Ned Sonntag

Hope I'm Not Embarrassing Anyone

Sent just now to the website of DEMOCRACY NOW! :

"Please be aware that for the second day in a row that DN's 'signal's being jammed' at midcape ch17 out of Yarmouth MA(Cape Cod). There are some ferocious wingnuts over there at the station existing uneasily with the lefties, and the Tiller coverage may be too much for certain individuals. 

Hopefully it's a technical glitch and I'm being paranoid, but wanted to make sure you knew.  We are able to listen to the show later in the day at WOMR-FM and that came thru loud&clear yesterday."

Yesterday one of Dr.Tiller's friends colleagues, Dr.Warren Hern, gave a pretty intense interview on DN! about his life now under 24hr-a-day guard from domestic terrorists by federal marshalls. 

I was able to listen to most of it later in the day on WOMR-FM, interrupted unfortunately by the errands I was running. 

Here in Chatham a young fella I worked with briefly in the late 90s, son of a famous novelist, horrified some of us on Facebook by posting a vid from Operation Rescue depicting a late-term abortion.  When the wife of one of the CC2day sponsors questioned his taste and timing, he began quoting Laura Ingraham.  It's war!

www.democracynow.org  I'm trying to maintain some perspective.  Both my current and former girlfriend noticed I have a bit of a crush on Amy Goodman.

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Happy Birthday Michelle!!

Well it was Monday actually but here's what we gave her(Michelle Costa, bikin' boss-lady at the Fabulous Capt'n Elmer's)~ a T-shirt-ready logo/caricature/portrait in pen&ink on 2ply bristol,  drawn by yours truly and art-directed by Orleans' own impresario-of-all-media The Grateful Dead Guy! 

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Stopping the Starter-Uppers

I still have well-meaning and presumably-intelligent people telling me
I should "start up" a "newspaper comic strip"

Short of physical violence, what does one do with these people?  At the Cotuit Center for the Arts on Saturday I was buttonholed by a family friend of the two featured artists, nice lady maybe a couple of years older than myself... this always comes up once the wine and the chatter start flowing... I pointed out to her, newspapers are dinosaurs and the syndicates are no longer even reviewing sample submissions~ she wouldn't let up!  "How about the online comicstrips?"  I had to lean over and speak into her ear, "There's... No.. Way... To... Get... Paid... For... Those."

My GF's dad is a lawyer for the Red Sox and a yoga guru... one of the sharpest guys around... when he offered the 'Start-Up" advice... "Cheryl could write it!  You could draw it!", I pointed to the Sunday Boston Globe on the table and suggested that the print edition could be gone very very soon... he knew and yet he didn't know it.  It's going to be a real shock to people when it happens. 

The latest conspiracy

Oh and before I forget; here's a really nice conspiracy theory page about the David Carradine unpleasantness~ how and why it happened where it did by cryptozoologist Loren Coleman...  and here's a whole different theory... 

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Found from '87~Voodoo:The Origin of Rock&Roll~

http://miniver.blogspot.com/2007/06/hear-that-long-snake-moan.html  I looked and looked for this two-part article in WHOLE EARTH REVIEW #s 54 and 55 when I first got online... now that I'm reading VOODOO SEASON(2005, published the day Katrina broke the levees) by Jewell Parker Rhodes http://www.jewellparkerrhodes.com/books/voodoo_season.html I was reminded to try again, and this blogpost from a year & a half ago popped up~ the whole essay in easy-to-read form.  Now more than ever, this connects all the dots about the religious underpinnings of American pop culture...  Michael Ventura: "Hear That Long Snake Moan"!

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Bam Boom! P. C. Here.

Did the term 'Wamp' enter the world of journalism under the aegis of CapeCodToday? Does this strike anyone as pejorative? Aren't we by participating in its use saying that all aspirations by that community are bogus? Do we believe that? Who coined this term? (I'm thinking perhaps the departed Gadfly did.) Is 'Wamp' not an Ethnic Slur? Can we not spare the bandwidth to spell out 'Wampanoag'? Might we be really embarrassed someday, going back thru the Archives and realizing no one Said Anything? I feel the need at this juncture to Say Something.
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Editor's Note: Ned, not so.
The tribe and its members routinely use that term for websites, etc. as a Google search would have shown you like:
WAMP-NATION - http://wamp-nation.blogspot.com

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Valerie Twomey Beach Yoga Update from Tim Wood!

    This ongoing matter formed one of the Headlines of last's Sunday's CC2Day Edition so I thought I'd do an Update.   Cheryl and I were there... maybe I should've piped up but I didn't, perhaps in deference to Tim Wood who's done a few very helpful profiles on me over the years... an article in '04 for COMIC BUYER'S GUIDE http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comic_Buyer's_Guide that got me my old job back(!)  ...Tim was in attendance clicking away on a very interesting half-size laptop gizmo as his deadline loomed...

   In fact, there was some reference by the Commissioners(unpaid volunteers, in their defense) to Valerie's skillful use of the press to push her case...

   Commission Vice Chairman Chris Cannon was candid in that by now he 'has issues with Valerie'... fabulously feisty Valerie stood her ground and remained pretty cool; but it's sad to see things get heated in regard to a program of instruction in a spiritual discipline... that teaches us to leave our emotions at the door and quiet our minds as much as possible.    (Addendum:Cheryl pointed out to me that Chris at one point faulted Valerie for 'being out of town' during a phase of negotiations early in '09:  My little subdivision is a ghost town during the winter!  Nary a peep has ever been raised about 'snowbirds' in any other context I've been aware of. Cheryl had said to me immediately afterwards that that criticism would never have been leveled against a man.) 

   I haven't actually studied with Val as Cheryl does; I've been studying for a year-and-a-half with Chatham's other popular 'Yoga Priestess'(my phrase, folks) Jen Nelson www.yogachatham.com  -I can now bend down to feed the cats and actually safely stand up afterwards!!  Decades of days of hours at the drawing-board had messed up my neck, back, knees, hands... Jen has really restored my mobility in a fun and social atmosphere... I'm not a sports guy, way not a team player...       

   Fortunately my art-school roommate Jay Kinney  http://www.jaykinney.com/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jay_Kinney  had taken me along to Swami Satchidananda's Integral Yoga Institute for a lesson in the mid70s, so that upon washing ashore fulltime after '97 I saw the opportunity to take Margaret Moore's late-90s Kripalu-based http://www.kripalu.org/ classes... so I am in an unlikely way, physically fit; and mentally and spiritually, certainly improved!

   That brings up my final point of how important yoga is to Chatham in balancing a certain Thurston Howell III-ish air of conspicuous consumption which has long... er... prevailed in these parts.  The presence of Whale's Tales Of Enlightenment http://www.whalestalesofenlightenment.com/ and Chatham Natural Market http://www.capecodnaturalmarkets.com has formed a nice New Age Autonomous Zone surrounding Balfour Lane for those of us Chathamites in need of Healing Arts... with this as context I excerpt this teaser for you readers and direct you at the end to the full article.

    "CHATHAM --- The park and recreation commission Tuesday reinstated a permit for Valerie Twomey's popular Lighthouse Beach yoga program.

            After two failed votes to lower the permit fee, the commission voted to stick to the $1,000 permit fee it had approved in February.  The commission also asked Twomey to circulate a sign-in sheet at her daily sunrise yoga classes in order to gauge attendance. Commissioners pointed out several times at Tuesday's meeting that they had continually asked her for attendance records in order to help determine a fair permit fee.

            After Tuesday's meeting at the community center, Twomey said she will pay the fee and go ahead with her classes, which are scheduled to begin June 21.  However, she said she will not use a sign-in sheet..."  full story at  http://www.capecodchronicle.com/chatnews/chat043009_1.htm

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Ringy Dingy Rag:Telemarketing th' Times Tripe

Rerun by popular demand

Got interrupted TWICE today by pathetic grunts in a boiler room trying to sell me the Cape Cod Times. 

I'm on the Do Not Call List so it's patently illegal never mind that I've notified the Ombudsman a number of times.  Have I mentioned lately all the reasons why I despise the CCT and look askance at the toilers thereupon??

1. Butchering my wife's obit in '06: I wrote it, and Tim and Henry at the Chronicle ran it as is.  Now, the neocon f*ckers at the CCT have that Enron mentality that they're 'the Smartest Guys n the Room' so without consulting me they rewrote it, rendering it unintelligible.
   
2. Running Gorrell's racist op-ed cartoons in '04.
   
3. Endorsing Dubya for prez in '04.
   
4. Constantly swiping content uncredited from Tim Wood at the Chronicle.
   
5. Cancelling JUDGE PARKER from the comics for its liberal moral compass... replacing it with insult-to-teenagers everywhere strip ZITS...
   
6. Misspelling my name in crediting my last painting in '03 for The Art Of Charity in Chatham, again, feeling the need to alter Tim Wood's correct spelling in the press release... then being REALLY RUDE when I asked for a correction...
7. Is the capper.  After V FOR VENDETTA and the DA VINCI CODE came out, Tim Miller wrote a review saying how personally affronted he was that a movie might dare to suggest that Christianity has basically been a tool for social control by a succession of evil empires... Wake Up, Dude.  I sent him a link to my site to see the toons after his 'V' review... on which there's photos of my decade-old logo on the storefront of The Caped Cod  record store in Chatham.  Two weeks later he goes to Provonost saying he's had this great idea for a 'Cape Cod Superhero' contest-- which he of course got from the super-fish cartoon character designed in '97 by Andy Needel and myself!! 
   

With all the brilliant progressive journalists, writers and artists concentrated on Cape it is a DISGRACE that we have to be humiliated by the ugly 'casual/on vacation' graphics and vicious neocon claptrap foisted upon us by remote control by the greedheads of Wall Street... stop telemarketing me, fascists!!

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MediaVidea:14 Business Models for News Presentation-You Decide!

  I check www.technoccult.com every morning.  A lot of the links are too esoteric for you citizens, but must-read stuff for various Special Interest Groups of my acquaintances is always popping up.  This particular article sounds SO Walter...

http://mediavidea.blogspot.com/2009/02/14-news-business-models-which-is-best.html   We all prefer to be told what we want to hear, so that may be reflected in your preference...

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Subaquatic and Orbital Collisions: Nibiru Approaching?

http://www.marinebuzz.com/2009/02/18/collision-submarines-behave-like-satellites/

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Subaquatic Santeria Sentiment!

Happy V-Day to all CCTodaytrippers from Pointing Robot Studios!

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