May 4, 2011

• 7th Xangaversary Celebration #1

  THE FAILED XANGA BLOGS
  

  OF MICHAEL F. NYIRI,
  poet, philosopher, fool

  

  I present the first of a selection of entries celebrating my upcoming SEVENTH XANGAVERSARY. (May 30, 2011) Some of these entries will be edited “Wayback posts” which have been presented before, detailing my long and arduous fantastic foray into the Xangasphere. Some will be entirely new, like this one. Can you believe it. My first entries only got something like, seven comments. Can you believe it, my May 2nd 2011 entry only got seven comments. Go figure. The more things change, the more they stay the same!

  For my first celebratory post, I want to showcase the many “failed” Xanga blogs of Michael F. Nyiri, poet, philosopher, fool. Although I had a longstanding (5 year old) personal website, AllThingsMike online when I created my Xanga, and frequently posted long, magazine quality, glossy pages for the site and it’s many tributary blogs, I wanted to create multiple blogs for Xanga but I found that blogging on a service like Xanga took time. If you’ve ever seen one of my comments on another’s blog, and you factor in the sheer size and original content contained in my entries, plus the amount of comments I sometimes spread around, especially in the early days, then you can appreciate the amount of time it takes (for me) to blog here. I had plans for quite a few “tributary blogs” here on Xanga, but just couldn’t make the time to make them shine, like the blog you’re reading (and perhaps have been reading for 7 or so years) WhenWordsCollide.

  That didn’t stop me from making the attempt, however. And now I present, for the first time anywhere, the FOUR failed Xanga blogs of Michael F. Nyiri, The “profile pics” are above. Below, I will give you a link to the blog (They’re all online) and some random content. I HAVE posted some of this info before, longtime readers might notice, but not all in one place like I am today.

  

  
  1. WandrinMinstrel: 12/18/2004. One post. Also an accompanying blogring and Yahoo Group! I explain the purpose and intent of the blog in the text from the entry below.
  
  From the first and only entry:
  The World Needs to be Saved. Too much of humankind is suffering from terminal apocalypse, and the future doesn’t look bright, it looks gloomy and dark. Real people are being sacrificed for misbegoten ideals and principals. The age of information is becoming the age of encroachment. It is  2005, half a decade into the New Millennium, and things look far worse on the World Horizon than they did in 1999. I believe a collective of concerned poets can make a difference. Poets can read and write through the cultural bullsh*t which permeates this world in this time. Poets can tell the truth through the lies. I am the Wandrin’ Minstrel, and I shall scour the world wide web for the talent to make a change. This will become a grand undertaking. The ability for powerful change to occur starts right here…with the collected voices of the Wandrin Minstrelcy. I am the first voice, clear and strong, calling to my fellow poets. Come and experience the epiphany of rekindled interest in the well being of humankind…the poetry that will ultimately save the world… Poets who post on the Group will be featured on the blog, and the group email forum  and blog ring will serve as the “internet island” where the New Poets will plan to save the world. The posts will attempt to deal with, understand, and ultimately, change global thinking to that of enlightened, tolerant Universal Souls, connected to each other with a purpose of help, health, and humanity.

  No more will the creative side of our psyche sit idle while the world is falling apart around us. Nature has turned her back on man. Man is fighting himself to a degree that hasn’t been recorded since the dawn of prehistory.

  The United States, the last “world power”, in it’s attempt to keep itself safe in an unsafe world,  is beginning to look like Big Brother more and more with each passing day. Soon the media will be “correcting” the past to conform to the present, and books will be burned while freethinkers suddenly vanish from their homes and neighborhoods.

  This political tragedy CANNOT happen in my lifetime. We will get together and point out the world mistakes while we practice a tolerance and elicit a perserverance which shall  be all encompassing, universal in it’s simplicity.

  Come and fight the dragons of inconsistency with the swords of words.

  
  

  
  2. Vinylvox: 06/28/2005: Two entries. I’ve collected record albums and music since high school. Vinylvox was an attempt to digitize my analog music collection, and post streaming files on the entries, with biographies of the artists and my impressions of the music.
  
  From the first entry

  Carolyne Mas: Hard Rocking Gal

  

  Carolyne Mas is one of those singers I fell in love with back during the early eighties. I have two of her records, both on vinyl. Her self titled “Carolyne Mas” was released in 1979. It was a pretty hectic time in my personal life. I drove a truck for FedMart Stores, and put in 12-15 hours a day, with only one day off a week. I was partying pretty hardy when time would permit. I thought I had lost the first record, and miraculously, after I hooked the receiver and record player into the computer yesterday, I found the album exactly where it should have been, and it still sounds utterly fantastic. I put two songs from Carolyne’s first album on my server, and they are available either as streaming media by clicking the song titles, or by download by right clicking and ”saving” as an mp3 file on your computer. I lost track of Carolyne’s music after the second album, “Hold On” but she has continued recording, and I have supplied links to her offical site and a couple of fan sites.

  Often I would get completely zonkered and pass out with this record playing. It’s a miracle that it isn’t completely destroyed, as I remember the kind of abuse it would take while I was utterly drunk, depressed, and ready to hear Carolyne’s plaintive voice.  

  Quote Goodbye Quote  from the 1979 album  ”Carolyne Mas”   

  The music on this site will be available for about a week after the entry is featured, and then I will have to take it down so that I don’t fill up my server with large mp3 files. In future entries, I will only feature one song from each artist, but for the inaugural entry, I am showcasing two excellent hard rocking songs from the first album, both recorded from vinyl into the computer.     

  StillSane is the first song on Side 2 of the first Carolyne Mas album, “Carolyne Mas” and was her first single

  

  3. Internet Serendipity: 09/25/2005. About 20 posts over five months. I created this blog with my then girlfriend Liz (The_Queen_of_Swords), with whom I began a relationship after meeting her on Xanga. This is an attempt at a “tandem blog” where both Liz and would carom back and forth with “he said, she said” posts. It was a pretty neat experiment. We took lots of “photo expeditions” and had some really neat dates.
  
  From the 10/11/05 entry:

  Exuberant Evaluation
  Poetry by Michael F. Nyiri
  Turesday, October 11, 2005 5:51 am

  Every moment spent in wonder
  Life inhaled as a breath of purpose
  Inner beauty shines bright, injected with
  Zeal and quantum care
  Always learning
  Both earthbound and spiritual
  Every moment spent alive and vibrant
  Touching my
  Humanity with softness and love

  Memories might be hazy
  Energy and stamina might lag a bit, but
  Never does your caring or vibrancy lag
  Doctors are a given in your existence
  Ovarian obstacles and diabetic detritus
  Zoo animals inhabit your room
  And you always have a smile for the world

  The Best Date
  Poetry by Michael F. Nyiri
  Tuesday, October 11, 2005 6:15 am

  I want to sire you up to Heaven
  Riding in a carriage pulled by swans
  Listening to the music of the stars
  Swooning in their bowers in the skies.
  I want to kiss you in a moonbeam
  Shining along with old man moon’s smile
  Hearing the Heavenly choirs of angels
  Singing just for us

  I want to couple with you forever
  And never leave your side
  I want to feel your body breathe
  My breath inside your lungs
  I long to live beside you daily
  So we can feel each other’s heartbeat

  Every day is now an excuse to think of you
  Every moment is a moment spent beside you
  In memory.
  Every life is one that touches yours
  And every love is one that reaches you

  Our best date has not yet begun
  Our life is but a beginning right now,
  Taking babysteps to Heaven.
  But the swans are at the ready
  And the carriage is waiting,
  With a shine that blinds the sun.
  The Best Date is forever
  And I will spend it with you, my only one.

  BEHIND THE POETRY: The first poem is an anacrostic, and the first letters of all the lines spell Elizabeth’s name. I have always written anacrostic poetry for every gal with whom I have ever been involved. It is one of my “traditions”. I have already written a few poems for Liz, but “Exuberant Evaluations” is the anacrostic that has been bubbling in my brain for a few weeks…MFN 10/11/05

  

  4. TheDevilsAdvocatesDen 07/13/2007: 5 entries. Oh, I was going to have a field day with this one. I was really jealous of the “Xangalebrity” status of Dan (TheTheologiansCafe) and I always thought his blog would be more interesting if he were to make some kind of analysis of the hundreds of comments he received. The Den was going to be a blog with a similar modus operendi, but I would vary the “questions” with my attempts at answers, after going through the comments I’d receive. Again, I knew this would eventually take up too much of my time, so I didn’t follow through.
  
  From the first entry:

  Tap, Tap, is this thing on?

  Here’s my statement of purpose. No brouhaha. No fanfare please. You might notice the similarity to the most popular site on Xanga which gets thousands of comments a day. Hmmm. I figure the Devil’s Advocate has got to have a site which mirrors the most popular. Why wouldn’t I? I’m the Devil’s Advocate. In time, I might create my own “skin”.

  Red of course.

  I’ll scan the news feeds, select some interesting questions, and spring them on unsuspecting Xangans. Then, in another feature which only the Devil’s Advocate will provide, I will pick the most piss poor and or scathingly brilliant responses and go to work on them with the acidic wit of the Devil’s Advocate.

  We’ll be having some real “conversations” over here, and you can definitely be sure of this. Whatever you say, I’m against it. Already. So you might not even pipe up.

  Or else you can give it a go. And let’s see what happens.

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  So there you have it. The “history” of failed blogs on Xanga that I can still get into and edit if I chose, but choose not to, because I’m an old bald guy who possibly spends too much time on the internet as it is. Well, it’s cooled down a bit here in the southland, and time for my daily walk. By the way, you might have noticed the phrase “internet island” in the “peace through poetry” post on WandrinMinstrel. Well, a year or so later I DID create the Internet Island participatory blogring and website, which got fairly popular and had a fantastic two year run. I’ve even resurrected it from time to time. MFN/ppf

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