here’s a lighter post & a new, probably infrequent strain of posting i’ll do on here; when you take potatoes & combine them with flour however, this first one will be a lot more yummy than healthy.

Potato Gnocchi

i love gnocchi; it reminds me of a romantic, perhaps Italian-restaurant dinner.

when you get the urge, pull out the candles – ’cause here’s a yum, simple, maybe-20-minute potato gnocchi recipe. =)

.: Potato Gnocchi :. 

1. ingredients:

base ingredients: potatoes, flour, parsley; olive oil. garlic, salt.

ideal: organic potatoes, (???) flour, fresh organic parsley; organic extra virgin olive oil. fresh organic garlic, himalayan or sea salt.

2. instructions:

1. boil & mash potatoes.

2. add a little salt & parsley until the mashed potatoes are speckled, & then add flour & knead it in until you can make a ball which when boiled until it floats, is ‘firm to the tooth’ (“al dente”). (i would say this you add enough flour to the potato that the potato/flour dough no longer sticky on your hands.) ((it is best when first learning how to make these to keep boiling little experiment balls till they are firm to the tooth when they float from boiling.)) (if they are mushy, add flour & try again.)

3. after a ball you boil is firm to the tooth, you are ready to make a batch: take your potato dough & roll it into long rods the diameter (thickness) of about a quarter or a little bigger; if the cylinders stick, powder the surface you are rolling on with flour; if you like, you can add the grooves you see in the picture to the sides of the gnocchi by impressing a fork at this point along the two sides of the cylinder. they’ll hold more flavor (from the sauce) this way. you can then cut the cylinder into little balls about the size of a superball (the 25 cent size, not the big 75 or dollar clangers =D). you can make a bunch & freeze them, they’ll last up to 2 months, according to most internet sites. boil them until they float; after they’re done, scoop them out & make a sauce of olive oil, garlic & salt, & drizzle it on the dumplings . . .

4. eat =D

thanks to my friend “J.W.” for making & intro’ing me to (potato) gnocchi; they went well with the Port wine we had with the gnocchi.

that is all – take care; bon voyage; ciao =)

{*very basic cooking show theme plays; preferably as if a carryover from unused early 80s tv show music pieces.*}

Tenacious Loving is the best way I can describe how to Live.

I knew an extremely hot girl who had the Serenity Prayer tattooed on her; the words of that prayer might be helpful, here, too.

(Maybe the picture will inspire you to see you can change more things than you thought you could –

Or you might prefer this.

(Here’s the plain text, too: http://www.fellowshipnwa.org/the-serenity-prayer.))

Love To You! =)
– Joe

It’s going to break my head  trying to understand this much hotness and coolness in one figure.

“If I have a girlfriend I don’t need anything else.”

“If I have a girlfriend I don’t need anything else.” . . .

That was both how I felt & what I planned to use for the front page of my website, in my twenties.

I remember by the courting age, very early on in my developing writing, I made this decision very clearly:

My writings are written for girls to get impressed —

— Like a peacock’s feathers.

. . . & So, with this inscribed a’front these writings — somewhat like Plato’s inscription on the arch above his doorway . . .

Here is my plumage’s display;

Because it is, after all, now Springtime — – – at the Joe Valentyn Mer-Wer =D

Thank You,

– Joe

((P.S. This will happen as much as pain & such things allow me. But make no mistake, my toughness is . . . well, my toughness is enough, let’s say.

Thanks for reading. “Dt doo dt, dt deenh . . . “))

This is a favorite song of mine; it is excruciatingly beautiful.

Good Sunday music, to me.

Hope you love this like I do. =)

This is one of my favorite songs by The Cocteau Twins if not one of my favorite modern songs by any band. “I love you so much it hur-rr-rr-rrts . . . ” Happy Friday (Night ((Frinight?)) =)

– Joe

This is an original ‘songpoem,’ like all mine, on this site;

Too, this is not finished, I will post new sections as they are produced.

I have earlier ‘sex positive’ songs/poems, dating back to ((I can’t find the date)); this poem on ABOUT sex positivity itself was conceived, oh, about a year ago – started August 31, announced September 2nd, of this year;

Without further ado: I hope you like my work, here! =D!

.: Sex Positive, A.K.A. The F-Bomb, A.K.A. The Female Element :.
.: ((Make Love, Not War)) :.

{Sample:}
“Don’t you want somebody to Love
Don’t you need somebody to Love
Wouldn’t you Love somebody to Love –
You’d better find somebody to Love . . .

. . . Love. ”
{:Fade out sample}

in the nineteen sixties the Love Generation did more than protest
they threw panties at McCartney, their Mary Tyler’s got a lot of Dick
they blew-out our understandings of what feminine is
’cause hundreds of millions of females were sex positive

(sex positive . . .)

(sex positive . . .)

{Old, Vietnam Age Father Figure Voice:}
“& Have faith in that female element, son; ’cause–“

{Poet/singer:}
’cause in the middle of, brute Vietnam
those Love chicks dropped, The “Fuck Me” Bomb:
said psst, over here son, wouldn’t you rather make some Love?
Bury your guns in the ground, & Fuck Me till i cum ——–

inside . . . “

({Predominantly-Females Chanting:}
“Make Love,
Not War –
Make Love,
Not War . . . ”
{:Chant})

“‘Cause, don’t you know where you came from son?
you came from two lovers making Love – – –

Yes! See . . .  Love is Special, & Love is True,
Love is Beautiful, & Love made YOU!! —

So since Love = 1, & Love comes from Two
— & guns, guns make you annulled, which would you rather choose:

run thru some jungle, doing some very stupid stuff . . .

or come & fuck little tiiiiny me . . . ?

little itsy tiny me? . . . “

{spoken:}
& she leaned forward & gave a generous look at her tits . .  rubbed them in his face . . .  she was a sex goddess— –

. . .
{spoken:}
well right then & there, his heart was changed
he quit being a G. I. & fell in love with that Jane
provided for her, a house & status —
multiplied like rabbits
told her how much he Loved her almost every day

& Jane always loved to hear him say

“I was blown away by a booby trap, that day . . .
back then, couples in the millions did, that way . . .
it was A Sea Of Lovers,
millions of significant others,
Love, The Summer of . . .
They dropped the F-Bomb on us . . .

1967.”

& there was news headlines, & news announcements & news segments – the war on war had ended: Love had won.

{chipper, casual, late 20’s woman’s voice, not unlike Anne Hathaway:} & They lived happily ever after.

THE END!
{:chipper, causual female voice}

* * *

This is part one of about four or five pieces. I will post others as they get completed.

         
– Joe

Am still on vacation.

Also that poem (“Sex Positive”) is coming along, but not done.

Ta ta!

(*Wahn! D’Wah-Wah-Wahhh, D’Wahn-Wahn-Wahhn . . .  Dt Wahhn Wahhn Wahhh . . . Wah*)

=) joe

I began a new poem last night, September 1st, that I had had planned for almost a year. (((The 8th of December, 2014, was when I wrote the idea down, my computer says.))) It’s called “Sex Positive” & is about being sex positive & also about the Love revolution of the ’60s & of today.

I of course appreciate your interest in me.
      
– Joe

Update: Piece one is out like a belly button =) it’s here: http://joevalentyn.org/press/2015/09/09/songpoem-sex-positive-the-f-bomb-the-mary-tylers-got-a-lotta-part-one-tentative-version/

((This will loop till you’ve had yours…))

I was pretty beat up yesterday, too beat up to produce an article.

& Tho’ I’m on vacation from politics – speaking & writing – late last nite I decided to just comment on this . . .

What I regard as one of the most important, millenial-long causes: the offensiveness against the more sapient (“enlightened”) sex: Womenkind.

In September of 2014, as well as this bygone March, I blew out some hugely powerful punctures in the case for men having — read: women not having, more power.

I encourage you to read those links – here’s the list again if you just want to quickly get it:

90% of guilty homicides verdicts in the United States are spoken of Men.

& Tho women are 51% of our population, they still make up only twenty-percent of the US Government Senate & House, & a diminutive “none” in the list of presidents.

I read a (specifically-chosen) book, about the women of ancient Egypt: they had several — not just Cleopatra — “more enlightened,” female rulers.

To get back to “representative,” we’d have to get as many women as are in power in America MORE, & then another half that group.

What my message today is: Yesterday was National Women’s Equality Day; Who do we want in charge of our society: the <positive stereotyping:> not just more practical, but more sensitive, more Loving, better-at-communicating, more family-centered – in a word, more social, kind?

Of course we do.

Beyond a doubt.

Remember those stats? Even tho 9/10ths of how we leave this Earth is from disease, our government spends, led by men, 20:1 on “military security” what we spend on health . . .

“Security?” 9/10ths of murders that are committed are committed by men – I know who we have to defend ourselves from: Men worldwide in power – the 10:1 more violent tending ones.

Good day, Sir.

I have appreciated music & made music for a long time – I just wanted to share some choice, very careful, meticulous, GRUELING! words, on music.

’60s Folk & descended genres 4 ever.

Art Rock like Velvet Underground and The Pixies 4 ever.

Indie like Cocteau Twins’s positiver songs & My Bloody Valentine’s Loveless & Neutral Milk Hotel’s In the Aeroplane Over the Sea 4 ever.

& All good music, like
The Beatles
Bob Dylan
Bob Marley
Velvet Underground
Woody Guthrie
Debussy
Django Reinhardt
Louis Armstrong’s What a Wonderful World
Landslide by Stevie Nicks
Soul (the musical genre)
Classical Spanish / Desperado (I have a song.. well, nevermind.)
Doo-wop
Sing, Sing, Sing (1938 performance at Carnegie Hall)
Erik Satie’s Gymnopedies
The Cure
Carole King
Smokey Robinson
R&B
Radiohead
Sarah McLachlan
Chuck Berry
Lauryn Hill
Opera

& all the rest —

Mega blisterly feverishly hard to not Love these & the alike.

Thom Yorke said I remember, once, “How the *bleep* did I end up a rock star?” I wonder sometimes how I did not end up eventually doing music, for my Life’s path.

Thank you.
– JOe

Pretend your Loved-&-cherished is of course unspeakably beautiful to you *but she once said in her mind she is 30 pounds overweight* –

Tell her sexually that

“30 pounds is nothing. You are beautiful.”

Then proceed to f*** her brains out until ‘her eyes ain’t moving, now’ ((they just lay there in their climb…))

=D That is one way to cure a hang-up your lover has.

I would love to leave it at that, but it is best I also say I would do this mostly or only in a strategic, very thought thru way, saying precisely what you planned to – not improvising at all. (Receive your lover’s response & respond as or *if* needed, minimally.)

Do this because it’s needed, not just because you want to without thinking.

(If someone does this ‘imperfectly’ for you, forgive them. They meant well, of course.)

We call this sexual “healing” but actually ‘personal-growth’ as it is called could easily be slipped in.

This might be a little brave. I will leave it here to not destroy the very fabric of society. ^_^

Happy Trails.
Joe Valentyn

Some say 1997 was the best year for different wines – like a vintage wine itself, I’ve already uncorked my belief that 1997 was a particularly fine year for culture on some of my communication media; so as much as I’d love to work this up more, today I thought I’d pour us a glass or two of 1997 culture daydreaming:

Remember “Life Is Beautiful?” – Roberto Benigni’s infant-like perfection – like a serenade to the world – something truly, to the point of happy… beautiful tears, beautiful itself, Life Is Beautiful is without a doubt my favorite movie I’ve ever happened across.

* * *

Wanting to start my vacation right. *Smiles*

(Updated August 18, 2015)

Written up first on August 10th, 2015.

& With that, I am taking a vacation from speaking on politics for a stretch; *I hope* to return to a lean, mean, campaign finance, senate debate rule, climate change, inequality fighting political system, but until I do, I name these people as current with politics, aligned to the same direction as me, & super responsible:

Senator Bernie Sanders:
http://www.sanders.senate.gov/rss/feeds/

Senator Elizabeth Warren: 
http://www.warren.senate.gov/rss/

(Former) Secretary Of Labor Robert Reich:
http://robertreich.org/rss

& The great Bill Moyers:
http://billmoyers.com/feed/

Another candidate incredibly worthy of mention is Doctor Joseph Mercola, particularly on political health issues & also environmental ones: 
http://articles.mercola.com/rss/article-rss.aspx

To a happier, more prospering state;
Joe

Updated August 14th, 2015.

Hey there. I think & have said the government may want to consider working us less; we must balance striving for the economy with the enjoyability of our lives, in the interest of “the pursuit of happiness” (as, for example, measured in the gross national happiness index);

& This balancing of work with play, play with work, also goes for schools.

I have shared my ideas for new classes/classroom-focuses in the past – some of those ideas, thru whichever means they did, did get traction – but today I’m flipping ahead to a brand new one.

Some of us would say it is the most important one, & one that doesn’t really exist in the way I think we would like, in our highest desire.

Let me put it this way: what I remember of sex ed, was watching a video of an already-pregnant woman giving birth, & us putting a condom on a banana.

What I am envisioning is something more inclusive, & more cultivated: a Dating & Relationships class – personal romantic relationships shared 1-on-1 with rotating teachers — for all intents: “Love gurus” — strictly — *strictly* — voluntarily, & general imagery (with parents’/guardian’s permission per student,) love story movies, (such as Life Is Beautiful,) books of classic romance stories, magazines of teen (& perhaps all-ages) romance topics & advice, etc, as well as oral history &/or documentaries, & love songs & poems, etc – taken to their deepest romantic conclusions, in discussion, for the general gather-together class, perhaps with a special (since Love *is* so special,) class made up of those interested in each other, possibly with rather frequent (as dating is frequent) dates / alone time in parks, at movies, or wherever the kids are hep on, as voted on by them, completely consensually, as field trips.

If the venereal diseases, films of pregnant women giving birth of “sex education” are our “talking about the birds & bees,” this would be our “talking about the birds, & the bees, & butterflies, & the trees, & (…), & (…), & (…), & (…), & (…) … & (∞)” talk, indefinite & as everywhere-touching of topics as Love itself.

I have to say the momentous, really ‘solar’ significance of Love would make it way difficult; it is hallowed but important, so these would be important, good experiences to have for them, done right.

I would take *a long time* to formulate, experiment, & re-formulate the guidelines for our society’s desired teaching of this; but I think Love goes beyond sex, & this therefore has a place in education, given the gravitas of Love in Life.

From old couples coming in & talking about what kept them together, what kept them loyal, what kept them coming back in some cases; to edgier cultural movements like sex positivity, such as in magazines like Playboy, at the right age, we should focus on Love qua quintessential Love: Romance.

Thank You!

P.S. & I just have to say it: maybe, where appropriate — say on the dates — we could “allow kissing in school.” It’s not exactly evil =)

To a better world;
Thank you.
Joe Valentyn
August 9th, 2015

Most recent update August 10th, 2015.

I always remember this news story – one about a photographer who was surrounded by uncountably many butterflies — & took pictures.

(Here’s my favorite:

)

How many things like that happen every day?

I say let’s be more positive – in politics, not who fell in the mud; one idea here is being more solutions-based: who proposed, or heard, some great new idea. ((I should say, without forcing solutions before they’re ripe.))

Lastly, what I’ll say here: use models of journalism that lifted us all – even small rejuvenating stories – ones placing us in touch with the reality of Life: its Goodness- are better than a laundry list of the worst things that happened in the world. Think of telling news stories perhaps as being around a fire, telling stories: if you have some great story, idea, commentary, we need it; if you have some beef, maybe Sally Lou can pull you aside & talk to you, &/or have drinks at her house, most of the time.

Remember: Good positive things are something we can & actually do use; finger wagging about bad things doesn’t provide as much as positive, good examples in the mass consciousness.

Which do you prefer: Goodness, or —

Ah, good choice. =)
– Joe

I just want to ask this question:

Are we making enough progress on climate change & inequality – the 2 biggest political issues I know of?

Antibiotic-resistant disease from using antibiotics too much is another large threat – 300,000,000 people are projected to die from it in the next 35 years. That’s about 27 Holocausts worth of deaths.

We must understand this problem, our options & situation, & choose among them in accordance with what is best in all terms, but especially the long-term — that is the one we will be feeling the longest.

Thank you for all the leaps & bounds we are making, we will not only be reaping the bounties of all this hard, smart work, in our time now, but we WILL be an inspiration for a long time to come.

Thank You Everyone.

The last post’s follow-ups can be traced back something like this, for the record:

* * *

in 2010 I began talking about something I didn’t know anyone to be talking about: this link has got a sample you really should read from, especially the ideas in philosophy forums there.

* * *

Even President Barack Obama eventually said two things I had previously said:

After that 2010 floe just shared, just before the U.S. elections in 2012, I had been hammering this graph from our emerging culture, included in a Mother Jones page – something that, altho not part of popular culture when I had had that floe of rhetoric, above, economists like Robert Reich had already been talking about:

& had been mentioning the idea of hammering this graph in a letter I sent to a handful of my favorite political players of the time, including Barack Obama.

Barack Obama put forward the same idea here, in Dec. 2013, for the first time . . .

* * *

I crystallized this & another issue as central issues here: the 2nd being Climate Change; I projected it like a ray into our culture: deep, & also strongly; & like the miracle of a seed that produces the first shoot in Spring, he said similarly here, about 5 months later.

* * *

Going back a bit further, even before these caught flames & Occupy Wall Street emerged, I went further: I was the first person I knew to be citing The Gettysburg Address (Abraham Lincoln’s renowned speech) again, when fighting for increased democracy in a time tending toward oligarchy & improved communications media – 2010:

From IRC Undernet #political logfile, July 12th, 2010:

[17:19:28] <lakitu> a fourth american government branch with equal power as a check & balance: The People
[17:20:23] <lakitu> poguemahone: we built a good gov, possibly the best in history: the american government
[17:20:46] <poguemahone> lakitu…   sure.. in 1776 it was very good.
[17:21:26] <lakitu> it is a good gov – but we could improve it now that a better more people’s-choice,-people-powered government is as-neverbefore feasible: direct democracy using the internet
[17:21:36] <lakitu> it at least stands suggestion, & contemplation
[17:21:47] <lakitu> at least blog about it on your facebook ;)
[17:22:01] <human810927> Let a state try it lakitu
[17:22:38] <lakitu> sure – i say let it run on “training wheels” as a website, without any power: trial run.  doing a pretend “prototype” would be the best way to tell if it’s practicable
[17:22:41] <lakitu> & worth the change
[17:24:28] <lakitu> i.e., a website where you read senate & congress literature, & other government literature (including bills), discuss them, & vote freely for them; this with no real legislative power, as a pretend trial run mock 4th Branch (The People), & see if it’s sensible & barcleared worthwhile
[17:25:48] <lakitu> Lincoln called this A Government Of The People, By The People, & For The People. what could be more coherent with his philosophy

I didn’t know of anyone proposing government sites, especially ones giving The People much more voice in government.

& Then after that – say what you will, in late 2011, “WeThePeople” was introduced. I must say it is important to note: my idea reaches farther than the site that was made.

* * *

In this vein, & I am overjoyed that the currently leading presidential candidate – leading by miles & miles, last I heard – said what I had mentioned as an idea, & later pushed as a bit more important idea here & here & here, within the last month: http://www.nytimes.com/politics/first-draft/2015/07/16/profit-sharing-makes-good-business-sense-hillary-clinton-says/?_r=0.

In fact it’s a centerpiece of the leader’s economic platform, according to The New York Times.

* * *

(I am not trying to toot my own horn, but: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WFs76IQnOw . . . )

Thank You; & Good Day.
Joseph Jerome Valentyn
Owatonna, Minnesota, The United States Of America

here’s a song i wrote a way long time ago, but Life circumstances have been ‘challenging,’ to say the least, & i was never able to get very far in making it as wavy as i’d’ve liked.

here’s what i had started, tho:

download what i dreamt (early (electronic) demo). (it should loop ok.)

Thanks.

I know this is the 3rd time I have posted this, but I really believe in these things, & really want to share them with you.

This ideas get me so worked up, & altho what I will say will be truly brief on them, you could spend a long time thinking about things like Love & the others.

Here is what I will say: When I consider the Diplomacy, Love, Goodness, Fun & Looseness “Ways To Act,” I myself interject Health & Safety after Love, half the time; & further, when I drafted this poster last winter, I omitted what many call Justice, but what may itself be best/better understood as Fairness, from the whole poster.

((It probably would’ve got its own row.))

So those 3 – Health, Safety, & Justice/’Fairness’, you could thus add to these golden ideals.

Also, as I’ve said, these & all words worth their while, are like courses, themselves . . .  ones you will learn from all thruout the rest of your Life.

Let’s learn from all the great ideals & use them to have thriving, happy, well-Loved Lives.

– Joe Valentyn

We, mostly the media, talk a lot about Hillary vs. Bernie – Bernie vs. Hillary – in the 2016 elections.

This is important – indubitably.

But we also need to emphasize a Congress filled with good, wise Congresspeople as the other part of a likable & prosperous government we need, too.

Therefore, let’s emphasize electing a good, wise Congress as well as a sapient, great leader . . .  This is a time of being ‘for The People,’ anyway, isn’t it?

Let’s get a strong team, in government, rather over-relying on 1 lone marquee star.

Thanks.