...and soon the long tail of what I have been dancing around getting fully immersed in for better than a decade- dating back to leaving the JOG job- will slap me into a full bore goose looney communicating whif da whirl. My experience with friends has been sobering to exasperating. But I think a few may be responsive to getting involved if my efforts are solid and appealing enough. And as far as the outside world... we shall see.
And one way or another "The Butsky's" are jumping in both feet first into the deep end of the oceanic pool of whatever lies beyond here where the way finally seems to be opening...
Tuesday, October 13, 2009
Monday, April 6, 2009
Just looking at this and that, and...
…So, as if I am getting any participation I will wail away at the effort and see how soon the effort starts to gain any traction whatsoever.
From the Cleveland Library, Downtown, the Stokes Wing. And checking out some stuff. Anything to recommend???
Well, Libby, there’s:
· Will Bunch’s Tear Down This Myth, How the Reagan Legacy Has Distorted our Politics and Haunts Our Future. Looks like a good read, and looks recommended enough to check out. Don’t know if I need to go there… kind of a specific example of how the “Right Wing Noise Machine” has been able to quite successfully frame the mainstream the debate and give kind of a “given” status to Reagan’s supposedly great legacy and achievements. If interested try getting it through this link http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=100253947 and support the dude and NPR all at the same time.
· Looking at articles in the March 18, 2009 “New Republic” reminds me of why what I want to do is not, repeat not, just find shit on the Web that I think makes sense (or doesn’t) and then Blog on it and hope to become one of the cutting edge few who get enough traffic to maybe make something of my writing that way. Though if that starts to happen hey I’ll pursue success at “all of this” that way too, Brew. Sooo…. Check out another article about Obama’s peeps getting it or not getting it right or wrong: http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_stash/archive/2009/03/23/how-the-geithner-plan-could-work.aspx is a related blogpost to and article titled “Plan B, What’s stopping Tim Geithner” by Noam Scheiber. I couldn’t find the article on their Web Site but it should be their someplace.
From the Cleveland Library, Downtown, the Stokes Wing. And checking out some stuff. Anything to recommend???
Well, Libby, there’s:
· Will Bunch’s Tear Down This Myth, How the Reagan Legacy Has Distorted our Politics and Haunts Our Future. Looks like a good read, and looks recommended enough to check out. Don’t know if I need to go there… kind of a specific example of how the “Right Wing Noise Machine” has been able to quite successfully frame the mainstream the debate and give kind of a “given” status to Reagan’s supposedly great legacy and achievements. If interested try getting it through this link http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=100253947 and support the dude and NPR all at the same time.
· Looking at articles in the March 18, 2009 “New Republic” reminds me of why what I want to do is not, repeat not, just find shit on the Web that I think makes sense (or doesn’t) and then Blog on it and hope to become one of the cutting edge few who get enough traffic to maybe make something of my writing that way. Though if that starts to happen hey I’ll pursue success at “all of this” that way too, Brew. Sooo…. Check out another article about Obama’s peeps getting it or not getting it right or wrong: http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_stash/archive/2009/03/23/how-the-geithner-plan-could-work.aspx is a related blogpost to and article titled “Plan B, What’s stopping Tim Geithner” by Noam Scheiber. I couldn’t find the article on their Web Site but it should be their someplace.
Finally getting ready to restart the efforts...
...which of course may or not mean crap.
I have a few things in mind that I will get going on first. Things like:
I have a few things in mind that I will get going on first. Things like:
- Getting my new Web Space arranged for with hm. I just about did that today but figured to wait and think about appropriate names for what I put up and out there both in terms of the Web Domain and the organizational entity itself. Any day now.
- Figuring out who I am starting out with as the core group of peeps I'd like to engage with around this "work" and contact very early on and ask them to be involved, comment, post, etc. etc.. Im thinking SS, AA, BL, SS, MB, and of course, TJ. Maybe some others but the idea is to start small and build.
- And once going at all then I communicate with those I study up on as far as what they are doing and see what that leads to.
Monday, March 23, 2009
Looking at Noam Chomsky article on Obama...
... as I am just getting started back to the blogging effort:
- I googled old fave Uncle Noam and found this recent article: http://www.chomsky.info/articles/20081125.htm
Check it out. - I also checked out the change.gov site and the new white house site. I have to say, I did feel a great deal of idealistic hope and optimism with Bary's amazing rise and victory but now that he's in and he's doing what he can I wonder: "Sure, he's better that Sonnie Dubya but is that going to be enough. We need real national health care, a real redistribution of wealth, real education- not reform but real education of our young, period. And the minutia of what gets talked about- blogs and mainstream- tends to be about anything that can be turned into a 'gotcha' moment. Anyway..."
- And as for National health insurance there is always good old and ignored HR 676. http://www.hr676.org/ . This is one of the issues that an Obama styled genuine new progressive left movement ought to be out on the streets canvassing and rallying support for full time non stop. The hunger for real change will not be satisfied just by the election of one hero- even if he lives up to even base line realistic expectations. One of my gut level fears is that the biggest impact that Obama's election will really have is that it will be a great individual career achievement for him but the NeoCon NutJobs will have just as much sway four years from now that they had four years ago.
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
Wading in quicksand is more like it...
... Least that's the way she feels. I will get on with podcast/ general tech immersion in an ongoing manner from this moment on. I'm sure there will come a point when I will look back on these days of spinning my wheels- O.K., these decades then- and I will be laughing my ass off. But for now, look you now... I go pray...
Wading toward Podcasting Now...
... This seems like a no brainer for me to me. After all, I think one of the reasons I have never gotten any further with "the writin'" is not that I don't write but that I talk to damn much. So podcasting is a natural. Produce my own audio and eventually video podcasts relevant to all the myriad and miscellaneous crap that I consider to be part and partial to, "like, my work," and see where it leads. And this in conjunction with getting the new all around Web Presence, blogging, and advocacy efforts going again.
One of the many things that attracts me to Podcasting is that I already have everything I need to get started just about and it also seems to have potential crossover application to some of my old ideas about doing something with, like, my music.
So, for the purpose of me getting going on this and communicating with those I want to get involved in this and future parallel efforts I will Blog forth as I explore a couple of books and stuff I find around the Web regarding the process of getting started and then, gulp, actually starting to get this whole thing started that I am forever thinking and talking (ad nauseum) about getting started. See what I mean.
One of the many things that attracts me to Podcasting is that I already have everything I need to get started just about and it also seems to have potential crossover application to some of my old ideas about doing something with, like, my music.
So, for the purpose of me getting going on this and communicating with those I want to get involved in this and future parallel efforts I will Blog forth as I explore a couple of books and stuff I find around the Web regarding the process of getting started and then, gulp, actually starting to get this whole thing started that I am forever thinking and talking (ad nauseum) about getting started. See what I mean.
Tuesday, January 20, 2009
Starting out with a little of the personal...
...
Thursday, January 15, 2009, 1:19 PM.
And, again…
This time is the time. Once more. The past and the future their nothing to me now. I see that now. So I will proceed with the overall efforts to get to a much more creative, peaceful, and natural way to approach life at this place that I am now at. A lot has happened in recent months. Big stuff. Things like:
· Losing Zowie. She was a good old cat. Not much more that can or need be said. She was the best of many a fine cat I’ve had the privilege of knowing in my lifetime of never having a dog because they’re two much trouble and responsibility. (till quite recently, actually- but more on that in a later bulleted Crot)
· Continuing the process of watching my father slowly die of “this damn choking problem.” This was much tougher and more grueling than I realized as it continued over the years ever since he fell backwards down the basement stairs and then just eight months after that happened mom died in the pool at the Brooklyn Rec Center. But what are you gonna do?
· And then of course, he finally really did die like he often said he wanted to. I knew, Sue knew, we all new it would come sooner or later. Still it was strange to have him finally go. I think about him a lot- thinking I better call or stop over with eerie frequency. To be expected.
· Then there was the definitive health scare that happened with the day at the emergency room and the ongoing feeling not quite right enough. The anxiety, the paranoia, the fear, the frustration… I handle them all and minimize them all fairly well most of the time. Still…
· Getting Married and getting health care coverage. Related to the above yet a fine positive how do you do.
· And now Stony is here. And that’s a good thing.
*
I fully intended to totally kick out the jams with my “work”, and, like, my music over the winter break from school/work and now I will try and do so as I get the work at Dad’s and my house finally organized enough to get back to some kind of normalcy. I miss the possibility that believing “my work” might actually amount to something and, you know, allow me to finally “get a little something for myself”.
In any case, it is close to when I will be starting at it again in earnest. I don’t want to or need to talk or write much about it. I just need to get immersed in all of it and proceed as the way opens.
*
Thursday, January 15, 2009, 1:19 PM.
And, again…
This time is the time. Once more. The past and the future their nothing to me now. I see that now. So I will proceed with the overall efforts to get to a much more creative, peaceful, and natural way to approach life at this place that I am now at. A lot has happened in recent months. Big stuff. Things like:
· Losing Zowie. She was a good old cat. Not much more that can or need be said. She was the best of many a fine cat I’ve had the privilege of knowing in my lifetime of never having a dog because they’re two much trouble and responsibility. (till quite recently, actually- but more on that in a later bulleted Crot)
· Continuing the process of watching my father slowly die of “this damn choking problem.” This was much tougher and more grueling than I realized as it continued over the years ever since he fell backwards down the basement stairs and then just eight months after that happened mom died in the pool at the Brooklyn Rec Center. But what are you gonna do?
· And then of course, he finally really did die like he often said he wanted to. I knew, Sue knew, we all new it would come sooner or later. Still it was strange to have him finally go. I think about him a lot- thinking I better call or stop over with eerie frequency. To be expected.
· Then there was the definitive health scare that happened with the day at the emergency room and the ongoing feeling not quite right enough. The anxiety, the paranoia, the fear, the frustration… I handle them all and minimize them all fairly well most of the time. Still…
· Getting Married and getting health care coverage. Related to the above yet a fine positive how do you do.
· And now Stony is here. And that’s a good thing.
*
I fully intended to totally kick out the jams with my “work”, and, like, my music over the winter break from school/work and now I will try and do so as I get the work at Dad’s and my house finally organized enough to get back to some kind of normalcy. I miss the possibility that believing “my work” might actually amount to something and, you know, allow me to finally “get a little something for myself”.
In any case, it is close to when I will be starting at it again in earnest. I don’t want to or need to talk or write much about it. I just need to get immersed in all of it and proceed as the way opens.
*
Sometimes it feels just like starting over...
...is all the more I get to doing. But today, lets face it, is different. Today is January 20, 2009- Inauguration Day for Barack Obama. For a long time now it seems like everybody talkin' bout Barack Obama. As well they and we should be. And as I will be too. A lot. Enough so that I would remark on it.
And this my latest restart of:
And this my latest restart of:
- My work;
- My music, and, perhaps most importantly to me anyhow:
- My attempts to engage this whole vast thing out there that is our world and culture and planet and politics and economy and so on and so on.
To start with this time I am beginning more or less a naked non entity just starting out and hopefully I rapidly am able to get up to speed. There are a lot of levels I want to approach my efforts on so hopefully I just do them all this time.
The plan is to just do this on a regular basis and build it as it goes. It starts with the personal with a lot of people I want to reconnect with and then moves to the more publilc and political areas I want to work in.
Monday, January 5, 2009
Still restarting... and that's. O.K....
...so for the time being I will stay in this isolated little private format as I come up with the plan for how I want to invlove myself in the dialog and debate about what's what and all from here as Bary's new administration starts up and the Neocon Nutjobs and their various minions, lackeys, and kneepad torie (sic) sycophants throughout the kultchuh try and not only undermine his efforts (for the good of the few and at the expense of the many) but also see to it that the larger hope that Bary represents is never ever able to be meaningfully realized.
My own writing and blogging and advocacy efforts will be an attempt to support the ideas and efforts that are already out their or just out of frame at this point that, with a groundswell of further true progressive and radical organizing and work, could just maybe happen to get the significant fundamental core see change needed throughout the American society, economy, and political arena started, continued, and successfully achieved.
It is my heartfelt belief that Barack Obama's election is an indication that optimism for such needed change might truly be possible- but that all the work, organizing, effort, excitement and ultimately the amazing historic victory he achieved- all of that and his administrations efforts to get us on a different path than the one we have been lead down for the 60+ years since WW2 ended will be little more than a blip or a hiccup in the ongoing history of America's drift toward the right which reached hopefully it's scariest nadir with the 8 years of Sonnie Dubya and the defacto big honcho of the Neocons: Dick Cheney.
The global exploitive and extractive economic structures of power that they represent and then fairly successfully pass off as all of our vital national security interests and the foundations of what is providing us with "our way of life"- those structures are not going to go away or change their M.O. without the progressive grass roots pro social, economic and Democratic "left" in this country doing a lot more than just celebrating that Obama won and now things will get a little moderated by the Democratic majority's efforts in Congress. Before you know it the Neocons or near as nutty supporters of the Hard Right Business agenda will be back with a new champion- perhaps way more attractive and palatable to "mainstream" America than Bush-Cheney ever were (can anyone out there say "President Patreus (sic)?)" And when they come back trust that they will have all the Facebook and Myspace styled friends and funds organizing tools and operatives that the new "Obama Model" used so brilliantly this time around.
So all I am saying is that we the people cannot rest on the laurels of one mans brilliant victory.
My own writing and blogging and advocacy efforts will be an attempt to support the ideas and efforts that are already out their or just out of frame at this point that, with a groundswell of further true progressive and radical organizing and work, could just maybe happen to get the significant fundamental core see change needed throughout the American society, economy, and political arena started, continued, and successfully achieved.
It is my heartfelt belief that Barack Obama's election is an indication that optimism for such needed change might truly be possible- but that all the work, organizing, effort, excitement and ultimately the amazing historic victory he achieved- all of that and his administrations efforts to get us on a different path than the one we have been lead down for the 60+ years since WW2 ended will be little more than a blip or a hiccup in the ongoing history of America's drift toward the right which reached hopefully it's scariest nadir with the 8 years of Sonnie Dubya and the defacto big honcho of the Neocons: Dick Cheney.
The global exploitive and extractive economic structures of power that they represent and then fairly successfully pass off as all of our vital national security interests and the foundations of what is providing us with "our way of life"- those structures are not going to go away or change their M.O. without the progressive grass roots pro social, economic and Democratic "left" in this country doing a lot more than just celebrating that Obama won and now things will get a little moderated by the Democratic majority's efforts in Congress. Before you know it the Neocons or near as nutty supporters of the Hard Right Business agenda will be back with a new champion- perhaps way more attractive and palatable to "mainstream" America than Bush-Cheney ever were (can anyone out there say "President Patreus (sic)?)" And when they come back trust that they will have all the Facebook and Myspace styled friends and funds organizing tools and operatives that the new "Obama Model" used so brilliantly this time around.
So all I am saying is that we the people cannot rest on the laurels of one mans brilliant victory.
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