At our Ishtar Festival in 1969, which was held in our small apartment with a group of about 20 friends from art school and city college, someone asked me if I could manifest a ball of light or energy or something, and I did it, and at that moment, someone grabbed up a camera and took this snapper.
Clearly, it’s a legitimate unaltered photo, and you can easily note that my furry friend “Spook” — so named by the CIA operative friend who gave her to me when he shipped off to a country that doesn’t exist — is staring in shock and ferile hunger at the light and wondering whether to attack it. She didn’t.
So what is that stuff, anyway?
I don’t know, and I haven’t tried it since. What’s the point? Some folks think it’s a trick and some folks think it’s magic and still others just don’t know what to think.
I can do without that.
The idea here is that you could put on a show, sort of like Judy Garland and Mickey Rooney used to do, but don’t do it in person, do it in virtual.
If you want to put on a show, get in touch with me and I’ll help you work out the details.
We fly to unknown destinations. Here’s how it works:
- I put up a roadside attraction, something like a Zen monastery.
- We fly there and walk to the destination.
- We have an experience there — anything from a new way to meditate to a tea ceremony or a procession. It varies from trip to trip.
- We walk back to the plane and fly back.
It sounds terribly simple, but it is.
I think it’s a LOT of fun and can be very enlightening and uplifting to be with a GROUP of fellow travelers, together comfortably and SAFELY in virtual space.
There’s no safer way to stay in close contact.
You can set up a Dome and do some amazing things, and even from the privacy of your own studio, you can use the Dome to help others and to learn some fancy ropes.
There’s a lot of information about the Dome, but the basic idea here is to remind you that you have it at your disposal — it’s one of your best work-tools, if you know how to use it.
Charge things up, clear things up and LIFT things up, especially spirits.
This is a powerhouse combination of Crystal and Radio Wave technique, and can be applied in a ton of new and different ways.
Sure, you won’t be seeing concerts like this crowded venue performance back in 2016, but you can SELL the backdrops for this and other performances with celebrity jazz artists.
They sell for upwards of $50,000 and you don’t have to OWN it to SELL it.
If you learn nothing else in this life, at least learn that you don’t have to own it to sell it. I won’t hold you to anything else except the one Big Question you will ALWAYS get at the entrance to the Other World …
“What is the capital of South Dakota?”
It’s “Pierre”, not “Laramie” — that’s NORTH Dakota.
I’ll bet you didn’t know that at the End of Life, there’s a Quiz.
Paint a portrait of a famous person that you know personally, and get it into the National Gallery — that’s the Smithsonian, to you.
Once you’ve done that, you can paint portraits from photos and you have a chance, however slim, of selling your artwork.
If you paint an acrylic or an oil, you’re going to have to pack it and ship it.
Best to create a virtual portrait and send it to redbubble or zazzle and have them print it and ship it — besides, you can sell more prints than you’ll ever sell oils on canvas, in this 21st century market, where plastic beats natural ingredients every single time.
Did you know that there’s a poker hand where you can hold FIVE aces? That’s four aces and a .45 Colt Peacemaker Single Action Revolver.
Or you can make ceramics for the celebrities you happen to know, like these that I made for my friend Hillary Clinton.
Then sell your ceramics to folks who will be impressed that you make ceramics for celebrities and famous people and your stuff is all over in the best shops.
The other way is to sell ceramics that others work hard to make for next to nothing. Ceramics don’t typically bring a lot of cash in, unless it’s a signed Picasso Owl with full provenance from the Parisian gallery that first sold them.
Naturally, if you’re friends with television stars, it’s going to do you more good than if you do a Tarot reading for some local talent.
I ended up giving Bill Shatner a short art lesson while we filmed a segment for Universal Studios, as you see in the picture and, yes, I have Universal’s permission to use the photo.
That was back in 1969, but nobody remembers him anymore — they’ll ask, “Isn’t he the guy on the commercial for a medical gear cleaner?” and the answer is, “yes”, but it’s more complicated than that.
He was Captain James T. Kirk of the U.S.S. Enterprise, a starship commissioned to seek out new life and to go where no man had gone before.
Had he really done that, we’d have had the Corona Virus a long time ago.
Melanie would LOVE to pose with my jewelry, I’m sure, and she’d get a kick out of singing my Trump Protest songs, but the problem is, who knows who she is anymore, except for a few fans, and they’re in direct danger from the Trump Flu.
One of the major problems with knowing 20th century celebrities is that they really are outdated and have been obsolete for DECADES, not merely a few years, and that makes their endorsements worthless, but I still would appreciate them.
Melanie, if you happen to read this, get in touch. We have lots to speak about.
We didn’t do drugs, so we remember the things that happened back then in the Psychedelic Era — things that happened around us, not TO us.
I’m thinking of doing a variant of FartBomb where you escape from Planet Trump and blow up the Alien Virus Lords by creating a giant green cloud of Silent But Deadly.
It’s a fun game with lots of mindless killing and mayhem and tons of tedium — there are endless levels of thousands of totally similar and equally mindless viral killers looking for your blood.
Shoot your way out of that, pilgrim!
Of course, it sets up a magical barrier to the thing it represents, and one of the enemies is the Virus Lord, but he has a lot of servants before you get to that Final Boss segment.
It’s so easy to learn electric guitar, and with the right setup of the guitar bridges, neck and string lay, it’s totally painless to play, even for several hours at a time.
I will be holding guitar classes on all levels, including fingerpicking, clawhammer and more, plus all sorts of strange strums and chords.
I’ll also be offering beginning guitar classes for the very new newbie, and personal individual guitar classes for those with special guitar talents and skills.
In addition, I’ll be giving a new form of concert — we’re looking at a number of terrific modes of delivery, and I’ll let you know as soon as I do, which format we’ll be using.
The thing is, I’m hoping to encourage you to take on some guitar students of your own, and teach them online, using a two-way video system such as ZOOM, to accomplish this.
Even with a global emergency, there will always be core coin collectors, and they’ll always want something like this stunning offset 1999 penny.
As you see, it’s been graded, identified and certified by NGC, who sealed the coin into one of their “slabs”, thus guaranteeing its authenticity automatically.
It needs no COA from me — the third party has guaranteed the coin.
Now, the thing is, how did I come by that coin?
Yes, that IS the secret. I went to the bank, having ordered several “bank boxes” of pennies. You get 2500 pennies for $25, which is one cent apiece, fair price, considering it costs the stupid government 3 cents to make each frigging penny.
Imagine how much that costs the taxpayer! They make BILLIONS OF THEM a day and they can’t make a simple face mask.
I found that coin among the thousands of garbage coins, and sent it to NGC, where they examined it, photographed it and slabbed it up with their guarantee sealed inside.
If you want that particular coin, you’ll have to beg for it — but I will be happy to find one for you.
It will cost about $100, which includes the expensive authentication.
Okay, well, here’s another “in-circulation” penny, this time a year 2000 penny struck in Philadelphia — you can tell, because there’s no mint-mark under the date.
This is gonna cost ya a bit more — actually, $135 — because there’s more to this than meets the eye.
This is a fabulous coin and a very unusual and striking error coin, and therefore is at a premium.
I can get you cheaper, but never better.
You want one that’s entirely offset? That’s REALLY gonna set you back, about 3 grand, but it’ll be some coin, and it will have a LOT of collector attraction and visual appeal, like this one above.
This rainbow 1987-d is already sold. I found this in an ordinary $25 bank box and, by the way, you get to return any coins that didn’t work for you — what other thing can you search that they’ll buy back what you can’t use and don’t want FOR THE PRICE YOU PAID???
There’s nothing like coin search to really make some megabucks — I’ve made as much as $300 in a single night of penny searches.
Do I want to sell the coins? Sure, I do, but that’s not my point, not my point at all.
I want to impress upon you that YOU can do this just as I’ve been doing for years, and you can actually MAKE A LIVING from finding rare coins, if you know what you’re looking for, and you know where to look, and how to find buyers for your finds.
All those things are teachable and learnable, and I teach them and will now be teaching them ONLINE with two-way communication and video imaging, so I see all the crap coins you manage to scrape up out of a mountain of potential.
At some point, you’ll GET IT, and you’ll make a small fortune listening to your favorite music and looking at money.
The irony of that can’t possibly escape your fullest attention.
Can you see the doubled “s”? That’s good, because this coin is worth a few grand on the open market — at least it was, up until the Corona Virus, and now we don’t know what anything will bring, with everyone on the planet out of work and out of toilet paper and out of mind?
Once again, this coin was in circulation, in an ordinary bank box with 2,499 other coins almost exactly like it, the difference being that you can’t get more than a penny for the other coins, but this coin brought a clean $2,400.00 and that’s just ONE NIGHT of searching, and I found other coins worth a total of $240 on eBay, and that ain’t hay.
Problem is, who’s gonna buy anything, and what are they gonna buy, besides toilet paper and hand sanitizers and surgical masks and respirators? Don’t leave home without one.
Here’s a set of 1909 to 1919 pennies in flips, that I collected in a single night. I’ll send you a set like this for only — lemme count the coins — eleven wheaties, all teens … for $20 bucks plus shipping and no, I’m not kidding.
This is a strictly limited offer.
I’m turning my home into an art and crafts gallery and classroom, as you can see here — the height of the ceiling allows us to draw and paint really big.
Now, there’s nobody coming over to the house, so what’s the use of a gallery?
I’ll tell you the use of a gallery. You can keep track of what you’re selling, is why. Make sure you know where everything you’re offering online can be located for packing and shipping.
Having it all laid out in a gallery format makes it so much easier, and lends itself to the photography you’re going to have to do to sell anything online, so get used to a LOT of photos and processing and listing and typing and messaging and more, all just to put some food on the table and a roof over the head.
This is one of my Alien Pinup Benchwarmer Series that I brought from the xxth century, back when we used paper and pencil to achieve these results.
Naturally, it’s available as a pencil-signed print, 4 for $200, allowing you to resell them at a nice profit, way below what used to be the retail or gallery price — these are hard times.
You don’t need a store to sell online, just a photo of you in a store.
It used to be that a shop gave you CREDIBILITY, but these days, it can give you a flu. It’s far better to operate out of a PHOTO of a shop than a shop itself.
Look how close you have to get to conduct business. EEEeuuuuuwwww!
We had to close our gallery because we couldn’t get anyone to run it fulltime. We almost opened a restaurant. Think of the mess we’d be in right now!
Imagine if you had been able to open the shop of your dreams, and THIS happened … Can you see the economic carnage up ahead?
Aren’t you glad you’re a failure?
It’s like bombing a civilization and sending them back to the stone age — in our case, what would that be, three weeks?
Oh, of course, we’re the leading country in the world, and that’s why our medical people have no PPEs.
Sigh.
Sure, it’s a long commute to the gold claim, but we already have a large stash of about 400 pounds of gold-bearing dirt from the shaft, and it’s all paydirt, all good.
You’ll use a SMALL pan and a LARGE ABS plastic tub for this operation, and you WILL have success, if you’re a good panner, and that means PATIENCE, and that’s what you’ll need for the next chapter, because I’m ducking in for a hot bath and a little shuteye after writing three chapters in a row.
We’re arranging a new method of broadcasting for the morning shows and the other broadcasts like the ICW, the LRS and such — give us a few days to work out the bugs and technical difficulties and learning curves.
We’re exploring a bunch of modes — Claude is very familiar with the various modes, but if you have an idea, by all means, spill it, speak up, say something!
See You At The Top!!!
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