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Nov 11, 2012

5.5 minutes with a mad man

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Never let this man out of prison

I live where there’s no tv, there’s no radio, there’s no clocks, there’s no electric lights.  The girls carry water, they don’t wear makeup.  They have their babies by themselves.  They go in the shack and squat down and have their babies lying on the ground, lying on the earth.

I don’t live.  I lived in Hollywood.  And I had all that.  The Rolls-Royce and Ferrari and the pad in Beverly Hills.  I had the surfboard and The Beach Boys and ? and Neil Diamond and  Rob Scott and Jimmy Griffen, Elvis Presley and Wesley Bestleys and all them guys.  The Dean Martin’s and the Nancy Sinatra’s and all the ?

“Will you do it to me?  I hear you’ll do it good and all that kind when you come up to my house later?”

So and I went through all that and seen that was a bigger prison then the one I just got out of.  And I really didn’t care to go back to prison.  Prison doesn’t begin and end at the gate.  Prison’s in your mind.  It’s locked in one world that’s dead and dying, or it’s open to a world that’s free and alive.  Drugs, LSD. I don’t consider it a drug.  I don’t consider peyote a drug.  Those are more or less religiously significant: awareness, mind expanding apparatuses that come from the intelligence of the universe.

The reason that the girls liked me was “Hey now! Hey now!  I’m all around you!  Round you.  Hey now up on your heart I can see through you.” (sung) And I played and I sing and they say, “Hey man, you, you got soul  you got soul in that music!  And I said, “Yeah, I play a little bit. I like music.”  And they said, “Man, You’re really somebody!”   And I said, “Oh I am?  I just got out of jail.  I don’t know what somebody is.”  They liked my music. They say, “Man, we want to get you over.”  I said, “Get me over for what?”  We’ll take you down here to Beverly Hills and we want to get you in cause you’re a star.I said, “I’m a what?”  They said, “You’re a star!”  So they took me to The Beach Boys and I went and I got on a surfboard are rode around and I looked.  Jeez, Willy Jean, this is more trouble then what I just got out of.

Now look at yourself.  You got be aware of that.  Whether you like it or not, you got to do things.  You gotta get up and go through all kinds of changes.  Whether you want to or not doesn’t matter. Your whole life is put in your paycheck.  You couldn’t pay me all the money in the world to do something I don’t want to do.  If I’m shoveling the barn you want me to go  (incomprehensible)  “No, no, no, I’m doing something here.  I’m helping this blind man.  I feel better in doing what I want to do.

I did not break the law.  Jesus Christ told you that two thousand years ago.  You don’t understand me.  That’s your trouble.  Not my fault because you don’t understand me.  I don’t understand you either.  But I don’t spend my whole life trying to put the blame over on you, because my cigarette didn’t light, or because something didn’t work right.  Why you want to call me a murderer for?  I never killed anyone.  I don’t need to kill anyone.  I think it.  I have it here.

I don’t need to live in this physical realm.   I walk around in the physical realm.  And I put on the faces and I talk and I play and yackty yack.  It’s just a big act, man.  In the spiritual world is where I live.  I exist in places you’d never even dreamed of.

You talk about, you know, this new physical realm you live in.  Guilty and is he in sin?  How’s your courts guilty?  How many people do you think you’ve hung on the ventilators and the nut wards and forced medication on them?  You see what I’m saying?  You don’t have any idea what the hell’s going on.

If you knew what the hell was going on in your own system, then you’d say, “Now I see what’s creating this. Society’s creating It.  Society’s saying we want these Rambos, we want these killers.  Oh wow man, look at that dude there.  And you got little kids looking in the book.  What are they selling?  In the Sear & Roebuck: Rambo for 12 to 15.  Ki Karate from age 5 to17.  See, you got all your kids out here doing these crazy things now you want to come and say “Charlie Manson is the father of our country. We’re convicting you for being Jesus Christ.  We’re convicting you for being the devil.  We’re convicting you for being responsible for our actions.”

I’m not responsible for anyone’s actions but my own actions.  In my whole life, I have burglarized the grocery store, stole some nickels and dimes, busted open a stamp machine, stolen a few automobiles, and cashed a couple checks.  I’m a petty car thief.

I’ve… been with prostitutes and bums and minors all my life.  The street is my world.

I don’t pretend to go uptown or be anything fancy.  I can, but I find more real in the world that I’m in than I do the tinsel and the real world is what I have to deal with everyday.

Ah, believe me, if I started murdering people, there’d be none of you left.

 

~Charles Manson, live with Ban Abrams on MSNBC

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Nov 7, 2012

Hubert Michael Jr. continues to seek stay of execution – The York Daily Record

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Who the hell is assisting this man in a stay of execution?!  The man knows he is guilty of murder.  He admitted to it.  Just get this waste of a human off the earth PLEASE!  Stop lobbying to keep him alive.

Hubert Michael Jr. continues to seek stay of execution – The York Daily Record.

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Oct 31, 2012

Writer’s Memo

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Writer’s Memo:

I love to write and do so almost daily in my blog.  My subjects range from college essays, being a mom, divorce, and life in general.  I have short stories, poems and photographs on my blog and try to make each entry unique and engaging.  Most people don’t realize how deep my faith in God runs.  I don’t push my beliefs on people, nor do I bark about them in person.  But on my blog I am free to express myself however I would like.  I show no fear on my blog and let no comments upset me.  God and I are tight and I am keeping it that way.

My biggest struggle is to continue focusing on the present when I think the future will be ending soon.  The borrowing money for student loans, making holiday plans and especially dates in the year 2013 are frustrating.  I don’t want to or expect to be earth bound after December 21st 2012.  My friends poke fun at me.  So do my sons, now both adults.  Jokes aimed at my religious beliefs are just their way of giving me a “hard time.”  I don’t get upset or mad.  I just laugh along with them.  How can I laugh when they are making fun of me?  Easy.  If I’m wrong, I continue with life on December 22nd.  If I’m right, I’m in Heaven with my maker testing out my new wings.  I’ve always wanted to fly.

~P.

(Virtual Sinning isn’t Cheap Advanced Composition Assignment)

 

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Oct 30, 2012

Frankenstorm Flooding 2012

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Hurricane Sandy caused serious flooding in York County.  The Conewago Creek was at least three times its usual size.  Roads were closed, lines down, power out.  Hurricane Sandy left her mark.  ~P.

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Oct 28, 2012

Virtual sinning isn’t cheap

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No, it’s not a good way to start an essay. Ok, over that.

Facebook rules the world in a round-about way.

Yes, I know GOD rules the world.  Please don’t comment to me that I am going to hell, I should be murdered, burned, suffer for all of eternity.  The effect of those comments wore off after the first three.

When you want to communicate quickly, you use Facebook to get your message out fast and as far-reaching as possible.  Instantly, you have just shared something, any bit of info sent electronically across the Internet, has just been released to the entire world.

Hell, even the word Internet is capitalized.  It just became a proper noun and Facebook has become the link around the world that all connects us with God.  There are churches, preachers, priests, pastors and more online.  We all can be friends on Facebook, in fact, friend is now a verb; “Friend me, I’ll accept.”

The ability to touch the lives of people across the world instantly is a phenomenon that no one really talks about.  Facebook is similar to a constantly in motion subway.  People are able to jump on and off at will, with a click of their mouse.  The ability to jump on and off a moving subway car comes at a price.  Once information is shared, it is on the Internet forever.  The good, the bad, the ugly.

Just wait.  I’m telling you right now that on December 21st 2012 the Internet is going to crash.  Maybe permanently!  Imagine a world without the internet.  You can’t do it can you? 

The internet is many things: a link connecting most of the world to each other, a place to gather, a place to share information, a place to proclaim your belief of God (or not) and a place to sin.  So much good, yet always there are the bad things that come from the Internet, meet on the internet, troll on the internet.  The internet is not a safe place.

The Internet is my virtual life.  Facebook connects me with the world and it is God’s filing system.  God knew humans would get smarter than our britches and organize an endless, eternal pulse of energy that relays all our information effortlessly.  Now we are screwed.  

So I proclaim stuff all the time.  I make shit up-from scratch-but I’m serious about God.  That all knowing alien in the sky.  Heck the Mayan’s even knew about Jesus Christ as his name is mentioned inside a ruin site as a returning prophet of the future.  The visiting speaker on campus said that in his lecture in Demester Hall.  That hall was packed to the gills.  Standing room only for the witty speaker and his fresh take on the Apocalypse.

Poor Dale was stuck beside a guy with body odor issues.  The dude beside me kept drifting off to sleep and even had the nerve to snore during this very important (to me) lecture.  If he had become louder with his rudeness, I would have woke him and told him to get the hell out because he was ruining my listening experience.

I have many direct links to the Internet.  The average person has at least one, but most likely, more than one.  In total, I can access the web on: York College campus, my phone as a hotspot and direct link, Dale’s phone, my laptop, my son’s phone, Dale’s office, any McDonald’s, Rutters’, etc.  Short of living in an undeveloped country, the Internet is available to everyone.

I read the sins of many on the Internet.  The stories of murder, rape, child abuse, tragedy.  This world is a disgusting place that causes my stomach to twist into knots.  If God is looking down on us and here to save us, how can life as we know it continue?  Humans have disappointed God in every possible way. When will that change?  Ever?  Please God, take me on December 21, 2012.  I am ready for your call.

Could the apocalyptic signs talked about in the Bible be true and we are nearly at the end of the world?  No one knows but God.  He is the only one who knows the true end of days.  The preparation for the end of days is easy.  Get right with God.  Admit your sins and ask his forgiveness.  The truth will set you free.

Free Internet would be great.  It cost a fortune to have access at home and virtual sinning isn’t cheap. 

~P.

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Oct 20, 2012

Dr. Karen Morris-Priester

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Humanities Lecture Series

 

The ability to relate to someone’s story on a personal level can make all the difference.

Dr. Karen Morris-Priester & Professor Nancy Eshelman

Between classes I ran into Nancy Eshelman.  I was lucky enough to have adjunct professor Eshelman, a retired journalist for The Harrisburg Patriot, for two writing classes at York College.  She asked me if I was attending the lecture by Dr. Karen Morris-Priester.  I hadn’t heard about the lecture that was part of the professionalism lecture series.  Eshelman recommended I attend because like herself and me, Morris-Priester was a former alternative student.

Karen was a child of the Harrisburg projects.  She grew up poor and found herself pregnant at the age of sixteen.  Refusing to drop out of school, she graduated and began working.  After having five children, she then got married.  By her own admission, she was doing everything the wrong way.

Her first jobs were secretarial and in the food service industry.  In time, she opened her own beauty salon but she never forgot her desire to study medicine.  Karen wanted to take evening classes at the community college in Harrisburg but her husband continually put her off.  Behind his back, she registered for classes, starting at a remedial level and didn’t tell him until the night of her first class.  It didn’t go over well with her husband but next to having her five children, sitting down for her first class was the most exhilarating feeling she ever experienced.

Attending part-time, it took Karen six years to earn her Associates degree.  She was working as a nurse at the Camphill Prison and registered at York College to earn her Bachelor’s degree in nursing.  Her life was stretched to its limit working fulltime and attending college fulltime.  The break she had between classes she would nap on the couches in Schmidt Library to get through the day.

Still, that little voice in her head continued to bring up her true goal, to become a doctor.  Karen made an appointment with her advisor and asked what classes she would need to take to eventually become a doctor.  She began taking the required classes for a medical degree.

“There were times with the electric was turned off until I could get caught up on paying for it.  I didn’t want people to know this because I don’t let other people tell me what I can do and neither should you because they will rain on your dreams.”  The electric was always eventually turned on.

Karen was accepted to a six week summer program at Yale for underprivileged minorities.  She was honored to be accepted and threw her heart into her classes.  Her determination paid off.  The university invited her to apply as a fulltime as a medical student.  She started the program two days before turning forty years old.

From Yale she applied at Harvard’s anesthesia program and was accepted and graduated using her own “Four P Plan” to achieve her goals.

Be Prepared: set goals, be ready for opportunities to fulfill those goals.

Be Positive: let people support you and surround yourself with those people.  Let “your haters” be a motivator to prove them wrong.

Be Persistent: take a step back to realize what needs changed.  Make those changes and keep moving forward in pursuing your goals.

Be Present: people watch what you do in situations.  How you accept challenges and new opportunities.

By following her own program she has reached her goal of becoming a doctor.  An unexpected reward for all her dedication was Johnson and Johnson Corporation paid off her school loans and gift tax of $220 thousand dollars.   Hard work does have its rewards.

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Oct 18, 2012

Gordon Parks Exhibit at YCP

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Gordon Parks Crossroads Exhibit at the Wolf Hall Cora Miller Gallery was hosted by Dr. Debra Willis.  She was his mentor and shared his life and work with the filled auditorium.  She took us back in history when she first met Parks, to interview him as a photographer.  What she found was Parks focus was always on family life, religion, work, the war, discrimination, death, women working, gangs, crime and more.  His camera recorded them all.

Gordon Parks 1912-2006

Parks makes a statement with his photos.  His portraits of people were unusual and he loved to use mirrors and available light.  He was particularly interested in discrimination of African Americans.  Parks interviewed his photo subjects, learned about them, and followed them home.

1948 Red Jackson & Hervie Levy look on at slain gang member Maurice Gaines

Red Jackson, legendary gang leader, let Parks drive him around as a chauffeur and photograph his life.  A gang leader’s life also included death, beatings and fascinating photographs.  There was that little stint with the Black Panthers: where Parks’ shoots his camera.  (Inside joke if you’re a photography buff.)

1970

Muhammad Ali, back in 1970 is legendary.  Parks subject is a well-known and loved boxer.  He captures Ali with perfect lighting.  His whites are crisp and his blacks are black.  The gleam of Ali’s skin is captured right to the drips of sweat on his chin.  This is exceptional photography.

High fashion photos on the street

“Bring the fashion to the streets” was Parks breakout idea.  Who needs a mannequin when models move and pose on their own?  Models on the street, at store fronts, bridges, sidewalk, etc wearing the hip clothes became the rage in photo advertising.  Parks pioneered that genre.

Dr. Willis said, “Gordon Parks wanted a photo to tell a story.  He wanted to make a difference with his camera when he was live and a hundred years after he was dead.”

The public is welcome view Parks exhibit at The York College until it’s closing November 12th.

Welcome!  ~P.

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Oct 17, 2012

Pattie Crider’s Resume & CV

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Patricia A. Crider
717-916-0586
pcrider@ycp.edu

Career Focus

Writer/Editor/Photographer responsibilities with a magazine, PR firm, book publisher, or newspaper.

Experience Summary
  • Experienced in writing feature articles, short stories, biographies, essays, editorial pieces, press releases, research reports, fiction and non-fiction.
    • Well versed in copyediting, transcription/editing of interviews, and proofreading.
    • Strong technical command of the English language; familiarity with virtually all writing styles; serious commitment to excellence in the printed and published word.
    • Strong background in business management and accounting.

Education

 York College of Pennsylvania-Prof. Writing Major, Photography & Religious Studies Minor 2010-present
Dover Area High School-Diploma Dover, PA 1989

Professional
Experience

 Manager/Writer,  – The Spartan, York, PA

  • Interviewer, researcher, reporter, OP articles, word puzzles, event coverage
  • Online manager of the Spartan website
 6/10 –
Present
Writer,  Blogger – girlboxer1970.com Internet

  • Owner & operator-dedicated to tracking life as it happens around me.
  • Specifically focuses on college life.
  • Founder of Facebook Page “You Know You’re from Dover, PA when…”
 11/10 –
Present
Co-owner – Delauter’s A1 Moving Helpers,  Windsor, PA    Established and managed a countrywide, fully licensed Household Goods Carrier

  • Filed all proper licensing, insurances, taxing agents.
  • Developed logos, brochures, postcards, company website, office templates, and referral program with tracking results.
  • Managed office of approx. 6 including payroll, tax filing, invoicing, phone calls, credit charges, client check payments.
  • Interview applicants, completed full background checks, credit checks, drug testing, arranged flights, storage rentals, house packing services, estimates.
  • Supervised moves and house packing, assisted by 1-6 employees
  • Communicated with all offices necessary, complied with all mandatory paperwork, attended to customer and employee issues, dismissal of employees.
  • Hired part-time secretary to assist with office duties, trained for 6 months
 10/04 – 02/08
Public Servant – Pennsylvania.

  • PA Department of Liquor  -Assistant Manager Shrewsbury Wine & Spirits

-Attended to liquor sales, consumer needs, supervised full and part time clerks, daily paperwork, sales logs, controlled credit and cash receipts, implemented general promotions, ordered supplies, spirits, wine and special requests

  • PA Department of Labor & Industry  -Tax Technician  Harrisburg, PA

-Completed one year tax training in Unemployment Compensation 2003

-Receive and review employer’s UC taxes, calculate/determine tax status, issue vouchers for ledger changes, e-mail work assignments to agents assisting in the field, create client files,  billing/refunds, file bankruptcies, liens, sheriff sales, deferred applications, partial and full transfers of businesses

-Review and handle UC credits and charges for non-profit organizations completed all work assignments given in a timely and accurate manner.

-Retired end of year to establish a small business.

 11/93 – 12/04

Computer Skills

 WordPerfect • Microsoft Word • Quickbooks • WordPress • Twitter • Facebook • Tumblr

Click to read Curriculum Vitae  CV for PAC Patricia’s Path of life
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Oct 16, 2012

Elegantly Haunted Art

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The glass begged to be drank from… the black stem branching out from its base erupting into black and white…naked, leafless trees.  Left exposed to shine through the blood red wine.  The guests draped in the ghoulish costumes; gushing over my beautiful stemware.

Brandy Boswell, is a local artist and business owner in York, PA. Brandy began hand painting glassware for her annual Halloween Party. After her friends and family discovered her distinctive talent the need for her art exploded.  Her website is easy to navigate to view all the art and how to care for it.  http://www.elegantlyhaunted.com/

If you have another holiday in mind or a theme to your dining room Brandy is your go to girl for any custom painting on glass.  Painting has been a form of art for over 10,000 years.  Think about it; the first painting was done by cavemen on his walls.

If you have an idea and can envision it on glass, contact Brandy Boswell at elegantlyhaunted@gmail.com for an estimate of your unique, custom painted piece of work.

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Oct 9, 2012

Bicycles and the Magic 8 Ball

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We had a magical weekend riding bicycles, asking the Magic 8 Ball important questions and posing for pictures.  Our kids love to have their photo taken!

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