Sunday, August 27, 2023
Saturday, August 26, 2023
1985 MOVE tragedy + today +missing bones
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1985_MOVE_bombing
In August 1978, after almost a year of failed negotiations to resolve an earlier conflict, Mayor Frank Rizzo ordered an attack on MOVE's Powelton Village headquarters that resulted in the destruction of the headquarters, the death of a police officer, and the virtual life sentences of nine MOVE members.
MOVE in Powelton Village
They then moved to Osage Av. in the Cobbs Creek area.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/may/12/philadelphia-move-bombing-mike-africa
Now remains of 2 children--Tree Africa 14 and Delisha Africa12 are missing.
https://www.npr.org/2021/04/23/990187353/bones-of-children-killed-in-move-bombing-shuttled-from-lab-to-lab-for-decades
At that time I was struggling through my course work and relocation to America--I did not follow the news in detail.
km
8-26-2023
I've had a wonderful life + Philadelphia, my pics-+ doll house Cedar Grove Mansion, Fairmont Park .
https://www.pewcenterarts.org/grant/1995-grants
Knew of--
Lorene Carey
Molly Russakov
Major Jackson--did a poetry reading with at local radio station.
Woon-Ping Ching--knew her relative
Roko Kawai--saw her picture in local magazine--decided she could dance my Shee-Monkey--contacted her--
she pulled quotes from my book-length poem--danced 3 versions with Susan Hess Studio--3 evenings--while I read excerpts--she danced facets of themes--rather than the narrative story--I liked the first one best.
She also danced a duet with Rennie Harris --in which I think Rennie or she slid off the other's back and stood on their head. I think it was Rennie--
Rennie's troupe did a group dance--sneakers squeaking, dreadlocks flying--
Rennie did a solo dance in which his body shook like a leaf under his baggy sweat shirt and pants--"Popping"
I also met Pew grantees--poets Aaron Yeats Perry (no relative to W B Yeats)--at the reception. AYP told me about a car trip when he was a teenager--for his girl-friend to get an abortion--"and all the way back in the car I heard a baby crying."
I also met Linh Dinh--Vietnamese-born poet, whom I met again in Berlin 2005 as "writers who dare to confront."
I was a Pew Finalist in Literature twice.
I've had a wonderful life-- I met many A-List people.
If I'd continued living in Burma--I wouldn't even have heard of any of them.
In Helsinki I met a young man who had just come from helping victims of Cyclone Nargis--he had scratches on his hands--
he thought Salman Rushdie was a woman.
It breaks my heart.
Another drew a diagram of how corrugated iron sheet roofs peel off during a cyclone. One can be cut in half--or beheaded trying to pickup these in high winds.
Kyi May Kaung
8-26-2023
B and W pen and ink drawing is Pushkin self-portrait--Gannibal on far L--rest Pushkin as a child and an adult.
Most of Pushkin's work is online at Gutenberg Project.
Life stories in wikipeadia.
Google yourself.
Special post--Alexander Pushkin's --The Queen of Spades
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NyqwSExBPgI
audio version--so well read too.
You can find print versions on Gutenberg Project.
Works of Alexander Pushkin.
Amazing--written in 19th century--still Perfect.
Kyi May
8-25-2023
Thursday, August 24, 2023
trump--CNN--arrest Fulton CountyJail etc+mug shot
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cgOhkdW4V0
Jonathan Cooper—The Trump mug shot
https://www.aol.com/one-image-one-face-one-012459411.html
4-28-2023
Patricia Janecka--Wind up doll--Offenbach--great fun.
/watch?v=mVUpKIFHqZkhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVUpKIFHqZk
Monday, August 21, 2023
junta's holdings in 14 foreign banks--Image--burned village Sagaing--from Irrawaddy
https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/myanmars-crisis-the-world/myanmar-juntas-central-bank-had-6-8-bn-in-reserves-at-14-intl-banks-in-march.html
current exchange rate now 4000 kyat to$
used to be 2000 two years ago
and 20 in 1980s.
That's "success"ain't it?
How can you win if you kill all the people who do all the work?
Genghis' eldest son Jochi knew that.
I'm very tired today--have shifted my focus to Bee Life Cycles.
Very interesting, Bees.
kmk
8-21-2023
Sunday, August 20, 2023
Poetry post--John Gardner
Lovely, spooky, dark blue Gentian,
Inner walls like speckled snakeskin,
Trumpet shaped, fit for a small
Angel's grimly puckered lips
Set on the Last Day to call
Ants and bees to Apocalypse,
What sins too minute to mention
Wouldst thou bring to man's attention,
Lovely, spooky, dark blue Gentian?
John Gardner
Poetry illustration of word associations in On Becoming a Novelist, Harper and Row,1983, p. 126
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He died of motor cycle accident--1982.
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Swiss director and amateur actors arrested for "blaspheming Buddhism"
https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/burma/swiss-director-amateur-actors-arrested-for-blasphemy-by-myanmar-junta.html
he shld have just written a book or made an animated movie
next we will have "morality police" like Afghanistan taliban feeling up women and checking nail polish.
bad enough with the monk gynecologist and the cannibal monk.
sickening.
8-19-2023
Saturday, August 19, 2023
Junta goats' balls to avoid--
https://www.irrawaddy.com/specials/junta-watch/junta-watch-dictator-boasts-country-under-control-as-resistance-eyes-naypyitaw-regime-ignites-nuclear-dream-and-more.html
This week, three junta ministers attended the 7th China-South Asia Expo, 27th Import-Export Fair, and Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) Economic Corridor Governors Forum.
The events were attended by China’s top diplomat, Wang Yi, and high-level delegates from 84 countries.
With junta investment and foreign economic relations minister Kan Zaw, information minister Maung Maung Ohn, and commerce minister Aung Naing Oo attending the events in Kunming, China has now received eight junta ministers since early August.
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Thursday, August 17, 2023
Tuesday, August 15, 2023
Monday, August 14, 2023
Christo and Jeanne-Claude--artists--
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christo_and_Jeanne-Claude
amazing body of work, all self -funded.
Refugees could have used the items recycled.
km
8-14-2023
Friday, August 11, 2023
Matthew B.Arnold--Burma analysis
https://www.irrawaddy.com/opinion/guest-column/myanmar-resistances-next-steps-are-clear-its-the-juntas-that-arent.html
I've never met him, but I agree with him.
Another sure sign is all the vacillators, fence-sitters, turncoats, sycophants have been totally silent since Feb 2021.
All we hear is the sound of the drone hits, bombs, and the cries of the victims.
But sometimes, as in case of Tamil Tigers, Resistance has been totally annihilated.
Let's hope for the best.
kmk
8-11-2023
one who hesitates
Definitions of vacillator. one who hesitates (usually out of fear) synonyms: hesitater, hesitator, waverer. type of: coward. a person who shows fear or timidity.
Wednesday, August 09, 2023
trump the air bag--
Trump has referred to his Wharton degree as ‘super genius stuff.’ An admissions officer recalls it differently.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-who-often-boasts-of-his-wharton-degree-says-he-was-admitted-to-the-hardest-school-to-get-into-the-college-official-who-reviewed-his-application-recalls-it-differently/2019/07/08/0a4eb414-977a-11e9-830a-21b9b36b64ad_story.html
11-5-2019
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