The first "Kohn's Korner" podcasts are up and ready to share! Thanks to Rocco Scibetta and Jack Silverman!http://www.stationcaster.com/stations/wchv/?d=AM&cid=11001

For those who are not yet aware of the hot bed of creativity that is simmering in Charlottesville Virginia, there is a person there who is stirring the pot in an underground bunker commanding a podcast studio that is slowly bringing the goings on in this really hip American town to light.

ALBERT KOHN, whom I befriended some time back through a music venue read APPLES FROM THE GARDEN OF EDEN and was generous enough to invite me to do a Podcast for a new program he is spearheading in Charlottesville. His program promotes the arts and leisure community across the country while keeping the focus on growing Charlottesville. You can follow KOHNS KORNER on Facebook.

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Our special feature; stay tuned for the best pie fight ever.

As Always, Thanks for the support.

SOME FAVORITE ART OF SUMMER...

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CINDY SHERMAN PHOTOGRAPHER....

My own American Tillie / Rocco Scibetta / N.J. summer collection

"My own American Tillie" a piece transcended to me from the beloved Jersey shore. A strange and surreal landscape all along the coast of New Jersey.

Luxury high-rises to the north, little pink and turquoise buildings jading the south.

God employs a strange and wonderful design technique, I will tell you that, but we natives of the " Garden State are great full none the less.For that quarter of the year when New Jerseians come out and shed their skin.Radiate and glow in the dark.

YES, THIS IS THE PLACE JERSEY GIRLS COME FROM.

MY OWN, TRIBUTE TO THAT MAGICAL PLACE WE CALL SOUTH JERSEY "BEACH BODIES'/ ROCCO SCIBETTA

READ ANY GOOD BOOKS LATELY....THERE ARE TWO RIGHT IN THIS BLOG

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GORDIE HINDS /LIFE GUARD (VINTAGE)

HEALTH FOOD VS. JUNK FOOD THE MINI SERIES PART ONE / AS TOLD BY ROCCO

HEALTH FOOD VS. JUNK FOOD THE MINI SERIES

PART ONE / AS TOLD BY ROCCO

It is like a scene out of West side story, The Healthy Veggies and fruit were hanging around on a hot summer night just waiting for some donuts to walk across their turf; It's summer. Schools out, that means the school cafeterias are closed, the donuts will have to roll out of the bakery on 9th and hightail across the school yard. The Veggies and fruits, however, will be waiting. They begin to sing.: When you come from a seed, you're a seed, from your first hit of weed to your, last rotten day.
They dance around and shake like the characters in the Fruit of the Loom commercial.

Suddenly! They stop. The night is split open by the whole food sign that gives this fair city light. In the distance is a glazed donut rolling with swagger down the street. Then a tall cruller joins him, all bronzed and sugared, followed by a Boston cream....and last was a pink strawberry swirl that looked gentrified even with a bite taken out of him , By the ruggedness of fingerprints along his midsection you could tell where he's been ' a survivor .. This is going to get ugly. The veggies are steaming and the fruits want to get into some body's face.

No one is backing down ...... strawberry swirl flipped a sprinkle and all hell broke loose.

stay tuned in for part 2

The junk food won't leave this half baked they call in muscle from local fast food and burger joints.

HEALTH FOOD VS. JUNK FOOD PART TWO
CLASH OF THE STIPENDS.
( THE BIG PAYBACK)

It is a hot summer night and the backyards alleys and empty parking lots are like a dense forest waiting for a heavy rain. There is steam coming up from the streets ...like an oven that's ready to blow. From out of the doorway comes an avocados voice pleading .."Del, don't go out tonight"! but she knew he was already gone It was in his pimento eyes...

Meanwhile in the back of the candy store; behind a shelf of packaged fast food and processed cheeses, the junk food hatched their plan. They were going to get the veggies. Fruit juice was going to bleed from the dumpsters tonight. A few whoppers with cheese came in from the burger joint and white castle showed up with some 99 cent fries. 40-ounce beverages were weeping and soft drinks were bringing ice. a jelly roll reached into a Dominos bag and pulled out a pizza slicer.. it was round and shiny reflecting the faces of the gang from its surface.... a cherry Danish cried out! ”Not that, you promised ...no hardware Maraschino” !.

” Something will be sliced!” Maraschino fired back.” This is war after all.. a stupid war. Over sugar and carbohydrates, thinness and clear arteries...but who is to say who is in and who is out of the body politic”? Cup cake maybe you better get back on the shelf. Get out now if you are not deep fried enough for this. Tonight Val Kyrie determines the outcome.

A large avocado pit comes through a showcase window, sending a clear message. A donut sign goes crashing to the floor.... this last aggression will not stand. The game is under foot...beet juice is in their eyes now.

In a surprise attack; a peripeteia, a REVERSAL OF FORTUNE, THE JUNK FOOD OPENS A CAN OF WHOOP ASS ON THE fRUITS AND VEGGIES.

ANOTHER HOT SUMMER AND ANOTHER DUMPSTER DRIVE BY IN THE NAKED CITY.

If you are just surfing around and you don't feel like reading; watch this. Hit youtube tab for play.
Vintage Joe Frank enjoy.

A WORD FROM THE AUTHOR

This warm balmy air is bringing on sensations of Key West and Exotic backdrops of palm trees and jungle rot. The perfect atmosphere to get my Hemmingway mack on.
I must confess, however, safaris and big game hunting are not my thing , I would probably get stampeded by a rhino before I ever figured out how to shoot one. That could be said also for Bulls and bullfighting. I have no desire to wither away below a six hundred pound -plus bovine's horns.- Thank you please,.I am best suited to hang out with the monkeys and watch the world go comfortably by, away in the stands with sangria and an empanada.
I am currently working on a new story that has nothing to do with any of this. but it does concern some steamy love letters by a woman named Lydia Barngarden and her Viva Las Vegas style love affair with an Elvis imitator.Unfortunately, in this story, Elvis does not get the girl... no one is the winner in this tour de force epic romance.

Having said that, you will see how far the fantasy-obsessed individuals in my story are willing to go if no one steps in to challenge their mental illness; fortunately, someone does; someone always has to or there would be no story.

This has the where with all of a great Italian Opera except for one thing; in an Opera, some one has to die... Here, however, in the modern world in which we live, the characters just go on to ruin people's lives escalating their foolishness until everyone is emotionally destroyed. Viscerally wounded but not dead. As Hemmingway has demonstrated time and again, it takes courage to die nobly in sport and fancy; the characters in my story will have no courage whats so ever.

So as I get into character development for my next scene I hope you can give me some feedback on my new transition. In this one, I am going for the Rudyard Kipling.bungle in the jungle.

WISHING YOU ALL A GREAT SUMMER AS ALWAYS, ROCCO

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Cats are nice.

But don't take my word for it. Thanks to new research from Oregon State University, published on Friday in Behavioural Processes, there is scientific evidence that cats are, according to empirical study, nice. In fact, the study concluded, cats like interacting with humans more than they like eating food. Let that sink in: more than food. I don't like anybody more than food.

The motivation for the study was to apply cognitive tests that have already be tried out on dogs and tortoises on cats, in order to clear up some misconceptions around cats' bad reputation for being unsociable.

"Increasingly cat cognition research is providing evidence of their complex socio-cognitive and problem-solving abilities," the authors wrote in the paper. "Nonetheless, it is still common belief that cats are not especially sociable or trainable. This disconnect may be due, in part, to a lack of knowledge of what stimuli cats prefer, and thus may be most motivated to work for."

The test took 50 cats both from people's homes and from a shelter and deprived them of food, toys, and people for a few hours. Then, researchers presented the cats with different stimuli within four categories: human socialization, food, scent, and toys.

The researchers concluded that there were no significant differences between the homed and the shelter cats, and that most cats preferred human socialization to any of the other categories. Half of the cats preferred social interaction to every other stimulus type, while only 37 percent preferred food.

"While it has been suggested that cat sociality exists on a continuum, perhaps skewed toward independence," the authors wrote, "we have found that 50% of cats tested preferred interaction with the social stimulus even though they had a direct choice between social interaction with a human and their other most preferred stimuli from the three other stimulus categories."

So, what does this mean? Basically, that cats are nice. But, the authors write, individual cat preferences for socialization may be influenced by life history or even breed.

A study of a few dozen cats might not be grounds for concrete conclusions, but this rings true for me. My cat doesn't spend every minute of the day with me when I'm around. More often than not, he's skulking around or chilling out on a sofa. But he's friendly with everybody and we have our moments. Honestly, I wouldn't want to spend every waking moment with the person I live with, either. And for the people who think cats are standoffish—are you immediately open and friendly with random humans you meet?

My own. "Kats" / ROCCO SCIBETTA

WHAT ARE SOME INTERESTING WAYS TO COMPOSE A SENTENCE IN ENGLISH?

Tamara Vardo, Ph.D. candidate in Linguistics

Updated Mon

I understand your frustration.

But the English have an expression, “When in Rome, do as the Romans do.” And the Russians have a perhaps more critical expression, “Don’t go with your rite to another’s monastery.”

Which means that if you try to come up with new ways to rearrange words in English, (a) people will not understand you; (b) the ancient alarms indicating “this is someone not of our tribe and potentially harmful” will light up in their brains. They will be hostile to you, plain and simple.

Language is used for group identity. If you change their language, you’re showing you’re not part of their group.

English is the way it is because hundreds of millions of people have agreed that it would be so for them to understand each other. Changing the word order in English makes the sentences mean different things, including not meaning anything at all.

“John killed the velociraptor” means a different thing from “The velociraptor killed John.” “*Killed John the velociraptor” is barely understandable and bad. “*The killed John velociraptor” is just complete word salad.

Do not break the English sentence templates. Do not use words that are not in the English dictionary, like “interlard.” Indeed, depending on whom you’re writing to, it’s better to err on the side of simplicity. That is being considerate to your audience by ensuring that they will understand.

It’s a sad fact that creativity and consideration often are in inverse relation in human attitudes and behaviours (which is why New York City is the most creative city in the world, but “New York hospitality” can only be said as a joke, while the American South is famed for hospitality and friendliness — and almost any child with creative ambitions born there figures out a way to leave it).

Especially when you are a stranger to the community (as you are, speaking a second language), be considerate. So people will like you.

If you want to check how English speakers are creative, buy a good poetry collection. Preferably one that shows a representation of poems from the sixteenth century to the twenty-first. You will see what counts in English as being creative with words.

Even so, if you are writing technical writing, or writing to people who don’t know you, and you write like a poet, they would still find you very strange. And may possibly react with hostility.

Be considerate.

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"Dance! when you're broken open. Dance! if you've torn the bandage off. Dance!in the middle of the fighting. Dance! in your blood. Dance! when you're perfectly free."

The Buzz-beet Dance studio is a red brick and mortar splendor smack in the middle of Jones Street, the most exciting place to be if you are a dancer with promise.

At 362 Jones Street sits a converted factory that now houses four huge floors of dance and film experience. At any time you could see film crews going up and down the elevators interviewing future divas or promoting important new stage productions. Famous singers’ and dancers from as far as Russia and Europe use the facility to rehearse when they are in town. On these special occasions, one whole floor is closed just for their exclusive convenience. From Nicco’s studio window, the members of the Ava dance troupe watch the limos escort Divas in and out from the humble parking lot in the back to their world renowned Avant-Garde accommodations. To be a part of that privileged information is awe-inspiring.

The rooms where the Ava dance troupe rehearses are state of the art. The floors are polished wood with long mirrors that covered the walls from floor to ceiling. The ceiling is original plaster and moldings with huge fans that hang a quarter ways down.

A thick wooden dowel extended across the length of the room. Nicco hoisted her leg over the bar and stretched holding her ankle in place slowly touching her head to her knee. Soft music pumped in from the speakers causing her to flow and dip in rhythm. Five days a week she practiced alone for the first twenty minutes of her workout before joining the others for her scheduled rehearsal. This was her preferred routine. Today, however, a slight anxiety distracted her from the full focus she normally generates...

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PERIPETEIA: a sudden or unexpected reversal of circumstances or situation especially in a literary work

Ozzie and Nicolette -best friends 4 ever.

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BLACK PARTY DRESS / Original cover art by Rocco Scibetta

REVERSAL

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As they continue to juggle life's problems, three friends suffer a reversal of fortunes forcing them to grow up in public.Poignant incisive and artistically outrageous.Life's emotions put to the crucible proving that love, loyalty, and friendship never go out of style. A gripping modern Romance that will make you feel good about being simply human.A whole cast of charming real characters you can love and love to hate.

Oh Yes, and one Calico Tom Cat that that leads you through the story.

MEET NICOLETTE AND (TRAMP)-OUR FERAL FRIEND

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VINCENT GALLE , (pronounced Gale) -aspiring contemporary Artist In Love with Nicolette. professional modern stage performer and choreographer.

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Dylan Welles, complicated brilliant, deeply troubled international celebrity art dealer enters an opulent world of International art deals without guidance; adrift in a vain and secretive daliance.