my show in NYC. It's official. I'm part storyteller

so I just did my show in NYC last week at the Theater for The New City. I had three musicians and three singers join me on stage, plus my daughter and another person added some theatrics to the equation. I got some great, heartfelt feedback via the questionnaire as well as some very poignant, constructive criticism. One of my daughter's teachers was there in the audience and she has since invited me to come to the school to read to the children, so that's a blessing that has come as a direct result of the show. I also had a conversation with one of the young people from our neighborhood in New Jersey who was there. She requested assistance with her school work and so if schedules and everything else allows me to help her that would be cool. While I was promoting the show in the weeks before, I got an invitation from a promoter and organizer I highly respect to bring the show to his community in Brooklyn, and just tonight I had a conversation with a friend and fellow community organizer/artist about bringing my show to her town/city/community. So yeah, more realistic possibilities begin to reveal themselves. For the first time since I started doing my full length show I took the advise from someone who's opinion I highly respect and told the audience a story. And it wasn't just a really short story. It was about 15 or 20 mins which was a sizeable chunk of the show. It was fun to just tell a story and overall I think the story worked. I probably could've shortened it and made it just as good, but I feel good for having crossed that bridge and getting to the other side. It's official now. I'm also part storyteller.

Love Lies a Seriously Silly Soliloquy

She: So this piece of fiction called “20 Minutes with the President”by Charlie Sheen and Alex Jones posted up on INFOWARS.COM and other sites, is ironically about lies and conspiracy. The first time I read it, I thought it really took place until I got to the end. It seems like he's taking artistic license to use "lies" or deceit to address the "truth." Would you like to comment?

He: Yes why thank you I would. And my first objective would be to put all of this talk of lies and conspiracy into some kind of historical perspective because ever since the beginning of time, the human beings of mankind (that would be us) have not only been creating lies, we've also been hating lies. And now we've finally reached our natural limits. Human hate reserves have been continuously depleted to the point where it is no longer sustainable to continue hating lies....Ushering in a new era. Finally it's time to love lies.

She: Love Lies, what do you mean by that? You actually mean love as in love them?

He: Yes I mean exactly what I said. Love Lies. And I realize that this might sound kinda strange at first -but I guarantee at second, third, fourth and fifth it’s gunna start to make sixth, sense, Ladies and gents! For this limited lifetime of mine and ours I would like to offer to you, not one, not two, not three, not four, but five! फाइव reasons why to love lies! Starting with reason why number one, the beginning, the genesis, creation! Lies are human creations. We created them. They are our children. OK? Creating lies is what we do! That's what we do! Chances are your dad created a lie and lied it to your mum in order to create you. Or ya mum lied to ya dad coz that happens too. In which case you probably owe your life to a lie. You know you do, and so hating lies is not only like hating babies, it's also like being the hater of your creator. Why would you hate and despise what helped us all kick start our lives? And so, if hating lies is like hating our creations, creators and selves and hating ourselves is hurting ourselves and we dont need MORE pain and stress, but less, and loving lies reduces the pain and stress that hating them creates, and
less pain and stress is more joy, love and happiness.., then we need to love lies like our family yes, and our neighbors and ourselves. Or like the way we're supposed to love our family and our neighbors and ourselves a perfect world.

She: So you're asking us to love lies? How do we do that?

He: Yes. In fact this is the power I invest in you. Love Lies is not just the name of this seriously silly soliloquy, it's also my request of you....And I know it's allot to ask you to add another thing to the list of things to love,

She: True...

He: and normally, I don't do this, but in defense of this exception, let me address the 3 most common misconceptions.

She: OK...

He: Firstly, just because you love lies doesn't mean you have to love the liar. You can still hate the liar, just don't hate the lie. If someone is telling you lies and you know it and you wanna hate them for it, go ahead and do it, that's on you. I'm not trying to take that from you. Let the liar be hated. You can hate the liar, just don't hate the lie. And I know this might sound difficult, but The lie didn't ask to be created. It was just created by another liar. And secondly, just because you love lies doesn't mean you have to love the consequences of that lie. You can still hate the consequences. Using the analogy of the baby, you can hate the fact that having a baby means you need to buy more diapers, but don't hate the baby. And finally, just because you Love Lies doesn't mean you cant love the truth. You can love the truth too. This is not no hard and fast drying mutually exclusive rule of agreement like cement. NO! We can love both truth and lies together at the same time whenever we want. Loving lies is not about giving up anything you had before. It's about having all the things you already have AND having something more. OK? So as long as we have understanding on this I can continue.

She: OK, Understood. Continue...

He: OK, and this is one of the most mysterious question why’s about our lies. Why do we love to create them and then turn around and hate them? Create then hate. Create them then hate them, just like our celebrities. We build them up with billboards all around town …just so that one day we can tear them down! Did you know the most prolifically popular and profitable printed publications on the planet are them publications that publicly publish and print the personal private personal problems of our public celebrity people? with profits directly proportionate to 1. their popularity and 2. the perversity of the dirt produced...In other words the dirtiest dirt dug up on persons people dig the most makes the most profit....

She: True.

He: People, this is firstly pathetic and second, I reckon, it’s eventually potentially problematic for everyone -coz indulging in other people’s pain is straight hate and hate is dead weight and so! when are we gunna let it go?! -And feel free to stop stopping to stop off and pick up and purchase and put in our purses and bags them bad raggy mags that daggily sleazily nerdily bag our celebriti-teasily, teasily perve on them. Them words that was uttered or heard in them curbs and them gutters. How low the papparazzi’s shutters and lenses and flashes will go, to cash in on trashy news flashes that trash and assassinate these people’s character for cash from the masses. Trashy news flashes that trash and assassinate character for cash from the masses…. (repeat) Ohh the masses. Leave em alone. Who knows? One day you could become a celebrity. How would you like it? Pick on someone your own size of anonymousness. Our anonymousness is way up here and theirs is like way down there, so come on people, be fair.....becoz... Just like babies and celebrities, lies are human creations. Just like babies and celebrities, lies we made them. We love, made love them, love, it’s time to love all our creations. whoaaa creations. and that would be reason number one.

She: And reason number 2?

He: The hardest part is over. Once you accept treason number one, it gets easier from here on out. Loving lies reason why number 2! Is coz,...what if lies in some dimension are just like me and you…And forget about if all the hate you have for them comes right back to you, what if lies are just like people and simply wanna be treated equal...you know, to facts and truthful statements -get that good treatment, not the one like excretement? Coz compared to the truth, lies get treated like shit, it’s true, admit it. Compared to the truth the lies get treated like shit its so true so admit it. (repeat) ohhhhh admit it! That's reason number 2.

She: And reason number 3?

He: The third reason for loving lies, is coz if we ever made any serious tries to fight a war of hate against all the lies, you know like a serious one? Humans would be outnumbered…. about ten thousand million to one. Outnumbered people outnumbered… And have you ever wondered just how many lies are on planet earth? Including the ones from people who have already died on planet earth? So many you couldn’t even hate them all even if you tried. Coz on Planet Earth, there are way too many lies to hate them all. We would need way too much hate. Where we gunna get all that hate? How we gunna generate that much hate we’d have to start makin all of these great big mega - hate makin factories. Larger than the nation of our imagine-Do the maths. Do the numbers. Too many lies. Not enough hate. A battle that can’t be won there’s no choice but to love lies. Mathematics proves it impossible to do otherwise. So that's 3 out of the 5 reasons which means we're 3/5th of the way there. Remember that one?

She: Which one?

He: Three Fifths?

She: You mean three fifths, three fifths? As in three 5ths of a man?

He: Yeah.

She: Yeah

He: Well reason number four in one word is big. Lies as a collective whole and even some lies by themselves, without their extended families, are just too big to hate...coz when I say big, I mean every kind of big. Not just big in size as in big huge humongous lies, but also big in age as in them really old ancient lies and you cant even hate the big and old combo. That's like trying to hate a big old mountain. Who does that? Then there's big in effectiveness or doing what you do and you cant really hate something for doing what it does. Of course you cant a zebra for having stripes and running around like a horse. That's what zebras do . And you cant hate lies for covering up the truth. That's what they do, and some of them do a really effective job at it too, and then there's big in mathematics, multiplication, lies multiply, they also add up, addition and division, they divide of course, and that's a whole lotta big, and when something has that much big going on we gottta change the way we think. There comes a time to give up the hatorade and find a new drink...when they're too big to hate, better change the way we think. Better say goodbye to hatorade and find us a new drink....ohh a new drink. And lies, have a way bigger sense of survival intelligence than us the humans miss ladies and fella gents, coz while we create them for our defence, the big and strength they've already got going on, get's bigger and stronger at our expense, and you gotta love that coz it makes some kinda weird mysterious Jedi Gangsta warrior sense. Using someone elses defenses as your offensive at their expense? What? That's not the kind of swagga that you wanna have to fight against. and so loving lies puts you on the winning side of the fence.

She: Sounds like the place to be.

He: Exactly! And Lies have really big staying power. Lies are here to stay. Forever! They aint goin nowhere! Never! So we might as well love them OK? And I heard Mr Christopher Rock once say, that "I aint goin nowhere's' "I aint goin nowhere's' the most romantic thing a man can say, (coz that means he's never gunna leave your side, right?) And they say if you can't be with the ones you love, then love the ones you’re with right? Well lies have been with us since time began and till it ends they plan to keep their vow and This is that romantic know how And yes we can, use it to show how.To love lies starting from now. Whoa from now.

She: (Laughs)....you're crazy...

He: Thank you. And to finalize with reason number 5, I want you to close our eyes and do this 5 second mental exercise. We're going to contemceptualate upon a question. Contemceptualate is a word I made up. It’s conceptualizing while contemplating …on a question. And here's the question: If you think someone is stupid and ugly, do you tell them the truth and hurt their feelings, or lie and tell them they’re not? Now adding this piece of information to the contemceptualation equation: What if this person is your boss, and you really need the job to pay your bills so you can feed your children and stay alive? Now as you slowly open your eyes, recognize! that ...The truth is that the truth is not always the best thing to use in every situation। The truth (just like lies) can even cost you your life।

She: hahahhahaha (she laughs)

He: And entertainment is just like survival.... against a deadly rival. It relies upon lies, deceitful lies disguised to make surprises ...Whoaaaaa surprises. You have to ambush an audience just like an enemy! You can’t tell them where you’re coming from. How stupidly foolish would that be? No! you have to ambush them like an enemy, like beautiful colors attract fish to be eaten by fish-eating sea a-memma-manys. Amemma-nemmees.

She: (laughs more) You're funny.


He: Thank you. So there you have it, 5 reasons to love lies. Reason number one is creation, creating lies is what we do. Reason number 2 is fairness and equality....what if lies are just like me and you and Reason number 3 is quantity. There are too many lies to hate,...Reason number 4 is the notorious b.i.g. And finally, reason number 5 is protection, self preservation, staying alive..

She: Ok thank you Ratsack. We're out of time for now.

He: Thank you.

She: That was part one of Ratsack's response to Charlie Sheen and Alex Jones 20 minutes with the President Barrack Obama. Next up we've got,

Community, building stengthening neighborhoods.

I am looking for a place to have a regular event in my (fairly new) neighborhood in East Orange New Jersey USA. The purpose of this event is to strengthen community and build empowering bonds between us (those who live here). I will recruit other neighbors to take on defined roles (that I have documented) to help me put on this event. The event will have a format with a beginning, middle and end, (not too long) there will be food sharing, and general sharing all round including performances and other displays of creative self expression. To start it will be for 6 consecutive weeks in the spring or summer.I would like to find others interested in, or already doing this in your neighborhood/community and build a pool of knowledge and leadership between ourselves that can be used to expand the science and art of creating local neighborhood based community strengthening events. I have collected lots of information and experience about how and why this can be done effectively, that I have documented and would like to share and I feel the inspiration to continue web-logging aka blogging about this.
Yours sincerely
David "Ratsack" Mitsak
PH: 973 508 6339