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More Data-Driven Results-Based Outcomes
by NomadMonad on June 30, 2012I really want to thank you all for being here. I'm really excited about collaborating with all of you on the new performance-based assessment metrics for sustainable outcomes. I hope you got a lot from this training and I look forward to hearing how you all unpack these new tools for implementing client-focused strength-based community development when you get back to your various agencies. We all know the future is in measurable outcomes so let's keep each other in the loop and think outside the box when it comes to protocol deviations. Thanks again for being here (in the results based data-driven outcome-oriented future also known as HELL). PS: I don't even know what "outcomes" are.No Comments -
Ideas for a Petrachian Sonnet
by NomadMonad on June 30, 2012The Adverse Event was not so much a breach of transparency or a mere data deviation as much as it was, in retrospect, a full-blown protocol violation. The control group, although they were not informed, still perceived challenges to their collective self-esteem and thus, the entire collaboration was assessed as globally unsustainable. Results-driven outcomes will enhance and further inform best practices with reference to the emerging metric.No Comments
The challenge is to put this in 10 syllable rhyming ABBA sonnet form. -
Still ruminating on Paul's birth-pangs
by NomadMonad on June 22, 2012Come on Paul. Did you mean it's onGOING? Were you just having a bad day when you wrote that (under the inspiration of God's Holy Spirit of course...)? Ummmm - how can I STOP hearing the groaning of creation, Paul? It gets depressing after a while. Dang. Need some earplugs or something... Makes me want to read the PSALMS, for Christ's sake... Hey honey could you grab that Davidic parchment please - and hey since you're over there could you also fill my cup until it runneth over? Thanks babe. Luv ya'. You're the best!1 Comment -
'Cause St. Paul said so - OK?
by NomadMonad on June 22, 2012No Comments"For we know that the whole creation groans and labors with birth pangs together until now. Not only that, but we also who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, eagerly waiting for the adoption, the redemption of our body." [Romans 8:22,23]
Let us then go forth, with Paul of Tarsus (and all those he claimed to speak for), into the convulsing uterine shudderings of this imminent birth. Let us behold, together, in utter theological clarity this first spasm of contracting pangs as the great cervix now reaches maximum dilation. Do you hear it brothers and sisters? Do you hear the the unceasing groaning throughout every level of the fallen creation? Oh Lord - it is horror just to listen to it for a second - he said the WHOLE CREATION groans and labors. (One wonders: does it ever STOP?) Let us tremble with the whole creation into the bloody throes of the threshold of emergence from the dark mother's birth canal into true life. Into the harsh light. Into the ever-imminent Kingdom of God. The waters have broken and here it comes now - wrapped in bloody placenta and yes Paul - it's ALWAYS a crisis of birth - all the time, right? Isn't this what you meant? The poor creation - she's not even sure if she will make it. She's biting on a towel - oh how undignified she looks - her legs all splayed open as the new creation begins crowning... She(this present creation) now wishes now she had had the epidural. She's grunting and sweating as she pushes the thing out...what is it? She's whimpering and screaming at once. PUSH now...push HARDER.. 1,2,3 PUUUUUSH - here it comes! Oh my GOD - she's metaphorically giving birth to allegory. St Paul is the midwife - but who's the DADDY ?
Well that's all for now kids.
Time to find my paddle and head back up the creek.... -
DOWLAND, SEMPER DOWLAND and go to H*77 if you don't love DOWLAND cause you a cold LUTE playa hayta
by NomadMonad on June 09, 2012♪♫♫♪ ma homegirl EMMA KIRKBY still ROCKIN DA HOUSE, yo. I rolls wit ma krew when the EMMA sing true ♪♫♫♪ Y'all aint nothin' but HOOCHIES. Get back alla you HATERS - cause it's NOT all good - gnome sain?(I don't...) John DOWLAND throwin down BEATS 400 years later SUCKAZ . All hail the goodly lutanist of our fairest Queen Elizabeth. And go to "H" "E" double HOCKEY PUCKS if you can't chill with J. DOWLAND! I gots this thing goin' ON cawz its ALL about the LUTE, yo.No Comments -
Dowland ROCKS the house - 500 years later
by NomadMonad on June 03, 2012John Dowland, man - behold a wonder here: its DOWLAND ever through the ages...No Comments
take up thy LUTE old friend. Strike us a GALLIARD fit for the Queen herself. The years have passed, great musician of our soul, and the chill of autumn hangs in the summer air. Mistress winter threatens to leap upon us; shall I strive to stay time?
Let fly thine arrows on the silver strings, O rock star of the Elizabethan court.
They would not have ye as their lutanist but WE would have ye John - 500 years later! John Dowland, faithful musician upon the lyre of our lying hearts...
Sing like a dying swan, master Dowland - the casks are still half full and the moon hath never shone so lovely. What know they of truth or beauty, John? What ears have they to sweetly divine the harmonies you entwine around the bowers of our declining hours...
Down, down, down in a dying fall of ascending harmony. The spheres may move, the English gardens groove but JOHN thy music lingers ever in the meadows of our memory and in the smiling froth of our ale-pints. Awake, sweet love, and excuse my wrongs - do not die before thy day.
The ages have grown grey, Master Dowland - the music has grown thick with babylonian dullness - but thy jewels of perfect sorrow only shine more truly in the light of this leaden age.
Your airs refresh, oh shepherd of the aeolian pastures, across the flocks and meadows of the centuries. They dispel the stench of this present world - and we thank you for your music. -
Cant get a bite
by NomadMonad on May 24, 2012I have cast gold upon the stagnating waters of a shallow pond. Anyone out there? (Anyone besides incoherent adolescents that is...) I am waiting for a response. Or...are you all busy watching American Idol? Hello? Anyone home?No Comments -
Thinking Outside the Data-Driven Box (as it's lowered into the freshly excavated tomb)
by NomadMonad on May 22, 2012I just want to unpack a new metric here, folks. I'm all about making YOUR brand user friendly and empowering others with the tools to do the same. In fact these tools I'm sharing not only help you think outside the box, they actually let you DISMANTLE the box and then REASSEMBLE the box around yourself until it becomes a COFFIN ! Remember - it's all about YOUR BRAND getting maximum hits. COFFIN is the new cradle - so every hit your site takes, every "like" your page gets, every tweet you hear from every birdie in God's green trees is like another nail in your coffin. So take this new metric, use it, share it; unpack the toolkit I give you, think outside the box as you reassemble it around your mortal self and watch your webpage triple in hits. remember: "COFFIN! It's the new CRADLE!"No Comments -
Worst-case scenarios: A Pleasant Pop Song
by NomadMonad on May 20, 2012No CommentsTelevised martyrdoms en masse broadcast for paying viewers on global cable. Reality TV shows where dissidents are tortured into confessing allegiance to the Antichrist state. Rome in the decadence happening live on everyone's i-phone devices - except for the ones being murdered.
OR: Global Shariah law. Islam takes the West and methodically eliminates all resistance to their false God through genocide and religicide. Israel gets nuked to dust. Al Qaeda/Taliban mentality now becomes state-sanctioned status quo enshrined in theocracy.
OR: Solar flares and climate change bring about extreme cultural polarization: the Christians quote the prophets ("We TOLD you so - repent or perish") but One-World Gaia worshiping neo-pagans consolidate total control in order to revive human sacrifice. Those who oppose their aims & beliefs are the victims.
In the midst of this come ultraviolet-caused skin lesions, environmental chaos, famine/thirst, weather/seismic disasters and mass death.
OR: China consolidates financial control of weakened west, impose Maoist ideology on U.S. even as they plunder our resources to establish new global Mandarin Dynasty in alliance of convenience with Islamic Tyrant-states. All non-compliant citizens herded into work/reeducation camps such as now exist in N. Korea.
OR: Fallen angels posing as intergalactic helpers of humanity from the 12th planet Nabiru arrive on strife-torn planet earth promising peace. They join with Atlantean 5th column to inaugurate the New Age of cosmic unity - but their REAL unspoken purposes are more nefarious and evil.Enough of that - back to contemplating my Hello Kitty lunchbox for awhile...
[Funky beat, drums, bass with horn section in the back ]
A sweating singer, between long musical breaks, grunts and ejaculates into a dark microphone, sporadically emitting unearthly shrieks while moving spasmodically but not without a certain sinuous and serpentine grace on the dimly-lit and smoky stage of an unknown night club. Rhythm guitars scratch out the fill-ins to the deep funk...hmmmm - whatever is the singer singing? Let's listen: "UNH - got ta GIT down...break it down fo' me on the horn now... play yo' bass now - dass right, dass it ...UNH HAH!! C'mown nah.. GOTTA GIT DE ANGELS ON MA SIDE!!! ...break it down... Gonna git ALL THE HOST to follow me.... UNH ! Y'all get ovah here - leave the presence of the King now...leave it me now girl... WOOOH !! Gonna throw the LAWD right off his throne nah.... Gots to git it ovah nah...HAH ! I'm gonna USURP the place of GOD nah... Unh Unh... HAH ! Come on Angels - dig this beat. We gone overthrow this thing...
[Song is down to raw drum funky syncopation and bass only here ] Y'all with me? I AM the Lord LUCIFER... We gone cast the heavens down... WOOOH !!
I shall reign forevermore upon the throne of the Most High now...hear me all you morning stars... I shall sit in the ASSEMBLY of the sides of the North y'all...
[Horn section comes back in with a vengeance ] God throne gone down nah' ! I say - I say - [singer dances his little dance all over the stage as if in a trance] WOOOH !! I SHALL be exalted forevermore! HAH ! [Singers and guitars come back in ] Woo Woo - say I am the Dragon and the only Morning Star...I AM the shining light of lights y'all... WOOOH !! Gots ta GIT IT ON nah... Y'ALL choose to folla me so y'all gonna REIGN with me now... UNH !" Etc. etc. etc.
Oh it's just a form of syncopated rhythmic music. That's all. The kids love it.
Well my lunch break is almost over now - see you around. Listen to some baroque harpsichord music if you have the time.
Country/Western is also enjoyable.