the shark has been jumped

 Tulsa rally site, largely unoccupied

Trump revels in the spotlight. He has added a 4th law to Kepler's planetary motions, "Everything revolves about me". The Donald wants to be in the public eye. He and his first wife did a cheesy commercial for a pizza chain, he was on the cover of Playboy magazine, he was on episodes of  The Jeffersons, and so on. Mark Burnett talked him into a "reality game show". Trump thought the genre crap, but Burnett told him he would be the star, and the publicity would add dollars to the Trump Empire. Donald was on 186 episodes from 2004 to 2015, he brought on his three issues from the first wife, and the third wife and her issue onto the show. Some people from the show (Omarosa Manigault) came with him to the White House.

Trump during his 2016 campaign enjoyed the adulation of the crowd in jammed, small arenas. After inauguration he continued to have them. The last had been on March 2nd in Charlotte North Carolina. Then the awareness of he coronavirus took the nation's attention. He shifted to daily briefings on the virus, where he would babble, and brag, and bullshit on, and on, and on. April 23rd, Donald spoke about light and cleaning chemicals...

"Supposing we hit the body with a tremendous, whether it’s ultraviolet or just very powerful light? And I think you said, that hasn’t been checked but you’re going to test it. And then I said supposing you brought the light inside the body which you can do either through the skin or in some other way. And I think you said you’re going to test that too. Sounds interesting.And then I see the disinfectant, where it knocks it out in a minute, one minute, and is there a way we can do something like that? By injection inside or almost a cleaning. As you see it gets in the lungs, and it does a tremendous number on the lungs. So it would be interesting to check that."

Well, after telling America to drink bleach, and to shove a light bulb up the a$$...that pretty much ended the live television updates on the virus. He was ridiculed, he does give comedians material: [click]

Donald needed a stage. Some evilton proposed June 19th Tulsa Oklahoma. That was a provocation which the press could not ignore.  June 19th is also called, Juneteenth, Emancipation Day, it was a Day of Jubilee. On June 19th, 1865 word was read by a Union general that the slaves of Texas were free men. The next year, the freemen celebrated the commemoration. It is a yearly event, although many in America did not realise. Tulsa is an oil town in a very, very Republican state. It is a place where the surrounding populace would be full of trumpsters. In 1921, it was the site of a massacre. The Greenwood part of town contained the successful bourgeoise section of black residents of Tulsa. Black people were shot with machine gun, and fire bombed by aereoplane. [click] The choice of Tulsa on the date was done with purpose. Black lives do not matter at all. After public protest, the Trump campaign changed the day to Saturday the 20th.

Donald Trump arrives at the backyard of the White House, post Tulsa. 

"Jumping the shark is an idiom used to describe a moment when something that was once widely popular, but has since grown less popular, makes a misguided attempt at generating publicity that instead only serves to highlight its irrelevance....The phrase derives from an episode of sitcom Happy Days (1974–1984), in which the character Fonzie jumps over a shark while on water-skis."*

Trump had his coronavirus rally in Tulsa, 6,200 came in a place that seats 19,000, and after his campaign manager claimed a million ticket requests. This foto by Patrick Semansky of Trump walking from heliocopter to the White House shows a dejected Trump carrying his MAGAt cap, and his tie undone (never seen that picture before). People have snagged a video of the walk, and attached it to music. One had "Ashokan Farewell", another had Chris de Burgh's "The Lady in Red", and so on... Exactly, watching the video of the walk, it looks like a man coming home after a long and/or hard day. Donald's face looks better than his acting face, there is no fake smile, no pouty fish lips, no full of hot air pretense—just a tired man walking; but for him, it is defeat, and perhaps a moment of recognition of humiliation; but to-morrow will come, and he will be his mean, cranky, obnoxious self.

                                   ...Who knows himself a braggart,
                                   Let him fear this, for it will come to pass
                                   that every braggart shall be found an ass. 
                                                         —Parolles, All's Well That Ends Well  IV. iii
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*  from Wikipedia
postscriptum: noon 2 August 2020. Herman Cain, a prominent black Republican, attended Trump's Tulsa rally.  Nine days later, he was diagnosed with coronavirus. 30 June he was hospitalised. 30 July he died. Cain ran Godfather's Pizza for Pillsbury. Tombstone is another pizza company.

East 93rd

cropped on a foto posted by Stamy Paul

Some cities have painted in big yellow letters, "BLACK LIVES MATTER".  Mayor of District of Columbia is Muriel Bowser, and she had it on June 5th placed on 16th street leading to the White house. In other cities, it has been placed on downtown streets. Cleveland has it on East 93rd. Local Black Lives Matter was not pleased, it should be on an important street downtown.

Stamy Paul of Graffiti HeArt, and Ricky Smith's Random Acts of Kindness Everywhere made it a mural project Saturday. Each letter is a separate mural. A television report said, other such murals could happen on the near west side, and downtown.

 This was on a wall on the other side of Union, "Revolutionary Prayers" by  Kevin Harp . It was not part of yesterday's project.

The police closed off the street from by Bessemer, where these two churches are kitty korner to each other, all the way to where St. Catharine's had been. This allowed the many people to paint, and others to admire. Sunday morning, the street was still blocked.

Greater Whitestone Missionary Baptist had some very amplified preaching going on from their parking lot.

 

  Here on the first 'L' is Colin Kaepernick taking a knee.

 local version of Michelangelo's Sistine hands

 Black Panthers

Love can be translated to many languages.

Tulsa time

"...An nobody would be grievin'
If I just went on back to Tulsa time." 

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From https://www.thepunctuationguide.com/em-dash.html
© 2020 thepunctuationguide.com

 —1978 #1 for one week on country charts for Don Williams

Trump's campaign needs "minority" extras for his fascist rally in Tulsa. Advertising on Craig's List. Send photo. Instead of being paid can be substituted for community service. Campaign manager, Brad Parscale, said 800,000 (later 1 million) tickets have been distributed; arena capacity is listed at 19,000. 

“By attending the rally, you and any guests voluntarily assume all risks related to exposure to COVID-19 and agree not to hold Donald J. Trump for President, Inc.; BOK Center; ASM Global; or any of their affiliates, directors, officers, employees, agents, contractors, or volunteers liable for any illness or injury.”

The stupid blatant viciousness is the point. Trump has not had a "rally" since March Second. Trump does not want to acknowledge the existence of any coronavirus problem. Public health is not his concern. The current demonstrations against police brutality on black people is an annoyance to Trump. His location and time for his Nuremberg event could hardly be worse—Tulsa on Juneteenth. Juneteenth  is a holiday for African Americans. June 19th 1865 was the day, Union General Gordon Granger read General Order 3 to the public.

The people of Texas are informed that, in accordance with a proclamation from the Executive of the United States, all slaves are free. This involves an absolute equality of personal rights and rights of property between former masters and slaves, and the connection heretofore existing between them becomes that between employer and hired labor. The freedmen are advised to remain quietly at their present homes and work for wages. They are informed that they will not be allowed to collect at military posts and that they will not be supported in idleness either there or elsewhere.

Texas was the furthest Confederate state, and did not have Federal soldiers reach Texas until June 1865. Only then could Lincoln's Emancipation be enforced. In 1866, freedmen celebrated a day of Jubilee on June Nineteenth. The Juneteenth holiday was established.

In 1921, the largest attack of white people on a black population in American history occurred—Tulsa (Greenwood) Race Massacre. Certainly Trump is too ignorant to have been aware of Tulsa, and Juneteenth; someone else had to choose; but he had to approve. Trump's opinions on Black Lives Matter, and health concerns are widely apparent. After the hubbub that ensued over this, Trump is scheduling this one day later.
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postscriptum: 9 a.m. 17 June
Y'no, sometimes some things are so obviously stupid, one (really, everyone) could see disaster approaching. I remember the line, "Verge, if i were you, i wouldn't weld so near the gas tank". I was eating at Old Nelson Commons, someone brought up the news from Guyana. Guyana, does not make Ohio news often; but this one was a huge horror. O, and by the way, the powdered drink was grape Flavor Aid.

Wonder if they will be serving refreshments in Tulsa?

postscriptum: noon 2 August
Herman Cain, a prominent black Republican, attended Trump's Tulsa rally.  Nine days later, he was diagnosed with coronavirus. 30 June he was hospitalised. 30 July he died. Cain ran Godfather's Pizza for Pillsbury. Tombstone is another pizza company.

Corpus Christi 2020

St. Emeric is a Hungarian (Magyar) parish. Saint Emeric Cleveland was the last parish forcibly closed by then Cleveland bishop, Richard Lennon. The parish kept on meeting, and gained local, and international support. The Vatican sided with this, and ten other local parishes that they were non-canonically closed, and must be open. Saint Emeric's was the last to be opened, eight months after the decree.

Corpus Christi is a Catholic holiday celebrating the Body and Blood of Jesus Christ. Many Eastern European parishes in the new world still have outdoor processions, with altars three outside and the one inside the church. Altars are set up by parishioners, and often have flowers. During the procession, rose petals can be strewn about.

The procession has a monstrance (a vessel to carry a Host [the Body of Christ]). Often a canopy travels with the Host.

Under this time of coronavirus, some care is taken by people to cover their faces and keep physicslly separate.

Italian garden

The Italian Cleveland Cultural Garden is the best landscaped garden in flowers, and in plants with statuary. Only the Hungarian Garden competes in landscaping.

 turtle reference

 Karma

The fountain has recently been turned on, and someone earlier in the morning plucked flowers to be put in the fountain.

Ridge Road Parma

Parma has been attached with pink flamingos since the middle 1960s.  A late night teevee host, 'Ghoulardi' a.k.a. Ernie Anderson, enjoyed poking fun at Parma. The flamingo thing was one, another one was the series of skits, "Parma Place". A very popular night time soap opera was "Peyton Place". Parma came to be the largest, by far, of any Cleveland suburb, and is the seventh largest town in Ohio. Parma has a larger population than the better known cities of Canton, Youngstown, and Lorain.  It took a very long time for Parma to lose defensiveness, and accept, and then to embrace the Flamingo.

Ridge Road is the main, and central north/south artery.  Currently, new asphalt is being laid down.

The flamingo pink is painted on these silhouettes at a hair parlor.

Late May, last year, a Parma sign was placed here. I think, it was removed before winter. It has not returned. It was made by the same outfit which made the larger, and more engineered Cleveland signs (which are still standing). People immediately added plastic flamingos. [click]

Now, across the street from here is the old Parma mall (new name now). If that sign was up now, it could be easily seen from the parking lot. Now, there is supposed to be a demonstration at that mall to-day. I looked on the interwebbs, and found nothing. One of the teevee channels said there would be about ten demonstrations in this part of northeastern Ohio. These will be about the murder of George Floyd, the continuing casual police brutality in America, and the Black Lives Matter movement. The only one that has been pinpointed is the 2 o'clock one outside of Cleveland's Second District Police Station in the near west side. They have had one on the far west side's First District, which was uneventful. It makes sense to confront the police at their hangouts. The police, if they were savvy, could show a minor (which might be counted as a major) gesture of peace, and reconciliation; but they are all about showing "dominance" (as Orange Caligula would say), and admission of fault is something harder for the police to find than frog hair. All the others, i expect to be quiet affairs. I have not been to any of these affairs, and i want to take fotos, but i do not have the stamina to be in the afternoon sun.

There is a small lake/large pond in the park. A variety of birds visit. This blue heron finds it easy fishing,

There was recently a swimming pool in the park. It has been replaced by a "splash pad", which is now closed because of the corona virus 19.

Geese know how to line up.