“pop a beer, put a little mustard on that dog, sit back and relax..it’s July 4th..and the Twilight Zone Marathon..”.
So appropriate,the “TZ” marathon has been broadcast in the SoCal area every July 4th weekend for what..30 years or more?
3 very solid days of TZ episodes..24hrs a day.
It’s a cultural event.
Whether you actively participate in the culture,deny it’s existence,work to change it, or simply wish it would go away..these 3 golden days are indeed a landslide of perennial wisdom and,knowledge..as posited from deep inside the bowels and psyche of mid-century America.
“Look up ahead..
the sign post on the road,
you have entered..the Twilight Zone”.
Surfers Against Sewages (SAS) new campaign Protect Our Waves (POW) had its first action today, The Gathering, a mass paddle out, in association with local campaign group Access BroadBench Association (ABBA). Over 350 surfers from across the nation joined SAS and ABBA and paddled out at Kimmeridge Bay on International Surfing Day. The action called on the Secretary of State for Defence to allow surfers access to Broadbench, a special wave found on the outer boundary of a Ministry of Defence (MoD) firing range.
Broadbench is a quality wave in Kimmeridge Bay, described by many as one of Britains best. Unfortunately it falls right on the outer boundary of a MoD firing range. SAS are not asking the MoD to reduce their use of this important firing range. However, SAS believe there is a compromise that will ensure surfers and waveriders can have 100% access to Broadbench without impacting on the MoDs full use of the firing range.
We are calling on the Secretary of State for Defence to implement SASs compromise, changing where the MoD currently fire from. This will in turn change the direction of the MoDs firing and could leave Broadbench outside the boundary of the firing range. It will not impact on the MoDs use of the firing range, leaving surfers and waveriders with 100% access to Broadbench and the MoD full use of their range.
International Surfing Day (ISD), sees surfing events taking place all over the world. There will be events in North and South America, Europe, Asia and Australia but nothing like the Gathering. SAS expect the Gathering to be the best-supported event with over 350 surfers and supporter actively participating at the paddle out protest on ISD.
yeah , it’s been a tough week what with Mr Moonwalk, Farrah, and Ed McMahon..
but spare just a fleeting thought for Sky “Sunshine’ Saxon..and the Seeds.
In this case..Sky Saxon, who transcended this world and joined Father Yod in the great Gematria in the …sky.. on June 25th.
Really a great sound that arrived at just the right time..proto punk/garage grunge..whatever you want to call it..and lets not forget psychedialic opera..these guys had it all…and Sky frankly never left.
Do a little online research,
marvel,
and smile.
Rock on Sky!
“you must have a room,or
a certain hour or so a day, where
you don’t know what was in the
newspapers that morning…
a place where you can simply
experience and bring forth
what you are and what you
might be”
Here’s a great piece by Eric Neel about Phil Jackson, who Neel has been following since the beginning of the Playoffs. Usually Phil is mocked for his lazier fair style because most people don’t understand how you can just smile and sit calmly as Kobe walks back to the bench fuming after forcing a tough shot and getting block at the end of regulation in Game 2. This type of calmness is rarely seen sports and normally does not compute. But Neel felt it and does a great job exploring it in this piece:
But that’s not what I’m thinking at all. I’m thinking, what if the operative shtick here is ours, not his? What if there’s some part of us, some cautious, analog part of our hearts that still clings to the idea that coaches are only coaching when they draw up plays on the chalkboard or stir up players with Gipper speeches?
I’m thinking this cat has stayed true to his school on this stuff, talking about energy, connectedness, intuition and not being a stranger to the moment as you’ve imagined it, from the jump, for two decades now.
At what point do we stop thinking of him as the eccentric? Will 10 rings do the trick? At what point do we consider the possibility, in earnest, with nary a wink or a nod, that the guy might be on to something? That over and above the X’s and O’s (which pretty much everyone knows cold anyway), in this era, in conjunction with truly elite talents such as Michael, Scottie, Shaq, Kobe and Gasol, at this level of competition, Jackson might be practicing just the sort of alchemy and philosophical framing that makes the difference between a team’s being good and being great, between simply making the playoffs and making the playoffs your plaything.
Epilogue to Rob Reimen’s book, Nobility of Spirit:
In an old European city, the poet, nintety years old and shackled to his bed but with a mind that is still clear, hears that his dearest woman friend has died. Czeslaw Milosz writes:
What did I learn from Jeanne Hersch?
1. That reason is a great gift from God and one should trust in its capacity to know the world.
2. That they were mistaken who undermined our confidence in reason by enumerating its determinants: class struggle, libido, the will to power.
3. That we should be aware of being imprisoned in our perceptions, but should not therefore reduce reality to dreams, illusions, produced by mind.
4. That truthfulness is a proof of freedom and falsehood is typical slavery.
5. That the appropriate attitude in the face of existence is reverence, and this is why one should avoid the company of those who debase it through sarcasm and who praise nothingness.
6. That, even if this should lead to an accusation of arrogance, intellectual life governs itself by the rule of a strict hierarchy.
7. That the addiction of the twentieth-century intellectuals is le baratin—chatter devoid of responsibility.
8. That in the hierarchy of human activities art shall be placed higher than philosophy but that a bad philosophy can corrupt art.
9. That there is objective truth; namely, out of two conflicting statements one is true, the other false, except in the cases when contradiction is legitimate.
10. That quite independently of the fate of natural religions one should preserve a “philosophical faith,” i.e., the belief in transcendence as an important ingredient of our humanity.
11. That time condemns to oblivion only these works of hands and minds that do not help, century after century, to build the great house of civilization.
12. That in our own lives we should not despair because of errors and sins, for the past is not closed, it receives the meaning from our present actions.
