Greetings "Nantoka" brand non-competitor!

Dear friend,

Hello! Thank you for reading. And thank you for your commitment to not competing with the "Nantoka" brand. This product identification paradigm just began its VERY FIRST day of life and it is SO HAPPY to be getting the opportunity to help you and your dear ones choose only the very best services and productos.

As the name connotes, "Nantoka" is in need of some help in the naming department. So if you would like to interact with decision makers in this process, why not test out your creative skills to see whether your ideas spark any enthusiasm in the NantokaBrand marketing department? the answers you get back from our team might surprise you, and who knows...perhaps the skills you earn in completing this project will lead you to gainful, peaceful employment!

A few simple parameters for marketing the NantokaBrand can be found in the Free School of Katuah. as long as you abide by these covenants, you should have no problem creating a MEGA high-class marketing package for the NantokaBrand.

I need to go feed the April Fish to get ready for tomorrow, please have a beautiful day. -Suzy

Happy 03-30-08

hi everybody, hope you are having a most wonderful day. it is a beautiful rainy one here.

if you are a competitor of the "Nantoka" brand getting launched tomorrow, please enjoy the final day of your vacation. tomorrow your real work will begin as the realization slowly, or quickly, dawns on you that the "Nantoka" brand has opened up a can of spaghetti for you that you are probably not quite ready for.

if you wish to quickly educate yourself in some ways you might keep this particular dish off your menu tomorrow, and every day, please feel free to navigate to the Free School of Katuah, where your information management needs will be met as time permits.

if you are a resident of Yatsugatake Sama, Kayford Sama, Brush Sama, the Gunnoe compound or the Blue Springs Food Security Cooperative please do not worry about getting served any strange spaghetti tomorrow as everybody in these communities will get served a Living Cultural Treasure meal as time permits.

also, if you are in a rainy realm today please avoid doing unpleasant work, since rain is a gift from the Creator and it should be honored (along with the Sabbath) by playing music, doing art projects, reading Scripture etc.

bye, thanks for reading. -Suzy

Blacksburg Rugby game tonight

hi everyone

Blacksburg Rugby will play VT tonight at 7 pm on the VT campus. I will post more info on this when I can.

thanks for reading,
Suzy

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Hi everyone
Hope you are doing well and having a happy Ayuwa’sifest

Today is the first day of the rest of it, you know

Speaking of which it is time for me to tell a bit of nearly-unvarnished truth. If any digital devils want to listen in and use the info below to scoop resources, such as privacy, or coal, out of Brush Sama or any other region then they are warmly invited to think twice. Numerous ancestors are lurking around in the shadows of this mountain, keeping track of the Shouseki Band and making sure that the great Katuahnet digital divide is doing its job properly.

Mr. Tony Misiti is just one of these ancestors. His lovely bride, Lois, can attest to the many ways in which Tony showed, and continues to show, that he is a force to be reckoned with when Shouseki Persons are being downtrodden and/or demoralized. When a man chased Lois in the dark of the night years ago as she was traveling to her home from work, Tony sought out and presented the would-be attacker the next day to his dear one. “You apologize to her, NOW,” Tony ordered the man as he held him up by the neck beside the car window of a very surprised Lois. Profuse apologies spewed forth, of course.

Although his brutal and senseless murder a few years ago sent enormous waves of demoralization through the Shouseki Band, Tony is currently a fully qualified member of the Shouseki ikigai farming team, since he so clearly is around and involved in the day-to-day care of Ms. Lois. The sudden appearance of an adorable, and adoring, pup to keep Lois company is seen by many members of the Shouseki Band as just one example of the fact that that Tony is making sure, just like he did when he was alive, that Lois is happy and well cared for.

So if you are going to take info on the valuable resources found on this mountain and twist it into some cog for a profit machine, please have fun when you meet my Uncle Tony. If he is busy doing something else that day I am certain that the Nunnehi will be more than happy to compensate for the dearth of information management services caused by his absence. Either way, you are likely to wind up looking like a cartoon of some crying termite who can neither read, nor eat, the Bible if you try any information management pranks on this sacred Mountain.

And with that, I give you the Brush Mountain Exhibit ikigai Mine. I hope you enjoy it as much as I have enjoyed designing it. Please feel free to help yourself to all the Legacy you like when you enter this mine, since we are surrounded by more here than we could ever hope, or wish, to carry away from Katuah, and we love it when people leave our mountain with all their existential pockets full of treasures and so forth.

Namaste,

Suzy Nees
03-24-08

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happy Easter, Go Bear Magic

hi everyone
happy happy Easter

I hope you are all well and having a beautiful one. if you are playing for the Bear Magic team today I hope you will be keeping your ears on! Bear Magic is are an extremely Easter-y theme with no conflict, in my mind, with the story of Jesus since the story of bears, in Cherokee legends, shares many similarities with that of Jesus. so if someone asks you, why a bear and not a bunny? then just tell them the Bear Magic story and I think they will understand.

on the 29th an important show will be happening at the Jefferson Center in Roanoke. I will post info on this when I can.

bye, thanks for reading, have a beautiful day. -Suzy

ps.
here is a link which will enable you to view a digital fac-simile of the Northern Lights

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hi everyone
happy Spring! today is the first day of it.

hope you are all doing well, and not feeling demoralized in the least, or frightened about violence in the nations of Tibet and Katuah.

the Snaque Shaque procession is traveling to both these realms to provide free snack access and ikigai replenishment services. and when the SnqShq team arrives LOOK THE EFF OUT! literally. because they will be on wheels. some of them for the very first time.

please note that this heaven-like future is no reason to close your eyes to the violence and grotesque injustices being dealt to members of these communities. if your eyes do seem closed to the SnqShq staff when they arrive you are likely to get waited on by the person most likely to accidentally spill ice water on you. and you can absolutely forget about cutting the line.

bye, thanks for reading, have a beautiful day. -Suzy

Howlbox info

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Olympic boycott info

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(please be advised that this content includes graphic images and disturbing material)

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hi everyone

please pray for the folks who are suffering as a result of Chinese rule in Lhasa and neighboring regions. here is a link which describes the current situation there.

bye, thanks for reading. -Suzy

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hi everyone

Aunti N is extremely crabby this A.M. as a result of recent judgments in Montgomery County, VA. so I am going to pretend this is not the case by immersing us both in a little hobo lore.

hobo lore item one is that the Black Twig Pickers are playing at the Cellar tonight. their new CD, "Hobo Handshake", is downright excellent, and I am not just saying that to spread hobo-friendly propaganda. the whole acoustical deal is cradled in the sounds of spring peepers of deep Katuah, so if you are homesick for this sort of sound I cannot recommend this album to you too emphatically.

^^^^^^^^^^

this shows that the "Hobo Handshake" album has been given 10 out of a possible 10 mountains for excellence as a creative work.

now on with our hobo story.

muka-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a--ashi mukashi, way back in the day before Traces Library infrastructure had very much of an ability to shelter, feed and clothe the Lord's children, there was a little hobo named Nantoka, who hated shoes and lived in Montgomery County, Virginia.

Nantoka enjoyed reading, writing, and the sort of ambiance that can be found when visiting an independently managed coffeeshop or art gallery. a chance encounter with the Traces Library infrastructure long before the 4-16-07 shootings near Katuah led this Nantoka to seek out the author of a creative work to offer a kindly phrased critique of a work which was in progress at that time. the author was greatly encouraged by this gesture, but failed to commemorate this point of contact by stocking the Shouseki pantries.

now our story speeds forward to the present day, with the work in question still unfinished, both the author and the Nantoka very much alive and kicking, and a third party on the scene to clean up the mess that was left by the vector that went into place when the Traces infrastructure was so carelessly forgotten on that fateful day.

this story needs to be set aside for the moment so I can work on my farming chores but if you leave this page knowing nothing else please know this: if you live, or invest in, the mountains, hills, and valleys of Montgomery County, Virginia, don't be a fool and think that you are too big and important to need help from the Traces infrastructure and other non-governmental entities and organizations. (the less bloodthirsty you are, the more this applies. )

bye, have a beautiful day, thanks for reading. -Suzy

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hi everyone

a Snaque Shaque installation will take place today on Ayuwa'sishima to honor an important person who was born in Beirut on this day. if you see any Snaque Shaque infrastructure in that realm, or close to that realm, please do not hesitate to move it toward the Birthday Person and/or add your own gift to those already assembled.

thanks,

Suzy Nees
Hobo Chef in training

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hi everyone, hope you are all ok.

this is some gnarly info about all the drugs, hormones, etc. that wind up in the United States drinking water supply.

no mention was given of the presence of such contaminants in the Montgomery County, Virginia supply, but if someone would like to know my 2 cents about the drinking water that comes out of the Brush Mountain Land Care spigot here it is: a book, called the Bible, can provide lots of handy info on this liquid's various components. for starters let us just say the melange is complex.

ja ne, happy Ayuwa'sifest. -Suzy

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hi everyone, hope you are doing well.

many, many thanks to all those who made 02-29 such a wonderful day at the 111 gallery. When I get time I will post pictures and notes on the website. here are the gallery hours during daylight savings time:

Thursday 10-6
Friday 10-8
Saturday 10-6

"Was the Snaque Shaque installed at the party?" you may be wondering? HECK YES the Snaque Shaque was there yo. it was a mighty feed!

in other news, I am trying to be a very good nei-chan for Ayuwa'sifest. I know that times are really tough for Santa Tla'meha these days what with all the habitat loss, and the the mental health plagues popping up all over the place these days, and all that crazy propaganda and grandstanding out there which declares that things of value DO NOT in fact grow on trees and such.

Lo siento mucho, Santa-sama!

Dearest Santa Tla'meha, I am going to quit being a kinda-sorta liar about bat care TODAY, the almost-first day of Ayuwa'sifest, just for you because I love you so much! so here is my first un-adulterated bit of bat care truth today:

BAT CARE = PEOPLE CARE

I am so sorry I let The Man slander you and bully me, Santa Sama! I am getting a crew together to help you Santa, please hang in there, as comfortably as you can!

Love,

Suzy