#rich cohen

[power-chords]

After ten years in the army, [Lansky's second son] moved to California and became a computer programmer. When he had a son of his own, he named him Meyer Lansky II, which upset the gangster. The idea was to fade into America, not brandish your name. Lansky's other son, Buddy, who was handicapped, remembered the old gangster's reaction. "Dad got mad," he told Robert Lacey in the book Little Man. "He thought it was not fair on the kid that he should have to live with that." For later generations, the life of the ghetto, the crime and violence, were just stories, something you forget before you hear. Why should they remember? In the story of the Jewish underworld nothing compares with the Italian dynasties, the Gottis, the Gallos. No one runs out to avenge a family name. That's the last thing the patriarch would want. Even the most violent of the gangsters saw themselves as good Jews, people of the Book. They went to temple on High Holy Days, thought of God when things went bad, had their sons circumcised and bar mitzvahed. [...] How did they square their criminal life with the life of the Bible? Well, like most people, they made a distinction: this is the life of the soul, this is the life of the body. Next year in Jerusalem. But this is how I live in the Diaspora. A lawyer asked [Abe] Reles how he dealt with the contradictions. "Do you have any regrets?" asked the lawyer. "This is the way I live," said Reles. "Do you believe there is a God?" asked the lawyer. "Yes, sir." "When did you start to believe in God?" "Always knew there was a God," said Reles. "You knew there was a God while you were doing these different killings?" "That is the way my life was mapped out," said Reles. "That was my profession." "Did you believe in God while you were killing Jake the Painter?" "I knew there was a God."

Vincent, without patronym, Collateral (2004), directed by Michael Mann; Excerpt from Rich Cohen's Tough Jews, first published 1998.

[guy60660]

The Screen Doors | Rich Cohen | WSJ

[dk-thrive]

Great art is a drug. It changes the font in your brain so you can read the world in a new way.

Rich Cohen, from “How Patti Smith Found the Dark Side of ‘You Light Up My Life’” (wsj.com, November 12, 2022)

[vintagewarhol]

[linusjf]

Rich Cohen: Land lasts forever

“Banks fail, women leave, but land lasts forever.” —Rich Cohen.

[usunezukoinezu]

‘‘Coping with failure by necessity, plumbing the mystery of loss: These are themes my kids have seldom encountered at the movies, because the culture has been directed at them from birth. Between 1970 and 1974, according to IMDB, the top five American movies were “Love Story,” “Diamonds Are Forever,” “The Godfather,” “The Exorcist” and “Blazing Saddles.” Between 2010 and 2014, the top five American movies were “Toy Story 3,” “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows,” “The Avengers,” “Iron Man 3” and “Transformers: Age of Extinction.” What’s more, the movies that are made for adults have become less complicated—more like kid movies—while the kid movies have been stuffed with inside jokes and irony, sops to the grown-ups forced to sit with their charges in the dark.’’

- Rich Cohen

[nando161mando]

A reminder that Spotify continues to find new ways to not pay smaller artists while simultaneously paying hundreds of millions of dollars to white supremacists like Joe Rogan.

Please consider other ways of getting your music.

[parfoisennuyeux]

“Love Calls You By You Name” by Leonard Cohen playing at the closing of the Enfants Riches Déprimés Fall 24’ runway show.

[tomorrowusa]

« I tell you how Vladimir Putin is probably looking at Donald Trump right now. That Trump is a poor man's idea of a rich man, a weak man's idea of a strong man, and a stupid man's idea of a smart man.

So as a KGB – former KGB expert, he's looking at Donald and saying, what can we do in order to help – to help him to get away from these various different things? Well, one, you can't fix stupid. So that is what it is. You just take advantage of it. »

— Michael Cohen, Donald Trump's former attorney, telling CNN's John Berman how Vladimir Putin may react to Trump's recent money problems.

If I had more time I'd turn the first part of that quote into a meme. It's an excellent description of Trump MAGA followers. 🤭

[gimmeshelter]

this goes crazy

[daughterofhecata]

9, 19 and 30 for the book asks?

[book asks]

9. if u were stuck on an island and could only have three books w u what would they be? (series would be counted as one cuz as i said so)

Hmm, if series count as one? Definitely Jonathan Kellerman's Alex Delaware Novels (are they good? No. But they"re comfort food. And there's like almost 40 of them.), maybe Michael Scott's The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel series (i've been wanting to reread those for a while, reread the second one a while ago and remembered how much I just... don't remember the later books) and maybe the Inkworld series because it's on my mind right now. (Or just. The entire Drei Fragezeichen Reihe. That would be entertainment for a quite a while xD)

19. a book u came across randomly but ended up loving it?

So. Many. 90% of everything I read as a child/teen was purely by accident because it depended entirely on what our little library stocked xD I think I'll say Lycidas by Christoph Marzi, because that definitely rearranged my brain and I only checked it out because someone had written "read it! It's worth it!" (Or something similar. I actually own that exact copy (thank you, library sales!) but it's in my bedroom and i'm in the living room and i'm lazy) on the first page.

30. give any 3 book recs to ur followers!

Okay, 1. Swordspoint by Ellen Kushner. Fake-medieval setting, complicated borderline toxic gays, intrigues, swordsmen, lords & ladies, Alec and Richard being The Most. 2. the Fetch Phillips series by Luke Arnold. Noir detective meets... the Mirrorworld from Cornelia Funke's Reckless, after the magic... ran out. Just. A classic fantasy world in which magic just stopped working (well. it was stopped. but i'm not going to spoiler.) and how the world deals with both that and the possibility of the magic returning. And 3. ...hm. maybe L.A. Confidential by James Ellroy, a crime thriller set in the 40s, which is so intensely thought through - a bit like the Knives Out movies in the sense that absolutely nothing is by accident. Every word and scene is important, even if you don't realize it at first.

[bikerpoliticalreport]

Ben & Jerry’s July 4 Memo: ‘US on Stolen Land’

 In a brash July 4 message, Ben & Jerry’s is calling on America to return its “stolen Indigenous land,” tweeting the message and emblazoning it on its website.

   July 4 celebrations “distract from an essential truth about this nation’s birth,” the ice cream maker asserts. “The United States was founded on stolen Indigenous land. This Fourth of July, let’s commit to returning it.”

   “Start with Mount Rushmore,” the company, headquartered in Burlington, Vt., says. “That is the meaning of Independence Day for those whose land this country stole, those who were murdered and forced with brutal violence onto reservations, those who were pushed from their holy places and denied their freedom.

   “The faces on Mount Rushmore are the faces of men who actively worked to destroy Indigenous cultures and ways of life, to deny Indigenous people their basic rights,” the invective concludes.

   Ben & Jerry’s July 4 proclamation provoked immediate response and boycott demands on social media, the New York Post reports, with country singer John Rich—who has been outspokenly opposed to Bud Light’s transgender tie-up—tweeting back: “Make @benandjerrys Bud Light again.”

   Another challenger wrote, “Just when you think @benandjerrys couldn’t go any lower—they pull this stunt. Boycott Ben and Jerry’s.”

   One Twitter user called Ben & Jerry’s founders Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield out for their hypocrisy, writing to the “the Bud Light of ice cream”:

   “Seriously now, close shop—or better yet, donate your business and everything you own in these lands that rightfully belong to the Indigenous people—apologize to them, and return to the continent your ancestors came from. Now.”

   Ben & Jerry’s says on its website that its social mission is to “eliminate injustices in our communities by integrating these concerns into our day-to-day business activities.”

   Ben & Jerry’s has previously supported the Black Lives Matter movement and LGBTQ+ actions, and its founders Cohen and Greenfield have demonstrated in Washington, D.C., alongside actor and social activist Jane Fonda, against fossil fuels.

   In 1985, the company founded the Ben & Jerry’s Foundation to fund community-oriented projects, funding it with 7.5% of Ben & Jerry’s annual pre-tax profits.

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[intrapanelreturns]

THE FANTASTIC FOUR #156 1974, Marvel Comics Roy Thomas and Len Wein writers/editors, Rich Buckler art, Joe Sinnott inks, Janice Cohen colors, John Costanza letters

[theprogressivesadist]

And pay more in taxes

[usunezukoinezu]

Not understanding and finding humility and even pleasure in knowing you don’t understand—that is what we got from growing up in the raucous ’70s cineplex dark. If you understand everything, you learn nothing. If you know nothing, and accept it, you are open to everything. Intelligibility is overrated.

Rich Cohen

[joe-england]

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