Teacups of North America

My Brother-in-Law asked me to catalog and maybe sell some teacups he had received. They are from various parts of the country, some Caribbean islands, Cancun, Aruba and Bermuda.
Here is a sample picture:

Here is the Whole Magilla:

Here is the Aerial View (Western States):

 
Here is the South East:

Here is the North East:

Here is the Caribbean:

Here is the South West:

Here is the North West:

Anybody have any ideas how I can sell these things?

Happy Holidays,
Hiram 

Past Glories Revisited

I was going through some old links and thought I would repost some other people's video stuff that I liked in the past year:

Dylan's "Gates of Eden" Covered by Bryan Ferry
Gates of Eden Artwork by h g lowry

Yanzo, I'm Jealous 
(Despite the fact that he abuses the Lord's Name)

Favorite Scene from "To Have or Have Not" 

(Do You See Anything Kid?)

Movies in Real Life: Ghostbusters 
 (New York City Library)

 
Lucky Escape 
(Short film from Ireland)

 Skhizein 
 (Short animation from France)
 

 Jihadist Bloopers

I grabbed this quick before the Troll Gremlins of Yahoo Removed it

Dave's Poem:

Not From Nothing

Comparing the creation of our souls
to animals or trees that never talk
is like pointing to a bed of burning coals
and asking someone else to take the walk.
Our courage comes from realizing God,
and knowing that our science can't design
the energy within the lightning rod
that strikes our fate and shows us the divine.
It's not from nothing that the world exists
and galaxies seek never ending skies
the nature of humanity consists
of following our faith with blinded eyes.
We may discover how a dove can fly
but only death will bring the reason why.

 

Hiram's Response:

Not FOR Nothing.

God made the world out of dark and the void
the same nothing science posits came first
to point at a fire walk we would avoid
comes naturally, cause our will is perverse
Our fear reminds us that nothing exists
that naught is the seed with which God creates
Sciences measure but folly and mists
The nothings within us are our native states
The world is finite, though galaxies strive
Ideas of eternity ever prod
All life and all matter face entropy
Yet all empty things seek their life in God
Death cannot serve as our nature's seed
God is the BANG that's the universe needs.

It Is Time For a 32-Hour Work Week

It Is Time For a 32-Hour Work Week*

*Benefits and OT required at and above 32 hours.

 

There are 168 Hours in a week.

Divided by 40 hours:

6 Employee 3 shifts ,3 FT & 3 PT equals 37.333 hours each full timer and 18.666 hours each part timer

Roughly 9 hours per week of overlapping shifts.

 

Divided by 32 hours:

6 Employee on 3 shifts , 6 FT shifts equals 28 hours each or 4 FT and 4 PT timers at 14 hours each PTer.

12 hours of overlap, or have PTers work 6 hour shifts.

 

This either creates 3 new jobs with BENEFITS or 1 new FT and one new PT for every job requiring a 24 hour employee.

 

People objected when the 40 hour work week was introduced that:

• folks would not make enough money to survive on it
• would not know what to do with their free time.

In Actuality:

• People who have more time off will SPEND MORE $$$$
• Workers with two jobs could maybe have BOTH WITH BENEFITS, or...
• Work 4 days at one job and 2 at another and ACTUALLY HAVE A DAY OFF.

It would improve the economy AND the lives of workers!

Farewell to a Musical Genius: Lou Reed Died Today

RIP Lou Reed

Here are some of my favorites from the vast 

panoply that is Lou Reed's Musical legacy:
(The embedded videos don't work apparently, 
Thanks Blogger for messing me up for a day.)

Perfect Day

Hang on to Your Emotions (with Laurie Anderson)

    
Kill Your Sons      

Set the Twilight Reeling (with Elvis Costello)

Coney Island Baby

I Love You 

 

 

"Blink your eyes and I am gone." - Lou Reed, NYC Man

New York City Man

 

The Top 10 Music Videos of all Time [Nothing on Vevo]

(Yes my list is mostly from the classic days of music videos. Within the next year, I guarantee

all of these links will stop working. Music on the Internet is being Hijacked by Vevo!)

#10 Nirvana "Smells Like Teen Spirit"

 #9 Aha “Take on Me”

#8 Lady Gaga “Paparazzi”

#7 Rocky Horror “The Time Warp”

#6 Jamiroquai “Virtual Insanity”  
(incomplete Unless you watch Vevo)

#5 Madonna “Like a Prayer”

#4 Peter Gabriel “Sledgehammer”

#3 Michael Jackson “Thriller”

#2 Fatboy Slim “Weapon of Choice”

#1 George Michael “Freedom 90”

(This song is about fighting what is being done to us by the music industry!)

I am currently angry and boycotting Vevo because they are removing ALL content on YouTube that is music, so that the days of people making homages and lyrics pages and other creative projects on YouTube is history. Mark my words, when Vevo is done no one will remember YouTube ever existed. It is the end of music Freedom. You've got to give what you take Vevo!

What videos am I missing? Video Killed The Radio Star? Girls Just Wanna Have Fun? Jeremey? Let me know YOUR favs.

Finally, Yahoo Admits there are NO QUESTIONS that follow Yahoo Guidelines.

Hello Happy Hiram,

The question on Yahoo Answers was reported and deleted by one or more trusted members of the Answers community:

"Does Yahoo Answers Poetry stretch your mind?"

Appeal: so it is against Yahoo Guidelines to ask if Yahoo has expanded you? Praising Yahoo in the form of a question is against guidelines?

Hello Happy Hiram,

The answer on Yahoo Answers was reported and deleted by one or more trusted members of the Answers community:

"Just about any answer I make will be reported, so I am FORCED to be nice. Keep trying to write poetry, and I will keep trying to tell the truth as I see it. Looks like we both have a ways to go."

Appeal: This report (frankly everything I have posted lately has been reported a day or two later) PROVES MY POINT.

Whether or not the answer is appropriate it would be reported and removed ANYWAY. People will be providing inappropriate info to children writing obscenities and engaging in terroristic activities because NO NORMAL ACTIVITIES are allowed anymore in Yahoo.

Is that the goal?