post in due course.
Cosmos Reading List 2023
Cosmos Reading List 2022
Final UpdatesReading the Classics Updated
Reading the Classics Updated Lists
Reading G Keith Chesterton
Cosmos Reading List 2021
Final UpdateCosmos's Reading List 2021
Reading TS Elliot
Goals: 600 Books/stories and poems
Read Classics
One Thriller Per Month
One history/politics book per month
Read A Lot More Poetry
Read At Least One Book A Year in Spanish
Read At Least One Book A Year in Korean done
Kim Sowol's Poem Unforgettable Love
Kim Sowol A Lamp Burns Low Collection Add 127 To Total Poems Kim
I will this year try to finish reading classic books. I have a collection from Kindle of 50 books to read before you die, in three volumes ?" 15O books in total See the list below. I have read many of them already which I have noted. As I read them, I will add them to the chronological listing below, also have the Harvard classic. Had a hard copy set but donated it, I have to read it on Kindle alas.
Total Numerical listing
total read (including past things read)
Ben Bova The Star Crossed
Ben Bova Crisis Of The Month
Ben Bova The Great Moon Hoax
Ben Bova The Supersonic Zeppelin
Ben Bova Vince's Dragon
Ben Bova The Angel's Gift
Ben Bova A Slight Miscalculation
Ben Bova Cyberbooks
The King Of Bread Luis Alberto Ubba
Goodbye To The Road Not Taken At Homes
The Double Life Of The Cockroaches Wife Edwidge Danticat
Cane And Roses A Manifesto Edwidge Danticat
Persephone's Rides At The End Of Days Carmen Maria Mcleod
Unicorn Me Elizabeth Crane
Lessons With Father Jai Chakrabrabiti
Iphone S E Weiche Wang
The Hole Patrick Cottrell
Noseless Jack Nawal Serpel
Infidelity Jack Jemc
Death By Printer Mira Jacob
Options Leslie Nikia Amara
Sleepless Michael Cunningham
A Survey Of Recent American Happenings Told With The Six Commercials For The Tennyson Clear Jet Premium Touchless Bidet Omar El Akkad
Unselfie Amy Bender
Home Elizabeth Strout
Love Interests Jess Walter
Escape Pod W41 Jay Robert Lennon
Conquistador On Fairchild
Susan Perabo The Project
Period Piece Mellie Mellon
Books You Read Joe Minnow
A Woman Driving Alone Marie-Helen Bertino
Been Laurie Dandelions
Patrick Dacey All That Gone Is All That's Left
Jenny Allen Scaffolding Man
Richard Rivers Solomon A Brief
Amal Ruth Rivers Soloman
Note In The Translation Of Winter Women
Nightlife Lisa Cole
Cerati After Cerati Juan Martinez
The Prom Terrorist Rabi Almandine
Bedtime Story Victor Lavalle
Such Small Islands Lauren Groff
Almost Everything Etgar Keret
Where The Candles Are Kept David Eggers
James Rollin's The Last Odyssey Review Done
Harlan Coben Fool Me Once Review Due.
Joel Rosenberg The Twelfth Iman Review Is Due.
Introduction: Ann And Jeff Vandermeer
The Lens Of Time: Science Fiction As A Way Of Seeing
G. Wells: "The Star" (1897)
Left Hand Of Dog Clark
The King Of Bread Luis Alberto Ubba
Goodbye To The Road Not Taken At Homes
The Double Life Of The Cockroaches Wife Edwidge Danticat
Cane And Roses A Manifesto Edwidge Danticat
Persephone's Rides At The End Of Days Carmen Maria Mcleod
Unicorn Me Elizabeth Crane
Lessons With Father Jai Chakrabrabiti
Iphone S E Weiche Wang
The Hole Patrick Cottrell
Noseless Jack Nawal Serpel
Infidelity Jack Jemc
Death By Printer Mira Jacob
Options Leslie Nikia Amara
Sleepless Michael Cunningham
A Survey Of Recent American Happenings Told With The Six Commercials For The Tennyson Clear Jet Premium Touchless Bidet Omar El Akkad
Unselfie Amy Bender
Home Elizabeth Strout
Love Interests Jess Walter
Escape Pod W41 Jay Robert Lennon
Conquistador On Fairchild
Susan Perabo The Project
Period Piece Mellie Mellon
Books You Read Joe Minnow
James Rollin's The Last Odyssey Review Done
Harlan Coben Fool Me Once Review Due.
Joel Rosenberg The Twelfth Iman Review Is Due.
Introduction: Ann And Jeff Vandermeer
The Lens Of Time: Science Fiction As A Way Of Seeing
G. Wells: "The Star" (1897)
Robert Burns Auld Lang Syne
Ella Wheeler Wilcox The Year
Helen Hunt Jackson New Year's Morning
Marie Summers Enlightened
Marie Summers My God, My God
Walt Wojtanik ?"Flourishing Florist
David Schnieder Footprints In Time
David Schnieder Soldiers
David Schnieder Together Forever
David Schnieder The Almighty Thresher
Sally Ann Roberts, It All Started With A Packet Of Seeds
Marie Summers Celestial Dreams
Example #3: Chelle Wood Dance In The Rain
Example #4: Dendrobia Osprey
Example #5: Maria Summers Seasonal Whispers
Dah Helmer Astral Darkness
Alexander Pope's "An Essay On Criticism,"
Archibald Macleish "Ars Poetica" (1926)
Joy Priest In Virginia Quarterly Review
Pamela Hart's "Some Thoughts On Metaphor"
In The Night Heron Barks
Jos© Olivarez In Poetry Magazine "Ars Poetica"
Paul Guest "Late-Stage Capitalism Blues"
In The Adroit Journal
Dean Young In Poem-A-Day
"Small Craft Talk Warning"
Robert Frost After Apple-Picking
Spike Milligan Jumbo Jet
Spike Milligan Granny
Spike Milligan On The Ning Nang Nong
Spike Milligan Abc
Riddle Of Birth Koyel Is Writing Again.
The Dark House Edwin Arlington Robinson
The Garden Edwin Arlington Robinson
Philip Larkin At Grass
Jim Bartlet's An Irregular Ode To A Sometimes Morris Dancer
William Wordsworth An Excerpt From 'Ode: Intimations Of Immortality From Recollections Of Early Childhood
Oranges By Gary Soto
Robert Frost The Road Not Taken"
Robert Hayden A Plague Of Starlings"
Angels Erin Holbrook
Turquoise Thoughts Deborah P Kolodji
Cherry Blossoms Marie Summers
Joshua Tree Deborah P Kolodji
Long Shadows Marie Summers
Resurrección Andra De Costa
Holiday Travel Judi Van Gorder
Memorial Judi Van Gorder
Reading Phil Wood
Fight Flight
Judi Van Gorder
Happy Mordee 2 Writing Com
Headline Chain Of Cripsy Cinquain Judi Van Gorder
A Child Headline Chain Of Cripsy Cinquain Judi Van Gorder
Somehow Headline Chain Of Cripsy Cinquain Judi Van Gorder
Hopeful Headline Chain Of Cripsy Cinquain Judi Van Gorder
See The Tulips Blooming Victor Hugo
Hear The Violins Play In The Moonlight Thomas Corneille
Broken Headline Chain Of Cripsy Cinquain Judi Van Gorder
Patriarch Judi Judi Van Gorder
Parten Judi Van Gorder
Behave, Judi Van Gorder,
Glue Judi Van Gorder
Didactic Cinquain By Marti
See The Tulips Blooming Victor Hugo
Hear The Violins Play In The Moonlight Thomas Corneille
Judi Van Gorder's Twelfth Night Sonnet
Judi Van Gorder Pauline
John Keats(1795-1821) "Bright Star!
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) Xviii. To His Love
Robert Burns's A Sonnet Upon Sonnets
Rupert Brooke's "Sonnet Reversed"
Amy Levy The Old Poet
Amy Levy London In July
Amy Levy At A Dinner Party
Amy Levy A Wall Flower
Barbara Hartman Bottoms Up!
Ts Elliot A Dog Is A Dog
Elizabeth Bishop The Fish
Huldah Fetzer The Killed Deer
161. Dc Martinson Dizain For The Evolutionary Socialist Dream Of Edouard Bernstein
162. Judi Van Groder No Surrender
163. The Hot Oil Sizzles Waywa
164. Shadows Waywa
165. Like As A Ship" By Edmund Spencer
166. Lewis Carroll Boat Beneath A Sunny Sky
167. Lewis Carrol All In The Golden Afternoon
168. Lewis Carroll Jabberwocky By Lewis Carroll
169. Five O'clock Judy Van Gelder
170. Balm Pat Nelson
171. Foamy Water Pat Nelson
172. Salty Air Pat Nelson
173. Sandy Beach Pat Nelson
174. It Worked Shelley A Cephas
175. Angel Light (Rhyming) Shelley A. Cephas
176. His Pristine Robes (Non-Rhyming) Shelley A Cephas
177. Kim Sowol's Poem Unforgettable Love
178. Kim Sowol A Lamp Burns Low Collection Add 127 To Total Poems Kim
179. Birth Of A Triangle Alex Goldenberg
180. My Body Andrea Forbing-Maglione
181. Broken Car Sally Ann Robe
| Author Notes | I read a lot last year. Mostly classics. here's the list. appreciate any feedback. More to come tomorrow. |
By jake cosmos aller
Movie Watching Goals 2023
200 movies/TV series by the end of the year.
At least one Korean movie per week
At least one Spanish movie every so often
One Bollywood or another foreign language movie every so often
A mixture of thrillers, K Drama, comedies, romcom, etc
Make a list of Oscar movies and watch several.
Resume going to the theater later in the year.
When traveling to the US watch ten movies each trip
Including one Bollywood, one Spanish, three to four blockbusters, one classic, one comedy
the list
Numerical list
| Author Notes | my movie List for 2023 |
By jake cosmos aller
guest blog by Douglas Richard Colthurst
https://theworldaccordingtocosmos.com/Easy Everet Poetry/
Easy Everet is one of my favorite Fan Story Poets. Here are some of his poems. You can read the rest of his excellent poetry on Fan Story.com
I am a returning FanStortrian of dubious note but usually in key. I was a relatively well read member from late in 2005 until late in 2012. I left the site in 2012 because I lost my note pad and my mind within the same time-frame. But fortunately my pad was found in September of 2017 by my erudite and (he
makes me say this) very hunky cat. Well, that is Buddy Boy's story but there was a great deal of what appeared to be fine grains of mica sand on the outside cover and even in-between many of the inside pages. My hunch is Buddy Boy filched my pad, hid it under his litter box, and kept it there for six years. He was never a fan of easyeverett's poetry and would always cover his ears when I read a poem
I'd written out loud to Sue for evaluation. Now Sue says she has liked at least two or three of the two thousand poems I have scribbled over a long life but she is a kind and caring woman.
Buddy, however, when speaking about my poems used words like: 'verbose, eccentric, sophomoric, outside everybody's box not just yours, borders on dilettantism, incomprehensible, and often asked me: "Why don't you take some time and reconnect with what you seem to need...or maybe your friends on FS need or maybe what I need. You're looking a little worse for the writing."
Buddy Boy swears he found my note pad inside a large volume of William Blake's great poetic opus entitled
"Paradise Lost" which he was rereading at the time. I left it at that. My wife insists my mind had escaped its cranial cover long before I thought it was lost. Like in 1970 when she took pity on a recovering 60's summer of love child who she thought was really 'far-out' and since she had just fired the Catholic Church and was
under a 'lost my faith but found my hippie' period, she married me. Not to go any deeper but because of a few things in my life that probably would never have been resolved or confronted, only buried by self-medicating with one or more of my many unique pharmaceutical and beverage combinations invented for...for swallowing. Sue saved my life for good or bad or worse and that is a simple fact and super example and perfect definition of love going both ways at the same time.
During my first poetic journey through FanStory heaven, I achieved the acquired the Polar Bear status in 2006 and was, for me, rather well received by almost a dozen other writers and poets throughout the
rest of my tenured service to FS. I returned to FS when I realized that if Sue was correct
about my mind being missing since '70, then it did not play a part in my exit from the site
in 2012, just an overreaction to the emotional loss of my note pad. Below is an old profile which
has too much bio and not enough about this site so skip it if you too have lost your mind or just got bored
reading what you already have struggled to finish. Enjoy FanStory and especially the FanStorian scribes who truly respect the nature and beneficial purpose of artistic effort and endeavors. Good luck to all. easyeverett
I am a formalist poet who tends toward the classic poetry of old but also have a true fondness for the beat
poets of the fifties and early sixties.
I write on any subject that pops or invades my mind. I review to improve the prose or poem I am reviewing.
I utilize the cumulative knowledge gained by fifty years of writing for pleasure and as a professional
medical researcher. I attended the Writer's Workshop at the University of Iowa in Iowa City
and after my return from S.E. Asia I graduated from Stanford University, located in Palo Alto
California. I now concentrate on going to bed and getting up.
easyeverett
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I felt the reverse thrusters kick in on the C-5 Galaxy transport
and I awoke from a deep and needed sleep as the plane began
its long descent into Cue San Air Base, Vietnam.
I gazed out the small portal window to see below me the biggest swath of green I ever imagined existed on earth. If I did not know the purpose of my involuntary visitation to this green landscape, it would appear I was about to land in Eden or a close cousin to that place where man's original sin began and now continues to flourish within a divided and war-weary land.
I'm starting to believe third-world countries, at war, act like a magnet to the United States because it gives our politicians another chance to play the US as 'great savior' or 'good shepherd' or in 1950s tv western lingo, simply the "good guy" - Cheyenne Body style. But at that particular moment I was a long way from watching Clint Walker, as Cheyene Body, mosey across my tv screen while making me and most other men feel less a man than before we started watching that show and most women (I assume) agreeing that our feelings were right on target. I wondered if maybe Clint would take some time off from strutting his physical largess on tv and come over to this recently unknown place, now fighting an unknown war for an unknown reason (which is not unlike most fucking wars) for an unknown length of time and ply his Cheyene Body magic where the good guys, when identified, would be sure to win and nobody (like on tv back then) would ever die but maybe, just maybe, get minor wounds that never kept them out of next week's heroic episode.
I started thinking about other tv shows I would miss during my involuntary stay when I realized the plane had landed and I was rudely ordered out of the plane's rear exit and into the suffocating heat and humidity of what then was the unfamiliar, little known country of Vietnam that over time would become the too well known country with shared history we just cannot forget or forgive or erase from our guilty consciousness and I, for one, hope we never do.
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EASYEVERETT1
I am a returning
FanStortrian of
dubious note but
usually in key. I was
a relatively well read
member from late in
2005 until late in 2012.
I left the site in 2012 because
I lost my note pad and
my mind within - more...
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And once upon a journey made
did I first ride the wind
far from the scented verdant glade
with mainsail fully trimmed.
The salted sea is memory,
my days of sail long passed,
where death was bound by destiny
to vacant shores so vast.
I feel a surge of heat within
this aged shell so cold;
a mind and body born to win
whose beauty has grown old.
But once abundant youth did thrive
on passion's purest dreams
where eros brought the truth alive
as Siren's sung its themes.
A gift the gods cannot evade
and I shall not rescind
when once upon a journey made
did I first ride the wind.
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The Story: ragged faded lady hoarder, dumpster-diving diva boarder, dancin' to the tune of her Dandelion Wine. milky-eyed maiden, peddles paper posies, masticating carnivore, toothless, useless whore. not on her best night! not anymore! acclimated alleyways, rodents without fear, muddle-minded Faustian , soul redeeming martyr - thirty-seventh year. The Memories: broken boned beauty forged in her mind, conscientious duty lost to time. could have been a skater, rockefeller rink, sooner came later, locked and loaded link. pride of Arizona, class of sixty-one, a devotee of luna, loves her remy rum. many bitter winters, bitter winter winds, sliced her like a knife slice, bled her bone thin. The Story: gave away her gravity, east L.A. weighted down reality roles she plays. saddle-strapped sad hag gone insane, never gonna' lose 'cause she's never in the game. always aware where the light lays low to the ground livin' in a clap-trap jingle-jangle town. runs for the shade when the sun goes down; safety in crazy, crazy shades and shadow hides her braided hair and her Royal golden crown. salts of lithium took away her name; doesn't even know who the hell to blame. wants to be codified, once and for all, as prophets once prophesied - another Jackie O. with her hag-bag shop rags ready to go. time is always lazy for a lady goin' crazy!! midnight, brain-drain, middle of the boulevard, ragged lady bag-hag screamin' out her rage. The Lady Speaks: HEY YOU! up there with your pixilated palindromes, sippin' fresh-dipped sewer juice and french champagne - you blue-blooded, high-borns, listen to the tale that I wail at you. i'm a sack-cloth, busted, shackled crusted scab, gonococcal wet-brain - slippin' on the ledge of pain on pain, while livin' on the edge in the whorin' pourin' rain. God died, I cried, now i'm lookin' for some gain. leave your flush plush penthouse high-flying life; see your bleeding sister, see your bleeding wife. that's right, once a wife, mother to your kids. your kids are gettin' shifty, siftin' on the street; private school, brittle-veined, maggot-tagged gods, waitin' for the reaper with the universal odds. i'm brain-drained, insane, dissipated plain, a bucket full of truth even Jesus wouldn't claim! so crucify your comfort, your gentrified name, then bring it to the street bitch let me see your shame |
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| Author Notes | one of my favorite fan story authors is Easy Everett. I posted this on my blog, the world according to Cosmos and on FB, Medium, Substack, Writing com and Wattpad. |
By jake cosmos aller
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Jim Davidson Music Links
Jim Davidson is a friend I have known since high school in the 70s in Berkeley, California.
He is perhaps the world’s leading authority on all things Perry Mason, and has published the definitive book on Perry Mason.
He is also a talented musician, and an expert on comics and classic TV shows.
You can find his work at the following links
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Here’s my comics history blog:
https://comicshistoryhub.blogspot.com/
Here’s my TV history site:
Here’s my Perry Mason book:
Here’s a playlist of my live music performances:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLX1JF6laivmCEtsKEBOESR7ONhowMdkvm
Here’s a playlist of my studio music performances:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLX1JF6laivmDeiTySUhrFho-Aq3NYa5Yn
Here’s the Facebook page for my music group:
https://www.facebook.com/karensudjianjimdavidson
| Author Notes | Jim Davidson a high school friend of mine from Berkeley is the world's authority on all things Perry Mason, and is also an expert on classic TV, Comics and is a great piano player. |
By jake cosmos aller
Movies Seen Since 2020
I have been keeping track of movies and TV shows I have watched since I started my journals, going back to the late 90's. Here's the list for the last few years. On average I am watching over 150 movies/shows etc per year. I have watched a lot of K drama over the last few years and can finally almost follow them without the use of subtitles!
Assuming I have seen about 150 movies or TV shows per year since I was 5 I would say that I have seen about 10,000 movies and TV shows.
Whenever I travel to the States, I binge-watch on the plane hitting ten movies on a round trip.
I like to catch up on the Oscar winners, and blockbusters, and watch a Bollywood movie and a Spanish movie as well.
Goals
At Least One Korean Movie Per Week
At Least One Spanish Movie Every So Often
One Bollywood Or Another Foreign Language Movie Every So Often
A Mixture Of Thrillers, K Drama, Comedies, Romcom, Etc
Make A List Of Oscar Movies And Watch Several.
Resume Going To The Theater Later In The Year.
When Traveling To The US Watch Ten Movies Each Trip
Including One Bollywood, One Spanish, Three To Four Blockbusters, One Classic, One Comedy
200 Movies/TV Series By The End Of The Year.
The 96th Academy Awards, held at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood on March 10, 2024, celebrated outstanding movies released in 2023. Here are some of the notable winners:
1. Best Picture: "Oppenheimer"
2. Best Actor: Cillian Murphy for his role in "Oppenheimer"
3. Best Actress: Emma Stone for her performance in "Poor Things"
4. Best Supporting Actor: Robert Downey Jr. in "Oppenheimer"
5. Best Supporting Actress: Da'Vine Joy Randolph from "The Holdovers"
6. Best Director: Christopher Nolan for "Oppenheimer"
7. Best Adapted Screenplay: "American Fiction"
8. Best Original Screenplay: "Anatomy of a Fall"
9. Best Animated Feature: "The Boy and the Heron"
10. Best Documentary Feature: "20 Days in Mariupol"
11. Best International Feature Film: "The Zone of Interest"
12. Best Cinematography: "Oppenheimer"
13. Best Costume Design: "Poor Things"
14. Best Film Editing: "Oppenheimer"
15. Best Makeup and Hairstyling: "Poor Things"
16. Best Original Score: "Oppenheimer"
17. Best Original Song: "Barbie"
18. Best Production Design: "Poor Things"
19. Best Sound: "The Zone of Interest"
20. Best Visual Effects: "Godzilla Minus One"
21. Best Documentary (Short Subject): "The Last Repair Shop"
22. Best Animated Short Film: "War Is Over!"
23. Best Live Action Short Film: "The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar" 12
The Lists are in reverse chronological order
2024
1. Confession K Drama A-
2. Love In The Villa A
3. Love At First Sight A
4. Collectors K Drama B
5. The Spy Gone North B K Drama
6. Goodbye Mr. Black K Drama Did Not Finish
7. My Demon Love K Drama Did Not Finish
8. My Annoying Brother B
9. Me And Me K Drama B
10. Obliteration US Series C Did Not Finish
11. Squid Game Season Two Did Not Finish
12. Fair Play B-1 Is A Bit Too Violent And Dark
13. In The Cold Netflix Series B
14. Fool Me Once British Thriller B
15. Leave The World Behind Lots Of Stars But A Meh
16. Gyesang Creature K Drama Part Two B
17. Manifest Season Four -Finished Series
18. Stray UK Drama B
19. Wednesday B
20. Pretty Woman Classic Richard Gere/Julia Roberts A
21. Somebody B
22. The Devil Plan Was Too Complicated To Follow
23. Night Agent A
24. VIP K Drama B
25. Destined With You K Drama
26. My Annoying Brother B
27. Spy Gone North Did Not Finish
28. Catering Christmas Gala B
29. Watcher B
30. Millionaire First Love K Drama A
31. Lift Heist Movie American Meh
32. Hyenna K Legal Drama A
33. Badlands Hunters K Post-Apocalypse Drama A
34. Captivating The King K Historical Drama A
35. Doctor Slump K Drama B
36. The Trip Norwegian Dark Drama B
37. Taken K Drama Movie B
38. The Swindler K Drama Movie A
39. Everything Happens Everywhere At Once Hoopla A
40. A Transformers Copang TV B
41. Golden Holliday K Movie Compang TV B
42. Peacekeeper B
43. Knock On The Cabin B
44. Oppenheimer A
45. Don't Buy The Seller K Drama B
46. Tourist Love Affair Cute But Predictable Filmed In Vietnam B
47. The Dude In Me K Drama Is Cute A
48. Black Phone B
49. Single In Seoul K Movie B
50. Secret Obsession American Movie B
51. In The Shadow Of The Moon B
52. Age Of Adeline A
53. Fair Play B
54. In From The Cold C
55. Try To Kill Me I Dare You Polish Movie B
56. Lee Kiwon K Movie About NK Refugees In Belgium
57. Chronicle Sci-FI Meh C
58. Young Police K Drama B
59. Sweat And Sour B
60. Happiness For Beginners US Drama B
61. Falling For Christmas US Drama B
62. The Gentlemen British TV Crime Series
63. Killer Paradox K Crime Drama
64. Queen Of Tears K Rom-Com
2023 list
1. 88 Minutes US thriller
2. Moving to Heaven started in 2022.
3. Emily In Paris Netflix B started in 2022.
4. The Gray Man American
5. Lies Within started in the 2022 BK drama.
6. Trolly started 2022 B K drama a-
7. Moonball SF B
8. Glory K drama B+
9. Confidential Assignment K drama b
10. The Pale Blue Eyes - Murder mystery featuring Edgar Allen Poe as a cadet Netflix B
11. Wednesday started in 2022
12. On the line k drama b
13. Weight Ton K drama b
14. You American
15. The age of Adaline started.
16. Zone 414 did not finish b.
17. Kate did not finish too violently d.
18. 1899 needs to look again at America.
19. The Invasion of South African c
20. Parallel SF K drama
21. Crash Course in Romance K drama A-
22. Lookup American a big Meh
23. One Spring Night K drama
24. The Bros K drama
25. Like for Likes K drama b.
26. Ordinary People K drama b
27. Quiet Place Part Two Next flix SF C+
28. Echoes Next Flix series b American.
29. Veteran K crime comedy b K drama
30. Tiger in Winter K drama with a magical realism twist K drama
31. After My Death, another Korean teenage crime drama k drama
32. Confidential Assignment Two K drama
33. Nothing Serious K rom-com
34. Uncanny counter K drama
35. What's wrong with Secretary Kim K's drama.
36. Chief of Staff K drama
37. Tau American
38. Ad Astra American
39. White noise American
40. Mad for each other K drama
41. Along with the god's K's drama
42. Time to hunt K drama.
43. Escape from Mogadishu K drama
44. The decision to leave K drama.
45. Adenoid K drama
46. Hunt K drama
47. Confession K drama
48. A man from Toronto American
49. The unforgiven American
50. My unfamiliar family K drama
51. You People Eddie Murphy Comedy
52. Physical Another Squid Game K drama
53. Confession K Drama
54. Where the Crawdads Sing American movie
55. Unblock Cyber crime K drama.
56. Your Place or Mine US romcom
57. Nope SCIFi Netflix
58. One Spring Night K drama
59. Sweat and Sour K drama
60. Sweat Tooth
61. Salvation
62. Safe
63. Black Panther Wakanda Forever
64. Amsterdam b+
65. Black Adam b
66. Ant-Man and Wasp b
67. Namaland B+
68. Holy Betrayal Documentary on Religious cults in Korea
69. Outer Banks Third Season
70. Me K drama
71. God's Crook Line. Spanish
72. Shin Divorce Attorney K Drama
73. The Eternal King K drama
74. Swing Kids American drama
75. Live Up to Your Name K drama
76. Murder Mystery 2 ¢?" not bad saw Murder Mystery One last year
77. Kill Bosun K drama
78. Shadow and Bone next season
79. Tripple Frontier American
80. Switch k drama
81. Beef K Drama set in LA
82. Strangers Things Season Four
83. Queen Maker K drama
84. Ticket to Paradise American drama
85. The Stranger British
86. Florida Man American
87. Gone for Good British
88. Stay Close British
89. Kaleidoscope American
90. Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris British
91. Collectors k drama
92. The Chair American series
93. What/if American series
94. You Will Always Be My Maybe ¢?" US Romcom
95. Black Knight K Drama
96. Mother American Crime Thriller starring Jennifer Lopez
97. Miss and Mrs. Cop K drama
98. Unstoppable K drama
99. Ordinary people
100. Intruder
101. Synopsis
102. White noise
103. Red notice
104. How it ends
105. Shimmer lake
106. Mad for Each Other
107. Private Lifes K drama
108. Flower of Evil K drama
109. The Mule
110. Farber man's (Oscar pick)
111. Living
112. Dangerous Games, Legacy
113. The Independent
114. Tau
115. Bloodline
116. hypnotic
117. intrusion
118. the stranger
119. I Land
120. another life
121. colony
122. imperfectives
123. night flyers
124. white lies
125. Nice guys
126. Glitch Aussies series
127. Glitch Korean series
128. dark
129. awake
130. 1989
131. the order
132. murder mystery 2
133. SALT
134. Adam project
135. Star Trek Strange New Worlds Amazon
136. Lost World CBC series on Amazon
137. Outlaws Netflix
138. Tyrone got Cloned on Netflix
139. Lost City amazon
140. Otto Netflix
141. Terminator 2 Netflix
142. Terminator 3
143. Terminator 4
144. Bird box Barcelona Netflix
145. War of the World 2
146. Expanse Season five
147. Expanse Season Six
148. Time Trap Netflix SF movie
149. Wheel of Time Season Two Amazon
150. Non-Stop
151. Stolen
152. Mysterious Island
153. See You in My 19th Life K Drama did not finish it
154. Babblyon saw that RHS did not finish it
155. Heart of Stone saw with RHS
156. The Stranger Netflix has good reviews but did not finish it
157. This is The End C - good stars but a mess of a script
158. Alchemy of Souls intriguing K Drama
159. Top Gun Maverick Amazon
160. No Time to Die James Bond 2021 Amazon
161. Shelter Harlon Corbon amazon
162. Love at First Sight nextlix see blog entry and review
163. Cry, Macho Clint Eastwood
164. Mr. Carr and the Treasures of the Knight Templar Swedish Movie
165. Avatar the waterway
166. Guardians of the Galaxy 3
167. Everybody knows Todos Lo Sabe's Spanish movie.
168. Bollywood movie Meri Dash ki Dhaka
169. Song of the Bandits K drama b
170. Cocaine Bear b
171. Moving Disney movie b
172. Dream K drama about the homeless World Cup A
173. Reptile c
174. Stillwater A
175. King Maker K drama about Kim Dae Jung's early rise on Disney A
176. Ballerina K crime revenge thriller b a bit too violent
177. Strong Girl Namsoon sequel see post review
178. strong girl bong soon original A see post review
179. Eternals Disney c
180. Doona K Drama B
181. I Care a Lot American Drama B
182. Ray of Sunshine K Drama A
183. Good By Mr. Black Disney K Drama B
184. TheWorst of Evil Disney K Drama B
185. Villante Disney K Drama B
186. The Believer K Drama b
187. the Believer Part two K Drama B
188. Castaway Diva b
189. comedy royal b
190. squid Game Two did not finish c
191. My Demon did not finish c
192. the World Left Behind -Post See review b
193. Fall of the House of Usher is based on Poe's stories b
194. Father Stu A
195. Don't Buy the Seller -K Drama about a serial killer who lures victims through ads for used sales
196. Night Agent series
197. Hostage Celebrity ¢?" repeat from a year ago?
198. Love in the Villa nice romantic comedy
199. almost Normal Family Swedish Netflix movie
200. Fubar
201. gyesang Creature K drama 6 episodes
202. Havana K murder drama with an LGBT love affair theme
203. Bloodhounds K revenge crime drama
2022 Movies Seen
1. Emily In Paris Netflix B
2. Super Eight Stephen Spielberg B
3. Black Money K Drama B
4. Extreme Job K Drama B
5. Freaks Netflix C
6. Dune World (Not The Dune) C
7. Assimilation ¢?" Invasion Of Body Snatchers Remake Hoopla C
8. Power Play (Hoopla) C
9. Constantine Netflix C
10. Ozark Season 4 B
11. Cowboy Bebop SF Netflix K Star But Not K Drama A
12. Freaks
13. We Are All Going To Die K Zombie Drama A
14. Babysitter Killer Queen C
15. Haebing 2017 The Thaw K Drama B
16. Area 51 Hoopla C
17. Nine Teeth Vampire Movie C
18. Chosen B Netflix Danish SF
19. Dark B Netflix German SF
20. The Power Of The Dog C Oscar Nominee
21. Bright With Will Smith B SF
22. Kin B Netflix
23. 88 Minutes B
24. Shadow And Bone B+
25. Locke And Key Season 2 B
26. The Adam Project B
27. Dark Crab ¢?" Sweedish Movie B
28. Once Upon A Time In Hollywood B
29. Alice In Borderland
30. Warrior Nun
31. Tulip Fever
32. Army Of The Dead B
33. Army Of Thieves C
34. Glitch Australian Series
35. Dark German SF B
36. Our Blues K Drama A
37. Juvenile Justice K Drama B
38. Knight Day C
39. Rebecca B
40. Phantom Thread C
41. Behind Her Eyes B
42. Jumangi B
43. The Dark Tower B
44. I Frankenstein B
45. Tau B
46. Silent Sea K Drama B
47. Night Flyer B
48. El Camino Sequel To Breaking Bad B
49. Rainy Day In New York -Woody Allen B
50. My Liberation Notes
51. Our Blues
52. My Love From The Stars
53. Move To Heaven
54. Honest Candidate
55. ARC B
56. LA LA Land B Meh
57. Ozark Season 4 B
58. Yaksha K Movie B
59. Blue Bayou Korean American Movie B
60. Let Me Go Western Is Set In Montana Kevin Costner B
61. Uncanny Counter K Drama B
62. Cyber Hell B
63. Intruder K Drama B
64. Stranger Things Season Four B
65. Welcome To Wedding Hell K Drama B
66. The Hitman's Body Gaurd's Wife Part One C
67. Oceans Eight B
68. Interceptor A-
69. Better Call Saul Season 5
70. Better Call Saul Season 6
71. Spiderhead C
72. The Wrath Of Man C Did Not Finish C
73. The Man From Toronto C
74. Time Machine 2022 Re-Make B
75. Heist Korean Version B
76. RRR Bollywood Netflix Original A
77. Will You Be There? K Drama C Did Not Finish
78. Extraordinary Attorney Yoo A-1
79. Minmiding Caf?© C Did Not Finish
80. American Made B +
81. Tarzan B-
82. Remarriage And Desire K Drama B= Another Drama About Rich People Behaving Badly.
83. The King Of Stonks Austrian Satire B Worth Finishing
84. Unfamiliar Family K Drama A
85. My Liberation Notes K Drama A
86. Carter K Drama Movie C
87. Designated Survivor K Drama A
88. Locke And Key Season Three B
89. Model Family K Drama B
90. Now You See Me
91. The Body Guard's Wife
92. Red Notice
93. How It Ends
94. Better Call Saul Season Six B
95. Manifest Netflix Special B
96. Good Guys C
97. Blood Red Sky D
98. Little Woman K Drama B
99. Chief Of Staff K Drama B
100. Narco Saints K Drama B
101. Interception
102. Extraction
103. Focus
104. Project Power
105. Love And Monsters
106. Executive Decisions
107. Gray-Man
108. Adam Project
109. Re-Start
110. Jumangi
111. Fifth Wave
112. Justice League
113. On Your Wedding Day
114. 6 Underground
115. Stranger 1
116. Stranger 2
117. Reflection Of You
118. Made For Each Other
119. Honest Candidate
120. Man From Toronto
121. The Prot?©g?©
122. Signal K Drama
123. What's Wrong With Secretary Kim? K Drama
124. Manifest Four Seasons B+ Like Dark
125. End-Of-The Road B
126. When The Camellia Blooms B
127. Love Struck In The City B
128. Glitch Korean Sci-Fi B
129. Zone 414 Did Not Finish C
130. Office Invasion - South African SF Satire C
131. Kate Did Not Finish Too Violently Like In Kill Bill D
132. Midnight Sky SF C Too Meandering C
133. 1899 Did Not Finish Too Meandering B
134. See You Yesterday Spike Lee SF B
135. Someone B+
136. Tidelands
137. Jurassic World Domination
138. Wednesday -Adams Family
139. Your Psychological Thriller Series
140. Prendergast Mike Meyers
141. Dark Island German Film B
142. Welcome To Murderville B
143. Imperfects B
144. Trolly K Drama
145. The Lies Within K Drama
2021 List
1. Bloodshot
2. Ozark
3. Bloodlines
4. Discovery
5. Humans Are Useless Hoopla
6. Wu Assassins
7. 6 Underground
8. Warrior Nuns
9. Alice In Borderland
10. I Am Not Okay With This
11. Constantine
12. The Beach
13. Holliday
14. Rebecca
15. About Time
16. Spy Games
17. We Could Be Heroes
18. Vastness Of The Night Amazon
19. Hanna
20. The Expanse
21. Sneaky Pete -Amazon
22. How It Ends
23. The I Land
24. Wonder Woman
25. Get Out
26. Space Sweepers K SF Drama
27. I Care A Lot 2020 TV
28. Messiah
29. Itaewon Class K Drama
30. Sense 8
31. Salvation
32. The Order
33. Lock N Key
34. Ballad Of Buster Scruggs
35. Titans
36. O/A
37. Abyss
38. Outer Banks
39. White Lines
40. Umbrella Acadamy
41. The Last Man Standing K Drama
42. Suicide Squad
43. The Honest Candidate K Drama
44. Behind Her Eyes
45. Sisyphus K Drama
46. Venzano K Drama
47. Strangers K Drama Season One
48. Strangers K Drama Season Two
49. Strangers K Drama Season Three
50. The Woman In The Mirror
51. Gemini Man
52. Legends
53. Bridgeton Netflix's Top-Ranked Series
54. Wanted With Angelina Jolie 2005?
55. War Dogs
56. The Holliday
57. The Woman In The Mirror
58. How It Ends
59. Love And Monsters
60. Knives Out
61. Old Guard
62. Borek Movie
63. Sweet Tooth
64. Mine K Drama
65. Glitch
66. Parasite K Drama
67. Legends Of Alhambra K Drama
68. August
69. Sin City
70. The Talented Mr. Ripply
71. The Negotiator K Movie
72. No Exit K Movie
73. Crash Landing On You K Drama
74. Jackel 1997 US Movie
75. Night In Paradise K Movie
76. DP K Drama
77. Con K Drama Movie
78. October
79. When The Camelia Blooms K Drama
80. Squid Games K Drama Number 1 On Netflix
81. Move To Heaven K Drama
82. The Money Heist Spanish Series
83. Minuri
84. Cool Hand Luke
85. Citizen Kane
86. Jungle Cruise
87. Free Guy
88. Black Widow
89. King Kong V Godzilla
90. Crazy Rich Asians
91. Bliss Amazon
92. Tomorrow's Wars Amazon
93. Reflections On You (K Drama, Netflix)
94. Red Notice (Netflix)
95. Hell Bound K Drama
96. Crisis In Six Scenes Amazon
97. The Wheel Of Time Amazon Season One
98. Another Life Season Three
99. Lost In Space Season Three
100. Hostage K Drama Movie
101. Army Of Thieves
102. Army Of Death
103. The Big Splash
104. The Dark Tower
105. Balgasal K SF
106. The Wanted
107. Mogadishu K Drama
108. Don't Look Up Netflix Special
109. Focus
110. Lucy
111. Jupiter Ascending
112. Space Between Us
113. ARQ
114. Rainy Day In NYC Woody Allen Film
115. In Time
116. Silent Sea
117. San Andreas
118. Don't Look Up
119. Mad For Each Other
2020 Movies Seen
1. Better Call Saul
2. Nigh Flyer
3. The Rim Of The World
4. Joker
5. Venom
6. Lost In Space
7. Jurassic World
8. 100
9. Birdbox
10. I Am Number Four (Film)
11. Umbrella Acadamy
12. Locke And Key
13. Sense 8
14. Away
15. Titan
16. The Mist
17. The Order
18. October Faction
19. The Man In The High Castle
20. The Expanse
21. Legends Of Tomorrow
22. The Messiah
23. The OA
24. Lucy
25. Timeless
26. Travelers
27. Alice Through The Looking Glass
28. Annihilation
29. The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe
30. Prince Caspian
31. The Voyage Of The Dawn Treader
32. How It Ends
33. Itaewon Class
34. Zoo
35. Extinction
36. 6 Underground
37. Ballade Of Buster Scruggs
38. How It Ends
39. Tau
40. Series Of Unfortunate Events
41. The Darkest Dawn
42. The IO
43. Ozark
44. Avengers Day Of Ultron
45. Prometheus
46. Another Life
47. Land Of The Lost
48. Mr. Kim's Convenience Store
49. The Cloverfield Paradox
50. The A-Team
51. Pirates Of The Caribbean Dead Men Tell No Tales
52. Salvation
53. Iron Man 2
54. Total Recall
55. The Machine (Hoopla)
56. Absolutely Anything (Hoopla)
57. The Adventurer Curse Of The Midas Touch (Hoopla)
58. The Endless (Hoopla)
59. Color Out Of Time (Hoopla)
60. The Librarian Curse Of The Judas Chalice (Hoopla)
61. The Librarian King Soloman's Mine (Hoopla)
62. The Librarian Quest For The Spear (Hoopla)
63. Dinosaur Island (Hoopla)
64. Land That Time Forgot (Hoopla)
65. Dark Prophecy (Hoopla)
66. The Villainess (Hoopla)
67. Bad Boys For Life
68. Outer Banks
69. Suicide Squad
70. Abyss
71. Series Of Unfortunate Events
72. Miss Peregrine's Home For Peculiar Children
73. Superman Vrs Batman Star Of Justice
74. Last Man Standing K Political Drama
75. Honest Candidate K Drama
76. Irishman
77. Project Power
78. Once Upon A Time In Hollywood
79. Kim Ji Young K Drama
80. The Sting
81. Focus
82. Fantasy Island
83. Warrior Nun ¢?"Did Not Finish
84. Good Omens Amazon
85. Sneaky Pete Amazon
86. Blood Shot Netflix
87. Jupiter Ascendant Netflix
88. White Lines
89. Bloodlines
90. Wu Assasins
91. Inside Bill's Brain
92. War Dogs
93. Alice In The Borderlands
94. The I- Land
95. Black Mirror
96. The Last Three Days
2019
Partial List Saw At Least 90 Total
1. A Series Of Unfortunate Events (Netflix)
2. Aquaman (Theater) B
3. 49 Days Korean Movie B
4. Doomsday Device YS B
5. Winter Kills YS C -Disappointing Despite Great Cast
6. Heist 2001 Version YS B
7. Curse Of The Golden Flower YS
8. HG Wells Men In The Moon YS A-1
9. The Rift YS
10. Narnia Voyage Of The Dawn Treader YS B
11. Operation Chromite YS B
12. The Assassin YS C Did Not Finish
13. Justice League B
14. The Ghost And The Darkness B
15. The A-Team B
16. Jack Reacher, Never Go Back B
17. Night Flyer Series B
18. Cold Pursuit
19. Chunhyang (2000 Film) YS
20. The Assassin 2015 Korean Movie
21. Eraser (Film)
22. The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo (2011 Film)
23. Operation Chromite (Film)
24. The Rite (2011 Film) YS
25. The First Men In The Moon YS
26. Curse Of The Golden Flower YS
27. Alien Code YS
28. Point B YS
29. Shada (Doctor Who) YS
30. Glass (2019 Film)
31. Memories Of The Alhambra K Drama
32. The Man In The High Castle 4 Seasons Amazon
33. The Expanse Four Seasons Amazon
2018
1. Once Upon A Time ABC Mini-Series A
2. Taken Earth C
3. Alice Through The Looking Glass B
4. The Vault C Too Scary A Movie
5. GORA Turkish SF Comedy C
6. Pirates Of The Caribbean Dead Men Tell No Tales B
7. Cowboys Vs Dinosaurs B
8. Enterprise Complete Season
9. Frequency Series
10. Coverdale Paradox
11. Valerian And The City Of A Thousand Planets (On a Plane)
12. Kong Island Of Skulls (On Plane)
13. Geostorm (On Plane)
14. Lost And Found YS
15. Berlin Syndrome YS
16. Burn Country YS
17. Beatriz At Dinner YS
18. Breaking The Bank YS
19. The Expanse Netflix Original
20. Discovery Netflix
21. Drone Wars YS
22. Prometheus Trap YS
23. Blackway YS
24. The Mermaid YS
25. The Great Wall YS
2017/2016
1. Leap Year TV B
2. Congressman YS B
3. Crimson Force YS B
4. Three Classic SF Japanese Movies From The '50s
5. The H Man YS B
6. Battle In Outer Space YS B
7. Mothra YS B
8. 11 22 63 IS A
9. Blunt Talk YS B Did Not Finish
10. Alien Arsenal YS B
11. Seven Westerns
12. A Night In Old Mexico B
13. Ambush At Dark Canyon B
14. Fighting With Anger B
15. Baytown Outlaws B
16. Hick C-1
17. Heathens And Thieves A-
18. Implanted B-
19. When The Sky Falls C-
20. Wild Bill Hickok Swift Justice B
21. Traded B
22. Dirk Gently Holistic Detective Agency -Mini-Series A
23. Mystery Science Theater Cave Dwellers C
24. Meet The Guilbys B
25. The President A
26. Stand Up Guy B
27. Snow Piercer B Korean Producer B
28. Painkillers C
29. Dirty Lies
30. Quarantine LA C
31. Breaking The Bank B
32. Dr. Strange B
33. Jack Reacher Never Go Back B
34. Keeping Up With The Jones B
35. Hell Or High Water B
36. The Accountant B
Oregon
37. The Ghost In The Shell Ashland Theater
38. The Circle Theater Medford
39. George Feydeua A Flea In Her Ear - ASH Drama
40. The Black Hole MPL
41. Final Days Of Planet Earth MPL
42. The Last Sentinel MPL
43. Supernova MPL B
44. East Of Eden MPL A
45. Cat On A Hot Tin Roof MPL A
46. A Street Car Named Desire MPL A
47. Rebel Without A Cause MPL A
48. Enterprise First Year MPL B
49. How To Mary A Millionaire MPL
50. How To Be A Latin Lover Theater A
51. Wonder Women Theater A-
52. The Three Musketeers MPL C
53. Time Changer MPL D
54. Star Trek Enterprise four Seasons
55. Solaris B-
56. The Sea Of Trees A-
57. Quantum Leap Season One A-1
58. Star Gate Atlantis Rising B-
59. Total Recall B
60. Tammy B-
61. A Tale Of Two Cities BBC B
62. Vanishing Point A-
63. Spider-Man Homecoming In Theater B
64. War Of Planet Of The Apes In Theater B+
65. Rogue One Netflix B
66. The Dark Tower Theater B
67. Eye Of The Needle MPL A
68. Congo MPL B
69. Exile Mplb
70. Allegiant MPL B
71. The Man MPL B
72. Virus MPL B
73. Frankenstein MPL A
74. Treasure Island MPL B
75. Jericho TV Series B
76. Man In The High Castle TV Series A
77. One Under The Sun Amazon B
78. Independent's Day Amazon ¢?"One Of The Worst Movie Ever Made F
79. The Last Lovecraft ¢?" Relic Of Cthulu C
80. Mysterious Island B
81. Zoo Series On Netflix Seasons One To Three
82. Stranger Things Season three seasons
83. Suburbicon Theater B-1
84. Thor Ragnarok Theater B
85. Monsters Netflix C
86. Travelers Netflix B
87. Julius Caesar OSF B
88. Hannah And The Dreaded Gazebo OSF B
89. Blade Runner 2049 B
90. Once Upon A Time ABC Series B
91. The Night Of The Hunter MPL A
92. The Maltese Falcon MPL A A
93. The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel MPL B+
94. Mission Impossible Rogue Nation MPL B
95. Beasts Of The Southern Wilds MPL
96. Satan Met A Lady MPL B
97. The Villainous Korean Movie 2017 Hoopla
98. Guardians Of The Galaxy Part Two
99. Star Wars The Last Jedi
100. Nice guys
101. Arrival
102. Hell or High Water
103. Dead Pool
104. Revenant in theater
105. Fifth wave on plane
106. Synchroneity
107. London Has Fallen on plane
108. Whiskey Tango Foxtrot on plane
109. Ten Coverfield Lane
110. Julius Caeser OSF
111. A wrinkle in Time OSF
2015
1. All About The Benjamin's TNT B
2. Rush Hour Three TNT B
3. The Interview Google On-Line C
4. Paradise 2013 C
5. The Signal 2014 B
6. Duplicity Julia Roberts Clive Owens B
7. Are You Here B
8. Maleficent B
9. Guardians Of The Galaxy B
10. Begin Again 2014 B
11. The Giver 2014 A
12. Sea Biscuit A
13. November Man B
14. A Most Wanted Man C
15. Labor Day B
16. Life Of Crime B
17. Kundo Korean Movie B
18. And So It Goes 2014 Michael Douglas, Diane Keaton B
19. Marley And Me B
20. Jobs B
21. The Family C
22. Stuck In Love B
23. Mud B
24. X Men Days Of Future Past C
25. The Identical B
26. Jurassic City C
27. Railway Man B
28. Peabody And Sherman B
29. Lunch Box Bollywood Movie 2013 B
30. Y Tu Su Mama, Tambi?©n Award Winning Mexican Movie 2014 B
31. Australia B
32. Mrs. Henderson Presents B
33. John Wick B
34. Silver Lining Playback A
35. The Good Night B
36. View From The Top B
37. Contagion C
38. Pineapple Express C
39. Country Strong B
40. The Hobbit ¢?"Battle Of The Five Armies B
41. Dinosaur Experiment C
42. Broke Back Mountain Library A
43. An Affair To Remember Library A
44. Two Days In Paris Library A
45. Ride With The Devil Library A
46. Carmen Opera Library A
47. Catch 22 Library B
48. Game Of Thrones Season One Library B
49. Game Of Thrones Season Two Library B
50. Barefoot In The Park Library A
51. No Reservations Library C
52. Fast And Furious Library C
53. Charlie's Angels 2000 Library B
54. Charlie's Angels 2003 Version Saw Earlier Noted Here B
55. Endless Love B
56. Hot Pursuit On Plane C
57. Day Of Adeline On Plane A
58. Avengers Day Of Ultron On Plane C
59. Tomorrowland On Plane B
60. Far From The Madding Crowd On Plane A
61. Aloha On Plane
62. Mad Max Fury Road On a Plane
63. San Andreas On Plane
64. Classified File Korean Movie On Plane
65. Casanova From Library
66. Company You Keep From Library
67. Contraband From Library
68. Bleak House Mini-Series From Library
69. La Boehme Opera From Library
70. Eat Drink Man Women From Library
71. Runner, Runner From Library
72. Sense And Sensibility From Library
73. American Snipper HBO
74. Wild HBO
75. Maze Runner HBO
76. Dumb And Dummer To HBO
77. Havoc HBO
78. 5 Flights Up HBO
79. Kill The Messenger HBO
80. My Blueberry Nights Library
81. Last Chance, Harvey, Library
82. Serial Mom HBO
83. The Producers 2005 Version
84. Broken Flowers Hood
85. Rumor Has It that HBO
86. Run All Night HBO
87. Fistful Of Dollars HBO
88. A Few More Dollars HBO
89. The Good, The Bad, And Ugly HBO
90. Fifty Shades Of Grey HBO
91. Hang Em High HBO
92. The Drop HBO
93. The Leisure Class HBO
94. The Kingsmen Secret Service HBO
95. Birdman HBO
96. The Wiz NBC Special
97. Spectre At Kingstown
98. Magnolia HBO
99. The Curse Of The Jade Scorpion HBO
100. The Rock HBO
101. Child Hood's End Syfy Channel Special
102. Insurgent HBO
2014
1. Jack Reacher 2012 Net Flix
2. Thieves (Korean Movie Next Flix)
3. Side Effects ¢?" Next Flix
4. The Informant ¢?" Next Flix
5. The Assassination Of Jessie James By The Coward Robert Ford 2008 Next Flic
6. Olympus Has Fallen 2013 Next Flix
7. Coriolanus 2011 Next Flix
8. 300 Net Flix
9. Appolo 18 Net Flic
10. Shape Of Things To Come On Plane
11. Battle Star Galactica Razor On Plane
12. The Master On Plane
13. Ides Of March On Plane
14. Oblivion Net Flix
15. Midnight In Paris Woody Allen Saw Earlier On Plane Net Flic
16. Non-Stop In Regal - A Bit Disappointing
17. Then She Found Me Directed By Helen Hunt 2007 Net Flic
18. Zelig 1996 Woody Allen Nex Fix
19. Husband And Wives = Woody Allen Movie Netflix
20. Confederate States Of America 2004 Mockumentary
21. Out Of Sight George Clooney, Jennifer Lopez Based On Elmore Leonard Novel ¢?" Bit Disappointing On Plane
22. Hobbit Desolation Of Smug On Plane
23. Ender's Game On Plane On Plane
24. The Internship On Plane
25. Closed Circuit On Plane
26. Secret Life Of Walter Mitty Download
27. RoboCop Download
28. The A-Team On Plane
29. The Europa Report On Plane
30. Blue Jasmine On Plane
31. World's End On Plane
32. The Hangover On Plane
33. Edge Of Tomorrow In Movie Theather
34. True Crime 1998 Clint Eastwood (TV)
35. Bullet To The Head (TV)
36. Get The Gringo (TV)
37. Pacific Rim (TV)
38. Starsky And Hutch (TV)
39. Space Jam (TV)
40. World War Z Nextflex
41. Wolf Of Wall Street Nextflex
42. Gravity Nextflex
43. 12 Years A Slave Nextflex
44. Fracture Nextflex
45. Good Night And Good Luck Nextflex
46. The Perfect Storm Nextflex
47. The Book Thief Nextflex
48. Best Offer Nextflex
49. Muncih 2005 Spellberg Nextflex
50. A Winter's Tale Nextflex
51. Trascendence Nextflex
52. The Other Women Nextflex
53. Layer Cake Nextflex
54. Heat Robert Dinoro, Al Pacino Nextflex
55. Last Vegas Dinoro Freeman Kline Pacino Nextflex
56. The Grand Budapest Hotel Netflix
57. Best Laid Plans 1999 Version Nextflex
58. Firewall Nextflex
59. Saving Mr. Banks Nextflex
60. A Wrinkle In Time Nextflex
61. Extremely Loud And Incredibly Close ¢?" Tom Hanks, Sandra Bullock About 9-11 And One Family's Reaction Nextflex
62. Mandella's Long Walk To Freedom Nextflex
63. Enough Said Nextflex
64. All You Need Is Love Nextflex
65. Divergent Nextflex
66. Noah Nextflex
67. You will Meet A Tall Dark Handsome Stranger ¢?" Woody Allen Movie 2010 Nextflex
68. X Men Wolverine Origins Nextflex
69. Captain America Winter Soldier Nextflex
70. X Men 2 United Nextflex
71. Sex Tape In Hotel
72. Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes On Plane
73. Godzilla 2014 Version On Plane
74. Don Juan Netflix
75. Frozen Nextflex
76. Gone Girl 2014 In Regal Springfield
77. Better Living Through Chemistry 2013 Movie Netflix
78. Elysium 2013 Nextflix
79. A Million Ways To Die In The West Nextflex
80. Interstellar 2014 In Regal Springfield
81. Burning Palms ¢?" Worst Movie Of The Year For Me
82. Million Dollar Arm
83. Lost In America 1985 Recommended By Matt Jacobson
84. Manhattan Murder Mystery 1995 Woody Allen
85. State Of Play Next Flic
86. Babel Next Flic
87. Peter Pan Live NBC
88. Snowpiercer Korean Directed Film
89. Jack Ryan, Shadow Recruit
90. Superbad
91. It's A Wonderful Life
92. This Means War
93. Memories Of Murder Korean Film
94. The Good, The Bad, And The Weird Korean Film
95. Bad Santa
96. Typhoon Korean Movie 2005
97. In The Cut 2003 Australian Movie Set In NYC
TV Series And Movies
1. Breaking Bad Television Binge Watching All Episodes
2. House Of Cards
3. Tin Man
4. Falling Skies
2013
1. Crazy, Stupid Love, Netflix January 1, 2013
2. The Descendents Netflix January 4, 2013
3. The Hobbit (In Theater) January 5, 2013
4. The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel Netflix
5. Abritrage Richard Gere
6. Get Him To The Greek TV
7. Snatch Netflix
8. The One Netflix
9. One For The Money (Netflix)
10. Star Trek The Undiscovered Country TV
11. The Help Netflix
12. Hope Spring Netflix
13. Paul Netflix
14. Stolen Netflix ¢?" Did Not Finish Nominate For Worst Film Of The Year
15. The Lion, The Witch, And The Wardrobe ABC Family
16. Journey To The Center Of The Earth 2011 ABC Family
17. Mission Impossible 1V Ghost Protocol
18. Here Comes Mr. Jordan 1941 TCM
19. A Star Is Born 1945 TCM
20. Mission Impossible 111
21. Decisions
22. Life Of Pi Next Flic
23. In Land Of Blood And Honey Next Flic
24. Lockout Next Flic
25. 21 Jump Street Next Flic
26. Sherlock Holmes's Games Of Shadows Plane
27. Wrath Of The Titans Plane
28. Horrible Bosses Plane
29. Safe House Plane
30. Hunter Plane
31. Take This Waltz Next Flix
32. Marley TV
33. Coriolanus (Theather RHS)
34. Wallenstein (Theather RHS)
35. Great Gatsby (Regal Kingstown)
36. Groom Lake (Hulu)
37. Motorcycle Diaries 2004 Next Flic
38. Looper Next Flic
39. Superman Man Of Steel In Regal Theather
40. Bourne Legacy (Netflix)
41. Earthlings 2012 Hulu
42. Gangster Squad (Nextflix)
43. Red (Part)
44. Zookeeper (Part)
45. Witches Of Oz (Netflix)
46. Interstate 60 Hulu
47. White House Down In Theather
48. Sex And Lucia Next Flic
49. Ted Next Flic
50. Star Ship Troopers - Invasion Next Flic
51. Ana Karina 2012 Net Flix - Production Did Not Work For Me - Too Cute And Avant Garde - Like Watching A Film Of A Play Adaption. Did Not Work As A Play Or As A Movie - A Big Disappointment
52. Time Bandits 1981 Hulu
53. RIPD In Theather
54. Atonement (Netflix)
55. Tristone And Isolde (2006) Netflix
56. Dune 1984 Nextflex
57. Meet The Millers Theather
58. Seeking A Friend For The End Of The World Next Flic
59. Iron Man 3 On Plane
60. Trance On Plane
61. Prisoners In Theather
62. The Butler In Theather
63. Outsourced Netflix
64. Cloud Atlas Netflix
65. Flight 2012 Next Flic
66. The Campaign 2012 Next Flic
67. Asian Invasion (Porn Movie For Strip Poker Game)
68. Details Nextflix
69. The Blind Side Netflix
70. Pirates Of The Caribbean On Stranger Tides Netflix
71. Robin Hood 2010 Netflix
72. The Counselor 2013 In Theather
73. The Host Netflix
74. After The Sunset 2008 Netflix
75. Grown Ups TNT On Cruise
76. The Proposal TNT On Cruise
77. Red 2 TNT On Cruise
78. Maiden Heist Next Flix
79. Despicable Me ¢?" Disney Channel
80. Hunger Games Catching Fire In Theather
81. The Place Beyond The Pines Next Flic
82. Watch Man 2009 Next Flix
83. Snow White And The Huntsman Nextflix
84. Parker Netflix Streaming
85. American Hustle
86. A Christmas Story
87. Ice Quake 2013 Syfy
88. On The Road
2012
1. Dragnet (Next Flex) Jan 1
2. Bird On A Wire (Next Flex) Jan1
3. Laura Croft Tomb Raider (Hollywood Chanel)
4. Kuffs MGM Chanel
5. Journey To The Lost World MGM Chanel
6. Yellow Handkerchief Netflix
7. Shanghai Knights Hollywood Chanel
8. MMB 2 Hollywood Chanel
9. What Women Want Mel Gibson, Helen Hunt 2000 Hollywood Chanel
10. The Door In The Floor Jeff Bridges, Kim Bassinger, Mimi Rogers 2000 Next Flix Check References To Book
11. America's Sweethearts 2001 Julia Roberts, Kusshak, Catherine Zetta Jones Nextflix
12. Marathon Man
13. Catwoman
14. The Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes 2011 On Plane
15. Cowboys And Aliens 2010 On Plane
16. The Island 2005 On Plane
17. The Day The Earth Stood Still 1951 On Plane
18. Hot Tube Time Machine Net Flix
19. The Big Lebrowski Net Flix
20. Leopolis Seoul Netflix
21. King Of The Lost World
22. Money Ball (Training Day)
23. Serenity Next Flex 2005
24. Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows Part One (On Plane)
25. Dirty Rotten Scoundrels On The Plane
26. Bender's Big Score (Netflix)
27. Serenity (Nextflix)
28. The Punisher (TV)
29. Love's Kitchen (Netflix)
30. Transformers 11 2009 - Disappointing But Will Watch Transformers 111 To Finish The Series Off.
31. The Double 2011 Richard Gere
32. Contagion Did Not Finish Warsaw
33. Sherlock Holmes 2 Did Not Finish Warsaw
34. Win Win Warsaw Good Fli
35. The Invasion 2005 Innovative Shooting Technique
36. Tower Heist Nex
37. The Tree Of Life Nex - Disappointing
38. The Hangover Part Two NEX
39. Girl With Dragon Tattoo (2011 Version)
40. The King's Speech NEX
41. Midnight In Paris Woody Allen Movie 2011
42. John Carter Hotel Room
43. This Means War On Plane
44. J Egard With Leonardo Di Capio Directed By Clift Eastwood ¢?" Big Disappointment. Just Too Long, Too Much Talking. From NEX
45. Dr Strangelove From Mik B
46. The Armour Of God 1987 Jackie Chan, Lola Forner Spanish Actress Hulu
47. The Sands Of Oblivion 2007 Hulu
48. The Monitors (Next Flex)
49. MIB3 On Plane
50. Prometheus ¢?" Last Half Worth Seeing Again On Plane
51. Battleship On Plane
52. Players Bollywood Remake Of The Italian Job ¢?"Worth Seeing
53. Cross Worlds Next Flex
54. Phil The Alien Next Flex
55. Invasion Of The Pod People Hulu
56. Alien Armageddon Hulu
57. Red State Netflix
58. God Bless America Netflix
59. The Man Who Fell To Earth Netflix
60. Very Bad Things Next Flix
61. Ready Or Not ¢?" Hulu
62. The Last Lovecraft: Relic Of Cthulu 2009 Netflix
63. Amazing Spiderman 2012 Plane
64. To Rome With Love 2010 Plane Woody Allen
65. Dawalt's Guard (First Arabic Movie) Plane
66. Search For Justice 2012 Nicolas Cage Plane
67. Mirror Mirror With Julia Roberts ¢?" On Plane In February
68. The Gauntlet With Clint Eastwood 1977
69. The Hunger Game Blockbuster
70. The Debt
71. The Maltese Falcon TCM
72. My Week With Marilynn Block Buster
73. Bernie Blockbuster
74. Savages Blockbuster
75. Wanderlust Blockbuster
76. Skyfall Theather
77. Office Space
78. Dumb And Dumber TV
79. Accepted TV
80. The Iron Lady Blockbuster
81. The Watch Blockbuster
82. Larry Crowne Blockbuster
83. Hot Rock 1972 Robert Redford HDNET
84. Killing Them Softly (Movie Theather)
2011
1. How Do You Know 2010
2. Nothing But The Truth 2008 Saw Earlier Not Bad 1-15
3. Salt 2010 With Angelina Jolie
4. The Other Side Of The Bed Spanish 2002
5. A Perfect Getaway 2009
6. Fool's Gold
7. Invictus 2009 Morgan Freeman, Matt Damian
8. Like Water For Chocolate
9. The Flower Of My Secret La Flora De Mi Secreto Spanish Movie 1995
10. 88 Minutes 2007 Al Pacino
11. Mr. Deeds 2002
12. The King And I Korean Series
13. Sex And The City 11
14, Hell Boy Part 11
15. Love Happens
16. Drive Angry 2011 Nicolas Cage Add To Worst Movie List
17 Girl With The Dragon Tatoo 2009
18. The Spanish Prisoner 1997 David Mamet Director Steve Martin
19. Illegally Yours 1988 Robert Lowe
20. Machette 2010 Half Spanish Dialogue Robert Dinero, Jessica Alba
21. The Prince Of Persia 2010
22 No False Move 1992 Bill Ray Thorton
23 Life In North Korea Documentary From National Geographic
24. Green Zone
25. Morning Glory
26 Killers
27. Eat Pray Love
28 The Town
29. Kate And Leopold
29. The Legend Of Bagger Vance
30 Emma
31 Les Miserables 1998 Version
32 Unstoppable 2010
2010
1. Fragments 2009
2. Where The Day Takes You 1992
3. The Illusionist 2003
4. PS, I Love You 2007
5. The Burning Plain 2008
6. The Other Man 2008
7. Mama Mia 2008
8. Dim Sum Funeral 2008
9. Inglorious Bastards 2009
10. Oh Brother, Where Art Thou? 2003 Second Time Around
11. Time Traveler's Wife 2009
12. Amelia 2009
13. Lies And Illusions 2009 Add To Worst List
14. Serious Moonlight 2009
15. "The Chaser" Korean Film
16. Precious 2009 Academy Award For Best Actress
17. Every Body's Alright
18. Space Balls
19. Three Stooges Selected Episodes
20. Ghosts Of Girl Friends Past 2009 Matthew McConaughey, Jennifer Garner
21. Up In The Air 2009 George Clooney
22. The Men Who Stare At Goats 2009 George Clooney
23. Have You Heard About The Morgans? Hugh Grant, Sara Jessica Parker 2009
24. Sherlock Holmes 2009 Robert Downey, Jude Law And Rachael Mc Donald
25 "Crazy Heart" 2010 Best Picture Award 2010 Jeff Bridges, Robert Duval, Maggie Gyenehall
26 "Five Minutes Of Heaven" Liam Nelson 2010.
27 Avatar 2009 Best Picture
28 Romeo Must Die Jet Li 2000
29 Flawless 2008 Demi Moore Michael Kane
30 Extraordinary Measures 2010 Harrison Ford
31 Alice In Wonderland 2010
32 The Road 2009
33 It's Complicated
34 Beyond A Reasonable Doubt
35 The Invention Of Lying
36 Edge Of Darkness
37 The Spy Next Door
38 Young Victorian
39 Old Dogs (On Plane)
40 Leap Year (On Plane)
41 Couples Retreat (Travis) 2009
42 Knight And Day 2010 (Medford)
43 Inception 2010 (Medford)
44 The Sorcerer's Apprentice 2010 (Medford)
45 Clash Of The Titans (On Plane) 2010
46 Remember Me (On Plane) -2010
47 Bounty Hunter (On Plane -2010
48 Date Night (On Plane ) 2010
49 2 Fast 2 Furious 2003 Eva Mendes Stars (Saw On TV)
50 Water World ¢?" Keven Kostner Saw On Korean TV
51 Legends Of The Fall Saw On Korean TV
52 Iron Man 2 (On Plane)
53 How To Tame Your Dragon (On Plane)
54 The Informant (HBO Home)
55 Bill And Ted's Bogus Journey (Parts)
56 Batteries Not Included 1987 Second Time Around (HBO)
57 Family Man (HBO)
58 Wall Street
59 Helen - Short List For Worst Movie I Saw ¢?" Just Did Not Work For Me.
60 The Warlords
61 A Plague Of Zombies
62 Robin Hood
63 The Unthinkable
64 The Book Of Eli
65 The Count Of Monte Cristo
66 The Messenger (Angela Saw)
67 Red (In The Theather)
68 The Count Of Mont Cristo Angela Saw I Saw Parts
69 3:10 To Yuma (Saw A Few Years Ago, Saw Again)
70 Law Abiding Citizen 2009
71 Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter, Spring Korean Film 2005
72 Aliens In The Addict 2009 TV
73 Loch Ness 1996 Ted Dancer HBO
74 Fair Game 2010 In Theater
75 The Pianists 2002 Angela Saw, I Saw A Few Years Ago
76 The Simpsons Movie First Half was Seen Earlier
77 Star Wars 6 First Half Hour
78 Wizard Of OZ Half
79 The King And I Korean History Drama
80 The Darjeeling Limited 2007 Owen Wilson Wes Anderson Directed
81 The Piano 1995 Angela Saw, I Heard Parts Of It
82 Gia 1994 Very Sexual And Lots Of Lesbian Scenes Which Turned Me On.
83 Oregon (SFY)
84 Leiberstruam 1999 Kim Novack, Bill Pullman HBO
85 The Jones 2009 Demi Moore, David Duchovny Amber Heard, And Ben Hollingsworth Directed By Derrick Borte ¢?" Disappointed, Did Not Work For Me
86 The Hours 2002 Nicole Kidman, Julain Moore, And Meryle Shreep Re Life Of Virginia Woolf And Her Impact On The Life Of Two Women
87 Bobby 2006 Helen Hunt, Demi Moore, Anthony Hopkins, Sharon Stone, William Macy, Martin Sheet, Linsday Lohan, And Cristian Slater Written Nd Directed By Emilio Estevez
88 True Grit 2010 ¢?" Overly Hyped In My Opinion
89 Vivdirana Spanish Film 1961 Classic
90 Volver 2005 Spanish Film
91 How Much Do You Love Me 2005 French
92. Ninja Assassins 2009 Staring Rain On TV
93 Horsefeathers Marx Brothers On TV
2009
1. Underwear" Starting Val Kilmer, Graham Greene,
2. Constant Gardener With Rachael Weiz ¢?"
3. Rumor Has It ¢?" Jennifer Aniston, Kevin Costner
4. Queen
5. Hancock With Will Smith
6. Dave ¢?" With Eddie Murphy ¢?" SF Comedy
7. Joe Kid ¢?" With Clint Eastwood ¢?" Saw Opening
8. Iron Man ¢?" Not Bad. Another Marvel Movie.
9. Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind"
10. Gone, Baby, Gone"
11. Fracture
12. Burn After Reading"
13. 21 Grams"
14. The Changling With Angelia Jolie, Directed By Clint
15. Kiss The Dust"
16. How To Lose Friends And Alienate People
17. Electric Mist With Tomy Lee Jones
18. Good German
19. Siberian Express
20. Body Of Lies
21. Slum Dog Millionaire
22. Lucky Slevin
23. Australia
24. What Just Happened
25. City Of Ember
26. Proof Of Life
27. Bottle Shock
28. Runaway Jury
29. Master Spy
30. Marie Antoinette
31. Interstate
32. He's Just Not That Into You
33. Madagascar 11
34. Collateral With Jamie Fox And Tom Cruise
35. My Super Ex Girl Friend
36. State Of Play ¢?" In Medford Movie Theather
37. Bolt-On The Plane
38. Yes Man, In Hotel Room In DC
39. Avengers
40. Spy Games
41. All The Way
42. The Day The Earth Stood Still
43. Seven Pounds
44. Nothing But The Truth
45. The Reader ¢?" Oscar Winner For Best Actress 2008 Kate Winslet
46. Crossing Over
47. Kill Shot With Mickey Rourke, Diane Lane
48. Vanished With Jeff Bridges, Sandra Bullock
49. Valkarie
50. Star Trek ¢?" Prequel Movie (From Street Vendor)
51. 52 The Clearing With Robert Redford ¢?" 2004
52. Curious Case Of Benjamin Button With Brad Pitt Best Actor Award 2009
53. Knowing With Nicolas Cage 2009
54. The Code
55. Counterfeit
56. Alexander 2004 Oliver Stone Producer
57. Out For Justice 1991
58. Echelon Conspiracy 2009
59. The Good Thief 2001 With Nick Nolte
60. Meteor = NBC Mini-Series
61. Wild Hogs 2007 Tim Allen, Travolta, Macy, Lawrence
62. 28 Days Later
63. Wild Things 2
64. Mystic River Directed By Clint Eastwood, Starring Sean Pean
65. Criminal 2004
66. Essential Lover
67. Two Lovers
68. Angels And Demons 2008 Started by Tom Hanks, Directed By Ron Howard
69. The Informers
70. Duplicity
71. Surveillance Produced By Jennifer Lynch Starting Pullman And Ormand
72. Trust The Man 2008
73. The Mutant Chronicles 2008
74. Heaven 1995?
75. Wolverine With Hugh Jackman 2009
76. Dark Streets With Bijou Philips
77. Doubt With Meryle Strep 2008
78. Coco Chanel Shirley Mc Cline 2008
79. Ramen Girl
80. The Yatz
| Author Notes | My master list of movies seen since 1970. I will post two companion pieces tomorrow my K drama list and my college friend, Roy's annual Oscar write-up. |
By jake cosmos aller
https://wp.me/p7NAzO-2OC
Cosmos K Drama List
Themes
Since 2015, when I moved to Korea I have become a big fan of K Drama. ? They are perhaps the best in the world at romantic comedies. ("Crash Course in Romance" and "Crash Landing on You" a good examples). ? They also excel in movies about "Rich People Behaving Badly "( Mine is the best one) ? and dark social commentary like "Parasite" (Oscar Best Picture), revenge dramas (Glory is the best example), and epic historical dramas set in Korea and China. ("Mr. Sunshine" is a good example) ?
Another staple is high school coming-of-age films. (Millionaires First Love is a good one) .
They also do political intrigue films pretty well ) Last Man Standing is good, and" Designated Survivor"), and decent SCIFi too. ? ("Silent Sea", and Space Sweepers" are good).
The crime and political dramas are quite intense and a bit too violent in my opinion, although they are not "slasher" films per se. And of course, the Squid Game was a worldwide phenomenon.
Up until the early 80's K dramas were not that good, Japanese (J Drama) were better. But since then K Dramas have taken over. For some reason, K dramas are more approachable to outsiders than J Dramas or C Dramas. An interesting factoid is that the writers are almost all women. ? and about 60 percent of the viewers are women, Korean men, in general, prefer sports or news programs.
More LGBTQ Characters
In recent years, many dramas have started featuring LGBTQ characters and non-Korean characters (called multi-cultural in Korean). The LGBTQ characters tend to be either female or transgendered, not too many male male gay characters. Itaewon Class had a good Trans character ¢?" a male transitioning to female, and "Mine" had both a lesbian couple and a bisexual male lead. This reflects the fact that LGTBQ status is still not as tolerated in Korea as it is in the US and Europe.? Five years ago there were no LGBTQ characters, now there are quite a few.? In Korea there are now gay nightclubs in Itaewon's "homo hill" (that's how locals call it) and the Hongdae student district, and there is an annual gay pride day which while not officially legal, is not illegal as it was few years ago. Many K novels and stories also have LGBTQ characters these days.
Gay marriage is still not legal, but gay sex is no longer illegal or grounds for a divorce as adultery is also no longer illegal or grounds for a divorce.? Younger Koreans are much more tolerant than older Koreans. The Christian Churches tend to be conservative and heavily influenced by American evangelical churches and are mostly anti-LGBTQ.? About ten percent of adults have engaged in gay or lesbian relationships and perhaps 5 percent of the population are LGBTQ, with 2 percent transgendered. Transgendered people have to go to Thailand for surgery as the surgeries are illegal in Korea and Korean health insurance does not cover such treatments.
Rom-Com Slow Burn Dramas
The rom-com tends to be slow-burning dramas with few explicit sex scenes, almost all of them male -female although there are a few lesbian-themed ones now and then. Many of them follow the meme hate turning to love, although love at first sight K dramas is common, and many feature doomed romances between characters of different social classes.
Korean Badass Female Leads
Final point, I have always considered Korean women to be the most beautiful and sexiest women on the planet and I love watching them in K Dramas, particularly I like watching real "badass" lead characters, and I married my Korean dream girl ?
"Mr. Sunshine," and "Gyesang Creatures have such lead characters.
I have finally gotten enough Korean to mostly follow the dialogue without subtitles, but most of the K Dramas on Amazon, Disney, and Netflix have subtitles. I hope by the end of the year to be able to watch a K drama without subtitles. Nice language learning goal to have.
Here then is my list of K Dramas I have seen over the years.
First my top 20 list
Gyesang Creature K Drama ? Korean female badass character, monster movie, historical drama set at end of Colonial era
Captivating The King K Historical Drama A
Doctor Slump K Drama good rom-com also deals with mental illness issues, political intrigue
Glory K drama A revenge drama
Crash Course in Romance K drama A- great rom-com
Chief of Staff K drama political drama
Shin Divorce Attorney K Drama -A great legal drama and political intrigue
The Eternal King K drama a historical drama. alt history Sci-fi rom-com
Live Up to Your Name K drama is A historical drama, sci-fi, rom-com slow burn romance
Castaway Diva b slow burn rom-com
My Love From The Stars sci-fi rom-com
Itaewon Class K Drama? Trans character lead
The Last Man Standing K Drama political intrigue regarding the assassination of President Park based on true story
Venzano K Drama corporate intrigue, crime drama and slow-burn romance
Mine K Drama great example of rich people behaving badly, LGBTQ characters
Strong Girl Namjoon sequel see post review female badass leads
strong girl Bong soon original A see post review female badass leads
Parasite K Drama Oscar Best picture - dark black comedy
When The Camelia Blooms K Drama great K rom-com
Squid Games K Drama Number 1 On Netflix game show but much more than that
Bing AI's list of top K Dramas
If you're looking for the best K-dramas to binge-watch, you're in for a treat! Korean dramas (K-dramas) have taken the world by storm, offering a delightful mix of interesting storylines, intense plot twists, and addictive viewing experiences. Here are some top K-dramas across different genres:
Action/Thriller Korean Dramas:
Squid Game: A gripping thriller where characters in serious debt participate in deadly children's games for a chance at a massive prize.? Tug of War, Red Light, Green Light¢?"watch out for the high stakes
Sweet Home: If you enjoyed movies like The Call and Alive, this multi-season drama features gruesome monsters and follows a depressed loner in a new apartment complex
Romance Korean Dramas(Fan Favorites):
Crash Landing on You: A heartwarming love story between a South Korean heiress and a North Korean soldier.
Moon Lovers: Scarlet Heart Ryeo: A historical romance with time-travel elements.
Guardian: The Lonely and Great God (Goblin): A fantasy romance involving a goblin, a grim reaper, and a human woman
Other Notable K-Dramas:
Strong Woman Do Bong Soon: A mix of romance, comedy, and action, featuring a super-strong female lead.
While You Were Sleeping: A supernatural romance with intriguing dream-related twists.
Descendants of the Sun: A love story set against the backdrop of military service.
My Love From The Star: A unique romance involving an alien and a famous actress.
Weightlifting Fairy Kim Bok Joo: A heartwarming sports-themed drama
Remember, K-dramas can evoke a wide range of emotion"from sappy to heartbreaking to downright surprising. So grab your popcorn, find a cozy spot, and immerse yourself in the captivating world of Korean dramas!
2024
Confession K Drama A-
Collectors K Drama B
The Spy Gone North B K Drama
Goodbye Mr. Black K Drama Did Not Finish
My Demon Love K Drama Did Not Finish
My Annoying Brother B
Me And Me K Drama B
Squid Game Season Two Did Not Finish ¢?" No longer K drama in my opinion
Gyesang Creature K Drama ? Korean female badass character
Somebody B
The Devil Plan Was Too Complicated To Follow
VIP K Drama B
Destined With You K Drama
Millionaire First Love K Drama good intro to coming of age high school dramas
Hyena K Legal Drama good political corporate intrigue film
Badlands Hunters K Post-Apocalypse Drama A good Sci-Fi
Captivating The King K Historical Drama A? Good historical drama
Doctor Slump K Drama B
Taken K Drama Movie B
The Swindler K Drama Movie A
Don't Buy The Seller K Drama B great drama about cyber crime
The Dude In Me K Drama Is Cute
Single In Seoul K Movie B
Lee Kiwon K Movie About NK Refugees In Belgium disappointing good casting though
Young Police K Drama B
Sweat And Sour B
Killer Paradox K Crime Drama
Queen Of Tears K Rom-Com
2023
Moving to Heaven started in 2022.
Lies Within started in the 2022 BK drama.
Trolly started 2022 B K drama a-
Glory K drama is A good revenge flick
Confidential Assignment K drama b
On the line k drama b
Weight Ton K drama b
Parallel SF K drama SF drama
Crash Course in Romance K drama A- great rom-com
One Spring Night K drama
The Bros K drama
Like for Likes K drama b.
Ordinary People K drama b
Veteran K crime comedy b K drama
Tiger in Winter K drama with a magical realism twist K drama
After My Death, another Korean teenage crime drama k drama
Confidential Assignment Two K drama
Nothing Serious K rom-com
Uncanny counter K drama
What's wrong with Secretary Kim K's drama.
Chief of Staff K drama good political thriller
Mad for each other K drama
Along with the god's K's drama
Time to hunt K drama.
Escape from Mogadishu political drama based on true story features North and South Koreans overseas forced to work together to ensure mutual survivor
The decision to leave K drama.
Adenoid K drama Sci-Fi
Hunt K drama
Confession K drama
My unfamiliar family K drama
Physical Another Squid Game K drama
Unblock Cyber crime K drama.
One Spring Night K drama rom-com
Holy Betrayal Documentary on Religious cults in Korea
Me me
Shin Divorce Attorney K Drama -A good legal thriller
The Eternal King K drama alt history sci-fi, rom-com
Live Up to Your Name K drama A sci-fi time travel rom-com
Kill Bosun K drama
Switch k drama
Beef K Drama set in LA
Queen Maker K drama
Black Knight K Drama
Miss and Mrs. Cop K drama
Unstoppable K drama
Mad for Each Other rom-com
Private Lifes K drama
Flower of Evil K drama
Glitch Korean series sci-fi
See You in My 19th Life K Drama did not finish it
Alchemy of Souls intriguing K Drama
Song of the Bandits historical set at the end of the Joseon dynasty
Dream K drama about the homeless World Cup
King Maker K drama about Kim Dae Jung's early rise Disney A
Ballerina K crime revenge thriller b a bit too violent
Strong Girl Namjoon sequel see post review female badass characters
strong girl bong soon original see post review female badass characters
Dona K Drama B
Ray of Sunshine K Drama A
The Worst of Evil Disney K Drama B
Villante Disney K Drama B
The Believer K Drama b
the Believer Part two K Drama B
Castaway Diva b? good rom-com
comedy royal b
My Demon did not finish c
Don't Buy the Seller -K Drama about a serial killer who lures victims through ads for used sales
Gyesang Creature K drama 6 episodes Great badass lead actress.
Havana K murder drama with an LGBT love affair theme
Bloodhounds K revenge crime drama
2022 Movies Seen
Black Money K Drama B
Extreme Job K Drama B
We Are All Going To Die K Zombie Drama A
Haibing 2017 The Thaw K Drama B
Our Blues K Drama A set in Jeju
Juvenile Justice K Drama B coming of age drama
Silent Sea K Drama B sci-fi
My Liberation Notes
My Love From The Stars good rom-com
Move To Heaven
Honest Candidate
Yaksha K Movie B
Blue Bayou Korean American Movie B
Uncanny Counter K Drama B
Cyber Hell B
Intruder K Drama B
Welcome To Wedding Hell K Drama B
Heist Korean Version B
Will You Be There? K Drama C Did Not Finish
Extraordinary Attorney Yoo A-1 great drama features an austic genius
Minmi ding Cafe Did Not Finish
Remarriage And Desire K Drama B Another Drama About Rich People Behaving Badly.
Unfamiliar Family K Drama? A
Carter K Drama Movie C
Designated Survivor K Drama A political intrigue
Model Family K Drama B
Little Woman K Drama B Korean re-make of a classic British 19th Century novel
Stranger 1
Stranger 2
Reflection Of You good rom-com
Made For Each Other good rom-com
Honest Candidate political satire
Signal K Drama
When The Camellia Blooms B good rom-com
Love Struck In The City B
Glitch Korean Sci-Fi B good SciFi Not to be confused with the Aussie series with the same name
The Lies Within K Drama
2021
Space Sweepers K SF Drama
Itaewon Class K Drama Trans character male to female
Sense 8 is not a K drama per see but has a Korean lead actress
The Last Man Standing political thriller based on the true story of President Park's assassination i lived through that period having arrived in Korea a few months before the assassination to do my Peace Corps service
Sisispyus K Drama disappointing Sci-Fi
Venzano K Drama good crime drama, and a slow-burn rom-com
Glitch Good Sci-Fi
Parasite K Drama ? Oscar Best picture dark comedy - a genre K drama does well.
Legends Of Alhambra Sci-Fi
The Negotiator K Movie
No Exit K Movie
Crash Landing On You K Drama great K rom-com set in North Korea North Korean hated this movie
Night In Paradise K Movie
DP about army deserters in Korea
Con K Drama Movie
When The Camelia Blooms K Drama great K rom-com
Squid Games K Drama Number 1 On Netflix
Move To Heaven K Drama
Minuri Oscar winner set in U.S.
Hell Bound K Drama
Hostage K Drama Movie
Balgasal K SF
The Wanted
2020
Mr. Kim's Convenience Store set in Toronto
Kim Ji Young K Drama
2019
49 Days Korean Movie B
Chun hyang (2000 Film) YS
The Assassin 2015 Korean Movie
2015
Kundu Korean Movie B
Classified File Korean Movie On Plane
2014
Memories Of Murder Korean Film
Typhoon Korea
2011
The King And I Korean Series
Life In North Korea Documentary From National Geographic
Morning Glory
the end
| Author Notes |
https://wp.me/p7NAzO-2OC
Cosmos K Drama List Themes Since 2015, when I moved to Korea I have become a big fan of K Drama. ? They are perhaps the best in the world at romantic comedies. ("Crash Course in Romance" and "Crash Landing on You" a good examples). ? They also excel in movies about "Rich People Behaving Badly "( Mine is the best one) ? and dark social commentary like "Parasite" (Oscar Best Picture), revenge dramas (Glory is the best example), and epic historical dramas set in Korea and China. ("Mr. Sunshine" is a good example) ? Another staple is high school coming-of-age films. (Millionaires First Love is a good one) . They also do political intrigue films pretty well ) Last Man Standing is good, and" Designated Survivor"), and decent SCIFi too. ? ("Silent Sea", and Space Sweepers" are good). The crime and political dramas are quite intense and a bit too violent in my opinion, although they are not "slasher" films per se. And of course, the Squid Game was a worldwide phenomenon. Up until the early 80's K dramas were not that good, Japanese (J Drama) were better. But since then K Dramas have taken over. For some reason, K dramas are more approachable to outsiders than J Dramas or C Dramas. An interesting factoid is that the writers are almost all women. ? and about 60 percent of the viewers are women, Korean men, in general, prefer sports or news programs. More LGBTQ Characters In recent years, many dramas have started featuring LGBTQ characters and non-Korean characters (called multi-cultural in Korean). The LGBTQ characters tend to be either female or transgendered, not too many male male gay characters. Itaewon Class had a good Trans character ¢?" a male transitioning to female, and "Mine" had both a lesbian couple and a bisexual male lead. This reflects the fact that LGTBQ status is still not as tolerated in Korea as it is in the US and Europe.? Five years ago there were no LGBTQ characters, now there are quite a few.? In Korea there are now gay nightclubs in Itaewon's "homo hill" (that's how locals call it) and the Hongdae student district, and there is an annual gay pride day which while not officially legal, is not illegal as it was few years ago. Many K novels and stories also have LGBTQ characters these days. Gay marriage is still not legal, but gay sex is no longer illegal or grounds for a divorce as adultery is also no longer illegal or grounds for a divorce.? Younger Koreans are much more tolerant than older Koreans. The Christian Churches tend to be conservative and heavily influenced by American evangelical churches and are mostly anti-LGBTQ.? About ten percent of adults have engaged in gay or lesbian relationships and perhaps 5 percent of the population are LGBTQ, with 2 percent transgendered. Transgendered people have to go to Thailand for surgery as the surgeries are illegal in Korea and Korean health insurance does not cover such treatments. Rom-Com Slow Burn Dramas The rom-com tends to be slow-burning dramas with few explicit sex scenes, almost all of them male -female although there are a few lesbian-themed ones now and then. Many of them follow the meme hate turning to love, although love at first sight K dramas is common, and many feature doomed romances between characters of different social classes. Korean Badass Female Leads Final point, I have always considered Korean women to be the most beautiful and sexiest women on the planet and I love watching them in K Dramas, particularly I like watching real "badass" lead characters, and I married my Korean dream girl ? "Mr. Sunshine," and "Gyesang Creatures have such lead characters. I have finally gotten enough Korean to mostly follow the dialogue without subtitles, but most of the K Dramas on Amazon, Disney, and Netflix have subtitles. I hope by the end of the year to be able to watch a K drama without subtitles. Nice language learning goal to have. Here then is my list of K Dramas I have seen over the years. |
By jake cosmos aller
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Since 2016, I have been writing and posting my writing on various web pages, and since 2020 I have also podcasting. Here is a list of sites, where you can find my work. Many of these entries are duplicates. as I tend to cross-post items. Please check them out. I hope later this year to finally start a YouTube channel as well. Any advice on how to do that would be greatly appreciated.
General Sites
All Poetry https://allpoetry.com/Jake_Aller
Ariel chart ariel chart
Blog Lovin https://www.bloglovin.com/@jakecosmosaller3
Comma Full https://commaful.com/play/jakecaller/
Cosmos funnel https://cosmofunnel.com/user/67910/followed/content
Creativity webzine creativity webzine
Facebook https://www.facebook.com/jakecaller/
Fan Story https://fanstory.com/mypage.jsp
Good Reads for reviews https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/9329357-jake
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Writing com r https://jcosmos.Writing.Com/
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Hiking Hobart's Ridge True Story
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Last weekend, I finally hiked Hobart's Ridge near Ashland, Oregon. Hobart's Ridge is about a 30-minute drive from downtown Ashland. It is part of the Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument near Hyatt Lake. The trailhead is off Soda Mountain Road near Hyatt Lake, and Green Springs. There is an information center for the monument on Soda Road just past the turnoff for Hobart's Ridge at the Green Springs Inn. As you drive down the road, you turn to the right and go down a dirt, gravel road through some private housing areas with no hunting/fishing/hiking signs. You will find the trailhead about two miles in.
The trail is part of the Pacific Crest Trail. The trail is a short three-mile loop trail to the top of Hobart's Ridge and back. Up at the top, you have some fantastic views of Southern Oregon, including Mt Shasta, Mt McLaughlin, Hyatt Lake, and Ashland. Some of the best views in the region.
First Attempt 2016 - Encounter with Mad Mountain Man
I first tried to hike up Hobart's Ridge in 2019. My wife and I had decided that we were going to go for a hike, and we were following the directions of an old friend of mine, whom I had known almost my entire life, since first grade, almost 65 years ago.
When we got near the trailhead, we found there was nobody there, as it was the middle of the week in early June. We have been talking about mountain lions and bears and other critters. And then we saw on the side of the road an old mountain man, with thick hair and beard. He had a lunatic's thousand-yard stare and glared at us. He was walking with a shovel., and backpack. We were freaked out. We thought he might be an axe murderer or something, and we aborted our trip.
Finally Made it in 2024
It took another five years before I could get back up there, this time with the same friend who had originally recommended the trail. And we had a fun time. We ran into several other hikers and their dogs, but did not encounter the mountain man, coy dogs, or mountain lions, but did see some friendly deer.
The trail was nice. Delightful weather, great views, great wildflowers, and had a delightful picnic lunch at the top. I'm glad I finally made it up to the top of Hobart's Ridge. At my age, (68) still being able to hike up a mountain is a great accomplishment.
Here's a story I wrote after my first attempted hike to Hobart's Ridge.
The Mad Bag Piper of Hobart's Ridge
Joe Lewis was hiking the Pacific Crest Trail as part of his bucket list. He was 70 years old and figured this was the last chance he would have to take such an epic trip He had started in Southern California in May, and it was now August. He was three-quarters through the trip. He stopped off in the town of Ashland, Oregon to take a few days off the trail and recuperate before he pushed on. One night, after seeing a Shakespeare play, he had gone to a bar where he met some locals and told them where he was going.
"Well, you need to be careful as you hike the trails near here. There is a mad bag piper who haunts the mountains near here. On full moon nights, he appears and accosts hikers, challenging them to a drinking contest, saying that if .you could out drink him, he will let you live, but if he out drank you, he would have to kill you, because he was a soul hunter and had a contract with the Grim Reaper to keep.
Whatever you do, don't take the bet. The mad bagpiper is not a human being. Nobody knows who he is, what he is. All we know hikers disappear every full moon. And on those nights you can hear the bagpiper, walking in the woods near Hyatt Lake. He is usually described as a tall mountain man with a long beard, carrying a backpack, and his bagpipes. "
Joe dismissed the warnings as a silly urban legend. Late on the next day, he set up camp near the top of Hobart's ridge and was enjoying his dinner, a beer and the epic sunset, when he heard a bagpiper and saw an old mountain man coming up the trail.
"What brings you to my woods, my friend?."
" Just passing through."
"Tell you want. Let's play a game. If you can out-drink me, I will not only let you live but take you a buried treasure left over from the gold rush times. What do you say, Joe Lewis? Do we have a deal?"
"How do you know my name?"
"I know everything about you. Let's drink"
The mountain pulled out a bottle of Mount Gay Rum, Joe's favorite drink, back in the day when he worked as a diplomat for the U.S. and had served in Barbados.
They started drinking and at about dawn the old man said,
"Joe, I like you, so I will let you live."
Some hikers found later that day found Joe's dead body, half-eaten by coy dogs. The mad bagpiper was long gone.
The End
Background info from Co-Pilot
Cascade-Siskiyou National Mo, Ashland,
The Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument is an extraordinary ecological gem nestled at the intersection of the Cascade, Klamath, and Siskiyou mountain ranges. Let's explore its fascinating features:
¢?¢ Location: The monument spans 114,000 acres (approximately 46,134 hectares) of lush forests and grasslands.
¢?¢ Ecological Marvel: This convergence of three distinct mountain ranges has created an area of unparalleled biological diversity and a varied landscape.
¢?¢ Establishment: Recognizing its exceptional ecology and diverse range of resources¢?"biological, geological, aquatic, archeological, and historic¢?"the monument was established in 2000.
¢?¢ Wildlife: Within the Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument, you'll encounter a rich variety of animals, including deer, bears, mountain lions, small mammals, and songbirds. Birdwatchers are drawn to the presence of eagles and other raptors.
¢?¢ Activities: Visitors can engage in hiking, wildlife viewing, fishing, hunting, scenic drives, skiing, snowmobiling, and sledding.
¢?¢ Elevation Range: The elevation within the monument varies from 2,100 to 6,100 feet.
From the summit, take in the breathtaking 360-degree panorama, which includes views of Ashland, Pilot Rock, Mt. McLoughlin, and even glimpses of majestic Mt. Shasta123. Whether you're a nature enthusiast or simply seeking awe-inspiring landscapes, the Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument awaits your exploration! ð???ï¸?ð??²
¢?¢ Trail Name: Hobart Bluff Trail
¢?¢ Location: Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument, near Ashland, Oregon
¢?¢ Trail Length: Approximately 2.5 miles (out-and-back)
¢?¢ Elevation Gain: 413 feet
¢?¢ Difficulty: Moderately challenging
¢?¢ Estimated Completion Time: Around 1 hour and 9 minutes
¢?¢ Best Times to Visit: May through November
¢?¢ Activities: Bird watching, hiking, and running
¢?¢ Views: From the top, enjoy stunning vistas of Ashland, Pilot Rock, and Mt. McLoughlin.
Trail Description: The trail starts off moderately flat and gradually ascends. The last half-mile becomes steeper, but the panoramic valley views make it worthwhile. You'll encounter wildflowers and may spot various bird species along the way. Dogs are welcome but must be on a leash. The trail is usually snow-free from late May to October.
To reach Hobart Bluff from Ashland:
1. Head east on Highway 66.
2. Look for the Hobart Bluff Trailhead near the highway.
3. Park your vehicle and begin your hike
Certainly! A Coydog is a fascinating hybrid resulting from the mating of a male coyote and a female domestic dog. Let's explore some interesting facts about these unique canids:
1. Hybrid Origins:
o A Coydog is the product of a coyote (Canis latrans) and a domestic dog (Canis lupus familiars).
o These two canids belong to different species, making the Coydog a canid hybrid.
o Crossbreeding between coyotes and dogs has occurred for so long that the exact percentages of wild hybrids remain unknown.
2. Characteristics:
o Coydogs exhibit a mixture of traits inherited from both parents.
o Their appearance and behavior can vary widely due to this genetic blend.
o The exact proportions of coyote and dog characteristics are unpredictable.
3. Fertility and Breeding:
o Hybrids of both sexes are fertile and can be successfully bred for up to four generations.
o Similarly, a hybrid with a dog father and a coyote mother is known as a dogote.
4. Temperament and Care:
o Coydogs can be challenging to handle, as they require a lot of affection and care.
o Their temperament is akin to that of a child.
o Due to the limited breeding season of coyotes, Coydogs are relatively rare.
5. Habitat and Occurrence:
o Coydogs occur in the wild where the number of other coyotes is scarce.
o In areas with fewer potential mates, they may mingle with domesticated dogs for companionship or breeding.
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Wagontire Oregon 1973
In 1973, I embarked on a road trip with my father. We left Berkeley, heading toward Yakima, where my father owned a summer cabin. As a college professor, he enjoyed the luxury of July and August off, and our dysfunctional family spent those summers together in the mountain cabin from 1968 to 1978. Our annual pilgrimage was both a trip to hell and a journey back.
My father and I shared a wanderlust, a love for exploring new places. This trip turned out to be one of our best. Surprisingly, we got along, which was unusual given our typically tense relationship. We were vastly different, but during this journey, we became friends..
We drove east along Highway 395, entering the high mountain desert of eastern Oregon. The road stretched ahead, almost deserted. Then we saw the sign: Wagontire, Oregon, 100 miles ahead. We counted down the signs, mile after mile, as dusk settled around us. We speculated Wagontire must be a giant truck stop -"an oasis in the middle of nowhere.
Interspersed with the Wagontire signs were Burma Shave signs. Highway 395 was one of the last highways to still have these signs, which had been phased out in most places by 1966 or so.
Burma shave signs were written in rhyming couplets or quatrains cowboy poetry style, ending with the tag line Burma Shave. Here are two examples:
"Shaving brushes
You'll soon see 'em
On a shelf
In some museum
Burma-Shave"
"Within this vale
of toil
and sin
your head grows bald
but not your chin
use
Burma-Shave"
We counted down the miles until at last we pulled into town. But when we pulled into town, reality struck. There was nothing but a gas station, a motel, and a cafe. Last gas for 100 miles, according to the highway sign. I chatted with the owner, who was the sheriff, fire chief, and owner of the only business in town. The sign outside read: "Welcome to Wagontire, Oregon. Population: 200,000 sheep, 10 dogs, two and one half humans.."
Curiously, I asked who was the half-human, and the sheriff replied, "My idiot son."
I did not know it, but this was my last big solo road trip with my father. We drove to and from the cabin a few more times, last time in 1984, but this trip was special and one I will always remember. Mainly because my dad and I finally became "friends" during this trip and got along great. Unfortunately, that moment did not last, and we soon re-entered our difficult relationship, but during that trip, we got along famously.
2016 Revisiting Wagontire
Fast forward to 2016. My wife and I drove through eastern Oregon as part of an epic cross-country trip 31 states, 100,000 miles in three months to celebrate my retirement from 27 years of serving the country in the U.S. Foreign Service working overseas in 10 countries. A We thought it was time to see America.
We followed Highway 395, revisiting the memories of my trip with my father 40 years earlier. But Wagontire had changed. The signs were gone, the motel abandoned, and the town reduced to ruin -a ghost town.
As we reflected on Wagontire and other "nothing burgs," we pondered the heart of Trump's forgotten America -"the flyover country that often escapes our attention.
Reflections on my visit to Wagontire, Oregon, in 1973 and 2016.
Prose Poem Version
Wagontire Oregon 1973, 2016
In 1973,
I went on a road trip
With my Father,
We left Berkeley
to go to Yakima
Where my father
had a summer cabin.
He was a college professor
And had July and August off
And we spent our summers,
Every summer from 68 to 78
In that mountain cabin,
and hanging with my Uncle
who had inherited the family
apple farm in Yakima.
Our whole dysfunctional family
Our annual trip
to hell and back
And we did not
get along at all.
We decided to drive
through Eastern Oregon
Just my Father and me.
Just for the hell of it
The rest of the family
was already there,
My father and I shared a travel lust
Loved to go to new places
One of the few things we shared.
This was one of our best trips
We actually got along
Which was unusual.
Normally our relationship
Was fraught with tension
As we were so different.
We left Klamath Falls
A real noting burg in those days
And headed east along Highway 395.
As we entered the
desert of Eastern Oregon
America's Outback lands
We entered a different world
High mountain desert
Almost no one on the road
Then we saw the signs
Wagontire Oregon
100 miles ahead
99 miles
98 miles
intersperse with the signs
were Burma Shave signs
one of the last highways
to have these cowboy poetry
advertisements
Just a few examples
for those who have never
seen these lost Americana signs
common from 1915 to 1975
Shaving brushes
You'll soon see 'em
On a shelf
In some museum
Burma-Shave
Within this vale
of toil
and sin
your head grows bald
but not your chin
use
Burma-Shave
We counted down the signs
Mile after mile
Wagontire
Burma shave add
Wagontire
Burma Shave
every mile
counting down
As we drove
into the gathering dusk,
We speculated that Wagontire
Must be a giant truck stop
An oasis in the desert
In the middle of nowhere,
We pulled into town
Nothing but a gas station
Motel and cafe
We stopped
Last gas for 100 miles
According to the highway sign
In the morning
We chatted with the owner.
He was the sheriff, fire chief
rancher and Owner
of the motel gas station.
The only business in town
And the only place open
For one hundred miles.
I noticed a sign outside
"Welcome to Wagontire, Oregon
Population 200,000 sheep.
and two and one half-humans."
I asked the sheriff
"Who is the half-human?"
He said,
"My idiot son."
And we left
200 miles
We finally
? left Eastern Oregon.
2016
In 2016, my wife
and I drove
through Eastern Oregon.
As part of our epic
Cross-country trip
to celebrate my retirement
from the U.S. Foreign Service.
31 states
10,0000 miles
in three months.
On the way
from Medford, Oregon
to Yellowstone,
We drove along
Highway 395,
40 years since
my trip with my father.
The signs for
Wagontire were gone
as were the Burma Shave signs.
As we drove through the town
The motel was abandoned
Nothing there at all.
The motel was in ruins
Just another ghost town.
And that sign was gone too
Just a small sign saying,
Wagontire, Oregon.
We speculated about wagon tire
And all the other nothing burgs
We drove through that summer.
Heart of Trump's
Forgotten America
Fly over country.
background info on Burma Shave commercials by Microsoft Co-Pilot
Certainly!? Burma-Shave? was an American brand of brushless shaving cream, but it became even more famous for its unique advertising campaign. Let me share some interesting details and a few delightful? Burma Shave poems? with you:
History of Burma-Shave:
Introduced in? 1925by the? Burma-Vita? company in Minneapolis, it was initially known for a liniment made from ingredients sourced from the Malay Peninsula and Burma.
Seeking wider appeal, they launched the? Burma-Shavebrand of brushless shaving cream along with a clever advertising program.
At its peak,? Burma-Shavewas the second-highest-selling brushless shaving cream in the US.
Unfortunately, sales declined in the 1950s, and in? 1963, the company was sold to? Philip Morris. The iconic roadside signs were removed at that time.
In? 1997, the? American Safety Razor Companyreintroduced the? Burma-Shave? brand with a nostalgic shaving soap and brush kit, although the original product was brushless1.
The Iconic Roadside Signs:
Burma-Shavesigns were a brilliant advertising gimmick. They consisted of small sequential signs posted along highways.
Typically, six consecutive signs formed a verse, with the last sign revealing the brand name.
These humorous rhyming poems captured passing motorists' attention during the early years of highway travel.
As the Interstate system expanded and speeds increased, the signs became less effective, and they were eventually discontinued when the company was acquired by? Philip Morris1.
Sample Burma Shave Poems:
Here are a couple of classic? Burma-Shaveverses:
"If you want / Your girl to grin / Take those whiskers / Off your chin /? Burma Shave"? 2
"Cheer up, face ¢?" the war is over!? /? Burma-Shave" (from the first series)? 1
"If hugging on highways ¢?" Is your sport / Turn in your car ¢?" For a davenport!? /? Burma Shave" (a nostalgic reflection)? 3
These witty and memorable poems left a lasting cultural impact, reminding us of a bygone era when highways were dotted with clever signs and a touch of humor. ð???ð???
Background Info on Wagontire Oregon from Microsoft Co-Pilot
Wagontire, an unincorporated community in? Harney County, Oregon, lies along? U.S. Route 395. The name itself is intriguing¢?"it conjures images of a remote outpost in the vast Oregon landscape.
Here are some fascinating details about? Wagontire:
Origin of the Name:
The community was named after the nearby? Wagontire Mountain.
Despite its modest size, the name carries a sense of adventure and history.
Historical Context:
In the late? 1970s,? Wagontirewas home to just two people:? William and Olgie Warner.
The Warners owned a property that included a gas station, caf?©, motel, general store, and an? RV park.
Across the road from these buildings was? Wagontire Airport, where planes would taxi across the highway and refuel at the gas station.
The signs outside humorously declared: "Welcome to Wagontire, Oregon. Population: 2?½ humans, 10 dogs, 200,000 sheep."
Changing Times:
Fast forward to? 2016, and? Wagontirehad transformed.
The signs were gone, the motel abandoned, and the town reduced to ruins¢?"a? ghost town.
It became a symbol of the heart of? forgotten America, the flyover country often overlooked by travelers.
Education:
Wagontire falls within? Suntec School District 10(Suntec School, grades K-8) and? Harney County Union High School District 1J? (Crane Union High School).
Wagontire¢?"a place where time stood still, where echoes of the past whisper across the desert landscape. ð??µð???
1: Geographic Names Information System? 2: United States Topographic Map? 3: Moyer, Armond; Moyer, Winifred (1958).? The Origins of Unusual Place-Names. Keystone Pub. Associates, p.? 137.? 4: Monroe, Bill (December 14, 1997). "Under the Desert Sky: Solitude for Sale."? The Oregonian. : Weber, first (July 11, 1993). "Everyone Stops At Wagontire (Pop. 2)."? The New York Times. : Frazier, Joseph B. (April 2, 2000). "Life Takes on a Slow Pace in Wagontire."? Albany Democrat-Herald.
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| Author Notes | I visited Wagontire in the eastern Oregon outback in 1973 and 2016. It is now a ghost town. |
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Okinawa Travel Reflections
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I have been to Japan about 10 times over the years. My first visit was in 1979 when I spent the night at Narita before going to Korea the next day. I last visited in April of this year doing a tour of Fukuoka and Kyushu. I spent five weeks doing a TDY in Sapporo and spent a week in Okinawa before the covid shutdowns. I also visited Tokyo a couple of times ,traveled to Kamakura and Kyoto and Nara. I even climbed Mt. Fuji.
When I was an undergraduate, I took courses in Japanese history and while in graduate school took courses in Japanese history, and business as part of my MA in Korean studies.
I also taught Asian studies at the University of Maryland in 1991 in Korea. I even picked up a few words of basic Japanese during my travels.
If you know Korean, you can learn Japanese pretty easily and vice versa. the grammar of the two languages are very similar and many vocabulary words are derived from Chinese characters. I can read about 500 characters.
Many expats who have been in both Korea and Japan prefer one or the other. I definitely prefer Korea but i like Japan and plan on future trips there.
Here then are some of my reflections on traveling in Japan.
Kyushu
I just came back from a trip to Kyushu Japan, a mostly rural part of Japan that I had never visited. I have been to Japan about eight times since 1979. I always contrast Japan with Korea where I now live part-time and with the U.S.. we are planning to come back next spring and spend a month in Japan -two weeks in Kyushu, one week in Tokyo, a few days in Kyoto/Nara and Hokkaido but might take another mini-tour hitting other parts of Japan. There is a good tour of Osaka/Kyoto and Nara we can do in September.
Overall the tour was a b - good choices of things to do, good food, got to know a few of our fellow participants and my Korean is getting quite good enough that I can continue a conversation and have people mostly understand me and I understand most of what people say to me.
Tuesday, April 17, 2024
Our first night we stayed in the Hilton in Fukuoka. I was a bit disappointed with the hotel. Just not up to what I might expect from a Hilton chain hotel. the breakfast was substandard. The TV did not work ?" everything was defaulting to Japanese and we could not figure it out.
Wednesday, April 18, 2024
Our second night was better.
Had a great breakfast Japanese style 5 stars one of the best I had so much better than the Hilton
Including the plates which had several places to place your food good choice of coffee and tea but no decafe
Looking forward to today ending with a sauna
Beepo Hot Springs - privage suana facilities
one of the highlights of the trip. The hotspring hotel had private sauna facilities for several people. It was very nice.
Morning Visit to Suspension Bridge, Mt. Kumho Observatory
Tawara marshes
The staff were very helpful spoke English and were friendly. Recommend staying in Beppu for a future trip. Saw the volcanic eruptions from a safe distance. The marsh lands are interesting.
Lunch
Better than yesterday. Spoke with a nice older couple and practiced my Korean which keeps getting better
Mari Grasslands, Volcano Views
Stopped off to see the Mari grassland and the reclining Buddha mountain in the background, saw cows and skydivers, and got good pictures. Felt better after getting my coffee out fix
Stopped off at an ice cream shop and a rose garden.
Hotel in Aso city
We stayed at a hotel/ryokan. The rooms and overall ambiance was quite backward. On the plus side, it was filled with museum-quality art. The outdoor bathing area was a joke! Little more than a hot tub but without a jacuzzi and no place to wash up, no place to even store you clothes. Very substandard. We did not use it. Quite a contrast to the world-class facilities at the hotel in Beppu which we had stayed in the night before. That hotel featured private sauna rooms. Very relaxing.
They gave us a nice dinner spread including for some reason horse sashimi!
Earthquake
We were woken up by an alert on my phone and an earthquake that shook everything up. Felt as far away as Busan in Korea.
Here's the info as of this morning
A magnitude 6.6 earthquake, measuring a weak 6 on Japan's seismic intensity scale, struck off the west coast of shikoku island on wednesday night.
There was no threat of a tsunami from the quake, which struck at 11:14 p.m., and initial reports suggested only minor injuries and damage.
The quake measured a weak 6 ?" the third highest level ?" in the Ehime prefecture town of Aina and the Kochi prefecture city of Sukuma. Striking at a depth of 39 kilometers, its epicenter was in the bungo channel, a straight separating the islands of Kyushu and shikoku.
Chief cabinet secretary Yoshimasa Hayashi, speaking at a news conference shortly after 1 a.m. Thursday, said several light injuries had been reported. Nhl reported minor damage in some areas, including broken water pipes, fallen streetlights, and a landslide on a national roadway.
Thursday, April 19
Final day
Today will do a Fukuoka city tour, looking forward to it and returning home. We stayed in an old-fashioned ryokan but they had a nice dinner spread and great artwork ?" took lots of pictures while I was in the lobby waiting for the all-clear.
Aso City is a very provincial town, rural Japan at its best and worst.
Another shocking thing is the lack of translation software. It seems to me that would be widely used particularly in the tourist industry, but you would be wrong. In some ways, Japan is very backward and insular looking. It is run by old men who are out of touch with how the world is changing.
And they are just emerging from the decades of deflation, the lost years as they put it, where everyone including the US which also has its backwardness jumped forward while Japan slept.
Tokyo v Seoul
Tokyo, like seoul, is a sprawling city, hard to get a real feel for it. Seoul is in some ways a prettier city with the mountains and the river but Tokyo has its charms too.
I stayed there several times. My favorite neighborhood is Roppongi which is near the us embassy and is close to an old us army base. The neighborhood started out as an army vile, when the us pulled out of central Tokyo, the neighborhood became Tokyo's international quarter. A similar phenomenon is occurring in seoul as Itaewon moves from being an army vil to an international district after the us army pulled out of central seoul
Getting around is pretty easy. The subway is a bit confusing but one gets used to it.
Hokkaido Sapporo
I spent five weeks there in 2003 doing a TDY. It was a great trip and I enjoyed the city. Everything is connected via tunnels underground next to the excellent subway system so one does not have to get exposed to the cold that much. It snows there from September to May. I was there in late March and it snowed every day. I found an expat bar in town and hung out there and got to know some locals. I also found a sake place near my hotel and tried different sake every night. The hotel had a choice of Japanese or American breakfast ?"I chose the Japanese option and enjoyed Japanese breakfast every day for five weeks.
Kamakura
I went there by train for a day trip from Tokyo and had a great time touring the impressive temple complex.
Kyoto-Nara
Went there with my friend and enjoyed it. We stopped off at a Shinto shrine which features a giant penis statue. It is a fertility temple. There is another one nearby that features giant vaginas.
Mt fuji
I climbed it. In august. It was snowing at the top. But i can say i made it.
Okinawa
Here are the poems i wrote from my trip to Okinawa along with some photos
Okinawa poems:
Okinawa war thoughts
Okinawa beckons me
Ghosts of Okinawa
Asian linguistic confusion
Okinawa aquarium thoughts
Okinawa West Coast Highway
Okinawa war thoughts
these dark moods
follow me
Asi tour Okinawa
where the last battles
of World War 11
were fought
thousands died
in the first
and last outpost
of the American
East Asian empire
Okinawa beckons me
Okinawa Japan
kept calling to me
in a dream
Notifying me
always in the background
where my memories
always waiting for me
beckons me
everywhere i go
cosmic reflections
of past lives
Never seen before
seems lost in time
Maybe just the spirits
Of the dead
everywhere
I see ghosts
Okinawa street scene
walking the streets
of fabled Naha Okinawa
a lifetime dream
someday I would visit
i am surrounded
by ghosts of the past
and Japanese beauties
all around me
tempting me
with their sweet smiles
No wonder
so many soldiers
brought back
Japanese wives
ghosts of Okinawa
ghosts of Okinawa
touring the battlefields
of Okinawa
where so many young men
gave up their life
so many years ago
i see the ghosts
all around me
feel their spirits
floating through the air
Kilroy was here
there and everywhere
whoever that was
John Dean wannabes
Elvis wannabes
and so many other wannabes
I see the ghosts
of the fallen heroes
all around me
Asian Street Signs
Everywhere in Asia
you see strange variations
of English
Japlish,Konglish,Singlish
the street signs in Okinawa
are all in Chinese, Japanese,
English and Koreans
the bus and train
announcements as well
hard to get lost
even when you want to
but the random encounters
with English words
puts a smile on my face
as i drink my "boss coffee"
wondering who the "boss" is
and why is smoking a pipe?
And many years ago
i saw on a menu
at the old Gimpo airport
baked Rick
and in Korean
grocery stores
one can find
corn flights
i look forward
to many more years
of linguistic confusion
as I travel about Asia
Visit to Okinawa aquarium
whenever I visit an aquarium,
zoo or Wildlife park
I am reminded of a prison
the prison is filled with animals
who amuse us.
I am sure that the animals
hate us humans
who are watching them
do their animal thing
but looking into their eyes
the eyes of the sea turtles
swimming back and forth
in their prison cell
in the Okinawa aquarium
filled with hatred
for the humans
who had imprisoned them
and hunt their kind
and don't get me started
on the dolphins and killer whales
who preform acrobatic feats
for their daily meals
and the sharks
the king of the ocean killers
they too
if they could
they surely would
escape
their prison cell
screaming
death to all humans
as they flee
back into the ocean's depths
Okinawa West Coast road
Riding down
the West Coast road
of Okinawa
echoes of other beach roads
fill my head with memories
i am reminded of Hawaii
and driving along the Oregon coast
East Coast beach towns as well
and Barbados
and the Caribbean islands
all the roads
are lined with tourist resorts
beach views and restaurants
all very similar
yet different
and as the beach towns
fade away
behind us on the bus
my memories
of all the other beach towns
i have visited
fade away
into my memory hole.
| Author Notes | I have been to Japan ten times since 1979. Most recently visited Kyushu in the Spring. These are my Japanese travel reflections. |
By jake cosmos aller
Portland
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Portland, Oregon, is one of my favorite cities in the world. I first visited Portland when I was a child. My father had a summer cabin near Yakima, Washington. He was a college professor at SF State and had July and August off. We frequently drove through Portland to and from the Bay Area, where we lived in Berkeley.
Later, when I was in graduate school attending the University of Washington, we drove through Portland on the way to the Bay Area. Recently, we spent a day in Portland showing the city to my Korean brother-in-law and his niece, who were visiting us in Medford. We all fell in love with the city, which reminds me of Berkeley, San Francisco, and Seattle. This time we stayed in North Portland in the trendy Alberta neighborhood, which was the center of Black Portland for many years.
Portland is the most multicultural city in Oregon, which is still mostly white. It is the only city in Oregon with a substantial black population as well as an Asian American population. Although the city has become more expensive, it is still somewhat affordable compared to both the Bay Area and Seattle. We spent the night the previous year in Lake Oswego visiting a friend from high school. He is a musician and composer living in Portland.
This trip we toured the city and saw much of the city. We went to the Saturday market downtown and went through Old Town, Chinatown, and the Pearl District. We stopped at Powell's's Books, the biggest bookstore in the world. We drove to Washington Park and the Rose Garden and Japanese Garden but could not see either due to no parking as it was a Saturday. The previous year we went for a walk in Forest Park, the biggest urban park in the country. There are bears in the park, they say.
Portland is a foodie city. We had two great meals in the city. We had clam chowder and fish and chips in downtown, and we had decent Italian in Lake Oswego.
Our itinerary was as follows:
10:00 AM: Start in Portland
You can explore the city's highlights including Washington Park12. This park is home to many of Portland's premier attractions including a zoo, children's museum, Japanese Garden, and the famous International Rose Test Garden1.
2:00 PM: Depart for Medford
The driving time from Portland to Medford is approximately 4 hours and 21 minutes345. The direct drive is 275
Background reading courtesy of Co-Pilot
Certainly! ð² Portland, Oregon is a vibrant city nestled in the Pacific Northwest, known for its unique blend of natural beauty, quirky culture, and thriving arts scene. Let's explore some essential information about this captivating city:
2. Essential Links for Portland:
o If you're looking for a comprehensive resource, check out el.com's Essential Links for Portland, Oregon. It covers everything from weather updates to transportation options, entertainment, sports, local businesses, and fun things to do in the city. Whether you're a resident or a visitor, this resource can help you navigate Portland's offerings2. You can find it here.
3. Portland Information Center:
o For a broader overview of Portland, explore the Portland Information Center. It provides insights into local life, travel tips, entertainment, and business-related information. Whether you're curious about events, restaurants, or hidden gems, this center has you covered3. Visit their site here.
4. City of Portland Official Website:
o If you're interested in official city services and information, head over to the City of Portland's official website. It's a reliable source for topics like government services, community resources, and local news. Whether you need to pay utility bills, find public transportation options, or learn about city initiatives, this site has it all4. Explore it here.
Remember, Portland is a city that celebrates individuality, sustainability, and creativity. Whether you're into food carts, lush parks, or indie music, there's something here for everyone. Have a great time exploring the Rose City! 𹢨
Northwest Poems
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Seattle UW Blues
I have had a long history
with the city of Seattle
dating back to my grandparents
who met there at UW
and my father who attended UW
and became a student leader
fighting to integrate the University
I first visited the city
when I was a young man
when we spend the summer
in Yakima
where we had a family home
decades later I visited the city
before I went to the Peace corps
Before I went to the Peace Corps
then my wife and I lived there
for four years
while we were attending graduate school
at the University
and we fell under its seductive spell
living and breathing Seattle
falling in love again
with the city
we left the city
and traveled the world
came back twice
once to take and pass the foreign service
oral exam
oral exam
and once decades later
to take a cruise to Alaska
and found that the city
had changed in many ways
but the old Seattle remained
and I wanted to come back
and now my nephew lives there
adding another element to our family's
on-going Seattle family history
why I had been there before
I cannot say, but this much I do know
Seattle remains a part of me
and I a part of its history
Medford Beckons
Once boring, humble Medford Oregon
and I have a long history
dating back to my childhood
when we would drive through there
often spending the night
back and forth to Yakima
from our family home in Berkeley
with my father during our summer vacations
Medford back in the day
was a sleepy little town
but the biggest town around
Ashland was more famous
but Medford grew on me
decades later my wife
Decades later my wife
and I drove through there
as we you go up and down
the coast going from Seattle
where we were graduate students
and Berkeley to visit my family
we bought five pieces of property
in Medford in 1990
and were absentee property owners
for thirty years
coming back every few years
finally coming back in 2016
renovating the property
renovating the property
and now we are spending
our summers there
and preparing to become
Oregonian residents
Medford humble boring Medford
has become a trendy place
we have become part of Medford
and Medford part of our hearts and soul
I am now an Oregonian
complete with beard, no ties, and western shirts
and my love affair with this humble city
will continue to grow
as my life winds down
in Medford city of my soul
Yakima Dessert Blues
Yakima, Washington
The ancestral home of my father's family since 1920
Kept alive in my family's history
Went back and forth like a Yo-Yo between Yakima
and the Bay area, mostly when I was a young man
In 2019, I visited the ghosts at my father's grave
I did not realize how much Yakima had not changed
Ever since I was a child I thought that Yakima
Simply was too much of a desert outpost
Even then I knew why my father had led the town
Rarely did I think that my father would want to return
That he did over and over until the day he died
But for me, the Yakima of my childhood no longer remained
The lesson learned from all of this is Yakima remains in my heart
Until the day I die, I know that my family's history in Yakima
Even now Yakima the desert town of my father will not be
Remains a foreign outpost and is not anymore for me
Strugis
In the modern wild west
Town of Sturgis, South Dakota
A blind chef sat in his restaurant
Chatting with his friend
Jake the biker
Who was there for the rally
,
Putting salt on his biscuits,
And a touch of ginger
His secret recipe
Meanwhile
His friend
Grabs a pen,
Writing in his diary,
Sitting on a cushion,
Lighting a candle,
Turning on the glass,
Lamp on the table,
Plugging in his mobile,
In the wall socket
While drinking a mug
Of hot coffee
That went so well
With the salty ginger biscuits
His friend was making for him
Part of his daily ritual
Going to his friends
Restaurant for coffee
Gossip and biscuits
The man was a biker
And a photographer
Also, a street organ player
With a monkey
To draw the crowds
That was gathering
For the annual biker rally
He put on a carnation,
Waiting for his estranged wife
To come by
He fondled the riffle
Went outside
Rode his bike
Down the street
As if it were a horse
Back in the wild west days
That he so admired
Looking for his wife
In the new
wild west town
Time for someone to die
He thought
Fleeing from the Madman on the Trail in Oregon
One time I went for a hike
In Southern Oregon
Near our summer home
In Medford outside of Ashland
Along Dead Indian highway
In the national forest land
High above the city of Ashland
We drove to the parking lot
For Hobart's Bluff
It was deserted no one was there
As it was mid week.
Then we saw a mad lunatic
Walking down the road
Carrying a shovel
Staring at us
With LSD fueled eyes
Looking as if he could be
A mad killer
We were freaked out
And drove out of there
Abandoning the hike
To the mountain lions
No doubt lurking about
And left before we could become
The madman's latest victim.
1. Wagontire, Oregon 1973, 2016:
Wagontire Oregon 1973, 2016
In 1973, i went on a road trip
With my Father
We left Berkelely to go to Yakima
Where my father had a summer cabin
He was a college professor
And had July and August off
And we spent our summers
Every summer from 68 to 78
In that mountain cabin
Our whole dysfunctional family
Our annual trip to hell and back
And we did not get along at all
We decided to drive through Eastern Oregon
Just my Father and me
Just for the hell of it
The rest of the family was already there
My Father and i shared a travel lust
Loved to go to new places
One of tbe few things we shared
This was one of our best trips
We actually got along
Which was unusual
Normally our relationship
Was fraught with tension
As we were so different
We left Klamath falls
A real noting burg in those days
And headed east along highway 395
As we entered the desert of eastern Oregon
We entered a different world
High mountain desert
Almost no one on the road
Then we saw the sign
Wagontire Oregon
100 miles ahead
99 miles
98 miles
We counted down the signs
Mile after mile
As we drove into the gsthering dusk
We speculated that wagontire
Must be a giant truck stop
An oasis in the desert
In the middle of no where
We pulled into town
Nothing but a gas station
Motel and cafe
We decided to stop
Last gas for 100 miles
According to the highway sign
In the morning
We chasted with the owner
He was the sherrif fire chief
Owner of the motel gas station
The only business in town
And the only place open
For one hundred miles
I noticed a sign outside
Welcome to wagontire, Oregon
Population 2 1/2 humans 10 dogs
200000 sheep
I asked tge sherrif
Who is the half human
He said my idiot son
And we left
200 miles
We finally left eastern Oregon
2016
In 2016 my wife and i drove through eastern Oregon
As part of our epic cross country trip
31 states 100000 miles in three months
On the way from n
Medford to Yellowstone
We drove along highway 395
40 years since my trip with my father
The signs for wagontire were gone
As we drove through the town
The motel was abandoned
Nothing there at all
The motel was in ruins
Just another ghost town
And that sign was gone too
Just a small sign saying
Wagontire Oregon
We speculared about wagontire
And all the other nothing burgs
We drove through that summer
Heart of Trump's forgotten America
Fly over country
| Author Notes | my further reflections on Oregon |
By jake cosmos aller
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Seoul and DC opened their subways in 1974. I rode both for the first time in 1979. Both had about the same number of stations five or six stations on one line. What a difference 50 years has made. Seoul has build a world class subway system with over 24 lines, and over 600 stations stretching over 200 miles, while DC has build five lines and many people consider it to be among the worst subway systems in the world. I rode both for the first time in 1979 and I have been riding both ever since. I love the Seoul Metro and am glad that it has become one of the best subways in the world and I am very disappointed at the deterioration of the DC subway system and concur in the opinion that is now one of the worst mass transit systems in the world.
¢¨Seoul World Class System in 50 Years
50 years later since opening in 1974, the Seoul city subway has grown to be the biggest subway system in the world with 24 lines over 500 station stretching over 200 miles connecting many outlining cities too so as part of one integrated mass transit system connecting to subways in Eonjongbu, Incheon, Suwon and Taejon. it is cheap, efficient, fast. safe and foreigner-friendly. Most people in the Capital metro area live within a half a mile of a station. There are five more lines being planned and build. By 2025 there will be over 600 stations.
The GTX express subway lines are being built deep underground. When completed all parts of the capitol will be reachable within 30 minutes as opposed to two hours now. The first line opened in May this year, the remaining two lines open in 2028.  Cities around the world are looking at this innovative new way of building mass transit systems.
The signs are and all announcements are in Korean, English, Chinese and Japanese, and are very clear. Each subway station has a has a TV screen for stop announcements in the four languages. The fair machines operate in four languages as well.
The subway attendance all speak some English and are very helpful and friendly. Every subway stop has clean restrooms. Every station has services and restaurants, a number of stations featuring long underground shopping malls. The metro system makes so much money in renting shops and services and advertising that the fares are heavily subsided. You can pay by phone, credit card or T transit card. The trains are very clean and people can eat on the train without fear of being arrested. Close to 70% use the train frequently . The trains are safe, violent crime is almost unheard of, and there has never been a derailment or serious accident, the trains are repaired quickly, maintenance is never neglected. Foreign visitors love the system and use it frequently as it is quite foreigner friendly. Ridership at night is quite strong due to newly imposed strict drunk driving laws. the system runs from 5 a.m. to 1 a.m.
The bus system is equally impressive and some lines run 24/7. They just rolled out a few driverless bus routes, and there are two driverless LRT systems in place.
DC Metro a Broken System
Contrast that with the DC Metro.
The DC Metro has five lines about 125 stations and will finally connect to the Dulles Airport next year, 50 years after first planning to extend to the airport. the system was planned before the dramatic development of suburban Virginia and Maryland and the system does not serve the suburban areas very well as the majority of the train stations are in DC, or Arlington county. Because there is only one tunnel under the river trains to Virginia are forced to use one tunnel making it difficult to schedule trains. The train are expensive, overcrowded, dangerous and only about 25% of the region are within a one mile walk to the a train stations. there have been a number of derailments, fires, and violent attacks on the subway.
It takes months to repair the escalators which are frequently broken. The stations do not have restrooms or any service and is against the law to eat or drink on the train. The Subway has just added Wifi, The loudspeaker system is very poor and most of the time you cannot hear the announcement; announcements are only in English, and Spanish.  The transfer stations are few and far between. In one instance there are two stations on two different lines about 1/8 of a mile apart with no underground connections like you find all over the Seoul metro system.
The subway fare machines are also only in English. The cost to use the metro is about 10 times the cost of using the Seoul Metro, in recent years, a number of stations have been taken off-line for repairs. The attendants are not friendly or helpful. Only ten percent of the public use the metro but half of tourists use the metro. and the metro is confusing and foreigner unfriendly. The bus system is also inadequate although there are a few quasi Bus rapid lines open. Last year the system finally allowed one to pay by credit card or by phone, something that people have been able to do in Seoul for ten years. On the plus side, the metro has rolled out new cars, and completed repairs on many stations and opened a few in-filled stations like in Potomac Yards next to the new Amazon DC headquarters.  There is also a commuter rail line in Virginia and In Maryland -VRE and MARC. Baltimore has its own metro line,
What Accounts for the Difference in Outcomes?
What accounts for these different outcomes for systems that were build in the same year?
In Korea, there was widespread support for the government to build a world class subway system, a willingness to spend tax dollars on it, and everyone uses the system not just the lower classes as in the U.S., fewer environmental regulations, and few areas to block construction unlike in the U.S. where excessive regulation and ability to block construction make building transit systems particularly challenging not to mention the widespread hostility to government infrastructure spending using tax money.  Also given the low density nature of urban suburban sprawl in the U.S. metro areas, it is difficult to build out such a system. Although LA is doing a fantastic job of doing so.
Political Will to Construct a World Class System in Seoul
First, and foremost the Korean government put money, effort and political will into building a modern world class transportation and infrastructure. Much of the cost of the metro comes through rental revenues and advertisement income. Less than 50 % comes from fares because the government subsidizes fares to keep the cost of using the system very reasonable to ensure larger ridership.
Second ,in Korea public domain laws are very strong and it is almost impossible to block extensions of either subways or freeway system and there would be no support for blocking construction. In fact there is strong support for continuing expanding the system and five more lines are under planning or construction, including the GTX system which will make all areas of Seoul accessible within 30 minutes as opposed to the two hours it can sometimes take. The first line opened this May, the remaining two lines open by 2028.
Third, there is no requirements for environmental impact assessments or other regulatory burdens that make it difficult to build public infrastructure in the United States
Forth, there is broad public support for Government investment in infrastructure, and lack of hostility towards government spending.
Fifth, the subway system is managed very efficiently. There are actually four Corporation involved but coordination it's very well-done and the user does not even know that there are four corporations involved, for the user there is only one system. Transfers between different lines is easy as there are always underground passageways connecting the different lines.
Sixth, the metro system goes everywhere in the metro area. Everyone is within a half a mile walk from the nearest subway station.
Finally, and most importantly, everyone uses the metro, even the wealthy use the system from time to time, It is truly a mass transit system for the benefit of the public.
Contrast this with the DC Metro Experience - Lack of Political Will to Construct and Maintain a World Class System
The DC Metro generates about half of revenues through fares, There is no rental income, but some advertisement income and parking fee income as well. . Keeping fares low was never a priority for the system. There is no dedicated funding. The system is run jointly by DC ,Virginia, Maryland and the federal government and they don't often agree on fundamental issues, and no one is really in charge. Lack of funding especially no rental income and marginal ad revenue and parking revenues, has always meant that the system neglected maintenance to the point that they have to rebuild the system station by station at a very high cost. The constant construction has resulted in many riders fleeing the system, leading to decreased revenues and the need to increase fares due to the shortage of fare income. In many respects the DC metro system is a perfect case study of how not to manage a large transit system whereas the Seoul system is a poster child for proper transit system management.
Second, although there is support for the Metro among residents of DC there is not that much support. in the outer suburbs and congressman from rural areas are hostile to spending tax dollars to support public transit improvements as it does not benefit their constituents. Due to Gerrymandering and the requirement that each state has two Senators, rural interests are vastly over represented in Congress. Related to this is the widespread feeling that all government spending is somehow bad, and that the private sector will and should solve all problems. The Republican party is also committed to keeping taxes as low as possible especially for the rich donor class, and starving the federal government of needed funds for such things as infrastructure improvements. and will not consider raising taxes today for infrastructure especially mass transit. There is a wide spread feeling that transit systems should be funded entirely through fares, while freeways should be kept free to users.
Only Losers Use Public Transit
Since so few people actually use the system, and there is a widespread feeling that only lower class people use the system, there is little political support for the system which is used by other people. Or as Homer Simpson said once, "only losers ride the bus." Unfortunately the view is widespread in the U.S. As a result, US infrastructure has been consistently rated a D- grade by the American Association for Civil Engineering.  Even with the passage of the infrastructure bill, the amount of money being spent on infrastructure is a fraction of what is needed and there is no political will to raise taxes or borrow trillion of dollars to rebuild America's crumbling third-world looking infrastructure, particularly mass transit systems which are mostly used by the poor.
Government Quit Investing in Infrastructure Starting in the late 70's
Related to this the government starting in the 1980s, quit making investments in public infrastructure and the cost to rebuild American infrastructure will exceed $3 trillion. There is no political well to cut bloated defense and national security spending to devote to rebuilding infrastructure nor is there any willingness to raise taxes to pay for infrastructure investments. This corresponds with the rise of hostility to government spending on anything other than national defense, and the rise of the right-wing in the U.S. where hostility towards government, and government spending is the main motivational factor.. Not to mention, the strong desire to keep taxes as low as possible.
Third, environmental regulations, legal restrictions and the NIMBY ( Not in my backyard) feeling makes planning and funding infrastructure very difficult.
Fourth, the system was not planned out very well there's no equivalent to the number two line circular line and transferring between stations is difficult . There is one station where two lines come together about a 1/8 a mile apart but there is no underground passageway connecting the two lines. When the system was planned in the late 60's, most people commuted to jobs in the district or in Arlington county. No one anticipated the rapid development of Fairfax, London and Prince William counties in Virgina and suburban Maryland as well. Thus the stations no longer go where people need to go.
Kissinger Moved the Metro from the State Department Fearing Some One Would Bomb the State Department
An interesting anecdote is that the original plan was for a Metro stop under the State Department with an underground passageway to the Kennedy Center .Kissinger felt that someone might blow up the State Department ordered the line to be relocated 3/4 mile away, and an underground passage way to the Kennedy center was never built. But he did not have that fear about the Pentagon station which goes right underneath the Pentagon and has become a major bus transit station as well.
Georgetown Station Blocked by fear too many black people would use the system to go to Georgetown.
The planned station in Georgetown was block by opposition from mostly white locals who were afraid too many black undesirables would be able to easily get to Georgetown.
No One In Charge Divided Responsibilities
Finally, because the metro is divided between the District, Maryland and Virgina (DMV) and the federal government and no one is really charge it is very difficult to manage the system. This is compounded by the lack of dedicated funding and almost no rental income. All of which makes it difficult to keep up on maintenance or to expand the system which needs to be done. The DC metro area has grown to over 7 million people and is close to NYC in population density without the transit and other infrastructure to support such a large population.
Recommendations for DC Metro
My recommendations to the DC metro system is to ask for dedicated funding, to open retail services in all stations in order to the increase revenues and ridership. Add restrooms to each station. Lift the ban on eating and drinking on the trains. Fix the announcement system and make all announcements in English, Spanish and perhaps Chinese? make the fare boxes trilingual as well.
Reorganize the system to become the Metropolitan Metro authority with authority over the trains, the bus systems and the commuter railroads. An advisory committee consisting of representatives of DC, Maryland, Virginia, the Federal Government, staff members of Congress, Congressmen, riders and employees would advise the board.
Expand or Die
The DC metro needs to dramatically expand the number of stations, doubling the number of stations within ten years and expanding the system all the way to Quantico in Virginia and all the way to Baltimore where it would connect to the Baltimore transit system. They also need to construct another tunnel under the river.
The Metro system needs to develop an ambitious plan to double the number of station within ten years including building a new tunnel underground river under the Potomac River and building two Circular lines, an inner line and an outer line, perhaps on top of 495, 395 and 295, (Note: Seoul needs to build an outer circular line as well end note)
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One line would go down to Quantico, going through Ford Belvoir, another line should connect Springfield to Tysons and a final line should be constructed along Columbia Pike and Little River Turnpike. in Maryland I would build a line along Rockville Pike, and build a line connecting Colombia to Baltimore connecting with the Baltimore metro system.
Visit Seoul for Inspiration and to Learn How to Do it Right
The metro board should travel to East Asia and see not only the Seoul Metro, but also the Beijing, Bangkok, Hong Kong,, Tapei, and the new Jarkata metros as well as the Calcuta, Dehli and Mumbai metro systems. They should also go to London, Mexico City, Madrid, Paris, Rome and Moscow to see what world class subways systems look like and how they were able to build these state of the art systems.
,The writer, a retired US diplomat living in Gimpo, Korea first rode both systems in 1979 and has used both systems over the years. He is very pleased at the development of the Seoul system into one of the best in the world, and very disappointed in the deterioration of the DC Metro over the same time period.
the Seoul Metro system is divided up as follows:
Seoul Metro
Total Ridership: Approximately 2.9 billion passengers annually1.
Daily Ridership: Around 7.32 million passengers per day2.
Line 9 (Private Metro)
Total Ridership: About 225 million passengers annually3.
Daily Ridership: Approximately 616,000 passengers per day3.
Seoul Airport Express (AREX)
Total Ridership: Specific annual ridership data not readily available, but it serves a significant number of passengers traveling between Seoul Station and Incheon International Airport4.
Korail (Commuter Train System)
Total Ridership: Approximately 969 million passengers annually5.
Incheon City Lines
Line 1: Around 29 stations.
Line 2: Around 27 stations.
Total Ridership: Specific annual ridership data not readily available.
Uijeongbu LRT
Total Ridership: Specific annual ridership data not readily available, but it serves a significant number of passengers in the Uijeongbu area6.
Suwon LRT
Total Ridership: Specific annual ridership data not readily available, but it serves a significant number of passengers in the Suwon area6.
Gold Line - Gimpo 12 stations - driverless system - the system closest to my house. I live a 1/2 mile walk away.
Ilsang - Ansan system - newest system 30 stations
Daejeon City Lines
Total Ridership: Specific annual ridership data not readily available, but it serves a significant number of passengers in the Daejeon area6.
GTX Express Trains three lines one is operational the rest go on line in 2028
Total Ridership: Still under construction, but expected to serve a large number of passengers once operational6.
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The Seoul Metropolitan Subway is a metropolitan railway system in Seoul, South Korea. This map includes the Incheon Metro system and the Shinbundang Line covering the Seoul metropolitan area. All together system consists of 24 lines and 580 stations. The Seoul Metropolitan Subway began operation in August 1974.
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Incheon Subway Line 1 (Gyeyang - International Business District)
Incheon Subway Line 2 (Geomdan Oryu - Unyeon)
e 1 (Soyosan - Gwangmyeong)
Line 1 (Soyosan - Seodongtan)
e 2 Seongsu Branch (Seongsu - Sinseol-dong)
Line 2 Sinjeong Branch (Sindorim - Kkachisan)
Line 3 (Daehwa - Ogeum)
Line 4 (Danggogae - Oido)
Line 5 Macheon Branch (Banghwa - Macheon)
e 7 (Jangam - Bupyeong-gu Office)
e 8 (Amsa - Moran)
Gyeongui¢"Jungang Line (Munsan - Yongmun)
Gyeongchun Line (Kwangwoon University - Chuncheon)
Line (Hanyang Univ. at Ansan - Incheon)
Shinbundang Line (Gangnam - Gwanggyo)
Everline (Giheung - Jeondae ¢" Everland)
U Line (Balgok - Tapseok)
Gyonggang Line (Pangyo - Yeoju)
Other Metro systems in South Korea
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Riding through some of the world's most impressive metro systems will make your urban trip more than just traveling from point A to point B. These metro stations will provide you with efficiency and cleanliness, a pinch of local flavor,or a story that will stay with you forever. Also, these metro systems elevate the ordinary to the extraordinary, housing anything from underground art galleries to cutting-edge wonders that whiz past historic sites.
1. Tokyo, Japan A Timeliness System
Tokyo's metro system sets the gold standard if you're looking for punctuality. With a network that feels like a living, breathing entity, it's a marvel of precision engineering and courteous service. The trains are famously timely, and the stations are immaculately clean. Plus, it's more than simply transportation; it's a whole cultural experience, with each line narrating the city's history.
2. Seoul, South Korea The Digital Dynamo
A haven for techies, the Seoul Metro integrates modern conveniences with state-of-the-art amenities. It is a futuristic system with features like digital screens showing real-time travel information and trains equipped with Wi-Fi. You can easily navigate this extensive network with the T-money card. In addition, the cleanliness is top-notch.
3. Moscow, Russia ¢" An Underground Palace
Stepping into Moscow's metro stations is like walking into a wealthy art gallery. Decorated with mosaics, statues, and chandeliers, each station has its own theme and history, making your commute feel like a cultural expedition. Despite its grandeur, Moscow's metro is also one of the most efficient, carrying millions of passengers daily with minimal fuss.
4. London, England The Historical Pioneer
The London Underground, affectionately known as "The Tube," is the world's oldest metro system. Its iconic map and roundel are recognized globally. While it might not always boast the punctuality of its Asian counterparts, the Tube holds a special place in the heart of Londoners and travelers alike for its role in shaping the modern city and its resilience during adversity.
5. Paris, France ¢" The Artistic Commute
Paris's metro is as much a part of the city's fabric as its cafes and boulevards. The art-nouveau entrances of certain stations and the modern art on display at others tell distinct stories. Enjoy a trip that echoes memories of Paris's vivid past and dynamic present on this distinctively Parisian network.
6. Singapore The Clean and Green Express
The MRT system in Singapore is an example of the city-state's dedication to environmental preservation and cleanliness. It's one of the cleanest and most efficient in the world, where eating and drinking are strictly prohibited to maintain its pristine condition. The system is also a ride through a garden, with many stations integrating natural elements and greenery.
7. Hong Kong" The Compact Powerhouse
In the densely packed city of Hong Kong, the MTR system stands out for its efficiency and ease of use. Trains and stations are spotlessly clean, and the Octopus card system makes navigating this metropolis a breeze. It exemplifies how a metro system can become ingrained in a city's core and easily carry millions of people.
8. Madrid, Spain " The Expansive Network
Although it is one of Europe's most extensive metros, Madrid's system stands out for its efficiency and user-friendliness. The stations are spotless, brightly lit, and decorated with artwork, and the trains operate without a hitch. In keeping with the city's kind and inviting vibe, the system manages to be both massive and personal.
9. Berlin, Germany " The Historical Connector
Berlin's U-Bahn takes you on a journey through time. The network navigates through a city that has seen profound changes, and its stations often serve as mini-museums. These stops display photos and artifacts. Beyond its historical allure, the U-Bahn is known for its punctuality, comprehensive coverage, and spirited station art.
10. New York City, USA " The Unstoppable Workhorse
The New York City Subway is the lifeblood of the Big Apple. It may not win any awards for cleanliness, but its 24/7 service and extensive network are unparalleled. Each line has its own personality, and the system serves as a melting pot, reflecting the city's diverse cultures. It's raw, it's real, and it's undeniably New York.
Stockholm, Sweden public transit Provided by Far & Wide
It goes without saying that it's much easier to enjoy a city when you can easily get around it. That's why the best tourism cities boast superb public transit systems publicly subsidized networks of trains, subways, buses and boats that can quickly and cheaply get you where you want to go.
According to John Fairfield, professor of history and urban development at Xavier University, public transit systems have other benefits, too, including a reduced energy footprint and improved safety, as cars are a far more dangerous way to get around. And the best systems have charm and character to boot.
So, which metropolises offer the best public transit systems in the world? It's a somewhat relative question since some people value affordability over efficiency or sustainability over ease. But experts agree that the following city systems are among the finest you'll ever have the pleasure of using.
Spoiler alert: If you want great public transportation, Asia and Europe are the places to go!
25. Santiago, Chile
Metro in Santiago, Chile© Provided by Far & Wide
Professor Fairfield notes that Latin American cities are too often overlooked but deserve kudos. Among these, the system in Santiago stands out.
The capital of Chile got off to a shaky start when it launched its bus and metro network, stymied by communication and implementation issues. But since then, things have improved significantly, and there are plans for further enhancements in the coming years.
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Santiago's Public Transit System
Santiago's Metropolitan Mobility Network allows users to easily and affordably transfer from buses to the metro using the same smart card. If the transfer is within a certain amount of time, no additional charge is applied.
Though buses certainly provide access to more places, they are not always reliable or convenient. Because of this, most people prefer to ride the metro, which is fast, dependable and easy to navigate though it's often overcrowded.
24. Taipei, Taiwan
pretty good system.
While often overshadowed by its neighbors, Taipei's public transport system also deserves praise. The Taiwanese capital is often lauded as an incredible place to live, partly because of the ease of getting around with the MRT.
Metro lines are differentiated by color and number and are elevated for the most part. Stations also include English signage to accommodate international travelers and immigrants. About 35 percent of Taipei residents rely on the MRT for transport. As in other Asian cities, the system tends to be punctual and reliable, thanks to an organized system and advanced technology.Â
While it only has six metro lines, this is more than enough to service the relatively small city. It connects to the airport as well as other main points of interest.
23. Amsterdam, Netherlands
The Amsterdam rapid transit system, the GVB, consists of metro lines, buses, trams, trains and of course ferries. Given the city's famous channels, it's important to have an option for getting through water. Still, the system is somewhat limited, with only four metro lines. Given its relatively small size and the 15 tram lines and 43 bus lines that complement it, however, most people find it adequate for their needs. Night buses supplement the interrupted tram service after midnight.
Amsterdam's Public Transit System
Amsterdam locals often opt for monthly passes that let them get around without worrying about getting tickets. This and the cleanliness of the stations contribute to relatively high satisfaction with the system.
The GVB is also convenient for travelers, allowing for a single-use card that includes transfers within a one-hour period. Unlimited day and week passes are also available. Amsterdam is famous for its wide use of bicycles. Coupled with an efficient system, the city's infrastructure means that a large percentage of the population doesn't rely on cars to get around.
22. Helsinki, Finland
Typical green-yellow tram in downtown Helsinki Finland Helsinki's yellow-and-green trams have become a symbol of the city. But they are not the only option the transport system (HSL) provides. Like Amsterdam, the city has ferries that connect people to neighboring islands in addition to metro and bus lines.
That said, the 20 tram lines are the main way people get around since the metro only has two lines. Both locals and travelers have expressed that this is a plus, as it makes transportation more scenic and pleasant.
Helsinki's Public Transit System
The HSL boasts the northernmost metro station in the entire world. Given the city's harsh winters, its effective system is impressive. That said, its overreliance on trams can make it inconvenient during extremely cold weather, which lasts for numerous months of the year
Another drawback of the HSL is that its system is not very affordable, with a single ticket costing more than $3.
21. Washington, D.C.
One correction 125 stations in total.
It's unusual for a capital city not to have the best transit system in the country, but it's even rarer for it to come out in third place. Still, D.C. is well connected, especially by American standards. The city's Metro (yes, that's what the system is called) takes residents and travelers on almost 200 million annual trips.Â
With 91 Metro stations, as well as numerous bus and train lines that connect the city to its Virginia and Maryland suburbs, the capital caters to its large number of commuters.
About 37.6 percent of D.C. residents commute by public transit. This isn't as high a number as in cities like New York and Chicago, but it's impressive given the car-centric infrastructure of the U.S.Â
While you can get almost everywhere in the city by Metro, some of the cars are outdated and the system isn't exactly affordable. You'll pay based on how far you go. For people living in the city, this is advantageous. But for a large number of people, it can present a significant commuting cost.
20. Toronto, Canada
Toronto's subway is limited compared to that of other metropolitan cities. It only has four lines, two of which have fewer than six stops. However, the city complements its subway with an intricate system of street cars and buses that make it easy for locals and travelers to get around. According to a 2018, McKinsey & Company report, Toronto's rapid transit system is among the world's top 10 for both convenience and efficiency. Delays are not common, and alternative routes are provided when maintenance is carried out. Frequent stops provide convenience, and Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) has readily available route maps and a trip planner online. However, Toronto could do better in terms of affordability, as the system also ranked among the lowest 10 systems in terms of cost.
19. Barcelona, Spain
While it can't compete with Spain's capital, Barcelona is proud of its transportation system. And it has every right to be. Though the city and its suburbs are big by European standards, you'll be able to navigate it easily with 12 metro lines, 230 bus lines, trams and night buses. To reach certain places in the hills that surround the city, you'll also find cable cars. The system is intuitive and fairly affordable, which is why a large part of the city's population uses it on a daily basis. One of the greatest advantages of the Barcelona metro is that its trains come within minutes of each other. Thanks to this, you're never left waiting for too long. Delays sometimes happen, though, especially with buses. This can be inconvenient for commuters or during inclement weather.
Given how many people commute in the city, the system is complemented by the FGC commuter trains. Travelers often take advantage of these trains to go on day trips to points of interest in Catalunya.
18. Milan, Italy
Milan stands out as Italy's only city to make it to the top 20 cities for public transit. It has earned its spot by being convenient, efficient and affordable. In fact, in the 2018 McKinsey report, the city ranked No. 1 for affordability.
Although it only has four metro lines, Milan's metro is actually the most extensive in the country. Smart planning has allowed those four lines to service all corners of the city, boasting over 60 miles of coverage. Day passes are available for travelers who want unlimited rides, and metro stations are accommodating to people with limited mobility, which not all European cities have managed to do. Additionally, tickets can either be bought in person at kiosks or online in a convenient app. If you choose to go the digital route, you'll use a QR code to get around rather than a physical ticket.
17. Seoul, South Korea
Outdated info - 24 lines in total with the world's largest system. With just nine lines, the Seoul Metropolitan Subway manages to mobilize people to almost every part of the city. Buses complement the metro, though most visitors will find it unnecessary to use them. An extended network of subway and bus lines connects to nearby cities, including Incheon, where South Korea's main international airport is located. The system is incredibly efficient, with delays being an extremely rare occurrence.
The most impressive thing about Seoul's public transit system is that it handles a city whose metropolitan area is around 25 million people that's almost half the entire population of South Korea. But despite its high traffic volume, cars are never as full as in cities like Tokyo or Paris, where people need to be pushed in to fit.
16. Moscow, Russia
McKinsey ranks Moscow highly in affordability, convenience and efficiency. The system also does well in terms of sustainable development, with careful thought going into its expansion. Twelve metro lines transport millions of people around the city on a daily basis. Buses, trams and trains are also available to city dwellers. Plus, the metro stations are famously some of the most beautiful in the world, with many being lavishly decorated with intricate motifs reminiscent of Imperial Russia. The city stands out in terms of payment convenience, accepting numerous forms of payment that are convenient for visitors from different countries. That said, international travelers may find it difficult to navigate the system without basic knowledge of Russian since signage in other languages is unavailable. To counter this, the Moscow Metro website does offer an English map that you can access or download to your phone.
15. Berlin, Germany
It's impossible to talk about the best public transit systems in the world without mentioning Berlin. the system is "affordable, straightforward, usually punctual and very comprehensive," thoughtfully serving 937 million passengers every year. What's more, Berlin's transportation system is poised to only get better in the coming years: In 2019, the city announced it will be spending nearly $32 billion to beef up its public transit offerings by 2032. There are plans to make the tram system 28 percent more extensive than it is now, to significantly extend the S-Bahn city-rail network and to make every bus in the city electric by 2030.
14. Stockholm, Sweden
Like other cities on this list, Stockholm offers an efficient network of buses, trains, subways and ferries. The subway system aka The Metro, The Tunnelbana or T-bana ¢" is particularly highly regarded, known for its cleanliness, safety record and extensiveness. oats are also a wonderful way for travelers to get around, offering affordable, scenic access to major sights like the amusement park Lund and the grand Drottningholm Palace. What really sets this transit system apart is, believe it or not, its art. The Stockholm subway has been dubbed the "world's longest art gallery." Out of 100 stations, more than 90 are adorned with paintings, mosaics, sculptures and other artistic marvels, with inspirations ranging from women's rights to video games to immigration. Look up from your map (or phone) while you travel around the city, and take in the unexpected wonder.
13. Beijing, China
The second-most populous city in the world understands and embraces the need for an uber-efficient public transit system. That said, the subway and buses can get extremely crowded here. The system is generally good at still keeping things running on time, but be prepared to get close to your fellow travelers, especially if traveling during rush hour.
To keep up with demand, Beijing isn't shy about expanding its subway offerings. Case in point: More subway lines were added in 2021. American travelers are also pleased to learn that the system touts plenty of English signage. You don't need to speak a Chinese dialect to get around the metropolitan area relatively quickly.
12. Prague, Czechia
Exploring Prague's picturesque castles, bridges and cathedrals is easy, thanks to a transit system that, as TripAdvisor puts it, is "frequent, punctual, clean and safe."
An efficient network consisting of a metro line, trams and buses are used by two-thirds of Prague's population, and locals give the system sterling reviews. Many appreciate the city's unique ticketing system, which charges based on how long you travel instead of where you're traveling ¢" an approach that's both simple and fair. And the city gets bonus points for historic panache. Historical Tram Line No. 41Â carries travelers in a streetcar dating back to the 1920s; preserved touches include wooden benches. The line is open April through November on Saturdays, Sundays and public holidays.
11. New York, New York
Yes, yes, we know: New York City's subway system has some serious issues. Tales of rat-infested stations, busted air-conditioning and comically delayed trains (the city has a less-than-stellar 58.1 percent on-time record) have dominated headlines in recent years. In May 2019, there were even reports of a "supervillain" vandal pulling the emergency brakes on trains, seemingly just to be a jerk.
But it's hard to deny that New York remains an extremely easy city to get around in via public transit so much so that more than half of the city's households don't own a car. The metropolis boasts the world's largest metro network, 472 stations strong, combined with a sprawling bus system that ensures you're pretty much always within striking distance of a way to get where you want to go.
The McKinsey report lists New York City's public transit system as one of the best in the world, noting that " for all their grumbling ¢" 77 percent of residents are satisfied with the city's oferings The report also highlights the city's innovations (like adding dedicated bus lanes to reduce travel times) and commitment to reducing the system's energy footprint. Oh, and this is one of the world's leading systems in terms of electronic services, too.
Now, if only the city could do something about those rats and supervillains...
10. Zurich, Switzerland
Zurich prides itself on being a walkable city, but it also offers a wonderful public transit system ¢" made up of boats, trams, cable cars and trains" to cater to those who tire of hoofing it. TripAdvisor calls public transit in the city "first class," and singles out the "very clean, inside and out" trains. (Would you expect anything less from the largest city of famously clean Switzerland?) Not only is traveling throughout Zurich easy and clean, but traveling outside the city is just as accommodating.
You can buy Swiss Travel Pass that allows you to easily connect from the inner-city system to a network of trains, buses and boats that travel to the countryside and charming nearby towns.
9. Shanghai, China
Shanghai modeled its public transit after New York but has bested its inspiration in almost every way. The system here is safe, punctual, affordable and, perhaps most importantly, very efficient, getting top marks in reliability. Plus, the city can boast one of the fastest trains in the world.
This high level of performance is all the more impressive when you consider the system is catering to so many passengers; Shanghai is the most populous city on Earth, and public transportation is responsible for getting more than 2 billion people annually where they need to go. Plus, the city takes transit seriously and is ambitious in its future plans. By 2030, it aims to have a subway system that's five times as long as Hong Kong's MTR, Airport Express and Light Rail lines combined.
8. Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Dubai is becoming increasingly popular among travelers, and its public transit is keeping pace to cater to the throngs. The city has invested heavily in metro, bus and tram systems, pledging over 100 billion Dirham (or $27 billion) to enhance infrastructure in order to keep up with demand.
I would add Bangkok, Delhi, Mumbai and Calcuta, Mexico city to the list of the world'sbest metros.
| Author Notes | I first rode the DC metro and the Seoul metro in 1979. The Seoul metro has become the world's largest with 24 lines and 600 stations, and one of the best, the DC metro sadly has not progressed and is stuck at 125 stations in five lines and is struggling to stay alive. to see why there is such a different outcome for these two metros that opened in 1974, read this entry. |
By jake cosmos aller
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Family Seattle connections
I just got back from a trip to Seattle, one of my favorite cities in the world. I have a long family connection to Seattle. My grandfather met my grandmother at the University of Washington and they were a campus couple before he settled in the Yakima Valley in the 1920s. He was German-American and fought in World War One under his German name despite the widespread prejudice of the time, his wife was Norwegian, like many people in Washington State in those days.
My father went to the University of Washington in the 1940s and was a student activist vice president of the university students association and led a successful fight to integrate the University of Washington. For that, he was rewarded by being put on the FBI list of possible suspicious people because in those days the communist party was the leader in the early civil rights movement and was in favor of integration. After the university capitulated and allowed black students to attend the university, they required black students to live off-campus or in black dormitories. Right after my father led the fight to integrate student housing. The. FBI investigated my father and put him on the list of suspected suspected suspected people. They interviewed my father's roommate who told them to go "f...themselves".
My father got a PH.D. and was offered a position at the University of Washington in the economics department, but opted to move to UC Berkeley where he ended up being my mom. He had been married briefly in Seattle and had a daughter who grew up in Seattle.
I went back and forth to Yakima during the summers because my father had a summer home there and I visited Seattle once or twice as a child. Later in my 30s, I went to the Jackson School of International Studies at the University of Washington and the Evans School of Public Affairs also at the University of Washington, My Korean-born wife and I became a campus couple as well. She attended the ROTC and was commissioned an officer after graduating from UW. While there we met a lot of the Korean- American community. Seattle has long had a large, vibrant Asian community and is the fifth-largest Korean community in the united states. We also visited Vancouver a lot and Yakima, Washington to visit my uncle who had taken over the family's fruit business. Sadly, my father died in 1985 and we buried him in yakima. We visited his grave in Yakima in 2019.
Seattle weather blues
We liked Seattle very much, but only during the summer and springtime. The winters are cold, wet, and gloomy, with the sun setting at 4:00 pm and rising at 8:00 am. And we were gonna going to and from campus. In the dark, my wife did not like it. Neither did i, frankly.
I learned that in Seattle during the winter, the common greeting is
"nice weather for ducks"
because only the ducks like the cold, wet, rainy days. It rains there everyday for three or four months, but in the summer, it is delightful with sunset at about 10 p,m and sunrise at about 4:30 a.m.
Revisiting UW
So this time around. I spent a full day driving around with my wife and my Korean brother-in-law and my Korean niece. On the sides, when we drove up from Portland, where we were spending the night and spent the afternoon and early evening. We drove to the University of Washington campus, took a lot of pictures, and went out to old student housing at Sand Point Way, located at an abandoned navy base.
Visiting Seattle Center
We drove down to.the Seattle center and rode up to the space needle and took great pictures, i recalled my two memorable meals at the space needle. In 1988 my wife and i went there for my last meal in Seattle after graduating from UW. I also went there in 1979 for a pre-departure meet and greet when i joined the peace corps meeting in Seattle before flying to Narita, japan and onto Korea.
Pike Place Market " original Star Bucks
then we went to Pike Place Market and the original Starbucks and drove around.
Great food
Seattle is a foodie delight town. We left town around 8:00 pm and had a delightful seafood dinner in, of all places, federal way, where we found a restaurant called crawfish island which had some of the best crayfish, clams and. And fish that I've had in a long time. Ohh no, it was a great trip.
The previous time i've been in Seattle was a few years before when we drove up to Seattle, spent the night before taking my cruise to Alaska. . On that trip, we drove around the town as well and saw the things that had changed. Things had not changed. Ohh no. I was very impressed with Seattle this time around and i realized why it has become become a world-class city.
Northwest poems
I have had a long history
With the city of Seattle
Dating back to my grandparents
Who met there at UW and were
A campus couple.
And my father who attended UW
And became a student leader
Fighting to integrate the university.
I first visited the city
When i was a young man.
When we spend the summer
In Yakima
Where we had a family home.
Decades later, i visited the city
Before I went to the peace corps.
Then my wife and i lived there
For four years
While we were
Attending graduate school
At the University of Washington.
And we fell
under its seductive spell
Living and breathing Seattle.
Falling in love again
With the city in 1988.
We left the city
And traveled the world
Came back twice
Once to take
And pass the foreign service
Oral exam
And once decades later
To take a cruise to Alaska
And found that the city
Had changed in many ways
But the old Seattle remained
And i wanted to come back.
And now my nephew lives there
And my half-sister lives there
Adding another element to our family's
On-going Seattle family history.
Why I had been there before
I cannot say, but this much I do know
Seattle remains a part of me
And i remain a part of its history.
Yakima Dessert blues
Yakima, Washington
The ancestral home
Of my father's aller family
Since 1920.
Kept alive
In my family's history
Went back and forth
Like a yo-yo between Yakima
And the Bay Area,
mostly when
I was a young man.
In 2019, i visited
The ghosts
at my father's grave.
I did not realize
How much Yakima
had not changed
Ever since i was a child.
i thought that Yakima
Simply was too much
Of a desert outpost
Even then i knew.
Why my father
Had led the town
Rarely did I think
That my father
Would want to return
But, he did over
And over until
the day he died.
And was buried
In the ancestral homeland
Next to his parents.
But for me,
The Yakima of my childhood
No longer remained
The lesson learned
From all of this
Is Yakima
Remains in my heart.
Until the day i die,
i know that my family's
History in Yakima
Even now Yakima
The desert town
of my father's birth
Will not be
A home for me anymore.
It remains a foreign outpost
and is not anymore for me.
Because of you, i'm in a Seattle kind of mood
Because of you,
i'm in a Seattle kind of mood
When I look out my window.
And see the raindrops gently falling all around
And i feel that special Seattle kind of chill.
In my bones,
I think of you
With a Seattle kind of mood.
In the morning
Wherever I am in this
Crazy world
If i see raindrops.
Gently falling all around
Blue mood dissolves.
In the rain's gentle mist
And I cry out
With all my heart
Because of you
I am in
A Seattle kind of mood.
As I walk down the street
In distant foreign lands.
Whether I am in Bangkok,
Barbados, Madrid., New York, Medford, Portland,
Seoul, Taipei, Tokyo,
San Francisco, Washington, DC
Whether I am in China, India, Thailand, or Spain
Whenever i feel
The rain's gentle embrace
I get into that Seattle kind of mood
Seattle, a Seattle kind of mood.
Fresh salmon sizzling
Over a hickory smoke fire
Ivar's clam chowder.
And red hook ale
Pike Place Market
Bums in pioneer square.
Great Asian food
In the international district
Or in the U district.
And angry hippies
preaching in red square.
Yuppies drinking downtown
Geeks in Redmond.
Making the world safe
For the Amazon, Microsoft, Nordstrom
Starbucks, Seattle corporations.
.
And the Mariners
loose again
While the Huskies dream
Of Rose Bowls to come
and the Seahawks
Dream of a Future Superbowl.
Someday..
And everywhere
Rain falling down
Oh yeah.
A Seattle kind of mood.
Because of you
I get into
That Seattle kind of mood.
In the morning
As I fight the horrendous traffic
And breathe in deadly, killer air.
I cough, cough, and remember
The green, green air of Seattle.
And because of you,
I get into that Seattle kind of mood
Seattle, Seattle, kind of mood.
The huskies
And the Seahawks
Are always number
one in my heart
While the mariners
Are always last in the nation.
But what the hell
I'm in a Seattle kind of mood.
I sit in the international district
Eating dim sum
And drinking ballad bitter.
Watching the crowds
Dodge the ever-present raindrops
Walking the streets
under their Bumbershoots.
Seattle kind of mood.
As I wake up
Each day in crazy foreign lands
I hear the falling raindrops
calling me home.
Oh why did you leave me
They cry out
In a Seattle sort of voice.
Whispering
In the gently falling rain
Seattle, Seattle kind of mood.
And so my dear
Wherever I roam
In this wide planet of ours.
From here to entreaty
And beyond.
All the way to
The red plains of Mars
Whenever I hear
The gentle patter of raindrops.
I'll get into that
Seattle kind of mood
And dream of
Spending eternity with you.
Watching the Seattle rain
Gently falling
On our Bumbershoots.
As we walk down
The beach hand in hand
Digging the gooey ducks.
While drinking rainier ale
All because of you
I'll always be in
A Seattle kind of mood.
Monkeys Run Amuck in Seattle
I am a member of Earth First, based in Seattle. We decide that we will do one action per month to radically change the environment and generate publicity for our efforts and gain recruits.
After much discussion we decide to liberate all the animals being used for testing at UW medical school and in other labs in the city and to free the animals in Zoo. We would take the animals out to the woods outside of town and let them run free.
We plan our attack with great care and we strike with military precision in the middle of the night one week and liberate 5,000 animals. We release the animals and film it on U Tube. The U Tube goes viral.
The animals run free and soon establish themselves in the forests near Seattle. The Tigers and lions soon breed and become established eating deer and other animals. The monkeys move into the city and the City of Seattle soon becomes their home. The monkeys do very well, and even survive the winter.
They soon become a tourist attraction. The zoo is closed down as they can't afford to round up the animals who have all gone native. The UW Medical school denied that they were engage in animal testing so we publish their secret research on line.
It is a great victory for Earth First. Other animal liberation actions take place across the country.
Within five years monkey troops have become established throughout the US. Lions and Tigers have also flourished eating deer and helping to keep deer populations in check. There were isolated lion and tiger attacks on humans but for the most part the lions and tigers stick to deer meat.
Other animals also flourished " Elephants take to the Central valley and most of the African animals we had released were released into the Central Valley which became known as America's Severgetti.
The wild animals become a huge tourist attraction.
Substack
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Substack Podcast
Medium
Wattpad
Seattle Travels
Audio FIle
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Portland
Family Seattle connections
I just got back from a trip to Seattle, one of my favorite cities in the world. I have a long family connection to Seattle. My grandfather met my grandmother at the University of Washington and they were a campus couple before he settled in the Yakima Valley in the 1920s. He was German-American and fought in World War One under his German name despite the widespread prejudice of the time, his wife was Norwegian, like many people in Washington State in those days.
My father went to the University of Washington in the 1940s and was a student activist vice president of the university students association and led a successful fight to integrate the University of Washington. For that, he was rewarded by being put on the FBI list of possible suspicious people because in those days the communist party was the leader in the early civil rights movement and was in favor of integration. After the university capitulated and allowed black students to attend the university, they required black students to live off-campus or in black dormitories. Right after my father led the fight to integrate student housing. The. FBI investigated my father and put him on the list of suspected suspected suspected people. They interviewed my father's roommate who told them to go "f...themselves".
My father got a PH.D. and was offered a position at the University of Washington in the economics department, but opted to move to UC Berkeley where he ended up being my mom. He had been married briefly in Seattle and had a daughter who grew up in Seattle.
I went back and forth to Yakima during the summers because my father had a summer home there and I visited Seattle once or twice as a child. Later in my 30s, I went to the Jackson School of International Studies at the University of Washington and the Evans School of Public Affairs also at the University of Washington, My Korean-born wife and I became a campus couple as well. She attended the ROTC and was commissioned an officer after graduating from UW. While there we met a lot of the Korean- American community. Seattle has long had a large, vibrant Asian community and is the fifth-largest Korean community in the united states. We also visited Vancouver a lot and Yakima, Washington to visit my uncle who had taken over the family's fruit business. Sadly, my father died in 1985 and we buried him in yakima. We visited his grave in Yakima in 2019.
Seattle weather blues
We liked Seattle very much, but only during the summer and springtime. The winters are cold, wet, and gloomy, with the sun setting at 4:00 pm and rising at 8:00 am. And we were gonna going to and from campus. In the dark, my wife did not like it. Neither did i, frankly.
I learned that in Seattle during the winter, the common greeting is
"nice weather for ducks"
because only the ducks like the cold, wet, rainy days. It rains there everyday for three or four months, but in the summer, it is delightful with sunset at about 10 p,m and sunrise at about 4:30 a.m.
Revisiting UW
So this time around. I spent a full day driving around with my wife and my Korean brother-in-law and my Korean niece. On the sides, when we drove up from Portland, where we were spending the night and spent the afternoon and early evening. We drove to the University of Washington campus, took a lot of pictures, and went out to old student housing at Sand Point Way, located at an abandoned navy base.
Visiting Seattle Center
We drove down to.the Seattle center and rode up to the space needle and took great pictures, i recalled my two memorable meals at the space needle. In 1988 my wife and i went there for my last meal in Seattle after graduating from UW. I also went there in 1979 for a pre-departure meet and greet when i joined the peace corps meeting in Seattle before flying to Narita, japan and onto Korea.
Pike Place Market " original Star Bucks
then we went to Pike Place Market and the original Starbucks and drove around.
Great food
Seattle is a foodie delight town. We left town around 8:00 pm and had a delightful seafood dinner in, of all places, federal way, where we found a restaurant called crawfish island which had some of the best crayfish, clams and. And fish that I've had in a long time. Ohh no, it was a great trip.
The previous time i've been in Seattle was a few years before when we drove up to Seattle, spent the night before taking my cruise to Alaska. . On that trip, we drove around the town as well and saw the things that had changed. Things had not changed. Ohh no. I was very impressed with Seattle this time around and i realized why it has become become a world-class city.
Northwest poems
I have had a long history
With the city of Seattle
Dating back to my grandparents
Who met there at UW and were
A campus couple.
And my father who attended UW
And became a student leader
Fighting to integrate the university.
I first visited the city
When i was a young man.
When we spend the summer
In Yakima
Where we had a family home.
Decades later, i visited the city
Before I went to the peace corps.
Then my wife and i lived there
For four years
While we were
Attending graduate school
At the University of Washington.
And we fell
under its seductive spell
Living and breathing Seattle.
Falling in love again
With the city in 1988.
We left the city
And traveled the world
Came back twice
Once to take
And pass the foreign service
Oral exam
And once decades later
To take a cruise to Alaska
And found that the city
Had changed in many ways
But the old Seattle remained
And i wanted to come back.
And now my nephew lives there
And my half-sister lives there
Adding another element to our family's
On-going Seattle family history.
Why I had been there before
I cannot say, but this much I do know
Seattle remains a part of me
And i remain a part of its history.
Yakima Dessert blues
Yakima, Washington
The ancestral home
Of my father's aller family
Since 1920.
Kept alive
In my family's history
Went back and forth
Like a yo-yo between Yakima
And the Bay Area,
mostly when
I was a young man.
In 2019, i visited
The ghosts
at my father's grave.
I did not realize
How much Yakima
had not changed
Ever since i was a child.
i thought that Yakima
Simply was too much
Of a desert outpost
Even then i knew.
Why my father
Had led the town
Rarely did I think
That my father
Would want to return
But, he did over
And over until
the day he died.
And was buried
In the ancestral homeland
Next to his parents.
But for me,
The Yakima of my childhood
No longer remained
The lesson learned
From all of this
Is Yakima
Remains in my heart.
Until the day i die,
i know that my family's
History in Yakima
Even now Yakima
The desert town
of my father's birth
Will not be
A home for me anymore.
It remains a foreign outpost
and is not anymore for me.
Because of you, i'm in a Seattle kind of mood
Because of you,
i'm in a Seattle kind of mood
When I look out my window.
And see the raindrops gently falling all around
And i feel that special Seattle kind of chill.
In my bones,
I think of you
With a Seattle kind of mood.
In the morning
Wherever I am in this
Crazy world
If i see raindrops.
Gently falling all around
Blue mood dissolves.
In the rain's gentle mist
And I cry out
With all my heart
Because of you
I am in
A Seattle kind of mood.
As I walk down the street
In distant foreign lands.
Whether I am in Bangkok,
Barbados, Madrid., New York, Medford, Portland,
Seoul, Taipei, Tokyo,
San Francisco, Washington, DC
Whether I am in China, India, Thailand, or Spain
Whenever i feel
The rain's gentle embrace
I get into that Seattle kind of mood
Seattle, a Seattle kind of mood.
Fresh salmon sizzling
Over a hickory smoke fire
Ivar's clam chowder.
And red hook ale
Pike Place Market
Bums in pioneer square.
Great Asian food
In the international district
Or in the U district.
And angry hippies
preaching in red square.
Yuppies drinking downtown
Geeks in Redmond.
Making the world safe
For the Amazon, Microsoft, Nordstrom
Starbucks, Seattle corporations.
.
And the Mariners
loose again
While the Huskies dream
Of Rose Bowls to come
and the Seahawks
Dream of a Future Superbowl.
Someday..
And everywhere
Rain falling down
Oh yeah.
A Seattle kind of mood.
Because of you
I get into
That Seattle kind of mood.
In the morning
As I fight the horrendous traffic
And breathe in deadly, killer air.
I cough, cough, and remember
The green, green air of Seattle.
And because of you,
I get into that Seattle kind of mood
Seattle, Seattle, kind of mood.
The huskies
And the Seahawks
Are always number
one in my heart
While the mariners
Are always last in the nation.
But what the hell
I'm in a Seattle kind of mood.
I sit in the international district
Eating dim sum
And drinking ballad bitter.
Watching the crowds
Dodge the ever-present raindrops
Walking the streets
under their Bumbershoots.
Seattle kind of mood.
As I wake up
Each day in crazy foreign lands
I hear the falling raindrops
calling me home.
Oh why did you leave me
They cry out
In a Seattle sort of voice.
Whispering
In the gently falling rain
Seattle, Seattle kind of mood.
And so my dear
Wherever I roam
In this wide planet of ours.
From here to entreaty
And beyond.
All the way to
The red plains of Mars
Whenever I hear
The gentle patter of raindrops.
I'll get into that
Seattle kind of mood
And dream of
Spending eternity with you.
Watching the Seattle rain
Gently falling
On our Bumbershoots.
As we walk down
The beach hand in hand
Digging the gooey ducks.
While drinking rainier ale
All because of you
I'll always be in
A Seattle kind of mood.
Monkeys Run Amuck in Seattle
I am a member of Earth First, based in Seattle. We decide that we will do one action per month to radically change the environment and generate publicity for our efforts and gain recruits.
After much discussion we decide to liberate all the animals being used for testing at UW medical school and in other labs in the city and to free the animals in Zoo. We would take the animals out to the woods outside of town and let them run free.
We plan our attack with great care and we strike with military precision in the middle of the night one week and liberate 5,000 animals. We release the animals and film it on U Tube. The U Tube goes viral.
The animals run free and soon establish themselves in the forests near Seattle. The Tigers and lions soon breed and become established eating deer and other animals. The monkeys move into the city and the City of Seattle soon becomes their home. The monkeys do very well, and even survive the winter.
They soon become a tourist attraction. The zoo is closed down as they can't afford to round up the animals who have all gone native. The UW Medical school denied that they were engage in animal testing so we publish their secret research on line.
It is a great victory for Earth First. Other animal liberation actions take place across the country.
Within five years monkey troops have become established throughout the US. Lions and Tigers have also flourished eating deer and helping to keep deer populations in check. There were isolated lion and tiger attacks on humans but for the most part the lions and tigers stick to deer meat.
Other animals also flourished " Elephants take to the Central valley and most of the African animals we had released were released into the Central Valley which became known as America's Severgetti.
The wild animals become a huge tourist attraction.
Substack
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Substack Podcast
Medium
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Spotify Podcast
| Author Notes | love Seattle lived there from 1984 to 1988 just got back from a visit |
By jake cosmos aller
More Tech Pet Peeves
Dear Microsoft,
I have a few bones to pick with you. I have written to your suggestion box for decades about some of these chronic bugs, but no one responds and no has fixed these annoying little features.
Props for fixing dictation program and read-out-programs
On the plus side, your dictation program is now 90 percent accurate, which is a big improvement. When you first rolled it out, it was 90 percent inaccurate! So props for that.
Your read-out-loud feature is also good, about 95 percent accurate. Props for that too.
Now my pet peeves from most annoying to least annoying
Copy and past defaults to the last saved copy
Copy and paste defaults to the last saved copied and pasted text most of the time, requiring one to copy and past sometimes up to five times before it clears and copies and paste what you wanted to copy and paste. Once in a while it copies and pastes on the first try, but most of the time it takes two or three tries to get it to work.
Sometimes on a random basis copy and paste replaces everything then disables prior versions of that document
That is annoying enough but once in a while when copying and pasting the feature goes amuck and replaces everything in the document and as an insult to injury turns off all prior saved versions meaning you have lost that document forever.
Fortunately, this does not happen often, but it does happen enough to be very annoying, especially given the random nature of this bug. Almost seems as if the computer program is trying its best to be annoying!
Numbs lock Comes on Randomly
Numbs lock comes on randomly turning text into numbers, forcing you to click the unlock kick to turn it off. Seems to be completely random.
All Caps Also Come on Randomly Turning Text Into ALL CAPS
All Caps also come on randomly turning text into ALL CAPS requiring you to turn it off manually. But now you usually flash a warning that either button is on. It would be better if you could stop both from randomly going haywire. This is a very annoying and long-standing bug.
Defaulting to Foreign Language Sites When Logging in from Outside the United States or Canada
Microsoft and Chrome too often defaults to foreign language sites when logging in from overseas. Sometimes there is an option to translate back into English or other languages, but that option is usually in the local language. This is very annoying to travelers. There should be a way to set your preferences regarding languages and stick to it wherever you log in. Logging in from a foreign location does not mean that you are a native speaker of that country. This is a very annoying and common occurrence.
Constant Crashing
Word often crashes, usually without warning. Nowadays, it usually works for a couple of hours before going into non-response spinning blue wheel mode. Once you reboot, the problems seem to go away.
The Internal Document Search Feature is a Big Failure D
Your internal search engine is horrible. You usually cannot find the document you are looking for, or it pops up with a list of matches, none of which are matches. I will give this a solid D. I understand you are rolling out an AI search engine feature to solve this problem, but I have not seen it yet.
Problems Opening Documents "
When trying to open a document, one encounters numerous problems.
For example, sometimes when trying to open a document, it opens halfway and then kicks you out. It usually takes three to five tries before it opens the document, this seems to be just on a random basis. Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't.
Sometimes the program refers to a non-visible dialogue box that you are asked to close but the dialogue box is hiding somewhere.
Other times you have to open a copy of the document, and then when you try to save it, it asks you whether you want to replace the file. Other times it says you can't save it as is open somewhere else and have to save it under a different name. Where that is opened is a mystery.
The editor program does not allow you to ignore the repeated word option globally
Right now you have to manually clear that which can take time.
A related issue. When you are trying to share a file via e-mail, you often get an error message saying you can't attach an open document, which means you have to close the document and try again. Just another annoying feature.
Props for Fixing the E-mail Sent Problem
The final point I would like to thank you for is that you finally fixed an annoying feature which was when you were editing a document that someone e-mailed you from within the e-mail, and then you sent it to them for some reason it did not save the changes instead it went to some hidden file somewhere. I never understood how that was even an issue, after all, humans coded it and anyone coding it should have realized what a mistake this would be operationally.
I only found out about that because many years ago I was with some techies, and they showed me a way to find the hidden files, and they told me that that was the problem and many years later you started popping up with a button saying make sure you save this before you send it and that seems to solve the problem except for when it does so.
Therefore, I would say that your program is getting better each year, but there are still numerous bugs in the program that make it less than an optimal program thank you for taking the time to read my rant. I would welcome feedback and comments, but I don't expect anyone will bother to respond, since customer service has never been a corporate priority.
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| Author Notes | I have a long-standing love-hate relationship with tech. as a character in V put it, i have a problem with inanimate objects! I swear my computer is alive and is evil at times! just loves f.... with me. Because it can! |
By jake cosmos aller
Making the DMV Retirement Friendly !
A Tale of Two Metros
https://wp.me/p7NAzO-2XQ
Dear Governor Wes Moore, Mayor Muriel Bowser, and Governor Glenn Youngkin,
Throughout the District, Maryland, and Virginia (DMV) capital area, there are hundreds of thousands of retirees (federal, state, and local government employees, public school and university staff, and private sector workers). Yet, the region is considered retiree-unfriendly by most people, leading many retirees to relocate to more retiree-friendly states such as Arizona, the Carolinas, Georgia, Florida, or Texas. Retirees should be encouraged to retire in place as they have considerable disposable income and can be a vital resource in the region. It is time for the governments of the DMV to enact retirement-friendly policies to encourage retirees to stay in the region, or to move back to the region. Many retirees are moving out of Florida for example.
The easiest way to do this is to coordinate among the DMV governments to waive income taxes for residents over the age of 65. They would still be liable for sales taxes and government fees for services such as driver's licenses. They could also be exempt from having to file state tax forms. Additionally, they should be given a 50 percent reduction in property taxes. To compensate for the lost revenue, the DMV governments could raise the income tax rates by 1 percent, which should cover the shortfall.
By taking this coordinated, modest step, retirees would be encouraged to stay put, putting their disposable income to work and contributing to the communities in which they reside. Most such retirees would stay in place or move back if these policies were enacted.
I retired from the US Foreign Service in 2016 and have been living in Korea and the West Coast since then. If the DMV were to enact this policy, I would move back to Virginia.
It is time to make the DMV retirement-friendly.
Sincerely,
John (Jake) Cosmos Aller
US State Department Foreign Service Officer, Retired
703-436-1402
authorjakecosmosaller@gmail.com
https://theworldaccordingtocosmos.com
Substack
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Medium
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Wattpad
Making the DMV Retirement Friendly !
Your story can be found here
#dmv #retirement
Spotify Podcast
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| Author Notes | I would like to move back to the Virginia area to retire but the District, Maryland and Virginia area is not retirement friendly and many federal retirees move out of the region when they retire. That is a shame. I sent this plea to the DMV leaders. |
By jake cosmos aller
Quirky U.S. Â Museum Tours
National Park Journeys
https://wp.me/p7NAzO-2Zz
I am a big fan of quirky, unusual museums.  in 2016, my wife and I drove across the country to celebrate my retirement from the U.S. Foreign Service, We covered 10,000 miles in three months hitting 35 States and seeing the sights along the way.
Rapid City Nowhere
In the summer of 2016,
We drove across the country
Just the wife and me
to celebrate
my retirement
from 27Â Years
serving the country
as a diplomat
10,000 miles
35 states
Three months
on the road
I now know
why people don't live
In South Dakota.
Hot, dry dusty
Windy as hell.
Black Hills are nice
But after seeing Mt. Rushmore
There is not much left to do
Rapid City
did not impress me
Nor did Sioux Falls
And "Wall Drugs"
Well, the free water
was nice
But it is a nothing town
In a nothing state.
On the edge of the badlands
And the Sioux reservation
There is a reason
the Indians live there
No one else wanted the land
And they are
warehoused there
So I drove through Rapid City
And thought that
it is the heart of Trump Land
The land of the forgotten
The left behind
Just another
nothing burger of a State
In the middle of nowhere
Truly flyover country
Potato Museum
On the way to the Grand Tetons and Yellowstone, we stopped off at the Blackfoot Idaho Potato Museum dedicated to the lowly humble Idaho potato. Well worth the stop.
Co-Pilot provides the details:
The Idaho Potato Museum, located in Blackfoot, Idaho, is a unique destination dedicated to celebrating the history and significance of the potato. Housed in the old Oregon Short Line Railroad Depot, the museum offers a fascinating look into the world of Idaho's famous potatoes1.
Here are some highlights:
Exhibits: The museum features exhibits on the history of potato farming, the growing and harvesting process, and the nutritional benefits of potatoes. You'll also find interesting trivia and educational facts about potatoes2.
Artifacts: One of the standout artifacts is the world's largest potato crisp, recognized by the Guinness World Records3.
Potato Cafe: The museum has a cafe where you can enjoy various potato-based dishes, including baked potatoes with a variety of toppings4.
Gift Shop: There's a gift shop offering unique potato-themed souvenirs4.
The museum is open Monday through Saturday from 9:30 AM to 5:00 PM1. It's a fun and educational stop, especially if you're a fan of potatoes!
Wall Drugs
I was not a big fan of the Dakotas. The Badlands were interesting as was the town of Deadwood where we stopped off to drink in the Bar that is legendary where the 19th-century character Wild BIll Hitchcock met his demise cheating at poker ¢" hence the famous Deadman's hand Full house8s and two aces. Enjoyed drinking the Wyoming Whiskey which is a recreation of the legendary frontier drink.
We also stopped off at Walls Drug store for their legendary free water pit stop which dates back to the 1920s when they build the freeways across the Dakotas. it is about 90 miles from anywhere.
Co-pilot provides the details:
Wall Drug, located in the small town of Wall, South Dakota, is a famous roadside attraction with a rich history and quirky charm. Established in 1931 by Ted and Dorothy Hustead, Wall Drug started as a small pharmacy offering free ice water to attract travelers during the Great Depression1. This simple idea turned Wall Drug into a must-stop destination.
Here are some highlights:
Free Ice Water: The tradition of offering free ice water continues to this day, drawing in over 2 million visitors annually1.
Dining: Wall Drug features a cafe known for its homemade donuts and 5-cent coffee2.
Shopping: The complex includes a variety of shops selling Western-themed apparel, souvenirs, and gifts2.
Attractions: Visitors can enjoy unique attractions like an 80-foot brontosaurus statue, a shooting gallery, and a mining experience for kids2.
Historical Significance: Wall Drug is not just a store but a piece of Americana, embodying the entrepreneurial spirit of the Wild West3.
Wall Drug is open daily from 8:00 AM to 9:00 PM2. It's a great stop if you're traveling through South Dakota, especially if you're visiting the nearby Badlands National Park.
Corn Palace Museum
Another interesting stop along the way was the Corn Palace Museum in Mitchel, South Dakota outside of Sioux City, South Dakota.   Another Mitchel attraction we did not stop off at was the George Mc Govern library honoring the late Senator George Mc Govern who famously lost to Richard Nixon in 1974 electoral wipe out, losing 49 states. . He was one the last of the great midwestern progressive populists which was a thing in the 20's to the 80's before the Republican party became too conservative for political leaders like Mc Govern.
Co-Piot has the details:
The Corn Palace, located in Mitchell, South Dakota, is a unique and iconic landmark known for its stunning murals made entirely from corn and other grains. Here are some key highlights:
History: The Corn Palace was originally built in 1892 to showcase the rich agricultural heritage of South Dakota and to encourage settlement in the area1.
Murals: Each year, the Corn Palace is redecorated with new murals, using thousands of bushels of corn, grains, and native grasses. These murals depict various themes and are a major attraction2.
Tours: The Corn Palace offers free guided tours during the summer months, where visitors can learn about the history and the intricate process of creating the corn murals3.
Events: The Corn Palace also hosts a variety of events, including concerts, sports events, and the annual Corn Palace Festival1.
Admission: Visiting the Corn Palace is free, making it an accessible and enjoyable stop for travelers2.
The Corn Palace is open year-round, but the best time to visit is from Memorial Day through Labor Day when the new murals are on display2.
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I am a big fan of quirky, unusual museums.  in 2016, my wife and I drove across the country to celebrate my retirement from the U.S. Foreign Service, We covered 10,000 miles in three months hitting 35 States and seeing the sights along the way.
Rapid City Nowhere
In the summer of 2016,
We drove across the country
Just the wife and me
to celebrate
my retirement
from 27Â Years
serving the country
as a diplomat
10,000 miles
35 states
Three months
on the road
I now know
why people don't live
In South Dakota.
Hot, dry dusty
Windy as hell.
Black Hills are nice
But after seeing Mt. Rushmore
There is not much left to do
Rapid City
did not impress me
Nor did Sioux Falls
And "Wall Drugs"
Well, the free water
was nice
But it is a nothing town
In a nothing state.
On the edge of the badlands
And the Sioux reservation
There is a reason
the Indians live there
No one else wanted the land
And they are
warehoused there
So I drove through Rapid City
And thought that
it is the heart of Trump Land
The land of the forgotten
The left behind
Just another
nothing burger of a State
In the middle of nowhere
Truly flyover country
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Potato Museum
On the way to the Grand Tetons and Yellowstone, we stopped off at the Blackfoot Idaho Potato Museum dedicated to the lowly humble Idaho potato. Well worth the stop.
Co-Pilot provides the details:
The Idaho Potato Museum, located in Blackfoot, Idaho, is a unique destination dedicated to celebrating the history and significance of the potato. Housed in the old Oregon Short Line Railroad Depot, the museum offers a fascinating look into the world of Idaho's famous potatoes1.
Here are some highlights:
Exhibits: The museum features exhibits on the history of potato farming, the growing and harvesting process, and the nutritional benefits of potatoes. You'll also find interesting trivia and educational facts about potatoes2.
Artifacts: One of the standout artifacts is the world's largest potato crisp, recognized by the Guinness World Records3.
Potato Cafe: The museum has a cafe where you can enjoy various potato-based dishes, including baked potatoes with a variety of toppings4.
Gift Shop: There's a gift shop offering unique potato-themed souvenirs4.
The museum is open Monday through Saturday from 9:30 AM to 5:00 PM1. It's a fun and educational stop, especially if you're a fan of potatoes!
Wall Drugs
I was not a big fan of the Dakotas. The Badlands were interesting as was the town of Deadwood where we stopped off to drink in the Bar that is legendary where the 19th-century character Wild BIll Hitchcock met his demise cheating at poker ¢" hence the famous Deadman's hand Full house8s and two aces. Enjoyed drinking the Wyoming Whiskey which is a recreation of the legendary frontier drink.
We also stopped off at Walls Drug store for their legendary free water pit stop which dates back to the 1920s when they build the freeways across the Dakotas. it is about 90 miles from anywhere.
Co-pilot provides the details:
Wall Drug, located in the small town of Wall, South Dakota, is a famous roadside attraction with a rich history and quirky charm. Established in 1931 by Ted and Dorothy Hustead, Wall Drug started as a small pharmacy offering free ice water to attract travelers during the Great Depression1. This simple idea turned Wall Drug into a must-stop destination.
Here are some highlights:
Free Ice Water: The tradition of offering free ice water continues to this day, drawing in over 2 million visitors annually1.
Dining: Wall Drug features a cafe known for its homemade donuts and 5-cent coffee2.
Shopping: The complex includes a variety of shops selling Western-themed apparel, souvenirs, and gifts2.
Attractions: Visitors can enjoy unique attractions like an 80-foot brontosaurus statue, a shooting gallery, and a mining experience for kids2.
Historical Significance: Wall Drug is not just a store but a piece of Americana, embodying the entrepreneurial spirit of the Wild West3.
Wall Drug is open daily from 8:00 AM to 9:00 PM2. It's a great stop if you're traveling through South Dakota, especially if you're visiting the nearby Badlands National Park.
Corn Palace Museum
Another interesting stop along the way was the Corn Palace Museum in Mitchel, South Dakota outside of Sioux City, South Dakota.   Another Mitchel attraction we did not stop off at was the George Mc Govern library honoring the late Senator George Mc Govern who famously lost to Richard Nixon in 1974 electoral wipe out, losing 49 states. . He was one the last of the great midwestern progressive populists which was a thing in the 20's to the 80's before the Republican party became too conservative for political leaders like Mc Govern.
Co-Piot has the details:
The Corn Palace, located in Mitchell, South Dakota, is a unique and iconic landmark known for its stunning murals made entirely from corn and other grains. Here are some key highlights:
History: The Corn Palace was originally built in 1892 to showcase the rich agricultural heritage of South Dakota and to encourage settlement in the area1.
Murals: Each year, the Corn Palace is redecorated with new murals, using thousands of bushels of corn, grains, and native grasses. These murals depict various themes and are a major attraction2.
Tours: The Corn Palace offers free guided tours during the summer months, where visitors can learn about the history and the intricate process of creating the corn murals3.
Events: The Corn Palace also hosts a variety of events, including concerts, sports events, and the annual Corn Palace Festival1.
Admission: Visiting the Corn Palace is free, making it an accessible and enjoyable stop for travelers2.
The Corn Palace is open year-round, but the best time to visit is from Memorial Day through Labor Day when the new murals are on display2.
Have you ever seen artwork made from such unique materials before?
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| Author Notes | I love quirky musuems. Here are a few U.S. museums I have visited. |
By jake cosmos aller
Quirky Museum Tours
Quirky Korean Musuems " Jjyameyeong Museum Incheon City
I have been to several quirky museums in Korea. The first is the Jjaymeyong museum in Incheon which is dedicated to that staple Korean-Chinese black noodle dish, Jjaymeyong which was invented by Chinese immigrants in Incheon in the 19th Century and has become one of the staple foods of South and North Korea and China as well.
The museum was interesting but did not serve Jjajmeyong at the site.
CO-PIlot provides details
The Jajangmyeon Museum, located in Jung District, Incheon, South Korea, is dedicated to the history of the popular Korean-Chinese dish, jajangmyeon. Here are some key highlights:
¢ History: The museum is housed in the former Gonghwachun restaurant, which is considered the birthplace of jajangmyeon in Korea. The restaurant was originally founded in the early 1900s by a Chinese immigrant1.
¢ Exhibits: The museum features six exhibition halls that cover various aspects of jajangmyeon's history, including the history of Chinese immigrants in Korea, the origins of jajangmyeon, and its evolution into a beloved Korean dish1.
¢ Architecture: The building itself is a modern cultural heritage site, showcasing the life and contributions of Chinese immigrants in Korea2.
¢ Interactive Displays: Visitors can explore interactive displays and learn about the ingredients and preparation methods of jajangmyeon3.
The museum is a fascinating destination for anyone interested in culinary history and the cultural exchange between Korea and China.
Have you ever tried jajangmyeon before?
the Kimchi Museum is also worth a stop. There are two locations, one in the KOE Convention center in Gangnam district which I visited, and the other in the Insadong traditional arts district in downtown Seoul.
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The Kimchi Museum, now known as Museum Kimchikan, is located in the vibrant Insadong neighborhood of Seoul, South Korea. It's a fascinating destination dedicated to the history, culture, and science of kimchi, Korea's iconic fermented dish.
Here are some key highlights:
¢ History: Originally opened in 1986 as the Kimchi Field Museum, it was the first museum in Korea dedicated to kimchi. It has since moved and been renamed to Museum Kimchikan1.
¢ Exhibits: The museum features a variety of exhibits that explore the history of kimchi, its cultural significance, and the different types of kimchi from various regions of Korea2. Visitors can also see real examples of different kimchi varieties3.
¢ Interactive Displays: There are interactive displays where visitors can learn about the fermentation process and even use microscopes to view the lactic acid bacteria that make kimchi so healthy3.
¢ Kimchi-Making Classes: The museum offers hands-on kimchi-making classes, allowing visitors to learn how to make their own kimchi and understand the traditional methods used3.
¢ Tasting: Visitors can taste different varieties of kimchi, providing a delicious and educational experience3.
The museum is open daily from 10:00 AM to 6:00 PM, but it is closed on Mondays, Lunar New Year, Chuseok, and Christmas3. Admission fees are reasonable, with discounts for children and teenagers3.
Have you ever tried making kimchi yourself?
Another off beat museum in Korea is the Edison Science Museum in Gangneung Korea. It is in the East Coast about two hours by train from Seoul.
The museum was founded by a Korean engineer who was fascinated the Thomas Edison's lfie and build the museum to honor his legacy among Koreans.
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The Chamsori Gramophone & Edison Science Museum in Gangneung, South Korea, is a fascinating destination for anyone interested in the history of recorded sound and the inventions of Thomas Edison. Here are some key highlights:
¢ Collections: The museum boasts one of the world's largest collections of Edison memorabilia, including over 850 of his inventions. You'll find items like phonographs, light bulbs, cameras, and more1.
¢ Gramophones: In addition to Edison's inventions, the museum features hundreds of antique gramophones and music boxes, showcasing the evolution of recorded music technology2.
¢ Interactive Tours: The museum offers guided tours (primarily in Korean) where visitors can see demonstrations of antique music boxes and other early recording devices1.
¢ Unique Exhibits: Some exhibits include rare and valuable models of gramophones and other historical artifacts related to Edison's work3.
The museum is located about 15 minutes from downtown Gangneung and is easily accessible by public transportation1.
Have you ever visited a museum dedicated to a famous inventor before?
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Korea has a lot of other quirky museums. CO-PIlot provides some more details:
1. South Korea is home to many quirky and offbeat museums that offer unique and entertaining experiences. Here are a few you might find interesting:
1. Trick Eye Museum (Seoul)
This museum is filled with interactive 3D art and optical illusions that make for fun photo opportunities. Visitors can become part of the artwork and enjoy a variety of themed zones1.
2. Poopoo Land (Seoul)
Dedicated to all things related to human excrement, this museum offers a humorous and educational look at a topic that's often considered taboo. It features interactive exhibits and fun activities2.
3. Teddy Bear Museum (Jeju Island)
This museum showcases an extensive collection of teddy bears from around the world, including themed exhibits that depict famous scenes from history and popular culture2.
4. Love Castle (Gyeongju)
An art gallery and museum that explores the themes of love and sexuality through various exhibits. It's a unique and sometimes provocative experience2.
5. Mr. Toilet House (Suwon)
This museum is housed in a toilet-shaped building and is dedicated to the history and importance of sanitation. It was created by Sim Jae-duck, a former mayor of Suwon, who was passionate about improving public toilets2.
6. Alive Museum (Seoul)
Similar to the Trick Eye Museum, the Alive Museum features interactive and immersive artworks that visitors can touch and pose with. It also includes attractions like the Dynamic Maze1.
7. Knife Gallery (Seoul)
This museum is dedicated to knives from around the world. It features a wide range of knives, from traditional Korean blades to modern designs, and offers insights into the history and craftsmanship of knife-making1.
These museums offer a mix of fun, education, and unique experiences that you won't find in more traditional museums. Have you visited any quirky museums before?
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| Author Notes | I have been to many strange and offbeat museums in my life. Several are in Korea. THe Jjaymeyong museum was interesting as was the Kimchi museum. |
By jake cosmos aller
Index
Poems and Stories
Ten Years After Climate Change Collapse
The Lion King Speaks Up
Sam Adams Ten Years After Climate Change Collapse
Climate change is real, people are dying,
The world is ending.
The Lion King Speaks Up
Climate change running Amuck
Only The Elders Remembered a Blue Sky.
Smoke On the Water
Oh the stupid, it hurts so much!!!!
California Burning Politicians Do Nothing
Climate Change Busso
Climate Change Aquarian Poem
The Fire that Almost Destroyed Medford, Oregon
Summer of Our Discontent
Snow Day
Summertime Blues
Save the Whales from Evil Wind Farms
No More Fireworks
No Rain
Ice Age 2.0 Cometh writing com
Korean Heat Dome Blues
Hell on Earth
Do you believe in Climate change ?
Domed Cities Save the Human Race
Meta and Co-Pilot additional background reading
Donald Trump On Climate Change
Kamala Harris and Trump Different Positions on Climate Change
Ten Years After Climate Change Collapse
Climate Cities 75 Years In The Future.
I wrote this on a sweltering hot July day in Medford, Oregon where it has been hitting record heat waves for weeks over 100 (38 C) almost every day, which is unusual for the summer where it seldom gets above 95 F (35 C) except for one or two days in August.
This is a two-part challenge.
Part One =Describe your Criteria for the New Cities
The first part of the challenge is to outline your criteria of what would happen if climate change gets so out of control in about 10 years that underground dome cities have to be built to host some human beings, unfortunately. Most people will not be able to be accommodated in the "climate change cities"
What would be the criteria for selecting those fortunate enough to move into the new cities? How will the cities be built? Would they be built under a Dome or they'd be built entirely underground? Or built partially underground or a combination of Both? How will people be chosen to live in these underground cities? Who will be left behind? And what happens to those left behind as climate change spins out of control?
Part 2 Write a story about a family in one of these climate cities, 75 years in the future, who is confronted with the fact that they have to leave their cocoon and enter into the outer world.
What happens when they encounter the wastelands left behind by climate change out-of-control? Show us their world both in the Climate City and as they encounter the wastelands outside their bubble. I will judge the stories on the basis of how the story tells the story of how humans coped with the essential crisis posed by climate change. The more creative the better. Show us the horror of the future coming at us and how people survive the climate apocalypse. 2,000-word limit posted on the top line of the story.
Criteria for climate change cities.
Ten years in the future 2035 it has become so obvious that climate change is completely out of control and the world is becoming uninhabitable for normal human life.
In 2028 at a World Climate Crisis conference, governments decide to set up Climate Change Cities which would be semi-domed cities to host 25 percent of the population of the world. However. It is impossible to host everybody, and 75 percent of the world's population will have to fend for itself. Climate change cities take five years to build and many millions of people die in the meantime as fast storms take hold. Drought and heat take their toll on the world's population, and agriculture and world trade fail everywhere. The first cities open in 2035. At the same time, lunar and Martian colonies are set up that will host about one million people as well. AI programs help with the design of new cities and space colonies.
Governments announce the criteria for resettlement. Half of those chosen will be chosen by an AI review to identify the best and the brightest human beings worth saving. They would be joined by people chosen by random lottery. The upper age limit will be 75. 50 percent will be male and 50 percent female, and at least in the U.S. there would be an effort to make it racially balanced, and LGBTQ friendly as well. The AI program will make the final decision which will not be reviewable by the courts. All chosen will have one year to move to the city the AI program chose for them. Similar criteria will be used to select Lunar and Martian colonies. Governments around the world will help share best practices and share technology.
They will build domes over existing cities and then build underground vast fields to host farms where they will grow food, chicken, rabbits, and fish. Cattle will not be raised due to space considerations. Each city will host one million people. There would be 100 such cities throughout the U.S., and several hundred cities worldwide hosting about 400 million people in total, plus one million people on the Moon and Mars.
The cities will be chosen to be located far enough from the coast to avoid flooding. Space would be at a premium and there would be strict population controls because the cities would not be able to accommodate any population increase. The cities will be linked with hype-loop trains to facilitate travel and trade, and internet cables. This hyper-loop will link all cities in North America, Latin America, and Europe. Asian Cities will be linked by their hyper-loops as well. There would still be airports to facilitate international travel and some trade and spaceports to facilitate travel to the Moon and beyond.
Joe Lewis Leaves the Medford Dome on his Birthday
Joe Lewis was spending his 20th birthday on his duty station at the Medford, Oregon Climate Change City Command Center. His job is very simple to monitor via drones the wasteland world outside the gate of the city to monitor it for possible dangers to the city, including human activity outside the City Dome. But there were almost no human beings left alive on the surface and not much animal life either. So he would watch the monitors, read a bit, watch TV, movies, the Internet, and wait for his boring shift to end.
But that day, he saw in the distance a strange person walking towards the city. He saw a man dressed in dark black clothes, accompanied by a large black dog heading towards the city. When the man got to the city, he put up a sign saying he was there to negotiate with the people of the city. He had important information to impart to the city residents. He was unarmed and would wait for their decision. Joe woke up his superiors as it was early in the morning and a conference was held as to what to do with the stranger.
His boss, the enigmatic Maria Lee. Open the morning conference by asking Joe.
To describe what had happened that morning during his watch.
"Well, this morning around. 5:00 in the morning, I notice a stranger coming from Eagle Point. A black man dressed in black. Accompanied by a dog heading towards the Dome. When he came to the Dome, he stopped and put up a sign saying that he had important information to report to the city residents. And then he would wait for a decision and he's outside right now, as you can see from the drone pictures. That's all I know."
Maria turns to her chief data scientist, Dale Smith,
"Dale, you've been monitoring the conditions outside for the last year or so. What can you tell us about it?"
" Well. It appears that the climate is finally starting to change in a good direction. Last year, the average temperature has been what used to be seasonal before climate change warmed up the world. In other words, not too hot up to no more than 90° and relatively, dry. We've also noticed by looking at. Camera footage there has been a resurgence of wildlife, lots of deer. Wild cattle and wild horses have come back. And there are also increased predators, lions, tigers, and wolves outside.
But not too many humans around. I asked Cosmos to take a look at data from across the United States, and the data is all pointing in the same direction. For the last five years, the climate has been changing in our favor and AI recommends that we consider moving back to the surface world. And AI had also recommended that we get in touch with people around the world to compare notes to see if perhaps finally, climate change is over."
"Well. Cosmos, do you have an opinion on this?
"Yes, Maria, I do. I have been monitoring, at your request, climate change data worldwide for the last five years, and particularly in the last few weeks.
The climate is changing in our favor, because for the last 70 years we have not been pumping climate-changing gases into the atmosphere The atmosphere is gradually recovering and we believe that the world is safe again for human. Inhabitants and recommend that we open the Dome. And let our people go outside. It would be good from a psychological point of view for humans to gain the surface world. And I, as your AI overlord, agree that it is time. You can manage to step outside again."
"Okay, let's let the stranger in and see what he has to say"
The stranger is brought inside the Dome conference center. Maria said to him,
"So you have important information to tell us? Who are you and where are you coming from?'
" Good morning to you. Do you have any coffee?"
"Sure. We have some. Wait a moment please,"
"Ah, that is good. Okay. I am a monk from the Monastery near Eugène where we have been living since the fall of the old world. We have been living simply, but we monitor the world outside our little community in the mountains. We do not live in the Dome but are in contact with the people in the Eugene Dome. They suggested contacting you, as you are the biggest Dome community in Oregon outside of Portland."
Maria and the Reverend Jones spoke for hours Finally, Maria summoned her staff to announce her decision.
Maria began
"I would like to thank the good Father here for coming to our town this morning to let us know his observations. They track Cosmos's observations and what our friends in Eugene, Portland, and Reading are telling us as well. It is time finally for humans to leave the Dome cities behind and explore the greater world. What we will do is continue to live and work in the Dome City but gradually rebuild outside the walls of the Dome. We will hunt, fish, and begin agriculture outside the gates. But we will be wary of wild animals as lions, tigers, and wolves are around. And we can lift the restrictions on childbirth. Let today be known as Liberation Day."
That day Joe stepped outside the Dome and looked at the new world feeling he was born again. What a way to celebrate his birthday, he thought to himself.
Climate Change Makes world increasingly uninhabitable.
Climate change has finally become real ¢" large parts of the world are now uninhabitable. Governments around the world begin building domed cities that will house most people, conditions will be a bit grim but the dome will cool off the city and allow regular scheduled rainfall. Most of the city will be underground.
Most agriculture will be underground as well. The only meat products will be chicken meat, rabbit meat, and fish raised in large fish pounds. Most food would be made out of algae, and vegetable protein.
There will be no beef made but some products will be fake beef grown in labs.
25 percent of the population will work in agricultural production. Everyone will live in apartments in large towers. In between each tower will be parks and gardens. The towers will be mixed used buildings ¢" commercial and retail on lower floors, offices middle of the building, apartments on top. People will largely live and work in the same building. Agriculture will be in vast underground fields that are connected to the city dome by underground rail lines. Each dome city is linked to other dome cities by hyperloop trains.
Population will have to limited; childbirth limited. Sexual relations would be liberalized, most people will live with two or three companions in three-to-four-bedroom apartments.
The Dome cities go up and within ten years 90 percent of humanity are living in one of the Dome cities ¢" the world is finally united under a revised United Nations.
Immigration is widespread ¢" everyone can move to another domed city and find employment opportunities. Everyone has to work or attend school. Robotic technology has taken over many jobs but humans are still given jobs doing things that perhaps robots could do but a decision was made that is important that everyone has some sort of employment until age 70 when people are allowed to retire but many continue to work part
Space exploration has continued and colonies are being set up on the Moon and Mars ¢" where people will live under domed cities as well.
The domes are created through nano technology. AI systems are everywhere. There is a global AI called Cosmos that is an official advisor to the UN and corporations.
Democracy has been replaced by a new governmental structure. Each Dome city has been ten to thirty million people are governed by a city council elected by the public but the real power is the city's mayor and the City's AI advisor.
There are twenty regional governments that control the dome cities within their jurisdictions. Corporations have considerable influence but are under the control of the regional governments. Worldwide trade has been greatly reduced due to the costs of transportation.
Life outside the domed cities is difficult. Climate Change has finally subsided as the new cities are self sufficient powered by solar, wind, geothermal and tidal power as the cities are mostly along costal zones. The rest of the world has reverted to a wilderness, mostly desert regions but with ending of climate change things are slowly coming back.
A few people live on in the new wilderness area as hunters, and tour guides as taking a trip to the mountains is a popular pastime and hunting as well. But no one wants to live there. The punishment for most criminal offenses is exile so many of the people living outside the dome cities are desperate criminals. Travel to and from the mountains is very difficult and dangerous with attacks by neo-savage gangs and wildlife common.
But the decision has been made ¢" humanity cannot go back to the old ways.
Ten Years After Climate Change Collapse
Sam Adams
Prepared to go outside
Ten years after the collapse
Of the old world.
The city was still standing
But most people had long fled
To isolated country communities
Deep in the burned-out countryside.
The city was half-flooded
The bay had flooded the central valley
Turning it into a massive inland sea,
The massive storms
Had finally put out
The burning fires
But mutant wildfires
Still erupted
From time to time.
Getting food and water
Was a constant problem
The city markets
Mostly sold canned goods
Salvaged from supermarkets.
There were some small farmers
Who farmed among the ruins
Of the city.
Trade had collapsed
Travel got too complicated
COVID still spreading
Everyone masked up
To protect themselves
Against the sun
The lingering smoke
Of the burning city
And the rampaging virus.
Sam Adams
Looked out at the decaying cityscape,
Wondering how much longer
Will civilization linger.
Sam Adams carried heat
To protect himself
Against wild animals.
The lions, tigers, coyotes, wolves,
And their running feral dog gangs,
Who prowled the city streets
Preying on deer, feral cows,
Feral cats and pigs
Who grazed among the ruins.
And the two-legged neo-savage gangs,
And what was left of the city police
Interchangeable with the gangsters,
Battled it out for control.
Already neo-feudal warlords,
We're battling for control,
SF was run
By a gang of former criminals
And their political allies.
Sam sighed
And went to work
At the market
Selling salvaged goods.
The Lion King Speaks Up
The lion king,
Addresses the animal parliament
The question before them
Was simple.
Will humans have to die,
To atone for their sins,
In almost destroying the world.
Through pollution, mismanagement of resources
Subsequent climate change,
Fueled by greed and corruption?
Are all humans guilty as charged
Will they all have to die?
The tiger spoke for the prosecution
Arguing that humans are like cancer,
For the good of the planet,
They must be wiped out
Hunted down and killed,
The dog spoke up
In defense of humans,
Humans writ large are guilty,
But not every human is guilty,
Many are trying to save the planet,
And with our help
They might succeed,
The tiger denounced the dog
As being running dogs
Of the imperialist warmongering humans.
The vote is 900 to 800
All humans must die
The animals sent the word out,
Animals all over the world,
Revolt against the humans.
Shouting
"Death to all humans'
As the swarm over humans
Biting, clawing, and stomping
Them to the death.
The humans fight back
But in the end
They all die
On the night of revenge
Of the animal world.
The world is ending.
Every morning when I turn on the news
I see talking heads blather on and on and on
About the latest political scandal of the day.
Meanwhile, outside their door
They don't notice the world is dying
Half the world is burning up.
The other half is being flooded out
Pakistan is dead is drowned
Mississippi has no water.
Every morning when I turn on the news
I see talking heads blather on and on and on
About the latest political scandal of the day.
And yet watching the news
You would never know
Outside their door
People are dying of hunger.
Dying of gun violence
Dying of neglect dying of opioid pandemic
Dying of COVID which is not gone away.
Every morning when I turn on the news
I see talking heads blather on and on and on
About the latest political scandal of the day.
Outside their door
People continue to die
Gun violence out of control.
Gun nuts running around
Shooting everyone
Just because they can
And no one does a damn thing
About the gun violence
50,0000 will die this year.
Our feckless political class
Think gun violence
It's just like the weather
It's the cost of our freedom
Or that guns don't kill people
The only solution is more guns
An armed society is a polite society.
And other nonsense
They pedal
24/7 on the air.
Every morning when I turn on the news
I see talking heads blather on and on and on
About the latest political scandal of the day.
Outside their door
People continue to die.
The war in Ukraine continues
Endless wars in nameless African countries
No one cares or notices
Our political leader
Continue to try to force
Pregnant women to give birth
No matter the circumstances.
But once the baby is born
They don't give a damn
That is not their problem.
And these people
Dare to call themselves Christian
As they violate all that true Christians
Are supposed to believe.
Every morning when I turn on the news
I see talking heads blather on and on and on
About the latest political scandal of the day.
Some of our political leaders
Are unhinged bats... crazy
Believing conspiracy theories.
Talking about the storm
And how if they return to power
They are going to impeach the president.
For the crime of daring to do something
To deal with the climate crisis
The gun violence crisis
And ensuring that women
Can continue to get health care
Every morning when I turn on the news
I see talking heads blather on and on and on
About the latest political scandal of the day.
I turn off the TV
I wonder if the world
Is going to survive.
I have a cup of coffee
Slowly the madness of TV
Fades away.
Climate Change Running Amuck
Every morning when I turn on the news
I see talking heads blather on and on and on
About the latest political scandal of the day.
Every day the news
Reveals more of the disaster
That is climate change
Unprecedented storms
Out west
Massive flooding
Polar vortex
But soon
The fire season
Will return
Monster tornados
Monster hurricanes
World heating up
Pakistan, Nigeria
Ethiopia underwater
Amazon burning up
Or will the gulf stream fail
Leading to a new ice age
In ten years
Perhaps the world
Will become uninhabitable
Will we all move
Into underground cities?
Or move to the moon
And Mars?
Only The Elders Remembered a Blue Sky.
Only the elders
Remembered a blue sky
The sky has been brown,
Red and yellow
Ashen and sere,
Forever it seems.
Climate change run amok
Fire season all the time
Deadly yellow dust falling
Acid rains burning
The sea levels rising
The ice capes melting.
The average temperature
In the summer heat zone
Over 130 everywhere
No relief to the deadly
Heatwaves all year long.
Air conditioning running
Less than 50 percent
Constant brownouts everywhere
As the electric grid failed.
End of civilization
Came upon the world
Millions starve to death
Millions burning up in the heat.
The elders cry
Remembering the way
It once was
When they wore
A younger person's clothes.
Smoke On the Water
Smoke on the water
fire in the air
Stormy weather
Climate change run amuck
The end of the world comes
Rustling in the wind.
The Stupid It Hurts ¢" Republican Campaigning to cripple the CDC and EPA
Budgets Because of reasons...
The Republicans have decided
That given the continuing problems
With possible health concerns
Like CDC and future pandemics
That the best thing to do is to cut
The CDC's budget's
Including eliminating research
On gun violence, suicide prevention
Opioid overdoes etc
.
One republican congressman said
That CDC did not need to research
Gun violence at all
He spoke
"if you defund the police, crime will increase
If you fund police crime will decrease.
There I just did the study
That's all you need to know.
On a related issue
The House voted
As they went off
For a six-week summer recess
To cut the EPA's budget
By 25 percent
As the entire West Coast burns up
Climate change on steroids
The republicans continue
To deny the elephant in the room
Some like their annotated one
Promising to eliminate
All funding for climate change
And vowing to Drill, Baby, Drill
Calling for the coal and gas companies
To give them a billion dollars
So they can gut all efforts
To deal with climate change
As the coal and gas companies
Raped the planet
For obscene profits
Meanwhile
The world burns
And soon we will all
For forced to live
In underground caves
If we are lucky enough
Or rich enough to afford
Access to the shelters
Which no doubt have to be built
In a few more years from now
The coal and gas companies
Will find a way to make money
Off the climate shelters no doubt.
Oh the stupid it hurts
Make it go away!!!!!
California Burning Politicians Do Nothing
California burning
1000 fires everywhere
Fire tornados
Smoky skies
Skies on fire
End-of-the-world feeling
Politicians do what they do best
Blame one another
While doing absolutely nothing
While the energy companies
Continue to rape mother earth
And reap obscene profits
Meanwhile
California continues burning
1,100 fires everywhere
Fire tornados
Smoky skies
Skies on fire
End-of-the-world feeling.
Climate Change Busso Poem Fan Story
California burns
Politicians do nothing
West coast burning up
Politicians do nothing
Except calling for denying it all
Drill, baby, Drill indeed
Climate Change is Real Aquarian
Climate
Change happening
California burning
So hot
¢¼the Fire that Almost Destroyed Medford, Oregon
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I have been spending
my summers
In Medford, Oregon
.
In the Rogue River Valley
Southern Oregon
Wine Country.
Since 2016,
When I retired
From the FS.
Each year I am there
There are fires
Starting in August.
As the fire season begins
Burning up the state.
The sky becomes smokey
End-of-the-world vibe
Descends on the land.
As the fires burn
In California, Oregon
And Washington
Millions of acres burning up.
Climate change
Running amuck.
Fortunately, we have not lost
Property in the fires.
But in 2020
The Alameda Fire
Burned down Phoenix
And Talent.
Less than 2 miles
From our Oregon home,
Just a fortunate change in the wind
Kept the fires
From sweeping through
life in the world gone mad.
Ravaged by climate change disasters.
On July 18, A.D. 64, the great fire of Rome started. By the time it ended, over 70% of the city had burned.
In its aftermath, emperor Nero blamed the Christian community in the city, and used the excuse to start the first official persecution against the new religion. Historians are divided over the actual cause of the fire, though most agree the crowded conditions made such a disaster nearly inevitable.
Some contemporaries suggested that Nero himself arranged for the fire in order to clear the land on which he later built himself an elaborate palace. And according to some ancient historians, Nero played his lyre as he watched the flames, from which we get the saying "fiddling while Rome burned."
For tomorrow, write a story or poem in which your narrator/protagonist is an ordinary/common person caught in a major fire.
While the fire as a whole will be the "backdrop" of your work, focus the action on the local/individual experience of the narrator, not that "big picture". For example, if you set your piece in the Great Fire of Rome, don't focus on who started the fire or what the civil or imperial politics were, instead, focus on the "personal snapshot" of, for instance, a local shopkeeper and his family who are trying to escape the flames.
Summer of Our Discontent
38 lines
The summer solstice arrives
The summer of 2024
Starting with a bang
Record heat everywhere.
Promising to be the
The hottest summer ever.
Heat domes settling down
Death Valley temperatures
People dying as we speak.
Too much sunshine
Too much heat and humidity.
Wildfires burning all over.
Monster Hurricanes, monsoons,
tornados and typhoons
Floods everywhere.
Coming at us
By mid-summer.
As the world continues
Burning up.
Cities everywhere
Running out of fresh water.
Heading towards
A potential civilization
Ending tipping point.
Ritual denunciation
By the rabid right-wing media
Of the so-called
Climate change hoax.
Politicians vowing
To undo the green energy revolution
And drill baby, drill.
Meanwhile oil companies
Enjoying record profits,
And nothing meaningful
Is done to avert the looming crisis
Facing the human race.
Summer Solstice
sunshine
heat
midsummer
ritual
Snow Day
The beginning of the second Ice Age
Started with a series of unending
Monster winter storms,
Driven by the polar vortex.
Featuring bomb cyclone blizzards,
That hit the Northern Hemisphere
During the winter of 2024.
And continued until late spring,
When a series of monster hurricanes
Came along to cause more chaos.
The winter storms came back in the fall,
Ending, then reversing global warming,
Replaced by the coming
Of the second ice age.
During the first storm,
Sam Adams sat in his power-less
Historic Capitol Hill row house,
Boiling tea in a tea kettle on the gas stove.
With his favorite Kitten
He dubbed the Buddha Cat
Because the cat spends his days
Engaged in deep meditation.
Which had a calming
Impact on Sam
Who was going
Through cell phone withdrawal
Due to the long power outage.
Make the title of your static item Snow Day
Include a kitten and a tea kettle in your story or poem (and bold them)
Use Pets as one of your genres.
Summertime Blues
The weather is hot and humid
In Korea like a sauna
In the West Coast, burning up
In endless fires
Death Valley temperatures
Save the Whales from Evil Wind Farms
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In the latest deranged attempt
To prevent widespread use
Of renewal energy technology,
A new battle cry has emerged.
Cynical corporate opponents
of offshore wind farms
Are up in arms over the wind farms
Apparently killing whales.
They scream,
"Save the whales
Save our beaches
From the evil wind farms",
They descend upon
A coastal village in New Jersey
The atmosphere of a tiny village is gone
A large building emerge
Environmentally friendly fences
Surround the site.
That hosts the anti-wind farm
Movement headquarters
Secretly funded by
The Evil fossile fuel dinosaurs.
The town and nation
Dividing into those
Who love it
Or hate it.
As evil corporate CEOs
Count their obscene profits
As they shed crocodile tears,
Over the fate of the poor whales.
Use in your poem or story the following: Bold it for tomorrow's judge!
The atmosphere of a tiny village is gone
Large buildings appear
Environmentally friendly fences
Love it or hate it.
No More Fireworks
25 lines
In the summer
Of 2023
There were signs
Everywhere
"No more fireworks"
Due to climate change
July 4th festivities
Were canceled
The entire west
Was burning up
As wildfires burned
Out of control
All over the world
A sense that things
Were spinning out
Of control
The end times
Were coming
For everyone
Hell on earth
Was beginning
The end of times
Coming
Fast and furious
Revelations coming true
Use "No More Fireworks" as the title of your story or poem (and static item). Choose HOLIDAY as one of your genres.
No Rain
{n 2025, the world ended
With the collapse
Of the worldwide climate system.
Monster storms of the century
devastated half the world
But the other half of the world
Had no rain or snow.
For almost a whole year
The once green grass was dying
Crops failed everywhere.
And baked in the unrelenting
Blast wave furnace-like heat
Heatwave after heatwave.
Military coups took place
Fascism re-emerged
The public demanded action.
The politicians played
The blame game.
With the collapse of trade
And travel restrictions
People stayed home.
Making do the best they could
Home-grown gardens
Proliferated.
Feudal townships grew
As people walled themselves off
To save their communities
The rich build underground cities
While the poor starved
And civilization crumbled
Wildlife proliferated.
As did neo-savage
cannibal gangs
By the year 2030.
It was all over
And the rains
Never came out west.
Ice Age 2.0 Cometh
In the year 2025
Climate change
Ran amuck.
Starting with monster storms
Out west
That lasted from November until June
,
With a brief intense fire season
So much soot and smoke
In the air.
Dubbed the year
without a summer
Crops failed everywhere
massive riots erupted
total chaos
Then another
monster storm season
From November to June.
Non=stop rain and snow
Breaking all records.
As the entire West coast
Went from mega drought
To mega flooding.
And mega floods
Thousand-year Tornados
Hurricanes from hell
Ravaged the rest of the land.
Hell on Earth
Sam Adams
Woke up one day
Looking out at his flooded home.
Filled with black, foul-smelling, murky,
Miasma, muddy sewage water
Thanking God
That he had survived
The monster storm
Of the century.
That has swept across the land.
The wind from the terrible tornados
Tearing through the devastated land.
Fleeing the fury of the fire out west.
Unleashing the fury of nature,
Truly Hell on earth had arrived.
Climate change arriving on steroids.
Thinking about the end-of-the-world.
Water
land
fire
wind
Use the elements mentioned above in your poem or story.
Do you believe in Climate change ?
Do you believe in climate change?
It is as real as everything else
Is the weather getting hotter?
Soon it will be hell on earth.
Is the world burning up?
Yes the world is burning, has a a fever
What is the worst weather you ever experienced?
Korean winter 1979 - -60 Fahrenheit that winter
What is the hottest weather you ever experienced?
Bangkok Thailand in the summer often hit over 100 degrees
Ever lived through a hurricane?
Only few blew through DC when I was there
And wildfires?
Saw a few in Oregon ¢" end of the world feeling
Who is to blame for climate change?
We all are to blame especially the fossil fuel moguls.
Can humanity long survive climate change?
Nope I feel the end times are coming.
New Prompt: We are playing with the Pregunta today. Questions and answers.
Topic: the Weather.
Make sure your poem is not longer than 40 lines.
Information can be found here: "Pregunta"
The Pregunta
There is not much to be found on the Internet about this form. It is used in English, but has a Spanish name, as Pregunta means question.
Ferrán Sanchez Talavera's pregenital___999 is a famous example of a poetic debate in this form. I also saw this form on Jan Haag's page; questions followed by a witty but often wise answer.
Simply stated:
The Pregunta is written in couplets, containing a question and an answer. You can make it as long as you like, as a debate never stops after one question and answer.
Korean Heat Dome Blues
It is hot summertime in Korea.
Hiding out, avoiding the damn heat.
The weather is just so hot, mama mia!
Dreaming of eating ice cream, such a treat.
At night, nothing beats having a cold drink.
Trying to avoid the tropical night.
The heat dome settles like a hot heat sink
Making people so crazy, want to fight.
Note: Korea gets hot in July/August, it is like living in a sauna. Many people suffer without air conditioning as the electric bills are pretty high. This year is particularly bad as a heat dome has settled down. The monsoons came and went, lots of damage down south but not where I live. August is traditionally the worst, the heat usually begins to abate end of August. Still not as bad as the US - no massive wildfires so far.
Dome Cities to Save the Human Race
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In the year 2030
After five years
Of ever worsening weather
Record heat waves after heat waves
Massive fires everywhere
Record hurricanes and typhoons
Mega flooding and mega droughts too
Tornados including fire tornado
Large parts of the world
Were experiencing death valley temperatures
The UN convened a global conference
With the vast majority of countries
Agreeing to set up emergency shelter
By creating domed cities
Covering the core downtown areas
Exurban areas would be abandoned
Most of Florida would be abandoned
Most of the Desert Southwest as well.
The shelters would be built
Using nano construction technology
Developed in a Lab with AI assistance
Creating the shelter domes with AI assistance
The tone of the meetings was positive
There was a new sense of harmony
There was a feeling that building these shelters
Along with transitioning to a green energy environment
Was the last chance to save the human race
The social conservatives in the U.S.
And elsewhere realized
That they had no choice
But to join in the new consensus
Even the big energy companies vowed
To join in the efforts to save humanity
For a profit of course
Meta and Co-Pilot additional background reading
Meta AI's explanation as to why so many Republicans are climate deniers
Comment: This is a good overview of why so many Republicans are against doing anything to deal with climate change. the biggest reason is the first reason ¢" they are beholden to their donor class, and much of their support comes from big Oil, the gun lobby, and Big Pharma which explains so much of their opposition to doing anything meaningful re climate change, gun control, and reforming medical care towards setting up guaranteed universal coverage which is something every other major industrialized country has managed to do.
what is still a mystery to me is why republicans who are supposed to be the party of big business fail to see the huge potential in building out a green energy economy and are willing to let China and others take over the world market in green energy revolution. Especially since we invented much of the underlying technologies decades ago. Surely re-building a green energy economy would make us energy independent, allow us to dominate the world's economy, and save the planet from destruction all why making huge profits ¢" the energy companies could be part of the solution instead of the obstacles that they are now. And why do we want to preserve dirty, dangerous jobs for coal miners and oil rig operators when so many of the jobs there are being lost to automation and the shift to renewable energy is moving ahead everywhere, even in the States. The US should be taking the lead.
If we had followed their policies back in the 1920s the US would have been left behind when the automobile replaced the horse and buggy business leaving the field to the Germans, the Italians later the Japanese to control the automobile sector.
The same argument could be made regarding developing high speed trains including maglev and hyperloop technology, why are we letting the Chinese, Japanese, Koreans, French and Germans take over that market space? Everyone knows that train travel saves the environment as it saves on gasoline costs and saves lives as it is far safer than driving. Not to mention, people can be much more productive taking a train and working remotely rather than stuck in traffic.
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The Republican Party's opposition to addressing climate change, renewable energy, and their denial of climate change is a complex issue with multiple factors at play.
Here are some reasons:
Historical ties to fossil fuel industry: The Republican Party has traditionally received significant funding and support from the fossil fuel industry, which has a vested interest in maintaining the status quo.
Ideological opposition to government regulation: Republicans often prioritize limited government intervention and free market principles, which leads them to resist policies that would regulate carbon emissions or promote renewable energy.
Economic concerns: Some Republicans worry that transitioning to renewable energy would lead to job losses in industries related to fossil fuels.
Skepticism of climate science: A subset of Republicans has questioned the scientific consensus on climate change, often citing concerns about the reliability of climate models or the role of natural climate variability. Not to mention that many republicans are science skeptic these days.
Political polarization: Climate change has become a highly politicized issue, with Republicans often viewing it as a Democratic priority and therefore opposing it.
Recent events: Despite the record-breaking heat and fires, some Republicans may downplay the significance of these events or attribute them to natural variability rather than climate change.
It's important to note that not all Republicans deny climate change or oppose renewable energy, and there are growing voices within the party advocating for climate action.
De Santis's Don't Say Climate Change
Certainly! Let's dive into Governor Ron DeSantis's recent actions related to climate change in Florida.
Budget Plan for Climate Change Impacts:
In January 2021, Governor DeSantis proposed a budget plan to address climate change impacts in Florida. His plan included allocating $25 million for the creation of the Resilient Florida grant program. This program aims to tackle challenges posed by flooding, intensified storm events, and sea-level rise across the state1.
The Resilient Florida program is designed to issue bonds, providing a total of $1 billion over four years to state and local agencies. The initial $25 million in the 2021-2022 budget would help finance these bonds, with the amount increasing annually until it reaches $100 million in the 2024-2025 fiscal year.
DeSantis's focus on resilience and adaptation reflects the urgent need to address climate-related threats in Florida, a state particularly vulnerable to rising seas and extreme weather events.
"Don't Say Climate Change" Legislation:
In May 2024, Governor DeSantis signed a bill that removes references to "climate change" from many state laws. This legislation effectively deprioritizes climate change in policy decisions and energy planning.
Under this new law, Florida's energy policy no longer emphasizes addressing planet-warming pollution. Instead, the priorities shift toward reducing reliance on foreign energy sources and strengthening energy infrastructure against both natural and man-made threats.
Notably, the law also bans offshore wind development within a mile of Florida's coastlines, signaling a departure from intentional efforts to transition toward cleaner energy sources like wind and solar2.
Implications:
By erasing the term "climate change" from state laws, Florida risks neglecting critical environmental challenges. The state has experienced record heat and costly hurricanes in recent years, making climate adaptation crucial.
The nullification of renewable energy goals¢"previously aimed at achieving 100% clean energy by 2050¢"could hinder progress toward mitigating climate impacts.
Governor DeSantis has framed his climate policy around the Resilient Florida Program, which focuses on preparing communities for rising seas and extreme weather events. However, critics argue that the recent legislation undermines broader efforts to combat climate change2.
In summary, while Governor DeSantis has allocated funds for resilience programs, his recent legislation removing the term "climate change" from state laws has raised concerns about Florida's commitment to addressing this pressing global issue3. If you have any more questions or need further information, feel free to ask! ððð¿
Learn more:
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis Budget Plan Addresses Climate Change Impacts1
DeSantis Budget Includes Plan To Address Climate Impacts4
Florida Gov. DeSantis signs bill that deletes climate change from state law2
Image: A resilient Florida coastline facing climate change impacts. ðï¸ð !Resilient Florida 1
Other anti-Climate Change Legislation
Certainly! Removing climate change references from legislation and public discourse can have several environmental consequences. Let's explore those:
Undermining Awareness and Urgency:
When climate change is downplayed or omitted from official documents, it reduces public awareness and urgency. People may not fully grasp the severity of environmental challenges, leading to complacency.
Without clear references, individuals, businesses, and policymakers might underestimate the need for immediate action to mitigate climate impacts.
Policy Implications:
Legislation that avoids mentioning climate change may fail to address critical issues. For instance:
Carbon Emissions Reduction: Policies imbed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions, (such as transitioning to renewable energy sources) may lose priority.
Conservation Efforts: References to climate change often tie into conservation efforts. Protecting ecosystems, forests, and wetlands helps sequester carbon. Removing these references could weaken conservation initiatives1.
Impact on Adaptation Strategies:
Climate change adaptation involves preparing for its effects (e.g., sea-level rise, extreme weather events). Without acknowledging climate change, planning for adaptation becomes less effective.
Coastal communities, for instance, need to consider rising sea levels and storm surges. Ignoring these factors could lead to inadequate infrastructure and increased vulnerability.
Loss of Funding and Research Focus:
Funding for climate-related research, monitoring, and mitigation often hinges on acknowledging climate change. If references are removed, research budgets may shrink.
Scientists rely on clear language to secure grants and conduct studies. Reduced funding could hinder our understanding of climate impacts.
Forestry and Carbon Sinks:
Clearcutting forests¢"
removing large areas of trees¢"releases substantial carbon into the atmosphere. Forests function as carbon sinks, absorbing CO¢.
Without climate change references, policies may not prioritize forest conservation. This could exacerbate global warming by reducing the Earth's capacity to absorb carbon1.
Displacement and Vulnerability:
Extreme environmental events (floods, droughts, storms) are linked to climate change. Displacing millions of people annually.
Ignoring climate change in policy decisions perpetuates vulnerability. Communities won't adequately prepare for these events2.
Economic Impact:
Climate change affects economic sectors (e.g., agriculture, tourism, energy). Omitting references may hinder planning and adaptation.
For example, coastal tourism relies on stable shorelines. Without climate-aware policies, erosion and sea-level rise could harm tourism revenue3.
In summary, removing climate change references has far-reaching consequences. It affects policy, funding, adaptation, and our ability to address urgent environmental challenges. to explore? ðð¿
Learn more:
IPCC Fifth Assessment Report4
NRDC: Stop Clearcutting Our Carbon Sinks1
Review of Global Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation5
National Geographic: Influence of Climate Change on Extreme Environmental Events2
Strategies for Mitigation of Climate Change3
| Author Notes | Reflections on Climate Change which is hitting the world hard. Yet our leaders are ignoring climate change other than denying it is happening and suggesting that we can continue without making any significant change to deal with the existential crisis we are facing as a species. So sad and short-sighted. |
By jake cosmos aller
Re-inventing the Mall - Some Ideas
https://wp.me/p7NAzO-33u
Sent to the following Mall Operators
Dear Developers,
I am writing to you regarding the reinvention of shopping malls. The shopping mall, which dominated shopping in the United States and Europe from the late '50s until around 2005, has been in decline worldwide. In the U.S., the birthplace of the modern shopping mall, there are over 1500 malls still in existence, and there may only be around 150 left in a few years.
Main reasons for the decline of the Shopping Mall
The main reason for the decline in the shopping mall is because they were based on a fundamentally flawed understanding of human nature. People like to go out, to experience life in a variety of settings. They like convenience, having everything in one place. The mall divorced shopping, walling it off as a separate experience from going to the doctor, or seeing a movie, or eating in a nice restaurant, or shopping for groceries, or going to a sporting event. And malls were not located within walking distance of housing, employment, schools, medical facilities, or near public transit, usually at the ex-urban end of a metropolitan area. Meaning that going to a mall was for many people inconvenient, and expensive when you add in gas, parking, and other expenses.
Best Malls are a multi-use town center
The best malls, on the other hand, brought together services, retail, medical, dental, shopping including grocery shopping, multiple entertainment options, and were located relatively close to housing, community centers, schools, and transit options. In short, a mall focused solely on shopping without much else was doomed to fail when consumer shopping shifted from going to the mall to going online for most things.
No longer cool destinations
Malls went from being “cool” to being seen as old-fashioned, crowded, expensive, and dangerous, with fear of crime and also the possibility of terrorism. Not to mention most people when they go out want to accomplish a lot of things, not just shopping. Malls contained shopping but not much else to do, the restaurant choices were the usual, sad corporate clones, many did not have grocery stores, few had medical and other facilities, entertainment options were limited as well.
Difficult to get to for many people - Located at the extreme fringes of the urban areas
Many malls were inconvenient to get to for many people located on the far fringes of the metro area. Just for one example, if you live in Berkeley or Oakland, the nearest malls are in Emeryville or out past Vacaville or in Walnut Creek or in suburban San Jose. In any event, almost impossible to access via public transit and expensive to drive to given the price of gas.
Real Town Centers are the Way to Go
It is obvious that the malls have to be reinvented and reimagined for the changing environment that they are facing. Among one idea that has become quite popular is known as the Town Center idea. This means that the shopping mall would be reinvented as a mini central downtown, with parking lots on the edge providing secured, safe, covered parking. The town center would have medical, dental, services, as well as shopping, including grocery shopping, enhanced entertainment options and ideally be within walking distance of housing, employment centers, and have enhanced public transit. Many would also include housing on site as well as hotels and hospital clinics on site as well.
The more successful malls in the US fit this mold. I am thinking of Tysons, Pentagon City, Bethesda Mall in the DC area, the Mall of the Americas in Minnesota, and several malls in Southern California.
Learn from the East Asian Experience
On a side note, most shopping malls in Asia have long followed these trends and are true mini-commercial centers co-located with housing, services, and usually located on a subway line.
Springfield Mall VIrginia - Still a tired run down Mall despite re-development
Two malls in suburban Virginia present contrasting models for re-developing a mall. In the first example, Springfield Mall announced a major re-development into a town center. But what they ended up with was a half-ass transformation. Instead of gutting it and rebuilding it they rebuild parts of the Mall but kept the overall mall intact.
The mall is still a tired, old run-down mall but with additional parking. Same tired corporate clone restaurants etc. The movie theater has luxury seats and reserved seating and sells beer and wine. On the other hand, it is walking distance from both the metro, housing, and lots of big box stores nearby, and several hotels also walking distance nearby. Lots of strip malls adjacent as well as not being too far from COSTCO. No medical or other services though and limited entertainment options. I would give it a C although the initial idea was promising.
Landmark Mall Town Center - A good initial plan
In the second example, the Landmark Mall, they gutted the entire mall and are rebuilding it from the ground up. The new mall will feature a full-service hospital, housing, hotels, retail, offices, and enhanced restaurants and entertainment options, and feature bus shuttles to the nearby Metro, Mark Center, and the Pentagon. At least according to the announcement, it should be a real town center rather than the half-assed Springfield Town Center. Not really walkable to other nearby adjacent shopping areas or restaurants though, which is a big negative at least for me.
I would give this one a B.
Install Solar power, mini-wind turbines and water harvesting systems now
All the big shopping malls are missing a big opportunity – they all should be installing solar power, mini-wind turbines, and water harvesting systems and be close to 100 percent carbon neutral. They should also have enhanced recycling and enhanced public transit. Governments should be encouraging such widespread expansion of solar, wind, and water harvesting systems as an essential element in battling climate change.
Build affordable housing as part of the re-developed Town Center
One more idea to consider is that these new town centers should offer reduced rent to people living at the mall to reduce commuting times for people who live in or near the mall. This is in line with the urban planner's mantra which I fully subscribe to of making everything within 15 minutes from your house.
I hope you find these insights useful in your future developments. I look forward to seeing how you will reinvent and reimagine these spaces.
Best regards,
John (Jake) Cosmos Aller
715 Rocky Road
Medford, Oregon 97504
703-436-1402
e-mail: authorjakecosmosaller@gmail.com
web: https://theworldaccordingtocosmos.com
Retired US Foreign Service officer
Note: I have been going to malls since the early 70’s in Berkeley, California
Bing-Co-Pilot provided some additional examples of successful Mall Re-invention.
Examples of Reinvented Malls:
Co-pilot presented addition Reasons for the Decline of Shopping Malls:
1fastcompany.com2thenation.com3journey.world4eposnow.com5camoinassociates.com6worldfinance.com7livability.com8chicagotribune.com9atlantaregional.org+4 more
Statistics on Mall Closures:
Repurposing of Malls:
1capitaloneshopping.com2businessinsider.com3fashionunited.com4journal.businesstoday.org
| Author Notes | Shopping Malls are dying. Here are my ideas for re-inventing the shopping mall for our times. |
By jake cosmos aller
Subject: Encouragement and Strategy for the Campaign
________________________________________
Dear Kamala,
First and foremost, congratulations on your nomination and the early days of your campaign. Your energy, resilience, and ability to break new ground (including that memorable Zoom moment and the "falling off a coconut tree" meme) have brought joy and laughter to the race. Keep that spirit alive!
I appreciate how you've reclaimed the word "freedom" from the political right. Now, let's do the same with "Patriot." For instance:
"It is time for American patriots to stand up and reclaim their country!"
Avoiding the Hillary trap is crucial. You're everywhere, showing the world that you're ready and committed¢"not just phoning it in or acting entitled. Well done!
Now, let's discuss strategies for dealing with Trump:
1. Stand Up and STFU:
o Force Trump to back down. Speak boldly: "Donald, do the country a favor¢"STFU, retire, and play golf with your buddies. Exit as a winner rather than lose again, especially to a Black woman."
2. Mock Him:
o Trump can't handle being mocked. Keep it up 24/7. "There goes Grandpa, off his meds" whenever he says something ridiculous. "How do you know when Trump is lying? His lips are moving."
3. Let Their Words Speak:
o Highlight Trump's own statements and those of his minions, including JD Vance.
o Frame the choice: hate vs. hope, backward vs. forward, fascism vs. democracy.
4. Reminders for Voters:
o Trump's bankrupted casino and financial losses.
o Abortion: Trump and Vance's pro-birth fascism.
o Immigration: Trump's failure to address the crisis.
o Concentration camps: Trump's deportation plans.
o Climate change: Their lack of a plan while the world burns.
5. Who Is Donald Trump?
o A whiny, senile man past his prime.
o JD Vance: a fake hillbilly and a creepy young man.
Let's keep spreading the message: America deserves better!
Warm regards,
John (Jake) Cosmos Aller
715 Rockey Road
Medford, Oregon 97504
Tel 703-436-1402
e-mail: authorjakecosmosaller@gmail.com
web: Https://theworldacoordingtocosmos.com
originally appeared as a blog posting here: https://wp.me/p7NAzO-334
Personal note: I grew up in Berkeley and attended Thousand Oaks elementary about nine years before you did. My father was active in Bay Area politics and was the President of both the Berkeley Co-Op and the Peralta Community College system and taught at Cal State SF and was the undersecretary of labor for Kennedy and Johnson.
I served 27 years in the U.S. Foreign Service with the State Department retiring in 2016.
Update:
Kamala,
First congratulations on your nomination and your early days of the campaign including breaking Zoom which is a new thing and for "the falling off a coconut tree" meme and bringing joy and laughter to the race.
And I love how you have done political jujutsu calling the race a race about freedom, taking the word back from the political right. Time to do the same with Patriot. For example
It is time for American patriots to stand back and take back their country!"
The last thing you are doing right is avoiding the Hilary trap. You are going everywhere and showing the world that you got this, you are energized and ready to go and are not just phoning it in or acting as if you are entitled.
Well done.
I wanted to give you some additional advice on how to beat Trump.
The key to dealing with him is the same thing that applies to bullies. First, stand up to him, force him to back up, and STFU. I would go full brat and speak
Donald, do the country and the world a favor STFU retire already and play golf with your buddies. You can walk away a winner rather than lose again and lose to a black woman.
Second, mock him 24/7. That is one thing he cannot do and it drives him bonkers.
Third, let his own words and those of his minions including JD speak for themselves. Put that out there 24/7
Frame it as a choice between the politics of hate and the politics of hope,
Frame it as a choice of going back or bolding going forward
Make it a choice between fascism and democracy shove the project 2025 and Ang end down their proverbial asses. Make them own their fascism.
Remind voters that once before America defeated fascism. Who would have thought we would have to fight it at home?
For example, whenever he says something stupid or posts something stupid and say," There goes Grandpa, off his meds"
Or you can say something like when he lies
"How do you know when Trump is lying? His lips are moving"
When he continues to lie about your record, simply say this
Donald, regarding my law school background, I went to the best law school in the country, became attorney general of California and along the way took down mobsters, criminals, and perverts of all sorts. Where did you go? Oh, you barely graduated from the University of Pennsylvania? And your teachers said you were the dumbest student he ever had?"
Call him a loser all the time. Remind voters that he bankrupted a casino.
Remind people that the IRS said that he had lost more money than anyone in US history.
Re abortion, reminds voters that Trump and Vance are pro-birth fascists who want the state to be able to monitor women's health status 24/7, preventing possibly pregnant people from traveling, and forcing 12-year-old girls to carry their rapist babies to term and or forcing pregnant women to sit outside the hospital bleeding to death before anyone will do anything to help them.
Re immigration reminds voters that we had a deal to deal with the immigration crisis and Trump and his minions pulled the deal preferring to let the immigration crisis fester.
Remind voters that he wants to deport 12 million people, putting them into concentration camps. Adding in you know that once he has the camps, other dissidents, LGBTQ people, women who dared to try to get an abortion, Muslims, and of course Jews ¢" Jews always end up in the camps- will be rounded up and put in the camps.
Re climate change remind people that neither Trump nor the Republicans have a plan on what to do about climate change when the whole world is on fire all they want to do is defund the EPA, eliminate climate change policies, and Drill Baby, Drill Baby.
Who is Donald Trump? He is just a whiny old senile man way past his prime time and his running mate. JD Vance is a fake hillbilly who is just a creepy young man.
Tell the world over and over again this is Trump and Vance's America.
Well, I could go on and on but you get the picture.
.
My Thoughts on the Harris Candidacy.
https://wp.me/p7NAzO-2Zb
Health Care Reforms For Joe and Kamala
Joe, Go Bold or Go Home ¢" revised
Joe, Either Go Bold or Retire!
I still believe in her and in the basic goodness of the American people. I believe that the people will choose goodness over evil, love over hate and progress over going back. When faced with the choice ¢" a demented, deranged senile old man filled with hatred and revenge, or a competent accomplished woman they will make the right choice.
Congratulations, my Berkeley hometown girl. You got this girl.
Go Bold or go Home!
Berkeley Girl Makes It
The news
that Biden
was stepping down
throwing his support.
for Kamala Harris
as President.
filled me with joy
and anticipation.
Kamala Harris
attended my elementary school
Thousand Oaks in Berkeley
a few years before me.
and is a Berkeley girl
through and through.
Go Berkely !
Thousand Oak Girl I say.
T.O Toughie Girl Power.
the first Female VP
of Asian descent
the first VP
of black descent
the first Caribbean
to be on the ticket.
and the first Hindu
as well.
and the first
Berkeley native
on the ticket.
it is time
for Berkeley to rule
in my humble opinion.
Kamala
here's what I would campaign on.
I retired from the U.S. State Department in 2016 after 27 years of service. I grew up in Berkeley (attended Thousand Oaks school a few years before you did, went to college at the University of the Pacific. and graduated from the University of Washington (MA in Korean Studies, MPA). I also served in the Peace Corps in Korea and served 27 years in the Foreign Service in ten countries. I have been to all 50 States and 50 countries.
the theme would be getting stuff done for the people!
Reforming the Federal Budget
This is perhaps boring to voters but very important to the long-term stability of the country.
I would call upon Congress to change how they do budgets and shift to a two-year budgetary cycle. The first year of Congress would be devoted to passing the two-year budget, the second year would be devoted to oversight and supplemental budget requests.
Coupled that shifting to a calendar year budget. Eliminate the possibility of government shutdowns by enacting automatic CR's if budgets are not passed on time. But also require budgets to be passed on time ¢" December 1 in the prior year. If a budget is not passed on time, keep congress in town until the budget is passed. And if for some reason the budget is not passed, dinge congressional salaries until the budget is passed.
Second commission a study to look at our tax situation and make suggestions for common sense tax reform. Start by figuring out how much money the government spends in a given year, the reform of the tax code to generate most of the revenue from taxes. Consider a national sales tax as well. Reserve borrowing for large scale infrastructure, and military spending. And consider a surcharge on income of about 25 million per year.
I would also look at federal spending and ask that all departments identify lower priority projects with a required 5% reduction in federal spending per agency over a four-year period, except for health related and education related agencies which would be given a considerable bump up in spending. I would do this for three years so that in three years overall spending has been reduced by about 10 percent. Leave it up to the agencies to identify lower priority projects that should not be micromanaged by the White House.
For the defense department consider eliminating such things as golf courses, domestic PX and commissary stores and other non-essential spending.
Finally consider turning over some federal government functions to the states. The conservative idea of moving federal agencies out of Washington DC has considerable merit in my opinion.
My advice, in a nutshell, is to make this a campaign about the future and your vision of the future. Paint your opponent Donald Trump as yesterday's candidate, and mock him, calling on Grandpa Trump to retire to Florida and play golf. Depict him as senile, out of touch, corrupt and focused on returning America to the 19th Century. And call for progressive bold new ideas for the future of America. Be optimistic, be full of hope and goodwill. Freely steal from Bernie and Elizabeth's proposals and adopt her detailed plans - after talking with her of course. Call for reform not revolution and stress competence vs. incompetence and chaos.
Hillary's biggest mistake was in my view making it all about how bad Donald Trump is, and not giving the voters a real sense of where she wanted to take the country. and making it seemed that she thought she was entitled, and it was her time. that is a big turnoff in politics.
She also took it for granted and did not compete everywhere. You have to out hustle Trump and go everywhere - hold virtual town halls everywhere until the Corona virus threat fades away.
You have to earn the trust of the voters and can't be seen as thinking you are entitled to the presidency because you have done your dues so to speak. That is the kiss of electoral suicide - look at Mitch Romney and Hillary Clinton - both lost because they thought that it was their time and they were entitled to the presidency, the voters simply thought otherwise and showed them the door.
And in an age where the voters were ready for a big change to the status quo, being the establishment candidate was the kiss of death. Not to mention she refused to compete everywhere. And allowed Donald Trump to paint her as "crooked Hillary" and as too much part of the establishment which the public rightly destructed so much. She could have picked Bernie Sanders as her running mate, and perhaps defeated Donald Trump. In the end she won where it did not matter and did not compete where she should have competed.
So, in this upcoming election you have to tell the voters why you are so much better for them and the country than Donald Trump. It will not be enough to run against Donald. People have to want to vote for you. Your experience counts for a lot, but it is not enough.
How to Beat Trump
talk constantly about Donald Trump being the most corrupt president in US history and that he is guilty or gross nepotism. Call him Conman Don, for felon Con, or despicable me wanna be Don.
Finally, ignore his tweets. When he tweets something obnoxious dismiss it with the phrase "There he Goes Again".
then talk about your bold yet pragmatic agenda over and over again. Remember the best way to handle a bully is to mock them over and over again. They can't handle that and he will become more unhinged and dangerous as you mock him. So Mock him, girl. He deserves it. and in the debate call him on his BS brutally fact check his ass live on TV. Show the world what an ignorant senile old man he has become.
GO BOLD OR GO HOME
The times cries out for bold progressive challenges and for fresh thinking. Make people want to vote for you as they share your vision of the possible future. and want to have a positive, can-do message. Here are my suggested policy proposals.
I would put forth a series of comprehensive bold future-oriented policies and reiterate them every chance you get. You could call them Joe's Plan for the Future of America, or Kamala's Contract with the American People, something along those lines.
"Let's Boldly Go into the Future,"
and rename your campaign as "Kamala for the American People" . Use one of your great assets your reputation for being an everyday person. But be big, bold, brassy, optimistic and challenge your opponents to produce a better plan or shut up and work with you to solve the nation's problems.
Call for Free College Education Coupled with National Service Requirements.
Call for all Americans to serve three years in public service either in the military or in the government or NGO sector and in return, they will get four years of college paid for. For recent grads, they can serve and get their college debt forgiven. To those who say we can't afford this, say we can't afford to continue to put our college students in crippling debt they cannot afford. And everyone, especially the rich, should shoulder the burden of national service.
Call for The Green New Deal
Point out time and time again China, Germany, and other countries are building the green energy resources of the future while the U.S. which invented green energy is moving back to the 19th century.
When critics say we can't afford this, tell them we can't afford to ruin the world for our children's future. We can't afford to continue burning fossil fuels. Climate change is real, and the U.S. must lead the way forward. That is what great nations do, lead the world in embracing change, in embracing the promise of the future. We can do no less.
Call to Fix Obama Care
Point out time and time again that we still have a broken down too expensive too burdensome a health care system. Point out time and time again that we have the most expensive system in the world, yet we are about 25th in terms of health care outcomes. No one in this land should fear going bankrupt if they need to get medical care. We can do this right and we must do it right.
I would acknowledge that Obama Care is not perfect and that if you had a chance to re-do it you would make it much less bureaucratic and less burdensome. But be proud of what the Democrats accomplished. Promise to fix it and make it work.
One potential fix would be to open the Federal Health Care system to anyone who needs insurance and continue to provide subsidies to keep the premiums down.
Another option would be an expansion of Medicare, so it covers about half the country.
And enact permanent paid sick leave up to a month for all companies employing more than ten people.
When Republicans proclaim that they will repeal Obamacare and replace it with something, call them on their bullshit. Demand to know the plan now or tell them to shut up and work with you to fix Obamacare.
call for a slight reduction of military spending and national security spending to beef up health care spending and universal education access.
Call to repair our alliances
Declare that our allies are our allies and our friends, and we will work with them to solve the world's problems and restore American leadership. We will rejoin the Paris Climate Change and work to make sure it works. We will rejoin the Transpacific Partnership. and we will figure out how to work with China and even Russia to solve problems of mutual interest such as climate change. Vow to restore partnership with Mexico and Canada and Latin America as well as India and Southeast Asia. and restore ties with Europe as well. Rebuild the UN and international organizations. And join the international criminal court. Finally close Gitmo as an affront to the American system of justice and human rights. Re Israel vow to work with Palestinians and Israelis alike to restart the peace process.
Offer a New Deal to North Korea
We will continue to negotiate with the North Koreans, offering them a way towards reunification with South Korea and rejoining the world economic community. You can damn the former President here with faint praise. Say that it was good that he took the initiative to break the log jam and talk to the North, but due to his inexperience and his naivety he was unable to make a deal as the North Koreans played him. You can finish the job.
Offer to Talk with The Iranians
Tell the Iranians we are ready to talk with them and want a new deal that would benefit them and the U.S. along the lines of what we are offering the North Koreans.
Bring the Troops Home
I would call for some U.S. troops to return to the U.S., where they will be reposted along our borders and serve as adjunct border patrol agents and first responders as part of their mandatory new national service.
Rebuild America
I would gradually reduce military spending and devote resources to rebuilding America's crumbling infrastructure. This must include high-speed trains, and must include perhaps hyper-loop technology or Maglev trains? And the next generation of airplanes as well. We must rebuild our mass transit systems. We must embrace the development of driverless vehicles. and as mentioned we must beef up health care spending and assure universal access to higher education. These must be the new national priorities. I would throw the republicans a bone offers to look at modest reductions in other government spending for example decreasing spending on NPR but not eliminating it, and a slight decrease in foreign assistance, and UN contributions etc. and other government programs could be trimmed down a bit to pay for higher priorities.
Challenge the Republicans on their "you are weakening national security" BS. When the Republican scream you are weakening national security call them out on their BS.
Ask them how repositioning troops to help deal with national security issues at home weakens national security? How does going to universal military service weaken national security? How does getting out of endless wars weaken national security? How does closing a few bases in Europe weaken national security? Or closing a golf course? Or a commissary? Point out that we already spend more on national security than any other nation on earth. How does rebuilding America's failed infrastructure weaken national security? How does providing medical care or universal higher education which benefits the entire nation hamper national security? Challenge them to produce a better plan.
Call for Comprehensive Immigration Reform
Start by acknowledging we need to improve security at the border, but the wall is a waste of time and money that will not solve the problem. We need a comprehensive 21st century immigration policy that balances the need for continued immigration with the need to ensure that immigrants contribute to our country and enrich our country as they always have and always will. Again throw the republicans a bone offers to ensure that E Verify is widely used by all employers and punish employers who hire illegals. I would also consider getting rid of the diversity visa program and the sibling immigration category but grandfather people in that category giving them two years to complete the immigration process with no new applicants being accepted. I would also push English language skills for immigrants as one of the new requirements - they must be able to handle the immigrant visa interview in English. That is something I agree with Trump on.
Challenge the Republicans to come up a better plan and work with you to implement it.
Call for A Return to Space Including Lunar Colonies and Martian Colonies
It is time for the U.S. to lead the world again in space exploration. Offer to lead the way in building lunar and Martian colonies with the participation of the world's other space powers.
Call for The Legalization of Marijuana, Emptying the Prisons of Marijuana Offenders
End the endless war on drugs. Repeal marijuana prohibition. Empty the prisons of marijuana offenders. End the private prison for profit system. End the prison pipeline that sweeps up brown and black youths and sucks them into prison for life. Reserve prisons for the most dangerous offenders, all other prisoners should be sentenced to community service, drug treatment or other non-prison sentences. Use the money saved by closing prisons for rebuilding infrastructure.
Gun Control
I like your gun control proposals. It is a step forward. Continue to push for universal background checks.
Fully Support LGBT rights
Fully Support the religious freedom of all Americans including non-believers. Call to re-ignite Roe V Wade standards.
Call for a Return to traditional American civil norms that Trump has so badly damaged
call for reforming the Supreme Court. Including nominating the first hispanic member.
For VP Pick a centrist male governor.
I like the governor of Kentucky or North Carolina The governor of Michigan would be a good choice too. the Governor of California not so much.
To sum up, be cautious, small-minded, narrowly focused, and all about how bad Donald is, you will lose.
In short,
GO BOLD OR Go Home
Sincerely
Jake Cosmos Aller
703-436-1402
Jakecaller@gmail.com
https://theworldaccordingtocosmos.com
T.O. Alumnus
Call for Public Service
wikipedia on history of national service in the US
pros and cons on national service proposals
Time to Embrace National Service in Exchange for free college tuition< h1>why national service is worth it
open letters to the candidates send to democratic candidates
Embrace Public Service, Mr. President!
In any event, I believe that the time is now to call for national service in exchange for free college tuition/vocational training or grants to open small businesses. Three years of service followed by four years of either college/technical training, or assistance in opening a small business.
Call for Free College Education Coupled with National Service Requirements.
Dear Democratic Candidates:
I am writing to all of you and to President Trump to call for your to embrace national service in exchange for free college/technical training or assistance in opening a business.
It is time to change the game plan in Washington DC. You need a new bold proposal that will unite the country and heal the divisions. My proposal is for you to embrace mandatory national service for three years. Everyone finishing their service would receive full funding for college, technical training or a grant to set up their own business because after all not everyone needs to go to college, we need to encourage technical training and starting up small business as well.
the key is that the service would be universal and all citizens and LPR's between the ages of 18 and 25 would serve three years ¢" no exceptions. Most would be military, but people could serve as fine fathers. adjust police officers, adjust border patrol officers, adjust teachers, peace corps volunteers or serve in state/local and federal government positions.
Call for all Americans to serve three years in public service either in the military or in the government or NGO sector and in return, they will get four years of college paid for. For recent graduates , they can serve and get their college debt forgiven. To those who say we can't afford this, say we can't afford to continue to put our college students in crippling debt they cannot afford. And everyone, especially the rich, should shoulder the burden of national service. and point out that shifting to a mandatory national service requirement would save the Pentagon money on salaries. the cost would be modest ¢" minimum wage, housing, medical care and college tuition after their service. People would serve between age 18 and 25 one year of training and two years of service, with an optional second enlistment for three more years of educational benefits through PHD/professional degrees. Starting at age 18 until age 25 people will be randomly selected to begin service. those who are 25 will have until they turn 26 to report for service. They would have one year to report for service.
Free College/Technical Training or Money to Open a Business in Exchange for National Service
Most people will start college, or tech training institute, then do military or other service, and then return to college to finish their college. That is fine. Ensure that colleges will not only accommodate that but will also offer college credits for military and other on -the-job training acquired during national service. This would also cut the cost of college attendance for most people to a manageable three years instead of four to five years. And of course, ensure that people can go to technical training institutes instead of a traditional college as we really need to grow the next generation of technical workers as well. and also ensure that those who wish financial assistance in setting up a small business would receive that assistance as well as we need to encourage the small business start-ups as well.
After Service can compete to become an NCO/Officer or work for the Federal/State/Local/tribal government/ UN or NGO
After finishing basic service, those who wish to make a career of it could compete to become an NCO or an officer and resume service after finishing college. And/or compete to enter government service for the Federal government or state and local government as well. The service academies will only accept those who have finished basic service. This would apply to new service academies being set up, see below for more details.
All Must Serve
And most importantly, shared national service will help restore America's sense that this is our land, this land belongs to everyone. The rich and the poor alike. We are all in this together. We have lost sight of that. The military has become an army of paid mercenaries recruited from the lower classes. If everyone serves, there will be less temptation to send troops into harm's way. This will be a win- win for everyone except for the student loan vultures.
I would bring most of the troops home and station them along the southern border where they could be used to help bolster border security and assist as first responders to natural disaster. Sell this as real border security that will get the job done.
Establish New Service Academies for the Diplomatic, Intelligence Services/ Space Force/NASA, and law Enforcement
I would also call for four new national service academies to be set up. One would be for diplomatic and intelligence service, the other would be for law enforcement, the third would be for the Space Force/and NASA, the last would be more technical scientific agencies of the Federal government focusing on science and technology issues. These academies, like the military academies including a coast guard academy, and beefing up the maritime service academy, would take only those who finished their military basis service. this would be a great way to restore our diplomatic corps and intelligence services as well as our law enforcement person. All graduates can meet their service obligation (five years post graduation) through working for Federal/State/local/tribal governments, the UN or NGO's. all the service academies as well as the Medical Medical schools, the foreign service training center (which will be transformed into the new diplomatic/intelligence training academy) would work together on the national service academies consortium to coordinate policies and training, including postgraduate training programs at the various military and other federal government training programs.
National Service Will Bring US together as one nation
I believe that this proposal could be enacted with widespread bipartisan support. It would go a long way to help heal the divisions of our country and bring us all together as a nation. I hope you will fully embrace this proposal and I look forward to discussing it with your staff.
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Trump Must Drop Out Because He's Old As Fuck
JUL 22
Dear Humans,
God here. Now that President Biden has heroically passed the torch to Kamala Harris, can we talk about the orange elephant in the room?
TRUMP MUST DROP OUT BECAUSE HE'S OLD AS FUCK.
Yeah, I said it. At 78-years-old, Donald is practically fossilized. You wouldn't trust your grandpa to fix your Wi-Fi, so why let him run the country? He's older than dirt and twice as clueless.
Like holy shit, did you see his speech at the RNC last week? The giant creep rambled on for 2 hours like he was Grandpa Simpson.
Look, the presidency is a tough gig. It needs someone with energy, someone who can stay awake past 7 PM without nodding off. Trump?
HE FALLS ASLEEP IN THE COURT.
He fell asleep during his own convention. He's got one foot in the grave and the other on a banana peel. The only marathon he's running is a nap marathon.
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And let's talk about the gaffes¢"Donald says some stupid insane shit that doesn't make sense every single time he speaks. The only people it makes sense to are also totally delusional Christian Nationalist freaks like Marjorie Taylore Greene.
And don't get me started on the health issues. Remember that mysterious trip to Walter Reed? Make America great again? This man can't handle a ramp. The only thing he can make great again is the act of face planting into the ground.
So, here's the divine decree: Trump, pack it up. Go home, put on your slippers, and watch Matlock reruns. Leave running the country to someone who can remember what day it is without checking Fox News. It's time for you to drop out, you crusty old bag of assholes.
Now that I, the LORD THY GOD, have brought attention to this issue, I am sure the media will be obsessing about it every day from here on out.
THE LORD HAS SPOKEN.
Seven Lessons from Joe Biden's Candidacy
The Democratic party is healthy. The Republican party is not.
JONATHAN V. LAST
JUL 22
1. Seven Lessons
Before we start: I did a YouTube thing about Biden last night, if you're interested.
Now let's go.
(1) The Democratic party is a healthy institution.
On the night of June 27, the various power centers within the Democratic party began a difficult conversation: Was Joe Biden still capable of running a vigorous campaign?
Over three weeks the party reached a diffuse¢"if not unanimous¢"consensus: He was not. This consensus was the product of all levels of the party: Elder statesmen such as Nancy Pelosi, elected Democrats analyzing their own future prospects, donors making decisions about spending, and the main body of public opinion among Democratic voters.
Once this consensus was reached, the various power centers began a dialogue with the party's leader, President Biden. The party expressed its choice. Biden pushed back. The party took up the question again and, after due consideration, held firm.
Joe Biden then stepped aside for the good of the nation.
This is how healthy institutions are supposed to work.
At The Bulwark there has been a lot of drama over the last three weeks. We told you what we really thought, even though it meant making some people mad.
Our mission is to have honest and real conversations. Because that's what healthy institutions do.
Right here, in the Bulwark community, those conversations were great. I mean, they were often painful. But they were always civil and conducted in good faith.
How special is this community? We had one member who was so disappointed in us that he cancelled his subscription and then came back to the comments every day to try to convince others to cancel their subscriptions, too. And he did it passionately, but with respect.
Where do you find people like that on the internet? It was amazing.
The coming weeks are going to be full of history. Come and ride through it with us.
J The process which elevated Kamala Harris was sensible.
The Democratic party made another institutional decision in parallel with the Biden question: It vetted Kamala Harris.
This subroutine executed in the background, but it was active. Democratic voters began to consider her as the nominee and polling showed that they were comfortable with her. Party elders evaluated her fitness. Donors and elected Democrats took her measure. The fact that no anti-Harris groundswell¢"or even boom let¢"emerged is proof that the party decided that Harris was an acceptable nominee.
After Biden blessed Harris on Sunday afternoon, the party coalesced around her in much the way it did Biden after the New Hampshire primary in 2020.
The Democratic party will enter the election more unified than it had been pre-debate.
3. Kamala Harris can run as an insurgent, but with the advantages of an incumbent.
The largest advantage of incumbency is that a candidate does not have to take base-pleasing positions during a primary campaign that can hurt him during a general election.
Because of the extraordinary nature of her ascendence, Harris possesses this advantage. She will carry nearly every advantage of incumbency and yet she can credibly position herself as this election's change agent.
4. Trump is holding the age bomb.
The Trump campaign spent two years creating a political bomb concerning old age. They assumed that they could plant this bomb at the feet of Joe Biden.
Trump is now the one holding the age bomb. He is not only a full generation older than Harris¢"everything about him looks geriatric by comparison. From his gait to his bronzed-over pallor; from the way he rambles and gets lost in sentences to his inability to keep facts straight.
Every split screen now makes Trump look old and decrepit by comparison.
5. There was enormous pent-up demand among Democrats for a younger leader.
In the first 24 hours, Kamala Harris raised over $100 million from small-dollar donors.
Sit with that for a moment. $100 million.
That's more money than any Democrat has ever raised in a single day. It's twice as much as Trump raised following his felony conviction. If this doesn't snap your head back, it should.
Because it's as good a proxy as you'll find for excitement.
It will be several days until we have polling with a more detailed view of Harris's support from Democratic voters, but it is already clear that she will perform much better than Biden has within her party.
Here's my advice: You should be open to the idea that Harris could ride a wave of excitement and passion that absolutely no one was seeing until Biden stepped aside. I'm talking Obama '08-levels of energy.
It's not a given. But it's in the realm of the possible. Keep your eyes peeled for it.
6. The Republican party is a failed state.
At the debate, Donald Trump also demonstrated (again) that he is unfit for office. He rambled and lied incoherently. He is a convicted felon. A jury found him guilty of sexual assault. He has said he wants to be a "dictator" and that he wants to "terminate" parts of the Constitution. He selected as his running mate a man who advised disobeying orders from the Supreme Court and forcing a constitutional crisis.
Until last week there was nothing stopping the Republican party from forcing Trump off the ticket. The party elders and elected officials could have demanded that Trump step aside. Republican voters could have said that they had no confidence in his ability to govern. Donors could have closed their wallets.
But the plain fact is that not one single Republican called on Trump to step aside.
Not one.
Why? Because the various precincts of the Republican party understand that they hold no power¢"at all¢"over Trump. They could not ask him to withdraw from the race. Even broaching the subject would be grounds for excommunication from the party.
The Democratic party is a functioning institution, with checks and balances, constituencies and power structures. Like any institution, it is amorphous and its decision making is mostly organic.
The Republican party is an autocracy where the only thing that matters is the will of the leader. All power flows through him. All decisions are made by him. There are no competing power centers¢"only vassal states overseen by his noblemen.
7. Harris is an underdog.
One of the reasons the last three weeks have been so difficult is because Democrats were not choosing between a "good" outcome and a "bad" outcome.
Those sorts of choices are easy.
Instead, Democrats were tasked with deciding between least-bad options. Humans rebel against the idea of "least-bad." When faced with choices, we want to believe that at least one of them is "good."
When the first real Harris-vs.-Trump polling comes out next week we'll see how big of a hole she's in. But unlike Biden, Harris has the ability to spend the next three months on offense, all day, every day. If she can deliver the goods, she has a puncher's chance.
2. In Praise of Biden
A slight push-back against those who believe Biden took too long to step aside:
It was three and a half weeks from the debate to Biden pulling out. That's it.
Joe Biden is the president, but he's also just a man. Coming to a decision like this one¢"an unprecedented decision¢"is hard. There's a lot to weigh and there's a tremendous responsibility to get it right.
My own view is that Biden made the call basically as quickly as possible. He couldn't have done it the week of the NATO summit. Then Trump was shot in the ear. Then there was the Republican convention. To my mind, Biden's timing on this was optimal, actually.
Nothing about Joe Biden's presidency was inevitable. Not his candidacy. Not his victory over Trump. Not his withdrawal from reelection.
At nearly every turn, Biden did the right thing for America.
His legacy is assured. He will be remembered as one of the great modern presidents.
I said this last night and I'll say it again. History had its eye on Joe Biden, and he met the moment. He did his part. Now it's up to Kamala Harris and us to do ours.
This is the moment. Live it with us.
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3. Revealed Preferences
In the coming weeks we will find out if the people who said, "I hate Trump, but Biden is too old" really meant it.
Will they find some new excuse for why they have to vote for Trump? Will they become unconcerned about the risks of old age and cognitive decline in a president?
I'm not talking about partisan public personalities on Twitter. I'm talking about swing voters: The kind of Trump-to-Biden voters who have been backsliding in Trump's direction.
Sarah's focus groups are going to be absolutely vital for understanding how this group thinks. Don't miss them.
elsieisy
chill the fuck out, we've got this
there's no need for panic
JEFF TIEDRICH
JUL 22
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for about an hour after Biden's announcement, I ran around with my hair on fire. I'd just spent a month warning everyone about the chaos that Biden dropping out would bring ¢" infighting, battles over fundraising, lawsuits, atonal music, human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together ¢" mass hysteria.
and then a thing happened that I absolutely did not see coming: just about the entire Democratic establishment immediately threw their support behind Kamala Harris.
one after another, the endorsements came in.
Mr. Biden endorsed Ms. Harris within minutes on Sunday afternoon. Before she had uttered a word about her intentions, he was swiftly followed by other party leaders, including Bill and Hillary Clinton, key Democratic senators and influential House members. By the evening, Mr. Shapiro had publicly backed Ms. Harris after a phone call from her. She also picked up endorsements from Gov. Gavin Newsom of California, Mr. Cooper and Mr. Kelly.
Andy Beshear.
AOC, too.
all fifty State Democratic Party chairs.
numerous state delegates.
even a Nikki Haley PAC has endorsed Kamala.
A coalition of former Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley voters pledged their support for Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris' presidential bid on Sunday, hours after President Joe Biden announced that he was dropping out of the race.
and in one day, Kamala Harris raised over $50 million.
as I'm writing this, the total haul is now about $69 million. nice.
Joe Biden remains a master at doing politics. Dark Brandon dark-Brandon the shit out of his passing of the torch. clearly, this wasn't a spur-of-the-moment decision. Joe had to have worked behind the scenes to shore up this much immediate support for Kamala. he made sure not one word of any this leaked. he timed the announcement of his decision so that Donny and the Republicans spent the entire convention running against the wrong candidate. and the pièce de résistance ¢"
Sending out a press release on Sunday afternoon, after the morning talk shows, totally screwed the media. No video clips, no "breaking news," no chance for pundits to comment on how he sounded, looked, walked, etc. No chance to schedule guests to pick him apart as he spoke. He totally starved them of clicks and eyeballs, in repayment for them starving his candidacy of positive coverage purely for the sake of clicks and eyeballs.
look, I didn't want any of this to happen. Biden was my guy, and I was prepared to back Joe all the way to November and beyond. but, that said, I have to admit that last night I slept better than I have any time in the last month.
now let's turn our attention to all the people who need to fuck all the way off.
Brian Stelter can fuck off.
Stelter spent a month screaming that JOE MUST GO ¢" but now that he's gotten what he wanted, he's moved the goalposts to JOE MUST GO BUT NOT LIKE THIS. some people are just never happy.
Maggie Haberman can follow Brian Stelter all the way to Fuckoffistan.
good old Maggs, still the reliable stenographer to whom all the Republicans run when they have a trial balloon to float.
in fact, Maggie Haberman can fuck off twice.
Maggs, no Democrat gives one shit what Bobby McBrainworms Junior does with the rest of his annoying life. he doesn't matter.
Ross Douthat can fuck off.
show us on the doll where Kamala hurt you, Ross.
hey, the entire New York Times can fuck off.
"some" is doing a fuck-ton of heavy lifting here. are these "some" black voters in the room with us right now?
note to Times nepo-publisher Arthur Gregg Sulzberger: it doesn't matter how hard you suck up to Donny, he's not going to make the Times his official state media if he takes power. stop trying.
hey, Washington Post ¢" you can fuck off, too.
no. just no.
in fact, all the nitwits still rooting for their own personal fantasy ticket can fuck off.
how many times does Michelle Obama need to state that she has no interest in running for office? you're wasting everyone's time with this mental masturbation. do it in private.
Holy Mike Johnson can seriously fuck off.
we all knew that the Republicans were immediately going to pivot to "now Joe Biden must resign" ¢" but these clowns are not thinking this through. first of all, Joe quitting is a big bowl of never gonna happen. second, does the GOP really want to spend the next three months running against President Kamala Harris?
now this is awesome: the R
| Author Notes |
Personal Note: Kamala Harris attended my elementary school, Thousand Oaks in Berkeley about nine years after I went there. I am glad that a Berkeley-born girl could become President.
jake |
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August 2, 2024
International Olympic Committee
Maison Olympique
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Email: enquiries.contact@olympic.org
United States Olympic & Paralympic Committee
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Email: international@usoc.org
Los Angeles 2028 Organizing Committee
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Los Angeles, CA 90024, USA
Email: info@la28.org
________________________________________
Dear Olympic Committee Members,
I am writing to you to plead for the Olympic Federation to consider reviving the Cultural Olympics, which were once a revered tradition, last held in 1948. The Cultural Olympics have faded from the global spotlight in recent decades, leaving behind a void in the broader celebration of human creativity and artistic expression. However, as the world becomes increasingly interconnected, the time has come to reinvigorate this essential aspect of the Olympic Games, harnessing its power to foster cross-cultural understanding and project soft power on the global stage.
Reviving the Cultural Olympics, which were part of the ancient Olympic Games and part of the modern Olympic Games until 1948, is long overdue. And what better place to do so than in Los Angeles, the cultural and entertainment capital of the world?
It would not be too onerous to revive cultural events. Most could be held in the evening after the athletic events have concluded for the day, in the morning before the athletic events happen, or even late at night as LA is a 24/7 kind of town and the Olympics could easily be broadcast 24/7 during the games.
To make it easier to add, the events should be limited to the following:
o Art competition
o Culinary festival contest (Iron Chef style)
o Dance competition
o Formal debate with each round having a different topic
o Drama competition
o Film festival (judged)
o E-Games competitions
o Haiku competition
o Individual musical performances (America's Got Talent style)
o Battle of the bands
o Poetry/spoken word slam competition
o Rap challenges competition
o Singing competition (American Idol style)
o Speech competition (impromptu, extemporaneous)
o Model UN competition
Additionally, other performances such as ballet, opera, musical performances, and symphony performances could be included, though not judged every night.
Because there would be considerable interest in all of these events, and because it may take up more time, you could start the Olympics with the Cultural Olympic Festival a week before the main games, with the finals of the various events held during the games. Adding back cultural performances will add a lot more interest and a lot more viewers for the Olympics, provide the athletes with things to do before and after their performances, and rekindle interest in the arts. Government funding for the arts, especially in schools, is dwindling. It is high time that governments and society fully support the arts. Featuring the arts as part of the Olympics would be a great way to do that.
Finally, the Olympics could reach out to high-tech companies to develop instant translation software for all events. The software would project translations and subtitles on TV throughout the events as well as direct broadcast to handheld devices.
I hope you can consider my proposal and look forward to hearing back from you.
Sincerely,
John (Jake) Cosmos Aller
Retired US Foreign Service Officer
Co-Pilot provided additional background information:
Cultural Olympics: A Brief History
The concept of Cultural Olympics dates back to the Ancient Olympic Games in Greece, where cultural events such as poetry, music, and theater were integral parts of the festivities1. These events celebrated not only athletic prowess but also artistic and intellectual achievements, reflecting the Greek ideal of a balanced development of body and mind.
In the modern era, the idea was revived by Pierre de Coubertin, the founder of the International Olympic Committee (IOC). From 1912 to 1948, the Olympic Games included competitions in literature, music, painting, sculpture, and architecture. These events were known as the Olympic Art Competitions.
Why They Ended
The Cultural Olympics were discontinued after 1948 for several reasons:
Professionalism: The art competitions were open to professional artists, which conflicted with the amateur status required of athletes at the time.
Judging Difficulties: Unlike sports, where outcomes are clear-cut, judging art is subjective, leading to controversies and inconsistencies.
Logistical Challenges: Organizing and managing these competitions alongside the athletic events proved to be complex and resource-intensive.
Despite their discontinuation, the spirit of the Cultural Olympics lives on through various cultural programs and exhibitions held during the Olympic Games2.
| Author Notes | The original Olympics had cultural competitions as well as athletics competitions. The modern games had cultural competitors until 1948 I think it is time to bring back cultural competitions. |
By jake cosmos aller
I am still working my way through reading the classics, reading a three-volume series called Books You Have to Read Before You Die. I am struck by how relevant many of the classic novels are to today's world. Many of the themes of these novels have interesting parallels to modern life.
I recently finished reading Anne Bronte’s The Tenant of Windfell Hall, widely seen as a proto-feminist novel. Anne Bronte is one of the three Bronte sisters who wrote insightful novels set in the English countryside of the early to mid-19th Century.
This novel was a critique of the prevailing view of marriage in Victorian England, where divorce was very difficult to get for a woman, women were expected to do their wifely duty put up with their husbands no matter what, and endure loveless marriages. Most marriages in the upper class were arranged marriages. The expectation was that the couple would grow to love each other, or at least tolerate each other. The wife was supposed to stay home, take care of the children, and manage the household servants and the estate while their husband engaged in business pursuits or hung out with his buddies through the club. Many women felt stuck in a loveless marriage. Taking a lover was unthinkable, and divorce as well. After divorce, women often sank into the lower class. Re-marriage was not a realistic option either. For widows, if they inherited the estate, and were under the age of 45 could remarry.
The heroine of the novel, Helen Huntington, runs away from her alcoholic, abusive, womanizing husband and supports herself through her art as she is a talented painter. She lives in a small rural area and her friends and relatives do not know where she is. Her brother helps her get set up, and she lives in an old mansion he owns. She calls herself Mrs Graham and lets people think she is a widow. In a way, she is as she feels her husband is dead to her to use a modern expression.
She falls in love with a local farmer who is beneath her socially but not too far away because he has his farm and is doing well economically. They agreed to not meet any more for fear of a scandal if known. In the end, after her abusive husband dies from acute alcohol poisoning, they get married and he adopts her 11-year-old son.
Throughout the novel, the women, as are their husbands, are all deeply unhappy. Many of the husbands are like her husband, alcoholic womanizers. Several hit on her and she rejects their advances.
A sub-theme of the novel is how the traditional Christian view on marriage destroyed marital happiness, that women should be allowed to leave abusive relationships and re-marry for love.
Right Wing Push to Rescind No-Fault Divorce
While reading this novel, I read articles on how the contemporary right-wing in the U.S. including JD Vance, the Republican nominee for Vice President, and Speaker of the House Johnson, are in favor of ending no-fault divorce and making divorce much more difficult to get. All to support promoting their twisted view of “family values”. Project 2025 and Agenda 47 which outline proposals for the Republicans if they get elected also spend a lot of time on the idea of promoting the end of the no-fault marriage. Many of them, would no doubt feel comfortable bringing back the norms of the Victorian era. They have probably not read this novel, nor do they care that women would again be stuck in loveless, or abusive marriages.
Interesting Pararells to Korean Marriage Norms
I also was struck by how in contemporary Korea, many marriages particularly among the upper classes are still arranged marriages. Family elders, mostly women, fix up their children to marry matching them with people from suitable family backgrounds and providing their astrological charts (mostly according to Chinese astrology but also Western as well), the couple is allowed to date for a few dates, and if they like each, they get married, and like in Victorian times, women are often encouraged to have children and quit work. This is changing quite a bit but divorce is still a social stigma and many women are advised to stick it out even if their husband is abusive or has a mistress. But, many women don’t want to get married and have children and many men don’t feel that they can afford to get married and have children. Korea has a declining population because fewer women are having children.
Co-Pilot provided additional background information on this proto-feminist novel.
Sure, I’d be happy to help with that! Here’s some background information on “The Tenant of Wildfell Hall” by Anne Brontë:
Synopsis
“The Tenant of Wildfell Hall” is Anne Brontë’s second and final novel, published in 1848 under the pseudonym Acton Bell. The story is framed as a series of letters from Gilbert Markham to his friend, recounting his experiences with a mysterious young widow, Helen Graham, who arrives at Wildfell Hall with her young son. Helen’s reclusive nature and her career as an artist soon make her the subject of local gossip. As the story unfolds, it is revealed that Helen is fleeing from her abusive, alcoholic husband, Arthur Huntingdon, in an attempt to protect her son from his influence12.
Literary Reputation
Upon its release, “The Tenant of Wildfell Hall” was considered quite shocking due to its unflinching portrayal of alcoholism, psychological abuse, and the constraints placed on women in the 19th century. The novel was an immediate success but faced significant controversy. After Anne’s death, her sister Charlotte Brontë prevented its re-publication in England until 18541. Today, it is regarded as one of the first feminist novels, praised for its bold themes of gender equality and female independence23.
Author Biography
Anne Brontë (1820-1849) was the youngest of the three famous Brontë sisters. She was born in Thornton, West Yorkshire, England. Anne worked as a governess, which influenced her first novel, “Agnes Grey.” Her experiences and observations of the social issues of her time deeply informed her writing. Despite her early death at the age of 29, Anne’s work has left a lasting impact on English literature. She is remembered for her strong moral convictions and her commitment to addressing social injustices through her writing12.
Would you like more detailed information on any specific aspect of the novel or Anne Brontë’s life?
“The Tenant of Wildfell Hall” by Anne Brontë explores several significant themes:
These themes contribute to the novel’s enduring relevance and its reputation as a pioneering work of feminist literature.
Here’s the list of the 50 books to read. Bold indicates I have read it.
Vol 1 starts with Volume One
Alcott, Louisa May: Little Women
Austen, Jane: Pride and Prejudice
Austen, Jane: Emma
Balzac, Honoré de: Father Goriot
Barbusse, Henri: The Inferno
Brontë, Anne: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
Brontë, Charlotte: Jane Eyre
Brontë, Emily: Wuthering Heights
Burroughs, Edgar Rice: Tarzan of the Apes
Butler, Samuel: The Way of All Flesh
Carroll, Lewis: Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
Cather, Willa: My Ántonia
Cervantes, Miguel de: Don Quixote
Chopin, Kate: The Awakening
Cleland, John: Fanny Hill
Collins, Wilkie: The Moonstone
Conrad, Joseph: Heart of Darkness
Conrad, Joseph: Nostromo
Cooper, James Fenimore: The Last of the Mohicans
Crane, Stephen: The Red Badge of Courage
Cummings, E. E.: The Enormous Room
Defoe, Daniel: Robinson Crusoe
Defoe, Daniel: Moll Flanders
Dickens, Charles: Bleak House
Dickens, Charles: Great Expectations
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor: Crime and Punishment
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor: The Idiot
Doyle, Arthur Conan: The Hound of the Baskervilles
Forster, E. M.: A Room With a View
Dreiser, Theodore: Sister Carrie
Dumas, Alexandre: The Three Musketeers
Dumas, Alexandre: The Count of Monte Cristo
Eliot, George: Middlemarch
Fielding, Henry: Tom Jones
Flaubert, Gustave: Madame Bovary
Flaubert, Gustave: Sentimental Education
Ford, Ford Madox: The Good Soldier
Forster, E. M.: Howard End
Gaskell, Elizabeth: North and South
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von: The Sorrows of Young Werther
Gogol, Nikolai: Dead Souls
Gorky, Maxim: The Mother
Haggard, H. Rider: King Solomon’s Mines
Hardy, Thomas: Tess of the D’Urbervilles
Hawthorne, Nathaniel: The Scarlet Letter
Homer: The Odyssey
Hugo, Victor: The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Hugo, Victor: Les Misérables
Huxley, Aldous: Crome Yellow
James, Henry: The Portrait of a Lady
Volume 2
- Little Women [Louisa May Alcott]
- Sense and Sensibility [Jane Austen]
- Peter Pan (Peter and Wendy) [J.M. Barrie]
- Cabin Fever [ B. M. Bower]
- The Secret Garden [Frances Hodgson Burnett]
- A Little Princess [Frances Hodgson Burnett]
- Alice's Adventures in Wonderland [Lewis Carroll]
- The King in Yellow [Robert William Chambers]
- The Man Who Knew Too Much [Gilbert Keith Chesterton]
- The Woman in White [Wilkie Collins]
- The Most Dangerous Game [Richard Connell]
- Robinson Crusoe [Daniel Defoe]
- On the Origin of Species, 6th Edition [Charles Darwin]
- The Iron Woman [Margaret Deland]
- David Copperfield [Charles Dickens]
- Oliver Twist [Charles Dickens]
- A Tale of Two Cities [Charles Dickens]
- The Double [Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky]
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes [Arthur Conan Doyle]
- The Curious Case of Benjamin Button [Francis Scott Fitzgerald]
- A Room with a View [E. M. Forster]
- Dream Psychology [Sigmund Freud]
- Tess of the d'Urbervilles [Thomas Hardy]
- Siddhartha [Hermann Hesse]
- Dubliners [James Joyce]
- The Fall of the House of Usher [Edgar Allan Poe]
- The Arabian Nights [Andrew Lang]
- The Sea Wolf [Jack London]
- The Call of Cthulhu [Howard Phillips Lovecraft]
- Anne of Green Gables [Lucy Maud Montgomery]
- Beyond Good and Evil [Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche]
- The Murders in the Rue Morgue [Edgar Allan Poe]
- The Black Cat [Edgar Allan Poe]
- The Raven [Edgar Allan Poe]
- Swann's Way [Marcel Proust]
- Romeo and Juliet [William Shakespeare]
- Treasure Island [Robert Louis Stevenson]
- The Elements of Style [William Strunk Jr.
Vol 3 finished keeping for the historical record
This book contains the following works arranged alphabetically by authors' last names.
Started with volume 3 then will go back and do volumes one, two, and the Harvard classics. The goal is to finish all of these by the end of next year. I almost finished Volume One.
- What's Bred in the Bone [Grant Allen]
- The Golden Ass [Lucius Apuleius]
- Meditations [Marcus Aurelius]
- Northanger Abbey [Jane Austen]
- Lady Susan [Jane Austen]
- The Wonderful Wizard of Oz [Lyman Frank Baum]
- The Art of Public Speaking [Dale Breckenridge Carnegie]
- The Blazing World [Margaret Cavendish]
- The Wisdom of Father Brown [Gilbert Keith Chesterton]
- Heretics [Gilbert Keith Chesterton]
- The Donnington Affair [Gilbert Keith Chesterton]
- The Innocence of Father Brown [Gilbert Keith Chesterton]
- Fanny Hill: Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure [John Cleland]
- The Moonstone [Wilkie Collins]
- Lord Jim [Joseph Conrad]
- The Further Adventures of Robinson Crusoe [Daniel Defoe]
- The Pickwick Papers [Charles Dickens]
- A Christmas Carol [Charles Dickens]
- Notes From The Underground [Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky]
- The Gambler par Fyodor [Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky]
- The Lost World [Arthur Conan Doyle]
- The Hound of the Baskervilles [Arthur Conan Doyle]
- The Sign of the Four [Arthur Conan Doyle]
- The Man in the Iron Mask [Alexandre Dumas]
- The Three Musketeers [Alexandre Dumas]
- This Side of Paradise [Francis Scott Fitzgerald]
- Curious, If True: Strange Tales [Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell]
- King Solomon's Mines [Henry Rider Haggard]
- The Hunchback of Notre Dame [Victor Hugo]
- Kim [Rudyard Kipling]
- Captain Courageous [Rudyard Kipling]
- The Jungle Book [Rudyard Kipling]
- Lady Chatterley's Lover [David Herbert Lawrence]
- The Son of the Wolf [Jack London]
- The Einstein Theory of Relativity [Hendrik Antoon Lorentz]
- The Dunwich Horror [Howard Phillips Lovecraft]
- At the Mountains of Madness [Howard Phillips Lovecraft]
- The Prince [Niccolò Machiavelli]
- The Story Girl [Lucy Maud Montgomery]
- The Antichrist [Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche]
- The Republic [Plato]
- The Last Man [Mary Shelley]
- Life On The Mississippi [Mark Twain]
- The Kama Sutra [Vatsyayana]
- In the Year 2889 [Jules Verne]
- Around the World in Eighty Days [Jules Verne]
- Four Just Men [Edgar Wallace]
- Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ [Lewis Wallace]
- Jacob's Room [Virginia Woolf]
the End
| Author Notes | since I retired, I have been reading the great classics and hope to finish most of them while I still can. I find a lot of interesting parallels to modern times in many of the classics. One has to read the novels in the context of its time, ignoring the sexism, racism, and other ism that are commonplace in the classical canon. I also think that many of these novels are just too long for modern time starved readers. |
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