D.C. March important for all Americans

Again,in Philadelphia,PA USA,my daily perch on the park bench was magnificent!There wasn't a cloud in the sky! So,in the interest of civility and public service,I crafted another pop quiz for all the young squirrels in my summer school class-

This following quotation was made about the D.C. march to the Lincoln Memorial.
"...The end result should benefit all Americans.
The crusaders marched without wages,riches or rank.They carried their
hopes,dreams,ambitions,talents and toil and placed them at the seat of
government for the world to see.
Through this gesture they intended to raise the standards of living,justice,
dignity,self-determined cultural worthiness and preservation, and to foster
economic self-sufficiency through a self-actualizing work ethic and
a re-commitment to themselves...and humanity."
Who made the aformentioned quote?
A) Glenn Beck
B) Martin Luther King
C) Sarah Palin
D) Al Sharpton
E) None of the above
All of you squirrels who get the correct answer, will get the chance to share your
profound jibberish at the next congressional session as guest filibusters.Afterall, your small-minded views will make ordinary arguments appear brilliant!

The correct answer is E.The quotation was made several days before the Million Man March of October 16,1995 by Norman Johnson and was published as a Guest Opinion
in the Friday, October 20,1995 Philadelphia Daily News.

Eerie Sunday-Flash Forward to 2018

A few days ago,I had a conversation about hiking and exercising in (Germantown)Philadelphia,PA,USA with a neighbor.We talked about short cuts in reaching the picturesque areas in the park. I had one trail to enter the Wissahickon Valley Park area and he had several.The talk led to his mention of a group of Hermits who settled into the caves in the area in the late 1600s. I thought of the area and the cave in which I filmed the short film,Flash Mc Cool:Imagination.I had never researched the history of the area before I filmed the short film there but when near the film location I saw a small plaque about a hermit cave near the film location area.The hermit area with the sign was gated and locked. One eighth of a mile away was our film location, with a cave set on a hill.This was the site of the opening and closing scenes for my short film.
Today, I recalled the conversation with my neighbor and looked up some information about the hermits in the Wissahickon Valley Park area.The site was

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wissahickon_Creek

The irony of what I learned is eerie.Not only was I filming in a spiritual
area for the historical hermitage but also in a spiritual area for the Lenape
(i.e. "the people" ) Delaware Indians.The famous historical area was also
cited by Edgar Allen Poe, John Greenleaf Whittier and even Mark Twain.The entire
matter becomes stranger when, after the 2004 debut of my short film from September
2004 to December 2004 at The Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia,PA,
the Bryn Mawr Film Institute in January 2006 and the Ohio Sandy Valley Short film festival in March,2007, I learned that M. Night Shyamalan also recently shot some scenes for The Last Airbender in the same Wissahickon Valley Park.
Curiously, I had also designed this blogsite with meditative and mystical references.
Was this a mere coincidence? Or were the forces of Nature truly operative in the
design of this blog ? I invite you to read about the park in the above wikipedia link and tell me!
Somehow my closing scene in my short film is more magical than I thought.
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The above was  blogged in 2010 . Now, in 2018 I learned of an area of houses that were built atop an
ash-filled waterfall. Yup, just at the top of Washington Lane near Wayne Ave bridge, there was a waterfall
and stream where Native Americans  watered their horses back in the day.I understand that the
PA Historical  Museum has  old photographs of the area with the Indians on horseback.

I will take the time to research the legend and give some feedback later. In  the meantime,
check out the following link,

http://www.lucinedistribution.com/Flash%20McCool.html
to see what happened to the legend of
Flash Mc Cool .

"Static Kill" economic job losses !

While BP performed the "static kill" on the gulf oil well to "push the well oil back down to its' original resevoir", instinct pointed the way for my trusty K-9,Butterfly-pup.
Florence Stovel Shinn's famous quote says it all,
" Instinct is a spiritual faculty and does not explain but simply points the way."

Near our cave in Philadelphia,PA USA ,Butterfly-pup dug up an old manuscript of the
World War II industries.We examined the document and learned that the unemployment
of the great depression made a dramatic turnabout when the World War II industries
began.Employment climbed steeply some 40% when the government entered defense contracts and put massive numbers of unemployed workers back to work.
The little K-9's instinct jump-started my intuitive sense and I imagined government contracts as a "static kill" of bleeding economic job losses-pushing the unemployment down below recession levels and raising employment to stimulate a sluggish economy !
In essence, the "static kill" (with government contracts) is essentially declaring
war on unemployment to boost job creation and re-vitalize the economy,a national security priority!
'But remember,fictional hoboclowns and their k-9 dogs are only dreamers whose noses
can only point the way. Real people and politicians have to do the math.'

Of First Families and Stool Pidgeons

There I was sunning my bozo, hoboclown brain on the park bench on Ben Franklin Parkway in Philadelphia,PA, USA. Suddenly, the ruffling sound of wings broke the serene meditative silence. It was my two stool pidgeon buddies, Ace and Kite, deliverying the 'Tale of 2 Cities News'. The news drop contained the lowdown on Queen Elizabeth II July 6,2010 "Cost-Conscious Trip to North America With Visit to U.N. and Ground Zero" and the 8/6/2010 article on," Michelle Obama's Lavish Spain Vacation Sparking Criticism". Harry Potter never had it so good! I paid Ace and Kite with a left-over hot dog roll and a piece of Philly soft-pretzel for their hot tips.In a flash, they were airborne in flight to their next job.
I skimmed the articles and saw something about the Queen praising the UN and the
other mentioning Michelle Obama's planned vacation trip to visit King Juan Carlos and Queen Sophia at their summer palace. Both articles had a lot of verbiage about
money, expenses and the merits of such trips.My read is that 'first families are institutions and when institutions travel, they travel expensively.It's unavoidable
and when institutions meet with other institutions it's generally beneficial for
both institutional cultures and politics.But, who am I to dare say this?I am only a big, red-nosed, bone-headed,silly, fictional hoboclown detective sitting on a bench passing the time of day.Ace and Kite scratched the addresses of the two
articles in the dirt.Real people can read them for themselves at
http://abcnews.go.com/print?id=11097746 and
http://www.politicsdaily.com/2010/08/06/michelle-obamas-lavish-spain-vacation-sparking-

The Presidential Trivia Quiz

After studying my tricks on the bench,I decided to do some hoboclown sleuthing and
made a presidential pop quiz for the squirrels in my summer class-
Which of the following statements did President Obama make at his last
White House Press Conference and at his first State of The Union Address?
A) If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River,
the headline that afternoon would read: "President Can't Swim."
B) The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads
nothing but newspapers.
C) Get your facts first,then you can distort 'em as much as you please.
D) Neither A nor B nor C

For all you squirrels who looked over your buddy's shoulder for the answer,
the correct answer is D. Statement A is attributed to Lyndon B. Johnson.
Statement B is attributed to Thomas Jefferson.Statement C is attributed to
Mark Twain.You can find these quotes and more at www.quotegarden.com/media.html
and don't take any nuts with you!