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Northern Shaolin Kung Fu (Wong Jack-Man) + Ashtanga Vinyasa (breath/flow) Yoga + Plum Flower Fist = What I will use to battle Rodney Yee (Bruce Lee)! Madonna and Sting!

January 23rd, 2008 at 7:43 pm » Comments (0)

Rodney Yee: challenged to a duel!
(image courtesy of USA Today)
the terms:

fight: mixed martial arts sparring — w/headgear/mouthguard and/or light gloves…no going for the eyes or groin (Rodney)!
OR yoga endurance: who can sit in full lotus longer?

the idea:
recreate legendary fight in oakland between bruce lee and wong jack man
except […]



in order to transform our society, city and neighborhoods

December 19th, 2007 at 9:45 pm » Comments (0)

“The picture that begins to emerge from this and other analyses of human genetic variation is that variation tends to be geographically structured, such that most individuals from the same geographic region will be more similar to one another than to individuals from a distant region.[57]”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_%28classification_of_human_beings%29
in order to transform our society, city and neighborhoods
into places […]



THE CALLOUS DECADENTS

April 11th, 2007 at 9:15 pm » Comments (0)

THE CALLOUS DECADENTS are the enemy of global progress, closed-minded little “me” approach hoarding wealth building fortresses and machines of death. They will be overcome. Obviously weak and scared, ridiculous and self-serving models they promote: bio-engineering, patenting and intellectual property. Nothing more than carving it up, the privatization of everything, the […]



Subjective Impressions

April 11th, 2007 at 9:15 pm » Comments (0)

Adrift in k and void of culture we’re the playthings of k we call it modernity, revel in the endless distraction of it, elevate the base nature celebrate the irony we revere and enshrine laziness, complain we don’t know what to do with ourselves. We’re handing over our rights, distantly perceive our own thoughts […]



INDEX OF TERMS

April 11th, 2007 at 9:13 pm » Comments (0)

Culture Wars: branding, tracking, opinion monitoring….revolution as commodity….gentrification and racism. Presentation of/participation in sham democracy. Opposition demonized, Religious Right…apocalypse visions.

Children are regarded as possessions and have no other legal standing. They are socialized respectively in tiered systems of education over which parents and community have little control. They are […]



collapse to primitivism: jumping scale

April 11th, 2007 at 8:32 pm » Comments (0)

Against this austere backdrop we find pockets of humanity thriving, itching and experimenting into balance. Awash in media haze it’s few who break through mental conditioning self-doubt fear and insanity to discard the tired tools of repression. Many are the casualties, incalculable the social deficit — we find ourselves between betwixt hesitating transfixed […]



stranger, prodigal son

April 11th, 2007 at 8:31 pm » Comments (0)

He walks the street of another dead city. Body still ringing, charge building dissipates/slow steady pace constant, the wheels revolve rolling, devouring miles and dreams shift, illusions drift windmill tilt, tattered threads the sunshines through. Familiar recession sprawl, savage disinvestment campaign, monopoly enforced scarcity polarizes and concentrates, leaves behind cheap track housing […]



I get it baby, I’m freaked out too.

April 11th, 2007 at 8:29 pm » Comments (0)

Things can’t go on like this. A reality of pain and fear, an age of crisis accumulated, product of shattered minds the fuel bodies the raw material. This flawed I know and experience. Maybe it’s small, change…insignificant parts encompassed. But we all ride time through space and in reviewing the legacy […]