loser pieces of trash = even the #goodstuff can't fix

John Alan Conte Jr shared Julia Allison's status. 35 minutes ago . why I'm a JA fan again. .. = #digit! JA: "Happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side effect of one’s personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself or as the by-product of one’s surrender to a person other than oneself.” - Victor Frankl, “Man’s Search for Meaning.” $$$$$$$$$$$$ $$$$$$$$$$$$ $$$$$$$$$$$$ sure it's easy to sit back & be snarky & laugh (like trash that oft trashes JA) & say, "yeah, The #goodstuff will make you happy -ah huh-ha-huh da" however it's a little deeper than that = you gotta be a good person in the first place in order for the #goodstuff to aid you in be-ing happy = otherwise you'll still just suck & be an unhappy loser piece of trash Best of the Roses but not rose colored glasses, john = mystrawhat.com

#sorry

sorry i must admit that when "tribal tats" started appearing on the arms of meatheads around festivals I thought they were just #posers. Didn't realize they were making a statement as I'm more focused on inner than outer enrichments. ... but these folks were part of a movement. i may have been wrong. #probably #sorry = #she'sbeautiful =

best of the Roses,
john
mystrawhat.com

Is Lilith Lockhart‏ @LockhartSuicide beautiful?

“Deviance is like beauty. It’s in the eye of the beholder. It’s not the act itself that’s deviant but the definition people give to the act which makes it deviant.”
Is Lilith Lockhart‏ @LockhartSuicide beautiful? Her looks deviate from conventional norms = or is this changing into the new normal – or at least acceptable? At first, change is so frightening, shocking? Isn’t it = Nothing shocking here to me although I surely don’t rock this #openmind #notafraid http://instagram.com/p/YfMwdjxVc1/#




Best of the Roses,
John
mystrawhat.com

yea HiltonHead Tiffany

Crush With Eyeliner (Video) R.E.M. - yea, Athens, GA. yea HiltonHead Tiffany.
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The Old Testament and Incense

In short, basically, Wayne Jackson says if some college Dorm R.A. or #crazyneighbor tries to implicate you for burning incense as a Christian or Jew, Muslim or Hindu or Buddhist see an Individual & Minority Rights attorney of law. You're doing nothing wrong and should not be suspect to anything wrong (Nixon & Hoover were just covering up their own perverted paths with strong outward stances).


By Wayne Jackson
One of the amazing evidences of Bible inspiration is that of prophecy—especially predictive prophecy. Predictive prophecy presents facts regarding events that are to happen in the future. Since no ordinary human can know what is to happen in the future, prophetic statements reflect the orchestration of God in the foretelling of certain things that are to take place eventually.
One form of prophecy is that of “types.” As we have discussed elsewhere, “A type is a real, exalted happening in history that was divinely ordained by the omniscient God to be a prophetic picture of the good things he purposed to bring to fruition through Christ Jesus” (Jackson 2005, 126). Old Testament people, places, events, objects, etc., were used as types of numerous glorious blessings of the future.
One Old Testament collection of types was the tabernacle-temple arrangement. These, in their progressive stages (tabernacle first; temple later), were types of the church and of heaven. The “holy place” foreshadowed the church (Acts 15:16-17; 1 Corinthians 3:16; 1 Timothy 3:15); the “holy of holies” pictured heaven (Hebrews 6:19-20; 9:8, 24).
Within the temple’s holy place were three items. On the south side was the golden lampstand with outlets for seven flames, fueled by pure olive oil. To the north was a table of twelve loaves of showbread—known also as the “continual bread” (KJV; ASV), or the “bread of Presence” (Numbers 4:7). Then to the west, just in front of the veil separating the holy place from the most holy place, was the altar of incense. It thus was very close to the Ark of the Covenant" which was covered by the “mercy-seat”—above which the presence of God was focused (Exodus 30:6). The incense burned on this altar will constitute the main thrust of this study.

Typology and Incense

The altar of incense was made of acacia wood with a veneer of gold. Acacia is a beautiful hardwood that is almost indestructible by insects. The altar was thirty-six inches high and eighteen inches in both length and breadth (Exodus 37:25ff). It served as a place for the daily burning of incense, both morning and evening.
The daily exercise consisted of a priest (selected by the casting of “lots”) taking burning coals from the brazen altar of sacrifice out in the temple court, taking the coals to the altar of incense, and depositing the incense upon coals (Exodus 30:7-8). This was a one-time event in the life of the priest who was selected.
The incense consisted of an equal mixture of five spices, and any deviation from this formula was subject to severe consequences (Exodus 30:9). Moreover, this incense mixture could never be employed for private use (30:37). Interestingly, small stone incense altars have been found in Palestine (e.g., at Gezer) for the worship of false gods (Gispen 1982, 281). Perhaps this explains why the Israelites were forbidden to make and burn incense in their homes. Incense was also utilized on the Day of Atonement (see below).

The Relation of Incense to Prayer

It is noteworthy that the Scriptures are clear that the fragrant fumes that ascended from the incense represented the prayers of godly people, those in covenant relationship with Jehovah. A psalm attributed to David petitioned the Lord: “Let my prayer be set forth as incense before you” (Psalm 141:2). Observe that when Zacharias was executing his office as priest, he entered into the temple to burn incense. Not without significance is the fact that “the whole multitude of the people were praying outside at the hour of incense” (Luke 1:9-10). The book of Revelation unquestionably indicates that “incense” is symbolic of “the prayers of the saints” (Revelation 5:8; 8:3-4).
Is there any biblical indication that the prayers of those who resist the will of God go up as a sweet fragrance to him? None at all! Let us get this point. There is a relationship between the efficacy of prayer and one’s dedication to the Lord. Prayer is not a last-second, emergency tool for those who have entertained no interest in knowing and being obedient to the will of God. “He who turns away his ear from hearing the law, even his prayer is repulsive” (Proverbs 28:9).

Incense and the Holiness of God

One of the most crucial points to consider is the connection between the incense burned on the annual Day of Atonement and the blood shed on that occasion. This was a unique day, for only the high priest officiated on this occasion.
Each year on the Day of Atonement the high priest took a censer of coals from the brazen altar (situated in the court outside the holy place). It is important to note that this altar was the place where animals were sacrificed, their blood constituting “atonement” for the sins of the people of Israel. Together with these burning coals on a small, shovel-like censer, the high priest took two handfuls of sweet incense beaten into fine granules.
He passed through the holy place beyond the veil into the holy of holies. There he put the incense upon the flaming coals “before Jehovah, that the cloud of the incense may cover the mercy-seat that is upon the testimony, that he die not” (Leviticus 16:13). The mercy-seat was the covering of the Ark of the Covenant, and the “testimony” refers to the tables of stone within the ark, upon which were inscribed the Ten Commandments (Exodus 25:16).
On each end of the mercy-seat was a cherubim (a winged creature fashioned of gold), the wings of which stretched toward one another, thus overshadowing the mercy seat. Of this sacred place the Lord said: “[T]here I will meet with you, and I will commune with you from above the mercy-seat, from between the two cherubim which are upon the ark of the testimony, of all the things which I will give you in commandment unto the children of Israel” (Exodus 25:22). The sweet smoke filled the area, obscuring the mercy-seat and the representation of the presence of God (Leviticus 16:12-13).
This symbolized the absolute holiness of God in contrast to the sinfulness of man. It is crucial that we understand that our Creator is a perfectly holy Being (Isaiah 6:3; Revelation 4:8), and that we are marred by sin (Isaiah 59:1-2). Hence there is a need for a method of reconciliation. The Old Testament, by its typological representations, prepared the way for appreciating this reality. In connection with this ritual, the high priest also sprinkled the blood of a bullock seven times before the mercy-seat. This offering was for the sins of the high priest and his family; a second ritual of similar import was for the people in general (Leviticus 16:15ff).

Incense and Blood

There is another point about incense that is crucial. There was a relationship between the use of incense and the application of blood. As observed earlier, the incense was typical of the prayers of the saints; it was an act of faith on the part of the people of God. The shedding of blood pictured the Savior’s eventual death. The combining of the two elements, therefore, sets forth the image of the cooperative affinity between Christ’s blood on our behalf, and our prayers to God. The efficacy of our prayers is dependent upon the shedding of the Lord’s blood. And the power of that blood for the Christian must be accessed by prayer. Reflect, then, on the necessity and power of prayer!
There is another point that might be suggested. The New Testament speaks of the cleansing effect of Christ’s blood. The writer of Hebrews declares:

For if the blood of goats and bulls, and the ashes of a heifer sprinkling them that have been defiled, sanctify unto the cleanness of the flesh: how much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish unto God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God? (Hebrews 9:13-14).

A key issue with many, however, is this: at what point does this cleansing of the blood of Christ occur? It commonly is alleged that such happens at the moment of one’s faith (trust) in the Lord. Paul contends otherwise. In his letter to the Ephesians he points out that though the redeemed at Ephesus had been saved by the grace of God through faith (2:8-9), the actual moment of cleansing was achieved by “the washing of water with [in conjunction with the reception of] the word” (5:25-26).
If our appreciation of the fulfillment of Old Testament typological prophecy regarding this matter is accurate, the Christian is cleansed (forgiven) at the point of his “washing of water” (almost universally conceded as a reference to baptism; cf. Danker et al. 2000, 1023-24). At this point he then is privileged to “offer incense” (i.e., send up his prayers) to God. A person is not saved merely by praying to God (e.g., as in the case of the popular “sinner’s prayer”); rather, after he obeys the gospel (cf. 2 Thessalonians 1:8; 1 Peter 4:17) he is authorized to pray and promised a divine response to his petitions.

The Case of Nadab and Abihu

Nadab and Abihu were the elder sons of Aaron. They had been privileged to accompany Moses to Mount Sinai when the great prophet received the tables of stone containing the Ten Commandments—though they were prohibited from coming “near the Lord,” but were instructed to remain “afar off” (Exodus 24:1-2).
It had been a glorious day. Aaron had been consecrated as “high priest,” and had inaugurated the ceremony of the Day of Atonement. Apparently later in the day, Nadab and Abihu felt they should participate in the festivities. Hence, Moses wrote:

And Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, took each of them his censer, and put fire therein, and laid incense thereon, and offered strange fire before Jehovah, which he had not commanded them. And there came forth fire from before Jehovah, and devoured them and they died before Jehovah (Leviticus 10:1-2).

This is a shocking turn of events to the person who is uninformed, or who has but a casual regard for the precise commands of the Almighty. Exactly what was the sin of these two men?
Commentators have proffered a variety of possible explanations. (a) Some suggest they did not offer the incense at the proper time of the day. (b) It is alleged that they may have been “making an ostentatious and irreverent display of their ministration to accompany the shouts of the people, on their way towards the Tabernacle” (Clark 1981, 540). The most common view is that they did not get their “fire” from the altar of sacrifices (see 16:12). It is clear that the expression “strange fire” conveys the idea of disobedience, as confirmed by the phrase “which he [God] had not commanded them.”
R. K. Harrison declared that “chapter 10 makes clear how swiftly divine retribution came upon those who refused to follow the guidelines, and insisted upon pursuing an independent course” (1980, 108-09). A few pages earlier Professor Harrison noted: “Implicit obedience, not individualism or innovation, was what God required of the worshipper” (106). Does not the same principle apply today? Some translations render “strange fire” as “unauthorized fire” (NIV, ESV).
The modern professor of Christianity would do well to take note. Far too many feel that so long as their heart is right, it matters little about the form their worship takes (contra John 4:24). This is a deadly mistake, as these men learned.

The Case of Uzziah

Finally, there is the case of Uzziah. Uzziah (also known as Azariah) was the tenth ruler in the southern dynasty of Judah. His name means “Jehovah is my strength”; unfortunately he did not always follow the instructions of the “Source” of his strength.
From one vantage point he was a successful ruler. He likely served as a co-regent with his father, Amaziah, for almost the first quarter of a century in the fifty-two years of his regime, but then he became the sole ruling agent. He was a successful administrator. He strengthened the nation’s military defense and promoted the country’s domestic welfare. He defeated some of Judah’s most hostile neighbors. He is depicted as a king that generally “did that which was right in the eyes of Jehovah,” though he was a compromiser who tolerated idolatry (2 Kings 15:1-7). While he sought the Lord, he prospered; but that was to change (cf. 2 Chronicles 26:5).
His spiritual weakness was magnified by an incident that occurred at the zenith of his reign (cf. 2 Chronicles 26:8). The ruler’s “heart was lifted up”; the success of his power made him arrogant. It was a decisive turning point in his regime and was a foreboding indication of Judah’s eventual fall (Selman 1994, 470). He “did corruptly, and he trespassed against Jehovah his God; for he went into the temple of Jehovah to burn incense upon the altar of incense” (v. 16). Keil suggested that “Uzziah wished to make himself high priest of his kingdom, like the kings of Egypt and of other nations” (1978, 429).
Twice the term “trespassed” depicts the king’s actions (vv. 16, 18). The word is derived from the Hebrew ma'al, which carries such nuances as unfaithful, disloyal, infidelity, breach of trust, malfeasance, etc. (VanGemeren 1997, 1020). To act presumptuously, without appropriate divine authority, is a serious crime against God and those who engage in such are spiritual criminals.
In his apostasy he was pursued by the high priest and eighty other brave priests, who protested: “It pertains not to you, Uzziah, to burn incense unto Jehovah, but to the priests the sons of Aaron, that are consecrated to burn incense” (v. 18). They demanded that he leave the holy place, charging him with violating the law.
But the king was indignant; as he held the incense censer in his hand, a punishment from the Lord, leprosy [i.e., some sort of skin disease], broke out upon his forehead. He was thrust from the temple, being aided in his own hasty retreat. From that day, he remained a diseased person until the day of his death, and lived in a “separate” house (v. 21 ASV, RSV).
There has been much discussion about the meaning of the “separate” house. The term was obscure. With the discovery of the Ras Shamra tablets, a corresponding term was found in the Ugaritic texts. The word was employed to describe the place to which “Baal descended before proceeding to the nether world. This leads to the thought that Uzziah was confined to a cave or cellar, perhaps even the palace basement” (Pheiffer 1962, 61).
Now here is a matter worthy of serious reflection. In his zeal to burn incense, why did not the king argue: “The law nowhere specifically says, ‘The king may not burn incense’; thus, I am permitted to do so!”? How much weight do you suppose that quibble would have carried? Yet this is precisely the line of reasoning used today by those who wish to force innovations into the New Testament order of worship, e.g., a reversion to obsolete Old Testament practices, the novel use of the rosary imported from paganism, the adoration of sacred images, mechanical instruments of music as an accompaniment to singing, etc. There are numerous professing Christians who ought to be living in the cellar!
In his letter to the saints in Rome, Paul declared that the things “written aforetime [the Old Testament Scriptures] were written for our learning” (Romans 15:4). Do these biblical examples mean nothing to us? Let us read, study, analyze, learn, and obey the will of our God.

Conclusion

In conclusion, it would compliment our study if we briefly noticed three New Testament texts that have some bearing on our general theme. Though the term “incense” is not explicitly used, the idea certainly is there.
(1) In his letter to the Ephesians, Paul wrote:

Be, therefore, imitators of God, as beloved children; and walk in love, even as Christ also loved you, and gave himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for an odor of a sweet smell (5:1-2).

The language calls to mind the fragrant offerings mentioned in the book of Leviticus that pre-figured the voluntary offering of Jesus on our behalf (Leviticus 1:9, 13, 17; 2:2, 10, etc.). It is a picturesque way of saying that the Father would be satisfied with the atoning death of his Son (cf. Isaiah 53:11).
(2) Elsewhere the apostle writes:

But thanks be to God, who in Christ always leads us in triumphal procession, and through us spreads the fragrance of the knowledge of him everywhere. For we are the aroma of Christ to God among those who are being saved and among those who are perishing (2 Corinthians 2:14-15, ESV).

How thrilling it is to know that Christians, by their proclamation of Christ and his gospel, diffuse the thrilling fragrance of salvation to those who are inclined to embrace it. Paul goes on to say that the same message becomes a deadly vapor to those who stubbornly reject it (v. 16).
(3) There was a wonderful relationship between Paul and the church at Philippi. He established that congregation on his second missionary journey (Acts 16:12ff), and from the occasion of that event, until he penned the letter to those saints from his confinement in Rome some ten years later (Acts 28), the Philippians had been a major source of his support. When Epaphroditus came to visit Paul during the apostle’s Roman incarceration, bringing sustenance from Philippi, the apostle described it as “a fragrance of a sweet smell, a sacrifice acceptable, well-pleasing unto God” (Philippians 4:18). How sweet it is to the God of heaven when his people love and help one another.

Sources/Footnotes

• Clark, Samuel. 1981. Leviticus. The Bible Commentary. F. C. Cook, editor. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Book House.
• Danker, F. W. et al. 2000. A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago.
• Gispen, W. H. 1982. Exodus – Bible Student’s Commentary. Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan.
• Harrison, R. K. 1980. Leviticus – Tyndale Old Testament Commentaries. Downers Grove, IL. Inter-Varsity Press.
• Jackson, Wayne. 2005. Biblical Figures of Speech – A Practical Guide to Understanding the Figurative Language of the Bible. Stockton, CA: Courier Publications.
• Keil, C. F. 1978. II Chronicles – Old Testament Commentary. Vol. 3. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans.
• Pfeiffer, Charles R. 1962. Ras Shamra and the Bible. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Book House.
• Selman, Martin J. 1994. 2 Chronicles – Tyndale Old Testament Commentaries. Downers Grove, IL: Inter-Varsity Press.
• VanGemern, Willem A., ed. 1997. New International Dictionary of Old Testament Theology & Exegesis. Vol. 2. Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan.

About the Author

Wayne Jackson has written for and edited the Christian Courier since its inception in 1965. He has also written several books on a variety of biblical topics including The Bible and Science, Creation, Evolution, and the Age of the Earth, The Bible on Trial, and a number of commentaries. He lives in Stockton, California with his dear wife, and life-long partner, Betty.

Like it or not, this is what's right about our America! And why Dana Perino doesn't...

Like it or not, this is what's right about our America! _ (freedom) _

 

 

 

Taylor Lorenz @TaylorLorenz:

.@SnoopDogg is guest-editing a Wall Street Journal blog today: http://on.wsj.com/Zglyco via @lheron

 

 

 

And, well, of course
Dana Perino is prudishly cringing when reading via her twitter feed that Snoop Lion is guest-editing a WSJ blog today. I can hear her: "He's not close to a journalist! + like what Uni did he get into?!"


BIGnewEdayMedia coming soon to mystrawhat.com

The Magnify Glass (w/ proper editing) from e-book New Media Matters: an everyday art @ mystrawhat.com

The Magnify Glass

(a short story – short independent film)

 

Peter didn’t read much at all – he disliked books and didn’t pay much attention to that type of culture or really any culture at all unless it was liked by mainstream approval from his Carny-esque parents who would try and hock whatever wherever because they had that effect on people.

Peter, or Dick, as  his back slapping buddy system buddies luvingly called him also was well liked by people because, again, he didn’t do reading let alone “the outside the classroom reading” that makes you truly more of a scholar of academics and, well, life. Peter pretty much believed whatever gossip was being peddled by his friends, family, relatives – whoever paid attention to him to take advantage of his blank slate, wet dish towel demeanor.

“Hey, Dick, take this magnify glass and burn that big black ant for me, honey?!” his mother requested. In which he did without even thinking.

Emery Wallace on the other hand, his mother who was very cultured and well educated, fair & just, would never make such a request in the first place. And then again Emery Wallace was blessed by reading and thinking and developed high powered analytical skills which sometimes to his detriment by the standards of the mainstream popularity entertainment-gossip machine goes --- He almost intuitively would not entertain the wrong ethical consequences of misusing the magnify glass --- Heat from the Sun would refract within the glass and cause extreme intense heat which would instantly fry any ant.

Moments of thought … Important here. And, well, if you don’t think, follow & blindly just do - the consequences can have a devastating unfair and unjust result. You play God. Emery Wallace a devout Catholic from a devout Catholic background believed in God and Jesus Christ. He knew the judge.

When he picked up a magnify glass as a child and saw the ants on his big patio filled with concrete, trees, annual and perennial flowers and bushes with their bushy roots on a blue sky day with white fluffy clouds above him, it never even crossed his mind to victimize an ant.

He studies his ancient coins from his lineage instead.

 

Written August 22, 2010

10:10 a.m.

By Giovanni Continelli (John Alan Conte Jr.)

Jeff Tweedy - Sunken Treasure (Live at Farm Aid 25)

There's rows and rows of houses, with windows painted blue.
With the light from t.v. running parallel to you.
But there is no sunken treasure, rumored to be.
Wrapped inside my ribs in a sea black with ink.
I am so out of tune with you, I am so out of tune with you.
If I had a mountain, I'd try to fold it over.
If I had a boat you know I'd probably roll it over.
And leave it on the shore, I'd leave it for somebody.
Surely there's somebody who needs it more than me.
I am so out of tune with you, I am so out of tune with you.
All the leaves will burn and autumn fires then return.
All the fires we burn, all will return.
Music is my savior, and I was maimed by rock and roll.
I was maimed by rock and roll.
I was tamed by rock and roll. I got my name from rock and roll.

watch here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ny6rxhQp5Y

Open Letter to Eric Holder & Janet Napolitano: Adjusting Focus of Law Enforcement

The Blackberry I just gave up for an iPhone 5 is so antiquated, outdated and barely functional compared to iPhone 5 that's been making great enhancements with each of its generations of iPhone product - truly changing with the times and exactly where it needs to be for the here & now for its users.

Let’s compare that to law enforcement and anti-terror methods & measures.

Actually, I just want to say, the public should be made aware of all the Boston law enforcement on marijuana detail for the past 2 years - all the cost for resources (ranging from administrative cost, equipment cost, surveillance cost, paying informants, man power, investigations, raids, busts, cost for detainment, court costs, prison costs) - and then have the choice to continue with that route or take all of those resources for marijuana detail and put them to use in a more efficient and effective law enforcement focus on preventing those with intent to create victims.

Sincerely,

Concerned U.S. Citizen (tax payer)

 

 

P.S. It's much much safer to be blown away by #bongs than by crazy ideologists and their bombs  

 

SORRY?! 

may add 2localslots for TopHottest #newedaymedia list for 2014 ebook BIGnewEdayMedia

‏@NewEdayMedia

@KDKAHeather @Jackie_Schafer may add 2localslots for TopHottest #newedaymedia list for 2014 ebook BIGnewEdayMedia at http://mystrawhat.com

really now I may be forced to rethink allotted 1 local slot for TopHottest #neweverydaymedia listing for upcoming poetry & #newmedia ebook BIGnewEdayMedia for www.mystrawhat.com 2013-14

 

What do you think?

Is Pittsburgh becoming a bigger media (#newEdaymedia haha) market?! Or are there just more dynamically compelling & engaging personalities now more than ever?!

 

Best of the Roses (but not rose colored glasses), 2014 e-book BIGnewEdayMedia coming soon to http://mystrawhat.com (with original poetry & #newEdaymedia listing of the Top Hottest)

John Alan Conte` Jr.

perfect = New: “Hearts & Minds” by SonVolt (song & video are simply gorgeous contradictable terms of grit & beauty ). ..

This song & video are simply gorgeous contradictable terms of grit & beauty celebrated together in a poem to life stating this is exactly where we’re @ here & now: contradictable terms of grit & beauty like metamorphic allies = ah, this is perfect. New: “Hearts & Minds” by Son Volt

contradictable terms of grit & beauty like metamorphic allies #perfect New: “Hearts & Minds” by SonVolt (watch here) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NoGk_pdyS_c

 

Son Volt @ Mr. Small's Theatre in Pittsburgh PA = New #HeartsAndMinds June 21st = can't wait to see Jay again

 

 

Best of the Roses, 2014 e-book BIGnewEdayMedia coming soon to http://mystrawhat.com (with  original poetry & #newEdaymedia listing of the Top Hottest)

What can you do to create a peaceful world?

Yoko Ono @yokoono
What can you do to create a peaceful world? Just be what you really are - a person who is kind.

Changes = David Bowie

Changes = David Bowie


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pl3vxEudif8

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry" ...

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry..." http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TuUAhIxkcJA


Best of the Roses but not rose colored glasses, BIGnewEdayMedia coming soon @ mystrawhat.com

maybe when you have so much on your plate to try & please everyone's agenda it's hard to notice truly good valued priorities!

@NewEdayMedia
@ShawnUpchurch maybe when you have so much on your plate to try & please everyone's agenda it's hard to notice truly good valued priorities!


@ShawnUpchurch
“Some men see things as they are and say "why." I dream things that never were and say "why not.” ~Robert F. Kennedy #leadership

Don't let anyone in your head you wouldn't enjoy dinner conversation with almost every night or so. You don't need to do that to yourself

@NewEdayMedia --- Don't let anyone in your head you wouldn't enjoy dinner conversation with almost every night or so. You don't need to do that to yourself ---

@NewEdayMedia --- i just came up with that one this mornng. inspired by a tweet a read from #YokoOno @yokoono

 

 

Peace & Love.

 

Best of the Roses but not rose colored glasses, BIGnewEdayMedia coming soon to mystrawhat.com

with be-ing famous comes responsibility = John & Yoko stood for the small person here & #won

Clearly - there was no - Sin in John Sinclair's crime = John & Yoko actually helped set John Sinclair free w/ organization of this song, benefit & help in protesting. Best of the Roses (but not rose colored glasses)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZJLInCgem8

"Please Look at Me I'm Only Small" - Yoko Ono 1971

"Please Look at Me I'm Only Small" - Yoko Ono 1971

Head to Toe Beauty

Head to Toe Beauty

 

Just as I remembered to keep around a winter jacket for when it’s cold outside in April like a check unclaimed & without knowing her name it was grabbed and signed & paid at the bar where some Goa cat was playing surf style Buddha riffs on his blue Hawaiian lap steel guitar

And, where I didn’t want to write something that would be too long and within that insincere, surf style Buddha cat from Goa looked at the crowd and spoke as if he was looking at a mirror out came a lion of a song he called March and I then realized I began surfing on the web in an office after college I shared with two of my sisters who neatly packed pistols for Italian men and it was there while surfing I hit a few good highs and caught some peaks of lifestyle Supremes real head to toe beauty in an everyday media medium I knew nothing about but liked it anyway so when it came time to check on the key to my heart I nearly fell apart as it fell to the floor  behind the vestibule which sat in front of a guarded door where I kept my one & only necklace

It seemed just like my favorite pair of jeans I saw in an online magazine I was now torn & frayed after this head to toe beauty grabbed my attention and put my thoughts back in detention where they drifted in ripples that brought those sands of tides from foreign exotic lands in front of my eyes where I read and liked her recipe for curry Tai chicken with cashews and peanuts with some added drops of a curried coconut milk and all this tasted as she described fine silks which I knew before it rained we’d have to cover up all the same need for a winter coat in April and maybe these rains would wash our souls clean in a spring rebirth & plenty of flowers in May

May I accompany your eyes while they read these lines in your own narrative & funny voice that bounce around the chambers of your mind strategically hitting corners & so mine echoes in the third eye which now commands the expression on your face like an unopposed question in the center of a long hallway with luxuriant chairs and candelabras reflected in the tall mirror

 

Written after the local farmer’s market Saturday afternoon 4/13/2013

By John Alan Conte Jr. & the new everyday media

New Media Matters: an everyday art @ mystrawhat.com

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How to Get High from Social Media

This occurred via FaceBook today. .. #DigIt



so i have to share this as Jennifer Jane Arden (who has gorgeous eyes = like the ones Michelangelo must have been referring to when he stated "the eyes are the windows of one's soul") replied that it was the deepest comment anyone has ever left her: "everbody needs balance. as a poet i feel like i need to have an everyday job of an everyday person in order to have a lot of content + keep grounded but also as an everyday person with an everyday job i need to write poetry & need to know i am a real poet" --- John Alan Conte Jr


Best of the Roses (but not rose colored glasses),
John Alan Conte` Jr.
(Giovanni French)
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Inconsequential Evidence

Inconsequential Evidence

 

On the way to see my landlord

I had a big wad of bills w/ a rubberband

Walkin’ with swagger of a Monaco hustler

She didn’t like me anyway so I got fresh w/ her

Told her wished we could trade places for a day

So she could feel what a drag it is to see her on anyday

What I didn’t know was how close she was to her cop

He had a haircut that looked like it was kinda angry

At no particular someone and he didn’t avoid his gun

All we knew. If he got you, what his idea -would be of fun

So right before I was all ready to reach my landlord’s door

Her fiancée cop pulled my shoulders back and yelled “stop!”

It’s evident you look suspicious right now there son so

What you’re gonna do for me?! empty your pockets, hit the floor

He took my cash and then bashed my ass with his baton

Told me it was a magic wand and in a flash there’d be more in jail

So what he didn’t quite yet realize was that a friend of mine in NYC

Had a friend that was the D.A. in Phili. And he knew who in D.C.

You see the cop was planting evidence for hope of a promotion

In a nice comfy and safe location where he could take his new fiancée

Well I made bail and a lot of people were ugly about how I was jailed

And it made a big difference and it was a big deal because it was evident

That he was dealing in pretty little hippie boys & inconsequential evidence

 

Written Holy Saturday – Draft 1

Meter set to Melody & beat of Bob Dylan’s Pledging My Time

Written by Giovanni Alan French JR & the new everyday media

New Media Matters: an everyday art

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a Song for Ashley Judd's run for the Senate (Democrat - Kentucky)

Now they may be used to raisin’ Phillies in Kentucky

The brown coats look so pretty in the blue grass

And it may have Tennessee feeling a little unlucky

But, man, she’s got more than just a fine little ass

What’s as pure and straight as Maker’s Mark

If you don’t wanna shoot fowl in the dark

Then you need to take this shot without a chase

And, in this upcoming Senate race, if you don’t wanna a dud

Vote for Judd in Kentucky

Vote for Judd from Tennessee

Vote for Judd she’s no limousine liberal – anymore than Barack

Vote for Judd in Kentucky

Though Tennessee’s not as lucky - least you’ll be off your back

And back to work in a job where it’ll be good to be seen

Shooting pool at the local bar'n'grill – buying friends rounds

You’ll be drinking fine Maker’s Mark – Judd she’ll light a spark

And you’ll have something more green than the blue grass

I’m looking forward to seeing that Hollywood ass in the senate    

Yeah, there’s enough balls left on the table from the last guy

Vote for Judd in Kentucky

Vote for Judd from Tennessee

Vote for Judd she’s no limousine liberal – anymore than Barack

Vote for Judd in Kentucky

Vote for Judd in Kentucky

Vote for Judd from Tennessee

Vote for Judd she’s no limousine liberal – anymore than Barack

Vote for Judd

Vote for Judd

Vote for Judd

Best of the Roses,
written Sunday, March 17th 2013 for Ashley Judd
by Giovanni French & the new everyday media

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The pleasure of Ms Blanchard: Alana Blanchard is famous.

“Alana, just show people you can surf, for once. It doesn’t matter if you win or lose.” I was just like, “ok, I’ll just catch waves.” It’s cool, I’m really happy.

 

It feels like your fame’s tripled in the last year. I don’t know what it is. I try to not pay attention to it all, I guess. I just try to be myself and be happy. But I guess just within the last couple of years there’s been Instagram and so much social media, that’s it’s so easy if you have that little niche. It just builds and builds and it’s an easy way for people to see things. It’s so powerful. I don’t know why people are drawn to me but it’s cool, I guess.

 

Read the full article @ http://stabmag.com/the-pleasure-of-ms-blanchard/

 

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Best of the Roses,

 

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Devil Gonna Swallow You Whole --- How to deal with the devil = #new poem by John A. Conte` Jr. (Giovanni French & the new everyday media)

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Devil Gonna Swallow You Whole --- How to deal with the devil

What has more energy the city lights or your soul

What has more energy the city lights or your soul

Are there more city lights or city of good souls

The devil will haunt you – haunt you in the night

Devil gonna hunt you down and gonna haunt you tonite

When he come for you - what you gonna do to make it right

The crow flies low – gonna chase you in flight

The crow fly low – chase you in flight

Crow fly low and chase you round in flight

You wanna fly high – better find somethin’ right

Wanna be flyin’ high – find somethin’ treat you right

Gonna be flyin’ high – on somethin’ good tonight

Don’t ask the devil – even though he gettin’ by

Don’t ask the devil – though you see him getting’ by

Ask the devil – still don’t mean you be flyin’ high

Old devil come gonna swallow you up whole

Old devil come gonna swallow you up whole

The ground gonna open up and swallow you whole

Safe in bed - but you forget to pray for your soul

Sleep in bed – but didn’t pray for your soul

Sleep in bed – devil open the ground - swallow you whole

I got my sympathy for the devil so I know he gonna leave me alone

Written Sunday 3/3/13 A.M. by John A. Conte` Jr. (Giovanni French & the new everyday media)

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Perfect Little Hapiness

 

Yes

I’m glad you empathize – with our situation

They have forgot about me – In this open nation

Me, I’ve been writing words – for a howling generation

Surprised with an open invitation – to start its own fire

(we just needed spark – we found stumbling thru the dark)

And OK you’re perfect – such a little perfect

Don’t forget a handkerchief – for the 1^st time you feel happiness

(so used to cryin’ – ah, so down & feeling untrue & too uncool for blue)

A rearrival of myself taught me to see the present as a present & not a rival

 To see the open road as someone dead but so grateful as a means of survival

Those lessons are only of value if you learn and let them alone in the past

And driving with the winnings closer to my vest in a New Mexico ---

No need to tell us which way to go – we got another invitation for the situation

To use a new equation to formulate the value of a rediscovered open nation

With the words of a howling generation at our backs supporting a re-evaluation

And the new round of investments from the right backers of a sustainable evolution  

Where we’re the same stars of the revolution covered in a new everyday media

You can see it all again & again – just crack an old code for a fresh new start - then hit replay

And OK you’re perfect – such a little perfect

Don’t forget a handkerchief – for the 1^st time you feel happiness

(so used to cryin’ – ah, so down & feeling untrue & too uncool for blue)

Well, blues something we’re all tangled up in – no one’s gonna just give it you

Or even if they do it’s up to you to blow it back open again when the bubble pops

And no one seems to have your back – because it’s all waiting for you to come around

Down to the main part of town where they used to execute those who clowned around

And OK you’re perfect – such a little perfect

Don’t forget a handkerchief – for the 1^st time you feel happiness - when you kick them down

We got our open invitations for a new situation – where I don’t have to see you – ever again

And I’m so happy

Such a perfect little happy

I know I don’t have to see you (ever again)

Ever again

Never again

Never again.

2, 2, 3, 4 rhythm & blues --- go head & count it out – but it’s not for sale,

No,
not for you.

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Written Sunday 2/17/13 by Giovanni French & the new everyday media

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