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FEBRUARY 13, 2012 -- FEW SHORT ESSAYS

2011-06-14T12:23:00.022-04:00

DEREGULATION

I don't understand why it never crosses the mind of those who carry the banner of "Deregulation" that the place to start is with automobile traffic laws. George Washington never had to put up with a stop sign or a traffic light.

Of course, the base line reason that our modern world requires regulations is because when human beings are routinely in possession of deadly force -- deadly force which on an instant can, and does, go awry -- deadly force which on the highways annually kills more Americans than the death toll of most wars -- then for some inexplicable reason Democracy wants to regulate.

No one suggests that a Revolutionary War style black powder rifle be put behind a lock because we fear that a child may load it, raise it, and accidentally kill a friend.

I don't know where regulation will end. I know that most Americans are so wicked, so evil, and so stupid that they are willing to trade-in their rights (4th Amendment), the health of the planet, and their good sense of what is reasonable behavior for a two footed animal, in exchange for a week in the tropics -- and let not the tropical natives follow them home.

The Amish don't have lifestyles that require a great deal of regulation. I understand that in the American West there are plenty of wild horses needing homes, instead of slaughter. We all know that the Conservatives love to embrace The Cowboy, The Hero, and Deregulation but can never seem to stop all their hugging of men in uniforms long enough to get off their lazy stereotype-seeking intellect and actually do something to make life -- their country -- better.

UNIONISM, SOCIALISM, COMMUNISM, AND MODERN LIBERALISM GENERALLY
"The family and I were just enjoying our lives. I guess we weren't looking . . . maybe made the wrong choices, the wrong turns. Some say we were tricked. Don't know. Now here we are with so little and it seems that those other people have so much. If this distribution of wealth continues we fear that we could become slaves or near slaves. So the neighbors and I got together and we think it would work out for the best if we started over and we redistributed. Yes. A New Deal. A Great Society of Neighbors, Friends, Family, Brothers and Sisters. Relax, Rich Neighbors -- Easy Living for All. We'll all get back to enjoying our lives."

A LITTLE HISTORY FROM ANCIENT ROME
Spartacus was a Roman gladiatorial slave who, a few decades before the time of Christ, escaped a gladiatorial school with about 70 other slaves and a wagon load of gladiatorial arms. He and his comrades eventually liberated numerous other Roman slaves becoming a rather large army of rebellion. Circumstances were such (the Roman army was off fighting foreign wars) that Spartacus had great success up and down the Italian "boot". Eventually, however, Spartacus was defeated. The survivors of his army, numbering around six thousand, were crucified one after another the length most of the Appian Way between between Naples and Rome. You might consider Spartacus and his friends the next time you see a crucifix.

A LITTLE RUSSIAN HISTORY
In the 1770's a Russian peasant named Pugachev lead a rebellion through impersonation of the dead Emperor Peter III. Peter was unpopular among the Aristocry and had been recently overthrown and killed, possibly by his wife Catherine II. It was Pugachev's plan to take advantage of Peter's identity, claim that the Emperor had survived, and lead a revolt of Cossacks and peasants to overthrow the Russian establishment. "Pugachev's Rebellion" enjoyed some success but was eventually defeated. Pugachev was publicly beheaded and then what remained of him was drawn and quartered.

After the Rebellion government reforms related to peasants were halted. It's believed that Catherine had had pre-Rebellion plans to emancipate the peasantry, which were primarily migrant at that time. However, the Russian aristocracy had become so fearful of a peasantry roving the land that, from the Rebellion forward, the peasants were forced to abandon their migrations and to remain serfs on the land of particular Aristocratic owners.

Two further points: First, Pugachev's Rebellion predated Karl Marx so calling it "communist" is a bit premature although that's exactly what Pugachev's Rebellion would be called today. Second, if you were born in Russian prior to 1917, the chances are overwhelming that you would be a peasant. And if, in 1917, you were a peasant and not a Communist how could you be anything but a fool?

ATHLETES OF AMERICA; ATHLETES OF THE WORLD; ATHLETES OF THE UNIVERSE
Given that I am the equivalent of a Blue Whale walking the earth -- big, HUGE, muscular, skilled in all I do and living in a world being polluted by knuckle heads . . . I challenge anyone and everyone to gather up the pick and shovel see if they able to dig a deeper, wider, longer, faster foundation trench than I can do. I am the greatest foundation trench digger that ever was. The world championships are being held everyday in Haiti. If I don't get there, don't hesitate to start digging those foundation trenches without me. If you need to practice, start right there at home by digging a new trench to replace that piece of outmoded, polluting American crap you call a house that you're living in now.

FEBRUARY 8, 2012 -- Return to the Outdoors

February 1, 2012

WHOA! I've just returned from an All-January solo bicycle trip to New York City and currently visiting family relations in Rhode Island.

December 31, 2012

. . . and I came to a Fork in the Road . . .

Miscellaneous COMMENTARY -- November 30, 2011

Present day human life has "static shelter" that is dependent on life support systems running to and from individual units. This is like an invalid on life support systems in a hospital. -- Michael Reynolds COMFORT IN ANY CLIMATE 2000

Love what you do and you'll never work a day in your life. -- The Geico Gecko - 2011

And I went down to the demonstration
To get my fair share of abuse

Singing, "We're gonna vent our frustration

If we don't we're gonna blow a 50-amp fuse"
--Rolling Stones. You Can't Always Get What You Want - 1970

The most four most Invasive Species of my region are: the Domestic (non-feral) Dog, the (daytime prowling) Domestic Cat, Lawn Grass, and Human Beings

I don't recall Ayn Rand 's "Money is Morality" calculations ever including the destruction of the ground we're walking upon.

The ancient city of Ephesus was once an important Greek and then Imperial Roman port on what is now the Southwestern Turkish coast. In the Roman period, Ephesus had a population of more than 250,000 in the 1st century BC, which also made it one of the largest cities in the Mediterranean world. But over the centuries, sedimentation from mistreatment of the topsoil inland gradually filled in the inlet around the city. The coastlines moved seaward and the ruins of Ephesus are now some 5 miles inland from the coast.

Each time funding goes to the Interstate Highway System there is an unspoken presumption that all future generations will continue maintaining this infrastructure; indeed, they must, or there will be consequences related to the value of all the real estate that most depends on these roads -- especially the real estate nearest the exits. Let the smallest under or over pass fall and there will be a lot of detouring for hundreds of miles around. How does one calculate the eternal expenses of the Interstate Highway into the calculations of the National Debt? Those who embrace the flames of coal and oil never seem to consider eternity.

In some parts of the world we are often reminded of the loss of habitat for animals near extinction: the Tiger, Orangutan, Panda, Polar Bear etc. I'm so lucky to be living in a part of the "Free" "Western" World where one never need worry about the loss of habitat. After all, around here, the lawn is more important than the Woodchuck, the Beaver, the Lynx, the Moose, the Wolf. . . .

Amendments to the Constitution of THE AMERICAN WAY OF LIFE

1. Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of anything but the HOME TEAM, and encouraging the regular exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of grunts, roars, spitting, etc. or of the right of ALL PEOPLE to own a BIG SCREEN TV, with regular replacement upgrades and necessary dumpings in landfills; or of the right of the people peacably to assemble in their stadiums to suck up to THEIR ESTABLISHED LEADERS and to weep upon their childhood endocrinated pledges and anthems.

2. A population of traffic jamming COMMUTERS being necessary to the security of THE AMERICAN EMPIRE, the right of the people to to keep and bear the deadly force of THEIR CARS, shall not be infringed, subject to, necessarily, the greatest number of laws ever assembled on any single TOPIC. Congress shall provide an endless and cheap source of energy.

3. NO AMIMAL shall, at any time, quarter itself upon the land of any HUMAN, excepting our undeniably lovable, and superior, DOGS and CATS, nor shall the right of ALL PEOPLE to a half acre lot, of neat angled corners and gilded with short regularly shorn LAWN GRASS be denied; let no grub or slug, or squirell or ground hog, no wild beast of any kind, violate the sanctity of this GOD GIVEN land, but in a manner to be PRESCRIBED by law.

4. The right of the PEOPLE to be secure in their conscience regarding their alcoholic liquors shall not be violatated without reminder of the physically addictive properties of alcohol especially since the government can earn so much through taxation of these liquors; the government may give no quarter to any other reputed euphoric substance, except as PRESCRIBED by law.

5. The powers not delegated to the American Way of Life by the Constitution nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people; but the PEOPLE may not claim a prior right to peaceable passabe on roadways when such claims would violate the preemminence of the car or the ULTIMATE PREEMINENCE of the curiousity of the law to question and search a pedestrian.

6. ALL PERSONS shall be entitled to a trip to DISNEY WORLD complete with a thorough body search.

June 14, 2011 [How vague of me: The issue is SPORTS]

BJOYCE HEADLINES:

Violence Promotion related to Corporate Games NOT AN ISSUE

Social Mental Health while Promoting Corporate Games NOT AN ISSUE

Childhood Indoctrination Related to Corporate Games NOT AN ISSUE

--- As Boston Corporate Media Membership Spit Dunkin Cream Filled at public While Doing CORPORATE SIXTY NINE with Local Teams

Long live the principle: those who encourage violence have no standing to claim freedom from violence.

Brian Joyce

ART DEMANDS . . . .

2011-05-31T13:39:00.006-04:00

ART DEMANDS VERTICAL EQUALITY:
Video screens should be square and vertical visual depiction, pictures, photos, videos, etc. should be given equal respect of presentation . . . oh, yeah, and I'm also opposed to all War Memorials, War Memorializing, and The War Memorial Industry. These are Art Issues.

Preview of Next Blog/Mailing:

The Shadow of My Nude - 2011 B.Joyce

The user friendly bike: Despite being almost exclusively a bicyclist for several years now, and despite being
a person who views the challenge of any "tool" as a skill to be mastered, I don't feel that I'm an expert at The Bicycle.
Is it me? Or is it the simply simple complications of this machine of Miraculous Physical Forward Motion With Minimal Friction? This much I can tell you -- anyone who believes that the bicycle should be more widely used by humanity must accept that the machine must be more easily used by humanity. The general use of the bicylce must not be viewed as the practice of an art form. The bicylce must compete with the practical convenience, if not the comfort, of the automobile. I have no material fabrication facilities and I may not be an inventor but I believe I know what are tne current necessities of The Consumer Friendly Bike:

1. The seat of a bicycle should be easily, and without additional tools, be able to angle-wratchet forward and back to allow for periodic relief and alternation of pressure points in the crotch. When one considers the ease and variety in the adjustment of automobile seats, the idea of getting out wrenches and fussing over fractional bike seat adjustments seems absurd.

2. The front fork of the bicycle should be easily, in one step, preferably with one finger, be easily locked into a forward position to facilitate the ease of leaning and parking. It is the wobbily uncertain positioning of the front fork which most usually makes bikes so prone to tipping when parking. It only takes a few failed attempts at parking before a potential bike enthusiast, who may not have a great intereest in mastering the physical forces of stationary balance, becomes frustrated and hopeless and a reluctant bicycle user.

3. I'm not an electrical engineer, but I know that electrical generators, like the wheels of a bicycle, spin on a virtually friction free axis. Why these two spinning items haven't been paired together over the past century is beyond me. Electrical generation should be standard and integrated into the design on most, if not all, street bikes, at a minimum for lighting, and with accessory chargers for batteries.

If bicycle design can't make some effort, some gesture, to reasonable comfort I just don't see how the bicycle can -- and it doesn't -- and it must -- possibly compete with the luxury of the automobile.

But WAIT! There'll Be MORE!!!
An essay on defeating the Nationalist Mind!
Who knows what else!!!!!!!!!!!!!!?
How could an architect be anything but contrary to The American Way of Life? Hmmmmmmm . . . A Suspect Class.

Hey! "June 14th Headlines" Preceded "Next Blog/Mailing" -- Sorry

THEY SWALLOW JAIL BALONEY

2011-04-29T12:53:00.006-04:00

May 2011: Speaking as someone who has been jailed in America from Hyannis to Los Angeles and from Seattle to Miami I would like to report that I have never witnessed any sexual activity of any kind while in jail: not rape, not consensual sex, not masturbation; as is to be reasonably expected from a random group of men who have been thrown into oppressive circumstances with potentially nonstop surveillance. Some people (cluck cluck) have strange (fearful) ideas about the behavior of men. I find it amusing (not) that the gutless sellouts who haven't yet found a reason to go to jail against the United S___heads of America continue to perpetuate the belief that going to jail should be something to denigrate and make shameful. I wonder what their stand on torture is? Have you heard about the sexual activities of the hero Chilean Coal Miners? Oh, that's right . . . they're National Anthem singing good people. Ha Ha Ha

Gay or Royal there isn't a wedding on this planet or any other planet that I care about; except possibly my own.

Domestic American Addictions: the Car, the Lawn, the Dog, the Meat, and other associated weirdnesses (loud top soil dust destroying leaf blowers), to which I have the utmost tolerance; tolerance until, of course, I wonder who the hell is in charge of destroying the fucking World!? I happen to believe that creativity allows the discussions, all discussions, which will lead us to a solution to our dillemas. I can't remember a time in my life when I told anyone to ShutUp/.

Abortion is a dillema of our era, age, life, species. LIFE HAS UNASWERABLE DILLEMAS;/. . . . We lack the wisdom to ever try to politically attempt to criminally control Abortion. Maybe the issue of Abortion will lead us to some evil science fiction future, at which time humanity will have to hope that there is enough humanity left to defend humanity. That's where we are right now. But the issue is the environment. And nothing that we do or eat or consume is above dillemas. And survival of the planet is the issue and nothing that we do must be accepted without consideration. I know that George Washington drove a Caddie with nukes pointed in every direction . . . but maybe you should consider life on this planet without combustion engines as did so many of the Ancestors of your Histories and Holy Books.

Broadcast signals are Regional Natural Resources, they can only belong to the people of their respective, nature defined, regions. Take that idea where ever you want. I'm sure that as long as I live I will always believe that that is as good a political principle as any. Which means that eventually sooner or later it, very likely fall . . . but right now It's GOOOOD! Pardon, my Americaness/O

I beg pardon from all the people I've disappointed, willing or carelessly, whatever . . . .

2009-08-03T10:06:00.041-04:00

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April 20, 2011

April 15, 2011:

If you don't act -- the dangers become stronger. -- Ai Wei Wei
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/ai-wei-wei/?autoplay

January 30, 2011:

OUR ARCHITECTURAL DARK AGES
MY PATH FROM LIBERTARIANISM TO ANTI-CAPITALISM

The following scans are from a book in my possession published in 1979:

Now, I haven't done a thorough architectural survey of recent New England architecture but I know that most Americans are capable of holding the simple concept: "McMansion." Meanwhile, I also know from experience that most American college grads would not be able to define the term "berm" or express an understanding of the basic principles of "home geothermal design".

The energy saving architectural designs in these drawings have been almost entirely ignored by New England developers, contractors, and architects -- you know --the alleged "the job makers". Take note that the illustrated style of Architecture is rather "Space Age" in appearance while the typical "McMansion" has that Grandmotherly appeal of which the American Man is so fond.

The Capitalist argument says that the pursuit of self-interest will drive an efficient economy and yet this architectural/energy problem is just one glaring example of how Capitalism only serves itself. In the instance of Architecture, Capitalism has never served that old "Yankee" value of THRIFT. But Capitalism is always, dependably, in service to consumption. Capitalist consumption profits that which leads to more Capitalist consumption. THRIFT -- the creative use of limited resources to get the most out of them -- is never to be rewarded and preferably shunned.

Some personal anecdotal "evidence": In the past ten years, whenever I've visited a big box hardware store, I've made it a point to stop at the book section to see what is currently being offered to support or encourage solar/geothermal home design -- NOTHING. I haven't even been able to find a book on simple greenhouse additions. But there were plenty of books on Gazebos (now, there's a brilliant Capitalist investment) and swimming pools.

In 1979 I was just entering Homelessness. In the five years previous I had made an independent hobby/study/lifestyle (artist poverty) of THRIFT which included energy conservation, materials recycling and organic home gardening.

In those same years I was an advocate of Individualistic Libertarianism. That was the post-Nixon era and I believed in the "Two Party" cliche so I registered as a Republican -- it seemed so outrageously avante garde at the time. What a mistake.

Let me bear witness as an artist here: Despite having made some limited, but theoretically conservative, national press attention at the time, never has a Republican, a Libertarian, or Conservative ever sought me out to engage in that "sacred practice" called TRADE. I could probably count my lifetime paying customers on my fingers and toes and still afford an amputation or two. (Ah, Van Gogh)

My career, as well as the "career" of energy saving architectural design can only conclude that Capitalism, conservatism -- in fact modern day Americanism -- [is for dummies] has no affinity for independent creative expression which is advocating creative solutions. "The Greatest Country in the World" cultivates controllable, standard thinking, employees who, it is preferred, will always be -- and always want to be -- institutionalized.

P.S. A version of Architectural Berming, known as "The Dugout" was the prefered architectural style of first generation of American Prairie Pioneers.

January 13, 2010

Random Notes:
Looks like I'll be leaving the Pinkham Buildiing Studios in soon.

Commentary after the Blizzard: As a person who believes it is my duty to experience the inclement weather, I just wanted to comment on the American Totalitarianism (men with snowplows and political authority) that dominates the byways of this country when it snows . . . for the sake of the National Oil Addiction. Let me know when I fail to give you anything but an original perspective. They don't call me "Nonunanamous" for nothin'

January 6, 2011

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2009-07-03T12:12:00.005-04:00