Happy Anniversary, beautiful Substack friend! Your newsletter is so uniquely YOU and I'm immensely happy to have met you in this space. I love your perspectives coming from a theater background (no wonder you and Mary connected like magnets!)
Thank you, forest whisperer! Much love welcomed and received. What a treat to have made a connection with you here. Even though we spend most of our times on this digital platform talking about being outside in nature. 😂
Well duck me, that was great! Happy 3rd to you. So glad to have discovered you and connected. The last few years has been a rollercoaster for so many of us. I am still grieving all my lost illusions as well as celebrating having seen through them. It feels like a comedy horror show some days. We are not alone!
Happy 3rd Anniversary Tonika! So glad to know you through the Stackososphere and so happy to see you thriving in so many ways. I love your work, solo and collaborative, so keep ‘em coming! ✨💕
Haha! Improv skills noted!! I knew it didn’t look right but moved right along. For a guy who loves the music of language as much as I do it’s noteworthy that I’m practically illiterate 😊
Oh, I wasn’t actually correcting you. Both words can work! Even if bizarre is technically an adjective, in the way you applied it, it can be used as a non. I do love those two words together. I was part of an event that was called Bizarre Bazaar where we all made wares and sold them in a community type environment. Totally hippy shit. Loved it.
Goodness, it’s been only and already three years?! Seems like we’ve been dear friends forever. What a privilege it has been to ride out this Apocaloptimistic adventure with you, Tonika. I am so grateful for your luminous presence in my life. Happy three-year Stackiversary and looking forward to many more. Love you, sister 💞
happy halloweeniversary! the costume is brilliant, I'm still such a fan'a that viddeyo, an' may all the good forces've the universe continue to inspire ya--an' conspire with ya! 🥸 🧡 🦇!
Many happy returns on this Halloween!!! It probably goes without saying, but I'll say it anyway -- I'M INFINITELY GRATEFUL FOR YOU. I probably would have bailed on my own Stack if I hadn't discovered yours, T. And then imagine all the connection, the art, the expansion, and yes, the LOVE that never would have happened! I shudder.
Three things: first, I subscribed to Ashmedai on the basis of that brilliant excerpt. Holy cow. Second, THAT COSTUME. (Your kids will look back in awe at their good fortune at being the child of a theatre nerd.) Third, can I use your verbiage re: the Substack free offer thingy? You describe it so well; I'd like to add that to my next post. xoxox!
Total ultra-mega-serendestiny benefit to become friends and collaborators. Thank you, THANK YOU for sharing this little part of the universe with me. And of course, anytime, anywhere, any verbiage is yours to steal. ❤️
Ditto on that shudder! I'm wondering if I've been in either of your lives for much over a year. I know I found you, Mary, through your trip with Tonika to RFK's announcement. So funny to think back to her description of that capable woman who wasn't going to let her miss her plane ;-) It's like I had a cartoon outline of you that's since filled in and taken on a character (sic) of her own. And maybe I found Tonika through Isaac or Isaac through Tonika.
I know I haven't seen the parody vid before, which is awesome! And love the quote on the problem. I word it a little differently, that once you get the question right, the answer is self-evident. The question clears a space in your mind for the answer to land, which has been circling your head waiting for that opportunity.
T’s comments are like getting hugged by a warm blanket while sitting by a fire pit and sipping on spiced apple cider. Thanks, T! So honored to be considered such and ditto!
Btw, that cartoon image of Mary isn’t that far off. I’m real life, she transformed into a magnificent gazelle that ran through the terminal as if in one of those movies where the magic always happens in the 11th hour.
“Once you get the question right, the answer is self evident.” I will adapt that. Pithy and poetic.
Reallly, i looOOooved that post! Great intro to your art, loved the acapela song so much! The disguise is awesome( ur kid’s one lol im not into nurse ) ….neither into kids in fact. Just loved the disguise…god how to always mess up, thats me when trying to be toughtfull 😅 anyway, your birhtday is today? Its the day houdini died, been celebrated 10 years straight from 1927 tp 1937 by the gipsies. If its 1 november your in the day of the dead. Both are scorpio date so you Must be quite passionate. One last thing, the sentence of mathew crawford about the ark and rainbow…as Tim munchin would say… thats really deep heh.
Math crawford and math ereth are in my favorite knowledgefull man to listen to. M&M food for toughts🍫
I WILL be stalking your post now you got me hook like a captain crunched by your sea of ideas.
And while i am here, i wish you a great birthday🎉🥳🎂🍾🎁
P.s: totaly agree! Substack community got so many brains in here compare to other part of the net😉
Ho and i joined malik to see france leaders. I absolutely love that guy. Must be a good doctor cause he is soothing to listen to. France LEADERS if you follow malik you probably heard of her alrdy she great
I don't like to brag (ha, yes, yes I do!) but Frances told Ahmad (Doc) that he should interview me so we've chatted on the phone while his kids were in gymnastics. And yes, he has a great soothing voice and style in his gym-side manner ;-)
France is always everywhere there is potential and good spirit so i bet she did! I went ahead today watching one of your podcast, your quite entertaining ✌️☺️👍 will keep stalking🤓( gosh i need a clone)
Yup, you assumed right 😉 i am French and often messes up all name, must be dyslexia ( it MUST be, no way its me😜) i joined matt course on sunday and its great learning. Lively intellectual crew Cynthia him, nico, quan le. A really wonderfull gang at CP and RTF
Whats the disagreement in hamilton? I kinda find awkward to cultivate ourselve literaly facing deepstate agent while under the banner of hamilton institut also a freemason master brother… but in the end i think simply: they do are everywhere and made everything ( or stole it) and their crew manage the unmanageable 5000 years knowledge passing( or not) soooo we might follow the example for at
Least the discipline and growth/expansion thinking. So here is my disagreement with hamilton, but in a way i find a necessity to adapt. What where your discussions about? If there is a link to it. I am a taker 👍
Thanks for subbing me, Jean-Sebastien! Matt sees the economic programs of Ben Franklin and Alexander Hamilton as the same, I see them as opposite. Franklin developed a system of local currency, backed by the housing, and my system in my book is based on his. The Revolutionary War was fought because the British bankers forced the Currency Act making Franklin's system illegal.
After the Revolutionary War was won, they owed back wages to the veterans who'd fought but weren't paying them. Instead, they foreclosed on their farms for back taxes. Shay's rebellion was to allow states to issue the currency so they could get their back wages and pay the taxes. Hamilton had his own plan to make state-issued currencies illegal again, so that bankers could control the economy like his boss, Morris. His plan, called the Constitution, won out:
Math Crawford from now on it is! Thanks for being here, so glad to have you and your insight!
Actually it’s my Substack anniversary today, not my birthday, but my entrance into the earthly realm is coming up, so Scorpio season is accurate. Although, I had my chart done by Isaac Middle (Down the Wombat Hole) and I never realized how much more there is to astrology than just your horoscope sign. I am still making my way through the specificity of what the stars say about my character and have found it quite informative. Look him up if you’re into that kind of thing.
I just received such an email. So I attempted to "subscribe" but it appears that this *requires* the Substack phone app. Since I detest using my phone, this isn't going to work (I refuse for now to install a Substack app on my phone).
Regularly I get burned out on the frustration of "free" things that are difficult to unsubscribe! I turn down a lot of "free" stuff because I don't want the hassle. I've reasonably recently been burned for many hundreds of dollars of unexpected charges due to things being "renewed" without my realizing it.
There are some that are pretty good though. I've been getting Hulu for $1 a month for the past year and it was no trouble at all to cancel before they jacked up the rate (why should I pay for an increased rate on something I'm not even watching!).
Keep up the great work, at whatever pace works for you. Always fun to see your stuff. I have no idea what to expect, but I know it will be interesting and different. All good.
Any more meme collections? The Jan 1 one was how I found you and that totally won me over.
The post before this one had a small collection of political memes. Sometimes some of my posts are very meme heavy. The Miseducarion of The United States of America is worth a scroll! And I have been collecting and organizing the memes for the End Of Year in Review Memelanche which I’ll blast off December 31st/January 1st. Also, I don’t know if you’re on Instagram, but I put out a weekly mini meme dump every Monday. You can find those under @Visceral Adventure. And I have to mention that there are several stackers who do memes right: Margaret Anna Alice, Starfire Codes, Conspi-rat, to name a few.
Thanks for the comment and for your support, Kurt! So glad you stumbled into this stack last year. 🙌
Many thanks Kathleen! And I have always wondered about collabing! I’ve often said that you end up writing posts expressing sentiments before I get around to it and do that so eloquently, I have nothing more to add, but the true crux of it is that these sentiments often live in a metaphysical world which is hard to visualize without going abstract. But why not? If you’re down, I’d love to do something beautiful together. ❤️
Happy Anniversary, beautiful Substack friend! Your newsletter is so uniquely YOU and I'm immensely happy to have met you in this space. I love your perspectives coming from a theater background (no wonder you and Mary connected like magnets!)
Much Love to you, Tonika! XOXO
Thank you, forest whisperer! Much love welcomed and received. What a treat to have made a connection with you here. Even though we spend most of our times on this digital platform talking about being outside in nature. 😂
Well duck me, that was great! Happy 3rd to you. So glad to have discovered you and connected. The last few years has been a rollercoaster for so many of us. I am still grieving all my lost illusions as well as celebrating having seen through them. It feels like a comedy horror show some days. We are not alone!
😂 Your comment made me chortle. And absolutely is the feeling mutual, April! Lovely sharing views on this Horromedy with you!
I'm sure glad I came across that first post that I did and stayed!
Me too!!
Happy 3rd Anniversary Tonika! So glad to know you through the Stackososphere and so happy to see you thriving in so many ways. I love your work, solo and collaborative, so keep ‘em coming! ✨💕
Thank you, SF! Looking forward to what you’ve been cooking as well! Hope you had wonderful travels!
Happy Stackiversary Tonika! Glad you’re still being you in this virtual bizarre 😊
Thanks Brian! It’s a bizarre bazaar, but invaluable.
Haha! Improv skills noted!! I knew it didn’t look right but moved right along. For a guy who loves the music of language as much as I do it’s noteworthy that I’m practically illiterate 😊
Oh, I wasn’t actually correcting you. Both words can work! Even if bizarre is technically an adjective, in the way you applied it, it can be used as a non. I do love those two words together. I was part of an event that was called Bizarre Bazaar where we all made wares and sold them in a community type environment. Totally hippy shit. Loved it.
Goodness, it’s been only and already three years?! Seems like we’ve been dear friends forever. What a privilege it has been to ride out this Apocaloptimistic adventure with you, Tonika. I am so grateful for your luminous presence in my life. Happy three-year Stackiversary and looking forward to many more. Love you, sister 💞
Apocalyptimist Power! :) love you! 🥰 ❤️ 🤗
happy halloweeniversary! the costume is brilliant, I'm still such a fan'a that viddeyo, an' may all the good forces've the universe continue to inspire ya--an' conspire with ya! 🥸 🧡 🦇!
Thank you, dear Daisy! 🌼 so glad to share this space with you.
happy stack-a-versary, or third birthday :) The costume you made is awesome!!!
Thank you, Jen! And I’m glad you appreciate the costume! It was Frankie’s idea. I think he saw it on Tik Tok. 😂
what could be more Halloween 🎃 than a third birthday 😳. Congratulations and 🧙♀️
Many thanks, Stefan! 🥰
You are a great talent and appreciated.
🙏
Many happy returns on this Halloween!!! It probably goes without saying, but I'll say it anyway -- I'M INFINITELY GRATEFUL FOR YOU. I probably would have bailed on my own Stack if I hadn't discovered yours, T. And then imagine all the connection, the art, the expansion, and yes, the LOVE that never would have happened! I shudder.
Three things: first, I subscribed to Ashmedai on the basis of that brilliant excerpt. Holy cow. Second, THAT COSTUME. (Your kids will look back in awe at their good fortune at being the child of a theatre nerd.) Third, can I use your verbiage re: the Substack free offer thingy? You describe it so well; I'd like to add that to my next post. xoxox!
Total ultra-mega-serendestiny benefit to become friends and collaborators. Thank you, THANK YOU for sharing this little part of the universe with me. And of course, anytime, anywhere, any verbiage is yours to steal. ❤️
Serendestiny!
Ditto on that shudder! I'm wondering if I've been in either of your lives for much over a year. I know I found you, Mary, through your trip with Tonika to RFK's announcement. So funny to think back to her description of that capable woman who wasn't going to let her miss her plane ;-) It's like I had a cartoon outline of you that's since filled in and taken on a character (sic) of her own. And maybe I found Tonika through Isaac or Isaac through Tonika.
I know I haven't seen the parody vid before, which is awesome! And love the quote on the problem. I word it a little differently, that once you get the question right, the answer is self-evident. The question clears a space in your mind for the answer to land, which has been circling your head waiting for that opportunity.
So very proud to call you my friend!
T’s comments are like getting hugged by a warm blanket while sitting by a fire pit and sipping on spiced apple cider. Thanks, T! So honored to be considered such and ditto!
Btw, that cartoon image of Mary isn’t that far off. I’m real life, she transformed into a magnificent gazelle that ran through the terminal as if in one of those movies where the magic always happens in the 11th hour.
“Once you get the question right, the answer is self evident.” I will adapt that. Pithy and poetic.
Reallly, i looOOooved that post! Great intro to your art, loved the acapela song so much! The disguise is awesome( ur kid’s one lol im not into nurse ) ….neither into kids in fact. Just loved the disguise…god how to always mess up, thats me when trying to be toughtfull 😅 anyway, your birhtday is today? Its the day houdini died, been celebrated 10 years straight from 1927 tp 1937 by the gipsies. If its 1 november your in the day of the dead. Both are scorpio date so you Must be quite passionate. One last thing, the sentence of mathew crawford about the ark and rainbow…as Tim munchin would say… thats really deep heh.
Math crawford and math ereth are in my favorite knowledgefull man to listen to. M&M food for toughts🍫
I WILL be stalking your post now you got me hook like a captain crunched by your sea of ideas.
And while i am here, i wish you a great birthday🎉🥳🎂🍾🎁
P.s: totaly agree! Substack community got so many brains in here compare to other part of the net😉
Speaking of Math (and I would demur that Ehret is a Matt, which Math has never been) I'm listening now to his interview with Doc Malik, two of my favorite people in one place! https://docmalik.substack.com/p/244-mathew-crawford-education-power
Ho and i joined malik to see france leaders. I absolutely love that guy. Must be a good doctor cause he is soothing to listen to. France LEADERS if you follow malik you probably heard of her alrdy she great
I don't like to brag (ha, yes, yes I do!) but Frances told Ahmad (Doc) that he should interview me so we've chatted on the phone while his kids were in gymnastics. And yes, he has a great soothing voice and style in his gym-side manner ;-)
France is always everywhere there is potential and good spirit so i bet she did! I went ahead today watching one of your podcast, your quite entertaining ✌️☺️👍 will keep stalking🤓( gosh i need a clone)
Yup, you assumed right 😉 i am French and often messes up all name, must be dyslexia ( it MUST be, no way its me😜) i joined matt course on sunday and its great learning. Lively intellectual crew Cynthia him, nico, quan le. A really wonderfull gang at CP and RTF
✌️😇👍
Despite our ongoing disagreement over Hamilton, I also love Matt and Cynthia. Here are some I've done on or citing them:
https://thirdparadigm.substack.com/p/matt-ehret-and-cynthia-chung-geopuzzle
https://thirdparadigm.substack.com/p/matt-ehret-and-james-corbett
https://thirdparadigm.substack.com/p/multipolar-vs-micropolar
https://thirdparadigm.substack.com/p/poppy-wars-and-manchukuo-monsters
https://thirdparadigm.substack.com/p/ww3-vs-world-wide-wrestling
Whats the disagreement in hamilton? I kinda find awkward to cultivate ourselve literaly facing deepstate agent while under the banner of hamilton institut also a freemason master brother… but in the end i think simply: they do are everywhere and made everything ( or stole it) and their crew manage the unmanageable 5000 years knowledge passing( or not) soooo we might follow the example for at
Least the discipline and growth/expansion thinking. So here is my disagreement with hamilton, but in a way i find a necessity to adapt. What where your discussions about? If there is a link to it. I am a taker 👍
Thanks for subbing me, Jean-Sebastien! Matt sees the economic programs of Ben Franklin and Alexander Hamilton as the same, I see them as opposite. Franklin developed a system of local currency, backed by the housing, and my system in my book is based on his. The Revolutionary War was fought because the British bankers forced the Currency Act making Franklin's system illegal.
After the Revolutionary War was won, they owed back wages to the veterans who'd fought but weren't paying them. Instead, they foreclosed on their farms for back taxes. Shay's rebellion was to allow states to issue the currency so they could get their back wages and pay the taxes. Hamilton had his own plan to make state-issued currencies illegal again, so that bankers could control the economy like his boss, Morris. His plan, called the Constitution, won out:
https://thirdparadigm.substack.com/p/the-constitution-coup
thats a lot i didnt know , i’ll check that link soon. thanks =)
Math Crawford from now on it is! Thanks for being here, so glad to have you and your insight!
Actually it’s my Substack anniversary today, not my birthday, but my entrance into the earthly realm is coming up, so Scorpio season is accurate. Although, I had my chart done by Isaac Middle (Down the Wombat Hole) and I never realized how much more there is to astrology than just your horoscope sign. I am still making my way through the specificity of what the stars say about my character and have found it quite informative. Look him up if you’re into that kind of thing.
Math Crawford! That's going to be my new name for him. So apt and a mnemonic device on the one t!
Oh? Is Substack handing out free money? Ah the gimmicks they come up with to market us!
😂 right?!?
I don't even look at such things. Although I have to admit that if Substack is handing out free money, I wouldn't mind getting my cut!
Well, I just hope it isn’t some kind of catch where you have to sign up for a whole year to get the free month and then it’s hard to unsubscribe.
I just received such an email. So I attempted to "subscribe" but it appears that this *requires* the Substack phone app. Since I detest using my phone, this isn't going to work (I refuse for now to install a Substack app on my phone).
Hats off to you! 🫡
Regularly I get burned out on the frustration of "free" things that are difficult to unsubscribe! I turn down a lot of "free" stuff because I don't want the hassle. I've reasonably recently been burned for many hundreds of dollars of unexpected charges due to things being "renewed" without my realizing it.
There are some that are pretty good though. I've been getting Hulu for $1 a month for the past year and it was no trouble at all to cancel before they jacked up the rate (why should I pay for an increased rate on something I'm not even watching!).
Happy Anniversary super mum! Perhaps the only thing lacking is a slightly disfigured Moonchild costume…
😂 well that could be arranged.
Thanks, Isaac. I cherish our connection. 🤗
Keep up the great work, at whatever pace works for you. Always fun to see your stuff. I have no idea what to expect, but I know it will be interesting and different. All good.
Any more meme collections? The Jan 1 one was how I found you and that totally won me over.
Thank you. I’ll follow your Insta. Weekly works. Just what I need, more social media.
😂
The post before this one had a small collection of political memes. Sometimes some of my posts are very meme heavy. The Miseducarion of The United States of America is worth a scroll! And I have been collecting and organizing the memes for the End Of Year in Review Memelanche which I’ll blast off December 31st/January 1st. Also, I don’t know if you’re on Instagram, but I put out a weekly mini meme dump every Monday. You can find those under @Visceral Adventure. And I have to mention that there are several stackers who do memes right: Margaret Anna Alice, Starfire Codes, Conspi-rat, to name a few.
Thanks for the comment and for your support, Kurt! So glad you stumbled into this stack last year. 🙌
And Heather B., Conspiracy Sarah.
Yes!! Thanks, T!
Happy Anniversary, Tonika! I'm super delighted to have found your stack, being the curious and cool cat that you are.
Can't wait to see what you do next. (Hope we manage a collaboration at some point. :-) )
That costume is awesome by the way!!
xoxo
Many thanks Kathleen! And I have always wondered about collabing! I’ve often said that you end up writing posts expressing sentiments before I get around to it and do that so eloquently, I have nothing more to add, but the true crux of it is that these sentiments often live in a metaphysical world which is hard to visualize without going abstract. But why not? If you’re down, I’d love to do something beautiful together. ❤️
Great - let's put that collab intention into the Universal ethers and see what unfolds.❤️ It will definitely be beautiful.🤗
Planting a seed!