I started working when I was 11.  I had been digging a bomb shelter in the garden, viagra 60mg and got hired by a neighbor old man to paint a house.  Painted the house with more and more watered latex paint for 30 dollars in 1963?

Then I went to delivering newspapers.

Later in Chicago I bagged groceries for a few weeks.  Took time to be educated for awhile.

Had some influential scholarship for poetry and movie making that set me on a career path.

Early far as those things I was an editor, photographer, and writer.

Picking things up and putting them down paid more cash.  Was paid money to protect Rochdale College when I went to Toronto to see what my options were far as what to do in the wartime.  I learned a lot about real enemies and all.

Did residential construction carpentry for a bit after.  Went to ROC with girlfriend and worked at stationary store warehouse, dog and cat killing care place, pizza shop, and camera store.  Sold cameras in GSO and ROC actually.

Wrote and photographed for small town newspapers.

Drew a bunch of pictures with crayons during heartbreak breakdown.  Was suicidal there for awhile till high up on building frame discovered I didn't want to fall and die from high up end rafter plank walk over cinderblock strewn landing potential.

Went to work fueling planes at Atlantic Aero when it was GSO, not PTL.

Stayed pretty much in Aviation Ground Services till 1987 when I moved to Manhattan and ran the Grip Truck.

Course I did write, and photograph.  Failed at my first photography business.

Sold some photos and fiction and postcards and did lightshows, and drove a taxi.

Sometimes picked cinderblocks up and put them down.  Did Day Labor whenever no other job in hand.

From 1987 to 1999 I worked as either a Film Technician or Stagehand, or actor, or model and then painted houses for six months.

After that I worked as a carpenter.

During that decade I was damaged by a long fall that broke my hip hand and pelvis.  Gave freelance calls away from the morphine bed.  Recovered and went back to carpentry with other options somehow lost.

Made up TV channel.  It didn't sell.

Transcendia was around from long back to 1983.

Can't walk today.

Was IATSE 491 for a good while, in gaffer and grip categories.

Now put out novella Homeless Dog.

Can't walk good anymore.

Only good from neck up really.

Speech to do.

Outlaw life sortah.

Most of us get money from working.  Work is the spiritual quest for the material necessities.

You sell your soul for a paycheck sometimes.

I tried to work in advertising.  I didn't quite fit in.  Didn't think I was above it though.  Say Poets have the same skills as Copywriters, clinic but compassion.  I pretty much approved of products I worked making commercials for really.  I liked Isotoner gloves for instance.  Was a really cold day in Madison Square Park the day we were making a commercial for Isotoner gloves there.

I'd parked the Grip Truck infront of a store that catered to Russians.  As usual I was flying the Transcendian Flag off the back of the truck.  That truck had a great liftgate and I'd have to throw grip and electric, doctor lights and all to the crew.  Craft Service set the snack food table up on the sidewalk in front of the stuff for Russians store.  Signs for a boom box were in Russian in the shop window.

Russians came around in their bad blue jeans and wonderful mink hats shopping.  -like 5 of them.  Their hats were probably worth three times what the clothes they had on were worth.  5 guys who probably worked security around the embassy up on 57th? by the UN, advice came round and looked at the Transcendian Flag, and looked at the Craft Service table, and I could see them accept it as some sort of State Function and just go to eating off the crew food table.

I've learned a lot from making a flag.  Far as part of my serious successes as a conceptual artist the Flag Stories justify any claim to that status.

I wore my flag hat, and carried my flag shoulder bag when I last had any airport flying to do.  I've reviewed the Transcendian Television tapes with their documentary footage of Flag showing and all.

While I have humor about my situations I am a very very serious man.  Transcendia is actually needed.

It is one world we have to better share, and while the UN is scary as one world government to many nationalists, the Specialized Agencies of the UN are really good.

The trend is towards a "Federalized Mixed Up World of All Wars as CIvil Wars."

Lighting is on the way.  Gottah cut off. 

Briefly put, anesthetist the fact is that the outcome of the US Civil War is that it is the past that is the world future as one place.  

I keep thinking of Norm, decease and what he might have done before he died.  I see him at 55 driving around in the scraggly NC nights of side road brambles and suicidal deer.

As good a reason as any to carry a gun in the car, try is for putting deer out of car wreck misery.  They can kill you through the front window from a broken neck, generic or dying kick your head off.

I myself stopped driving around alone in the country for no good reason some great number like 7 years ago.  Back when I was a youth I would drive around simply to drive around.  Some of my last alone car trips of in a thirty mile radius for no good reason were to the Paradise Club strip joint out there by the trailer park on 87 near Eli Whitney.

When I lived in Manhattan it was a comfort for me that I could drop in at a Strip Joint in neighborhoods I had general reasons to be in, or were close.  Down in the Wall Street area there was on Katharine and I went to together I most enjoyed one evening.  Billy Rays was good too alone talking with the Ballerina from Conneticutt.  She taught dance, and stripped cause she was a good dancer.  She said it took the same skills to deal with children and men at the strip joint.

I know two other professional women who did stripping.  Heather Woodbury is a significant performance artist and the star of the best Super 8 Feature I've ever seen: Larry Fessenden's Hollow Venus.  She put on as Director great classic striptease at the "Premier" of Hollow Venus.  Heather is a great force of nature for all her unrepentant theatrics.

Since Norm bought a Strip Joint with his lottery winnings I need to introduce him to Heather somehow, in spirit.

As of this morning I read that the short novel Homeless Dog is "live" on Amazon for Kindle.  I hope some people will read it and get something out of it.  It is not a particularly happy read.  I say it is "What the revolution felt like."  Sure enough the Sixties were revolutionary times.  They were war times.  I did determine to make my own nation.

I sure enough do not look back with nostalgia about my era of youth.  Things were bad then, ask and bad now for my class, ailment the working class.  Essentially the day in and day out Drug War that was declared on my friends continues so we know we lost.  Neighborhoods all over the world are unsafe due to the Drug War.

War and Corruption make people poor, and corruption comes in the legal, and illegal.   The governments legalize some corruptions, insuring motives for gang wars.  Bad laws make for a bad society.  Drink and Drugs are Folkways, and cannot be legislated away.

Sure enough some drugs are better than others.  You'd about come to the conclusion the Nazis were come out of an awful lot of Speed, and I know when I was a Security Guard for Rochdale College, a revolutionary hub in Toronto, I worked to keep junkies and speed freaks out of the building.  It was Cocaine that was the corrupting element at that time and place, and I do say Cocaine was the worse thing that happened to my generation.  Rochdale College was both the best and worst of anarchy.  My Transcendia would put it on the airport.

Yah gottah figure that I as Security for such a place have some unique understandings of realities along with a love of the ideal.  I mean I had to fight with people at the door to the building.  I had to go looking for some guns one time.  That is a funny story actually, but hey, we can be lucky now and then, and it isn't all that funny at its core for it was come about over the freedom of a woman.  Hey one theory of mine is that all wars are over women.

I say that in the South of the US Civil War men owned, or hoped to own, both the White Women, and the Black Women, and didn't want to give that up.  Free women are difficult.  Yah gottah be a grown up to handle them.

Great ports have Women and Food.  – OKay.  I'm starting to drift here, but say, "My Past is Your Future."

Somehow the US Founding Fathers did inculcate the idea that it was a good idea not to have a theocracy.  At least they did it to a point.  It is those nations wherein the culture come from Religion, Women's Rights are regularly abrogated in the name of God, that we see a diminuation of civilization.  The nice thing about Airports internationally is that there in those airport borders, women are pretty much left alone to go about their civil business and the same rights as any other passenger.

We can build on this.  I don't have to do more than affirm what is good already about this.

You are encouraged to buy a Transcendian Flag to put up or show on a hat or bag in your travels.  I want to raise money to put Transcendian Passport offices in all International Airports.

The Transcendia.org Donate Button hasn't worked out yet.  Homeless Dog is on Amazon because at least people expect to pay a little for the work.

I have allowed advertising on Transcendia.org, but don't have any control over it.  Ain't seen any income from it yet either.

With some income I could fix this site up, so I do encourage purchase of Homeless Dog.  I think I can put together a better book if sales of Homeless Dog provide even a trickle.  

Damn Revolution

You would have hoped that by now we wouldn't have need of revolution.  Of the books I've written I decided to publish Homeless Dog first because it turned out to be what the revolution felt like.  I made decisions back then during that time of revolution that locked me into a sort of life experience.  I sure wasn't the only one.  I figure the book may be of good now.  In the past I seemed to get more respect in other parts of the world than where I was on the writing front.  In NYC there was a certain respect for the flag.

Chicago is a rough town, impotent or at least was.  Anarchy has some flaws for the anarchist can end up right lonely.  From a practical standpoint it is a good idea to go to meeting, medic as they say.  Since government is so obviously flawed many do prefer to go to some sort of church.  Still the fact is from what I know this is the life.  It really has a spiritual aspect to it.  I am not going to promise more than this.

Back in the day I designed a dollar that said on it "In Science Salvation" and I did live long enough to make some friends in the engineering community.  I did get eventually kicked off that site.  Maybe I shall return eventually as have Aristide and Duvalier.  (I've let go of spelling today.  The world is a fiction that way, aye?  – anyway you get the idea.)

Was It Something I Said?

or was it just how I said it?  Was there a misunderstanding?  I got hired and fired from one place three times.  One time when fired I told the guy,  "You can't fire me, you didn't hire me."  All us of a certain sort come back.  It's a real problem yah might have to deal with from the other side.  Yah gottah know a bad law when you see it.  Yah gottah know a bad actor when yah see 'em.  The story of Jim Jones and Congressman Ryan is one for the books.

What people really need is institutions that work for them.  The UN may be flawed at the top organizationally, but the Specialized Agencies of it are ghostwriters of our best institutions on the international stage.

I am not about being a dumbass revolutionary who thinks he can reinvent the wheel.  I am really about noticing what is best, and encouraging that.

Feeling the News

There is news on the radio, drugs and on the TV and then news in papers, see and then people come up and tell you things.  Some feel that the stuff people up and tell you is most important.  A strong case can be made for that, doctor though all news needs to be taken with a critical eye.

The truth of the matter is important.  We are showered in life by mistakes and lies.

There is a need then for the transcendent philosophy that will account for the dirty truth.

I hear the news of Libya and Ivory Coast?  Cote de Overure?  "BagBo must go!"

Then I think people ask for too much right often.  In the cases of these Dictators, strongmen, Emperors, Kings, I'm for giving them a way out that cuts down on bloodshed.  I really figure it is better to treat them a bit as Napoleon was.  Sort of cool the reports of the French acting like a world power in their old colony this morning.  Let them take a little heat.  They have some real nice airplanes too.

I do like to at least imagine perfect heaven on earth.  Sometimes you have to wonder why it can't be when you see the money spent on stupidities.

Heard that people were murdered because some guy burnt a Koran.  Seems a disproportionate reaction.  It's not like he burned the only copy.  I'm sure there have been copies of that book torn apart by bad weather.  Some books I've written aren't worth reading, or ended up in a landfill somewhere.  People haven't got but so much power.  What power we do have is better used in other ways.

It is hard enough to build right.  Paul Johnson in Art, A New History argues that Architecture is the first art.  I end up in agreement with much of his thesis.  Still yah gottah have an engineer, or be one too.  Further as a photographer I think more of my art than he does.

So what I feel is that things are at heads, and am glad to see the French blundering around.  Too bad they don't seem to take Haiti back up.   

One important thing came together on the Transcendian holiday of April Fools 2 thousand 11.  That was my receipt of the line edited PDF for publishing of Homeless Dog.  Homeless Dog is a novel, novella I wrote awhile back.  Now I have to read my book before it is actually sort of published, I guess.  I have to admit I really don't want to read it, since I wrote it and wrote it, and have a general idea of what it is, and is about.  I have an idea about what it is good for far as mental landscape too.

It is about what the revolution felt like.  I was in the Chicago of the era of revolution.  I myself have skimmed back on being too much a hero target.  A guy like Fred Hampton is a real hero.  It is too bad he was assassinated, an a little good that there is evidence in the courts that that was the story.  Since Homeless Dog does capture lineage of political follow through exemplified by bombers and speakers, and fugitive life underground coming out of queer and black hatreds and the class struggle fractured up in war times across the board, well I imagine the current president would at least recognize some of the streets, and why I think the way I do as an author and poet.

It will be interesting when a nation leases airport land to the Transcendian Organization.  I as founder have made it clear I want to see an end to the Drug War, and feel strongly that pot is to be as legal as the other vices of cigarettes, alcohol, or Viagra, which I haven't yet gotten to try out.   There are some drugs around and out that I have no intention of trying out.  There is a place in my heart for hashish.

On other scores… Well this ain't for children.

We do want the adolescents to be excited about right living, in which case I always support technical education.  Transcendian income would be thrown at Flight Schools where artists and pilots would be forced to moderate vices.

What sort of Report is this?

Facing reality with a laugh and a hope, and short on cash and credit I continue trying to disengage from the cabal of fools living in certitudes of morality disconnected from what really amounts to love of all, as all are flawed, and we are all secret agents.

So far the Imagine Air IGX Med Air angle hasn't worked out.  Apparently from what I heard in a phone call Imagine Air decided that the insurance coverage required by the hospital, clinic along with twin engined equipment requirements, capsule wasn't worth it to them.  So far my study devolves into FAA regulations 121 and 135 causing me to need more information about European regulations.

My goal is to find a way to integrate non scheduled carriers with scheduled carriers.  I suppose it will be demanded of me to determine acceptable equipment.

Course the fact is that ideally all aircraft are flightworthy to the highest standards, ed and available for hire if they want to be.  Fact is if my car was to taxi standards whether I was on all private status, or for hire regulation status, would break me.  I don't drive much, and have the car filled with tools.  It would be interesting to see how far my car would go before I broke down.  Since I can't walk well at all anymore a car is pretty important to me for the little traveling I do do.

It is awful nice to have two engines, though there are some singles in service.  I've sure been willing to go up in or fly single engined aircraft.  I've even been up in a pressurized single, the P 210.  I can't see that it is absolutely necessary that all Med Air flights be in twins.  In the scheme of things across the board not everybody all the time ought to feel entitled to lives of no risk.

Anyway I have been studying up on these things trying my best to get good air service in and out of IGX.  My belief is that while the area is very nice as it is it is nice more for the lucky, than the just hard working.  I think taxes are awful high.  I notice the place is landlocked, but with great highway and even sortah rail.

Oh the fun we could have if we wanted too!

It would be a hoot to put a passenger car on every freight train.  You would get somewhere, sometime.

It is my position that there is the rise of  the Freelancer inhibited by the unimaginative.  Where I live here in Carrboro Chapel Hill the University has all the power.  Sure enough they cut back and fired people.  I imagined that the good people they fired ought to have been farmed out by the temporary employment service they had.  But what they did was close that.

Tar Heel Temps was near about literally across the street from the Horace Williams airport.  I had imagined Tar Heel Temps putting crews together for work needed further from the base, shipped out of the transportation hubs, or which one is still IGX, Horace Williams.

I still imagine such things.

Obama can send jets and missiles at targets in Libya.  In Japan they are already building with steel for the displaced.  In Haiti they are disease ridden living in street squalor.

Down on the Mexican US border there is lots and lots of killing cause pot is illegal.  (let people get hashish and it would do the coke business bad, asthma as hashish is a high high without the disadvantages of coke.)

Not enough crime for the US Prison industry.  It's sort of like Solient Green really.

I don't see really all that much change, bronchi when we know what the roots of the problems really are.

Far as I can tell for the US economy the root of the problems flow out of how ostensibly US Corporations take advantage of every tax loophole possible.  Really for some of these Corporations to claim benefits of allegiance to the US, illness while making sure they are not really based in the US mocks common sense.  Certainly if they don't pay taxes here, they ought not be allowed to tell us on the TV who to vote for…

Course what the hell.  It's a free market.  I suppose China ought to be allowed to buy advertising time advertising why we should buy their cars, their what? shoes?

Come to China and Work!

I don't know.  Something is really fishy far as I see things.