Hey, y'all ....Jan 21st is fast approaching...jam slam

[judih]

It's comin
Friday Jan 21st is comin
One month after solstice
2 months before equinox

mark that spot on your wall
be there
be ready
be prepared

anything can happen at a jam
and if we're lucky

it will

judih

[Doreen Peri]

Yes! Two more days, then we're jammin' it out!

Can't wait!

Every jam we've done has been unique! (and they've all been different, too... lol )

I make a running file while I'm jamming. I save all the words.

Do you do that, too, judih?

[WIREMAN]

I have not crossed em for a while but they are crossed and my trigger finger will be silent, let's make this "Positive Jam!"..........

[judih]

i do periodic back-ups during the jam, doreen
i let the output collect and then i copy paste my way all over microsoft's notebook.

but it's a wise reminder - save your jam. you'll be glad you did.

you're a one-fingered jammer, wireman? secret confessions.....

[Axanderdeath]

I am not sure if I get the jam thing really.

[Doreen Peri]

Geoff - The jams are like this...

We have scheduled dates and times to come online and write spontaneously, inspired by the others.

It's like the GO! Forum only it's a set up for a certain date and time... the more online at once, the better.

It's a cool thing! You'd love it!

Scroll down to look at the locked forums on this board. Those were our previous Jams we've had here.

Now we're working in collaboration with another site, the Scroll ( http://scroll.org ) to have regularly scheduled jams here at Studio 8 and there, too, using their open threaded software (like an outline, instead of closed threaded like this software).

Anyway, check out the info about regularly scheduled jams in the What's Happening forum and also tomorrow night, I'm sending out an email to all registered users here to announce Friday's Word Jam.

It will be held right here in the Jam forum.

I hope you can come and write with us! It's a lot of fun and often very inspiring!

-d

[stilltrucking]

my trigger finger will be silent, let's make this "Positive Jam!"..........

"language communication and jam, " i love that phrase such a rock and roll sound for me. I barely understood The Human Use of Human Beings, just some phrases that I liked the sound of.

Do the sparks still fly if we don't have a negative, will the circle be unbroken with out a ground?

positive jam, negative jam or blueberry, it is all goood
...>,

Geoff to me it is just let it rip, free association or something like it --bouncing your pixels off the the other jammers. I could be wrong.

[jimboloco]

yes i need the positive jam
and yet
to venture under the water
descend into the depths
this very intuition of possibility
the edge of our fear
waiting
ready
to grow
in company of constantly greater beings.

only the beginnings
i hope......
ps, welcome axander
unto the death
yer rag time band!

[stilltrucking]

yes i need the positive jam
and yet

bouncing down Pratt street with a tanker full of methy bromide, the edge of my fear, kablooey downtown B'more, or Boston, I won't let my fear be stoked by masters of deciet, fifteen men on a dead man's chest, we pay our respects to the men who have died, and Rambo turns little boys into want to be killers, and the soldiers who have killed come home to fuck you I got mine, now get out of our face,

HE WAS VETERAN-PROUD, TRIED AND TRUE
HE'D FOUGHT TILL HIS HEART WAS BLACK AND BLUE
DIDN'T KNOW HOW HE'D MADE IT THROUGH THE HARD TIMES

HE BOUGHT OUR HOUSE ON THE G.I. BILL
BUT IT WASN'T WORTH ALL HE HAD TO KILL TO GET IT

sometimes it seems I get cross ways to the jam perpendicular to the flow instead of paralell, you all are talking positive in terms of love not hate, compassion not anger, and I keep thinking magnetic poles as if my words have negative or postive charges set to them,

sinister crosses left handed hooked crosses are negative, sinister as in the latin for left, sinister and right handed Hindu crosses which are positive and good.


THE SWASTIKA:
A SIGN OF GOOD LUCK
BECOMES A SYMBOL OF EVIL


well don't I know there is a war on, and the situation is urgent the weapons of mass destruckion have been found in the social security administration, do you think if we just don't talk about the war in iraq people will not notice, bread and circuses and tax cuts, shut up jack I am getting bored with your blues, so mad I could spit, where did I just read "america is not lost, it is sold"

[WIREMAN]

there's enough negative out there...let's put some positive in here......and poetry jam.............

[stilltrucking]

I am not sure if I get the jam thing really.

I suppose I don't get this jam thing either,

be there
be ready
be prepared

surface charges are dangerous in the real world, in these text boxes it is all electric and on/off +/i digital, black and white
white text on a white background
I know what you all mean but it is not a place I am in the real world, here in these text boxes I don't mind thinking of still trucking as ephemeral as the surface tension of a soap bubble.

so I been thinking about how does one get ready for a jam, well I for one intend to eat a lot of spinach.
i supposed there are Buddhist platitudes too, Dr Watts so quick to point out the Christian platitudes. So let us all think good thoughts. let us think as a group, let us defend the seperation of church and state bla blah blahhh bla, some cracker judge in alabama wants a two ton tombstone in his court. So let us take it to court, let us sieze on every stupid meaningless random act of organized christianity.biz and give them more ammunition to use against us to raise more money to buy a little more of our freedom.

please pardon my defense of spinach, i know it is part of a bourgaise secret plot to achieve world domination and the begining of the end times, i think this is a very negative humor, but there it is, sarcasm as defense, sublimated anger over the inevitablities of evolutions, crazy mike could cut you like a knife with his sarcastic words, obsidian words black glass how they glisten in the moonlight.

i think i will go but I might wimp out, maybe it would be better form to join my first scroll/S8 jam over there. but is there any there there,
......................................................
just a pre jam jitter, dont mean nothing move on

[stilltrucking]

......and poetry jam.............

well that leaves me out

"anybody that calls themself a poet is probably not" maybe mangled but B. Dylan said that on the recent book tour tv interview on network tv

going to sit on my hands for this one mark, I hope you all have fun on your run

I will catch you on the flip flop over on The Scroll next time,

going to sign up for

everything on time on schedule I got no fears other then the ocasional ramdom comet or astroids.
in friendship
j

[judih]

interesting idea, stilltrucking. Let's ask what the pros do as part of their pre-jam regimen

judih

[stilltrucking]

going to sit it out and try to sign up over on the scroll for the next one,

interesting idea, stilltrucking

i will never be a pro, this is all free, just a scribbler a nibbler of spinach, a bad boy renegade rebel heretic, looking at the face of a woman twisted in the agony of grief, something about a bombing in the holy land, it is a wonder I haven't lost my sense of humor, as sick as it is.

infrinedhip
j

[whimsicaldeb]

Here's a good article, recently done thanks in part, to Prince Henry. Makes a good fyi, anyway.
~d

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/4183467.stm

Origins of the swastika
Tuesday, 18 January, 2005, 10:44 GMT

The EU has been urged to ban the swastika because of its Nazi associations with hate and racism. But the symbol was around long before Adolf Hitler.

The swastika is a cross with its arms bent at right angles to either the right or left. In geometric terms, it is known as an irregular icosagon or 20-sided polygon.

The word is derived from the Sanskrit "svastika" and means "good to be". In Indo-European culture it was a mark made on people or objects to give them good luck.

It has been around for thousands of years, particularly as a Hindu symbol in the holy texts, to mean luck, Brahma or samsara (rebirth). It can be clockwise or anti-clockwise and the way it points in all four directions suggests stability. Sometimes it features a dot between each arm.

Nowadays it is commonly seen in Indian artwork and current and ancient Hindu architecture, and in the ruins of the ancient city of Troy. It has also been used in Buddhism and Jainism, plus other Asian, European and Native American cultures.

The British author Rudyard Kipling, who was strongly influenced by Indian culture, had a swastika on the dust jackets of all his books until the rise of Nazism made this inappropriate. It was also a symbol used by the scouts in Britain, although it was taken off Robert Baden-Powell's 1922 Medal of Merit after complaints in the 1930s.

The Finnish Air Force also used it as its official symbol in World War II, and it still appears on medals, but it had no connection with the Nazi use.

It is rarely seen on its own in Western architecture, but a design of interlocking swastikas is part of the design of the floor of the cathedral of Amiens, France.

Nazi's hooked cross

Swastika is also a small mining town in northern Ontario, Canada, about 580 kilometres north of Toronto. Attempts by the government of Ontario to change the town's name during World War II were rejected by residents.

But it is its association with the National Socialist German Workers Party in the 1930s which is etched on the minds of Western society. Before Hitler, it was used in about 1870 by the Austrian Pan-German followers of Schoenerer, an Austrian anti-Semitic politician.

Its Nazi use was linked to the belief in the Aryan cultural descent of the German people. They considered the early Aryans of India to be the prototypical white invaders and hijacked the sign as a symbol of the Aryan master race.

The Nazi party formally adopted the swastika - what they called the Hakenkreuz, the hooked cross - in 1920. This was used on the party's flag (above), badge, and armband.

In Mein Kampf, Adolf Hitler wrote: "I myself, meanwhile, after innumerable attempts, had laid down a final form; a flag with a red background, a white disk, and a black swastika in the middle. After long trials I also found a definite proportion between the size of the flag and the size of the white disk, as well as the shape and thickness of the swastika."

Story from BBC NEWS:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/1/hi/m ... 183467.stm