Hannah, Zelig, B'way Danny Rose, Radio Days, Annie Hall.... Play It Again Sam (he *only* wrote it, I know) Love Take the Money and Run. The very first Woody picture I ever saw - I came in in the middle of What's Up Tiger Lily? On TV and couldn't believe my delighted eyes! Manhattan looks great but I don't like the old-man fantasy angle... script wise I think it's one of his worst. My middle daughter loves Manh Murder Mystery, so I do too.

He is hugely accomplished and elegant and understated technically & he doesnt' get any credit for that. Thinking esp of Hannah and her sisters -- look how the camera moves through that apartment. it's goingto be rough when he stops making films. I love him.

Hey I dont have time to look all over from Monroe to Angeline for the youtube section here, but here is something nice, Bruce and a gorgeous Prove It All Nite in Passaic NJ in 1978.

If anyone happens by the wretched N*C*N or Southern Belly or any of their ilk today or tomorrow, would you slap them around for me extra fucking hard in remembrance of MLK, Emmett Till and everyone and everything else their evil kind does their utmost to destroy? Just show no mercy. Thanking you in advance.

10 most difficult books:

http://listverse.com...literary-works/

I've read two of them: Moby Dick and The Scarlet Letter. Moby Dick is exactly as described in that article. It is dense, detailed about whaling with less movement of plot, etc. It is worth it just to read Ahab's speech as the final hunt for the white whale begins (much of which is in Star Trek 2: The Wrath of Khan, by the way). That single passage is the epitome of anger and revenge in our literary tradition, so far as I'm concerned. For those unfamiliar, I post it here:

Ahab: I turn my body from the sun. What ho, Tashtego! Let me hear thy hammer. Oh! ye three unsurrendered spires of mine; thou uncracked keel; and only god-bullied hull; thou firm deck, and haughty helm, and Pole-pointed prow, - death-glorious ship! must ye then perish, and without me? Am I cut off from the last fond pride of meanest shipwrecked captains? Oh, lonely death on lonely life! Oh, now I feel my topmost greatness lies in my topmost grief. Ho, ho! from all your furthest bounds, pour ye now in, ye bold billows of my whole foregone life, and top this one piled comber of my death! Towards thee I roll, thou all-destroying but unconquering whale; to the last I grapple with thee; from hell's heart I stab at thee; for hate's sake I spit my last breath at thee. Sink all coffins and all hearses to one common pool! and since neither can be mine, let me then tow to pieces, while still chasing thee, though tied to thee, thou damned whale! Thus, I give up the spear!

At this point, the man, the captain, and his ship has been utterly destroyed. You can feel his acceptance of inevitable destruction, yet the finality of a confrontation with the whale is nothing in the face of his endless wrath and desire for vengeance. It's beautiful insanity.

I wrote my senior thesis as an English major about this book. It's difficult and I love it. To new readers, I would recommend a chapter or two/day. Keep moving, treat most of it as a historical document of the whaling industry of the 1800s, but don't let hte details bog you down.

Oh, God! One of my favorite books of ALL TIME, top three. The first time I read it I was a little apprehensive -- opened it up and looked at the chapter titles, started to smile... the deliberately-insanely long list of different names for the whale and the note from the sub-assistant. I fell in love

This just reminds me I have to read more Melville, this is the only one I've read. But how could the others be incomprehensible or boring, if this is his voice?

I love the structure of it -- esp the chapters that don't move the story along but only deepen the color and flavor. Little pieces of incidental music. One of my favorites is the one where they're lying in their bunks down below and they can hear the sharks outside the wooden walls, inches from their heads.

The FOX NationJesse Jackson Invades Wisconsin School, Brainwashes Studentshttp://bit.ly/fwxBof
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Whites More Anxious Than Blacks
So there!

UPI .com via Fox Nation

The comments are -- just what you'd expect.

http://nation.foxnew...-anxious-blacks

(I know Fox n them laugh at their own sheep but they really are doing damage.)

Merged: Romney ready to run-slc


uh... nothing to say really. He's tall, "handsome," white, rich, male.
He's starting now to put damage control on MA health care plan.
Is he the best weapon the Rs have?

Yeah! It isn't getting much mainstream play, though.
“No other paper in the history of science has undergone such a thorough vetting, and never before in the history of science has the scientific community been given the opportunity to critically analyze an important research paper before it is published.”
http://news.yahoo.co...enceofalienlife

Hannity board has banned me probably 6 times?

I've looked there but they're all so pitiful, the slog uphill trying to wake them up doesn't seem worth it Plus no matter what, just being new there you'd have to play ball with them for a while... ick. At Facebook I put Fox News and Glennie on my feed and content myself with local comments. (All the revolutions going on in the mideast and what does Fox report on: "Hanoi Jane, caught smoking pot!")
When I had the energy for all this I felt the best volcano to jump into would be freerepublic... that's the true snakepit motherlode as far as I've seen.
Speakin of Hanoi Jane, right now we (=you) have an unusual opportunity to start changing hearts 'n' minds. The RW media and RW leaders dont yet seem to have a party line pulled together on the mideast , YET. It's a rock and a hard place for the RNC and the RW media -- they want to direct the sheep to defend established authority, but how can they? They can't defend Wikileaks. They can't give a detailed timeline of what began in Tunisia for fear of casting sympathies with the people. They want to associate the uprisings with the WI unions, but how can they? (I know Glennie tried, once.) So they say nothing for now, except this and that battle update from the Associated Press feed. (I read a comment at one of those fucking places -- it was Fox News, "And we care about this, why?"). I don't know what the coverage is on Fox News TV. (There's a well written, if obviously edited to slant correctly, piece by Judith Miller (?!) from January, http://www.foxnews.c...-world-leaders/ )
But, so theres still a window right now for them to be shown new things and to look closer and start to question.
Fox et al. are probably waiting to see how the leadership shakes out actually, to find a long-lasting terror source. Either Commies or a caliphate.
So now's the time to get at them.
Did anyone see/comment on the Glenn Beck thing Friday, "Hillary Clinton pimps Al-Jazeera over American News" http://www.glennbeck...-american-news/ Classic
There's some fucking thing at Twitter called "Defend Glenn Beck" that I've called out in two lies, but you can't argue on Twitter
I've posted some at We Are All Khaled Said but only because the guy running it posted an untrue article as fact > No RW'ers there to speak of, they'll never know who KS was if Fox can help it.

"Either this man is dead or my watch has stopped"

If you get tired of teasing the rat's nest of idiots in the usual place, give a look to the Boschville that is Fox Nation.

"Son of a bitch! We've struck the motherlode!"

http://nation.foxnew...racist-new-book

When I was posting at the other place I wasn't even aware of Fox Nation as an actual entity, I thought it was just a concept. But look at the headline in the above, then compare the actual content (and even more different, the original at US News) -- then look at what the comments are responding to. Why, they're not discussing the article at all;)
Fox knows -- these people do NOT read beyond the headlines -- there are a thousand "comments" there all attacking the cartoon Obama of the article's headline. (I think they photoshopped his eyes a tweak, too, in the pic.)
Anyway, these pinheaded mobs at FN would be fun to stick your foot out in front of , now and then.

The expected (hysterical)

and the not so expected

Cate Blanchett's dress as the Oscar's looked exactly like a Faberge egg w/out the diarama on the inside...and that's not a good thing.

Mila Kunis' dress rocked.

Charlie Sheen has officially lost it. He's beginning to sound like Palin....nothing but talking in circles, no clear idea of what he's saying at all.

Haha, exactly, the Easter egg diorama! Agree about Mila's dress.
Uh-oh. Charlie Sheen's publicist quits
http://www.artistdir...t-quits/8718640
Haha, I don't blame him. imagine being known as *Charlie Sheen's publicist*

Whoa whoa whoa whoa WHOA!!
HBGary CEO Aaron Barr resigns amid ‘Anonymous’ scandal


http://www.rawstory....nymous-scandal/


(If the HBGary debacle is covered elsewhere here, I can't find it -)

"the last living link to the two million men who served in the American Expeditionary Forces in France in 'the war to end all wars'”
http://www.nytimes.c...=me&ref=general

Fine obit in the Times for a kind sweet sounding man.

Genius brave deed to be made an example as a warning to the rest'a yez. This trial is happening in Salt Lake City.
http://www.treehugge...ess & Politics)
"Tim DeChristopher became an icon in the environmental movement in 2008, when he entered outrageously high bids for parcels of land being auctioned off for gas and oil development -- bids that he had no intention of ever paying. Now, since his deed -- and perhaps partly because of it -- that entire auction was ruled illegitimate. It was part of a bum rush by the Bush administration to try to sell off public lands before Obama took office. Unfortunately, the felony charges still stand, and DeChristopher could face 10 years in prison and fines of $750,000 if convicted.***
"[T]he US district judge has already ruled that DeChristopher can't use a 'necessity' defence -- in which he would have argued he engaged in the action to prevent greater harm, according to NPR."

This is the official T deC site: http://www.bidder70.org/

Who looked the best at the Oscars? Someone sent me a quoted tweet: "Watching Nicole Kidman @ #oscars with no sound is like watching an alien stalk its earthling prey." Best - Penelope Cruz's simple sparkling red gown and simple hair. Worst - hmm... I didn't like Amy Adams's prissy blue thing - looked like junior miss sportswear..

This has to be one of my favorite all-time celebrity quotes:


"I'm tired of pretending like I'm not special," Sheen told NBC. "I'm tired of pretending like I'm not bitching a total freaking rock star from Mars. And people can't figure me out. They can't process me. I don't expect them to. You can't process me with a normal brain." He later said he has "tiger blood and Adonis DNA."

http://www.cnn.com/2...dex.html?hpt=T2

Watch out people, from now on I'm going to tell everyone "I'm tired of pretending like I'm not special"!

That is a GREAT line! The "like" makes it perfect

Nook or Kindle reader? Any thoughts on the pros and cons of one and/or the other? I can't decide.

Oooh, noooo, what about just staying with paper? You'll go blind from those electronic things... and you can't have a lovely library of them.... and they don't have a feel... don't, WM, don't do it!
Re-reading an old Scott Fitz anthology and from my local library's paltry scattering of books on the history of Spain, "Royal Vendetta", about the comically awful Bourbon dynasty of the 1800s, a snippy, gossipy little piece of candy by an author who speaks in a wannabe Patrick Dennis tone of voice (published in the early 60s IIRC too).

Do you want to make more money? Of course, we all do. But some of us are being stopped by that black nazi in the White House!

Choose from among these courses:



Thinking you're the chubby white MLK

Sifting through your sister's underwear drawer

Masturbating in elevators

Or get your degree! You can major in "Conspiracy Theory" or "Undermining Democrats"!

Hahahaha!

Check it out

Well don't be shy, here it is. http://www.glennbeck.com/becku/
They're in the middle of the second semester already, you'll have to work to catch up.
" This Wednesday, learn about the root of progressivism in America and how Teddy Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson and Franklin D. Roosevelt advanced its agenda. Knowledge is power, and you won’t find this information in your children’s history books!"

http://www.avma.org/...nts/default.asp
I swear this is real, you can click back to Glennie's site at top right. But from the little intro statement it SEEMS like a parody, doesn't it?
They MUST know, at the Glenn Beck program, what a charade this whole thing is. To me this store proves it. This makes me itch to go back to you know where and slap some certain numb bunnies upside the head with it.
Saddest entry to me is the Chalkboard Mug.
" This limited edition item allows you to write and draw on the mug just like Glenn. The mug even comes with a free piece of chalk!"
Plus all of it's overpriced.... just cruel.

Former Reagan official: If law fails, CIA will assassinate Assange
"If the legal attempt fails, he’ll simply be assassinated by a CIA assassination team. It’s common practice for the CIA to do that.”

Why are Anonymous calling such attention to themselves lately, though? Not safe.

"What's the punishment for being cruel to an animal? In five states — Idaho, Hawaii, Kentucky, Mississippi and North Dakota — the law’s response is, 'Not much.'”http://www.msnbc.msn...lth-pet_health/
You know we basically eradicated litter, ended an ingrained habit of millions and millions of people, in no time flat. In like ten years. Why the hell, in this day and age... etc.
The npr story had this disconcerting passage. "The station reported the man was attacked at least twice by nearby dogs as the shootings occurred. He was forced to slit the throat of one animal who jumped on top of him."
wtf, poor thing! Just what they said to the Indians."I was minding my own business trying to kill you and all your pack and you dared try to stop me, so you brought this on yourself!"

this soundtrack
[url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28RL8_cUCE0]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28RL8_cUCE0[/url]