Green Oatmeal: September 2009

Wednesday, September 30, 2009

Friend's Day

Bring your friends to church at the Lincoln High School, to friend's day, this coming Sunday morning, 10-11:45am, in the cafetaria, there: you are invited: or join my small group, Connect the Dots, at a park, Monday nights, 7-9pm, starting in October through December, 2009, just ask me about it: but either way, you are invited:

http://www.agapecoc.com/.

Friend's Day

Thursday, September 17, 2009

VHS to DVD

You should have been there.

When my brother blistered me with the vision of film making, summer of 1995, when I was barely ten years of age, and as he was just thirteen, and then, as we labored through our first Power Rangers movie, just months later (February of 1996), and as we filmed shorts from left to right, skits of every kind, of many stuff animals, many neighbors, many impromptu scripts, many off-the-wall ideas, and, moreover, even past the extinction to that first camcorder in 1997, to the birth of new ones (new cams), during the first three years to this decade), which led to the hyper-extended collection of videos (reaching beyond the height of fifty hours), in all of this (I say all of this to say), comes the threat of time.

I am back at the green lawns to memory lane.

I am on a journey for preservation, not simply for transferring VHS (video tapes, from VCRs), but, moreover, on the desire for style in doing so, in restoring the quality in those childhood films before the transfer. I am looking for the best quality in the DVD recorder. I am also looking for a better VCR. I am also without any money. If I had money then I could pay professionals to do it at about twenty dollars per hour. Which goes well beyond fifty hours of footage. So, you do the math. Two times five is ten. Add the two zeros. And is that two thousand dollars? It might be. I am not that bright with math. But I do have a heart for documentaries. I also have a heart for film portfolios.

Yesterday, I was hit by a car.

I should include the details. But for now, I will simply sing my song for expansion. I did not die yesterday for a reason (Jesus).

On behalf of Green Oatmeal, I will continue to reach out to new depths of effectiveness. In other words, on behalf of inspiring others into living better, greener, with oatmeal, I will simply strive for the tools of mass media.

Obviously, to the general public, my plans are quite irrelevant or unpractical at this moment. Instead of whining, instead of fleeing for some defense, I will continue to strive for my calling for oatmeal (in which it stands, or for what it stands for, not to be confused with the pledge of allegiance), and I will do so at any cost. For, I may have been hit by a car, but I was not hit (not yet), by fate itself.

Joey Arnold
Portland, OR

Wednesday, September 16, 2009

Columbia George Certified

Better sleep sleep.
Improving breathing: nose inhaling: mouth exhaling.
Wake wake.
Room mess mess.
Clean clean.
Bike bike.
Eat eat.
Bike bike, girl girl, beeep beeeep.
Drum drums.
Freegeek, Arcade arcade.
Hmmmmmmm.

But, in this eat eat, lies question.

What is best to eat.
Specifically, I'd like to get blender, make own health bars.
Forget candy bars.
Almost forget ice-cream (but I'll save that for later).
And forget even mere health bars.
I mean, they are better.
(key word here is "better").
But still.
Blender, local, cut cut, yum yum.

But.

Back to the more generical question.
What can you do when you can't have your own farm.
Or in my case, a blender (at least not yet).

I still don't have the answers.
But I do like drinks made by Columbia George.
I like bars made by Laura and by Clif.
I like anything thing that is certified organic.
(Not just organic, because anybody can say they are organic)

Anything that is from small farms.
But I would like to still figure out who to trust.

I think I know.

This past year, living by myself, buying for myself.
I have been learning the trade.
One thing, peanut-butter is really sick in ice-cream.
I mean, really sick. As in, not good.
I have tried so many flavors of ice-cream.
But I would have to stick with non-dairy.
And non-dairy yogurt.
But that would still raise the question.

Who to trust.

Who has the least amount of extra chemicals.
Or any chemicals, for that matter.
Or anything added, afterwards.

And how can we get that into our diet.

And why does it even matter, to begin with.

Tuesday, September 15, 2009

Barton Springs

Nick Littlejohn
As you know, Barton Springs, the Guadalupe River, and the Gulf of
Mexico can only be as clean as the small streams that feed them and the
wetlands that help keep them clean. But in a bitterly divided Supreme
Court decision, Justice Scalia wrote thousand...s of small streams -- and
millions of acres of wetlands -- right out of the Clean Water Act.

This is crazy.

Now, if a company wants to dump toxic chemicals into one of
those streams, there is nothing the federal government can do to stop
them. In fact, the EPA says there are already 500 cases where
this misguided decision is making it difficult to impossible to stop
polluters who are degrading our waters.

The solution is simple: Restore the protection of the Clean Water Act
to all of these streams and wetlands -- indeed, to all of America's
waters.

That's what our petition asks Congress to do.
Click
here to sign the petition.
As you can imagine, overcoming the powerful polluters and
politicians who are standing in the way won'...Read More

I want all of our waters protected by the Clean Water Act. - Environment Texas

Source: www.environmenttexas.org

Join us in standing up for Barton Springs, the Guadalupe River and all of our waterways. Show our congressional delegation your support for full Clean Water Act protection for all of our lakes, rivers, streams and wetlands. Please sign the petition at right.