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New Happy Blog

2007-01-15T18:16:00.000-08:00

The new Blog can be found here:
Wallmart666

It is still under construction.

Thanks for stopping by.

2007-01-14T14:57:00.000-08:00

Folks. This blog has been retired. I thank you all for stopping by. I am creating a new blog using the new blogie version and finding it very unfriendly to my MAC. When the new blog is up and running I'll post a link here.

Now for the folks at work... let me clarify something. I created this blog in order to have a place to vent. Over time it became something else. I realized I do not have a place to chronicle what I am going thru. I want to start a new blog for that purpose and a new blog that is dedicated to fun stuff. So don't get all freaky on me thinking this was your fault. It was mine for letting this blog become something I did not intend it to be.

Need a date to save you from going to hell?

2007-01-10T14:37:00.000-08:00

Well? DO YOU?

Look I really dont care if you do or you dont. Here is the skinny on this post. IF... If you need to date someone AND you want that someone to save you from burning in hell click the title of this post and proceed at your own risk.

Hey look! the new unfunny.

2007-01-10T13:05:00.000-08:00

Its as if Leslie Neilson's unfunny undead sense of unhumor fucked Bruce Campbell and gave him unfunny herpes.

Space Zombie national anthem (click here)

2007-01-10T11:49:00.000-08:00

The creepy poacher (click to receive your new instructions)

2007-01-10T11:45:00.000-08:00

Click here jerkwad!

2007-01-10T11:41:00.000-08:00

It sounds like cops chasing a balloon twisting clown riding a horse thru a tribe of American Indians somewhere in London .

2007-01-10T11:37:00.000-08:00

I leave you with this...

2007-01-09T15:55:00.000-08:00

A plea for more time.
Orders to defect.
The package location.
Launch.
assassinate.
Kill all of them,children first.
The real reason you are alive.

The conet project is made up of recordings from short wave "counting" stations. These stations are exactly what you think they are. Covert code sent via short wave. The creepy feeling I get from listening to these audio clips is all encompassing. Eerie disconnected voices speaking in a code I cannot crack. The lincolnshire poacher track I find deeply distressing. A sort of off key Ice-cream truck tune followed by coded orders. The fact that these recording are subject to atmospheric issues makes them very creepy indeed. It is hard to tell if the voices are even human at times. These recording give me nightmares. Now the nightmares can be yours.

Please click the title of this post to download all 4 CD's of the conet project.

I'm shutting this damn blog down

2007-01-08T23:42:00.000-08:00

Well ... shutting it down to any postings of any emotional importance that is.

So I have been going thru a very difficult time with my feelings lately. First off I'm hesitant to write about stuff that involves my emotional state because people at work read this (Hi work!)

I thought it was the time of the year that makes me down but I'm thinking its much more now.
Someone suggested to me to join a 12 step program to deal with emotional dependecy.
Hmm. I never thought I needed one.

To the person who suggested that: I'm considering it.
I'm not in a happy place at this moment and anything fuckin program seems good. Hell someone stick me with a fuckin needle so I have a recent excuse to go to NARCANON.

Damn it. Damn you "work" people! I cant write about this. I cant write about anything! This blog has become a depository for stupid videos and the odd observation. I'm unable to write down anything that may be weighing in on my mind. I am unable to write about personal stuff anymore. If I do, I have to sanitize it. Don't get me wrong I like all you folk at work I just dont think its appropriate for me to vent in this way.
Oh well off to make a secret blog.

2007-01-08T14:21:00.000-08:00

Love, Like Water, Sustains and Reflects.

Bullshit!

Love is like the searing outback and you are forced to suck mud thru a fuckin' straw. Dingos waiting to tear you apart.

For John L.

2007-01-07T14:26:00.000-08:00

"The future is just old age and illness and pain... I must have peace and this is the only way."

2007-01-07T00:50:00.000-08:00

To ALL I LOVE,

Do not grieve for me. My nerves are all shot and for the last year I have been in agony day and nights —except when I sleep with sleeping pills—and any peace I have by day is when I am drugged by pills.

I have had a wonderful life but it is over and my nerves get worse and I am afraid they will have to take me away. So please forgive me, all those I love and may God forgive me too, but I cannot bear the agony and it best for everyone this way.

The future is just old age and illness and pain. Goodbye all and thank you for all your love. I must have peace and this is the only way.

Jimmy

With those words Jimmy drew down the curtain and closed the show. He was before his time. His time has yet to be.

Scene from Richard Lester approved cut of Superman II

2007-01-05T12:40:00.000-08:00

Judy straight from the grave.

2007-01-05T12:33:00.000-08:00

No straight man in his right mind would ever think to perform "Get Happy".

I mean come on! Really!

Its just like that virtual fight in ROCKY BALBOA

2007-01-05T12:28:00.000-08:00

Words cannot describe how funny I find this clip.

Tara's New Years Eve countdown funtacular

2007-01-04T16:37:00.000-08:00

Try counting along with Tara Reid. Just TRY. These poor guys tried.

Thank god it was only new years and not the space shuttle.

HIGH corey haim HIGH

2007-01-04T12:58:00.000-08:00

Yep it is corey haim trying to prove he was sober and ready to work.

In 2001 E! proved he was far from sober.

For some odd reason that clip reminds me of:

Poor Corey. Still looking for work.

Hopper's Hands

2007-01-03T00:55:00.000-08:00

Who is Hopper and why are his hands at Fort Point?

Each year tens of thousands of San Franciscans go running or strolling along San Francisco's waterfront at beautiful Crissy Field. This westward journey inevitably ends at the chain link fence next to historic Fort Point, just beneath the majestic Golden Gate Bridge.

Each day hundreds of people at this turnaround point, and, before turning back, instinctively touch the metal "Hopper's Hands" plate on the chainlink fence. Why wouldn't you? Everyone does... But after a recent trip to SF, I have wondered, Who Is Hopper?... and why are his hands immortalized at Fort Point?

Hopper is a true San Francisco hero. Hopper is one of the many iron workers who risk life and limb to save people from jumping to their death.
The Golden Gate Bridge is the number one suicide location for North America.

Below is the moving text of a San Francisco Chronicle article by Scott Ostler that explains the genesis of the "Hoppers Hands" sign and details the heroic, on-call volunteer suicide prevention work that these iron workers perform, simply because they feel it is the right thing to do:

SAVING LIVES JUST PART OF THE JOB - Scott Osltler, San Francisco Chronicle, January 10, 2001

"If you're an ironworker on the Golden Gate Bridge and your home phone rings at 3 a.m., you know it's trouble.
You know someone is threatening to jump off your bridge. Your stuff is always ready; you're out the door in minutes.
If you aren't too late, if you climb out onto the cold steel and sweet-talk some poor lost soul off the beam or tower or manage to wrestle him or her to safety, it's a good feeling. Many suicide attempts are impulsive; lives can be salvaged.
If you fail, if the person jumps into that bottomless fog, it ruins your day.

"There's no describing how helpless you feel," says Ken Hopper, a Golden Gate Bridge ironworker for 17 years.
These ironworkers are tough guys. Men of Steel, they're called. Cowboys in the Sky. They fix and maintain the world's most amazing Tinkertoy. But what qualifies these blue-collar rivet-wrestlers to perform the delicate psychological task of suicide prevention?
Just this: There's nobody else.

"We're the only ones dumb enough to do it," Hopper says.
They're the only ones with enough equipment, knowledge of the bridge and courage to go over the rail.

The suicide rescue duty is voluntary, but the bridge's ironworkers all take their turns. There's almost no danger of falling, but it's not a risk-free gig. One man pulled a knife on an ironworker. A loaded gun fell out of the pocket of another guy. An ironworker was bitten by a woman he pulled off the bridge.
But the iron cowboys answer the call, late at night or during their shift. At least two of them go out on every rescue. They give it their best shot, and the weird thing is that they wind up being pretty damn good at the psychological stuff.
Sometimes a police psychologist will be at the scene, coaching the ironworkers by radio. More often, the rescuers are on their own. I asked Hopper if the workers are given any suicide prevention training.

"Over the years, (suicide prevention experts) have come to give us seminars, " he says. "They wind up asking us questions, because all they do is talk to these (suicidal people) on the phone. We deal with them face to face."
Often a would-be jumper is locked into a private mental zone and the trick is to get his or her attention. Some tricks that have worked:

"Hey, if you're going to jump, at least give me your mom's phone number so I can call her to tell her."
"That's a nice watch. If you're going to jump, can I have it?"
Sometimes the trick is simple compassion, the voice of a human who cares. Look, I've been through some real hard times myself. I know it's possible to get help.

Hopper estimates he has talked or wrestled down about 30 people, and lost two.

Great percentage, but even so, it all caught up with him a few years ago. Hopper underwent a couple years of therapy, had his name removed from the rescue-call list.

"It wasn't one incident," he says, "it was a culmination. I tried to stuff 'em all in this bag. The bag gets so big, it bursts."

Hopper is a bear of a guy with a bushy mustache and a sensitive side. When he noticed that waterfront joggers have a ritual of touching the fence at the dead-end of the sidewalk next to Fort Point, he had the bridge's sign painter make a sign with two handprints on it, and another sign with two dog paws, because one woman had her dog touch the fence.

So losses haunt him. Once Ken and two other ironworkers were clinging to one arm of a man hanging over the rail. The man grabbed another piece of bridge with his other arm, wrenched free and swung off another beam and into the world's most popular suicide pit.

Another time, Hopper arrived at a rescue just in time to see a man fling his 2-year-old daughter off the bridge, then jump off himself. It eats at Hopper when a talked-down suicide is taken into custody and then quickly released with little or no psychiatric observation. Hopper talked an 18-year-old City College student off the bridge, and she was taken away by police.
The next morning, while a press conference was being held at City Hall to announce a new bridge suicide-prevention program, the teenager walked back onto the bridge and jumped.

On occasion, the family of a jumper will later seek out the ironworkers involved in the attempted rescue. What happened? What were my son's last words? "You try to help them get some peace of mind," Hopper says.

But what about peace of mind for the ironworkers? They almost never get info on what happens to the people they rescue.
Hopper says that's a sore spot. No follow-up, no closure. You help save a life, you become involved in that life, you know?
"Once in a great while," Hopper says, "one of the guys will get a letter or note from someone they talked down. I've known that to happen only two or three times. When a guy gets a letter like that, it's a treasure; it's like gold."

Mostly, the ironworkers don't talk or philosophize or complain about this aspect of their job. They don't talk feelings. They're tough guys.

As soon as Hopper completed his therapy, as soon as he felt like he had a handle, he put his name back on the call list for rescues."

She came in thru the bathroom window

2007-01-01T12:19:00.000-08:00

A woman who pleaded no contest to trespassing at the Hawaii home of George Harrison was found dead in a blood-splattered sport utility vehicle, apparently the victim of a murder-suicide, police said.

Cristin Keleher, 34, served four months in jail after her arrest for entering Harrison's house in Maui in December 1999. Prosecutors accused her of stalking the former Beatle.

After entering the home through an open sliding glass door, she cooked a frozen pizza, did her laundry and phoned her mother in New Jersey.

On Dec. 19, a hiker found the bodies of Keleher and Stanley Merchant, 48, near a highway north of Truckee.

Investigators said evidence shows Keleher was fatally shot outside the vehicle, then placed inside and driven a short distance. Investigators believe Merchant sat down next to Keleher's body and shot himself in the head. Two 12-gauge shotguns were found next to him inside the vehicle.

In Hawaii, Keleher admitted she was in Harrison's home without his permission but said she was feeling sick and was seeking shelter from the rain. She told the court she loved Harrison and never meant him any harm.

Keleher was arrested a week before Harrison was stabbed in the chest by an intruder in his mansion near London. Harrison, who suffered a collapsed lung in the attack, died of cancer in 2001 at age 58.

Santa is a secret agent on his day off.

2006-12-30T13:32:00.000-08:00

Night Gallery Paintings by Tom Wright

2006-12-27T18:53:00.000-08:00

The three canvases produced for the pilot film were painted by Jaroslav "Jerry" Gebr. The paintings for the series were painted by Tom Wright, who rarely paints anymore and gone on to work as a TV director (The X-Files, Millennium, The Wire). Wright began painting in oils on canvas in the first season, then switched primarily to acrylics on masonite board for the rest of the series paintings. When Night Gallery was prepared for syndication, episodes of another series, The Sixth Sense, were included in the syndication package. New introductions with Rod Serling were filmed, and the paintings for the 25 additional episodes were painted by the artist for the Gallery pilot, Jaroslav Gebr.

Most of the original paintings for Night Gallery were either altered for use in other productions or sold by Universal Studios years ago. For the most part they remain in private hands, although occasionally one shows up at an auction house. There are some forgeries floating around, the exact number unknown. In December 2002, two forgeries were offered in an online auction from Sotheby's through eBay. Before the auction started, one of the fakes was pulled, a bad copy of "The Late Mr. Peddington"—which had, accurately enough, its original title scrawled on the back of the painting, "The Flat Male," meaning that the forger had access to the original during the forging process. Still, an obvious fake of "The Flip-Side of Satan" was auctioned off at that time. Care must be taken by potential buyers if a Night Gallery painting is spotted at auction. If there is a question of authenticity, seek out an expert's help.

Universal Studios released a series of twelve art-print posters of some of the Gallery paintings in 1972. They are long out of print, although they occasionally show up at a collector's store or in an eBay auction. None of the reproductions included paintings from the pilot film or the first season of the series. Second season titles included "House—with Ghost," "You Can't Get Help like That Anymore," "The Dear Departed," "The Devil Is Not Mocked," "The Tune in Dan's Café," and "Phantom of What Opera?" Third season titles included "You Can Come Up Now, Mrs. Millikan," "Fright Night," "Spectre in Tap-Shoes," "She'll Be Company for You," and "Rare Objects" (this last was altered from the version shown in the series episode). The last of the twelve art prints, titled "The Return of the Sorcerer," was not the painting used for that episode in the series. It is definitely by Tom Wright, but it may have been painted for an unproduced segment of the show.

Buddha Boy found in Bara jungle

2006-12-26T18:53:00.000-08:00

By Shankar Acharya & Upendra Lamichhane

NIJGADH, BARA, Dec 25 - Ram Bahadur Bomjon, popularly known as the Buddha Boy, who had disappeared from the jungle of Ratanpuri in Bara district, nine months ago, has reappeared nearby the area.
The 17-year old teenager Bomjon, who had been "meditating without any food or water" in the jungles of Ratanpuri village in the district had disappeared under unknown circumstances in March this year and was found in the jungles near Pathlaiya-Nijgadh road section of the Mahendra Highway on Sunday.

Local villagers who had been out hunting found Bomjon in dense forest located 5 km west of the highway yesterday night.

Bomjon appeared before the media and local villagers this afternoon in the same place.

His disappearance got widespread national and international coverage after news reports about his sudden abandonment of the meditation site at Charkose Jhadi of Ratanpur area in the district, where he had reportedly been meditating without food and water for ten months, were made public.

Bomjon had a sharp sword with him when the media reached the site.

When asked why a person in search of peace carried a sword, Bomjon replied that he had taken it for his "own protection."

The young man claimed he had still not eaten anything except herbal medicines during his meditation period.

Bomjan also said that henceforth he would meditate near the historical Halkhoriya pond, some five kilometers west of the place where he used to meditate before his disappearance.

Following the information that he had been spotted, a large number of people, including his family members and security personnel have arrived at the place to see him. The hunters who first spotted the Buddha boy are Rajendra Kunwar, Ram Krishna Moktan, Jaya Bahadur Kunwar and Bal Krishna Ale, of Dumarwana.

Son of an ordinary farmer in Ratanpur village of Bara district, Bomjon, his supporters and followers claim, had meditated without eating and drinking for months.

The Buddha boy has said that he does not want his new meditation site to be noisy and has said that his followers be allowed to see him only from a distance of some 10 meters. When asked what should be done with the donations that his followers and visitors would make, he urged to do anything with the donations, but keep from engaging in business or misuse.

The story of his meditation resembled an episode in the life of Gautam Buddha, who found enlightenment more than 2,500 years ago after 49 days. Coincidentally, Buddha was born only 257 km (160 miles) from Bara in 540BC.

Interestingly, Bomjon's mother's name, too, is Maya Devi- the name of Buddha's mother.

Kulak's Woodshed

2006-12-26T13:18:00.000-08:00

I have to say that Charles Peyton is not a person to fuck with.
His Valley Village office has been dealing with the folk at Kulak's Woodshed for about 6 years now.

Chuck created a website a while back to chronicle the struggle he has had with the Owner of Kulak's Woodshed, Paul Kulak and his one time associate in crime councilwoman Wendy Greuel.

Peyton's website is... Creative at being nasty. While it looks like any other 3rd graders first webpage it does have some very interesting information on the goings on in Valley Village. It looks like Peyton has spent a lot of time trying to get Kulak to comply with codes or get outta dodge. While I had to see this site simply because it was created by Peyton I was amazed at the wealth of information it contained within its crazy ramblings. He has done his homework and if you can sift thru the crazy page he created you can see he truly is not a man to mess with.
Chuck Peyton, You are one crazy man on a mission. I salute you!

Click the title of this post to go to CharlesPeyton.com

Click here for your Wookiee Christmas

2006-12-24T21:13:00.000-08:00

Merry Christmas.

2006-12-22T17:20:00.000-08:00

thanks to MONKEYS FOR HELPING

2006-12-21T22:48:00.000-08:00

This is Disneyland?

2006-12-20T23:00:00.000-08:00

What would you call a fun filled ride that takes you down into darkened caverns and into some strange ol’ pirate town. A watery ride where you see a battle in progress, pirates popping out of barrels and convicts trying to get out of ye olde jail. Perhaps eagle eyed riders may catch a glimpse of a parrot pearched on a pirates chest o’ gold.

A scam and a possible pending lawsuit is what I’d call it.

While we in Southern California have the distinct honor of having “The happiest place on earth™” in our own back yard it seems Staffordshire England has a little something too.

The park is called Drayton Manor.

My friends at the THEMED ATTRACTIONS web group hipped me to this GEM of a park.

Drayton Manor is home to a watery boat ride called Pirate Adventure. Its so close to the Pirate “ride” at Disneyland that it’s difficult to tell them apart. Pirate Adventure is Sans the signature song A PIRATES LIFE FOR ME but all the other elements are there. The owner admits to ripping off the Disney ride back before the movies were a concept. This is honestly the Turkish Star Wars of Theme Park Rides.

Drayton Manor is a family theme park with a mixture of scenic and white knuckle rides. It covers 280 acres of land, and is visited by over one million people annually. Drayton Manor opened to the public on October 16th, 1949 as an 'inland pleasure resort' and has since grown substantially in size. It is the UK's leading family run theme park and the fourth most popular theme park in Britain in terms of visitor numbers. Last year the park was awarded 'Visitor Attraction of the Year' in the Heart of England Tourism Awards and was also voted 'Best UK Attraction for Children' by Group Leisure for the 3rd year running. This year the park received two awards: 'Best UK Attraction' awarded by Group Leisure and 'UK Attraction of the Year' awarded by Coach Tourism.

Well good on ya limey bastards.

A cloned Pirate ride is not the only thing the park has.
Lets see:

The following list indicates all the current rides at Drayton Manor Theme Park and what areas they are in:

Aerial Park:
Apocalypse, The Haunting (a walkthrough mansion attraction that somehow incorporates a haunted swing), Pandemonium, Big Wheel, Flying Dutchman, Drunken Barrels (They mean spinning teacups shaped like barrels. This is actually an improvement on the Disney ride since it has a beer theme!), Wild West Shoot Out (frontierland shooting gallery), Buffalo Coaster (might as well have called it Big Thunder-esque mountain coaster) , Sombrero, Drayton Queen Boat. (poofters)

Pirate Cove:
Excalibur - A Dragon's Tale(is the Dragon Named Pete?), Pirate Adventure (a dark ride “loosely” based on Disney's Pirates of the Caribbean), Jolly Roger(the first of two JOLLY rides), Dodgems (bumper cars), Jolly Buccaneer(that damn swinging ship ride that every sad park has), Pirate Raft Ride (oh I bet ye get to see Tom Saywers island from ye raft!).

Robinson's Land (Not the swiss family ones..dontcha know):
Flying Jumbos (ya see… if you replace the “D” with a “J” ya wont get sued), Junior Carousel('cause its fun when its small?), Ladybirds, Vintage Cars (Autopia), Mini Balloons(Baloonatopia), Arriva Crazy Bus(Santa Monicatopia), Super Dragon(not named Pete) Roller Coaster, Frog Hopper(or Mr frog hoppers wild ride), Whirly Wheel, Cadbury's Junior Pirate Ship (choco-pirate? Fudge lovin' "men o' the sea"...if ye know whats I be tellin').

Fisherman's Wharf:
Stormforce 10, Polperro Express Railway(a little gold,green and red train that goes around the park..where have I seen that before?), Carousel (another fuckin carousel).

Action Park:
Maelstrom, Shockwave, Splash Canyon (loosely based on the old AMERICA SINGS animatronics), Black Revolver (insensitive racists), G-Force, Chair Lift (this is just like the English to have a ride that’s named after something you try to get off of anywhere else in the world.)

I’m going to start my own Funtastic park if these wankin' wackos can rip off Disney in this way!

I’m going to call my park LARDLAND’S BY THE SEA
I’ll stick it out in the fuckin’ Mojave desert.

Let see what can my park have?
My first land will be called:

Yesterworld’s Future Equipment-land of discontinued electronics and such.
(that’s the name. No way I’m gonna change it!)
The rides:
Carousel of Carousels. (a seventy minute ride that tells you a 10 minute long narrative story called “History of the carousel” over and over)
The House of Yesterday (a house featuring products that never worked or never made it out of the prototype stage)
Spin Cycle. (a washer and dryer so everyone can do my laundry. Its not a ride but you may learn something so lets say its educational.)
Captain EO (it has to go somewhere!)

My second land will be
The pig sty.
Gordos dream (a dark ride thru a MacDonalds .No food allowed.)
Big Thunderbottom Railroad ( a slow rollercoaster thru a candy-like mountain and a fudge-like cave.)
Mr. Peeps Storybook Canal of Chocowhimsy. (actually not a ride but a picnic area)
The Bird Ripper. (a carousel that has turketlegs instead of brass rings)
The Butterhorn (double-wide fun on the pastery-filled mountain of buttery dreams. Another picnic area)
Snowballs Scary Adventures. ( chase a Hostess Snowball thru the large intestine on this dark ride. The end will surprise you!)

Third land….
Americatown.
Mainstreet NRA (with Great Moments with Mr. Heston)
WAL-Mart ( Americas only shopping choice)

Laconic

2006-12-20T22:36:00.000-08:00

Word History:

The study of the classics allows one to understand the history of the term laconic, which comes to us via Latin from Greek Lakōnikos. The English word is first recorded in 1583 with the sense "of or relating to Laconia or its inhabitants." Lakōnikos is derived from Lakōn, "a Laconian, a person from Lacedaemon," the name for the region of Greece of which Sparta was the capital. The Spartans, noted for being warlike and disciplined, were also known for the brevity of their speech, and it is this quality that English writers still denote by the use of the adjective laconic, which is first found in this sense in 1589.

Episode IV a new blog (CLICK HERE)

2006-12-17T12:18:00.000-08:00

Click here for the best Christmas song ever

2006-12-17T12:04:00.000-08:00

Happy Birthday!

2006-12-16T11:22:00.000-08:00

Wait I take that back...

2006-12-16T10:42:00.000-08:00

The FIRST film I ever worked on was a student film for Scott Mabbutt. It was some sort of creepshow-esque horror thing about a guy being haunted by a dead woman. (In reality it was a kid being haunted by a teenage girl) I lucked out I got to play the guy.

The Marc Rocco thing was the first feature film.

I wonder what ever happened to that short film?

I remember when this was all orange groves... as far as the eye could see.

2006-12-16T01:27:00.000-08:00

The first film I ever worked on was a MARC ROCCO film called SCENES FROM THE GOLDMINE.

Marc Rocco would go on to direct the camp film WHERE THE DAY TAKES YOU and not much else. The executive producer was John Daly who went on to magicly produce Bertolucci's THE LAST EMPEROR that same year. In fact his name was simply attached to this crappy film as producer because his company, Hemdale, was the one who distributed this turkey. So that goes to show you even in the 80's the title of producer meant YOU DO NOTHING.

SCENES FROM THE GOLDMINE (a misqouted Doors Lyric mind you) was an ambitious tale that went something like this :

A beautiful young songwriter/musician joins a rock group and falls in love with its handsome lead singer. She's living the American Dream until she gets a rude awakening, when this guy is so greedy for stardom he steals her music along with her heart.

I was approched by a woman at the newly enclosed FALLBROOK MALL while on my lunchbreak. She handed me her card and asked if I wanted to be in the new Steve Railsback movie. (shuuuh yeah!duh?) He was MANSON so like... who wouldn't wanna be in a film with him?
I was working at JC PENNEY Catalog at the time. I was one of those phone operators that sat in a cubicle for 8 hours a day and listened to the nations problems...one call at a time. I had to beg for the day off.
Begged to be paid less then half a days wages to be an extra. Whoo hoo!
The call was at a local bar called MADAME WONGS WEST. The bar has long since been distroyed. I remember showing up at 7am after I spent 2 hours doing my hair and worring that they might send me home for not really being an actor. I was a boney kid with goofy pee wee herman hair and that was... a look... I guess... so they put me in like every scene. It was an odd experiance. I remember thinking at the time that crew really treated extras like shit. In fact I dont even think I knew what an "extra" was at the time. We broke for lunch and they didnt feed us. All the extras wandered over to the newley remodled RALPH's to get some lunch. Boy what cheap bastards.I remember I was excited to see Catherine Mary Stewart in person. She was in a fav film of mine called NIGHT OF THE COMET. Cameron Dye was in the scene and I remembered him from VALLEY GIRL and was excited to be in the same room with real actors. But where the fuck was MANSON Steve Railsback? I was dissapointed he wasn't there. I got paid 40 bucks in cash and was sent home after 10 hours of standing around and pretending to drink beer.
I have never seen this film.
I know GOLDMINE was released out on VHS and now that the format is officially dead I guess I'll never see it. I doubt it will ever see DVD or if a master still exists.
That film was released in 1987 but I'm pretty sure it was shot in the early part of 1986.

So... that was my first look into the world of film... as an extra.
Thanks to Marc Rocco and the crew of that film for showing me how NOT to treat people.

I may not be able to remember all the things I have worked on but I will never forget the first time on a movie set.
Next up adventures with Albert Pyun!

Honey... Why can't we go on a vacation this Christmas?

2006-12-15T15:52:00.000-08:00

oh... That's why.

Have an ultraman Christmas

2006-12-15T14:46:00.000-08:00

Or How Ultraman battled the Wampa on Hoth.

The laugh of the day goes to....

2006-12-15T12:16:00.000-08:00

Cheer up Bucko!

2006-12-14T15:55:00.000-08:00

We live in a world that is as dark, bloody and crooked as Peter O'Toole's bottom front teeth. I am constantly reminded that a handshake and a smile is not a promise.

Here are todays pictures that have distracted me from this suck ass Christmas and looming birthdays.

Click here to find out how SOY makes kids gay.

2006-12-13T12:25:00.000-08:00

The future made easy.

2006-12-13T01:50:00.000-08:00

ZERO GRAVITY TOILET.
PASSENGERS ARE ADVISED TO READ INSTRUCTIONS BEFORE USE.

1. The toilet is of the standard zero-gravity type. Depending on requirements, System A and/or System B can be used, details of which are clearly marked in the toilet compartment. When operating System A, depress lever and a plastic dalkron eliminator will be dispensed through the slot immediately underneath. When you have fastened the adhesive lip, attach connection marked by the large "X" outlet hose. Twist the silver coloured ring one inch below the connection point until you feel it lock.

2. The toilet is now ready for use. The Sonovac cleanser is activated by the small switch on the lip. When securing, twist the ring back to its initial-condition, so that the two orange line meet. Disconnect. Place the dalkron eliminator in the vacuum receptacle to the rear. Activate by pressing the blue button.

3. The controls for System B are located on the opposite wall. The red release switch places the uroliminator into position; it can be adjusted manually up or down by pressing the blue manual release button. The opening is self adjusting. To secure after use, press the green button which simultaneously activates the evaporator and returns the uroliminator to its storage position.

4. You may leave the lavatory if the green exit light is on over the door. If the red light is illuminated, one of the lavatory facilities is not properly secured. Press the "Stewardess" call button on the right of the door. She will secure all facilities from her control panel outside. When green exit light goes on you may open the door and leave. Please close the door behind you.

5. To use the Sonoshower, first undress and place all your clothes in the clothes rack. Put on the velcro slippers located in the cabinet immediately below. Enter the shower. On the control panel to your upper right upon entering you will see a "Shower seal" button. Press to activate. A green light will then be illuminated immediately below. On the intensity knob select the desired setting. Now depress the Sonovac activation lever. Bathe normally.

6. The Sonovac will automatically go off after three minutes unless you activate the "Manual off" over-ride switch by flipping it up. When you are ready to leave, press the blue "Shower seal" release button. The door will open and you may leave. Please remove the velcro slippers and place them in their container.

7. If the red light above this panel is on, the toilet is in use. When the green light is illuminated you may enter. However, you must carefully follow all instructions when using the facilities during coasting (Zero G) flight. Inside there are three facilities:
(1) the Sonowasher, (2) the Sonoshower, (3) the toilet.
All three are designed to be used under weightless conditions. Please observe the sequence of operations for each individual facility.

8. Two modes for Sonowashing your face and hands are available, the "moist-towel" mode and the "Sonovac" ultrasonic cleaner mode. You may select either mode by moving the appropriate lever to the "Activate" position. If you choose the "moist-towel" mode, depress the indicated yellow button and withdraw item. When you have finished, discard the towel in the vacuum dispenser, holding the indicated lever in the "active" position until the green light goes on...showing that the rollers have passed the towel completely into the dispenser. If you desire an additional towel, press the yellow button and repeat the cycle.

9. If you prefer the "Sonovac" ultrasonic cleaning mode, press the indicated blue button. When the twin panels open, pull forward by rings A & B. For cleaning the hands, use in this position. Set the timer to positions 10, 20, 30 or 40...indicative of the number of seconds required.
The knob to the left, just below the blue light, has three settings, low, medium or high. For normal use, the medium setting is suggested.

10. After these settings have been made, you can activate the device by switching to the "ON" position the clearly marked red switch. If during the washing operation, you wish to change the settings, place the "manual off" over-ride switch in the "OFF" position. you may now make the change and repeat the cycle.

Early Child Development: Homo prevention tips.

2006-12-12T21:01:00.000-08:00

1. A boy must not sit on a toilet unless he is having a bowel movement. Standing straight up, not hunched over while urinating, is a sign of manliness. Squatting on a toilet seat (especially if he hovers to avoid the urine of others or prissily wipes the seat with a square of toilet tissue) to pee is not only effeminate but a sign of shame! It is a secret hobby that homosexuals use in their daily lives. It is a scientific fact that when needing to use the restroom, a male is called upon to engage in the unpleasant undertaking of extruding a poopy in only 1 out of every 3 visits. But homosexuals use all three visits to practice squatting, to limber the cheeks of their bottom in preparation for even the most enormous penises. Such calisthenics are neither necessary nor advisable for men who have no intention of squatting over an engorged penis. As soon as your child is able to walk on two feet, you must make that sure he is taught to stand proudly in front of a private or public toilet seat, and to speak not a word, especially in response to the coy whispers of Catholic priests in the next stall.

2. A boy must eat everything on his plate. But if your son pesters you to serve corn on the cob, hot dogs or sausages, that is your signal to change his diet. Try serving meals that more effectively evoke a hankering for the fragrant delights of the female genitalia. An artichoke stuffed with tuna fish will usually do the trick.

3. A boy must always wear socks, except while swimming. So-called, "flip-flops" and "sandals," where the toes and ankles are exposed are products that were created during the (homo)sexual revolution. Creation research indicates that these types of provocative "shoes," were invented by homosexuals in San Fransissyco during the late 1960's with fetishes for little boy ankles. Thwart the perverted delight of these pedo-pedophiles with a thick pair of tube socks!

4. A boy must not be allowed to watch cartoons of any kind. He should spend Saturday mornings sitting quietly by his Father's side (with a respectful 3" between the male bodies), watching sports that don't involved male leotards. He must watch Football, Basketball, Baseball and Boxing. Soccer is not a sport for civilized people and often results in alarmingly long, uncut penises escaping from very alluring satin shorts. Soccer appeals only to poor, uneducated halflings from underdeveloped countries where the women grow mustaches twice as fast as the men. Make your child aware of this. When there are no sports on TV, take your boy out in the backyard and throw the football or play catch with a very hard baseball. Under no circumstances: wrestle in shorts, especially if your son is strapping, handsome and sporting a noticeably turgid crotch.

5. A boy must not play with dolls. If your boy has a young sister, forbid him from entering her room except for the purposes of the type of ordinary heterosexual experimentation that occurs in any Christian household. If you catch your male child playing with dolls, Landover Baptist Child Psychologists recommended that you shave his head, and sit him out at the end of the driveway with a sign around his neck that says, "I'm a Sissy Boy Who Plays With Dolls – Mailman: Why don't you just go ahead and stick something in my mouth?." This method of prevention has a 99.5% success rate (unless your particular mailman is young and attractive).

6. A boy must not refer to his parents as "Mommy" or "Daddy." As soon as your boy is old enough to speak, he must be taught to call his Mother, "Ma," or "Momma" or "Mommie Dearest." When addressing his Father, he should refer to him as, "Sir," "Dad," or "Commander." "Mommy" and "Daddy" are what fey, spoiled boys weaned on effeminacy coo, embarrassing you in front of the neighbors by never keeping the palms of their hands below their waists.

7. A boy must always wear thick, white underwear. White boxers, and/or briefs are acceptable. Your child must be taught that men who wear colored underwear or undergarments that are cut within one inch of the outer periphery of their pubic region or the trough of the valley between the cheeks of their bottom are either European or Homosexual – and in America there is no difference between the two.

8. A boy must never cry or pout. Crying, pouting or showing feelings are weak and feminine traits. After the natural tears of infancy, brought on by a child's traumatic exit from the spiritual realm of Heaven, to the horrible shock every young man experiences in seeing his very own mother's hairy, dilated vagina, and into this Devil run world we call, "Earth," your boy must be taught to stop crying. It usually takes a normal child several weeks to get over its birth – even when using daily submersions into ice-water.If your child is still crying after three weeks, please drop him off at the Creation Science Laboratory for the remainder of the year and for a determination of whether he is worth having back.

9. A boy must not use brightly colored crayons or any crayons from any colors of a rainbow. Christian parents should remove and destroy any suspiciously colored crayons from their boy's box of Crayolas. This needs no explanation, as we here at Landover Baptist are all familiar with Mr. Crayola's so-called "alternate lifestyle," and his reason for putting "Pansy Pink" and "Engorged Penis Head Purple" into his boxes are quite obvious. A boy must also draw in straight lines. Some curves are fine, but if you suspect your child of "doodling," and see that he is using more curves than straight lines, please call your Pastor immediately.

10. A boy must not skip or prance. You must not allow your boy to attend any school where they teach the children to "skip," or play "hopscotch" in Physical Education class. Creation Scientists have proved that such activities are the precursor to cross-dressing, appreciation for poetry, a sardonic display of irony and the rampant shoplifting of skin care products.

Find the "HUNTER GATHERER" in this picture

2006-12-12T15:35:00.000-08:00

Life of one Theater

2006-12-12T14:57:00.000-08:00

The Monica Theatre opened in the late 1930's with a seating capacity of 638 on one level (no balcony). It was a regular local neighborhood movie theatre to begin with, screening general release movies. A few of the film that have been screened at this neighborhood cinema were:
(Feb. 11, 1948)
John Garfield Lilli Palmer in
"Body and Soul"
Monica, Los Angeles

(Sept. 7, 1958)
Julien Duvivier's latest supspense hit, "Deadlier Than the Male," opens an exclusive Los Angeles engagement Friday at the Monica Theater. "Law and Disorder," a British crime thriller starring Michael Redgrave, Robert Morely, Ronald Squire and Lionel Jeffries, is the companion feature.

(Nov. 25, 1958)
As the result of a survey conducted among the patrons of Sunset and Monica Theaters a series of foreign films has been booked for preholiday showings. The opening program, starting tomorrow at both theaters, will be Gina Lollobrigida and Gerard Philipe, "Beauties of the Night," directed by Rene Clair, and "Fan Fan the Tulip," with Gerard Philipe in the title role.

(March 1, 1959)
The prize-winning Swedish film, "The Seventh Seal, has been held over at the Monica Theater and the opening of "Forbidden Fruit," starring Fernandel and Francoise Arnoul, has been postponed until Friday.

During the 1960's it went over to 'art house' programming.

(March 1, 1965)
COURT RULES FILM NOT OBSCENE
BACHELOR TOM PEEPING
ADULTS ONLY
2nd Big Hit!
Brigitte Bardot
"Strip-Tease"

When this Arthouse concept failed it was taken over by the Pussycat chain and became a straight porn theatre in the 1970's and was re-named Pussycat Theatre.

During the early-mid 1970's, this theater (along with the Pussycat in Buena Park aka the Grand) was Pussycat's premiere showhouse. Porn films for the Los Angeles area would premier here and play at this theater(and Buena Park) first before filtering through to the rest of the Pussycat chain. Unusual (for porn theater standards) was that during this period, there were also no double bills. Also, the films often would have multiple month runs instead of weekly changeovers. Other notable porn films that premiered here: Devil in Miss Jones, Private Afternoons of Pamela Mann, Naked Came the Stranger, Opening of Misty Beethoven

This would largely change in 1977, when business dropped due largely to the LA Times new policy of no longer carrying advertisements for X-rated films. Pussycat had spent over $1 million a year advertising in the LA Times alone. Business dipped by over 10% as a result. Both this theater and Buena Park would become like most any Pussycat theater, showing double bills. It had lost its "uniqueness". PUSSYCAT THEATRES began in Los Angles in the late 1960s. Vincent Miranda proved that a business that carried a nasty reputation could be ran with style and honesty. All of the 47 California theatres were beautifully renovated, decorated in rich velvets, and adorned with gold chandeliers. The lobbies shared the worlds largest collection of nude oil paintings. The theatres were kept impeccably clean and in perfect working order. With this being the Flagship of the porn chain below the marquee in cement are the hand and foot prints of famous Adult Film Stars. These imprints have endured thru decades of city mandated "street improvements".

With the demise of the Pussycat chain it went over to showing gay male porn, being re-named Tomkat Theatre and most recently STUDS.

MONICA
7734 Santa Monica Blvd.

What good are vipers against star distroyers?

2006-12-08T22:05:00.000-08:00

the hamburger happy clown

2006-12-08T18:18:00.000-08:00

People have asked if I'm from Jersey ( I thought it was because I'm gay and most people from Jersey are too)

2006-12-08T16:39:00.000-08:00

What American accent do you have? Your Result: The Northeast Judging by how you talk you are probably from north Jersey, New York City, Connecticut or Rhode Island. Chances are, if you are from New York City (and not those other places) people would probably be able to tell if they actually heard you speak.
The Midland
The Inland North
Philadelphia
Boston
The South
The West
North Central
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Clown 101

2006-12-08T02:37:00.000-08:00

Old folks and clowns.

Bonky please kill me.

It doesn't get any worse than this.

2006-12-08T02:31:00.000-08:00

Overcoming the ghost of christmas past (or the christmas that never will be)

2006-12-07T21:24:00.000-08:00

As Asshole Americans begin racing through shopping malls, planning parties and cooking elaborate meals this month, hopes are high for a merry Christmas, happy Hanukkah or joyous Kwanzaa.

During the holidays, expectations about the future and sentimental thoughts about the past merge. Dr. John Hipple, a University of North Texas counselor, says that most Americans expect to have a good time during the holidays, "yet hopes of happy times can be dashed by memories of trauma and loss."

"Dealing with sad feelings at a time when society expects us to be happy can cause major conflict and even depression," he says.

Hipple says dealing with sad memories is particularly difficult during the holidays, when events can result in a sad thought.

"While you're carving that Thanksgiving turkey, you might think about who's missing at the table. The empty chair may remind you of Uncle Joe, who died last year. The other empty chair might make you wonder if your husband will return from the war in Iraq," he says.

Hipple says walking under the mistletoe might trigger reminders of a lost love, while lighting the menorah on the first night of Hanukkah could conjure memories of a deceased parent.

"Many people advise their friends and relatives to overcome loss through will power," Hipple says. '"Just get over it,' they say."

Hipple says in American culture, people are not allowed to grieve for very long.

"We are encouraged to get over it and get on with it. We're afraid of death as a whole, while other cultures see death and loss as part of life," he says.

According to Hipple, individuals can walk successfully along the pathway of loss, trauma and grief. Self-dialogue and a support system of friends can help with management of grief, he says.

The first step to dealing with emotion is to acknowledge it, he says.

"If you're happy, be happy. On the other hand, don't deny sadness just because it's the season to be merry," he says.

Hipple says in working through loss and grief, it's helpful to find constructive ways to memorialize loved ones and missed opportunities. He encourages those working through grief to also look for things to celebrate. Finding supportive friends is equally important, he says.

"Recognize that your friends might have different cultural expectations than you do, so choose friends you can trust," he says. "Teach your friends what is helpful to you and understand that others are not going to take away your grief."

Hipple encourages people to be their own best friend during the holidays.

"You don't have to feel out of synch with what's going on around you," he says. "By facing your fears, your sadness and your grief, you can tell yourself you're living in an increasingly positive way. Give yourself the best gift of all — the freedom to have feelings and be yourself."

Thanks Hipple. I'm sure he's never had to deal with Christmas depression firsthand. His words sound helpful yet do not take away the overwhelming feelings of uselessness. Words do little to erase the sadness felt over friends and family long gone but not forgotten. Christmas is like a scene out of Invasion of the Body Snatchers. Jack Finney must have known this depression.

boogie man

2006-12-07T14:35:00.000-08:00

What the hell happened to TV and the internet? How did all these hidious restrictions creep up on us? Remember when MTV used to show videos? Remember when you could see a gang sign and not have it fuzzed out? Remember when you could say whatever the hell you wanted to say on the internet and not be in fear of some orginization coming thru your front door with warrant taped to the front of a battering ram ? How did this all happen? WTF was with that Janet Jackson tit (can I say tit?) thing years ago? Better tits have been on tv before so... why that? Why did we stand for that type of censorshit? How long until sirrus radio is censored? Dear god do I have to worry about my fuckin christmas cards too? YEP sure do! I have to make sure they are Holiday cards.

This world sucks ass.

Who are we afraid of?

If you just quit or are on the "patch" this is for you.

2006-12-07T01:04:00.000-08:00

Random Mom

2006-12-07T00:02:00.000-08:00

I came home after work and jumped on YouTube and found this ranting random Mom.

I dig her!

Looks like someone had a nice thanksgiving.

2006-12-06T13:19:00.000-08:00

The Associated Press
Wednesday, December 6, 2006; 12:10 PM

WASHINGTON -- Mary Cheney, the openly gay daughter of Vice President Dick Cheney and his wife, Lynne, is pregnant.

Mary Cheney, 37, and her partner of 15 years, Heather Poe, 45, are expecting a baby, said Lea Anne McBride, a spokeswoman for the vice president. The baby is due in late spring.

"The vice president and Mrs. Cheney are looking forward with eager anticipation to the arrival of their sixth granddaughter," McBride said.

The vice president's other, older daughter, Elizabeth Cheney, is on leave as deputy assistant secretary of state after having her fifth child with her husband in July.

Mary Cheney was an aide to her father during the 2004 campaign, as was Elizabeth, and now is vice president for consumer advocacy at AOL.

McBride declined to elaborate on the circumstances of Mary Cheney's pregnancy.
Mary Cheney and Poe moved from Colorado to Virginia a year ago to be closer to the Cheney family.

The Washington Post first reported the news in Wednesday's editions.

Merry Christmas nutbag!

2006-12-06T13:03:00.000-08:00

Scary Poppins

2006-12-06T12:33:00.000-08:00

A very nice recut of mary poppins.

See it while you can.

One turtle heard pickled squid is new.

2006-12-05T14:22:00.000-08:00

MOSKAU Now with English subtitles as translated by Gwyneth Paltrow.

2006-12-05T14:12:00.000-08:00

My peeps

2006-12-05T02:16:00.000-08:00

PEEPS!

The marshmallow creatures from another world have long delighted millions with their sandpaper skins and chewy insides, but for the Christmas enthusiast, they're now available in a wide array of "holiday varieties" -- at least four different kinds, plus whichever others ones I couldn't locate. The types of holiday Peeps may number in the dozens, by my local stores know when to call it quits. When you're eating four different kinds of Peeps, you're eating enough.

First up, here's a revamped version of the original yellow birdies -- same shape and same inwardly curled beak, but now they're a bright shade of Christmas Red. More interesting than the candies themselves is the little chick drawing on the package; a bird complete with Santa cap and undersized candy cane. Apparently, the original yellow Peeps have been around for 50 years. That's a whole lotta Peep-eatin. Let's assume that 20 million people have eaten two Peeps a year for the past five decades. This equates to a staggering 2,000,000,000 Peeps consumed. The number also provides chilling visions of what a congregation of two billion Peeps would actually look like. I'm picturing the world's biggest lemon. Or our second sun. Peepsy.

The red Peeps don't look as natural as their yellow cousins, obviously. If red baby chicks exist -- and believe me, I really hope they do -- I've never seen 'em. As things stand now, they look more like what'd plop out of constipated ape's ass. It's all in the spirit of Christmas.

Here's the second holiday variety -- "Peeps Snowmen." While cute enough, the red targets on their chests seem to mark them as "in season." So, don't feel bad about killing and eating them. They're in season.

Up next, it's the Peeps "Christmas Trees." These green masses of marshmallow sludge come fully decorated with a series of colorful dots and a tree topping star that looks a lot like the preamble to a massive bout of Easy Cheese squirtation. Come on, you know what I'm saying.

Of course, the three varieties mentioned above all taste exactly alike. Try as we might to find new flavors in the colors, it's just wishful thinking. A Peep is a Peep is a Peep, and unless specifically advertised as something new and terrific, they all taste like globs of sand-covered Fluff. Fortunately, our fourth and final holiday Peeps variety creates a new page in the Peeps' Book of Flavors. What you've seen above were merely appetizers for this unbridled display of Christmas tastiness...

"Marshmallow Peeps Cutouts."
Depending on your point of view, they're either supposed to represent gingerbread men or the more standard and vague "Christmas cookies." Either way, they're friggin' awesome. Sold in a different type of packaging than most Peeps, they're also a whole lot bigger, puffier, and susceptible to becoming stale. They cost more, too, but who wouldn't spare an extra fifty cents for a Peep creature that tastes like "holiday cookies?"

Indeed, that's what they taste like. Pretty disgustingly good stuff, to be honest. It's also the only kind of Peep I've ever seen with a colored marshmallow middle -- they're light tan on the outside, and a bit darker on the inside. This tiny distinction makes Peeps Cutouts somehow seem ten trillion times less desirable than all of other varieties. Granted, they're way more posable than the chicks and snowmen, too.

At one time, Peeps only seemed to crawl from their reclusive hideaways during the Easter season. While the original chicks are available year round these days, you can only buy the marshmallow crap pictured above during December. Maybe you'll get lucky and find a few on clearance in January, but come on...who wants to eat a Christmas Tree Peep after Christmas? It's like shoving Craisins up a turkey's ass for Labor Day.

By the way, all of these new "holiday" Peeps perform the same great trick as the originals when placed in a microwave. DEY EXPLODE. Merry Christmas.

PLAN 9 IN COLOR?

2006-12-04T14:12:00.000-08:00

Why kiddies why? Why mess with a classic.

Engineer in the making

2006-12-04T13:54:00.000-08:00

Whacha do this weekend? Well lemme tell ya...

2006-12-04T09:31:00.000-08:00

The FESTIVAL OF TREES.

An event that offered up one drink and all the hor d'ourves you could eat. ONE FREE DRINK! (Remind me I have booze at the house) This was an event put on by the Eaglerock women of WWII or something like that. Greggory and I went to this thing not knowing what it was. The promise of winning a raffled Christmas tree was the selling point for us. We are so damn broke right now that a free tree is the only one we can afford to get.
Anyway this thing was put on in the WOMAN'S club of Eaglerock. A nice building from the outside and a rest home on the inside.
Not just in its appearance. Old folk everywhere.
The youngest person there was the councelman from that district. One scotch and soda didn't drink the event away but two certainly numbed the evening . It was not what I expected. Eaglerock is truly a little Peyton Place. Gossip abounds. What a trashy little throwback of a world it is. Whitefolk who whisper and gossip .. cant get enough of that! People were very nice to us even though we do not live in the neighborhood. You could see this was a big event for the queen bee who was buzzing around in her mall bought pantsuit complete with real Macy's countertop bought earrings! (oh the scandal of it!) I was bummed that there was not a tree from our favorite restaurant FATTY'S ... oh well.
I was sure that we would win a tree that I spent most of my food money for the week on raffle tickets. (that was the scotch doing what it does best... make me stupid)

I dig the community but... its just full of old people doing sedentary things.

Scopitones were crazy things!

2006-12-04T00:35:00.000-08:00

The technology for the Scopitone machine itself (also known as a Cinebox) dates back to the late 1940's. A cross between a jukebox and a 26-inch color TV, was the result of technology developed for use during WWII, turned by CAMECA to civilian use, projecting 3-minute Scopitones—song films—for a quarter to tipsy audiences in clubs and bars. Terribly popular in France, the rest of the world began to take notice, and in 1963, George Wood from the William Morris Agency started a development deal to license the machines in the U.S., the Agency's first foray into multimedia.

Alas, Wood, up to his neck in gambling debts, also included in the deal a cobweb of Mafia up and down the East Coast. He didn't last out the deal, and one of his younger associates took over with a cleaner proposition. The completed negotiations included the importing of 200 machines, with a guarantee that 5200 machines would be built in the U.S. over the next 10 years. Optimists! The Scopitone's potential even swayed a young Francis Ford Coppola, who invested a big chunk of his money from some early screenwriting gigs. But America's embrace of the medium never came. Something between 1,000 and 1,500 machines were produced in the U.S. before the Scopitone "craze" fizzled out entirely, around 1967. Even big stars had Scopitones—Neil Sedaka, Nancy Sinatra, Gail Garnett, Petula Clarke, and Paul Anka all made them—and it didn't help.

Exactly like today's music videos, there are two themes to Scopitones:

1: Illustrate the story of the song.
2: Make it sexy.

Between France and the U.S., the production esthetics involved had a gap bigger than the Atlantic. American Scopitones bordered on soft-core porn (for the early 60s, that is): chicks gyrated wildly (and not even in time to the music) wearing either the ubiquitous bikini, a similarly skimpy outfit or sent through a modified striptease, ending up in even less. Though most French Scopitones, too, center on the female form, others might have a chorus of dancing guys as the background—usually doing the Twist, or the Hully-Gully. And these men, like the women, were not always fully-clothed.

The chick-to-hunk ratio was, of course, huge. The French methods of depicting the chicks were, in some ways, more realistic. If models or dancers were in bikinis, at least they were near a pool. If they were in lingerie, they were (usually) not strutting across a stage set, but instead filmed through keyholes. The ogling opportunities were skewed to the 'accidental' view—the style called for quick shots up the skirts of women walking (or twisting) on the tops of walls, or down the bosoms of low-cut dresses. Usually all the camera caught was a set of garter straps at mid-thigh, a little cleavage. The French Scopitone producers looked for ways to go around the dress, so the female body became a sequence of parts, glimpses. And like the fast-edit MTV style, these fleeting glimpses of flesh kept audiences interested without being bombarded with a satiating (or nauseating) overt display.

And if it wasn't sex, it was the Twist. In the U.S., the Twist was just one of many dance crazes, seeing its heyday between 1960 and 1962. In France, it was an institution, persisting well into 1965. Le Twist might be performed in many inches of snow, on driftwood, in the middle of the woods, on trains, behind screens, or in the middle of a corral. Rubbery legs and flexible ankles could be the foundation for a career for any singer, regardless of their voice. And if singers couldn't twist? Then they'd import a whole set of teens who could, and just plop the singer down in the foreground. The Scopitone producers odd interpretations of music yielded not a few stereotypes of all kinds of other culture, especially American, but could be so disjointed to be curiously interesting. While the American Scopitones are merely well-produced kitsch, the low-budget quality of these French productions created surreal brilliance. Les Surfaros—a group of 6 pygmy teenagers—performed "If I Had a Hammer" in French dressed in skiwear in front of a chalet.

The French obviously used a high percentage of their obtained footage, which left a haphazard, low-budget style presence—singers oblivious to misbehaving animals, dance sequences with the dancer's body off-camera (you can just see his bobbing head), bored-looking stars, plenty of askew lipsyncing and, of course, parts and parts and parts of bodies. Being a fairly new medium, all kinds of framing devices and rudimentary special effects were added. They liked to film on trains, cars, carnival rides (any possible moving vehicle), from very far away through layers of trees, or in front of a hastily-constructed set (wall of travel posters? one white sheet on an empty stage?). Even though most American stars kept their filming safely at home where, no doubt, there'd be some sort of standards, but once they moved it to France, even they weren't exempt from these random treatments—Dion's "Ruby Baby" features him singing from the cockpit of an conspicuously grounded plane. These slapdash effects and production meant that almost anyone could fancy themselves a director—and many amateurs did. But even then, the Scopitones made only number a little over 300 worldwide. In France, they were an (albeit temporary) entertainment institution. Here, irritation quickly succeeded enthusiasm. From an American consumer's standard, not only were there so few available to watch, but half of these were in French, made on crummy, reddish film stock (which, over time, has gone from bad to worse). It's no wonder the Scopitone's already negligible popularity was surplanted by the growth of color television. And in this medium, they too, are all but forgotten—to this day, only three Scopitones have been shown on American television, tellingly, on the Comedy Channel.

BABY big baby!

2006-12-01T16:11:00.000-08:00

BUSTED!!!! Its like your desk but ...moving!

For John

2006-12-01T14:16:00.000-08:00

From the call in show RING MY BELL.

WORLD AIDS DAY

2006-12-01T12:54:00.000-08:00

Today is world AIDS day.

What do you say to that?
" Happy World A.I.D.S. day?"

Dont you laugh at me!

2006-12-01T08:43:00.000-08:00

As far as I can tell, this is a game show where students are forced to watch a video of a non-English speaker struggling with trying to sound out English phrases.

The basic idea is not to laugh. Or course, this is hard because watching someone struggle with language skills is almost always cause for hilarity. Especially when you’re forced to hold it in.

Unfortunately, there’s a slight twist. If the student’s do laugh, they are caned by masked men. Yes, full on the ground, butt in the air, painful-as-they-come, caning.

As the game goes on, the students try so very hard not to laugh. Unfortunately, they do not succeed.

You, however, are free to laugh at will.

Full Metal Jacket reject

2006-11-30T23:32:00.000-08:00

Brian Atene, born August 16, 1963, is a former student in the Juilliard School of performing arts, who became an Internet phenomenon in 2006 when an audition tape he had made in 1984 for the film Full Metal Jacket was posted on YouTube. The video attracted considerable attention because of the apparent hubris ("You will find in me the finest actor of the lot, the most beautifully trained, the most capable"), and comical over-acting displayed by the 20 year old aspiring actor while attempting to attract the attention of director Stanley Kubrick. The video features Atene performing a "cutting" loosely based on S.E. Hinton's The Outsiders. Atene acts out the role of Johnny Cade, whose back has been broken.
The video was mentioned on prominent web sites such as Boing Boing and Gawker and Defamer and spread in classic viral fashion, inspiring numerous remixes.
Three days after the breakout of the video, an individual posted a video response on YouTube, claiming to be Atene, now 43 years old, heavier and "still acting". A debate broke out, within the comment sections of YouTube, and on many other blogs and sites hosting the two videos, as to whether or not this was in fact the "real Atene."
Further confusing matters, a number of days later, another individual claiming to be Atene created a user id on YouTube called "juilliardropout". He claimed that he would post a video sometime in the near future and that the original video, although real, was done partly tongue-in-cheek. On November 17, 2006 juilliardropout posted a video on YouTube where he said he is Brian Atene and said that the original tape was one of two and it was the other one that was actually sent to Stanley Kubrick; he also asked people to visit christopherreeve.org and buy Superman items to support "The search for truth and justice" and promised to post new videos on YouTube. While Atene explains the choice of this charity with a story about how Reeves visited Juilliard while he was a student there, some YouTube commenters wondered whether this was a sly reference to his "I ain't gonna walk again-- not even on crutches" audition for Kubrick from The Outsiders.

Wapner 3:30

2006-11-30T19:59:00.000-08:00

"I would like to send my condolences out to The Little Walnut, Lindsey Lohan's Brain , as well as all of it's immediate organs, close nerve endings, fan club, and all of its inner working bits of stuff.

"I feel as if I've just had the Brain knocked out of me and my head cavity aches.

God Bless, peace and love always.

Thank You,

"BE ADEQUITE"

Rain Man

Romper Bomper Stomper Boo...

2006-11-30T11:41:00.000-08:00

In 1971 I was placed into The wonderland Nursery School. It was in the United Methodist Church at Franklin and Highland.
I was 5 years old. The things that I can remember about that time were my teachers were Miss Penney and Miss Nichols. Mrs Penney was the Sally Field looking one while Miss Nichols was the blonde Vegas looking lady. I hated playtime because there was this guy Kelly Shipley who would punch you if you got within arms distance.

I remember they used to make all the boys and girls use the bathroom at the same time and I couldn't do that so they made a big deal about me having "privacy."
Freaks.
I remember one day we went on a field trip. They piled like 20 five-year-olds into two white passenger vans and drove us about 2 miles to KCOP channel 13. It was and still is just off of La Brea at Willoughby. After we piled out of our seatbeltless vans we were herded into the huge rolling tan metal doors of the TV station into the ROMPER ROOM set. We were the featured school of the day. I remember saying the pledge of allegiance and watching the show from the bleachers. I do remember when MISS MARY ANN looked thru her mirror I fully expected her to say my name. She still did not say my name and I was right in front of her. I was mad and I guess part of me has never forgiven her.

For ten years, between 1966 to 1976, Miss Mary Ann was the pre-school teacher of choice for many Los Angeles children. Running KCOP-TV's "Romper Room", Miss Mary Ann engaged children with imaginative games, stories and songs, along with positive life lessons.

Miss Mary Ann explained safety lessons by having her young viewers turn on their pretend sirens and answer emergency calls in their "safety chief cars". Children who appeared on the show were guest students and along with the at home viewers, learned of many places and things by galloping around on their stick horses. But probably the two most cherished things (besides Miss Mary Ann!) that a "graduate" of Romper Room would remember would be her "magic mirror" and "Do Bee". Were you a "Do Bee" or a "Don't Bee"? I'm sure if you watched Miss Mary Ann you are all "Do Bees" having learned manners and conduct.

(no sixties drug influance there!)

Whether you were a "Do Bee" or a "Don't Bee", by the end of each show you would have a chance for Miss Mary Ann to see you, as she would peer through her magic mirror, and into the homes of her viewers, calling you by name.

"Romper, bomper, stomper, boo.
Tell me, tell me, tell me do.
Magic mirror, tell me today.
Did all my friends have fun at play?"

With the chant spoken, the Romper Room hostess gazed through the empty mirror frame and recited the names of the lucky children whom she pretended to see watching the program (a different list of names each day). For example, "I see Tommy and Susan and Hannah and William and Mary and all you boys and girls out there." Of course, the hostess really couldn't see the children, but to the kids at home, as they listened for their name to be mentioned, they knew that they were someone special, at least in the World of Romper Room.

Former Romper Room hostess Mary Ann King (in Los Angeles from 1966-76) was mugged in the parking lot of a Hometown Buffet in the City of Industry on December 17, 2003. The encounter gave King, 70, a broken arm, rib and punctured lung. Besides her injuries, the thieves stole a black taffeta bag that contained the original Magic Mirror (white plastic mirror frame) used on the Romper Room program so many years. King began carrying the magic mirror around with her to satisfy the wishes of people who confronted her with the allegations "you never said my name." In the case of the criminals who stole the item, King confessed "I'm sure those hoodlums who did this just looked at the mirror and said, 'What in the world is this,' and just discarded it."

Now she'll never say my name.

I wanna grow up to be a HOBO! hobo.... hoBo with a "B"!

2006-11-29T19:26:00.000-08:00

Hobo Kelly is probably one of the most beloved and well-known Children's show hosts for kids growing up in the Los Angeles area in the 1960's.

Sally Schurman was raised on the north side of Chicago where she worked hard to eliminate her neighborhood trademark, a pretty Irish brogue that reveals a family history of Irish roots that go back through 12 generations to the county of Cork.

Sally began her children's show in Peoria, Ill around 1960-61 before moving out to California. She appeared with her show on a UHF station in San Bernardino that ran for a year just prior to her stint on KTTV.

Hobo Kelly and Her Puppets began on KTTV in 1965 and was wildly successful. She started out weekday mornings from 7:30 to 9 am on channel 11 and in her first 11 months on the show, received some 350,000 pieces of fan mail. Hobo Kelly received more fan mail than all the other KTTV shows on at that time combined. Many children maintained a running correspondence with their young Hobo friend who magically "sees" her audience through oversized glasses that she dons from time to time.

After being on the air for14 months, she was asked by Mayor Yorty to raise the Irish flag over City Hall for St. Patrick's day. She was the reigning TV Queen of the City of Angels, passing her special brand of Hobo Magic on the kids of Los Angeles.

Sally Baker (married to another broadcasting original; Walt Baker) was truly a pioneer for women in broadcasting by producing, writing and starring in her own show on a daily basis. One of the first women in television to really control the content of her show and what went out to the kids, her husband Walt Baker was the director on the show making it a truly family affair.

In a sea of cowboys and skippers, came her lovable character of Hobo Kelly, a stand out from the start.

Many will remember her huge toy machine that she would fill with junk and then miraculously as she cranked it the junk would turn into fantastic toys to be given to a lucky mischief maker from her viewing audience pulled at random from a large turning tub.

The magic paint that she used to paint the screen and expose pictures with was a popular feature on her show. It stressed a creative magic spark for all children and carried on to her later show, The Froozles.

The Hobo Kelly make-up would take about 45 minutes to put on and almost as long to get off. "It's like cleaning a carburetor," she says. "I use endless chemicals."

Preparation of some 175 different sound effects went into the show each week. By 1971, the Hobo Kelly Show is seen on KCOP channel 13 in Los Angeles, KPTV channel 12 in Portland and WTCN in Minneapolis.

Hobo Kelly made many personal appearances in the LA area, handing out little gifts and winning even more hearts. Living in North Hollywood with her husband and two daughters, Kelli and Kathleen in 1966, she would often do local shows as well. During Easter week of that year she would rush from her show at KTTV studios in full costume to the Valley Music Theater for two performances daily with Les Poupees de Paris puppets. (Hopefully she didn't have to hop a freight from KTTV to Woodland Hills.)

After her run as Hobo Kelly, you could still catch Sally Baker in the very popular and delightful (not to mention award winning) show from the mid to late 1970's called "The Froozles" where she used some of the very same effects she had perfected at Hobo Junction. The Froozles remained in syndication for quite awhile proving that Sally Baker's talent was appreciated and exceptional.

BUT SCOOTER SMOKING IS SO COOL!

2006-11-29T13:48:00.000-08:00

If you grew up watching T.V. in the 70's it's probably been awhile since you've scrambled up to Dusty's Treehouse.

You may remember the oldest and loudest member of Dusty's little group. Maxine the Crow is more than a little selfish and vain, a bossy self-proclaimed expert with tons of energy. Maxine wants to be a movie queen, is highly incorrigible, a little on the lazy side, independent, highly creative, a bit incompetent except when it comes to hare-brained schemes that seem to get everybody else in trouble.

And then there is the cute little blue squirrel named Scooter. Scooter really loves baseball, recess, and sometimes even his little brother. Just like any typical eight to nine year old, Scooter is mischievous but willing to learn from his mistakes.

Wide-eyed innocence and unquenchable curiosity rounds out our little group in the form of a 4-year-old spider named Stanley.

Stanley the Spider is everybody's little brother. An inquisitive redhead, wearing three pairs of tennis shoes on his six feet, he once informed Dusty that he had heard all about policemen. "Policemen are scary," Stanley reported. Of course, Dusty set him straight via a filmed trip in a police helicopter to see how the officers help people in trouble.

And then there's Dusty himself. Dusty and his pals visited us atop an old oak tree in a comfortable clubhouse. When he wasn't busy conversing with the treehouse menagerie, he was taking us on filmed trips to bakeries to see how bread is made.

Dusty must have been a captain of "in-dust-tree" since we always had plenty of field trips to various plants and factories to see how a variety of things were made.

We also learned a lot of different crafts up in the clubhouse, learning how to construct things like party hats or a picture-box theatre. Children's fables like Hans Christian Andersen's "Princess and the Pea" and the story of the acorn that became a great oak were enacted using shadow puppets along with an occasional original musical.

Dusty discussed everything with his pals, from microwave ovens, antique banks, and the history of clocks, to what happens to a letter once it is dropped in a mailbox.

Dusty was an involved, caring friend and guardian for the puppet characters in his treehouse, always ready to help them untangle life's problems. No problem was too difficult to work out, no curiosity too far out to be explored.

Dusty's Treehouse was created, coproduced, and hosted by Stu Rosen as Dusty.

Tony Urbano was the talented puppeteer who gave life to Maxine, Scooter and Stanley and also designed, sculpted and painted all the marionettes, collaborating with Rosen in the development of the three principal characters.

Dusty's Treehouse enjoyed major market success as a local Los Angeles series for over a decade and five years of simultaneous syndication before the show's introduction on cable television. Originally an offshoot of "Dusty's Attic" (KCET,1966-1967) a twenty-two week local Los Angeles PBS program that began October 5, 1966. Staged in a cluttered garret, Stu Rosen related stories from a magical book to a shoe named Scuffy and a lamp called Shady Lady, a pair of puppets operated by Jan MacAlister.

The most elaborate series produced locally at KNXT, videotaped on the outlet's most expensive set, Dusty's Treehouse was an exchange program for several summers starting May 22, 1971, on the CBS O&O stations.

One of the most honored of local series, Dusty's Treehouse received 8 Emmy Awards, 6 of them consecutively 1970 through 1976 and 1980. It was also a recipient of the 1973 George Foster Peabody Award and 1979 Ohio State Award for its contribution to educational programming. Selected from the programs, fifty-two of the best episodes were syndicated in 1975 and shown for twenty-six weeks in barter syndication in 1976.

Sometime back in the late 1980's, Dusty's Treehouse was shown on Nickelodeon. Nickelodeon was desperate to find any childrens programming to fill 24 hours a day. They scoured local outlets and found outdated sometimes questionable programming. Dustys Treehouse was one of those buy ups. I doubt that will ever air again.

stop tapping on the glass!

2006-11-29T13:07:00.000-08:00

More sweeties.
This time they take a field trip to the bakery. It reminds me of the crappy field trips Dusty used to take on the show DUSTYS TREEHOUSE.

The Sweeties go to the LaBrea Tar pits

2006-11-28T15:55:00.000-08:00

AND THERE"S DA PIT!

God loves William S Burroughs

2006-11-28T11:04:00.000-08:00

A thanksgiving prayer from the dead.

AH yes ...the repugnicans

2006-11-28T00:10:00.000-08:00

Thank you Jerry W. for this wonderful list of Republican achievements. Marvel at its length.

Republican County Constable Larry Dale Floyd was arrested on suspicion of soliciting sex with an 8-year old girl. Floyd has repeatedly won elections for Denton County, Texas, constable.

Republican judge Mark Pazuhanich pleaded no contest to fondling a 10-year old girl and was sentenced to 10 years probation.

Republican Party leader Bobby Stumbo was arrested for having sex with a 5-year old boy.

Republican teacher and former city councilman John Collins pleaded guilty to sexually molesting 13 and 14 year old girls.

Republican campaign worker Mark Seidensticker is a convicted child molester.

Republican Mayor Philip Giordano is serving a 37-year sentence in federal prison for sexually abusing 8- and 10-year old girls.

Republican Mayor John Gosek was arrested on charges of soliciting sex from two 15-year old girls.

Republican County Commissioner David Swartz pleaded guilty to molesting two girls under the age of 11 and was sentenced to 8 years in prison.

Republican legislator Edison Misla Aldarondo was sentenced to 10 years in prison for raping his daughter between the ages of 9 and 17.

Republican Committeeman John R. Curtain was charged with molesting a teenage boy and unlawful sexual contact with a minor.

Republican anti-abortion activist Howard Scott Heldreth is a convicted child rapist in Florida.

Republican zoning supervisor, Boy Scout leader and Lutheran church president Dennis L. Rader pleaded guilty to performing a sexual act on an 11-year old girl he murdered.

Republican anti-abortion activist Nicholas Morency pleaded guilty to possessing child pornography on his computer and offering a bounty to anybody who murders an abortion doctor.

Republican campaign consultant Tom Shortridge was sentenced to three years probation for taking nude photographs of a 15-year old girl.

Republican racist pedophile and United States Senator Strom Thurmond had sex with a 15-year old black girl which produced a child.

Republican pastor Mike Hintz, whom George W. Bush commended during the 2004 presidential campaign, surrendered to police after admitting to a sexual affair with a female juvenile.

Republican legislator Peter Dibble pleaded no contest to having an inappropriate relationship with a 13-year-old girl.

Republican advertising consultant Carey Lee Cramer was charged with molesting his 9-year old step-daughter after including her in an anti-Gore television commercial.

Republican activist Lawrence E. King, Jr. organized child sex parties at the White House during the 1980s.

Republican lobbyist Craig J. Spence organized child sex parties at the White House during the 1980s.

Republican Congressman Donald "Buz" Lukens was found guilty of having sex with a female minor and sentenced to one month in jail.

Republican fundraiser Richard A. Delgaudio was found guilty of child porn charges and paying two teenage girls to pose for sexual photos.

Republican activist Mark A. Grethen convicted on six counts of sex crimes involving children.

Republican activist Randal David Ankeney pleaded guilty to attempted sexual assault on a child.

Republican Congressman Dan Crane had sex with a female minor working as a congressional page.

Republican activist and Christian Coalition leader Beverly Russell admitted to an incestuous relationship with his step daughter.

Republican Judge Ronald C. Kline was placed under house arrest for child molestation and possession of child pornography.

Republican congressman and anti-gay activist Robert Bauman was charged with having sex with a 16-year-old boy he picked up at a gay bar.

Republican Committee Chairman Jeffrey Patti was arrested for distributing a video clip of a 5-year-old girl being raped.

Republican activist Marty Glickman (a.k.a. "Republican Marty"), was taken into custody by Florida police on four counts of unlawful sexual activity with an underage girl and one count of delivering the drug LSD.

Republican legislative aide Howard L. Brooks was charged with molesting a 12-year old boy and possession of child pornography.

Republican Senate candidate John Hathaway was accused of having sex with his 12-year old baby sitter and withdrew his candidacy after the allegations were reported in the media.

Republican preacher Stephen White, who demanded a return to traditional values, was sentenced to jail after offering $20 to a 14-year-old boy for permission to perform oral sex on him.

Republican talk show host Jon Matthews pleaded guilty to exposing his genitals to an 11 year old girl.

Republican anti-gay activist Earl "Butch" Kimmerling was sentenced to 40 years in prison for molesting an 8-year old girl after he attempted to stop a gay couple from adopting her.

Republican election board official Kevin Coan was sentenced to two years probation for soliciting sex over the internet from a 14-year old girl.

Republican politician Andrew Buhr was charged with two counts of first degree sodomy with a 13-year old boy.

Republican politician Keith Westmoreland was arrested on seven felony counts of lewd and lascivious exhibition to girls under the age of 16 (i.e. exposing himself to children).

Republican anti-abortion activist John Allen Burt was found guilty of molesting a 15-year old girl.

Republican County Councilman Keola Childs pleaded guilty to molesting a male child.

Republican activist John Butler was charged with criminal sexual assault on a teenage girl.

Republican candidate Richard Gardner admitted to molesting his two daughters.

Republican Councilman and former Marine Jack W. Gardner was convicted of molesting a 13-year old girl.

Republican County Commissioner Merrill Robert Barter pleaded guilty to unlawful sexual contact and assault on a teenage boy.

Republican City Councilman Fred C. Smeltzer, Jr. pleaded no contest to raping a 15 year-old girl and served 6-months in prison.

Republican activist Parker J. Bena pleaded guilty to possession of child pornography on his home computer and was sentenced to 30 months in federal prison and fined $18,000.

Republican parole board officer and former Colorado state representative, Larry Jack Schwarz, was fired after child pornography was found in his possession.

Republican strategist and Citadel Military College graduate

Republican businessman Jon Grunseth withdrew his candidacy for Minnesota governor after allegations surfaced that he went swimming in the nude with four underage girls, including his daughter.

Republican director of the "Young Republican Federation" Nicholas Elizondo molested his 6-year old daughter and was sentenced to six years in prison.

Republican president of the New York City Housing Development Corp. Russell Harding pleaded guilty to possessing child pornography on his computer.

Republican Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld authorized the rape of children in Iraqi prisons in order to humiliate their parents into providing information about the anti-American insurgency.

Republican serial killer Ted Bundy was hired by the Republican Party

Republican activist Matthew Glavin, who preached family values, was caught masturbating in public and fondling an undercover park ranger

Republican Party Chairman Sam Walls, who is married, was urged to drop his candidacy for Congress when it was found he likes to dress up in women's clothing

Republican Congressman Edward Schrock resigned from Congress after he was caught searching for sex on a gay telephone service

Republican Mayor Jim West Republican voter Timothy McVeigh bombed Oklahoma City championed an anti-gay agenda, but was later found to be gay himself

Republican preacher Jimmy Swaggart preached fidelity, but cheated on his wife with a prostitute

Republican Congressman Bob Livingston was about to vote for impeaching President Clinton for sexual improprieties until it was disclosed he was an adulterer

Republican Congressman Henry Hyde denounced President Clinton's extramarital affair, but was later found to be an adulterer himself

Republican Party leader Paul Ingram pleaded guilty to six counts of raping his daughters and served 14 years in federal prison.

Republican benefactor of conservative Christian groups, Richard A. Dasen Sr., was found guilty of raping a 15-year old girl. Dasen, 62, who is married with grown children and several grandchildren, has told police that over the past decade he paid more than $1 million to have sex with a large number of young women.

Republican city councilman Mark Harris, who is described as a "good military man" and "church goer," was convicted of repeatedly having sex with an 11-year-old girl and sentenced to 12 years in prison.

Republican anti-abortion activist Howard Scott Heldreth is a convicted child rapist in Florida.

Republican County Commissioner David Swartz pleaded guilty to molesting two girls under the age of 11 and was sentenced to 8 years in prison.

Republican judge Mark Pazuhanich pleaded no contest to fondling a 10-year old girl and was sentenced to 10 years probation.

Republican anti-abortion activist Nicholas Morency pleaded guilty to possessing child pornography on his computer and offering a bounty to anybody who murders an abortion doctor.

Republican legislator Edison Misla Aldarondo was sentenced to 10 years in prison for raping his daughter between the ages of 9 and 17.

Republican Mayor Philip Giordano is serving a 37-year sentence in federal prison for sexually abusing 8- and 10-year old girl.

Republican campaign consultant Tom Shortridge was sentenced to three years probation for taking nude photographs of a 15-year old girl.

Republican racist pedophile and United States Senator Strom Thurmond had sex with a 15-year old black girl which produced a child.

Republican pastor Mike Hintz, whom George W. Bush commended during the 2004 presidential campaign, surrendered to police after admitting to a sexual affair with a female juvenile.

Republican legislator Peter Dibble pleaded no contest to having an inappropriate relationship with a 13-year-old girl.

Republican activist Lawrence E. King, Jr. organized child sex parties at the White House during the 1980s.

Republican lobbyist Craig J. Spence organized child sex parties at the White House during the 1980s.

Republican Congressman Donald "Buz" Lukens was found guilty of having sex with a female minor and sentenced to one month in jail.

Republican fundraiser Richard A. Delgaudio was found guilty of child porn charges and paying two teenage girls to pose for sexual photos.

Republican activist Mark A. Grethen convicted on six counts of sex crimes involving children.

Republican activist Randal David Ankeney pleaded guilty to attempted sexual assault on a child.

Republican Congressman Dan Crane had sex with a female minor working as a congressional page.

Republican activist and Christian Coalition leader Beverly Russell admitted to an incestuous relationship with his step daughter.

Republican governor Arnold Schwarzenegger allegedly had sex with a 16 year old girl when he was 28.

Republican congressman and anti-gay activist Robert Bauman was charged with having sex with a 16-year-old boy he picked up at a gay bar.

Republican Committee Chairman Jeffrey Patti was arrested for distributing a video clip of a 5-year-old girl being raped.

Republican activist Marty Glickman (a.k.a. "Republican Marty"), was taken into custody by Florida police on four counts of unlawful sexual activity with an underage girl and one count of delivering the drug LSD.

Republican legislative aide Howard L. Brooks was charged with molesting a 12-year old boy and possession of child pornography.

Republican Senate candidate John Hathaway was accused of having sex with his 12-year old baby sitter and withdrew his candidacy after the allegations were reported in the media.

Republican preacher Stephen White, who demanded a return to traditional values, was sentenced to jail after offering $20 to a 14-year-old boy for permission to perform oral sex on him.

Republican talk show host Jon Matthews pleaded guilty to exposing his genitals to an 11 year old girl.

Republican anti-gay activist Earl "Butch" Kimmerling was sentenced to 40 years in prison for molesting an 8-year old girl after he attempted to stop a gay couple from adopting her.

Republican Party leader Paul Ingram pleaded guilty to six counts of raping his daughters and served 14 years in federal prison.

Republican election board official Kevin Coan was sentenced to two years probation for soliciting sex over the internet from a 14-year old girl.

Republican politician Andrew Buhr was charged with two counts of first degree sodomy with a 13-year old boy.

Republican politician Keith Westmoreland was arrested on seven felony counts of lewd and lascivious exhibition to girls under the age of 16 (i.e. exposing himself to children).

Republican anti-abortion activist John Allen Burt was charged with sexual misconduct involving a 15-year old girl.

Republican County Councilman Keola Childs pleaded guilty to molesting a male child.

Republican activist John Butler was charged with criminal sexual assault on a teenage girl.

Republican candidate Richard Gardner admitted to molesting his two daughters.

Republican Councilman and former Marine Jack W. Gardner was convicted of molesting a 13-year old girl.

Republican County Commissioner Merrill Robert Barter pleaded guilty to unlawful sexual contact and assault on a teenage boy.

Republican City Councilman Fred C. Smeltzer, Jr. pleaded no contest to raping a 15 year-old girl and served 6-months in prison.

Republican activist Parker J. Bena pleaded guilty to possession of child pornography on his home computer and was sentenced to 30 months in federal prison and fined $18,000.

Republican parole board officer and former Colorado state representative, Larry Jack Schwarz, was fired after child pornography was found in his possession.

Republican strategist and Citadel Military College graduate Robin Vanderwall was convicted in Virginia on five counts of soliciting sex from boys and girls over the internet.

Republican city councilman Mark Harris, who is described as a "good military man" and "church goer," was convicted of repeatedly having sex with an 11-year-old girl and sentenced to 12 years in prison.

Republican businessman Jon Grunseth withdrew his candidacy for Minnesota governor after allegations surfaced that he went swimming in the nude with four underage girls, including his daughter.

Republican director of the "Young Republican Federation" Nicholas Elizondo molested his 6-year old daughter and was sentenced to six years in prison.

Republican benefactor of conservative Christian groups, Richard A. Dasen Sr., was charged with rape for allegedly paying a 15-year old girl for sex. Dasen, 62, who is married with grown children and several grandchildren, has allegedly told police that over the past decade he paid more than $1 million to have sex with a large number of young women.

Republican Mayor John Gosek, 58, of 275 West 7th Street, Oswego, was arrested for the federal offense of "using a facility in inte-state commerce (a telephone) to knowingly attempt to persuade, induce, entice, and coerce an individual under the age of 18 years to engage in sexual activity for which he could be charged with criminal offenses, that is, rape in the third degree and criminal sexual act in the third degree" in violation of the New York State Penal Code.

Republican racist pedophile and United States Senator Strom Thurmond had sex with a 15-year old black girl which produced a child.

Republican activist Lawrence E. King, Jr. organized child sex parties at the White House during the 1980s.

Republican lobbyist Craig J. Spence organized child sex parties at the White House during the 1980s.

Republican Mayor Philip Giordano is serving a 37-year sentence in federal prison for sexually abusing 8- and 10-year old girls.

Republican Congressman Donald "Buz" Lukens was found guilty of having sex with a minor and sentenced to one month in jail.

Republican fundraiser Richard A. Delgaudio was found guilty of child porn charges.

Republican activist Mark A. Grethen convicted on six counts of sex crimes involving children.

Republican activist Randal David Ankeney pleaded guilty to attempted sexual assault on a child.

Republican Congressman Dan Crane had sex with a minor working as a congressional page.

Republican activist and Christian Coalition leader Beverly Russell admitted to an incestuous relationship with his step daughter.

Republican congressman and anti-gay activist Robert Bauman was charged with having sex with a 16-year-old boy he picked up at a gay bar.

Republican activist Marty Glickman (a.k.a. "Republican Marty"), was taken into custody by Florida police on four counts of unlawful sexual activity with a juvenile and one count of delivering the drug LSD.

Republican legislative aide Howard L. Brooks, an advisor to a California assemblyman, was charged with molesting a 12-year old boy and possession of child pornography.

Republican Senate candidate John Hathaway was accused of having sex with his 12-year old baby sitter and withdrew his candidacy after the allegations were reported in the media.

Republican preacher Stephen White was arrested after allegedly offering $20 to a 14-year-old boy for permission to perform oral sex on him.

Republican talk show host Jon Matthews of Houston was indicted for indecency with a child, including exposing his genitals to a girl under the age of 17.

Republican anti-gay activist Earl "Butch" Kimmerling confessed to molesting an 8-year old girl after he attempted to stop a gay couple from adopting her.

Republican Party leader Paul Ingram of Thurston County, Washington, pleaded guilty to six counts of raping his daughters and served 14 years in federal prison.

Republican St. Louis Election Board official Kevin Coan was arrested and charged with trying to buy sex from a 14-year-old girl whom he met on the Internet.

Republican politician Andrew Buhr, former committeeman for Hadley Township Missouri, was charged with two counts of first degree sodomy with a 13-year old boy.

Republican politician Keith Westmoreland, a Tennessee state representative, was arrested on seven felony counts of lewd and lascivious exhibition to minors under 16 (i.e. exposing himself to children).

Republican anti-abortion activist John Allen Burt was charged with sexual misconduct involving a 15 year old girl.

Republican legislator, Richard Gardner, a Nevada state representative, admitted to molesting his two daughters.

Republican activist Parker J. Bena pleaded guilty to possession of child pornography on his home computer and was sentenced to 30 months in federal prison and fined $18,000.

Republican parole board officer and former Colorado state representative, Larry Jack Schwarz, was fired after child pornography was found in his possession.

Republican strategist and Citadel Military College graduate Robin Vanderwall was convicted in Virginia on five counts of soliciting sex from boys and girls over the internet.

Republican anti-abortion activist Howard Scott Heldreth is a convicted child rapist in Florida.

Republican County Commissioner David Swartz pleaded guilty to molesting two girls under the age of 11 and was sentenced to 8 years in prison.

Republican judge Mark Pazuhanich pleaded no contest to fondling a 10-year old girl and was sentenced to 10 years probation. Of course it's no contest! How could he even get a fair fight against those activist judges!

Republican anti-abortion activist Nicholas Morency pleaded guilty to possessing child pornography on his computer and offering a bounty to anybody who murders an abortion doctor. - That's the culture of life we all know and love!

Defense contractor, Mitchell Wade, admitted that he paid California Rep. Randy "Duke" Cunningham (republican) more than $1 million in bribes in exchange for millions more in government contracts.

Republican legislator Edison Misla Aldarondo sentenced to 10 years in prison for raping his 9 yr old daughter.

Republican Mayor Philip Giordano serving a 37-year sentence for sexually abusing 8- and 10-year old girls.

Republican campaign consultant Tom Shortridge sentenced to 3 years probation for taking nude photographs of a 15-year old girl. I'm sure he had a good explanation.

Republican racist pedophile and esteemed US Senator Strom Thurmond fathered a chiled with a 15-year old black girl.

Republican pastor Mike Hintz, whom George W. Bush commended during the 2004 presidential campaign, surrendered to police after admitting to sexual relations with a juvenile. Praise George!

Republican legislator Peter Dibble pleaded no contest to having inappropriate relations with a 13-year-old girl.

Republican activist Lawrence E King, Jr. organized child sex parties at the White House during the 1980s.

Republican lobbyist Craig J. Spence organized child sex parties at the White House during the 1980s.

Republican Congressman Donald "Buz" Lukens found guilty of sex with a female minor and sentenced to one month in jail.

Republican fundraiser Richard A. Delgaudio found guilty of child porn charges and paying two teenage girls to pose for sexual photos.

Republican activist Mark A. Grethen convicted on 6counts of child sex crimes.

Republican activist Randal David Ankeney pleaded guilty to attempted sexual assault on a child. Look, he didn't actually do anything. He only TRIED! You can't fault a republican for trying!

Republican Congressman Dan Crane had sex with a female minor working as a congressional page.

Republican activist and Christian Coalition leader Beverly Russell admitted to an incestuous relationship with his step daughter. Prai$e the lord!

Republican governor Arnold Schwarzenegger allegedly had sex with a 16 year old girl when he was 28. I love this country!

Republican congressman and anti-gay activist Robert Bauman was charged with having sex with a 16-year-old boy he picked up at a gay bar. Now I'm sure he can give us a good explanation for this.

Republican Committee Chairman Jeffrey Patti was arrested for distributing a video clip of a 5-year-old girl being raped. Obviously a liberal conspiracy!

Republican activist Marty Glickman (a.k.a. "Republican Marty"), was taken into custody by Florida police on four counts of unlawful sexual activity with an underage girl and one count of delivering the drug LSD. He was obviously trying to help this woman! Do you liberals no shame!

Republican legislative aide Howard L. Brooks was charged with molesting a 12-year old boy and possession of child pornography. Look! It was his own son. Geez you liberals are SICK!

Republican Senate candidate John Hathaway accused of having sex with his 12-year old baby sitter and withdrew his candidacy after the allegations were reported in the media. He was trying to explain to her what NOT to do when in a difficult situation!

Republican preacher Stephen White, who demanded a return to traditional values, was sentenced to jail after offering $20 to a 14-year-old boy for permission to perform oral sex on him.

Republican talk show host Jon Matthews pleaded guilty to exposing his genitals to an 11 year old girl. She could have turned away.

Republican anti-gay activist Earl "Butch" Kimmerling was sentenced to 40 years in prison for molesting an 8-year old girl after he attempted to stop a gay couple from adopting her. Liberal jury of course.

Republican Party leader Paul Ingram pleaded guilty to six counts of raping his daughters and served 14 years in federal prison. Now how could anyone rape their daughter 6 times! Can you say Liberal psycologist!

Republican election board official Kevin Coan was sentenced to two years probation for soliciting sex over the internet from a 14-year old girl. Obviously set up by a liberal computer hacker. These hackers no NO SHAME!

Republican politician Andrew Buhr was charged with two counts of first degree sodomy with a 13-year old boy.

Republican politician Keith Westmoreland was arrested on seven felony counts of lewd and lascivious exhibition to girls under the age of 16 (i.e. exposing himself to children). You see, actually he happened to be changing out of his bathing suit when these kids walked by.

Republican anti-abortion activist John Allen Burt was charged with sexual misconduct involving a 15-year old girl.

Republican County Councilman Keola Childs pleaded guilty to molesting a male child. He pleaded guilty only to keep his family out of the liberal media's spotlight.

Republican activist John Butler was charged with criminal sexual assault on a teenage girl. She was eighTEEN. That's still a teenager!

Republican candidate Richard Gardner admitted to molesting his two daughters. He only had their interests in mind. Why don't you liberals see that!

Republican Councilman and former Marine Jack W. Gardner was convicted of molesting a 13-year old girl. No comment.

Republican benefactor of conservative Christian groups, Richard A. Dasen Sr., was charged with rape for allegedly paying a 15-year old girl for sex. Dasen, 62, who is married with grown children and several grandchildren, has allegedly told police that over the past decade he paid more than $1 million to have sex with a large number of young women. Philanthropy at it's finest!

Republican County Commissioner Merrill Robert Barter pleaded guilty to unlawful sexual contact and assault on a teenage boy. That boy was a liberal trying to corrupt his mind. He did the right thing.

Republican City Councilman Fred C. Smeltzer, Jr. pleaded no contest to raping a 15 year-old girl and served 6-months in prison. He did the honorable thing and did his time.

Republican activist Parker J. Bena pleaded guilty to possession of child pornography on his home computer and was sentenced to 30 months in federal prison and fined $18,000. Lies. Lies! All liberal lies!

Republican parole board officer and former Colorado state representative, Larry Jack Schwarz, was fired after child pornography was found in his possession. Obviously set up by that liberal media!

Republican strategist and Citadel Military College graduate Robin Vanderwall was convicted in Virginia on five counts of soliciting sex from boys and girls over the internet. Who said republicans were sexist!

The deputy press secretary for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security was arrested

Tuesday, April 04, 2006, for using the Internet to seduce what he thought was a teenage

girl, authorities said. Rep. Brian J. Doyle, 55, was arrested in Maryland where he lives

on charges of use of a computer to seduce a child and transmission of harmful material

to a minor. The charges were issued out of Polk County, Fla.

Republican anti-abortion activist Neal Horsley admitted to having sex with a mule.

A judge on Wednesday, 04-05-06, allowed a lawsuit to proceed against Jessica Cutler, the former Senate aide who posted details of her sex life on the Internet. The case brought

by REPUBLICAN Sen. Mike DeWine's former counsel to the Senate Judiciary Committee, Robert Steinbuch, alleges that Cutler engaged in an invasion of his privacy in 2004 by publishing sexually explicit facts about a relationship with Steinbuch.

REPUBLICAN Otis O'Neal Horsley (born 1944) is an American political figure of the far REPUBLICAN right. He is the author of christiangallery.com, a website devoted to his advocacy of militant anti-abortion, secessionist, and anti-gay views. Last night, May 09, 2005, anti-abortion extremist Neal Horsley was a guest on The Alan Colmes Show, a FOX News radio program. The topic was an interesting one - whether or not an internet service provider should allow Horsley to post the names of abortion doctors on his website. Horsley does that as a way of targeting them and one doctor has been killed. In the course of the interview, however, Colmes asked Neal Horsley about his background, including a statement that he had admitted to engaging in homosexual and bestiality sex, including having sex with a MULE!

Republican city councilman Mark Harris, who is described as a "good military man" and "church goer," was convicted of repeatedly having sex with an 11-year-old girl and sentenced to 12 years in prison. If you do the crime, you do the time + 1.

Republican businessman Jon Grunseth withdrew his candidacy for Minnesota governor after allegations surfaced that he went swimming in the nude with four underage girls, including his daughter. He just wanted to keep an eye out for those girls...and his daughter. He even had pictures to prove it!

Republican director of the "Young Republican Federation" Nicholas Elizondo molested his 6-year old daughter and was sentenced to six years in prison.

Rev. C. Stephen White -- better known on Penn's campus as "Brother Stephen" -- will face trial on charges of soliciting sex from a 14-year-old boy, according to the West Chester District Attorney's office. At a preliminary hearing held Aug. 12, White pleaded not guilty to charges of criminal solicitation, criminal attempt to lure a child into a motor vehicle and corruption of minors. All charges will be held for court, according to WestChester Assistant District Attorney Kimberly Callahan, who will prosecute the case. White is married and has three sons and is a Republican fundraiser in the area.

Republican Jack Burkmana reportedly has been caught allegedly offering to pay $1,000 for sex with two homosexuals ... Republican operative Jack Burkmana former lobbyist for "Family Research Council" The council and Mr. Burkmana support and donate money to the Bush administration and the GOP.

A South Texas jury has found a 44-year-old REPUBLICAN political consultant guilty of four counts involving the sexual molestation of children. The 44-year-old CARY LEE CRAMER was convicted of one count of aggravated sexual assault of a child, two of indecency with a child by contact and one of indecency with a child by exposure. Cramer, who now lives in Tucson, Ariz., gained national attention during the 2000 presidential election. His McAllen company created a TV ad accusing the Clinton-Gore administration of giving away nuclear technology to China in exchange for campaign contributions. Cramer faces a maximum of 149 years in prison for the four felony charges. (June 28, 2006)

Republican Lou Beres denied sexual-molestation allegations when the Oregonian newspaper first reported them in October. Beres acknowledged sexually touching a 16- or 17-year-old friend of his daughter in 1976 or 1977. But a local Police Department report released as part of a lawsuit said Beres "readily admitted sexually touching" one girl when she was 13 or 14 years old. The longtime leader of the Oregon Christian

Coalition and staunch opponent of gay rights admits in a newly released police report that he sexually touched three underage girls.

August 30, 2006 A Texas pastor accused of raping a church member after telling her she was possessed by a lesbian demon at his house last year has been indicted. Republican, Leonard Ray Owens, 63, who is free on $25,000 bail, is now awaiting trial on a charge of sexual assault, a second-degree felony punishable by two to 20 years in prison. He was arrested in November, 2005.Police began investigating Owens last year after a 22-year-old woman reported that Owens raped her twice at his Fort Worth home. The woman told police that in July, several months after she began attending the Prayer House of Faith, she went to Owens' home for counseling following a miscarriage. Owens told her that a sex spirit and lesbian demon were inside her and needed to be cast out, police said. The pastor then asked her to lie on the floor and began yelling at her as if she were a demon, saying, "Loose her in the name of Jesus," according to an arrest warrant affidavit.

Christian bookstore owner, cop admit sex with boy Pittsburgh, PA, August 30, 2006 A former college administrator, a former Christian bookstore owner and a former policeman admitted to sexual misconduct with a teenage boy. They were among five men arrested in March as part of an ongoing investigation of men who meet boys through Internet chat rooms, authorities said.William Gillin, 53, republican and Paul Skiles, 63, republican, both of Johnstown, pleaded guilty yesterday to corruption of minors, indecent assault and unlawful communications with minors. Mr. Gillin is the former alumni relations director at the University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown. Mr. Skiles owned the now-closed B&K Christian Bookstore in Richland Township.Some of the incidents occurred when the boy was 16, prosecutors said. He is now 17.

Donald Lukens, Republican Congressman, was found guilty of having sex with a minor - a girl he was accused of sleeping with since she was 13. Time Article

Pat McPherson, Douglas County Election Commissioner. Arrested for fondling a 17-year-old girl. Article

Jon Matthews, Republican talk show host in Houston, was indicted for indecency with a child, including exposing his genitals to a girl under the age of 17. Source: ABC News

Jeff Miller, (R-Cleveland), Senate Republican Caucus Chairman in Tennessee and the sponsor of Tennessee's Marriage Protection act, getting divorced (as of April 2005) because of an affair he was having with an office aid. Miller described the Tennessee Marriage Protection Act as a means of preserving the sanctity of marriage. He opposed an amendment, however, which stated that "Adultery is deemed to be a threat to the institution of marriage and contrary to public policy in Tennessee." [8] [9]

Jim Wesr, Spokane Mayor. supported a bill, which failed, would have barred gays and lesbians from working in schools, day-care centers and some state agencies. Voted to bar the state from distributing pamphlets telling people how to protect themselves from AIDS. Proposed that "any touching of the sexual or other intimate parts of a person" among teens be criminalized. Had a sexual affair with an 18 year old boy.Source: Spokesman review

Keith Westmoreland, a Tennessee state representative (R), was arrested on seven felony counts of lewd and lascivious exhibition to minors under 16 (i.e. exposing himself to children). Tennesean Article

Stephen White, Republican preacher. Was arrested after allegedly offering $20 to a 14-year-old boy for permission to perform oral sex on him. Daily Pennsylvanian article | Daily yale News Article

Nicholas Morency, Republican anti-abortion activist, pleaded guilty to possessing child pornography on his computer and offering a bounty to anybody who murders an abortion doctor The Dallas Morning News article.

Sue Myrick, Congresswoman (R-NC), describes herself as a "devout Christian." Committed adultery with a married man.

Bill O'Reilly Right-wing conservative talk show host on Fox News, sued for sexual harrassment by his producer.

Bob Packwood, Senator (R-Ore.), resigned in 1995 under a threat of public senate hearings related to 10 female ex-staffers accusing him of sexual harassment.

Jeffrey Patti, Republican Committee Chairman, was arrested for distributing what experts call "some of the most offensive material in the child pornography world" - a video clip of a 5-year-old girl being raped. Daily Record News Article

John Paulk, lied about prowling for gay sex while running a fundamentalist group to cure gays.

Brent Parker Utah State Representetive. Arrested for soliciting sex from an undercover officer posing as a male prostitute. KSL News Article |Deseret News Article

John Peterson, Congressman (R-Pa), accused of sexual harassment and creation of a hostile work environment by six women. Peterson has refused to admit a crime, saying only "I may have been an excessive hugger."

Harvey Pitt, SEC Chief under George W. Bush until he was forced to resign in 2002. Worked for New Frontier Media, a firm which distributed teen sex videos.

George Roche III, carried on a 19 year affair with his son's wife, while serving as president of Hillsdale College, which "emphasizes the importance of the common moral truths that bind all Americans, while recognizing the importance of religion for the maintenance of a free society."

Beverly Russell, County Chairman of the Christian Coalition, sexually molested his step-daughter, Susan Smith, who later drowned her two children. Herald-Journal Article |Commentary on Newsweek Article

Jack Ryan, 2004 Republican nominee for US Senate from Illinois, pressured his wive, actress Jeri Ryan, to have sex with other men. Tricked her into visiting sex clubs, where he asked her to have sex with him while others watched.

Joe Scarborough, former Republican Congressman, currently a conservative talk show host. Resigned his congressional seat abruptly to spend more time with his family, amidst allegations of an affair. His intern,

Lori Klausutis, was soon after found dead in his office. The medical examiner, who had his license revoked in Missouri for falsifying information in an autopsy report, and suspended in Florida for six years, ruled the case an accident, after giving conflicting information about her injuries. He said he lied about them because "The last thing we wanted was 40 questions about a head injury."

Ed Schrock, two-term republican congressman, with a 92% approval rating from the Christian Coalition. Cosponsor of the Federal Marriage Amendment, consistently opposed gay rights. Married, with wife and kids. Withdrew his candidacy for a third term after tapes of him soliciting for gay sex were circulated.

Dr. Laura Schlessinger, right wing conservative radio host. Promotes family values, estranged from her mother, opposes birth control, has had her tubes tied, espouses saving oneself for marriage, admits to having had sex before she was married, opposes adultery, has committed adultery while she was married, and has slept with a married man, opposes divorce, is divorced and remarried, has posed for nude photos which are available online.

Arnold Schwarzenegger, Republican governor, had sex with a 16 year old when he was 28.

Jean Schmidt, OH-2, though not herself implicated, employed a campaign manager (Joe Braun) in her 2005 election who once wrote an article condemning gay men for running sex ad profiles, and who was then accused of running his own sex profile on Collarme, an S&M sex site. The profile called for "submissives" to wear only a collar and handcuffs and to have hot wax dripped on them. DKOS Diary

John Scmitz, right-wing republican congressman, who had had his committee chairship taken away from him in the California State Senate after issuing a press release attacking Jews, feminists and gays. Forced out of office in 1982 for having an adulterous affair and fathering two children out of wedlock with one of his students. He was caught because his baby was admitted to hospital for having hair tied so tightly around his penis that it was almost severed. His daughter, Mary Kay LeTourneau, was convicted of having an adulterous affair with one of her students, and giving birth to two of his children. Wikipedia article

Larry Jack Schwarz, Republican parole board officer and former Colorado state representative, fired after child pornography was found in his possession. Rocky Mountain News article With his political career over, he went to work in the hard-core pornography industry for Platinum X Pictures, owned by his daughter, porn starlet Jewel De'Nyle (Stephany Schwarz). Wikipedia article

Jim Stelling, Seminole County Republican Party chairman who believes in "family values", as he told a judge. Filed a defamation lawsuit againt Nancy Goettman, a former county GOP executive committee member, for falsely claiming he had been married six times. Stelling has been married 5 times. Article

Don Sherwood, Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives. Eventually admitted to an affair with a woman 30 years younger than him, after she accused him of physical abuse and attempting to choke her. Post-Gazette article

Tom Shortridge. Republican campaign consultant, was sentenced to three years probation for taking nude photographs of a 15-year old girl. LA Times article

Fred C. Smeltzer, Jr., Republican City Councilman, pleaded no contest to raping a 15 year-old girl and served 6-months in prison. Sex Offender Registry

Craig J. Spence, Republican lobbyist, organized orgies with child prostitutes in the White House during the 1980s. Full page including Washington Times article Discovery Channel documentary

Jimmy Swaggart, televangelist, said during a sermon "I'm trying to find the correct name for it ... this utter absolute, asinine, idiotic stupidity of men marrying men. ... I've never seen a man in my life I wanted to marry. And I'm gonna be blunt and plain; if one ever looks at me like that, I'm gonna kill him and tell God he died." Had an affair with a prostitute.

David Swartz, Republican County Commissioner, pleaded guilty to molesting two girls under the age of 11 and was sentenced to 8 years in prison. Rocky Mountain News Article

Randall Terry, Right to Life activist, founder of Operation Rescue, involved in the Terri Schiavo protests.

Once imprisoned for sending former President Bill Clinton an aborted fetus. His son Jamiel is gay; his daughter Tila had sex outside of marriage, became pregnant, had a miscarriage - she is no longer welcome in his home; his daughter Ebony had 2 children outside of wedlock and became Muslim. He has campaigned against infidelity and birth control, gays and unwed mothers. Terry himself was censured by his church after committing adultery.

Bill Thomas Republican congressman, had an affair with Deborah Steelman, a health care lobbyist who steered huge campaign gifts to Thomas' war chest.

Strom Thurmond, republican senator and racist, raped and impregnanted a 15-year old African American maid. (BBC Article)

Robin Vanderwall, Republican strategist and Citadel Military College graduate, director of Faith & Family

Alliance, (a Christian Coalition spin off), former student of Pat Robertson's Regent Universtity, member of Ralph Reed's inner circle who funneled money to from lobbiest Jack Abromoff to Reed , convicted in Virginia for soliticing sex from a 13-year-old-boy[12] and on four other counts of soliciting sex from boys and girls over the internet. Virginian-Pilot Article

J.C. Watts, Representative (R-Oklahoma), loud champion of "moral values." Has out-of-wedlock children.

Congressman Mark Foley (REPUBLICAN-FL) planned to resign today, hours after ABC questioned him about sexually explicit internet messages with current and former Congressional pages under the age of 18. A spokesman for Foley, the chairman of the House Caucus on MISSING and EXPLOITED CHILDREN, said the congressman submitted his resignation in a letter late this afternoon, September 29, 2006, to Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert.

Huffington Post
New York Times

This story has more legs than a centipede. If the MSM media doesn't cover it then every blogger should. Let's organize around this Republican-neo-con-Christian-family values hypocrisy and make sure that it appears in every nook and cranny of the media. And above all make certain that everyone responsible for this be forced to make public statements.

UNWIND WITH THE SWEETIES

2006-11-27T23:48:00.000-08:00

God I love public access TV. This is one of my favorite shows.

Introducing Geroge Harrison as Pirate Bob

2006-11-25T16:06:00.000-08:00

From Rutland Weekend Television

NEWSFLASH: CASINO ROYALE ROCKS

2006-11-21T16:50:00.001-08:00

I know I know I said I liked it but for RIGHT NOW it rocks.
WHY you ask?

It made me pick up the book to find out if there was something I was missing. Now thats the sign of a good movie.

NEWSFLASH: CASINO ROYALE SUCKS

2006-11-21T16:50:00.000-08:00

I know I know I said I liked it but for RIGHT NOW it sucks.
WHY you ask?

It made me pick up the book to find out if there was something I was missing. Not the sign of a good movie.

Shirley Bassey does Pink in Bond-esque ad and more Casino Royale.

2006-11-21T02:47:00.000-08:00

Yes I did see the damn movie again. its 3:01am and I have to post this crap before I fall asleep and forget. Forgive the mis-spellings. Its late and ... its late.
Hmm. not as bad as I thought. I'll be interested to see the continuation of this story.

I did note that in the opening credits only one woman is depicted. Odd to say the least. Its all Men fighting running falling. You know... The stuff women used to do in the credits.
I'm not keen on the credit sequence. It looks like a Target commercial for bandanas. Product placement is rampant in this feature. While some folks actually make a living placing product carefully in a scene as to not attract attention but still make you aware of the brand, the placement in this film is downright shameful. At one point Heinekin and smirnoff are vying for the same screen time. The shot even looks like stacked credits. Smirnoff in the lower left and hienekin in the upper right so... If you read left to right smirnoff is first but if you read top to bottom it Hienekin in the lead. Ford once again shows that they are Bonds choice of rental car when traveling. Austin Martin , Omega and (of all things) Google get recognition as leaders in the Bond world. Richard Branson makes a nice cameo. If you can believe Branson delivers a more subtle and subdued cameo compared to Michael G Wilson. Wilson is an egomaniac.
Judy Denchers lower rat teeth distract me from the plot early on in the film. I just want someone to hand her a piece of wood so she can file those damn things down.

Danial Craig is a pussface. The male equivalent to Rene Zelwigger. His mouth is to small and seems to be missing some actual muscles that enable him to speak clearly. I know its cruel to take away his sash and crown but I hope this is the last one he does. I just cant stand his Jim Henson muppet-like duck mouth. I also ... and this is a stretch but stay with me... think Craig is playing it a bit too gay. I mean if he is supposed to be this macho manly man man he seems to fall out of it from time to time and it seems like his manliness is a front.
JB on theDL.
I cant understand the beginning of the film. I know whats going on but Craigs mouth full of pudding delivery mangles the lines. Its like he is talking into a full diaper. I CANT UNDERSTAND YOU! OPEN YOUR FUCKIN MOUTH!
stupid baby huey lipped dork.

...The Aristocrats!

2006-11-20T10:36:00.000-08:00

WOW I never thought I'd say this but I think Michael Richards is a dangerous man.
What an asshole.

This better be the end of his career.

Actual notes from Sony to Neal Purvis Re:Casino Royal

2006-11-20T10:07:00.000-08:00

Neal, loved the script! James Bond is back! But before he can return, we need you to make some changes to this script.

P. 5
You have James Bond first encountering the villain at the Casino Royale during a “Hungry Hungry Hippos” tournament. That is not a game you would find at a casino. Neither is “Candyland” and people certainly don’t play “Operation” for money. Also, for the record, when three cherries come up on a slot machine, the player doesn’t actually win cherries. You also cannot “buy a vowel” after spinning the roulette wheel. This scene makes one wonder if you have actually ever been to a casino. You need to do more research.

P. 12
We’d like you to think up a new main villain. The one you have here, “Clam Chowder,” is a little over the top for a James Bond film. You indicate you would like him introduced in a song with the same tune as “Goldfinger” but with the lyrics “Clam Chowder, he’s a clam! A clam, with clams for hands!” How he poses a threat to society is also confusing. The script says he has a plot to take over the world, yet all government agents can seem to do is complain about his incessant jaywalking.

P. 22
We don’t think you should be taking the liberty of changing the catchphrases that have made the James Bond movies legendary. For example, so far, instead of Bond being referred to as the traditional “agent double O seven,” you have him repeatedly called the much longer and less punchy “agent zero and then another zero followed by the number seven.” Also, instead of his signature “martini, shaken not stirred,” you have Bond’s drink of choice as “milk and orange juice, mixed together.” We also don’t think it’s appropriate that you’ve changed Bond’s catch phrase from “Bond, James Bond” to the much more confusing “wait till I get my Hanes on you.”

P. 32
We’re only 30 minutes into the film and already James Bond’s “license to kill” has been revoked three times because of late fees. This isn’t like a fishing license, the government does not charge you to maintain it.

P. 44
A cornerstone of the Bond movies is his incredible gadgets. However, the items you have Bond toting are less than impressive. Many of the gadgets are completely pointless, like the “half-eaten bagel with caller ID,” the “glasses with kaleidoscopic vision” and the “chemical compound that makes Diet Dr. Pepper taste more like the original.” Also, other items he is given seem quite outdated, such as the “dual cassette recorder with automatic rewind” and the cell phone that is “small enough to fit into a briefcase.”

P. 50
Why does he keep throwing out his back?

P. 64
It seems inconsistent with the James Bond character to have him “just want to be friends” with the many voluptuous women in the film before agreeing to make any sort of physical commitment to them.

P. 77
In this scene you have James Bond possessing the ability to fly. Then, halfway through, as if you realized this is a mistake and instead of rewriting the scene, you have Bond declare, “Wait a second, I can’t fly.” He then comes crashing to the ground only to be confronted out of nowhere by a robot who “erases the incident from his memory” and then blasts off into outer space unexplained and never to be heard from again.

P. 80
James Bond would never wear a fanny pack.

P. 92
This is the fifth scene that requires full frontal nudity. It adds nothing to the film. Why do you keep calling for it?

P. 102
I know you’re going for an element of realism here, but it is extremely annoying to the viewer that when the villain has James Bond trapped and is explaining his diabolical plot, he keeps getting interrupted by cell phone calls, many of which are from telemarketers. It’s also confusing as to why the villain seems interested in every offer pitched to him over the phone.

P. 110
Part of the charm in the Bond films is watching the hero find clever ways to escape seemingly hopeless situations. However, in this scene we watch as Bond is riddled with bullets and his lifeless body is tossed into a vat of sharks and electric eels. But in the very next scene the hero appears before the villain without a scratch on him. When the villain says “I thought I killed you” the only explanation provided by James Bond is “nope, you didn’t.”

P. 120
What happened to the villain?! The film is over and we haven’t even hit the climax! You have James Bond driving to Clam Chowder’s hideout to foil his plot, but then he looks at his watch and says “we’re running out of time here.” Next thing you know, he’s back at headquarters and when government agents ask Bond what happened to Clam Chowder his only reply is to slyly say “Oh, I’m sure he’ll get his and if he doesn’t, I have a feeling old age will get him.” The agents for some unknown reason seem satisfied with this response, saying “good work Mr. Bond!” That’s it. The audience needs a more satisfying ending.

Once you make these changes, you’ve got yourself a green light my friend.

Oh by the way:

1. Happy Feet ($42.3m)
2. Casino Royale ($40.6m)
Next time I want to bet on the returns I'm calling the Archlight Theater and see what they think!

I can't add. SONY PLEASE HELP ME!

2006-11-19T23:40:00.000-08:00

Ok
Casino Royale.
I'll not give any of the film away if you have not seen it so...
you can read on without worry.

First off.
Daniel Craig.
He's a man. A manly man. While this is all fine and dandy I cant help but watch him and think of the ol' cartoon where a beautiful woman is shown from the back and when she turns around she's got some damn ugly face.
AUUUUHHH MHHHAAANN!
He's got an ok body for an old man but his face is butt ugly. I mean a double bagger from behind type o face.
There is something wrong with his lips. He seems to have this duck-like lip problem.

He also seems to be forcing his "Bond" look a little too much.
His Bond is truly a blunt instrument. Whatever happened to "NEVER LET THEM SEE YOU BLEED?" (oh wait that hasn't happened yet. He is told that by "Q" later on in his career. Does that mean "Q" is responsible for Bonds Suave disposition?)There is no hint of the coldwar Bond we know and love. This works for the story but... It does not hold true to the franchise. Since this is Bonds "FIRST" mission I guess I am having a hard time with the character arc that happens between this and all the other Bond films before it (or after it if I am forced to believe this is the first adventure.)

The film is NOT Bourne Identity nor is it Mission Impossible nor is it a Bond film as we know it. It feels like a precursor to another film. Moreover it feels like a first act stretched for 2 hours. The denouement is truly a let down.
I can't say I hate the film so Sony will be pleased to know I will shell out another $13.50 to see it again just to make notes and determine if I truly enjoy this film.
This film may have erased the line between a film with James Bond in it and a James Bond Film. Meaning I may just have to consider Never Say Never Again a real James Bond film if this is to be considered one as well.
Being that it is an EON film is not enough to make it a true Bond Film.
I have a hard time with the Vesper relationship with Bond. There is only one woman for Bond and that is Tracey. We all know it. So... Who the hell cares about Vesper? No one! Oh and the moment Bond names his drink... that was great to see yet I felt like I was watching Ronald name a Big Mac. It was handled incorrectly. The correct way was not to include that in the film. It felt like a mishandled Back To The Future throw-away gag.
Oh yeah... I do have to say this...
There was some crazy expository dialog that reminded me that I only need a 3rd grade education to follow the plot. If you have trouble with numbers have no fear, the film contains math breaks wherein the characters will add outloud for you.
Sony says :
lowest common denominator wins.

M= Rear Admiral Sir Miles Messervy.( The "M" is hardly a random initial selected to hide identity. Since the masculine Dame Judy Dench is playing "M" I still feel "M's" real name could be Rear Admiral Sir Miles Messervy.
In his original Bond novel "The Facts Of Death" Raymond Benson names the Female M as Barbara Mawdsley. "M" is like calling Mrs. Cunningham "Mrs. "C")
Q= Quartermaster.
Remind Michael Wilson again if you see him anytime soon. He seems to have forgotten and allowed a whole new meaning for these initials.
Don't rely on "yes" men to "make" your movie for you.

So...
Yes. I liked the action. Yes the story is close to the book but that alone does not a Bond film make.
I am not happy that this film is considered part of the cannon of Bond.

Was it my imagination or did Bond drive a Ford Focus? Oh...
and does MI6 use google? This is product placement at its worst.

"Here's your Patriot Act, here's your fucking abuse of power"

2006-11-16T22:01:00.000-08:00

Student shot with Taser by UCPD officers
Incident occurred around 11:30 p.m. November 15th 2006 in the Powell Library CLICC computer lab.
UCPD officers shot a student several times with a Taser inside the Powell Library CLICC computer lab late Tuesday night before taking him into custody.
No university police officers were available to comment further about the incident as of 3 a.m. Wednesday, and no Community Service Officers who were on duty at the time could be reached.
At around 11:30 p.m., CSOs asked a male student using a computer in the back of the room to leave when he was unable to produce a BruinCard during a random check. The student did not exit the building immediately.
The CSOs left, returning minutes later, and police officers arrived to escort the student out. By this time the student had begun to walk toward the door with his backpack when an officer approached him and grabbed his arm, at which point the student told the officer to let him go. A second officer then approached the student as well.

The student began to yell "get off me," repeating himself several times.

It was at this point that the officers shot the student with a Taser for the first time, causing him to fall to the floor and cry out in pain. The student also told the officers he had a medical condition.
UCPD officers confirmed that the man involved in the incident was a student, but did not give a name or any additional information about his identity.
Video shot from a student's camera phone captured the student yelling, "Here's your Patriot Act, here's your fucking abuse of power," while he struggled with the officers.

As the student was screaming, UCPD officers repeatedly told him to stand up and said "stop fighting us." The student did not stand up as the officers requested and they shot him with the Taser at least once more.
"It was the most disgusting and vile act I had ever seen in my life," said David Remesnitsky, a 2006 UCLA alumnus who witnessed the incident.
As the student and the officers were struggling, bystanders repeatedly asked the police officers to stop, and at one point officers told the gathered crowd to stand back and threatened to use a Taser on anyone who got too close.
Laila Gordy, a fourth-year economics student who was present in the library during the incident, said police officers threatened to shoot her with a Taser when she asked an officer for his name and his badge number.
Gordy was visibly upset by the incident and said other students were also disturbed.

"It's a shock that something like this can happen at UCLA," she said. "It was unnecessary what they did."

Immediately after the incident, several students began to contact local news outlets, informing them of the incident, and Remesnitsky wrote an e-mail to Interim Chancellor Norman Abrams.

Perhaps these UCLA cops know the fine officer in Hollywood who Punched the crap outta this guy for no reason.

William-Adolphe Bouguereau

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The career of William Bouguereau, unlike that of his contemporaries, the then avant-garde Impressionists, was one of ever-increasing success without significant setback. He was born on the west coast of France into a family of wine (later olive oil) merchants and was given a classical education by his uncle Eugène, a curate, who tutored him in bible study, Latin and Greek, with particular reference to Old and New Testament stories and classical mythology. He also arranged for him to take drawing lessons and such was his ability that after only 2 years of part-time study, he won first prize in the figure-painting class at the Bordeaux Ecole des Beaux-Arts.

With the help of money earned from painting portraits of his uncle's parishioners and financial assistance from an aunt, at the age of 21 William went to Paris to train in the studio of François-Edouard Picot and, after only two months of tutoring there, at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts. Chosen as a contestant for the Prix de Rome in the years of 1848 and 1849 (10 contestants were admitted each year), he was finally awarded the prize in 1850. As was the tradition, the winner was sent to Rome for 4 years to study at the Villa Medici, the seat of the French Academy in Italy, where the techniques of the classical and Renaissance masters were tought. While there he also took the opportunity to travel extensively throughout the country locating and copying many Renaissance masterpieces and visiting towns and lakes which had inspired the landscape artists. The influences from this period are readily apparent in all his future work.

Returning to Paris in 1854, Bouguereau regularly exhibited at the Salon and was awarded many commissions for portraits and decorative series. His work was very popular with both public and the critics and he was soon able to sell through the dealers Durand-Ruel and Goupil, finding enthusiastic markets in England and America.

Throughout his later career he gained much official and public recognition and was awarded an imperial commission in 1856, resulting in the canvas Napoleon III Visiting the Floods of Tarascon. In 1857 he was awarded a first-class Salon medal and in 1859 was made a chevalier (a knight). Awarded the Legion of Honour in 1876, he was at the same time made one of only 40 life members of the Académie des Beaux-Arts of the Institut de France, the highest official honour awarded to French artists. In 1885 he was awarded the Grand Medal of Honour at the Salon and was made a Commander of the Legion of Honour in the same year (becoming a grand officer of the Legion in 1903).Official international recognition was also forthcoming: in 1862 he was named an honorary member of the Belgian Society of Artists and in 1866 became a member of the Royal Academy of Fine arts in Holland. He won a first-class medal at the international exhibition in Munich in 1879 and in 1881 became a Chevalier of the Order of Leopold in Belgium, being elevated to the rank of Commander in 1895. 1889 saw him become a member of the Honorary Order of Spain and a Member of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Belgium.
Bouguereau was also a respected teacher and in 1881 was elected president of the painting section of the Paris Salon. In 1883 he became president of the benevolent Society of Painters, Architects, Sculptors, Engravers and Designers, which promoted and attended to the welfare of new and struggling artists. He also taught drawing at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts and also taught at the independent Académie Julian.

Although relatively little is known about it, Bouguereau's private life was less happy. In 1856 he married Marie-Nelly Monchablon (1836-1877) with whom he had five children, three sons and two daughters. They lived together with his domineering mother in a purposely-built large house and studio at 75, rue Notre-Dame des Champs in the Montparnasse, an area of Paris popular with artists to this day. But domestic happiness was short-lived and a daughter, Jeanne-Léontine, died in infancy in 1872; a son, Georges died in 1875 at the age of 16; In 1877 his wife Nelly died, closely followed by the infant William-Maurice. This persomal tragedy was memorialized in two paintings: Pietà in 1876, dedicated to Georges, and Vierge Consolatrice in 1877. His other son, Adolphe-Paul, was also to die of Tuberculosis in 1900, aged 30.

In 1879 Bouguereau became engaged to the young American artist Elizabeth Jane Gardner (1837-1922) who was his neighbour in Montparnasse, but their wedding was initially opposed by his daughter Henriette and also his mother, not until whose death at the age of 91 in 1896 were they able to marry, and they lived together happily for the few remaining years of his life.

Each summer Bouguereau would return to his birthplace of La Rochelle to paint in his studio he had built there and it was there that he died in 1905 after several years of heart disease. He is buried in the famous cemetary of Montparnasse, near where he had lived in Paris. He declared that he was only really happy when painting and indeed he completed almost 700 canvases during his long career. Despite being verbally attacked by Degas and the Impressionists who considered him to be too backward-looking and artificial and to be holding back the progression of French art, by the time of his death he was one of the most respected and loved of French artists. He was a favourite of collectors who found in his scenes of bathers, nymphs and other idylls, the perfect escapism from the pressures of every-day life.

Bouguereau's Pietà

Bouguereau's The broken pitcher

Call to arms (spirit of war)

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In 1879 the Conseil Municipal of Paris wanted to commemorate the courage of the city's residents in the defense of Paris in 1870 (during the attack by the Prussian army). They interpreted the heroism of Parisians as laying the groundwork for the birth of the Third Republic. The monument would be erected at the rond-point de Courbevoie in the western suburbs, where the defense of Paris was mounted. The monument would also replace a statue of Napoléon taken down at Courbevoie and thrown into the Seine in 1870. Stipulated by the commission was that the monument should contain two figures. Seventy-eight artists including Rodin submitted maquettes. Although there were three finalists, the judging was thrown into question and the competition was opened a second time. Rodin's work was not selected. Like most of the other entries, Rodin's submission consisted a female allegory juxtaposed with a male combatant. He envisioned her as a fighting Genius of Liberty and the whole monument as a universal idea of death and the hero. But the work had none of the noble beauty of the successful entries -- it jarred with the contemporary sense of decorum.

...has returned

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In 1880 Rodin was asked to design a bronze portal and doors for the new Museum of Decorative Arts, Paris. The project became known as The Gates of Hell and occupied Rodin for much of his life. Although the commission was never completed, many of its ideas were developed as separate sculptures.

The Prodigal Son, with its many versions, is an example of Rodin's reuse and adaptation of favourite themes and compositions. It is derived from a figure originally planned low down on the right-hand panel of the doors, where it was combined with a fleeing female figure for the group called Fugit Amor (Love Flees). Rodin explained that it expressed psychological tension and distress: 'I have accented the swelling of the muscles to express distress… I have exaggerated the straining of the tendons which indicates the outbreak of prayer.'

It was first exhibited in 1894 in the Salon de la Plume as a single free-standing figure, with the title The Child of the Age.

The Three Shades

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This sculptual group was designed as the crowning element on THE GATES OF HELL Rodin's unrealized project for massive doors for the Museum of Decorative Arts in Paris. The unifying themes for the doors was inspired by THE DIVINE COMEDY, one of the most influential writings of the early Italian Renaissance. The three figures are actual variations on a single pose.
Scholars claim that within the symbolic program for THE GATES OF HELL, The three shades were ment to represet shadow-like spirits of the dead.
In their undulating form and downcast gaze, they embody the pessimistic tensions and frustrattions of life at the end of the 19th century, the result of rapid industrialization and urbanization.
This trio is currently at The Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco.
Reflected in a mirror is Rodin in front of THE GATES OF HELL.

Holocaust golfers

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Golfers chat about golfing as they go to the next hole. While the holocaust memorial looms behind them.

The last real Tiki bar in California.

2006-11-13T14:08:00.000-08:00

There are several Tiki bars in California but all pale in comparison to the Original King of Tiki, THE TONGA ROOM. San Francisco has a true Tiki bar. The Tonga room features real rude waitresses and yummy Tiki drinks with mummified fruit. Its the Mecca of Tiki. The band plays on a floating barge in the center of a pond that was once a swimming pool. The bar's well known feature is the rainstorm that happens every half an hour. (a loud thundering loop of storm sounds and lightning effects augmented by a shower of "rain" from the pipes overhead.)
Gerggory and I enjoyed the best and the worst of the Tonga room. The best being the Blue Hawaiian and the rainstorm. The worst was the prices and the Banana Daquri.

Green bananas don't make good tasting drinks.

If you want to be greeted by your server with the warm demand of:
"I WILL take your order NOW."
This is the place!

These pictures show Greggory is really good at looking like he is having a good time. It also shows I don't know how to force a convincing smile. I wanted to get drunk but I knew I had to drive in a city that is not known for its fantasic drivers. I had to stay sober. That saddened me so. You can see this was my moment when I realized I cant get sloppy drunk like I wanted.

Shadows of Vertigo

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A few Vertigo locations as they were in 1958 and as they are as of 11/11/06.

The portrait of Carlotta.

The place where the portrait once hung for a few days back in 1958.

Scotty Fergusons view of gallery

The same gallery 2006

Scotty Ferguson tails his target into the Museum
The museum as it is 11/11/06

Madeline thanking Scotty Ferguson at the door of Scottie's apartment.

The same location 900 Lombard street where tourists misdirect their cameras to the crookedest street in the world just feet away from this most important location.

Madeline leaving her apartment building in her green Jaguar.

Like the other Scotty Ferguson I longed to see that same Jaguar in the drive and perhaps for Madeline to appear.

Fort point 1958
Fort point 2006. The area in which Kim Novak stood has been blocked off by construction.

K-fed . got ya covered

2006-11-09T17:50:00.000-08:00

The 'world ain't much better

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On Aug. 31, 1994, Disney security guards spotted two teens goofing around on a walkway of the Contemporary Resort. When spotted, they ran and were seen leaving in a pick up. A Disney guard pursued the truck at speeds of up to 80 mph even though they LEFT the park and were outside of Disney property and jurisdiction. The truck crashed, killing 18 year old Robb Sipkema. In Florida, highway deaths are investigated by the Highway Patrol. Disney refused to allow them to interview the woman "security hostess" who drove the van chasing the teens. Disney also would not release the transcripts of the radio conversation taking place between this guard and the dispatcher during the chase. The parents of Robb Sipkema sued. Even though the 'security hostess' was not a law enforcement officer, Orange County Judge Belvin Perry, Jr. said Disney had a 'private security arrangement' - in essence a contract with itself - and the Highway Patrol would not be allowed access to "internal company documents". Appeals led to the State Attorney General who said that although Disney Security perform only 'basic night watchman duties', which would NOT include high speed chases off Disney property, the Sipkemas ended up dropping the lawsuit due to total uncooperation by Disney. However, because of the suit, Disney Security Guard vans changed their Mars lights from red (like police) to amber; and they were no longer permitted to use "regular law enforcement" lingo and codes when talking to dispatchers. In other words, stop pretending they were actual police.

"That place is my baby, and I would prostitute myself for it."-Walt Disney on Disneyland.

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Park guests aren't the only ones seduced to their deaths by the park's attractions. Consider the late, lamented "America Sings". It was seemingly designed strictly as a hazard to employees. Converted from the old General Electric Carousel of Progress, it featured six theaters revolving around a four part fixed stage of Disney audioanimatronic animal figures performing well-loved American songs. Even before its official 1974 opening, there was something sinister about this android musical spectacular. The tragedy to come was foreshadowed at the press preview party, when one of the
attraction's designers fell into a pit and sustained slight injuries.

Disneyland ignored this omen, and opened "America Sings" to the public at the end of June. This decision would cost them the life of an innocent young hostess, the first Disneyland employee killed in the line of duty.

Deborah Stone had just graduated from nearby Santa Ana High. In many ways,
she epitomized the crisp, clean all-American image encouraged among park
employees. She edited her high school year book, belonged to the honor
society and capped her high school career by winning the principal's award
for "outstanding service to her school and community". Undoubtedly, she
breezed through her coursework at the Disneyland University.

Yes, she had nothing but a bright future full of promise to look forward to on that tragic July night. There were no witnesses to her agonizing end, no spectacular fall or dramatic search. Around 11 PM, fellow employees noticed her missing from her post greeting guests. After a brief search, they found her crushed remains. As the theaters rotated about the fixed inner stage, she had been caught between a stationary wall and a moving wall. The attraction smashed her like a steamroller running over one of Disney's beloved characters in a hilarious act of animated mayhem. Except this was no cartoon, and there would be no animated sleight of hand to "uncrush" her. America Sings was closed for three days until a system of warning lights could be installed.
But for one young hostess, it was a little too late.

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By far the grimmest and most widely-criticized event in Disneyland's blood-spattered history was the park's first homicide in 1981. The victim was Mel Yorba, an 18-year old Riverside man. On that fateful March night, he was attending a private party at the park thrown by a local defense contractor, accompanied by a friend and their dates. His family recalled that the young
people were simply out "to have a good time".

The "good time" ended around 10 PM that evening in the deadly confines of Tomorrowland. Near the Skyway, James O'Driscoll, a 28-year old man from San Diego, accused Yorba of touching his girlfriend. There was a scuffle; blows were exchanged. O'Driscoll pulled a knife. Then, either O'Driscoll brutally stabbed Yorba, or Yorba stumbled while lunging forward, impaling himself on the blade. The jury believed the former. Eventually, this scuffle would cost
the killer 8 years to life for 2nd degree murder.

No one criticized Disneyland security's handing of the killing. With efficiency rivalled only by certain Third-World dictatorships and some (former) Eastern Bloc police states, they swung into action. O'Driscoll's girlfriend was quickly apprehended as she tried to slip out of the park. Divers found the alleged murder weapon, an 8 1/2 inch knife, in a Disneyland waterway, variously reported as the Sleeping Beauty Castle moat or the submarine lagoon. O'Driscoll only managed to evade the kingdom-wide manhunt for little more than an hour before he was found hiding in the bushes in
Adventureland.

Meanwhile, as Yorba lay bleeding to death on the grounds of Tomorrowland, the Disneyland nurse made a fateful decision. Instead of calling the paramedics, she elected to have him driven to the hospital in a park van. By the time the van, lacking flashing emergency lights, made its leisurely way to the hospital (which, unlike other nearby hospitals, did not have a trauma
center), Yorba was to all intents dead from a knife wound piercing his heart, liver and diaphragm.

For once, Disneyland was roundly chastised in the media. Two Disneyland workers claimed "the rule at the park is don't call the paramedics".
Presumably, flashing red lights and uniformed rescue personnel tearing up Main Street would mar the park's atmosphere. Not that the emergency crews wanted to disturb the guests; the Orange County Director of Emergency Medical Services was quoted as saying he would not be "adverse" to dressing up paramedics in mouse suits if necessary.

In wake of this criticism, Disneyland hired an ambulance and changed its emergency procedures somewhat. Not that this helped at the trial. Contrary to what their employees thought, the park produced a written policy in effect at the time of the stabbing requiring that paramedics be called in life-threatening situations. Nonetheless, the jury found Disney neglegent to the tune of $600,000, making Yorba (or at least his family) one of the few of the park's many victims to win compensation for their injuries.

If you have an ounce of humor...

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You just might enjoy the following....

Disney Urban Legends
Haunted Mansion
The Legend: A baby left in a Doom Buggy by forgetful parent died on the Haunted Mansion.

Behind the Legend: Guests frequently leave items behind when they exit Disneyland rides and Attractions. Although it is true that three or four times a year guests forget to take their children with them when leaving the Haunted Mansion, the children are always discovered by cleaning crews during the night and returned to their rightful home or another home of equal value.

The Legend: The Haunted Mansion Doom Buggies often stop to give handicapped people a chance to enter ride vehicles.

Behind the Legend: Not true. When someone needs to (for example) transfer from a wheelchair to a Doom Buggy, the ride is not stopped but slowed down. This was originally known as putting the ride in "creep" mode, but that was changed to "slow" mode because some disabled people objected to being called creeps, and then to "disabled" and finally to "bonus" mode for the same reason.

The ride does stop with annoying frequency, but that is because members of the maintenance staff, scurrying around in near darkness to keep things looking neat both on and off stage, have a tendency to accidentally trip over the cord and pull the plug out of the wall.

The Legend: Black cats are routinely sacrificed in the Haunted Mansion by Satanic cults while the ride is closed for its annual transformation into Haunted Mansion Holiday.

Behind the Legend: Whether this is literally true or not is a matter of how one defines "routinely," "sacrificed," and "Satanic." For example, if "routinely" means "all the time," "sacrificed" means "more than just tourtured at length," and "Satanic" means something other than "Walt Disney Company upper management," then the statement is false. Also, some of the cats aren't black.

The Legend: A baby was born on the Haunted Mansion. In honor of the event, Disney gave the family free passes to Disneyland for life.

Behind the Legend: Not true. Although a baby was indeed born on the Haunted Mansion in August of 1966 (in Madam Leota's room, to be exact), the family only received passes to go on the Haunted Mansion as often as they liked free of charge. They still have to pay to get into the park. This shows the penny-pinching nature of some of Disneyland's management, as does the fact that, as soon as the baby was born, a manager demanded that it purchase an admission ticket.

The Legend: The Haunted Mansion closed for a time after a guest suffered a fatal heart attack.

Behind the Legend: The Haunted Mansion is so horribly frightening (particularly the lawnmower scene with its animatronic body parts and rivers of blood) that it has taken the lives of dozens of weak-hearted guests throughout the years. However, the Mansion has never been closed because of one of these deaths -- Disney just increases the "happy haunts" count and keeps on going.

The Legend: A woman once had a terrifying dream that stopped her from dying on the Haunted Mansion.

Behind the Legend: Believe it or not, this one is true. In 1973, an 80-year-old woman, the night before her first trip to Disneyland, had a dream that she was back in high school but couldn't remember where her class was even though it was final exam day, and to top it all off she had forgotten to study or put on clothes.

The next day at Disneyland, she saw the Haunted Mansion and refused to go on it because it reminded her of a crabby old man's house that she had to walk past on the way to school as a child. Only days later, the woman had a physical exam and it was found that she had a weak heart. The doctor agreed that, had she gone on the Haunted Mansion, she would have had a heart attack and died like so many had died on the attraction before (see previous legend).

The Legend: One of the singing busts in the Haunted Mansion is Walt Disney.

Behind the Legend: Correct. The others are Leslie Nielson, Buddy Ebsen, and James Stewart.

The Legend: The hearse in front of the Haunted Mansion is the actual horse-drawn hearse used to carry Brigham Young's body to its grave.

Behind the Legend: This could not possibly be true, since Brigham Young is still alive (albeit old, brittle, and subsisting primarily on vitamins, pure water, and bizarre rituals). He lives a quiet, solitary life in an anonymous mausoleum, surrounded by the dusty caskets of his wives.

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An incomplete list of deaths at Disneyland.

May 1964: Mark Maples, a 15-year-old Long Beach, CA, resident, was killed when he tried to stand up on the Matterhorn Bobsleds. Maples (or his companion) foolishly unbuckled his seatbeat and attempted to stand up as their bobsled neared the peak of the mountain. Maples lost his balance and was thrown from the sled to the track below, fracturing his skull and ribs and causing internal injuries. He died three days later.

June 1966: Thomas Guy Cleveland, a 19-year-old Northridge, CA, resident, was killed when he attempted to sneak into Disneyland along the Monorail track. Cleveland scaled the park's sixteen-foot high outer fence on a Grad Nite and climbed onto the Monorail track, intending to jump or climb down once inside the park. Cleveland ignored a security guard's shouted warnings of an approaching Monorail train and failed to leap clear of the track. He finally climbed down onto a fiberglass canopy beneath the track, but the clearance wasn't enough -- the oncoming train struck and killed him, dragging his body 30 to 40 feet down the track.

August 1967: Ricky Lee Yama, a 17-year-old Hawthorne, CA, resident, was killed when he disregarded safety instructions and exited his People Mover car as the ride was passing through a tunnel. Yama slipped as he was jumping from car to car and was crushed to death beneath the wheels of oncoming cars.

June 1973: Bogden Delaurot, an 18-year-old Brooklyn resident, drowned trying to swim across the Rivers of America. Delaurot and his 10-year-old brother managed to stay on Tom Sawyer Island past its dusk closing time by climbing the fence separating the island from the burning settlers' cabin. When they decided to leave the island a few hours later, they chose to swim across the river rather than call attention to their rule-breaking by appealing to cast members for help. Because the younger brother did not know how to swim, Delaurot tried to carry him on his back as he swam to shore. Bogden Delaurot went down about halfway across the river. The younger boy remained afloat by dogpaddling until a ride operator hauled him aboard a boat, but Bogden was nowhere to be found. His body was not located by searchers until the next morning.

7 June 1980: Gerardo Gonzales, a recent San Diego high school graduate, was killed on the People Mover in an accident much like the one that had befallen Ricky Lee Yama thirteen years earlier. Gonzales, in the early morning hours of a Grad Nite celebration, was climbing from car to car as the People Mover entered the SuperSpeed Tunnel adjacent to the former America Sings building. Gonzales stumbled and fell onto the track, where an oncoming train of cars crushed him beneath its wheels and dragged his body a few hundred feet before being stopped by a ride operator.

4 June 1983: Philip Straughan, an 18-year-old Albuquerque, New Mexico, resident, also drowned in the Rivers of America in yet another Grad Nite incident. Straughan and a friend -- celebrating both their graduations and Straughan's eighteenth birthday -- had been drinking quite heavily that evening. They sneaked into a "Cast Members Only" area along the river and untied an inflatable rubber maintenance motorboat, deciding to take it for a joyride around the river. Unable to adequately control the boat, they struck a rock near Tom Sawyer Island, and Straughan was thrown into the water. His friend travelled back to shore to seek help, but Straughan drowned long before his body was finally located an hour later.

3 January 1984: Dolly Regene Young, a 48-year-old Fremont, CA, resident, was killed on the Matterhorn in an incident remarkably similar to the first Disneyland guest death nearly twenty years earlier. About two-thirds of the way down the mountain Young was thrown from her seat into the path of an oncoming bobsled, her head and chest becoming pinned beneath its wheels. An examination of Young's sled revealed that her seatbelt was not fastened at the time of the accident, but because she was riding alone in the rear car of a sled no one could determine whether or not she had deliberately unfastened her belt.

24 December 1998: In a tragic Christmas Eve accident, one Disneyland cast member and two guests were injured (one fatally) when a rope used to secure the sailing ship Columbia as it docked on the Rivers of America tore loose the metal cleat to which it was attached. The cleat sailed through air and struck the heads of two guests who were waiting to board the ship, Luan Phi Dawson, 33, of Duvall, Washington, and his wife, Lieu Thuy Vuong, 43. Dawson was declared brain dead two days later and died when his life support system was disconnected.
This accident resulted in the first guest death in Disneyland's history that was not attributable to any negligence on the part of the guest (it was the result of a combination of insufficiently rigorous ride maintenance and an insufficiently experienced supervisor's assuming an attraction operator's role) and prompted a movement for greater government oversight of theme park operations and safety procedures.

5 September 2003: A 22-year-old man, Marcelo Torres of Gardena, California, died, and several other guests were injured, when a locomotive separated from its train along a tunnel section of Big Thunder Mountain Railroad. Torres bled to death after suffering blunt force trauma of the chest.

The whole United States of Georgia

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Its not coming out any time soon in the United States.

Song of the South consists of animated sequences featuring Uncle Remus characters such as Br'er Rabbit, Br'er Fox, and Br'er Bear, framed by live-action portions in which Uncle Remus (portrayed by actor James Baskett, who won a special Oscar for his efforts) tells the stories to a little white boy upset over his parents' impending divorce. Although some people of color have always been uneasy about the minstrel tradition of the Uncle Remus stories, the major objections to Song of the South had to do with the live action portions. The film has been criticized both for "making slavery appear pleasant" and "pretending slavery didn't exist", even though the film (like Harris' original collection of stories) is set after the Civil War and the abolition of slavery.
Still, as folklorist Patricia A. Turner writes:
Disney's 20th century re-creation of Harris's frame story is much more heinous than the original. The days on the plantation located in "the United States of Georgia" begin and end with unsupervised black folk singing songs about their wonderful home as they march to and from the fields. Disney and company made no attempt to to render the music in the style of the spirituals and work songs that would have been sung during this era. They provided no indication regarding the status of the black folk on the plantation. Joel Chandler Harris set his stories in the post-slavery era, but Disney's version seems to take place during a surreal time when black people lived on slave quarters on a plantation, worked diligently for no visible reward and considered Atlanta a viable place for an old Black man to set out for.
Kind old Uncle Remus caters to the needs of the young white boy whose father has inexplicably left him and his mother at the plantation. An obviously ill-kept black child of the same age named Toby is assigned to look after the white boy, Johnny. Although Toby makes one reference to his "ma," his parents are nowhere to be seen. The African-American adults in the film pay attention to him only when he neglects his responsibilities as Johnny's playmate-keeper. He is up before Johnny in the morning in order to bring his white charge water to wash with and keep him entertained.

The boys befriend a little blond girl, Ginny, whose family clearly represents the neighborhood's white trash. Although Johnny coaxes his mother into inviting Ginny to his fancy birthday party at the big house, Toby is curiously absent from the party scenes. Toby is good enough to catch frogs with, but not good enough to have birthday cake with. When Toby and Johnny are with Uncle Remus, the gray-haired Black man directs most of his attention to the white child. Thus non-white people on the plantation are seen as willingly subservient to the whites to the extent that they overlook the needs of their own children. When Johnny's mother threatens to keep her son away from the old gentleman's cabin, Uncle Remus is so hurt that he starts to run away. In the world that Disney made, Black people sublimate their own lives in order to be better servants to the white family. If Disney had truly understood the message of the tales he animated so delightfully, he would have realized the extent of distortion of the frame story.

The NAACP acknowledged "the remarkable artistic merit" of the film when it was first released, but decried "the impression it gives of an idyllic master-slave relationship". Disney re-released the film in 1956, but then kept it out of circulation all throughout the turbulent civil rights era of the 1960s. In 1970 Disney announced in Variety that Song of the South had been "permanently" retired, but the studio eventually changed its mind and re-released the film in 1972, 1981, and again in 1986 for a fortieth anniversary celebration. Although the film has only been released to the home video market in various European and Asian countries, Disney's reluctance to market it in the USA is not a reaction to an alleged threat by the NAACP to boycott Disney products. The NAACP fielded objections to Song of the South when it premiered, but it has no current position on the movie.

Perhaps lost in all the controversy over the film is the fact that James Baskett, a Black man, was the very first live actor ever hired by Disney. Allegedly, though, Baskett was unable to attend the film's premiere in Atlanta because no hotel would give him a room.

Nothing out of the ordinary

2006-11-07T14:04:00.000-08:00

It has been widely published that Disney movies display strong gender stereotypes. Some writers even go so far as to suggest that Disney is actively trying to reinforce stereotypes.
However, very little has been written about how stereotypical presentations of men and women affect the most easily influenced part of society, children. The effect of Disney movies on children is critical to the argument that Disney movies reinforce traditional gender stereotypes in society, but has been largely ignored by those that deride Disney for its sexism, leaving a relatively hollow argument.
Everything produced by a society inevitably shows the social biases of its creators.
Disney movies are no exception to this rule, nor should society expect them to be. Disney movies have undeniably displayed men and women in stereotypical roles and in stereotypical body forms. Some critics would suggest that this is the result of ulterior motives, while in reality it is only a side effect of common societal norms and the very nature of animation. Devoid of all other considerations, Disney movies could be seen as a very sexist influence on children only starting to form their views of the world. However, when considered with the society that created
them, Disney movies fall in line with the sexual biases that exist in society. A child that watches Disney movies will be no more sexist than one that does not. In the end, all prejudices come from society as a whole and all children will be exposed to them, regardless of Disney.
However, there are two elements of Disney movies that can lead to the characterizationthat they impart sexist views on developing children. The first of these elements is the timelessness of the movies. Compared to most forms of entertainment, Disney’s animated works have remained very much in the public consciousness despite their age. Faith Popcorn notes this in a Brandmarketing article:
Mothers want to hand-down the same movies that they watched in their child-
hood. Bambi, Dumbo, Sleeping Beauty, Cinderella, and Snow White are still as
cherished today as a half-century ago. [...] With so many other areas of “cutting-
edge” consumerism, it’s reassuring to find that in this new millennium, “the more
things change,” the more these things don’t.

While some may find this comforting, there is another effect. Old Disney films, that represented common social views fifty years ago, are still being watched by children today. The views presented are undeniably out of step with current ones, however it seems unfair to blame Disney for the sexual prejudices of the past. It would not be surprising to see a sexist comment in a book written in the 1940s, why should animation be held to a higher standard.
The second element that leads to sexist characterizations is the stylized nature of Disney’s characters. Unlike other types of media, animators are not forced to use real people as their actors and actresses. Instead, they create their own characters that end up reflecting both social prejudice and the Disney tradition. Large eyes, large heads, muscular male bodies, and thin female bodies are all characteristics of the heroes and heroines, while villains are most often ugly.
In an article that presents Disney as attempting to reinforce sexist views, Kathi Maio writes:
The ‘imagineers’ at Disney obviously look to reinforce cultural assumptions and
push a few buttons in their audience members, if for no other reason than it’s the
most efficient way to tell a story.
Boyish Tom Cruise look = Good guy.
Swarthy, hook-nosed Basil Rathbone look = Villain.
Most audience members don’t even notice when this happens.
This statement draws a false assumption when it implies that Disney’s goal is to “reinforce cultural assumptions.” The end of the first sentence is closer to the truth. Using images that people recognize is an easy way to tell a story, and most likely comes from the subconscious of the animators. The fact that society often equates outer beauty with inner good does not originate with Disney, nor should Disney be blamed for an incorrect social prejudice.
After discarding these two attempts to make Disney appear sexist, it is easier to see the truth.
A sexist society produces sexist entertainment, even for its children. It is not just movies for children that support stereotypes either, a recent article in The Independent pointed out sexism in children’s book . The two qualities of Disney animation, its age and its stylization, make sexism much easier to see, and have resulted in much more criticism for Disney than for other companies producing entertainment for children. The fact that Disney movies are marketed toward children also increases concerns that they support sexism and for good reason.
Society does not want to impart sexist views on its youth.
However, the effect of Disney movies on children has received little study . It is a relatively astounding fact that it has not received more attention when Disney has received so much criticism for supporting stereotypes. In order to prove the argument that Disney movies promote sexism among children, it would be necessary to do a real scientific study on the subject.
The evidence right now is the opinions of Disney’s strongest adult critics. What children see when they watch a movie is a very different matter.
Maio says the message of The Little Mermaid is for young women to “shut up and be
beautiful” (Maio 13), but a child could very well get the message that women are free to chose what they want to do with their lives. In The Little Mermaid Ariel made her own choices and did not follow her father. In that way she broke the stereotype that young women must be loyal to the family above all else.
In Beauty and the Beast a child could understand the message of the movie as love can be a powerful force against hate and fear. After all, the love of a woman changes a horrible beast into a handsome prince. However, Maio would argue that the message is “if a young woman is pretty and sweet-natured, she can change an abusive man into a kind and gentle man. In other words, it is a woman’s fault if her man abuses her”
In both these instances, an adult looking at a work written for a child can see sexism that the child will most likely not imagine on his or her own. The idea that children are given sexist views from Disney movies stands on weak ground. The last argument posed by Disney critics is that the stylized images of the beautiful heroes are unhealthy body types for children to aspire to.
Although, as written by Ajay Close, “children are more discriminating than they are given credit for. They can distinguish truth from fiction, reality from fantasy; they know a fairytale when they see one” (Close). The stylized images of animation pose much less risk to children than the equally unattainable, but yet real, images of Brittany Spears and Arnold Schwarzenegger.

More Disney Skeletons

2006-11-03T20:41:00.000-08:00

"Women do not do any of the creative work in connection with preparing the cartoons for the screen, as that work is performed by young men. For this reason, girls are not considered for the training school. To qualify for the only work open to women one must be well grounded in the use of pen and ink and also of water color. The work to be done consists of tracing the characters on clear celluloid sheets with India ink and filling in the tracings on the reverse side with paint according to directions."

They might as well tape this letter to the negative of SONG OF THE SOUTH.

Enough about space already!

2006-11-02T14:33:00.000-08:00

Halloween was great! Tons of kids came by the house. Every group had something nice to say about the house. Some were actually afraid to knock on the door. Its an odd neighborhood. Everyone has to be in your business. It was aparent after the first group of kids left the parents stepped up and introduced themselves and said whay a wonderful job I did on the house. They told me their address and were very nice. THIS WAS REPEATED TIME AND TIME AGAIN. Telling me there address. I DON'T CARE WHERE YOU LIVE! later on that eve a neighbor woman came buy to ask how I did some of the effects and to say how nice everything was. I offered her candy. I figured that would get her liposuctioned ass to go away and I could continue drinking. It didnt work.

Nice halloween but nosey republican neighbors.
It was nice to have people over at the house. A few friends and a really bad french "horror" film and the evening was complete.