Maple Lawn Cemetery in Southern Ontario: Values Long-held and Maintained

Hi, this is Patrick. Although that’s my first name, I chose “Odell” for my blog username several years ago. The name Odell is of English origin.

This blog is personal, as I know you can tell. A small business was run in parallel with my father’s golden years while he worked with me and my friends.

It is creepy, but the business is a cemetery he cares for. As one might say, having our own burial ground is preferable to having it managed by our municipality. Even at age 75, my father remains active in this business venture.

I had a few ideas for starting this blog over a decade ago, and I brainstormed with a few different approaches. My social life is very online (despite that), but long-form blogging adds to it. It is like a few onlookers have passed by each time I return.

With WordPress’s free training courses, I quickly got back into blogging and brushing up on poetry and photography.

I took a lot of Literature in high school, more than I needed, and I did a 101 in the English language in college, which provided the result of having identified that I could turn a phrase from time to time. It was a pleasure to study with my college professor, and she was an excellent instructor. I learned some valuable points from her during the short time I had access to her in the classroom.

The last time I saw Gerard, an old family friend, he told me I wasn’t a poet. However, I don’t really understand why I attracted that negativity from him.

I don’t strongly identify with being a poet. Perhaps I seem indifferent to him, not passionate, but I’m not indifferent.

I like rock lyrics. The National is a good band for rock lyrics if you want an example. The band has always been talented, and they make good music.

I wonder whereabouts they call home. For their current album, they dived into themes I hadn’t heard them explore before. The singer’s stage performance contains elements of performance art.

Another old band, The Hives, released a video about gravedigging and the undead last week. It is quirky and strange.

I did a lot of English literature in high school. Several years ago, I heard of Nashville writer Jeff Goins, who wrote a few books, including a bestseller called The Art of Work. This is a simple but moving book about how some people turn a passion for original work into success.

Ultimately, after success helping people turn pro with blogging, Mr. Goins withdrew from social media and retired. Nothing I saw indicated anything was wrong; I think he decided he had seen enough social media.

It’s kind of a funny word, eh, blog, four letters like “word” but a bit closer in pronunciation to the word “balloon.”

I participated in as much of Goins’ blog training as I could get for minimal costs. I know that if you don’t put money where your mouth is, it won’t be lucrative in the end.

For me, blogging isn’t going to work. Instead, it is a vanity project often recommended if you are doing entrepreneurial work. Having a blog with your business can make you more enviable and less likely to fail.

Social media is often a soft skills kind of thing. I usually observe Buddhist philosophy, never lie, cheat, or steal.

One time, some years ago, when I was exercising the guidance of more experienced people, I asked a few people in my life to recommend books for me to read. One of my mother’s cousins recommended Tom Wolfe’s book The Bonfire of the Vanities. I’d never watched the movie.

The book turned out to be extraordinary–it was the greatest book I’ve read in a long time. It’s a shame that I don’t read more novels. I like rock lyrics because they discharge the essence of poetry into something tangible and entertaining.

I posted slowly but with as much direction as I felt might be useful on a blog that has had the same design for a long time. I also had a theme, a word for a design that was consistent.

I’ve shown it to my girlfriend on a phone when the person sees it for the first time. I never thought many people I know would read it.

I have imagined search engines occasionally bringing it to the attention of someone in another part of the world. I know no shortage of shadowy people who desire positive energy and may see me radiating that at times.

I have occasionally referred to my dad’s cemetery in a way that indicates I’m a junior operator, which my dad understands. He initially encouraged me to help do a website for the cemetery outside of WordPress, and also a business page for the cemetery on Facebook:

Louth United website

I stopped short of actually building my blog and the page site for the cemetery as one because I didn’t want to invest time and money into a site that specifically highlighted my blog… because while I want to keep it clear what I’m doing if someone interested peruses it, I don’t want anyone to think it isn’t just a personal blog.

Facebook The Facebook page

What I’d like to assert here is that my dad and I, and our family and friends, have not changed our values. What I mean is that we have the same values now that we’ve always had.

Our core values are primarily to keep this cemetery well-maintained and honest, to assist with funeral arrangements, and to maintain our commitment to the cemetery. This is intended for people who have loved ones in the cemetery.

It’s pragmatism, I think. It is impossible for me not to be sympathetic but I don’t know what happens when someone passes away. We had one supporter, now deceased, Mrs. Marilyn Bowslaugh, who taught me, via Facebook, tips about how I should be representing us on Facebook, about religion and politics, primarily.

If I was wrong, she would let me know with the comment of a question mark, “?,” which was infrequent, but certainly effective, at letting me know when I was wrong.

Mission Statement, by Peter Coholan

1 Grave Ownership – All graves, both at-need and preneed, will be owned, ensuring burials will continue owned graves. Additional sales will take place in the existing space available. Priority will be given to families that currently own cemetery grave rights.

2. Maintenance – The maintenance of the Maple Lawn Cemetery and Church grounds will continue to the standards established by the Board of Trustees. These standards Include but are not limited to the following activities: weekly cutting of the grass during the growing season, maintenance of the trees and shrubs, and snow removal as required in the winter.
3. Comply with the Funeral, Burial, and Cremation Services Act regulations.
4. Continue to maintain the church building with the funds available and explore activities conducted in the church that will complement and enhance the operation of the church and the cemetery.
5. Keep the records of the cemetery safely and professionally.
6. Comply with the Funeral, Burial, and Cremation Services Act regulations.

3 Stand-out Features of Long-form Blogging You Should Know

What is the most popular blogger in the USA?

Top best blogger Arianna Huffington. Arianna Huffington, founder of Huffington Post (silliest news website)

My younger self got an email saying there were brilliant people online. There was also strong long-form blogging.

When I was a lot younger, I remember getting an email saying there were all kinds of brilliant people online. Young people indeed made collages honoring their favorite musicians during the era. As for long-form blogging, which I’ve done a lot as well, I think it was strong too, and it still is, though perhaps less widely adopted than podcasting.

Maybe this is the time that is time for a change.

1. Content is king, and if you’ve got a good understanding of SEO you can get on the first page of a search if you’re very lucky.
2. I think it helps mental clarity to write ideas in long form, and the only reason I publish blog posts that might make sense is that there’s vanity to them.
3. WordPress usually pitches itself as being benign on the Internet, as in inclusive, for example. I think it’s the only social media I do much of that is somewhat sane if I had to get to the point.

If you understand SEO well, you can be on the first page of a search if you are very lucky. Content is the tried-and-true way to be creative online. Generally speaking, you need to be blogging with a lot of focus, speaking in terms of the niche you want for your blog, and you need to have good timing as it really is most likely going to work out if you’re also researching what Internet traffic wants from long-form blogging.

I really don’t know why I do this. It is simply a personal blog with a social purpose. I don’t think pursuing better available themes for a blog would be much better, as I like writing what is supposed to feel like essays to people who don’t really get into it.

It’s interesting to see what might respond from the long-form blogging corner of the Internet.

Connections made between people can be valuable for several reasons. In a personal blog, you might engender some goodwill if your posts are relatable.

It’s a waste of time when writing can be monetized. However, I think connections between people are sometimes valuable for several reasons. If it’s for constructive reasons, it can be rewarding, for forging networks, and friendships.

I like some of the designs I put into long-form blogging, and that’s another valid reason to publish blog posts, as just writing the text and filling it out with images isn’t really much use, unless it’s published. It won’t necessarily get much traffic, but if you’re sincere, you might engender some goodwill, if your posts are relatable, if you have a personal blog.

I haven’t written anything too spontaneous in quite a while. I’ve done consistent microblogging, but it’s been feeling strange now that the politics and the algorithm of Twitter have altogether changed. The way I need to be sensitive now is to consider that I quite possibly should have stepped down, so I won’t waste other people’s time. I have to put enough work into posts that they could provide value of some kind to people who give up their time to look at what I’ve posted, which will more and more feel like shouting into the void, I fear, but with AI tools it is easy to justify spending only the half the time on a post into which comprehensive editing and design are going.

Learning is part of the journey.

The AI non-art that has a disconnect, like what I’ve done myself, usually with Runway, for imagery and with the help of WordTune, to keep my writing rewritten better than I might have thought through without the help of AI. I had a story idea come to me that is probably like sci-fi ideas others have using AI. In one scenario, informing an AI girl that she is becoming real and then being stalked by her could be one plot.

How One Topic Expanded My Knowledge: What I Learned Recently #bloganuary

Bloganuary is a series of WordPress blogging prompts, one for each day of January. Today I am writing on the subject of something I learned recently.

Brittanica updated this article on the fifth of this month.

In 1989 a flood of fights contrary to socialist rule ejected in eastern Europe.

This episode set off the Velvet Upset, which acquired specific strength in the country’s modern places. Under the improvised authority of Václav Havel, a dissenter playwright and coauthor of Sanction 77 (1977), the City Gathering organized shows and strikes that demanded that public authorities acknowledge the common liberties outlined in the Helsinki Accords of 1975.

Czech playwright and dissident dramatist Dr Vaclav Havel (later President of Czech Republic) at a bus stop in London, June 19, 1968.

Havel was chosen for the post of interim president on December 29, 1989, and he was reappointed to the administration in July 1990. He became the country’s most memorable non-communist leader after 1948.

That kind of dissent is impressive if you learn about it in a light that it reflects positively on values you already celebrate.

What I learned further about freedom is something far more distressing, and it is only in that I think of ambition that the world’s richest man, Elon Musk, could make known to people far and wide that the site Twitter held hopes for free speech to flourish.

Musk then paid $44 billion for it.

FILE PHOTO: Elon Musk’s Twitter profile is seen on a smartphone placed on printed Twitter logos in this picture illustration taken April 28, 2022. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration

According to estimates, Musk lost $200 billion when the trust he built with the shareholders of Tesla Corporation and the value of Twitter stock tumbled together. As Musk eventually proved he was not the brilliant innovator he was initially thought to be, his stock soared when Musk made the acquisition and then began to fall.

Initially, Musk seemed to be having a midlife crisis because he acted with such disregard for convention and good sense. As Musk’s political views changed, he ceased to advocate free speech but was apparently trapped in a right-wing quagmire, in which he demonstrated the need for extreme measures in doing business as a social media company, including firing most of its employees and adjusting the system quickly in response to the extensive losses he was suffering.

Musk was acting as a boss would, trying to make a service profitable. As time passed, Musk’s claim that Twitter would usher in a renaissance era of free speech seemed increasingly shallow. Nothing of the kind emerged in the wake of Musk’s bizarre tactics to make Twitter profitable.

Despite being discussed quite a bit already, I am not surprised that there were so many impersonators flooding Twitter with tweets that were nearly as convincing as real companies with a presence on Twitter actually held with the social media company when for the first few hours your account could be verified with a checkmark for a few dollars. Although Musk may have believed that he was acting in the name of free speech at that time, the fact that free speech lends itself to parody taught me a great deal about human nature.

When I thought of the free speech conundrum, I thought of the Velvet Revolution, I thought of 1984, I thought of Apocalypse Now, but here was near-incontrovertible proof that free speech is not a simple temperament.

Free speech is likely regarded among many with such cynicism that an effort to grant it, to create liberty, is met with glee, low moral standing, and even evil. Musk may not have intended it, but I believe he is aware that this is the result of the right to free speech. This right must be carefully considered and guarded.

What to include to your page/post/content for high search rankings

The concept of blogging by design isn’t the easiest to define; it has a host of different ways to manage it.

1- Benefits of Blogging

2- Learning from the most successful blogs

3- Understand what your niche should be

4- Since you probably have a CRM, blogging should encourage interest in your business.

5- After visiting a cemetery on the other side of town, my dad decided he could turn it into a small business for retirement. 6- The idea of blogging came from a rudimentary idea I had toyed with on MySpace years earlier. A song from Reed’s 1973 album Berlin that had been rerecorded as a follow-up to the arrival of the original was performed by Lou Reed on Letterman. I wrote a brief blog post celebrating the TV appearance–it was fun.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8B3J8KykSQ

7- You should reuse blog content, repurposing it into social media content on platforms other than your blog. It assists with leads. Explaining your expertise through blogging can increase your rate of acquiring new information.

8- Contributing to a blog makes your site seem more relevant to search engines and improves your search rank. You can further gain web traffic by this method.

9- It assists you with sharing news.

10- I find it helps me clarify ideas.

11- 2- Learning from the most successful blogs

12- One type of blog is design sites, food blogs are another, and touring journals are popular.

13- Online lifestyle websites are popular.

14- Several Do-It-Yourself journals exist that are interesting. Subtypes include expression and artwork, development, woodwork, metalwork, etc.

15- Many of us require assistance and advice in order to effectively manage our finances. Whether it’s serious investors or families trying to save for the future, finance attracts a wide range of people.

16- Employees in corporate offices, enterprises, and other organizations read business journals.

17- News journals are not just about sharing news. They likewise incorporate parts of the blogger’s point of view of the news.

18- Here in Canada, legislation prohibiting news from being posted on Facebook, Instagram, and other social media platforms means Facebook and Instagram are no longer providing news content. It’s unfortunate, but it’s true.

19- A gaming journal is often a source of information for gamers, commentators, and official organizations related to games. The winners of worldwide gaming events receive prizes.

20- Understand what your niche should be

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WordPress Discover: Scent

The month of April 2020, WordPress has reopened daily Discover challenges, hosted this week again by Ben Huberman.  Today’s theme is the word “scent.”  I thought of food that instantly makes me hungry:  pancakes.

For many years running, my family ate a Sunday family breakfast of pancakes, after returning from church.  It was nice.  Sometimes there would be a cassette tape of music playing, and sometimes there would be for me a cup of tea, as I didn’t drink coffee until beginning in my mid-teens, I think.

 

Later that day we would go around to my mother’s parents’ house and have a visit.  The smell of pancakes remains quite pleasing for me.

 

Last night was the last quarter of the moon, my wall calendar tells me.  I know things are hard.  My readership for the blog is small but consistent.  I have benefitted in terms of expanding its reach, from reading the daily Discover essays this month, and many days writing in response.

 

It interests me to read where the blog’s visitors say they are coming from.  In these days of social distancing, WordPress is among the best socializing I enjoy, as far as interacting with new people goes.

 

My present routine, to publish, discover, and comment, has helped me with the focus I have for writing in my blog, and for feeling better organized to be interested in it and to work at it.  While it is purely for interest’s sake, I am part of a small business that my father operates together with me.

 

We take care of a small cemetery, usually every week.  We are on Facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/LouthUnited

 

Although I have temporarily shelved my editorial calendar, owing to the emergency, you do have the option of visiting me on Facebook and following and commenting on this blog post.  I appreciate your time and I wish you well during this spot of bad luck.

WordPress Discover: Book

Today is my niece Clara’s tenth birthday.  Happy birthday, Clara.

I have been perusing the April 2020 WordPress Discover articles.  This week they are again driven by Ben Huberman.

Today’s Discover Challenge:  book

Clara is in the third grade.  At the point when I was in the third grade, I think my preferred intrigue was beasts, and obviously, she is a young lady.  However, I think my favourite book, when I was a third-grader, was the classic, The House with a Clock in its Walls, by John Bellairs.  It’s a 2018 film.

My nephew Mack, Clara’s brother, is in uni, and when I think back of books I read in college, that weren’t on the syllabus, I remember reading The Mosquito Coast, by Paul Theroux.  I think I wanted something familiar to read.  There is a film, the 1986 film featuring Harrison Ford and Helen Mirren.  Harrison Ford had starred in the Star Wars films which saw son pitted against father.  I think he was following that set of motion pictures with another film that was about the idea of Father’s relationship with the child, and furthermore about the connection among machines and nature, likewise a topic in that first Star Wars three.

If my mother were to ask me, I would recommend Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff … and it’s all small stuff: Simple Ways to Keep the Little Things from Taking Over Your Life, by Richard Carlson.  It’s an antidote to stress.

For my dad, who has likewise been my supervisor for quite a while now, I would prescribe a progressively unordinary book, the novel Humans by Donald E. Westlake.  It’s a novel truly about a fight among God, and the Devil, for the whole planet.

If Kris was still with us, as she loaned me her Holy Bible, which I wish I’d demanded to return, I figure I may have gained favour with her if I’d brought her A Million Little Pieces, the splashy novel by James Frey, that transformed into contention, with Oprah Winfrey.

These books I felt were appropriate.

WordPress Discover: Light

Ben Huberman again has the reins of the April 2020 WordPress Discover challenges. Today’s theme is light.

I think of feeling light when I look at the effect upon myself by something as kind as a few words on the Internet, from a person I respect, as is the case with the blogger behind the Beauty Beyond Bones blog. Her blog is one I enjoy reading, perhaps paying her a compliment at times when it is more appropriate, to someone who is a talented writer and who gives back time. She is a proud Catholic blogger, as well, and, as today is Easter Sunday, I know this will be a challenging day, given the circumstances of the holiday this year.

Her blog is about her experience in life celebrating Jesus, and she sometimes recounts current events and her response to those, or sometimes how life continually gives back to her and what she, with her perspective and intent, makes of it. There are qualities in her that I admire, and some of the design elements of her blog appeal to me when I look at what she thinks to assemble. Her blog is here:

https://beautybeyondbones.com/

I want to also include a found photo of the hospital located in Fort Erie, not too far from where I live, in Canada. You can see the light about the place. It is an alternative interpretation of the word light and a symbol of triumph, all the more so south of the Canada-U. S. border, where, the news is saying, the crisis is mad.

found photo of Fort Erie hospital

I hope that the blogger who writes Beauty Beyond Bones gets through unscathed, as I hope every American who I think is the bee’s knees likewise manages to pull through the current troubles without being afflicted.

You may comment and/or follow, of course.

WordPress Discover: Bite

WordPress Discover has returned for April 2020, and this week the writer Michelle Weber has taken Discover bloggers on a wander, with a word every day, to get bloggers looking at shared encounters.  Today’s word is “bite” and, while I don’t like to offer advice, one phenomenon I have observed is that, by the time you are responding to somebody’s food on the Internet you know that you’ve reached a rhythm where likely the best you can do is effect what positive change that person contributed, and go from there.  I would prefer not to seem as though I’m presenting a false rationale.

It’s a perception given the fame of those sorts of delineations.  The inclination I have is to connect cautiously when nourishment is in question, and I’ve had the experience of family, kinfolk mentioning objective facts on the Internet of what they’re keen on eating, individuals that you could never avoid, and even with them, I attempt to evade a lot of input on their dishes.

Adage

Suit yourself.  Ideally, you’re not inhabiting a scene of the TV show Survivor. However, a decent approach is to sit about and eat.

You don’t have to do a huge amount of that.  A drink may improve the pot, yet not to the degree you’re under the table, I’m certain, and there ought to be openings where no such cure is important.

I’m a hopeful person.  I wouldn’t deliberately steer you wrong.

As today’s Discover essay points out, it’s a Saturday, and while it doesn’t touch on the holiday, you probably know that it’s the Saturday before Easter Sunday.  Trouble or not, I am making my usual jaunt tomorrow, to my mom and dad’s house, to celebrate our faith.  It will take us faith to get through this.

You’re welcome to follow and/or to comment.

Why Blogger’s Envy Will Make You Question Everything

In any case, what number of sites are there altogether in 2019? Until this point in time, there are over 1.6 billion sites on the planet. — Techjury : Is blogging still relevant in 2019? https://techjury.net/blog/how-many-websites-are-there/#gref

Blogging can be an interest for someone who writes, or, perhaps, takes photos, or who wants insight beyond that individual’s regular life and is attainable. In 2019 blogging champions continue to show heart, talent and drive to command gigantic followings, and blog consistently and excellently. While blogging is inventive by nature, innovatory bloggers get all that comprises Internet fame.

fame Merriam-Webster

1a: public estimation : REPUTATION

b: popular acclaim : RENOWN

2 archaic : RUMOR

Engagement rate in influencer marketing is used to measure the level of interaction an influencer typically receives on their content. Simply put, it is the percentage of the influencer’s audience that responds to their content. –Google: What is influencer engagement?

A reader infers that the successful blogger is charming beyond the scope of that blogger’s posts and social media; we are persuaded that the blogger is likable, an excellent chap, full of cheer, and enviable. Likewise, when one compares herself to the other, especially as she is rendered in a blog or on social media, there is a propensity to try to reach that same level as the other, even if many of the details of her life exist chiefly in the imagination, the perspective of the visitor. She becomes human from expectations in the mind.

Photographer:
Negative Space

If you blog, and you are in the early years of your experience as a blogger, and you wish to rise to a level of success you already see in your favorite blogs, you will find yourself learning, if you persist, how and when to post. “Younger” bloggers play a part in the blogosphere. I know that by the time you join, you won’t be thinking about the same conundrum you have now.

You’re welcome to like this post, to follow and to comment, if any of this finds you sympathetic. Remember that bonds on the Internet have a similar significance to bonds in the real world.

I’m Patrick, and I help with the care of Maple Lawn Cemetery in Canada. Our website is this:

http://www.maplelawncemetery.org/24701.html

15 Ways the Most Youthful Adherent to Video Research is Totally Overrated. Part I

By video research, I mean watching video content to gain information about a topic.  To render the inscrutable meaningful, I am trying to re-envision specific ideas I have about video research.  To try to make this fun, I am re-envisioning 15 ways that the progress I try to make utilizing video research actually makes an impact (for me).

This will include examples of why it is I am conjecturing the phrase video research isn’t dropped onto the page constantly.

1. The first thing that I am focusing on is when I actively became aware of the possibility of video research.  You might say the stars aligned (nearly) and I think it was when I was compelled by my younger friend B. pointing out that I could listen to youths crying out with the Internet.  This is so sensitive.
   In my defense, I both saw I could get into hard-to-tackle specifics with a computer, and also I discarded the idea to pursue B.’s style of research, which is a misnomer, as it wasn’t video being researched, it was more like gamer hack-and-slash.  In B.’s defense, he became a teacher for a living.
   [I hope he is still doing that.  He dropped off Facebook a long time ago (without an explanation).]
2. With an awareness like that, it has to be tempered with the recognition that humans require respect.  Interesting uses of Internet video express things which are unfathomable and also perhaps too sensitive to extrapolate.  The very most interesting experiences with the Internet, I think, and when outside elements of the world beyond the Internet enter and, I suppose, reflect the viewer experiencing the video, which is hard to concisely explain.
   If there is a simple explanation for this, perhaps from lecture halls or elsewhere, and you know of such a thing, forgive me.  Leave me a comment if you like.  On the simplest level, people can leave user comments for a creator who responds.
   I am pretty sure I have a few variations of that straightforward element of the Internet.
3. I think in 2018 WordPress turned 15 years old, didn’t it?  A technique for growing your blog readership, if you’re on WordPress, is to leave user comments on other bloggers’ work.  The point is that if you do this respectfully and consistently, eventually sympathetic or otherwise interested bloggers who you have contacted will reciprocate by interacting with you.
   Now you may ask me, and I am prepared for this in the eventuality it happens, “How do you know that?  You don’t seem to have much readership of note.”
   “Yes,” I will reply, not impudently, “but I simply have not devoted the focus to constantly read blogs and interact with them.  My blog, as yet, is an amateur effort.”  At that point, I hope you do not disappear abruptly, although if this is the case, that is fine, as I hope to better strategize in 2019 than I have in the past.
4. I hope to pursue this as long as it is a possibility.  What I’ve observed is that WordPress techniques are not the same as those on a more characteristically “social” platform.  I would argue that during what I’ve learned, I’ve enjoyed the process.
   I am tempted to leave this point there and then, but even with confirmation bias indicating that if I am predisposed to a set of beliefs that highly values an “art for art’s sake” attitude, the argument I want to make is that this specific confirmation bias is perfectly fine and I want to run with it in 2019.
   How then, what can you, you might ask, do to make your blog more readable?  Well, you can take it on Facebook and ask people you’ve met to read it.  That’s a tactic that can help you start a blog and potentially get results that are interesting for you.
5. We’re beginning to talk about video research, but the first thing I think of trying to approach something that’s sensitive is some obvious problems coming up right away.  These fifteen points are geared to getting your attention away from what you should do with the video you watch, and what you are already doing with your blog, or how it is you could start a blog.  The conclusion that can be drawn, and it’s not science, but a method, is that you can draw on video research to formulate something that you’d like people to read and you can put it on WordPress.
   
   I had quite a bit to say just to introduce this, so I am ending this post shortly below and picking up in the next blog post.

This first part of the 15 ways has been about a few generalities that have worked for me and a few tips that could apply to what you are doing.

These first five points are trying to get to the point, saying you can take video, turn it into blog content, get a running start with your blog, and go from there.  I am going to return with what shall be two more posts, aiming to illustrate ten more ways that you can do something more with video than just watch it.

Thanks for reading.

When I last asked my niece to let me have a photo, she was in high gear to play a frivolous game of Candy Land.  She suggested I show her in the midst of unpacking the enduring board game.  My niece is in the third grade.

10 Reasons Radical Success is the Weakest Link Part I

Updated November 22, 2018

In December my brother and his wife and kids gave me an unusual gift, a puzzle celebrating The Beatles’ music on The White Album.

The Beatles

The puzzle is unusual mainly for the fact that the cover of The White Album is entirely the color white, which makes the puzzle an exercise in assembling puzzle pieces all the color white.  It is as if the wrong end of a game of chess game came down on you.

Beatles’ White Album: Five myths the 50th anniversary deluxe edition puts to the test

 

Photographer:
Little Visuals

I have ten reasons I’m suggesting that success like what The Beatles enjoyed is actually a weak link in terms of what it means for individual success and how it is misleading.  Four are presented here.

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Suzy Hazelwood MONOPOLY FOR MILLENNIALS MAKES NPCs CRY The YouTube channel Geeks + Gamers fascinates me.  When Jeremy announced that he had fallen prey to a phishing spoof six weeks ago, I wanted to describe the problem in this post.  Jeremy was distracted at the moment and made a rookie error, surrendering control of Geeks + Gamers for seventeen minutes until he could get it back in order.  A second oversight occurred, when Jeremy neglected to secure his Google AdSense funding for the channel after the spoof.  When he realized that an entire month’s worth of  monies designated for Geeks + Gamers was stolen, he finally revealed what happened:  My YouTube Channel Was Hacked, Money Lost – Learn From My Mistakes  I’d been paying attention to Geeks + Gamers because I feel it protests and dissects conventional scholar on media.  The Geeks + Gamers team typically tackle major film projects like the DC universe on film, or more often the Disney Star Wars trilogy, as though the success, usually financial, of studio film output speaks to the conclusion that if a film is not fun, that if it doesn’t “work” in terms of being appealing to an audience, the film is not so much a radical success as it is a weak link.

• It didn’t matter to Jeremy that The Last Jedi is another splendid blockbuster in terms of the money it made for Disney; it was to him a complete letdown and something that was a disservice to the favorite films that remind him of his childhood, the Star Wars films.  Disney Has Concerns About Star Wars After The Last Jedi  It is interesting that while ostensibly the financial success of a film doesn’t mean the film is magical for Jeremy, when it comes to his YouTube channels, Geeks + Gamers and others, it is certainly a problem when a month’s loot is stolen, by cyber-crime means.  I wish Jeremy and the other members of Geeks + Gamers hadn’t had to go through that.Halloween with Geeks + Gamers was interesting for the fact that Jeremy argued that very bold criticism of what he does with Geeks + Gamers had been declared, criticism that included the idea that “code words” were being communicated to Geeks + Gamers subscribers that subscribers should launch literal hate and violence at targets which Geeks + Gamers usually defame, a video you can watch here:  NPC Star Wars Writer Continues To Lie and Spread False Information  Jeremy responded firmly that Geeks + Gamers is in no way is supportive of violent attitudes in any situation, and further that Geeks + Gamers made no attempt to “boycott” the recent Star Wars film Solo, a position I’d heard Jeremy take before in a discussion how Solo ws lacklustre in terms of box office returns.

All this keeps me quite rapt about what this YouTube channel is saying about the Star Wars films–Geeks+ Gamers plays a role in backlash concerning the Rian Johnson Star Wars film The Last Jedi.

• For Geeks + Gamers to become a successful YouTube channel, it meant starting from basics and building a subscriber basis and becoming a success, with people watching the videos and comment and so on.  If Geeks + Gamers were reviewing music, instead of films, and it was fifty years ago, perhaps they would have spoken about The White Album.  Instead, they are speaking out, frequently, about The Last Jedi, in a way which makes it completely clear that they regard Episode VIII of Star Wars as rubbish.When I watched The Last Jedi when it arrived on Netflix, I enjoyed it and even felt moved.  The mods of Geeks + Gamers had no such experience.  Instead, they despise the film and regale in making that clear rather than taking a positive spin on something that’s an extension to something they loved in childhood.I would guess that Geeks + Gamers take such a broad interest in film criticism that they feel they can succeed with a successful YouTube channel.  The idea of success they have is different from the idea of success that’s reflected in something like the fiftieth-anniversary of The White Album, or in the success of the blockbuster The Last Jedi.

• The mods of Geeks + Gamers don’t seem to see The Last Jedi as a success at all because they despise it so much.  Their YouTube channel extrapolates messages like that Star Wars has been mostly reduced to rubbish, or that the DC comics universe could similarly face a death grip in the cinema.  I believe I had misunderstood Geeks + Gamers with my belief that Geeks + Gamers doesn’t desire or see any value in success at the level of the “blockbuster”; instead they expound on problems in entertainment which is compromised by identity politics in the entertainment that they criticize.  Now that I understand some more about Jeremy’s point of view,  it has me feeling a touch more informed about how identity politics show up in entertainment.
  To them, The Last Jedi is a weak link.  They wouldn’t aim for that kind of success in their own lives, for example.  It is notable, having learned of their misfortune with a phishing spoof, that their success has been compromised by their own position as a good-sized YouTube channel.

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Rawpixel.com  In addition, an example of underhandedly reacting to what’s been said on Geeks + Gamers is the shout-out they gave Mike Zeroh after film director Rian Johnson mean-spiritedly called out Zeroh who is devoted specifically to exploring what’s going on in Star Wars.  The Mike Zeroh channel is Zeroh’s speculation about “behind the scenes” in Star Wars.  In the initial days of shooting Episode IX of Star Wars, Johnson, reflecting on Twitter about what he was accomplishing with his Star Wars film, referred to YouTube’s Mike Zeroh as being a zero, although Johnson later apologized.

• It is the same kind of weak link that exists when Geeks + Gamers tackles Star Wars because for all the enthusiasm Mike Zeroh puts into anticipating Star Wars, Mike Zeroh has personally explained that he feels The Last Jedi is a poor effort.
  Mike Zeroh Vs Rian Johnson… Thank you Rian Again!!!

I was amused by The White Album puzzle game I got from my brother and his family.  I am also grateful for the opportunity to share these opportunities.  I am glad if you have read this.  You’re welcome to “like,” to “follow,” and/or to comment.

10 Freaky Reasons Cupcakes Could Get You Fired

Tuesday morning I went in to see that Tim’s “smile cookies” are back, which are cinnamon cookies with the icing of a smile atop them–:). That evening I bought one to take to a friend, as I am a steadfast believer in the power of kindness.

I am part of an operating cemetery on a year-round basis https://www.facebook.com/LouthUnited

As I’m in the role of SMM I occasionally draw inspiration from the work for the blog I keep, which is what you’re reading.

September 2018 I joined for the second time in the third of three-month-long tea parties organized by WordPress blogger The Little Mermaid.

For September, the theme is the subject of “food.”

https://thelittlemermaid09.wordpress.com/2018/07

I have enjoyed browsing the tea party posts. My curiosity is piqued for what could be around the corner as The Little Mermaid posts a fourth tea party.

I have also reflected on a new idea for a post.

10 Freaky Reasons Cupcakes Could Get You Fired

TUESDAY, MARCH 15, 2016

Monday

The Glass is Half Empty

1.You’re sugarcoating the truth, and it comes out easy over cupcakes in the office cafeteria party.
2.You’re entering a relationship with a girl who bakes for you and is challenging your fashion sense.
3.You’re juggling naysayers and gossips.
4.You’re coming home from work only to watch syndicated sitcom programming on late night cable… again. If you’re lucky, you have a dog.
5.You’re setting a bad example.

The Glass is Half Full

6.Your parents are out of town, her parents are out of town… when the cat’s away, the mice will play.
7.You’re asking can you spare a dollar.
8.You hope to set your Facebook privacy settings to Who Can See Your Friends… Only Me (in order to discourage gawkers.)
9.You and the girl baking for you are both Irish.
10.The cupcakes are a vanilla mix and seem to be challenging you to up your game.

In seriousness, now, 15 September marked the International Day of Democracy

http://www.un.org/en/events/democracyday/

You are probably familiar, to one extent or another, with the troubles in the White House. I became interested in that when Facebook came under scrutiny for the suggestion of there being misappropriated influence preceding the 2016 US Election.

Again 15 September, the United Nations has observed the Universal Declaration of Human Rights for seventy years now.

The International Day of Democracy observes the importance of a democratic government for each individual member of the United Nations.

I also observed on this day the reality that I had reached the age of forty-one and a half years old. I feel reasonably good, interested in life in general and grateful for my opportunities and for my leisure time.

I am appreciative of those who “like,” “follow” and/or comment. For that, thank you.

#DemocracyDay #PeaceDay