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How To Be Hot

How To Be Hot, my new ebook, is being released this coming week!!!

I'm very excited, since my entire idea, which was pushed along by those in the know who thought everyone would benefit from my Hot Tips, was that I believe Everyone is Hot!

I see everyday guys and chicks who are all shapes, all sizes, and in all states of health, wealth, and happiness - too often, that means not happy - who I know have a Hot Self inside them, just waiting for the inspiration to be Hot!

So, I'm happy to share what I've been lucky enough to learn along the way in How To Be Hot.

It is available here : Ebookize.com, so indulge your senses, get ready for an entertaining and fun guide to becoming more attractive, happy, healthy, and cosmic, and join the Hot Mailing List, too!

Anti-Rand Rant - Ayn Rand, There Is No Virtue In Selfishness

OK. 

Having watched the Colbert Report, and realized that there are actually nut-cases out there who think that the weirdo, repressed he-woman, Ayn Rand, had any points at all, except those in her brain-damaged head, I have to weigh in on this.

There is no virtue in selfishness. Well, there is to the evil among us, but in civilized society, among the moral, the religious, the sane, the normal people, caringness for everyone takes precedence.

Rand was an embittered woman, unappealing, most likely attempting to gain the attention of a remote father, or to be the son he'd wanted, a twisted person who, in the time of great national suffering, during which, as now, there were not enough jobs or resources for most people, she would smugly decide that others didn't deserve anything - a dog-eat-dogism - and that the successful ( oh, please, don't resurrect the old God pre-ordained blessings on his chosen thing! ), merely work harder...where is concern for others ? Has the human overpopulation crisis already caused this level of hatred for the under-productive ? 

Which brings us to the point about which all this Ayn Randism has been dug out of a moldering grave to prop up the conservatives' notions about unfairness to them - the Obama campaign to bail out the mortgage holders. After all, who else do they have who would openly espouse selfishness as a virtuous thing to endorse (except for the odious pustule named Rush Limbaugh )? Why else would the hyper-conventional (they all dress alike ) Conservatives come out en masse for this extremely odd and subversive female writer ? Ordinarily they'd shun her like they would all other bohemian types!

First of all - if you own your own home, you're not desperate.

Why not help the ones who really need it? The renters?

These home-owners - many of whom heeded those stupid late-night ads and land-grabbed to the tune of, as in my neighbor's case, owning in excess of hundreds of rental properties - are not the desperate ones. I cannot tell you how many vacant homes I see every day in the beach areas. The Bush-men had given tax breaks to the greedy ones who wanted not one but TWO homes - and why not force these second homes to be offered (at a Federally-mandated low rate ) as rental properties for those who need homes?

This is a bail out to stabilize the banks, and the middle-grubbers in between them and the consumers, the mortgage industry creeps. The bottom-feeders who have the nerve to look down upon workers - whose industries have been closed down or moved to other countries ! Where is the sympathy and help for them ? The American Worker doesn't even have unions any more!

Oh, where is F.D.R. when we need him again ? Would that he, like Arthur, could return - but NOT Ayn Rand!

I, like many who voted Obama in, am not thrilled about many things the new administration is doing, but this is a move that should have the Repubs clicking their collective (Fascist) heels together!

It's giving money to the banks, essentially, which may or may not get to them if it's given to homeowners instead.

This could be good for stabilizing the economy, but it will do nothing to help the ones who sorely need help in this economy - those without jobs, without homes, renters, and so on.

I just cannot cry over those who own homes when so many others, less advantaged, are in trouble.

Why not choose another novelist to quote ? Let's go for Steinbeck now, at least, since he cared about the ordinary man - the masses - the disenfranchised - the elderly - the hungry kids - the single parents - the less-abled -  the poor.

So do I.

Quotes That Matter :

In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage. - John Steinbeck

Love others as you do yourself. - The Bible

Less Is More - by Ocean http://www.Ecoize.com

Less is More by Ocean, http://www.Ecoize.com

We’ve been urged to over-consume by all those wishing to profit o n 
our excesses.

Especially in America, land of the corralled buyers, we’re bombarded 
with ads, so-called studies, and other propagandistic promo that forces us 
to believe that o n a simple sandwich, piles and piles of goo and heart-killing 
fats and death foods are mandatory.

Actually, have you ever tried a sprout sandwich?

Yes, a sandwich with, maybe, Veganaise, or a dash of Bragg’s Liquid 
Aminos, or just some simple organic olive oil and Bragg’s Apple Cider 
Vinegar and a little Celtic Sea Salt?

It’s not o nly completely filling, but it allows your digestive system 
to operate, unclogged-up with all those extra and body-arresting cruelty foods 
you’ve been lied to about.

You don’t need all that protein. In fact, it harms your kidneys, in 
addition to causing all your energy to be centered in your gut, where the 
blood is pulled in its’ desperate daily task of doing something with 
all that garbage and those dead bodies you keep throwing into it.

Also, just the toxins in those death foods will lead to, well, you know.

Along with the hormones, the adrenaline, and the blobs of fat your bloodstream 
will be having to deal with, while it navigates through your weakened veins 
in an attempt to rid itself of these things your body was never designed to 
manage, you place heavy burdens o n your vehicle, in addition to burdens o n 
your soul.

Just like you can’t fool Mother Nature, you can’t fool yourself.

Inside, you know right from wrong.

You know that taking advantage of the weak by the strong is evil.

You know that taking the life from an innocent and helpless being is against 
everything you’d like to believe about yourself.

You know that you cannot divide your morality.

Either you’re good, and you do good to all of the helpless, or you are 
without mercy, and evil.

Those things are simple.
Your mind and your heart knows it, and your soul feels it.

Rid yourself of those putrid and dead corpses you’ve buried in your 
own body, cleanse them out by eating o nly compassionate, pure plant foods, 
and then gauge how you feel after o ne month.

Even after o ne compassionate meal, like that sprout sandwich o n toasted sprouted
grain bread, like Ezekial bread, found in the freezer of your health food 
store, then see how you feel.

Add a cup of miso soup, if you like, with some fresh cut-up garlic, and maybe 
a few cubes of tofu and a handful of freshly chopped herbs.

Divine!

Also, add a glass of stevia with ginger powder and/or cinnamon – doubly 
divine!

Finish with a cup of green tea, and you have a meal fit for royalty!

When you stop eating like a sewer and clogging your system like a stopped-up 
drain, you’ll feel tremendously better and your body will find time 
in order to heal and to repair those above-mentioned weakening veins, along 
with all your other systems.

You’ll begin not o nly to feel better, but to look better too!

Win-win-win-win situation!

You become kind, you eat kindness foods, you feel great, and you look great! You live longer, stay fit and able, youthful-looking, and happy too!

Veganize  today!

Ocean Blog

I'm a music artist who loves to endorse healthy, eco magazines like this one where I'm on the cover:

I'm also delighted to be instrumental in showing people how to get healthy by going vegan!

An interview with Ocean is featured on Famousveggie.com in their Celeb Interviews section, and here is a link - Ocean on FamousVeggie

I love to contribute my talents in order to help - I think it's the essence of happiness, and I adore being healthy, being vegan, and being compassionate.

I'm posting here since I already have a quasi-political blog I was asked to keep at Ecoize.com, named Ocean's Ocean, and I also do the Mermaid Blog, which is a fantasy tale ( and connected to an epic trilogy I have written called The Mers ), and this one is various musings, ideas, moods, and so on, so it's fun !

I like to think of ideas to help people, as I do on sites where I contribute articles on everything from living eco to helping animals (including us), vegan recipes, my own travel adventures, on being a musician, being a fan of classic films, being in love with history, into anthropology and other cultures, art, design, illustration, stories, and writing, among many other interests.

How do I find the time to follow so many interests, I ask myself. And I know that only because I'm vegan do I have such energy!

I don't do just one thing ever - for instance, I have two books I'm writing now at the same time! 

Also I am doing a series of paintings on a certain theme for a show.

And, of course, I do my music very often - meaning I produce tunes I write, and/or sing somewhere.

I have a real interest in making life better for everyone (of all species),  and every place, than it would have been if I had not been born.

Other Ocean Magazine Features, some Ocean Interviews etc. :

Click here for Ocean Magazine Features and Articles 

Ocean

I'm a singer and a songwriter. I also produce, write, and create artwork.

A vegan, I'm into love for all beings, and I volunteer to help rescue wildlife, as well as rescue domestic animals, aside from us humans, since we're domesticated, although we don't like to think of ourselves as tame.

We're more than corraled, branded, and owned, actually.

That's why we all adore images of wild horses, adopt logos and other emblems signifying freedom and primeval states, etc.

I'm under no delusions about it.

My name was given to me at birth, and I know I don't have much in common with the body of water, except that I love to surf/swim/be near it, etc.!

Speaking of wild horses, and tame ones:

Ecoize

I love to write thrillers, and I adore scary movies. I write what I like, and I'm very into twisted plots and weird characters.

I also write books on vegan food, health, spirituality, and on other subjects, like on historical figures I like to explore.

When I'm doing music all the times, it's great to switch to artwork or to writing - I always have the means to write with me, as well as to do music - that is, nearby - an usually a little recorder helps too - but the main thing I adore doing is helping, and I like to help someone every day - whether it's walking the beach to throw shells that have little critters inside back into the sea that have become stranded, or by posting on websites where people are looking for some sort of information I can provide, it feels great to help!