ZOMBERG RAMPAGE!
In New York City, super billionaire Michael Bloomberg wants a third term. He's spent about $100 Million dollars of his own money on his campaign, covering the city with junk mail and advertising. He's spent more personal money on this election than any other candidate for any office in U.S. history.
So what would it be like if all those advertisements came to...
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In New York City, super billionaire Michael Bloomberg wants a third term. He's spent about $100 Million dollars of his own money on his campaign, covering the city with junk mail and advertising. He's spent more personal money on this election than any other candidate for any office in U.S. history.
So what would it be like if all those advertisements came to...
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The Stranger in Everyday Life
Seated by my window as the sun rises. Monks Dream on the blaster on top of the fridge. Our neighbors are arguing. Their voices, an Irish father and a Dominican mother, rise into notes of the birds and the jazz in our backyard of air.
Last nights Jane Jacobs Night was a revelation. The 9 readers each read aloud a...
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Seated by my window as the sun rises. Monks Dream on the blaster on top of the fridge. Our neighbors are arguing. Their voices, an Irish father and a Dominican mother, rise into notes of the birds and the jazz in our backyard of air.
Last nights Jane Jacobs Night was a revelation. The 9 readers each read aloud a...
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A Sermonette about Love on Valentine's Day
Love has lots of power. Emma Goldman called it "the defier of laws, the molder of destiny..." Can anyone say "Love-a-looyah!"
The most used persuader by corporate marketers to sell their stuff is Love. That's the megaton throw-weight of the big ads with asses hanging out over the avenue and super models with eyes the size of toxic...
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Love has lots of power. Emma Goldman called it "the defier of laws, the molder of destiny..." Can anyone say "Love-a-looyah!"
The most used persuader by corporate marketers to sell their stuff is Love. That's the megaton throw-weight of the big ads with asses hanging out over the avenue and super models with eyes the size of toxic...
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On Friday, clips from our TV show --The First Church of the Last Televangelist-- appeared on ABC Nightline's segment on the need to save public access channels and the diverse programming from the community they provide. We feel blessed to grace the airwaves with the fierce, sex advice show host Dr. Susan Block and other public access pioneers! Access-a-lujah!
Video here:
http://www.revbilly.com/press/2009/01/public-access-in-peril
Video here:
http://www.revbilly.com/press/2009/01/public-access-in-peril
reverend_billy:
I love the community stations. In New York its Manhattan Neighborhood Network (MNN) and the wonderful oddball poignant great brave stuff you see there on channel 56 - I sincerely think its the best TV - I like it when it's like the camera dropped down into a party and there's a touch of what-the-hell? I am a lot less interested in commercial stuff, with the 15 minutes of commercials every hour. Then again - hey - I don't have a television. -- Rev
reverend_billy:
Well it is cold in New York tonight. I've done something long-ago for me - I spent all day working on a song, or I do the words like a poem and send them to the Stop Shopping Choir for the melody and structure... I posted it here on the blog. It's called "Radical Prayer." -- Rev
january:
Great sermon, Reverend 
reverend_billy:
Rev offers today's reading: from "The Creation" by E. O. Wilson
By Billy Talen
"The modern technoscientific revolution, including especially the great leap of computer-based information technology, has betrayed Nature, by fostering the belief that the cocoons of urban and suburban material life are sufficient for human fulfillment. That is an especially serious mistake. Human nature is deeper and broader than the artifactual contrivance of any existing culture. The spiritual roots of homo sapiens extend deep into the natural world...
Rev interjects: ....and skipping ahead a half page... this is in the chapter called "Ascending to Nature" and oh can I preach this? It needs a cooing choir behind it, or you could Youtube a good sermon with this language - with the church stranded in some grand wilderness, with robes and hiking boots. Amen?
"Granted, many people seem content to live entirely within the synthetic ecosystems. But so are domestic animals content, even in the grotesquely abnormal habitats in which we rear them. This in my mind is a perversion. It is not the nature of human beings to be cattle in glorified feedlots. Every person deserves the option to travel easily in and out of the complex and primal world that gave us birth. We need freedom to roam across land owned by no one but protected by all, whose unchanging position is the same that bounded the world of our millennial ancestors. Only in what remains of Eden, teeming with life forms independent of us, is it possible to experience the kind of wonder that shaped the human psyche at its birth.
Rev remarks: ...from the beginning our Stop Shopping Church we've had two big beliefs. One: Let's not consent to be consumers, because then we're idiots and Two: Consumers are killing the earth.
Amen! Sometimes it's hard to connect the two ideas, one is so personal and the other is so universal, so Reverend Wilson thank you.
Rev offers today's reading: from "The Creation" by E. O. Wilson
By Billy Talen
"The modern technoscientific revolution, including especially the great leap of computer-based information technology, has betrayed Nature, by fostering the belief that the cocoons of urban and suburban material life are sufficient for human fulfillment. That is an especially serious mistake. Human nature is deeper and broader than the artifactual contrivance of any existing culture. The spiritual roots of homo sapiens extend deep into the natural world...
Rev interjects: ....and skipping ahead a half page... this is in the chapter called "Ascending to Nature" and oh can I preach this? It needs a cooing choir behind it, or you could Youtube a good sermon with this language - with the church stranded in some grand wilderness, with robes and hiking boots. Amen?
"Granted, many people seem content to live entirely within the synthetic ecosystems. But so are domestic animals content, even in the grotesquely abnormal habitats in which we rear them. This in my mind is a perversion. It is not the nature of human beings to be cattle in glorified feedlots. Every person deserves the option to travel easily in and out of the complex and primal world that gave us birth. We need freedom to roam across land owned by no one but protected by all, whose unchanging position is the same that bounded the world of our millennial ancestors. Only in what remains of Eden, teeming with life forms independent of us, is it possible to experience the kind of wonder that shaped the human psyche at its birth.
Rev remarks: ...from the beginning our Stop Shopping Church we've had two big beliefs. One: Let's not consent to be consumers, because then we're idiots and Two: Consumers are killing the earth.
Amen! Sometimes it's hard to connect the two ideas, one is so personal and the other is so universal, so Reverend Wilson thank you.
Photos and video of our Coney Island expedition in the Church of Stop Shopping Group. Carnival stalls, not mega-malls! Coney-lujah...
Just kicked off the Church Of Stop Shopping group here on SG, before heading out in MERE MINUTES to Coney Island for a New Year's Day rally to stop the evictions of boardwalk entrepreneurs. They want to turn Coney Island into a CONDO ZONE, children! This is what we call SHOPOCALYPSE.
Click here for info on the fight, at our new Church group here on...
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jogu:
amen!