Sunday, June 05, 2016
Saturday, January 16, 2016
The Luxury Of Our Dreams VS Luminous Luxury To Aspire To...
... And What We Can Realistically Afford!
Saturday, April 25, 2015
Sunday, December 14, 2014
Friday, April 04, 2014
The Luxury of Debauchery
... ironically enough,
the word "LUXURE" in French
is ALL about THAT...!!!
...updated, quite obviously!°
Saturday, February 01, 2014
Tuesday, December 24, 2013
A Luxurious Christmas Is...
Capitalist Christmas?
Commercial Christmas?
Or...
Celebrating His Birth
On a chosen date
in order to, originally,
circumvent pagan rituals
which are now replaced by far greater threats
to the realization that His Coming
And His Sacrifice
Are The True Greatest Riches
one can ever have...!
Sunday, May 12, 2013
Tuesday, December 25, 2012
A Luxury We Can All Afford...
Diamonds are forever?
Well, not this kind -
but it is just as pretty -
if you can observe it
with a microscope, that is!
We are talking about the
prodigious
snow flake!
And, this holiday season
especially,
a great many people
can only afford that
- as they are homeless,
even hopeless -
and guess what:
Mother Nature
won't even give them THAT...
That bitch!
Merry Christmas
to everyone
with artificial snow slopes -
at least?
(The stuff in a can doesn't count!)
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Saturday, February 25, 2012
Luxuries - As Seen On Facebook!
A Bavarian castle - why not, Herr Übermensch...!
Spend the day in the spa, milord?
And find your Dulcinea awaiting thee
on a bed of roses...! Awwwwww!
All that -and more- can be yours too:
if you agree to bury large sums of your earnings
(hardly earned or not) into it...!
You'll feel like you own it all - if only for a day!
It is a great feeling -
no matter how temporary it all is, really!
Sunday, December 25, 2011
Chri$tma$
Is it a luxury these days, really, to have a very, VERY, Merry Christmas...?
The answer: perhaps.
You could have a ton of expensive gifts, champagne gushing out of bottles by the dozen, tables chock-full of exotic dishes and a legion of servants to feed it to your dozens of guests, packed into your fancy abode...!
Or all you could have is this:
And it would be the most luxurious of Christmases because you would have the Essence: you would have the Light - you would have Christ, The Christ in Christmas, symbolized here by the luminous tree; and luminous it is though devoid of any ornaments or decorations made in China or something...!
May you be able to afford this luxury - this year...
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Thursday, May 05, 2011
Trendy Eyewear - Ha.
Ahh... Oakley!
Oakley... who?
Baron Oakley?
Charles Oakley?
OAKLEY, ENGLAND?
OAKLEY, CALIF.?
Disambiguation helping and all, along with an ever-renewable miniaturized hyperlink supplied by a little tweety-tweety birdie that is as generic as it is mercantile (simeonbttjhr3 Simeon Washington @luminousluciano : http://tiny.ly/P8kS) we could quickly identify the Oakley suspect as such:
All 'tis being ado about nothing much at all indeed;
for I am perfectly happy with my eyewear right now!
Look how cool I am with it - and weep!
Ban Ray Ban - I say!
And Oakley? Oh. It's... Obsolete!
:)
Sunday, March 20, 2011
Think We Got A Problem...?
Well, IT IS tax season after all...
We gotta pay the price for all that luxurious lifestyle one day or another, right?!?
We thought this would fit the bill just fine - some music, some wine, a million other frivolities, maybe...?!? But we digress...
On this festive occasion -tax season- why not celebrate with a -dreadful- song about them taxes, the most annoying of all of them too: the luxury tax!
At least the song leads people to think that it might be about said tax...!
Oh well - just escape back into a world of pure ecstatic excess already - onboard a luxury yacht, for instance:
Excelsior!
;)
We gotta pay the price for all that luxurious lifestyle one day or another, right?!?
Just ask our friends Ricky, Jeezy and Lil' Wayne here...
We thought this would fit the bill just fine - some music, some wine, a million other frivolities, maybe...?!? But we digress...
On this festive occasion -tax season- why not celebrate with a -dreadful- song about them taxes, the most annoying of all of them too: the luxury tax!
At least the song leads people to think that it might be about said tax...!
Oh well - just escape back into a world of pure ecstatic excess already - onboard a luxury yacht, for instance:
Excelsior!
;)
Tuesday, November 23, 2010
Shining Stars, Shining Bright... rrrrrrrrrrrrright!
Pluie d’étoiles pour Marithé et François Girbaud !
Gotta give it to the fair half of that creative couple though;
Marithé is such a gracious name!
Amalgamating Marie and Thé - two very good things indeed!
Now THAT's my cup of tea!
Congrats and kudos, both, to Marithé's parents!
Add cheers to that too!
Jeers to that Girbaud guy who took you away from them, though!
(If only in a creative partnership, thus not consummated, quite obviously...!)
And the same to those male models he uses!!!
In blasphemous poses to boot - the jerk!
Yeah, I know;
for all I know, it could have well been MARITHÉ's IDEA in the first place!!!
It is, most probably, the prerogative of a MARITHÉ indeed;
one with such an original name can and shall do as she pleases...!
For a time...
Friday, June 25, 2010
Monday, May 03, 2010
Tis A Luxury To Remember, Also...
In this day and age of political correctness, to simply commemorate without enough of a reason to do so is simply not permissible.
Thankfully, this past Monday, the permission as the occasion were simply there for the taking as the USofA proudly announced that it had finally done it: they'd killed Osama bin Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden. For that act, there will certainly be repercussions of some kind; maybe as high as the death in retaliation of... Barack Hussein Obama?
But that is another story... for later.
As it stands now, U.S. Intelligence is dumbfounded it took so long to get these results - and the blame goes to Pakistan's main intelligence agency, the ISI who basically thought that Bin Laden was not crazy enough to hide out in the last place he'd be thought of hiding out in...! Where was that? In a compound is just a few hundred metres from the Pakistan Military Academy - the country's equivalent of West Point or Sandhurst. Who could have thought Bin Laden would have had the GUTS...? Indeed. The compound had last been raided in 2003 and was not on the list anymore as a "likely place" - at all. Well, Osama sure fooled you all, eh; for as along as he could, anyhow...
Kind of makes me think of those druggies, junkies, resellers and consumers of the stuff along with their workers/walkers, who always come back to the same spot, despite having been raided, caught, cuffed and picked up THERE a thousand times over...! Some people simply oversimplify things for themselves - and it can work, sometimes...
But we are getting side-tracked here; back to the compound we go.
With these living arrangements, the Bin Laden clan was not living in any luxury whatsoever. What they did have, though, was the luxury to be close to everything in near-anonymity; something that would have been thought of as impossible by the ISI, CIA, FBI, whatever... That is ONE "luxurious aspect" here...
The other one is from the American point of view - could it live with the luxury of letting this guy live much longer indeed? But the fact is that his organization may be more dangerous now that he's dead than it was with him alive, so...
And finally, to get back to our original point here - the luxury of remembrance...
This when it is much preferable, sometimes, to simply forget...
But as I always say, NEVER FORGET: personally, my mantra is "forgive but never forget," actually... Because when you do that, you can still be alert for the next time a similar situation arises and, then, you will know what to expect. Forgiving *and* forgetting is simply doing oneself a huge disfavor.
And so, at the announcement of someone's death -shot right in front of his young daughter's eyes too, reportedly- some thought it was the most opportune time to REMEMBER indeed.
For to do so justifies that act.
And it makes it all the more patriotic too.
And how do you remember best, as in officially as well as ceremoniously? At the old ball game, with an Army Ranger, ceremonial pitches from crosstown representatives of the other two top teams in your city AND the national anthem sung by someone with a voice of gold. (Or, as the case may be here, the anthem gets to be played by a marching band of renown - locally speaking, anyhow!)
I think it was the first time I noticed that there was a Boston Bruins great and a Boston Celtics great with SIMILAR NAMES, too... Derek Sanderson and Tom Sanders - cosmic twins, surely...
Like Barack Obama and Osama Bin Laden?
Hmm...
Hopefully, these resounding ovations heard across the land, echoing the one Barack Obama received at the White House upon confirmation of "the news" there, will not turn into cries of tears made of blood any time soon.
Now that is a luxury even the mighty USofA truly cannot afford.
Thankfully, this past Monday, the permission as the occasion were simply there for the taking as the USofA proudly announced that it had finally done it: they'd killed Osama bin Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden. For that act, there will certainly be repercussions of some kind; maybe as high as the death in retaliation of... Barack Hussein Obama?
But that is another story... for later.
As it stands now, U.S. Intelligence is dumbfounded it took so long to get these results - and the blame goes to Pakistan's main intelligence agency, the ISI who basically thought that Bin Laden was not crazy enough to hide out in the last place he'd be thought of hiding out in...! Where was that? In a compound is just a few hundred metres from the Pakistan Military Academy - the country's equivalent of West Point or Sandhurst. Who could have thought Bin Laden would have had the GUTS...? Indeed. The compound had last been raided in 2003 and was not on the list anymore as a "likely place" - at all. Well, Osama sure fooled you all, eh; for as along as he could, anyhow...
Kind of makes me think of those druggies, junkies, resellers and consumers of the stuff along with their workers/walkers, who always come back to the same spot, despite having been raided, caught, cuffed and picked up THERE a thousand times over...! Some people simply oversimplify things for themselves - and it can work, sometimes...
But we are getting side-tracked here; back to the compound we go.
With these living arrangements, the Bin Laden clan was not living in any luxury whatsoever. What they did have, though, was the luxury to be close to everything in near-anonymity; something that would have been thought of as impossible by the ISI, CIA, FBI, whatever... That is ONE "luxurious aspect" here...
The other one is from the American point of view - could it live with the luxury of letting this guy live much longer indeed? But the fact is that his organization may be more dangerous now that he's dead than it was with him alive, so...
And finally, to get back to our original point here - the luxury of remembrance...
This when it is much preferable, sometimes, to simply forget...
But as I always say, NEVER FORGET: personally, my mantra is "forgive but never forget," actually... Because when you do that, you can still be alert for the next time a similar situation arises and, then, you will know what to expect. Forgiving *and* forgetting is simply doing oneself a huge disfavor.
And so, at the announcement of someone's death -shot right in front of his young daughter's eyes too, reportedly- some thought it was the most opportune time to REMEMBER indeed.
For to do so justifies that act.
And it makes it all the more patriotic too.
And how do you remember best, as in officially as well as ceremoniously? At the old ball game, with an Army Ranger, ceremonial pitches from crosstown representatives of the other two top teams in your city AND the national anthem sung by someone with a voice of gold. (Or, as the case may be here, the anthem gets to be played by a marching band of renown - locally speaking, anyhow!)
I think it was the first time I noticed that there was a Boston Bruins great and a Boston Celtics great with SIMILAR NAMES, too... Derek Sanderson and Tom Sanders - cosmic twins, surely...
Like Barack Obama and Osama Bin Laden?
Hmm...
BOSTON -- In the wake of last night’s announcement of the death of Osama bin Laden, tonight’s pre-game festivities honored those who were killed in the September 11 terrorist attacks as well as those who have served in the military.
A moment of silence was observed as several small American flags were waved about the park. Fifteen Navy sailors stood at attention in front of an American flag that blanketed over the entire Green Monster, while the Brockton High School marching band played the national anthem, generating a loud response.
Following the anthem, Army Ranger Sgt. Lucas Carr of South Boston joined Bruins legend Derek Sanderson and Celtics legend Tom “Satch” Sanders in throwing out ceremonial first pitches, getting another resounding ovation from the crowd.
A moment of silence was observed as several small American flags were waved about the park. Fifteen Navy sailors stood at attention in front of an American flag that blanketed over the entire Green Monster, while the Brockton High School marching band played the national anthem, generating a loud response.
Following the anthem, Army Ranger Sgt. Lucas Carr of South Boston joined Bruins legend Derek Sanderson and Celtics legend Tom “Satch” Sanders in throwing out ceremonial first pitches, getting another resounding ovation from the crowd.
Hopefully, these resounding ovations heard across the land, echoing the one Barack Obama received at the White House upon confirmation of "the news" there, will not turn into cries of tears made of blood any time soon.
Now that is a luxury even the mighty USofA truly cannot afford.
Monday, May 25, 2009
HOW BIG IS WAL-MART?
1. At Wal-Mart, Americans spend $36,000,000 every hour of every day.
2. This works out to $20,928 profit every minute!
3. Wal-Mart will sell more from January 1 to St. Patrick's Day (March 17th)
than Target sells all year.
4. Wal-Mart is bigger than Home Depot + Kroger + Target + Sears + Costco +
K-Mart combined.
5. Wal-Mart employs 1.6 million people and is the largest private employer.
6. Wal-Mart is the largest company in the history of the World.
7. Wal-Mart now sells more food than Kroger and Safeway combined, and keep
in mind they did this in only 15 years.
8. During this same period, 31 Supermarket chai ns sought bankruptcy
(including Winn-Dixie).
9. Wal-Mart now sells more food than any other store in the world.
10. Wal-Mart has approximately 3,900 stores in the USA of which 1,906 are
SuperCenters; this is 1,000 more than it had 5 years ago.
11. This year, 7.2 billion different purchasing experiences will occur at a
Wal-Mart store. (Earth's population is approximately 6.5 billion).
12. 90% of all Americans live within 15 miles of a Wal-Mart.
1. At Wal-Mart, Americans spend $36,000,000 every hour of every day.
2. This works out to $20,928 profit every minute!
3. Wal-Mart will sell more from January 1 to St. Patrick's Day (March 17th)
than Target sells all year.
4. Wal-Mart is bigger than Home Depot + Kroger + Target + Sears + Costco +
K-Mart combined.
5. Wal-Mart employs 1.6 million people and is the largest private employer.
6. Wal-Mart is the largest company in the history of the World.
7. Wal-Mart now sells more food than Kroger and Safeway combined, and keep
in mind they did this in only 15 years.
8. During this same period, 31 Supermarket chai ns sought bankruptcy
(including Winn-Dixie).
9. Wal-Mart now sells more food than any other store in the world.
10. Wal-Mart has approximately 3,900 stores in the USA of which 1,906 are
SuperCenters; this is 1,000 more than it had 5 years ago.
11. This year, 7.2 billion different purchasing experiences will occur at a
Wal-Mart store. (Earth's population is approximately 6.5 billion).
12. 90% of all Americans live within 15 miles of a Wal-Mart.
Monday, March 30, 2009
Wednesday, December 31, 2008
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