Lemya el Sophia | New York Artist Journal

been away from this blog for a while and real busy.

on behalf of everyone here
i would like to
wish you
a
happy and peaceful
2009

see you in the new year!

not much to report. been working. enjoying the autumn weather in local parks. hosting parties. and writing potentially brilliant punditry.. a silent battle with the republican right-wing extremist enigma. sacrificed to a political guru. placed at their pagan alters set up in front of their mirrors.

if w. was chosen over mccain in 2000, why on earth would anyone vote for mccain now? considering the better candidate was the rnc pick then. incompetent palin denigrates the ticket even further.

McCain/Palin are the dynamic duo of absurdity. Truth is that McCain represents an America which is almost extinct. There is a new generation of Americans working diligently to salvage this country. It will be a new kind of government. better.

anxiously awaiting this election to be over with already.

i'll be in chicago nov.4 for a few days. hopefully celebrating a victory

get out and vote

guess i should have mentioned this earlier..thank you for all the nice birthday notes. i really appreciate it.

just back from toronto.

finally doing it. taking a break from painting. i'm giving myself a year to work on other projects i've been putting on hold.

there are almost 300 art works available now- large, small, abstracts, on canvas and panel. they'll be online soon and posted on the front page. blame me. i've been real busy.

coming up..

• working on some films
• working on the obama campaign
• working on the gallery project

they're doing a great job with it. see some of the art here

we were promised sun and it's drizzling out :(

we're having a debate party tonight. mine is private but there are public ones set up. check the obama website for one in your area.

palin- unqualified, we know. however this very obviously surpasses the danger zone of ineptness:

This is a direct excerpt from Katie Couric’s One-On-One interview with Sarah Palin, which aired Wednesday on CBS.

COURIC: Why isn’t it better, Governor Palin, to spend $700 billion helping middle-class families struggling with health care, housing, gas and groceries? … Instead of helping these big financial institutions that played a role in creating this mess?

PALIN: Ultimately, what the bailout does is help those who are concerned about the health care reform that is needed to help shore up the economy– Oh, it’s got to be about job creation too. So health care reform and reducing taxes and reining in spending has got to accompany tax reductions.

considering a possible vp of the usa hadn't gotten a passport until 2007- well into her 40's- i wanted to touch on the impertinence of not having foreign relations knowledge.

israel feb - mar 2008

golan heights: while there took a 6 hour ride to golan heights (syrian, occupied territory). never before seen pictures of this area. it's completely isolated amidst high mountains. on the border a fence separates the nations. UN signs hang warning: 'keep back 15 kilometers united nations regulations' in hebrew, arabic and english.

residents of golan heights although offered israeli citizenship, have refused.

lebanese border: on the ride back briefly stopped by qiryat shemona. 30 minutes later hezbollah launches missles striking a mall parking lot and injuring 6 people. perhaps more.

western jerusalem, a couple of weeks later: the previous day had rained. while collecting material for my recent art project, i came across a poster on a brick wall. it was peeling perfectly when a voice of a man behind me interrupts, lama! lama! (hebrew why! why!). not turning around i walk away. when i get to the car i'm told that was a funeral announcement. glad i left it.

2 days later an israeli gunman walks into that same building and opens fire on the seminary students while observing evening prayer. many die.

the idf by dawn had collapsed the gunman's family home to the ground. nobody was home.

school children overlooking mount olive in old jerusalem

i'll post more from other countries later.

you know, it's sunday evening. i'm getting ready to go out for dinner. and genuinely wasn't planning on blogging about palin since her genitalia is identical to hillary clinton's, figured i was expected to unite behind the he/she ultra-conservative machine being that i, too, am woman.

but as i was skimming through news online, i came across this week's george stephanopoulos interview with potential first lady cindy mccain. sarah palin has national security experience b/c alaska is in close proximity to russia:

so on this lovely night with no budlight in hand on the streets of ny i will find one of 18 million cracks to fall through.