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garudabluffs · 5 years ago

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Tim Heidecker recorded Bob Dylan’s Trump protest song, ‘cos Dylan isn’t doing it

Bob Dylan's Trump Campaign Song (Demo) LISTEN 04:42 READ MORE https://thebrag.com/tim-heidecker-just-wrote-a-bob-dylan-trump-protest-song-cos-dylan-isnt-doing-it/

What Bob Dylan Is Doing in “Murder Most Foul”

March 28, 2020 READ MORE https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/what-bob-dylan-is-doing-in-murder-most-foul

Luminaries Against War Down Through the Ages

President Donald J. Trump: “From the first day I entered the political arena, I made it clear that I did not want to fight these endless, senseless wars.”

Howard Zinn: “We need to decide that we will not go to war, whatever reason is conjured up by the politicians or the media, because war in our time is always indiscriminate, a war against innocents, a war against children.”

<>Say and think what you will about President Trump, I do not recall any of his predecessors publicly having made similar statements and then tried to back them up with executive orders. Any US president must be very careful in opposing the "deep" state or risk being assassinated. Recall what happened and why to JFK!7 from War: Ruminations and Ruinations By Gary Brumback 15 pages

READ MORE https://www.opednews.com/articles/1/War-Ruminations-and-Ruina-by-Gary-Brumback-Carnage_Corpocracy_Deserters_Doomsday-191011-579.html

See the following references regarding JFK's assassinations: Fetzer, J. JFK and RFK: The Plots that Killed Them, The Patsies that Didn't. Voltairenet.org, June 13,2010;

Roberts, PC. JFK Turned to Peace and was Assassinated. Institute for Political Economy, July 20, 2018;

Talbot, D. The Devil's Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America's Secret Government. Harper Perennial, 2016.

“Amid this unprecedented crisis, the Pentagon, Energy Department and other military agencies, are seemingly running on autopilot, continuing to spend over a trillion dollars a year (including $13 billion on yet another new carrier, the USS John F. Kennedy, scheduled to be finished and ready for testing later this year), much of it on weapons intended for imagined wars against major powers like Russia and China, or intended for future interventions in countries around the world most Americans cannot even find on a map.”

3/30/20 Trillions for war, nothing for beds, masks, tests and ventilators: We Have Met the Enemy and It's a Tiny Virus

“All this spending on arms is happening as it becomes increasingly clear that the biggest threat to the security of the American people is not foreign militaries or terrorist groups, but rather a tiny virus that is completely immune to all the weapons, explosives, cyber defenses, massive surveillance programs, and troops armed to the teeth that the Pentagon can muster.”

READ MORE https://www.opednews.com/articles/Trillions-for-war-nothing-by-Dave-Lindorff-Corona-Virus-Coronavirus-Covid-19_Healthcare_Military_Pandemic-200330-275.html

#Dylan Murder Most Foul #JFK coronavirus weapons of mass destruction

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memorabletv · 6 years ago

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Aiden Gillen playing Dave Allen in 2018 BBC drama Dave Allen at Peace.

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markwatkinsconsumerguide · 6 years ago

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Consumer Guide / No.84 / Derbyshire-based artist Gina Marsh with Mark Watkins.

MW : You are a self-employed artist. How did you start out and how have you developed your style?

GM : I’ve always enjoyed drawing and my grandma was friends with a local watercolour artist, Margaret Hurd, who - despite being deaf - used to give me a few pointers when she dropped in for a cup of tea. I must have only been about seven years old but I remember her teaching me how to draw eyes.

My style is very versatile, has to be for murals really and adaptable to whatever look the client wants to achieve. If I'm painting for myself it's a different matter. Then I can be more messy, creative and hands-on using an oil and acrylic mix.

MW : Where do your pictures "hang"?

GM : I've done murals for private houses, a climbing wall in Sheffield, in bars and restaurants, hotels, shops, schools, hairdressers, beauty salons, Chatsworth House and for Mars at a convention in Barcelona, Spain.

MW : Where do you get your inspiration from?

GM : I draw inspiration for my own work from the local moorland and the idea of tempestuous relationships, passion and the darker side of human emotions.

MW : Do you work from a brief?

GM : If I'm doing a mural for someone I usually work from a commission or idea the client has of which I have some input and suggestion regarding composition, colour and detail etc.

MW : Tell me about your book collection...

GM : I've over 100, though I keep trying to be ruthless and pass them on after reading unless they are of sentimental value or useful for reference. As for genres : - novels, crime, drama, thriller, health & wellbeing, mental health, psychology, philosophy... OOH! and cook books - Diana Henry and Claudia Roden being amongst my most used. By the way, I love browsing in Waterstones!

https://www.waterstones.com/

MW : What are your Top 10 books?

GM : There are so many good books, it's so hard to choose just ten!

10) Paulo Coelho ~ Eleven Minutes (2005)

9) George Melly ~ Slowing Down (2005)

8) Andrea Levy ~ Small Island (2004)

7) Paul Kalanithi ~ When Breath Becomes Air (2016)

6) Henry Marsh ~ Do No Harm : Stories Of Life, Death And Brain Surgery (2014)

5) Gail Honeyman ~ Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine (2017)

4) Emily Bronte ~ Wuthering Heights (1847)

I'm such a cliché! one of my grandma’s influences. She bought me a lovely red leather bound edition of Wuthering Heights when I was way too young to read it but when I finally did, long after she had departed, it made a huge impact on me.

3) Adam Kay ~ This Is Going To Hurt : Secret Diaries Of A Junior Doctor (2017)

2) Albert Ellis ~ Overcoming Destructive Beliefs, Feelings And Behaviours (2001)

1) Albert Ellis ~ How To Stubbornly Refuse To Make Yourself Miserable About Anything. Yes Anything! (1996)

I've chosen this as I was introduced to Albert Ellis and rational emotive behaviour therapy by my Dad (who worked in this field) and it's a great practical realist guide to dealing with our emotions. Ellis teaches that we irrationally disturb ourselves with our thinking and how we can learn to unconditionally accept ourselves rather than criticising our actions and thoughts. He teaches cognitive reframing and conscious choice. Best of all, he does it with humour and encourages us not to take ourselves too seriously.

I must also add .. although I've yet to buy any of his books... just listen to his lectures on You Tube...Alan Watts - amazing!

Alan Watts was a philosopher who interpreted Eastern philosophy for Western audiences, whom I've just discovered. I want to marry that man! Shame he died the same year I was born! He wrote loads of interesting books on public ethics, the meaning of life and our relationship with the universe.

MW : What music do you enjoy?

GM : Depends what I'm in the mood for but I always love a bit of Kate Bush!

MW : What was the first record you bought?

GM : UB40's Red Red Wine (1983) although the 1967 version by Neil Diamond is much more emotive but I didn't know that when I was 10! In fact, if I'm totally truthful - though loathe to admit it, as it is not cool in any conceivable way - perhaps my first record might have been a Mini Pops album. Shameful.

MW : Tell me about the last movie you saw...

GM : It was Eaten By Lions - I watched it in Sheffield. Although there are two independent cinemas close by in Derbyshire (where I Live) which are much nicer! The Ritz in Belper, and The Northern Light in Wirksworth.

http://www.ritz-belper.co.uk/

https://www.thenorthernlightcinema.co.uk/

MW : What’s your favourite pub?

GM : Locally, there's a great pub up the road in Bonsall called the Barley Mow. They have an annual Hen Racing competition and it's said to be a hotspot for UFO sightings - though they brew their own beer so it could be something to do with that! Live music, acoustic nights, good pub food and a feisty landlady with a lot of charisma. It's tiny but has a lot of character.

https://www.barleymowbonsall.co.uk/

MW : What’s your favourite restaurant?

GM : Stones in Matlock if I'm keeping it local.

http://www.stones-restaurant.co.uk/

MW : What’s your favourite nightclub?

GM : Nightclub???? Well that definitely wouldn't be in Matlock ...aren't I too old now? I don't know ... Chinawhite daaaahling... never been.

https://www.chinawhite.com/

MW : What’s your favourite supermarket?

GM : Do people have favourite supermarkets? Depends on how affluent I'm feeling, Marks and Sparks? Waitrose? They have different nice things in. Realistically Aldi.

MW : What’s your favourite newspaper?

GM : BBC Radio 4 - for interesting debates and panel shows ; when I'm not being ancient - BBC Radio 1 for the charts on Fridays.

MW : What’s your favourite magazine?

GM : Used to be Dazed & Confused, Grazia, Woman & Home ... Damn! These questions are an eye opener for me just what a geriatric I've become, ha ha. I'm going to have to start telling fibs - Vanity Fair.

MW : Have you ever been in a hot air balloon?

GM : Yes, over The Clifton Suspension Bridge (spanning the Avon Gorge and Avon River) for my Dad’s 70th birthday. Very peaceful - all you could hear were barking dogs. I noticed lots of people in Bristol had outdoor swimming pools. We landed in a field of llamas which was entertaining.

MW : What’s the best advice you've received?

GM : To love one another. To remember everyone has their own agenda. Oh, and to be more selfish and stop running around so much - both of which I would love to be and do - but I’m not managing it thus far!

MW : Which famous people have you met?

GM : George Melly. Thora Hird and the cast from Last Of The Summer Wine when I was doing make-up at Shepperton Studios, in Surrey - and Peter Andre ... oh dear.

MW : ...who would you like to have met / meet?

GM : Much easier to answer! Charlie Chaplin - a genius and funny. Russell Howard, Billy Connolly, Dave Allen, Dawn French (all comedians), symbolist painter Gustav Klimt, philosopher Alan Watts, Alan Watts, psychologist Albert Ellis plus TV presenter (and political commentator) Andrew Marr.

They'd be fun and have a lot to talk about!

https://www.facebook.com/Gina-marsh-Artist-1197910996966231/

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drinktouch05-blog · 6 years ago

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The Bear’s Den, November 7, 2018

BEAR DOWN, CHICAGO BEARS, BEAR DOWN!!!!

BEARRRSSSS

Medina: Kevin White’s Healthy Scratch Isn’t Permanent, But It Did Send a Message - Bleacher Nation - Kevin White being a healthy scratch was unexpected, but it might not be a long-term thing. It all depends on the matchups ahead.

Dannehy: Bears Have Put Themselves in the Fight. Now They Have to Win it. - Da Bears Blog - By opening the season at 5-3, the Bears have put themselves in the fight. While they couldn’t win the NFC North in the first half of the season, they managed to put themselves in position to win the division or, at the very least, make the playoffs. They are in the fight. Now they have to win it.

Gabriel: Bears Offense’s Midseason Report Card - 670 The Score - Mitchell Trubisky and his cohorts have been solid but have room to grow.

5@5: Fair To Judge Trubisky By Bears’ Record? - 670 The Score - The Mully & Haugh crew debates a five-pack of questions every weekday.

Lunch With Larry: 11.06.18 - ChicagoBears.com - Bears Senior Writer Larry Mayer took fan questions during his usual Tuesday Q&A session to discuss topics such as Eddie Jackson’s play, the status of Khalil Mack and Allen Robinson and upcoming games against division opponents.

Fangio talks dominant defense in Bills blowout - ChicagoBears.com - Bears defensive coordinator Vic Fangio discussed the Bears’ dominant defensive performance against the Bills during a Monday night appearance on the Bears Coaches Show.

Biggs: Mitch Trubisky's big 3rd-down throws are the kind of plays he needs to make more often - Chicago Tribune - Mitch Trubisky had an underwhelming performance against the Bills, but the Bears quarterback made some impressive throws on third down.

Rosenbloom: Carpe Detroit - The Lions are just the defense to get Bears running back Jordan Howard going - Chicago Tribune - The Lions have allowed more than 100 rushing yards in six of eight games this season. They have allowed an average of 142.5 yards a game, third-worst in the NFL. They have allowed five runs of at least 40 yards, worst in the league. Looks like a great time for Matt Nagy to get Jordan Howard going.

Eddie Jackson, Kyle Fuller among PFF’s top defenders in Week 9 - Bears Wire - Chicago Bears defenders Kyle Fuller and Eddie Jackson were named to Pro Football Focus' Week 9 Team of the Week.

Bears QB Mitch Trubisky excelled under pressure against Bills - Bears Wire - Chicago Bears QB Mitch Trubisky excelled under pressure against the Buffalo Bills in Week 9's lopsided victory

Stankevitz' Bears film breakdown: Why two outstanding throws by Mitch Trubisky are 'vitally important' to his development - NBC Sports Chicago - Mitch Trubisky converted a number of third-and-long downs in the first half of Sunday's game, which are critical to his development as a quarterback.

Mullin: Ditka and Lovie were right, Bears, Nagy need to control their division first – or else | NBC Sports Chicago - The Bears' upcoming three games against Detroit and Minnesota take on added significance.

NFL writer goes in hard on Mitchell Trubisky, Bears: 'He can’t throw the ball inbounds half the time' - NBC Sports Chicago - Michael Lombardi, an NFL writer for The Athletic, went in hard on Mitchell Trubisky and the Bears during a guest appearance on the Follow the Money podcast.

Mullin: Bears at the ’18 halfway point - May have something historic in the making with Matt Nagy | NBC Sports Chicago - Assessing what the Bears have in Matt Nagy.

Chalk Talk: How have Bears coaches done in first season? - ChicagoBears.com - Senior writer Larry Mayer discusses how Bears head coaches have fared in their first seasons, safety Eddie Jackson entering last Sunday’s game in Buffalo on offense and how injuries to two tight ends will affect Adam Shaheen’s status.

Bears kick off 30th annual Coat Drive - ChicagoBears.com - As part of their 30th annual Chicago Bears Coat Drive, fans are encouraged to donate new and gently used coats at Chicago-area Jewel-Osco stores through Feb. 1.

2018 second-half predictions: Nine headlines from the future! - NFL.com - Will the Packers sputter out? What should we expect from Le'Veon Bell and the Steelers in the next eight weeks? Jeremy Bergman offers his predictions for the season's second half, revealing nine headlines from the future.

Jahns: Bears' first-half analysis, second-half predictions - Chicago Sun-Times - Halfway through the Bears' 16-game slate, here is a breakdown of the first half of the season and predictions for the second.

Finley: Bears' first-half analysis, second-half predictions - Chicago Sun-Times - Sun-Times Bears expert Patrick Finley breaks down the first half of the season and makes predictions for the rest of the way.

Finley: Bears want rookie Roquan Smith to chase a challenge that 'never gets solved' - Chicago Sun-Times - Glenn Pires set a high bar for the No. 8 overall pick, whom the Bears plan on quarterbacking the defense for years.

Potash: Bears look like contenders, but ’playoffs’ a dirty word at Halas Hall - Chicago Sun-Times - The Bears have lost 10 consecutive division games. They are 12-31 in the division since 2010, including 6-25 the last five seasons.

Finley: Could TE Adam Shaheen practice with Bears this week? - Chicago Sun-Times - The Bears have two tight ends in concussion protocol: Dion Sims, who was hurt Sunday, and Ben Braunecker, who suffered the injury the week before.

Campbell & Kane: 5 things we heard from Bears offensive coaches - Mitch Trubisky's pre-snap command, Anthony Miller's knowledge and more - Chicago Tribune - 5 things we heard from Bears offensive position coaches include Mitch Trubisky's command, rookie receiver Anthony Miller's knowledge base, quarterback coach Dave Ragone's two favorite throws of the season.

Campbell: 5 observations from rewatching Bears-Bills - Mitch Trubisky's hits and misses, the 2015 draft class, penalties galore and more - Chicago Tribune - The Bears trounced the Bills, 41-9, with an opportunistic defensive performance that outweighed difficulties the offense had in one of its toughest matchups this season.

Kane & Campbell: 5 things we heard from Bears defensive coaches, including how Khalil Mack is 'built different’ - Chicago Tribune - Bears outside linebackers coach Brandon Staley said he believes Khalil Mack is “at peace” with his recovery process from a right ankle injury.

Haugh: No Chicago sports executive is having a better year than Bears GM Ryan Pace, who is making the most of his 2nd chance - Chicago Tribune - Sticking with Ryan Pace offers a solid argument for patience so hard to find in professional sports. To Pace’s credit, he has taken advantage of his second chance to make a first impression by essentially hitting reset on his tenure as Bears GM.

Gabriel: Bears Offense’s Midseason Report Card - 670 The Score - Mitchell Trubisky and his cohorts have been solid but have room to grow.

5@5: Fair To Judge Trubisky By Bears’ Record? - 670 The Score - The Mully & Haugh crew debates a five-pack of questions every weekday.

POLISH SAUSAGE

Medina: Pass-Rusher Bruce Irvin Is Officially a Free Agent … Should the Bears Be Interested? - Bleacher Nation - You can’t have too many pass-rushers in this era of football.

KNOW THY ENEMY

Lions film breakdown: How much is Matthew Stafford to blame for 10 sacks vs. Vikings? - Pride Of Detroit - Was Stafford holding onto the ball too long?

Rich Gannon said something stupid about Lions’ Matthew Stafford - Pride Of Detroit - - Now’s the part where we get upset.

Lions waive Ameer Abdullah, sign WR Bruce Ellington, Zach Zenner - Pride Of Detroit - The Lions have a new receiver and it appears the Ameer Abdullah era is over.

NFC North Week 9 Recap: Top two contenders emerge in the division - Pride Of Detroit - It’s beginning to look like a two-horse race in the Black and Blue division.

Packers Transactions: Jermaine Whitehead waived, Geronimo Allison to IR - Acme Packing Company - One move was expected. The other was anything but.

Minnesota Vikings Trending in the Right Direction - Daily Norseman - The Bye Week Couldn’t Have Come at a Better Time

The Packers could fire Mike McCarthy no matter how 2018 ends - Acme Packing Company - At this point, the Packers head coach is the "This is fine" dog in the burning kitchen meme.

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT ON WINDY CITY GRIDIRON

Householder: Stock up, Stock down - Chicago Bears-Buffalo Bills - Windy City Gridiron - Who is playing good and who needs to improve as the Bears move into a division stretch

Wiltfong's NFL Power Rankings: The Chicago Bears are on a roll, but will they move up? - Windy City Gridiron - Let’s take a trip around the NFL Power Rankings to see where the experts have the 5-3 Chicago Bears ranked.

Leming: Chicago Bears second quarter report card - Windy City Gridiron - The Bears are halfway through the season but just how good have they been? Our second quarter report card is here.

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Source: https://www.windycitygridiron.com/2018/11/7/18070214/chicago-bears-2018-season-news-updates-analysis-game-eight-buffalo-bills-adam-shaheen-khalil-mack

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New Post has been published on https://shovelnews.com/isnt-growing-up-funny-and-sweet-the-not-quite-comedy-and-tragedy-of-kidding/

“Isn't Growing Up Funny and Sweet?” The Not-Quite-Comedy and Tragedy of 'Kidding'

“You’re not a person. You’re a man in a box.” Jeff Pickles’s producer, Sebastian (Frank Langella), who is also his father, is delivering a frank diagnosis of his son’s celebrity. But an undeniable cornerstone of Kidding’s appeal is that he could easily be talking about either of the character’s component parts. Showtime’s latest half-hour is located directly at the cross section of two legends: that of Jim Carrey, the comic actor for whom Mr. Pickles represents his first regular TV role since In Living Color, and that of Fred Rogers, the children’s show host who serves as the obvious inspiration for Carrey’s protagonist.

It’s not tremendously difficult to draw a line between the two men, whose preternatural talents for connecting with others gave them tremendous success while putting them palpably out of step with the rest of humanity. But in a strange bit of timing, Kidding arrives toward the end of a year that’s seen full-length documentary treatments of both: first Jim & Andy: The Great Beyond, Chris Smith’s Netflix feature revisiting Carrey’s Method transformation into his idol Andy Kaufman, and then Won’t You Be My Neighbor?, Morgan Neville’s unlikely hit codifying a legacy of radical kindness. Created by cable veteran Dave Holstein and directed, at least for its first two episodes, by Michel Gondry, Kidding has an impressive pedigree that’s nonetheless overshadowed by its supernova of a star. Several years ago, Holstein wrote a script about a children’s TV personality in crisis with Carrey in mind. Now that the finished product is upon us, it’s easy to see why Jeff is a perfect avatar for another nostalgia-laden figure marooned by his own cultural footprint.

My colleague Rob Harvilla describes the present-day Carrey who appears in Jim & Andy’s talking-head segments as “alluringly calm and frightfully intense,” both qualities he channels directly into his portrayal of Jeff Pickles. The film is, among other things, a cautionary tale in the side effects of extraordinary fame: the abhorrent behavior of Carrey’s past, in which Jim-as-Andy established himself as an unprofessional horror on set, but also the eerie idiosyncrasy of his present, in which Carrey remains convinced he was literally possessed by the spirit of Kaufman. The documentary is one of the most sustained and intimate portrayals of Carrey-the-man in years, yet it’s entirely consistent with the quirks on display in his more recent talk show appearances, let alone his Twitter feed. Carrey’s calling card these days isn’t exactly naivete, but it is a perceptible oddity that lends itself to Jeff’s.

Mr. Rogers never went to such public extremes. Won’t You Be My Neighbor? nonetheless makes clear there were certain trade-offs to being America’s sweater-clad conscience: for Rogers’s children, who had to share a parent with millions of their peers, and for Rogers himself, who appears noticeably out of sync with the adults around him. Kidding seizes on the uncanny contradiction of a Rogersesque entertainer — the soul of a child, in the body and circumstances of a grown man — and places Jeff Pickles against a very different backdrop. Rather than the postwar heyday of American public broadcasting, Jeff preaches his gospel of kindness and empathy in the ruthlessly capitalist landscape of 21st-century programming. And rather than a peaceful home life, we meet Jeff in the depths of a profound personal tragedy: one year before the events of the pilot, he lost one of his twin sons in a freak car accident.

“My family is shriveling up like a Polaroid in a puddle,” Jeff tells Sebastian, his voice a soulful whisper. “I need to pull it out before it falls apart.” It’s too late for that. Jeff’s surviving son, Will (Cole Allen), is acting out, smoking weed in a cemetery and stuffing bees into the trunk of his mom’s car. Jeff’s wife, Jill (Judy Greer), is really his soon-to-be-ex-wife, a fact Jeff is in denial about until he learns in the final moments of the pilot that she’s seeing someone else. It’s this discovery that finally unleashes some of the anger that Jeff is clearly holding just beneath the placid, patient surface.

This is, to put it mildly, a profoundly tragic role for a master of comedy to take on. But we’re long past the point of hand-wringing over whether comedies can be sad, or whether half-hour shows have to be comedies at all. Dave Holstein is an alumnus of Weeds, where Jenji Kohan prompted critics to put the ungainly portmanteau “dramedy” into heavy circulation. (Holstein also wrote on I’m Dying Up Here, the ’70s series that Carrey executive produces.) More than 10 years later, the Emmys have tied themselves into a pretzel trying to make an arbitrary distinction look rational, while series like The Girlfriend Experience, Vida, and the forthcoming Homecoming have left audiences more comfortable with the 30-minute drama.

Kidding has humor, but it’s the melancholy kind that feels true to the actual experience of grief, especially when it befalls someone whose existence seems so separate from the vagaries of adulthood. “Isn’t growing up funny and sweet?” Jeff sings to a rapt Conan audience in the opening scene, a line that doubles as a thesis statement for a good chunk of contemporary television, Kidding included. Almost all of the jokes come from juxtaposition. Jeff, trying with all his might to buy his own silver-lined bill of goods, responds to expletive-laden road rage with a cheery wave. With Langella’s soothing baritone, Sebastian certainly sounds like a Mr. Rogers type, but what he says sounds more like Mr. Burns. It’s he who forbids Jeff from discussing their family’s loss on air, his genuine concern for his son’s well-being (“Sometimes when we think we’re opening up, we’re actually falling apart”) mixing uncomfortably with his desire to protect “the $112 million licensing industry of edutaining toys, DVDs, and books that keep the lights on in this little charity of ours.”

Rather than the full-commitment slapstick Carry is known for, Jeff Pickles puts the actor’s comic talents to a different use: selling Jeff as every bit the beloved touchstone Carrey is in real life. An all-time great impressionist has little trouble slipping into the voice of an anthropomorphized instrument named UkeLarry, or crooning a lullaby that likens death to a lost stuffed animal. When the cameras are off, though, Jeff is an open wound. Carrey practically exudes raw feeling, and therefore raw pain; you can feel your tear ducts activate just looking at him. Kidding reunites Carrey with Gondry, and though the story requires less high-flying magical realism than Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Gondry ekes a similar vulnerability out of his lead. Jeff was already a man existing in a world that wasn’t made for him or his pure-hearted optimism. Now he’s living a life that isn’t, either.

At the end of Kidding’s pilot, the family ties between Jeff, Sebastian, and other characters are treated as something of a revelation. Along with Deirdre’s daughter, the fractured family unit meets in the spartan, Ohio State–adjacent studio where Jeff has opted to spend his renewed bachelorhood. Jeff rationalizes Phil’s death and folds it into his Panglossian worldview by telling himself it must have served a purpose — that the sweets truck collided with Jill’s minivan due to a malfunctioning traffic light for a reason. He’s staving off the inevitable, spirit-crushing revelation that sometimes bad things are both bad and pointless. But for now, he’s clinging to the only structure he’s got left. One gets the feeling that Jeff, and Kidding, are on the brink of something great and terrible.

Source: https://www.theringer.com/tv/2018/9/9/17832946/kidding-jim-carrey-episode-1

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alamante · 7 years ago

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(Reuters) – Six weeks covering Native Americans at Standing Rock, North Dakota, protesting the Dakota Access oil pipeline presented a unique opportunity to get to know many of the people who took a stand there.

Lakota medicine man Ivan Lookinghorse from Cheyenne River Reservation south of Standing Rock Reservation was one of them.

In 2018, Ivan invited me on a ride by the Lakota (Sioux) people to mark the 150th anniversary of the Fort Laramie peace treaty between the Sioux Nation and United States government.

Under the treaty, the federal government recognized the Black Hills of the Dakota Territory as part of the Great Sioux Reservation and hostilities ended between the Sioux and white settlers.

The ride of some 400 miles (640 km) would start in mid-April at Green Grass, South Dakota, home to the spiritual leader of all the Lakota, Arvol Lookinghorse, Ivan’s brother. It would end in Fort Laramie, Wyoming, where the treaty was signed.

Getting to Cheyenne River Reservation and its main town, Eagle Butte, entailed flying to Rapid City, South Dakota, then driving three hours to Eagle Butte. Despite a snowstorm, Ivan was waiting to greet me.

The security team for the ride, some of whom had worked security at the protests, were with him. After Standing Rock, some of them moved down the Missouri River to the Lower Brule Reservation, where they “could live like their ancestors, except with Netflix,” Alton One Feather Sr. explained.

The next morning, Ivan, his friend Uma, the six-member security team and I drove the snow-packed roads to the tiny community of Green Grass.

Other organizers from the Standing Rock and Pine Ridge Reservations arrived. We climbed a hill and, hand in hand, formed a circle, turned to the four cardinal directions and shared a pipe while Ivan sang a Lakota song. Lakota ceremonies cannot be photographed or taped because they are sacred, so documenting various aspects of the ride could be difficult. Ivan said not to worry.

Some people brought horses in trailers. They said Arvol had 100 horses, some wild, some broken. He offered several to relatives and others for the ride. I would not be simultaneously riding and photographing so a car was also needed.

Everyone reconvened at Arvol’s place early the next day. The sun glinted off snow-covered hills as the cadre of riders grew.

After a prayer, a motivational speech and song, the riders headed up a hill and out of sight. There was great pride among them.

“The treaty is kind of all we have,” said Wes Redday. “It’s what gives us what little we still have.”

The treaty is often fodder for conversations among the Lakota, many of whom say they are descended from one of the chiefs who signed it. Some even have a painting or photo of that chief.

“If you look deep, a lot of people are related to them. When our father was alive, when our grandfathers were alive, they kept it going, they talked about it in Lakota,” said Allen Flying By of the Standing Rock Reservation.

“It means the world to us because it maintains our sovereignty, it maintains our identity.”

Jake Frazier (C wearing blue), circles up after a day of riding, along with other Fort Laramie treaty riders, in Harrison, Nebraska, U.S., April 24, 2018. REUTERS/Stephanie Keith

Horses, sacred to the Lakota, eat before people, so early each day they were fed and watered.

Dawn and dusk found riders and horses in a circle waiting to be “smudged.” A person would pass with sage, a sacred herb thought to cleanse, smoking in a coffee can lashed to a pole. Everyone pulled the smoke over themselves and the horses.

Afterwards a prayer, maybe a song. If it was morning, the riders would set out single file behind one rider carrying a sacred staff. At night, horses were corralled before dinner.

We rode from Green Grass through the Cheyenne River Reservation to a Native American settlement called Bridger. People in each community brought food for the riders. In Bridger, we ate fry bread, chicken soup and buffalo stew. Later, we rolled out sleeping bags at the community center.

The first stop outside the reservation was Wall, South Dakota, where the riders stayed in cold and rain for three days at muddy rodeo grounds behind budget hotels and an Interstate highway. Despite the bleakness, spirits were high.

The Cheyenne River Reservation cook, a salty man named Kermit, pitched a tent and cranked out meals, helped by a few rider volunteers. Others did what they called “Hollywood-ing,” got a shared hotel room where they could shower.

As it moved through Indian Country, the ride picked up Lakota, Dakota, Nakota, Arapaho and Cheyenne, all related tribes, all signers of the treaty. Some boys from Bridger joined with just the clothes on their backs.

Next stop: Pine Ridge Reservation, where so much has happened. In the shade of a tree, Dave Swallow explained, “We may be poor in the white man’s way but we are not poor in the Lakota, Dakota and Nakota ways because we are connected to this earth and connected to above and everywhere.”

For two nights in Pine Ridge, accommodations were a middle school gym and campsite beside a reservoir.

Moving on meant leaving “Lakota land” for Nebraska, where riders primarily rested on roadsides and relied on camp cooks for food.

Then one evening at a rest spot they found Santee Sioux from the Santee Reservation and Dakota from the Lake Traverse Reservation, known colloquially as Sisseton, waiting to join, and spirits soared. A ceremony honored them and those who had ridden so far.

As the sun set, smoke rose from two kitchens, the flags of various groups were displayed and their leaders spoke. Later, children played with lassos.

With Fort Laramie two days away, people excitedly wondered which other Native groups would be there and who would represent the federal government. There were ceremonies and drumming, tepees were pitched, people visited around fires.

Reaching Fort Laramie was a triumph given the long, arduous ride and momentous occasion being celebrated. Riders circled ceremonial tepees and crossed a river to the site of the signing.

But Harold Frazier, chairman of the Cheyenne River Reservation who rode almost the entire way, still felt disappointed that while Wyoming Senator John Barrasso attended no other federal senior officials were there.

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Is Financial Literacy At An All-Time Low?

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Many of you need read no further. You’re already shaking your head and telling your computer screen, “Yes.”

Some of you might be intrigued by the topic, and want to know where this is all going.

Others will vehemently disagree with the stance I’m going to take in the following story about two potential renters I encountered last month who were completely, utterly unqualified to submit an offer to lease.

Let me begin today with a personal anecdote…

Oh, the irony of that photo. Am I right?

Here I am, about to lecture “young people” on financial literacy, and I’m so old that I think people still read books!

And they use “spectacles” too.

Well, I don’t own a Kindle, and I never will. There’s something about running my fingers down the page of a fresh book (not to mention inhaling that “new book smell”) that I love so much, as well as the bizarre sense of pride I feel when I put a finished book up on my shelf as some sort of trophy, as if to say, “I read that!”

I ran out of bookshelf space a long time ago. In fact, all of my books are in storage, because I have this other bizarre idea that when I move into a house with room, I’ll display them once again.

Now before I dive into today’s story, I want to ask a cynical, and seemingly-rhetorical question:

Do ‘kids today’ read anymore?

I’m serious. Does it happen? Or is every book turned into a movie with an actor named “Zach” or “Blake,” and kids just watch a reenactment of whatever high school textbook they’re supposed to be learning from?

When I was 19-years-old and had just finished my first year of undergraduate business school, I was working out at the old Dunfield Club on Eglinton Avenue, and I knew a guy there who I called “Big Mike.” He was actually short, but thick. You gym rats know what I mean.

Big Mike was old-school, both in terms of how he worked out, as well as how he perceived the financial markets, and personal finance.

Big Mike wore an inside-out, XXXL sweatshirt, cut off at the bottom. Gym rats – can you picture it? He wore a ragged ballcap with a leather strap at the back, and pants with a stripe. He was a throwback to the old days of weightlifting, when Lee Haney was young.

I was an up-and-commer, and by that I mean was a university kid who had so much time on his hands, he spent 2 1/2 hours per day in the gym. Some people throw a frisbee, right?

I’d see Big Mike at the gym in the afternoons, and we would only talk about two things: weightlifting, and finance.

In between sets – back when you took five minutes before your “big lift,” Big Mike would give me advice on schooling, career paths, investing, and personal finance.

One day he asked me, “What book are you reading right now?” I think I told him I was reading a fantasy football magazine to prepare for my upcoming draft, and he said, “You mean you don’t read?”

I told him that I read a lot, actually. More than most kids my age outside of school. That year I had read biographies on Muhammad Ali, Bruce Lee, Ken Shamrock, Arnold Shwarzenegger, and a few books on the human body, and health and nutrition.

Big Mike laughed and said, “Okay, well you seem to have a one-track mind. But why don’t you mix in some reading about the financial markets, investing, and personal finance?”

The thought had honestly never occurred to me. Even though I knew nothing, for some reason, I thought that was par for the course.

Over the course of the summer, Big Mike continued to quote books, over and over again. He’d tell me something about bollinger bands or exponential moving averages, and say, “Pring, have you read Pring?” even though he knew that I had not.

By the end of August, as I prepared to head back for second-year, I found Big Mike in the gym and said, “Okay, give it to me. Give me a list. You name a book, I’ll read it.”

And name them, he did…

Big Mike gave me the names of ten books to read, and I read every single one of them.

I can only remember nine of them off-hand, the last one escapes me. But here’s the list, as I’m sure many of you have read some of these as well:

The Intelligent Investor, Benjamin Graham (1939) Technical Analysis Explained, Martin J. Pring, (1985) A Random Walk Down Wall Street, Burton Malkiel (1973) The Wealthy Barber, David Chilton (1989) Rich Dad, Poor Dad, Robert Kiyosaki (1997) Creating Wealth, Robert G Allen (1983) Think And Grow Rich, Napoleon Hill (1937) How To Be Rich, J. Paul Getty (1965) Financial Peace Planner, Dave Ramsey (1998)

I can honestly say that I didn’t understand Benjamin Graham, and that I had to read Martin J. Pring’s book twice to even comprehend the subject matter. But I remember this book came with a “CD-ROM,” which was a big deal back in 1999!

Books like “Creating Wealth” were old and out of date, and you’d laugh if you read it now and compared it to the Toronto real estate market. I loved this guy – talking about flying to Dallas in the morning, buying a house that was cash-flow positive by a thousand dollars per month in 1980’s dollars, and then flying home in the evening.

But the takeaways from these books were phenomenal. And even if the subject matter is dated – like Napoleon Hill on personal finance in the 30’s, the ideas still make sense.

So what is my point to all of this?

I think many of you know where this is going…

Back in January, I started the 2018 year on T.R.B. by talking about debt.

In fact, I wrote two blogs on the subject:

“What Is The Government Doing To Tackle Consumer Debt?”

“Household Debt Vs. Mortgage Debt”

One of the themes presented in the 200-something comments from TRB readers was that, perhaps, financial literacy is at an all-time low.

If you haven’t read the blogs, I encourage you to read them. Not just for my stories about personally witnessing consumers and how they handle debt in 2018, but also because of the readers and their observations and opinions.

The one mistake that I made in both those blogs was having the assumption that every man, woman and child out there today is financially literate.

As the readers pointed out, there is no “Personal Finance” course in school.

And as others argued, and as I would agree, the public education system in Ontario has been bastardized to the point where kids aren’t taught any true responsibility or accountability, nor do they suffer any repercussions for their actions (or inactions).

And it’s getting worse, folks! Don’t believe anything to the contrary.

Here’s an excerpt from an internal high school memo that I recently read:

….among the recommendations is to phase out the Grade 9 math test, as well as the Grade 10 Ontario Secondary School Literacy Test, which is currently one of the requirements to earn a high-school diploma.

Instead, the report recommended implementing a new Grade 10 assessment that is not a graduation requirement to assess literacy, numeracy and other skills.

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Great.

Set the bar even lower now.

I mean, why would we want kids to be literate?

Just implement an “assessment” that is not a requirement for graduation. If they all score zeros, we still drink fruit punch and eat cookies!

On the same day I read that internal memo from a Toronto high school, my brother told me that his 8-year-old child had five upcoming exams at her private school in England.

How in the world do we expect today’s young adults to be financially literate, and responsible, if we never teach it to them?

I had a recent listing for a King West condominium, listed at $2,400 per month.

Sadly, this is now what a 1-bed, den, 2-bath unit costs, but the market is the market, and it’s not my job to play social worker to the tenant-pool.

One of the offers that I received on the condo just blew my mind, and not in a good way.

Not to be overly dramatic here, but it made me wonder how the next generation is going to survive on their own.

The application was from a young couple, who were offering the full $2,400/month list price.

And they were so far from being “qualified,” I just didn’t know what to make of it.

She worked for minimum wage. No exaggeration – it was in her job letter. Assuming $14 per hour, over 40 hours, and 52 weeks, that’s $29,120 per year.

He was self-employed, but showed no income. That’s right �� no job letter, no income verification, no pay stubs, no bank statement. Nothing.

He had $486 per month in student loans payable.

She had a credit score of 634.

He had a balance of $1,900 on his $2,000 credit card, $8,000 on his $10,000 line of credit, and $9,000 on his $15,000 line of credit.

And here they were, trying to tie up a $2,400 per month rental.

Folks, tell me I’m unsympathetic, but why in the world are these two trying to lease a condo for $2,400 per month, plus hydro?

That’s $30,000 per year in rent and utilities, for two people who, by all accounts, make a combined $29,120 per year.

I know, I know – he is self-employed, and likely makes something. But it’s curious that he chose not to show any proof of income. The application said $3,000 per month, so even if we take him at his word, that’s $36,000, plus her $29,120.

$65,120 of combined gross income, trying to rent for $30,000 per year.

These guys are going to spend 46.1% of their gross income on rent?

Let’s assume that the self-employed gentleman is making $25,000, since anybody that says they’re making $36,000 and provides no proof of income would be lucky to be making $25,000.

Now they’re looking to spend 55.4% of their gross income on rent.

An acceptable GDS ratio is in the 32% range, so what in the world are these two thinking?

I know the answer – they’re not thinking.

They found a pretty condo in a cool area that they like, and despite having a GDS ratio of 55.4%, and paying back $486 per month in student loans, and having almost $20,000 in combined credit card and line of credit debt, they felt this was a solid move.

And this line of thinking, I do not understand.

You can tell me I’m a cold-hearted capitalist, or that I’m an asshole real estate agent that doesn’t know what people in this city go through, or something else, and something else after that.

But I’ve always maintained that I am a realist.

And realistically, these two should be looking for a 1-bed, 1-bath basement apartment for $1,200 per month, so they can get out of debt, pay down their student loans, and save some money.

They should not be looking at a $2,400 per month King West condo.

Wow, I feel like I’m parenting these two. I might be far closer to 20 than I am to 60, but it sure doesn’t feel that way.

Is this really the future of this generation?

You want what you want, and you’re just going to go for it? Balls-to-the-wall, Y-O-L-O and all that?

Forget financial responsibility, let alone financial reality.

Financial literacy is a thing of the past.

I understand that this city is expensive, but unfortunately not everybody gets to rent a King West condo.

Perhaps this is a generational thing. Perhaps these two represent a small segment of a maturing part of the population.

But what if it’s not?

Will we ever look back and admit that taking accountability and responsibility (not to mention the times tables) out of the public education system was a recipe for disaster?

Honestly, folks, when did it become uncool to be financially literate in today’s society?

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David Cannadine’s Victorious Century: A bit too victorious, if you ask me

A couple of months back I bounced a post, pithily entitled Forward!, off Kyle Sammin’s review in the National Review of David Cannadine’s new book, Victorious Century, The United Kingdom 1809-1906. I said at the time “I have read the introduction, and I’m definitely looking forward to the rest. Kyle’s review only encourages my appetite.” After finishing VC, I can only say that my appetite for an intelligent contemporary take on Victorian times is still whetted and still unsatisfied. In brief, Dave’s new book is very largely a disappointment.

Unless I’m deeply out of touch with the rest of America, and on this point at least I don’t think I am, I am significantly better acquainted with England’s fabled Victorian Age than most Yanks, having read the relevant volumes from both the original Oxford History of England (begun in the 1930s but not finished until 1960) and the New Oxford History of England (finished in the early 2000s), three fat volumes in each case.1 So, clearly, I am a glutton for the times, and, just as clearly, Mr. Cannadine failed to assuage said gluttony.

It was Mr. Cannadine’s preface, I think, that chiefly aroused my interest, providing an entertaining autobiographical reminiscence about growing up in the 1950s in quasi-Victorian Birmingham:

“Much of the Birmingham where I grew up would have been instantly recognizable to Joseph Chamberlain, who had been by turns a reforming mayor, an advanced Liberal, and an assertive imperialist …. This was especially true of the magnificent ensemble of public buildings surrounding the square that bore Chamberlain’s name: the Birmingham and Midland Institute, the Reference Library (where I spent many happy hours), the Town Hall, the Council House and Art Gallery, and Mason College. Corporation Street was very much as Chamberlain had created it, the tramlines remained in many of the cobbled city-centre thoroughfares, and just a short distance away was Edgbaston, a quintessential Victorian suburb, where some of Chamberlain’s descendants still lived. My four grandparents had all been born during the 1880s, and they seemed to me very old, and very Victorian; they invariably dressed in black, as if still in mourning for the Gas-Lit Gloriana who had reigned during their youth.”

Now, of course, all’s changed, and how refreshing would it be, now that the battle’s lost and won (all of them), to take a look back, to deconstruct and reconstruct the past in the light of today?

Cannadine gets a number of things right, noting how Britain won its greatest victory, defeating France as its imperial rival once and for all, almost entirely due to Napoleon’s absurd insistence on conquering not only western and central Europe but eastern Europe, and Russia in particular, as well.2 Yet he’s reluctant to paint all of England’s warts—for example, the “Second Battle of Copenhagen”, in 1807, during which British ships pounded the city for three days, destroying most of it and killing 2,000 citizens, more or less to warn the Danish to behave themselves.

Kyle Sammin’s review highlighted Cannadine’s unwillingness to explore the relentlessly expansionary (expansionary and exploitative) nature of the British empire, which I seconded and will second again. In discussing the Boer War, Cannadine does not mention the pledge of Lord Salisbury, the British prime minister, that Britain had no intention of conquering the Boer Republic, a pledge that was violated in the extreme, because Britain swallowed the whole thing. Also unmentioned is the law Britain passed afterwards, making it a felony to teach black Africans to read or write, or learn any skilled trade whatsoever. Black Africans were herded onto tribal “homelands”—land that the white settlers did not want for farming—that were far too crowded to allow the Africans to farm for themselves. The whole point was to force them to work in the gold and diamond mines for starvation wages, and when they still refused to work for the wages the mine owners wanted to pay, starving Chinese peasants were imported instead, herded into work camps and treated as virtual slaves. (Cannadine “explains” that there was a “labor shortage”). I’m sure an Indian reviewer might have a few quibbles as well, regarding Cannadine’s treatment of the Jewel in the Crown.On the other hand, his treatment of Ireland, always a "difficult" question for English historians, is better than most attempts I've seen, recognizing that the English never were willing to recognize that "union" for Ireland meant "oppression".

Cannadine is properly critical of Queen Victoria’s overly imperial ways, criticizing her mistreatment of her bête noire, four-time Liberal prime minister William Gladstone, in particular, but avoids all mention of her most amusing foible, her hidden affair with John Brown, a Scotch “gillie” (“outdoor servant”), who, she convinced herself, was possessed by the spirit of her beloved late husband. Victoria showered gifts and affection on Brown, created medals to be awarded to him, had his portrait painted and statues made. Most of these were destroyed by her son, Edward VII, when he became king, but a life-size statue of Brown remains.3

Cannadine’s biggest fault is that he doesn’t really attempt an overview of his century, opting instead, for the most part, for the standard political narrative. Even though the nineteenth century was the century of the Industrial Revolution, Cannadine offers almost no economic analysis at all, noting that Britain’s head start, along with her command of the sea, allowed her to take her place at the head of the nations but never asking himself why this happened, preferring instead to dwell on the comings and goings at No. 10 Downing Street, as though that explained everything.4

I’m afraid that, despite his good intentions, Cannadine’s nostalgia for the world he never really knew gets the better of him. He keeps referring to the British Empire as the largest the world had ever seen, even though the authors of the first Oxford history, who lived when it was the largest, never felt compelled to make that claim. The task of squeezing Britain’s greatest century into a single volume is no easy task, and I’m afraid Mr. Cannadine fell disappointingly short of the mark.

Afterwords If you read all three nineteenth century volumes of the “New Oxford” you’ll certainly know a lot, at least until you forget most of what you’ve read, as I have. Which, of course, gives me the option of reading them all over again. If you’re really a sucker for old-fashioned narrative history, you might try French historian Eli Halévy’s History of the English People in the Nineteenth Century, the first volume, England in 1815, in particular. Also wonderful: Halévy’s The Growth of Philosophic Radicalism.

The first History only devotes two volumes to Victoria’s actual reign, which didn’t begin until 1837. But George III, who reigned until 1815, was reasonably Victorian in his own right, being the first English king who didn’t have a mistress. And, anyway, Cannadine’s title is “Victorious Century”, not “Victoria’s Reign”. ↩︎

Napoleon’s real quarrel was with peace. He didn’t like having to play by the rules. ↩︎

To be fair, the Queen’s fancy man doesn’t rate a mention in either of the Oxford histories either. ↩︎

Easily the best book I have read on the Industrial Revolution, and why it began in Britain, is Robert C. Allen’s The British Industrial Revolution in Global Perspective. ↩︎

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*****Bill Murray has been singing at Carnegie Hall promoting the new album with Jan Vogler and friends.

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*****San Juan mayor Carmen Yulin Cruz called out Scary clown for his slow response to the Puerto Rico disaster.

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***** Trump released demands to overhaul the green card system by hiring 10 thousand more immigration officers and more money to build the wall.

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***** The Pioneer Woman speaks of a granny named Inee.

*****So, I rarely watch Fallon but that Hillary show was awkward and special. The respect and beautiful words from the female writers and Miley brought tears.

*****Can’t wait to see Suburbicon.. looks fab!!

*****350 barrels of oil were spilled in the gulf of Mexico.

*****Reporters were arrested in St. Louis as they interviewed demonstrators. This is in violation of their first amendment.

*****Anti- abortion advocate Rep. Tim Murphy had a bad week as congress was trying to pass a bill that would ban and bring criminal charges against those who have abortions after 20 weeks. His mistress Shannon Edwards claims that he asked her to get an abortion but it turned out the pregnancy was just a scare. He now says that it is his staff who wrote the pro- life rhetoric he spewed. He has resigned.**Scary clown wants to broaden the rules to let more employees deny birth control coverage.

*****The Rolling Stones have 18 recordings pulled together for On Air. The collection of 1963- 1965 BBC show clips were never commercially released.

***** Harvey Weinstein? Secret employees? Everybody knew? WTF? Obviously we have some extreme self indulgence and mental health issues here. Why can’t powerful men control themselves? **Many of the liberal donations he made have been donated to charity.** The list keeps growing with thanks to Ronan Farrow and his exhaustive work in the story on The New Yorker. Weinstein’s wife has left him so he is in for some shit. ** More women are coming forward about other powerful men as well like R Kelly, Mark Helprin and James Toback.** When the movie is made of the Harvey scandal, I hope they cast Jeff Garland in the title role.**In the wake of the Weinstein tsunami there have been protests at public gatherings for other men with pasts .A retrospective for Roman Polanski did not turn out so well.

*****Meet the Press and the AFI are having film fest. Look for the film Heroin(e).

*****Paul Manafort and Rick Gates were indicted for hiding foreign bank accounts, money laundering, false statements, conspiracy against the U.S. just to name a few. There is now a viral video with the music from To Russia with love that shows Trump and various staff being taken in by the FBI. I teared up.. Could it happen??** George Papadopolous has pled guilty.

*****Kathy Griffin is slamming Harvey Levin and Andy Cohen. She claims that Levin was egging people on about her Trump head stunt. Her Mother in a retirement community and her sister dyeing of cancer were receiving death threats. Cohen who produced her ‘My life on the D-list” is taking over her New Year duties on CNN. Her claim about him is he often tried to get her do coke and he is generally an ass.

*****Actor Anthony Rapp claims Kevin Spacey was sexually aggressive with him when he was 14 and Spacey was in his 20’s. Kevin denied and apologized and came out.

***** You must check out Denis O’Hare as Edgar Allan Poe on PBS American Masters.

*****Corey Feldman wants to expose the pedophiles of Hollywood for 10 mil.

*****Does it bother anybody else that those on cooking shows never seem to use spatulas to scrape the bowl? They pour and move on.

*****Check out the Comedy Get Down with Cedric the Entertainer, Eddie Griffin, DL Hughley, Charlie Murphy and George Lopez.

*****Larry Flynt is offering 10m million for info leading to the impeachment of scary clown.

*****Ben Stiller takes on the 2015 prison escape of David Sweet and Richard Matt. The Showtime production will star Benecio Del Toro, Paul Dano and Patricia Arquette

*****Jemele Hill is back from her suspension form ESPN because of her tweets. Let the girl stand up for her beliefs.

*****Atlanta has voted to decriminalize weed, now if they can get the rest of Georgia on board!

***** So it seems the boy scouts are going to now admit girls.

*****It has been nice to see Charley Pride every now and again lately.

*****Hooray!! Jessica Tuck is on General Hospital.. Oh, How I have missed you Jessica Tuck.. Where have you been??

*****A report says that white nationalists are flocking to get their DNA tested to prove their white heritage with some mixed results. Of course they often find they have African ancestry or other blood they may not want to admit is running thru them. Duh!

*****Nellie (Cornell Iral Haynes Jr.) was arrested for rape on his tour bus at a Wal Mart.

*****Chicago pastor Robbie Wilkerson and his wife Tasha were sentenced to 37 months and 12 months respectively for defrauding a summer food program for impoverished kids.

*****The 207 Nobel Peace Prize has gone to Jacques Dubochet and Joachim Frank and Richard Henderson for developing cryo-electron microscopy for the high resolution structure determination of biomolecules in solution.

*****Steven Avery of Making a Murderer has been denied a new trial.

*****Roseanne Cash is getting some backlash for her comments. Cash wrote, ”The NRA funds domestic terrorism.” Her life has been filled with threats because of her views with smears like, ”your Dad would be ashamed of you.” Some ‘fans’ obviously did not understand her Father.

*****The White house thinks NBC should apologize after their report about Rex Tillerson threatening to resign after clashes with Trump. The scuttlebutt is that Pence intervened. Word is that Tillerson called Trump a fucking moron. Rex says he never considered leaving.

*****Senate intelligence can’t seem to get anywhere on the Trump dossier because everyone refuses to cooperate. The committee has reported they are still interviewing and going thru documents. The investigation is now in exploratory mode. They do know that Russia is currently active in meddling in our election process and our vote tallies were accurate. Republican members of the bipartisan panel are praising the Obama administration for their complete cooperation.

*****Marilyn Manson had to cancel 9 shows after being crushed by a stage prop!

*****R.I.P. Tom Petty, the victims of the Rt. 91 country music fest in Las Vegas, S.I. Newhouse Jr., Bunny Sigler, Ralphie May, Bob Schiller, Fats Domino, John F. Dunsworth, Robert Guillaume, Gord Downie, Richard Wilbur, Sima Wall, Jack Bannon and victims of the NY Halloween attack.

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