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Going For Walks and Flowers

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24. Dec. 2018 By Alex Nuttall - Bio Olde Towne Flowers I hate using I.  I was walking yesterday in Olde Towne, Portsmouth, Virginia, US, Earth, Milky Way, Universe. It's been more than once where I found the center of the Universe was no more than a few feet away from where I was standing. In this case it was a flower. Was it a daisy? I don't know. In some cases I want everything to be exactly right. In most cases. I try to do my part. I'm lazy. Lazy, Lazy, Lazy. In my ignorance I follow an abundant routine of rote highways with the senses. This is my cattle ride. I'm herding the senses and plucking the dignity as it comes to fruit or milk or is it the port I am arriving at with my cattle simile? Ignorant and feeble is the future and to some it is today.  Going For Walks and Flowers in Olde Towne Portsmouth - Was it a daisy? The center of the Universe can be found within reach of every human being or sentient being. That is where t

Christmas, Hanukkah and Winter Solstice

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13. Dec. 2018 By Alex Nuttall - Bio It is cold in the northern hemisphere of planet Earth. In the United States and many other places there is celebration and coming together. For some of us who have left the old traditions behind it becomes a dance of conformity at best or misery at worst. The layers of hypocrisy, we say, are killing us all. Lets count the months leading to the New Year and Winter Solstice: September, October, November and December. These are 4 months or 1/3 of the year. The word September means “seventh month”. October means the “eighth month”. November means the “ninth month.” December, you guessed it, means the “tenth month.” In the very root of our everyday calendar there is false perception. We brush it aside. We drive on. When this is brought up by the sharp minded it is dismissed. Let’s look at our days of the week. Monday is the Moon day. Tuesday is the day honoring Mars (Tiw). Wednesday is the day honoring Odin. Thursday is Thor's da

When It Comes Down To It

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12. Dec. 2018 By Alex Nuttall - Bio It Comes Down To It. The Situation Here we are. Me and you. Side by side. Eye to eye. Sort of, it is sort of this way. There has been a lot of stress with regards to the message OgFOMK ArTS is putting out. It’s been stressful to this writer mostly. Ownership of a broken vessel is not a proud thing but it’s only broken for a short time. The captain elects who he will take along on the journey. Captain Alexander at the helm. Glad to meet you.  The Planet Earth vessel OgFOMK ArTS is set to sail with only her original cargo. All passengers have been thrown overboard along with their works. So be it. It was a tough journey. Begging all the time. “Please come out with me.” The old Captain would beg. Like a man with a fine fishing boat who bought the gas, beer, ice, sandwiches, canned goods and such; only to be begging on the phone to his compatriots for some company. Instead of a captain he is a dung beetle. Alas his ball

Poem: All Romes Lead to the Road

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17. Nov. 2018 By Alex Nuttall - Bio Poem: All Romes Lead to the Road 20181116-0156 Good night and thank you for listening, All Romes lead to the road, Common language somehow upsetting, The balance and the wind shuffle; Good night and early morning travels Vaguely saying the measures of mile Twisting haphazardly with Meter, Rhyme And dusty Feet marching route-step; In cadence, exercise! I hate you and You hate me! Dirty, stinking privates Won't brush their teeth! Laughing at The patience of the Grand Narcissist; Good night and say goodbye to games Played on the playa with the Devil Bending his knee to publicly pray and Say: "Have a blessed day." As you vomit; Good night and listen for the vomitorium To hand over fist fulls of fools feeling Frothy fantastic fetes for fabricated Nonsensual desires landing in tepid waters; Over the river and through the woods With difficult breathing and difficult Breathing for fantastic difficult ro

Crime and Leadership

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4. Nov. 2018 By Alex Nuttall - Bio Crime By Affiliation Anarchist: You Do Your Crime and I'll Do Mine Autocrat: Anarchist Criminals. Bureaucrat: Crime In Drawers and Files Communist: Mandatory Crime For Everyone. Democrat: Disorganized Crime. Dictator: Of The Criminals, For The Criminals, By The Criminals Libertarian: May The Strongest Criminal Win. Monarchist: Crime For The Chosen Criminal. Republican: Organized Crime. Socialist: Crime For Everyone. Technocrat: Sticks And Stones Criminals. Theocrat: Crime For The Chosen Blessed Criminal. Crime and Leadership, Ogfomk.com Alex Nuttall provides a simple chart based on his leadership bewilderment to  help you make your decision while the electoral college makes theirs. Please vote so that the electoral college can do what they want. It's just like Mommy's smart phone with sparkly things. #OgFOMK #CRIME #LEADERSHIP #VOTE #ELECTIONS https://www.ogfomk.com/2018/11/crime-and-leadership.html

The Jazz Rabbi, Part 3

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28. Oct. 2018 By Alex Nuttall - Bio The Jazz Rabbi, Part 3 -- Alex Nuttall 20181028 The Shooting in Pittsburgh I didn't think I needed to write Jazz Rabbi, Part 3. After yesterday’s shooting at a Pittsburgh Synagogue I'm up this morning doing so. Those who have inspired the hatred that has manifested into bombs and bullets are responsible. Killing those responsible would only perpetuate the problem. Taking a human life is suicide. Homicide is suicide. Why? Upon deeper investigation there is the truth that the privilege to choose is human and to promote the destruction of another human is far worse than doing the act. The gunman, the bomb maker and the promoter are living the worst possible lives. The salesman to homicide is headed for a darkness in sickness, old age and eventual death. These forces follow us all. To motivate so much and then to have increased one's own suffering by doing so is the worst possible choice.. There will be a day when

The Jazz Rabbi, Part 2

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27. Oct. 2018 By Alex Nuttall - Bio The Jazz Rabbi, Part 2 -- Alex Nuttall 20181027 Going to Temple I went to the Orthodox Temple on Saturday. I wore my favorite gray cardigan sweater, khaki slacks, wing-tip shoes and a white shirt. The only person I knew here was the Rabbi. Upon entering I was handed a yamaka. I was told that I could keep it. It was really nice. My first yamaka. I sat on the men's side of the temple.  There were pews just like any church. There were prayer books too. There were hymnals. There were not communion shot glasses. We were not going to drink the blood of Christ, grape juice (Southern Conservative Baptist) or wine (Catholic). The temple was warm. The pulpit was there. The Torah arrived on time. The Torah https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:K%C3%B6ln-Tora-und-Innenansicht-Synagoge-Glockengasse-040.JPG Everyone was friendly. I felt comfortable. The men wore the prayer clothes. The unusual part to me were the

The Jazz Rabbi, Part 1

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25. Oct. 2018 By Alex Nuttall - Bio The Jazz Rabbi, Part 1 -- Alex Nuttall 20181025 The Dream I went to sleep that night hungry. I lived in an apartment in Ghent, Norfolk, Virginia. It was sometime in the late 1990s. The year was 1998 . I couldn't keep a job. I was depressed. I prayed all the time. I have prayed as many times and as many ways as there are humans on this earth. When I went to sleep that night I had yet to pray like a Jew. You see, I've been a Christian, a Hindu, a Muslim and a Buddhist but not yet a Jew.  I had a dream. In the dream I was in a gymnasium. It was large. There were thousands of people in the gym. In the center I saw a red haired and red bearded fellow whom I thought was a viking. He was a powerful man. He also played the drums. He was amazing. I walked up to the man as he played. He was drumming like crazy. He was all over the drum set. Beating, beating, beating on those skins. Ba-tap! Ba-bomp! Ba-ting! Ba-too!

Google+ For Consumers is Ending in 10 Months

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13. Jan. 2018 By Alex Nuttall - Bio Google is " sunsetting " the consumer end of Google+ . As Blogger users we have a choice on our profiles to either use Google+ or Blogger. This profile is seperate from our About page which has more specific profile information as contributors to OgFOMK ArTS. I've switched the settings in our blog to default now to the Blogger profiles: Here is Kim's  and here is mine . I actually like it better because it keeps anyone curious about us focused within the Blogger ecosystem. The biggest problem I had with Google+ profile is that it could send you everywhere but back to where you came from. For navigation purposes that's a "no-go."  I like Google+. I don't love it. I follow a lot of interesting people. It's ending so that's that. My favorite Social network is LinkedIn for me  and OgFOMK ArTS . My most used is Facebook . I still like Twitter  (Thanks to President Donald Trump a whole lot

OK, So Maybe You Will Find Us On Facebook

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2. October 2018 By Alex Nuttall - Bio RE:  You Won't Find Us on Facebook... Anymore. Yep, We sure were angry. We were very upset. Out of control, we felt. Too busy. A cluttered mess of me, myself and I. The OgFOMK ArTS social media train wreck. We got over it with a little bit of Rhythm and Blues.  As we disconnected not just OgFOMK but our personal profile we waited for our profile to die. Facebook was toxic and too busy. Our profile died. Happiness from a new birthday party! (Nick Cave Reference).  Fortunately the co-editor kept her cool. She just watched the baby poop on itself. It wasn't her baby. She just bought diapers, sang songs and listened to the ramblings of the baby. She knew it was just like a hurricane. It would pass. Alex Nuttall -- Editor, Publisher, CEO and Train Wreck We had a meeting in my head.  "Self", I said, "you need to exercise all avenues for OgFOMK ArTS!  You have to work hard to stabilize th

Ross Brooks Show at Copper and Oak Craft Spirits

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30. September 2018 By Alex Nuttall - Bio It's Saturday night. Do you know where your trash is? It might be hanging on the wall at the tasting room of Copper and Oak Craft Spirits . The artist, anthropologist and reclaim archaeologists Ross Brooks shows us what was discarded, rescued, embellished and promoted. Ross Brooks shows us us.  Heidi and Ross Brooks Ross doesn't just hang his findings and finishing touches on the wall. He'll tell you about his discovers too. He's kind enough and honest enough to be shy about his work and then when sharing his discovery you can see the pride of being able to share what he found and did to awaken the discarded refuse spirit. Heidi and Ross Brooks arriving at Copper and Oak The venue was Copper and Oak Craft Spirits, located in the Downtown Portsmouth, Virginia, Olde Towne district. We were able to get there from OgFOMK ArTS' office in a hot, flat 6 minutes. We ain't bar hoppers but we love art

You Won't Find Us on Facebook... Anymore.

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1. Sep. 2018 By Alex Nuttall - Bio Part 1 - Weird You've been blocked. You won't find us on Facebook anymore. That's a lie. You'll find some of us, but you won't find me. Facebook is not a safe or reliable platform for collaboration.  I was recently very disappointed about 3 weeks ago. My friend and teacher, Ajan Udom, had posted a video with me and some others talking about Buddhist Dhamma. He even called out my name so that all my Facebook peeps could see me running my mouth. My wife even liked it! A day or two later my wife says: "Where is that video Udom put of you? I don't see it. I wanted to show someone else and it was gone."  I checked. Not only was it gone but I could no longer see Udom's profile. I thought, "Jees! did he block me? Maybe I said something wrong? Maybe I embarrassed him?" Fortunately Udom had asked me to use the app Line to keep up with him. I contacted him via Line and I asked hi