Movie, Movie, Movie

Tell me WHY I was awake at 4AM thinking about movies I’ve loved and haven’t seen in years. You know, if I were to have a library of film, these would NEED to be included.

Two by John Sayles – I imagine he’s made a bunch more brill flicks but these are the two I’ve seen and gotta have in the Maderer Memorial Film Library.

The Brother from Another Planet – Joe Morton is an escaped mute, space alien, slave trying to find a new life on Earth. His spaceship crash lands on Ellis Island and he ends up in Harlem. He finds work, community, and tries to avoid the slave catchers.

Return of the Secaucus Seven – seven friends spend a weekend together in New Hampshire. It’s a reunion of college activist chums plus an extra or two. Relationship dramas, basketball, skinny-dipping, a dead deer, an overnight in jail – a winding story ensues. 

The Big Chill was the glammed up, big money, nostagia-soundtrack, Hollywood, rip off of this.

Daughters of the Dust – an astoundingly beautiful movie by Julie Dash.

In 1902, a multigenerational family in the Gullah community on the Sea Islands off of South Carolina—former West African slaves who carried on many of their ancestors’ Yoruba traditions—struggle to maintain their cultural heritage and folklore while contemplating a migration to the mainland, even further from their roots. (source) 

Liquid Sky – I don't recall the story line at all BUT the movie resonated heavily because it reminded me SO much of a night I spent at a bar/club in Chicago. It was summer of 1978 or '79 and my second season with a traveling carnival. That summer we mostly traveled from neighborhood to neighborhood on the South Side with occasional forays into the suburbs. One night, after the show shut for the night, one of the ride jocks and I went to the punk club O'Banion's. Swear to god, whoever dreamed up the sets for Liquid Sky had spent a few nights at O'Banion's.

Big Night - in the 1950s, two Italian immigrant brothers on the Jersey Shore run a restaurant which is not thriving despite its great chef. The brothers arrange for a big night as a way to boost the restaurants profile – a five course free banquet with jazz/swing celeb singer Louis Prima as guest of honor. Food porn, joy, drama, and comedy follow.

God, what a great flick!

Come Back to the 5 & Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean – this is the movie where I discovered, and fell in love with, Robert Altman (yeah, somehow I missed everything he did before 1980 – go figure) and found out that Cher can really act. A James Dean fan club in a small West Texas town reunites after 20 years. 

I saw this movie when it came out 44 years go and it still comes to mind as a true classic.

The Adventures of Baron Munchausen – who doesn’t love a Terry Gilliam movie? I mean, really now. This is Baron von Munchausen’s surreal journey to save a town from defeat. He’s swallowed by a sea-monster, takes a trip to the moon (whose King is played by an uncredited Robin Williams), dances with Venus and escapes from the Grim Reaper.

I TOTALLY need to see this again. All I’m really remembering now is how visually dazzling this was.

Run Lola Run – Lola’s boyfriend, who’s a bagman, is on the U-Bahn on his way to deliver big money to his dangerous bosses. He loses the loot and has 20 minutes to come up with replacement dough (or the original) or he gets offed. Somehow it’s up to Lola to save the day. Three different possible scenarios are played out with much running. 

Just watching this, I feel like I get a good cardio workout.

Stop Making Sense – yes, I know I can’t hear the music anymore but, Jesus Psycho Killer Christ, the energy levels, the visuals, the drumming! As with Lola, just watching this, I feel like I get a solid cardio workout.

Fellini's 8½ – question: WHY is it always referred to as Fellini’s 8½? Was there another 8½? Ya know, Kronbachl’s 8½?  Stawarski’s 8½? Leichenberg 8½? 

Marcello Mastroianni (swoon) plays Guido Anselmi, a director whose new project – an epic science fiction movie – is collapsing around him, as is his life. I remember surreal humor. FABULOUS. My absolute favorite Fellini film.

Derivative pedophile director, Woody Allen ripped it off to make Stardust Memories. Yes, yezzz, I know it's usually called an hommage. This was my favorite of the kid fucker's movies, back before I knew of his extreme heinousosity.

Léon: The Professional – who doesn’t love a flick about an assassin who’s good with kids and platns?

Blade Runner – of fucking course!

Alien Resurrection – the best of the series, in my opinion.

Zardoz – oh C’MON! It was the early ‘70s and it was awesome.

All About Eve

To Sir, With Love

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

Wings of Desire

Smoke Signals

Truly, Madly, Deeply – I went to see this by myself after Kevin died. Good thing and smart that I went to an early matinee on a weekday. I ugly, sloppy cried AND laughed throughout. God, I was a mess but WHAT a good movie.

Good Morning, Vietnam

The Fisher King 

There's so many more that I want to see again. Put me in a darkened room in a comfy chair with snacks, cranberry juice and a way to order in/order up the flicks and I may never come out. 

And now for something completely different

It’s Saturday. Valentines Day. The temperature in Valhalla MAY actually rise above freezing today!!! 

It’s a fine day to engage in some self care. Ya know, NOT doomscroll all damn day. At the very least, I'll severely limit my news reading. I can start a new book instead. The Librarians by Sherry Thomas just popped up as available on Libby. I do love murder mysteries. 

I’ll get back on the damn elliptical later too. Yesterday I was a complete and total slug – some days are like that. The trick is not beating myself up about it. It’s okay, a good idea even, to take a couple days off each week. I think what gets me tense is that I’m  afraid of falling victim to Newton's First Law of Motion. The part where an object (i.e. ME) at rest stays at rest. I can absolutely see myself doing just that. In my last life I was, undoubtedly, an exceedingly pampered, lazy house cat.

So then, here’s a boatload of memes and such which have nothing to do with the horrors our government is currently perpetrating. 

You’re welcome.

Whose side are you on?

Stephen Miller’s war on Minnesota, absurdly calling itself an immigration crackdown as government thugs kidnap innocents,  murder U.S. citizens and imprison Native Americans, is supposedly coming to an end. I’ll believe it when…I don’t know what it’ll take for me to believe it. Announcements made by this lying-ass administration are no more than tall stacks of fresh, stinking hippo shit, dressed up in pin stripes and, occasionally, a pink satin bow.

Hamfaced Homan said “Operation Metro Surge” can close out because:

"As a result of our efforts here Minnesota is now less of a sanctuary state for criminals.” 

Minnesota never was a “sanctuary state for criminals” you bloated sack of lying, worm-riddled, moldy cabbages. 73% of those arrested had NO criminal record and only 6% of those arrested had violent convictions. ICE arrested a 2-year-old with an active asylum case. A TWO YEAR OLD! There was some fuss about Somali community fraud. Only 23 of those arrested were from Somalia and NONE of them had any links to the fraud cases under investigation. DHS is flat out lying.

"Operation Metro Surge” – these war waging assholes always have to come up with what they think is a clever name for their destructive, barbarous, murderous campaigns, don’t they? It’s as though they’ve never matured beyond the age of 10. They’re playing war games with their neighborhood gang. Their game? Lord of the Flies. What a bunch of dangerously stupid, infantile, histrionic clowns.

You may want to sit this one out, boyo.
The woman in the bathrobe is clearly the alpha here.

Also, yesterday, I think it was yesterday, ICEholes rammed a car containing a person they intended to kidnap. That person was taken away in an ambulance. A crowd had gathered though, including a woman who had dashed out of her house in nothing more than a bathrobe and slippers. She was filming the armed, illegal, government goons. The people of Minneapolis are mad as hell and they’re not putting up with this shit anymore.

Bathrobe Woman is Minnesota Public Radio News reporter/producer Sam Stroozas and she’s a hero. Leila Navidi of the Minneapolis Star Tribune caught the moment.

Where will the ICEholes invade next? In what cities will residents need to guard against kidnappings and murders by roving bands of armed, masked, war-playing, government gangbangers? Chicago, Boston (and the surrounding towns and cities), and Charlotte, North Carolina have been mentioned. 

It’s important to seriously note what’s gone down in Minnesota – study the ways ICE moved. Fer instance, according to Kelsey Speer, a Minneapolis author:

Jack Ohman

1. ICE gets sneaky. They came in loud to Minneapolis, but when we weren't intimidated into submission, they had to change tactics. They put bumper stickers like "Coexist," "Fuck Ice," and even "Student Driver" on their cars to try to blend in. They wear flannel over their tactical gear. They hide additional agents under blankets in the backseat. They pretend to be press or parents at school pickup, asking questions about how they can get involved.

2. They will send agents in plainclothes to try and lure people outside. Sometimes they will go into a restaurant and say they hit someone's car in the parking lot and want to pay damages, then when the victim goes outside, they're dragged into an SUV and taken. Or they will go into an apartment complex and pull the fire alarm, forcing people to evacuate so they can nab people. And to be crystal clear, they have to resort to this shit because they DO NOT HAVE JUDICIAL WARRANTS. 

3. They will infiltrate your signal groups. In fact, assume that they have. Do not use your real name, do not share personal information about yourself or other people. If someone is asking questions and something feels a little off, TRUST YOUR GUT and do not give them any info. You will constantly be walking a thin line between working with your neighbors and being suspicious of everyone. 

More tips here.  

The paranoid is never entirely mistaken.
~ Sigmund Freud
 

Portrait of a Lunatic Harpy

I confess I didn’t watch the House judiciary committee hearing yesterday where Prez Pedo’s personal lawyer, the in-name-only Attorney General, defended the so-called justice department’s handling of the Trump/Epstein files. Below are bits and pieces I found in various news reports. I gotta wonder – are Bondi and her fellow evil doers on the ropes and crashing out or is this just their normal rabid rottweiler on crack horseshit?

In an exchange with California Rep. Ted Lieu, Bleach Bondi earned herself a solid new moniker. She will now be known as Perjury Pam. 

Lieu asked whether Trump had ever attended a party with underage girls. She histrionically replied:

“This is so ridiculous,” Bondi said. “And they are trying to deflect from all the great things Donald Trump has done. There is no evidence that Donald Trump has committed a crime. Everyone knows that.” (*cough* 34 felonies SO FAR *cough*)

Lieu responded that he believed that answer amounted to a crime – lying under oath – since Trump’s name appears in many instances in the files....

“Don’t you ever accuse me of committing a crime,” Bondi yelled back at Lieu. (source)  

HAH! What a guilty-ass, junior high, mean girl drama queen.
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Eleven Epstein/Trump survivors were in court yesterday. Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal asked them to stand and raise their hands if Perjury Pam or anyone at the justice department had refused to meet with them.  

Every single one of them raised their hands. 

No surprise that earlier in the hearing, Perjury Pam, gave out this empty weasel shit soundbite “The FBI is waiting to hear from you. I want you to know that any accusations of criminal wrongdoing will be taken seriously and investigated.” 

Yeah sure, bitch.

Jayapal urged Bondi to apologize to the victims for the justice department’s (intentionally?) shoddy handling of redactions. To which Perjury Pam reacted hysterically saying, “I’m not going to get in the gutter with this woman.”  

Oh honey, Jayapal’s on the surface. You’re the one swimming in sewage. I understand, after swallowing so much billionaire bullshit, you just can’t see where you’re standing anymore. 

PP and the DOJ aren’t interested in justice. They’re all about covering up crimes for their lords and masters. 
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Apparently, not having truth, righteousness, or even a teaspoon of basic decency on her, Bondi brought a binder full of insults to hurl. Somehow I’ve never imagined it being appropriate for the Attorney General of the United States to be screeching out playground taunts like:

“You don’t tell me anything. You’re a washed-up loser lawyer. You’re not even a lawyer" 

This, to Congressman Jamie Raskin a lawyer, law professor, and U.S. rep. for Maryland's 8th district since 2017. By the by he earned his JD magna cum laude from Harvard Law and was an editor of Harvard Law Review. He was a professor of Constitutional Law for 25 years. 

Bondi got her law degree at Stetson University, a D list school named for the maker of ridiculous hats. It’s located in a state infamous for drunks and the general insanity of a large number of its population.
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Rep. Joe Neguse (D-CO) asked Perjury Pam why she hired the convicted felonious J6 rioter Jared Wise as a senior Justice Department adviser.

Rep. Joe Neguse (D-CO) : This is an individual whom a federal grand jury indicted for two felonies and four misdemeanors related to his participation in the attack on January 6th. One of those charges was forcibly assaulting, resisting, opposing, impeding, intimidating, and interfering with police with the intent to commit another felony.

This is who you choose, as the Chief Law Enforcement Officer of the United States of America, to hire at the Department of Justice. Someone on video yelling “kill him” at police officers? Right? (source) 

PP responds saying that Wise was pardoned by Trump.

Mike Luckovich

Neguse comes back with: Oh, he was PARDONED! You’re right. Pardoned by President Trump for his offense, pardoned for yelling kill him at police officers.

And yet you expect hardworking police officers across the country to believe that you take law enforcement seriously.

I include this just to underscore that Perjury Pam is MOST DEF Trump’s personal layer. She does NOT work for the American people and def not those in the Trump/Epstein files.
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Rep Balint (D-VT) asking about Trump’s knowledge of Epstein ties of cabinet nominees: “These are senior members of the administration. This is not a game, Secretary.”

Bondi: “It’s Attorney General.”

Balint: “My apologies, I couldn’t tell.”

Mike Luckovich

Meanwhile Jasmine Crockett didn’t waste her allotted five minutes asking questions that PP would just respond to with lies, insults, grandstanding, and juvenile histrionics. Crockett laid out PP and the DOJ’s failures and facts to the room and the public watching at home. She talked about PP in the third person as though Bondi wasn’t there.

Crockett closed with the perfect read on Bondi: 

“The fact of the matter is you will be remembered as one of the worst attorney generals in history, an attorney general who has prioritized obstruction of justice, corruption over the law, fealty to the president over loyalty to the constitution.”

The fact that the survivors have to fight the President and his administration JUST to get the  recognition that pedophilia is vile, depraved, disgusting, cruel, flat-out wrong, AND illegal says it all. The Republican Party is full of pedophiles and racists.

The Humanity Deficit

Re: the Trump/Epstein files and the horrors within – the words of a few authors come to mind.

William Gibson in Count Zero

And, for an instant, she stared directly into those soft blue eyes and knew, with an instinctive mammalian certainty, that the exceedingly rich were no longer even remotely human.

F. Scott Fitzgerald in The Rich Boy 

Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me. They possess and enjoy early, and it does something to them, makes them soft where we are hard, and cynical where we are trustful, in a way that, unless you were born rich, it is very difficult to understand. They think, deep in their hearts, that they are better than we are because we had to discover the compensations and refuges of life for ourselves. Even when they enter deep into our world or sink below us, they still think that they are better than we are. They are different. 

Captain Underpants (Trump friend, former law professor, and disgraced human, Alan Dershowitz) called Epstein’s young victims liars, prostitutes, sluts, and druggies. Imagine that. A hit dog’s gonna holler, eh? He did everything except shout out, big and bold,  “I was one of Epstein’s most frequent and loyal customers. I’ve raped countless young teenagers.”

Guffo

He announced that the victims (THE VICTIMS, FFS!!!) could be charged with crimes (like what, you sad, moldy green bean?) AND he's threatening to sue them. That’s obviously not gonna happen because then there’d be discovery and all sorts of nasty things would come crawling out that Alan would really rather leave buried in the dark.

This is an intimidation tactic. We’ve seen it a zillion times before. Remember when the First Hooker was gonna sue Hunter Biden for more than a billion for restating the fact that Epstein introduced her and Pedo? Funny how that suit just vanished, huh? Remember when Pedo dropped his $500 mill lawsuit against his former fixer, Michael Cohen? The discovery process is some scary shit when you’ve got as many ghosts and dead bodies that need to stay buried as they do. Trump’s still trying to fuck that I’m-gonna-sue chicken but the whole world knows the game now. 

So then…Pedowitz? He can fuck ALL the way off. He can go back to whining about not being invited to parties on the Vineyard and being banned by a pierogi vendor at a farmers market in West Tisbury. Of course he threatened to sue. What a pathetic clown.

Drew Sheneman

Back to these billionaire, entitled freaks, John Scalzi (who is NOT a billionaire, entitled freak) asks,

Is one required to become a pedophile when one becomes a billionaire because I gotta tell you right about now the correlation seems pretty high.

There is in fact a relationship between wealth and shit behavior. Berkeley psychologists Paul Piff and Dacher Keltner ran seven studies looking at whether wealth and prestige effect empathy. 

Piff and his colleagues suspect that the answer may have something to do with how wealth and abundance give us a sense of freedom and independence from others. The less we have to rely on others, the less we may care about their feelings. This leads us towards being more self-focused. 

…Piff and his colleagues found that wealthier people are more likely to agree with statements that greed is justified, beneficial, and morally defensible. These attitudes ended up predicting participants’ likelihood of engaging in unethical behavior. (source) 

Bas Van Der Schot

You're shocked. Yeah, me too.

If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people He gives it to.
~ Maurice Baring 

You can't be obscenely, filthy rich without being filthy and obscene. The Trump/Epstein files prove that. Having said all this, I’m with Dottie, I’d quite like to give being a millionaire a go. Ya know, maybe I could just test drive it around the block. A single mill would be fine – I'm not greedy.

I don't know much about being a millionaire, but I'll bet I'd be darling at it.
~ Dorothy Parker 

Can I Get A Clue Here?

Do you think Prez Pedo or VP Many Names have any idea as to how much they’re despised?

I think it’s just beginning to dawn on Pedo that his audience is shrinking. I mean, he knew he had to get Musk to fix the election so he’d ‘win.’ Afterwards though, I think he ended up believing his own lie – that he won in a landslide. Now he gets occasional criticism from the stray Republican congresscritter and no longer sees absolute blind adoration from 100% of his rabid masses. It maybe rattles him...more than a wee bit.

Vance? Unclear. He’s not quite as dimwitted and delusional as Pedo but is JD at all self-aware? Tremendously questionable.

I don’t necessarily think Vance has a detectable, measurable moral core but I believe he MAY, to some  degree, be attempting to adhere to a very loose structure of respectable, civilized adult behavior. It's sort of like he's an alien – completely unfamiliar with decent human values but he's read the instruction manual, How to be Human. It was translated into Gorn via Google Translate.

Our first Gorn VP grasps that:

•  It would probably be looked on as not good if I killed someone but it’s okay to defend one of my employees who has committed murder.  
•  I shouldn’t make racist comments or praise Hitler and his tactics (at least not where anyone would hear me) but it’s okay to defend people who do so. 
•  Lying about people – e.g. calling innocent people assassins and terrorists is wrong but…oh, oopsie…I've done that. Nevermind. 

The always failing fraudster's not at Trump’s snake oil pitchman performance level and it's unlikely he ever will be. Mr. They’re-Eating-The-Cats-and-Dogs just doesn’t have the same slimy con talent and innate, vile instincts as the Pedophile in Chief. I suspect those might be incompatible with Gorn physiology. Just a hunch.

Jack Ohman

Trump would sell his daughter for a dollar (maybe he has – only the Trump/Epstein files know for sure) and his mother for 50 cents. Vance? If it would please Peter Thiel, I’m sure he’d try. He might hesitate though (but only if Usha kicked up a fuss, which seems unlikely), whereas Pedo would have Ivanka out the door in her Underoos before she could blink.

I mean, Vance is the man who blatantly, on the American taxpayer’s dime, showed up to his Olympic Winter Vacay with a fleet of 14 aircraft. Eleven carried his delegation, staff, former athletes, and security personnel, two planes were for armored vehicles, and one was devoted to “food supplies.” Someone on the couchfucker’s staff claimed that the food plane report was "ridiculous and categorically false” and that JDouche and Usha were eating at restaurants in Milan. Whatever dude. What about the 13 other planes? You know, the ones full of hangers-on, ICEholes, armored cars, and extra assorted taxpayer waste?

Vance is not a human with a keen ability to read the room. That's clear. I rather doubt he’s got even half a clue as to how unpopular he is.

Honestly Now

I understand there was a big, BIG concert last night that was briefly interrupted by a football game. Green Day opened for Bad Bunny and I saw that Lady Gaga made an appearance too. Cool. 

Jen and Oni watched the show and said it was malvada fabulosa. They slept through the game, of course. I don’t really understand why the musicians felt they needed to stick a football game in the middle of their show but, whatever. Maybe it was some kind of marketing gimmick. A bid to widen the artists’ audiences?

In other wonderful world of sports news, I understand that VP Many Names has won the gold, as expected, in the Downhill Douche competition. He also was the recipient of a giant wall of boos, not that anyone watching the broadcast here in the U.S. would have heard it. Reports are that, unlike viewers in Canada, the UK and, presumably, the rest of the world, NBC muted the crowd’s thumbs-down to the world’s most socially inept, offensive politician (apart from Prez Pedo and his cabinet of meth addled sewer clowns). Yep, NBC is covering for asshole JD. It’s not just American citizens who despise this lying-ass, money-grubbing, soulless, suck-up to pedos. The whole world sees who he is and wants to wipe him off the bottom of their shoes – stat!

We know that they are lying, they know that they are lying, they even know that we know they are lying, we also know that they know we know they are lying too, they of course know that we certainly know they know we know they are lying too as well, but they are still lying. In our country, the lie has become not just moral category, but the pillar industry of this country.
~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 

Meanwhile, Israel continues to dismember Palestine. Looks like Palestinian land is gonna be up for sale to Israeli settlers soon. I suspect Jared Kushner and his corporate buddies just so happen to be deemed Israeli settlers now.

We are at day 1,446 of Russia’s war on Ukraine. Zelenskyy said that, in this past week, Russia launched more than 2,000 attack drones, 1,200 guided aerial bombs, and 116 missiles at Ukraine’s cities and villages. They're NOT interested in peace. DUH!

And Hillel and his lovely wife are still in Thailand where it’s warmer than 18º. I shouldn’t complain. Yesterday’s high, here in Valhalla was 4º. 18º is practically a heat wave. Woohoo.

Between all the snow, ice, arctic blasts off the bay and temps that would freeze a polar bear's ass, my sinuses are utterly fucked and I’m distinctly disinclined to go outside. Ten is not keen on taking our Mini out on the road either. Yes, this means I’ve canceled my dental surgery yet again. I feel rather embarrassed about this but it just can’t be helped. First cancellation – I was in hospital with my foot issue. Second cancellation – blizzard.

So, it’s understandable and not really my fault, right?! I think I’d be less anxious, more at ease about dental surgeries if they’d just knock me the fuck out for this shit. WHY do I have to be awake for this kind of torture?

Honestly! 

This & That

Who was Wink Martindale and why would anyone choose Wink as their first name? 

Okay, I just googled him. He was a game show host. Game show hosts are what you get when you take a slimy, slick, hyped up door-to-door window replacement salesman and put him on a soundstage under hot spotlights. He's told he has to get Joe and Jane Nobody from Buck Snort, Arkansas (yes, that town actually exists) hysterically excited about winning a new Kenmore washing machine. All Mr. and Mrs. Nobody have to do is successfully name three things in Egypt, succinctly explain quantum theory AND identify three U.S. presidents who were treated for STIs.

So, Winston "Wink" Martindale? A person whose only talent was being oily. According to his Wikipedia page he was a born again christian (AKA a complete hypocrite) and a Republican (AKA the Guardians of Pedophiles Party).

He had a catchy name though, eh?
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With the latest Civil War iteration spreading across the country, it makes ridiculous amounts of sense to be prepared, right? ICEholes have made it clear they have NO problem tossing tear gas canisters, shooting Oleoresin Capsicum/pepper spray, tossing hexachloroethane smoke and flash-bang grenades at resisters. So, if you’re going to be out in the streets, get a gas mask.

They’re not all big and ungainly. The 3M Half Face Respirator uses disposable P100 filters so you can keep reusing the “shell.” 

Remember to pair the half face respirators with secure sealing goggles though. Protect your eyes!

Pew Pew Tactical has a post up – 8 Best Gas Masks, Face Masks, Respirators, & Filters. Check it out.

An additional reason to have gas masks and welding gloves for protests? 

I’ve read that Minnesotans are throwing tear gas canisters back at the ICEhole brigades. (those canisters are HOT – you need welding gloves!) A Threader remarked that this is why we had to play dodgeball in gym class. It was prep.

I’ve also heard the ICEholes are being pelted with dildos. Seems like a waste of a good sex toy. //shrugs//

I may have mentioned this before BUT the Simple Sabotage Field Manual, written by the Office of Strategic Services (direct predecessor of the CIA) in 1944, should be updated and widely distributed. Who better to rewrite it than the good folks at ground zero in Minnesota?

More on being prepared – make a kit, keep it near your front door. Put in a copy of your ID, passport, and birth certificate. Include an emergency contact and the contact information for an attorney (if you don’t have one, check out your state’s ACLU’s legal assistance page). Make a code word that can quickly be texted to friends/family to tell them to come get Fluffy, Spike, Godzilla, and other pets or children should things look dire.
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A sculptor I’ve just come across – Max Leiva.

…a contemporary Guatemalan artist known for his expressive figurative sculptures. His style is informed by his travels around the world, from Switzerland to Bangkok, where he studied for two years. His artistic path materializes in the figurative or the abstract, claiming not only his roots from the Mayan culture of Central America, but also his experiences traveling the world. (source) 

He works in bronze, resin, iron, clay, and aluminum. Damn, I’m blown away.
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Words for today:

Contumacious
     adjective 
: stubbornly disobedient : rebellious

Obstreperous 
     adjective 
1 : marked by unruly or aggressive noisiness : clamorous 
2 : stubbornly resistant to control : unruly

The resisters contumacious actions and obstreperous rallies raised morale immeasurably.