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My examiner.com article about my NY Journal of Books reviews of Dan Chaon’s "Stay Awake" and Nikanor Teratologen’s "Assisted Living," two dark and disturbing works of fiction.My examiner.com article about my NY Journal of Books reviews of Dan Chaon’s... more
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As AFP predicted in the Feb. 6 edition, the call by the publisher of The Atlanta Jewish Times, Andrew Adler, for Israel’s Mossad to utilize its American-based assets to assassinate Barack Obama has been almost entirely suppressed by the mainstream media. In contrast, the story has been big news in Israel and widely reported in Jewish community newspapers all across America.
Most astonishing—in response to Adler’s provocation—is that there are many Jewish writers openly acknowledging there is a deep hatred for Obama within the Jewish community, which most Americans presume to be strongly supportive of the president.
And although there have been attempts to paint Adler’s Atlanta Jewish Times as being somehow without influence, one of Adler’s regular columnists is Chuck Berk, a leader of the Republican Jewish Coalition, who—as recently as Dec. 30—was pictured in the Times in the company of Israel’s consul general in Atlanta, along with the governor of Georgia and several state senators.
In the meantime, Scotty Reid—columnist for a black-oriented Internet site, ThyBlackMan, raised important questions: “Are there Israeli assassination teams in the U.S.? If Israeli Mossad agents are based in the United States, what they are doing?”
Reid also noted that, “Adler is not just some crazed or mentally impaired individual publishing outlandish conspiracy theories.” Instead, Reid emphasized, Adler is not only publisher of a weekly newspaper but also producer of a local television show on which he has interviewed a number of Israeli government officials.
While JTA suggested most Jews still claim to support Obama, it did not mention that polls showing significant Jewish opposition to Obama could be enough to cause Obama to lose the electoral votes of key states, particularly in the Northeast, where politically active Jews in large numbers reside.As AFP predicted in the Feb. 6 edition, the call by the publisher of The Atlanta... more
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Michael Collins Piper, veteran JFK researcher and author of "The Final Judgement," exposes the storyline and official government version of a potential assassinate plot of President Obama, or a future president in the book "In the President's Secret Service" by New York Times best selling author Ronald Kessler.
Kessler goes on to blame a future assassination plot on affirmitive action, the Secret Service's hiring of too many unqualified African-American agents, and also the Obama administration for their lapses in security.
Kessler is in effect creating a kind of plausible deniability on behalf of the government along with a possible "official government version" of the event.Michael Collins Piper, veteran JFK researcher and author of "The Final... more
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“The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore” is an award-winning animated short film by author/illustrator William Joyce and Co-director Brandon Oldenburg at Moonbot Studios, which just received a 2012 Academy Award Nomination for Best Animated Short Film. Drawing on inspirations from Hurricane Katrina, “The Wizard of Oz” and Buster Keaton, the film combines a variety of animation techniques to tell the story of people who have a passion for books.
This piece includes colorful illustrations and the full version of the acclaimed animated short film.
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2012/01/25/a-lifesaving-passion-for-books-the-fantastic-flying-books-of-mr-morris-lessmore/“The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore” is an award-winning... more
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Video interview with Mike Edison, author of Dirty! Dirty! Dirty! Of Playboys, Pigs, and Penthouse Paupers, conducted by Mr.Media, Bob Andelman. http://www.mrmedia.com/?p=3768Video interview with Mike Edison, author of Dirty! Dirty! Dirty! Of Playboys, Pigs,... more
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The author Thomas C. Foster has written a book called Twenty-five Books That Shaped America. While reading this book I agreed with some selections. However, I disagreed with about 75% of them. I don’t think the author took into account that the books that changed America should be transformative and not personal favorites. The criteria for books should be if the authors provoke social or philosophical change in the way we American’s view ourselves. Without further adieu, here is the 1Lovejoy’s list.The author Thomas C. Foster has written a book called Twenty-five Books That Shaped... more
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It's nice to enjoy the convenience of modern eBooks, but as this beautifully entertaining video reminds us, we must remember to take time to enjoy the feel, smell, and 'joy of books' by supporting independent bookstores, authors and publishers.
http://veracitystew.com/2012/01/16/must-watch-the-joy-of-books-video/It's nice to enjoy the convenience of modern eBooks, but as this beautifully... more
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“A book is the only place in which you can examine a fragile thought without breaking it, or explore an explosive idea without fear it will go off in your face. It is one of the few havens remaining where a man’s mind can get both provocation and privacy.”
- Edward P. Morgan“A book is the only place in which you can examine a fragile thought without... more
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Scandalous and sensational performance by Oleg Seriy MaRiCaBo - this devil in the flesh! And tell me then that doomsday has not arrived ... Video quote from World of Unicellular, written by Oleg Seriy.Scandalous and sensational performance by Oleg Seriy MaRiCaBo - this devil in the... more
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Gro Mambo Angela Novanyon Idizol - New Year's Reading 2012: Life & Living.
The year 2012 is a shared year, ruled by Papa Ogun (the force of fire, faith and strength) and Papa Agwe (the force of light and direction). The message for the year 2012 is a blueprint for the strength of Ogun and the sails of Agwe, bringing knowledge about anchor months. The Loa Baron Criminel, who came in possession during the Ghede Ceremony at LePeristyle Haitian Sanctuary on the night of November 12, 2011, gave the message for the coming New Year 2012.
The message speaks about life and living, the power of drama and how to sail through 2012 in tranquility. The predictions for 2012 begin with a reference to the guidance given for the year 2011 and a review of the powers that dominated the year 2011. The power of a year flows from a power of prior years. It is important to be aware of the powers of the past in order to understand the powers of a year that has not yet been lived. The guidance for 2011 was to “be a spade for yourself,” meaning to make a clear, unemotional assessment of your character and behavior on an on-going basis. The powers of 2011 (being a spade, surety and unsurety) are essential preparation for the year 2012 and must be appeased in order for the guidance given for the year 2012 to be effective.
The message for the year 2012 brings a new perspective for living in the year 2012. It presents a blueprint for action and understanding. It is a guide to show you when is the best time for financial investments, entrepreneurial thrusts, for love, family, and health. The reading of the year tells you what to avoid and how to take advantage of the best opportunities for the year 2012.
The divine force spoke of life and living, explaining the relationship between the wealth of life and the wealth of the land. You are living in life, which is from the wealth of the land. The wealth of the land spreads into the wealth of life. Life has a season and the deeds done during that season determine the remembrance of that life.
Drama is a monster. It is a power as old as the world. Everyone understands it. What people do not realize is that, once invoked, drama cannot be controlled. It destroys. Drama must be avoided in 2012 because this is a year in which emotions will run high. In order to have tranquility you must avoid drama.
The Loa said that the year belongs to two forces: Papa Ogun and Papa Agwe. Those who only see Papa Ogu will see the earth quaking, fire and all the other devasations that come out of the heat of the Petro. On the other hand, people can see these two powers and, as a result, do well in business. The year 2012 will provide opportunities for gain in the midst of inflations and economic crises. Those who only see Papa Agwe will think of tornadoes, gale force winds, floods, possible tsunamis and things coming out of the sea that can bring much devastation, destruction and death. On the other hand, those who are seeing Agwe, but not necessarily seeing destruction and devastation, could see the good fortune that comes on the wind when things are blown their way. Following the guidance of the spiritual force by changing the way you do business and handle your fortunes will bring enormous benefits in 2012.
The entire message for the year 2012, entitled “Life and Living – 2012," explains the powers and workings of the divine forces during 2012, provides month-by-month guidance needed to guarantee a tranquil voyage through the year. You have to see clearly in order to elevate. Knowledge of the New Year’s message and the forces that will move in any day, week, month or New Year is power! Using that advance knowledge of what is coming in the paths of the New Year will keep you from being caught in situations that stifle elevation and prepare you to deal with any obstacles you may face in the year.
http://www.amazon.com/Life-and-Living-2012-ebook/dp/B006RKJI9Q/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1325744862&sr=8-1Gro Mambo Angela Novanyon Idizol - New Year's Reading 2012: Life & Living.... more
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I have been a bookworm all my life. Bookworm being the old fashioned word for what is now termed a pathology, bibliophile?, loner? I have only recently downloaded my first e-book onto a cheap pad. It's Bleak House for free. I used to have a complete set of Dickens from about 1880. It yellowed and fell to pieces. Couldn't hold the books at all. I collect antique books, nothing fancy just what I like. Bulwers Works, Ben Hur, almost all of Dauphne du Maurier. I would be one of those folks with
shelves cutting through the middle of the living room if I could get away with it, piles of books like towers everywhere. Now I suppose I could collect books on hard drives, but that lacks the aesthetic appeal; or the smell. The new soy inks don't have that lovely off gassing smell of chemical inks. I remember the day I learned how to read, like lightening striking, like learning to breath under water. It was a fantastic, trippy experience as some part of my six year old brain exploded into
awareness. When I would laugh at jokes about Dick and Jane, I would feel a little guilty sadness because they had done so much for me. I won prizes in second grade for reading the most books, could read college level by the age of 12. Granted I can read and comprehend well, but that doesn't translate into writing skills as my high school teachers hated teaching diagramming so any syntax or grammar I have is by accident. I don't know anyone who reads like I do. My daughters have to read
because they are in school but they don't rush home to read like I did, high in the magnolia tree like a strange monkey. I have never caught them reading with a flashlight lost in a world of knights and poetry. They don't lie in bed all Saturday morning finishing up the last of a book that they saved for a morning thrill. None of my husbands read all that much, a magazine, Internet. My second husband was a lawyer so he had to read and he did like Hunter S. Thompson, but other than that.
So for the New Year I wanted to list all the books I read in 2011. I can't make a reading list for 2012 as I don't know where my mind will take me. But I can tell you where I have been. Did you know you can get a list of all the books you have borrowed going back at least five years from your local library?viewsfromanoldwhitewoman.blogspot.com
I have been a bookworm all my life. Bookworm... more
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I have been a bookworm all my life. Bookworm being the old fashioned word for what is now termed a pathology, bibliophile?, loner? I have only recently downloaded my
first e-book onto a cheap pad I got. It's Bleak House for free. I used to have a complete set of Dickens from about 1880. It yellowed and fell to pieces. Couldn't hold
the books at all. I collect antique books, nothing fancy just what I like. Bulwers Works, Ben Hur, almost all of Dauphne DeMurier. I would be one of those folks with
shelves cutting through the middle of the living room if I could get away with it, piles of books like towers everywhere. Now I suppose I could collect books on hard drives, but that lacks the aesthetic appeal; or the smell. The new soy inks don't have that lovely off gassing smell of chemical inks.
I remember the day I learned how to read, like lightening striking, like learning to breath under water. It was a fantastic, trippy experience as some part of my six year old brain exploded into awareness. When I would laugh at jokes about Dick and Jane, I would feel a little guilty sadness because they had done so much for me. I won prizes in second grade for reading the most books, could read college level by the age of 12. Granted I can read and comprehend well, but that doesn't translate into writing skills as my high school teachers hated teaching diagramming so any syntax or grammer I have is by accident. I don't know anyone who reads like I do. My daughters have to read
because they are in school but they don't rush home to read like I did, high in the magnolia tree like a strange monkey. I have never caught them reading with a
flashlight lost in a world of knights and poetry. They don't lie in bed all saturday morning finishing up the last of a book that they saved for a morning thrill. None
of my husbands read all that much, a magazine, internet. My second husband was a lawyer so he had to read and he did like Hunter S. Thompson, but other than that.
So for the New Year I wanted to list all the books I read in 2011. I can't make a reading list for 2012 as I don't know where my mind will take me. But I can tell you where I have been. Did you know you can get a list of all the books you have borrowed going back at least five years from your local library?
View my blog for the complete list and feel free to let me know what you have read this last year. Happy New Year
viewsfromanoldwhitewoman.blogspot.comI have been a bookworm all my life. Bookworm being the old fashioned word for what is... more
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As for the rest of your questions, at first I didn’t think I could answer them. They reminded me too much of an essay test in school. Plus it’s not exactly pleasant to remember back on all this stuff, you know. I’m trying to leave it behind and start a new life.
But I kept thinking about it and finally decided I would forget the questions and just write about what happened. Like you said, people should know about this. Don’t give anybody my address, though. The army still wants to put me in prison.As for the rest of your questions, at first I didn’t think I could answer them.... more
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ook Nook will appear every Sunday here at WorldWide Hippies. We want to bring you some of the best writers and poets–whether they are new writers, weary older writers, experimental, funny, romantic, and innovative and energetic writers. You’ll find them here, each and every Sunday at WWH.ook Nook will appear every Sunday here at WorldWide Hippies. We want to bring you some... more
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WWH – Book Nook will appear every Sunday here at WorldWide Hippies. We want to bring you some of the best writers and poets–whether they are new writers, weary older writers, experimental, funny, romantic, and innovative and energetic writers. You’ll find them here, each and every Sunday at WWH.WWH – Book Nook will appear every Sunday here at WorldWide Hippies. We want to... more
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Ry Cooder has 'Los Angeles Stories' to tell
Ry Cooder puts California tales on page in his book 'Los Angeles Stories,' as he did in song on his albums 'Chavez Ravine,' 'My Name Is Buddy,' 'I, Flathead.'
PHOTO: Musician Ry Cooder (Chris Pizzello / Associated Press)
By David L. Ulin, Los Angeles Times Book Critic
December 4, 2011
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Let's start with the hands, Ry Cooder's hands. They're large, expressive: hands you could see wrapped around a guitar neck, or in the act of making things. They move when he speaks, creating shapes in the air that take form and dissipate, all in the space of a few words. On a Friday afternoon at the Petersen Automotive Museum, Cooder is using those hands to help recount the saga of "El Chavez Ravine," a 1953 Chevy pickup he commissioned to be rebuilt in 2007 in the style of a vintage ice cream truck and covered with an elaborate mural, by the artist Vincent Valdez, depicting the eviction of Mexican American families from the neighborhood that is now home to Dodger Stadium.
The same story inspired Cooder's 2005 album "Chavez Ravine," the first installment in his so-called "California Trilogy" (the others are "My Name Is Buddy" [2007] and "I, Flathead" [2008]), and, in some ways, it also sits as a ghost narrative to his first book, "Los Angeles Stories" (City Lights: 230 pp., $15.95 paper), a collection of eight loosely linked pieces of fiction that go back in time to a different Southern California, where musicians and aircraft workers and trolley drivers come together and apart in little bungalows and bars. (His latest album, released in August, is "Pull Up Some Dust and Sit Down.")
"We lived a block from Douglas Aircraft in a crappy duplex," remembers Cooder, who grew up in Santa Monica during the 1950s. "The hillbillies would be drinking beer up on Ocean Park Boulevard. My father said, 'Don't ever go up there.' So I went up there and listened to the jukeboxes in the bars. It was in the air somehow, it seemed to be real."
What Cooder's getting at, that elusive " it," is the authenticity of old Los Angeles, a "nothing place," and yet one with its own history and style. This is what he has built his work around these last several years, and what he continues to want to explore, the handmade world of people who "aren't fancy talkers and thinkers. They don't ride any wave. They're just there. But if you go to any of those little houses, they'll tell you some stories. People will tell you the most amazing things."
"Los Angeles Stories" operates almost entirely on such a principle, offering a deftly rendered panorama of the city between 1940 and 1958. Its characters are the forgotten, the lost: a man who goes door-to-door for the Los Angeles City Directory, a tailor who make suits for musicians, a drummer on a three-week gig in Kingman, Ariz., sneaking back into California with piano player Billy Tipton and her underage girlfriend under the cover of night.
"These stories," Cooder says, "became my favorite thing to do. I thought: I can just sit here. I can say whatever I want, and these people will do whatever I tell them." Even more, he continues, in the act of writing, he "remembered things that people have told me, so a lot of what's in the book is from reality."
As a case in point, he cites "End of the Line," set in 1954, in which a motorman, laid off after 15 years on the job, takes his Red Car out for one last run. "It's about a twenty-mile run from downtown to the beach on Jefferson Boulevard," Cooder writes. "First you pass through the downtown residential area. West of Crenshaw, Jefferson is no-man's land until you get to the Hughes Aircraft sheds off to the left. Then you start to smell the ocean and the Ballona Creek marsh. Downtown L.A. smells pretty bad, unless it's raining." The motorman's ex-wife works at Grayson's department store, where she discovers the store manager embezzling funds.
"That's a true story," Cooder acknowledges, with a quiet laugh. "My dad was the one who caught the manager of the store. He told me that story. And so, I'm writing this thing about the motorman, and I thought: Wait a minute, I know. The first wife worked for Grayson's. I know that whole story, don't I? I think I do. I started to write and it all came flooding back."
For Cooder, what's at stake is memory, although it's memory in a collective, as opposed to an individual, sense. Among his influences was the City Directory, a compendium of businesses published annually, in the days before the telephone book. "A friend brought me a copy," he recalls, "a huge, enormous thing, heavy, heavy. Tiny thin paper, tiny type. And I got to reading this thing, page by page. It's so fascinating: the names, the jobs. Pants presser, pants presser, pants presser. More pants pressers than any other work. I learned a lot from that book. It helped me get the names right. Real names mean something. They tell you a lot."
Then, there is the "California Trilogy," with its vivid evocations of time and landscape, and especially "I, Flathead," which came packaged with a novella, written by Cooder, that gave a back story to the songs. "After 'Flathead,'" he explains, "I said, 'This is so much fun I'm going to keep doing it.'" When the idea of a tour with old friend Nick Lowe arose, he seized the opportunity. "I thought: You ought to have something to sell," he says in a laconic drawl. "I didn't want to get into the T-shirt business, so I wrote this book instead."
Originally self-published — "I had some printed in China, but they did everything wrong" — it ended up in the hands of City Lights Books editorial director Elaine Katzenberger, who streamlined the stories, stripping out unwieldy language. Cooder remembers: "I said, 'Oh, I see how you're moving things around more efficiently. I didn't know that stuff but I can learn.' So I went back in and hacked away. It's like anything, you have to get used to it. Songs I know how to do. But the more you do it, the better you get."
This is the same aesthetic Cooder brings to his music — or to "El Chavez Ravine," for that matter — the sense that what's important is the crafting, that it all needs to be well made. "With a song," he observes, "you can get an atmosphere going, that's what a song is, it's a place to be. I tried to do something similar with the stories, to take people places they hadn't been before, places that were familiar and mysterious."
Equally important is a song's ability to forge connections, which is what he hopes for "Los Angeles Stories," as well. "You know," Cooder says, gesturing at the ice cream truck, "people come and look at this, and they don't know the story at all." He talks about the Arechiga family, "the last family to hold out," their name part of the history of the city, if anyone remembers.
"Where we are right now," he says, his hands articulating hidden shadows, "so much has been forgotten and put away. But I still think we want to see things that we don't know about. Go around a corner, and you might have an experience. You might see something you didn't know was there."
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Dershowitz is desperate. In a recent TV appearance, in a mere seven minutes the notorious Zionist mouthpiece, manages to exhibit just about every single ugly Hasbara symptom.
And what is Dershowitz so desperate about? Dershowitz, is desperate to stop ‘The Wandering Who’. Why? Because ‘The Wandering Who’ is probably the only contemporary text that offers a complete and comprehensive reading into, not only Jewish Identity politics in general but also into Dershowitz’ own particular psychosis and duplicitous behaviour.
Speaking of duplicitous behaviour, being a prime Hasbara agent and well used to ‘the ways of deception’, Dershowitz fails to produce a single truthful statement in the entire program. He lies all the way through. But lies and deception are not going to help Dershowitz.
itz, a largely despised supremacist Zionist, wants to ‘shame’ two of America’s most distinguished professors. However, in pleading with academics and students to carry out the ‘shaming’, Dershowitz actually follows one of the most disturbing of all Talmudic rituals - the Cherem.
Why does Dershowitz believe he has the moral authority to ‘shame’ two of the world’s leading humanists? Is it because he believes himself to be intellectually or morally superior, or is it that he is just, quite simply ‘chosen’?
It’s about time that Dershowitz accepts that American universities are not Yeshivas and he should rein in his mediaeval rabbinical approach to political and intellectual discourse.
Being an ex-Jew, I ask no-one to ‘shame’ Dershowitz in return. This sad, vindictive man brings more than enough shame on himself – and on anyone within the Jewish community who identify so disastrously with his repellent behaviour.
'The Wandering Who' is now a best seller, it is endorsed by a huge list of academics and humanists and its message spreads like fire in a field. Needles to mention that I am thankful to Dershowitz and other Hasbara agents for their free publicity.Dershowitz is desperate. In a recent TV appearance, in a mere seven minutes the... more
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A Woman’s Song. - Diana May Waldman
Invisible - Jeanne Bannon
The Girl in the Box - Sheila DaltonA Woman’s Song. - Diana May Waldman
Invisible - Jeanne Bannon
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