F*CK with love

I've seen this tag from Chinatown to JP and was wondering what it meant. It occurred to me that if it was a revolutionary signal, it would be genius. I mean when you see it on the street, on the subway or on a wall in Chinatown, there is no * obviously it's just the word. So say you try to Google that phrase. What will come up? Probably porn or something. So it is a symbol? Does it mean something?


I've never really known much about graffiti art or Hop Hop or break dancing the way most people my age would no about it. I mean my friends did that while I did Kung Fu and got into Kung Fu or reading books. I really was a PBS type of kid hooked on British Dramas. But watching this new Netflix show, "The Get Down" I'm intrigued. Part of me is more sold on the show about those art forms than the art forms themselves... I guess I'm still learning. But I aim to learn all I can and try my hand at some things with my own approach. It seems like these art forms drew heavily from Kung Fu cinema and that ancient culture. I guess my plan is the inverse of that. Having been immersed in that type of antiquated thinking and philosophy, I plan to draw from some of the ideas created out of that.

But anyway, when I see a tag with a curse on it in my neighborhood.. how should I feel about that? I mean the tag itself does not look to me like the most spectacular piece of art. It isn't an ink painting even of the simplest form. It's not deep. I never had a problem when the kids were little and asking what words were. We watched Super Why and I would just say they were super letters, and I figured at that age if they could read the curse word, then more power to them. But now they read quite well and you would have to have lyrics and poetry on the wall for it to be deemed educational.

Doing Nothing

I can totally see why the old Buddhist monks philosophy was to do as little damage as possible by doing nothing. Yesterday I messed up a whole bunch of stuff, from my bike to my sons face. Where if I had just decided to sleep for 24 hours I would be further along than I am now. I tried to put my bike together but misunderstood the manual and now I am trying to just fix what I messed up and I am not even further along than I would have been and have learned nothing from the experience, i decided I needed to take a break in the park and took Noah with me to stick fight. It was fun. But then I started doing this thing where I push his stick away. Eventually, he sung his stick, I pushed his stick and his stick went into his face. Now he has a bruise under his eye.

Although it didn't bother him for long, the mark is still there.

And it's too close to the eye to put medicine on it. We did the boiled egg thing, but he didn't really feel like letting me put it on his face, nor did he really want to do it himself.

Since playing with sticks is really just recreational... this was a waste of time.

It sort of makes me wonder what else i shouldn't be doing. Maybe I should just meditate all day long instead of trying to do this and that and the other thing.

Instead so far today I wrote some short stories on my other blog which are Christmas themed. They are sure to enrage people ranging from the very religious to the atheistic because they can either be seen as pro or anti Christianity based on how you choose to read them.

I have a few other ideas for posts.... but I think I will let them simmer in my subconscious for a while.

Maybe I'll read a book instead and pretty soon, it will be time to pick up the children.

Marvel on Netflix

I've been binge watching Marvel series. Luke Cage, Jessica Jones, Daredevil.... Their so cool because their all talking about fairly small neighborhoods. Harlem and Hell's Kitchen.
I find myself identifying not only with the protagonists... but often with the Villains. Like Wilson Fiske. I mean, he is a little over the top... but he has his point. Cotton Mouth... you could see how they would have an argument for actually helping their neighborhood.

Like if I were the hero in that case, I would totally strike a deal and work with the villain, trying to find common ground on certain issues and moving forward on those, while agreeing to disagree about the other stuff.

I guess that's how real life works.


But that' snot that exciting, at least not in a comic book style way.

Morning Omens

This morning a rabbit was run over in front of our house. actually, I wouldn't be able to tell whether the rabbit got run over last night or what. But it's dead carcass was there in the street. For me, rabbits are a sign from my mother, so this would be a bad omen, superstitiously. I called 311 but the line was busy. I thought of eating the rabbit, but realized I could make a mess and probably spread bacteria all over the house.... I also wouldn't know how to skin it, but it occurred to me that that was the best way to honor it.

But it isn't what I did. Maybe the meat was sititng there too long too... actually probably not. I ended up burying it and as I scraped the carcass off the road I noticed that the meat looked fresher than any meat I had ever seen and that there was not a lot of it.

I buried and lit incense for it and got out a little mat and did meditation . I saw the image of a rabbit, only it was in a strange impressionistic form, except not with paint but real colors. I suppose you could create such a photographic Picasso like image nowadays quite easily. It was as if I saw the baby rabbit and the adult at the same time, it's whole life. I was aware that I looked like a freak meditating there on the front lawn near cards and people walking their dogs so I ended up opening my eyes and just waiting for the incense to burn out.

Hula Bruises and Chinatown adventures

This weekend Adriana Li brought over Hula Hoops for the kids to play with. This has ended up being one of the best toys introduced to them. They will totally Hula hoop and they are way better than me at this skill now. As I watched Jonah to 100 then 200 then 300 turns I wondered why they couldn't do Kung Fu like that. I later realized that there are things that are part of Kung Fu that they will do for quite some time. For instance, later on Noah and I stick fought stylistically at the Kung Fu school. It was with real sticks too. And the techniques he used were sound and varied. Maybe I should just start doing this again at the park or whatever. Technically it is even more realistic then the training I had lined up for him. Forms etc.


Also it's not like he wouldn't do the painful stuff either because he totally got down in horse stance, just doing horse stance during this class my old student was running.

He just doesn't want to do forms. So ... whatever, fine don't do them. I mean he ran through once during the class, and forgot a bunch, but whatever.

He can freestyle one no problem... so he can perform. Why do I need him to memorize the traditional ones?


They both have bruises from doing the hula so hard. But Jonah has enough control that he can actually avoid the bruised areas while hula-ing.

His record so far is 310.

I can do about 3.

Out Of Touch: Looking at the 2016 election historically in terms of technological advances.

Look back in history. Every time a new technology comes along pollsters and the media get surprised about candidates. for FDR's election they polled people... with telephones. Thing is not everyone that voted could afford a telephone.

Radio came out and then it was Radio and TV, where Nixon won the debate according to people who heard it on the radio, and Kennedy won according to people who watched it on television.

The new technology this time around was Twitter, You tube, Facebook... social media.

The fact that a lot of people get their news from these sources nowadays and not from the mainstream.

So now everyone is all surprised that this is a tight race.

If I, a blogger with limited resources am not surprised and the experts are, that is saying something about the experts. They are doing something wrong. But it always has been so. You expect the people in power to be better than normal people, to have all the answers. But the truth is, they are just regular people standing behind a position. And they might not know even what the normal person on the street (or nowadays on free social media) know.

Was this election different than past ones?

Yes and no.

It's not really the people that made it different but the use of a new technology this time around.