This is a very important message, but then, so are they all. Take a good look at the charm bracelet above. The coins could be anything from ancient to modern, any denomination and any mintage.
The coins are mounted on a handmade bracelet. You’ll note that the clasp is in place — you can find out how to mount clasps on handmade chains by going to my ejgoldguru channel on youtube, or you can attend a class or two on ZOOM if you like. Continue reading
I know, it sounds dreadfully complicated and in the end, what have you got? You work and sweat and strain to make a buck to keep food on the table and a roof over the head, and while you’re digging to get out of the hole, all these violent assholes who want to destroy everything around you are filling them back in.
If you understand that it IS a war, and that you ARE the victim, you’ll be able to deal with it enough that you can at least carry on working at your job every day or night or both, while at the same time, skillfully ignoring the growing threat of civil disorder and political unrest.
Like I told them back in 1861, “If you don’t cool down, there’s going to be trouble.”, and sure enough, there was that four-year Unpleasantness that ended up worse than it began, and the same thing happened again back in 1941.
Frankly, I’m tired of warning them, and so I don’t. I make copper chains. That’s what I do, but it isn’t ALL that I do. Continue reading
It is time for me to finally at long, long last, reveal my ancient secret of making solderless wire link chains.
First of all, these are the same chains we made 7,000 years ago in the Tigris-Euphrates river junctions, but with modern copper instead of other stuff we found in the ground.
Bronze was common, pure copper was not. There was a stone age, then a bronze age and then after a while, an iron age, when you didn’t have to hunt up strange meteorites to bang into really sharp and unbreakable blades.
So chain links have been around a long, long time. I have some very rusted excavated chains from a Roman lady who remained where she was. The chain is exactly the link I’m offering here today, free of charge and welcome to all. Continue reading
Wow, one more Randy Rainbow Trump song! Here it is without too much prologue:
Here’s another to soothe your ruffled presence and salve your fears of human life on Earth:
And now, MAGA, a parody of “My Girl”…
The Beatles never said it better than this:
And one more for the road, which he should hit any minute, now…
See You At The Top!!!
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I haven’t made a shooter in ages, but I got hold of an idea for a 3D shooter environment that just won’t quit badgering me to create it, so I’m doing it as best I can.
There are only four of us on GoDD™ duty, meaning that Dick does the engine, Claude does the textures, models and sound, and Barbara does the level editing and detailing, such as particles and gravity effects.
It’s my job to write the map and install the monsters, if any, and that’s what I’ve done — at least for the first four hours of gameplay, I have.
The game, “Zombie Insurrection”, starts out real simple, as you’d expect from one of my games and as you’d expect from zombies in general.
The first level, called “Level 0”, is mostly designed for your introduction to GoDD™ Engine movement, and is also intended to gently increase the difficulty, in order that you might teach yourself the gameplay.
It will definitely help you to get the rock n’ roll rhythm you need to keep up, if you’re to ever finish the game sometime in the next year and a half. Continue reading
Ever since I sang folksongs in a West Village club, I sang this song which I learned from Judy Henske. Here are the lyrics to it, but not complete — the known verses number in the high tens of thousands.
The tune? E and A back and forth, or any two or three chords you like. You can pick up the exactitudeness of the tune somewhere on youtube, I’m sure. Continue reading
Forget about street busking, restaurant table-hopping and small club performances — those won’t happen for a long, long time, but ZOOM magic tricks can be truly mystifying.
First of all, they’re not electronic gimmicks. They’re FEELABLE magic that looks good on ZOOM, and most magic tricks don’t, so pay close attention.
Here’s the breakdown of some smaller tabletop effects that are available for a ZOOM performance that you could easily give — none of these tricks require a lot of fancy sleight-of-hand skills.
Keep in mind that this is not a complete act, as there are about a dozen and a half CLOSEUP effects as well that could slip into this performance if you needed to fill more time.
After you’ve demonstrated mastery of the simple French Drop — no production at a ZOOM workshop, you can learn any of the effects I’ve listed below: Continue reading
PORTALS can be defined as mystical passages through barriers and across the voidness between universes, of which there are billions and billions.
Sometimes a Portal is a WormHole, but it can also be a simple open passage, a tunnel or a doorway through time and space, both of which are interlocked and connected.
Many XD (Extra-Dimensional) Portals are barred and locked and can only be unlocked if you know how it’s done.
Here’s the basic secret to unlocking those Portals — ready?
“Every Lock LOOKS CONSTANTLY for the Key that will open it, but in order to make that work, you MUST find the LOCK!”
That’s the whole secret, but it will take some doing to get an understanding of how to work practically with that idea. Continue reading
Ever since my friend and neighbor Steve Sachs invented the Mood Ring back in 1965, I’ve wanted the equivalent of a mood ring in actual free beads, that I could fashion into jewelry, and I wanted them to be rapid-reactive, but that never happened for two reasons — the first reason was that the market wasn’t ready for them, they really belong in the 21st century, and the second reason was the chemistry.
The Psychedelic Mood Ring was SO SLOW to react to changes, while the modern Rainbow Bead reacts quickly and accurately to changes of mood and temperament.
The most important difference between Mood Rings and Rainbow Beads is the extent and completeness of the color spectrum through which they will flow. The Rainbow Beads are capable of millions of colors, while ordinary “mood” items have a very limited range of color variations.
My American-Made Rainbow Beads are actually millions of colors in a halo of interacting colors, creating a spectacular effect that can only be fully appreciated in person — it doesn’t come across on camera — I’ve tried.
The basic Quantum Effect behind the Rainbow Bead is that it reacts with color in accord with the Chakras and the Aura, as demonstrated in Kirlian photographs, reflecting the radiations and colors that you are experiencing at this very moment. Continue reading
BLACK — Black Wrist Mala Bracelets are by far the most popular of the low-priced jewelry. Black is in the artist’s color-chart “the total absence of color”, but it also stands for all the area of the Electro-Magnetic Spectrum that lies outside the tiny realm of humanly visible light.
The Black Light Mala is called the Mystery Mala — it responds to Black Light Stimulation. I don’t have examples of that here, but it’s good to know that they exist, making them visible to anyone in the Astral Plane or higher.
You can easily make Malas, Wrist Bracelet Malas and Necklace Malas with the simple but stunning — and very inexpensive “CHEAPO” copper beads that come in bulk and that you have to sort before using. Continue reading