When you cross over into the Afterlife, the first thing you’ll notice is a complete absence of any city traffic sounds you’ve been hearing all day and night every day and night, if you live in New York City.
You get used to it — everything, including sirens, millions of horns honking angrily at passing pigeons — and all that pandemonium and general ruckus fades quickly into the background.
When you’re relaxed with the explosive environment, you’re ready to continue your journey, and that’s what we’re going to be working with this holiday workshop that starts on Saturday morning at 6:30 am. Continue reading →
Cover of the joke file book that’s on its way to the printers.
I just made this cover, as requested, for my long-overdue Joke File Book. We’re sending it in to IPG, and they should have a proof for us within a week or so, after which we’ll be shipping them out to folks who intend to attend my Comedy Workshop series, celebrating the start of WW III.
I’ve been taking a pollen-break, and haven’t made it out of bed until tonight, and that’s only for a short time.
I’m working on books, workshops and ancient materials exhibits, all of which I’m doing mostly in my head, but I have managed to put together a strong presentation of the Objects of Daily Use that were found by Pendlebury in 1935 and 1936 excavations in the City of Akenaten, which is today called “Amarna”.
I’ve prepared hundreds of flips for your use, mostly in the form of black-line mandalas that you can color in, like a miniature coloring book.
You can spend anywhere from a few seconds to a few hours making each one — it’s entirely up to you how you dedicate time to it, but the time DURING the coloration is strictly limited to only thoughts about the mandala, nothing else.
Particularly don’t think of a blue hippopotamus when coloring-in the black & White image I’ve prepared for you to work in.
That’s why I call it the “Blue Hippo Exercise”. Don’t think of a hippopotamus while painting the thing; that’s the whole deal.
I have plans to use this in workshops, not entirely sure how I’ll get them to you in time for a workshop, but I’m working on that issue as we speak.
Well, if I don’t send this off, it might sit here for another week, waiting for me to grab the chance to keep you informed on the goings-on here, so that’s it for the moment, Blessings to you, pass the Blessings on is the secret.
How much should you charge for your painted coin flips?
Depends. One measure is the value of your painting. The other main factor is the actual cost of the coin you’ve inserted in the flip — not what you originally paid, but today’s market for that coin in that grade.
Categorically, “pretty okay” coins are going to measure up more or less like this:
Yes, if you know how to do it, you can double the value of your money — at least the collectible part.
Here’s the deal:
You buy a coin for, let’s say, ten bucks. Then you hold it for a couple of decades and bring it back to your coin dealer. You’ll get at the maximum, five bucks for your trouble, but if you deal with wholesalers, as I do, you get a QUARTER of the price back, because they have to wholesale it for half, see?
So you’ve got some coins, but they aren’t very rare, very scarce or very desirable. In fact, they fall into the category of “junk collectibles”, which are things that only a collector could love, and for which the market is very limited. Continue reading →
One of the things that will be demoed is the Godd Particle navigation.
When it comes to deriving the maximum enjoyment and benefit out of the upcoming workshop, you’ll be able to wring out a lot more of the good stuff if you have a couple of things around the house before the workshop actually happens.
One of the things that will definite enhance your experience is a Godd Particle.
I’m planning on demonstrating Bardo Communication and Guidance, and if you have one of those handy, you can install it on your computer or work it directly from the USB. Continue reading →
Note the following pieces: 64a, 10b, 43 and number 37 in photo below.
A number of years ago, an auction lot from the Egypt Exploration Society’s 1936 auction was acquired by my friend, noted coin specialist and antiquarian author, collector and dealer, the noted Amarna expert, Joel Malter. Continue reading →
Actual screenshot from my new 3D Shooter, “Shutin Putin”.
That’s right, you heard me rightly … “What war?”
I’m not buying it. I respawned in 1941, we’re fighting a world war in Europe and another one in the Pacific, and it went on for years, and then the Korean war started right after that.
People who can’t get along are not going to survive the asteroidal impact in 2026 — there’s barely enough time to act now, and by the time they do, the technology won’t be there to handle it.
I have a one dollar bet on it back home in the 37th century. Not SIM dollars, a real Federation Dollar, and that means I can finally go on that dream vacation I’ve always wanted to go on, but I haven’t been able to dream up any destinations, so here I still am.
Yep, I’m still here, 80 years later, carving coins and painting flips and stringing ancient beads into modern fancy necklaces, because war or not, we have to make a living. Continue reading →
I’ve started a new flip art direction, which I’ve called “The Dead Emp Series”, because I use a bunch of my hand-engraved “BoHo Nickels”, in the form of 2,000 year old Roman Bronze AE type coins.
I’ve altered them slightly, to render the emperor pictured on the coin clearly dead. It’s more or less a skull-out of the king. Continue reading →
Prices are “per bag”, which will vary in amounts based on the stuff inside, okay? I’ll get special bags for the project, which will show off the herbs nicely. Jewel and I have been studying hundreds of packaging options, and we think we have a winner with our Clear Bags. When appropriate, a ribbon is wrapped around the things, but that doesn’t happen often, except of course with the honey. Continue reading →
What is a “God World in My Pocket”? Well, it used to be a z-scale miniature railway scene stuffed into a tiny velvet jewelry box, but that’s awfully hard to carry, and expensive to ship, so I’ve modified it into a FLIP, and I’ll do my best to tell you why:
The God World Token is an extension of that long-ago project, in the form of a hand-painted, signed & dated coin flip surrounding a coin of choice.
It is similar in function to a Thangka, powered in this case by a somewhat heavy solid copper silver or gold coin, which acts as an “Induction Ring”, which is an engineering item produced along quantum mechanical lines. It works, and that’s good enough for me.
