Wednesday, September 14, 2011

Goldy HAs a Boy Friend"BROWNIE", Poem from TURKISH TRIP

A week or two before the emergence of GOLDY, there was this large dark colored fish swimming around the brook. HIs fins, stuck out of the water, and we really never saw all of him...only the top of the fins, emerging out of the water.. He would come and go,...but.....we had never seen even what kind of fish he was.....I thought maybe a bass, others thought maybe a large trout...and then, he disappeared, and GOLDY made his appearance.
I thought that he was either caught, or permanently swam downstream.....never to find his way back, to join the ducks, chipmunks, squirrels,an assortment of birds, eels and other wild life.........but today, Miss Dotty, a friend of mine from childhood, retired teacher, who spends a lot of time feeding the animals outside told me a scene out of a Disney movie...that took place, outside the kitchen door, and ten feet down the bak, in the brook.
GOLDY appeared after a day missing......follow by the fleet of ducks. The here comes the dark colored fish, but now, in the light, we could see that he is also a carp or coi, and only reflected a few spots of yellowish golden color. He was swimming around GOLDY...who now I think is female. It was like a mating ritual.....and during this ritual, the Ducks were quacking, as if they were excited watching some x rated porn.
But now, the stunning news. Two eels, wiggled their way out from under the rocks, very close to the mating fish....The eels were almost upright in the water, with their tail below the rocks..and their bodies were undulating...in the water. It was almost a living cartoon.....Ester Williams of the fish world were performing....If only DOtty had a video camera.....and save this for posterity.
The squirrels were running up and down the tree, and 4 chipmunks were running around the table were dotty feeds them and the ducks. THIS REALLY COULD BE A CARTOON> OR A KIDDY BOOK.


THE FOLLOWING IS SORT OF A POEM, TELLING OF EXPERIENCE IN A GAS STATION IN TURKEY
three dogs at a gasoline station
in the Carpthian mountains
homeless, tired and hungry
one with a brokenand healed back leg
one with a broken & bent front paw
the third, sweet and scared
all gentle beings
persecuted by an unjust universe

I had nothing but sympathy to give
plus each got a meager portion of
cakes that I purchasedat the station

They were gentle as I fed them.
But the world came down upon me
kicked me in the stomach
when I saw the dog with the broken paw
lick my hand

ALl the sadness of my entgiure life
welled up at once and I cried,

I cried for all the dogs and animals of the world
that I cant save them
I cant save all the starving and abused children
and countries with populations abused by tghose in power
I also cannot walk on water
except in my dreams
I can save the ones drowning
when i hear them scream
But my message here
at least buy a little piece of cake
do your part
ease your heart by knowing you didn't turn your back
up what ever it is that saddens you
or makes you angry
ANd let this messgae be known
to all that passes your way
THe smallest gesture
helps
The smallest help is appreciated.....
as seen, when I petted each of the many dogs I saw today
all over Romania.....even those
who didn't get a small pieceof cake.



TODAY IN THE STORE......THE BOYS WERENT HERE..WENT TO BUY A CAR OUT OF STATE, AND JOHN, CAME BACK FROM HIS VACATION IN ALABAMA, BUT HAD GOTTEN EITHER FOOD POISONING OR SOME KIND OF VIRUS AND IS GOING TO THE DRS IN THE MORNING..... RICH HELD DOWN THE FORT TODAY, AND WENT TO SOUTH ORANGE AND BOUGHT OUT A HOUSE, AND PACKED IT ALL HIMSELF....WHAT A TROOPER!!! HE EMAILED ME PHOTOS AND HE BROPUGHT BACK SOME REALLY AWESOME STUFF....

THE STORE IS GETTING BETTER AND BETTER,...WE ARE THINING OUT THE BLAH MERCHANDISE...AND REPLACING THEM WITH BETTER AND MORE SELLABLE.....

mY FRIEND ALBERT, WHO JUST MIGHT BE RESPONSIBLE FOR MY ENTIRE ANTQIUE CAREER, CAME TO VISIT ME TODAY FROM VENEZUELA.....WE HAVE A VERY UNUSUAL RELATIONSHIP......BASED ON TELLING STORIES AND SEVERE LAUGHTHER....HIS LAUGHTER IS SO INFECTIOUS, THAT ONE ALMOST NEEDS TO CARRY MEDICATION TO MEET WITH HIM....AND HE USED TO HAVE A GIANT PARROT-A MACAW....A MAN EATER...THAT WOUULD ATTACK ANYONE AND EVERYONE EXCEPT HIM....BUT... THE PARROT.... WAS ABLE TO IMITATE ALBERTS LAUGH EXACTLY....AND IT WAS IMPOSSIBLE TO TELL IF IT WAS ALBERT OR THE PARROT..
ALBERT WAS A CLOCK COLELCTOR...WHO TOOK ME AT AGE 21 TO AN ANTIQUE SOTRE TO PPICK UP A CLOCK......BUT I GOT HOOKED IMMEDIATELY AND BOUGHT A MARBLE TOP CARVED VICTORIAN DRESSER AND MIRROR FOR 25.00...AND THAT IS HOW IT STARTED.
WE WENT TO THE DINER....AND TOLD STORIES, AND PEOPLE KEPT STARING AT US, BECUASE WE COULDNT STOP LAUGHING....NOTHING CHANGED IN 46 YEARS.....:)

Monday, September 12, 2011

SAGA OF "GOLDY THE GOLDFISH:", MISS UNIVERSE&BIG NOSES


When I was a young boy, I lived in close proximity to both the Passaic River and the adjacent Dundee canal. Back then, the waters were always murky and polluted, but never the less, I went fishing almost every day, either alone, or with my friend Jimmy, whose parents owned the grocery store around the corner, where they butchered meat, sold cigarettes and filled ice cream cones with delicious ice cream for 5 cents for one scoop or 7 Cents for a double dipper...and chocolate sprinkles were a penny more.
Jimmy and his parents lived in back of the store in a tiny 4 room apartment, much more cramped than the 5 room house we lived in around the corner..... Jimmy was Catholic, I was Jewish...and we were both Hungarian......
After school, on weekends, and in the summer, we would get our fishing gear together, find some bait, either soft while bread, or juicy worms......and head down to the canal, which was only a block from both our houses....the river, however, was much further away, where the banks weren't too steep to descend.
The canal hosted a variety of fish: Sunfish, shiners...long and silvery, catfish with whiskers that reminded me of my Great Aunt PAula, eels, carp, and an occasional GOLD FISH, which was a golden carp., We would find snapping turtles, and regular turtles, and frogs.....and every once and a rare while, one might even find a bass.
I liked going fishing....and I always hoped I would catch something, especially when I was with JIMMY, as if was a completive sport...But I never really liked taking the fish off the hook, which I did......and I would throw the fish back into the water. While disengaging the hook from the captive fishes mouth, I looking into its eyes and saw the fear, the horror, the pain, and the pleading to let him go and live. Their lips always quivered, as they gasped for breath. I would throw them back in, never dreamed of eating them, and always felt a little guilty for making them experience pain and fear.
But I always wanted to catch a GOLDY... A golden carp. They were very rare.....but once in a while, someone would catch one......and always threw them back. Sometimes old Italian men, and black men would go fishing down at the river and bring their catch home to eat. They told me, they put them live in the bath tub for a few days, to get the poisons out of them.... all well and good, but then these men, didn't take a bath for a few days....and you know how they smelled, worse than the fish.
Yes I always wanted to catch a golden carp.....but always was happy that I didn't, because they were so mystical to me, I was scared to death of hurting them, as if I was putting a hook into some spiritual being, like an angel or a good spirit, and I certainly wouldn't want to have harmed them. I suffered from good home grown JEWISH guilt.We went fishing up to the 6th grade.....in the 7th grade, our school Public School #7, which is now leveled and replaced by a small park, was turned into a Middle School. Things changed, Jimmy and some of my other friends now was aware of the difference between Catholic and JEWS. Suddenly my best friend told me his parents said don't hang out with JEWS, they killed JESUS. Then the hurtful words of dirty JEW was added to Jimmy's vocabulary...and coming from your best friend. Really hurt.. There was no one to go fishing with anymore.....and I started outgrowing the need to go fishing...... and I gave up my youthful fishing career without ever catching the elusive Golden Carp. And Now, 5 decades later, I am very thankful that I never did catch one....which brings me to the story I am about to tell.
I am now the owner of a huge antique store in HOHOKUS NJ, on the HOHOKUS BROOK. At low tide, the brook, which is only about ten feet from my store, and maybe 14 feet below it.....is a stone lined gully, with water slowly trickling down....somewhat like a trout stream. But when there is a torrential rain, and snow melting up in the mountains, it becomes a vicious torrent, white capping over the rocks, like a mini Colorado river. It flows with such intensity, that it makes our building vibrate... The water comes up almost over the banks, and at that time, must be 14 feet or more.
We sit out side the store, and enjoy the scenery.... We have lots of squirrels , chipmunks, a fleet of ducks, moles, voles, sparrows come to visit......We throw bread, corn, and crackers to all the animals and enjoy the communing with nature.. A few weeks ago, I looked into the water, and saw something GOLDEN GLIMMERING..... I tried to focus my eyes. It was a GOLDEN CARP. A JAPANESE COY! But this was impossible, They do not inhabit fast flowing streams... But there it was....We threw bread to Goldy, it came checked it out, but refused it... We figured that someone threw their pet into the stream because they were moving and didn't just want to leave it to die in a pond without food.
We thought it wouldn't live a week. What would it eat? and this GOLDEN CARP was about 14 inches..maybe more.....day after day passed, and he was around every day..... The water often took him with the current that he couldn't fight the force..... Very often when the ducks weren't around, neither was GOLDY...Then the ducks would show up, GOLDY would follow. Goldy would swim right beneath them, and he didn't both them nor the ducks bother GOLDY. I watch GoLDY come and go for about three weeks...It was a mystical experience , seeing him glimmer for a distance. His tail gracefully swaying as he swam..but then there was the horrific news that HURRICAN IRENE was on her way, with 12 inches of rain promised...which meant the brook would rise, to 14 feet, and the force of the water, would sweep GOLDY downstream, maybe crush him on the rocks, disturb whatever food source he had....and remove this mystical creature from the HOHOKUS brook and my life.. The Saturday when Irene started, as the drizzle commenced, I looked out into the stream, and GOLDY was there. I said goodbye and felt a deep sense of sadness. I closed the door, and never expected to see him again.
The storm came, The brook overflowed its banks.For three says after the storm the water was very high, and muddy.... but when the water cleared......there was GOLDY, How he survived I have no idea.I cannot express the joy I felt seeing him again......and tonight, we are having another storm, the river is raging again, and I hope Goldy will be there again, to renew my hope in the goodness of the universe.

a WEEK PAST SINCE I SAW GOLDY.....THERE WAS EVEN A FISHERMAN ON THE BANKS OF THE BROOK..AND HE DISAPPEARED AND I WAS AFRAID HE CAUGHT GOLDY.....BUT THIS MORNING,, AFTER A LONG TIME, THE WATER SLOWED DOWN.....AND THE WATER BECAME CLEAR....AND THE SUN SHONE ON THE RIGHT ANGLE TO PIECE THE WARE AND EVEN ILLUMINATE THE ROCKS BENEATH...AND THIS MORNING, THE LIGHT OF THE SUN, SHONE BRIGHTLY AND THERE WAS GOLDY.....STILL ALIVE AND SWIMMING AGAINST THE THE STRONG FLOW OF THE BROOK. MY HEART WAS FILLED WITH JOY....THE MYSTICAL FISH RETURNED.

WHILE I AM BLOGGING, I AM ALSO WATCHING THE MISS UNIVERSE CONTEST...WHICH IS ALWAYS A HOOT TO ME. I CANNOT TAKE IT SERIOUSLY.... ALL OF THESE WOMEN, FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD, LOOK ALIKE. THEY ARE LIVING BARBIE DOLLS. ALL HHAVE THE SAME HAIR CUT....THEY ALL HAVE THE SAME CAPS ON THEIR TEETH.....THEY DRESS THEM ALIKE...... AND WHILE THE DIFFERENCE MIGHT BE SLIGHT, LIKE HAIR COLOR OR EYE SHAPE.....THEY ARE ALL COOKIE CUTTER STAMPED OUT CREATURES OF THE FEMALE GENDER.
NOW, I DONT KNOW IF IT IS SOME KIND OF CO0INCIDENCE...BUT ALL OF THEM SEE TO HAVE VERY LARGE NOSES.....I WONDER IF IT WAS THE LOW CAMERA ANGLE.....BUT ALL OF THEM SEEMED TO HAVE HUGE PROBOSCIS....,,,NOW THEY JUST SHOW THE TOP 16 OF THE naTIONAL cOSTUMES.....THESE WERE NOT NATIONAL COSTUMES, BUT COSTUMES WITH THE "FLAVOR" OF THE COUNTRY....THEY ALL LOOKED LIKE SOME very bazaar Drag Queen from another planet. The MISS Universe Contest is all so silly,political, and phony.....but yet, its fun...I cannot take it seriously...how can they say, that one girl is the most beautiful girl in the UNIVERSE.....

Sunday, September 11, 2011

I AM BACK....LOST MY PASSWORDS TO GET INTO THIS BLOG

YESTERDAY.......A CREW FROM HOLLYWOOD came to my store o interview me for a part on a TV program.......a reality show, dealing with antiques. I first had a video conference interview...and they like the results.....yesterday, they made an one hour video of me...First giving a tour of the store, then a personal interview....and finally, a scripted negotiation...for me to buy an antique from a potential seller.
It seemed to go well. If I get the job, they said I had to fly to HOLLYWOOD for three weeks...to make the show for the season.....They first saw me in drag as the MONA LISA, then as a with with a pointed hat, then as a money and finally me and mini me...holding a baby..with my bearded face.
For those of you who had followed my blog....there is a lot to catch up on, as I havent been back here since NOVEMBER and my last trip to HUNGARY. This last trip was to TURKEY....by way of all the mountains..from Translyvania,(the Carpathians, The BALKANS (Bulgaria) and then on to the Anatolian MTS in TURKEY....ending a 5 day drive thru the mountains, eventually ending up at the Mederanian Sea....The most beautiful place on earth....ANTALIA....
I will finsih this now....with a reminder..to come back and I will try to post photos, of the trip and the DOLPHINS who are used for theraphy for autistic kids,..recipies......and stories, poems...etc

Sunday, June 19, 2011

i AM IN bedapest today

lAST NIGHT WE WENT INTO TOWN...FOR DINNER....BUT A GIGANTIC POLIC PRESENSE, ALONG WITH AMBULANCES, POLICE DOGS, TANKS, RIOT GEAR...GAVE OUR BEHINDS A BAD SQUINCHING, AND WE WENT TO A DOWNTOWN MALL INSTEAD....IT TURNS OUT, THAT THERE WAS NO REVOLUTION IN PROGRESS, BUT THE POLICE WERE CALLED OUT TO PROTECT THE GAY HUNGARIANS...WHO WERE HAVING THEIR ANNUAL GAY PRIDE PARADE.....OVER 1000 NEO NAZI, SCREAMING THROW THE FAGS INTO THE RIVER AND THEN THE JEWS) WER SEPARATED BY A WALL OF RIOT GEAR POLICE MEN.....THE NAZIS ARE A LIVE AND WELL IN HUNGARY, BUT THE GOVERNMENT IS OUT TO PROTECT THE INNOCENTS. THE CHURCH, DOES AD DFUEL TO THE FIRE WITH THEIR CONDEMNATION, WHILE THE PRIESTS FEED ALTER BOYS STUFFED CABBAGE AND THEN MOLEST THEM....hmmm I AM JOKING......



.THEY DONT GIVE THEM STUFFED CABBAGE
TODAY, as my freind Susan studied for her exam tomorrow for her MAsters Degree...Frank and I and her boy DONNY, went on a trip into the mountain...to a town, that has been restored to its original look in the 16 and 1700;s The roads in the town, are like the Roman Appian way, paved with stones...and all the buildings have been restored....wood with plaster(stucco) white walls. The name of this town HOLLOKO,,which means RAVEN STONE....named after the Castle, whose reamains adorn the top of the mountain...and is being restored. Originall, the castle was built in the 12th Century.....and below, the town evolved. We went to one restuarant, whose menu was more gourmet than most gourmet American Restuarants....and the prices were more like MC DONALDS. We only had a "pot" of soup...a traditional food of that town...Made of pork, pork broth, pieces of very tasty pork, sour cream, paprika,onion..and spices...served with REAL thick rye bread....all for under 500......it was a meal in a pot they had wild roast boar, in many different styles all under 9.00,Hungary boastgs many restuarants whose owners go into the bushes and kill these hairy, dangerous tusked wild boars,......and although not KOSHER.who cares.
I had 5 hours of layover.due to bad wearther...and people not showing up for their flight, and their luggage has to be removed from the plane before we took off.....just incase they put a bomb in it....which took an hour or more, while sitting in a hot plane of the tarmac.
Luckily I met two interesting guys,also waiting for their flights to GERMANY.....many hours late due to huge thunder storms....in the Eastern USA.....Of of them seemed like a typical Republican , corporate man.....28..works for a fiber optic company...and has been all over the world....he was on his way to DUBAI, but has been all over the world in places, I might not feel safe.....He was drinking wine spritzers for hours, but his political views were quite different than I expected. We both thought alike!!! The another man, also in his 20;s who lives and eaches in NEBRASKA...was on his way to Lebanon to see his family. Although a MUSLIM,and eats HALAL...he is still seemingly a very moderns man, and is not Anti JEWISH,anti American.. He like me and other who think as I do, are anti war....(for no real reason) and we do noot belive the lies of the media...that we are forced fed upon. I then read him a buinch of my poems...and many of them were ro everyone...and included the MUSLIMS...into society,and didnt put them down in any way...While a mentioned that any fundamentalist...of any religion...were bad. ANd That muslims are being scapegoated now, as the JEWS were in the Hitler era...BUSH learned a lot from Hitelrs tactics. We dicussed Isreal, Lebanon, Syrian, the HALLOCAUST, Bin Laden.....etc etc, and we were both on the same page. He said he flies often, but rarely talks to people int the air port..Becuase he is a muslim...he doenst want to get into heavy conversations..where he has to defend his people and his belifes...but vgery quickly, he saw he wouldnt have to engaged in apologetics. It was an amazing few hours....and wish he lived in the metro area, because we were instant freinds.
THE FOOD ON LUFTHANSA USED TO BE GOOD. NOW IT IS ON THE PAR OF FRZEN "BANQUET" BRAND DINNERS. FEH.....tHE MUNICH AIRPORT IS ABOUT 8 TIMES THE SIZE IT WAS IN THE EARLY NINETIES.....I COLD HAVE GOTTEN LOST.....BUT i DIDNT. IT WAS LIKE GOING TO A LARGE BERGEN COUNTY SHOPPING MALL, WHERE THE PARKING LOTS HAS BEEN REPLACED BY PLANES TO ALL OVER THE WORLD......
i STILL HAVE JET LAG, AND MY EYES ARE CLOUDY AND TIRED....TOMORROW WE LEAVE FOR TURKEY, A 4 DAY TRIP THRU HUNGARY,ROMANIA,BULGARIA, AND THEN TURKEY.....FIRST TO ISTANBUL TO SHOP AT THE BIG BAAZZAR, THEN ON TO ANTALYA, THE TURKISH RIVEREA ON THE MEDITERRANEAN....WHERE SUSANS SON WILL TAKE THERAPHY WITH THE DOLPHINS...CHECK "YOU TUBE" FOR DOLPHIN THERAPY" SHE HOW THESE MAGINIFICENT ANIMALS HELP CHILDREN AWAKE THEIRBRAIN TO THEIR POTENTIAL...HE HAS A UNDIAGNOSED PROBLEM......THAT HTYE THINK MIGHT BE HELPED BY THE DOLPHINS......YOU CAN ALSO GOOGLE DOLPHIN THERAPY AND FIND OUT MORE ABOUT IT.THERE IS NO SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH THAT PROVES IT WORKS....BUT SEEING IS BELIEIVNG.....IT HELPS!!

ONE LAST COMMENT FOR TODAY......THE FOOD COURT AT THE "WEST END" MALL IN BUDAPEST...(YES...ITS SPELLED IN ENGLISH" HAS AN INCCREDIBLE SELECTION OF FRESH FOOD....BETTER THAN MOST GOURMET RESTARUANTS...AND I WILL TRY TO CREAT MANY OF THESE DELICACIES WHEN I GET HOME.i FORGOT MY CAMERA,OTHER WISE, THERE WOULD BE PIX NOW TO MAKE YOU DROOL

Wednesday, June 1, 2011

hEY=MISS ME? COULDNT LOG ON????

I HAD TROUBLE LOGGING ON...DONT KNOW WHY.....WELL I AM BACK......REMEMBER YOUCAN EMAIL ME AT BUDDYLUBMAN@AOL.COM

i MIGHT GO TO EUROPE.....WITH MY FREINDS TO TAKE THEIR KIDS TO SWIM WITH THE DOLPHINS IN TURKEY.... one of thier chidlren might be autistic, and they say the dolphins are some kind of therapy.....which might follow a long time theory that I had, that dolphins, communicate...sort of psychically, non verbably....that their squeaks are one kind of language, but they have others. they might project their thoughts...thru radio waves...maybe turn these waves into photos....who knows, but they do communicate....and are extrememly intelligent creatures... Not like some of the people we have in the press these days.
SARAH PALIN and her bus trip. WHERE IS IS MONEY COMING FROM????DID SHE RETURN THOSE CLOTHES SHE SPENT HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS ON....AND BOUGHT A BUS> SHE THINKS SHE IS SO WELL LIKED.....SHE IS A ROCK STAR...YES, ROCKS IN HER HEAD, IF SHE THINK AMERICA WILL ELECT HER AS PRESIDENT....YES, WE MIGHT ELECT A FEMALE,,,,BUT NOT AN ALASKAN TRAILER TRASH BEAUTY QUEEN....PLEASE.... THE WOMAN KNOWS NOTHING ABOUT ANYTHING.....I WOULD BE GLAS TO DEBATE HER ON MOST SUBJECTS..EXCEPT MOOSE AND WOLF KILLING, OR FISHING AND HUNTING....
AND DONALD TRUMP...MIGHT BE A SMART BUSINESS MAN...BUT... if it wasnt for his inheritence..he might have become a bad hairdresser in SOUTH BEACH....He is not clever, funny....he is tacky and boring.......what does he have that I dont have??? about 100 million dollars or more.!!!
Now we have bankers raping maids in hotels in the news...Something fishy about it..These men are so rich, they could afford the best hookers..Not older ugly maids>SOmeone is trying to get them out of the way......The first one, was the most LIBERAL man in the IMF.....they might wanted him gone..Knew he was a womanizer, and paid of a maid.....who knows. Conspiracy theories now contain semen!!!
BACK TO THE TRIP TO EUROPE> I do need a break...I have been going 7 days a week since last NOVEMBER with two days off....and when I leave, it invigorates my employees to do well when i am gone....and they usually sell a lot.....and clean up the store... WE ARE PLANNING TO GO BACK TO AUCTIONS OF SOME KIND. WE DID GET IN A FABULOUAS TEN ROOM APARTMENT FROM NYC.......THE PARTMENT OF A CUSTOMER WHO HAD TO GO INTO A NURSING HOME..THIS IS THE FIRST TIME I GOT EMOTIONALLY INVOLVED WITH AN ESTATE, AND I SHED SOME TEARS WITH THE MANS SISTER....HE HAD HAD, A SIGNIFICANT OTHER FOR 55 YEARS...THEY LIVED TOGETHER ALL THIS TIME....THE OLDER ONE 89....DEVELOPED SEVERE DEMENTIA AND WAS PUT IN A HOME, WHILE THE OTHER ONE WAS SICK IN THE HOSPITAL IWTH PNEUMONIA......THE TWO WILL NEVER SEE EACH OTHER AGAIN (ON THIS PLAIN) AND WHEN i VERBALIZED THIS...I ACTUALLY BROKE OUT INTO TEARS... HOW SAD THIS IS....BUT THE ONE WHO IS IN THE HOPSITAL, HAS ONSET ALZHEIMERS AND ISNT REALLY AURE WHAT IS GOING ON......AND THE SADNESS, MAY BE FOR US WHO SEES IT.....WE MIGHT FEEL MORE THAN THEY DO. YES, LIFE IS SAD....SO WE MUST GRASP ON TO EVERY HAPPY MOMENT, SMILE AS MUCH AS WE CAN, LAUGH AS MUCH AS WE CAN.....GIVE TO OTHERS AS MUCH AS WE CAN....SING OUT LOUD...OR JUST IN THE SHOWER....PAY ATTENTION TO THE SONGS OF THE BIRDS,.....AND KEEP OPEN TO MEET KNEW PEOPLE, DONT CLOSE DOORS, OPEN NEW ONES....AND TREAT THOSE CLOSE TO US WITH AS MUCH LOVE AS WE CAN.....AND TRY TO SPREAD LOVE TO STRANGERS.. tRY TO RIGHT WRONGS. DONT BE AFRAID TO APOLOGIZE WHEN YOU KNOW YOU ARE WRONG...AND COME TO TERMS WITH PEOPLE.....LEARN TO BEND A LITTLE. gIVE MORE THAN YOU HAVE TO. SORRY, IA M RAMBLING....BUT THIS IS MY STYLE.

oN THE UPSETTING SIDE, ANOTHER ANTIQUE DEALER THREATEN TO PUNCH MY FACE IN, "BURN" ME ETC.... BECAUSE I OUT BID HIM ON AN ESTATE,,,,,iT TURNS OUT BECUASE OF THE NEGATIVE VIBES...i DONT THINK NEITHER OF US GOT IT......iT WAS SO UNPROFESSIONAL AND UNCALLED FOR, AND REALLY UPSET ME FOR DAYS......AND THIS WAS THE END OF A 35 YEAR OLD RELATIONSHIP.....NOT FRIENDSHIP, BUT BUSINESS RELATIONSHIP....AND i WAS THERE FOR THIS GUY MANY TIMES WHEN HE NEEDED HELP./ oh well.

bACK TO THE TRIP...I MIGHT BE DRIVING WITH THE FAMILY ACROSS HUNGARY, RUMANIA,SERBIA, INTO TURKEY.....SYHOULD BE FUN....ONY NERVOUS ABOUT THE FACT THAT SERBIA AND TURKEY ARE MUSLIM COUNTRIES...THEY DONT LIKE JEWS AND AMERICANS....oy vey!

oNE QUICK RECIPE AND I HAVE TO GO HOME..... STEAM ANY VEGGIES YOU WANT TO...MIX GREEN AND YELLOW...ADD SOME CHICK PEAS, OR KIDNEY BEANS. CELELRY TURNIP, CABBAGE...EGGPLANT...ANY NUMBER OF THEM.... ADD SOME "HARRISSA" MORROCAN CHILLI/GARLIC PASTE> A LITTLE CILANTRO. MAKE A SAUCE IN MINUTES. DISOLVE A FEW TABLESPOONS OF PEANUT BUTTER IN DOUBLE THE AMOUNT OF WATER TILL LIQUIDY.....ADD GRATED GARLIC, HINT OF GINGER, TOBASCO,SOY SAUCE...(YOU CAN ADD GORUND PEANUTS, SESAME SEEDS, AND OTHER CHILLI TYPE PEPPERS IN MODERATION.....COOK ON LOW FOR 6 MINUTES..... TASTE AND ADJUST (AD SALT THEN) DRAIN STEAMED VEGGIE...POUR SAUCE OVER THEM IN A SOUP BOWL. SERVE OVER RICE OR COUS COUS.


WELL I AM BACK AGAIN.....AFTER A LONG TIME FORGOT MY PASSWORDS.....MY BRAIN TOOK A VACATION....WELL, I AM LEAVING FOR A 20 DAY TRIP TO EUROPE.....BUDAPEST, TO MEET UP WITH MY FREINDS FRANK AND SUSAN, AND THEIR KIDS...THEIR DAUGHTER IS MY GOD CHILD...AND THEIR SON....DANNY... has a problem...undefined or diagnosed as of yet, possibly autism..so we are drivng thru Hungary, Rumania, Bulgaria....and then, on to TURKEY, where he will participate ina new theraphy....swimming with DOLPHINS..which is supposed to awaken something inside the childs brain ....and help him.
ANd I am hoping to swim with these magnificent cratures as well..May talk with them....psychically....they do communicate with each toerh. and maybe....they can read my mind> who knows??????
today is the first day of FALL. Its cool....need a jacket already. The leaves are starting to go thru their scheduled art work....the golds,reds,orange and yellows are starting to appear....and the ground is already starting to be covered with theri art work, mostly in browns......The leaves bring on the molds...and manypeople are having allergy attacts. (I jsut sneezed-too bad no sound here to be creative) sneezed again...
TODAY is MONDAY....it was very very quiet in the story...only a small handful of people came in all day. One lady, wanted a $50.00 bookcase.....I was kind and apologized for not having one.....I dont think Salvation Army would have one that cheap...but I was kind. Maybe she was poor. I hope she can pay the car payment on her BENTLEY!
A number of pople who promised to come back today to buy things..never showed up of course. THey probably had to go to SA meeting(shoppers anonymous) or to their
AMFOSS meeting (American full of shit society) which most of them are charter members. We rushed to restore a desk for a guy, who was only here 4 times....today would have been the 5th, had he showed up. He was supposed to come and pay for a piece of furniture.....
We got a few calls to buy things, but none of them were very exciting.....I called the producer in HOLLYWOOD to see if there was still any chance of me getting the job on the TV program..She said the produce who did my audition wanted me, but possibly the network didnt? She didnt know and said whe would call. THis is the woman who found me on the internet and arranged the audition.
I certainly hope the FAT TUB OF LARD we call govenor downt run for presdient..I dont knwo what I would do if he won. I think I would have to move to another country.....I couldnt call that piece of crap my PRESIDENT....I still havent gotten over the BUSH adminsitration.....I think of them and puke.....what they did to MY COUNTRY>

Sunday, May 15, 2011

laDY FAINTS IN THE STORE TODAY,,,ENTERMANS CAKES-

tHE DAY STARTED OUT GREAT....IMMEDIATE LARGE SALE, AND PLENTY OF BROWSERS......LAUGHS AND SALES. LATER IN THE AFTERNOON, A COUPLE CAME IN TO SELL ME SOME TINGS......THEY OPENED UP THEIR BOXES OF THINGS, WHILE i WENT UPSTAIRS TO SELL A FAMILY SOME CHAIRS. i DONT THINK I WAS UPSTAIRS MORE THAN 5 MINUTES....i RETUNED TO FIND THE WOMAN LAYING ON THE FLOOR, AND TWO POLICEMENT OVER HER, ADMINSITERING OXYGEN.
tHE VISUAL OF SEEING A LADY, LOOKING DEAD, WITH TWO POLICEMENT OVER HER...ONLY A FEW MINUTES AFTER I WENT UPSTAIRS CAUSED ME TO FEEL LIKE SOMEONE KICKED ME IN THE STOMACH.. I TOOK A TRANQUELIZER...SOON AN EMERGENCY MEDICAL TEAM ARRIVED......FOLLOWED BY AN AMBULANCE.. tHERE WAS A dR IN THE STORE AT THE TIME, WHO WAS HANGING AROUND FOR ABOUT TWO HOURS.....WHEN HE WAS UNCONSCIOUS....HE HAD HER HUSBAND LAY HER BACK AND RAISE HER LEGS, WHICH HELPED THE BLOOD RUSH BACK INTO HER HEAD, AND SHE REGAINED CONSCIOUSNESS.....THEN THE OXYGEN BROUGHT HER BACK FURTHER.....TONIGHT I GOT AN EMAIL FROM HER AND SHE IS OK...... she had taken a perquesett, didnt eat, and other behavioral problems led to the episode.

The business for the day was good....and I felt uplifted, even thought the almost tradgedy......I for got to mention that the DR....said that she had NO PULSE...John thought she was dead, and that is why he called 011!!!.....near the end of the day, a woman came in looking for a bed....I woo her up in the elevator, heading for floor three...when we head a crunch...and the elevator came to a jolting halt. WE WERE STUCK. i ALWAYS WONDERED HOW i WOULD RESPOND IF I EVER GOT STUCK IN AN ELEVATOR. I THOUGHT I WOULD PANIC, OR AT LEAST HAVE AN IMMEDIATE COLITIS ATTIC. I DIDNT. I GUESS IT WAS LUCKY, THAT I HAD TAKEN AN ANTI ANXIETY PILL SOME TIME BEFORE GETTING STUCK. WITHIN 5 MINUTES ONE OF THE BOYS FIURED OUT HOW TO GET US OUT OF THERE.....BY FORCING THE DOOR OPEN.....WHICH WORKED. LUCKILY, THE WOMAN WASNT WORRIED EITHER, I EXPLAIND THIS HAD HAPPEND TWICE BEFORE IN 9 YEARS...AND THE ELEVATOR IS HYDROLIC, AND CANNOT FALL.....AND THAT THE WORSET SENARIO WOUO DBE TO CALL THE FIRE DEPRATMENT, WHO HAS A SPECIAL KEY TOP OPEN THE DOOR......AND THE MOST WE WOULD BE STUCK WAS 15 MIN...ALTHOUGH, THEY SEND A FIRE TRUCK WITH 14 MEN WITH AXES, AND ENOUGH EQUIPMENT TO PUT OUT A FIRE A BLOCK LONG.

TONIGHT AT THE STOP AND SHOP, THEY HAD A SALE ON ENTTEMEN CAKES.....SO TONIGHT, AS i CUT A PIECE OF NON SIET CHOCOLATE TRUFFLE CAKE....AND SIPPING BUSTELLO COFFEE, i STARTED READING THE INGREDIENTS.....THERE WAS NOTHIG BUT THE WORD FLOUR THAT SEEMED FAMILIAR......IT LOOKED LIKE THE INGREDIENTS OF SOPHISTICATED LAB EXPERIMENT IN CHEMSITRY CLASS...NONE OF IT SOUNDED LIKE FOOD, OR ANYTHING EDIBLE. VERY SCARY.....ONE WOULD HAVE THOUGHT THAT CHOCOLATE CAKE WITH ICING WOULD CONTAIN FLOUR, EGGS, SALT,MILK, BAKING POWDER, COCOA, SUGAR, VANILLA......NOT A LIST OF CEHMICALS WITH LATIN SOUNDING NAMES, AND WORDS LIKE XANTIUM GUM, AND OTHER SCARY WORDS THAT SOUND LIKE POISON.... BUT WHEN YOU READ MOST FOOD LABELS, THIS IS WHAT WE ALL FIND. CHEMICALS....AND WE WONDER WHY EVERYONE GETS CANCER....... yet they spend billions of dollars on research for cancer...rather than stopping the infusion of poisons into our bodies.......THERE IS A REASON TO BUY NATURAL FOODS AND ORGANICS FOODS......

Friday, May 13, 2011

I HAVE NOT BLOGGED IN QUITE A WHILE

There are times in ones life, when you just want to stop everything......even the most pleasant things, routine things,....just to rest, and break the monotony of patterns that we set up for ourselves.
THE PST MONTH I WAS UNDER A LOT OF STRESS.....business was and still is in the toilet, and my sense of humor, my sense of the bazaar, was put into the freezer. I stopped reading the news,...and i was on a diet to loose weight...which i did, and in celebration of looing weight, i started going out to eat!!!!!1
There were many things that i wanted to blog about...but, just didnt have the energy when i got home late a night. But tonight, I just couldnt resist commenting on the porn stash that they found in BIN LADENS HOME.....Well he is....well WAS, only human.....even relgious psychotic murderers get horney and want to watch some porn.
Even though he has three wives, i guess they couldnt satisfy him. I wonder if these wives were fat and ugly, with a mustache? He could ahve ahd the best that money could buy,...or maybe the porn was of a kinky nature,which he couldnt let be known to his wives.....MAybe he was into leather, or speedos, or rubber suits....Maybe he liked to seewomen dressed up as little girls in PArochial School costumes, or maybe he liked little boys?
There were other people living in his home...and maybe it belonged to someone else...althugh, he was the GRAND POOBAH, the MAster of the house...the TOP CHEESE, and you would think he would know everything that went on in their...considering his paranoia of being in hiding....so, therefore, I say the porn was his. UNLESS, in the wisdom of the CIA, or whoever s handling this situation.....HOMELAND SECURITY...they came up with this porn "stchick" to make him look bad in the eyes of the other devout MUSLIMS, who might reject his principles if he was a sinner and porn purveyor.But in reality he was a man...still young enough to take his problem in HAND...and watch porn. WHY NOT!

LATEST POEM:
WHEN THE DUST FINALLY SETTLES
WHEN HUMANS NO LONGER WALK THE EARTH
WHEN EXTINCTION OF ALL ANIMAL SPECIES HAS BEEN ACCOMPLISHED
BY NATURE OR HUMAN SELFISHNESS
A QUIET WILL FALL UPON THE LAND
NO HEART BEATS WILL BE HEARD
NO EYES LEFT TO APPRECIATE THE BEAUTY OF THE LANDCAPES THAT NOW WILL SLOWLY HEAL
THE PLANTS WILL RETAKE THEIR ORIGINAL TERRITORY
EVENTUALLY COVERING UP ANY EVIDENCE MANS BRIEF TIME ON EARTH

ALL THE WARS FROM THE BEGINING OF TIME
WERE FOUGHT IN VAIN
ALL THE QUESTS OF RELIGON AND POLITICS
WERE ALL FOR NAUGHT

ALLTHE BOOKS THAT WERE WRITTEN AND ACCUMULATON OF KNOWLEDGE
ARE NOW UNIMPORTANT.
THERE WILL BE NO ONE LEFT TO READ MY POETRY
THEN BOOKS LIKE THE PEOPLE WILL TURN TO DUST

THE ONLY EVIDENCE OF OUR EXISTENCE WILL BE
A LONE FLAG, ON A THIN POLE, STICKING INTO THE MOON.


MOTHERS DAY POEM:
IF 1-800 FLOWERS
COULD ONLY DELIVER TO HEAVEN
IWOULD SEND LILACS AND ROSES
BOUQUETS OF ALL KINDS
LINE A PATH WITH SWEET SMELLING BEAUTY
FROM ONE CLOUD TO ANOTHER
JUST ONCE MORE TO VISIT
MY MOTHER
WHAT WOULD i SAY, IF ONLY GIVEN SECONDS
TO COMPOSE
i WOULD STAND THEIR IN SILENCE
WITH A SMILE ON MY FACE AND TEARS IN MY EYES
tHEN PICK UP TWO FLOWERS
A WHITE LILLY AND A BRIGHT RED ROSE
KISS ITHEM AND GENTLY TOSS THEM
AND SHE WOULD KNOW EXACLTY MY THOUGHTS
FOR HER NAME WAS
LILLY ROSE

BIN LADENS DEATH.. was unexpected. I thought he never would be caught because he was protected by BUSH and OR CHENY.....for working with them to create the cause that allowed us to enter into the IRAQ WARS...making money for the entire Military industrial complex and all the Oil companies, and related big buisness. Either I am very wrong.....or their promise was kept during their reign of terror....but was now out of their control. I am sure, the slime of PAKISTAN was protecting him, under orders left over from BUSH and CHENEY, but had no control over OBAMA, who kept it secret...even from the PAKISTANIS...who would have blown the whistle, had their know the SEALS were coming to bring down the BIG GUY. Our problem with Pakistan is far from over......

I think it might have been better, had the Seals killed him, and left without a trace. Then his death coldnt be directly proven to be an American assasination.....it could have been an internal one...?????ANd less revenge sought on us. But American, especially all the family and friends of those who lsot love ones on 9/11 now feel some kind of closure....and have some respect regained for our government.....and especially for OBAMA, who did , what BUSH couldnt or wouldnt do!!!BUSH had annouced that he had given up on finding him......hmmmm, to me that is suspicious...especially when his father is in business with BIN LADENS DADDY......in the Carlyle Group (who make war goods, bradley tanks etc)

QUICK VEGETABLE COUS COUS:
mY RECIPES COME FROM AD LIBBING A MEAL, BASED ON WHAT i FIND IN THE FRIDGE AND THE CUPBOARD. EACH TIME I MAKE A DISH, DIFFERENT THINGS MIGHT BE THROWN IN.......
cut up one eggplant, 4 stalks of celery(chopped) one large onion(chopped) two yellow squash(sliced) 4 cloves of garlic, one can of chick peas,grated, one can of water chestnuts(sliced) Heat up oil in a large pot and saute till veggies start breaking down....then ad one can of crushed tomatoes(diced is good too) cup of ater tablespoon of cinnamon, a few shakes of tobassco, half teaspoon basil, half teaspoon nutmeg,) and simmer for 45 min or until all veggies are soft..add salt at the end...and adjsut seasoning to taste... Tumeric, cardomon, can also be added......

serve over cous cous...(just follow directons on the box) When serving, you can add chopped parsely or scallion on top.