Can I Borrow 99 Cents?

We’ve been bumping this one in the shop for the last week or so. 247HH.com presents Common and DJ Kid Cut Up - Can I Borrow 99 Cents? This is definitely one of Cut Up’s best mixtapes to date. You can catch Kid Cut Up and the rest of the No Request Sound posse all over town. Check their MySpace for upcoming club dates and standing engagements.

Disjointed thoughts while I cram for finals:

• I love my friends more than words can describe. Yes, this includes you!


• The Christmas season is my favorite time of year. And look…it’s snowing on my blog! ^^


• Am toying around with the idea of re-highlighting my hair purple.


• …and/or finally getting a tattoo.


• I didn’t really learn anything in 9.01 this semester.


• Perhaps writing music isn’t as painful as I let myself think. I still prefer playing, though.


• Soft pants are wonderful.


• I’m thirsty.

The post Christmas ebay sale

So… will the gifts you received by sold on eBay?

Will the one’s you love sell the gifts that YOU gave them on eBay?

There is only one way to find out… start trawling through the endless pages of products, which i am sure will double in number after Christmas.

Don’t worry about fighting with the masses at the department stores for the Boxing Day sales… just sit in the comfort of your own home and scan through hundreds and thousands of items for the gifts you REALLY wanted.

Happy hunting!

"Felt Cuisine - Cakes by Design" NOW ON EBAY !

CHRISTMAS THOUGHT - Why GREGORY The GREAT was GREAT

It’s stuff like this that gets “the Great” after your name. Actually, I’m not sure if this is how he got that moniker, but  here is a cool little Christmas thought that I can honestly say has never occurred to me. Enjoy:

Before the Redeemer was born in the flesh, there was discord between us & the angels, from whose brightness & holy perfection we were separated, in punishment first of original sin & then because of our daily offenses. Because through sin we had become strangers to God, the angels as God’s subjects cut us off from their fellowship. But since we have now acknowledged our King, the angels receive us as fellow citizens.  Because the king of heaven has taken unto himself the flesh of our earth, the angels from their heavenly heights no longer look down upon our infirmity. Now they are at peace with us, putting away the remembrance of the ancient discord. Now they honor us as friends whom before they considered to be weak & despised.

From Homilies on The Gospels

Hope you are having a great Christmas.

Ares (from Xena) - "The Ding Dong Song"

Differences of emphasis...

… in coverage of the Iraq shoe-throwing incident.  NBC News says that security “subdued”‘ the man, and that the incident was “surreal”.  The NYT quotes an Iraqi journalist as saying security “kicked him and beat him until he was crying like a woman” and notes that Bush “called the incident a sign of democracy, saying, ‘That’s what people do in a free society, draw attention to themselves,’ as the man’s screaming could be heard outside.”

Journal

Saturday

3mi jog

3�2min Heavy bag

Yesterday

Agility Drills 2�20rep

Slalom Hop

Wide Out

Ali Shuffle

Hip Twist

One foot Hop

Shoulder repre-hab 2�15 rep

Band Pull

OH Band Pull

Internalexternal Rotation

Circuit x6

10 burpee

12 superman

10 scissor jump

10 bicycle

Today

1.5mi jog

Boxing:

Hand drills and trying to work on footing

Sarah Palins Stylists cost more than $165,000-Really?!

What would the media do without Sarah Palin? On Saturday, December 6, 2008, the New York Times reported more than $165,000 was paid to 3 Palin stylists! 

This includes a fashion consultant for $54,900 in mid October; a travelling make up artist for $68,400 for two months of work; and a hairstylist paid $42,225.00

Moreover the RNC spent $23,000 additional dollars for Sarah at Saks, Neiman Marcus, and Victoria Secret. Its good to know they were spending the money to support Sarah and more importantly to stimulate the economy!

Sarah Palin Paid To Lose

Toucan Music presents 2008

A CD length mix of the best Toucan tracks in 2008, taking you on a journey from progressive and electro to funky house and trance. The mix features tracks from Risey, Beat Doctor, Redmann, Marc Burt, Phish Funk, JMD and more great artists from Toucan Music. CD printing files are also included.

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Could not care less

Not much posting going on around here.  I have tried, but often it seems that my mind is to numb to real get into any possible blogging mood. Although it is nice to have a job (still not certain, but almost certain) It takes a lot of me on a mental level.  People screaming and jelling in frustration and anger that their computer does not work.  ect.. is just very tiresome in the end. Not physical, but emotionally.

It is like i ma totally numb not wantign one thing or another. I get into Second life, and quickly boremyself to death, I tries to roleplay, but it irritated me rather. I triedto play games, but i could not care less.  I start to wonder what is wrong with me. getting back to work is supposed to be good, isnt it?

Comfortably Numb - Pink Floyd (cover)

T&T'S ONGOING WAR WITH THE MEDIA: THE BACK STORY

The recent incident of our Honourable Prime Minister Patrick Manning charging into the 94.1FM newsroom has brought the “freedom of the press” issue once more to the forefront of the country’s sociopolitical agenda.

Freedom of the press is, after all, one of Trinidad’s greatest accolades: since 2003, it has consistently ranked among the top 20 countries in the world in the World Press Freedom Index.

It is the highest in the Caribbean, Central and South America. It is even higher than the UK, France, Spain and the USA.

Its 2007 ranking of 19th place was ahead of the UK at 24th, and Jamaica at 27th.

…MORE TO COME ON THIS ARTICLE!! NOT COMPLETE!!!

Early Christianity III

The destruction of Jerusalem in the year 70 led to a major break between Judaism and Christianity because there were many Jews who wouldn’t side with the Jewish rebels in fighting the Romans. For these followers of Jesus, salvation doesn’t come by overthrowing the Romans; it comes by believing in Jesus.

By the end of the first century, Christianity was adrift. The followers of Jesus were persecuted by the imperial powers in Rome and estranged from the Jewish religion from which they had come. Their founding leaders were dead and the great temple of Jerusalem and Israel lay in ruins. Christian leaders decided they needed a new holy scripture. They started writing down what Jesus had said and done. Christianity would take a new direction, a religion based on the written gospels.

Jesus had promised he would return to save his loyal followers, but he did not.  The delay in the Second Coming caught everybody by surprise. None of the earliest Christians thought they would be around for a 100 or 200 years. This was a crisis, but it didn’t break them down.  Christian leaders decided they needed something permanent to preserve the faith in Jesus. So they proceeded to compile a history of sacred books and a clergy to stand in for Jesus.

The very core of Christian belief is the story of the life and death and resurrection of Jesus, as told in the four gospels. The books of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John are named after the evangelists thought to have written them. Matthew and John were two disciples of Jesus, Matthew was a tax collector and John was the beloved disciple. Mark was a companion of the apostle Peter and Luke was a companion of the apostle Paul.

Most people probably believe that after Jesus died, the Church emerged suddenly and that you had people reading the canon of the 27 books of the New Testament, and that it was all in place right after Jesus’ death.  But, it took centuries for these things to happen.

Scholars say that Mark is the earliest gospel, written around 65 AD.  Matthew and Luke were written some 15 to 20 years after that.  And finally the gospel of John was written about 90 or 95 AD. While each of the four gospels recounts the death and resurrection of Jesus, they are very different. The question of where they got their information is very interesting.  Most scholars today think that after the death of Jesus, his followers carried forth oral stories about him, and what he did during his time on earth. These stories circulated year after year until authors of later generations wrote them down.

If we read these gospels as straightforward narratives, we miss their point. Scholars say they were not written as history, but a divine gospel of truth.  They should be called an apocalypse, a disclosure of a truth, which the gospel writer themselves believed was beyond human comprehension.

We hear talk of those who respected Jesus being thrown out of the synagogue, and how the enemies in John’s gospel are the Jews.  If you read your gospel carefully you’re probably perplexed by this, because Jesus is a Jew, his disciples are Jews. Most all the characters are Jews.

It is thought that the final split came early in the second century. The Jews of Israel launched another rebellion against Roman rule, led by a man they thought was the messiah, Simon Bar Kokhba.  They thought that Simon Bar Kokhba was their messiah, which means that they had already rejected the Christian notion of messiah. This second rebellion ended with the slaughter of many thousands of Jews, including Simon Bar Kokhba.

As Christianity’s second century began, its leaders were battling heretics, the monks and mystics who wrote their own Jesus stories, gospels that would threaten this young religion. In the the south, in the desert of Egypt, a group of Christian monks and mystics were writing their very own gospels with a very different version of the life of Jesus.

The Nag Hammadi texts found in the Egyptian desert near the village by that name consisted of over 50 texts, which we did not know about before.  They would help us to understand the beginnings of Christianity and the development of religion in remarkable new ways. The surviving books, called the Gnostic Gospels, gave the world a compelling and competing story of what happened after Jesus. The texts of the Nag Hammadi library make it very clear that there were many gospels composed in the early days of the church. Four were finally selected for the New Testament canon, but there were plenty of other gospels.  What, more than one version of the faith?

As is usual in Christianity the Gnostics said that they were following the teachings of Jesus, and that they were the true Christians, and that the other groups are wrong.  The Gnostic message was seductive, being a mix of Greek philosophy, Egyptian religion, and Eastern mysticism.  The New Testament Gospels are gospels of the cross and salvation from sin. The New Testament Gospels look to stimulate faith. The Gnostic gospels are gospels of wisdom and salvation from ignorance.

Gnosticism held a fascination for many Christians and its gospels seemed to offer a more female-friendly faith.  The Gnostics thought that the role of the female as an image and the role of women within the church should be advanced.  God is not only male; God is also female. There are not only male leaders; there are female leaders. There are not only male priests; there are female priests.

The Gnostic gospels seem to attack the very foundation of Orthodox Christianity, telling a different version of the life of Jesus. Mary Magdalene, who was for centuries mistakenly (thanks to Pope Gregory) depicted as a prostitute, is the chief apostle in her own Gnostic gospel, and much more than that to Jesus in the Gnostic gospel of Philip.

In the gospel of Philip, it is said that Jesus loved Mary Magdalene more than all the other disciples and he used to kiss her often on her — and then there is a hole in the text.  This says something about the perception in that particular text of the closeness of Jesus and Mary Magdalene. Mary was a very beloved disciple of Jesus, which isn’t really explored in the common Scriptures.

The biggest problem with the Gnostic gospels is that they were written many, many years after the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. For many historians, that much passage of time raises serious questions about authenticity.  The Gnostic gospels are documents that came into existence many decades after the actual Gospels were written. Gnosticism, to church leaders of the time was heresy. To survive in these dangerous times, the church had to be united. Over the next two centuries, the sacred Gnostic texts would be suppressed, hidden or destroyed and Orthodox Christianity claimed exclusive authority over the Bible.

Lisa Adams - Exhibition

EXHIBITION - artist: Lisa Adams, location: Lawrence Asher Gallery Los Angeles, date: 10.01.09 / current exhibitions at: Lawrence Asher Gallery Los Angeles 2008. Artistinformation and biography-text from: Lisa Adams Lawrence Asher Gallery Los Angeles CATEGORY: art, modern art, projects: TEXTPORTRAITS Lisa Adams by Ralph Ueltzhoeffer and Laura May. More information about Lisa Adams Exhibition Lawrence Asher Gallery Los Angeles, United States.

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Hermann Hesse / Portrait (TEXTPORTRAIT).

textportraits by Ralph Ueltzhoeffer.

Rue the Day - Part 1

What to Expect From Your Local Pagan at Christmas

The answer is probably as varied as the people this article applies to.  On both sides of the spiritual fence.  Pagans are not devil worshippers, so there’s no need to worry about an evil in your midst.  (Generally) they’re just folks like you, and they enjoy the holidays too.  They celebrate a little differently, but not much.  Winter Solstice is the reason for a Pagan Celebration at this time of year.  It marks the turning point between the days getting shorter and when they begin to get longer again.  The ancient people of the earth saw this transition point as a rebirth of the sun, and that was the beginning of many cultural myths concerning the birth of a young God.  They exist in many cultures and have many names all around the world.   This does nothing to diminish the Christmas holidays, but merely acts as a kind of bonding between various cultures.  This feeling of oneness is why there seems to be a sort of peace about the deep winter days near Yule.  Deep in our racial memories is a time when all the world did indeed hold this time very sacred…because of it’s signifigance in our very survival.  And every man woman and child on this incredible planet comes, for at least an unconscious second,  to understand just how very much we are all part of one another.  We are all different expressions of the same beautiful, soulful, passionate, frightening and awesome spectacle that is LIFE.

So expect what you’d expect from anybody else…they’re no different.

That’s my viewpoint…

Happy Holidays!

ZonaJewel

chemistry

vegas and i have chemistry like i’ve never experienced.  when we are together, it is like all the forces in the universe are willing us to be closer.  and then closer still.  it is ridiculous.  i almost think there is something wrong with us. 

the attraction is this primal draw to eachother.  i don’t even know how to describe it or what to think about it.  the sex is dizzying.  but it is more than sex.  it is obvious.  it is undeniable.

vegas gave me one of the best compliments i’ve ever received last night.  he said “miranda, sometimes when i’m kissing you, i don’t know where the f*** i am.”

ha.

he also told me he “needed me.”  vegas made it sound like an addiction.  he said “a few days without sleeping next to you and i’m going crazy and unable to think of anything else.”

i didn’t say i “needed” him back.  i told him that it seemed like forever since we were together last.  it was sunday night….precisely 3 days and it seemed like weeks.

i like him more than i thought i would, but at this point could still walk away relatively unharmed.  i don’t think he could.  i think he is more emotionally invested.  not that i’m saying i couldn’t get there, but the fact that i do care about him terrifies me.  my reservations and hesitation are primarily in the name of self-preservation.

Katy Perry Waking Up In Vegas (Lyrics in Description)

Stack o'DVDs

21 November 2008

Day of work followed by a long drive to TRF. Google maps says it’s 214 miles and takes 4 hours & 23 minutes. My odometer says it’s 208 miles, and it only takes 3 and 1/2 hours (not scientifically proven nor sound).

My plan this weekend was to be there, but not really there - I was going to work on websites all weekend. Because of that, I took a stack of favourite movies to watch

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You know, movies you’ve seen so many times you don’t really have to watch, but that provide companionship & noise when you desire it? Those kinds of movies.

Cheers.

~KR (Written on 24 November 2008 )

Listen to:

Dark Eyes by Donnie Munro

from Donnie Munro Live

Camera: Canon PowerShot SD850 IS

Exposure: 0.25 sec (1/4)

Aperture: f/2.8

Focal Length: 5.8 mm

ISO Speed: 200

Exposure Bias: 0/3 EV

Flash: Flash did not fire

Dressed in November - Fate of the Weekend

Lessons in suffering from the front lines

“Therefore, let those suffering in accordance with God’s will entrust themselves to a faithful Creator, while continuing to do good.” (I Peter 4:19)

There is no merit in suffering. You can suffer outside of ‘God’s will”; that is, because of sin. You either knew it was sin and are now paying the consequences; or you were ignorant of the sin and need to be educated and redeemed. You can suffer within ‘God’s will; that is, because of persecution for your belief and faith. You can either hold fast because your faith tells you to (not for the sake of merit); or you abandon faith and are therefore outside of God’s will. You can also suffer aside from ‘God’s will’; that is your suffering comes not from believe or sin, but from circumstances, and there is no merit in that either. What does earn you merit is trusting in God. When you sin you trust God will forgive you; when you suffer for faith you trust that God will undertake for you; and when you suffer through no fault or action of you own, you trust that God has a better place and way for you in the someday, and that for this day you trust in God because not trusting in God will make all situations worse any way. We trust because our God and Creator is faithful. These are the lessons that I have learned working with the homeless in our area. They are stern and tough lessons, but survive in the field of mental health, and to keep body and spirit together working with these people you have to be tough. And they survive because underneath all that is going on in their lives, they are tough too.

As to continuing to do good, I need to be off to work because I believe, using the strength and compassion that God has gifted me with, I can help them.

May you find merit in trusting God even while you may suffer. And may God bind up and heal all the suffering you may have in your life. Selah!