Bruce Whealton's Weblog

Why I don’t pay for Cable TV

brucewhealton — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 16:22:04 +0000

Every time I talk to my cable internet company they keep asking me about what I am doing about Cable TV. I have a 30Mbps download connection and 5Mbps upload connection, digital phone service, but no cable TV service. Why? Well, the way I figure it, with all that bandwidth, all that speed, and a wireless router that will send out 30Mbps to each device in my home, there is no reason to pay an additional fee to get TV. They can send the TV channels over the internet connection very easily. Sites like Amazon.com and Netflix do that and have been doing that for some time.

Now, there is another solution. I found a software package, that is described here, that will give you access to 3000 HD channels from the US and various other countries. It’s not all that magical or mysterious. Our internet speeds have been increasing all the time and with very little in the way of benefits for us. This is something that runs on your computer but you can easily hook up your computer, including your laptop to your TV and they are constantly offering new ways to stream content from your computer to your TV. In fact, I read about a service that allow you to stream wireless HD compressed and uncompressed, with support for 3D that will be coming in 2012.

Oh, did I mention that when you buy this software, you will be able to watch all these channels for free. So, get the software that will let you watch 3000 HD channels from around the world here.

>>To Order this Software, click on this link<<

A Poem I dedicate to Bruce Martin Whealton Jr.

brucewhealton — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 01:29:22 +0000

Demonostrating how special Bruce Martin Whealton is…

A thousand fair suitors all stab at your heart
Those poets of movement and jockeys of art
The high-volume vendors who hustle romance
Splashing their canvas with color and dance

The blasters of trumpets, gold banners unfurled
They offer lush gardens in glistening worlds
Yes, bearers of torches and carvers of stone
Who whisper their sonnets and surrender their thrones

And there in your doorway, no shadow is cast
No lingering voices, no ghosts from the past
Just a cluster of walls, and a window of pain
Collecting the heartache like droplets of rain

Still I stand before you, with palms to the sky
No gold in my pocket, no thorn in my side
And all I can offer, where words have no place
Is a body that trembles, and this love that awaits

Five poems by Bruce

brucewhealton — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 22:54:06 +0000

I am happy to say that five more of my poems have been picked up for the next edition of “The Horror Zine” at: http://ping.fm/Fuy0z and I’m scheduled to appear in the second Anthology of the Horror Zine, which is being edited and published by Jeani Rector. My poems appeared there last December as well. The poems being published are the following: “Shelter,” “Becoming,” and “Sensuous and Strong as the Serpent,” “Kid Fears,” and “Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.”

You can find other poems by Bruce Whealton on The Horror Zine here.

Further poetry by Bruce Whealton can be found at http://brucewhealton.us

Five Poems by Bruce Whealton Being Published in The Horror Zine

brucewhealton — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 17:18:22 +0000

I am happy to say that five more of my poems have been picked up for the next edition of “The Horror Zine” at: http://TheHorrorZine.com and I’m scheduled to appear in the second Anthology of the Horror Zine, which is being edited and published by Jeani Rector. My poems appeared there last December as well. The poems being published are the following: “Shelter,” “Becoming,” and “Sensuous and Strong as the Serpent,” “Kid Fears,” and “Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.”

You can find other poems by Bruce Whealton on The Horror Zine here.

Word Salad announces the latest edition has been released

brucewhealton — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 01:58:49 +0000

Word Salad staff editors Jean Arthur Jones and Bruce Whealton are proud to announce the latest editions of Word Salad Poetry Magazine and Haiku Ramblings. These two publications are available here:
http://WordSaladPoetryMagazine.com
and here: http://WordSaladPoetryMagazine.com/Haiku/
This is Volume XVI, No. I for Word Salad Poetry Magazine – that means we are moving into our 16th year! Word Salad is made great by the contributions of the many poets and by the talents of Co-editor Jean Jones and Co-Editor and Publisher Bruce Whealton. Haiku Ramblings is a huge success and we are moving into our second year with that publication.
You will find various other publications on Word Salad beyond the quarterly magazine. Just click on Word Salad Publications from the top menu. We’d like to highlight one publication in particular and that is a new poetry collection of poems by Jean Jones. Bruce Whealton reports that this is one publication that he doesn’t take much credit for publication, unlike the rest of what you will see on the site. This manuscript, for “Post Mortem: New and Selected Poems” by Jean Jones, was created and edited by Wilmington poet and contributor to Word Salad, Scott Urban. Scott also provides a nice introduction to the publication. Scott also collaborated with Bruce Whealton in a collection of poems about vampires and vampirism, called “Puncture Wounds,” which can also be found among the Word Salad Publications.
Bruce Whealton would like to share his first edition of “What Really Matters,” one of the “Word Salad Publications,” available from the top menu. Wilmington poet and writer, Thomas Childs will be contributing to the editing of this publication as the second edition of this publication is in the works. So check back soon for updates to this.”
Word Salad also announces a slightly new look to the publication online. Bruce Whealton, writes, “I wanted to accomodate a growing amount of content on the site and make it easier to find what we have. Originally, Word Salad was just a quarterly poetry magazine, but we’ve grown from that.”
Word Salad would like to submit a request for artwork and photography that will become a part of the permanent features of Word Salad. So, if you are an artist, graphic artist, or photographer, this is your chance to showcase your work in a great publication. All contributors get full credit for their work if it is used on Word Salad.
Print copies of Word Salad are available for $10 each plus $1 shipping per copy. Payments can be sent via paypal to editors@wordsaladpoetrymagazine.com
or you can mail the payment, made out to Bruce Whealton and sent to
Bruce Whealton
Word Salad Poetry Magazine
112A Dillard St.
Carrboro, NC 27510
Thanks,
The Staff of Word Salad.

My poem "Shelter" appears on "Aphelion: the Webzine of Science Fiction and Fantasy."

brucewhealton — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 01:51:46 +0000

I’m excited to share that another poem of mine has been published. Here is a link to my poem on “Aphelion: The Webzine of Science Fiction and Fantasy.” This poem can also be found in my poetry collection entitled “Puncture Wounds,” available here.

Word Salad co-editor Jean Arthur Jones has a poem that also appears here at this link in that edition of “Aphelion: The Webzine of Science Fiction and Fantasy,” his poem is entitled “The Patron Saint of Dinosaurs.”

More poetry by Bruce Whealton can be found at http://brucewhealton.us

Lost – poem by Bruce Whealton

brucewhealton — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 07:42:48 +0000

I wonder if anyone has ever had this experience… of getting so lost… in their life. It seems that in the dream, I’d want to remember more, to remember that I found my way back, eventually. Yet some roads in this world are too terrifying to be on.

Lost

How could I have gotten
so lost?
I thought I recognized where
I was going…

Until it hit me,
that I didn’t know where
I was heading
or what road I was on -
it was dark…
the road signs
made no sense.

So, I drove faster
and faster,
“Eventually something
would make sense,”
I thought.

Fear began to rise
in me,
an existential fear
of total isolation
and more.

So, I decided to get off
the road I was on,
to turn down another road.
It was a bizarre choice
there was nothing familiar
about this road
unto which I was turning
I had no idea where
it would lead
some vague and unknown
instinct told me to turn.

I’ve had this dream
more than once.
I try to think about its meaning
adding my commentary
as an omnipotent voice
in the dream.

That last turn
before I wake up…
I would never have taken the turn
if anything at all
about the road I had been on
was at all familiar
and if I had not been
so desperately and passionately
scared and lost.

I always wake up
shortly after making the turn
because instead of relieving my fear
I begin to feel
even more terrified,
a sense of foreboding,
and even greater existential fear
than I had known previously.

I think, even in the dream state,
I decide,
“No, I cannot face ‘this’”
So, I wake up.

Yet there’s never resolution…
never a coming to understand
how I could have gotten
so lost.

Inspired by Knots II – poem by Bruce Whealton

brucewhealton — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 07:29:51 +0000

Here is part two of my poems based on R. D. Laing’s collection called Knots. He deals with how communication, as a social phenomena can be rather tangled into knots. I’ve felt that way recently.

Inspired by Knots II

I came to a party
everyone was playing a game.
I know they were playing a game
but I don’t know how to play
because I never learned
how to play.

What if they were playing a game
of pretending to play
a different game
or vice verse.

I was afraid I’d play the wrong game
and never be allowed
to play more games
even though I never played
any of these games,
I don’t think,
because I never knew what game
they were playing.

I want to play a game
so I won’t have to play
games.
Others also want to play
the game
so they don’t have to play
the game.

Inspired by Knots – poem by Bruce Whealton

brucewhealton — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 07:27:42 +0000

This was inspired by a poetry collection by R. D. Laing. He wrote about a wide range of topics, from mental illness to communication and often framed his thoughts around what he called Social Phenomenology. So, this is about social situations and how utterly bizarre they can be.

Inspired by Knots

We’re playing a game.
Does everyone know
we’re playing a game?
Does everyone like the game.

If you play the game
it shows you care,
when you first meet people
in a social situation.

I need you to play the game
because I’m nervous
and the game helps me feel relaxed
when we play the game
and it shows
you care about me
enough
to play the game
with me
until we know each other.

But I don’t even know you
so wouldn’t it be fake
to act like I care about you
by playing a game
in this social situation
which helps you feel more relaxed?

Don’t be so serious
just play the game.

Kafkaesque News Program: Fox News is not a News Program

brucewhealton — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 00:54:40 +0000

I thought the news was about who, what, where and when? Isn’t that the dictum. That’s how we learn the truth. Reality.

So, I’m in KFC and as when I was at McDonald’s, I decide to sit near the tv that is displaying the news, or what looks like the news. What I see, and read on the screen is rather bizarre. Most recently, I noticed what really amazed and befuddled me, while sitting at KFC a few days ago. I saw the title for the current topic, and the topic read, “Why isn’t” such and such being discussed or happening. I thought the news was about who, what, where and when. That’s it. The truth! Reality! I think the current segment was about why President Obama wasn’t discussing or concerned about such and such.

Basically, this station was not telling us what was happening but what wasn’t happening… “This is what isn’t happening in your world.” How utterly and completely bizarre! So, what other stories was I seeing on this “News” program that had nothing to do with what was happening?

I call this posting Kafkaesque News, because as a existentialist, I enjoyed Franz Kafka and when I considered a local bizarre newspaper, a fictional publication, I thought I’d call it Kafkaesque News. This seemed to describe the one in three or so stories I was seeing as part of “Fox News.”

This was not what I was seeing on the local 6 o’clock news or CNN. We don’t have someone coming out at 6:20pm and saying, “And this is what life could be like if the weather was 20 degrees warmer today.”

When I turn on Saturday Night live, I expect to get some spoof, or humorous take on the news. I know that, but I don’t know what to make of “Fox News.” From roughly 11am to 4pm, based on my observations, they present a program that looks like what you might find on CNN, interspersed with these bizarre programs, topics, or “stories” that make one ask oneself, why is this “why is this being presented as a news story?” or, “I thought I was watching the news, what happened?”

I’m creative, but when I turn on the news I’m expecting to see facts. The Truth! Reality. Who, what, when and where… what happened, not might have happened or what didn’t happen.