Saturday, December 12, 2009
*Luminous* Memory Gospel
This... is TLB Prime!
First in a series of sites collectively known as
the TLB Prime Network!
For a rudimentary first glimpse at said network
check out this profile -
hyperlinks found here as well as
on the portfolio site titled "Luminous Writings"
will lead you to realize the full breadth of this network
and see its entire scope too...!
Prepare yourselves to be dazzled
in song... word... and image!
All throughout this network, verily...!
All in the spirit of sharing Truths
and the collective memory -
and speaking of which...
Images Put To The Music By Moby (Of The Same Name)
The Greatest B-Side Ever, For My Money - "Memory Gospel"
(See the playlist below, actually...!)
(What Did I Tell You About Never Dismissing B-Sides
And Tracks 9 Through 13
On Any Given CD - Hmm?
But that is another story...!)
This Trip Down Memory Lane Is Brought To You In Conjunction With
The Saudades Blog
- as it well has to be!
Luminous Playlist above
includes the immortal track
right here:
'Tis either a fan of mine
or the actor chosen to portray *me* -
LP!
Luciano Pimentel -
aka Luminous Luciano
your friendliest superhero!
(For, as you can well see,
my stunt double is running
to a crime scene -
to be of some succor,
surely!
I'm always there to help, too!
Never mind that my stunt double,
in fact, really looks like
a former colleague of mine
and not me at all!
But it is another story too...)
My personal anthem sure is
a tad bittersweet though...!
Aye -
It comes with the territory!
One cannot reach out for
Luminescence
without having to make
several sacrifices...
Luminance is not
easily obtained -
not even by proxy!
Luminosity,
even when one uses mirrors
(but never any smoke -
never! TLB Prime is,
quite mercifully,
a no-smoking zone!)
Luminosity, hence,
is not for all...
Alas...
Many are those, out there,
who would agree with such a statement -
many of them are on my side,
many more are my adversaries...!
They have my number and I have theirs...!
But I am digressing now...
It's all good, still -
as long as my memory doesn't play tricks on me!
It won't, either, mind you;
this last bit (about adversity and such)
is purely rhetorical, really...!
Just make sure you listen to
Memory Gospel
while you browse around here...!
***Luminous Loitering!***
allowed!
God Bless!
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Labels: Luminous, Luminous Luciano, Luminous SoundSurround, Memory Gospel, music, Pimentel le Pugiliste, Project Playlist, Pundit Blogger Me
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Friday, October 10, 2008
Readying Oneself To Be B.A.D. Here - On TLB Prime!
Aye, I am IN - and poverty doesn't stand a chance in hades!
Now, for all of those who expected to hear the celebrated M.J. song here, upon reading the title of this post on an RSS feed or something - all I can say to you is click here!
For all those among you who will ask the age-old question "what can a single person do" - to you I say click here...!
And you shall see - and hear!
;)
And to everyone of the regular L.O.V.s - luminous online visitors old and new in terms of frequency of visits here, if only that...! To you I say SEE YOU IN ONLY FIVE SHORT DAYS, right here, on TLB PRIME, for my humble luminous contribution to the movement against but one aspect of the plague that is social injustice; the most striking aspect of it, evidently, but still only one of many... I'll refrain from posting anything on the Canadian (and Australian, I do believe) Thanksgiving here in the meantime - but you can always check here for a little something (else) indeed. I'll indulge in a list of things to be thankful for, once again, around American Thanksgiving, I guess! These days, I personally have less and less time to blog - but more and more occasions to scrutinize the various aspects of the dilemmas that I make reference to... Verily, B.A.D. is the God-Sent occasion to put it all into writing at once! The ironic chance, also, to be once again reaffirming that appearances are deceiving for being B.A.D. most definitely is being GOOD in this very instance!
We shall discuss it all, in greater detail, on October the 15th - Blog Action Day 2008!
Regards!
AND BAD TO THE BONE!
ALL THAT - AND A BLOGGERHOLIC TOO!
(YOU KNOW IT!)
THE GOOD LORD
did say it, however:
"you will always have the poor among you"
FOR AS LONG AS THE WORLD
WILL ENDURE...
THE ONLY WAY OUT IS TO
AMEN!
Labels: Jesus, Luminescence, Luminous, Luminous Connections, Pimentel le Pugiliste, Pundit Blogger Me
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Tuesday, October 23, 2007
Luminous Luciano Salutes... Luminous Lucian - The Boxer!
THE LOWDOWN
ON LUCIAN BUTÉ:
(before the smackdown?)
20-0-0 since the year 2000
(does it bring a bad omen now -
all his numbers will begin popping up
in the last two columns now...?)
16 K.O.s
(talk about sweet sixteen!)
-Romanian born
-Canadian immigrant
-reigning world champion
in his class
(his most recent bout -
and 20th career victory
as a pro - garnered him
that dubious title
and championship belt)
-quickly adopted by new town
(Montreal) due to his success
(that town's desperate
for a winner!)
-applauded by *moi*
due to his luminous boxing
and likeness too!
(Buté is indeed "futé" -
he does not waste his
offensive moves -
his blows are aimed
to score points
with the judges
not hurt or injure
his opponent -
and he does
a mean footwork
avoiding too many shots
to his ol' mugger!
All-around luminescence
even in pugilism...!
Rocky would be proud -
Marciano, not Balboa!)
A luminous boxer -
indeed!
As luminous in his art
as I am in mine...!
ON LUCIAN BUTÉ:
(before the smackdown?)
20-0-0 since the year 2000
(does it bring a bad omen now -
all his numbers will begin popping up
in the last two columns now...?)
16 K.O.s
(talk about sweet sixteen!)
-Romanian born
-Canadian immigrant
-reigning world champion
in his class
(his most recent bout -
and 20th career victory
as a pro - garnered him
that dubious title
and championship belt)
-quickly adopted by new town
(Montreal) due to his success
(that town's desperate
for a winner!)
-applauded by *moi*
due to his luminous boxing
and likeness too!
(Buté is indeed "futé" -
he does not waste his
offensive moves -
his blows are aimed
to score points
with the judges
not hurt or injure
his opponent -
and he does
a mean footwork
avoiding too many shots
to his ol' mugger!
All-around luminescence
even in pugilism...!
Rocky would be proud -
Marciano, not Balboa!)
A luminous boxer -
indeed!
As luminous in his art
as I am in mine...!
Labels: Buté le Futé, Pimentel le Pugiliste
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Saturday, August 12, 2006
Smoking - part deux
Nooooooo - I am not done with SMOKING!
By no stretch of the imagination! Fact is, smokers have come out of the closet about it already and have labeled themselves as handicapped, nothing less, because of their dependence to tobacco! Yes... They sure are missing quite a few vital brain components too, for having such an obtuse habit to kick! Everything to get some small chance at winning their case, though... Because, you see, they have an infinitesimal glimmer of hope that glitters there, in the dark fumes of their own stinking smoke, that maybe, just MAYBE, the Bill of Rights can protect them and get them what they think they crave and need...!La Charte des droits protège les fumeurs!
Un fumeur qui se fait imposer de ne pas fumer dans son appartement par son proprio peut, en théorie, porter plainte pour discrimination fondée sur le handicap.
There is a world and a half between theory and practice, luckily enough...
À ce jour, aucune plainte concernant un locataire fumeur n’a encore été portée à l’attention de la Commission des droits de la personne et des droits de la jeunesse du Québec, mais la chose est techniquement possible, indique Daniel Carpentier, conseiller juridique à la Commission.
Ahhhhh - the commission defends both the rights of the everyman AND, specifically, those of today's YOUTH. Hmm... In an ideal world, today's youth is put back in its proper place, shuts the hell up, and NEVER EVEN STARTS LIGHTING IT UP - EVER!
Brothers and sisters, I saw evidence, the other day, that "le ridicule ne tue pas" as they say - I saw a chubby slacker riding his near-tricycle around his block, and he was SMOKING! He stopped to cough and, most probably, the nescient creature has no clue whatsoever why he is coughing... Nor will he have any when it keeps getting worse and worse still, with the years...
But let's now get back to the landlords that want no smoking tenants...
«Il est possible que ça soit une forme de discrimination fondée sur le handicap. La cigarette crée une dépendance, c’est écrit sur tous les paquets, et les dépendances sont un handicap au même titre que l’alcool et la toxicomanie», explique Carpentier.
And, as the OTHER Carpentier used to say, "à la semaine prochaine si Dieu Le Veut!"
Gee - of course being dependent upon such noxious and nauseating things can be viewed as a bad "dependency" and makes you, henceforth, sick automatically. To say that it is a "handicap" that big mean landlords, out to protect their and (MAYBE) their other tenants' long term health as well, are being "discriminating" here is beyond ridiculous. Are soldiers out on the field "discriminating" when they destroy bacteriological weapons - BEFORE these weapons can be used to make them sick and die?!? Come on...!
Alas, there is article 5 of the aforementioned Bill of Rights, which is man-made and thus hardly foolproof... Said article is all about respecting privacy. Ha, what a farce. Obtuse attitudes are not "privacy" - they're something else that actually rhymes with it; idiocy!
L’article 5 de la Charte des droits et libertés de la personne prévoit également que toute personne ait droit au respect de sa vie privée, rappelle Daniel Carpentier.
Thus, all it takes is one loudmouth that goes against common sense on an entire other level to "shake things up" - the wrong way.
«Un propriétaire qui veut empêcher un locataire de fumer dans son appartement peut voir cette interdiction contestée si quelqu’un veut aller aussi loin.»
Shades of that atheist a-hole who, for close to two decades now, has "contested" the presence of a legitimate religious monument on top a mountain... Contesting is not always done because it is RIGHTFUL to do so, but only because it is "lawful" to do so at the moment, before the earthly flawed law system that is in place...
La Charte interdit toute forme de discrimination fondée sur la race, la couleur, le sexe, la grossesse, l’orientation sexuelle, l’état civil, l’âge, la religion, les convictions politiques, la langue, l’origine ethnique, la condition sociale, le handicap ou l’utilisation d’un moyen pour pallier ce handicap.
To quote the immortal MR. T - "I pity the fool who makes usage of tobacco in order to "palliate to his handicap/dependency" - fool!" (Okay - that was more like paraphrasing, I admit!)
I predict (...) many more wasted and misused funds from the tax payer's pocket that will go into unnecessary court time... May it come from chain-smoking addicts' pockets then!
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Thursday, August 10, 2006
It Is Not To Flaunt It Nor To Vaunt - But I Did Tell You So!!!
It has been YEARS that I have told Montreal-area authorities, accursed landlords (two in particular, who "presided" in pathetic fashion in the building where my dear recently-departed father used to reside and could have easily presided if he had wanted to do so) and the damnable smokers themselves with whom I had length feuds, quarrels and engueulades; APARTMENT BUILDINGS SHOULD BE EXCEPTIONS - YOU WANT TO SMOKE IN "YOUR HOME" - OWN IT AND CROAK IN IT - YOU FILTHY BASTARDS! DO NOT POLLUTE THE AIR OF YOUR NEIGHBORS AND FORCE THEM TO DIE WITH YOU - VILE CREEPS!
And NOW, finally, they have listened to me and done as I would have done ALL ALONG, SINCE 1996! A decade's nothing to wait for the right thing to come to pass, eh? WRONG. SECOND-HAND SMOKE IS EVEN MORE LETHAL THAN THE NASTY HABIT ITSELF! IT IS BORDERLINE MURDER! AND NON-SMOKERS SHOULD TAKE IT ON THE CHIN - OR, REALLY, ON THE LUNGS - AND NOT DO A SINGLE THING ABOUT IT? WHAT FOR? TO RESPECT THE PATHETIC SMOKER THAT DOESN'T KNOW WHAT ELSE TO DO WITH HIS OR HER TEN FINGERS ALL DAY LONG, EXCEPT TO LIGHT UP? TO RESPECT THAT INANE CREATURE'S PRIVACY AND LAIR?
In two words: NO WAY! Not under certain conditions; the smoker can only be allowed to endanger HIMSELF AND ONLY HIMSELF while exposing all to his noxious fumes would be tolerated ONLY IF OTHERS ARE DUMB ENOUGH TO WANT IT THAT WAY! Whether it is a public place or any kind of home DOES NOT MATTER ONE BIT AND SHOULD NOT BE TAKEN INTO ACCOUNT AT ALL! PUBLIC HEALTH AND LIVES ARE WHAT TRULY MATTERS - NOT ANYTHING ELSE!
In this case, the actual ruling is "Depuis le 31 mai, la loi antitabac interdit aux résidants d’un immeuble de plus de six logements de fumer dans les espaces communs. La loi ne s’applique pas aux espaces privés" - which means that, since May 31st, the new anti-tobacco laws forbid smoking to residents of a building of more than six apartments in the "common space" - lobby, hallways, stairways and such...
However, this made out to be "scandalous" headline addresses another reality - a new reality that has dawned at long last! The headline is written as if to suggest that they are saying "oh-my-God, they want to forbid people from smoking in their own apartment! This is draconian! This is Orwellian! This is nazism! This is a scandal and a breach of privacy!" Well - no it isn't! Smoking is nothing short than a public menace! So are the other forms of pollution that mankind has invented over time, but that is not the focus right now... This is the focus: «plusieurs propriétaires nous demandent comment s’y prendre légalement pour inclure au bail des clauses pour empêcher des locataires de fumer dans leur appartement. C’est un phénomène récent», which is, in English words, the tendency nowadays to see landlords ask the Rental Board how to proceed to make it a part of the lease such a clause as to prevent tenants from smoking in the apartment! Some pundits will say "they pay the rent, they can do whatever they want in there" - and that, again, IS NOT THE CASE AT ALL. Any tenant that ever was, is or will be KNOWS that there are rules and a line of conduct to observe. One more clause should not be too much, I would think, especially in buildings that have little or nothing in terms of a ventilation system!
As the most sensible landlords that I ever saw noted, "smoking disturbs other tenants and it even damages the building, in the long run. After two short years, the scent has penetrated the walls and only repainting can mask the problem."
Luckily, for now, the flawed laws of said Board are not about to take away the right of these few sensible landlords and their *good* tenants to BREATHE CLEAN AIR...
«Pour l’instant, rien dans la jurisprudence n’empêche les propriétaires d’inscrire une clause antifumée», confirmed a Rental Board representative. However, in order to be able to demand such a "sacrifice" from their tenants, the landlord has to ask for that non-smoking favor when the lease is signed. And it has to be all in written, of course. Such an agreement will be hard to come by, much less to enforce if it is a rule set against a contingent of known smokers that occupy the building and resent such a restraint. Silly tenant associations are actually lamenting now that this has gone too far, that it is a "witch hunt for smokers" instead of merely "ridding themselves of the nauseating smoke"... Hey, dimwits, one cannot get rid of the smoke without putting out the damn fire first! Smoke is out of public places - but how much time does the average person spend in a shopping mall on a normal day, eh? Minutes, maybe an hour at the most? So, it could be up to 23 hours spent at home, in the case of, say, a retiree with asthma or bronchitis! If that person lives in an apartment building filled with smoking tenants, what good is that "public ban on smoking" - EH?!? One has to deny himself the pleasurable usage of their home because thy neighbors are puffing it up like there was no tomorrow (and there isn't, for them) in theirs? That is absurd.
For once, I have to side with the landlords' "association des propriétaires" when they say that «certains locataires sont plus sensibles (how considerate of them to put the tenants first!) à la fumée, le marché change (it sure does) et il y a une demande (if there was no demand for it, they'd probably wouldn't bother either... with a few exceptions, sure) pour des logements sans fumée. Il y a de plus en plus de gens qui souffrent (and landlords care so much when their tenants suffer, yes) d’asthme. Le tabac laisse des traces et des odeurs (that it sure does) dans un appartement» - and in any other sort of home too, don't forget nor omit that!
It isn't just good for "more than six" apartment buildings either! Duplex owners who will rent to strangers their "second half" have a right to demand that these strangers do not pollute their property's atmosphere!! Certain housing structures are older than others too, therefore the stench of tobacco can spread much faster to the entire structure and THAT should NEVER be tolerated - EVER. Just because your neighbor enjoys stinking up the place does not mean that you should too! Renting a home is not synonymous with putting up with your neighbours' crap!
Nor is it synonymous with sharing his or her fate and DYING A SLOW ASPHYXIATING DEATH WITH HIM OR HER!
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