Violence against journalists

[Gator]

Groovstlk,

The Burning Man concept threw me at first because I never heard of it.  I thought you were talking about Sculpto's treks into the desert to get naked, spin fire and dance.

All of us are wasting our breath.  We live in a different world than Sculpto's.  That is why I do not understand his "burning" desire to get married.  Do Burning Men get married and raise kids?

do you really think she'll continue to sympathize with your "F the Man" philosophy knowing she'll soon be responsible for the life of a child - especially when she sees many of her married friends living in homes they own rather than cowtowing to a landlord

Come now Groov.  She will have a home and no mortgage.  A hut without a flush toilet in southern Mexico is real cheap.  I've been told that iguana tastes just like chicken.  The question is whether a RW can learn to catch and cook iguana.

Recipe:

http://www.ehow.com/how_2246845_catch-cook-iguana.html

Even Wine Spectator has duscussed iguana:

http://forums.winespectator.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/5086097161/m/480104853



 

[Misha]

My sons' friends (who are my own, too) are exactly these people of whom Sculpto says there aren't any (and you blessing them with Peter Pan complex ) - they and their crowd are "systema" - Russian hippies, former underground: rock, artists, writers, poets, ets. Ages - 16 to 60+. Mode of travel preferably "trassa", i.e. hitchhiking. Where? Everywhere. Here are some of the photo-memorials from years past http://hippydom.forum24.ru/?0-18

They have cool photos! Actually, I doubt they have a Peter Pan Complex. Most old hippies are perfectly happy with old hippy wives and have already raised hippy children. They are not trying to deny the inevitability of aging by getting a young woman to embrace their hippiness  :evil:

[Sculpto]

Groovstlk,

The Burning Man concept threw me at first because I never heard of it.  I thought you were talking about Sculpto's treks into the desert to get naked, spin fire and dance.

All of us are wasting our breath.  We live in a different world than Sculpto's.  That is why I do not understand his "burning" desire to get married.  Do Burning Men get married and raise kids?

Come now Groov.  She will have a home and no mortgage.  A hut without a flush toilet in southern Mexico is real cheap.  I've been told that iguana tastes just like chicken.  The question is whether a RW can learn to catch and cook iguana.

Recipe:

http://www.ehow.com/how_2246845_catch-cook-iguana.html

Even Wine Spectator has duscussed iguana:

http://forums.winespectator.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/5086097161/m/480104853

Gator..
Actually a lot of people that go to BM do get married and have kids.  In my immediate community there are numerous people who are doing so, with all kinds of interesting age gap relationships with older women and younger men and vice versa.  There is a whole section of Black Rock City that is devoted to kids and families with kids because a lot of what goes on up there is not really kid friendly. 

As far as Mexico goes.. I am not proposing living in the trees.. the city where I have property is rather civlized and cultured.  There is an opera house, theaters, and more cafes per capita than just about any place in the world.  The reality is I can do more with a lot less there than I can do here in California because of numerous factors.  The cost of raw materials, the lack of permit process, the lack of building codes and a much lower cost of manual labor to help build something.   The potential to have a very comfortable life not only exists but given the healthy organic lifestyle possible there a higher quality of life can easily be achieved than is possible here in SF.  So, the no running water comment is simply not true.  In fact, I have a water hole on the property where some fo the sweetest most pure water comes out of the earth in quantities more than sufficient to provide all that I would ever need and then some.

I also have an aging mother to consider.  My Mom can not afford assisted living, nor can I.  My Father will do nothing to help her, so, its all on me.  She has been considering a Mexican retirement for many years and now that she is getting to the point where she will have to make some decisions soon she is researching the possibilites.  The facts again show that my Mom can have a much higher quality of life in old age living in Mexico than is possible here. 

And by the way, iguana tastes more like lobster than chicken.  Iguanas also help keep flying pests at bay and are pretty cool to look at.  Imagine borsh with lobster meat.. yum!

[Sculpto]

dragging her annually to Burning Man to watch pretentious office assistants and 7-11 clerks who fancy themselves artists go off their meds for a week (15 years ago BM was unique, now it's not much different than a commercial Monsters of Rock tour with different drugs and more naked people  -and not the kind of people you want to see naked - dancing around acid-inspired "art"). 

I am not even going to bother to respond to your insults in the first part of your post..

to the second part all I ask is, have YOU ever been to Burning Man?  If the answer is no I respectfully ask you to shut your mouth because you really have no idea what you are talking about.  The art on display at Burning Man, and many of the inventions that have occured there are on the cutting edge of contemporary art in the world.  There are things done there that simply for a lack of space cannot be done anywhere else.  Artists from all over the world come to participate.  The Burning Man organization provides more than twice the dollar amount in grants to artists than the state of California and will certainly be even more in the coming year as arts funding is cut from the budgets. 

[Sculpto]

which might hurt friendships I have with responsible people of the same ethnicities.


Oh, great! So when I do not like my nice neighborhood turning into a barrio - I'm prejudiced and do not appreciate the nicer parts of a tribal culture delivered at my doorstep courtesy of illigal trail across Rio Grande. And here our nice enlightened liberal soul is spouting about ghetto dwelling morons who could be unpleasant to his Russian love. Beautiful.

By the way - your information (via your girl and some strange "research" with the stranger still "experts") about Armenians is such ill-informed and stupid gibberish, that I am frankly at a loss to quantify your intelligence. What nasty idiot told you abour "honor murders" in Armenia? Armenia is the oldest Christian country in Europe, one of the oldest and richest in its cultural heritage, there never even were killings of recalcitrant daughters there. They are not Chechen or Ossetians, for G-d's sake! My late husband was an Armenian, my younger son is half-Armenian, we have a lot of relatives and in-laws - Armenians, both in StP and in Armenia itself. I've been many times in Armenia and know a lot of people there - most of the literary and historical elite.

Once again - either your girlfriend is lying through her teeth or there's something badly wrong with her (after these latest revelations, I think - both).

You can take your foul mouth and go post in someone elses thread.  You dont know me, or my girl, or the circumstances of our situation that I can not post here.  I have nothing further to say to you and will not respond to your posts any further.  You are clearly not here to offer anything constructive but seem to find some kind fo pleasure out of throwing insults at me and my relationship.  byebye. 

[SANDRO43]

Lighten up, Sculpto, here's a quiz for your sculpting mind :

1. Where does this antique artifact come from?
2. In what period was it made?
3. What more modern artist could have made it?

[ScottinCrimea]

...and a much lower cost of manual labor to help build something. 

So you intend to exploit the cheap labor of the Mexican people?  Shame on you!

[dogspot]

So you intend to exploit the cheap labor of the Mexican people?  Shame on you!

How do you find fault in this? Would it be better to bring American laborers south of the border to do the same work for more money?

[Sculpto]

Lighten up, Sculpto, here's a quiz for your sculpting mind :

1. Where does this antique artifact come from?
2. In what period was it made?
3. What more modern artist could have made it?

thanks Sandro.. I don't actually recognize the pieces.. they could be from anywhere.. similiar to venus of willendorf but also with something early etruscan.. but they could even be olmec or persian.. i can see botero and henry moore...the faces are what throw me and make me think they are not old at all.. nice work, I will obsess about this all day tomorrow until I discover the truth..

[Sculpto]

A week ago "A" was worried that she might have to postpone meeting me in Moscow because her Father took a turn for the worse.  She would not leave him if his death was imminent.

He has stabilized and she was able to somehow scrape together enough money to pay his rent for the month. 

She is afraid to leave and he will die while she is gone.  But, she is going to meet me in Moscow, 3 1/2 days on the train, and go back to Tomsk, 3 1/2 days on the train after I leave.  She will not let me buy her a plane ticket, or, pay for her train.  She will get some freelance writing/research assignments while in Moscow which she will complete after going back to Tomsk.  She will attend a few meetings and otherwise be spending all her time with me.  She doesn't like the apartment where we stayed last time, not because there is anything wrong with the apartment, but, she feels $900 for 14 nights is way too much and she thinks she can find something less expensive and more in the center.  Moscow for $70 a night is too much for me to spend she says, it should be half that for better apartment.  She will be waiting for me in the airport after arrving in Moscow the evening before and spending the night with her girl friend "M" who I met last time and is a nice girl.  We will not have an "engagement party" because she doesn't want a party when her father is almost dead, but, we will invite a few friends to the apartment, she will cook and we will drink some vodka, on March 8th.  She hopes I can help her heal her emotional exhaustion and renew her soul because she feels terrible, a shadow of herself.  She is really sorry she has been such a "bitch", her word, and thanked me for understanding her and being patient.

But, she really is a bad girl hiding something terrible who is just trying to take advantage of me and string me along who doesn't know what she wants and is too immature to make her own decisions.  Oh, and she doesn't love me.   :evil:

[SANDRO43]

1. Where does this antique artifact come from?

.. they could be from anywhere.. similiar to venus of willendorf but also with something early etruscan.. but they could even be olmec or persian..

From the Cyclades, the archipelago of islands in the Aegean Sea (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cycladic_art).

2. In what period was it made?

...the faces are what throw me and make me think they are not old at all..

Group of three figurines from the Cycladic II period, early Spedos type, 2500-2200 BC.

3. What more modern artist could have made it?

.. i can see botero and henry moore...

Personally, they remind me more of Amedeo Modigliani, I'd say too lean for Botero and too 'straight' for Moore .

[BC]

Personally, they remind me more of Amedeo Modigliani, I'd say too lean for Botero and too 'straight' for Moore .

Reminded me more of Picasso.

[SANDRO43]

Reminded me more of Picasso.

Nah, their noses are in the right places .