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Universal Under Pressure Changing "Gay" Trailer For Ron Howard-Vince Vaughn Pic ‘The Dilemma’

Nikke Finke’s post on: Universal Under Pressure Changing “Gay” Trailer For Ron Howard-Vince Vaughn Pic ‘The Dilemma’.

Good for you, Anderson!

Anderson Cooper

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Slap me.

There’s a lot of truth in that using these words to mean something negative has resonance far beyond the mere calling of something “uncool,” and it makes associations that extend to people, real people. I know L.A. has had a campaign for awhile now to eliminate the use of that word in schools; considering real life consequences, it only makes sense that one of the region’s huge employers gets with the program.

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Andy Kroll’s The Face of An American Lost Generation | TomDispatch

Sign for derelict business, Texas panhandle

Andy’s Story link: The Face of An American Lost Generation | TomDispatch.

Above is the link to the great story by Andy Kroll about long-term unemployment published in TomDispatch as well as on HuffPo.

His story is more comprehensive than the usual thing I’m reading these days. Also interesting that the industry in question, RV manufacture, isn’t something that we’re importing from China. Perhaps the glory days of this particular consumerist orgy are behind us? I’m not sure I think that’s a bad thing, but I’m in the same boat as the man profiled here. Different part of the country and different background, but also without work – or should I say, a work provided by others, a traditional job.

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“So who are these unfortunate or unlucky people? Long-term unemployment, research shows, doesn’t discriminate: no age, race, ethnicity, or educational level is immune. According to federal data, however, the hardest hit when it comes to long-term unemployment are older workers — middle aged and beyond, folks like Rick Rembold who can see retirement on the horizon but planned on another decade or more of work. Given the increasing claims of age discrimination in this recession, older Americans suffering longer bouts of joblessness may not in itself be so surprising. That education seemingly works against anyone in this older cohort is. Nearly half of the long-term unemployed who are 45 or older have “some college,” a bachelor’s degree, or more. By contrast, those with no education at all make up just 15% of this older category. In other words, if you’re older and well educated, the outlook is truly grim.”

I’ve decided I shouldn’t read these gloom and doom pronouncements, though it’s hard, I’m drawn to them kind of like a moth to a flame. There was another great and similar story in the LA Times yesterday, a Steve Lopez piece.

Still, I think the best advice I’ve heard since I began this journey on Friday, November 13, 2009, is at a seminar where a wonderful woman said that “there were no jobs, so I had to invent one for myself.” I’m still in the place where I think I can do this. That, in itself, is pretty American, right?

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Joe Genshlea’s One Man Show "Son of a Sense of Place" in Sacramento

Ellie Genshlea and Jim Arnold

Marie Ann Lewis, Jim Arnold, Mary Clare Genshlea, Mary Cerutti, Joe Genshlea

Had the privilege over the weekend to go up to Sacramento with my cousins Mary Cerutti from SF and Marie Ann Lewis from Carmichael to attend the one man show my first cousin (once removed) Joe Genshlea(prominent Sac attorney) was doing at the Crest Theater in downtown Sacramento.

The show, a benefit for Sierra Forever Families, was about his recollections and observations of what it was like to grow up in Sacramento in the 1930s and 1940s, and how that differs from the much larger city of today.
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Although I was born in Sacramento, I lived there only for a couple of years as a very young child and have no memory of that. My mother was from there, and it’s interesting that her accounts of what her hometown was like, which I listened to my entire life, are so similar to Joe’s. It’s also fitting that this show and trip would happen this week, as it’s the two year anniversary of Mom’s death.

I know she would have been pleased that I finally met some more of our relatives (including Joe’s sisters Mary Clare and Ellie) and got more of the Sacramento story – which has been on my mind because of the upcoming elections.

Remember, folks, D is for drive, R is for reverse…. go Jerry!

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The Dying Mall: Palm Springs

Palm Springs Mall lonely videogames and hallway

Palm Springs Mall food court, Gottshalks

I had to get my glasses fixed yesterday and found an (outstanding!) optometrist still open in this otherwise dying mall in central Palm Springs.

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Of course, at another end of this mall is a wonderful True-Value Hardware, with perhaps the gayest inventory available anywhere, and a short distance across the burning asphalt from there is the Camelot Theater complex, which is an authentic arthouse cinema and the location of the various PS film festivals. Additonally, in season, the Farmer’s Market occupies the parking lot on Saturdays.

I guess this is a story of the Great Recession. Palm Springs retail has often had hard going since all that moved down valley to Palm Desert and such years ago, but this is truly sad. Made me want to sit there and weep for the dying, or at least play some Pac-Man.

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Where the gosh darn did that 10-4 come from? APCO codes.

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In honor of Monday, which happens to be October 4, I provide a simple explanation of the common expression “10-4,” which means “OK.”

It comes from the Association of Public Safety Communications Officials International (APCO) which devised these “10-codes” in 1937 for brevity and standardization of CB and other radio message traffic. Their most popular use is probably law enforcement, though in recent years governments have recommended their discontinuation in favor of boring, everyday language.
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I don’t know about that. I think I’ll start using “10-17” instead of “I’m on my way” and “10-22” instead of “never mind.” You know, it could just catch on.

10-15, y’all.

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80 Years of Verite Films – NOLA filmmakers piece

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Check out this little tongue-in-cheek picture from my nephew-in-law, David Bear. I believe, that in addition to just being fun, it’s a promo for his New Orleans gallery Fair Folks and A Goat.

Some of the players are also relatives: the narrator is superbly played by my brother-in-law, Dave Maleckar; the Tommy Tales-Chaplinesque sad sack is my niece, Alma Maleckar (Bear), and the crazy lady with the knife is my sister, Kate Maleckar. David Bear plays numerous roles, including the great 60s director protege of Marty Scorsese – with great hair, I might add.
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I believe it was all shot in New Orleans. My sister and brother-in-law have a long history of comedy performing, most notably in the group Top Bananas which performed throughout the 80s and 90s in Milwaukee. I’m looking forward to seeing more of them on film from NOLA!

I’m headed over to Sacramento later today for a cousin’s one-man show on recollections of a Sacramento life (Joe Genshlea).

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Some good news: Missing hiker found alive after 6 days in Joshua Tree National Park

Missing hiker found alive after 6 days in Joshua Tree National Park – latimes.com.

Was jazzed to see this good piece of news about Mr. Rosenthal. I’ve taken a few hikes in that park (Joshua Tree) and realized how easy it would be to get lost. I had a mini-panic attack once when I thought I lost a trail, but luckily a car went by on a road in the distance so I could get my bearings. The desert wilderness is no place to be without a good idea of how to get back!
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Best wishes and more hiking adventures in the future for Mr. Rosenthal. This was so uplifting after all the recent stories of gay teen suicides, which are just so heartbreaking. Have you made your “It Gets Better” video yet, and posted it to Dan Savage‘s channel on YouTube?

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L.A.’s Downtown Art Walk – where do we go from here?

Three Men and a Sign, Downtown LA

Downtown Art Walk considers its next step – latimes.com.

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Short post today as I’m on my way up to San Francisco and Sacramento for a couple of days.

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Two Lane Blacktop – far friggin' out, man!

“I could suck you into my tailpipe!”

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I enjoyed this tale of existential angst and otherwise mostly aimless drifting, in 1971 pre-Walmart big box store America, where when you pulled up in a gas station you still got full service at every pump.

The plot revolves around two hippie-like drag racer guys (James Taylor, Dennis Wilson) who challenge an “older” establishment kind of guy (Warren Oates) to a race to see who can get to D.C. first. Whoever does, gets the pink slips of both cars.

There is a girl involved (Laurie Bird). She’s kind of free-spirited hippie chick, though to me she seemed depressed, almost catatonic at times, and for the life of me I can’t figure out why all three men were so desperate to get into those jeans. Something apparently I just didn’t see.

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“I just don’t need any distractions right now.” – Warren Oates to a cowboy hitchhiker who puts his hand on Warren’s thigh while he’s driving. (Meaning, it would be OK under other circumstances? YES!)

The movie proves that Denim and its incarnation into 501s is the ultimate aphrodisiac. Dennis Wilson, studly and hairy – maybe not as musically talented as his brother Brian, but majorly sexy. Both men sport straggly over the collar but not quite to the shoulder length hair. Love it.

This is an America with a curious lack of consumerism, where there’s no need to fill up every nanosecond with outside stimulation.

James Taylor as actor: best not to quit dayjob, and you didn’t, so wise choice, Mister!

The hitchhiker girl has a great big white furry purse. Maybe that’s what the boys are really after. I want one!

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HBO’s Temple Grandin, an Emmy-winning biopic

Claire Danes as Temple Grandin

Watched the DVD of Temple Grandin over the weekend. A biopic, it reminded me initially of A Beautiful Mind, Ron Howard’s bio movie of John Nash starring Russell Crowe. It seemed, however, more heartfelt? Perhaps having something to do with the focus on a young person trying to find herself in the world – so it is a rising up rather than a falling apart (of someone who had already made it) as in the case of A Beautiful Mind.

Filmmakers using the medium to really tell the story, with mathematical animations (I think Beautiful Mind had these too) and stills montages of thinking processes were helpful in understanding autism – as explained in the movie, understanding the world from pictures, not from language.

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One thing I would have loved seen explored is the whole idea of whether or not raising beef for food is a good idea at all – it’s taken as a given by the characters in the movie, which is a period piece (although a recent period). As a near vegetarian and avid reader of Michael Pollan, it’s hard not to think of this when watching all these cows.

Go rent the movie or watch it on HBO. It’s pretty wonderful.

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