The Luxury Of Doing Art

You can only fully indulge in an artistic career 

if you are freed from the burden of having 

to earn a living for your own survival; 

never mind that of additional mouths to feed 

on top of every other bill that there is to pay...! 

Those who were born with the proverbial 

silver spoon in their mouth - 

those were given the freedom to pursue 

their wildest dreams ~ their greater 

aspirations... in arts or whatever else 

it may be ~ without constraints! 

Those are the lucky ones...

Or are they? 

It takes a fortune in order to make one as well 

~ and it is a greater treasure still 

when one finds oneself 

outside of all 

excessive material wealth! 

Fortunes Around The Globe

All Manners Of Luxury - Miscellaneous!

Luxury Cars... Are Better This Way!

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! For some peeps may be wearing the purported-to-be  coolest eyewear in all the land -  and yet they can't see squat! 

Case in point:  duas hermanas, aqui -  uma nem pode ver um palmo adianto do nariz  and recognize her sissy...?!?  'Cause if she did recognize her here...  she wouldn't be making out with her!  RIGHT?  LOL 

Ban Ray Ban - I say!
And Oakley? Oh. It's... Obsolete!  Clearly!
:)

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...

Red Sox honor 9/11 victims, military

May, 2, 2011

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By Brendan Hall

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.

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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.