Kyi M. Kaung Art

Wny is the MF thanking the Supreme Court this week-- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0SRoPaA3UE  

https://www.theguardian.com/books/audio/2010/apr/15/sylvia-plath-ted-hughes just another marriage "made in heaven" that ended badly. 10-31-2020  

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xs0K4ApWl4g Now I've lived through shenanigans at Radio Free Asia where some of Burmese staff brought up volume of gun shots during a live broadcast by a reporter far away during a hostage situation in Ratchaburi on the BurmaThai Border; the time I made a serialization and dramatization of Animal Farm in Burmese (and the VP said "just do a book review"), and 9/11, and now covid, and I am familiar with the places near New York City, this seems much more realistic to me.   It is of course, Brilliant. I can believe people in 1938 thought it was real, and panicked, when today all sorts of BS is coming from the so-called prez, such as "We're rounding the corner on covid" and "You can put chlorox in body and disinfect it," and "maybe I'm immune" and "herd mentality." Hope by Wed. this living nightmare might be over, but we will see. Pl VOTE, if you have not already.  And have a plan, not ju

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YoLnHpPd1Og Thomas Friedman talks to Anderson Cooper abt what trump will do. “Is this the last weekend of America as we know it?”   10-31-2020  

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/health/2020/10/30/covid-news-us-9-m-cases-ihop-los-angeles-wisconsin/6077964002/ https://www.wesh.com/article/daily-us-coronavirus-cases-reach-new-high-thursday/34526601 https://www.clickondetroit.com/health/good-health/2020/10/30/kroger-pharmacies-to-offer-rapid-covid-antibody-testing-with-15-minute-results/ El Paso lock downs https://www.clickondetroit.com/health/good-health/2020/10/30/kroger-pharmacies-to-offer-rapid-covid-antibody-testing-with-15-minute-results/ 10-30-2020  

https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/theglobeandmail/obituary.aspx?n=penny-sanger&pid=190004416 She was wonderful.  She found us and started tourism boycott of Burma in 1994. Rest in :Power. Kyi May Kaung 10-29-2020  

Fighter jet intercepts--trump is clueless but tries to wing it. https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/28/politics/trump-rally-fighter-jet-arizona/index.html  

 https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/28/politics/supreme-court-pennsylvania-mail-in-deadline-barrett/index.html

FBI announces indictment of Chinese agents-- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnxDtghKRJ4  

4 people who've known trump up close assess the situation-- https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/oct/25/deep-down-terrified-little-boy-bob-woodward-mary-trump-john-bolton-anthony-scaramucci-on-donald-trump  

Tuesday, October 27, 2020 Dark Towers--Deutsche Bank's Nazi roots. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zkzRIi-Oqc My book has arrived, and I've wiped it with hand sanitizer, but not reading yet as new research says covid lives on surfaces 28 days, not 3. I have seen Auschwitz in 1968-9 while I was studying in Poland.  Deutsche Bank financed Auschwitz. Another book by Detlev Peukert maintains Nazis remained in then W Germany even after WWII.  I believe it.  10-27-2020  

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/putin-rejects-trump-s-criticism-hunter-biden-s-business-n1244731

  Who will win this year's US election? https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2020-election-forecast/

BBC: British commandos retake control of Nigerian oil tanker near Isle of Wight in 7 mins, at 7 PM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjqSGw8Cl18  

http://kusala.online-dhamma.net/%E6%96%87%E5%AD%97%E8%B3%87%E6%96%99/%E5%8D%97%E5%82%B3%E4%BD%9B%E6%95%99%E5%9C%96%E6%9B%B8%E9%A4%A8%20Theravada%20Buddhism%20E-Library/074%20Children%27s%20Buddhist%20Books/Buddha%20Life%20Stories%20(Myamnar%20Tradition%201)/0ymbabok.htm When we were growing up, we had a print copy of this, which we kept under our shrine shelf. And I just found out U Ba Kyi also went to Univ of Pennsylvania, School of Arts and Science, in Philadelphia, and he may have been selected for that scholarship by my father U Kaung.   In the 1950s, a number of Burmese studied in the USA or UK.  And then in 1962, after my father had passed away already, Gen. Ne Win stage his coup and stopped all scholarships to West, except for medical doctors. My husband's boss used to say, "Well, why doesn't he have a barefoot doctor cut into him then?" I also went to U Penn in 1982 on a Fulbright.  6 of us in a country of 60m were selected after a battery of tests, b

https://www.americanscientist.org/article/adventures-in-mathematical-knitting http://cosifantutte.co.nz/index.php?route=product/special 10-22-2020  

Covid-19 books for kids http://www.schoolmentalhealth.org/media/SOM/Microsites/NCSMH/Documents/COVID-19/COVID-Books-Resources.-For-Children-final.pdf  

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7mDvm_8Izv0

Buvanka--first incest daughter-- https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/ivanka-trump-coronavirus-pandemic-lockdown-guitar-poverty-b1186526.html  

Oxycontin maker to pay $8 b fine, going bankrupt. https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/21/business/purdue-pharma-guilty-plea/index.html  

https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/20/europe/peter-madsen-prison-escape-intl-scli/index.html

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/10/16/trump-rejects-california-disaster-wildfires/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/10/16/trump-rejects-california-disaster-wildfires/

My writerly memoir --A Time to Write. https://www.amazon.com/Time-Write-Burma-Memoir-Memoirs/dp/153977421X  

Dr. Fauci now requires a security detail-- https://twitter.com/60minutes/status/1317973049006837760 all due to 45's verbal bad mouthing and stochastic terrorism/inciting violence. He's still rallying with unmasked crowds who chant lock her up, against Gov Whitmer (13 arrested for kidnap attempt), and Biden "lock him up," still bringing up "Hilary's emails," and Hunter Biden. Just a little over 2 weeks left to election. If you live in USA or anywhere else, vote (if you can), and lay in food and supplies for unrest sure to come. Pelosi has set 48 hour deadline (Tuesday) for stimulus deal. Treasury yields rising.  Big deficit. 10-19-2020  

https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/19/politics/donald-trump-joe-biden-election-2020-coronavirus-fauci-masks/index.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3nwb9ZTyyU as corona virus surges. I would put in a 3rd layer, also with box pleats. Remember not to sew down the pleat along its length, as you normally would. I don't like a million things hanging on my ears, so use straps if you don't like elastic. Happy sewing and wearing masks. You can also sew, embroider or write messages with soft pen on your masks, such as BLM or VOTE or I am Speaking. kmk 10-18-2020  

US reports highest number of Covid 19 cases daily--Friday https://www.cnbc.com/2020/10/17/us-reports-highest-number-of-new-coronavirus-case-since-late-july.html  

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/10/14/dont-be-fooled-myanmars-democratic-election-is-sham/

  CA wildfires in pictures, from New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/19/us/california-wildfires-photos.html    and the MF denied wildfire relief.   #VoteHimOut

Trump rejects California wildfire aid (may he burn in hell) https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/oct/16/trump-administration-rejects-california-request-wildfire-relief-funds  

https://news.yahoo.com/trump-clashes-with-savanah-guthrie-on-covid-q-anon-and-white-supremacy-set-tone-for-nbc-town-hall-014056081.html    Flowers for Savannah--

#PropagandaBarbieMcEnany -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCEDix0hsOI Good riddance--paid liar. On our tax money.  

My novel Wolf + short stories and novellas     https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/km-kaung/wolf-a-novel-of-love-and-betrayal/   https://www.amazon.com/Wolf-Novel-Betrayal-Burma-Myanmar/dp/1479203882     http://kyimaykaungburmese.blogspot.com/2014/06/complete-press-kit-for-my-6-books-links.html I'd love it if you can write me a review on Amazon.   Posted by Kyi May at 1:07 PM  

Crochet shawl to die for, maybe be buried in. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cjk5r56wQvw I know the Hmong made complete sets for their own funerals, complete with embroidered robes, head-dresses and shoes, and when they converted to Christianity, they sold them off. I have a long coat made up of parts of Hmong cross stitch. It's always much admired whenever I wear it, and once when I was mid-sentence giving a talk, the Burmese girl next to me tapped my hand and asked, "Aunty, Aunty, where did you get that?" km 10-14-2020  

  https://news.yahoo.com/roberta-mccain-john-mccains-mother-193128263.html During the DNC, I was sitting on a bench with some black women at 30th St Station, Phila. when John McCain, with only one aid, passed right in front of me--about 2 ' away.   10-13-2020 --

https://www.bidsquare.com/auctions/smithsonian-cliff-lee/smithsonian-craft-show-artist-shops---cliff-lee-5689 Sure aren't Etsy prices and quality. If you are a crafts person yourself, you shld study the quality as well as the listing and pricing. For instance, the high prices at listed on top.  It's like going to Wh Foods and finding the least exp hand lotion on the lowest shelf. When toilet paper was scarce, I cld not find them, then suddenly they were near the checkout counter. Smithsonian is really for very well-heeled collectors, not the hoi polloi, but everyone should elevate their taste and aspire to excellence in one's chosen field, and artistic merit should be reflected in such prices. I don't condone kitsch and cartoonish Burmese paintings. A long time ago an opera singer, and another woman who showed me her paintings, said, "Don't give things away for free." Van Gogh in the popular imagination is depicted as &q

My fiction and non-fiction in Himal S Asia. https://www.himalmag.com/author/kyimaykaung/ The short story is based on something someone in Australia, well-connected, told me. He was driving me to see the Blue Mountains. km  

Covid can be contracted twice, 2nd round worse-- https://www.cnbc.com/2020/10/13/coronavirus-first-case-of-covid-19-reinfection-confirmed-in-the-us.html  

Auction Theory (a subset of Game Theory) economists win this year's Nobel. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/12/business/nobel-economics-paul-milgrom-robert-wilson.html As an artist and writer, I know abt art auctions and auctions for novel mss etc. Even the yarn, it's all $11.96 for Lion Brand Pound of Love at their store, any color, but on Amazon, the prices are as high as $18 for some colors, and a lot of colors are sold out.  Pink and white are the highest priced.  And it's made in Turkey. But at least my books are printed by Amazon in USA. Everything is made in China and quality control is not so good. km 10-12-2020  

WH flip flops again on stimulus package as it faces bi-partisan opposition. https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2020/10/11/trump-stimulus-talks/ Posted by Kyi May at 9:14 AM  

New Covid-19 info--pl read. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/oct/12/virus-that-causes-covid-19-can-survive-up-to-28-days-on-surfaces-scientists-find https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/11/health/covid-survivors.html   brain fog plagues covid survivors https://www.sciencealert.com/where-you-sit-in-a-classroom-might-influence-your-risk-of-contracting-covid-19  

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/oct/11/anthony-fauci-criticises-donald-trump-for-using-his-words-out-of-context    Never knew a so-called Wh or presdt  who lied so much. Must be super desperate.   His son Eric so "confused" --i e IGNORANT   said "vaccine" "cured his father"--   3 Lies   1.  There is no cure. 2.  Vaccine is not ready yet  3. his father is not cured, not even recovered.   That may be 4 lies.   10-11-2020

Covid outbreak on Utah mink farm.   https://www.huffpost.com/entry/minks-farms-coronavirus-utah_n_5f81ca81c5b6e6d033a31e11 watch your pets and wild animals you might interact with. 10-11-2020  

Senate Repubs join Pelosi in opposing trump's stimulus counter offer-- https://www.newsweek.com/senate-republicans-join-pelosi-opposing-trump-administrations-18-trillion-stimulus-offer-1538100  

https://smithsoniancraftshow.org/craft-show-videos/ Cliff Lee used to be a medical doctor, and gave up due to the insurance. He makes these melon-shaped ceramics. I first read about him abt 15 years ago, and he has shown here 15 years. km 10-11-2020  

Judge blocks TX governor's closing of remote ballot drop boxes. https://www.politico.com/news/2020/10/10/texas-ballot-drop-box-ruling-428493  

Old Burmese paintings in the collection of U Win-- https://www.yumpu.com/en/document/read/29222694/hla-tin-htun-thavibu-gallery Quite amazing how large this collection is. Some of the cronies or oligarchs are said to be the ones driving up Burmese art prices. So Mar Mar, the owner of Suvarnabhumi Gallery in Chiangmai told me. If so some of it may be drug money. I also read that one man has bought one of Sir Gerald Kelly's portraits of  Mawngpun MahaDevi (Queen) sometimes wrongly titled "dancer." Then there is Kelly's portrait of Daw Than E Fend, wh might have been inherited by Kim Aris. Anyway, I hope everything is safe-- Teza, said to be Shan himself, is said to have Nyaungshwe Sawbwa's photos. He posted some on FB. They should be returned to the family, also the property-- Peace and Reconciliation Committees in Burma are badly needed. It's a country based on injustice, that's why I dislike it. What I don't like abt the U Win collection is i

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PhjIS9kDzyU This is really beautiful. Good for the New Year to come. 10-9-2020  

VP debate fly swatter https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/08/business/biden-campaign-fly-swatter-trnd/index.html It's as good as the activist who cracked an egg on a politician's bald head. But only in the free world.  In Burma famous comedian Zaganar (Pincers) was arrested as soon as he stepped off the stage. 10-9-2020  

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/pelosi-introduces-bill-create-commission-presidential-capacity-under-25th-amendment-n1242717

My novella about FGM--fiction https://www.amazon.com/FGM-Story-about-Mutilation-Women/dp/1497497736#reader_1497497736  

https://www.amazon.com/Crib-Bed-Other-Stories-Transparent/dp/1499200757#reader_1499200757

Retired general will vote for Biden-- https://www.npr.org/2020/10/09/919610606/retired-general-backs-biden-says-a-2nd-trump-term-would-put-democracy-at-risk  

Michigan A G on foiled kidnap plot--"This president deals in extremism" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32cD11cZhdU  

suspects in custody. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_hwMlMZu_c Clearly the incendiary rhetoric of the instigator in chief is responsible.  My late pol sci prof Henry Teune always used to say, "It will be the age of warlords," and now here we are. 10-8-2020 cartoon by Clay Bennett  

Bestselling book on Trump and Deutsche Bank https://www.amazon.com/Dark-Towers-Deutsche-Donald-Destruction/dp/0062878816#reader_0062878816 Extremely well written. 10-7-2020  

Kamala Harris won hands down Congrats Q Tip interrupted, exceeded his time dozens of times Moderator hd to say "Thank you Mr VP" at least 3 times per questn. Sometimes 4 or 5 She did not want to let Harris talk abt banning choke holds. Harris made it short and to t point.  

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/07/health/new-england-journal-trump.html

Lincoln Project puts out Covita https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4tZVnbDq9B4 George Conway was prominent member of Lincoln P r oject, but he and his wife KellyAnne stepped back to "attend to their marriage" a few weeks ago. Now their daughter Claudia was on Tik Tok posting she is positive too, her mother lied to her and has been "coughing all over the house." I barely know what Tik Tok is, but Twitter keeps me well informed. Ready made horror movie script. 10-7-2020  

From The Guardian, "We are all Blanket now." (Michael Jackson's son whom he dangled out of window.) A rare moment of unity in the US election, as Donald Trump marked his return to the White House by gasping along with his detractors . On Monday night, the president puffed up the front staircase of his residence, his face coated in several more gallons of paint than the front elevation of the building. “Don’t let it dominate your lives,” he panted of the virus, a bad case of which tends to dominate your death. Yet there he was, this hideous kink in the arc of history, giving the most dangerous balcony performance since Michael Jackson had his baby crowdsurf off one . The American people are all Blanket now.   https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/oct/06/donald-trump-coronavirus-balcony-drugs Posted by Kyi May at 11:08 AM