Showing posts with label memorial. Show all posts
Showing posts with label memorial. Show all posts

Saturday, August 22, 2026

Summer ends: Just Like Heaven (8/22)

Just Like Heaven 2026 PLAYLIST

Stereotypical Southern California summer
When does summer really begin? It's not an astronomical question, as the people into genes insist gender is as easy to assign as reading x's and y's. It is easy if we make it that easy, but it is not so easy when we do not all agree to that as the objective measure.

What is "social summer"?

Mandatory: All Americans must visit a beach.
There's a kind of social summer, which runs between Memorial Day and Labor Day, just an approximation. The seasons do not always cooperate even in parts of the US where four distinct seasons make themselves obvious. There is "Indian summer," which is just a way of saying a long hot spell after official calendrical summer should have ended.

Another example of social summer is the one set by the local school district: When school ends, that's summer. Just ask Alice Cooper! When school begins again, that resumption is the end, even if the weather is still great and drives to the beach are worth the traffic.

"Summer" = School's out!

There did not used to be a "universal time" but rather many different times depending on the place. They were not simultaneous but more dependent on the sun circling (not revolving) overhead chased by the moon. Those were Tartarian (Tartary) times, and that's all been erased now. A universal measure imposes a definition that does not make sense for everybody on the ground.

Another social summer measure is determined by the concert calendar. The end comes to Pasadena, Los Angeles with the Just Like Heaven Festival this Saturday (Aug. 22, 2026).

New weekend, same party

(justlikeheavenfest.com)
New for 2026: Updated clubhouse amenities, enhanced VIP experiences, plus new shade sails, cooling misters, expanded shaded seating, and additional water refill stations throughout the festival grounds, giving concertgoers even more ways to stay cool and recharge between musical sets. For even more convenience, spend the day in VIP for a lot more money. Spend the day dancing in the expansive VIP viewing areas and lounging in shaded spaces between acts, all while enjoying exclusive food and drink options and air-conditioned restrooms. Buy Now Just Like Heaven | August 22, 2026


Will there be enough cops to stop trouble?
You will respect my authority...or else.
"Defund the police" was a deception to provoke public outrage. Congress funds new secret police forces and pays them much more now. If police officers want to scam the system, overseers look the other way. Let's make THE PURGE legal for a little while, and then we can use the predictable mayhem and disorder as a pretext to implement some Orwellian policies for "public safety" and a smiley face police state. 

Friday, May 22, 2026

Arroyo Secodelic Fest, Open Mic Poetry LA

Welcome to the first unofficial day of summer, which runs from Memorial Day to Labor Day in LA

How can I start to awaken in a big city?
What is a psychedelic? It is a "mind manifesting" compound, like an entheogen that brings out the divine from within. What is an Arroyo Seco? It is a dry river bed. What is an Arroyo Secodelic?

ARROYO SECODELIC FESTIVAL (arroyosecodelic.com) May 22–25, 2026: Highland Park, Los Angeles, all ages with 60+ bands across six walkable venues along famous Figueroa Street with FREE and paid admission shows. See arroyosecodelic.com for details. Friday, Saturday, Sunday, and Monday (Memorial Day weekend). Tickets are available as 4-Day Passes to all shows in all venues. See individual schedule for full lineup by day, appearing mostly at the Lodge Room, De La Playa Records, Oblivion Indoor, and Highland Park Ebell, all orbiting Kinship Yoga on Fig.
WHAT HAPPENED?

One day ASF may bet as big as Brokecella
KXLU and KCRW were on top of it. In addition to a mixed bag of indie artists, there were three or four punk giants: FEAR, Adolescents, Alice Bag (now Juanita), and Mike Watt (now without Minutemen)...what, no Exene Cervenka's X? But exciting acts like Death Valley Girls, Cameron Romance, and the Silverados were on hand to keep things lively. Now it's Monday, aka Bad Memory Day, and everyone is converging on the Lodge to catch Adolescents on a rare foray beyond the Orange Curtain to Competition City L.A. Why?

Highland Park is rock 'n roll paradise. Arroyo Secodelic Festival is a 4-day music fest in Highland Park, May 22-25, 2026, featuring a frenetic and fuzzy array of rock 'n roll artists spanning generations — including three of Southern California's finest first wave punk bands: Lee Ving's FEAR, OC royalty Adolescents, and pioneering punk bassist Mike Watt as well as San Francisco power pop icons Flamin' Groovies and LA rockers Strawberry Fuzz, Levitation Room, The Warlocks, and Death Valley Girls.

What's the big deal about these punks?
  • Forget "Amoeba." WELCOME TO REALITY: Blood so deep the horse must hold his head up high/ In the valley of decision one third of the world will die/ Beat your hoes and plows into axes and spears/ As the armies meet in a battle they predicted for years// (CHORUS) Let the weak say I'm a warrior/ Bring down the warriors/ Let the faithless regain faith/ Your faith is hopeless// The prophets and the psychics and the military agree/ Continual crisis leads us straight to World War III/ Roll out the red carpet let the Angel of Death ride in/ To the valley of decision let the mayhem begin// (CHORUS)// Apocalyptic madness two thirds of the world in sadness/ The other third is gone but sadness lingers on/ Crumbled cities and an aftermath of hate/ No way to stop them 'cause now its too late/ The Antichrist's mission's done/ The dead are the only lucky ones/ Are you ready?/ The picture's painted/ For the valley - the scene is set/ Of decision - make your decision/ For the valley it's too late/ Welcome welcome to reality/ Welcome welcome to reality/ Make a decision cause you've got no choice
The Festival takes place across multiple venues on Figueroa St. and beyond — The Lodge Room, Oblivion, Highland Park Ebell, Cheerio Collective, De La Playa Records, Blind Barber, North Figueroa Books, and a few pop ups and buskers. All Arroyo Secodelic shows are ALL AGES. 

Free poetry pre-show at Eagle Rock Library
Enter the Gateless Gate of Heightened Awareness into the magic Doors of Perception.

Blended (Mestizo) to Synthesis
Share original poems, songs, lyrics, spoken word, or just come listen. Each open mic performer will get 5 minutes for an original work. Sign up on arrival. Our FEATURED PERFORMER for National Poetry Month is Seven, who performs in Buddhist Sanskrit, Gaelic, English, and pre-Spanish (Nahuatl). An urban shaman and yogi with Native American roots (Kizh/Tongva), he won the San Gabriel Valley Poetry Festival chapbook and broadside contests,  among many other honors, and has been published in several anthologies and journals, including the library's very own The Stone Bird: Anthology. He was also a featured poet at L.A. Shakespeare Fest and LitFest Pasadena with the word troupe Poets in Distress. Open Mic Poetry | Los Angeles Public Library


RELATED ARTS EVENTS
Eagle Rock Branch - Los Angeles Public Library | Los Angeles CA | Facebook
  • Friday, May 22, Arroyo Secodelic Festival (runs until Monday, May 24) Arroyo Secodelic Festival — May 22–24, 2026 · Highland Park
  • Saturday, May 23 2:00 pm Miriam's Garden Hyde Park Miriam Matthews Branch Library
  • JBLZE (The Jason Bonham Led Zeppelin Evening) Greek Theatre, LA
  • May 28, 4:00 pm REAB Traveling Symphony Series Presents: Symphony of Shared Stories Van Nuys Branch Library
  • May 29, 10:30 am REAB Traveling Symphony Presents: Collaborative Poetry with DSTL ARTS Fairfax Branch Library
  • May 30, 12 noon REAB Traveling Symphony Presents: Collaborative Poetry with DSTL ARTS Hyde Park Miriam Matthews Branch Library
  • May 30, 2:30 p.m. REAB Traveling Symphony Presents: Collaborative Poetry with DSTL ARTS Baldwin Hills Branch Library
  • June 9, 6:00 pm Poetry Open Mic Westwood Branch Library
  • ADA accommodations: (213) 228-7430 at least 72 hours prior to event. Para ajustes razonables segĂșn la ley de ADA, llama (213) 228-7430 al menos 72 horas antes del evento.
AwareProject.org for rethinking psychedelics (The Aware Project, Los Angeles)
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Microdosing at the Psychedelic Institute, LA
Featuring punk legends FEAR ● Flamin' Groovies ● Adolescents ● Levitation Room ● Strawberry Fuzz ● Mike Watt & The Secondmen ● Juanita & Juan ● Untitled ● The Warlocks ● Death Valley Girls ● Flat Worms ● Valgur ● Toys That Kill ● Buckets ● Cinnamon ● The Darts ● Windows ● Cissi TV ● Op Ed ● Sun Atoms ● Baus ● Cameron Romance ● The Flamenco Souls ● Axxident ● Wave Decay ● and more...

Bear Awareness: Questions and Answers on Taming Your Wild Mind

Bear Awareness: Taming Mind
British Buddhist monk Ajahn Brahm (trained in the Thai Forest Tradition and abbot of Buddhist Society of Western Australia) has 4.6 out of 5 stars (with 85 reviews) for this book.

He is the bestselling author of Who Ordered This Truckload of Dung? and one of the world’s most beloved Theravada Buddhist monks because of his sense of humor.

In Bear Awareness, Ajahn Brahm answers meditators’ questions, actual questions from students of meditation––questions readers may have wondered about as well.

Hi, y'all! Feed your head like Grace says.
While most sati or mindfulness meditation teachers praise the benefits of "bare awareness," Ajahn Brahm teaches bear awareness.
 
He helps us make friends with the scary things that come up on the cushion, and he shows how to lift the mood with a well-placed stuffed teddy or a well-timed pun.
 
The intimacy of the question-and-answer format provides a fresh experience of learning from a Western master meditator who studied with the awakened Thai master Ajahn Chah.

Author: British Abbot Ajahn Brahm (BSWA)
Whether he is urging readers to fly Buddha Air (as we sit back and relax on our way to nirvana), giving tips for dealing with panic attacks or depression, or extolling the bliss (piti) of meditation that is better than sex, he gives us permission to enjoy our lives and our practice. More

Wednesday, February 11, 2026

Bhikkhu Bodhi greets Peace Walk monks


Who is Bhikkhu Bodhi?

Social and Communal Harmony
Born Jeffrey Block (Dec. 10, 1944), now known as Bhikkhu Bodhi [a], is an American Theravada Buddhist scholar-monk, a major inspiration for Wisdom Quarterly: American Buddhist Journal, educated in California, ordained in Sri Lanka, and now teaching in New York and New Jersey.
  • Long ago at BPS, Bhikkhu Bodhi authorized our Dharma editor to promote his mail order Buddhist course called The Buddha's Teaching: As It Is, a ten-cassette set he recorded in the basement of the Washington Buddhist Vihara with glossary and notes. To reach a wider audience, we took it online with millions of views, our dhamma-dana.
He is a prolific Pali canon translator, author, and Buddhist commentator, long ago appointed the second president of BPS.lk (the Buddhist Publication Society) [2]. He is the current president of BAUS.org (the Buddhist Association of America), and the founder of the Buddhist charity Buddhist Global Relief [3].

 
Early life
Whaddya mean ya wanna leave Jud'ism to JuBu?
Block was born in Brooklyn, NY, in 1944 to Jewish parents. He grew up in Borough Park, where he attended elementary school P.S. 160 [4] and graduated from New Utrecht High School [5]. He then worked as a door-to-door salesman selling paintbrushes [6].

In 1966, he obtained a B.A. in philosophy from Brooklyn College, where he first encountered Buddhism in books at the bookstore [6]. In 1972, he obtained a doctoral degree (PhD) in philosophy from Claremont Graduate University [7, 8] in Southern California before deciding to move to Asia to ordain as a monk. More


Sunday, September 21, 2025

Charlie Kirk memorial (book release mystery)


REVIEW (Cankles) Trump ruins Charlie Kirk's funeral with disaster fascist meltdown
I'm a Christ figure for my Martyr
(I've Had It) Sept. 22, 2025: IHIP News: Welcome to the hyper-nationalism show. Charlie Kirk's memorial service in Glendale, Arizona was filled with contradictions and Nazi-like calls for revenge [in addition to ASMR and an odd performance by grieving wife and holier-than-thou Christian Evangelical Erika Kirk, using ASMR and hateful eyes and pauses for dramatic effect then cuddling up to the Canks in a show of submissive supplication, as if to say in *Baby Voice* "You'er a gweat big bad leadwer you are, Mr. Trump. You pratect us from the Lweft and thwere big bad gwuns. *Giggle*"] linktr.ee/ivehaditpodcast. Join channel to access perks: @ivehaditpodcast.



Kirk death announced 6 DAYS BEFORE shooting, mystery books, 33 all over it, more

On sale before the shooting
(DAHBOO77) Sept. 12, 2025: [The fix is in; it was all a setup, and Israel's Bibi has shown his hand in league with clandestine agencies like the FBI, CIA, NSA, NSC, Mossad, and Shin Bet.] An Amazon spokesperson confirmed that it investigated the [precognitive, predictively programmed, and premature release of the] book, The Shooting of Charlie Kirk by Anastasia J. Casey.

One person bought and reviewed the book.
“We have content guidelines governing which books can be listed for sale, and we remove books that do not adhere to these guidelines. The title in question is no longer available for sale. Due to a technical issue, the date of publication that had been displayed for this title, while it was briefly listed, was incorrect, and we apologize for any confusion this may have caused."

Who are you to question govt's choice of patsy?
Who is Omar? How many more are connected? Join me [DAHBOO77] for live stream at 9:00 pm where I break it all down! Learn more: hindustantimes.com/world... #CharlieKirk #Breaking #News 
🔮 LIVE: Charlie Kirk Memorial and Funeral

If we did it, and I'm not saying we did, so what?
(FOX 26 Houston) Started streaming about noon. Welcome, MAGA. This is the federally approved memorial service for conservative activist Charlie Kirk (and VP JD Vance picker), who lived in fear of PM Benjamin Netanyahu and his Mossad and Shin Bet and IDF assets, who was publicly gunned down on Sept. 10 while speaking to students at Utah Valley University near Salt Lake City. U.S. Pres. Donald Joe Trump is expected to attend and speak and rally support of radical conservatives while supplicating powerful blackmailers for Israel, the IDF (U.N.-defined genocidal Zionist Israeli Armed Forces), and their fearless leader Dictator Bibi.

Queen Kirk, ruler of TPUSA, cries

Saturday, September 20, 2025

Charlie Kirk memorial, AZ: Feds converge



WHY would Israel kill Kirk?

Who moved the camera right above Charlie Kirk's head? | Candace Ep. 239)
I distrust Zionist extremist Bibi Netanyahu.
(Candace Owens) Streamed live on Sept. 19, 2025: [Exit wound, not an entry wound?] We showed an image from Dairy Queen yesterday. Many viewers thought that it was an old photo from July due to the movie poster. I’m going to explain why it’s not.

I dunno about Bibi having Charlie Kirk killed.
course, we need to address the mysterious footage of two gentlemen taking down the camera directly behind Charlie Kirk four (4) minutes after he was shot to death. What gives?
  • 00:00 - Start
  • 00:55 - CameraGate
  • 14:05 - Tips I've received
  • 24:02 - Media lies about my relationship with Charlie Kirk
  • 34:15 - Pam Bondi, Jimmy Kimmel, and the attack on free speech
  • 48:43 - Update on the Dairy Queen photo
(Sky News, Australia) Right wing Rita Panahi reports for reactionary extremists converging in AZ