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How to Vote, in different ways, from the New York Times

How to Vote

photo for The National Humane Society

Off Topic: Got my Advanced Feline Training Certificate!

 

Also isn’t this dodecahedron template really cool? Thanks very much to this site:

Polyhedra.net

With that you can make this: After printing out the picture, you could cut it, fold on the lines and glue(glue guns can be a little messy) or tape it! 

 

And then you can take photo paper, print a photo, trace the template on the back and I once made a cool dodecahedron or the Grand Canyon! I think cat 🐈 lost it. 

VOTE 2018

It has never been harder to vote.

In my state we have PB/OS voting(paper ballot optical scan) but if you don’t send back a card from the local election commission you are not on the rolls. You can’t imagine how many eligible voters that culls even in a blue state!

So find out how to vote and do it!

And help other people make sure they’re registered.

picture of Ram Dass, formerly Richard Alpert, a wonderful shrink/spiritual leader.

There are a lot of great new candidates out there but will we be allowed to vote for them?! Stay very tuned and take everything you read with a grain of salt(cum grano salis)! Try to read multiple sources and check them against each other. Hi.

Steve Martin rode with Jerry Seinfeld to Storm King Art Center(VIDEO)

http://comediansincarsgettingcoffee.com/steve-martin-if-you-see-this-on-a-toilet-seat-dont-sit-down

NY Times story on how an in-person voter fraud lie becomes a perception

I am often drawn to this subjec(please copy and paste below link...as per usual:)

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/13/opinion/the-latest-voter-fraud-lie.html?emc=edit_th_20170214&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=58838875

(It is funny. Sometimes this link system works and other time it does not!)

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Aesop's Fables: The Frogs Who Desired A King

Apologies to Typepad: I figured out the missing link!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Frogs_Who_Desired_a_King

The Frogs Who Desired A King

 

Photos of XFest 2016 at Club 121 at 121 Eastworks Easthampton MA 2-28

Jim's instrument also looks like a chicken or a turkey. Beautiful!

Again Jack Wright on soprano sax, Jill on vocals, Jim on "Dad" and Eben on Bass:

Rasmussen Moshé plays great saxophone and flute. He is pictured with woman on string bass, man on drums and another flutist/saxophonist to the left not pictured here.

Below you can copy & paste to see video where Bonnie Kane demonstrated electrified Flute Loops as band played. Sorry that is last in the shared album. Thanks for reading and to All who showed up!

https://www.icloud.com/sharedalbum/#B0T5yeZFh31btw

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Photos of People from XFest 2016 Northampton MA

If anyone doesn't like their photo, I'll be happy to take down but here is
Jack Wright leading Adam Bosse's Improv Class with friends he brought who are touring Wellesley College and a club in Brooklyn next.

Jill dances behind our drummer as she vocalizes beautifully with mic:

This is Jim on his handmade instrument "Dad" a mouth with feet. Stringed and electrified:

XFest this last weekend in Holyoke, Greenfield, NCMC and Easthampton MA

I can't wait to get all my photo and video up here but for now, I just want to show you what we did yesterday at about 2:45 pm for about 11'. Adam Bosse's Improv Class: his salute to the Noise movement. It wasn't what I thought at all! There are roots in Free Jazz/punk and new wave, artistically not to mention the huge influence of John Cage and Kahrleinz Stockhausen, as well; but we were about the loudest band. It was a peaceful, delightful and calm gathering. Simpatico folks contributed to an atmosphere which was conducive to experimentation, daring new things in Music as well as in Art and Movement and finding the unexpected always!

Here we are: Adam Bosse's Improv Class at the 121 Club(the former Apollo Grill restaurant: a big space at 129 Eastworks in Easthampton MA): Drums, Electric Bass, 2 Electric Guitars and Electronic Keyboard:

It's compressed into mp3 here so earphones or a good speaker system would help you and us:)!

XFest

Players more experienced than we are came before and after us and their vid/pictures will follow.

For instance I heard flutist/saxophonist Rasmussen Moshé is well known in Brooklyn NY Free Jazz.

Ross, Bass F Drums M Flute Loops F

 

A Look Back at James Merrill, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet of 1977 Fall Good-Bye

So James and his lover followed the Ouija board for some years, yielding many books of poetry which were grouped under name, Changing Light of Sandover They worked in Stonington CT.

Here is a poem from the book Ephraim:

At passing he recommended not using the Ouija.

Happy Halloween, All!