Have you heard they’re going to bomb the Moon on October 9th?

I posted that link to Facebook and so did a number of my friends. We were all appalled and saying so. I said it was chilling in light of what the Moon symbolizes, which drew forth this reply from a scientist type friend of hers:

“This is not chilling in any way whatsoever, as objects (including manmade) have been crashing into the moon with forces and speeds that *far* outweigh the LCROSS impact (you might have noticed the moon has a large number of craters.) The moon has no atmosphere.

If you’ve ever seen a shooting star, that same event on the moon is an impact of extremely high velocity. As for it being a ‘stupid’ way to search for water, I’m not sure how to address that except that I don’t know what a less stupid way would be. Analyzing an ejecta cloud using spectrometers and detectors actually seems kind of clever, to me.”

Now, part of my brain is right there with him on this.
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I don’t know if you have them, but every year or so, I have a Big Dream that rocks me, teaches me and wakes me up to new levels of experience. This one in particular left me with waves of understanding at a cellular level that are still lapping at my brain.

My dreams have been growing more multidimensional, therefore very difficult to remember let alone describe. I thought I’d try to share this one, because it’s, well, one of those important-feeling ones, but describing it might be a bit tricky.

In my dream, there are two worlds that aren’t the same, but they are so closely connected that they appear tightly woven together. Each is invisible to the other, but they profoundly affect each other. To cross from one world into the other is nearly impossible, but it can be done with deep intention and preparation.

The action in the dream begins when inhabitants of the–I’ll call it the ‘right-hand world’; it’s a place of power and love, where there is no death or strife–learn that whenever somebody is tortured, raped, murdered, or subjected to any kind of painful or debilitating trauma (including dis-ease of all sorts), there is a ripple effect into their own world.

The right-hand world is much less populous. Each person there is directly linked to quite a lot of people, hundreds and even thousands (maybe more; numbers were not clear), in the other world (our own Earth) and suffers milder but mirroring symptoms as a direct consequence of the ones they are linked to going through extreme pain or trauma. (more…)

A while ago in Duncan, I saw a post-taser scene: five or six cops standing over an obviously dazed and incapacitated ‘culprit’, still twitching… as he began to recover, he screamed, “Police brutality!” while they dragged him into the back seat of the cruiser.

What struck me about this and another scene I witnessed around the same time was the sheer overkill of authoritative force. One unarmed suspect = five or six armed and formidable police officers? Really? How is that justified?

Overkill is the name of the game everywhere these days. Here is a really good article about the fact that tasers are actually a torture device, and pointing out the increasing ubiquity of their use.

Tasers were originally designed and intended (so the claim goes) to be used only in situations in which deathly force (ie, guns) would be required. But how does that justify this? Or this, tasing rowdy sports fans?

Deliberately inflicting serious, incapacitating pain, whether or not it leaves a scar, whether or not it can lead to death (which it indubitably can) is torture, period. And unnecessary use of tasers by law enforcement is increasing. We, along with the rest of the world, are living in a torture state, terrified to mouth off to the police, scared to do anything but kowtow to intimidating authority.

Most disturbing is the way that taser videos circulate as humour, such hilarity, watching incapacitated victims writhe and twitch and loose their bowels. Lovely.

Just thought I’d spill that. Have a nice day, all.

I can’t remember if I’ve posted these here or not, but here they are again:

This is my set at the Gong Show (Sungoma, near Duncan) in June …

And this is from March, at “Folk, Yeah!” open mic on Hornby, the first of my vids…

Enjoy, oh, do! And let me know if you saw it, and did you like it, and all that. Thanks, ever’bunny…

Here it is! Video from my set at the Cirque du Cabaret last Saturday night. What a wild and beautiful night that was. My character in the circus was introduced as ‘a fortuneteller / soothsayer raised in the North by wolves,’ which actually isn’t far from the truth at all, as regular readers of this blog will no doubt realize.

I do hope you enjoy it–I certainly did! I would do this sort of thing every single day of my life, happily, if I could get away with it!

Last year I performed at the Habitat Cabaret in Maple Bay with a wild troupe of talented folks, and what a great time we had, face paint and costumes and amazing entertainment.

This Saturday, there will be another Cabaret, relocated to the Duncan Garage (a bit smaller, but also cozier), and I get to sing in that one too. I hope you get to come. It’ll be fun!

Saturday evening, Duncan Garage, doors at 7:30… I’ll be there. I haven’t performed publicly since June 27 at the Gong Show, so I’m really looking forward to this.

I’ve been a member of the Progressive Bloggers community over on Word of Mouth Blog (WoMb) for years, but since WoMb has gone defunct (or dormant), I’ve transferred my writerly focus over to this personal site.

Then yesterday, Scott Tribe asked if I wanted to add this site to the ProgBlog community, and I hesitated at first, because this tends to be a rather relentlessly personal and navel-gazing blog (well, mostly; I do write stuff like this, too). I do, however, think of myself as a progressive sort, doing my part by living my life according to my principles and writing about it here.

I’m a photographer / artist / singer-songwriter / card reader / astrologer / writer and this blog is the container into (out of?) which I spill everything; I can’t really categorize myself well. On the Political Compass, I am firmly lodged way down in the lower left hand quadrant (below where Gandhi is). I’m a leftie-libertarian, which I count as ‘progressive’ though of course, if you don’t fit in that quadrant, you’re likely to disagree.

What is progressiveness? I suspect that ultimately we’re all coming toward the same central truth from our own positions in the spectral sphere, and that therefore progress is going to look different according to our individual starting places.
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