This Blog Of Mine – An Ode To My Blog / With A Little Help from Shakespeare

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 Blogging From The Heart/Mind
 
This other eden, demi=paradise,
This precious stone set in a silver sea of words,
This Blessed Plot,
This earth,
This realm of ideas,
This blog of mine -this little piece of the world.
 
I highly recommend that if you have something to say blog it, we need every blogger we can get to join [...]

Iraq and Afghanistan Soldier’s Poetry/Art Slam Session 11

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Good afternoon,
Our selection for this session will be a poem from the US civil war.  By listening to all soldier’s voices whether you agree with them or not – maybe we can create a true understanding of how war effects all who participate in it and demand that our leaders choose war [...]

Friday Night Gallery Chat, Pop Art!

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Hey guys,  time for the gallery chat ! this is my happy time, love to talk about art!
Tonight a goofy movement and alot of FUN!  POP art!   It surfaced around the mid-1950’s in England and a few years later in the US.
You could say that it leads to conceptual art as the [...]

ECO-LIFE IDEA – LAWNS

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Lawns and how to save money time and the planet!
Mow your lawn 1 to 3 feet around the edge – let the rest of the lawn grow into a
meadow  – before the summer starts mow lawn down, throw wild flower seeds
in the meadow area , then sit back and [...]

An Agreement At Last Then – PEACE! George Mitchell, “Making Peace” /Chapter 15 & 16

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“Making Peace ” by George Mitchell / Chapter 15&16 (synopsis)
 
Amid violence  and delays purported amongst all the political groups George Mitchell sets an immovable deadline for completion of the final document which would need  agreement between all players.
The time had come for a last ditch effort, a final reckoning of yes to [...]

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Merry year of the TIGER – 2010  (Chinese new year)

Time for Fresh Starts, New Beginnings And Summer Cleaning Of This Blog

“A Pale Green Mermaid Blog”    SUMMER CLEANING SESSION 

 By John W. Waterhouse
 
 Hello, as in life – blog’s too need to be washed and ironed every once in a while… so look to the blogwatch area to see the new features and updated sequencing of this blog! 
Now that I have my BLOG-LEGS as it were , I am re- [...]

Iraq And Afghanistan Soldiers Art/Poetry Slam Session 10

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Good Evening and Happy Holidays to all Veterans and Thank you !
Tonight a Collection of military themed paintings,
This painting was a commissioned military portrait,
Rembrandt has displayed the traditional emblem of the Arquebusiers in the painting in a natural way: the girl in yellow dress in the background is carrying the main symbols. She [...]

Friday Night Gallery Chat, Pre-Raphaelite Visions

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Pre-Raphaelite Artists are a strong influence in my art and a small but important movement.  One of the largest collections (outside the United Kingdom) is housed in the Delaware Art museum located in Wilmington, Delaware ( VP Joe Bidden’ s Home state!)  About 30-45 min ride from Philly, PA.
Well worth the trip – [...]

Clouds Of Disinformation, Fear Mongering, And Threats To The Citizenry By FORMER Vice President Dick Cheney.

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Dick Cheney said today that President Barack Obama set up his National security plan with ” little deliberation and no plan…”
Little deliberation and no plan ? where have I heard that before - lets see… the invasion into IRAQ… BINGO!
Little deliberation and no plan? …where have I heard that before… hmmm, [...]

Speaker Pelosi and Torture, Republicans Want To Know: What Did She Know, When Did She Know It…I Say What did Bush Know? And When Did He Know it? Same For Cheney. Let’s Get Real People.

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Senator Patrick Leahy ( Judiciary chairman) wants to set in place a truth commission to find out how, why and if, torture was used as an interrogation method by the Bush Administration.
 
There are many questions to be answered on both sides, so if you want to know, Mr. Republician  Party, [...]

You Say Tomatoes, I Say Tomatoes, You Say Waterboarding, I Say Torture, Tomatoes, Torture – Let’s Call The Whole Farce Off!

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Let’s look at some historical data concerning the technique of what is referred to in the modern world as, waterboarding.
Waterboarding is a form of torture that consists of immobilizing the victim on his or her back with the head inclined downwards, and then pouring water over the face and into [...]

Dollar Store Tip!

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This  is a new series of sporadic DOLLAR store tips, Whenever I come across a great product I will pass it along to you, my readers, your there aren’t you?
So here is the first tip ,
 
Anyone who likes body wash ( I use it just the same for bubble [...]

Iraq And Afghanistan Soldier’s Art/Poetry Slam – Session Nine

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Good evening , I thought tonight that I would add the alternative of an ART slam to our regular Poetry Slam’
The painting that I wanted to display is by Pablo Picasso, the title is GUERNICA see below.

Artist
Pablo Picasso

Year
1937

Type
Oil on canvas

Dimensions
349 cm × 776 cm (137.4 in × 305.5 in)

Displayed
Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid

Guernica is a painting by [...]

Friday Night Gallery Chat – Vatican Art

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Tonight let’s talk Vatican Art since I believe there is a pic out now concerning that subject matter, angels, devils - all that rot.
Background  – from Wikipedia,
The Vatican Museums , in Viale Vaticano in Rome, inside the Vatican City, are among the greatest museums in the world, since they display works [...]