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I think of the psychological, spiritual, operational, navigational, management tools that I use in my life as much as I think of the class of tools we call implements, a noun to which is imparted tremendous strength and respect by its verb. Wisdom, hard gained, dictates, or at least strongly suggests, that we choose implements wisely. I want an implement that implements. Don’t you?
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This post will certainly to probably (earlier to later accordingly) display the final program listing for the 07/02/09.

We WILL augment it right up to and even during the hour of presentation.

To get all the program on one page, click the next word — Read the rest of this entry »

We just wanted to present a foto of one of our Fluid Drive performing groups. We just happened to get in some promo stuff and thought we would put up a foto of one of the hottest current altered state fair performers and one of our favorite harmonies - TET a TET.

Lilybea approached me with a subject. She had been thinking of creating a poetry reading in her area. In her discussions with a mutual friend she was advised “get a partner.” Thus Lilybea and I agreed to create a monthly gig that would promote art. Yes, a poetry reading but more than that. For poetry is art. Art is art. So we would approach the objective with an open mind as to content. Read the rest of this entry »

Fluid Drive was the highly successful automatic transmission drive used by Chrysler Corporation in roughly the forties through the sixties.

Fluid Drive is also a monthly live event in Paso Robles California. The inaugural or augur in episode will take place on Thursday, July 02, 2009. Read the rest of this entry »

The news ahead of time.

Beginning today 020708 RYOS will introduce RHAPPING.

You can play and you can win - notoriety, fame, ignominious defeat, and maybe money.

Watch this site closely.

WHAT IS RHAPPING?

The whole rhapping thing is my brain child designed to introduce Karl Jung to E E Cummings and vice versa. Rhapping is a kind of glossolalia exercise with a twist. You have to employ in your blather somewhere a list of keywords presented just before you begin.

HERE IS HOW THE GAME WORKS

• You send an email to RYOS saying you want to play:
  rhapping@rollingyourownstone.com
• You include in your email one or more 24/7 phone numbers in the USA
  No one sees your email address and phone numbers but the game administrator and they are never used except for this one time game you enter.
• On February 12 we will present all entries on RYOS
• On February 13 we will tally votes. A voting email address and/or comment space will be announced on the site.
• We will put up PayPal buttons for entrants with the highest votes as far down to the lowest votes that we can. If you like a poet you can give the poet money via PayPal and get a recording of your selected poet and some of the other toppers.
• Some time after we receive and entrant’s email the Rhapping Adminstrator will call the entrant. It could be any time of the day or night.
• When reached the entrant will be given five keywords and two minutes to RHAP. The RHAP will be recorded and presented on line for all rhappers who use the five keywords.
• No restarts are permitted.
• The rhapper can disqualify him/her self and their rhap will not be submitted.

Watch this post subject for more information in the coming days and watch for the rhaps to start appearing and get ready to vote.

VOTE WHERE YOUR VOTES MEANS SOMETHING

When Presidents Lie: A History of Official Deception and Its Consequences
by Eric Alterman

build a list here of history against real events

Actually, Rolling Your Own Stone was built in 2006 while:
I was simultaneously crazier than I have ever been,
I was saner than I have ever been,
I was more creative than I have ever been,
I was the best idea man I have ever been,
I was the most creative artist I have ever been,
I was the worst logician I have every been,
I was the least wide brush productive I have ever been,
I could not pro-dam worth a gram.
I mean I could not program worth a dam.

Logic no, ideas si!

One idea was bigger than the others.from. One was rolling your own stone. Wow, an idea with four good words. And even more double meanings. My kind of idea. In a nutshell, it was:
let creative people express themselves.

Don’t they have YOU TUBE? Yes, but I was thinking of something a little smaller, and creatively a little higher on the food chain on the average. Not that I have not found high caliber stuff on that channel, but the bullets did not seem to fit my gun on the average. Well, I did like my stuff. but,

also, I wanted to be able to extend a remuneration path to creative providers.
Minimally, a button that visitors could push to give to influence the provider’s cash flow. More than a comment, more than higher ranking. Let the artist see some moola.

The kind of creativity I expected was wide open, anything the artist wanted to do with the number of senses we currently have available to multimedia. Or at least those that could be suggested via a short movie clip.

As an example I posted a song of my own, and compared it to a song that John Denver made a lot of money with a couple decades ago. The article, analyzes the similarities and differences between the two songs. You will find that article elsewhere on this site. Not that I expected every artist to provide a tutorial for the art. But I expected more than a song and dance, whether the provision was a painting, a study of a painting, a lesson in cracking the safe quietly so as not to awaken the owner - good art, good entertainment, good info. Three for three hopefully.

Frankly, I was thinking of a providing a way, a leg up. For those who might not have legs, who might not have the wherewithal that many of us take for granted. An example would be the talented members of the prison populates. Not that a person had to be disadvantaged in order to send something.

My logical side was just not fast enough and accurate enough to do the job. I waited for my mind to get better. I waited for the word press software to get better and both eventually did.

So let’s go! Let’s see what you have. See elsewhere on this page, how to get your creative effort on this site and flying through the ether to webling art lovers, from rap to rhapsodies from smithing to Kevin Smithing, from rolling stones to rhinestone cowboys.

And, yeah, it is another article but if you put your work in the category of OH, that would be cool. Uhh, that’s also another article - OH is the abbreviation for OH, well, we will be opening that package in the coming days.

So with this suggestion on interpersonal communications I wish you good input and output. The only time you will need the word ‘like’ is to indicate attraction and admiration or to kick off a simile.

Metaphors be with you,
jack MOTH
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You can always provide a work. We generally expect it to be a three to five minute movie. But it could be an MP3 sound file. It can also be text. Just sign up and go for it. We hope your stuff is good enough to impress the people who will have their paws hovering over the “THIS IS FOR THAT ONE THERE” button.

But, beyond that three programs will soon be underway that I have calculated to be a win - win for everyone. (My essential philosophy while in this personality is “if it ain’t win - win then it is lose - lose.)

I cannot say a lot about two of them right now except that they far surpass the one I am about to mention in ultimate value.

And this one I will mention is DIFFERENT media wise from all I just said about media kinds that we accept.

This is rhapping. Do not let anyone say after this cat gets out of the bag that they started it somewhere else. While my search could possibly not have been exhaustive enough, news surrounding the existence of rhapping would have been almost impossible to miss. Why? Simply because something this cool would have been difficult to miss and difficult having stumbled on to keep quiet about. The idea has been rolling around in my head and building for a while. It has been an area I have been studying for a while.

RHAPPING STARTED HERE. IT MET THE PUBLIC FIRST IN THIS NOTE.

What is rhapping?

RHAPPING IS A CATEGORY OF CREATIVE WORK THAT WILL BE CONTAINED AND REFLECTED ON THIS SITE FOR THE NEXT THREE MONTHS.

ONE WAY EXIST TO PARTICIPATE IN THIS EVENT — COMMENTS TO THIS NOTE.

Comments will be allowed by signing up to comment.
We do not divulge any email addresses. We do not divulge any information except the contributor’s name and zip code.

Signup verifications will be established by email to the signup email address.

The signup verification response will include one or two telephone numbers.

We will call those numbers to obtain the contributor’s rhapping.
The call may be made at any time 24/7.

WHAT HAPPENS IN THE CALL?

• short greeting and ID establishment
• the rhappinger is given five words called rhapping posts
• within five seconds the rhapper begins rhapping
• the rhapping is limited to fifty five seconds
• the rhapping must use all five rhapping posts to be considered a submitted rhapping

The telephone recorded rhappings will be made available on this site.

At the end of each week a rhapper of the week will be announced and proclaimed Rhappist and will be Rhappist until the following week’s Rhappist is announced. During the month of October we will all Rhappists will be presented and votes will be collected and on Halloween we will announce the ROLLING YOUR OWN STONE DOT COM RHAPPIST OF THE YEAR.

WE ARE DEPENDING ON THE MEAGER NUMBER OF PEOPLE WHO SEE THIS ARTICLE TO KICK IT OFF BIG BANGLY.

Why is rhapping a good thing, Martha? It is a good thing because it does for the mind and spirit what food and exercise do for the body.

BE ALL THAT YOU CAN BE. With bigggggg tongue in cheek we will explore with an article by that name how propaganda and rhetoric can be taken back from the dark forces and utilized for well being.

As we said in the early days of the net, GOPHER IT!

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