tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16686693242553186812024-03-15T18:10:15.380-07:00RONALD L. SMITHA blog about comedy, news and topics related to Ron and his 19 published books, music, magazine work and photography. Books include "Who's Who in Comedy" and "Sweethearts of 60's TV." See: ronaldlsmith.com Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1121125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1668669324255318681.post-73904731314201868632021-01-24T14:49:00.003-08:002021-01-24T14:49:23.567-08:00SHEEP! Has...DIPPED <p><b>Pour a shot of Sheep Dip (yes, I have a bottle of it...a great single malt). SHEEP! is no longer in print. Baaaa, humbug.</b></p><p><b>I'd written a few articles of SHEEP! years ago, including one about the difficulties of keeping a sheep at the Central Park Petting Zoo, and another on Charlie Swaim, the legendary sheep shearer who demonstrated his skills on David Letterman's show. </b></p><p><b>I had discussed doing an interview with Raymond Burr about his sheep raising. I met with Mr. Burr at the posh 21 Restaurant in Manhattan, but he was soon busy with the last few Perry Mason made-for-TV movies, and we lost touch. </b></p><p><b>I didn't think a specialized magazine like SHEEP! would disappear. It was not on the average newsstand, it was subscription-based. Too bad these days people can get ALMOST all the information they need free FREE on the Internet. </b></p><p><b>Countryside (not, NOT to be confused with the long defunct and insane Countrywide Publications) does have a website where they publish some useful articles for sheep folk:</b></p><p><b>https://www.iamcountryside.com/sheep/</b></p><p><b>But, the magazine itself is gone. I don't know quite what to make of the fact that the SHEEP magazine is gone, but you can still get their GOAT journal...and of course, the somewhat suggestive "Backyard Poultry." </b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhffArjcCLCVfhS75EUYF2BiZE3B05kNbDU8jQ4sbIDotqfNxH_7FWSP2sL9kEV0WdZMYgyvg1OooD6-Gow1xn2eQLip7dUqkK7AalLc0uqQTrijJbRQu5WXCdQwCD_tO9JTdSVO4l03Cw/s593/BYPAprilMay19COVER-1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="593" data-original-width="450" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhffArjcCLCVfhS75EUYF2BiZE3B05kNbDU8jQ4sbIDotqfNxH_7FWSP2sL9kEV0WdZMYgyvg1OooD6-Gow1xn2eQLip7dUqkK7AalLc0uqQTrijJbRQu5WXCdQwCD_tO9JTdSVO4l03Cw/s320/BYPAprilMay19COVER-1.jpg" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHR_A7o6O-syzR27CY1fFIzi_kb8_rZUuL0-TgyW6Ob0Nhg2UV_pkHCf6UokvxM9k978B9oAwKyAdPEEJtkXh8nDAPQyQVWWCdGySGEjlBaaKmkjRyde-gq23LXhfLHH1SYEKZu0TvTYo/s790/GJ-JanFeb-2020-Cover.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmWSVlQYV2TjpcK7zOerqY0Z-keKgaHHeZp8b77oZju3OX-FU9pQKpGrN_KGXdXfvKM-HJzCnFQ-Cy6-qQWMZlT7YWbiCtaGSEDRSf1-OUMInNijo70rOiKvKKJjg3zH364q5flL4Fgzg/s678/BREACH-SMITH.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="678" data-original-width="513" height="499" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmWSVlQYV2TjpcK7zOerqY0Z-keKgaHHeZp8b77oZju3OX-FU9pQKpGrN_KGXdXfvKM-HJzCnFQ-Cy6-qQWMZlT7YWbiCtaGSEDRSf1-OUMInNijo70rOiKvKKJjg3zH364q5flL4Fgzg/w378-h499/BREACH-SMITH.png" width="378" /></a></div><p></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1668669324255318681.post-46503207468704906362021-01-10T10:42:00.000-08:002021-01-10T10:42:03.506-08:00The Trump-Loving Rioter at the Capitol wearing the VIKING HELMET...<p>Yeah, yeah, he's been on TV before... </p><p><br /></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg414xPq8t4lTPwU-hI-gauw_VJ6CXhQt9s-NeJbrVoqb91_IkxJiUlOd3-02WaWJMZGBD4K_H1JSTafqRSP1NiUzPKRx-7NJhEgkUGwZ51g0UBEspaVYKx2bZocEbsOZtrIExP6c6yvYc/s634/HELMET+IDIOT-SMITH.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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Attempting to be a humor magazine for adults who may have outgrown MAD, each issue was an uneven mix of funny photo captions and a highlight "fumetti," where actors (usually including at least one famous comedian) offered up page after page of a live action comic strip. </b></p><p><b>In a parody of The Untouchables, the cast not only included Judy Henske, but a key member of her band, John Forsha. And along with Woody Allen with a mustache, playing "Mr. Big" of the crime syndicate, there was a bit part for Terry Gilliam. </b></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjD4mixlPkauKe90E8vOMrLvzxVCwr-eBMwfYKhdTSyG4kClR0k_eq35smxePL1bSTK2-XaxWsaQilMluxxhX1tN02xknccBA825iph4UYnXl3CbQVR5rbwzoVpfw_7eltgJA_6w2764Eo/s544/HENSKE-HELP.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><b><img border="0" data-original-height="544" data-original-width="534" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjD4mixlPkauKe90E8vOMrLvzxVCwr-eBMwfYKhdTSyG4kClR0k_eq35smxePL1bSTK2-XaxWsaQilMluxxhX1tN02xknccBA825iph4UYnXl3CbQVR5rbwzoVpfw_7eltgJA_6w2764Eo/s320/HENSKE-HELP.jpg" /></b></a></div><b><br /></b><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijdKkCBUtDPOvZkm-NYTU8m7svfeSHrYDhviNaju_wlA05D_7TI-dC1b5UR7URh76T0wD2v4COJ7bIRPHePP_vv8vJMdAPZcA7oq1o41UyLAY_LSWH7GCbWrTW119Icq3Qw8rd7D1yuxg/s820/WOODY-HELP.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><b><img border="0" data-original-height="598" data-original-width="820" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijdKkCBUtDPOvZkm-NYTU8m7svfeSHrYDhviNaju_wlA05D_7TI-dC1b5UR7URh76T0wD2v4COJ7bIRPHePP_vv8vJMdAPZcA7oq1o41UyLAY_LSWH7GCbWrTW119Icq3Qw8rd7D1yuxg/s320/WOODY-HELP.jpg" width="320" /></b></a></div><b><br />It's been said that Judy opened for Woody Allen at a few early Greenwich Village gigs, while others say there was more to it than that; little Woody and big Judy were an item for a while. AND, more than that, Woody based his "Annie Hall" character partly on Judy. Certainly it wasn't a coincidence that both the fictional Annie and the real-life Judy were both from Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin. </b><p></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1668669324255318681.post-71958485552211792622020-12-12T08:20:00.002-08:002020-12-12T08:20:19.513-08:00NY POST gets TRUMPIER - INSANE COVIDIOT COVER STORY TODAY<p> <br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmpbMTTnIIu8WiSBG2Dl0fLBuIVNSXh9sVRjIl0Yj1xe2AiIGxTcittRjjipt0WGwBWKJVfYB2uYm7dLu7E8WNgolEYb9iQee1148lwuLb8LrxxAjz9CV1Y55qSo8q3K5cBXb9OcgNolo/s380/GRINCH.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="380" data-original-width="339" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmpbMTTnIIu8WiSBG2Dl0fLBuIVNSXh9sVRjIl0Yj1xe2AiIGxTcittRjjipt0WGwBWKJVfYB2uYm7dLu7E8WNgolEYb9iQee1148lwuLb8LrxxAjz9CV1Y55qSo8q3K5cBXb9OcgNolo/s320/GRINCH.png" /></a></div><p></p><p><br /></p><p>Maybe the New York Post wants to boost its sales on Staten Island. The Covidiots over there (the only borough to vote for Trump) may be fairly illiterate but they would LOVE that Cuomo photo, and want to frame it. </p><p>The Post has always been schizoid. Politically, it is conservative and slants the news that way (obviously). And yet, the paper is best known for covering juicy, if not grotesque, stories of sex and violence. Remember the "Headless Body in Topless Bar" headline? </p><p>We've seen more than the usual restlessness from Covidiots who run bars that defy the law, or mass dangerously to protest face masks and DEMAND the right to be Typhoid Marys and spread the disease to Anti-Vacc morons and others who won't get the flu shot when it's available. </p><p>Cuomo acknowledges that indoor dining does spread Covid but the percentage is not alarming. (Meaning, what, if 10 strangers sit in a pizza joint at a time, and the joint serves 100 people in the afternoon, only two will be in the hospital afterward??) </p><p>What Cuomo may be saying is why put more lives at risk when many restaurants have had the money to put up elaborate shacks on the sidewalk for outdoor dining, complete with space heaters? </p><p>Another important point is that now, the major spread is home visitation. It's parties in homes. Some reports say that up to 40% of Covid victims show no symptoms, and like Typhoid Mary, are carriers. They might show symptoms after weeks and weeks of being too close to friends and relatives, and they might skate with a mild case while someone they infect could lose their sense of smell and taste for months if not years, or have other health risks, or...die. </p><p>Indoor restaurant dining often involves entire families sitting at a table and being loud and obnoxious for an hour. "Waiter, put these two tables together there are EIGHT OF US!" And then what? There have been many cases in the news of Covid outbreaks traced to ONE idiot who came to a party, or to a wedding, or to a festive gathering in a restaurant. </p><p>Jesus Christ, this is the time to SAVE lives, not put them at risk. A Christmas Party for 8 or 12 or more family members crowded around a table at an indoor restaurant? </p><p>It's responsible to be careful, but the New York Post has never been known for restraint. Anything to sell papers and get some notoriety. All publicity is good publicity to them (including this piece). If even one life can be saved by cautious law-making, why doesn't the Post think so? </p><p>Same day in the Daily News: </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDzRRdspeNm2wH7pz1ghFBsyiPzK6Po8Kveom1UZRI43hUz1CDJ0umPR4U2wnKq6JkpBbU9KjFTZyvJSeY5ajnBCFw4c0ZO1IOSB16h5FfaLaAkaWi7JJpNp6MAWrLtskTqmMqituyJOc/s395/DIALY+NEWS+YOUNG+GIRL.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="199" data-original-width="395" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDzRRdspeNm2wH7pz1ghFBsyiPzK6Po8Kveom1UZRI43hUz1CDJ0umPR4U2wnKq6JkpBbU9KjFTZyvJSeY5ajnBCFw4c0ZO1IOSB16h5FfaLaAkaWi7JJpNp6MAWrLtskTqmMqituyJOc/s320/DIALY+NEWS+YOUNG+GIRL.png" width="320" /></a></div><p><br /></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1668669324255318681.post-22985092370958515262020-12-06T09:30:00.002-08:002020-12-06T09:30:20.000-08:00Peace Pipe for the anti-Semitic Roald Dahl -- 30 Years Late<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxi6Xpp41ZiNkjO3uHS57J2ADCBzivXbH7GHs8J4-UexLiYWgnj0u1V_scP6iaPNtMSpsqRPnac-ilAgmoj4UrClPnZDYUlUQNUi1sNkPzMsCk-lzA8Fp1Dqt5EC_27WFVaLMbx4SOQvM/s414/Screen+Shot+2020-12-06+at+12.15.57+PM.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="387" data-original-width="414" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxi6Xpp41ZiNkjO3uHS57J2ADCBzivXbH7GHs8J4-UexLiYWgnj0u1V_scP6iaPNtMSpsqRPnac-ilAgmoj4UrClPnZDYUlUQNUi1sNkPzMsCk-lzA8Fp1Dqt5EC_27WFVaLMbx4SOQvM/s320/Screen+Shot+2020-12-06+at+12.15.57+PM.png" width="320" /></a></div><p><b>Roald Dahl, the beloved, BELOVED author of children's books, skated off this Giant Peach of a planet back in 1990, stubbornly sticking to his anti-Semitism. Back then, as now, hating Jews is pardonable. You don't see any "Jewish Lives Matter" banners anywhere. </b></p><p><b>In fact, crimes against Jews are played down. When an Orthodox Jew is beaten up in Brooklyn, the perp is never identified by race and "hate crime" is rarely charged. Stats show that more bias crimes are committed against Jews in New York City than any other race, color or creed. All around the world (if you care to check any issue of the Wiesenthal newsletter, Jewish people and their businesses are targeted, and violence and deaths practically ignored. Some countries cheerfully allow posters of Hitler and offensive caricatures, if not outright lies from people or the press that would be an outrage if it was against a minority group more prone to violence and protest. </b></p><p><b>But back to rotten Roald, who, perhaps to his credit as an honest man, spouted his "logical" hatred of Jews in various interviews. Most notoriously in 1983: “There is a trait in the Jewish character that does provoke animosity, maybe it’s a kind of lack of generosity towards non-Jews. I mean, there’s always a reason why anti-anything crops up anywhere. Even a stinker like Hitler didn’t just pick on them for no reason.”</b></p><p><b>Seven years later, the year of his death, Dahl doubled down: “I’m certainly anti-Israeli and I’ve become anti-Semitic in as much as that you get a Jewish person in another country like England strongly supporting Zionism.” </b></p><p><b>Fast forward 30 years, and out of nowhere, the Dahl website now has a little apology for grandpa's nasty comments. So don't boycott buying a Dahl book, or look too closely at whether there are anti-Semitic characters with over-sized noses in any of the illustrations or movies. Just what prompted this caveat is unknown, but certainly over the years anti-Semites have seized on Dahl's words to help justify their hatred. But here it is, and it's welcome:</b></p><br /><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgs8e60Wk0SHSzHOufJXZcvnphjJF9hnngBIQzPSyXjWNUQCLtNDnyJGI3VYEY0iWn5p3jwH04HUeRGO8jHcx07NV3MP7KJA2GmX6vr-IDlS2_VnBjlHUvp469-yeifJ-wCPxV_zr0VpWs/s677/Screen+Shot+2020-12-06+at+12.15.22+PM.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="365" data-original-width="677" height="274" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgs8e60Wk0SHSzHOufJXZcvnphjJF9hnngBIQzPSyXjWNUQCLtNDnyJGI3VYEY0iWn5p3jwH04HUeRGO8jHcx07NV3MP7KJA2GmX6vr-IDlS2_VnBjlHUvp469-yeifJ-wCPxV_zr0VpWs/w507-h274/Screen+Shot+2020-12-06+at+12.15.22+PM.png" width="507" /></a></div><p></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1668669324255318681.post-48841753850837166402020-11-14T07:53:00.006-08:002020-11-14T12:33:22.535-08:00Hooray Historic election of Kamala Black Harris -- Jews, Native Americans....don't matter. <p><b>Once the election was finally official, there was the outpouring of glee that centered mostly on the historic Kamala Harris election: "FIRST BLACK!"</b></p><p><b>But since Obama got there first, the media had to add, oh, "WOMAN!" and "ASIAN AMERICAN" even. </b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_YiZwNwcJqaQOSxf2rhSGOz1MOwo88e4x1yRJaEriV_WFApPkFeij5pVOTXTJbfx181a-4ttTh6qdEMSXUmAHO_dCRi5i3eMKmmWwmoeM-PKrleSf6-3F1UtcM5ggc75E8NoJiDSbNSo/s632/Screen+Shot+2020-11-14+at+10.08.25+AM.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><b><img border="0" data-original-height="319" data-original-width="632" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_YiZwNwcJqaQOSxf2rhSGOz1MOwo88e4x1yRJaEriV_WFApPkFeij5pVOTXTJbfx181a-4ttTh6qdEMSXUmAHO_dCRi5i3eMKmmWwmoeM-PKrleSf6-3F1UtcM5ggc75E8NoJiDSbNSo/s320/Screen+Shot+2020-11-14+at+10.08.25+AM.png" width="320" /></b></a></div><b><br /></b><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCkMcXS4oWMnWPvfi7DbV2lmz8iQLI6o5-VAWQyglFgLi8qbGAMWCwUax115ui5R7-Lx-q_ZNsOxtZwzBVytS_46RnMXCk3vyBautp3jsnLb5BSr4I4l4U2FujxgFCflv9ttmBxjzuhfQ/s666/Screen+Shot+2020-11-14+at+10.07.35+AM.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><b><img border="0" data-original-height="252" data-original-width="666" height="191" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCkMcXS4oWMnWPvfi7DbV2lmz8iQLI6o5-VAWQyglFgLi8qbGAMWCwUax115ui5R7-Lx-q_ZNsOxtZwzBVytS_46RnMXCk3vyBautp3jsnLb5BSr4I4l4U2FujxgFCflv9ttmBxjzuhfQ/w505-h191/Screen+Shot+2020-11-14+at+10.07.35+AM.png" width="505" /></b></a></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>As you see, the Business Insider made it a trifecta: FIRST BLACK AND ASIAN AMERICAN WOMAN VP. </b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>This country was taken away from the Indians, but we've never had an Indian elected to a high office. Who cares. They stay on reservations and keep quiet. </b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>Jews? The most persecuted race on the planet for over 2,000 years? Still abused worldwide? They don't matter. As </b><b>boxing champ and proudly self-titled "Gypsy King" Tyson Fury will tell you they own all the banks. They're also lawyer, doctors and accountants so who the hell needs one as a President or Vice-President?</b></div><div><br /></div><div><b>And so what if they're not on TV much anymore. Flip those dials and there are plenty of black faces, women, even sitcoms about Asians, but Jews are OUT. And Indians were never in, except for what, a few westerns? Is there even an ethnic music category on the Grammy awards? Some minorities are trendy, and yes, it's great they get elected, but it's a bit offensive to think that equality means it's ok, not even worth mentioning, that a Jew hasn't a chance (Mike Bloomberg) and the Jewish Vice Presidential candidate Joe Lieberman was just a futile throw-in on a doomed campaign from Mike Dukakis. </b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>The eagerness to show the new equality (for some races and not all) presented itself when Obama won. Yes, a great moment. But "First Black President!" Uh...why didn't and why doesn't anyone tell it is like it is? </b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>Obama was "the first Mixed Race" President. But that wouldn't sell newspapers, and would ruin the emotional appeal and reduce hope and esteem. Since he looks 100% Black anyway, forget that he was raised almost completely by his white mother. </b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>Kamala's election sparks hope for females (never mind Hillary Clinton got 3 million more votes than Trump last time out). Mostly it was "BLACK" in her description, despite the Indian mother and Jamaican father, and kept way in the distance, any reference to having a white, Jewish husband. </b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>Indians...still on the reservation, lucky that in the PC and #me too era, somebody actually bothered to say "Hey, the Washington Redkins should finally change their name."</b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>Jews. No respect at all...except racists at universities re-writing the history of Israel, or Farrakhan gleefully calling Jews names. Bookstores want authors of color, and it's hard to even find a book by the hot minority writers of the 50's and 60's such as Salinger, Mailer, Uris, Wouk or Roth. Broadway wants shows of color and the old days of "Fiddler on the Roof" "Milk and Honey" or Jackie Mason...are truly over. People want the next "Hamilton" or a version of "West Side Story" without any whites, or play versions of things like "To Kill a Mockingbird." Or re-casing things like "Joan of Arc" so the lead is a woman of color. (A Jewish Joan of Arc? Oy! What for?) </b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>Another religion seems to be getting an interesting shrug. </b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>There was no hoo-hah about Joe Biden becoming the first Catholic President since John F. Kennedy. There was nothing in the election about that issue. Reporters weren't yelling questions about The Pope or other issues that were part of the Kennedy campaign. </b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>Nice to know being Catholic in a predominantly Protestant (WASP) country doesn't matter much. That's the reverse of the apathy on Jews and Native Americans. </b></div><p><b>Mike Bloomberg was pretty much laughed out of contention when he ran, and the reason was obvious. His religion. The best he could do was donate $100 million to try and sway voters in Florida with TV ads. Guess what. He was matched by a Republican Jewish Interesting, there was no hoo-hah about Joe Biden becoming the first Catholic since John F. Kennedy, and really, nothing in the election about that issue. Nice to know being Catholic in a predominantly Protestant (WASP) country doesn't matter much. </b></p><p><b>Speaking of not mattering: Jews. Mike Bloomberg was pretty much laughed out of contention when he ran, and the reason was obvious. His religion. </b></p><p><b>The best he could do was buy $100 million in TV ads in Florida to try and swing that state for Biden. Too bad. It didn't work.</b></p><p><b>The reason wasn't </b><b>Sheldon Adelson, the 87 year-old Republican/Conservative loving billionaire who donated just as much as Bloomberg in Florida, and millions more around the country. Not that his benefactors like him or that his influence seems to have in any way affected the lives of Jewish-Americans in a positive way. Yeah, a few Republicans may vote for Israel because they like Adelson's donation money, but Jesus came from there, and Jon Voight and Pat Boone are for the country too.</b></p><p><b>Bloomberg's money was wasted in Florida, and not really because the ads from Adelson were an influence. The fact is,</b><b> the Jews are a minority in Miami Beach, and fewer of this aging bunch leave their gated communities, since they are surrounded by drug addicts and lunatics. They aren't courted by real estate agents anymore because of the rising number of gated communities for rich WASPs like Trump. </b></p><p><b>Let's remember it was over 60 years ago that Miami was a true tourist destination for Jews, and guys like Myron Cohen played The Fountainbleu (which was name-checked in an Allan Sherman song for being such a Jewish-oriented hotel). Disney, a noted anti-Semite, was long dead when they built up a Disney resort to help make Florida seem, well, less-Jewish! </b></p><p><b>"Saturday Night Live" broadcast the night of Biden's finally-projected win. As usual, there was Alec Baldin to skewer Trump. But there was nary a joke on Biden (played by Jim Carrey), not even some good-natured kidding that "Sleepy Joe" managed to win while Rip Van Trump dozed and Tweeted in smug confidence. Harris was played by Maya Rudolph, who few know had a white father. (Well, not many know who her black mother was...singer Minnie Ripperton). Maya is of course always described as "black actress" or "black comedy star," and it'll be a long long time before race truly doesn't matter and describing people that way becomes un-PC.</b></p><p><b>It'll be a long time before anyone follows the notion of George Foreman. I read George's book. Early on, he wrote that he was NOT going to describe anyone who helped or hindered him by their race. Wanting to know the race of somebody else? "Ask yourself why that matters to you," wrote preacher George from Humble, Texas. </b></p><p><b>The big grins of hope are for the Biden-Harris ticket to stop Covid, Global Warming, and bring more affirmative action to anyone of color. Meanwhile, who do you think had more hate crimes against them in New York City than any other minority? The Jews, by far. Clocking Orthodox Jews on the streets of Brooklyn is so common, along with swastika graffiti and other abuses, newspapers hardly cover it or bother to show the perps or ever follow-up to see if the perps were found much less sentenced. </b></p><p><b>A Jewish candidate for Assembly in NYC had her offices spray painted, with antiSemitic notes -- TWICE. The story was mentioned by the Weisenthal Center, but ignored by the local NYC newspapers. Perhaps, singled out for being Jewish (despite a Gentle last name), it was no coincidence that in her election district, she struggled to win re-election while all the others running for local seats in congress, or wherever, breezed with no trouble and won by runaway margins. </b></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p> </p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1668669324255318681.post-6055346128006908032020-09-18T16:54:00.015-07:002020-09-18T16:54:58.799-07:00LATE NIGHT FIGHTS TRUMP AND HIS “BLUE STATE” COVID INSANITY<p><b>We are no longer in the Johnny Carson era of “let’s forget the day’s problems and joke about Doc’s clothing.” And that’s a good thing. Because things are so SERIOUS we need more COMEDY.</b></p><p><b>Oh, you can always watch the puppy, Jimmy Fallon, if you want to see people crack eggs on each other, or do spit takes. You can say up for pudgy James Corden who will dress in drag, sit in a car and sing karoake like a schoolgirl, and weep whenever he hears “Penny Lane” or “I Enjoy Being a Girl.” </b></p><p><b>But if you want late night with guts, most certainly dial up STEPHEN COLBERT and follow with SETH MEYERS.</b></p><p><b>The latest outrage from Trump? Among many, his assertion that Covid isn’t a big deal, it’s going away, and it only affects the “BLUE STATES” and so to hell with California and New York anyway. (He may have a point about New Jersey).</b></p><p><b>Quoth the Orange Man:</b></p><p><b>“Blue states had tremendous death rates, If you take the blue states out, we’re at a level that I don’t think anybody in the world would be at.”</b></p><p><b>He called for an end to restrictions on the freedom of the people, telling all governors: “We know the vaccines are coming, so open up your states,” RED or BLUE. </b></p><p><b>Stephen Colbert’s reply was to mock Trump and suggest yet another idea: </b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrHDOLZhgvfXqJTd5Gfezicwm9C47F_XTwHekMSCKNvNrcJNUHGiSlvOfUtghQapu-F1cRfFRVmII0KrzA-AZXKOYSOtE41y0w1utEk7HMf3Dh4F4u2a1SpFf5d4bwyAGCUk_O9WZ8Jhg/s561/COLBERT.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><b><img border="0" data-original-height="334" data-original-width="561" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrHDOLZhgvfXqJTd5Gfezicwm9C47F_XTwHekMSCKNvNrcJNUHGiSlvOfUtghQapu-F1cRfFRVmII0KrzA-AZXKOYSOtE41y0w1utEk7HMf3Dh4F4u2a1SpFf5d4bwyAGCUk_O9WZ8Jhg/s320/COLBERT.png" width="320" /></b></a></div><b><br /></b><p><b>"Hey, we know you don’t have any winter clothes yet, but go stumble into the blizzard. I ordered you a parka, it’s supposed to be here between October and next August.”</b></p><p><b>As for “If you take the blue states out, we’re at a level that I don’t think anybody in the world would be at,” Colbert paused: </b></p><p><b>“I’m not entirely sure where to begin there. This is unspeakably monstrous, especially for the president of the United States….This is like being asked to speak at a funeral and saying, ‘We’re here to mourn the passing of Kevin but if you take him out of the equation, this is a pretty good party. I got to ride in a limo!’”</b></p><p><b>“Also, and I know this is going to shock you, Trump’s wrong! The states with the highest Covid death tolls are New York, New Jersey, Texas, California and Florida, which are of course not coincidentally the states with the largest populations in the country. The highest rate are in all the states Trump won [red states Texas and Florida]. He’s just saying if you don’t count the states with people, he’s done a great job. Forget the presidency – I wouldn’t trust Trump to run a middle school field trip.”</b></p><p><b>“We’re all human beings. Donald Trump is the only one who doesn’t care whether Americans live or die…There’s big news about the pandemic. THERE STILL IS ONE!” </b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilErRgCNF9mHuAzsOw83P9aTHeAqZHh_iU4lX8LQjG5K2ML4BznpLNlMcfoFqVnpqtL-TqBkYZl4Z1zkUgbYHY3Z4l7Z-uJnsm7a4vjlWcmwrxfgA16JQ5ALv8hA0UZZtOz6fMhwYuITw/s560/MEYERS.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><b><img border="0" data-original-height="349" data-original-width="560" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilErRgCNF9mHuAzsOw83P9aTHeAqZHh_iU4lX8LQjG5K2ML4BznpLNlMcfoFqVnpqtL-TqBkYZl4Z1zkUgbYHY3Z4l7Z-uJnsm7a4vjlWcmwrxfgA16JQ5ALv8hA0UZZtOz6fMhwYuITw/s320/MEYERS.png" width="320" /></b></a></div><b><br /></b><div><b>“Late Night” had Seth Meyers take a “CLOSER LOOK” at “Caligula” Seth’s word) Trump’s latest insane statements. He said: </b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><div><b>“Things are so insane that we’re skipping past multiple layers of news at once,” Meyers said of the depressing list. “We don’t have time to process the fact that the government has a fucking heat ray because we’ve already moved on to the fact that they considered using it against peaceful protesters. That’s the same weapon the Martians used in The War of the Worlds.”</b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>As for his response to Trump’s assertion that Covid isn’t so bad if you take away the BLUE states:</b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>"By the same token, if you take out all his albums, Kid Rock has had a fantastic career.” And when a witty Mort Sahl type rejoinder isn’t suitable, a Sam Kinison remark is just fine: </b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>"Go fuck yourself, you rotting, soulless business ham.” </b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>He also mentioned the government’s thoughts on potentially using a “heat wave ray” to discipline crowds and protests. He noted, “He’s repeatedly claimed a Covid vaccine is right around the corner, while experts say that’s not true.” </b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>Always capable of seeing both sides, Seth said: </b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>“I’m sure he’s not our first sociopath president, but he’s definitely the first one who’s open about it. He’s the kid who lights ants on fire for fun.”</b></div></div><div><br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1668669324255318681.post-88824773805493320982020-09-06T16:10:00.003-07:002020-09-06T16:12:24.857-07:00Alfred Hitchcock - right man on "The Wrong Man" and look-alikes who don't <p><b>I gave another look at "The Wrong Man," a film I hadn't seen in decades. It was a pretty depressing piece of work. Being a "true story" (the only one Hitchcock made faithfully based on fact) he filmed it in almost documentary form, without a lot of his usual directorial touches (except for a jarring moment where the camera kept shaking, trying to reflect Henry Fonda's inner turmoil and nightmarish dilemma). </b></p><p><b>Another moment that gave Hitch a chance at some cinematic artiness, was the ultimate scene where Fonda the "Wrong Man" comes face to face with the actual criminal. The images of the two men overlap, but...the effect isn't that convincing because the two men do NOT look alike. How could there have been such an appalling case of mistaken identity? </b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjag1zA9eo0v5Quz2CnlsvXeIYZMEyYOQeOY0n0whNVjl0VlrbPUOIZgY-8V_R7u63tLOx9F0SlhGpQcYPfsEVIDe2PQnUA9mQrLiMXENbQBm3-o9pa1aagTdP1Tfn5bAfi93yHIElPjgQ/s434/Screen+Shot+2020-09-06+at+6.55.02+PM.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><b><img border="0" data-original-height="298" data-original-width="434" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjag1zA9eo0v5Quz2CnlsvXeIYZMEyYOQeOY0n0whNVjl0VlrbPUOIZgY-8V_R7u63tLOx9F0SlhGpQcYPfsEVIDe2PQnUA9mQrLiMXENbQBm3-o9pa1aagTdP1Tfn5bAfi93yHIElPjgQ/s320/Screen+Shot+2020-09-06+at+6.55.02+PM.png" width="320" /></b></a></div><p><b>As Poe's hero of "The Oblong Box" might say, my "old inquisitiveness" got to me, and I decided to find a picture of the actual "Wrong Man," musician Manny Ballestrero, and the guy who was mistaken for him. Guess what, it shows what Hitchcock might call "perverse human nature," because in TRUTH, the two don't look alike: </b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDJJovO3diqQ7uKZLVOYbl2baTkfblv_oy8UJ4A5pXbf7Rj2mpF3PiwlQwhjENxhOxAAI9gvCKL-tlpHBsTHqaPORjzWyAvzgG1Q5pM0JWc1K72tUbDgznWF_GF5_S8FIaWOlQDZUeaU0/s356/Screen+Shot+2020-09-06+at+6.54.02+PM.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><b><img border="0" data-original-height="356" data-original-width="308" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDJJovO3diqQ7uKZLVOYbl2baTkfblv_oy8UJ4A5pXbf7Rj2mpF3PiwlQwhjENxhOxAAI9gvCKL-tlpHBsTHqaPORjzWyAvzgG1Q5pM0JWc1K72tUbDgznWF_GF5_S8FIaWOlQDZUeaU0/s320/Screen+Shot+2020-09-06+at+6.54.02+PM.png" /></b></a></div><b><br /></b><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjg5XxXj1Kas0I93i3jgHWu5CRldWAv5lnaGMRMktlH1FOzKKnsHlzeT55_SM-4bR-khi1NN2kXZUoI3xRcHSFFkXoAZjvjbbWgPsdH59xhD-fzsKcG72sIabpEZU9dSs-UW0bLET7ponU/s347/Screen+Shot+2020-09-06+at+6.54.13+PM.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><b><img border="0" data-original-height="346" data-original-width="347" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjg5XxXj1Kas0I93i3jgHWu5CRldWAv5lnaGMRMktlH1FOzKKnsHlzeT55_SM-4bR-khi1NN2kXZUoI3xRcHSFFkXoAZjvjbbWgPsdH59xhD-fzsKcG72sIabpEZU9dSs-UW0bLET7ponU/s320/Screen+Shot+2020-09-06+at+6.54.13+PM.png" width="320" /></b></a></div><b><br /></b><p><b>While Manny does look like more of a weasel, the type who'd commit a petty crime, he doesn't look like Charles. The ears are different. The mouth is completely different. The receding hairline and prominent nose? Maybe similar. </b></p><p><b>"The Wrong Man" would be much less of a story if one could HONESTLY say "wow, what a fantastic case of lookalikes...the poor guy got into trouble because the eye witnesses couldn't tell the difference." But they could if they weren't so hysterical and myopic. How....HUMAN they were. </b></p><p><b>To think that a few women would declare that Manny was THE MAN, without a DOUBT! They would swear to it in court, and create a situation that caused tremendous legal and medical fees (Manny's wife had a nervous breakdown and wasn't the same even after 2 years of institutionalized treatment). </b></p><p><b>Hitchcock had to have been delighted in proving what a nightmare it is getting involved with the police, and how hideous it is to think that "eye witness testimony" is reliable every time. </b></p><p><b>Ballestrero was so shaken by the ordeal that he quit his job at the Stork Club, left New York City, and moved down to Florida for a new life and a new climate. The deals he signed with Life magazine for a big article on the case, and with Hitchcock for filming is story, barely covered the bills from his lawyer and the sanitarium his wife lived in for two years. </b></p><p><b>His story remains with us thanks to "The Wrong Man," even if most film buffs consider it one of Hitchcock's flatter, least suspenseful and most grimly unappealing movies. The fine work of a glum, long-suffering Henry Fonda and an increasingly fragile and spooked Vera Miles don't exactly lead one to call the film "entertaining." But as an example of human nature gone wrong, suspicion afoul, and eyewitness foolish, it's all true, and all right. </b></p><p><b>You can go to YouTube and see Manny attempt to fool a panel including Polly Bergen and Dick Van Dyke via "To Tell the Truth." </b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFX-_1JDN_npzFHbV4XOFFRp7m80cMlfO0A2B8kqB-l-eSOtuFufnSMugn4EBZU7_sqECrrbZObESr94uPfLKxo76UEfXfWLQsMpks4NaACfxjMaLouF4embU_p_06EwlkYisQJw6GJfc/s346/Screen+Shot+2020-09-06+at+6.53.33+PM.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="346" data-original-width="342" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFX-_1JDN_npzFHbV4XOFFRp7m80cMlfO0A2B8kqB-l-eSOtuFufnSMugn4EBZU7_sqECrrbZObESr94uPfLKxo76UEfXfWLQsMpks4NaACfxjMaLouF4embU_p_06EwlkYisQJw6GJfc/s320/Screen+Shot+2020-09-06+at+6.53.33+PM.png" /></a></div><p><br /></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1668669324255318681.post-25793829815736636872020-08-30T15:15:00.004-07:002020-08-31T10:42:07.958-07:00Why you are NOT reading THE NEW YORKER anymore<p><b> Despite the offer of a tote bag (and the threat from the government to ban plastic bags...someday), you are NOT subscribing to The New Yorker. </b></p><p><b>Since dentist and doctor offices tend to be scrubbed clean of anything that might have COVID on it, especially magazines, and most libraries are still closed, you probably haven't even seen The New Yorker anywhere for free. </b></p><p><b>And really, most everyone has better things to download off the illegal torrents than a clueless magazine that can't figure out if it should keep pandering to rich people, or to try and nab Millennials and what used to be called BUPPIES (Black Urban Professionals) but now fall under the title of "people of color." (As opposed to colored people, of course. Let's play semantic games, which could be deadly if you say the WRONG THING.) </b></p><p><b>A random recent issue of The New Yorker? Let's start with the gruesome off-putting cover. What the FUCK is going on here? Is this BLACKFACE or some well-meaning attempt to publish a bad collage that somebody did while social-distancing at a progressive day camp in the Hamptons? </b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiU8oZgqc0ZYrKCM5fwEL-Hs9TmUVj7DnyDr06xbLUNbnzBmoNZJTfAYgjcfLqJXEUvGuPPR64OubRy2aHUsWNloyxsy3HiUomQuYiKRd8kZ1KQijv7-t45p4CRVr97Z_VqkjhrkyXmOGM/s1092/COVER.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><b><img border="0" data-original-height="810" data-original-width="1092" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiU8oZgqc0ZYrKCM5fwEL-Hs9TmUVj7DnyDr06xbLUNbnzBmoNZJTfAYgjcfLqJXEUvGuPPR64OubRy2aHUsWNloyxsy3HiUomQuYiKRd8kZ1KQijv7-t45p4CRVr97Z_VqkjhrkyXmOGM/s640/COVER.png" width="640" /></b></a></div><b><br /></b><p><b>Did this cover immediately entice African immigrants? Members of the Maya Angelou Fan Club? Whoever is planning to update "The Golden Girls" into the "All Black WOMEN?" </b></p><p><b>Continue to pander, there's a piece on the haplessly idiotic presidential campaign of Kanye West and his running mate. WHY care about this? What next, John Lahr on the literary merits of "Keeping up with the Kardashians?" A long, long profile on why the world will never recover from the death of Kobe Bryant?</b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpyhUvRLdg8LEb2xcrrzwvlS9EB-ttP7GUFxbmkCWUo-l3KJ4Ng5-GZ500gk-yj29WDbGh5CwJ_dNgDgdpX1nCO849KjE6iMSCqq9KZQmofo6XKJ0PfDIH7CzMBNx-kppC6K1FPIvUh5s/s1161/KANYE.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><b><img border="0" data-original-height="616" data-original-width="1161" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpyhUvRLdg8LEb2xcrrzwvlS9EB-ttP7GUFxbmkCWUo-l3KJ4Ng5-GZ500gk-yj29WDbGh5CwJ_dNgDgdpX1nCO849KjE6iMSCqq9KZQmofo6XKJ0PfDIH7CzMBNx-kppC6K1FPIvUh5s/s640/KANYE.png" width="640" /></b></a></div><b><br /></b><p><b>Is there ANYWHERE that is safe from looking at Kanye West's moronic pouting face? What else are we supposed to take seriously? Oh, God no...the SHIT that is called RAP MUSIC? Sorry, I'm not even going to start a sentence with SORRY, on this. I'm NOT sorry that RAP MUSIC is SHIT. That's what it is, and the only good thing I can say about it, is that it's forced its practitioners to at least TRY to learn how to read and write. Even if the result is some of the most inept rhymes anyone can drawl, 'yall, because in the Fall when urban sprawl bites yo' ass and you pass and step on the gas, then you realize with yo' eyes that time flies and nobody has time to always rhyme something. Know wuttum sayin'? </b></p><p><b>The New Yorker takes this shit seriously and expects people to spend $8.99 an issue? </b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwwmYoy8XRctPGNlwVujlXE51qKHjMQl3Zwdu0jo4dqGFIyZUy_yUxGrvBw5ARQGUguaZLdSA2XJR3yCEe1d0oMIGQRcYdQ-gaI5hi2Ti3KqgLZ3emqCI5XVYetACSVu4xvuQET6se3bw/s865/TAKING+SHITTY+MUSIC+SERIOUSLY.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><b><img border="0" data-original-height="809" data-original-width="865" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwwmYoy8XRctPGNlwVujlXE51qKHjMQl3Zwdu0jo4dqGFIyZUy_yUxGrvBw5ARQGUguaZLdSA2XJR3yCEe1d0oMIGQRcYdQ-gaI5hi2Ti3KqgLZ3emqCI5XVYetACSVu4xvuQET6se3bw/s640/TAKING+SHITTY+MUSIC+SERIOUSLY.png" width="640" /></b></a></div><b><br /></b><p><b>Well, pull off my Jimi Hendrix shirt and call it a doo rag. Who wouldn't want to read about some rapper jerk with one of those corny names everyone thinks is cool? A rapper named Sheff G....yes, let's read all about HISTORY, and remember what MATTERS these days. It sure ain't Dylan no more. (Excuse me, no MO') </b></p><p><b>However in their oh-so-politically-correct insistence on showing us what MATTERS these days, The New Yorker does make a few mistakes. Like, how come the lax security guard at the art museum is BLACK? Are you implying a BLACK security guard is not going to do his job properly? Listen, one false move like THIS could get you protests, looting, and rioting. How terrible if The New Yorker offices that once welcomed S.J. Perelman, Thurber and Woody Allen, got reduced to burnt rubble because of an OFFENSIVE CARTOON that is RACIST, ya'll.</b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVU8lUDfNC_3NBJ8ZJucpcHiN-lle1ZVZtHT5wtjMi7OjuPXW2MD1_t7D_MDp90q9PaXCOHsFhJDzZwJYzeAtuIWwfmaOmOPwOSKQA5aVMu3FB48wMhSg0ScBY46zgPRSFAN1AzeGNnoI/s590/BLACK+GUARD+IS+A+BAD+GUY+UH+OH.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><b><img border="0" data-original-height="590" data-original-width="546" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVU8lUDfNC_3NBJ8ZJucpcHiN-lle1ZVZtHT5wtjMi7OjuPXW2MD1_t7D_MDp90q9PaXCOHsFhJDzZwJYzeAtuIWwfmaOmOPwOSKQA5aVMu3FB48wMhSg0ScBY46zgPRSFAN1AzeGNnoI/s0/BLACK+GUARD+IS+A+BAD+GUY+UH+OH.png" /></b></a></div><b>Ah, the cartoons. Always, the excuse with The New Yorker was that you could always count on getting a laugh or two. Chas Addams. Peter Arno. Robert Day. Frank Modell. Wm Steig. (Ok, Steig was often confusing more than funny). Guess what. They're all dead. Trying to keep up the standard, which usually includes arcane references, is pretty tough. Here's The New Yorker hoping its aging subscribers will snicker because they "GET" that this cartoon is referencing "WAITING FOR GODOT." Ah, ha ha, and what IS he waiting for? How relevant to ask that question some 60 or 70 years after the fucking play was considered daring and new? </b><div><b><br /></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhR51mKPvXyMzk91bUhBgK4ptnXsR_1_I70lau7Zu0yDOs6EDkTdfB25nVF3O2CdhgCIUL7jpfCQ8UHPxqo_uA63tQSxSAdEXY_PLBDhOw_5S9fqY82vyvt_QcUM4KMdn5PYXxXobXcy9I/s637/GODOT+PRETENTIOUS+CARTOON+DATED.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><b><img border="0" data-original-height="637" data-original-width="552" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhR51mKPvXyMzk91bUhBgK4ptnXsR_1_I70lau7Zu0yDOs6EDkTdfB25nVF3O2CdhgCIUL7jpfCQ8UHPxqo_uA63tQSxSAdEXY_PLBDhOw_5S9fqY82vyvt_QcUM4KMdn5PYXxXobXcy9I/s0/GODOT+PRETENTIOUS+CARTOON+DATED.png" /></b></a></div><b><div><b>One of the complaints about The New Yorker in the 60's and 70's, was that some cartoons weren't "funny, ha ha" as much as laments or whimsies. Saul Steinberg baffled some people, but if his work wasn't a "traditional cartoon" at least it was art. </b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>NOW, New Yorker cartoons that aren't remotely funny, are also not remotely artistic. A 12 year-old could draw some of the "things" that have appeared in print, including this sample issue. How in the world did THIS get published:</b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFxLKVkKDKGH0lgQWD9PqpGvqwBUCTyHyoCfnJK9BMJPEoaAcTfc1BTlb_UHavKBOwn8bXLmjQdhGtEK2WnCaQueB7p-4j3dWWEE72sVg1xbV6iHwAi1A2Nog0w6Zy2jqWsdIauZGWiKI/s570/WITLESS+CARTOON.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="539" data-original-width="570" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFxLKVkKDKGH0lgQWD9PqpGvqwBUCTyHyoCfnJK9BMJPEoaAcTfc1BTlb_UHavKBOwn8bXLmjQdhGtEK2WnCaQueB7p-4j3dWWEE72sVg1xbV6iHwAi1A2Nog0w6Zy2jqWsdIauZGWiKI/s0/WITLESS+CARTOON.png" /></a></div><br /><b>What kind of house is that, junior? Why are your figures so stuff and primitive, junior? Do you understand that a house generally has windows, junior? </b></div><div><b><br /></b></div>Also in The New Yorker are the whimsical little doodles to take your mind off solid pages of dry-as-Margaret Chase Smith's-vagina prose. Even THAT has gone downhill, like a NYC bus trying to go uphill. </b><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>Can you say that YOU or your gifted child couldn't draw shit like this? </b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisFEgRMSE-P3yZX3JsqfJEU1r-0fJsndxuwhDYDkQLZ72UjB-H6cUVh1ezxWxyMNNh3M-ZexizeIR0sMY-gs1_t5EfcZodHrh5MApD8kCK7DyKSTDU5Q9xXS28u3gS3FHGx_fYeT0RV5k/s359/CARTOON+SQUIB+3.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><b><img border="0" data-original-height="319" data-original-width="359" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisFEgRMSE-P3yZX3JsqfJEU1r-0fJsndxuwhDYDkQLZ72UjB-H6cUVh1ezxWxyMNNh3M-ZexizeIR0sMY-gs1_t5EfcZodHrh5MApD8kCK7DyKSTDU5Q9xXS28u3gS3FHGx_fYeT0RV5k/s0/CARTOON+SQUIB+3.png" /></b></a></div><b><br /></b><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhY33y6GIPvQC3ChTNtUP954q1VK53Mg8KV9xAyGZYIVkKW-fc3WbuKGMdlwAaBVSPh8CAEpyvUln1b3h9F8etCnC-6Dg-myN7_c9BDfuDpjWg1KHdl249SY8rkvqJ_7OCsaUzV5b8XDyE/s429/CARTOON+SQUIB+CRAP+2.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><b><img border="0" data-original-height="425" data-original-width="429" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhY33y6GIPvQC3ChTNtUP954q1VK53Mg8KV9xAyGZYIVkKW-fc3WbuKGMdlwAaBVSPh8CAEpyvUln1b3h9F8etCnC-6Dg-myN7_c9BDfuDpjWg1KHdl249SY8rkvqJ_7OCsaUzV5b8XDyE/s0/CARTOON+SQUIB+CRAP+2.png" /></b></a></div><b><br /></b><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIJUDwK-FceRmByrynTn5RZIs5WmoD_Na0W1QOM-2xBoY-mag_PRdSBFeN8KgRZWQ34bs-i7eWvTpiMPiT5SXZji65SGG7cFznx9nSNXUjzK2zuSI6nFYYmPCHVfLDn2QmZldEAnD-IOg/s379/CARTOON+SQUIB+CRAP+A.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><b><img border="0" data-original-height="314" data-original-width="379" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIJUDwK-FceRmByrynTn5RZIs5WmoD_Na0W1QOM-2xBoY-mag_PRdSBFeN8KgRZWQ34bs-i7eWvTpiMPiT5SXZji65SGG7cFznx9nSNXUjzK2zuSI6nFYYmPCHVfLDn2QmZldEAnD-IOg/s0/CARTOON+SQUIB+CRAP+A.png" /></b></a></div><b><br /></b><div><b>FUNNY. What happened to FUNNY? </b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>You won't find it in the drearily titled "Whispers and Murmers" page, where some witless hack who keeps failing to win the cartoon caption, branches out into a full page of tedium. The item for this issue is...uh...somebody imagining if people centuries ago were talking like today. Or something. This isn't exactly Lord Buckley or Robin Williams doing faux-Shakespeare. It sure ain't Monty Python and the Holy Grail, either:</b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrAz4jZz1kLOyLbPG58EaPUfGnG_GwhHBF3jYUCGFf1ZA3U8FI4cd5uqxBMUhRlWunroGjBBVog-94yFizbPx3jG3tCXTDKYhBDRontPs-AdymjY0XZngyilG7QTbxcu6ecUTwQ2LTstQ/s1165/SMALL+TALK+IN+1348+big.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><b><img border="0" data-original-height="819" data-original-width="1165" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrAz4jZz1kLOyLbPG58EaPUfGnG_GwhHBF3jYUCGFf1ZA3U8FI4cd5uqxBMUhRlWunroGjBBVog-94yFizbPx3jG3tCXTDKYhBDRontPs-AdymjY0XZngyilG7QTbxcu6ecUTwQ2LTstQ/s640/SMALL+TALK+IN+1348+big.png" width="640" /></b></a></div><b><br /></b><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgj-yGMMvj7SZeMdvooG5ShZgpemrhMgAwfW1uIEUgf97NcOO1u2tgH8KyL51-Ypes5v-jupkKQSo1jM-f_EMX9Z-jiai3cg2l1K47RGx4t7omC7gYaDWg_jIb0jpKiCc41ab_ZT_3y-X0/s929/SMALL+TALK+IN+1348.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><b><img border="0" data-original-height="929" data-original-width="707" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgj-yGMMvj7SZeMdvooG5ShZgpemrhMgAwfW1uIEUgf97NcOO1u2tgH8KyL51-Ypes5v-jupkKQSo1jM-f_EMX9Z-jiai3cg2l1K47RGx4t7omC7gYaDWg_jIb0jpKiCc41ab_ZT_3y-X0/s640/SMALL+TALK+IN+1348.png" /></b></a></div><b><br /></b><div><b>You can click that image if you want to see it bigger, and are in need of something to bore you in order to get to sleep. It does beat counting sheep. </b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>What else did you like about The New Yorker? No, no, it was NEVER the poetry. The poetry in The New Yorker always seemed like transcript droning from somebody on the psychiatrist's couch. </b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjl0NYFwqqPrdHkrKxXolMUs2Y0JRY-pwHMKRGOgAi4q9ZQCDdZAGO4eaqcT6QC8DuOGK4ogHcmuse2QYQlNt23lMAizmoWhbAJ06U64BkZCo3kH0aOYsmxnolMa4nKHsoYar7G4xcta0A/s665/POETRY+STINKS.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><b><img border="0" data-original-height="665" data-original-width="467" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjl0NYFwqqPrdHkrKxXolMUs2Y0JRY-pwHMKRGOgAi4q9ZQCDdZAGO4eaqcT6QC8DuOGK4ogHcmuse2QYQlNt23lMAizmoWhbAJ06U64BkZCo3kH0aOYsmxnolMa4nKHsoYar7G4xcta0A/s640/POETRY+STINKS.png" /></b></a></div><b><br /></b><div><b>It's poetry because it's shaped like poetry. </b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>Since there aren't any movie theaters open, The New Yorker isn't TELLING YOU what FILMS (they do not call them MOVIES) you should see. They did offer a look at some art galleries, and of course, there are book reviews, which in today's warped and reverse-racist thinking, have to be DOMINATED by women, women of color, or women with odd ethnic names. Men may make up half the population, but they are now treated like a minority in the world of books. 10% of the reviews may be from male authors, but THAT IS ALL, and try to make them males "of color." </b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpNe_U_q0WGt1e7JKDEQzPhDlAYgVocoH8nibS8t3-4jQVJcut1KzK3eGlgZnn2F7aqjXDwlchmMuE-vdYWLSFvcpuzVi6YuAFP1HP0Fac2cbRWIbZ-6UWs6Cs6qcDEXz5hpdrFXUHS3s/s800/BOOK+REVIEWS+-+women+and+ethnic+names.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><b><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="605" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpNe_U_q0WGt1e7JKDEQzPhDlAYgVocoH8nibS8t3-4jQVJcut1KzK3eGlgZnn2F7aqjXDwlchmMuE-vdYWLSFvcpuzVi6YuAFP1HP0Fac2cbRWIbZ-6UWs6Cs6qcDEXz5hpdrFXUHS3s/s640/BOOK+REVIEWS+-+women+and+ethnic+names.png" /></b></a></div><b><br /></b><div><b>Every issue will try to have one or two non-fiction pieces, to balance the awful fiction pieces. You can tell these, because these are the ones that are illustrated with photographs. Pictures of nasty, ugly rotten mean racist vicious POLICE OFFICERS is always good for some woeful piece on the urban problem of not letting people of color simply walk around with weapons and not risk being frisked. </b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>Since The New Yorker is a weakly...most important riot and looting news is stale by the time it gets into the dry hands of a writer for the magazine. So instead of relevancy, you can usually count on The New Yorker to flog some bit of past history that you better remember or it will repeat itself like the onion and kale tart you should NOT have bought from Whole Foods. Oh, Joe McCarthy. Sure...</b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNlsrp0iVnubs2dZdUHdpJWltLCy1xJY_5krtThoFKIg9XWrF7gcY7eJe88L_ALyqgjSNzS_EV5BiZzuJt5r81S4XEqAHIE346jTih50SV4XiHZQ80eraI3FBcsfBzMlAc7JkcdnBjWJQ/s867/IRRELEVANT+POLITICAL+ARTICLES.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><b><img border="0" data-original-height="811" data-original-width="867" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNlsrp0iVnubs2dZdUHdpJWltLCy1xJY_5krtThoFKIg9XWrF7gcY7eJe88L_ALyqgjSNzS_EV5BiZzuJt5r81S4XEqAHIE346jTih50SV4XiHZQ80eraI3FBcsfBzMlAc7JkcdnBjWJQ/s640/IRRELEVANT+POLITICAL+ARTICLES.png" width="640" /></b></a></div><b><br /></b><div><b>One of the big reasons, in the PAST, to get The New Yorker was, aside from nodding (but not laughing out loud) at the cartoons, and checking gallery openings and what films were playing, was THE ADS. How the hell do you buy a flexible brim hat, suitable for hiking in wooded areas of Westhampton or upstate, without a mail order ad in The New Yorker? How can you snap your fingers and realize that a fur coat IS exactly what granny would want? What completely useless junk can fill up your shelves JUST in case you EVER get a visit from William F. Buckley Jr? </b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>That was the old days. These days, even the ads suck. Here's part of a full page ad for back-to-school look-like-a-ghoul fashion? The girl looks so miserable, you might mistake her for 13 year-old autistic Swedish lecturer on the plight of tuna in Japan. (PS, there is nothing ANYONE can do about the way Japan is fucking up tuna, whales, and just about everything that China isn't fucking up). </b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsBprw9nSYn0waXAOlHFlHlzM2bs-Cls30jM1l8YKYkJTHhj24wNS2FZSuTVStDoh-8epgsvg9sMOef3GPrBRfH32abLUtW7DsuVNvk3k0zKPUYTjdQPa0VLz-HRiDObRRhoZ3eIh2hp4/s1079/ADS+FOR+BACK+TO+SCHOOL+GHOULS.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><b><img border="0" data-original-height="741" data-original-width="1079" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsBprw9nSYn0waXAOlHFlHlzM2bs-Cls30jM1l8YKYkJTHhj24wNS2FZSuTVStDoh-8epgsvg9sMOef3GPrBRfH32abLUtW7DsuVNvk3k0zKPUYTjdQPa0VLz-HRiDObRRhoZ3eIh2hp4/s640/ADS+FOR+BACK+TO+SCHOOL+GHOULS.png" width="640" /></b></a></div><b><br /></b><div><b>She looks like she lives in Ibsin's Doll House for the Insane. Or the Glass-Faced Menagerie of the Dysfunctional. (On the latter, you can write a thousand word essay on whether I'm referencing Tennessee Williams, Salinger's Glass family or BOTH. But don't send it to ME. Send it in to The New Yorker. They'll publish just about anything, as long as it's boring. <br /></b><div><br /><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1668669324255318681.post-43909448107685835022020-08-25T09:56:00.008-07:002020-08-25T10:00:31.044-07:00Mort Sahl - "The Future Lies Ahead" by a Nose (prognosticating the proboscis) <p><b>Mort, at 93, was recently interviewed for a documentary on Robin Williams. It's very touching that when Sahl first began appearing at a tiny theater in Mill Valley, Robin arrived (via bicycle from his nearby home) to see him. He was the only one to come backstage after the show. </b></p><p><b>Shy, with his head down, Robin told Mort, "I always wanted to meet you." And thus began a long friendship. </b></p><p><b>Well, the little theater is of course closed due to the pandemic, and Sahl has not chosen to be one of those Facebook celebs to ZOOM a show from his living room, so we haven't heard anything new, or enjoyed the old anecdotes, for quite some time. Which leads to this bit of trivia filler: </b></p><p><b>The great nose shortening. Mort did pretty well with his nose...Phyllis Kirk, Yvonne Craig, China Lee...there's quite a list. But there came a time for a change. Many wondered why he went for the nose job, but then again, people have long doubted Sahl's keen ability to predict the future, or anticipate what could become a total disaster. </b></p><p><b>Back in 2004, NY Times critic Bruce Weber, in reviewing Mort's show downtown, alluded to Mort's blunter look by comparing him to Jerry Stiller! </b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoGhM6lfHACHVk4IJOe11d_RNd4gB2YkcefGRddJebnU8XDy93i5SNiFJZ4KoQ3bKtPNHUtMZb0M1YE0VJg72UkriyYbS9byBFvUkHkVbG32uOUVb5xzgYzEJtd-sgi4MTDtcu4qMf6eA/s799/MORT+NY+TIMES+stiller.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="577" data-original-width="799" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoGhM6lfHACHVk4IJOe11d_RNd4gB2YkcefGRddJebnU8XDy93i5SNiFJZ4KoQ3bKtPNHUtMZb0M1YE0VJg72UkriyYbS9byBFvUkHkVbG32uOUVb5xzgYzEJtd-sgi4MTDtcu4qMf6eA/s640/MORT+NY+TIMES+stiller.png" width="640" /></a></div><p><b>A few days later, Jerry Stiller (along with his wife Anne Meara) was at the show, and during the (atypical) Q&A session that ended the evening, he stood up. "Mort, I just want to say that I read the Times piece, and I think you are a VERY attractive looking man!" </b></p><p><b>This got laughs and some knowing applause. Afterward, I took a photo of the two friends: </b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmX6FFw8kWSzPeGIve2Alk8npLmAVySDrn7-fxtnnVIOWbKgs727i1b1QCh3tim7ayt5rHUAa1xU0F0LnmwJ0RxkbVbgYgQhulxzDnRDtN3mndfWD8XEOGuByI-n1l0uSGHu4O05UuAGQ/s413/Sahl+Stiller+2004+by+ME.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="323" data-original-width="413" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmX6FFw8kWSzPeGIve2Alk8npLmAVySDrn7-fxtnnVIOWbKgs727i1b1QCh3tim7ayt5rHUAa1xU0F0LnmwJ0RxkbVbgYgQhulxzDnRDtN3mndfWD8XEOGuByI-n1l0uSGHu4O05UuAGQ/s0/Sahl+Stiller+2004+by+ME.png" /></a></div><p><b>Mort had a line, which he's probably re-used at the Mill Valley theater now and then, about how if you take up a consistent position in this country, "eventually you'll be tried for treason."</b></p><p><b>Plastic surgeons may tell you that there's nothing consistent about the human face, and that over the years, parts can sink or sag, making other parts (especially the nose) look a lot bigger. Since that photo from 2004. it's been proven that what may have seemed a bit odd at the time, was prudent. As Mort's aged in his 80's and 90's, and his features have gotten a bit smaller, his nose seems well proportioned!</b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3c5GHh2qS4Y2tWEJRRr3zxxRnlHIOM0MfKxjH2b1DV2RCynAU8kyQPxiTj6bWTbbFNXm01ed8vASHp3Hfq1-Kw2EWYOYCEOEoJ4-T0PlYbsPvD-vQ5qJXJ4fxUUU4yLGMkKRrh3MeXpc/s861/MORT+NOSE+A.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="464" data-original-width="861" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3c5GHh2qS4Y2tWEJRRr3zxxRnlHIOM0MfKxjH2b1DV2RCynAU8kyQPxiTj6bWTbbFNXm01ed8vASHp3Hfq1-Kw2EWYOYCEOEoJ4-T0PlYbsPvD-vQ5qJXJ4fxUUU4yLGMkKRrh3MeXpc/s640/MORT+NOSE+A.png" width="640" /></a></div><p><b>As to what he would have looked like without the nose job, one "hesitates to speculate." Just to make it official, here's a screen cap from the Flushing Hospital website, and from Medline: </b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgB3A0GogHw8pep7mNq6kQwv9ZOia0YzW5GtkR5LdS5rceYYGBi2lhgslEfpcuyvnXa_Mxrs503nH3xDXNwqPIldnvP6gOgAghuZozkxVvLI1qnTHfwIqlHPGNL75Z-GyBOpE3kXCoSBII/s862/Mort+FLUHING+HOSPITAL.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="552" data-original-width="862" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgB3A0GogHw8pep7mNq6kQwv9ZOia0YzW5GtkR5LdS5rceYYGBi2lhgslEfpcuyvnXa_Mxrs503nH3xDXNwqPIldnvP6gOgAghuZozkxVvLI1qnTHfwIqlHPGNL75Z-GyBOpE3kXCoSBII/s640/Mort+FLUHING+HOSPITAL.png" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnDlJZzs1Xvhd6cS-ia3Flqsn7tqemuxBz8cOcaisx3m3ciHkUsZnpb_MUkChZpuNLP2gI755zDgmxhi5es0gPHepC07mAY0lLB4hZfQBSwt1ov_YVOp81xs_cSii7qPFVlbaNs8Z4bI8/s944/MORT+MEDLINE.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="560" data-original-width="944" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnDlJZzs1Xvhd6cS-ia3Flqsn7tqemuxBz8cOcaisx3m3ciHkUsZnpb_MUkChZpuNLP2gI755zDgmxhi5es0gPHepC07mAY0lLB4hZfQBSwt1ov_YVOp81xs_cSii7qPFVlbaNs8Z4bI8/s640/MORT+MEDLINE.png" width="640" /></a></div><p><b>The Pandemic...terrible, isn't it? Nothing much to do but wait it out, and instead of talking about Covid-19, we take our minds off it by discussing plastic surgery! It does confirm that on most any subject, including the future, Mort has insight. <i>He knows!</i> (He also doesn't stoop to puns. The only one I remember is when he talked about "a bust of Nixon -- who may be busted!" He immediately apologized: "That was a pun.") Anyway...onward. </b> </p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1668669324255318681.post-11254676802532193112020-08-10T14:32:00.004-07:002020-08-10T14:32:54.321-07:00Rapist-Murderer Being Freed -- while Cosby is denied <p><b> Find some logic in this one. An able-bodied 70 year-old who laughed after the rapes and murders of two women in a home invasion...is being freed. </b></p><p><b>An 83 year-old blind man, who had a signed and sealed resolution to his case with both the victim and the prosecutor, remains behind bars. </b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgijCu0eytsgQghFxlgNKeX2uWwzCFISyKmqAOtjvdXa0qPHxWVMvaFh85JyR0Ra-SKMhzjtOoly9eQiGePNX0VYIMdx4glT6b4jp0dh_Uah3uhxZWeElAQWGPu-9C4z39cv0TdFcWWtaY/s667/Screen+Shot+2020-08-10+at+5.21.56+PM.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><b><img border="0" data-original-height="623" data-original-width="667" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgijCu0eytsgQghFxlgNKeX2uWwzCFISyKmqAOtjvdXa0qPHxWVMvaFh85JyR0Ra-SKMhzjtOoly9eQiGePNX0VYIMdx4glT6b4jp0dh_Uah3uhxZWeElAQWGPu-9C4z39cv0TdFcWWtaY/s640/Screen+Shot+2020-08-10+at+5.21.56+PM.png" width="640" /></b></a></div><p><b>Ayala contributed nothing to this world. Nothing but pain, humiliation and misery. </b></p><p><b>The disgraced Cosby had, and it can't be taken away or minimized, some 40 years of being an important figure in black history and the struggle for equality and the defeat of segregation. Generations of comedians were influenced by Bill, thousands benefitted by his donations to charity, and millions found their days brightened by his performances. </b></p><p><b>And yet, the excuse for freeing Ayala is that COVID-19 might get him. So let him, what, go out and party on the beach now? Romp in the park? Continue living while two women never got that chance and spent their last hours terrified and tortured by him? </b></p><p><b>And the excuse for keeping a wheelchair-bound legally blind 83 year-old in prison is...is what? That he'll live in blurry darkness under house arrest in his home, and remain shunned by almost everyone? </b></p><p><b>Here's more on Ayala, the model citizen worthy of parole: </b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3sQRq3filkNp4z3H55Q_Xbn_6ljBpr-lMjcqOVVUyByT5F21mpxtHV9ZR5qpmsyhtsZdl-KzTDTwuF6-D4UCYtjVllze7DghKFCeWPsRgUQKrdHchByDKvXlTlbxh5Y3_wuOSvdefBrQ/s843/Screen+Shot+2020-08-10+at+5.21.42+PM.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="843" data-original-width="706" height="800" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3sQRq3filkNp4z3H55Q_Xbn_6ljBpr-lMjcqOVVUyByT5F21mpxtHV9ZR5qpmsyhtsZdl-KzTDTwuF6-D4UCYtjVllze7DghKFCeWPsRgUQKrdHchByDKvXlTlbxh5Y3_wuOSvdefBrQ/w670-h800/Screen+Shot+2020-08-10+at+5.21.42+PM.png" width="670" /></a></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1668669324255318681.post-71873698776750072722020-08-07T13:46:00.003-07:002020-08-07T13:46:53.134-07:00Bill Cosby still in jail despite COVID concerns - while rapist Ibrahim Bouaichi was set free to KILL HIS VICTIM <b>Talk about a "Dangerous Sexual Predator."
That would be legally blind Bill Cosby, over 80 years old and being ferried around prison in a wheelchair. </b><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>While Covid-19 concerns have freed a variety of people currently incarcerated, Cosby doesn't qualify.</b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>Why? The hanging judge who went after him over two trials branded him a "Dangerous Sexual Predator," despite a lack of violence in the case over which he presided. </b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>which seems to be taken very literally. Some of the most violent rapists ever to be locked up behind bars don't have "Dangerous Sexual Predator" attached to their name. Certainly not Ibrahim Bouaichi.
He was in jail for rape, released due to Covid-19 concerns and...he killed his accuser. </b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>The dangerous sexual predator is generally considered to be someone with a knife, a gun, or a pair of clenched fists for whom rape is just part of the violence. <br /></b><div><b><br /></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh47b0J2FGBGlgByZLeQ4rCakRGcVcPCnaB57JNXuuy5zYCIj4S_5gzBq-6eB1p48Ejjb72ZyNDjDzD_0Z-AyRtHTQwbp1gw2OkdzmYlXa_WDYfYcIyPfrs3vNQ7a3LUcngMT5AvGs9DKM/s792/Screen+Shot+2020-08-07+at+4.29.43+PM.png" imageanchor="1" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0px;"><b><img border="0" data-original-height="792" data-original-width="697" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh47b0J2FGBGlgByZLeQ4rCakRGcVcPCnaB57JNXuuy5zYCIj4S_5gzBq-6eB1p48Ejjb72ZyNDjDzD_0Z-AyRtHTQwbp1gw2OkdzmYlXa_WDYfYcIyPfrs3vNQ7a3LUcngMT5AvGs9DKM/s640/Screen+Shot+2020-08-07+at+4.29.43+PM.png" /></b></a></div><div><b>The killer in this case, is some 50 years younger than Cosby, with perfect eyesight, and not walking with a cane, and not famously recognizable to EVERYBODY in America. </b></div></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>If Cosby is released to serve the rest of this time (and he could be dead before the sentence ends), he would be in home confinement. Monitored. </b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>The killer in this case, was set free to kill. </b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitMAAEVsDuDEOExmHhPRmYWVFDS_h3LBfiHTYd1Y4He5ffK7tJK8IiDJgQebks86tnTQ5jhg04g_Q5X2kwb_Yf67Vmquka02rGHass4HRezo0e_sLHQmwzXVkqHl92cjeyYwngvLScvY0/s484/Screen+Shot+2020-08-07+at+4.30.00+PM.png" imageanchor="1" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0px;"><b><img border="0" data-original-height="484" data-original-width="408" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitMAAEVsDuDEOExmHhPRmYWVFDS_h3LBfiHTYd1Y4He5ffK7tJK8IiDJgQebks86tnTQ5jhg04g_Q5X2kwb_Yf67Vmquka02rGHass4HRezo0e_sLHQmwzXVkqHl92cjeyYwngvLScvY0/s0/Screen+Shot+2020-08-07+at+4.30.00+PM.png" /></b></a></div><div><b>The Cosby case is currently on appeal, with the most salient point being how it's possible to arrange a deal with both the prosecutor and the victim, and then to have that signed and agreed upon outcome voided by an ambitious new prosecutor with the help of an obviously biased judge. </b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>While there have been cases of a widely loathed celebrity getting convicted on a lesser charge (Al Capone for tax evasion, O.J. Simpson for trying to get back some stolen memorabilia), none have been quite as flimsy as the situation with Cosby. </b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>Now with "disgraced" usually added to his name, Cosby, the "disgraced comedian" and "disgraced Jell-o pudding endorser" and "disgraced PhD" is not likely to do much if he's out of jail. Not when he's under house-arrest and has maybe a few hundred people on YouTube even bothering to follow him. </b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>Despite his unfortunately chosen title for his last stand-up show, "Far From Finished," Cosby is finished. He's just not as finished as Karla Dominguez. And that tragedy is just an example of how warped and easily played the courts are. </b></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1668669324255318681.post-20893900064539403502020-08-03T13:12:00.000-07:002020-08-03T13:12:43.149-07:00Limericks Ripped from Today's News #4959285902 the Nude ProtestWhat's the Social Justice Whore protest? <P>
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TRADER JOE'S decided NOT to cave in to a thousand wussy morons in Oregon with too much time on their soft little hands. <P>
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DAMN right. There was nothing wrong with Trade Joe paying some respect by naming their Italian import products "Trader Giotto." Using the Italian word for Joseph was intended as RESPECT. So was importing actual Italian products from ITALY instead of fobbing off mass-produced junk pasta and crap-sauce on people. Too often the products we buy with homey-sounding names are coming from huge factories that bought the name and kept nothing else, not even the original recipes. <P>
Who DOES own Ronzoni and Buitoni and Ragu these days? And who ever, EVER thought Chef Boyardee was authentic? If you want to know, the guy's name was Hector Boiardi and he was an Italian immigrant who sold out to American Home Foods way back in 1946. The company is currently owned by the Chicago outfit Conagra Brands, Inc. <P>
Are Ronzoni products imported from Italy the way so many Trader Giotto items are? That company is owned by Riviana Foods Inc of Texas. Buitoni is now owned by Nestlé the same evil company that wants to buy up American springs and construct factories to siphon all the water and bottle it. They own Poland Springs, among others. <P>
Ragú is run in America by the un-Italian-sounding Mizkan, and by Symington's in England and Ireland. Let's just say that Trader Joe's doesn't have THIS kind of question asked: <P>
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I haven't noticed any Italians sulking, rioting or looting because Trade Joe's sold "Trader Giotto" products. No, it was a bunch of wussy idiots with a petition. Italians haven't taken a knee over the outrages being sold by Ragu or the lack of "real Italians" making pizza at Dominos or 7-11. <P>
Thankfully, Trader Joe's took a step back, realized it was a small, goose-farting bunch of bird-brains causing all the trouble, and that their vast millions of patrons are FINE with the way the place is run. No joining the goose-step of political correctness based on limp-wristed whimsy or the snivels and trembles of Social Justice Warriors who don't know what it's like to really be in a fight. <P>
People only WISH there was a Trader Joe's nearby, and if their wish was granted, that it wouldn't have such long lines and be so fucking crowded! <P>
</b>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1668669324255318681.post-10937187835788553322020-08-02T16:13:00.002-07:002020-08-02T16:33:22.609-07:00Dead SCREW and limping AM METRO NEW YORK have something in common: CREEPY ADS<b>Until Internet porn (Craigslist, Twitter, Pornhub, anywhere whores and "free sex" flourish) SCREW was a success. <P>
The reason was the back pages which were loaded with hooker ads. Once the whores could infest dating sites and and hook-up sites and crawl all over blogs and stink up forums, SCREW was through. Al Goldstein made a spectacular belly-flop into bankruptcy. <P>
Back in the day, SCREW staffers would routinely find themselves in the same elevator with bottom-feeding and bottom-selling skanks and trannies and loonies, all getting off on the 4th floor to pay CASH for their ads. Well, that was SCREW. <P>
For a while, tottering on the brink but not QUITE stooping too low, the Village Voice and New York Press got some hooker ads and, being sluts, gave their newspapers away. This didn't last long. While Al Goldstein struggled as a greeter at a second-rate smelly deli downtown, and got an apartment courtesy of being a veteran and then from the charity of Penn (the talking half of Penn and Teller), the masterminds at the Village Voice and New York Press found themselves in bad shape, too, and so did their smarmy and smug columnists who began to live La Dolce Fuckoff, because their writing wasn't going to get them work anywhere else. <P>
AM NEW YORK and METRO, which had people hawking the free papers at subway entrances (the mouths of the dry-sewer) began to tremble. While they kept boasting of massive circulation, the truth was, in January of 2020, that they had to cling to each other to stay afloat. <P>
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Yes, and you can't make these names up, Schneps Media executive Cliff Luster was given the daunting task of leading the two rival newspapers into one giant rival to the struggling Daily Snooze and the New York (Left at the) Post. A guy named Pozarycki was allowed to stay on and go from amNewYork’s editor-in-chief to the head of the NEW AM METRO NEW YORK. <P>
So what's happened. Yes, So What. <P>
2020 has been a terrible year, so why expect that a merger of two newspapers would be good news? It hasn't turned out that way. <P>
Sometimes, although the kiosks are usually empty, you can snag a copy of the paper. It's got a crossword puzzle. It's got the usual grim headlines about Covid-19. It's got a few readable items from the news services (rather than local writers). A wire service piece let New Yorkers know that John Cleese was going to let them pay $20 to stream a concert for tonight (August 2nd). Not exactly local news, but good news. <P>
Not so good news is that the paper has almost NO ads. The ones it has, it shouldn't have. That includes the creepy "WANNA HAVE FUN" phone chant ad (dial a few numbers and the word PANTIES). Worse, are all the ads from "healers" and "psychics." Nothing tells you how low your readership is, than ads instructing gullibles to hurry and get help to "remove all kind of Black Magic, Witchcraft, Evil Spirits, Curse..." and learn how "one call one visit will change your life" thanks to some bearded character who will "stop divorce" and "reuinte lovers" and deal with "court cases." <P>
Yes, this is a NEW YORK CITY newspaper, not something you find under somebody's birdcage in Jamaica or Haiti. <P>
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How CHEAP is an ad in the paper? ALL they can get are con artists and lunatics? They can't even get a Papaya joint or Gristedes or a massage parlor in Queens to take out an ad? ALL they can get are a bunch of sad "psychics" selling to the dumbest of the dumb? Maybe the people who pay for ads on behalf of Cohen Optical or Sephora or Morton Williams see this junk and figure, "Oh, this paper must really have a circulation that's tiny, and the readers have a tiny IQ to match. They're not customers we want!" <P>
When I was editing RAVE, the most important person on the staff, aside from ME, was the ad manager. We needed and got those full-page ads from vodka companies, car companies, and from Panasonic and others. We had inventive gimmicks, too, like "infomercials." An advertiser sponsored the joke page, or the "bright new comic" page or a page on upcoming comedy films and stand-up concerts on cable TV. It's pretty sad that in today's climate, it's hard to find some business majors who can help out the English majors, and keep a publication afloat. <P>
It saddens me to see what's going on with this sorry Schneps situation, and they must be aware of how tawdry it looks to have such scuzzy people buying ads and making their ad page look so foul. They've had some good writers and editors working for them, especially AM New York in the early days, and watching what is going on is like walking through the terminal ward at a bad city hospital. <P>
A while back, the GAEBLER website published a list of brices for a column inch in some of the "also running" newspapers in town. $22.00 for the Brooklyin News, $50 for the Black Star News, $59.00 for the African-American Observer, $60 for El Diario...while the Daily News was demanding $435 and the New York Post $711 and the Nw York Times $1,196. The struggling New York Sun (long since out of business) was begging to get $57. AM New York, pre-merger, wanted $329. At this point, it's pretty clear that if the ONLY people who want to take out ads are running storefront hook shops, little stink apartments full of candles, or doing low-rent business in some slum location, then the paper is going to be printed in red ink soon enough. <P>
It's damn depressing. The world of journalism...newspapers, magazines...and the world of books have taken a beating. There's competition from plagiaristic websites, from pirate blogs, from torrents that routinely give away everything in PDF and ePub and MOBI format, and of course we have such grand sources of entertainment and Fake News as TWITTER and Facebook with their idiot memes and the morons who believe them. <P>
You get what you pay for, and if you don't pay for that free newspaper in the kiosk, and you don't pay for the "news" from the website that puts "for entertainment purposes only" in small letters on the page, you get what you deserve. <P>
Under Wilhelm De Blasio (what WAS his original German last name), "quality of life" is so bad, you don't even need to sniff METRO NEW YORK to find a phony psychic. They chain up their A-frame signs to lampposts and bike racks and bus shelters and anything else, while 311 phone operators say "Uh, what's the problem? What law is being broken?" Fill in an online form and you'll get a response two weeks later from the police or Sanitation saying "we didn't see anything." <P>
Do you suppose any of these clowns who advertise their services ACTUALLY can accomplish anything? To judge from the headlines about rape, murder, looting and mayhem in the DAILY NEWS and NEW YORK POST, it seems the EVIL SPIRITS are winning.
</b>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1668669324255318681.post-60725143676530765462020-07-31T09:22:00.004-07:002020-07-31T09:26:51.613-07:00SETH ROGEN gives a pass to anti-Semitism and Israel hate and GETS INTO THE PICKLE HE DESERVES<b>I was "sort of" looking forward to glancing at Seth Rogen's "Fiddler on the Roof meets Sleeper" movie. You know, where a guy who looks exactly like Tevye falls into a pickle vat (ha ha ha ha ha ha ha, oy oy oy oy oy oy oy) and like Woody Allen's character in "Sleeper," emerges bewildered in a new era. <P>
THIS: <P>
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But in promoting the film, he turned up on the Marc Maron podcast, and as you'd expect the talk got around to Judaism and, ha ha ho ho oy oy, what the listeners would or wouldn't find offensive. Like Lenny Bruce wannabe's the idea was to be real daring and controversial, after alerting the audience to watch out, I'm gonna be offensive, ha ha ho ho oy oy. <P>
Seth Rogen, perhaps channeling the opinionatedly idiotic Joe Rogan, seemed to declare that supporting Israel was a "silly" thing to do, because religion is "silly" and so is the idea of a group of like-minded people being in the same place: <P>
"To me it just seems an antiquated thought process. If it is for religious reasons, I don’t agree with it, because I think religion is silly. If it is for truly the preservation of Jewish people, it makes no sense, because again, you don’t keep something you’re trying to preserve all in one place — especially when that place is proven to be pretty volatile, you know?" <P>
No, I don't know. You know? <P>
I don't think Seth Rogen has been beaten up enough. Nor Marc Maron. <P>
Maybe they need to live in Flatbush or Bushwick or some other Bushwack area of Brooklyn where, if you look like a Jew, you just might find yourself lying on the ground with a flattened nose. <P>
Rogen, age 55, grew up in Canada. Not Brooklyn. <P>
JEW LIVES DON'T MATTER in some parts of the world, and don't count on Brooklyn being sympathetic. Not when there are people who will take a stroll a few blocks into a Jewish neighborhood there, JUST to coldcock a Jew. <P>
Mayor De Blasio (aka De Lousio) who got elected by escorting his black wife all over Brooklyn and Queens (not so much Manhattan where there's still a white majority), could care less about Jews. His TV ads featured his black son, and traded in on the idea that his black son would not, if De Blasio was elected, have to worry about "stop and frisk." <P>
The ads didn't seem to offer an assurance to Jews that they wouldn't be subject to "stop and PUNCH." <P>
Wilhelm De Blasio (the man had a German last name which he changed) would much rather NYC be loaded up with Muslims than Jews. Trick or TWEET: <P>
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But let's get back to Israel. Let's bypass the fact that despite the amount of Jews in New York (second only to Israel) and how many are centered in Brooklyn, "assmilation" seems to have only given Jews a black eye and a sense of fear. Because they don't matter. They don't riot, so they don't matter. <P>
Seth figures that Israel is stupid for having so many Jews. The Promised Land? What a load of SHIT. Pat Boone, a devout Christian who has offered tours (with his friend, a rabbi) wrote the lyrics to "Exodus." He wrote them on the back of a Christmas card. They begin: <P>
"This land is mine. God gave this land to me." <P>
But Seth is the scholar and historian who knows it all. And to him religion is "silly." <P>
It might be, but don't say that to the Muslims who destroyed the WTC, shot up an Ariana Grande concert, or destroyed a funny bunch of Frenchies in their magazine office. Not everyone this religion is "silly." Six million Jews lost their lives in the Holocuast because Hitler didn't think religion was "silly." <P>
Oh, but let's all watch the next SILLY movie from Seth Rogen. Ha ha ho ho oy oy. <P>
One thing anti-Semites love is when a Jew turns on other Jews, and most of all, betrays Israel. "See, even other JEWS think Israel should be wiped off the map. It's not just the Ayatollah!" <P>
Noam Chomsky has made a living being a Jewish Benedict Arnold, but he isn't really as well known as Seth Rogen. To have Seth Rogen on the side of the anti-Semites is a major victory for the haters. <P>
See? Here's a Jew comedian and he's NOT like Lenny Bruce or Mort Sahl or Mel Brooks. He's anti-Israel! He thinks religion is SILLY. He tells us paranoid Jew-haters exactly what we want to hear: <P>
"I was fed a huge amount of lies about Israel my entire life!" <P>
Let's repeat that: <P>
"I was fed a huge amount of lies about Israel my entire life!" <P>
When the ADL came to me, Ronald L. Smith, and asked for my help, I didn't speak that phrase: <P>
"I was fed a huge amount of lies about Israel my entire life!" <P>
I got them Jerry Seinfeld for their fund-raising dinner. <P>
The next year, I got them Joan Rivers for their fund-raising dinner. As the editor of RAVE, which was the Playbill of comedy clubs, I was glad to make some calls and get these things done, and help supervise the comedy portion of the evening. Joan Rivers said: "Of COURSE I'll do it. We're taking a beating." WE meaning The Jews. That included ISRAEL. <P>
I've had dinner with Jackie Mason, with Mort Sahl, with many of the great Jewish comedians...ones whose fame did not rest on films with titles such as “Sausage Party” and “Knocked Up.” <P>
Mel Brooks, Joan Rivers, Jerry Lewis...these are people from a generation or two before Seth's, who know exactly what anti-Semitism is, and how important a Jewish homeland is. My late friend Brother Theodore was not a religious Jew, but he was BURIED as one. I know. I took a shovel full of dirt and landed it on the plain wooden box he was in, and watched as the cemetery workers filled in the rest. What he told me of the concentration camp he was in — remains vivid in my memory. <P>
Rogen, at some point during the podcast, woefully noted that Israel came into being but...other people were on that land! Can you imagine? The Jews, who have been around longer than the Christians, and longer than the Muslims (that is, if you don't happen to believe crackpots like Malcolm X and Louise Farrakhan), had the NERVE to take back land that was stolen from them. <P>
And Rogen seems equally aghast that Jews would want to live in a "volatile" place where they are constantly being attacked and terrorized by NICE PEOPLE LIKE THE PLO and HAMAS and all kinds of superbly peaceful Palestinians. <P>
In other words, why fight when you should "gather up your things and get thee out?" <P>
Move? To where? A big reason there are "blue eyed Jew devils" in Israel (much to the misery of the Farrakhan and Malcolm types) is that Jews who looked like Kirk Douglas were kicked out of Russia, Ukraine, Poland, Germany, and everywhere else. When they turned up in France, England, Denmark and Sweden, they were attacked and punched and murdered. They had two choices: Israel or America. <P>
America is not a Jewish State. It is not a HOMELAND for the Jews...the wandering tribe of 2000 years. Israel is.<P>
Somehow, all the fine anti-Semites of the world, including Peter Gabriel, Patti Smith, Roger Waters, etc., fixate on Israel as the one country in the world that practices apartheid, won't allow anyone but their own, and is totally unwilling to compromise. The Palestinians? Lovely. They've put together peace plans galore that are very fair. (YEAH?) And as for North Korea, China, Boko Haram of Nigeria, Turkey, Syria, and all the other hot spots of the world, and that includes the border between England and Ireland...meh. No problem. Ethnic cleansing in Russia? Never heard of it. Coptic Christians being burned out of their churches in Egypt? Who cares. The ONLY thing that bothers so many people is ISRAEL. What a coincidence. That's where the Jews are. <P>
Seth Rogen is so concerned that Palestinians owned Israel? There are a lot of historians who say it does NOT belong to the Palestinians. <P>
Seth Rogan lives in America, and that land was owned by the Native Americans. NO question about that. He's not moving, is he? <P>
Fortunately there's been SOME backlash against Seth Rogen and other misinformed Jews ready to join Noam Chomsky in helping Jews all over the world get beaten up and killed. Oh, and after a Jew is dead, there is no rest because a tombstone can be desecrated. <P>
If you happen to get the Weisenthal Center reports, you know that Jews continue to be harassed and brutalized. In Sweden, of all places, a Jewish female doctor was harassed until she had to flee for her life. "Oh, that's just ONE incident..." The Weisenthal news magazine would be the size of an unabridged dictionary if it listed all the incidents of anti-Semitism in the world. It's increased, not decreased. <P>
The number of Nazi flags being waved, the number of crude cartoons being circulated, the number of death threats on the Internet...all on the rise. <P>
Meanwhile Seth Rogen seems to be figuring that there are enough second, third and fourth generation Jews, half-Jews, one-fourth Jews, and "I'm not religious" Jews around...that they'll always want to see his films and be very reasonable about the right to his opinion, and/or that somebody's opinion has nothing to do with his art. <P>
He's certainly not figuring that people "of color" are going to rush to see his Tevya Does Sleeper movie. <P>
Seth reminds me of a Woody Allen line about a Jew who was not Orthodox, not Conservative but "reformed. VERY reformed. A nazi." <P>
When people ask me about Israel, I tell them my own reasonable point of view: The Israelis are not saints. They are, in fact, pretty similar in looks and attitude to the Palestinians and to most of the others in the Middle East. They'll take land if they can grab it. They have a sense of entitlement. But they are NOT as nasty as to burn down churches, throw gays off roofs, circumcise women, or refuse to let somebody who isn't of their relgion play in a damn tennis tournament. If there's a conflict between Israel and Palestine, don't take sides any more rigidly than you would if it was England vs Ireland. There's plenty of room for negotiation and the issue isn't a simple "get out, you have no right to live there." <P>
The National Review, among others, wasn't thrilled with Rogens remarks and you can read all about it: <P>
<a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/07/why-seth-rogens-anti-israel-rant-matters/"> Why Seth Rogen's Anti-Israel Rant Matters </a>
And in case you're having link problems, here's a chunk of it: <P>
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Here's the last paragraph from The Jerusalem Post: <P>
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Right. The blasphemy. Endorsing promiscuity. The deliberate vulgarity on his show that made Dave shake his head. Not to mention her awful aerobic dancing, failed relationships and marriages, and increasingly lousy music and lyrics. So Lady Fake Eyepatch isn't seeing too clearly on the Covid issue? Watta surprise. <P> </b>
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How many MILLIONS of people shop at Trader Joe? MILLIONS! The stores are always packed. Many people only WISH there was a Trader Joe in the neighborhood...or MORE than one, as the lines are SO FUCKING LONG. <P>
But hey hey hey, a few thousand twerps with nothing better to do than make an online petition, actually got this company to twitter, quiver, and drop to one knee. <P>
Because, Lord Knows, they be RACIST. Why, LOOK AT THIS! The Trader Joe brand of TACO is affectionately called TRADER JOSE: <P>
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Hay-SOOOS CHRIST. <P>
What could be more horribly STEREOTYPICAL and DEGRADING to MEXICANS? <P>
Maybe THIS guy, Guillermo Rodriguez? <P>
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Ya think maybe GUILLERMO is to Mexicans what WILLIE BEST is to Blacks? <P>
But let's not get Jimmy Kimmel into any more trouble than he's in. Just last week everyone wanted to CANCEL him because a zillion years ago he blacked up to play a black celebrity in some dopey sketch, and what he did before everybody got WOKE almost got him fired. <P>
Back to Trader Joe. <P>
OK, "NO WAY JOSE," you can't use Trader Jose on a product anymore. <P>
And Trader Giotto. <P>
Instead of giving TRADER JOE's credit for IMPORTING FROM ITALY and offering AUTHENTIC ITALIAN CUISINE, the company gets a thousand clowns to whine and complain. <P>
Take a look at these products. The average stupid supermarket gives you some terrible generic pasta sauces and who the hell knows what CORPORATION owns Ronzoni or Ragu or Chef Boy-ar-Dee anymore? Certainly NOT Italians, certainly NOT the Italians that Trader Joe's works with and economically supports. <P>
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The customers at Trader Joe's all over the country are getting REAL Italian products made in Italy, and a REAL variety of sauces, and yet a thousand clowns complain and can feel GOOD about themselves for intimidating a company and making stores all the more paranoid about conforming to the scolds of idiots. <P>
I remember when these joints first opened, that a lot of ethnic food was available...that COULD NOT BE FOUND in other supermarkets. There was exotic Asian stuff. Exotic Latin stuff. Exotic Italian stuff. <P>
It seemed that when they put "Trader Giotto" on the label of some pasta, they were bowing to their Italian friends. As in, "We're not Italian, but we wish we were." and "We respect that the Italian name for Joe is GIOTTO, so we are CHANGING our name as a TRIBUTE." <P>
Suddenly, some bunch of limp-wristed pussified pouty Social-Disease Warriors in Seattle or wherever, decide to go after Trader Joe? With a petition? With nothing better to do? And Trader Joe CAVES? <P>
What kind of message does that send? That anyone at any time had better drop to one knee because a bunch of pin-heads are offended about something? <P>
Oh, not offended by child labor in China, by slavery in North Korea, or Boko Haram raping and killing other blacks because they're Christian and not MUSLIM. Nah. Be offended about a box of macaroni. <P>
Do you think in this sleepy version of "WOKE" culture, Julia Child would still be on the air? Maybe NOT. She was "The French Chef" but she was not FRENCH. She admired French cooking and was great at it, and was advocating it to other Americans who were intimidated or unfamiliar with the cuisine. But DAMN, the show was taped in Boston and not in Paris, and SAPRISTI, let's repeat, she was NOT FRENCH. And only FRENCH PEOPLE can make FRENCH FOOD, and SAPRISTI, maybe we should reach the State of Woke when ONLY FRENCH PEOPLE CAN EAT FRENCH FOOD. <P>
God damn. <P>
I was counting on Trader Jew's Gefilte Fish. With some Trader Jew's Horse Radish to kill the stink of the fish. <P>
Oh, stop right there. Let's have a petition! HORSE RADISH does not contain any HORSES. <P>
This is a damn outrage. It's false advertising. Not only is TRADER JOE "RACIST" but any company that makes Horse Radish is NOT WOKE and is MALICIOUS and deliberately DEVIANT and DEVIOUS and against animal rights! <P>
DAMN RIGHT. <P>
I also was figuring on Trader Jerk's Beef Jerky, but again, as the world deteriorates, as disease takes over, as North Korea and Russia and Iran and Iraq and Pakitan threaten nuclear destruction... <P>
....let's worry that Jerks will be offended at inauthentic jerk sauce. <P>
Trader Joe's insists it's been WOKE for a while, just a little sleepy. They've been aware of how HORRIBLY RACIST they are, and I guess aside from trying to eliminate as many white people from working in their stores, they've held plenty of meetings on how to get authentic Italians, Mexicans and Arabs to re-design the boxes for the next shipments of ethnic foods. <P>
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How...much...WORSE...will it get?<P>
You can see, can't you, the day when Trader Joe's TACOS will be pulled from the shelves because the Tacos were made in China, or were deemed too mild to actually be Mexican tacos? That only Latina cashiers should be processing customers who buy the politically correct TRADER JOE'S TACOS? <P>
I'm glad we won't be seeing Traitor Joe's frozen EGGS BENEDICT ARNOLD. <P>
I hope they pull their ALPHABET SOUP off the shelves, lest they offend and confuse dyslexics. <P>
Rather than SAVE the word RACIST for actually RACISTS who are currently harassing Jews, blocking immigration, keeping Asians in Chinatown, refusing to hire blacks, or taking pot shots at anyone in a turban...let's fling it at a Yuppie supermarket chain...one that has enough problems keeping crackpot white people from wandering around without a Covid mask on. <P>
The petition and the worry about the politically correct use of "JOE" on a box cover is a Trader JOKE. <P>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1668669324255318681.post-40441157716965476362020-07-21T10:16:00.002-07:002020-07-21T10:16:23.503-07:00"Woody Allen Could Care Less" or Don't Read Twitter Assholes<b>A friend of mine has, again, threatened "to say goodbye to Twitter." <P>
How many have said the same thing? It's like chocolate and cigarettes. It's bad for you. <P>
Who are on Twitter? Mostly unemployed crackpots with too much time on their hands. <P>
And a President who can't stop with opinionated insults and moronic statements -- as if he has to compete with Piers Morgan and Kanye West. <P>
Somehow, in glancing at the latest bilge, I saw THIS bit of pointless gripe-lunacy: <P>
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Huh? Like the UFO nuts, there are morons who can't shut the fuck up about Woody Allen. <P>
He doesn't have to even be in the news. If somebody ELSE is in the news for a sex scandal, go ahead, that's your cue, Pea Brain, do a "what about Woody Allen!" <P>
If somebody is ranting their anti-Semitic crap, THAT is a good excuse, too. Who knows what set this idiot off a few days ago. <P>
All you can do is correct the blatant lies if you're THAT pissed off about it, but really, "you can't cure stupid." Bigots will never stop, or as we say while adjusting our pants around our thighs, "Haters be hating." <P>
No, asshole, Woody Allen did NOT adopt a child from Asia. <P>
That was Mia Farrow. Do you have to have your head THAT far up your ass to not know that? <P>
Most anyone with even a vague knowledge of the Woody-Mia saga, and any command of the English language, knows that Farrow was an adopt-a-kid compulsive. Same as Angelina Jolie and Madonna. Oh, I feel like getting another kid. What color can I pick out this time? <P>
By the time Woody met Mia, Soon-Ye was already part of a daunting brood that he AVOIDED. <P>
So this yahoo not only insists Woody adopted an Asian girl to have sex with, but he was a Svengali who somehow got her to marry him. And force her to adopt two girls who have turned out perfectly? Do you think Mia Farrow ever had a longer-lasting relationship than Woody's had with Soon-Yi? <P>
Never mind, No Mind. <P>
Then he equates Woody with somebody who pisses on multiple women (some underage) for fun, and someone accused of using date rape drugs on multiple women. <P>
Somehow, it's Oprah's fault for not prosecuting Woody Allen. Punchline: "Pedophile right in your face." <P>
And as usual with Twitter, stupidity right in your face. <P>
Just another reminder that there are millions of absolutely dimwitted wastes of space on the planet, and they own computers and have Twitter accounts. <P>
I wondered what ELSE this "DZUNGLE" idiot was up to, and gee, it turns out English is a second language: <P>
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And yes, let's take him seriously about that Chinese conspiracy to cause a worldwide epidemic JUST to sell paper masks. Go ahead, share something bright from another dim bulb: <P>
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Nice one, Dung Heap. <P>
Now, Woody Allen's said in recent interviews that he "could care less," about morons who will NEVER believe him and instead think Mia Farrow is some kind of stable individual incapable of a vindictive lie. <P>
He ignores social media, and will go back to making low-view cult movies as soon as Covid-19 allows. <P>
He might be glad to know his fans pause to scold and correct idiots, but I doubt if he'd tell them that their outrage and annoyance is going to do any good. Better to GET OFF TWITTER and, like death, just try not to think about the number of slanderous self-righteous scuzzes and saps out there, and how many deranged have-nots are not only lacking fame and fortune and hate anyone who has either, but have a shortage of brain cells. <P>
My father used to say that the most dangerous people "are religious fanatics. You can't reason with them." <P>
He never knew about people with Twitter accounts. <P>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1668669324255318681.post-26540131865385060262020-07-21T09:48:00.000-07:002020-07-21T10:33:19.008-07:00Nigga, IMMA...Cosby yo' ASS? Whut? Y'all be REAL on Bill Cosby Pudding Pops Ol Rapey AssTwitter is like your old neighborhood. Once it was ok, but it got taken over by assholes. <P>
Some of your friends still live around there, and so you CAREFULLY try to visit them without getting your tires slashed or your peace of mind destroyed. <P>
I've discovered you can BLOCK words and names on Twitter. You don't have to see anything about such worthless icons as the Kardashians or Kanye. You don't have to read drivel about UFO's. You can be blissfully ignorant on the latest news about Bieber or Miley or whether they took down a statue of Jefferson or Hamilton or Woodrow Wilson to replace it with one of Tupac. <P>
But you do get CAUGHT by what's "trending." If it's the name of an older celebrity, you think: "Flash...this guy is DEAD." But it's usually just enough assholes (a few thousand apparently) wishing the star a Happy Birthday, along with some well-meaning remark like "I hope you stay alive for many more years." <P>
Among the comments and replies? Of course: "Thought he was dead!" <P>
The other day: <P>
BILL COSBY. <P>
Oh, NOW what. NOW what? Thanks to the hanging judge, Cosby is officially a "violent sexual predator," meaning he won't get out of jail even if he's risking Death-by-Covid. <P>
The man is legally blind, uses a wheelchair, needs help getting his daily medicines, is over 80 years old, but some asshole of a judge in Philadelphia figures this man is a "violent sexual predator" and if he isn't locked up while muggers half his age are let loose, along with every type of repeat-offending burglar, pickpocket and diseased whore, SOMETHING is going to happen. <P>
WHAT exactly? Cosby's case was front page news everywhere. It's not likely that any woman is going to come to his home, where he is on HOUSE ARREST, and share a drugged drink with him. <P>
BILL COSBY. <P>
OK, what the hell is going on? Is he dead? <P>
It turns out that for some reason, the mental case called Kanye West suddenly TWEETED a statement about NBC somehow being involved in the downfall of Cosby. <P>
No, Kanye didn't tell his porn-video wife, the one who can't stop posing naked or in her underwear, to go to her pal Donald Trump and get a pardon for Cos. No, he goes on TWITTER. <P>
The response was scorn and ridicule. <P>
Some of it was to the point. <P>
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Most of it is almost as ridiculous as what Kanye wrote. <P>
Somebody uses "remedial" and "argument" but then throws in "niggas." <P>
Cosby would wonder why after all that he and so many black leaders and educators have said about the word, people still use it. Carlin said that people who curse by saying "oh shoot" are fooling themselves: "Shoot is SHIT with two o's." And "nigga" is "nigger.' Using it because it's yours, like gays calling themselves "queer," is still an insult. Cosby rose above that kind of thing by, strength of will, ignoring it. I doubt Anderson Cooper calls himself "queer" and writes about "queer culture" rather than "gay culture" or "homosexual culture." What's next, using "fagga?" <P>
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At one time, Sinatra and Dean Martin would call each other "wop" on stage. They got over it. Because it was stupid. Just don't use stupid words, and consider those who do...to be stupid. <P>
That could be a lesson from the Cosby teaching guide -- the Jesse Jackson guide, the Dr. King guide, the Oprah guide...for people who would care to be dignified. <P>
As is TOO OFTEN the case, writing a Tweet is never good enough -- not when you can shove a REACTION MEME in everyone's face, too. <P>
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You know, that was always a problem with letters to the editor in the New York Times. NO PHOTOS. <P>
The above illiterately tells "yall" that you are "NOT gonna...act like Bill Cosby didn't drugged" anyone. <P>
Fortunately, Bill Cosby FAILED in some 30 years of trying to prove blacks can earn a PhD and use the English language properly. How much better YALL are to proudly use slang, and GONNA, and do the equivalent of wearing your pants around your ankles or twerk on the subway...use the worst grammar possible. <P>
Somehow, Blacks seem to think that YALL is all right, y'all. While they rant about anything that has to do with the South and the Civil War and the Confederacy and Slavery...somehow y'all is exempt. There's not the least waft of KKK to it. Not the least inference that it was used by evil sheriffs to blacks on chain gangs. <P>
It's right up there with yowza. That's also fine. "Did you see the new Marvel Comic Book movie? Yowza! What special effects! <P>
Let's ignore the truth about YOWZA, which is that it makes fun of the black slaves who cried out "Yessir" every time they were whipped and ordered to perform the most degrading of tasks. <P>
Shel Silverstein wrote and sang a song about how black people were "tired of saying YOWZA," and were standing up for their rights. It was around the time that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and the eventual Dr. William H. Cosby Jr. PhD were talking about black dignity. <P>
Somehow Y'ALL and YOWZAH are ok, but go ahead, tear down the statues of Dr. Sims in Central Park and revile Francis Scott Key, not on scholarship but because of somebody's flame-throwing torch-waving tweet, or the twisted and slanted report of an attention-seeking politician or columnist. It's always black and white, and no shades of gray, either. <P>
Tweets that simply said that Kanye was nuts -- again -- sure. <P>
Tweets that reminded him that Cosby is a convict and NBC had nothing to with that -- fine. <P>
An overwhelming percentage of people believe that even if the case for which he was convicted was a set-up (the woman had been paid off, and a district attorney assured both parties that all testimony was sealed), there were at least a dozen incidents of date-rape via drugs. Perhaps no violent rapes, but taking advantage of women just the same. Like getting Capone on tax evasion, or O.J. Simpson on using force to get back stolen memorabilia, most were not too upset that Cosby got sentenced. <P>
What about THIS? <P>
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It's troubling, the amount of illiterate venom that comes Cosby's way, almost all of it from Blacks under 40, who only see Cosby as Mr. Poundcake Speech...the old fuddy-duddy Uncle Tom who complained that his people needed to value an education, and not wear their pants around their thighs. P. Diddy and Jay-Z and Steve Harvey...they wear THEIR pants around their thighs? <P>
But Cosby was older, and he had the NERVE to go against the odds and instead of Sanford in a junkyard, or a lot of disfunctional families hurling insults at each other, he created a "wholesome" sitcom at a time when many pundits thought he was washed up and his show wouldn't last 13 weeks. <P>
His show became a hit, but an undercurrent of resentment brewed: here was a sell-out family that doesn't talk ghetto and dresses well, and acts like any other middle-class bunch would act. How crazy is THAT? Assimilation? How can one have ethnic pride in THAT? <P>
He was also the sell-out telling people to buy Jell-o Pudding y'all, when everybody KNOWS that Krispy Kreme Donuts are much better for you. (The number of times Krispy Kreme trends on Twitter because they're having a one-day sale....Christ...) <P>
By the time his sitcom was in re-runs, and he was slow-talking his ponderous prose about dignity and responsibility, a new generation was around. And pissed off. And ignorant of Cosby's place in Black history. <P>
Let's take another look at this all-too typical slam. Dis. Snap. Unda-da-bus-throw. <P>
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Does this person have any idea what Cosby accomplished before his self-caused downfall? If people solemnly tell you that "Mussolini got the trains to run on time," or that Chairman Mao made China powerful, do NOT disparage the good works of Bill Cosby, or what he fought for in the areas of civil rights and education. <P>
Why did I write the book on Cosby? The one school kids often had to read as an assignment? The library source for anyone wondering about where he came from and all his career achievements leading up to "The Cosby Show?" <P>
I wrote it because I was a fan of his comedy albums -- he had 5 million selling Gold albums in a row -- and everyone was in awe of his story-telling style. Groucho Marx was one of those who praised him constantly. I wanted to know how Cosby created that style, at a time of Dick Gregory's racial humor and Redd Foxx's underground dirty album sales. <P>
I went back to talk to his early managers, and discovered how much self-control and how much suppressed anger was involved in Cosby refusing to do black jokes. If Warners Bros. label mate Bob Newhart was just offering funny monologues, what tremendous equality if Cosby could do that, too. To just be accepted as a COMEDIAN. That was a tremendous thing. Take me for what I am: a funny guy. <P>
This was 1963, 1964, when there was so much stereotyping in all areas. What, a "lady doctor?" "What's that last name? Polish or something? Are you Jewish? Oy oy! Ha ha." "What, Cassius Clay is now Muhammad Ali??" <P>
I listened to those albums over and over, like hearing favorite bedtime stories. <P>
In the midst of his recording career, Cosby was offered "I Spy." He was the Jackie Robinson of TV. Only, imagine if Jackie Robinson had been offered a football contract. Jackie: "I'm a baseball player. Sign me to the Dodgers. Why are you signing me to something I don't know anything about?" <P>
Cosby was NOT an actor. He knew nothing about memorizing lines, staying on a mark, or anything else. Now he was in a pressure situation that involved an entire race. Fail, and it's a sign blacks are not ready to be co-starring in TV dramas...fail, and it won't just be a few Southern TV stations proud of NOT carrying the series, it'll be a sign that using blacks on TV is going to be a financial loss every time..." <P>
You know what happened. Co-star Robert Culp became a great friend of Bill's, and Bill won Emmy awards for the show, and it broke plenty of ice. <P>
Cosby was championing education. He was working with PBS. He was becoming a familiar and friendly black face on TV commercials. He was doing so much to project an image of equality and intelligence. Yes, it's a terrible tragedy that his personal life was so bizarre, but by the time anyone knew about it (including me) there was Oprah and Denzel Washington and so many other role models. <P>
Even back in the 70's there were people who simply felt that assimilation was bad. Everyone should be proud of their heritage, to the point of keeping accents, dressing ethnic, and refusing to become mainstream. Richard Pryor eclipsed Cosby as the important black stand-up comedian, and his act was...well, what WAS the name of his first hit album? "That NIGGER'S Crazy." Was that a fluke? No, soon after: "Bicentennial Nigger." <P>
There's always been a debate over the word, and Pryor himself flip-flopped on it. Then came "Nigga." Go figga. <P>
Read that Tweet. That's what Cosby was against. His generation was against it, and a significant number of younger people were, too. But plenty saw it as a matter of defiant pride to call each other "Nigga," and to invent the language of rap, and to seize on Southern bigot terms like "Y'all" and to create "ebonics." Hell, Whitey, "you a racist! You be bad! Not just you, but all of y'all!" <P>
And so there were Tweets, too many, lapsing into this "proud" black dialect, as if Cosby and Oprah are Uncle Ben and Aunt Jemima, and ignorance is something to be proud of instead. <P>
"Niggas act..." what IS that? Why promote that? <P>
"...like Bill Cosby died on the cross for they ass." <P>
Can't say "for their ass," because that's the white man's language? Good grammar is betraying being black? <P>
"I will never understand." <P>
Hopefully, that's not going to be the case. As we've wobbled through affirmative action, and what is or isn't politically correct, and who should get special favors and for how long, we will come back to what was good about Bill Cosby -- his humor, his respect for education, his belief in family, and so much more. We will accept he was a very, very flawed human and did not always practice what he preached. <P>
We will understand that doing research just might tell us Dr. Sims was not evil, that our founding fathers were as ignorant about slavery as the Pharoahs who imprisoned the Jews, or the Danish colonizing Latin countries or the Dutch and British and French thinking that the Africans and Native Americans were lesser people, or Boko Haram torturing Nigerian women today. <P>
We will all take pride in our heritage and others will also respect who we are, so that idiot words like Nigga and Wop and Queer and Heeb are not spoken just to provoke and jab back at idiots. There will always be some idiots out there, but there numbers are decreasing. Cosby did his part when his clean, family style influenced a generation of comedians, and his TV commercials and TV shows proved that a minority could sell to a majority. <P>
Cosby never "died on the cross," no, but he died hundreds of times on small stages in Philadelphia and New York City perfecting a groundbreaking style of comedy, and he went through intense pressure making "I Spy" a hit, and he put himself on the line for every racist and nutjob who considered him another uppity Dr. King whose place belonged six feet under. All of that was difficult, and more. Donating millions and millions to black colleges, and promoting black artists...he did that, too. Nobody is condoning or minimizing the pain and humiliation he caused, but neither should anyone ignore or be ignorant of the good he contributed. <P>
As his biographer, I experienced some bizarre moments of racism and lethal ignorance, which gave me a slight, slight fraction of an idea of what Bill went through. <P> Just two examples. In a very cultured setting, a sophisticated woman came up to me and asked, "And what do YOU do..." "I'm a writer," I said. "Oh, what kind of things do you write?" "Books on comedy, reference books...I wrote a biography of Bill Cosby." "Oh. Can he read?" <P>
That stopped me. Stopped me cold. I did not expect ignorance and racism from this sell-spoken woman. We've all experienced coarseness, rudeness, perhaps nasty comments on our race, religion or looks, but usually you can literally SEE it coming. The blithe way this women doubted that William H. Cosby Jr. PhD could even read...<P>
The other incident, as I could give you dozens but this has already stretched too long. I opened up what I thought was a fan letter. It came to me c/o the book company, after all. It was a man urging me to do something about Bill Cosby. As his biographer, I had to know that Cosby had special powers, so please, make him stop. This man insisted over several hand-written pages that Cosby was torturing him via thought control, disrupting his sleep, creating noises in his head...."<P>
Of all people to accuse. The guy with the hit family sitcom? That's when this letter arrived...when my book was first published, not the second or third time. (Cosby: "You put out another edition of the book? You keep revising it!" Me: "You've done new TV shows and movies!") <P>
You can imagine the people waiting for Cosby at the stage door after a show...the kind of letters and threats he got while trying to provide inoffensive comedy routines and escapist spy-adventures on records and on TV. <P>
"Nigga act like Bill Cosby died on the cross for they ass. I will never understand." <P>
We may never understand what was behind the sense of entitlement and the egotism and the power games that involved the date rape drugs. We may not even fully be aware of what, if any, strange behavior was going on in determining when to cancel one of Bill's TV shows, or when NOT to hire him for a movie. But just as the historians will tell you what good things Francis Scott Key did and Dr. Sims did, so it is with Cosby. <P>
Anyone bother to understand that those Jell-o ads that 20-somethings make fun of, were pioneering? That they paved the way for using a minority to sell to a majority? That this was a GOOD thing? <P>
Cosby wasn't just some geezer who once had a sitcom and was ruining the fun by shaming sidewalk assholes who had no job but could wear their pants on their thighs. To resent somebody for scolding you for not being adult is understandable, but to deny that the person is right? THAT is something hard to understand. <P>
It's always a good idea to go to a library once in a while. It's never a sign of intelligence to scoff, "that was before my time," and leave it at that. Perhaps "I Spy" and those old records and old speeches aren't as important as watching a 3D movie or listening to rap or playing video games, but at least know about that stuff. <P>
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Good for Cat Stevens, or Yusuf, or Giorgio, or whatever he wants to call himself. Good for his mewly, tremble-lipped fans (mostly female and gay). And how fortunate that none of his acolytes had the wrist-strength to actually follow Cat's advice and stab Rushdie, behead him, or whatever it is that followers of Islam do to people who say or write things they don't agree with. <P>
Stevens was a has-been in 1989, an obscure scholarly fellow dressed in a beanie, who had turned his back on such horrible things as soft rock music. <P>
February 21 1989. He's now Yusuf Islam, and giving a lecture on Islam. Hey, why not join this fine, fine religion? Why not learn more about how peaceful it is? <P>
He was asked about the spindly, nasty King of Islam or whatever you want to call him, the bearded prophet of all things Holy, and representative of Allah on Earth. You may remember. The guy who was taking American hostages? Wasn't that him? The guy who wanted to wipe Israel off the face of the Earth? The guy who insisted that anyone not believing as he does, is a heathen and a sub-species? Some SHIT like that? <P>
He was definitely the guy who declared that the writings of Salman Rushdie were a blasphemy punishable by DEATH. You see, this fine, fine religion of peace endorses "FATWA." Somehow not too many religions do. To quote William Shatner in a satiric rap, "What about the men who say 'Do as I do. Believe in what I say, for your own good, or I'll kill you!' I can't get behind that! <P>
Guess who COULD get behind that? <P>
Mr. "Peace Train" that's who. <P>
Someone asked if, in endorsing this religion and turning his back on the name "Cat Stevens," he believed everything his Ayatollah done tol' him. Like Salman Rushdie, an author with possibly more literary skills than he, should be put to death for writing a book? <P>
"He must be killed. The Qur'an makes it clear – if someone defames the prophet, then he must die."<P>
End of sentence. End of Rushdie. <P>
Rushdie went into hiding, and really, for quite a long time, and perhaps even now, he's lived with a slightly more vivid version of "we're all gonna die" than most. Not everyone has to worry that a safe is going to fall on their heads or they'll be run over by a Mister Softee truck. Or that one of the many violent fanatics of Islam will decide that instead of blowing up an Ariana Grande concert or the Boston Marathon, they'll just stalk Rushdie and put an end to him. <P>
This is SERIOUS shit, Mr. Yusuf. Christ, (excuse me), somebody could've killed Rushdie in 1989, and said "Cat Stevens said to do it." <P>
Can you imagine? Stevens would've said, "Who is Cat Stevens? That's not me." <P>
OK, he could've said, "Yes, I'm Yusuf Islam. I said I believe in an old book written before there was toilet paper, microscopes, or we learned that the clouds do not contain angels. Sorry about Rushdie, but if it's in the book, it's in the book. It's really too bad he had to be blasphemous and WRITE SOMETHING MY PEOPLE DIDN'T LIKE." <P>
As you often find with religious fanatics, Cat Yusuf is in his own bubble. On his website: <P>
"I never called for the death of Salman Rushdie; nor backed the Fatwa issued by the Ayatollah Khomeini—and still don’t. The book itself destroyed the harmony between peoples and created an unnecessary international crisis." <P>
He merely said: ""He must be killed. The Qur'an makes it clear – if someone defames the prophet, then he must die."<P>
A decade later, in a Rolling Stone interview, he muttered: <P>
"I'm very sad that this seems to be the Number 1 question people want to discuss. I had nothing to do with the issue other than what the media created." <P>
You remember the Nazi excuse? "We ere just following orders?" Here's Cat Stevens' excuse: <P>
"I was innocently drawn into the whole controversy....At a lecture, back in 1989, I was asked a question about blasphemy according to Islamic Law, I simply repeated the legal view according to my limited knowledge of the Scriptural texts, based directly on historical commentaries of the Qur'an. The next day the newspaper headlines read, "Cat Says, Kill Rushdie." I was abhorred, but what could I do? I was a new Muslim. If you ask a Bible student to quote the legal punishment of a person who commits blasphemy in the Bible, he would be dishonest if he didn't mention Leviticus 24:16." <P>
See? He had a "limited knowledge" of his religion. Except he was advocating murder. You know, if you declare that somebody should be killed, you might be guilty of a crime. Even Facebook and Twitter will throw you off if you declare you think somebody should be killed. <P>
Despite Islamic law, the general law in the world is you DO NOT KILL SOMEBODY FOR WRITING A BOOK. <P>
Aw, forgive and forget. He's really not Yusuf. He's Cat Stevens. <P>
Cat. Cool Cat. He wrote garbage songs like "I Love My Dog." He wrote condescending pedophiliac love songs like: "Oooh baby it's a wild world. I'll always remember you as a CHILD, GIRL." <P>
I remember in a college English class, a Cat Stevens acolyte timidly approaches my teacher, Diane Fortuna, with a copy of "Teat for the Tillerman," or whatever it was called. <P>
"This man is a great poet, I think," said the acolyte. <P>
Prof. Fortuna read some of the lyrics. "He's not a poet," she said. She pretty much dismissed him as a level below a Hallmark Card writer. <P>
Back then, I did think that despite his moronic singing style, which included soft crooning and then raspy frustration, one or two of his items weren't too bad. "Sad Lisa" was one. Something about a girl who cried on his shirt: "She must be hurt very badly. What's making you sadly?" <P>
I dunno, maybe she was crying because some Islamic asshole declared a fatwa on her father. <P>
Damn, she was wetting one of those puffy-sleeve shirts of his, made out of pure silk? She MUST be hurt very badly...rock stars throw groupies like that into the hallway. <P>
Aw, forgive and forget. Remember? That's what Jon Stewart did, and you don't get any more sanctimonious than Jon. The man is a walking bundle of sensitive and bearded nerve-endings. He was part of a rally to (get this) "Restore Sanity in Washington D.C.," and hired Cat Stevens to be there. Yes, Cat Stevens, Mr. Sanity himself, the guy who told the WORLD, not Washington D.C., that if an old religious nutjob declares a man must die, he must DIE. <P>
Rushdie? He told Stewart: "he's not a good guy. It may be that he once sang 'Peace Train'... but he hasn't been Cat Stevens for a long time, you know. He's a different guy now." <P>
To his credit, Jon listened: "I said, 'look, I'm sorry you're upset, but I'm sure the guy isn't really like that. Let me talk to him." Islam said the whole thing was a "misunderstanding", but added "although why do you have to insult the Prophet?" We get into a whole conversation, and it becomes very clear to me that he is straddling two worlds in a very difficult way, and it broke my heart a little bit. I wish I had known (about the 1989 remark)...because that to me is a deal breaker. Death for free speech is a deal breaker." <P>
But Happy Birthday Giorgio-Cat-Yusuf anyway. I'll always remember you like a child, girl. <P>
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Who is Edoardo Snotti or whatever his name is? Did either take a college course in running a government? No, all they need to do is ride on royal pumpkins through the streets of Grimsby, waving to the coarse, obese tattooed bints who actually believe "them's better 'n me. Gawd luv 'em and save 'em."
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Say something nice about the French: they invented the guillotine and ended the ridiculous excesses of Marie Antoinette and other "blue bloods" who stained red the basket that caught their heads.
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It is almost quaint that at a time when Blacks are rioting and looting, and Muslims are blowing up rock concerts and marathon races, that England continues to stubbornly refuse to enter the 21st Century. What massive revolution are they waiting for? Maybe that's why Meghan and her Brillo-headed Nazi hubby Harry moved to California? They didn't want to be marched out into the street?
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It is certainly enough of an outrage the way most every government wastes tax money. England offers official portraits of weddings that say: "we're better than you, so sigh over our gowns and waistcoats and wish us only the best."
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Prince Andrew the Pedophile Pervert. There's another waste of UK money. Then we have the absurdity of woolly-haired Prince Harry the Nazi and his Kardashian-esque gold-digging bride. And on and on. It's all tolerated. Prince Andrew? The Royals put up a stiff upper lip in ignoring his wretched excesses, and absurd American magazines (of the not-yet-extinct "Town and Country" and "New Yorker" variety) and dry newspapers turn their noses up to try and avoid the stink, and to not see the outrage. <P>
The N.Y. Times (aka the Gray Lady) in an article updated on January 27, 2020 is still hoping that, yes, while Prince Andrew is a BIT of a rotter, all will be forgot and never brought to mind: <P>
"The British monarchy has survived public crises before -- religious schisms, revolutions, murderous kings — but....Prince Andrew...struggled to defend himself as he talked about his friendship with Jeffrey Epstein..." Struggled, but wasn't arrested, Thank God. God Save the Prince! <P>
The inference is that the MONARCHY will SURVIVE, and really, all it takes is a lovely royal wedding (commoners not invited of course) to put things right. A psychiatrist might, MIGHT, be able to explain why people who apparently don't believe in Jesus Christ, don't believe in themselves, don't believe in the long list that John Lennon decried, turn their lonely eyes to this Princess Beatrice (as they did to Kate and Meghan) with the naive fervency with which a child observes her birthday cake. <P>
Indeed, it has always been that way. I am a humble student of the good side of British culture, and I even know the traditional folk songs and music hall ballads. I know many by heart. One of them "The Bastard King of England," describes a merry wedding, the kind that the foolish British public (and fools around the world) adore so much. After describing social diseases and bisexuality (British homosexual infects potential suitor of the lady the King would like to marry) it ends this way: <P>
"They had a royal wedding. <BR>
All his subjects wished him well. <BR>
The dancers danced without their pants <BR>
and so did the king as well. <BR>
His only outer garment <BR>
was a dirty yellow shirt <BR>
with which he tried to hide his hide <BR>
but he couldn't hide the dirt. <BR>
He was dirty and lousy and full of fleas <BR>
but he had his women by twos and threes - <BR>
God Bless the Bastard King of England!"<P>
What can we say about Beatrice? That her hygiene may be better? Is that worth the millions that she and her Royals squander as they preserve the notion of their superiority? Ah, there's a SLIGHT nod to the real world. There's some social distancing between Beatrice and her fop, and the Queen and hers. <P>
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