tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36303000660521728632024-03-18T19:45:07.475-07:00Blue Collar Lit.Carson Leehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11426505356407204408noreply@blogger.comBlogger3099125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3630300066052172863.post-16949419395766056662024-03-18T19:44:00.000-07:002024-03-18T19:44:33.479-07:00Rudy, we hardly knew ye<p> </p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">On Amazon Prime Video right now - two excellent documentary series:</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Giuliani: What Happened to America's Mayor?</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"> and</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Watergate: Blueprint For a Scandal</span></p><p><span style="color: #990000; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">_________________________</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Both very informative and interesting.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">----------- 'What in the world happened to New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani?' is a question I have asked myself a few times, in recent years. He used to be serious, and a decent politician and leader / manager. Now he seems like a hostile buffoon, running around like a crazy nut.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">This behavior ratcheted up during the Trump-in-spotlight years. I don't think Trump told him to act like that, but it does seem like Giuliani saw Donald Trump exhibiting crazy behavior and lying and being cheered for it, and he followed suit.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">That's the impression I get.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"> In the Amazon program they show a scene where Giuliani is appearing in front of a large applauding crowd. It's during George W. Bush presidency before the Era Of Crazy, and Dick Cheney (vice president at the time) can be seen at the front of one section of the crowd. He is clapping, but not smiling.</span></p><p><span style="color: #660000; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">____________________</span></p><p><span style="color: #660000; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">-30-</span></p>Carson Leehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11426505356407204408noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3630300066052172863.post-27728529986560239172024-03-15T14:09:00.000-07:002024-03-15T14:09:33.449-07:00any secret fund <p> </p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">-------------- (excerpt from All The President's Men, by Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward. Copyright 1974. Simon & Schuster) ----------------</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"> Moore agreed. It was a breakthrough, the reporters felt: an opportunity to penetrate the committee's haze of anonymous and ambiguous statements. Magruder called about half an hour later and said it was "absolutely untrue" that he received any money from any secret fund. "I only received my salary and expense account," he told Woodward.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"> Then how did he account for the fact that the federal investigation had determined he had received at least $50,000 from the fund in Stans' safe?</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"> "I was questioned about it, but it was discarded . . . and it was agreed by all parties that it is incorrect." The FBI had questioned him extensively. "That's on background," he added as an afterthought.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"> Woodward told him he should know better than to try to put something on background <i>after </i>saying it. Magruder had served as the number-two man in the White House communications office before becoming deputy campaign manager.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"> "But you've got to help me," Magruder pleaded. "I'll get in trouble if I'm quoted."</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"> Woodward told him he might put <i>that </i>statement in the paper, too. Then, at Magruder's request, they went on background. Woodward told him the <i>Post </i>intended to go ahead with the story unless Magruder could come up with a convincing reason to hold it. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Magruder did not argue. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">But he asked Woodward to write that "government investigators," rather than the FBI, had informed Magruder of allegations against him. "You've got to help me on some of this."</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"> It was a small point. Magruder obviously thought that an allegation attributed to the FBI sounded more serious than "government investigators." The request didn't seem unreasonable. Woodward agreed.</span></p><p><span style="color: #8e7cc3; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>_________________________</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #8e7cc3; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">On YouTube, find video:</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Paul Simon - Late in the Evening (Official Audio)</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">---- uploader / channel: Paul Simon</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">and play and enjoy! The song has a sort of reggae-like rhythm. Or maybe salsa-like, I don't know...</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">-30-</span></p>Carson Leehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11426505356407204408noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3630300066052172863.post-6648855788781393822024-03-14T21:54:00.000-07:002024-03-14T21:54:08.439-07:00when evening falls so hard <p> </p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">---------------- (excerpt from All The President's Men) -----------</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"> A touch of his old good humor returned: "Let's just say I'll be willing to put the blossoming situation in perspective for you when the time comes." But there was disgust in the way he said it.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"> Bernstein was already sparring with the typewriter. Woodward glanced at the lead:</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">-------- Two of President Nixon's top campaign officials each withdrew more than $50,000 from a secret fund that financed the bugging of Democratic headquarters, according to sources close to the Watergate investigation. ----------</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"> Woodward reached Powell Moore, the deputy press director of CRP, and told him in general terms what the <i>Post </i>intended to report in Monday's paper. Moore was a jocular 34-year-old Georgian who had worked in the White House communications office before the campaign.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"> "Thanks a lot," Moore said. "That's just what I need on a Sunday." He was sure the story was untrue--the reporters were getting bad information somewhere, he didn't know where, but he wished they would come off this crusade and check out these things better before putting them in the paper.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"> Woodward saw a lever. The reporters were sure of their facts, he told Moore. They had verified the information with sources in enough different places. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">But there was always the possibility of some explanation that they might be unaware of. If Moore would get Magruder to call him and discuss the allegations substantively, Woodward would agree to hold the story until after Magruder had his say. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">And if Magruder could convince the reporters that the story was in any way wrong, or based on some misunderstanding, they would continue to hold it until everything was checked out.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"> Moore agreed.</span></p><p><span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>_______________________</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">On YouTube, listen to this video:</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Simon & Garfunkel - Bridge Over Troubled Water (Audio)</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">uploader / channel: Simon & Garfunkel</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">-30-</span></p>Carson Leehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11426505356407204408noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3630300066052172863.post-4039961995585641732024-03-13T20:11:00.000-07:002024-03-13T20:11:16.283-07:00something was horribly amiss<p> </p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">-------- (excerpt from All The President's Men, Woodward and Bernstein. Simon & Schuster) ------------------</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"> The call clearly was a mistake. His friend was displeased, even angry at him. But what struck Woodward even more was how frightened Deep Throat seemed. The fear had been building, but Woodward had not recognized it until now. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Only a part of it was personal. It had more to do with the situation, the facts, the implications of what he knew about. Woodward had never known him to be so guarded, so serious. At their last meeting, he had seemed weighed down. If Woodward was reading his friend right, something was horribly amiss.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"> Woodward told him what he and Bernstein had heard from the Bookkeeper about Magruder and Porter.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"> "They're both deeply involved in </span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;">Watergate," Deep Throat responded. He sounded resigned, dejected. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;"> Woodward asked him to be more exact. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;"> "Watergate," he repeated. Then he paused and added, "The whole thing."</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;"> He confirmed that Magruder and Porter had received at least $50,000 from Stans' safe. And Woodward could be damned sure that the money had not been used for legitimate purposes--that was fact, not allegation. That was all he would say. From there, Woodward and Bernstein would be on their own for a while. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #4c1130;"><b>_____________________</b></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;">On YouTube, play the video -</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;">Taylor Swift - I Wish You Would (Taylor's Version) (Lyric Video)</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;">uploader / channel: Taylor Swift </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;"> and experience the soaring! </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #c27ba0;"><b>------------------------</b></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;">-30-</span></p>Carson Leehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11426505356407204408noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3630300066052172863.post-71380463879305789602024-03-12T16:44:00.000-07:002024-03-12T16:44:28.533-07:00the reporters <p> </p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">------ [excerpt from All The President's Men] -------</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"> Back at the office, Woodward went to the rear of the newsroom to call Deep Throat. Bernstein wished he had a source like that. The only source he knew who had such comprehensive knowledge in any field was Mike Schwering, who owned the Georgetown Cycle Sport Shop. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">There was nothing about bikes--and, more important, about bike thieves--that Schwering didn't know. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Bernstein knew something about bike thieves: the night of the Watergate indictments, somebody had stolen his 10-speed Raleigh from a parking garage. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"> That was the difference between him and Woodward. Woodward went into a garage to find a source who could tell him what Nixon's men were up to. Bernstein walked in to find an eight-pound chain cut neatly in two and his bike gone. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"> The tone of the conversation that Sunday afternoon was ominous. When Deep Throat heard Woodward's voice there was a long pause. This would have to be their last telephone conversation, he said flatly. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Both the FBI and the White House were determined to learn how the Post was getting its information and to put a stop to it. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"> The situation was far more dangerous than Woodward realized. The story about Mitchell's aides had infuriated the White House. </span></p><p><span style="color: #351c75; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">_____________________</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">On YouTube, the video --</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Taylor Swift - Now That We Don't Talk (Taylor's Version) (From The Vault) (Lyric Video)</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">--- uploader / channel: Taylor Swift </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">play and enjoy </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">(I have discovered Taylor Swift's music and I'm liking it! So many albums! So many songs!)</span></p><p><span style="color: #20124d; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">--------------------------</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">-30-</span></p>Carson Leehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11426505356407204408noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3630300066052172863.post-32548356143746749442024-03-11T19:15:00.000-07:002024-03-11T19:15:19.816-07:00big figures <p> </p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">--------- (excerpt from <u>All The President's Men</u> - Woodward and Bernstein, 1974, Simon & Schuster) ------------------</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"> "P" was Bart Porter; they were sure of that, they said.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"> "He got a lot of money. It was in $100 bills; everybody got $100 bills."</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"> Bernstein reminded her of a joke she had made--"We're Republicans, you know. We deal in big figures."</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"> Porter, too, had gotten more than $50,000, she said.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"> The Bookkeeper was disturbed by the narrowness of the indictments. "I went down in good faith to the grand jury and testified and obviously the results are not there. My feeling is that the FBI turns the information in and it goes upstairs. . . . I just want out now. Hugh Sloan made the wisest decision of all. He quit. Mr. Stans said, 'I begged him to stay, but he wouldn't.'"</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"> She said that people had evaded the grand jury's questions: "Rob Odle said to me after he'd come back from the grand jury, 'Don't you feel like you've been through the wringer?' And I said, 'No, and you wouldn't feel so bad if you'd tell them the whole truth.'". She wouldn't go into what Odle might have concealed.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"> "The propaganda since the break-in has been, 'We have nothing to do with this and hold your head up high,'" she told the reporters as they left.</span></p><p><span style="color: #ffa400; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>__________________________</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">On YouTube,</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><u>Taylor Swift - Shake It Off (Taylor's Version) (Lyric Video)</u></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">uploader / channel: Taylor Swift</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">............. play and enjoy</span></p><p><span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">----------------------------------------</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">-30-</span></p>Carson Leehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11426505356407204408noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3630300066052172863.post-92070587574885678432024-03-08T23:46:00.000-08:002024-03-08T23:46:35.266-08:00born yesterday <p> </p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">The classic movie <i style="font-weight: bold;">Born Yesterday </i>is available to watch on YouTube, now. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">William Holden</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Judy Holliday</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Broderick Crawford</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Crawford is - like - the king of bluster.</span></p><p><span style="color: #783f04; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">__________________________</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">video:</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><u>Born Yesterday (1950)</u></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">uploader / channel - Classic TV Rewind</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">----------------- on this blog, when I recommend a movie that's available on YouTube, I sometimes forget that on some people's devices there might be a ton of ads.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">On Born Yesterday there are complaints in the comments, "ruined by too many ads"...</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"> There are no ads at all if you use </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">m.youtube</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">and Ad blocker. ------------------------</span></p><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>__________________________</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">-30-</span></p>Carson Leehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11426505356407204408noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3630300066052172863.post-63447955465157166322024-03-07T21:20:00.000-08:002024-03-07T21:20:20.819-08:00teaching the world how to eat <p> </p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">On <i>The Sopranos </i>when food is referenced, even the children are sophisticated and discriminating - at Janice's house, preparing for Sunday dinner one of the kids questions her using soup out of a can!</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"> When I was that age I would not have spoken up on this topic - cans are where they keep the soup, right?</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Something else I notice during Sopranos food conversations is, they call pasta sauce "gravy."</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"> Obviously I call it "sauce" - and maybe Italian Americans would find that to be offbeat. Then my question is what do they call the sort of brown, tasty liquid that goes on mashed potatoes at Thanksgiving? - because to me, <i>that's </i>gravy...</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Anyway: and I want to add, in yesterday's post a YouTube comment mentioned Tony Soprano heating up pasta in the microwave and drinking milk out of the carton, like he doesn't care about good cooking if he has to do it himself.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">However in another episode it showed him preparing pasta for his Uncle Junior - two pans on the stovetop, he pours pasta into boiling water, in the other pan is <i>"gravy" ... </i>So yes, he can prepare something good for dinner.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"> I think in the earlier microwave scene, he was tired, didn't have time, and was in a bad mood. At Uncle June's, he has Artie Shaw music playing - it's a more relaxed moment.</span></p><p><span style="color: #7f6000; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>----------------------------</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">other viewer comments on the Sopranos food video:</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">--- Simple sequences like that make me love this show</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">--- Probably lots of stuff like this makes us subtly love Tony - I don't have any desire to make proper food either</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">--- lol back in the 90s and 00s Americans thought Europe was some magical place</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">--- Yeah but at least their cuisine isn't just junk food and unoriginal.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">--- U.S. food is much maligned, but it isn't all junk. There's some regional variation, but I take your point that it is a lot of man vs. food type stuff. Barbecue has a lot to answer for.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"> Generally speaking, the U.S. hasn't accentuated the provenance of ingredients. The Italians will venerate a tomato or an Amalfi lemon and build a dish around it. In the U.S. a dish is much more than the sum of its parts, and the cuisine suffers because of it. Much like in the U.K. really.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"> As for origin. Well, pasta comes from China via Marco Polo, all cultures borrow and adapt. I prefer a Californian zinfandel to a cheap Euro white. Love a deep pan pizza, with pineapple, always have parmesan on my prawn linguine. No Italian can say sh*t to me.</span></p><p><span style="color: #ffa400; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>_____________________________</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">-30-</span></p>Carson Leehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11426505356407204408noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3630300066052172863.post-2225720978069155912024-03-06T20:00:00.000-08:002024-03-06T20:00:54.349-08:00a layer of basil leaves underneath the cheese <p> </p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">On <i>The Sopranos </i>they speak about food frequently. One gets accustomed to that, then you watch some other show and you kind of notice that the characters don't do a very good job with their food preparation - careless, not skillful, and when something gets messed up, someone will suggest, Let's just go out....</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">"Italians taught the world how to eat!" Tony Sirico's character states indignantly in one scene. (He's aggravated because he thinks non-Italians have borrowed Italian food and beverage inventions and are making money from them.)</span></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Junior and Bobby - conversation:</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">BOBBY</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">She's been wonderful, helpin' take care the kids, bringin' dinner over to the house...</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">JUNIOR </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Janice?</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">BOBBY</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">She's a pretty good cook. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">JUNIOR </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Since when? Everybody steers clear o' her food. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">BOBBY</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Nah. She made lasagna the other night - <i>delicious. </i>With sweet sausage along with the beef. I thought Karen's was good, but -</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">JUNIOR </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Sweet sausage? In little pieces? And a layer of basil leaves right underneath the cheese -</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">BOBBY </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">That's right. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">JUNIOR </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">That's Carmela's lasagna.</span></p><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>--------------------------</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">viewer comment:</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">The juxtaposition of Furio making his meal from scratch with fresh ingredients, paired with a red wine, and Tony warming his in the microwave and chugging milk is golden. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">___________________</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">-30-</span></p>Carson Leehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11426505356407204408noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3630300066052172863.post-39191627856115727782024-03-05T21:15:00.000-08:002024-03-05T21:15:59.023-08:00"I don't care what David Chase says!"<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;">I watched a video analyzing some detail of The Sopranos, and read some comments - one viewer explained very firmly the reasoning and history behind a particular plot line, and wrapped up his case with the statement, "I don't care what David Chase says."</span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> David Chase is the creator, head writer, and executive producer of <i>The Sopranos. </i>It's a little difficult to see how this person who was in charge of the whole show and thought it up in the first place would somehow not be knowledgeable about plot lines and other granular aspects of the show, but that's how some of these fans are--they are thoroughly invested and involved in the stories and they will kind of 'take ownership' and stand by the analysis they believe in. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;">Dedication. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;">I was thinking it would be like someone reading Harry Potter and thinking their own understanding of it is right no matter who says otherwise: "I don't care what J.K. Rowling says! "</span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> <u>The Great Gatsby</u>: "I don't care what F. Scott Fitzgerald said! "</span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;">LOL. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;">It occurred to me - someone should start a Sopranos channel on YouTube and name the channel <i>I don't care what David Chase says. </i></span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><i> </i>I'd listen. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #a64d79;"><b>_______________________</b></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;">-30-</span></p>Carson Leehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11426505356407204408noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3630300066052172863.post-45585826726503618782024-03-04T21:59:00.000-08:002024-03-04T21:59:34.152-08:00storm<p><br /></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><u>a short poem</u></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><u><br /></u></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">wind sweeps over,</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">moving things</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">and then dropping them</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">settling in peace,</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">leaving everything still,</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">until the next time </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">the air has to disturb itself</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">and roll like a train</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">___________________</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">-30-</span></p>Carson Leehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11426505356407204408noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3630300066052172863.post-91023630982945418792024-03-01T20:41:00.000-08:002024-03-01T20:41:32.936-08:00there was more to know <p><span style="font-size: large;">----------------- (excerpt from <u>All The President's Men</u>)</span> --------------</p><p><br /></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> "Morale is terrible in finance," she said. "Those of us who know are tired of being suspected. There are little jokes all the time, like 'What'd you do with the twenty-five grand, lady?'"</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> Was that how much Liddy got?</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> She shook her head no.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> More than $50,000? Woodward asked.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> She nodded.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> Magruder got at least that too, didn't he?</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> Again she nodded.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> Magruder was the only M to get money, right?</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> Another nod. But, she indicated, there was more to know about Magruder. "Let's just say I don't trust him at all, especially where his own skin is concerned," she said. "He'll stop at nothing. The last three weeks he's turned on the charm to me something fierce."</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> And LaRue? The reporters said they knew he was involved, too, even though he had received no money.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> "He's very elusive, he covers his tracks," she said. "He and Mitchell are like this"--she intertwined her fingers. But she would not say what LaRue knew.</span></p><p><span style="color: #800180; font-size: large;">___________________________</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><u>Deep Purple - Smoke on the Water (Audio)</u></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">uploader / channel: Retro Rock</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> <i>Take the trip.</i></span></p><p><span style="color: #20124d; font-size: large;">--------------------------------</span></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">-30-</span> </p>Carson Leehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11426505356407204408noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3630300066052172863.post-51334135967969088012024-02-29T21:18:00.000-08:002024-02-29T21:18:20.299-08:00when your feet just can't keep still<p> ------------- [excerpt from <u>All The President's Men]</u> -----------------</p><p><br /></p><p>They wanted her to tell them exactly who "L" and "M" and "P" were. Liddy or LaRue? McCord? Mitchell? Magruder? Porter? How much money was paid out? What about the others on the list? </p><p><br /></p><p> The Bookkeeper was scared and was having second thoughts. But she was calling Bernstein by his first name. </p><p> Woodward was silent at first. Bernstein was throwing out figures. He stopped at $700,000.</p><p><br /></p><p> "At least that, $350,000 is what's left in the fund."</p><p> The ice seemed broken. Had she meant Liddy for the "L," or had LaRue or someone else with that initial also gotten cash?</p><p> She would not say. </p><p> They said they <i>knew </i>Liddy was the only L to be paid from the fund. </p><p> She confirmed it. </p><p><br /></p><p> An unstated agreement was in the making. She seemed willing to confirm or deny statements if the reporters remained casual and gave the impression that they simply needed confirmation, not primary information. If people were to be convinced that Sloan and Stans were innocent, they told her, it was critical that the <i>Post</i>'s reporting be precise. That was where she could help. </p><p><span style="color: #0b5394;"><b>---------------------------------</b></span></p><p><u>All The President's Men,</u> by Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward. 1974. Simon & Schuster. </p><p><span style="color: #351c75;"><b>-------------‐--------------------</b></span></p><p>On YouTube, find the video, </p><p><u>Crocodile Rock</u></p><p>uploader / channel: Elton John </p><p>and PLAY!</p><p><br /></p><p>-30-</p>Carson Leehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11426505356407204408noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3630300066052172863.post-30143579083343649692024-02-28T21:02:00.000-08:002024-02-28T21:02:36.946-08:00the length and breadth of this land <p> <span style="font-size: large;">---------------- excerpt from <u>All The President's Men</u>, by Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward ---------------</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> The statement, taken literally, did not flatly deny what had been reported.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> That afternoon George McGovern held a press conference and called the Watergate investigation a "whitewash. . . . What is involved here is not only the political life of this nation, but the very morality of our leaders at a time when the United States desperately needs to revitalize its moral standards," he said. "And that is why I shall pursue this case the length and breadth of this land."</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> The next day, September 17, both the reporters went to the Bookkeeper's house. It was a Sunday afternoon, and she was not inclined to talk to reporters, especially when a page-one story in the <i>Post </i>contained facts that only she and a few others at the Nixon committee knew.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> But she would rather have the reporters out of view than on the doorstep, where they were imploring her to listen to some information they had. She let them inside.</span></p><p><span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: large;">_________________________</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">on YouTube find this video:</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><u>Neil Diamond - Brother Love's Traveling Salvation Show (Audio)</u></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">uploader / channel - Neil Diamond</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">... and play. Enjoy the drama that builds in the song!</span></p><p><span style="color: #990000; font-size: large;">-------------------------------------</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">-30-</span></p>Carson Leehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11426505356407204408noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3630300066052172863.post-44967903339239328302024-02-27T13:57:00.000-08:002024-02-27T13:57:53.863-08:00suspicions <p> <span style="font-size: large;">------------- excerpt from <u>All The President's Men</u> -------------</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">The story also reported: the fund contained more than $300,000 earmarked for sensitive political projects; Gordon Liddy was among those who received money from the fund; records relating to the account had been destroyed; Hugh Sloan's resignation had been the result of his suspicions about Watergate. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Perhaps more important than the specific details of the story was its larger meaning: The Watergate indictments had not broken the conspiracy. And some of CRP's campaign workers had the answers to many of the remaining questions.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> As the 6:30 deadline for the Sunday paper approached, Woodward called Van Shumway for CRP's response. Half an hour later, Shumway called back with a statement.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">------------------------ There have been and are cash funds in this committee used for various legitimate purposes such as reimbursement of expenditures for advances on travel. However, no one employed by this committee at this time has used any funds (for purposes) that were illegal or improper.</span></p><p><span style="color: #4c1130; font-size: large;">______________________________</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">On YouTube, listen in happiness to</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><u>Bonaparte's Retreat</u></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">uploader / channel: Glen Campbell</span></p><p><span style="color: #741b47; font-size: large;"><b>_______________________________</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #741b47; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">-30-</span></p>Carson Leehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11426505356407204408noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3630300066052172863.post-29823180416438074742024-02-26T21:13:00.000-08:002024-02-26T21:13:14.067-08:00spying funds <p> <span style="font-size: large;">----------- [excerpt from <u>All The President's Men]</u> ----------</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> The Bookkeeper had been right about the money in Maurice Stans' safe. It had financed the Watergate bugging and "<i>other intelligence-gathering activities," </i>he said. John Mitchell's top assistants were only "<i>among those</i>" who had controlled the fund. He would not say if the former Attorney General had had prior knowledge of the bugging attempt.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> The wiretap logs had reached some of the same Mitchell aides who had disbursed the spying funds, he said.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> Following the conversation, Woodward read his scrawled notes to Bernstein, who typed a new lead:</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">------------------ Funds for the Watergate espionage operation were controlled by several principal assistants of John N. Mitchell, the former manager of President Nixon's campaign, and were kept in a special account at the Committee for the Re-election of the President, the <i>Washington Post </i>has learned.</span></p><p><span style="color: #351c75; font-size: large;"><b>_________________________</b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">On YouTube</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><u>The Big Bopper - Chantilly Lace HQ</u></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">uploader / channel: TheGrayCat</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> and Play!</span></p><p><span style="color: #351c75; font-size: large;">---------------------------------------</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><u>All The President's Men</u>, by Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward. 1974. Simon & Schuster </span></p><p><span style="color: #20124d; font-size: large;">_______________________</span></p><p><span style="color: #20124d; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">-30-</span></p>Carson Leehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11426505356407204408noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3630300066052172863.post-19030376070876078722024-02-23T20:25:00.000-08:002024-02-23T20:25:53.552-08:00sleeps on sofas<p> <span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">The Outline of today is about a real person.</span></p><p><span style="color: #8e7cc3; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b>------------------------------------------------------</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #8e7cc3; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">I. took the subway in New York City to go to dance lessons, after school</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">II. starred in a movie biography of a real-life entertainer</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">III. made record albums, music videos, and movies</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">IV. married four times</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">V. in 2024, made a record album and a movie to express the album</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">________________________________</span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Surprise! The answer is Jennifer Lopez.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">(The reason this post is titled "sleeps on sofas" is a reference to the movie <i>Dances With Wolves, </i>where that is the Kevin Costner character's name...)</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"> I have heard or read that Jennifer Lopez's mother threw her out of the family home because Jennifer chose to pursue the career in entertainment whereas her mom was insisting on college.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"> So she (JLo) had to stay with various friends temporarily, sleeping on their sofas, while she got established.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Throwing - <i style="font-weight: bold;">throwing </i>- ? - your teenage daughter out of the house in New York City?!</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Yikes.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">That's "old school" to the point of abuse / neglect.</span></p><p><span style="color: #20124d; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">----------------------------------</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Jennifer did an interview talking about this music - movie project (<i>This Is Me...Now</i>). She was wearing a long-sleeved black sweater, and on her right arm, a bracelet over top of the sleeve.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"> A distracting black hat was part of the ensemble. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">(I could never wear a hat like that...!)</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Jane Fonda is in the movie. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Jane Fonda is 86 years old! I adore that at this age she gets a phone call: "Would you like to be in a record-album-movie with Jennifer Lopez?" and she answers, "Oh hell to the yes!"</span></p><p><span style="color: #a64d79; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">___________________________</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">-30-</span></p>Carson Leehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11426505356407204408noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3630300066052172863.post-40550581255167319642024-02-22T21:29:00.000-08:002024-02-22T21:29:19.853-08:00lots of fish <p> <span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">an original outline for today </span></p><p><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">-----------------------------------</span></p><p><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">I. something I never quite get used to, watching <i>The Sopranos</i>, is when men meet and greet each other, one kisses the other on each cheek. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">OK. An Italian thing? European thing? Mafia thing? </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Looking this up in the online encyclopedia, one finds there is an entry titled, "cheek kissing. " It says the practice is common in the United States, too.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">(Not sure which state they visited to ascertain that...)</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">II. in season 2, episode 4, Tony Soprano and his crew go to Italy to make deals on cars. Tony calls home and talks to his wife Carmela. She asks, "How's the food?"</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Tony answers, "It's OK. Lots of fish."</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">He says it like he had not expected that much fish.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">III. an American man takes a trip to Europe, and his life is changed. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">IV. an Italian man visits America and his life is changed. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">V. in the middle of the night a woman sees a pickup truck's bright lights coming down the street - abruptly it makes a U-turn and drives back.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Is this what goes on, 3 a.m.?</span></p><p><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">__________________________</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">-30-</span></p><p><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p>Carson Leehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11426505356407204408noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3630300066052172863.post-44457486154245298632024-02-21T21:21:00.000-08:002024-02-21T21:21:54.371-08:00"the paperwork will look just like the real"<p> <span style="font-size: large;">practice outline </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Feb. 21, 2024</span></p><p><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: large;">___________________</span></p><p><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">I. The statement, "the paperwork will look just like the real" comes from The Sopranos, season 1, episode 1. They're explaining to a guy in the medical business how the scam is going to work. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> Who are the worse crooks? The medical business / scam, or the Mafia? </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">II. Tony Soprano: "You're born to this shit."</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">III. We need to distinguish between when doing a positive thing and giving encouragement is worthwhile, and when it's a waste of time and effort. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">IV. Sometimes we turn a blind eye to problematic people and activities in order to not see. Or at least in order to get through the day. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">V. Do we do the right thing? Or do we just save ourselves any inconvenience, turn our blind eye, and escape to our other reality, an ice-cream sundae and Facebook? </span></p><p><span style="color: #351c75; font-size: large;">______________________</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">-30-</span></p>Carson Leehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11426505356407204408noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3630300066052172863.post-8407345951669607842024-02-20T21:58:00.000-08:002024-02-20T21:58:36.011-08:00you don't need a weatherman <p><span style="font-size: large;">2/20 practice outline </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">--------------------------------</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">I. inspiration </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">II. consistent effort </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">III. evil: sidestep it? or eradicate it?</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">IV. see those who are eager to jump on the bandwagon of evil </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">V. "stay away from those who carry 'round a firehose" </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">_______________________</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">-30-</span></p>Carson Leehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11426505356407204408noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3630300066052172863.post-4109233275776292192024-02-19T21:56:00.000-08:002024-02-19T21:56:13.227-08:00plans on the spur of the moment <p> <span style="font-size: large;">Outline of the Day</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">_______________________</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">I. people hurrying in, hurrying out, racing against - what?</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">II. what is the goal of a day's effort? - is it to achieve positive results? - to do the right thing? - to appease our fear?</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">III. a saying in Hollywood is, "this town runs on fear" ...do organizations more mundane than the picture business "run on fear"?</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">IV. "I'll tell you why they don't put a stop to his nonsense - they're all afraid of him."</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">V. crazy people are frightening. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #c27ba0; font-size: large;">--------------------------------</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">I made the title of this post 'outline of the day.'</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">That kind of sounds like I was writing an outline of this day. But that wasn't what I meant, I meant that during this week, M to F, I challenge myself to daily write a practice outline for a story, movie, or essay.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">For example, tomorrow I will write an Outline Of The Day, but it won't be about Tuesday, it will just be the sample outline that I write on Tuesday the 20th.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">----------------------------------------------------</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">-30-</span></p>Carson Leehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11426505356407204408noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3630300066052172863.post-49947789395976594082024-02-15T22:36:00.000-08:002024-02-15T22:36:01.212-08:00...if you try sometimes...<p><span style="font-size: large;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="text-align: left;">The JFK Library has many good videos on YouTube. Fascinating topics.</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="text-align: left;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="text-align: left;">They had an event back in 2012 (I think) where literary song lyrics were celebrated. </span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="text-align: left;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="text-align: left;">Just as I wondered, at the beginning, if Keith Richards might be there -- he walked in! I picked him out of the crowd! </span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="text-align: left;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="text-align: left;">And Chuck Berry was there! </span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="text-align: left;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="text-align: left;">(Good job, Caroline...)</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="text-align: left;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #8e7cc3; font-size: large;"><span style="text-align: left;"><b>-----------------------</b></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #8e7cc3; font-size: large;"><span style="text-align: left;"><b><br /></b></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="text-align: left;">Trying to copy and paste a picture onto this blog post. I pressed and got "copy" to appear and clicked on it. Same with "paste" - I thought I was making progress, but I got results that were <i>not </i>a picture on this post. </span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="text-align: left;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="text-align: left;">A state speaker of the house used to say the word "wrestle" to describe debating issues, he would say with pleasant equanimity, "Well, we're going to wrestle with that..."</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="text-align: left;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="text-align: left;">I feel like I have to "wrestle" with technology - but I keep losing! </span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="text-align: left;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="text-align: left;">Eeehhhrrrggg!</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="text-align: left;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #134f5c; font-size: large;"><span style="text-align: left;">____________________________</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="text-align: left;">-30-</span></span></div>Carson Leehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11426505356407204408noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3630300066052172863.post-60519509456037289652024-02-14T21:43:00.000-08:002024-02-14T21:43:10.470-08:00make me a pallet <p> <span style="font-size: large;">The American musician Mississippi John Hurt has been featured in this blog before:</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">You tube -</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><u>Make Me A Pallet On Your Floor </u></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">uploader / channel: Mississippi John Hurt - Topic</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Recently this song turned up in a blizzard of you tube videos, played by -- Woody Allen! </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> He not only has his record collection, he plays clarinet with a New Orleans jazz band, as well. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><u>Make Me a Pallet On the Floor </u></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">uploader / channel: Bunk Johnson and his Superior Jazz Band - Topic </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> As you listen to these two versions of the song, I recommend playing Mississippi John first, then follow with the more complex jazz version. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">What an interesting and nice surprise this is! </span></p><p><span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;">_______________________</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">-30-</span></p>Carson Leehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11426505356407204408noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3630300066052172863.post-56718613259777947442024-02-13T21:39:00.000-08:002024-02-13T21:39:18.263-08:00the artist's job <p><span style="font-size: large;">------------ (excerpts from Jason Solomons interview with Woody Allen, 2015) -------------</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">WA: I've not succeeded in the job of the artist ... to show people that you can at least enjoy life, or why there's a positive side to it somewhere. I find this very hard--in 45 movies I have failed to be able to do it, the most I could do is distract people.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">So I've said, "Come to my movie, see <i>Bananas </i>or <i>Annie Hall," </i>and for two hours I forget my problems because there's other people up there, and music and maybe laughs, but then you come out of the theatre and you're faced with real life again and I don't like it.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">___________________ And that's a great pleasure to me, the best part of making the movie, you know, putting on the music. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">When you finish a movie and there's no music in it, it's cold as ice, and then I go to the other room and pick out from the many records I keep in the room next to my cutting room, and we pick out Mozart, or Louis Armstrong and we bring 'em in and it can still look terrible, so we try another--quite randomly in some cases. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> In the case of <i>Irrational Man</i>, we put on the Ramsey Lewis, and click, instantly, the whole thing came to life.</span></p><p><span style="color: #351c75; font-size: large;">-----------------------------</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">-30-</span></p>Carson Leehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11426505356407204408noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3630300066052172863.post-7406697575720137002024-02-12T15:18:00.000-08:002024-02-12T15:18:28.856-08:00"nothin'" - "nothin'?"<p> <span style="font-size: large;">For New York City in the 80s,</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">go to the YouTube video titled,</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><u>NYC in 1983: Reporter's hilarious tour of Manhattan's streets</u></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">uploader / channel: Eyewitness News ABC7NY</span></p><p>__________________________</p><p><span style="font-size: large;">-30-</span></p>Carson Leehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11426505356407204408noreply@blogger.com0