French pole vaulter gets porn offer

Hun, we don't need any more vases.

The Olympics are a nasty business, even back in ancient Greek days. The Greeks came up with the gymnasium, from gymnos or "nude," a nasium (training facility) for nudity, where older married men went to:

• ogle younger single men,
• form gay relationships with them involving pederasty,
• stand around naked in front of each other while oiling their bodies,
• training or socializing, pursuing intellectual and physical hobbies,
• getting rub downs, showing off wealth and status, and what not.

Bi Greek bearded man kisses boy (Louvre)

We really just watch to see cute athletes in leotards and form fitting bikinis, tights, and swimsuits jumping around, trying to make their country proud. China was No. 1 in Paris, but no American could say so. Patriotism depends on blind devotion. And the Chinese may have been cheating by juicing with steroids, rumor has it.

The original Olympics Games were, it is said, played in birthday suits -- naked, nude, without clothes. No females got to play, and they probably weren't allowed in the audience either. One is reminded of the gay hit song It was a Greek gay fest.

What went wrong?

Does no one think it ironic that he has a wrap-around snake tattoo on his bicep?

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(Page Six) French pole vaulter Anthony Ammirati speaks out after his "bulge" (schwanz, wang chung, full monty, johnson, package) cost him an Olympic medal. Losing due to his clumsy knee and slo-mo "boing" has gotten him an offer from an adult website.

If you don't reign it in, that snake will ruin you.

Aug. 6, 2024 (12:05 pm) "When one door closes, another one opens," it is said. Ammirati was left disappointed after his “big” slug, shlomo, shank, pocket pool stick cost him an Olympic medal.

The French pole vaulter went viral losing over the weekend after failing to clear the bar because his knees and crotch got in the way — eliminating him from competition at the 2024 Paris Olympics.

Take the money and run [all the way to Bhutan]?

However, the unfortunate circumstance may have opened up other opportunities for Mr. A. as he was offered a quarter of a million dollars ($250K) to show off his manhood for 60 minutes.

Watch to learn more about the possible light at the end of the tunnel of the one-eyed train headed this way. Subscribe for the latest on favorite stars and celebrities: French pole vaulter Anthony Ammirati speaks out after his bulge cost him a medal, gets offer from adult website (pagesix.com)

• Hey, what about the winner? Armand "Mondo" Duplantis breaks pole vault world record in gold-medal performance at Olympics
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Springtime is for love BUT... ('Strangers')

Kenya Grace, 9/1/23; Ashley Wells, Seth Auberon (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

For the love of attention/money, ready for porn?

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Love sucks, right Kenya Grace? "Strangers" (official lyric video)

(Kenya Grace) #KenyaGrace #Strangers LYRICS: It always ends the same/ When it was me and you/ But every time I meet somebody new/ It's like deja vu/ I swear they sound the same/ It's like they know my skin/ Every word they say sounds just like him/ And it goes like this/ We’ll get in your car/ And you’ll lean to kiss me/ We’ll talk for hours/ And lie on the back seat/ Uh huh uh huh 

Who is this young musical entrepreneur?

Then one random night when everything changes/ You won't reply/ And we’ll go back to strangers/ Uh huh uh huh

It’s something that I hate/ How everyone's disposable now/ Every time I date somebody new/ I feel vulnerable/ That it’ll never change/ And it will just stay like this/ Never ending dating breaking up/ And it goes like this/ We’ll get in your car/ And you’ll lean to kiss me/ We’ll talk for hours/ And lie on the back seat/ Uh huh uh huh

Then one random night when everything changes/ You won't reply/ And we’ll go back to strangers/ Uh huh uh huh

Singer Kenya Grace has real talent with modern equipment

It always ends the same/ When it was me and you/ But every time I meet somebody new/ It's like deja vu/ When we spoke for months/ Did you ever mean it? / How can they say that this is love/ When it goes like this?/ We’ll get in ur car/ And you’ll lean to kiss me/ We’ll talk for hours/ And lie on the back seat/ Uh huh uh huh

Then one random night when everything changes/ You won't reply/ And we’ll go back to strangers/ Uh huh uh huh

Listen to "Strangers": majorrecordings.lnk.to/strangers Follow Kenya Grace: kenyagrace / kenyagracebaby / @kenyagracebaby Credits: Director Ben Hanning. Shot by Julius Gutierrez. Color by Julius Gutierrez. Edit by Ben Hanning. Production Company: SPACEHRTS.

Punk rock w/ Jello Biafra, Dead Kennedys

Dead Kennedys; Finn McKenty (Punk Rock MBA), 12/10/23; Jello Biafra (alternativetentacles.com); Seth Auberon, Pfc. Sandoval, Ashley Wells (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Jello, founder and former frontman of the Dead Kennedys, has new material coming out soon: Patrik Fitzgerald/Jello Biafra with Motorpyscho - "Punch" – AlternativeTentacles

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The Strange History of the Dead Kennedys

(The Punk Rock MBA) From their early years to Plastic Surgery Disasters, Holiday in Cambodia, and Frankenchrist to the government trying to stop them by bankrupting them with a frivolous but very expensive obscenity lawsuit, the Dead Kennedys breakup and messy reunion without frontman and major songwriter Jello Biafra, it's been quite a history. Playlist

Edited by Tim Gilli: bit.ly/tmgprmba -- 🎉 PATREON: thepunkrockmba 🕹️ DISCORD: discord 🎮 TWITCH: finnmckenty -- 🔊 PODCAST (Spotify): bit.ly/prmbapodcast.

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(Kozlaranton) Live at Altavoz Fest 2016: Jello Biafra sings Dead Kennedys material including the first hit he wrote with them, "California über alles." He won't perform with the original members because they are sellouts out for a paycheck now, and he still has principles (and a record label called Alternative Tentacles), so the band tours with other singers and Jello does his own thing. WWJD? What would Jello do? Whatever he wants, so long as it is in keeping with the principles that have guided his whole life, like not participating in events that promote beer and other BS. It's ain't easy being cheesy, but it ain't that hard either. Jello isn't cheesy. He's principled, and that's not a popular thing to be. Hooray, Jello! The DKs were once one of the fastest bands, and they were always the most principled with their Bay Area politics and California style. Other bands and then fans got to hate them when they got a bit preachy (rather than the satirical and sarcastic bunch they started as), but that's how it goes. They influenced the direction of hardcore and speed metal and ultimately grindcore and other subgenres of the hardest music, which is why a lot of musicians wear DK tees.

• 00:0 - California über alles
• 04:32 - F* Donald Trump
• (prelude to) Nazi Punks F*ck Off
• 05:40 - Holiday in Cambodia

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The Dalai Lama's Koan (Insight LA)

Trudy Goodman (insightLA.org); Amber Larson, Ananda (DBM), A. Wells, Wisdom Quarterly

Decades ago in the 1970s, before the Dalai Lama became famous, his smiling face was on the cover of a newspaper called The Snow Lion.

The quote under it struck me so powerfully that I cut out the cover page and stuck it on the kitchen cupboard.

There it yellowed and tattered over the years and is long gone, but I always remember what he said: “Maybe I am the last Dalai Lama. It’s all right. There’s nothing wrong.”

These words shook me, a young Buddhist practitioner. How can it be all right for the Dalai Lama's legacy and tradition to disappear in the slow genocide China is unfolding in Tibet? How to understand what he said, given how much his people rely on his compassionate and courageous leadership?

Hey, what's this, Commandant?

Uttered in the context of Tibet’s tragedy, these words became a koan. “It’s all right. There’s nothing wrong” inspired me through many hard and sad times in my life.

I remember sitting quietly in the meditation hall, tears of grief streaming down my face, simultaneously knowing that deep down, everything’s still okay.

Mysteriously, it is all right, all of it, not the breezy all right of “it’s all good,” which can be a dismissal or denial of reality, but the “all right” of humbly embracing our broken-heartedness with loving awareness.

Then we can discover the “all right” of compassionate presence and act wisely, responding with grace and humor.

Next time you feel that all is lost, try sitting down right in the midst of this grief, rage, or despair. Sitting and walking mindfully in meditation, it’s easier to be with ourselves more kindly and loving.

Through the courage to meet life as it is and drink it in -- straight up -- we embody the compassion of our clear, radiant true nature, deeply knowing: Yes, this heart is aching. And it’s all right. There’s nothing wrong.

Love, Trudy Goodman,

Founder of insightLA.org

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Alan Watts: How to get out of our own way

AlanWatts.org via TheSpiritualLibrary; Amber Larson, Wisdom Quarterly

Alan Watts: How to get out of your own way

Mind over mind: In this video Alan Watts explains how we can overcome our addiction to punishing ourselves with the juice we get from our pleasures. He begins by explaining the Christian concept of "grace" which God gives for free, which we are told we are utterly dependent on but unable to get for ourselves. It is that which we do not deserve, that which we cannot get, so we behave well to get it... which is a strange way of explaining KARMA which works in mysterious ways. How will our selfish-will be unselfish and deserving? Or we can go Calvinist and depend on predestination. Watts explains in detail and leads us to understand how we can let go of irrational thinking.

Real reason behind US meddling in Syria (video)

Really Graceful; Eva Bartlett (Press TV UK); Jimmy Dore (The Young Turks); Le Monde; Pfc. Sandoval, Ashley Wells, Seth Auberon (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

(Really Graceful, April 7, 2017) What the mainstream media won't tell us about Syria. Do you think the Syrian chemical weapon attack is a false flag?

(PressTVUK, 2/15/18) Eva Bartlett: Everything we've been told about Syria is a LIE. Independent journalist explains how mainstream media lies about Syria.

Understanding the Syrian crisis in 5 minutes

(Le Monde) After three years of war and about 150,000 deaths, Syria is more torn apart than ever. But why is this war still going on? How did the pacific "Arab Spring" [dubbed so by the US and allies who referred to it as an "uprising" to be put down] become such a blood bath? Here are some keys to understand how the Syrian conflict turned into a civil, cold, and holy war.

The REAL reason for war in Syria

(The Young Turks) On the latest episode of "Aggressive Progressives," Jimmy Dore and Steve Oh discuss an article by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. about Syria (ecowatch.com/syria-another...). Watch the full episode: tytnetwork.com/ap. Follow on twitter.com/jimmy_dore, twitter.com/stevenoh88. Jimmy Dore and Steve Oh talk DAPL, NATO’s plan in Syria, “Friends of Syria” coalition, and Malcolm X’s speech about the 1964 election.

"The Tree of Life" (2011 film)

Brad Pitt stars in a new film from Terrence Malick -- the acclaimed director of Badlands, Days of Heaven, and The Thin Red Line. The Tree of Life is the impressionistic story of a Midwestern American family in the 1950's.

It follows the life journey of the eldest son, Jack (played as an adult by Sean Penn), through the innocence of childhood to his disillusioned adult years. He tries to reconcile a complicated relationship with his father (Brad Pitt).

Jack finds himself a lost soul in the modern world: He is seeking answers to the origins and meaning of life while questioning the existence of faith.

Through Malick's signature imagery, we see how both brute nature and spiritual grace shape not only our lives as individuals and families, but all life.

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The U.S. House of Representatives voted Thursday to extend three key provisions of the Patriot Act until June 1, 2015. The Senate voted earlier in the day to approve the extension bill. The House vote was 250 in favor, with 153 opposed. Oppositions to the bill said it was an invasion of privacy and had hoped to add language providing for further oversight and audits of the activities the law permits. The three provisions are as follows: One would enable law enforcement officials to conduct surveillance on suspects without a warrant who switch communication devices, such as using disposable cellular phones. A second would let officials conduct warrant-less surveillance on suspects not currently linked to any known terrorist organization abroad. The third would enable officials access to suspects' business transactions without a warrant. Pres. Obama signed the bill using an auto pen machine from France. Source

Dipa Ma: Buddhist Saint

WQ (This updates and replaces the article Knee Deep in Grace)

Dipa Ma literally means "Dipa's mother" (Dipa was her eldest daugther and also a prolific Buddhist meditator). But figuratively it means "Mother of Light." Dipa Ma was born Nani Bala Barua (1911-1989) in East Bengal (Bangladesh). From a young age she displayed an interest in Buddhist rituals, preferring study to play.

Unlike other local girls, she insisted on attending school. However, by the age of 12 she was married off to a man in Rangoon, Burma. After her husband's death in 1957, she took up vipassana meditation under her guru Anagarika Munindra and made swift progress. In 1963, under this same guide in Bodhgaya, India, Dipa Ma began to study and successfully attained the siddhis or "magical powers."

In 1967, she moved to Calcutta where she began teaching meditation to a wide range of Indian housewives and foreign students including the Americans Joseph Goldstein (photographed circa 1970 in India with Dipa Ma), Jack Kornfield, and Sharon Salzberg, who later became prominent teachers. In the early 1980s she was invited to America to teach at the Insight Meditation Society in Barre, Massachusetts.

Her story was originally brought to light by author Amy Schmidt (mindfulmom.com) in the book Knee Deep in Grace. The book has subsequently been updated and republished as Dipa Ma: The Life and Legacy of a Buddhist Master.

• See the Zensite book review.
• Bilingual (Spanish/English) account of Dipa Ma's life

Dipa Ma's teacher Anagarika Munindra: Begin to See (teachings on DVD/CDs)