The konerko art gallery

I found the artwork at the Konerko Gallery very amazing. To be able to view great artwork with so much history behind it. The thing I enjoyed most was hearing about the artist who displayed a few of her favorites  along with a few of her collection . She  produces paintings frequently at the age of 94. Think of that that's nearly a century of experience life pain triump tragedies love loss travel and so much being all channeled into this artwork of this amazing woman the history you could really get in  just one afternoon of conversation with someone who  has that much of a story to tell man that'd be awesome

Whats my favorite scary movie.

If I were to  define what kind of movie genre scares me I'd have to paint a picture to explain it. When it comes to film books or storytelling in general I need to be able to put myself into the mix so to speak. I don't mean so much to suspend  disbelief more so than I do completely put my mind into the situations and occurrences during the story. So in a sense its the thriller genre  that best describes what kind of entertainment puts fear into me therefore it's the movie book or story of any nature that instills the feeling that this tragedy or dangerous and life-threatening situation or series of events can has or may have the potential to have a real-life occurrence. Those are the type of movies and  so on that keep me up at night with the lights on and having a need to not be alone with any uncomfortable silence or nerve-wracking Eerie noises.

The story of Hugh Hefner

Hugh Hefner or Hef as he liked to be called was the mind behind the publication known as playboy.  Considered to be the exploitation of women by feminist groups but 
Thought  of much differently by fans of the publication without a doubt Playboy magazine had a huge impression on society and stamped itself on US history and pop culture.

A question since it's first Inception is whether the magazine is a collaboration of female beauty or the exploitation of women. It can also be suggested that it caused a program images to the standard of what it is to be beautiful and saying that you if you aren't up to these standards then you are not relevant to those who are. In the same argument it can also be said that the magazine served as a platform for women to be more open and free to express their sexuality. Hef himself stated his  magway of celebrating the female body and the beauty and that a woman is to be cherished. Financial Freedom were gained   when he targeted a demographic of consumers who were perfect for the magazine. Negative or positive one's perception is simply just a matter of personal taste an opinion.

Whether you call that literature porn smut or just a magazine it was a time when women were still very constricted and forced into conservativeness. So if the magazine exploited men this way would there have been a similar outrage or a typical double standard implemented. This all coincides with the sexism misogyny and stereotype that will always be a touchy subject between Mars and Venus if you get the trope. Much like the guy who has had 100 sex  partners and is considered cool manly and admired by his peers where is the woman doing the same thing is quite the opposite. Men find her to be faulty or used and her peers girlfriends be little her and verbally destroy her reputation attempting to make her disliked as much as possible. So is this magazine the root of all this? Is it really fair to suggest that? With all things considered it is easy to believe Hugh Hefner was a Visionary who was opportunistic and had no bad intentions and acting on the business ventures came up with. People do all things all the time with the hopes or intent game well same and more. A lot of times these people are doing so by things that can be questionable morally and not to mention the people they could be hurting in the tragedy they could be exploiting as well to do so.

. Find you no record of any Playboy model ever came forward complaining of abuse harassment or blackmail during their modeling work no model has ever food or claimed sexual assault in any way shape or form that has ever work for you Hefner is he just lucky or does he run a respectable business and treat women with the upmost respect? Has someone ever Casanova was still a hopeless romantic who was in love with the idea of being in love. His love of women also became his way to make a living which led to the Dynasty and lifelong Financial Security and a job he loved to do. Who wouldn't want to go to work every day doing what they love and get rich doing it in the process we should all be so lucky.

If trees could talk . ....

If trees could talk they would tell us to stop using them and are dumb cliches no more dumb questions like if a tree falls in the forest and no one is there to hear it does it still make a noise please stop with the money don't grow on trees exploding one of our shortcomings we do have a set of new laws you must follow a wish for us to continue providing paper shade and so forth we are suffering from the irony that we live much longer than you humans you get more than us in every aspect whether it be sun ring or just recognition. Job well done you humans take it all and if you're not careful we might just take it back.

Faces of fear column #5

Faces of fear part 5

(Getting old )

Journ.411

James Saling

WC 440

This is part five in my series about fear and brings me to a fear of something almost everyone has to face eventually and that is getting old.  

     Longevity , healthy eating habits exercise , regular doctor check ups and proper rest. These are all things we are encouraged to do even at a young age .

      These kind of habits if not instilled into a person at a young age will be very hard to developer in someone much older.  Can't teach old dog new tricks theory can apply here.

     Sadly when your young you may not think much of the habits being pushed on you and perhaps may just feel like you're the exception and don't have to worry about things like that.

    Next thing you know you are 50 years old and in need of several check ups you do not want to have and possibly even a procedure (minor surgery) that puts a scare in you .

    I know there are many great things to enjoy with age. Bingo , senior discounts everywhere and better insurance rates.  

    All joking aside though I know wisdom , life experience and respect are some of the earned rights you have earned in older age .

    My fear of getting old is not in the process but in the eventual possible needs that may incur . Such as not being able to work will my social security be enough to maintain independent living . What if an inability to care for myself arises and 24 hour care is needed. What I'd dementia or possibly alheimers begins to set in. Who will look after me ?

     How will able to afford decent healthcare . What will I do to make my final arrangements not put a severe strain on my loved ones financial situation?

      Will I have anyone even be there in my final hours and how scared will I be when that time comes anyway?

    Will I have had a bucket list and completed it as well ?

    This is another fear I cannot for see getting over and yet it is an inevitable future.  

     I am scared to death as if it was a bug crawling up my leg and wanting to climb a tall ladder to get away from it knowing if my lover sees the sissy side of me she will leave me and I will be heartbroken and I will face growing old alone.

(See what I did there ? If you have read this column since the beginning you will. If you haven't ….what are you waiting for. )

Don't take life too serious…………..You will never make it out alive ! 

Simplify it and it all gets easier !

“Simplest Terms”

(Simplify it and the world becomes easier!)

       If I told you that 2+2=4 you would agree I'm sure.  What about if I said 1*2+2*1÷2*20-16=4. Did I lose you ? Well with the math problem in mind there is no way to deny that the first way and shorter math equation was far more easy to deal with right ? So why not make everything in life as simple as you can ? It would be quicker more accurate and less chance or confusion.

       If you have been in a relationship then it is likely that you have heard your partner say “we need to talk”. When hearing this certainly there is a great percentage of outcomes where by the end of said talk the one being told this still had no idea what the talk was about .

    As reported by Lifehacker  media feed a study by the university of Chicago shows that 30% higher success rate amongst men and women who had more positive behavior and better communication skills held jobs longer , maintained more meaningful friendships and had less intimate relationships end badly.  

     Communication is thought to be a key element in anything like relationships,work places and most life situations. So let's use an example . You have an issue with your lovers hygiene . You say to them “ honey your breath is foul”. Odds are they would be clear on what was bothering you and you could act accordingly.

    Now let's take the beat around the bush approach to the same thing.  Example “ honey I need to discuss the inferior efforts being made on your part when it pertains to your inability to see and face an issue in regards to your dental hygiene practices and recognize your shortcomings that suggest you have no regard or respect for me . Therefore it is having a negative and detrimental strain on my personal sex drive causing me to have intimacy issues making us drift apart and want different things in romance and love. “

     Okay how long ago did you stop listening ?

      Patrick Spencer of the Harvard business review reported a study that involved 7000 + participants regarding consumers shopping for a product. The easier to gather info on the product weighed heavy in the decision to purchase . 86% of products that made the purchase journey simple were more likely the chosen ones when time to check out came .

    A test done by PSYBLOG produced simple results. Hnefripitrom or Magnalroxate, which sounds to be a more dangerous and unhealthy food additive?  Magnalroxate , which is more pronounceable made the 67% average of the participants equate simple with safer. Well to curb your enquiring minds , neither is a real word or a food additive whatsoever .

       (Oppenheimer 2005) performed a survey asking those  who assisted to read college essays . It was a landslide of readers who when came across papers with fancy language , convoluted sentences and gratuitous use of words were considered to have a lower level of intelligence as opposed to the writers who kept their essay simple direct and to the point.  

    

      Society is so concerned with being politically correct and careful of others feelings.

   According to webMD in 1977 the term post traumatic stress disorder was adopted to name what soldiers were going through after returning from war. Its original medical term was shell shock . A Twitter survey had shown out of 833 people 76.4% suggested that P.T.S.D. sounded like it was no big deal and could be handled with medication whereas shell shock seemed to have more seriousness sound to it. Now p.d.s.d. is used in so many forms that it has completely thinned out and lost its luster entirely.  

    It's all gratuitous linguistic verbal diarrhea.  Keeping it simple , blunt and to the point is really …..Um …...Simple to do .

    Society has always done this.  Take people of different races.  I mean when slavery was over black people were called black people. We all originally came from different countries. To reference everyone by the nation in which their origin is would just be too much to remember for me.  If your Chinese be that. I'd you're black be black if you're Mexican be Mexican.  America is a country that began with more diversity than anywhere in the world and over time just became more diverse.  Being Americans is a patriotic idea that never has proved to be worth committing to and if it had then we are not being diverse and employing individualism. We as a nation can be united Americans while not being forced into commitment to patriotic idealism we may not agree with.

    Now let's take another less global example to play with.  A simple task that occurs in our everyday lives. “Hey are you going to the store !? I'd love something to snack on . I don't know if I want chocolate or chips or what. Well how bout you surprise me with something to snack on .” So after a while the person you asked the favor of returns with a can of pedigree dog food . Since you have been to a liquor store you are aware of what they have in stock . So when you want to snack on something but are not simple and to the point can it be argued that you didn't say you would not want to snack on dog food?  Now say it simple and direct .”hey , I'd like a bag of cheese Doritos a Caramel snicker bar and a 20oz coke in a bottle.  Being the receipt and I will reimburse you.  If they don't have my item I picked just leave it out and don't substitute . “

     Wasn't that so much easier to deal with if you were the one going to store ?

     To test my own claims I put all my theories to the test . From 8 am yesterday morning until 11pm that late evening I held a pen and more pad and logged every single time I encountered anything that was done, said or explained in a way that could have been so much better, efficient and easier if it had just been simplified.

    97 times . That is right 97 times I logged where things could have been done said or other in a simple more easy way.

     97 times where things simplified could have left so much free time for other things and lowered the possibility for misunderstanding or errors .

    Think about it.  Still not convinced ? Try it yourself . Take just a thirty minute part of your day where you interact with people the most.  Log on a piece of paper how often what you heard or saw done could have been simplified in some form. When you do you will see #1- how much easier all aspects of life can be . And number #2- you will realize how you could have stopped me along time ago and asked me to simplify this . If had simplified it you would have already been done hearing my theory and onto other things . See ? Told you I was right.  You cannot argue logic ….especially if you simply don't want to.  

          

Countdown to fastlanes

James Saling

Prof. Devaney

Eng 101

Blog#8

WC 355

     So with fast lane coming up and my thoughts on it will conclude this blog I'm gonna make my WrestleMania predictions now.

WWE universal / u.s. title Kevin Owens vs. Chris Jericho

WWE world title Bray Wyatt vs. Randy Orton

WWE intercontinental title Dean Ambrose vs. baron Corbin

WWE tag team title raw the club vs shocking debut of the revival otherwise who cares

WWE smackdown tag team title the American alpha vs revival otherwise who cares.  

WWE woman's raw title Charlotte vs. Nia jax or Nia charlotte ,Sasha banks and Bailey in a elimination match .

Smackdown women's title Alexa bliss vs. Natalya she deserves it.  

Braun stowman vs . Perhaps a twist here and make it a raw vs. smackdown match   John Cena.

Roman reigns vs. Undertaker which makes no sense but cannot leave either off the show

Seth Rollins vs. triple h

The miz vs. Daniel Bryan

The Andre battle royal with shinsuke Nakamura surprise debut and win !

     So smackdown women's division pales in comparison to raw . With Randy Orton back in the main event of mania that ruins everything built up with AJ styles and luke Harper I feel .

     

        The Usos oversold and over killed the promo they cut . Tips guys louder doesn't make more believable.  

       The formula is to be a great character in wrestling is to take your true self and project that 20 times over in an exaggerated form and then animate that  on top of it. But you have to know your true self to do that first don't you think.

       Natalya vs Bella in a Falls Count Anywhere match turned out to be okay so sad that may only who is probably the single best pound-for-pound athlete on Smackdown male or female had to Forfeit her title she really came along way to earn it and due to injury had to give up going to her hometown for Wrestlemania as the women's champion.

         With that said I will post my Fastlane results and review later on this evening until next time this is been “Ripp'ed A New One” .